cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Lasioglossum (Dialictus) austerum Gardner & Gibbs 2020
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Lasioglossum (Dialictus) austerum Gardner & Gibbs, 2020
Endemic
[Holotype: CASC; ♀; 16.09 km. S. Punta Prieta, Baja California, Mexico; June 21, 1938]
This species is endemic to the BCP. It has been previously reported in the Central Desert, the Gulf Coast, La Giganta Ranges, and the Sarcocaulescent Shrubland (Gardner & Gibbs 2020). See fig. 172.
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 254, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Development of a low-$α$-emitting $μ$-PIC as a readout device for direction-sensitive dark matter detectors
Creators: name: Hashimoto, Takashi
name: Miuchi, Kentaro
name: Ikeda, Tomonori
name: Ishiura, Hirohisa
name: Nakamura, Kiseki D.
name: Ito, Hiroshi
name: Ichimura, Koichi
name: Abe, Ko
name: Kobayashi, Kazuyoshi
name: Takada, Atsushi
name: Ochi, Atsuhiko
name: Nakamura, Takuma
name: Shimada, Takuya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Direction sensitivity could provide robust evidence for the direct detection of weakly interacting massive particles constituting dark matter. However, the sensitivity of this method remains low due to the radioactive backgrounds. The purpose of this study is to develop a low-background detector as a two-dimensional imaging device for a gaseous time projection chamber. In direction-sensitive dark matter experiments~(e.g. NEWAGE), $α$-rays emitted from the detector components often create substantial radioactive backgrounds. Based on the study of the background of NEWAGE, a new detector "low-$α$ $μ$-PIC" is developed. The produced $μ$-PIC performs well as a gas detector and the $α$-ray emission rate from the $μ$-PIC reduced by a factor of 100.
Additional file 1 of The roles of lumbar load thresholds in cumulative lifting exposure to predict disk protrusion in an Asian population
Creators: name: Hung, Isabella Y.-J.
name: Shih, Tiffany T.-F.
name: Bang-Bin Chen
name: Saou-Hsing Liou
name: Ing-Kang Ho
name: Guo, Yue Leon
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional file 1. Supplemental Table 1. Performance of predictive abilities for L4-S1 disk protrusion as measured by area-under-curve (AUC) of receiver-operator characteristic (ROC) curve, R-square, Akaike information criterion (AIC), and Bayesian information criterion (BIC) of cumulating lifetime lifting load using various threshold values in male participants. Supplemental Table 2. Performance of the predictive abilities for L4-S1 disk protrusion as measured by AUC of ROC curve, R-square, AIC, and BIC of cumulating lifetime lifting load using various threshold values in female participants.
A generalization of spin factors
Creators: name: Karn, Anil Kumar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 46B40, Secondary 46B20

description: Using a technique of adjoining an order unit to a normed linear space, we have characterized strictly convex spaces among normed linear spaces and Hilbert spaces among strictly convex Banach spaces respectively. This leads to a generalization of spin factors and provides a new class of absolute order unit spaces.
description: 16 pages
From unemployment to self -employment: A viable alternative or a temporary solution?
Creators: name: Alisultanov, Ilgar
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The purpose of this dissertation is to explore self-employment as an alternative employment option for the unemployed individuals in the absence of the government support. It is hypothesized that the determinants of self-employment and factors affecting business dissolution are different for the unemployed entering self-employment from those who start businesses out of paid work or nonparticipants. The dissertation empirically investigates this hypothesis within the context of a Semi-Markov model of labor market histories. It's also hypothesized that for some unemployed, self-employment is a better option than remaining unemployed until a suitable wage offer comes along. To explore this issue, the dissertation sets to compare the future wage earnings of the unemployed who enter self-employment and then transition into wage sector to those who stay unemployed until finding a wage job. The empirical results show that there are sonic similarities as well as some important differences in individual level characteristics between the unemployed entering self-employment and those entering self-employment from wage-employment and non-participation. The findings also show that the wage-employed and nonparticipants are more likely to be pulled into self-employment when general macroeconomic conditions are more favorable. At the same time, the unemployed are more likely to be pushed into self-employment when the economy is weak. It is also observed that the unemployed entering self-employment are more likely to become unemployed again, but are less likely to leave the labor force after exiting self-employment when compared to those forming businesses out of wage-employment and nonparticipation. When I compare the future wage earnings of the unemployed who start businesses and then transition into wage employment to those who continue job search until finding a wage job, the results show that the unemployed individuals entering self-employment are not likely to experience lower wage earnings. Then the total income of the unemployed entering self-employment is likely to be higher over the entire period because individuals were working as self-employed part of the time that others remained unemployed.
