cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Eleodes (Promus) subnitens LeConte 1851
Creators: name: Johnston, M. Andrew
name: Fleming, David
name: Franz, Nico M.
name: Smith, Aaron D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Tenebrionidae
Eleodes
Eleodes subnitens

description: Eleodes (Promus) subnitens LeConte, 1851
(Fig. 7B)
 Diagnosis. Body elongate-ovate. Pronotum subquadrate, minutely punctured, lateral margins feebly arcuate, not noticeably constricted posteriorly, anterior angles acute, more or less deflexed posterolaterally. Elytra generally dull in luster, faintly and minutely punctate-striate. Profemur spined in males, strongly sinuate in females. Probasitarsis in male with pad of tomentose setae covering plantar surface. Prosternum porrect, wedge-shaped, extending well posterior of procoxae.
 Distribution. Yavapai, Gila, Graham, Pinal, Pima, Santa Cruz, and Cochise Counties, Arizona. New Mexico; Sonora, Mexico.
 Remarks. This species is very similar to E. madrensis and can be readily separated by the pronotum, which is not constricted or sinuate posteriorly, and by the shape of the prosternum.
description: Published as part of Johnston, M. Andrew, Fleming, David, Franz, Nico M. & Smith, Aaron D., 2015, Amphidorini Leconte (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) of Arizona: Keys and Species Accounts, pp. 27-54 in The Coleopterists Bulletin (mo 14) (mo 14) 69 on page 50, DOI: 0.1649/0010-065X-69.mo4.27, http://zenodo.org/record/10086147
Exomalopsis (Exomalopsis) arida Cockerell 1923
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: Exomalopsis (Exomalopsis) arida Cockerell, 1923
[Holotype: CASC; ♀ Mulegé, Baja California Sur; 14 May 1921]
This species is distributed along the Pacific Coast of Mexico. The BBSL reports a female collected in BC; however, specific locality information is missing. We reviewed 21 specimens from from the Central Desert, Gulf Coast, La Giganta Ranges and the Sarcocaulescent Shrubland (BCS), 17 specimens (12 ♀, 5 ♂) vouchered in CASC, and four (2 ♀, 2 ♂) vouchered in EMEC (Supplementary material 1). The CARCIB team collected 11 females and one male in BCS between 2017 and 2019. See fig. 125.
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 193, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Giant anisotropic magnetoresistance through a tilted molecular $π$-orbital
Creators: name: Li, Dongzhe
name: Pauly, Fabian
name: Smogunov, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Anisotropic magnetoresistance (AMR), originating from spin-orbit coupling (SOC), is the sensitivity of the electrical resistance in magnetic systems to the direction of spin magnetization. Although this phenomenon has been experimentally reported for several nanoscale junctions, a clear understanding of the physical mechanism behind it is still elusive. Here we discuss a novel concept based on orbital symmetry considerations to attain a significant AMR of up to 95\% for a broad class of $π$-type molecular spin-valves. It is illustrated at the benzene-dithiolate molecule connected between two monoatomic nickel electrodes. We find that SOC opens, via spin-flip events at the ferromagnet-molecule interface, a new conduction channel, which is fully blocked by symmetry without SOC. Importantly, the interplay between main and new transport channels turns out to depend strongly on the magnetization direction in the nickel electrodes due to the tilting of molecular orbital. Moreover, due to multi-band quantum interference, appearing at the band edge of nickel electrodes, a transmission drop is observed just above the Fermi energy. Altogether, these effects lead to a significant AMR around the Fermi level, which even changes a sign. Our theoretical understanding, corroborated in terms of \textit{ab initio} calculations and simplified analytical models, reveals the general principles for an efficient realization of AMR in molecule-based spintronic devices.
description: Submitted to Physical Review Research (2020)
On the Origin of the Inner Structure of Halos
Creators: name: Manrique, Alberto
name: Raig, Andreu
name: Salvador-Sole, Eduard
name: Sanchis, Teresa
name: Solanes, Jose M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate by means of the Press-Schechter formalism the density profile developed by dark-matter halos during accretion, i.e., the continuous aggregation of small clumps. We find that the shape of the predicted profile is similar to that shown by halos in high-resolution cosmological simulations. Furthermore, the mass-concentration relation is correctly reproduced at any redshift in all the hierarchical cosmologies analyzed, except for very large halo masses. The role of major mergers, which can cause the rearrangement of the halo structure through violent relaxation, is also investigated. We show that, as a result of the boundary conditions imposed by the matter continuously infalling into the halo during the violent relaxation process, the shape of the density profile emerging from major mergers is essentially identical to the shape the halo would have developed through pure accretion. This result explains why, according to high-resolution cosmological simulations, relaxed halos of a given mass have the same density profile regardless of whether they have had a recent merger or not, and why both spherical infall and hierarchical assembly lead to very similar density profiles. Finally, we demonstrate that the density profile of relaxed halos is not affected either by the capture of clumps of intermediate mass.
description: 14 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ. Minor changes, matches the published version. To appear in the ApJ August 10, 2003 issue
Supporting Information: Three-component contour dynamics model to simulate and analyze amoeboid cell motility
Creators: name: Schindler, Daniel
name: Moldenhawer, Ted
name: Beta, Carsten
name: Huisinga, Wilhelm
name: Holschneider, Matthias
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: cell motility
cell migration
amoeboid motility
Dictyostelium discoideum
fluorescence imaging
pseudopodia
motility model

