cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
ELECTROCHEMICAL DETECTABILITY OF CATECHOLAMINES USING HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY AND THERMAL STABILITY OF A STRONGLY ACIDIC CATION EXCHANGE RESIN IN AQUEOUS SOLUTION (HPLC)
Creators: name: Bunyagidj, Chaiyod
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The analysis of catecholamines has been investigated using an ion-pairing chromatographic method which utilizes a controlled potential coulometric detector. Two coulometric detectors with different electrolytic cell designs have been investigated. The resulting sensitivity was comparable to that obtained with an amperometric detector. This technique has been applied to the analysis of plasma catecholamines. Cation exchange resin Dowex 50W-X8 has been heated in alkaline water (pH 9.3-9.5) at a temperature of 100(DEGREES)C in order to study its thermal stability. Iron was added to the test system to study its possible catalylic effect on the resin thermal stability. Measurements of changes in capacity were made and the decomposition products formed were investigated. The resin was found to be stable at 100(DEGREES)C. The main water soluble decomposition product released by the resin was sulfate ion. Organic material was also found but it was not possible to identify it. Iron was found to have small or negligible effect on the thermal decomposition of the resin.
Architectures of Exoplanetary Systems. II: An Increase in Inner Planetary System Occurrence Toward Later Spectral Types for Kepler's FGK Dwarfs
Creators: name: He, Matthias Y.
name: Ford, Eric B.
name: Ragozzine, Darin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Kepler mission observed thousands of transiting exoplanet candidates around hundreds of thousands of FGK dwarf stars. He, Ford, & Ragozzine (2019) (arXiv:1907.07773) applied forward modeling to infer the distribution of intrinsic architectures of planetary systems, developed a clustered Poisson point process model for exoplanetary systems (SysSim) to reproduce the marginal distributions of the observed Kepler population, and they showed that orbital periods and planet radii are clustered within a given planetary system. Here, we extend the clustered model to explore correlations between planetary systems and their host star properties. We split the sample of Kepler FGK dwarfs into two halves and model the fraction of stars with planets (between 0.5-10 $R_\oplus$ and 3--300 days), $f_{\rm swpa}$, as a linear function of the Gaia DR2 color. We confirm previous findings that the occurrence of these planetary systems rises significantly toward later type (redder) stars. The fraction of stars with planets increases from $f_{\rm swpa} = 0.32_{-0.11}^{+0.12}$ for F2V dwarfs to $f_{\rm swpa} = 0.96_{-0.19}^{+0.04}$ for mid K-dwarfs. About half ($f_{\rm swpa} = 0.57_{-0.10}^{+0.14}$) of all solar-type (G2V) dwarfs harbor a planetary system between 3 and 300 days. This simple model can closely match the observed multiplicity distributions of both the bluer and redder halves in our sample, suggesting that the architectures of planetary systems around stars of different spectral types may be similar aside from a shift in the overall fraction of planet hosting stars.
description: Published in AJ; 28 pages, 9 figures, plus supplemental online materials with 5 figures
ELECTROCHEMICAL DETECTABILITY OF CATECHOLAMINES USING HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY AND THERMAL STABILITY OF A STRONGLY ACIDIC CATION EXCHANGE RESIN IN AQUEOUS SOLUTION (HPLC)
Creators: name: Bunyagidj, Chaiyod
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 34
subject: Chemical sciences
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
classificationCode: 3401
subject: Analytical chemistry

description: The analysis of catecholamines has been investigated using an ion-pairing chromatographic method which utilizes a controlled potential coulometric detector. Two coulometric detectors with different electrolytic cell designs have been investigated. The resulting sensitivity was comparable to that obtained with an amperometric detector. This technique has been applied to the analysis of plasma catecholamines. Cation exchange resin Dowex 50W-X8 has been heated in alkaline water (pH 9.3-9.5) at a temperature of 100(DEGREES)C in order to study its thermal stability. Iron was added to the test system to study its possible catalylic effect on the resin thermal stability. Measurements of changes in capacity were made and the decomposition products formed were investigated. The resin was found to be stable at 100(DEGREES)C. The main water soluble decomposition product released by the resin was sulfate ion. Organic material was also found but it was not possible to identify it. Iron was found to have small or negligible effect on the thermal decomposition of the resin.
A MODEL EXPLAINING HOW ANIMALS PRODUCE VARIABLE-INTERVAL RATES (IRT, INTERRESPONSE TIME, MOLECULAR RATE, REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULES)
Creators: name: Casey, Jay
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Responding and reinforcement on variable-interval schedules correspond when reinforcements are recorded as the relative frequency of interresponse time class, and responses are recorded as the relative dwell time for each interresponse time class. Casey (1980) predicts that this reinforcement distribution controls subsequent responding, a view opposed to Reynolds and McLeod's (1970) that it cannot. The basis of this disagreement is examined analytically. The reinforcement distribution is found to be based on the dwell-time distribution so that differential reinforcement occurs unless the two distributions are identical. When a variable-interval schedule reinforces exponentially distributed responding, an increase in rate is differentially reinforced. This tendency is an increasing function of reinforcement density. Examination of the relationships implied by these findings shows that animals produce variable-interval rates by apportioning time to molecular rates (reciprocals of the interresponse times) equal to the relative reinforcements those rates have received.
Heterogeneous Credit Constraints and Smallholder Farming in Senegal
Creators: name: Seck, Abdoulaye
name: Seck, Abdoulaye
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: International Development
subject: Credit constraints
subject: Productivity
subject: Yields
subject: Switching regression
subject: Senegal River Valley