GLAS: Global-to-Local Safe Autonomy Synthesis for Multi-Robot Motion Planning with End-to-End Learning
Creators: name: Rivière, Benjamin
name: Hoenig, Wolfgang
name: Yue, Yisong
name: Chung, Soon-Jo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present GLAS: Global-to-Local Autonomy Synthesis, a provably-safe, automated distributed policy generation for multi-robot motion planning. Our approach combines the advantage of centralized planning of avoiding local minima with the advantage of decentralized controllers of scalability and distributed computation. In particular, our synthesized policies only require relative state information of nearby neighbors and obstacles, and compute a provably-safe action. Our approach has three major components: i) we generate demonstration trajectories using a global planner and extract local observations from them, ii) we use deep imitation learning to learn a decentralized policy that can run efficiently online, and iii) we introduce a novel differentiable safety module to ensure collision-free operation, thereby allowing for end-to-end policy training. Our numerical experiments demonstrate that our policies have a 20% higher success rate than optimal reciprocal collision avoidance, ORCA, across a wide range of robot and obstacle densities. We demonstrate our method on an aerial swarm, executing the policy on low-end microcontrollers in real-time.
description: Accepted at IEEE RA-L, see DOI below
On the Size Difference between Red and Blue Globular Clusters
Creators: name: Larsen, Soeren S.
name: Brodie, Jean P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Several recent studies have reported a mean size difference of about 20% between the metal-rich and metal-poor subpopulations of globular clusters (GCs) in a variety of galaxies. In this paper we investigate the possibility that the size difference might be a projection effect, resulting from a correlation between cluster size and galactocentric distance, combined with different radial distributions of the GC subpopulations. We find that projection effects may indeed account for a size difference similar to the observed one, provided that there is a steep relation between GC size and galactocentric distance in the central parts of the GC system and that the density of GCs flattens off near the center in a manner similar to a King profile. For more centrally peaked distributions, such as a de Vaucouleurs law, or for shallower size-radius relations, projection effects are unable to produce the observed differences in the size distributions.
description: 30 pages, including 14 figures and 2 tables. Accepted for publication in ApJ
Dimensionality reduction to maximize prediction generalization capability
Creators: name: Isomura, Takuya
name: Toyoizumi, Taro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Generalization of time series prediction remains an important open issue in machine learning, wherein earlier methods have either large generalization error or local minima. We develop an analytically solvable, unsupervised learning scheme that extracts the most informative components for predicting future inputs, termed predictive principal component analysis (PredPCA). Our scheme can effectively remove unpredictable noise and minimize test prediction error through convex optimization. Mathematical analyses demonstrate that, provided with sufficient training samples and sufficiently high-dimensional observations, PredPCA can asymptotically identify hidden states, system parameters, and dimensionalities of canonical nonlinear generative processes, with a global convergence guarantee. We demonstrate the performance of PredPCA using sequential visual inputs comprising hand-digits, rotating 3D objects, and natural scenes. It reliably estimates distinct hidden states and predicts future outcomes of previously unseen test input data, based exclusively on noisy observations. The simple architecture and low computational cost of PredPCA are highly desirable for neuromorphic hardware.
A schematic model for pentaquarks based on diquarks
Creators: name: Shuryak, Edward
name: Zahed, Ismail
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: QCD instantons are known to produce deeply bound diquarks which may be used as building blocks in the formation of multiquark states, in particular pentaquarks and dibaryons. We suggest a simple model in which the lowest scalar diquark (and possibly the tensor one) can be treated as an independent ``body'', with the same color and (approximately) the mass as a constituent (anti)quark. In this model a new symmetry between states with the same number of ``bodies'' but different number of quarks appear, in particular the 3-``body'' pentaquarks can be naturally related to decuplet baryons. We estimate both the masses and widths of such states, and then discuss the limitations of this model.
description: v2 has additional discussion of newly dicoved pentaquarks and limits on their widths, the model is the same as in version 1. New references are added
Lasioglossum (Dialictus) biclausum Gibbs 2012
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Lasioglossum (Dialictus) biclausum Gibbs, 2012
[Holotype: CASC; ♀ San José de Gracia, Baja California Sur, Mexico]
The holotype of this species was collected in the Vizcaíno Desert at San José de Gracia, BCS (Gibbs 2012). The BBPT collected three specimens (2 ♂, 1 ♀) in La Giganta Ranges in March 2021 (MABC). See fig. 172.