description: Supporting information associated with arXiv:2005.12678 (https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.12678)
description: The research of this project has been partially funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - SFB1294/1 - 318763901.
Practice Makes Perfect
Creators: name: Laramy, Christine Rose
Publisher: name: Galter Health Science Library & Learning Center
Year: 2016

description: Honorable Mention
description: Scientific discovery is usually a long process of trial and error. Researcher Christine Laramy has been testing her new method for measuring nanoparticles for several months.Laramy drops a soapy solution containing microscopic amounts of gold into a small tube and then spins it very fast. As the solution spins, the suspended gold clumps together and these heavier clusters fall to the bottom. The soapy liquid is then skimmed off and the gold nanoparticles are left to dry.In this image the gold nanoparticles formed into spheres and cubes, but the soapy solution wasnt completely removed. (You can see it here in purple.) This soapy residue hinders Laramys measurements: the computer program she invented requires a plain background to accurately calculate the amount of gold.After this image was taken Laramy experimented for several more weeks to perfect the separation process, and today her innovative measurement software is being trialed in labs and universities across the country.Department of Materials Science & Engineering Tools & Techniques: Transmission Electron Microscope + colored in Photoshop
Eleodes tribulus Thomas 2005
Creators: name: Johnston, M. Andrew
name: Fleming, David
name: Franz, Nico M.
name: Smith, Aaron D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Tenebrionidae
Eleodes
Eleodes tribulus

description: Eleodes tribulus Thomas, 2005
(Fig. 5C–D)
 Amphidora caudata Horn, 1870
 Eleodes caudatus (Horn, 1870) Trichoderulus longipilosus Blaisdell, 1923 Eleodes blaisdelli Doyen, 1979
 Diagnosis. Body elongate-ovate, covered in long, pilose setae. Pronotum subquadrate, lateral margins arcuate, narrowing posteriorly, anterior angles rounded, not produced, disc moderately punctate. Elytra with moderate punctures arranged in more or less confused striae, males often with caudal extension of elytra. Profemora unarmed, sometimes moderately sinuate distally. Protarsi lined with dark spicules, plantar surface uninterrupted.
 Distribution. Maricopa and Pinal Counties, Arizona. Sonora, Mexico.
 Remarks. When synonymizing Trichoderulus with Eleodes, Doyen and Lawrence (1979) refrained from subgeneric placement. Triplehorn and Aalbu (1987) suggested affinities with the subgenus Eleodes based upon the caudal extension of the elytra, but again refrained from placing the species. We also refrain from subgeneric placement, though believe it likely to be allied to E. pilosus, and several other species of Tricheleodes Blaisdell, based on molecular studies (Smith and Johnston, unpublished data) and female genitalia.
description: Published as part of Johnston, M. Andrew, Fleming, David, Franz, Nico M. & Smith, Aaron D., 2015, Amphidorini Leconte (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) of Arizona: Keys and Species Accounts, pp. 27-54 in The Coleopterists Bulletin (mo 14) (mo 14) 69 on pages 50-51, DOI: 0.1649/0010-065X-69.mo4.27, http://zenodo.org/record/10086147
Generalized Parallel Tempering on Bayesian Inverse Problems
Creators: name: Latz, Jonas
name: Madrigal-Cianci, Juan P.
name: Nobile, Fabio
name: Tempone, Raul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 60J22, 60J20, 62F15, 65C05

