cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Supervised Quantile Normalization for Low-rank Matrix Approximation
Creators: name: Cuturi, Marco
name: Teboul, Olivier
name: Niles-Weed, Jonathan
name: Vert, Jean-Philippe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Low rank matrix factorization is a fundamental building block in machine learning, used for instance to summarize gene expression profile data or word-document counts. To be robust to outliers and differences in scale across features, a matrix factorization step is usually preceded by ad-hoc feature normalization steps, such as \texttt{tf-idf} scaling or data whitening. We propose in this work to learn these normalization operators jointly with the factorization itself. More precisely, given a $d\times n$ matrix $X$ of $d$ features measured on $n$ individuals, we propose to learn the parameters of quantile normalization operators that can operate row-wise on the values of $X$ and/or of its factorization $UV$ to improve the quality of the low-rank representation of $X$ itself. This optimization is facilitated by the introduction of a new differentiable quantile normalization operator built using optimal transport, providing new results on top of existing work by (Cuturi et al. 2019). We demonstrate the applicability of these techniques on synthetic and genomics datasets.
description: new version with genomics experiments
Secular Evolution of Hierarchical Planetary Systems
Creators: name: Lee, Man Hoi
name: Peale, S. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: (Abridged) We investigate the dynamical evolution of coplanar hierarchical two-planet systems where the ratio of the orbital semimajor axes alpha=a_1/a_2 is small. The orbital parameters obtained from a multiple Kepler fit to the radial velocity variations of a star are best interpreted as Jacobi coordinates and Jacobi coordinates should be used in any analyses of hierarchical planetary systems. An approximate theory that can be applied to coplanar hierarchical two-planet systems with a wide range of masses m_j and orbital eccentricities e_j is the octupole-level secular perturbation theory (OSPT). The OSPT shows that if the ratio of the maximum orbital angular momenta, lambda \approx (m_1/m_2) alpha^{1/2}, for given a_j is approximately equal to a critical value lambda_{crit}, then libration of the difference in the longitudes of periapse, w_1-w_2, about either 0 or 180 deg. is almost certain, with possibly large amplitude variations of both e_j. We establish that the OSPT is highly accurate for systems with alpha<0.1 and reasonably accurate even for systems with alpha as large as 1/3, provided that alpha is not too close to a significant mean-motion commensurability or above the stability boundary. The HD 168443 system is not in a secular resonance and its w_1-w_2 circulates. The HD 12661 system is the first extrasolar planetary system found to have w_1-w_2 librating about 180 deg. The libration of w_1-w_2 and the large-amplitude variations of both e_j in the HD 12661 system are consistent with the analytic results on systems with lambda \approx lambda_{crit}. The HD 12661 system with the best- fit orbital parameters and sin i = 1 is affected by the close proximity to the 11:2 commensurability, but small changes in the outer orbital period can result in configurations that are not affected by mean-motion commensurabilities.
description: 32 pages, including 8 figures; uses AASTeX v5.0; accepted for publication in ApJ
Direct comparison of sterile neutrino constraints from cosmological data, $ν_{e}$ disappearance data and $ν_μ\rightarrowν_{e}$ appearance data in a $3+1$ model
Creators: name: Adams, Matthew
name: Bezrukov, Fedor
name: Elvin-Poole, Jack
name: Evans, Justin J.
name: Guzowski, Pawel
name: Fearraigh, Brían Ó
name: Söldner-Rembold, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a quantitative, direct comparison of constraints on sterile neutrinos derived from neutrino oscillation experiments and from Planck data, interpreted assuming standard cosmological evolution. We extend a $1+1$ model, which is used to compare exclusions contours at the 95% CL derived from Planck data to those from $ν_{e}$-disappearance measurements, to a $3+1$ model. This allows us to compare the Planck constraints with those obtained through $ν_μ\rightarrowν_{e}$ appearance searches, which are sensitive to more than one active-sterile mixing angle. We find that the cosmological data fully exclude the allowed regions published by the LSND, MiniBooNE and Neutrino-4 collaborations, and those from the gallium and rector anomalies, at the 95% CL. Compared to the exclusion regions from the Daya Bay $ν_{e}$-disappearance search, the Planck data are more strongly excluding above $|Δm^{2}_{41}|\approx 0.1\, \mathrm{eV}^{2}$ and $m_\mathrm{eff}^\mathrm{sterile}\approx 0.2\, \mathrm{eV}$, with the Daya Bay exclusion being stronger below these values. Compared to the combined Daya Bay/Bugey/MINOS exclusion region on $ν_μ\rightarrowν_{e}$ appearance, the Planck data is more strongly excluding above $Δm^{2}_{41}\approx 5\times 10^{-2}\,\mathrm{eV}^{2}$, with the exclusion strengths of the Planck data and the Daya Bay/Bugey/MINOS combination becoming comparable below this value.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures, accepted by Eur. Phys. J. C
When does it take a Nixon to go to China?
