cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Antechinus mysticus Baker, Mutton & Van Dyck 2012
Creators: name: Dyck, Steve Van
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Dasyuromorphia
Dasyuridae
Antechinus
Antechinus mysticus

description: (14) A. arktos versus  A. mysticus Baker, Mutton & Van Dyck
 Pelage: A. arktos has a brownish-grey head that changes markedly to an orange-brown rump, fuscous black hindfeet, a thick-based, finely-furred, black tail and an orange-yellow eye and cheek patch; A. mysticus has a greyish-brown head and neck, merging gradually to yellowish-buff on the rump and flanks, with a buff-brown tail base and slightly darkened tip.
 External Measurements: A. arktos is significantly larger than A. mysticus in hf for males and females, and in wt, hb and tv for males (Table 5).
 Craniodental Characters: A. arktos is significantly smaller than A. mysticus for R-LC 1 in males and SWR-LC 1 B in females. A. arktos is larger than A. mysticus in absolute measurement for a range of characters in males and females: APV, BL, Dent, IBW, IOW, HT, PL, TC, NWR, PML, UML, HT-B, I 1 -P 3, LML, I 1 -P 3 and UPL. A. arktos is significantly larger than A. mysticus for a range of characters in males: NW, OBW and PPV, and in females at: OBW and M 2 W (Table 5).
 Other Comments: A. arktos occur in south-east Qld and north-east NSW in areas of high elevation and rainfall on the Tweed Volcano caldera, whereas A. mysticus occurs in scattered coastal populations between the Qld / NSW border in far south-east Qld and Eungella NP near Mackay in mid-east Qld. Genetics: uncorrected pairwise range differences at the mitochondrial gene Cytochrome B (CytB) between A. arktos and A. mysticus are 13.2–14.1%.
description: Published as part of Dyck, Steve Van, 2014, The Black-tailed Antechinus, Antechinus arktos sp. nov.: a new species of carnivorous marsupial from montane regions of the Tweed Volcano caldera, eastern Australia, pp. 101-133 in Zootaxa 3765 (2) on page 118, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3765.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5045725
Regional scores for localizing genes
Creators: name: Makhlouf, Fairouz T.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation develops a regional score method to help find the location of a gene contributing to a specific trait. We adapt a technique from signal processing using weighted moving average to smooth the Identity By Descent (IBD) scores and the Identity by State (IBS) scores to localize contributing genes. To accomplish this, the IBD and the IBS processes are defined and their properties are derived for different cases. In addition, the Identity By Descent Proportion (IBDP), Identity By State Proportion (IBSP), the Normalized Identity By Descent (ZIBDP) and the Normalized Identity By State (ZIBSP) are defined and their properties derived. The regional scores method smooths the IBDP/IBSP by summing them over all of the markers on the chromosome with markers close to the location of interest weighted more heavily. The regional scores can be found at any location on the chromosome. It also allows for unevenly spaced markers and adjusts for the spacing. Here we implement the regional score method with the Haldane, no interference model for recombination. Simulations of a whole genome that consists of 20 chromosomes each of length 100 with markers every 10 cM have been made for different contributing gene cases and for different number of sib pairs. Critical values are determined for both the regional scores and ZIBDP/ZIBSP scores based on results from simulating the genome under the null hypothesis of no contributing gene. Then the regional scores and the ZIBDP/ZIBSP from the above simulations were compared to their corresponding threshold. The results indicated that in general the number of times each method detected a contributing gene is higher with the regional score method with higher true positives and similar false positive compared to the ZIBDP/ZIBSP methods. We also provide a computer program (SIGLEVEL) to calculate the significance level and the thresholds for genetic linkage.
13-ISROSET-IJSRBS-03044.pdf
Creators: name: Masila, Benard
name: Langat, Charles
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 70305 Crop and Pasture Improvement (Selection and Breeding)
subject: FOS: Agriculture, forestry and fisheries

description: Maize (Zea mays L.) is the third most important crop after wheat and rice worldwide. It is the main staple food in Kenya. The objective of this study was to evaluate genotype by environment interactions and yield stability of twenty three-way cross hybrids at four locations in Kenya evaluated in two seasons. The experiment was conducted in an alpha lattice design (Incomplete Randomized Block Design) with three replications. There was significant variation for grain yield among the genotypes, locations and their interaction. Stability analysis was evaluated using the joint regression, additive main effects and multiplicative interactions (AMMI) and GGE biplot methods. The environmental and genotypic means ranged from 2.72 to 7.67 and 2.39 to 5.56 respectively. The regression coefficient (βi) and deviation from regression (s2 di) values of these genotypes ranged from 0.55 to 1.64 and 0.02 to 0.59 respectively. There were also significant differences for genotypes, environments and genotype by environment interaction for the AMMI analysis of variance. The total proportion of variation contributed by genotypes, environments and genotype by environment interaction was 8.82%, 76.03% and 9.17% respectively. When considering the Pi, βi, S2 di and the AMMI biplot analysis, the most stable genotype in the high yielding category in this study considering all stability parameters was WE-CMT-TWC-1001 (G1) followed by WE-CMT-TWC-1003 (G3) and WE-CMT-TWC-1020 (G20). The best genotype with both high mean yield and high stability was WE-CMT-TWC-1003 (G3). The genotypes identified could be utilized as reference for genotype evaluation and tested further for selection.
Environment, governance and GDP: Discovering their connections
Creators: name: Tan, Xiaomei
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Literature on environmental studies has long focused on the influence of GDP on the environment. A popular assumption is that environmental degradation is unavoidable at the early stage of development. As per capita GDP gets to a certain point, environmental quality starts to improve. This pattern is referred to as the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC). The implied logic behind the EKC is that environmental quality is unilaterally determined by GDP. Beginning with a thorough examination of the EKC pattern, this dissertation questions the logic and argues that environmental issues should not be viewed unilaterally through the lens of either GDP or governance alone. Findings from a series of reduced-form models suggest that both GDP and governance have mixed and conditional impact on environmental quality. The case study from the Caohai Nature Reserve in China illustrates how environment, governance and GDP interact with each other in real life. The research contributes to environmental studies in three ways: (1) it puts sustainability, GDP and governance in a same analytical framework, while current literature often focuses on any two of these three concepts (2) this study is the most comprehensive in terms of the coverage of countries and the breadth of environmental quality, as measured by air quality, water quality, wilderness of territorial system and biodiversity (3) it looks into the interrelationships among the three concepts across different stage of development instead of viewing them as a uniform process.
Environment, governance and GDP: Discovering their connections
Creators: name: Tan, Xiaomei
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4407
subject: Policy and administration

description: Literature on environmental studies has long focused on the influence of GDP on the environment. A popular assumption is that environmental degradation is unavoidable at the early stage of development. As per capita GDP gets to a certain point, environmental quality starts to improve. This pattern is referred to as the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC). The implied logic behind the EKC is that environmental quality is unilaterally determined by GDP. Beginning with a thorough examination of the EKC pattern, this dissertation questions the logic and argues that environmental issues should not be viewed unilaterally through the lens of either GDP or governance alone. Findings from a series of reduced-form models suggest that both GDP and governance have mixed and conditional impact on environmental quality. The case study from the Caohai Nature Reserve in China illustrates how environment, governance and GDP interact with each other in real life. The research contributes to environmental studies in three ways: (1) it puts sustainability, GDP and governance in a same analytical framework, while current literature often focuses on any two of these three concepts (2) this study is the most comprehensive in terms of the coverage of countries and the breadth of environmental quality, as measured by air quality, water quality, wilderness of territorial system and biodiversity (3) it looks into the interrelationships among the three concepts across different stage of development instead of viewing them as a uniform process.
Antechinus stuartii Macleay 1841
Creators: name: Dyck, Steve Van
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Dasyuromorphia
Dasyuridae
Antechinus
Antechinus stuartii

description: (15) A. arktos versus  A. stuartii Macleay
 Pelage: A. arktos has a brownish-grey head that changes markedly to an orange-brown rump, fuscous black hindfeet, a thick-based, finely-furred, black tail and an orange-yellow eye and cheek patch; A. stuartii is more uniformly brownish-grey on the head and back.
 External Measurements: A. arktos is larger than A. stuartii in absolute measurement for wt, hb and hf in males, and at hf in females. A. arktos is significantly larger than A. stuartii for males and females at tv (Table 5).