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 254, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
From unemployment to self -employment: A viable alternative or a temporary solution?
Creators: name: Alisultanov, Ilgar
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics

description: The purpose of this dissertation is to explore self-employment as an alternative employment option for the unemployed individuals in the absence of the government support. It is hypothesized that the determinants of self-employment and factors affecting business dissolution are different for the unemployed entering self-employment from those who start businesses out of paid work or nonparticipants. The dissertation empirically investigates this hypothesis within the context of a Semi-Markov model of labor market histories. It's also hypothesized that for some unemployed, self-employment is a better option than remaining unemployed until a suitable wage offer comes along. To explore this issue, the dissertation sets to compare the future wage earnings of the unemployed who enter self-employment and then transition into wage sector to those who stay unemployed until finding a wage job. The empirical results show that there are sonic similarities as well as some important differences in individual level characteristics between the unemployed entering self-employment and those entering self-employment from wage-employment and non-participation. The findings also show that the wage-employed and nonparticipants are more likely to be pulled into self-employment when general macroeconomic conditions are more favorable. At the same time, the unemployed are more likely to be pushed into self-employment when the economy is weak. It is also observed that the unemployed entering self-employment are more likely to become unemployed again, but are less likely to leave the labor force after exiting self-employment when compared to those forming businesses out of wage-employment and nonparticipation. When I compare the future wage earnings of the unemployed who start businesses and then transition into wage employment to those who continue job search until finding a wage job, the results show that the unemployed individuals entering self-employment are not likely to experience lower wage earnings. Then the total income of the unemployed entering self-employment is likely to be higher over the entire period because individuals were working as self-employed part of the time that others remained unemployed.
A parsec-scale flow associated with the IRAS 16547-4247 radio jet
Creators: name: Brooks, K. J.
name: Garay, G.
name: Mardones, D.
name: Bronfman, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: IRAS 16547-4247 is the most luminous (6.2 x 10^4 Lsun) embedded young stellar object known to harbor a thermal radio jet. We report the discovery using VLT-ISAAC of a chain of H_2 2.12 um emission knots that trace a collimated flow extending over 1.5 pc. The alignment of the H_2 flow and the central location of the radio jet implies that these phenomena are intimately linked. We have also detected using TIMMI2 an isolated, unresolved 12 um infrared source towards the radio jet . Our findings affirm that IRAS 16547-4247 is excited by a single O-type star that is driving a collimated jet. We argue that the accretion mechanism which produces jets in low-mass star formation also operates in the higher mass regime.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJL, 10 pages, 2 figures
Additional file 1 of A risk-based model to assess environmental justice and coronary heart disease burden from traffic-related air pollutants
Creators: name: Fabisiak, James P.
name: Jackson, Erica M.
name: Brink, LuAnn L.
name: Presto, Albert A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1.
A descriptive policy case study of the agenda setting and policy formulation stages of Florida's "Bright Futures" merit-based aid program
Creators: name: Banville, David Joseph
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This descriptive case study examined the policy origins of Florida's popular, lottery-funded "Bright Futures" merit-based aid program. Using John Kingdon's process model of agenda setting and policy formulation as a descriptive theory, three research questions framed the study, focusing on the existing issues/problems that the "Bright Futures" legislation was designed to address, the political factors that created a favorable environment for its consideration, and the development of the policy itself. Data were collected through both qualitative techniques, including ten semi-structured interviews and document analysis of legislative and relevant mass media documents, and from descriptive statistical analysis of quantitative data from Florida, federal, and other sources. Several findings emerged from the study. First, Florida's desire to create the "Bright Futures" award was congruent with traditional purposes of merit-based aid programs: promote and reward high school academic achievement, and provide an incentive for the "best and brightest" high school students to remain in-state for postsecondary education and subsequent career pursuits. Data suggest, however, that a more prominent catalyst was the need to satisfy the public's demand for lottery and education funding reform. This demand arose from the perception that state lottery funds were being used to supplant lost general revenue funds for education, instead of providing an additional educational enhancement as stipulated with the lottery's introduction in 1988. Second, four key stakeholders emerged in the study, and their values, beliefs, and educational philosophy clearly frame the "Bright Futures" award. By folding the state's existing academically-rigorous and vocational-focused postsecondary merit-based aid programs into the "Bright Futures" legislation, and creating a new middle-tier award with modest standards, these stakeholders' intentions are characterized as "access, but preparation" - providing increasing levels of benefits based on meritorious high school performance, in an overall effort to reward individual achievement, determination, and positive behavior. The findings of the study provide useful insights into the public policy origins of merit-based aid programs; and additionally, suggest that although fifteen states enacted these programs in the late 1990s and new century to achieve the traditional goals of these programs, each state also had unique catalysts for program adoption.