Creators: name: Cukierman, Alex
name: Tommasi, Mariano
name: Cukierman, Alex
name: Tommasi, Mariano
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Financial Economics
International Relations/Trade
Political Economy

description: Substantial changes in policy are sometimes implemented by "unlikely" parties; for example, radical market-oriented reforms by populist parties and substantial steps towards peace by "hawks" like Begin or Nixon. To account for such episodes, we develop a framework in which incumbent politicians have more information than the voting public about the state of the world, and hence about which policies are optimal. Politicians are unable to transmit fully this information, since there is also incomplete information about their preferences. We conclude that popular support for a policy, or its "credibility," depends on the policymakerpolicy pair.
AN EVALUATION OF THE EYSENCK R AND T SCALES AND THEIR RELATION TO PERSONALITY
Creators: name: Schatz, Louis
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 5205
subject: Social and personality psychology

description: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 19-03, page: 5890.
Capital Markets Integration, Growth and Income Distribution: A Dynamic Analysis
Creators: name: Viaene, Jean-Marie
name: Zilcha, Itzhak
name: Viaene, Jean-Marie
name: Zilcha, Itzhak
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Altruism
subject: Growth
subject: Human Capital
subject: Capital Markets
subject: Integration

description: The paper considers a two-country model of overlapping generations heterogenous economies with intergenerational transfers carried out in the form of bequest and investment in human capital. We examine in competitive equilibrium the transitory and long-run effects of capital markets integration. First, we explore how the regime of education provision - public or private - affects the dynamics of the integrated economy. Second, we study the effects of capital markets integration, in equilibrium, on the intragenerational income distribution in both the host and investing country; the role of the educational regime in this case is also examined.
The End of the MACHO Era: Limits on Halo Dark Matter from Stellar Halo Wide Binaries
Creators: name: Yoo, Jaiyul
name: Chaname, Julio
name: Gould, Andrew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We simulate the evolution of halo wide binaries in the presence of MAssive Compact Halo Objects (MACHOs) and compare our results to the sample of wide binaries of Chaname & Gould (2003). The observed distribution is well fit by a single power law for angular separation, 3.5" < theta < 900", whereas the simulated distributions show a break in the power law whose location depends on the MACHO mass and density. This allows us to place upper limits on MACHO density as a function of their assumed mass. At the 95% confidence level, we exclude MACHOs with mass M > 43Msun at the standard local halo density rho_H. This all but removes the last permitted window for a full MACHO halo for masses M > 10^{-7.5}Msun.
description: accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal, 8 pages, 7 figures
Gravitational wave population inference with deep flow-based generative network
Creators: name: Wong, Kaze W. K.
name: Contardo, Gabriella
name: Ho, Shirley
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We combine hierarchical Bayesian modeling with a flow-based deep generative network, in order to demonstrate that one can efficiently constraint numerical gravitational wave (GW) population models at a previously intractable complexity. Existing techniques for comparing data to simulation,such as discrete model selection and Gaussian process regression, can only be applied efficiently to moderate-dimension data. This limits the number of observable (e.g. chirp mass, spins.) and hyper-parameters (e.g. common envelope efficiency) one can use in a population inference. In this study, we train a network to emulate a phenomenological model with 6 observables and 4 hyper-parameters, use it to infer the properties of a simulated catalogue and compare the results to the phenomenological model. We find that a 10-layer network can emulate the phenomenological model accurately and efficiently. Our machine enables simulation-based GW population inferences to take on data at a new complexity level.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures
Prediction of $f$-wave pairing symmetry in YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{6+x}$ cuprates
Creators: name: Adhikary, Priyo
name: Das, Tanmoy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform a numerical simulation of a three-band Hubbard model with two CuO$_2$ planes and a single CuO chain layer for YBCO cuprates. The spin-fluctuation mediated pairing interaction is computed within the multiband random-phase approximation, and its pairing eigenvalues and eigenfunctions are solved as a function of chain state filling factor $n_c$. We find that for the intrinsic value of $n_c$ in YBCO samples, one obtains the usual $d$-wave pairing symmetry. However, if we dope the chain layers with holes, while keeping the plane states doping fixed, the leading pairing symmetry solution becomes an unconventional $f$-wave symmetry. The mechanism behind the $f$-wave pairing is the competition between the plane states antiferromagnetic nesting and chain states' uniaxial nesting. We also find that the pairing strength is strongly augmented when the flat band bottom of the chain state passes the Fermi level for a fixed plane states doping. The $f$-wave pairing symmetry can be realized in YBCO cuprates in future experiments where the self-doping mechanism between the chain and plane states can be minimized so that only chain state can be selectively hole doped.