 Craniodental Characters: A. arktos is larger than A. stuartii in absolute measurement for a range of characters in males and females, as follows: APV, BL, Dent, IBW, IOW, OBW, ZW, HT, PL, NWR, PML, UML, HT-B, BuL, I 1 -P 3, LML, I 1 -P 3 and UPL. A. arktos is significantly larger than A. stuartii for a range of characters: in males IPV, NW, R-LM 1, R-LM 2, R-LM 3 and TC, and in females at IPV, NW and TC (Table 5).
 Other Comments: A. arktos occurs in south-east Qld and north-east NSW in areas of high elevation and rainfall on the Tweed Volcano caldera. A. stuartii occurs in eastern NSW north of about Sydney to far south-east Queensland (Girraween NP, Lamington NP, Main Range NP, Springbrook NP and Tamborine NP) and occurs sympatrically with A. arktos. Genetics: uncorrected pairwise range differences at the mitochondrial gene CytB between A. arktos and A. stuartii are 13.4–15.1%.
description: Published as part of Dyck, Steve Van, 2014, The Black-tailed Antechinus, Antechinus arktos sp. nov.: a new species of carnivorous marsupial from montane regions of the Tweed Volcano caldera, eastern Australia, pp. 101-133 in Zootaxa 3765 (2) on page 118, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3765.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5045725
Allele -specific polymerase chain reaction: Mechanism, experimentation, and application
Creators: name: Spangler, Gordon L.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 34
subject: Chemical sciences
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
classificationCode: 3401
subject: Analytical chemistry

description: Introduction. The purpose of our research is to develop auxiliary assays to augment an extremely high-throughput SNP analysis facility. The miscellaneous nature of our assays will demand a high degree of versatility but will not require extreme high throughput application. The spectrum of our requirements therefore will span small numbers of single locus analyses to moderately large numbers of multiplexed runs. The appropriate assay format for any project is based on the number of SNP loci versus the number of individuals needed to produce meaningful data. Based on this paradigm each project can be efficiently designed and optimized with our methodology. The core of our approach is based on the mechanism of ASPCR. This has traditionally been viewed as only a moderately discriminating method of SNP analysis. We feel that recent advances described in literature will improve the specificity of the method. Problem. Major issues facing high-throughput facilities are DNA quality, DNA quantity, and sample identity. DNA quality is important, because degraded samples may not perform as well as high molecular weight samples. Also, samples from large projects may be obtained at a number of collection sites, processed by a variety of methods and stored under different conditions. Sample identity can be confused due to clerical errors during the collection or processing phases. While all samples are quantitated by picogreen or UV absorbance before processing this cannot resolve sample quality or misidentification. Furthermore, the addition of one or more polymorphic sites to a validated multiplex assay is usually cost prohibitive. However, the desire to do so is not uncommon. We wished to develop an inexpensive auxiliary assay to augment data production for particular projects. Solution. We implemented Allele-Specific PCR as the base methodology to assess the quality of samples entering the analytical queue of the Illumina(TM) platform. Optimization of reaction conditions, and thermal cycling profiles assisted in the further development of the method. These standard conditions were used to develop a more sophisticated assay for single locus assessment. Optimization of this procedure led to a novel method to perfect ASPCR selectivity.
Triepeolus phaeopygus Rightmyer 2008
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: Triepeolus phaeopygus Rightmyer, 2008
[Holotype: AMNH; ♀ 1.61 km east Apache, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA; August 17, 1995]
This species is distributed in the desert regions of northern Mexico and the southern USA. Within the BCP, it was collected in April 1994 in Magdalena Plains near Constitución City (1 ♀). The specimen is deposited at SEMC (GBIF 2023). See fig. 136.