Lasioglossum (Dialictus) brunneiventre
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Lasioglossum (Dialictus) brunneiventre (Crawford, 1907) **
[Holotype: USNM; ♀ Ormsby Co., Nevada, USA; July]
Lasioglossum brunneiventre represents a new species record for the BCP and Mexico. This species is found along the Pacific Coast of North America, ranging from southern British Columbia to Baja California, Mexico. During this study, it was collected in the Coastal Sage Matorral in September 2020 (1 ♀) in and the Baja California Mountains in San Pedro Martír in July 2017 (1 ♂), and Sierra Juarez in May 2022 (1 ♀). Voucher specimens are in MABC. See fig. 173.
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 255, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Finite-dimensional modules of the universal Askey--Wilson algebra and DAHA of type $(C_1^\vee,C_1)$
Creators: name: Huang, Hau-Wen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 16G30, 33D45, 33D80, 81R10, 81R12

description: Assume that $\mathbb F$ is an algebraically closed field and let $q$ denote a nonzero scalar in $\mathbb F$ that is not a root of unity. The universal Askey--Wilson algebra $\triangle_q$ is a unital associative $\mathbb F$-algebra defined by generators and relations. The generators are $A,B, C$ and the relations state that each of $$ A+\frac{q BC-q^{-1} CB}{q^2-q^{-2}}, \qquad B+\frac{q CA-q^{-1} AC}{q^2-q^{-2}}, \qquad C+\frac{q AB-q^{-1} BA}{q^2-q^{-2}} $$ is central in $\triangle_q$. The universal DAHA (double affine Hecke algebra) $\mathfrak H_q$ of type $(C_1^\vee,C_1)$ is a unital associative $\mathbb F$-algebra generated by $\{t_i^{\pm 1}\}_{i=0}^3$ and the relations state that \begin{gather*} t_it_i^{-1}=t_i^{-1} t_i=1 \quad \hbox{for all $i=0,1,2,3$}; \\ \hbox{$t_i+t_i^{-1}$ is central} \quad \hbox{for all $i=0,1,2,3$}; \\ t_0t_1t_2t_3=q^{-1}. \end{gather*} Each $\mathfrak H_q$-module is a $\triangle_q$-module by pulling back via the injection $\triangle_q\to \mathfrak H_q$ given by \begin{eqnarray*} A &\mapsto & t_1 t_0+(t_1 t_0)^{-1}, \\ B &\mapsto & t_3 t_0+(t_3 t_0)^{-1}, \\ C &\mapsto & t_2 t_0+(t_2 t_0)^{-1}. \end{eqnarray*} We classify the lattices of $\triangle_q$-submodules of finite-dimensional irreducible $\mathfrak H_q$-modules. As a consequence, for any finite-dimensional irreducible $\mathfrak H_q$-module $V$, the $\triangle_q$-module $V$ is completely reducible if and only if $t_0$ is diagonalizable on $V$.
description: The work gives a q-analog of 1906.09160 and improves 1701.06089
Disentangling microlensing and differential extinction in the double QSO HE0512-3329
Creators: name: Wucknitz, O.
name: Wisotzki, L.
name: Lopez, S.
name: Gregg, M. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first separate spectra of both components of the small-separation double QSO HE0512-3329 obtained with HST/STIS in the optical and near UV. The similarities especially of the emission line profiles and redshifts strongly suggest that this system really consists of two lensed images of one and the same source. The emission line flux ratios are assumed to be unaffected by microlensing and are used to study the differential extinction effects caused by the lensing galaxy. Fits of empirical laws show that the extinction properties seem to be different on both lines of sight. With our new results, HE0512-3329 becomes one of the few extragalactic systems which show the 2175 AA absorption feature, although the detection is only marginal. We then correct the continuum flux ratio for extinction to obtain the differential microlensing signal. Since this may still be significantly affected by variability and time-delay effects, no detailled analysis of the microlensing is possible at the moment. This is the first time that differential extinction and microlensing could be separated unambiguously. We show that, at least in HE0512-3329, both effects contribute significantly to the spectral differences and one cannot be analysed without taking into account the other. For lens modelling purposes, the flux ratios can only be used after correcting for both effects.