description: In the current work we present two generalizations of the Parallel Tempering algorithm, inspired by the so-called continuous-time Infinite Swapping algorithm. Such a method, found its origins in the molecular dynamics community, and can be understood as the limit case of the continuous-time Parallel Tempering algorithm, where the (random) time between swaps of states between two parallel chains goes to zero. Thus, swapping states between chains occurs continuously. In the current work, we extend this idea to the context of time-discrete Markov chains and present two Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms that follow the same paradigm as the continuous-time infinite swapping procedure. We analyze the convergence properties of such discrete-time algorithms in terms of their spectral gap, and implement them to sample from different target distributions. Numerical results show that the proposed methods significantly improve over more traditional sampling algorithms such as Random Walk Metropolis and (traditional) Parallel Tempering.
description: Published in statistics and computing https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11222-021-10042-6
title: Functional characterization of allelic variants of pulmonary adenoma susceptibility 1 (Pas1) genes for their cancer modifier activity
Creators: name: Galbiati, Federica
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2007

description: The pulmonary adenoma susceptibility 1 (Pas1) locus affects inherited predisposition and resistance to chemically induced lung tumorigenesis in mice. A/J and C57BL6/J mouse strains carry the susceptibility and resistance allele, respectively. In the present study we identified and genotyped 64 polymorphisms in the Pas1 locus in 29 mouse inbred strains in order to reduce the region containing the Pas1 locus, and we succeeded in delimiting the Pas1 locus to a minimal region of 468kb containing six genes (Bcat1, Lrmp, Cascl, Ghiso, Kras2 and Lmn-rs1). That region defined a core Pas1 haplotype (A/J- and C57BL/6J-type) with 42 tightly linked markers, including intragenic polymorphisms in five genes (Bcat1, Lrmpf Casc1, Ghiso and Kras2) and amino-acid changes in three genes (Lrmp, Casc1 and Lmn-rs1). mRNA expression study of these candidate genes revealed that, in (A/JxC57BL/6J)F1 mouse lung tumors, the Lmna-rs1 gene was completely downregulated, whereas allele-specific downregulation of the C57BL/6J-derived allele was observed at the Casc1 gene, suggesting the potential role of these genes in tumor suppression. These first results indicate a complex multigenic nature of the Pas1 locus, and point to a functional role for both intronic and exonic polymorphisms of the six genes of the Pas1 haplotype in lung tumor susceptibility. Then we continued by testing functional activity of candidate genes in vitro. In vitro colony formation assay of human lung cancer cell lines A549 and NCI-H520 transfected with the allelic variants of the four genes revealed allele-specific modulations of colony numbers by Lmna-rs1 and Casc1, but not by Lrmp and Ghiso. We found that inhibition of clonogenicity by allelic forms of Pas1 candidate genes was not mediated by induction of apoptosis. These findings provide evidence that allelic variants of mouse Pas1 candidate genes differentially modulate growth of human cancer cells.
The impact and implementation of public law litigation on child welfare: A case study of Kansas
Creators: name: Naylor, Lorenda Ann
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Despite federal funding and legislation designed to protect children, state and local child welfare systems have failed to safeguard our most vulnerable children. The child welfare system, which was designed to protect children, is plagued with high caseloads, high turnover, poor training, and inadequate resources. As a result, some children who are rescued from abusive parents/caregivers are placed into a foster care or adoptive environment that perpetuates abuse. Consequently, numerous lawsuits have been filed against state and local governments across the country for violating the constitutional and statutory rights of children in governmental custody. But have any of these lawsuits been effective in reforming public child welfare agencies?; This research evaluates the impact and implementation of public law litigation in a single state. Utilizing a single case study and relying on compliance data, government documents, and interviews, this research evaluates the implementation of the Kansas Foster Care Settlement Agreement, which was implemented over a period of seven and half years, 1993--2001. This research reveals that although the state agency exited from court supervision, the agency failed to "faithfully" implement the agreement. The research identifies a group of variables that contributed to implementation failure, it compares and contrasts implementation of judicial policy between the private and public sector, and it reveals that the substantive area of child welfare is distinctly different than other previous researched substantive areas, such as prisons, mental health institutions, and education. Based on the study, it is recommended that the field develop a conceptual framework that combines policy implementation with public law litigation to account for the distinct characteristics of judicial policy.
Non-globally generated bundles on curves
Creators: name: Kopper, John
name: Mandal, Sayanta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14H60 (Primary) 14D20, 14F05, 14H51 (Secondary)