description: (previous comments), v2: Only minor text revisions
Fast implicit difference schemes for time-space fractional diffusion equations with the integral fractional Laplacian
Creators: name: Gu, Xian-Ming
name: Sun, Hai-Wei
name: Zhang, Yanzhi
name: Zhao, Yong-Liang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65R20, 35R11, 65N06, 65F08

description: In this paper, we develop two fast implicit difference schemes for solving a class of variable-coefficient time-space fractional diffusion equations with integral fractional Laplacian (IFL). The proposed schemes utilize the graded $L1$ formula for the Caputo fractional derivative and a special finite difference discretization for IFL, where the graded mesh can capture the model problem with a weak singularity at initial time. The stability and convergence are rigorously proved via the $M$-matrix analysis, which is from the spatial discretized matrix of IFL. Moreover, the proposed schemes use the fast sum-of-exponential approximation and Toeplitz matrix algorithms to reduce the computational cost for the nonlocal property of time and space fractional derivatives, respectively. The fast schemes greatly reduce the computational work of solving the discretized linear systems from $\mathcal{O}(MN^3 + M^2N)$ by a direct solver to $\mathcal{O}(MN(\log N + N_{exp}))$ per preconditioned Krylov subspace iteration and a memory requirement from $O(MN^2)$ to $O(NN_{exp})$, where $N$ and $(N_{exp} \ll)~M$ are the number of spatial and temporal grid nodes. The spectrum of preconditioned matrix is also given for ensuring the acceleration benefit of circulant preconditioners. Finally, numerical results are presented to show the utility of the proposed methods.
description: 31pages, 11 tables, 4 figures. Version4: accepted for publication by Mathematical Methods in Applied Sciences
Quantitative Implications of the Home Bias: Foreign Underinvestment, Domestic Oversaving and Corrective Taxation
Creators: name: Razin, Assaf
name: Sadka, Efraim
name: Yuen, Chi-Wa
name: Razin, Assaf
name: Sadka, Efraim
name: Yuen, Chi-Wa
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: International Development
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Foreign portfolio debt investment
subject: Foreign portfolio equality investment
subject: Foreign direct investment
subject: Capital income taxation
subject: Asymmetric information
subject: Aggregate production efficiency
subject: Production-consumption efficiency

description: There is strong evidence about a home-court advantage in international portfolio investment. One explanation for the bias is an information asymmetry between domestic and foreign investors about the economic performance of domestic firms. This asymmetry causes two types of distortions: An aggregate production inefficiency and a production-consumption inefficiency, leading to foreign underinvestment and domestic oversaving respectively. Such market failures are found to be quite severe, slightly more so with equity flows than with debt flows. These inefficiencies can nonetheless be corrected by a mix of tax-subsidy instruments, consisting of taxes on corporate income and on the capital incomes of both residents and nonresidents. When only a partial set of instruments is available, however, the prescription for each tax instrument can change radically and may even be reversed although the welfare gains can be fairly substantial and sometimes close to the first best optimum. This partial set of instruments appears to be more effective in handling the market failure in the case of equity flows than in the case of debt flows.
Channelling Domestic Savings Into Productive Investment Under Asymmetric Information: The Essential Role of Foreign Direct Investment
Creators: name: Razin, Assaf
name: Sadka, Efraim
name: Yuen, Chi-WA
name: Razin, Assaf
name: Sadka, Efraim
name: Yuen, Chi-WA
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Financial Economics
International Relations/Trade

description: Foreign direct investment (FDI) is observed to be a predominant form of capital flows to low and middle income countries with insufficiently developed capital markets. This paper analyzes the problem of channelling domestic savings into productive investment in the presence of asymmetric information between the managing owners of firms and other portfolio stakeholders. We emphasize the crucial role played by FDI in sustaining equity-financed capital investment for economies plagued by such information problems. Similar problems also exist for foreign portfolio debt flows. The paper identifies in the presence of information asymmetry, how different capital market structures may lead to foreign over- or under-investment and to domestic under- or over-saving, and thus to inefficient equilibria. We show how corrective tax-subsidy policies consisting of taxes on corporate income and the capital incomes of both residents and nonresidents can restore efficiency.