description: Accepted for publication in A&A. 10 pages, 7 figures included. Uses aa520.cls, graphicx, txfonts, natbib. A previous version of this paper comprising a more speculative microlensing analysis can be found at http://www.astro.physik.uni-potsdam.de/~olaf
Allotriocochabambia Faundez, Rider & Carvajal 2014
Creators: name: Faúndez, Eduardo I.
name: Rider, David A.
name: Carvajal, Máriom A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Tenebrionidae
Allotriocochabambia

description: Allotriocochabambia New name
 Etymology. Allotrio - from the Greek, which means belonging to another, - cochabambia, generic name preoccupied by an acanthosomatid bug; because this genus is not an heteropteran genus.
With the new name proposal, the only species belonging to this genus should be treated as follows:
description: Published as part of Faúndez, Eduardo I., Rider, David A. & Carvajal, Máriom A., 2014, Cochabambia Pirán, 1959 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Acanthosomatidae), a senior homonym of Cochabambia Marcuzzi, 1985 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae), with notes on the placement of Cochabambia Pirán, pp. 595-596 in Zootaxa 3793 (5) on page 595, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3793.5.7, http://zenodo.org/record/4914629
Lasioglossum (Dialictus) californiae
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Lasioglossum (Dialictus) californiae (Ellis, 1924)
[UCRC; ♀ Pasadena, California; USA]
This species is known exclusively from California, USA, and Baja California, Mexico. The MABC team collected it at several localities within the Coastal Sage Matorral in June 2020 (10 ♀), and September 2020 (1 ♀), and in Chaparral in October 2020 (1 ♀), May 2021 (1 ♀), and April 2022 (1 ♀). See fig. 173.
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 255, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
IJISRT21MAR336.pdf
Creators: name: Roti Islam Shithy
name: Ashiq Uzzaman
name: Heranur Khanam Pipash
name: Khan Md Elme
name: Dewan Mahnaaz Mahmud
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Computer Engineering

description: Land registration and ownership management in Bangladesh as well as many countries of the world is a very complicated process. This process is very slow as different departments of government are involved here to manage this system. Also, many intermediaries make this process slower. Land registration and ownership management still manual in Bangladesh, India and many other countries. A digital, immutable, transparent and trustworthy record-keeping system can handle all of these problems. Blockchain provides all of these facilities, as well as blockchain, is a decentralized platform. In this paper, a blockchain-based architecture is proposed to manage the ownership and land registration system of Bangladesh.
High-resolution imaging of Rydberg atoms in optical lattices using an aspheric-lens objective in vacuum
Creators: name: Shen, Chuyang
name: Chen, Cheng
name: Wu, Xiao-Ling
name: Dong, Shen
name: Cui, Yue
name: You, Li
name: Tey, Meng Khoon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a high-resolution, simple and versatile system for imaging ultracold Rydberg atoms in optical lattices. The imaging objective is a single aspheric lens (with a working distance of 20.6 mm and a numerical aperture (NA) of 0.51) placed inside the vacuum chamber. Adopting a large-working-distance lens leaves room for electrodes and electrostatic shields to control electric fields around Rydberg atoms. With this setup, we achieve an Rayleigh resolution of 1.10 $μ$m or $1.41λ$ ($λ=780$ nm), limited by the NA of the aspheric lens. For systems of highly excited Rydberg states with blockade radii greater than a few $μ$m, the resolution achieved is sufficient for studying many physical processes of interest.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
The Pisgah Automated Survey: A Photometric Search for Low-mass Detached Eclipsing Binaries and Other Variable Stars
Creators: name: Lopez-Morales, M.