description: We describe the locus of stable bundles on a smooth genus $g$ curve that fail to be globally generated. For each rank $r$ and degree $d$ with $rg
description: 16 pages; replaced with version to appear in Int. Math. Res. Not. (IMRN)
Anthophorula (Anthophorula) tricinctula
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: Anthophorula (Anthophorula) tricinctula (Timberlake, 1980)
[Holotype: CASC; ♀ San Carlos, Sonora, Mexico; 3 Sep 1970]
Ayala et al. (1996), reported this species for BC and BCS. We reviewed two females, and one male collected in the Gulf Coast in October 1941 (CASC). Additionally, the CARCIB team collected 10 specimens in the Gulf Coast near La Paz in October 2017. See fig. 124.
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 193, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
A geometric construction of crystal graphs using quiver varieties: Extension to the non-simply laced case
Creators: name: Savage, Alistair
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 17B37; 16G20

description: We consider a generalization of the quiver varieties of Lusztig and Nakajima to the case of all symmetrizable Kac-Moody Lie algebras. To deal with the non-simply laced case one considers admissible automorphisms of a quiver and the irreducible components of the quiver varieties fixed by this automorphism. We define a crystal structure on these irreducible components and show that the crystals obtained are isomorphic to those associated to the crystal bases of the lower half of the universal enveloping algebra and the irreducible highest weight representations of the non-simply laced Kac-Moody Lie algebra. As an application, we realize the crystal of the spin representation of so_{2n+1} on the set of self-conjugate Young diagrams that fit inside an n by n box.
description: 22 pages; v2: Reference added; v3: Application to spin representation added
The impact and implementation of public law litigation on child welfare: A case study of Kansas
Creators: name: Naylor, Lorenda Ann
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4407
subject: Policy and administration

description: Despite federal funding and legislation designed to protect children, state and local child welfare systems have failed to safeguard our most vulnerable children. The child welfare system, which was designed to protect children, is plagued with high caseloads, high turnover, poor training, and inadequate resources. As a result, some children who are rescued from abusive parents/caregivers are placed into a foster care or adoptive environment that perpetuates abuse. Consequently, numerous lawsuits have been filed against state and local governments across the country for violating the constitutional and statutory rights of children in governmental custody. But have any of these lawsuits been effective in reforming public child welfare agencies?; This research evaluates the impact and implementation of public law litigation in a single state. Utilizing a single case study and relying on compliance data, government documents, and interviews, this research evaluates the implementation of the Kansas Foster Care Settlement Agreement, which was implemented over a period of seven and half years, 1993--2001. This research reveals that although the state agency exited from court supervision, the agency failed to "faithfully" implement the agreement. The research identifies a group of variables that contributed to implementation failure, it compares and contrasts implementation of judicial policy between the private and public sector, and it reveals that the substantive area of child welfare is distinctly different than other previous researched substantive areas, such as prisons, mental health institutions, and education. Based on the study, it is recommended that the field develop a conceptual framework that combines policy implementation with public law litigation to account for the distinct characteristics of judicial policy.
title: Analysis and inhibition of oncogenic RET-dependent signalling
Creators: name: Sala, Elisa
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2007

description: The aim of this PhD project is to analyse the RET-dependent signalling pathway and to block it with small molecule inhibitors, thus promoting innovative approaches to cure papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC). The first goal was to determine the three-dimensional structure of RET catalytic domain to obtain detailed knowledge of the target molecule. The Baculovirus expression system and purification procedure was optimised to produce high amount of recombinant protein (rRET) to perform biochemical characterization and crystallization attempts. rRET was active and properly folded, thus resulting a suitable reagent for inhibitors screening and crystallization experiments. The crystallization screening was performed using rRET (complete kinase domain) and three other constructs, in which different deletions were introduced. No crystals were obtained after many attempts in two independent laboratories. Concurrently, the members of 2-indolinone family, a promising class of compounds studied with molecular modelling, were screened in an ELISA-based assay to identify the best inhibitor of RET. SU5416 demonstrated an efficient inhibition of RET and was further analysed both in vitro and cellular systems, showing good specificity and selectivity. In animal model SU5416 blocked RET phosphorylation, indicating feasible pharmacological properties also in in vivo system. Since B-RAF hyperactivation leads to transformation of thyroid cells, we also used siRNA technology to investigate whether B-RAF represented a target for selective treatment and tested a new inhibitor that showed activity in B-RAF positive melanoma cell lines, in B-RAF and RET/PTC thyroid models. The current study demonstrated that B-RAF inhibition by siRNA and small molecule inhibitor determined re-expression of thyroid specific proteins, thus indicating a restoring of the differentiation process, and block of the proliferation. This work has proposed the rational identification of RET and B-RAF inhibitors by analysing their signalling pathway. These results raise the possibility that PTC could be treated effectively with small molecule inhibitors.
VLT/NACO infrared adaptive optics images of small scale structures in OMC1
Creators: name: Lacombe, Francois
name: Gendron, Eric
name: Rouan, Daniel
name: Clenet, Yann
name: Lemaire, Jean-Louis
name: Lagrange, Anne-Marie
name: Mouillet, David
name: Rousset, Gerard
name: Marlot, Claude
name: Feautrier, Philippe
name: Gustafsson, M.
name: Field, David
name: Servan, Bernard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Near-infrared observations of line emission from excited H2 and in the continuum are reported in the direction of the Orion molecular cloud OMC1, using the European Southern Observatory Very Large Telescope UT4, equipped with the NAOS adaptive optics system and the CONICA infrared array camera. Spatial resolution has been achieved at close to the diffraction limit of the telescope (0.08" - 0.12") and images show a wealth of morphological detail. Structure is not fractal but shows two preferred scale sizes of 2.4" (1100 AU) and 1.2" (540 AU), where the larger scale may be associated with star formation.
Applications of independent component analysis for nuclear physics data
Creators: name: Nayeri, Soudabeh
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The major dissertation objective is to apply artificial intelligence technologies to the analysis of physics data. Independent Component Analysis (ICA) is a new and generally applicable method for several theoretical and practical challenges, mainly in signal processing, but no previous application of ICA to problems in physics has been reported in the literature. The present work has identified promising opportunities for future exploration in this area. Results are obtained for some particular experimental data including applications that improve the analysis of angular distribution and excitation function data from nuclear reactions.
Applications of independent component analysis for nuclear physics data
Creators: name: Nayeri, Soudabeh
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 51
subject: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
classificationCode: 5106
subject: Nuclear and plasma physics

description: The major dissertation objective is to apply artificial intelligence technologies to the analysis of physics data. Independent Component Analysis (ICA) is a new and generally applicable method for several theoretical and practical challenges, mainly in signal processing, but no previous application of ICA to problems in physics has been reported in the literature. The present work has identified promising opportunities for future exploration in this area. Results are obtained for some particular experimental data including applications that improve the analysis of angular distribution and excitation function data from nuclear reactions.
How bio-friendly is the universe
Creators: name: Davies, P. C. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The oft-repeated claim that life is written into the laws of nature are examined and criticized. Arguments are given in favour of life spreading between near-neighbour planets in rocky impact ejecta (transpermia), but against panspermia, leading to the conclusion that if life is indeed found to be widespread in the universe, some form of life principle or biological determinism must be at work in the process of biogenesis. Criteria for what would constitute a credible life principle are elucidated. I argue that the key property of life is its information content, and speculate that the emergence of the requisite information-processing machinery might require quantum information theory for a satisfactory explanation. Some clues about how decoherence might be evaded are discussed. The implications of some of these ideas for fine tuning are discussed.
description: 11 page conference report, no figures
title: Progressing problems from requirements to specifications in problem frames
Creators: name: Li, Zhi Z.
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2008

description: One of the problems with current practice in software development is that often customer requirements are not well captured, understood and analysed, and there is no clear traceable path from customer requirements to software specifications. This often leads to a mismatch between what the customer needs and what the software developer understands the customer needs.
 In addition to capturing, understanding and analysing requirements, requirements engineering (RE) aims to provide methods to allow software development practitioners to derive software specifications from requirements. Although work exists towards this aim, the systematic derivation of specifications from requirements is still an open problem.
 This thesis provides practical techniques to implement the idea of problem progression as the basis for transforming requirements into specifications. The techniques allow us to progress a software problem towards identifying its solution by carefully investigating the problem context and re-expressing the requirement statement until a specification is reached. We develop two classes of progression techniques, one formal, based on Hoare’s Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP), and one semi-formal, based on a notion of causality between events. The case studies in this thesis provide some validation for the techniques we have developed.
Eleodes (Caverneleodes) wheeleri Aalbu, Smith, and Triplehorn 2012
Creators: name: Johnston, M. Andrew
name: Fleming, David
name: Franz, Nico M.
name: Smith, Aaron D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Tenebrionidae
Eleodes
Eleodes wheeleri

