cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: 'Be sealed with the gift of the Holy Spirit': A theological analysis of the seal of the Holy Spirit in the context of confirmation catechesis
Creators: name: Bellows, Philippa
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2012

description: The revised Rite of Confirmation in the Roman Catholic Church uses Accipe signaculum Doni Spiritus Sancti, 'Be sealed with the gift of the Holy Spirit' as its essential formula. By doing so it points to a wealth of Scriptural and Patristic doctrine which should help those being confirmed to appreciate what they are being given.

This thesis argues that these words contain a largely 'untapped' resource which is potentially valuable as part of the process of confirmation catechesis.

A survey suggests that published programmes for confirmation preparation, in use in England and Wales, do not help young people to understand the 'seal' of the Holy Spirit even though the Church is keen that they should. By changing the bishop's words to be sealed with the gift of the Holy Spirit', the Rite of Confirmation, later supported by the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC), suggests that 'sealing' is central to the meaning of the sacrament of confirmation.

This thesis identifies a need for catechesis on the 'seal' of the Spirit. It draws on contemporary challenges to confirmation catechesis and discusses areas of dissonance between what young people are receiving from published confirmation preparation programmes and what the Church teaches.
Two-Stage Stochastic Choice Modeling Approach for Electric Vehicle Charging Station Network Design in Urban Communities
Creators: name: Fazeli, Seyed Sajjad
name: Venkatachalam, Saravanan
name: Chinnam, Ratna Babu
name: Murat, Alper
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Electric vehicles (EVs) provide a cleaner alternative that not only reduces greenhouse gas emissions but also improves air quality and reduces noise pollution. The consumer market for electrical vehicles is growing very rapidly. Designing a network with adequate capacity and types of public charging stations is a challenge that needs to be addressed to support the current trend in the EV market. In this research, we propose a choice modeling approach embedded in a two-stage stochastic programming model to determine the optimal layout and types of EV supply equipment for a community while considering randomness in demand and drivers' behaviors. Some of the key random data parameters considered in this study are: EV's dwell time at parking {\sv location}, battery's state of charge, distance from home, willingness to walk, drivers' arrival patterns, and traffic on weekdays and weekends. The two-stage model uses the sample average approximation method, which asymptotically converges to an optimal solution. To address the computational challenges for large-scale instances, we propose an outer approximation decomposition algorithm. We conduct extensive computational experiments to quantify the efficacy of the proposed approach. In addition, we present the results and a sensitivity analysis for a case study based on publicly available data sources.
Farmer Adoption of Water Management Practices in Response to Recurrent Drought
Creators: name: Dinar, Ariel
name: Ashraf, Arisha
name: Reints, Julie
name: Dinar, Ariel
name: Ashraf, Arisha
name: Reints, Julie
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Adaptation
subject: Avocado
subject: California
subject: Conservation
subject: Drought, Water

description: We examine grower decision-making surrounding bundled water-saving strategies in Southern California using surveys of avocado growers and of mixed crop farmers. The adoption of bundled management strategies is determined by farm location, share of farm income from agricultural production, use of extension services, and demographic characteristics such as farmer age and education.
Mephritus apicatus
Creators: name: García, Kimberly
name: Nascimento, Francisco Eriberto de Lima
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Mephritus
Mephritus apicatus

description: Mephritus apicatus (Linsley, 1935)
 (Figs. 14-15)
 Geographical distribution: Mexico (Chiapas, Oaxaca); Nicaragua; Costa Rica; Panama; Brazil (Rondônia); Colombia (Atlántico, Bolívar), new country record.
 Material examined: Colombia, Atlántico: Usiacurí (Reserva Campesina La Montaña, 260 m, 10°46.0′02.6″N, 75°00.2′34.0″W, tropical dry forest), 14.V.2018, García, K. col., UV light trap (1♀ UARC); Bolívar: San Jacinto (Reserva La Flecha, 324 m, 09°51′12.4″N, 75°10′41.4″W, tropical dry forest), 15-16.IV.2018, García, K. col., UV light trap (3♀ UARC), white light trap (1♂, 1♀ MZSP).
 Remarks: This species was described by Linsley (1935) provisionally in the genus Nephalius Blanchard, 1843, and later transferred to Mephritus by Napp & Martins, 1982. Originally, Linsley (1935) described the species habitus as yellowish-testaceous, with the head (in front of the eyes), antennae, legs, and apices of elytra black or rufo-piceous; he also mentioned that the elytral apex is spinose but did not specify any variation regarding the length of the spine. Specimens of M. apicatus from Colombia were examined and compared with specimens from the MZSP, and a chromatic variation was noticed. The head was completely dark in some specimens (not only in front of the eyes) (Fig. 14), while others were reddish, only dark in front of the eyes (Fig. 15); the color of the legs is also variable, with a tendency to be dark toward the femoral apex. Moreover, the length of the elytral spines is also variable among specimens.
description: Published as part of García, Kimberly & Nascimento, Francisco Eriberto de Lima, 2020, Elaphidiini (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) from the Caribbean region of Colombia: New species, taxonomic notes and new geographical records, pp. 1-8 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (Pap. Avulsos Zool., S. Paulo) (Pap. Avulsos Zool., S. Paulo) 60 (23) on page 7, DOI: 10.11606/1807-0205/2020.60.special-issue.23, http://zenodo.org/record/4615223
Cadherin 13 : human cis-regulation and selectively altered addiction phenotypes and cerebral cortical dopamine in knockout mice
Creators: name: Drgonova, Jana
name: Walther, Donna
name: Hartstein, Luke G.
name: Bukhari, Mohammad O.
name: Baumann, Michael H.
name: Katz, Jonathan
name: Hall, F. Scott
name: Arnold, Elizabeth R.
name: Flax, Shaun
name: Riley, Anthony
name: Rivero, Olga
name: Lesch, Klaus-Peter
name: Troncosa, Juan
name: Ranscht, Barbara
name: Uhl, George R.
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 32
subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences

description: The cadherin 13 (CDH13) gene encodes a cell adhesion molecule likely to influence development and connections of brain circuits that modulate addiction, locomotion and cognition, including those that involve midbrain dopamine neurons. Human CDH13 mRNA expression differs by more than 80% in postmortem cerebral cortical samples from individuals with different CDH13 genotypes, supporting examination of mice with altered CDH13 expression as models for common human variation at this locus. Constitutive CDH13 knockout mice display evidence for changed cocaine reward: shifted dose response relationship in tests of cocaine-conditioned place preference using doses that do not alter cocaine-conditioned taste aversion. Reduced adult CDH13 expression in conditional knockouts also alters cocaine reward in ways that correlate with individual differences in cortical CDH13 mRNA levels. In control and comparison behavioral assessments, knockout mice display modestly quicker acquisition of rotarod and water maze tasks, with a trend toward faster acquisition of 5-choice serial reaction time tasks that otherwise displayed no genotype-related differences. They display significant differences in locomotion in some settings, with larger effects in males. In assessments of brain changes that might contribute to these behavioral differences, there are selective alterations of dopamine levels, dopamine/metabolite ratios, dopaminergic fiber densities and mRNA encoding the activity dependent transcription factor npas4 in cerebral cortex of knockout mice. These novel data and previously reported human associations of CDH13 variants with addiction, individual differences in responses to stimulant administration and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) phenotypes suggest that levels of CDH13 expression, through mechanisms likely to include effects on mesocortical dopamine, influence stimulant reward and may contribute modestly to cognitive and locomotor phenotypes relevant to ADHD.
Destruction of superconductivity through phase fluctuations in ultrathin a-MoGe films
Creators: name: Mandal, Soumyajit
name: Dutta, Surajit
name: Basistha, Somak
name: Roy, Indranil
name: Jesudasan, John
name: Bagwe, Vivas
name: Benfatto, Lara
name: Thamizhavel, Arumugam
name: Raychaudhuri, Pratap
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the evolution of superconductivity with decreasing film thickness in ultrathin amorphous MoGe (a-MoGe) films using a combination of sub-Kelvin scanning tunneling spectroscopy, magnetic penetration depth measurements and magneto-transport measurements. We observe that superconductivity is strongly affected by quantum and classical phase fluctuations for thickness below 5 nm. The superfluid density is strongly suppressed by quantum phase fluctuations at low temperatures and evolves towards a linear-T dependence at higher temperatures. This is associated with a rapid decrease in the superconducting transition temperature, Tc, and the emergence of a pronounced pseudogap above Tc. These observations suggest that at strong disorder the destruction of superconductivity follows a Bosonic route where the global superconducting state is destroyed by phase fluctuations even though the pairing amplitude remains finite.
Additional file 5 of Parasite contamination of soil in different Peruvian locations and outside built environments
Creators: name: Pineda, Carlos
name: Camones Rivera, Maritza Dalí
name: Montalva Sabino, Eddyson
name: Mejia, Lucia Estela
name: Keegan, Katherine Elizabeth
name: Alvarez, Lizbet Pilar Patricio
name: Jorge Mora, Javier
name: Espinoza Vega, Fernanda
name: Mejia, Emilio Rey
name: Herrera, Patrick Olivas
name: Pando, Elisa Palomino
name: Zeng, Zhen
name: De Oliveira, Athos Silva
name: Mondragon, Maria Jose Villar
name: Slatko, Barton
name: Wetzel, Eric J.
name: Mejia, Rojelio
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 5.
Spectroscopy of hot Gamma Doradus and A-F hybrid Kepler candidates close to the hot border of the Delta Scuti instability strip
Creators: name: Alicavus, F. Kahraman
name: Poretti, E.
name: Catanzaro, G.
name: Smalley, B.
name: Niemczura, E.
name: Rainer, M.
name: Handler, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: If Gamma Dor-type pulsations are driven by the convective blocking mechanism, a convective envelope at a sufficient depth is essential. There are several hot Gamma Dor and hybrid star candidates in which there should not be an adequate convective envelope to excite theγDor-type oscillations. The existence of these hot objects needs an explanation. Therefore, we selected, observed and studied 24 hotγDor and hybrid candidates to investigate their properties. The atmospheric parameters, chemical abundances and vsini values of the candidates were obtained using medium-resolution (R= 46 000)spectra taken with the FIES instrument mounted at the NordicOptical Telescope. We also carried out frequency analyses of theKeplerlong- and short-cadence data to determine the exact pulsation contents. We found only five bona-fide hotγDor and three bona-fide hot hybrid stars in our sample. The other 16 stars were found to benormalγDor,δSct, or hybrid variables. No chemical peculiarity was detected in the spectra of the bona-fide hotγDor and hybrid stars. We investigated the interplay between rotation and pulsational modes. We also found that the hotγDor stars havehigherGaialuminosities and larger radii compared to main-sequence A-F stars.
description: Accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters
Applying Behavioral Insights to Improve Water Security
Creators: name: Ferraro, Paul
name: Messer, Kent D.
name: Wu, Shang
name: Ferraro, Paul
name: Messer, Kent D.
name: Wu, Shang
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Behavioral Economics
subject: Government Policy
subject: Water Conservation