name: Clemens, J. Christopher
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Pisgah Survey, located at the facilities of the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute in Rosman NC, is a low cost project to acquire fully-automated I band photometry of selected areas of the sky. The survey collects multiple images of about 16.5 sq. deg. of sky per night, searching for variability in stars with apparent magnitudes brighter than I = 15. The main scientific goal of this project is to discover new low-mass detached eclipsing binaries to provide precise constraints to the mass-radius relation for the lower main sequence. In this paper we present a technical description of the project, including the software routines to automate the collection and analysis of the data, and a description of our variable identification strategy. We prove the feasibility of our technique by showing the successful detection of the previously known M-dwarf detached eclipsing binary GJ 2069A, and we present the results of the analysis of the first set of fields imaged by the survey, in which 15 new variables have been discovered among 8,201 stars monitored. The paper concludes with an outline of the project's prospects.
description: 44 pages, 15 figures, 6 tables. To appear in the PASP (01/04)
Allotriocochabambia kulzeri Faúndez & Rider & Carvajal 2014, n.comb.
Creators: name: Faúndez, Eduardo I.
name: Rider, David A.
name: Carvajal, Máriom A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Tenebrionidae
Allotriocochabambia
Allotriocochabambia kulzeri

description: Allotriocochabambia kulzeri (Marcuzzi, 1985) n.comb.
 Cochabambia Pirán was not mentioned in the last revision of the world Acanthosomatidae (Kumar 1974). Currently, this genus remains unplaced (Rider 2014). Unfortunately, no specimens of the only included species, Cochabambia martinezi Pirán, 1959, were available, perhaps because the type has apparently been lost (which probably contributed to the lack of knowledge of this taxon). But the original description includes several characters that will allow us to properly classify it below the family level. Cochabombia martinezi has a short abdominal spine, and it lacks a sternal carina, both of which are characters that help define the Blaudusinae: Lanopini. Consequently, we believe Cochabambia Pirán should be placed in the Blaudusinae tribe Lanopini. Originally, Pirán (1959) placed Cochabambia near the genus Sniploa Signoret, but we believe it is more closely related to the genus Hellica. Cochabambia and Hellica can be differentiated by the following characters: Cochabambia is densely, but shallowly punctate, whereas Hellica is more sparsely, but deeply punctate. The pronotum of Cochabambia is trapezoid in shape, but in Hellica, it is subtriangular, with its lateral angles more pointed. The body is more elongate in Cochabambia; whereas in Hellica it is more compact or oval. Finally, the ventral margin of the male pygophore is nearly straight in Cochabambia, but in Hellica there is a medial truncate process.
 Currently the number of genera in the Acanthosomatidae is 55 (Faúndez 2014). Because Cochabambia was never included in the previous accounts, lists and/or catalogs, the actual number of genera in the Acanthosomatidae is 56.
description: Published as part of Faúndez, Eduardo I., Rider, David A. & Carvajal, Máriom A., 2014, Cochabambia Pirán, 1959 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Acanthosomatidae), a senior homonym of Cochabambia Marcuzzi, 1985 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae), with notes on the placement of Cochabambia Pirán, pp. 595-596 in Zootaxa 3793 (5) on pages 595-596, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3793.5.7, http://zenodo.org/record/4914629
A descriptive policy case study of the agenda setting and policy formulation stages of Florida's "Bright Futures" merit-based aid program
Creators: name: Banville, David Joseph
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3903
subject: Education systems
classificationCode: 3904
subject: Specialist studies in education

description: This descriptive case study examined the policy origins of Florida's popular, lottery-funded "Bright Futures" merit-based aid program. Using John Kingdon's process model of agenda setting and policy formulation as a descriptive theory, three research questions framed the study, focusing on the existing issues/problems that the "Bright Futures" legislation was designed to address, the political factors that created a favorable environment for its consideration, and the development of the policy itself. Data were collected through both qualitative techniques, including ten semi-structured interviews and document analysis of legislative and relevant mass media documents, and from descriptive statistical analysis of quantitative data from Florida, federal, and other sources. Several findings emerged from the study. First, Florida's desire to create the "Bright Futures" award was congruent with traditional purposes of merit-based aid programs: promote and reward high school academic achievement, and provide an incentive for the "best and brightest" high school students to remain in-state for postsecondary education and subsequent career pursuits. Data suggest, however, that a more prominent catalyst was the need to satisfy the public's demand for lottery and education funding reform. This demand arose from the perception that state lottery funds were being used to supplant lost general revenue funds for education, instead of providing an additional educational enhancement as stipulated with the lottery's introduction in 1988. Second, four key stakeholders emerged in the study, and their values, beliefs, and educational philosophy clearly frame the "Bright Futures" award. By folding the state's existing academically-rigorous and vocational-focused postsecondary merit-based aid programs into the "Bright Futures" legislation, and creating a new middle-tier award with modest standards, these stakeholders' intentions are characterized as "access, but preparation" - providing increasing levels of benefits based on meritorious high school performance, in an overall effort to reward individual achievement, determination, and positive behavior. The findings of the study provide useful insights into the public policy origins of merit-based aid programs; and additionally, suggest that although fifteen states enacted these programs in the late 1990s and new century to achieve the traditional goals of these programs, each state also had unique catalysts for program adoption.