description: Eleodes (Caverneleodes) wheeleri Aalbu, Smith, and Triplehorn, 2012
(Fig. 11D)
 Diagnosis. Body elongate. Pronotum subquadrate, minutely punctured, arcuate laterally, widest just before middle, narrowing posteriorly, anterior angles moderately produced, rounded. Elytra distinctly punctate-striate, punctures moderately large. Antennae long, at least 3 antennomeres extending beyond posterior margin of pronotum. Profemora never spined, moderately sinuate distally. All tarsi lined with strong, dark yellow spicules, plantar surface never interrupted. Prosternum with angular process extending posterior of procoxae, terminating in posteroventrally oriented spine.
 Distribution. Tonto Natural Bridge, Gila County, Arizona.
 Remarks. This species strongly resembles E. dissimilis l, with which it is sympatric, and can be separated from the latter by the longer antennae and male genitalia (see Aalbu et al. 2012). Eleodes wheeleri also resembles E. delicatus, but is not known to be sympatric with that species and can be distinguished from it by the produced anterior pronotal angles. Eleodes wheeleri is only known from in and around the caves at Tonto Natural Bridge State Park.
description: Published as part of Johnston, M. Andrew, Fleming, David, Franz, Nico M. & Smith, Aaron D., 2015, Amphidorini Leconte (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) of Arizona: Keys and Species Accounts, pp. 27-54 in The Coleopterists Bulletin (mo 14) (mo 14) 69 on page 51, DOI: 0.1649/0010-065X-69.mo4.27, http://zenodo.org/record/10086147
Non-locality and time-dependent boundary conditions: a Klein-Gordon perspective
Creators: name: Colin, S.
name: Matzkin, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dynamics of a particle in an expanding cavity is investigated in the Klein-Gordon framework in a regime in which the single particle picture remains valid. The cavity expansion represents a time-dependent boundary condition for the relativistic wavefunction. We show that this expansion induces a non-local effect on the current density throughout the cavity. Our results indicate that a relativistic treatment still contains apparently spurious effects traditionally associated with the unbounded velocities inherent to non-relativistic solutions obtained from the Schroedinger equation. Possible reasons for this behaviour are discussed.
description: Accepted for publication in Europhysics Letters
Dynamics of Chiral Cosmology
Creators: name: Paliathanasis, Andronikos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform a detailed analysis for the dynamics of Chiral cosmology in a spatially flat Friedmann-Lema\^ıtre-Robertson-Walker universe with a mixed potential term. The stationary points are categorized in four families. Previous results in the literature are recovered while new phases in the cosmological evolution are found. From our analysis we find nine different cosmological solutions, the eight describe scaling solutions, where the one is that of a pressureless fluid, while only one de Sitter solution is recovered.
description: 20 pages, 10 figures, 1 table, version accepted for publication in Classical and Quantum Gravity
Exomalopsis (Exomalopsis) similis Cresson 1865
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: Exomalopsis (Exomalopsis) similis Cresson, 1865
[Holotype: ANSP; ♀ Cuba]
This species is distributed across Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. Timberlake (1980b) reported E. similis in BCS. Eight females collected in 1973 in the Gulf Coast near La Paz are preserved in the BBSL (GBIF 2023). Given the complexity of its taxonomy and the potential for species complexes and specimen misidentifications, a revision of this genus is needed. See fig. 125.
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 194, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Aschenbach effect for spinning particles in Kerr spacetime
Creators: name: Khodagholizadeh, Jafar
name: Perlick, Volker
name: Vahedi, Ali
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The orbital velocity profile of circular timelike geodesics in the equatorial plane of a Kerr black hole has a non-monotonic radial behavior, provided that the spin parameter $a$ of the black hole is bigger than a certain critical value $a_c \approx 0.9953 M$. Here the orbital velocity is measured with respect to the Locally Non-Rotating Frame (LNRF), and the non-monotonic behavior, which is known as the Aschenbach effect, occurs only for co-rotating orbits. Using the Mathisson-Papapetrou-Dixon equations for a massive spinning particle, we investigate the Aschenbach effect for test particles with spin. In addition to the black-hole spin, the absolute value of the particle's spin and its orientation (parallel or anti-parallel to the black-hole spin) also play an important role for the Aschenbach effect. We determine the critical value $a_c$ of the spin parameter of the Kerr black hole where the Aschenbach effect sets in as a function of the spin of the probe. We consider not only black holes ($a^2 \le M^2$) but also naked singularities ($a^2>M^2$). Whereas for spinless (geodesic) particles the orbital velocity is always monotonically decreasing if the motion is counter-rotating, we find that for spinning particles in counter-rotating motion with anti-parallel spin around a naked singularity the orbital velocity is increasing on a certain radius interval.
description: 15 pages, 11 figures; text and figures extended
Magnetic Field Simulation with Data-Driven Material Modeling
Creators: name: De Gersem, Herbert
name: Galetzka, Armin
name: Ion, Ion Gabriel
name: Loukrezis, Dimitrios
name: Römer, Ulrich