description: Behavioral insights may provide cost-effective ways to improve the performance and efficiency of agri-environmental programs. We highlight several insights that are well-grounded in theory and experiments from behavioral economics and psychology and describe how these insights might best be applied to solve water-security issues.
Laccodytes americanus Peschet 1919
Creators: name: Braga, Rafael Benzi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Dytiscidae
Laccodytes
Laccodytes americanus

description: Laccodytes americanus Peschet, 1919
 Material examined: Brazil: Amazonas State, Barcelos Municipality, Aracá ridge, 1º order “Igarapé”; 00°52′34,21″N, 63°27′03,60″W; 04-05.Aug.2009.Ferreira-Jr N. leg. (2♂, 3♀, INPA); same collection data as for preceding (2♂, 3♀, DZRJ 8200).
 Distribution: This species was known from French Guiana, Guyana and Suriname.
description: Published as part of Braga, Rafael Benzi, 2020, Laccodytes costae sp. nov., and new records for the genus from Brazil (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae), pp. 1-4 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (Pap. Avulsos Zool., S. Paulo) (Pap. Avulsos Zool., S. Paulo) 60 (17) on page 3, DOI: 10.11606/1807-0205/2020.60.special-issue.17, http://zenodo.org/record/4615183
AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECT OF DIVERSIFICATION ON FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE: THE CASE OF THE US GROCERY STORE INDUSTRY
Creators: name: Bouras, Adam
name: Bouras, David
name: Ajuzie, Emmanuel
name: Bouras, Adam
name: Bouras, David
name: Ajuzie, Emmanuel
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Production Economics
subject: diversification
subject: financial performance
subject: grocery store industry