Noticing and appreciating the sunny side of life: Exploration of a novel gratitude intervention that utilizes mindfulness techniques
Creators: name: McIntosh, Elizabeth M.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 5203
subject: Clinical and health psychology
classificationCode: 5205
subject: Social and personality psychology

description: An experimental study examined the positive emotional outcomes of two gratitude inductions: a traditionally-used written gratitude list ("gratitude") and a novel gratitude list with mindfulness components ("mindful-gratitude"). In a control exercise, participants wrote about their living room layout. Undergraduates performed one of the three exercises for 5 minutes. The moderating role of empathy on the gratitude - positive affect relationship was also investigated. Following previous theory and research, it was expected that: (1) the practice of gratitude and mindful-gratitude would boost immediate positive affect and lower negative affect, relative to the control condition, (2) the novel mindful-gratitude intervention would boost immediate positive affect and lower negative affect, in comparison to the traditional gratitude list intervention, and (3) state empathy was expected to moderate the effects of gratitude induction on mood, such that both experimental exercises would be more effective for participants higher in empathy than participants lower in empathy. Hypothesis 1 was supported by evidence that the experimental inductions offered incremental benefit over the control exercise. For Hypothesis 2, empathy exhibited significant moderation of the gratitude--mood benefit relationship, but not in the manner hypothesized. Instead, participants lower in empathy responded significantly more, as measured by increased positive affect and decreased negative affect, to the mindful-gratitude induction than the gratitude list induction. This is in contrast to the higher empathy participants, who responded similarly to both inductions. Implications of the results for understanding the factors involved in the development of effective gratitude interventions are discussed.
Mergers between elliptical galaxies and the thickening of the fundamental plane
Creators: name: Gonzalez-Garcia, A. C.
name: van Albada, T. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have carried out computer simulations to study the effect of merging on the fundamental plane (FP) relation. Initially, systems are spherical Jaffe models following a simple scaling relation (M/R_e^2 = constant). They have been put on the FP by imposing different M/L values. Various orbital characteristics have been considered. Our results show that the merger remnants lie very close to the FP of the progenitors. Although non-homology is introduced by the merging process, mergers among homologous galaxies leave a pre-existing FP-relation intact. As a side result we find that variations in the point of view lead to non-negligible scatter about the FP.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, MNRAS re-submitted with possitive referee report
Additional file 2 of Application of protection motivation theory to clinical trial enrolment for pediatric chronic conditions
Creators: name: Brooks, Stephanie P.
name: Bubela, Tania
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. Hypothetical Clinical Trial Information Sheets.
Generalization of the algebraic method of group classification with application to nonlinear wave and elliptic equations
Creators: name: Vaneeva, Olena O.
name: Bihlo, Alexander
name: Popovych, Roman O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35B06 (Primary) 35A30, 35L70, 35J60 (Secondary)

description: Enhancing and essentially generalizing previous results on a class of (1+1)-dimensional nonlinear wave and elliptic equations, we apply several new techniques to classify admissible point transformations within this class up to the equivalence generated by its equivalence group. This gives an exhaustive description of its equivalence groupoid. After extending the algebraic method of group classification to non-normalized classes of differential equations, we solve the complete group classification problem for the class under study up to both usual and general point equivalences. The solution includes the complete preliminary group classification of the class and the construction of singular Lie-symmetry extensions, which are not related to subalgebras of the equivalence algebra. The complete preliminary group classification is based on classifying appropriate subalgebras of the entire infinite-dimensional equivalence algebra whose projections are qualified as maximal extensions of the kernel invariance algebra. The results obtained can be used to construct exact solutions of nonlinear wave and elliptic equations.