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper developes a data-driven magnetostatic finite-element (FE) solver which directly exploits measured material data instead of a material curve constructed from it. The distances between the field solution and the measurement points are minimized while enforcing Maxwell's equations. The minimization problem is solved by employing the Lagrange multiplier approach. The procedure wraps the FE method within an outer data-driven iteration. The method is capable of considering anisotropic materials and is adapted to deal with models featuring a combination of exact material knowledge and measured material data. Thereto, three approaches with an increasing level of intrusivity according to the FE formulation are proposed. The numerical results for a quadrupole-magnet model show that data-driven field simulation is feasible and affordable and overcomes the need of modeling the material law.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures
New infrared star clusters in the Northern and Equatorial Milky Way with 2MASS
Creators: name: Bica, E.
name: Dutra, C. M.
name: Soares, J.
name: Barbuy, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We carried out a survey of infrared star clusters and stellar groups on the 2MASS J, H and K_s all-sky release Atlas in the Northern and Equatorial Milky Way (350 < l < 360, 0 < l < 230). The search in this zone complements that in the Southern Milky Way (Dutra et al. 2003a). The method concentrates efforts on the directions of known optical and radio nebulae. The present study provides 167 new infrared clusters, stellar groups and candidates. Combining the two studies for the whole Milky Way, 346 infrared clusters, stellar groups and candidates were discovered, whereas 315 objects were previously known. They constitute an important new sample for future detailed studies.
description: Accepted to Astronomy and Astrophysics
The analytical sociology of law and crime: How people and their actions become criminal
Creators: name: Riiska, Scott Alan
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Sociological and criminological theory continue to debate the relative importance of personal characteristics and structural factors in determining individual behavior. Likewise, disagreement exists regarding the relationship between law, morality, and crime. This dissertation argues for Analytical Sociology as the theoretical tool for resolving these debates. The method used in this dissertation is one of theoretical critique and synthesis based on the propositions of Analytical Theory. We begin by introducing Analytical Theory, then show how this model helps identify the necessary elements of both a sociology of law and a theory of criminal behavior. An application of Analytical Theory to criminology demonstrates the political origins and nature of law as well as the existence of a "criminal class," the members of which are similarly situated along the axes of skills, wealth, and political power. This class is a subset of all individuals who commit social harms, but because of their social status have a greater likelihood of having their behaviors officially labeled as criminal. At the same time, Analytical Theory shows that the debate between "agency" and "structure" reflects a false dichotomy. What in fact exists is agency within a structure that determines the probability of various individual outcomes. The dissertation concludes with a call for a developmental approach to the explanation and prevention of criminal behavior. In this vein, Multisystemic Therapy is presented as one successful intervention with principles compatible with the Analytical perspective.
Exomalopsis (Stilbomalopsis) solani Cockerell 1896
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: Exomalopsis (Stilbomalopsis) solani Cockerell, 1896
[Type: USNM; ♀ Las Cruces, Doña Ana Co., New Mexico, USA; October 13, 1895]
Exomalopsis solani ranges from central Mexico to the southwestern USA. We reviewed 7 females collected in the Cape Mountains in October 1941 (CASC). Additionally, it was collected in the Tropical Dry Forests by the CARCIB team in October 2014 and November 2017. See fig. 126.
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 196, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
The analytical sociology of law and crime: How people and their actions become criminal
Creators: name: Riiska, Scott Alan
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4402
subject: Criminology
subject: FOS: Law
classificationCode: 4410
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Sociological and criminological theory continue to debate the relative importance of personal characteristics and structural factors in determining individual behavior. Likewise, disagreement exists regarding the relationship between law, morality, and crime. This dissertation argues for Analytical Sociology as the theoretical tool for resolving these debates. The method used in this dissertation is one of theoretical critique and synthesis based on the propositions of Analytical Theory. We begin by introducing Analytical Theory, then show how this model helps identify the necessary elements of both a sociology of law and a theory of criminal behavior. An application of Analytical Theory to criminology demonstrates the political origins and nature of law as well as the existence of a "criminal class," the members of which are similarly situated along the axes of skills, wealth, and political power. This class is a subset of all individuals who commit social harms, but because of their social status have a greater likelihood of having their behaviors officially labeled as criminal. At the same time, Analytical Theory shows that the debate between "agency" and "structure" reflects a false dichotomy. What in fact exists is agency within a structure that determines the probability of various individual outcomes. The dissertation concludes with a call for a developmental approach to the explanation and prevention of criminal behavior. In this vein, Multisystemic Therapy is presented as one successful intervention with principles compatible with the Analytical perspective.
INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS' ADJUSTMENTS TO U.S. HIGH SCHOOLS AND HELPFUL SCHOOL SUPPORTS FOR THEIR SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL AND ACADEMIC NEEDS
Creators: name: Archival, Joseph Armet
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: international students
global classrooms
inclusive high schools
academic support
social-emotional support
globalization