description: Credit constraints are among key challenges to unlocking the great economic and social potentials of small farm agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa. This research sets out to analyze the extent to which farmers are credit-constrained, the underlying generating mechanisms, and how financial inclusion through the reduction or elimination of credit constraints would benefit smallholders in the specific agro-ecological region of the Senegal River Valley. So far the literature tends to focus on credit applicants when defining access to credit dummy, ignoring in the process the vast majority of farmers who stay out of the market. Instead, the paper recognizes that credit constraints come in different forms to the extent that they translate into market entry barriers at the pre-application stage (ex-ante) or contribute to deteriorate the credit profile at the post-application stage (ex-post). Farm-level data are used, and a model that controls for both endogeneity and farmers’ self-selection into the credit market is developed. The results suggest that credit constraints, mostly originated from high transaction costs and high risk, are harming farmers’ performance, and access to credit leads to increased yields and labor productivity. The extent of the gains depends on the stage at which the constraints manifest themselves, as well as the performance indicator and the reference group. These results suggest various policy options to be considered in order to unlock the economic and social potentials associated with financial inclusion in the farming sector.
A MODEL EXPLAINING HOW ANIMALS PRODUCE VARIABLE-INTERVAL RATES (IRT, INTERRESPONSE TIME, MOLECULAR RATE, REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULES)
Creators: name: Casey, Jay
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Responding and reinforcement on variable-interval schedules correspond when reinforcements are recorded as the relative frequency of interresponse time class, and responses are recorded as the relative dwell time for each interresponse time class. Casey (1980) predicts that this reinforcement distribution controls subsequent responding, a view opposed to Reynolds and McLeod's (1970) that it cannot. The basis of this disagreement is examined analytically. The reinforcement distribution is found to be based on the dwell-time distribution so that differential reinforcement occurs unless the two distributions are identical. When a variable-interval schedule reinforces exponentially distributed responding, an increase in rate is differentially reinforced. This tendency is an increasing function of reinforcement density. Examination of the relationships implied by these findings shows that animals produce variable-interval rates by apportioning time to molecular rates (reciprocals of the interresponse times) equal to the relative reinforcements those rates have received.
Counting and Tensorial Properties of Twist-Two Helicity-Flip Nucleon Form Factors
Creators: name: Chen, Zhang
name: Ji, Xiangdong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform a systematic analysis on the off-forward matrix elements of the twist-two quark and gluon helicity-flip operators. By matching the allowed quantum numbers and their crossing channel counterparts (a method developed by Ji & Lebed), we systematically count the number of independent nucleon form factors in off-forward scattering of matrix elements of these quark and gluon spin-flip operators. In particular, we find that the numbers of independent nucleon form factors twist-2, helicity flip quark (gluon) operators are $2n-1$ ($2n-5$) if $n$ is odd, and $2n-2$ ($2n-6$) if $n$ is even, with $n\ge2$ ($n\ge 4$). We also analysis and write down the tensorial/Lorentz structure and kinematic factors of the expansion of these operators' matrix elements in terms of the independent form factors. These generalized form factors define the off-forward quark and gluon helicity-flip distributions in the literature.
description: 18 pages, revtex4
Additional file 6 of Characterization of Anopheles gambiae D7 salivary proteins as markers of human–mosquito bite contact
Creators: name: Oseno, Brenda
name: Marura, Faith
name: Ogwang, Rodney
name: Muturi, Martha
name: Njunge, James
name: Nkumama, Irene
name: Mwakesi, Robert
name: Mwai, Kennedy
name: Rono, Martin K.
name: Mwakubambanya, Ramadhan
name: Osier, Faith
name: Tuju, James
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 6: Table S4. Dunn test post hoc pairwise multiple comparisons for differences in responses to salivary gland antigens between the sites.
title: SCHOOL CLIMATE and SCHOOL ORGANISATION: A STUDY IN RELATIONSHIPS.
Creators: name: Budd, Geoffrey Howard
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1982