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 207, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Allele -specific polymerase chain reaction: Mechanism, experimentation, and application
Creators: name: Spangler, Gordon L.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Introduction. The purpose of our research is to develop auxiliary assays to augment an extremely high-throughput SNP analysis facility. The miscellaneous nature of our assays will demand a high degree of versatility but will not require extreme high throughput application. The spectrum of our requirements therefore will span small numbers of single locus analyses to moderately large numbers of multiplexed runs. The appropriate assay format for any project is based on the number of SNP loci versus the number of individuals needed to produce meaningful data. Based on this paradigm each project can be efficiently designed and optimized with our methodology. The core of our approach is based on the mechanism of ASPCR. This has traditionally been viewed as only a moderately discriminating method of SNP analysis. We feel that recent advances described in literature will improve the specificity of the method. Problem. Major issues facing high-throughput facilities are DNA quality, DNA quantity, and sample identity. DNA quality is important, because degraded samples may not perform as well as high molecular weight samples. Also, samples from large projects may be obtained at a number of collection sites, processed by a variety of methods and stored under different conditions. Sample identity can be confused due to clerical errors during the collection or processing phases. While all samples are quantitated by picogreen or UV absorbance before processing this cannot resolve sample quality or misidentification. Furthermore, the addition of one or more polymorphic sites to a validated multiplex assay is usually cost prohibitive. However, the desire to do so is not uncommon. We wished to develop an inexpensive auxiliary assay to augment data production for particular projects. Solution. We implemented Allele-Specific PCR as the base methodology to assess the quality of samples entering the analytical queue of the Illumina(TM) platform. Optimization of reaction conditions, and thermal cycling profiles assisted in the further development of the method. These standard conditions were used to develop a more sophisticated assay for single locus assessment. Optimization of this procedure led to a novel method to perfect ASPCR selectivity.
On the influence of Stark broadening on Si I lines in stellar atmospheres
Creators: name: Dimitrijevic, M. S.
name: Ryabchikova, T.
name: Popovic, L. C.
name: Shulyak, D.
name: Tsymbal, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the influence of Stark broadening and stratification effects on Siılines in the rapidly oscillating (roAp) star 10 Aql, where the Siı6142.48 Åand 6155.13 Ålines are asymmetrical and shifted. First we have calculated Stark broadening parameters using the semiclassical perturbation method for three Siılines: 5950.2 Å, 6142.48 Åand 6155.13 Å. We revised the synthetic sp$ calculation code taking into account both Stark width and shift for these lines. From the comparison of our calculations with the observations we found that Stark broadening + the stratification effect can explain asymmetry of the Siı6142.48 Åand 6155.13 Ålines in the atmospere of roAp star 10 Aql.
description: Accepted to A&A
Triepeolus permixtus
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: Triepeolus permixtus (Cockerell, 1923)
[Holotype: CASC; ♂ Pond Island Bay, Isla Angel de la Guardia, Gulf of California, Baja California, Mexico; July 1, 1921]
This species is distributed along the Gulf of California and Pacific Coasts. It has been recorded on Angel de la Guarda Island, BC, and La Paz, BCS (Cockerell 1923; 1925). We reviewed the specimens cited by Cockerell (1923) collected in June and July 1921 in Isla Angel de la Guarda (2 ♀, 2 ♂; CASC). See fig. 134.
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 207, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Low-Surface-Brightness Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. I. Search Method and Test Sample
Creators: name: Kniazev, Alexei Y.
name: Grebel, Eva K.
name: Pustilnik, Simon A.
name: Pramskij, Alexander G.
name: Kniazeva, Tamara F.
name: Prada, Francisco
name: Harbeck, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we present results of a pilot study to use imaging data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) to search for low-surface-brightness (LSB) galaxies. For our pilot study we use a test sample of 92 galaxies from the catalog of Impey et al. (1996) distributed over 93 SDSS fields of the Early Data Release (EDR). Many galaxies from the test sample are either LSB or dwarf galaxies. To deal with the SDSS data most effectively a new photometry software was created, which is described in this paper. We present the results of the selection algorithms applied to these 93 EDR fields. Two galaxies from the Impey et al. test sample are very likely artifacts, as confirmed by follow-up imaging. With our algorithms, we were able to recover 87 of the 90 remaining test sample galaxies, implying a detection rate of $\sim$96.5%. The three missed galaxies fall too close to very bright stars or galaxies. In addition, 42 new galaxies with parameters similar to the test sample objects were found in these EDR fields (i.e., $\sim$47% additional galaxies). We present the main photometric parameters of all identified galaxies and carry out first statistical comparisons. We tested the quality of our photometry by comparing the magnitudes for our test sample galaxies and other bright galaxies with values from the literature. All these tests yielded consistent results. We briefly discuss a few unusual galaxies found in our pilot study, including an LSB galaxy with a two-component disk and ten new giant LSB galaxies.
description: 36 pages, 16 figures, accepted for publication by AJ, some figures were bitmapped to reduce the size
Unique Geometry and Texture from Corresponding Image Patches
Creators: name: Verbin, Dor
name: Gortler, Steven J.
name: Zickler, Todd
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present a sufficient condition for recovering unique texture and viewpoints from unknown orthographic projections of a flat texture process. We show that four observations are sufficient in general, and we characterize the ambiguous cases. The results are applicable to shape from texture and texture-based structure from motion.