Consumption Smoothing Through Fiscal Policy in OECD and EU Countries
Creators: name: Arreaza, Adriana
name: Sorensen, Bent E.
name: Yosha, Oved
name: Arreaza, Adriana
name: Sorensen, Bent E.
name: Yosha, Oved
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Political Economy
subject: Fiscal Institutions
subject: Government Deficits
subject: Income Insurance
subject: International Capital Markets
subject: International Integration
subject: Risk Sharing

description: We measure the amount of smoothing achieved through various components of the government deficit in EU and OECD countries. For EU countries, at the 1-year frequency, 13 percent of shocks to GDP are smoothed via government consumption, 18 percent via transfers, 5 percent via subsidies, while taxes provide no smoothing. The results for OECD countries are similar. Government transfers provide more smoothing of negative than of positive shocks among EU countries. There seems to be no tradeoff between high government deficits in a country and the ability to smooth consumption. We find that in countries where there is "delegation" of power or where fiscal targets are negotiated effectively by coalition members, consumption smoothing via government consumption and government transfers is considerably higher. We interpret this finding as evidence that effective budgetary institutions can accomplish efficient consumption smoothing via government deficit spending and lower average deficits.
Boundary Rigidity and Holography
Creators: name: Porrati, M.
name: Rabadan, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review boundary rigidity theorems assessing that, under appropriate conditions, Riemannian manifolds with the same spectrum of boundary geodesics are isometric. We show how to apply these theorems to the problem of reconstructing a $d+1$ dimensional, negative curvature space-time from boundary data associated to two-point functions of high-dimension local operators in a conformal field theory. We also show simple, physically relevant examples of negative-curvature spaces that fail to satisfy in a subtle way some of the assumptions of rigidity theorems. In those examples, we explicitly show that the spectrum of boundary geodesics is not sufficient to reconstruct the metric in the bulk. We also survey other reconstruction procedures and comment on their possible implementation in the context of the holographic AdS/CFT duality.
description: 26 pages, 4 figures
Lasioglossum (Lasioglossum) titusi
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Lasioglossum (Lasioglossum) titusi (Crawford, 1902)
[Type: ♀ San Diego, California, USA; April]
This species occurs from southwestern Canada to northwestern Mexico. Within the BCP, it has only been reported once in the Coastal Sage Matorral at the San Miguel River in 1981 (McGinley 1986). See fig. 184.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 267, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
ELECTRIC RETAIL RATE INCREASES AND FARMERS' USE OF ELECTRICITY
Creators: name: Williamson, Robert Burns
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 30
subject: Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences
classificationCode: 35
subject: Commerce, management, tourism and services

description: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 19-03, page: 4640.
Describing Physics For Physical Reasoning: Force-based Sequential Manipulation Planning
Creators: name: Toussaint, Marc
name: Ha, Jung-Su
name: Driess, Danny
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Physical reasoning is a core aspect of intelligence in animals and humans. A central question is what model should be used as a basis for reasoning. Existing work considered models ranging from intuitive physics and physical simulators to contact dynamics models used in robotic manipulation and locomotion. In this work we propose descriptions of physics which directly allow us to leverage optimization methods for physical reasoning and sequential manipulation planning. The proposed multi-physics formulation enables the solver to mix various levels of abstraction and simplifications for different objects and phases of the solution. As an essential ingredient, we propose a specific parameterization of wrench exchange between object surfaces in a path optimization framework, introducing the point-of-attack as decision variable. We demonstrate the approach on various robot manipulation planning problems, such as grasping a stick in order to push or lift another object to a target, shifting and grasping a book from a shelve, and throwing an object to bounce towards a target.
Coadjoint Orbits, Spin and Dequantization
Creators: name: Mauro, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this Letter we propose two path integral approaches to describe the classical mechanics of spinning particles. We show how these formulations can be derived from the associated quantum ones via a sort of geometrical dequantization procedure proposed in a previous paper.
description: 13 pages, Latex, title changed
THE EFFECT OF TRANQUILIZING DRUGS ON CONDITIONING RATE OF GSR IN A GROUP OF PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS
Creators: name: Mitchell, Lonnie Edward
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 5203
subject: Clinical and health psychology

description: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 19-03, page: 5730.
Additional file 1 of Societal beliefs about pain may be more balanced than previously thought. Results of the Guernsey pain survey
Creators: name: Rabey, Martin
name: Slater, Helen
name: Hebron, Clair
name: Moloney, Niamh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Rabey et al. 2024 – Guernsey Pain Survey.
Lasioglossum (Sphecodogastra) iridescens Hettiarachchi & Gibbs 2024
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Lasioglossum (Sphecodogastra) iridescens Hettiarachchi & Gibbs 2024 **
[Holotype: UCRC; ♀ 2.41 mi. W of Perris, Riverside Co., California, USA; April 1, 1936]
This species inhabits southern California and Arizona (USA) and Baja California (Mexico). The BBPT collected this species in Chaparral in May 2022, and April 2023; and Coastal Sage Matorral in April 2023. See fig. 185.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 268, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Permanent Income, Consumption, and Aggregate Constraints: Evidence from U.S. States
Creators: name: Ostregaard, Charlotte
name: Sorensen, Bent E.
name: Yosha, Oved
name: Ostregaard, Charlotte
name: Sorensen, Bent E.
name: Yosha, Oved
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Political Economy
subject: Permanent Income
subject: Consumption
subject: Regional Macroeconomics
subject: Excess Sensitivity
subject: Excess Smoothness
subject: Bank Savings Deposits and Loans

description: We remove the aggregate US-wide component in US state level disposable income and consumption and find that state-specific consumption exhibits substantially less excess sensitivity to lagged state-specific disposable income than if the aggregate component is not controlled for. This is evidence that excess sensitivity of consumption in aggregate US data is driven to a large extent by US-wide effects since, in the aggregate, US net imports and investment do not adjust quickly to fluctuations in consumption demand. Ordering states by the persistence of income shocks, we find that removal of the aggregate component from the state level data reduces excess sensitivity for all states by the same amount and that the excess sensitivity of consumption is greater in states with more persistent income shocks. We also find that state-specific disposable income and consumption exhibit excess smoothness in the sense of Campbell and Deaton (1989), namely, current state-specific consumption is not sufficiently sensitive to current state-specific income; in particular for positive shocks. Finally, we study patterns of consumption smoothing via bank savings deposits and loans. Our results point to credit market imperfections as the most plausible explanation for excess smoothness and the remaining excess sensitivity.
A universal quantum circuit for two-qubit transformations with three CNOT gates
Creators: name: Vidal, G.
name: Dawson, C. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the implementation of two-qubit unitary transformations by means of CNOT gates and single-qubit unitary gates. We show, by means of an explicit quantum circuit, that together with local gates three CNOT gates are necessary and sufficient in order to implement an arbitrary unitary transformation of two qubits. We also identify the subset of two-qubit gates that can be performed with only two CNOT gates.
description: 3 pages, 7 figures. One theorem, one author and references added. Change of notational conventions. Minor correction in Theorem 1
Lasioglossum (Sphecodogastra) miguelense
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Lasioglossum (Sphecodogastra) miguelense (Cockerell, 1937)
[Holotype: CASC; ♂ San Miguel Island, Santa Barbara Co., California, USA; July 30, 1937]
This species is found in California, USA, and BC, Mexico. The MABC team collected two females of this species in the Chaparral in May 2021, and May 2022. See fig. 185.
Lasioglossum (Sphecodogastra) nigrescens (Crawford, 1907)
[Holotype: USNM; ♀ Mts. near Claremont, Los Angeles Co., California, USA]
This species inhabits the southwestern USA and the BCP. Within the BCP, Cockerell (1941) reported this species in the Coastal Sage Matorral at Ensenada in April 1941. To the best of our knowledge there are no further records in the BCP. See fig. 185.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on pages 268-269, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
PERSISTENCE OF CASTE IN SOUTH INDIA - AN ANALYTICAL STUDY OF THE HINDU AND CHRISTIAN NADARS
Creators: name: Raj, Hilda
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4410
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 19-10, page: 2679.
The Value of Information in Some General Equilibrium Models
Creators: name: Eckwert, Bernhard
name: Zilcha, Itzhak
name: Eckwert, Bernhard
name: Zilcha, Itzhak
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Information System
subject: Blackwell Theorem
subject: Risk Aversion
subject: Risk Sharing Markets

description: The paper generalizes Blackwell's Theorem, according to which the welfare effects of an improvement in information are positive to a certain class of general equilibrium production economies. The consumer preferences in this class of economies exhibit either constant relative risk aversion or constant relative risk aversion or constant absolute risk aversion. We also demonstrate that the introduction of risk sharing markets may invalidate the Blackwell result.