description: This work is the product of two years' in-service study of one middle school. The aim was to examine the major structural dimensions of perceived school "climate", and assess the influence of internal organisation upon that climate. Initial attention is given to the evolution of the school, its physical structure, environment, staffing and routine procedures. The central part of the study is concerned to present and analyse the expressed attitudes and activities of the personnel in the school; pupils, teachers and ancillary staff. Within a broadly "illuminative" paradigm the tactical methodology utilises a variety of research techniques notably questionnaires, personal interviews, participant observation and assessment of the formal records of school life. The final part of the study reflects upon a period of change at the school which followed upon the appointment of a new headteacher in January 1979. Assessment is made of the organisational changes rapidly introduced into the school and the response of staff to a markedly different style of leadership. The conclusion summarises the major findings, discusses the interaction between climate and organisation and reflects upon the suitability of the phenomenological approach to such case study analysis.
THE DIFFERENTIAL IMPACT OF RISING ENERGY PRICES UPON DEVELOPED AND DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: 1970-1977
Creators: name: Collier, Betty Jean
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The October 1973 OPEC oil embargo triggered a period of rapidly rising energy prices. This study examines the impact of this era of restricted energy upon continued growth and development of poor, middle-income, and rich countries in the world society. The research objective is to ascertain if increased prices more adversely affected low-income countries (many of whom morally supported the behavior of the OPEC nations) than middle-income and rich countries. A 116-country sample is used and subdivided into five country groupings: poor, middle-income, industrialized, capital surplus oil-exporting, and centrally-planned countries. Country groupings are compared in terms of changes in four energy variables and three development variables for 1970-1973 and 1974-1977. Data are analyzed using the nonparametric Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test. Energy variables used are energy consumption, energy production, energy exports, and energy imports; development variables are Gross National Product (GNP), Consumer Price Index, and Balance of Payments. Data on the energy variables indicated that low-income countries continued to have access to energy during the post-embargo period in spite of higher prices. The average increase in energy consumption was greater for the poorer Lesser Developed Countries (LDC) in the post-1973 than in the pre-1973 years. In contrast, industrialized countries significantly reduced their mean rate of energy consumption. Thus, a slight redistribution of energy resources occurred from the industrialized countries to the rest of the world. Data analysis also revealed that while economic growth declined for all country groupings in the post-embargo years, industrialized countries experienced a greater percentage decrease in growth rates than did developing countries. The differential decrease in the growth of GNP in industrialized countries was statistically significant. All country groupings experienced statistically significant increases in the Consumer Price Index. Findings in terms of the Current Account Balance were indeterminant for all countries because of insufficient sample size. Although the analysis was limited in scope because of data and methodological constraints, it did not support the thesis that the OPEC oil embargo created a set of circumstances which more adversely affected economic growth and development of poorer countries relative to richer countries.
A Model of Grains Prices with Application to the Impact of Biofuels
Creators: name: Gilbert, Christopher L.
name: Gilbert, Christopher L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: grains
subject: corn
subject: wheat
subject: biofuels

description: The paper reports preliminary results from an econometric model of world grains markets. The model is used to address the source of shocks (demand or supply?), the scale of their price impact (greater for corn than wheat) and the price impact of the growth of the use of corn as a biofuel feedstock (substantial for corn, less so for wheat). We also ask whether it makes sense to think of grains as a single composite commodity or whether idiosyncratic crop-specific factors remain important.
Path Integral for Spin-1 Chain in the Fluctuating Matrix Product State Basis
Creators: name: Kim, Jintae
name: Pal, Rajarshi
name: Park, Jin-Hong
name: Han, Jung Hoon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new method of writing down the path integral for spin-1 Heisenberg antiferromagnetic chain is introduced. In place of the conventional coherent state basis that leads to the non-linear sigma-model, we use a new basis called the fluctuating matrix product states (fMPS) which embodies inter-site entanglement from the outset. It forms an overcomplete set spanning the entire Hilbert space of the spin-1 chain. Saddle-point analysis performed for the bilinear-biquadratic spin model predicts Affeck-Kennedy-Lieb-Tasaki (AKLT) state as the ground state in the vicinity of the AKLT Hamiltonian. Quadratic effective action derived by gradient expansion around the saddle point is free from constraints that plagued the non-linear sigma model and exactly solvable. The obtained excitation modes agree precisely with the single-mode approximation result for the AKLT Hamiltonian. Excitation spectra for other BLBQ Hamiltonians are obtained as well by diagonalizing the quadratic action.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure, supplementary file included; references updated
Gauge Fixing and Observables in General Relativity
Creators: name: Salisbury, D. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The conventional group of four-dimensional diffeomorphisms is not realizeable as a canonical transformation group in phase space. Yet there is a larger field-dependent symmetry transformation group which does faithfully reproduce 4-D diffeomorphism symmetries. Some properties of this group were first explored by Bergmann and Komar. More recently the group has been analyzed from the perspective of projectability under the Legendre map. Time translation is not a realizeable symmetry, and is therefore distinct from diffeomorphism-induced symmetries. This issue is explored further in this paper. It is shown that time is not "frozen". Indeed, time-like diffeomorphism invariants must be time-dependent. Intrinsic coordinates of the type proposed by Bergmann and Komar are used to construct invariants. Lapse and shift variables are retained as canonical variables in this approach, and therefore will be subject to quantum fluctuations in an eventual quantum theory. Concepts and constructions are illustrated using the relativistic classical and quantum free particle. In this example concrete time-dependent invariants are displayed and fluctuation in proper time is manifest.
description: Contribution to the Proceedings of Spacetime and Fundamental Interactions: Quantum Aspects, May, 2003, honoring the 65'th birthday of A. P. Balachandran
Absence of embedded eigenvalues for Hamiltonian with crossed magnetic and electric fields
Creators: name: Dimassi, Mouez
name: Kawamoto, Masaki
name: Petkov, Vesselin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81V10, 35P99