Radio continuum observations of the Virgo cluster spiral NGC 4522 The signature of ram pressure
Creators: name: Vollmer, B.
name: Beck, R.
name: Kenney, J. D. P.
name: van Gorkom, J. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Radio continuum observations at 20 and 6 cm of the highly inclined Virgo spiral galaxy NGC 4522 are presented. Both, 20 and 6 cm total emission distributions are asymmetric with an extended component to the west where extraplanar atomic gas and Halpha emission are found. The 6 cm polarized emission is located at the eastern edge of the galactic disk. Its peak is located about 1 kpc to the east of the total emission peak. We argue that this phenomena is a characteristic feature for cluster galaxies which are experiencing significant pressure from the intracluster medium. The degree of polarization decreases from the east to the west. The flattest spectral index between 20 and 6 cm coincides with the peak of the 6 cm polarized emission. These findings are consistent with a picture of a large scale shock due to ram pressure located at the east of the galaxy where cosmic rays are accelerated. We conclude that it is likely that the galaxy experiences active ram pressure.
description: 11 pages, 11 figures. Accepted for publication in AJ
Triepeolus remigatus BCP (MABC
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: Triepeolus remigatus (Fabricius, 1804) *
[Type: Lost; Epeolus superbus Provancher 1895 (synonymy): Holotype: ♀ ULQC; Los Angeles, California, USA] see Rightmyer (2008) pp. 110–111
Triepeolus remigatus has a wide distribution in North America. We report the first record of this species in the BCP, which the BBPT collected in June 2020 in the Coastal Sage Matorral south of Ensenada City (2 ♀, 1 ♂), in Cucurbita pepo crops (MABC). See fig. 135.
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 208, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Home schooling in the United States: The responsiveness of state legislatures to political demand
Creators: name: Quach, Hia
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Home schooling---defined as educating the child under the supervision of parents rather than schoolteachers and thus replacing full-time attendance at an institutionalized school---has quietly outpaced reliance on vouchers and charter school reforms. As the number of home schoolers increased exponentially from 1990--2000, the responsiveness of state legislature to the demand for home schooling warrants consideration. Because the flexibility of home schooling legislation can (1) serve as a barrier of entry to parents who want to home educate their children and (2) affect the competition against private schools and thus the quality of education, this study examines two questions: "What causes a state government to adopt a certain home schooling policy? How does the adoption of flexible or inflexible home schooling policy impact the education market?" To explain the variation in state policy toward home schooling, a state's socioeconomic, political, and regional factors are theorized to affect the innovation of home schooling policy. The factors examined are party unity of the state legislature, the political ideology of the state, and the salience of the home schooling issue as the political determinants; religiosity in the state, the percentage of racial minority, the performance of public school students, and per capita income of the state as the socioeconomic determinants; and regionalism. To assess the market impact of the diffusion of different home schooling laws, the variation in home schooling laws is theorized to increase competition in the education market and therein impact student enrollment in private schools. The variables tested in the competition model are the flexibility of home schooling legislation (the predicted values for the flexibility variable are derived from the ordered probit test of the first question), the education of parents, the performance of public school students, religiosity in the state, the percentage of racial minority, the size of the family, per pupil expenditures, per capita income of the state, and public school enrollment The findings are mixed, as some conditions that are hypothesized to impact legislative flexibility or student enrollment do not attain statistical significance.
Constants of formal derivatives of non-associative algebras, Taylor expansions and applications
Creators: name: Drensky, Vesselin
name: Holtkamp, Ralf
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 17A50; 17A36; 16R10; 16S10; 16S30

description: We study unitary multigraded non-associative algebras R generated by an ordered set X over a field K of characteristic 0 such that the mappings d_k: x_l->delta_{kl}, x_k,x_l in X, can be extended to derivations of R. The class of these algebras is quite large and includes free associative and Jordan algebras, absolutely free (non-associative) algebras, relatively free algebras in varieties of algebras, universal enveloping algebras of multigraded Lie algebras, etc. There are Taylor-like formulas for R: Each element of R can be uniquely presented as a sum of elements of the form (...(r_0 x_{j_1})...x_{j_{n-1}}) x_{j_n}, where r_0 is a constant and j_1 <= ...<= j_n. We present methods for the description of the algebra of constants, including an approach via representation theory of the general linear or symmetric groups. As an application of the Taylor expansion for non-associative algebras, we consider the solutions of ordinary linear differential equations with constant coefficients from the base field.