Additional file 1 of A cross sectional study exploring the relationship of self-reported physical activity with function, kinesiophobia, self-efficacy and quality of life in an Asian population seeking care for knee osteoarthritis
Creators: name: Goff, Anthony J.
name: Jones, Lester E.
name: Lim, Chien Joo
name: Tan, Bryan Yijia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 1:Table S1. Summarised participant characteristics and UCLA data for all participants. Table S2. Ordinal UCLA activity score and knee osteoarthritis outcome score (KOOS-12). Table S3. Ordinal UCLA activity score and brief fear of movement (BFOM). Table S4. Ordinal UCLA activity score and EQ-5D-5L. Table S5. Cross tabulation for race and age (Fisher Extract test). Table S6. Cross tabulation for gender and age (Pearson chi-squared test).
Compression stiffening of fibrous networks with stiff inclusions
Creators: name: Shivers, Jordan L.
name: Feng, Jingchen
name: van Oosten, Anne S. G.
name: Levine, Herbert
name: Janmey, Paul A.
name: MacKintosh, Fred C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Tissues commonly consist of cells embedded within a fibrous biopolymer network. Whereas cell-free reconstituted biopolymer networks typically soften under applied uniaxial compression, various tissues, including liver, brain, and fat, have been observed to instead stiffen when compressed. The mechanism for this compression stiffening effect is not yet clear. Here, we demonstrate that when a material composed of stiff inclusions embedded in a fibrous network is compressed, heterogeneous rearrangement of the inclusions can induce tension within the interstitial network, leading to a macroscopic crossover from an initial bending-dominated softening regime to a stretching-dominated stiffening regime, which occurs before and independently of jamming of the inclusions. Using a coarse-grained particle-network model, we first establish a phase diagram for compression-driven, stretching-dominated stress propagation and jamming in uniaxially compressed 2- and 3-dimensional systems. Then, we demonstrate that a more detailed computational model of stiff inclusions in a subisostatic semiflexible fiber network exhibits quantitative agreement with the predictions of our coarse-grained model as well as qualitative agreement with experiments.
THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN INDIAN PUBLIC LIFE IN MODERN TIMES
Creators: name: Gupta, Anima Sen
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4410
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 19-10, page: 2679.
Sphecodes pecosensis Cockerell 1904
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Sphecodes pecosensis Cockerell, 1904 *
[Type: USNM; ♀ Pecos, San Miguel Co., New Mexico, USA; June 25, 1903]
Sphecodes pecosensis represents the first Sphecodes record in the BCP. The BBPT collected one male in June 2020 in the Coastal Sage Matorral in Guadalupe Valley (MABC). See fig. 186.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 270, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Neuromuscular and biomechanical adjustments of the speech mechanism during modulation of vocal loudness in children with cerebral palsy and dysarthria
Creators: name: Edgson, Meghan R.
name: Tucker, Benjamin V.
name: Archibald, Erin D.
name: Boliek, Carol A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Children with cerebral palsy (CP) are characterized as difficult to understand because of poor articulation and breathy voice quality. This case series describes the subsystems of the speech mechanism (i.e., respiratory, laryngeal, oroarticulatory) in four children with CP and four matched typically developing children (TDC) during the modulation of vocal loudness. TDC used biomechanically efficient strategies among speech subsystems to increase vocal loudness. Children with CP made fewer breathing adjustments but recruited greater chest wall muscle activity and neuromuscular drive for louder productions. These results inform future clinical research and identify speech treatment targets for children with motor speech disorders.
Tax Burden and Migration: A Political Economy Theory and Evidence
Creators: name: Razin, Assaf
name: Sadka, Efraim
name: Swagel, Phillip
name: Razin, Assaf
name: Sadka, Efraim
name: Swagel, Phillip
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1998
Subjects: Financial Economics
International Relations/Trade
Political Economy

description: The extent of taxation and redistribution policy is generally determined as a political-economy equilibrium by a balance between those who gain from higher taxes/transfers and those who lose. In a stylized model of migration and human capital formation we show — somewhat against the conventional wisdom — that low-skill immigration may lead to a lower tax burden and less redistribution than would be the case with no immigration, even though migrants (naturally) join the pro-tax/transfer coalition. Data on eleven European countries over the period 1974 to 1992 are consistent with the implications of the theory: A higher share of immigrants in the population leads to a lower tax rate on labor income, even after controlling for the generosity and size of the welfare state, demographics, and the international exposure of the economy. As predicted by the theory, it is the increased share of low education immigrants that leads to the smaller tax burden.