description: In the presence of the homogeneous electric field ${\bf E}$ and the homogeneous perpendicular magnetic field ${\bf B}$, the classical trajectory of a quantum particle on ${\mathbb R}^2$ moves with drift velocity $α$ which is perpendicular to the electric and magnetic fields. For such Hamiltonians the absence of the embedded eigenvalues of perturbed Hamiltonian has been conjectured. In this paper one proves this conjecture for the perturbations $V(x, y)$ which have sufficiently small support in direction of drift velocity.
description: Lemma 2.3 in the previous version is false and a counterexample is presented in Appendix A. In the improuved version we estabish Lemmas 2.2, 2.3 and 2.7 which are used to change the arguments
Welfare Effect of Urea Deep Placement (UDP) Technology Adoption among Smallholder Rice Farmers in Kwara State, Nigeria – Analysis of a Randomized Control Trial Experiment
Creators: name: Edeh, Hyacinth
name: Mavrotas, George
name: Edeh, Hyacinth
name: Mavrotas, George
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: International Development
subject: Rural household welfare
subject: Urea deep placement (UDP)
subject: Randomized control trial
subject: Food consumption coping strategy index
subject: inverse probability weighted regression adjustment
subject: Nigeria

description: We analyse the effects of adoption of urea deep placement (UDP) technology on household welfare using household data collected through a randomized control trial experiment conducted among rice farming households in Kwara State, Nigeria. In order to adjust for unequal sampling fractions and correct for possible misspecification and selection bias in the effects model, we estimate a treatment effect model using the doubly robust inverse probability weighted regression adjustments. The results show that variable that enhances intra-household joint decision-making on farm input use and wealth indicators encourage UDP adoption while physiological risks tend to discourage adoption. Differential use of food consumption coping strategies exists between adopters and non-adopters along less severe but not severe strategies. We find that UDP technology can significantly increase food security, measured as food consumption coping strategy index, among adopting households. This implies that the technology is welfare increasing, and its adoption could be discouraged by health and production – related risks interventions.
title: Science, methodology and religion in the work of Adam Sedgwick.
Creators: name: Marston, V. Paul
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1984

description: Adam Sedgwick (1705-1873) was one of the leading geologists in the second quarter of the nineteenth century, and played a major part in establishing the geological column and applying it in the U.K. This thesis examines the metaphysical, religious and methodological presuppositions implicit in his approach to science. A prevailing view amongst historians (e.g. Cannon and Morrell) has seen Sedgwick as a 'liberal Anglican' and 'Broad Churchman'. This has been linked with a view connecting the vanguard of science in the period with liberal Anglicanism (e.g. in the BAAS), and seeing both Tractarians and to a large extent Evangelicals as a ' threat ' to it. This thesis presents evidence showing the inadequacy of the 'Broad Church' concept, and that Sedgwick is himself closer to an Evangelical position than has been imagined. It shows that his presuppositions about the nature of science and its relationship with religion were close to those of Scottish Evangelicals like Chalmers and Miller, and not dissimilar from the leading moderate Anglican Evangelicals who would have associated with the Christian Observer. The influence of Coleridgesm liberalism was small. Sedgwick also contributed to the development of Natural Theology in a time when it was in ascent. Evidence shows that criticisms of Sedgwick for semi-deism (e.g. by Hooykaas) are unfounded, and that his natural theology was consistent with a full Christian theism. Finally, the thesis examines Sedgwick's participation in the nineteenth century debates about scientific methodology. It shows that, having taken as his mentors on the issue Bacon and Newton, Sedgwick's thinking evidences a certain tension as he tries to interpret what he is actually doing in science in these terms.
Averaging 2d stochastic wave equation
Creators: name: Guerrero, Raul Bolaños
name: Nualart, David
name: Zheng, Guangqu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60H15, 60H07, 60G15, 60F05