description: 40 pages, minor corrections and extensions
Noticing and appreciating the sunny side of life: Exploration of a novel gratitude intervention that utilizes mindfulness techniques
Creators: name: McIntosh, Elizabeth M.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: An experimental study examined the positive emotional outcomes of two gratitude inductions: a traditionally-used written gratitude list ("gratitude") and a novel gratitude list with mindfulness components ("mindful-gratitude"). In a control exercise, participants wrote about their living room layout. Undergraduates performed one of the three exercises for 5 minutes. The moderating role of empathy on the gratitude - positive affect relationship was also investigated. Following previous theory and research, it was expected that: (1) the practice of gratitude and mindful-gratitude would boost immediate positive affect and lower negative affect, relative to the control condition, (2) the novel mindful-gratitude intervention would boost immediate positive affect and lower negative affect, in comparison to the traditional gratitude list intervention, and (3) state empathy was expected to moderate the effects of gratitude induction on mood, such that both experimental exercises would be more effective for participants higher in empathy than participants lower in empathy. Hypothesis 1 was supported by evidence that the experimental inductions offered incremental benefit over the control exercise. For Hypothesis 2, empathy exhibited significant moderation of the gratitude--mood benefit relationship, but not in the manner hypothesized. Instead, participants lower in empathy responded significantly more, as measured by increased positive affect and decreased negative affect, to the mindful-gratitude induction than the gratitude list induction. This is in contrast to the higher empathy participants, who responded similarly to both inductions. Implications of the results for understanding the factors involved in the development of effective gratitude interventions are discussed.
Fano versus Kondo Resonances in a Multilevel "Semi-Open" Quantum Dot
Creators: name: Stefanski, Piotr
name: Tagliacozzo, Arturo
name: Bulka, Bogdan R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Linear conductance across a large quantum dot via a single level e_0 with large hybridization to the contacts is strongly sensitive to quasi-bound states localized in the dot and weakly coupled to e_0. It oscillates with the gate voltage due to interference of the Fano type. At low temperature and Coulomb blockade, Kondo correlations damp the oscillations on an extended range of gate voltage values, by freezing the occupancy of the e_0 level itself. As a consequence, antiresonances of Fano origin are washed out. The results are in good correspondence with experimental data for a large quantum dot in the semi-open regime.
description: 4 eps figures, RevTex format, revised version, to appear in Phys. Rev. Letters
Depiction of female beauty in fashion versus fitness magazines: Implications for the development of body dissatisfaction
Creators: name: Warchocki, Heather J.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Eight popular women's magazines (four fashion and four health/fitness) from 1995-2005 were analyzed for content. Results indicated while fashion magazine cover models were thinner than health/fitness models, health/fitness models were getting smaller over time. Additionally, there were no differences in the amount of revealing clothing depicted on the covers of fashion and health/fitness magazines however, each type of magazine emphasized different body parts. Both fashion and health/fitness magazines were depicting more revealing clothing over time, however the association was stronger with the fashion magazines. Most of the ads and articles in fashion and health/fitness magazines depicted health content for health purposes, however several ads and articles promoted health content for appearance purposes as well. Finally, many food and drink ads and articles promoted diet products. A discussion was presented regarding how conflicting media messages, the social comparison process, and the media's influence on trendsetting could influence body dissatisfaction after viewing certain magazines.
Time Observables in a Timeless Universe
Creators: name: Favalli, Tommaso
name: Smerzi, Augusto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Time in quantum mechanics is peculiar: it is an observable that cannot be associated to an Hermitian operator. As a consequence it is impossible to explain dynamics in an isolated system without invoking an external classical clock, a fact that becomes particularly problematic in the context of quantum gravity. An unconventional solution was pioneered by Page and Wootters (PaW) in 1983. PaW showed that dynamics can be an emergent property of the entanglement between two subsystems of a static Universe. In this work we first investigate the possibility to introduce in this framework a Hermitian time operator complement of a clock Hamiltonian having an equally-spaced energy spectrum. An Hermitian operator complement of such Hamiltonian was introduced by Pegg in 1998, who named it "Age". We show here that Age, when introduced in the PaW context, can be interpreted as a proper Hermitian time operator conjugate to a "good" clock Hamiltonian. We therefore show that, still following Pegg's formalism, it is possible to introduce in the PaW framework bounded clock Hamiltonians with an unequally-spaced energy spectrum with rational energy ratios. In this case time is described by a POVM and we demonstrate that Pegg's POVM states provide a consistent dynamical evolution of the system even if they are not orthogonal, and therefore partially un-distinguishables.
description: 13 pages