JUDICIAL SETTLEMENT OF INTER-AMERICAN LEGAL DISPUTES
Creators: name: Zanotti, Isidoro
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 19-10, page: 2645.
Minkowski Functionals of SDSS galaxies I : Analysis of Excursion Sets
Creators: name: Hikage, Chiaki
name: Schmalzing, Jens
name: Buchert, Thomas
name: Suto, Yasushi
name: Kayo, Issha
name: Taruya, Atsushi
name: Vogeley, Michael S.
name: Hoyle, Fiona
name: Gott, J. Richard
name: Brinkmann, Jon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a first morphometric investigation of a preliminary sample from the SDSS of 154287 galaxies with apparent magnitude 14.5
description: 35 pages, 13 figures, accepted for publication in PASJ. For preprint with higher-resolution PS files, see http://www.a.phys.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~hikage/MFs/mf_sdss.ps.gz
Additional file 1 of Increased regulatory activity of intestinal innate lymphoid cells type 3 (ILC3) prevents experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis severity
Creators: name: Lazarević, Milica
name: Stegnjaić, Goran
name: Jevtić, Bojan
name: Despotović, Sanja
name: Ignjatović, Đurđica
name: Stanisavljević, Suzana
name: Nikolovski, Neda
name: Momčilović, Miljana
name: Fraser, Graeme L.
name: Dimitrijević, Mirjana
name: Miljković, Đorđe
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Th1 and Th17 gating in SCIC. Figure S2. CD45RA (B cell) and MHC class II gating in SCIC. Figure S3. Treg gating in LPIC. Figure S4. ILC gating in LPIC. Figure S5. Composition of SCIC in the moderate and severe groups. DA rats immunized with SCH were sacrificed on days 24–28 p.i. SCIC were isolated and percentage (A–C) and cell number (D–F) of cell populations were determined by flow cytometry. Data are expressed as mean ± SD (n = 5). *p < 0.05, ns—not significant. Figure S6. Antigen response of PLNC in moderate and severe groups. DA rats immunized with SCH were sacrificed at days 24–28 p.i. PLNC were isolated and counted (A). PLNC were exposed to MBP (B) or myelin (C–G) for 48 h. IFN-γ levels in cell culture supernatants were determined by ELISA (B, C). CD4+CD25+ T cells (D, E) and Treg (F, G) were detected by flow cytometry. Data are presented as mean ± SD (n = 4–5). ns—not significant. Figure S7. Immunoblots. Full, uncropped immunoblot images for zonulin, occludin, and actin. Samples m5, s5, m6, and s6 are presented in Fig. 6D. Blot membranes were cut in three pieces, making cuts above markers 95 kDa and 55 kDa. Protein ladder Thermo Scientific #26,619 was used. m—moderate, s—severe, h—healthy.
Variability, heritability and genetic advance in sweet gourd (Cucurbita moschata Duch. Ex. Poi r.)
Creators: name: Rahaman, E. H. M. S.
name: Rabbani, M. G.
name: Garvey, E. J.
name: Rahaman, E. H. M. S.
name: Rabbani, M. G.
name: Garvey, E. J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Variability
subject: Heritability
subject: Genetic advance
subject: Sweet gourd

description: Variability, heritability and genetic advance in 81 genotypes of sweet gourd (Cucurbita moschata Duch. Ex. Poir.) collected from different regions of Bangladesh were studied. Significant variations among all the studied characters were noted in sweet gourd under study. There were also considerable differences between genotypic and phenotypic coefficient of variation for almost all characters, which demonstrated considerable influence of environment for the expression of traits. Among the studied characters, GCV and PCV were high for the traits, namely, female flowers per plant, number of fruits per plant, yield per plant, total male flower per plant and seeds per fruit. All the characters showed considerably higher heritability, ranging from 41.46 to 98.37%. Among the studied characters, the genetic advance (as "Yo of mean) was high for the traits, namely, female flowers per plant, yield per plant, number of fruits per plant and total male flowers per plant. High heritability coupled with high genetic advance was observed in total male and female flowers per plant, number of fruits and yield per plant, which indicated that these characters were less influenced by environment confirming additive gene action, and therefore, selection of these characters would be more effective for yield improvement of sweet gourd.