description: We consider a 2D stochastic wave equation driven by a Gaussian noise, which is temporally white and spatially colored described by the Riesz kernel. Our first main result is the functional central limit theorem for the spatial average of the solution. And we also establish a quantitative central limit theorem for the marginal and the rate of convergence is described by the total-variation distance. A fundamental ingredient in our proofs is the pointwise $L^p$-estimate of Malliavin derivative, which is of independent interest.
description: Version2:32pages, restructured, removed Lemma 3.4. and modified Lemma 3.3 (now Lemma 4.3), simplified Step-4, added Remark 3 and (4.8); version 1: 34pages
THE DIFFERENTIAL IMPACT OF RISING ENERGY PRICES UPON DEVELOPED AND DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: 1970-1977
Creators: name: Collier, Betty Jean
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics

description: The October 1973 OPEC oil embargo triggered a period of rapidly rising energy prices. This study examines the impact of this era of restricted energy upon continued growth and development of poor, middle-income, and rich countries in the world society. The research objective is to ascertain if increased prices more adversely affected low-income countries (many of whom morally supported the behavior of the OPEC nations) than middle-income and rich countries. A 116-country sample is used and subdivided into five country groupings: poor, middle-income, industrialized, capital surplus oil-exporting, and centrally-planned countries. Country groupings are compared in terms of changes in four energy variables and three development variables for 1970-1973 and 1974-1977. Data are analyzed using the nonparametric Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test. Energy variables used are energy consumption, energy production, energy exports, and energy imports; development variables are Gross National Product (GNP), Consumer Price Index, and Balance of Payments. Data on the energy variables indicated that low-income countries continued to have access to energy during the post-embargo period in spite of higher prices. The average increase in energy consumption was greater for the poorer Lesser Developed Countries (LDC) in the post-1973 than in the pre-1973 years. In contrast, industrialized countries significantly reduced their mean rate of energy consumption. Thus, a slight redistribution of energy resources occurred from the industrialized countries to the rest of the world. Data analysis also revealed that while economic growth declined for all country groupings in the post-embargo years, industrialized countries experienced a greater percentage decrease in growth rates than did developing countries. The differential decrease in the growth of GNP in industrialized countries was statistically significant. All country groupings experienced statistically significant increases in the Consumer Price Index. Findings in terms of the Current Account Balance were indeterminant for all countries because of insufficient sample size. Although the analysis was limited in scope because of data and methodological constraints, it did not support the thesis that the OPEC oil embargo created a set of circumstances which more adversely affected economic growth and development of poorer countries relative to richer countries.
THE KIERKEGAARDIAN PARADIGM OF THE RADICAL SELF IN FLANNERY O'CONNOR'S FICTION
Creators: name: Evans, Jay Alan
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: By juxtaposing Flannery O'Connor's fiction with Soren Kierkegaard's legacy, one can explore an existential aesthetic that pertinently addresses the content and structure of O'Connor's stories. A basic Kierkegaardian premise, what could be called "the situation necessary for winning through to existence" of "finding the radical self," informs, with varying degrees of success, the fiction of Flannery O'Connor. Correspondingly, O'Connor's development as an artist can be traced by her growing mastery of "the extreme situation that best reveals what we are." The existential reading of her fiction presented in this paper pays particular attention to some of her rarely discussed early "thesis" stories, which provide a basic outline for finding the radical self; to several more mature works later in her career that add necessary detail to the basic outline; and to the masterworks of her last year, "Revelation" and "Parker's Back," which fully delineate the awful requirements for winning through to existence. Ultimately, for Flannery O'Connor, "fiction . . . is an incarnational art," and an existential reading of her fiction demonstrates the similarity between the incarnational and the particular individual's winning through to existence.
Evolución de la variabilidad genética pra peso a edad comercial en una población seleccionada de camarón blanco del Pacífico [Penaeus (Litopenaeus) vannamei].
Creators: name: Moreno, Nelson Cala
name: Montaldo, Hugo Horacio
name: Júarez, Hector Castillo
name: Montes, Gabriel Ricardo Campos
name: De Jesús Ruíz López, Felipe
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 70201 Animal Breeding
subject: FOS: Animal and dairy science
subject: 70401 Aquaculture
subject: FOS: Agriculture, forestry and fisheries