description: 15 pages
Home schooling in the United States: The responsiveness of state legislatures to political demand
Creators: name: Quach, Hia
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Home schooling---defined as educating the child under the supervision of parents rather than schoolteachers and thus replacing full-time attendance at an institutionalized school---has quietly outpaced reliance on vouchers and charter school reforms. As the number of home schoolers increased exponentially from 1990--2000, the responsiveness of state legislature to the demand for home schooling warrants consideration. Because the flexibility of home schooling legislation can (1) serve as a barrier of entry to parents who want to home educate their children and (2) affect the competition against private schools and thus the quality of education, this study examines two questions: "What causes a state government to adopt a certain home schooling policy? How does the adoption of flexible or inflexible home schooling policy impact the education market?" To explain the variation in state policy toward home schooling, a state's socioeconomic, political, and regional factors are theorized to affect the innovation of home schooling policy. The factors examined are party unity of the state legislature, the political ideology of the state, and the salience of the home schooling issue as the political determinants; religiosity in the state, the percentage of racial minority, the performance of public school students, and per capita income of the state as the socioeconomic determinants; and regionalism. To assess the market impact of the diffusion of different home schooling laws, the variation in home schooling laws is theorized to increase competition in the education market and therein impact student enrollment in private schools. The variables tested in the competition model are the flexibility of home schooling legislation (the predicted values for the flexibility variable are derived from the ordered probit test of the first question), the education of parents, the performance of public school students, religiosity in the state, the percentage of racial minority, the size of the family, per pupil expenditures, per capita income of the state, and public school enrollment The findings are mixed, as some conditions that are hypothesized to impact legislative flexibility or student enrollment do not attain statistical significance.
The Life and Legacy of Pomeranchuk
Creators: name: Okun, L. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The life of Isaak Yakovlevich Pomeranchuk was short (20.05.1913 -- 14.12.1966). But the impact of his personality and his works on physics and physicists is remarkable. The talk describes the biography of I.Ya. Pomeranchuk, his major contibutions to condenced matter physics, nuclear and elementary particle physics. The talk is appended by a complete bibliography of I.Ya. Pomeranchuk's publications.
description: Introductory talk given at the conference "I. Ya. Pomeranchuk and physics at the turn of centuries". To be published by "World Scientific"
Driving rate effects in avalanche-mediated, first-order phase transitions
Creators: name: Perez-Reche, Francisco-Jose
name: Tadic, Bosiljka
name: Manosa, Lluis
name: Planes, Antoni
name: Vives, Eduard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have studied the driving rate and temperature dependence of the power-law exponents that characterize the avalanche distribution in first-order phase transitions. Measurements of acoustic emission in structural transitions in Cu-Zn-Al and Cu-Al-Ni are presented. We show how the observed behaviour emerges within a general framework of competing time scales of avalanche relaxation, driving rate, and thermal fluctuations. We have confirmed our findings by numerical simulations of a prototype model.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Fitting concentration data with stable distributions
Creators: name: Rishmawi, Shireen G.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 49
subject: Mathematical sciences
classificationCode: 4905
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Over the last several years there has been a growing interest in applying stable distribution to model real data. The lack of closed formulas for densities and distribution functions for all but few stable distributions has been a major drawback to the use of stable distributions by practitioners. There are now reliable computer programs to compute stable densities, distribution functions and quantiles. In this work, we try to model concentration data with stable distributions. We developed several computer programs to estimate the stable distribution parameters given concentration data in one and two dimensions. Confidence intervals are derived using bootstrap and profile likelihood approaches in the univariate case. Simulations are used to test and compare these methods and then apply them to real concentration data.
Correlation function: biasing and fractal properties of the cosmic web
Creators: name: Einasto, J.
name: Hütsi, G.
name: Kuutma, T.
name: Einasto, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculated spatial correlation functions of galaxies, $ξ(r)$, structure functions, $g(r)=1 +ξ(r)$, gradient functions, $γ(r)= d \log g(r)/ d \log r$, and fractal dimension functions, $D(r)= 3+γ(r)$, using dark matter particles of the biased $Λ$ cold dark matter (CDM) simulation, observed galaxies of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), and simulated galaxies of the Millennium and EAGLE simulations. We analysed how these functions describe fractal and biasing properties of the cosmic web. The correlation functions of the biased $Λ$CDM model samples at small distances (particle and galaxy separations), $r \le 2.25$~\Mpc, describe the distribution of matter inside dark matter (DM) halos. In real and simulated galaxy samples, only the brightest galaxies in clusters are visible, and the transition from clusters to filaments occurs at a distance $r \approx 0.8 - 1.5$~\Mpc. Real and simulated galaxies of low luminosity, $M_r \ge -19$, have almost identical correlation lengths and amplitudes, indicating that dwarf galaxies are satellites of brighter galaxies, and do not form a smooth population in voids. The combination of several physical processes (e.g. the formation of halos along the caustics of particle trajectories and the phase synchronisation of density perturbations on various scales) transforms the initial random density field to the current highly non-random density field. Galaxy formation is suppressed in voids, which increases the amplitudes of correlation functions and power spectra of galaxies, and increases the large-scale bias parameter. The combined evidence leads to the large-scale bias parameter of $L_\star$ galaxies the value $b_\star =1.85 \pm 0.15$. We find $r_0(L_\star) = 7.20 \pm 0.19$ for the correlation length of $L_\star$ galaxies.
description: 15 pages, 10 figures, 5 tables. The revised version is accepted by Astronomy & Astrophysics
The Chandra Deep Field-North Survey. XIII. 2 Ms Point-Source Catalogs
Creators: name: Alexander, D. M.
name: Bauer, F. E.
name: Brandt, W. N.
name: Schneider, D. P.
name: Hornschemeier, A. E.
name: Vignali, C.
name: Barger, A. J.
name: Broos, P. S.
name: Cowie, L. L.
name: Garmire, G. P.
name: Townsley, L. K.
name: Bautz, M. W.
name: Chartas, G.
name: Sargent, W. L. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present catalogs for the ~2 Ms Chandra Deep Field-North, currently the deepest X-ray observation of the Universe in the 0.5-8.0 keV band. Five hundred and three (503) X-ray sources are detected over an ~448 sq.arcmin area in up to seven bands; 20 of these X-ray sources lie in the Hubble Deep Field-North. Source positions are determined using matched-filter and centroiding techniques; the median positional uncertainty is ~0.3 arcsecs. The X-ray colors of the detected sources indicate a broad variety of source types, although absorbed AGNs (including some possible Compton-thick sources) are clearly the dominant type. We also match lower significance X-ray sources to optical counterparts and provide a list of 79 optically bright R
description: AJ in press (August 2003), 54 pages, 25 figures, 16 tables, includes emulateapj5.sty. Version with full-resolution embedded figures (38 pages) is available from http://www.astro.psu.edu/users/niel/hdf/hdf-chandra.html Source lists, images, and other products are also available from this www site
Supplementary report for "Full-reference stereoscopic video quality assessment using a motion sensitive HVS model"
Creators: name: Chathura Galkandage
name: Calic, Janko
name: Safak Dogan
name: Jean-Yves Guillemaut
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Supplementary report for "Full-reference stereoscopic video quality assessment using a motion sensitive HVS model"
Abstract:Stereoscopic video quality assessment has become a major research topic in recent years. Existing stereoscopic video quality metrics are predominantly based on stereoscopic image quality metrics extended to the time domain via for example temporal pooling. These approaches do not explicitly consider the motion sensitivity of the Human Visual System (HVS). To address this limitation, this paper introduces a novel HVS model inspired by physiological findings characterising the motion sensitive response of complex cells in the primary visual cortex (V1 area). The proposed HVS model generalises previous HVS models, which characterised the behaviour of simple and complex cells but ignored motion sensitivity, by estimating optical flow to measure scene velocity at different scales and orientations. The local motion characteristics (direction and amplitude) are used to modulate the output of complex cells. The model is applied to develop a new type of full-reference stereoscopic video quality metrics which uniquely combine non-motion sensitive and motion sensitive energy terms to mimic the response of the HVS. A tailored two-stage multi-variate stepwise regression algorithm is introduced to determine the optimal contribution of each energy term. The two proposed stereoscopic video quality metrics are evaluated on three stereoscopic video datasets. Results indicate that they achieve average correlations with subjective scores of 0.9257 (PLCC), 0.9338 and 0.9120 (SRCC), 0.8622 and 0.8306 (KRCC), and outperform previous stereoscopic video quality metrics including other recent HVS-based metrics.