description: This paper examines the impact of diversification on the financial performance of publicly traded grocery stores. Using three different approaches, we find that diversification has a positive and significant effect on the financial performance of grocery stores. In addition, multivariate regression analysis shows that while diversification positively impacts financial performance, other factors such as size, market share, and leverage cannot be ignored in explaining financial performance of grocery stores. The results of this paper suggest that diversification into non-food products is a profitable business strategy for grocers.
Cadherin 13 : human cis-regulation and selectively altered addiction phenotypes and cerebral cortical dopamine in knockout mice
Creators: name: Drgonova, Jana
name: Walther, Donna
name: Hartstein, Luke G.
name: Bukhari, Mohammad O.
name: Baumann, Michael H.
name: Katz, Jonathan
name: Hall, F. Scott
name: Arnold, Elizabeth R.
name: Flax, Shaun
name: Riley, Anthony
name: Rivero, Olga
name: Lesch, Klaus-Peter
name: Troncosa, Juan
name: Ranscht, Barbara
name: Uhl, George R.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The cadherin 13 (CDH13) gene encodes a cell adhesion molecule likely to influence development and connections of brain circuits that modulate addiction, locomotion and cognition, including those that involve midbrain dopamine neurons. Human CDH13 mRNA expression differs by more than 80% in postmortem cerebral cortical samples from individuals with different CDH13 genotypes, supporting examination of mice with altered CDH13 expression as models for common human variation at this locus. Constitutive CDH13 knockout mice display evidence for changed cocaine reward: shifted dose response relationship in tests of cocaine-conditioned place preference using doses that do not alter cocaine-conditioned taste aversion. Reduced adult CDH13 expression in conditional knockouts also alters cocaine reward in ways that correlate with individual differences in cortical CDH13 mRNA levels. In control and comparison behavioral assessments, knockout mice display modestly quicker acquisition of rotarod and water maze tasks, with a trend toward faster acquisition of 5-choice serial reaction time tasks that otherwise displayed no genotype-related differences. They display significant differences in locomotion in some settings, with larger effects in males. In assessments of brain changes that might contribute to these behavioral differences, there are selective alterations of dopamine levels, dopamine/metabolite ratios, dopaminergic fiber densities and mRNA encoding the activity dependent transcription factor npas4 in cerebral cortex of knockout mice. These novel data and previously reported human associations of CDH13 variants with addiction, individual differences in responses to stimulant administration and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) phenotypes suggest that levels of CDH13 expression, through mechanisms likely to include effects on mesocortical dopamine, influence stimulant reward and may contribute modestly to cognitive and locomotor phenotypes relevant to ADHD.
Biopsying southern right whales : Their reactions and effects on reproduction : Their reactions and effects on reproduction
Creators: name: Best, Peter B.
name: Reeb, Desray
name: Rew, Mary Beth
name: Palsboll, Per J.
name: Schaeff, Cathy
name: Brandao, Anabela
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Collecting skin biopsies from large whales for genetic analysis is often subject to national permit, and in the case of cow-calf pairs, it may be prohibited. We present results of 906 biopsy attempts on southern right whales (Eubalaena australis) in South African waters between 1995 and 1997, including 147 cow-calf pairs. Our sampling success was higher for biopsy darts with a bore of 4 mm compared to 4.6 mm. Contact periods averaged 17.7 min for cow-calf pairs and 25.4 min for whales unaccompanied by calves. There were no significant differences in the short-term reactions of males and females to biopsying, but the reaction of single animals of either sex was greater than for larger groups. Cows accompanied by calves had the strongest reactions, which were significantly greater than even single females. We found evidence of sensitization to repeat biopsying (over periods of hours to 65 days) for cows but not calves (n = 20). We compared the subsequent reproductive history of 117 biopsied cows with that of 163 unbiopsied cows from the same years, and we compared the distribution of calving intervals for biopsied animals with 829 intervals recorded from 1985 to 1995. We did not detect any adverse effects on the proportion of successful reproductive cycles, and hence calf survival, or the proportion of longer-than-normal cycles, although the power of all the statistical tests was low. We concluded that any prohibition on the biopsy sampling of cow-calf pairs should be carefully reconsidered in the light of the valuable genetic insights such sampling could achieve
Generalized Green-Kubo formulas for fluids with impulsive, dissipative, stochastic and conservative interactions
Creators: name: Ernst, M. H.
name: Brito, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a generalization of the Green-Kubo expressions for thermal transport coefficients $μ$ in complex fluids of the generic form, $μ= μ_\infty +\int^\infty_0 dt V^{-1} < J_ε\exp(t {\cal L}) J >_0$, i.e. a sum of an instantaneous transport coefficient $μ_\infty$, and a time integral over a time correlation function in a state of thermal equilibrium between a current $J$ and a transformed current $J_ε$. The streaming operator $\exp(t{\cal L})$ generates the trajectory of a dynamical variable $J(t) =\exp(t{\cal L}) J$ when used inside the thermal average $_0$. These formulas are valid for conservative, impulsive (hard spheres), stochastic and dissipative forces (Langevin fluids), provided the system approaches a thermal equilibrium state. In general $μ_\infty \neq 0$ and $J_ε\neq J$, except for the case of conservative forces, where the equality signs apply. The most important application in the present paper is the hard sphere fluid.
description: 14 pages, no figures. Version 2: expanded Introduction and section II specifying the classes of fluids covered by this theory. Some references added and typos corrected
Biopsying southern right whales : Their reactions and effects on reproduction : Their reactions and effects on reproduction
Creators: name: Best, Peter B.
name: Reeb, Desray
name: Rew, Mary Beth
name: Palsboll, Per J.
name: Schaeff, Cathy
name: Brandao, Anabela
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Collecting skin biopsies from large whales for genetic analysis is often subject to national permit, and in the case of cow-calf pairs, it may be prohibited. We present results of 906 biopsy attempts on southern right whales (Eubalaena australis) in South African waters between 1995 and 1997, including 147 cow-calf pairs. Our sampling success was higher for biopsy darts with a bore of 4 mm compared to 4.6 mm. Contact periods averaged 17.7 min for cow-calf pairs and 25.4 min for whales unaccompanied by calves. There were no significant differences in the short-term reactions of males and females to biopsying, but the reaction of single animals of either sex was greater than for larger groups. Cows accompanied by calves had the strongest reactions, which were significantly greater than even single females. We found evidence of sensitization to repeat biopsying (over periods of hours to 65 days) for cows but not calves (n = 20). We compared the subsequent reproductive history of 117 biopsied cows with that of 163 unbiopsied cows from the same years, and we compared the distribution of calving intervals for biopsied animals with 829 intervals recorded from 1985 to 1995. We did not detect any adverse effects on the proportion of successful reproductive cycles, and hence calf survival, or the proportion of longer-than-normal cycles, although the power of all the statistical tests was low. We concluded that any prohibition on the biopsy sampling of cow-calf pairs should be carefully reconsidered in the light of the valuable genetic insights such sampling could achieve
title: Observation and Modeling of Extrasolar Planets
Creators: name: Carter, Andrew James
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2012

