cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Activated platelets form protected zones of adhesion on fibrinogen and fibronectin-coated surfaces.
Creators: name: Loike, John D.
name: Silverstein, R.
name: Cao, L.
name: Solomon, L.
name: Weitz, J.
name: Haber, E.
name: Matsueda, G. R.
name: Bernatowicz, M. S.
name: Silverstein, Samuel C.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Blood platelets--Aggregation
subject: Fibronectins
subject: Cytology
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biochemistry

description: Leukocytes form zones of close apposition when they adhere to ligand-coated surfaces. Because plasma proteins are excluded from these contact zones, we have termed them protected zones of adhesion. To determine whether platelets form similar protected zones of adhesion, gel-filtered platelets stimulated with thrombin or ADP were allowed to adhere to fibrinogen- or fibronectin-coated surfaces. The protein-coated surfaces with platelets attached were stained with either fluorochrome-conjugated goat anti-human fibrinogen or anti-human fibronectin antibodies, or with rhodamine-conjugated polyethylene glycol polymers. Fluorescence microscopy revealed that F(ab')2 anti-fibrinogen (100 kD) did not penetrate into the contact zones between stimulated platelets and the underlying fibrinogen-coated surface, while Fab antifibrinogen (50 kD) and 10 kD polyethylene glycol readily penetrated and stained the substrate beneath the platelets. Thrombin- or ADP-stimulated platelets also formed protected zones of adhesion on fibronectin-coated surfaces. F(ab')2 anti-fibronectin and 10 kD polyethylene glycol were excluded from these adhesion zones, indicating that they are much less permeable than those formed by platelets on fibrinogen-coated surfaces. The permeability properties of protected zones of adhesion formed by stimulated platelets on surfaces coated with both fibrinogen and fibronectin were similar to the zones of adhesion formed on fibronectin alone. mAb 7E3, directed against the alpha IIb beta 3 integrin blocked the formation of protected adhesion zones between thrombin-stimulated platelets and fibrinogen or fibronectin coated surfaces. mAb C13 is directed against the alpha 5 beta 1 integrin on platelets. Stimulated platelets treated with this mAb formed protected zones of adhesion on surfaces coated with fibronectin. These protected zones were impermeable to F(ab')2 antifibronectin but were permeable to 10 kD polyethylene glycol. These results show that activated platelets form protected zones of adhesion and that the size of molecules excluded from these zones depends upon the composition of the matrix proteins to which the platelets adhere. They also show that formation of protected zones of adhesion by platelets requires alpha IIb beta 3 integrins while the permeability properties of these zones of adhesion are regulated by both alpha IIb beta 3 and alpha 5 beta 1 integrins.
Modernizing the NASS Customer Experience: Findings from Virtual Focus Groups on the Respondent Portal Dashboard
Creators: name: Rodhouse, Joseph
name: Rodhouse, Joseph
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Focus Group
subject: Dashboard
subject: Data
subject: Information
subject: Surveys
subject: Reports

description: The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) conducts hundreds of surveys annually, producing numerous reports and data from the completed responses. However, response rates have declined in recent years, a trend that is happening across all survey research organizations. The reasons for declining response rates vary, but there are a number of actions organizations can take to mitigate nonresponse. One way to do this is to increase customer satisfaction and engagement with your organization. As a result, NASS is seeking to better serve its customer base by building a new customer-centric web dashboard that will function as a “one stop shop” for farmers that serves important business needs, such as gathering and reporting crucial information. This report details the findings from focus groups, conducted with NASS’s target population on the concept of the dashboard and prototypes of its design. The results of the focus groups highlight both broad and specific actions NASS can take to improve and modernize the customer relationship with regard to the dashboard and among the agricultural population overall.
Variational estimators for the parameters of Gibbs point process models
Creators: name: Baddeley, Adrian
name: Dereudre, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper proposes a new estimation technique for fitting parametric Gibbs point process models to a spatial point pattern dataset. The technique is a counterpart, for spatial point processes, of the variational estimators for Markov random fields developed by Almeida and Gidas. The estimator does not require the point process density to be hereditary, so it is applicable to models which do not have a conditional intensity, including models which exhibit geometric regularity or rigidity. The disadvantage is that the intensity parameter cannot be estimated: inference is effectively conditional on the observed number of points. The new procedure is faster and more stable than existing techniques, since it does not require simulation, numerical integration or optimization with respect to the parameters.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.3150/12-BEJ419 the Bernoulli (http://isi.cbs.nl/bernoulli/) by the International Statistical Institute/Bernoulli Society (http://isi.cbs.nl/BS/bshome.htm)
Do Free Trade Agreements Benefit Developing Countries? An Examination of U.S. Agreements
Creators: name: Ajewole, Kayode
name: Beckman, Jayson
name: Gerval, Adam
name: Johnson, William
name: Morgan, Stephen
name: Sabala, Ethan
name: Ajewole, Kayode
name: Beckman, Jayson
name: Gerval, Adam
name: Johnson, William
name: Morgan, Stephen
name: Sabala, Ethan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Free trade agreement
subject: FTA
subject: specialization
subject: trade
subject: production