description: The international student population continues to grow on U.S. high school campuses. According to the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) data for the 2018 school year, 84,840 K-12 students were in the United States and 19.5% of them were enrolled in California schools (private and public). The purpose of this phenomenological qualitative study was to identify the challenges faced by high school international students in the United States, in both their academic endeavors and their social-emotional adjustments. Results revealed that these students experience language barrier challenges, academic challenges, and social-emotional challenges. It was also revealed that these challenges are interconnected. International high school students are unique and come to our campuses with different academic goals and cultural backgrounds, but they also bring different perspectives that enrich the global awareness and cultural sensitivity of our local students, teachers, counselors, school leaders, and support providers. Their presence challenges school practitioners to develop and deliver support services to guarantee student success and create globally competitive school campuses.
Eleodes (Caverneleodes) wynnei Aalbu, Smith, and Triplehorn 2012
Creators: name: Johnston, M. Andrew
name: Fleming, David
name: Franz, Nico M.
name: Smith, Aaron D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Tenebrionidae
Eleodes
Eleodes wynnei

description: Eleodes (Caverneleodes) wynnei Aalbu, Smith, and Triplehorn, 2012
(Fig. 13D)
 Diagnosis. Body elongate. Pronotum with disc convex, moderately punctured, lateral margins arcuate, narrowing posteriorly, widest at or just before middle, anterior angles strongly projected, acute. Elytral disc fairly flat, covered with small, scabrous tubercles, each bearing a single light-colored short seta. Profemora lacking spines in both sexes, but crenulate on anterior dorsal surface. All tarsi with strong golden spicules lining plantar surface.
 Distribution. Mohave County, Arizona. Utah.
 Remarks. This cave–dwelling species is most similar to Neobaphion planipennis (LeConte), but can be distinguished by the shape of the pronotum and narrow body. This species is known only from caves in the Arizona Strip, north of the Grand Canyon as well as caves in southwestern Utah.
description: Published as part of Johnston, M. Andrew, Fleming, David, Franz, Nico M. & Smith, Aaron D., 2015, Amphidorini Leconte (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) of Arizona: Keys and Species Accounts, pp. 27-54 in The Coleopterists Bulletin (mo 14) (mo 14) 69 on page 51, DOI: 0.1649/0010-065X-69.mo4.27, http://zenodo.org/record/10086147
Enhanced Ability of Information Gathering May Intensify Disagreement Among Groups
Creators: name: Sayama, Hiroki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Today's society faces widening disagreement and conflicts among constituents with incompatible views. Escalated views and opinions are seen not only in radical ideology or extremism but also in many other scenes of our everyday life. Here we show that widening disagreement among groups may be linked to the advancement of information communication technology, by analyzing a mathematical model of population dynamics in a continuous opinion space. We adopted the interaction kernel approach to model enhancement of people's information gathering ability and introduced a generalized non-local gradient as individuals' perception kernel. We found that the characteristic distance between population peaks becomes greater as the wider range of opinions becomes available to individuals or the greater attention is attracted to opinions distant from theirs. These findings may provide a possible explanation for why disagreement is growing in today's increasingly interconnected society, without attributing its cause only to specific individuals or events.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures; accepted for publication in Physical Review E