description: The field of exoplanet research has currently yielded the discovery of 552 planets. This figure includes 132 transiting planets which can be studied in greater detail and have formed the cornerstone of research to characterise the exoplanet population. In particular, such studies seek to analyse the planetary atmospheres, but research has thus far yielded more questions than answers. Exoplanetary atmospheric studies have typically focussed on one planet apiece - complicating any comparative analysis as every result employs different methods and instruments. For a comprehensive, comparative study, a robust and reliable means of reducing and analysing such observations is required, along with a body of data from a single instrument. One such instrument is the Bubble Space Telescope (BST) whose NICMOS (Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer) instrument has observed the transits of nine extrasolar planets across multiple wavelengths in the near-infrared. A robust pipeline has been developed to reduce all such observations using the fame techniques. This pipeline reduces grism images of an exoplanet host star across a transit event. These exposures are checked for bad pixels, flat fielded and background-subtracted before robust extraction of a transit light curve. This light curve is then detrended to remove systematic noise by application of a new technique developed in this study. Following detrending, the light curve is modelled using a be- spoke MCMC (Markov-Chain Monte-Carlo) algorithm to determine the planetary parameters. A continuum of wavelength-dependent transit light curves is also extracted, detrended and modelled to de- termine the variation in transit depth with wavelength; and .hereby infer the transmission spectrum of the planet's atmosphere. The finished pipeline has been applied to three sets of HST NIC- MOS observations covering the transits of WASP-2b, HD189733b and GJ436b. For each data set, a new set of planetary parameters has been derived and for WASP-2b and HD189733b an atmospheric transmission spectrum extracted. Both spectra show signs of atmospheric haze and molecular absorption, but also evidence of residual systematic noise, complicating analysis.
The Universe is a Strange Place
Creators: name: Wilczek, Frank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This is a broad and in places unconventional overview of the strengths and shortcomings of our standard models of fundamental physics and of cosmology. The emphasis is on ideas that have accessible experimental consequences. It becomes clear that the frontiers of these subjects share much ground in common.
description: 12 pages; Keynote talk at SpacePartII, Washington D.C., Dec. 2003; to be published in the Porceedings
Optimization of Stability of Multistoried Structure by Changing Grades of Concrete in Shear Wall Member
Creators: name: Jamle, Sagar
name: Patidar, Manoj
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 90506 Structural Engineering
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: The stability issue of a tall structure is now became the major issue, since the communities are approaching to the
cities that provides them amenities. Along with the stability issue, other thing is optimizations that maintain the
efficiency of the massive structure and its load to the soil that ultimately bears it. The current work demonstrates the
destructive effects of earthquake over a multistoried building. For this, Total 12 shear wall stability case residential
apartment building models are prepared and are assumed to be located at seismic zone III with shear wall located at
its core. These models have different shear wall thickness viz. 0.140m, 0.160m, 0.180m and 0.200m combined with
M20, M30 and M35 grades of concrete. Observing all the parameters, for making the multistoried building more
stable, it is necessary to increase the thickness of shear wall members with higher concrete grade.
Can I Trust You? A User Study of Robot Mediation of a Support Group
Creators: name: Birmingham, Chris
name: Hu, Zijian
name: Mahajan, Kartik
name: Reber, Eli
name: Mataric, Maja J
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Socially assistive robots have the potential to improve group dynamics when interacting with groups of people in social settings. This work contributes to the understanding of those dynamics through a user study of trust dynamics in the novel context of a robot mediated support group. For this study, a novel framework for robot mediation of a support group was developed and validated. To evaluate interpersonal trust in the multi-party setting, a dyadic trust scale was implemented and found to be uni-factorial, validating it as an appropriate measure of general trust. The results of this study demonstrate a significant increase in average interpersonal trust after the group interaction session, and qualitative post-session interview data report that participants found the interaction helpful and successfully supported and learned from one other. The results of the study validate that a robot-mediated support group can improve trust among strangers and allow them to share and receive support for their academic stress.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in ICRA 2020
Relativistic Hydrodynamic Evolutions with Black Hole Excision
Creators: name: Duez, Matthew D.
name: Shapiro, Stuart L.
name: Yo, Hwei-Jang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a numerical code designed to study astrophysical phenomena involving dynamical spacetimes containing black holes in the presence of relativistic hydrodynamic matter. We present evolutions of the collapse of a fluid star from the onset of collapse to the settling of the resulting black hole to a final stationary state. In order to evolve stably after the black hole forms, we excise a region inside the hole before a singularity is encountered. This excision region is introduced after the appearance of an apparent horizon, but while a significant amount of matter remains outside the hole. We test our code by evolving accurately a vacuum Schwarzschild black hole, a relativistic Bondi accretion flow onto a black hole, Oppenheimer-Snyder dust collapse, and the collapse of nonrotating and rotating stars. These systems are tracked reliably for hundreds of M following excision, where M is the mass of the black hole. We perform these tests both in axisymmetry and in full 3+1 dimensions. We then apply our code to study the effect of the stellar spin parameter J/M^2 on the final outcome of gravitational collapse of rapidly rotating n = 1 polytropes. We find that a black hole forms only if J/M^2<1, in agreement with previous simulations. When J/M^2>1, the collapsing star forms a torus which fragments into nonaxisymmetric clumps, capable of generating appreciable ``splash'' gravitational radiation.
description: 17 pages, 14 figures, submitted to PRD
Designing Refractive Index Fluids using the Kramers-Kronig Relations
Creators: name: Sai, Tianqi
name: Saba, Matthias
name: Dufresne, Eric R.
name: Steiner, Ullrich
name: Wilts, Bodo D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For a number of optical applications, it is advantageous to precisely tune the refractive index of a liquid. Here, we harness a well-established concept in optics for this purpose. The Kramers-Kronig relation provides physical connection between the spectral variation of the (real) refractive index and the absorption coefficient. In particular a sharp spectral variation of the absorption coefficient gives rise to either an enhancement or reduction of the refractive index in the spectral vicinity of this variation. By using bright commodity dyes that fulfil this absorption requirement, we demonstrate the use of the Kramers-Kronig relation to predictively dial-in refractive index values in water solutions that are otherwise only attained by toxic specialised liquids.
THE HIGH COST OF SPECIALIZATION: LABOR MARKET OUTCOMES FOLLOWING DIVORCE
Creators: name: Malcolm, Michael
name: Abdurrahman, Zainab
name: Malcolm, Michael
name: Abdurrahman, Zainab
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: divorce
subject: household specialization
subject: labor force participation