Ultra-Relativistic Magneto-Hydro-Dynamic Jets in the context of Gamma Ray Bursts
Creators: name: Fendt, Christian
name: Ouyed, Rachid
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a detailed numerical study of the dynamics and evolution of ultrarelativistic magnetohydrodynamic jets in the black hole-disk system under extreme magnetization conditions. We find that Lorentz factors of up to 3000 are achieved and derived a modifiedMichel scaling (Gamma ~ sigma) which allows for a wide variation in the flow Lorentz factor. Pending contamination induced by mass-entrainment, the linear Michel scaling links modulations in the ultrarelativistic wind to variations in mass accretion in the disk for a given magnetization. The jet is asymptotically dominated by the toroidal magnetic field allowing for efficient collimation. We discuss our solutions (jets) in the context of Gamma ray bursts and describe the relevant features such as the high variability in the Lorentz factor and how high collimation angles (~ 0-5 degrees), or cylindrical jets, can be achieved. We isolate a jet instability mechanism we refer to as the "bottle-neck" instability which essentially relies on a high magnetization and a recollimation of the magnetic flux surfaces. The instability occurs at large radii where any dissipation of the magnetic energy into radiation would in principle result in an optically thin emission.
description: 31 pages, 6 figures. Submitted to ApJ. Higher Quality figures at http://www.capca.ucalgary.ca/papers
CSD Graduates’ Perceptions (Crais & Savage, 2020)
Creators: name: Crais, Elizabeth R.
name: Savage, Melody Harrison
Publisher: name: ASHA journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 200101 Communication Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: Purpose: The shortage of doctor of philosophy (PhD)–level applicants to fill academic and research positions incommunication sciences and disorders (CSD) programscalls for a detailed examination of current CSD PhDeducational practices and the generation of creativesolutions. The intended purposes of the article areto encourage CSD faculty to examine their own PhDprogram practices and consider the perspectives ofrecent CSD PhD graduates in determining the need forpossible modifications.Method: The article describes the results of a survey of240 CSD PhD graduates and their perceptions of thechallenges and facilitators to completing a PhD degree;the quality of their preparation in research, teaching, andjob readiness; and ways to improve PhD education.Results: Two primary themes emerged from the datahighlighting the need for “matchmaking.” The first timepoint of needed matchmaking is prior to entry amongstudents, mentors, and expectations as well as betweenaspects of the program that can lead to students’ successand graduation. The second important matchmaking needis between the actual PhD preparation and the realities ofthe graduates’ career expectations, and those placed ongraduates by their employers.Conclusions: Within both themes, graduate’s perspectivesand suggestions to help guide future doctoral preparationare highlighted. The graduates’ recommendations could beused by CSD PhD program faculty to enhance the qualityof their program and the likelihood of student success andcompletion.
Supplemental Material S1. Survey.
Crais, E. & Savage, M. H. (2020). Communication sciences and disorders PhD graduates’ perceptions of their PhD program. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1044/2020_PERSP-19-00107
Electric circuit induced by quantum walk
Creators: name: Higuchi, Yusuke
name: Sabri, Mohamed
name: Segawa, Etsuo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the Szegedy walk on graphs adding infinite length tails to a finite internal graph. We assume that on these tails, the dynamics is given by the free quantum walk. We set the $\ell^\infty$-category initial state so that the internal graph receives time independent input from the tails, say $\boldsymbolα_{in}$, at every time step. We show that the response of the Szegedy walk to the input, which is the output, say $\boldsymbolβ_{out}$, from the internal graph to the tails in the long time limit, is drastically changed depending on the reversibility of the underlying random walk. If the underlying random walk is reversible, we have $\boldsymbolβ_{out}=\mathrm{Sz}(\boldsymbol{m}_{δE})\boldsymbolα_{in}$, where the unitary matrix $\mathrm{Sz}(\boldsymbol{m}_{δE})$ is the reflection matrix to the unit vector $\boldsymbol{m}_{δE}$ which is determined by the boundary of the internal graph $δE$. Then the global dynamics so that the internal graph is regarded as one vertex recovers the local dynamics of the Szegedy walk in the long time limit. Moreover if the underlying random walk of the Szegedy walk is reversible, then we obtain that the stationary state is expressed by a linear combination of the reversible measure and the electric current on the electric circuit determined by the internal graph and the random walk's reversible measure. On the other hand, if the underlying random walk is not reversible, then the unitary matrix is just a phase flip; that is, $\boldsymbolβ_{out}=-\boldsymbolα_{in}$, and the stationary state is similar to the current flow but satisfies a different type of the Kirchhoff laws.
description: 17 pages, 3 figures
MISSION AND ORGANIZATION OF THE ARMY NATIONAL GUARD OF THE UNITED STATES: WITH EMPHASIS ON THE PERIOD SINCE 1952
Creators: name: Morrill, Jr., Chester
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4407
subject: Policy and administration

description: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 19-03, page: 5610.