Fitting concentration data with stable distributions
Creators: name: Rishmawi, Shireen G.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Over the last several years there has been a growing interest in applying stable distribution to model real data. The lack of closed formulas for densities and distribution functions for all but few stable distributions has been a major drawback to the use of stable distributions by practitioners. There are now reliable computer programs to compute stable densities, distribution functions and quantiles. In this work, we try to model concentration data with stable distributions. We developed several computer programs to estimate the stable distribution parameters given concentration data in one and two dimensions. Confidence intervals are derived using bootstrap and profile likelihood approaches in the univariate case. Simulations are used to test and compare these methods and then apply them to real concentration data.
Neural network application for radionuclide modelling and prediction of radioactivity levels
Creators: name: Lynch, Jr., Myron Corbett
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Existing applications of artificial neural networks in physics research and development have been analyzed as a basis for proposing new opportunities using that AI technology for data analysis in physics. A taxonomy was developed, based on an extensive literature search, for physics problems where neural network applications have been useful. Then, a particular use of neural networks was carried out to study ways to predict normal concentrations of radioactivity measured at monitoring stations in different geographic locations. The purpose of the data collection and analysis was to establish background levels that would serve as bases for detecting unusual levels of radioactivity, for example due to nuclear weapons testing, in these physical environments. Useful data sets were developed in this area and a process was discovered for modeling the background levels.
Neural network application for radionuclide modelling and prediction of radioactivity levels
Creators: name: Lynch, Jr., Myron Corbett
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 51
subject: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
classificationCode: 5106
subject: Nuclear and plasma physics

description: Existing applications of artificial neural networks in physics research and development have been analyzed as a basis for proposing new opportunities using that AI technology for data analysis in physics. A taxonomy was developed, based on an extensive literature search, for physics problems where neural network applications have been useful. Then, a particular use of neural networks was carried out to study ways to predict normal concentrations of radioactivity measured at monitoring stations in different geographic locations. The purpose of the data collection and analysis was to establish background levels that would serve as bases for detecting unusual levels of radioactivity, for example due to nuclear weapons testing, in these physical environments. Useful data sets were developed in this area and a process was discovered for modeling the background levels.
Multi-polarity and institutional development: A cross-national analysis
Creators: name: Alonso, Pablo
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4407
subject: Policy and administration
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: As the effects of poverty, corruption, illegal immigration, terrorism, transnational crime and other costs associated with weak and failed states continue to grow and spill over, the need to understand how nations can be built, and institutional arrangements changed, has become an urgent matter. Substantial amounts of treasure and effort have been spent on building and transforming institutions but success has been elusive so far. While some argue that institutions are exogenous to political, economic and social circumstances and, therefore, willful leaders can change them by design, others argue that institutions will change only gradually as they are endogenous to the underlying and slow changing cultural norms and values of each country. Whereas I acknowledge that there are many factors that influence the process of institutional building and transformation, and that we do not fully understand it yet, I propose that institutional development depends, in part, on the pattern of distribution of power (i.e., Multi-polarity) through its effect on political competition and that Multi-polarity is endogenous to factors that affect the number of players and their relative bargaining strength. I test the relationship, as well as the direction of causality, between Multi-polarity and institutional development using some existing faulty measures for each concept. I find empirical evidence to support my thesis that countries with higher levels of Multi-polarity tend to have higher levels of institutional performance. Since patterns of power distribution tend to change gradually, it is unlikely that institutional arrangements would change overnight. Nevertheless, with more emphasis on rebalancing power asymmetries rather than on getting the policy right changing the direction of the "path dependence" is more likely.
Triepeolus simplex Robertson 1903
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: Triepeolus simplex Robertson, 1903
[Type: INHS; ♀ ♂ Carlinville, Macoupin Co., Illinois, USA; August 14, 1896 – August 7, 1897]
This species is widely distributed throughout the USA. In BC, it has been recorded in the Matorral in June 1997 and the Central Desert in April 1985 with specimens vouchered at INHS (GBIF 2023). See fig. 135.
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 208, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532