description: This report uses trend analysis to see whether movements in trade, production, and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) data are consistent with the concept that free trade agreements (FTAs) produce beneficial effects for developing countries—focusing on FTA agreements between developing countries and the United States. Agricultural trade for U.S. imports and exports generally increased in the FTAs analyzed for this report.
Zalophus Gill 1866
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Otariidae
Zalophus

description: Zalophus Gill, 1866. Proc. Essex Inst. Salem, 5:7. COMMENT: Included in Arctocephalus by Van Gelder, 1977:13; but also see Hall, 1981: 1059. ISIS NUMBER: 5301413001007000000.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, pp. 244-289 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 286, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980
description: {"references": ["Hall, E. R. 1981. The mammals of North America. Second ed. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1: 1 - 600 + 90, 2: 601 - 1181 + 90."]}
Behavior Coding of the April 2018 Agricultural Labor Survey
Creators: name: Ridolfo, Heather
name: Biagas Jr, David
name: Abayomi, Emilola J
name: Rodhouse, Joseph
name: Ridolfo, Heather
name: Biagas Jr, David
name: Abayomi, Emilola J
name: Rodhouse, Joseph
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Behavior Coding
subject: Interviewer-Respondent Interaction
subject: Data Quality

description: In 2018, new wage questions were proposed to be added to the Agricultural Labor Survey. In addition, several changes were made to the revised computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) script based on previous research. To evaluate the addition of the new wage questions and revisions to the CATI script, a field test was conducted using the original Agricultural Labor Survey and a revised version. Behavior coding was conducted on a subset of the interviews conducted in NASS telephone data collection centers. The purpose of this behavior coding was to compare interviewers’ administration of the original Agricultural Labor CATI instrument and the revised instrument. Results showed that neither of the instruments was administered appropriately at an acceptable rate. Additionally, the new wages questions were often administered with major changes or not at all. These findings indicate a need for additional enumerator training and a review of the Agricultural Labor CATI instruments.
Entropy engineering and tunable magnetic order in the spinel high entropy oxide
Creators: name: Johnstone, Graham H. J.
name: González-Rivas, Mario U.
name: Taddei, Keith M.
name: Sutarto, Ronny
name: Sawatzky, George A.
name: Green, Robert J.
name: Oudah, Mohamed
name: Hallas, Alannah M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spinel oxides are an ideal setting to explore the interplay between configurational entropy, site selectivity, and magnetism in high entropy oxides. In this work we characterize the magnetic properties of the spinel (Cr,Mn,Fe,Co,Ni)$_3$O$_4$ and study the evolution of its magnetism as a function of non-magnetic gallium substitution. Across the range of compositions studied here, from 0% to 40% Ga, magnetic susceptibility and powder neutron diffraction measurements show that ferrimagnetic order is robust in the spinel HEO. However, we also find that the ferrimagnetic order is highly tunable, with the ordering temperature, saturated and sublattice moments, and magnetic hardness all varying significantly as a function of Ga concentration. Through x-ray absorption and magnetic circular dichroism, we are able to correlate this magnetic tunability with strong site selectivity between the various cations and the tetrahedral and octahedral sites in the spinel structure. In particular, we find that while Ni and Cr are largely unaffected by the substitution with Ga, the occupancies of Mn, Co, and Fe are each significantly redistributed. Ga substitution also requires an overall reduction in the transition metal valence, and this is entirely accommodated by Mn. Finally, we show that while site selectivity has an overall suppressing effect on the configurational entropy, over a certain range of compositions, Ga substitution yields a striking increase in the configurational entropy and may confer additional stabilization. Spinel oxides can be tuned seamlessly from the low-entropy to the high-entropy regime, making this an ideal platform for entropy engineering.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures, 1 tables
Zalophus californianus
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Otariidae
Zalophus
Zalophus californianus

description: Zalophus californianus (Lesson, 1828). Diet. Class. Hist. Nat. Paris, 13:420. TYPE LOCALITY: U.S.A., California, San Francisco Bay. DISTRIBUTION: N. Pacific from Gulf of California (Mexico) to British Columbia (Canada); Japan; Galapagos Isis. COMMENT: The subspecies japonicus may be extinct (TRL). ISIS NUMBER: 5301413001007001001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, pp. 244-289 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 286, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980
Odobenidae Allen 1880
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Odobenidae