description: Evolución de la variabilidad genética pra peso a edad comercial en una población seleccionada de camarón blanco del Pacífico [Penaeus (Litopenaeus)vannamei].
Rate description of Fokker-Planck processes with time dependent parameters
Creators: name: Talkner, Peter
name: Luczka, Jerzy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The reduction of a continuous Markov process with multiple metastable states to a discrete rate process is investigated in the presence of slow time dependent parameters such as periodic external forces or slowly fluctuating barrier heights. A quantitative criterion is provided under which condition a kinetic description with time dependent frozen rates applies. Finally it is shown how the long time behavior of the underlying continuous process can be retrieved from the knowledge of the discrete process by means of an appropriate random decoration of the discrete states. As a particular example of the presented theory an over-damped bistable Brownian oscillator with periodic driving is discussed.
Additional file 1 of A study of brain functional network and alertness changes in temporal lobe epilepsy with and without focal to bilateral tonic–clonic seizures
Creators: name: Nie, Liluo
name: Jiang, Yanchun
name: Lv, Zongxia
name: Pang, Xiaomin
name: Liang, Xiulin
name: Chang, Weiwei
name: Zheng, Jinou
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary table. Comparison of global parameters for patients and controls.
THE KIERKEGAARDIAN PARADIGM OF THE RADICAL SELF IN FLANNERY O'CONNOR'S FICTION
Creators: name: Evans, Jay Alan
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 47
subject: Language, communication and culture
classificationCode: 4705
subject: Literary studies

description: By juxtaposing Flannery O'Connor's fiction with Soren Kierkegaard's legacy, one can explore an existential aesthetic that pertinently addresses the content and structure of O'Connor's stories. A basic Kierkegaardian premise, what could be called "the situation necessary for winning through to existence" of "finding the radical self," informs, with varying degrees of success, the fiction of Flannery O'Connor. Correspondingly, O'Connor's development as an artist can be traced by her growing mastery of "the extreme situation that best reveals what we are." The existential reading of her fiction presented in this paper pays particular attention to some of her rarely discussed early "thesis" stories, which provide a basic outline for finding the radical self; to several more mature works later in her career that add necessary detail to the basic outline; and to the masterworks of her last year, "Revelation" and "Parker's Back," which fully delineate the awful requirements for winning through to existence. Ultimately, for Flannery O'Connor, "fiction . . . is an incarnational art," and an existential reading of her fiction demonstrates the similarity between the incarnational and the particular individual's winning through to existence.
Role of cross-links in bundle formation, phase separation and gelation of long filaments
Creators: name: Zilman, A.
name: Safran, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We predict the thermodynamic and structural behavior of solutions of long cross-linked filaments. We find that at the mean field level, the entropy of self-assembled junctions induces an effective attraction between the filaments that can result in a phase separation into a connected network, in equilibrium with a dilute phase. A connected network can also be formed in a non-thermodynamic transition upon increase of the chain, or cross link density, or with decreasing temperature. For rigid rods, at low temperatures, we predict a transition from an isotropic network, to anisotropic bundles of rods tightly bound by cross links, that is triggered by the interplay between the configurational entropy of the cross-link distribution among the rods, and the rotational and translational entropy of the rods.
description: typos and graphics corrected; 6 pages 1 figure
Additional file 1 of Digital gene expression analysis of NSCLC-patients reveals strong immune pressure, resulting in an immune escape under immunotherapy
Creators: name: Wessolly, Michael
name: Stephan-Falkenau, Susann
name: Streubel, Anna
name: Wiesweg, Marcel
name: Borchert, Sabrina
name: Mairinger, Elena
name: Kollmeier, Jens
name: Reis, Henning
name: Bauer, Torsten
name: Schmid, Kurt Werner
name: Mairinger, Thomas
name: Schuler, Martin
name: Mairinger, Fabian D.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 1: Suppl. Figure 1. Differential gene expression analysis of all patients showing increased PD-L1 expression. The log-fold changes between each state (PD-L1 positive or negative) are plotted against the p-value, displaying significant differences in expression between each state. Grey: Differential gene expression does not differ significantly between each state. Red: Top 10 most differentially expressed genes (p
CASE STUDIES OF LEARNING DISABLED SECONDARY STUDENTS
Creators: name: Mulholland, Rita
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This study examined the relationship between a reading support class and the reading requirements in content classes to determine if the reading class offers the support mainstreamed students need for success. Four case studies of high school learning disabled students were examined through the following areas: background, academic reports, adjustment rating scales and classroom observations. Two mainstreamed and two non-mainstreamed students were randomly selected for this study. Both students and teachers completed an adjustment rating scale measuring academic, personal and social adjustments. Observations were made to record the reading skills demanded in the content classes as well as those taught in the reading classes. The first research question addressed was: Does the reading class provide the service needed by mainstreamed students to ensure progress in the content classes? If so, in what ways? The findings showed that the mainstreamed students have the necessary skills to survive in their classes, but usually need more explanations and more time to complete their assignments. Their daily reading class provides the additional assistance for them by further explanations on content information understanding, by checking their written work, by reviewing concepts and by improving vocabulary and spelling ability. The second research question addressed was: Is the reading class, coupled with the mainstream content class, providing sufficient practice in reading skills development to ensure reading growth as measured by a standardized reading test? All four students' reading scores showed growth. The mainstreamed students' scores are at the high school level; the non-mainstreamed students scores showed small but consistent gains. The findings showed that programs that provide reading support to secondary learning disabled mainstreamed students should be available to ensure the students of continued reading growth and success in the mainstream.
Operator Equations, Separation of Variables and Relativistic Alterations
Creators: name: Herrmann, Robert A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 83A05, 83C99, 35A08