description: This article studies labor market transitions following divorce. Using US data, we show that absence from the labor force during marriage is associated with a lower probability of employment following divorce. For women, the effect is large initially – a 14.5% decline in probability of finding a job after divorce for each year out of the labor force during marriage. The effect dissipates over time, but there is long-run persistence. For men, the effect of comparable absences from the labor force is smaller and transitory. The presence of children also lowers labor market participation of women following divorce.
Quantum-Enhanced continuous-wave stimulated Raman spectroscopy
Creators: name: Andrade, R. B.
name: Kerdoncuff, H.
name: Berg-Sørensen, K.
name: Gehring, T.
name: Lassen, M.
name: Andersen, U. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Stimulated Raman spectroscopy has become a powerful tool to study the spatiodynamics of molecular bonds with high sensitivity, resolution and speed. However, sensitivity and speed of state-of-the-art stimulated Raman spectroscopy are currently limited by the shot-noise of the light beam probing the Raman process. Here, we demonstrate an enhancement of the sensitivity of continuous-wave stimulated Raman spectroscopy by reducing the quantum noise of the probing light below the shot-noise limit by means of amplitude squeezed states of light. Probing polymer samples with Raman shifts around 2950 $cm^{-1}$ with squeezed states, we demonstrate a quantum-enhancement of the stimulated Raman signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of 3.60 dB relative to the shot-noise limited SNR. Our proof-of-concept demonstration of quantum-enhanced Raman spectroscopy paves the way for a new generation of Raman microscopes, where weak Raman transitions can be imaged without the use of markers or an increase in the total optical power.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures
ANIMA D3.6 - Evaluations of previous interventions in improving quality of life
Creators: name: Kuhlmann, Julia
name: Rajé, Fiona
name: Richard, Isabelle
name: Ohlenforst, Barbara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: noise, aircraft noise, quality of life, airports

description: The growth of the aviation sector worldwide poses new challenges for noise management and calls for new approaches to reduce noise impacts. Aircraft noise exposure can have adverse health effects and a significant negative impact on people’s quality of life (e.g. Schreckenberg et al., 2010). This relationship is often mediated by aircraft noise annoyance, which has been linked to the experience of stress (van Kamp, 1990). To address these negative impacts of aircraft noise, a vast number of aircraft noise managing and mitigating interventions are implemented by airports, surrounding communities and other stakeholders. However, little is known about the value of such interventions for the residents as well as their impact on residents’ quality of life.
 Therefore, the current study aims to examine whether interventions implemented by airports or other stakeholders in airport regions could have an impact on residents’ quality of life, and, if so, identify which specific aspects of these interventions play a role. The results provide starting points and guidance for stakeholders while shedding light on relevant aspects for future research.
Prioridades gubernamentales en el pago de aportes no reintegrables a asociados y no asociados a las cooperativas lecheras argentinas
Government Priorities in Payments of Subsidies to Argentinean Dairy Cooperatives.
Creators: name: Arancibia, Rodrigo Garcia
name: Guiguet, Edith Depetris
name: Masaro, Jimena Vicentin
name: Rossini, Gustavo
name: Coronel, Mariano
name: Arancibia, Rodrigo Garcia
name: Guiguet, Edith Depetris
name: Masaro, Jimena Vicentin
name: Rossini, Gustavo
name: Coronel, Mariano
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Agricultural Policy
subject: Dairy Cooperatives
subject: Subsidies
subject: Argentina

description: The Argentine democratic government elected in 2003 praised the cooperative system advantages, stance which was reaffirmed by the following administration since 2007. As international dairy commodity prices increased, the government intervened to stop price transfers to the domestic market. In 2008 there was a long producer-government confrontation that finished with a government agreement to pay subsidies to small and medium size milk producers to help to cover production costs. The agreement was renewed in 2009 with some changes, with several difficulties to implement the system and delays in payments. In this context we wonder whether the government has been coherent with its own rhetoric, giving small dairy cooperative members priority in subsidies payments in the major producing provinces. To verify it we used an analysis of multiple correspondence first, followed by a log-lineal model. With those results we calculated odds ratios with selected variables.
A game theory model for pricing and supplier By Maryam Esmaeili.pdf
Creators: name: Esmaeili, Maryam
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 91503 Engineering Practice
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies

description: In this paper, pricing and supplier selection in a closed-loop supply chain (CLSC) are modelled by a game theory approach. The CLSC includes one manufacturer and multi-suppliers. The manufacturer collects the used products where the number of defective parts purchased from the suppliers is random variable. The suppliers determine standard deviation and the wholesale price. For the defective parts greater than the expected number, the manufacturer penalises the suppliers. The manufacturer determines the optimal selling price, the price of collecting a used product, appropriate suppliers, and the penalty cost by maximising the profit. The end demand is affected by the selling price, and the competition between the suppliers is considered based on the Bertrand model. The interaction between the manufacturer and the suppliers is modelled by the static and dynamic games to obtain Nash and Stackelberg equilibriums. Finally, the numerical examples and sensitivity analysis are presented to illustrate the theoretical results.
Additional file 6 of Parasite contamination of soil in different Peruvian locations and outside built environments
Creators: name: Pineda, Carlos
name: Camones Rivera, Maritza Dalí
name: Montalva Sabino, Eddyson
name: Mejia, Lucia Estela
name: Keegan, Katherine Elizabeth
name: Alvarez, Lizbet Pilar Patricio
name: Jorge Mora, Javier
name: Espinoza Vega, Fernanda
name: Mejia, Emilio Rey
name: Herrera, Patrick Olivas
name: Pando, Elisa Palomino
name: Zeng, Zhen
name: De Oliveira, Athos Silva
name: Mondragon, Maria Jose Villar
name: Slatko, Barton
name: Wetzel, Eric J.
name: Mejia, Rojelio
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 6.
Study of deuteron-proton charge exchange reaction at small transfer momentum
Creators: name: Ladygina, N. B.
name: Shebeko, A. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The charge-exchange reaction pd->npp at 1 GeV projectile proton energy is studied in the multiple-scattering expansion technique. This reaction is considered in a special kinematics, when the transfer momentum from the beam proton to fast neutron is close to zero. The differential cross section and a set of polarization observables are calculated. It was shown that contribution of the final state interaction between two protons is very significant.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures
The geometry of physical observables
Creators: name: Farnsworth, Shane
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Jordan algebras were first introduced in an effort to restructure quantum mechanics purely in terms of physical observables. In this paper we explain why, if one attempts to reformulate the internal structure of the standard model of particle physics geometrically, one arrives naturally at a discrete internal geometry that is coordinatized by a Jordan algebra.
description: v1: 32 pages; v2: minor corrections
Accounting for reciprocity in negotiation and social exchange
Creators: name: Mislin, Alexandra
name: Boumgarden, Peter A.
name: Jang, Daisung
name: Bottom, William P.
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 35
subject: Commerce, management, tourism and services