description: Family Odobenidae REVIEWED BY: J. E. King (JEK); T. R. Loughlin (TRL); D. W. Rice (DWR); O. L. Rossolimo (OLR)(U.S. S.R.). COMMENT: Hall, 1981: 1061, considered Rosmarinae(= Odobenidae) a subfamily of Otariidae; but see Corbet, 1978:186, and Corbet and Hill, 1980:106.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, pp. 244-289 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 286, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980
description: {"references": ["Hall, E. R. 1981. The mammals of North America. Second ed. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1: 1 - 600 + 90, 2: 601 - 1181 + 90.", "Corbet, G. B., and J. E. Hill. 1980. A world list of mammalian species. British Museum (Natural History), London, 226 pp."]}
Fruit and Tree Nuts Outlook: September 2022
Creators: name: Kramer, Jaclyn
name: Simnitt, Skyler
name: Weber, Catharine
name: Kramer, Jaclyn
name: Simnitt, Skyler
name: Weber, Catharine
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Fruit
subject: tree nuts
subject: apples
subject: pears
subject: peaches
subject: cranberries
subject: cherries
subject: noncitrus fruit
subject: citrus fruit
subject: almonds
subject: walnuts
subject: hazelnuts
subject: production
subject: price
subject: per capita use
subject: imports
subject: exports

description: This issue provides analysis of supply-and-demand conditions in the U.S. fruit and tree nuts markets, including projections of market conditions for 2022 apple, pear, grape, peach, cherry, cranberry, almond, walnut, and hazelnut crops.
Evaluation of Integrated Community Case Management in Eight Districts of Central Uganda
Creators: name: Mubiru, Denis
name: Byabasheija, Robert
name: Bwanika, John Baptist
name: Meier, Joslyn Edelstein
name: Magumba, Godfrey
name: Kaggwa, Flavia Mpanga
name: Abusu, Jackson Ojera
name: Opio, Alex Chono
name: Lodda, Charles Clarke
name: Patel, Jaanki
name: Diaz, Theresa
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Children--Mortality
Malaria--Treatment
Community health services--Management
Public health
Medicine
Epidemiology

description: Objective
Evidence is limited on whether Integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) improves treatment coverage of the top causes of childhood mortality (acute respiratory illnesses (ARI), diarrhoea and malaria). The coverage impact of iCCM in Central Uganda was evaluated.

Methods
Between July 2010 and December 2012 a pre-post quasi-experimental study in eight districts with iCCM was conducted; 3 districts without iCCM served as controls. A two-stage household cluster survey at baseline (n = 1036 and 1042) and end line (n = 3890 and 3844) was done in the intervention and comparison groups respectively. Changes in treatment coverage and timeliness were assessed using difference in differences analysis (DID). Mortality impact was modelled using the Lives Saved Tool.

Findings
5,586 Village Health Team members delivered 1,907,746 treatments to children under age five. Use of oral rehydration solution (ORS) and zinc treatment of diarrhoea increased in the intervention area, while there was a decrease in the comparison area (DID = 22.9, p = 0.001). Due to national stock-outs of amoxicillin, there was a decrease in antibiotic treatment for ARI in both areas; however, the decrease was significantly greater in the comparison area (DID = 5.18; p<0.001). There was a greater increase in Artemisinin Combination Therapy treatment for fever in the intervention areas than in the comparison area but this was not significant (DID = 1.57, p = 0.105). In the intervention area, timeliness of treatments for fever and ARI increased significantly higher in the intervention area than in the comparison area (DID = 2.12, p = 0.029 and 7.95, p<0.001, respectively). An estimated 106 lives were saved in the intervention area while 611 lives were lost in the comparison area.

Conclusion
iCCM significantly increased treatment coverage for diarrhoea and fever, mitigated the effect of national stock outs of amoxicillin on ARI treatment, improved timeliness of treatments for fever and ARI and saved lives.
ΜΟΧΕ: «Βικτωρίνος Πεταβίου», τόμ. 4, σ. 204.
Creators: name: Vasileiadis, Pavlos D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Παύλος Βασιλειάδης
Pavlos Vasileiadis
Victorinus of Pettau
Βικτωρίνος Πεταβίου