description: In this paper, a simple and unified method is developed that predicts the relativistic alterations of physical measures when the behavior of a natural system is characterized by means of a specific operator equation. Separation of variables is the simple underlying procedure.
description: 5 Pages. This paper has been modified to incorporate new research findings
title: Sexual differences in synaptogenesis in the suprachiasmatic nucleus of the rat brain
Creators: name: Leblond, Christine B
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1983

description: 1. A literature review of the effects of perinatal sex steroids on the development of the brain is presented. It can be shown that the hormones can modify the morphology of discrete areas of the brain. 2. It was concluded that there was a lack of information about how soon these morphological changes appeared. 3. It was therefore decided to study the effects of sex and perinatal hormonal levels on synaptogenesis in a discrete area of the brain. 4. The Suprachiasmatic Nucleus (SON) was chosen for anatomical convenience and because of its role in the photocontrol of ovulation. 5. In this thesis I describe synaptogenesis in the suprachiasmatic nucleus of rats of both sexes ranging from prenatal (20 days of gestation) to adult and in neonatally androgenised females. Preliminary results from neonatally castrated males are also included. 6. Synaptogenesis was studied using morphometric analysis of electron micrographs. It was found that the rate of development of synapses was similar in the SCN of both sexes, but that absolute values in males were higher than in females. Male type development cannot be mimicked by neonatal androgenization but initial results suggest that femal type development can be induced by neonatal castration. 7. My results suggest that both prenatal and postnatal androgens are essential to normal male development.
Olfactory Costimulation Influences Intranasal Somatosensory Perception
Creators: name: Prasanna R. Karunanayaka
name: Jiaming Lu
name: Yang, Qing X.
name: K. Sathian
Publisher: name: Brill Online
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 170112 Sensory Processes, Perception and Performance
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Olfactory sensitivity is influenced by intranasal trigeminal sensation. For instance, sniffing is central to how humans and animals perceive odorants. Here, we investigated the influence of olfactory costimulation on the perception of intranasal somatosensory stimulation. In this study, 22 healthy human subjects, with normal olfactory function, performed a localization task for stimulation using weak air puffs, a pure odorant, phenyl ethyl alcohol (PEA; rose odor), or their combination. Visual cues were used to inform participants to briefly hold their breath while weak, poorly localizable, air puffs and/or PEA were delivered to either nostril. Although PEA alone could not be localized to the correct nostril, when it accompanied a weak air puff in the ipsilateral nostril, localization accuracy significantly improved, relative to presentation of the air puff without the odorant. The enhancement of localization was absent when the air puff and PEA were presented to opposite nostrils. Since ipsilateral but not contralateral costimulation with PEA increased the accuracy of weak air puff localization, the results argue against a non-specific alerting effect of PEA. These findings suggest an interaction between olfactory and intranasal somatosensory stimuli leading to their integration.
On Birkhoffian systems with Poisson bracket
Creators: name: Nadjafikhah, Mehdi
name: Mansureh Mirala
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Geometry

description: The special non-autonomous Birkhoffian equations with consistent algebraic structure are studied and it has been shown that the special form of integrable Birkhoffian vector fields are equivalent to the Hamil-tonian vector fields. For a quasi Hamiltonian equation, conserved quanti-ties are computed from some of the symmetries. Finally the Birkhoffian evolution equations are constructed.
CASE STUDIES OF LEARNING DISABLED SECONDARY STUDENTS
Creators: name: Mulholland, Rita
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3903
subject: Education systems