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Electron correlation and short-range dynamics in attosecond angular streaking
Creators: name: Armstrong, G. S. J.
name: Clarke, D. D. A.
name: Benda, J.
name: Brown, A. C.
name: van der Hart, H. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We employ the R-matrix with time-dependence method to study attosecond angular streaking of F$^-$. Using this negative ion, free of long-range Coulomb interactions, we elucidate the role of short-range electron correlation effects in an attoclock scheme. Through solution of the multielectron time-dependent Schrodinger equation, we aim to bridge the gap between experiments using multielectron targets, and one-electron theoretical approaches. We observe significant negative offset angles in the photoelectron momentum distributions, despite the short-range nature of the binding potential. We show that the offset angle is sensitive to the atomic structure description of the residual F atom. We also investigate the response of co- and counter-rotating electrons, and observe an angular separation in their emission.
Coherent instabilities of intense high-energy "white" charged-particle beams in the presence of nonlocal effects within the context of the Madelung fluid description
Creators: name: Fedele, R.
name: Anderson, D.
name: Lisak, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A hydrodynamical description of coherent instabilities that take place in the longitudinal dynamics of a charged-particle coasting beam in a high-energy accelerating machine is presented. This is done in the framework of the Madelung fluid picture provided by the Thermal Wave Model. The well known coherent instability charts in the complex plane of the longitudinal coupling impedance for monochromatic beams are recovered. The results are also interpreted in terms of the deterministic approach to modulational instability analysis usually given for monochromatic large amplitude wave train propagation governed by the nonlinear Schrödinger equation. The instability analysis is then extended to a non-monochromatic coasting beam with a given thermal equilibrium distribution, thought as a statistical ensemble of monochromatic incoherent coasting beams ("white" beam). In this hydrodynamical framework, the phenomenon of Landau damping is predicted without using any kinetic equation governing the phase space evolution of the system.
description: 14 pages, 1 figure
Caracterización de la cadena agroproductiva de la papa (Solanum tuberosum) en la provincia del Carchi y su fluctuación de los precios en los mercados mayoristas de Carchi, Imbabura y Pichincha
Characterization of the agricultural production chain of the potato (Solanum tuberosum) in the province of Carchi and its price fluctuation in the wholesale markets of Carchi, Imbabura and Pichincha.
Creators: name: Basantes, Fernado
name: Albuja, Marcelo
name: Velez, Ana
name: Basantes, Fernado
name: Albuja, Marcelo
name: Velez, Ana
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Agroproductive chains
subject: marketing
subject: price fluctuation potato

description: The research descriptively covers the agricultural supply chain and its different units of the potato (Solanum tuberosum) in the provinces of Carchi, Imbabura and Pichincha, as well as a detailed study of the fluctuations in the prices in this chain of economic importance in this agriculturally productive area of Ecuador. Documentary, field and descriptive research was conducted, using techniques such as structured surveys of producers, forums with producers, and associations to tackle the problem. As a result, a characterization of the potato's agricultural supply chain was obtained, which presents an isolated value-added link; only 15% of the total production is processed, the intermediaries increase the value of the item by 40-50%, decreasing the producer's profit and representing a factor in increased product prices. Smuggling in the province of Carchi is not possible to quantify because it is complex to estimate, but one can qualitatively perceive its presence, in this case the scarcity of the product is not perceptible. The margin of increase in the price of potatoes (of the súperchola and única varieties) was determined to be 166% and 120%, respectively in the markets of Carchi, Imbabura and Pichincha from 2013 to 2015.
Urban Planning in the First Unfortified Spanish Colonial Town: The orientation of the historic churches of San Cristobal de La Laguna
Creators: name: Gangui, Alejandro
name: Belmonte, Juan Antonio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The city of San Cristobal de La Laguna in the Canary Island of Tenerife (Spain) has an exceptional value due to the original conception of its plan. It is an urban system in a grid, outlined by straight streets that form squares, its layout being the first case of an unfortified colonial city with a regular plan in the overseas European expansion. It constitutes a historical example of the so-called "Town of Peace", the archetype of a city-republic in a new land that employed its own natural boundaries to delimit and defend itself. Founded in 1496, the historical centre of the old city was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1999. We analyse the exact spatial orientation of twenty-one historic Christian churches currently existing in the old part of La Laguna which we take as a good indicator of the original layout of the urban lattice. We find a clear orientation pattern that, if correlated with the rising or setting Sun, singles out an absolute-value astronomical declination slightly below 20 degrees, which, within the margin of error of our study, might be associated with the July 25th feast-day of San Cristobal de Licia, the saint to whom the town was originally dedicated. We also discuss at some length some recent proposals which invoke somewhat far-fetched hypotheses for the planimetry of the old city and finish up with some comments on one of its outstanding features, namely its Latin-cross structure, which is apparent in the combined layout of some of its most emblematic churches.
description: PDF document including 1 table and 8 figures
Agreement attraction and impasse aversion : reasons for selecting a poor deal over no deal at all
Creators: name: Tuncel, Ece
name: Mislin, Alexandra
name: Kesebir, Selin
name: Pinkley, Robin L.
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 35
subject: Commerce, management, tourism and services

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