description: English title: “Victorinus of Pettau,” Encyclopedia ΜΟΧΕ vol. 4, p. 204.
Universal codes of the natural numbers
Creators: name: Filmus, Yuval
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A code of the natural numbers is a uniquely-decodable binary code of the natural numbers with non-decreasing codeword lengths, which satisfies Kraft's inequality tightly. We define a natural partial order on the set of codes, and show how to construct effectively a code better than a given sequence of codes, in a certain precise sense. As an application, we prove that the existence of a scale of codes (a well-ordered set of codes which contains a code better than any given code) is independent of ZFC.
description: 11 pages
Using a Conditional Generative Adversarial Network to Control the Statistical Characteristics of Generated Images for IACT Data Analysis
Creators: name: Dubenskaya, Julia
name: Kryukov, Alexander
name: Demichev, Andrey
name: Polyakov, Stanislav
name: Gres, Elizaveta
name: Vlaskina, Anna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Generative adversarial networks are a promising tool for image generation in the astronomy domain. Of particular interest are conditional generative adversarial networks (cGANs), which allow you to divide images into several classes according to the value of some property of the image, and then specify the required class when generating new images. In the case of images from Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs), an important property is the total brightness of all image pixels (image size), which is in direct correlation with the energy of primary particles. We used a cGAN technique to generate images similar to whose obtained in the TAIGA-IACT experiment. As a training set, we used a set of two-dimensional images generated using the TAIGA Monte Carlo simulation software. We artificiallly divided the training set into 10 classes, sorting images by size and defining the boundaries of the classes so that the same number of images fall into each class. These classes were used while training our network. The paper shows that for each class, the size distribution of the generated images is close to normal with the mean value located approximately in the middle of the corresponding class. We also show that for the generated images, the total image size distribution obtained by summing the distributions over all classes is close to the original distribution of the training set. The results obtained will be useful for more accurate generation of realistic synthetic images similar to the ones taken by IACTs.
Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya nature of ferroelectric ordering in magnetoelectric Gd$_{1-x}$Y$_{x}$MnO$_{3}$ system
Creators: name: Vilarinho, R.
name: Almeida, A.
name: da Silva, J. M. Machado
name: Oliveira, J. B.
name: Sá, M. A.
name: Tavares, P. B.
name: Moreira, J. Agostinho
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This work reports on magnetic, dielectric, thermodynamic and magnetoelectric properties of Gd$_{1-x}$Y$_{x}$MnO$_{3}$, with 0 \leq x \leq 0.4, with emphasis on the (x, T) phase diagram, towards unraveling the role of the driving mechanisms in stabilizing both magnetic and ferroelectric orderings. The (x, T) phase diagram reflects the effect of lattice distortions induced by the substitution of $Gd^{3+}$ ion by smaller $Y^{3+}$ ion, which gradually unbalances the antiferromagnetic against the ferromagnetic exchange interactions, enabling the emergence of ferroelectricity for higher concentrations of yttrium. For $x \leq 0.1$, the paramagnetic phase is followed by a presumably incommensurate collinear antiferromagnetic phase, then a weak ferromagnetic canted A-type antiferromagnetic ordering is established at lower temperatures.For $0.2 \leq x \leq 0.4$, a different phase sequence is obtained. The canted A-type antiferromagnetic arrangement is no more stable, and instead a pure antiferromagnetic ordering is stabilized below T$_{lock}$ $\approx$ 14 - 17 K, with an improper ferroelectric character. From these results, a cycloid modulated spin arrangement at low temperatures is proposed, accordingly to the inverse Dzyaloshinskii Moriya model. Anomalous temperature dependence of the dipolar relaxation energy and magnetization evidence for structural and magnetic changes occurring at $T* \approx 22 - 28 K$, for $0.1 \leq x \leq 0.4$.
description: 26 pages, 9 figures. Results replaced in section 3d, and revised arguments. Number of figures reduced
Behavior Coding of October 2018 Agricultural Labor Survey
Creators: name: Rodhouse, Joseph B
name: Ridolfo, Heather
name: Abayomi, Emilola J
name: Biagas Jr, David
name: Rodhouse, Joseph B
name: Ridolfo, Heather
name: Abayomi, Emilola J
name: Biagas Jr, David
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Behavior Coding
subject: Interviewer-Respondent Interaction
subject: Data Quality

description: Cognitive testing on the Agricultural Labor Survey in 2016 revealed that respondents were having difficulty mapping their responses to questions. This led to further inquiries into the data collection process for this survey in the computer-assisted telephone interview (CATI) mode, which is the primary source of completed interviews for this survey. Behavior coding was conducted on recorded CATI interviews and found widespread problems with both interviewer and respondent behaviors. Further efforts were undertaken to improve both the survey’s CATI questionnaire and interviewer performance in administering the survey, and new training and instructions were provided for interviewers on how to conduct standardized interviews. This report examines the extent to which standardized interviews were achieved after making these changes in time for the October 2018 Agricultural Labor Survey data collection. Several factors that impact standardized performance are examined, including characteristics of the questionnaire and questions, and the interviewer’s Data Collection Center. The findings demonstrate that efforts to increase interviewer standardization in question administration improved significantly compared to the previous iteration of the survey in April 2018. However, only a slight majority of all the questions administered by interviewers are read exactly as worded. Thus, more training is still needed for interviewers to continue improving the rate at which standardized interviews are conducted. The results highlight the need for questionnaire designers and Blaise designers to work together to make it easier for interviewers to conduct standardized interviews.
Do Bird Assemblages Predict Susceptibility by E-Waste Pollution? A Comparative Study Based on Species- and Guild-Dependent Responses in China Agroecosystems
Creators: name: Zhang, Qiang
name: Wu, Jiangping
name: Sun, Yuxin
name: Zhang, Min
name: Mai, Bixian
name: Mo, Ling
name: Lee, Tien Ming
name: Zou, Fasheng
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Bird populations--Environmental aspects
subject: Bird populations
subject: Bird declines
subject: Birds--Ecology
subject: Species diversity
subject: Birds--Effect of pollution on
subject: Electronic waste
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental sciences

description: Indirect effects of electronic waste (e-waste) have been proposed as a causal factor in the decline of bird populations, but analyses of the severity impacts on community assembly are currently lacking. To explore how population abundance/species diversity are influenced, and which functional traits are important in determining e-waste susceptibility, here we surveyed breeding and overwintering birds with a hierarchically nested sampling design, and used linear mixed models to analyze changes in bird assemblages along an exposure gradient in South China. Total bird abundance and species diversity decreased with e-waste severity (exposed < surrounding < reference), reflecting the decreasing discharge and consequent side effects. Twenty-five breeding species exclusively used natural farmland, and nine species decreased significantly in relative abundance at e-waste polluted sites. A high pairwise similarity between exposed and surrounding sites indicates a diffuse effect of pollutants on the species assembly at local scale. We show that sensitivity to e-waste severity varies substantially across functional guild, with the prevalence of woodland insectivorous and grassland specialists declining, while some open farmland generalists such as arboreal frugivores, and terrestrial granivores were also rare. By contrast, the response of waterbirds, omnivorous and non-breeding visitors seem to be tolerable to a wide range of pollution so far. These findings underscore that improper e-waste dismantling results in a severe decline of bird diversity, and the different bird assemblages on polluted and natural farmlands imply species- and guild-dependent susceptibility with functional traits. Moreover, a better understanding of the impact of e-waste with different pollution levels, combined multiple pollutants, and in a food-web context on bird is required in future.
Odobenus Brisson 1762
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Odobenidae
Odobenus

description: Odobenus Brisson, 1762. Regn. Anim., 2nd ed., p. 30. COMMENT: Although the names in Brisson, 1762 are invalid, Odobenus has been retained by Opinion 467 of the ICZN. Hall, 1981: 1061, used the generic name Rosmarus. ISIS NUMBER: 5301413001008000000.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, pp. 244-289 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 286, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980
description: {"references": ["Brisson, M. J. 1762. Le regnum animale in classes IX distributum, sive synopsis methodica sistens generalem animalium distributionem in classes IX, & duarum primarum classium, quadrupedum scilicet & cetaceorum, particularem dibvisionem in ordines, sectiones, genera & species. T. Haak, Paris, 296 pp.", "Hall, E. R. 1981. The mammals of North America. Second ed. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1: 1 - 600 + 90, 2: 601 - 1181 + 90."]}
Dielectric Environment Effect on Carrier Mobility of Graphene Double-Layer Structure
Creators: name: Hosono, Kazuhiro
name: Wakabayashi, Katsunori
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have theoretically studied the dielectric environment effect on the charged-impurity-limited carrier mobility of graphene double-layer structure (GDLS) on the basis of the Boltzmann transport theory. In this system, two graphene layers are separated by a dielectric barrier layer. It is pointed out that the carrier mobility strongly depends on the dielectric constant of the barrier layer when the interlayer distance becomes larger than the inverse of the Fermi wave vector. Moreover, the conditions to improve the charged-impurity-limited carrier mobility of the GDLS are evaluated.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures
Comprehensive Analysis of the 16p11.2 Deletion and Null Cntnap2 Mouse Models of Autism Spectrum Disorder
Creators: name: Brunner, Daniela
name: Kabitzke, Patricia
name: He, Dansha
name: Cox, Kimberly
name: Thiede, Lucinda
name: Hanania, Taleen
name: Sabath, Emily
name: Alexandrov, Vadim
name: Saxe, Michael
name: Peles, Elior
name: Mills, Alea
name: Spooren, Will
name: Ghosh, Anirvan
name: Feliciano, Pamela
name: Benedetti, Marta
name: Clayton, Alice Luo
name: Biemans, Barbara
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mice as laboratory animals
subject: Neurosciences--Research
subject: Autism
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Autism spectrum disorder comprises several neurodevelopmental conditions presenting symptoms in social communication and restricted, repetitive behaviors. A major roadblock for drug development for autism is the lack of robust behavioral signatures predictive of clinical efficacy. To address this issue, we further characterized, in a uniform and rigorous way, mouse models of autism that are of interest because of their construct validity and wide availability to the scientific community. We implemented a broad behavioral battery that included but was not restricted to core autism domains, with the goal of identifying robust, reliable phenotypes amenable for further testing. Here we describe comprehensive findings from two known mouse models of autism, obtained at different developmental stages, using a systematic behavioral test battery combining standard tests as well as novel, quantitative, computer-vision based systems. The first mouse model recapitulates a deletion in human chromosome 16p11.2, found in 1% of individuals with autism. The second mouse model harbors homozygous null mutations in Cntnap2, associated with autism and Pitt-Hopkins-like syndrome. Consistent with previous results, 16p11.2 heterozygous null mice, also known as Del(7Slx1b-Sept1)4Aam weighed less than wild type littermates displayed hyperactivity and no social deficits. Cntnap2 homozygous null mice were also hyperactive, froze less during testing, showed a mild gait phenotype and deficits in the three-chamber social preference test, although less robust than previously published. In the open field test with exposure to urine of an estrous female, however, the Cntnap2 null mice showed reduced vocalizations. In addition, Cntnap2 null mice performed slightly better in a cognitive procedural learning test. Although finding and replicating robust behavioral phenotypes in animal models is a challenging task, such functional readouts remain important in the development of therapeutics and we anticipate both our positive and negative findings will be utilized as a resource for the broader scientific community.
Optimization of Bluetooth Audio Stream based on the Estimation of Proximity
Creators: name: Selvaradjou, Ka.
name: Shankar, A. Sharma
name: Anandakumar, U.
name: Sivasundar, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The advent of Bluetooth wireless technology makes it possible to transmit real-time audio in mobile devices. Bluetooth is cost-efficient and power-efficient, but it is not suitable for traditional audio encoding and real-time streaming due to limited bandwidth, high degree of error rates, and the time-varying nature of the radio link. Therefore, audio streaming over Bluetooth poses problems such as guzzling of both power and bandwidth. In order to overcome the above mentioned problems, an algorithm is proposed in this work to optimize the audio stream from the source to the sink by estimating the proximity between them. The optimization is achieved by adjusting the bit rate of the audio stream thus conserving power. We considered carefully various Bluetooth signal parameters and the most suitable parameter for estimating the proximity has been determined experimentally. The experiments were carried out using Class II BS003 Bluesoleil dongle. This work will enable the Bluetooth users to perform a seamless and optimized streaming of MP3 stereo audio data.
title: CORRELATION BETWEEN LABORATORY TESTING RESULTS AND IN-SITU SIDEWALK SCALING
Creators: name: Shea, Brian
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2023

description: Scaling tests aim to induce scaling behavior in concrete specimens similar to environmental conditions. The efficacy of laboratory tests’ ability to match environmental conditions is important to be able to evaluate the durability of concrete exposed to freeze-thaw cycles and de-icers. This study attempts to correlate results between two existing scaling test standards, ASTM C672 and the BNQ NQ 2621-900. The correlation is done via scaling evaluation including computer-based photogrammetric analysis, visual ratings, and cumulative mass loss measurements. Then a correlation between the laboratory testing and in-situ sidewalk panel specimens is made via visual ratings.
EMReact: A Tool for Modelling Electromagnetic Field Induced Effects in Chemical Reactions by Solving the Discrete Stochastic Master Equation
Creators: name: Dsouza, Kelvin
name: Vashaee, Daryoosh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effects of electromagnetic fields (EMF) have been widely debated concerning their role in chemical reactions. Reactions usually took hours or days to complete, and have been shown to happen a thousand times faster using EMF radiations. This work develops a formalism and a computer program to evaluate and quantify the EMF effects in chemical reactions. The master equation employed in this program solves the internal energy of the reaction under EMFs while including collisional effects. Multiphoton absorption and emission are made possible with the transitioning energy close to the EMF and are influenced by the dielectric properties of the system. Dimethyl Sulfoxide and Benzyl Chloride are simulated under different EMF intensities. The results show that EMF absorption is closely related to the collisional redistribution of energy in molecules. The EMF effect can be interpreted as a shift of the thermodynamic equilibrium. Under such nonequilibrium energy distribution, the "temperature" is not a reliable quantity for defining the state of the system.
“You're Really Gonna Kick Us All Out?” Sustaining Safe Spaces for Community-Based HIV Prevention and Control among Black Men Who Have Sex with Men
Creators: name: Garcia, Jonathan
name: Parker, Caroline Mary
name: Parker, Richard G.
name: Wilson, Patrick Alan David
name: Philbin, Morgan M.
name: Hirsch, Jennifer S.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Gay men, Black
HIV infections—Prevention
Community organization
HIV infections--Social aspects
Public health
Epidemiology
Social sciences--Research

description: Black men who have sex with men (BMSM) experience among the highest rates of HIV infection in the United States. We conducted a community-based ethnography in New York City to identify the structural and environmental factors that influence BMSMs vulnerability to HIV and their engagement with HIV prevention services. Methods included participant observation at community-based organizations (CBOs) in New York City, in-depth interviews with 31 BMSM, and 17 key informant interviews. Our conceptual framework shows how creating and sustaining safe spaces could be a critical environmental approach to reduce vulnerability to HIV among BMSM. Participant observation, in-depth and key informant interviews revealed that fear and mistrust characterized men’s relation to social and public institutions, such as churches, schools, and the police. This fear and mistrust created HIV vulnerability among the BMSM in our sample by challenging engagement with services. Our findings suggest that to be successful, HIV prevention efforts must address these structural and environmental vulnerabilities. Among the CBOs that we studied, “safe spaces” emerged as an important tool for addressing these environmental vulnerabilities. CBOs used safe spaces to provide social support, to address stigma, to prepare men for the workforce, and to foster a sense of community among BMSM. In addition, safe spaces were used for HIV and STI testing and treatment campaigns. Our ethnographic findings suggest that safe spaces represent a promising but so far under-utilized part of HIV prevention infrastructure. Safe spaces seem integral to high impact comprehensive HIV prevention efforts, and may be considered more appropriately as part of HIV capacity-building rather than being nested within program-specific funding structures.
Odobenus rosmarus
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Odobenidae
Odobenus
Odobenus rosmarus

description: Odobenus rosmarus (Linnaeus, 1758). Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:38. TYPE LOCALITY: N. Atlantic. DISTRIBUTION: Arctic seas; south as far as New England (U.S.A.), Great Britain, Scandinavia, Pribilof Isis., and Honshu (Japan) at least occasionally. PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix III (Canada). ISIS NUMBER: 5301413001008001001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, pp. 244-289 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 286, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980
2019 Agricultural Labor Base and Overtime Hours Cognitive Testing Report
Creators: name: Ridolfo, Heather
name: Ott, Kathy
name: Ridolfo, Heather
name: Ott, Kathy
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Labor
subject: hours worked
subject: wages
subject: cognitive testing

description: Ten cognitive interviews were conducted to evaluate the proposed addition of questions on base and overtime hours to the Agricultural Labor Survey and an instruction to exclude H-2A workers. Results of the cognitive interviewing showed that the addition of questions on base and overtime hours does not place additional burden on respondents. Excluding H-2A workers from the questionnaire made it easier for respondents to report their workers. However, respondents who hired H-2A workers questioned the reason for this exclusion. Although the proposed changes worked well, a number of problems with other questions on the survey were found during this testing. Specifically, respondents had difficulty categorizing their workers and reporting wage information as instructed.
Mechanically induced pseudo-magnetic fields in the excitonic fine structures of droplet epitaxial quantum dots
Creators: name: Cheng, Shun-Jen
name: Liao, Yu-Huai
name: Lin, Pei-Yi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present numerical investigations based on the Luttinger-Kohn four-band $k \cdot p$ theory and, accordingly, establish a quantitatively valid model of the excitonic fine structures of droplet epitaxial GaAs/AlGaAs quantum dots under uni-axial stress control. In the formalisms, stressing a photo-excited quantum dot is equivalent creating a pseudo-magnetic field that is directly coupled to the pseudo-spin of the exciton doublet and tunable to tailor the polarized fine structure of exciton. The latter feature is associated with the valence-band-mixing of exciton that is especially sensitive to external stress in inherently unstrained droplet epitaxial GaAs/AlGaAs quantum dots and allows us to mechanically design and prepare any desired exciton states of QD photon sources prior to the photon generation.
description: 7 figures
Inhomogeneous viscous fluids in FRW universe
Creators: name: Myrzakulov, R.
name: Sebastiani, L.
name: Zerbini, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We give a brief review of some aspects of inhomogeneous viscous fluids in a flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker Universe. In general, it is pointed out that several fluid models may bring the future Universe evolution to become singular, with the appearance of the so-called Big Rip scenario. We investigate the effects of fluids coupled with dark matter in a de Sitter Universe, by considering several cases. Due to this coupling, the coincidence problem may be solved, and if the de Sitter solution is stable, the model is also protected against the Big Rip singularity.
description: 11 pages, references added; Galaxies 2013, 1
HD 85567: A Herbig B[e] star or an interacting B[e] binary
Creators: name: Wheelwright, H. E.
name: Weigelt, G.
name: Garatti, A. Caratti o
name: Lopez, R. Garcia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context. HD 85567 is an enigmatic object exhibiting the B[e] phenomenon, i.e. an infrared excess and forbidden emission lines in the optical. The object's evolutionary status is uncertain and there are conflicting claims that it is either a young stellar object or an evolved, interacting binary. Aims. To elucidate the reason for the B[e] behaviour of HD 85567, we have observed it with the VLTI and AMBER. Methods. Our observations were conducted in the K-band with moderate spectral resolution (R~1500, i.e. 200 km/s). The spectrum of HD 85567 exhibits Br gamma and CO overtone bandhead emission. The interferometric data obtained consist of spectrally dispersed visibilities, closure phases and differential phases across these spectral features and the K-band continuum. Results. The closure phase observations do not reveal evidence of asymmetry. The apparent size of HD 85567 in the K-band was determined by fitting the visibilities with a ring model. The best fitting radius, 0.8 +/- 0.3 AU, is relatively small making HD 85567 undersized in comparison to the size-luminosity relationship based on YSOs of low and intermediate luminosity. This has previously been found to be the case for luminous YSOs, and it has been proposed that this is due to the presence of an optically thick gaseous disc. We demonstrate that the differential phase observations over the CO bandhead emission are indeed consistent with the presence of a compact (~1 AU) gaseous disc interior to the dust sublimation radius. Conclusions. The observations reveal no sign of binarity. However, the data do indicate the presence of a gaseous disc interior to the dust sublimation radius. We conclude that the data are consistent with the hypothesis that HD 85567 is a YSO with an optically thick gaseous disc within a larger dust disc that is being photo-evaporated from the outer edge.
description: Accepted for publication in A & A
Prevalence and Correlates of HIV and Hepatitis C Virus Infections and Risk Behaviors among Malaysian Fishermen
Creators: name: Ismail, Rusli
name: Kamarulzaman, Adeeba
name: Choo, Martin K. K.
name: El-Bassel, Nabila
name: Adam, Philippe C. G.
name: Gilbert, Louisa
name: Wu, Elwin
name: West, Brooke S.
name: Bazazi, Alexander R.
name: De Wit, John B. F.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Hepatitis C virus
Fishers--Health and hygiene
HIV infections
Public health
Epidemiology
Social service

description: Fishermen in Southeast Asia have been found to be highly vulnerable to HIV, with research evidence highlighting the role of sexual risk behaviors. This study aims to estimate the rate of HIV as well as hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections among Malaysian fishermen, and the risky sexual and injection drug use behaviors that may contribute to these infections. The study also includes an assessment of socio-demographic, occupational and behavioral correlates of testing positive for HIV or HCV, and socio-demographic and occupational correlates of risk behaviors. The study had a cross-sectional design and recruited 406 fishermen through respondent-driven sampling (RDS). Participants self-completed a questionnaire and provided biological specimens for HIV and HCV testing. We conducted and compared results of analyses of both unweighted data and data weighted with the Respondent-Driven Sampling Analysis Tool (RDSAT). Of the participating fishermen, 12.4% were HIV positive and 48.6% had HCV infection. Contrary to expectations and findings from previous research, most fishermen (77.1%) were not sexually active. More than a third had a history of injection drug use, which often occurred during fishing trips on commercial vessels and during longer stays at sea. Of the fishermen who injected drugs, 42.5% reported unsafe injection practices in the past month. Reporting a history of injection drug use increased the odds of testing HIV positive by more than 6 times (AOR = 6.22, 95% CIs [2.74, 14.13]). Most fishermen who injected drugs tested positive for HCV. HCV infection was significantly associated with injection drug use, being older than 25 years, working on a commercial vessel and spending four or more days at sea per fishing trip. There is an urgent need to strengthen current harm reduction and drug treatment programs for Malaysian fishermen who inject drugs, especially among fishermen who work on commercial vessels and engage in deep-sea fishing.
Splitting a critical spin chain
Creators: name: Zamora, Alejandro
name: Rodriguez-Laguna, Javier
name: Lewenstein, Maciej
name: Tagliacozzo, Luca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a quench protocol that conserves the entanglement spectrum of a bipartition of a quantum system. As an example we consider the splitting of a critical Ising chain in two chains, and compare it with the well known case of joining of two chains. We show that both the out of equilibrium time evolution of global properties and the equilibrium regime after the quench of local properties are different in the two scenarios. Since the two quenches only differ in the presence/absence of the conservation of the entanglement spectrum, our results suggest that this conservation plays a fundamental role in both the out-of-equilibrium dynamics and the subsequent equilibration mechanism. We discuss the relevance of our results in the context of quantum simulators.
description: 15 pages, 17 figures invited contribution to the special issue on Entanglement Entropies of JSTAT