description: This study examined the relationship between a reading support class and the reading requirements in content classes to determine if the reading class offers the support mainstreamed students need for success. Four case studies of high school learning disabled students were examined through the following areas: background, academic reports, adjustment rating scales and classroom observations. Two mainstreamed and two non-mainstreamed students were randomly selected for this study. Both students and teachers completed an adjustment rating scale measuring academic, personal and social adjustments. Observations were made to record the reading skills demanded in the content classes as well as those taught in the reading classes. The first research question addressed was: Does the reading class provide the service needed by mainstreamed students to ensure progress in the content classes? If so, in what ways? The findings showed that the mainstreamed students have the necessary skills to survive in their classes, but usually need more explanations and more time to complete their assignments. Their daily reading class provides the additional assistance for them by further explanations on content information understanding, by checking their written work, by reviewing concepts and by improving vocabulary and spelling ability. The second research question addressed was: Is the reading class, coupled with the mainstream content class, providing sufficient practice in reading skills development to ensure reading growth as measured by a standardized reading test? All four students' reading scores showed growth. The mainstreamed students' scores are at the high school level; the non-mainstreamed students scores showed small but consistent gains. The findings showed that programs that provide reading support to secondary learning disabled mainstreamed students should be available to ensure the students of continued reading growth and success in the mainstream.
Additional file 1 of The uptake and use of a minimum data set (MDS) for older people living and dying in care homes: a realist review
Creators: name: Musa, Massirfufulay Kpehe
name: Akdur, Gizdem
name: Brand, Sarah
name: Killett, Anne
name: Spilsbury, Karen
name: Peryer, Guy
name: Burton, Jennifer Kirsty
name: Gordon, Adam Lee
name: Hanratty, Barbara
name: Towers, Ann-Marie
name: Irvine, Lisa
name: Kelly, Sarah
name: Jones, Liz
name: Meyer, Julienne
name: Goodman, Claire
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Interview schedules.
SEAPOWER AND SUPERPOWER: THE SOVIET NAVY IN THE WORLD OCEAN (GORSHKOV, MAHAN; USSR)
Creators: name: Smith, Clyde Arnold
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation closely examines the concept of "seapower" and establishes the global role of the Soviet Navy, using the U.S. Navy as a standard of comparison. Chapter I defines key seapower terms, discusses seapower definitions of Alfred Thayer Mahan and Adm. Sergei G. Gorshkov, and describes unique features of seapower pertinent to the superpower navies. Chapter II discusses strategic concepts in designing state seapower, including the function of threat and risk assessment. It examines Soviet-U.S. seapower expansion from standpoints of the Graham Allison Rational Policy, Organizational Process, and Bureaucratic Politics models. Chapter III describes influences of maritime geography on seapower, while discussing the severe geographic handicaps the Soviet Navy faces. It discusses ways both superpowers are alleviating adverse geographic effects through technologic, policy, legal, and economic means. Chapter IV compares the seapower thought of Mahan and Gorshkov. It discusses seapower concepts of "components" or "elements," fleet against fleet and fleet against shore, "control of the sea," and gospodstvo na more (dominance at sea). Chapter V defines "seapower presence" and analyzes some relevant models: "gunboat diplomacy" (James Cable), "naval presence" (Stansfield Turner), "naval diplomacy" (Brad Dismukes and James McConnell), and "the protection of state interests" (Gorshkov). It uses an equation to compare Soviet-U.S. seapower presence strengths and weaknesses. Chapter VI examines the Law of the Sea and other legal influences on seapower, noting that law is, paradoxically, eroding seapower through restricting its mobility and access, while generating grounds for increased oceanic dispute. It notes that superpower oceanic legal interests have considerable similarities, general and specific. Chapter VII discussed views of Soviet strategists Sokolovskiy, Grechko, and Gorshkov on Soviet Navy strategy and missions. It defines these missions as strategic strike, strategic defense, dominance at sea, maritime interdiction, protection of shipping, support of ground forces, and seapower presence. It compares them with U.S. Navy missions. Chapter VIII postulates continuing Soviet-U.S. World Ocean competition into the twenty-first century. It discussses such future trends as expanding internationalism, increasing oceanic legal complexities, and accelerating development of new technologies useful in the World Ocean.
Mapping the spin-dependent electron reflectivity of Fe and Co ferromagnetic thin films
Creators: name: Graf, J.
name: Jozwiak, C.
name: Schmid, A. K.
name: Hussain, Z.
name: Lanzara, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spin Polarized Low Energy Electron Microscopy is used as a spin dependent spectroscopic probe to study the spin dependent specular reflection of a polarized electron beam from two different magnetic thin film systems: Fe/W(110) and Co/W(110). The reflectivity and spin-dependent exchange-scattering asymmetry are studied as a function of electron kinetic energy and film thickness, as well as the time dependence. The largest value of the figure of merit for spin polarimetry is observed for a 5 monolayer thick film of Co/W(110) at an electron kinetic energy of 2eV. This value is 2 orders of magnitude higher than previously obtained with state of the art Mini-Mott polarimeter. We discuss implications of our results for the development of an electron-spin-polarimeter using the exchange-interaction at low energy.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures