cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Can Emily Help UBC Students Sort it Out?
Creators: name: Chawla, Khushbu
name: Daisley, Christina
name: Dosanjh, Jaslin
name: Jogdand, Kasturi
name: MacCormac, Audrey
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: The aim of this study is to examine sorting behaviour at the University of British Columbia (UBC) based on exposure to a campus wide sustainability ambassador named ‘Emily,’ a cartoon character. The experimental condition consisted of a waste disposal unit with four streams: organics, recycling, paper, and garbage with the poster of Emily. The control condition consisted of these four streams of waste disposal units at a different location, without the poster of Emily. The study was performed over a two-week period, yielding 10 days of measurement. Researchers weighed each of the four bins in the control and experimental condition, and then sorted through the bins in order to identify the number of contaminants in each bin. It was hypothesized that the presence of Emily would increase sorting behaviour, thereby yielding a higher mean kg/contamination ratio. Qualitative measures included most incorrectly sorted contaminant count and change in mean kg/contamination ratio over time. Findings from this study conclude that the presence of Emily had no impact on sorting behaviours. Also cutlery was found to be highy incorrectly sorted. Further analysis will be needed to determine what education people will need in order to effectively sort waste. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Essays on the economics of technology policy in developing countries
Creators: name: Habib-Tofailli, Mary
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics
classificationCode: 3803
subject: Economic theory

description: This dissertation is presented as three independent papers addressing interrelated issues of pertinence to technology policy from a development perspective. The first paper takes a micro-founded approach toward exploring changes in the industrial structure of the pharmaceuticals industry in a typical developing country as it adjusts to the WTO/TRIPS agreement on intellectual property rights. Following a brief presentation of the relevant historical features of this global industry and a justification of the evolutionary approach that is employed, simulation exercises are performed on a dynamic industry model. It is revealed that significant firm exit and market concentration are likely outcomes of tighter patent laws. The second paper develops a novel approach for measuring technology imitation by the South through a proxy of patent scope. It then attempts to quantify its significance as a potential determinant of FDI inflows into selected high-technology sectors. The empirical investigation---employing data over the 1992--2001 period covering 13 countries from Asia and Latin America---demonstrates that neither this measure of patent infringement nor the more standard measures of intellectual property protection are significant, and that the most crucial determinant of high-tech investment lows appears to be the scientific and technical sophistication of the local personnel in the recipient countries. This may have different policy implications than those emphasized by the recent international patent agreements. The last paper uses an original set of sector-specific data from Jordan to provide insights into that country's experience with import liberalization and its implications for local technological performance. The motivation is to contribute to the ongoing debate of whether the relationship between foreign licensed technology and local R&D effort is complementary or substitutive. The study uses data related to various determinants of R&D effort from 22 sectors. Empirical results suggest that in many instances, it is possible for licensing to lead to less domestic technology effort on the part of the recipients. This could be due to domestic firms becoming too lax about engaging in independent research. From this standpoint, complete reliance on the private sector for a country at Jordan's stage of technological development is probably not appropriate.
Complex density of continuum states in resonant quantum tunneling
Creators: name: Stránský, Pavel
name: Šindelka, Milan
name: Kloc, Michal
name: Cejnar, Pavel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a complex-extended continuum level density and apply it to one-dimensional scattering problems involving tunneling through finite-range potentials. We show that the real part of the density is proportional to a real "time shift" of the transmitted particle, while the imaginary part reflects the imaginary time of an instanton-like tunneling trajectory. We confirm these assumptions for several potentials using the complex scaling method. In particular, we show that stationary points of the potentials give rise to specific singularities of both real and imaginary densities which represent close analogues of excited-state quantum phase transitions in bound systems.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures
Essays on the economics of technology policy in developing countries
Creators: name: Habib-Tofailli, Mary
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation is presented as three independent papers addressing interrelated issues of pertinence to technology policy from a development perspective. The first paper takes a micro-founded approach toward exploring changes in the industrial structure of the pharmaceuticals industry in a typical developing country as it adjusts to the WTO/TRIPS agreement on intellectual property rights. Following a brief presentation of the relevant historical features of this global industry and a justification of the evolutionary approach that is employed, simulation exercises are performed on a dynamic industry model. It is revealed that significant firm exit and market concentration are likely outcomes of tighter patent laws. The second paper develops a novel approach for measuring technology imitation by the South through a proxy of patent scope. It then attempts to quantify its significance as a potential determinant of FDI inflows into selected high-technology sectors. The empirical investigation---employing data over the 1992--2001 period covering 13 countries from Asia and Latin America---demonstrates that neither this measure of patent infringement nor the more standard measures of intellectual property protection are significant, and that the most crucial determinant of high-tech investment lows appears to be the scientific and technical sophistication of the local personnel in the recipient countries. This may have different policy implications than those emphasized by the recent international patent agreements. The last paper uses an original set of sector-specific data from Jordan to provide insights into that country's experience with import liberalization and its implications for local technological performance. The motivation is to contribute to the ongoing debate of whether the relationship between foreign licensed technology and local R&D effort is complementary or substitutive. The study uses data related to various determinants of R&D effort from 22 sectors. Empirical results suggest that in many instances, it is possible for licensing to lead to less domestic technology effort on the part of the recipients. This could be due to domestic firms becoming too lax about engaging in independent research. From this standpoint, complete reliance on the private sector for a country at Jordan's stage of technological development is probably not appropriate.
Antechinus argentus Baker, Mutton & Hines 2013
Creators: name: Dyck, Steve Van
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Dasyuromorphia
Dasyuridae
Antechinus
Antechinus argentus

description: (7) A. arktos versus  A. argentus Baker, Mutton & Hines
 Pelage: A. arktos has a brownish-grey head that changes markedly to an orange-brown rump, fuscous black hindfeet, a thick-based, finely-furred, black tail and an orange-yellow eye and cheek patch; A. argentus has a silvery head and neck that merge subtly to deep olive-buff coloured fur on the rump and flanks.
 External Measurements: A. arktos is larger than A. argentus in absolute measurement for wt, hb, tv, hf in males and in hf for females. A. arktos is significantly larger than A. argentus in females for hb and tv (see Table 5).
 Craniodental Characters: A. arktos is larger than A. argentus in absolute measurement for a range of craniodental characters in both males and females: APV, BL, Dent, IBW, IOW, OBW, PPV, HT, PL, TC, NWR, PML, UML, HT-B, I 1 -P 3, LML, I 1 -P 3 and UPL. A. arktos is significantly larger than A. argentus in ZW for females (Table 5).
 Other Comments: A. arktos occur in south-east Qld and north-east NSW in areas of high elevation and rainfall on the Tweed Volcano caldera, whereas A. argentus occurs more than 400 kilometres to the north at Kroombit Tops NP (south-east Qld). Genetics: Uncorrected pairwise range differences at the mitochondrial gene CytB between A. arktos and A. argentus are 12.4–12.8%.
description: Published as part of Dyck, Steve Van, 2014, The Black-tailed Antechinus, Antechinus arktos sp. nov.: a new species of carnivorous marsupial from montane regions of the Tweed Volcano caldera, eastern Australia, pp. 101-133 in Zootaxa 3765 (2) on page 116, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3765.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5045725
Integrating the South: The political economy of connecting Egypt to the Internet
Creators: name: Saleh, Nivien
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Development specialists have praised the revolution in information and communication technologies (ICT) for its potential to make peripheral economies catch up with the industrialized core economies. Does the ICT revolution have this liberating effect? This study sheds doubt on this assumption. Rather than empowering the have-nots, it finds, the ICT revolution helps integrate Third World economies into the global economy under conditions that perpetuate existing inequalities. The present work situates the ICT revolution within the global transition from Fordism to flexible accumulation. It traces the formation of the ICT revolution and its crystallization into structure at the global level, namely telecom and Internet regimes complete with institutional underpinnings and attached financial and networking resources. It finds that actors from the core have molded these processes and that they have done so not to enable weaker players to catch up but, on the contrary, to secure their own lead in the global race for competitiveness. Actors from the periphery have had little input into regime formation. The ICT revolution helps integrate peripheral economies into the global economy not simply through the connectivity it creates. As is shown for the ideal case of Egypt, the structure it has produced at the global level generates a number of pressures on the peripheral state. In conjunction these have the potential to produce a sector-specific state transformation along the following lines: The phase-out of old telecom ministries that embrace the "outmoded" ideology of state capitalism and their replacement with new ministries for ICT, which advocate the "fashionable" ideology of private-sector-led, export-led growth and have strong ties to corporate actors from the core and the domestic export-oriented business elite. Such transition enhances the state's capacity to function as transmission belt that channels core demands for flexibility and free trade into the peripheral economy. By identifying causal mechanisms that link structure and case, this study develops a theoretical model of sectoral state transformation which, it argues, is not unique to Egypt but extends to numerous peripheral economies. It concludes with strategies for testing the practical adequacy of the model and improving its explanatory power.
Livestock Ownership and Child Nutrition in Uganda: Evidence from a Panel Survey
Creators: name: Tiberti, M.
name: Zezza, A.
name: Azzarri, C.
name: Tiberti, M.
name: Zezza, A.
name: Azzarri, C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: This paper investigates the relationship between livestock ownership and child nutrition in Uganda by using a panel household survey. The analysis focuses on linear growth, as growth in height/length reveals the cumulative nutritional status of a child up to his current age. Three linear growth measures are assessed: besides the standard height-for-age z-scores, we analyse the height-for-age differences, more appropriate for a dynamic evaluation of the growth trend across ages, and growth velocity, that is usually used in clinical studies, but less frequently available in large socio-economic datasets in low-income countries. The results presented do point to a positive effect of livestock ownership on child nutrition, with different effects according to child age and animal species. Large ruminants seem to affect relatively more nutrition of older children, while small ruminants attenuate child growth faltering as they are more associated to the initial height trajectory, while poultry has a positive effect on growth, which is usually considered as a more responsive measure of child nutrition. Finally, the role of livestock ownership in sustaining linear growth seems to be crucial when households living in remote areas have a limited access to purchased foods and livestock becomes the only source of certain nutrients. Acknowledgement :
title: Open University Tutors' Conceptions Of Teaching Excellence In Higher Education Teaching
Creators: name: Andersen, Kurt
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2007

description: The purpose of this study is to examine Open University tutors’ conceptions of teaching excellence. A qualitative approach was adopted involving eleven tutors in interviews plus a focus group discussion on the topic. The recorded data were subjected to a thematic content analysis focussing on the tutors’ conceptions of teaching quality rooted in their own practices. The study furthermore examined the data for indications that would confirm or disconfirm three strong claims made in recent higher education research literature relating to HE teaching practice: first regarding a ‘psychologised’ (understood mainly as a ‘behaviourist’) discourse among HE teachers (Malcolm and Zukas, 2001, Skelton, 2005), secondly a ‘performativity’ culture (focussing on targets as a consequence of current accountability regimes being introduced) (Ball, 2003, Camell, 2007, Skelton, 2005) and finally a ‘prescriptive’ discourse (Nicoll and Harrison, 2003). The study found that the tutors are highly dedicated to their students, strongly focussed on their students’ learning and progress, but too modest to think of their own practice in terms of ‘excellence’, even if some of them have received teaching excellence awards and all are involved in projects in the Open University’s Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. The findings suggest that the tutors are in favour of initiatives to promote teaching excellence and of HE teacher accreditation. Their teaching approaches are found to be co-constructivist (certainly not behaviourist) and student-oriented, and indications of being under ‘performativity’ or ‘prescriptive’ pressures are not apparent.
Accretion in Brown Dwarfs: an Infrared View
Creators: name: Natta, A.
name: Testi, L.
name: Muzerolle, J.
name: Randich, S.
name: Comeron, F.
name: Persi, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper presents a study of the accretion properties of 19 very low mass objects (Mstar .01-0.1 Msun) in the regions Chamaeleon I and rho-Oph For 8 objects we obtained high resolution Halpha profiles and determined mass accretion rate Macc and accretion luminosity Lacc. Pabeta is detected in emission in 7 of the 10 rho-Oph objects, but only in one in Cha I. Using objects for which we have both a determination of Lacc from Halpha and a Pabeta detection, we show that the correlation between the Pabeta luminosity and luminosity Lacc, found by Muzerolle et al. (1998) for T Tauri stars in Taurus, extends to objects with mass approx 0.03 Msun; L(Pab) can be used to measure Lacc also in the substellar regime. The results were less conclusive for Brgamma, which was detected only in 2 objects, neither of which had an Halpha estimate of Macc. Using the relation between L(Pab) and Lacc we determined the accretion rate for all the objects in our sample (including those with no Halpha spectrum), more than doubling the number of substellar objects with known Macc. When plotted as a function of the mass of the central object together with data from the literature, our results confirm the trend of lower Macc for lower Mstar, although with a large spread. Some of the spread is probably due to an age effect; our very young objects in rho-Oph have on average an accretion rate at least one order of magnitude higher than objects of similar mass in older regions. As a side product, we found that the width of Halpha measured at 10% peak intensity is not only a qualitative indicator of accretion, but can be used to obtain a quantitative estimate of Macc over a large mass range, from T Tauri stars to brown dwarfs. Finally, we found that some of our objects show evidence of mass-loss.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures, A&A in press
Integrating the South: The political economy of connecting Egypt to the Internet
Creators: name: Saleh, Nivien
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Development specialists have praised the revolution in information and communication technologies (ICT) for its potential to make peripheral economies catch up with the industrialized core economies. Does the ICT revolution have this liberating effect? This study sheds doubt on this assumption. Rather than empowering the have-nots, it finds, the ICT revolution helps integrate Third World economies into the global economy under conditions that perpetuate existing inequalities. The present work situates the ICT revolution within the global transition from Fordism to flexible accumulation. It traces the formation of the ICT revolution and its crystallization into structure at the global level, namely telecom and Internet regimes complete with institutional underpinnings and attached financial and networking resources. It finds that actors from the core have molded these processes and that they have done so not to enable weaker players to catch up but, on the contrary, to secure their own lead in the global race for competitiveness. Actors from the periphery have had little input into regime formation. The ICT revolution helps integrate peripheral economies into the global economy not simply through the connectivity it creates. As is shown for the ideal case of Egypt, the structure it has produced at the global level generates a number of pressures on the peripheral state. In conjunction these have the potential to produce a sector-specific state transformation along the following lines: The phase-out of old telecom ministries that embrace the "outmoded" ideology of state capitalism and their replacement with new ministries for ICT, which advocate the "fashionable" ideology of private-sector-led, export-led growth and have strong ties to corporate actors from the core and the domestic export-oriented business elite. Such transition enhances the state's capacity to function as transmission belt that channels core demands for flexibility and free trade into the peripheral economy. By identifying causal mechanisms that link structure and case, this study develops a theoretical model of sectoral state transformation which, it argues, is not unique to Egypt but extends to numerous peripheral economies. It concludes with strategies for testing the practical adequacy of the model and improving its explanatory power.
Communication through quantum fields near a black hole
Creators: name: Jonsson, Robert H.
name: Aruquipa, David Q.
name: Casals, Marc
name: Kempf, Achim
name: Martín-Martínez, Eduardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the quantum channel between two localized first-quantized systems that communicate in 3+1 dimensional Schwarzschild spacetime via a quantum field. We analyze the information carrying capacity of direct and black hole-orbiting null geodesics as well as of the timelike contributions that arise because the strong Huygens principle does not hold on the Schwarzschild background. We find, in particular, that the non-direct-null and timelike contributions, which do not possess an analog on Minkowski spacetime, can dominate over the direct null contributions. We cover the cases of both geodesic and accelerated emitters. Technically, we apply tools previously designed for the study of wave propagation in curved spacetimes to a relativistic quantum information communication setup, first for generic spacetimes, and then for the case of Schwarzschild spacetime in particular.
description: 38 pages (incl. 13 pages appendix), 14 figures, RevTeX 4.1. v3: update to published version
Triepeolus circumculus Rightmyer 2008
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Triepeolus circumculus Rightmyer, 2008 *
[Holotype: AMNH; ♀ Willcox, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA; September 21, 1976]
This species inhabits the xeric regions of North America. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of T. circumculus in the BCP based on one female collected in the Chaparral at 6 mi. E Ojos Negros in June 1980 identified by Molly Rightmyer (SDNHM). See fig. 132.
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 202, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Learned violence: Violent and aggressive behavior among non-violent offenders in prison
Creators: name: Ahn-Redding, Heather M.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4402
subject: Criminology
subject: FOS: Law

description: This study explores whether non-violent offenders graduate to more aggressive and violent behavior after being incarcerated. Specifically, it examines the effects of incarceration on non-violent offenders by assessing the types of disciplinary infractions they incur while in prison. By comparing non-violent offenders who have no self-reported history of violence to violent offenders and to non-violent offenders with self-reported violent histories, this study seeks to determine whether otherwise non-violent individuals are participating in violence in prison, thus predisposing them to violence upon release. By using inmate surveys from 1991 and 1997, I will examine inmates' personal histories, past offenses, current offenses, and disciplinary infractions through negative binomial regression models. The dependent variable will measure whether the inmates have been written up for physically assaulting guards/inmates and for possessing weapons. Finally, I intend to examine whether non-violent prisoners are faring worse in prison today than in the past by comparing the 1991 and 1997 surveys. The results of this analysis indicate that non-violent inmates are susceptible to violent behavior while in prison and demonstrate the same proclivities to engage in infractions as violent offenders.
Rural-Rural Migration, Land and Labor Markets in Zambia
Creators: name: Chamberlin, J.
name: Sitko, N.
name: Jayne, T.
name: Chamberlin, J.
name: Sitko, N.
name: Jayne, T.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Labor and Human Capital

description: While the bulk of migration literature in Africa has focused on the movement of people from rural to urban areas, much less is known about rural mobility, including its magnitude, drivers, and implications for agricultural development. Using nationally representative survey data for Zambia, we document very high levels of rural mobility throughout the country, and show that this movement is correlated with both land and labor market conditions. About 20% of rural households on average have moved from elsewhere, with highest in-migration rates (~30%) in more accessible, higher density areas, reflecting the importance of wage-employment and services as pull factors. We find that rural in-migrants in relatively accessible areas are wealthier than in-migrants in less accessible areas, although in-migrants are wealthier than non-migrants in all areas. Furthermore, rural in-migrants exhibit greater use of inputs, agricultural productivity, land use intensity and market integration than their non-migrant neighbors. Impacts of in-migration on receiving communities appear to be virtuous: in addition to descriptive indicators that indicate cash injections into local economies (e.g. via greater propensity to hire in labor and services), we find econometric evidence of positive spillover effects of neighborhood in-migration rates on farm-level land productivity outcomes. Acknowledgement : This work was funded by a grant from the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM), which is led by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and funded by CGIAR Fund Donors.
The effective potential and universality in GUT inspired gauge-Higgs unification
Creators: name: Funatsu, Shuichiro
name: Hatanaka, Hisaki
name: Hosotani, Yutaka
name: Orikasa, Yuta
name: Yamatsu, Naoki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effective potential for the Aharonov-Bohm phase $θ_H$ in the fifth dimension in GUT inspired $SO(5)\times U(1) \times SU(3)$ gauge-Higgs unification is evaluated to show that dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking takes place with $θ_H \not= 0$, the 4D Higgs boson mass 125$\,$GeV being generated at the quantum level. The cubic and quartic self-couplings $(λ_3, λ_4)$ of the Higgs boson are found to satisfy universal relations, i.e. they are determined, to high accuracy, solely by $θ_H$, irrespective of values of other parameters in the model. For $θ_H=0.1$ ($0.15$), $λ_3$ and $λ_4$ are smaller than those in the standard model by 7.7% (8.1%) and 30% (32%), respectively.
description: 26 pages, 5 figures, 4 tables; reference added; version accepted for publication in Physical Review D
Light Neutralinos and WIMP direct searches
Creators: name: Bottino, A.
name: Donato, F.
name: Fornengo, N.
name: Scopel, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The predictions of our previous analyses about possible low-mass (lower than 50 GeV) relic neutralinos are discussed in the light of the most recent results from WIMP direct detection experiments. It is proved that these light neutralinos are quite compatible with the new annual-modulation data of the DAMA Collaboration; our theoretical predictions are also compared with the upper bounds of the CDMS and EDELWEISS Collaborations.
description: 4 pages, 1 figures, typeset with ReVTeX4. The paper may also be found at http://www.to.infn.it/~fornengo/papers/note.ps.gz or through http://www.to.infn.it/astropart/index.html
Triepeolus grandis
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Triepeolus grandis (Friese, 1917)
[Holotype: ZMHB; ♂ Jacubaya (= Tacubaya?), Mexico]
This species is distributed from central Mexico to the southern USA (Rightmyer 2008). We reviewed three females identified by M. Rightmyer, two collected in the Sarcocauleschent Shrubland in October 1975 (LACM), and October 1981 (SDNHM) and one collected in the Cape Mountains in October 1941 (CASC). See fig. 133.
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 204, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Antechinus bellus
Creators: name: Dyck, Steve Van
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Dasyuromorphia
Dasyuridae
Antechinus
Antechinus bellus

description: (8) A. arktos versus  A. bellus (Thomas)
 Pelage: A. arktos has a brownish-grey head that changes markedly to an orange-brown rump, fuscous black hindfeet, a thick-based, finely-furred, black tail and an orange-yellow eye and cheek patch; A. bellus is pale to medium grey above, sometimes with a fawn tinge, with pale grey belly, hands and feet.
 External Measurements: A. arktos males have significantly smaller ears than A. bellus (Table 5).
 Craniodental Characters: A. arktos is smaller than A. bellus in absolute measurement for a range of characters in males and females: IPV, M 2 W, R-LC 1, R-LM 1, R-LM 2, R-LM 3 and SWR-LC 1 B. A. arktos is significantly smaller than A. bellus in BuL for males. A. arktos is larger than A. bellus in absolute measurement for a range of craniodental characters in males and females: APV, Dent, IBW, IOW, PPV, TC, NWR, PML, HT-B, I 1 -P 3, I 1 -P 3 and UPL. A. arktos is significantly larger than A. bellus in BL and PL for males and in HT and PL for females (Table 5).
 Other Comments: A. arktos occur in south-east Qld and north-east NSW in areas of high elevation and rainfall on the Tweed Volcano caldera, whereas A. bellus is known only from Northern Territory. Genetics: uncorrected pairwise difference at the mitochondrial gene CytB between A. arktos and A. bellus is 12.0%.
description: Published as part of Dyck, Steve Van, 2014, The Black-tailed Antechinus, Antechinus arktos sp. nov.: a new species of carnivorous marsupial from montane regions of the Tweed Volcano caldera, eastern Australia, pp. 101-133 in Zootaxa 3765 (2) on page 116, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3765.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5045725
Interleaved Sequence RNNs for Fraud Detection
Creators: name: Branco, Bernardo
name: Abreu, Pedro
name: Gomes, Ana Sofia
name: Almeida, Mariana S. C.
name: Ascensão, João Tiago
name: Bizarro, Pedro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Payment card fraud causes multibillion dollar losses for banks and merchants worldwide, often fueling complex criminal activities. To address this, many real-time fraud detection systems use tree-based models, demanding complex feature engineering systems to efficiently enrich transactions with historical data while complying with millisecond-level latencies. In this work, we do not require those expensive features by using recurrent neural networks and treating payments as an interleaved sequence, where the history of each card is an unbounded, irregular sub-sequence. We present a complete RNN framework to detect fraud in real-time, proposing an efficient ML pipeline from preprocessing to deployment. We show that these feature-free, multi-sequence RNNs outperform state-of-the-art models saving millions of dollars in fraud detection and using fewer computational resources.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures, to appear in SIGKDD'20 Industry Track
The Impact of the Food Stamp Program Household Food Purchases
Creators: name: Salathe, Larry E.
name: Salathe, Larry E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1979
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Food expenditures
subject: Food Stamp Program
subject: Income

description: A theoretical model indicates the marginal impact of an in. crease in bonus on food purchases varies with household income; Previous studies have ignored this varying effect, probably resulting in inaccurate estimates. Existing survey data don't contain the information needed to more accurately measure the impact of the Food Stamp Program.
Correlated radio:X-ray emission in the hard states of Galactic microquasars
Creators: name: Choudhury, M.
name: Rao, A. R.
name: Vadawale, S. V.
name: Jain, A. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results of our study of correlated radio and X-ray emission in two black hole candidates and Galactic microquasars GRS 1915+105 and Cygnus X-1 in their steady long term hard states, along with Cygnus X-3 (using data obtained from RXTE-ASM, CGRO-BATSE and GBI). We detect a pivotal behavior in the X-ray spectrum of GRS 1915+105, correlated to the radio emission. Similar to the results obtained for Cygnus X-3, the flux of X-rays softer than the pivoting point correlates with the radio emission, while the corresponding harder X-ray flux anti-correlates with both the radio and the softer X-ray emission, in this state. We examine all the previously reported correlations of X-ray properties with the radio emission in Galactic microquasars and argue that these are consistent with a general picture where a spectral pivoting is a common feature in these sources with the shape of the spectrum determining the flux of radio emission, during the hard states. We also detect a general monotonic increase in the radio emission of these sources with the soft X-ray emission spanning about 5 orders of magnitude. We qualitatively explain these findings with a Two Component Advective Flow model where the location of a boundary layer between the thin disk and the Comptonizing region determines the spectral shape and also the amount of outflow.
description: Minor typos corrected in matter as well as figures. 12 pages, 5 figures, to appear in ApJ, August 2003 (vol. 593)
The World Pork Market-Government Intervention and Multilateral Policy Reform
Creators: name: Shagam, Shayle D.
name: Shagam, Shayle D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Pork
subject: hogs
subject: trade
subject: trade liberalization

description: Pork is the most widely produced meat product. Approximately 85 percent of the world's production occurs in five regional groupings. A number of smaller producers are responsible for a significant portion of world trade in pork. These regions and countries can be further grouped into four pork markets based upon commonalities in production, consumption, or trade patterns and government policies. Trade liberalization among industrial market economies is not expected to have a significant impact on pork production and trade at the global level. However, at the regional level, trade liberalization could result in a strengthening of the trend toward a smaller number of large-scale producers worldwide. This could encourage increased trade within regions but trade between several regional market groupings could decline.
The first dual-phase xenon TPC equipped with silicon photomultipliers and characterisation with $^{37}$Ar
Creators: name: Baudis, L.
name: Biondi, Y.
name: Galloway, M.
name: Girard, F.
name: Hochrein, S.
name: Reichard, S.
name: Sanchez-Lucas, P.
name: Thieme, K.
name: Wulf, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For the first time, a small dual-phase (liquid/gas) xenon time projection chamber was equipped with a top array of silicon photomultipliers for light and charge readout. Here we describe the instrument in detail, as well as the data processing and the event position reconstruction algorithms. We obtain a spatial resolution of ~1.5 mm in the horizontal plane. To characterise the detector performance, we show calibration data with internal $^{83\text{m}}$Kr and $^{37}$Ar sources, and we detail the production of the latter as well as its introduction into the system. We finally compare the observed light and charge yields down to electronic recoil energies of 2.82 keV to predictions based on NEST v2.0.
description: 14 pages, 13 figures, typos corrected
Main Mall Safety : An Evaluation of the Traffic Warning Sign Colors
Creators: name: Ng, Joanna Conde
name: Ochoa, Hernan
name: Tse, Jocelyn
name: Leopando, Nicolandro
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of current bicycle traffic signs (BTS) implemented to encourage safe behavior between different modal-users on Main Mall at The University of British Columbia. The study sought to examine how different colors on traffic warning signs influence people’s interpretation of speed. It was hypothesized that colors with socially constructed meanings of precaution and attention to detail such as yellow and red respectively will yield more accurate interpretations of speed in regards to traffic warning signs. A structured survey comprising a fictitious scenario with color manipulated traffic warning signs measured interpretation of speed at which a fictitious character will ride his/her bicycle after encountering the sign. A numerical trend emerged demonstrating red, relative to green, complied lower perceptions of speed than the control, though not statistically significant. The results infer recommendations to UBC regarding how to elicit more precaution on Main Mall through established operations. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
The polarization evolution of the optical afterglow of GRB 030329
Creators: name: Greiner, J.
name: Klose, S.
name: Reinsch, K.
name: Schmid, H. M.
name: Sari, R.
name: Hartmann, D. H.
name: Kouveliotou, C.
name: Rau, A.
name: Palazzi, E.
name: Straubmeier, C.
name: Stecklum, B.
name: Zharikov, S.
name: Tovmassian, G.
name: Barnbantner, O.
name: Ries, C.
name: Jehin, E.
name: Henden, A.
name: Kaas, A. A.
name: Grav, T.
name: Hjorth, J.
name: Pedersen, H.
name: Wijers, R. A. M. J.
name: Kaufer, A.
name: Park, H. -S.
name: Williams, G.
name: Reimer, O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report 31 polarimetric observations of the afterglow of GRB 030329 with high signal-to-noise and high sampling frequency. The data imply that the afterglow magnetic field has small coherence length and is mostly random, probably generated by turbulence.
description: 2003 GRB Conference, Santa Fe, Oct. 2003, 1 ps-figure
The structure of cool accretion disc in semidetached binaries
Creators: name: Bisikalo, D. V.
name: Boyarchuk, A. A.
name: Kaygorodov, P. V.
name: Kuznetsov, O. A.
name: Matsuda, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of qualitative consideration of possible changes occurring during the transition from the hot accretion disc to the cool one. We argue the possible existence of one more type of spiral density waves in the inner part of the disc where gasdynamical perturbations are negligible. The mechanism of formation of such a wave as well as its parameters are considered. We also present the results of 3D gasdynamical simulation of cool accretion discs. These results confirm the hypothesis of possible formation of the spiral wave of a new, "precessional" type in the inner regions of the disc. Possible observational manifestations of this wave are discussed.
description: LaTeX, 16 pages, 8 figures, to be published in Astron. Zh
title: Paying the piper and calling the tune: a study to consider how the opportunity to employ workers using cash payments affects the support relationship
Creators: name: Leece, Janet Anne
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2007

description: This thesis is about direct payments; the name given to cash payments made by local authorities to disabled adults, to enable them to buy their own care. Many people use their direct payment to become an employer by recruiting a personal assistant to provide their support, and it is this direct employment relationship, between disabled adults and their employees, that is the focus of the thesis. The study examines the history and policy of social welfare in Britain showing that the use of cash payments has been a recurring theme in care provision, and is part of an evolving process. The present government has demonstrated ongoing commitment to the radical increase in the numbers of disabled adults accessing user-controlled support, such as direct payments, however the direct employment of support workers is poorly understood with most research focusing on the interests of disabled adults whilst ignoring the perspective of workers. The study investigates the effect of cash and direct employment on the support relationship in one local authority in England. It uses a grounded theory approach, with two questionnaires to measure job satisfaction and stress, and in-depth interviews with respondents. It explores and compares the experiences of eight direct payment relationships with eight traditional service delivery homecare relationships. The research provides a comparison between direct and non-direct employment, together with an examination of the experiences of both parties in the relationship. The analysis of the data reveals the inherent complexity of care relationships and shows the importance of the concept of power in helping to understand the impact of direct employment on these relationships.
Multivariate Analysis from a Statistical Point of View
Creators: name: Cranmer, Kyle S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Multivariate Analysis is an increasingly common tool in experimental high energy physics; however, many of the common approaches were borrowed from other fields. We clarify what the goal of a multivariate algorithm should be for the search for a new particle and compare different approaches. We also translate the Neyman-Pearson theory into the language of statistical learning theory.
description: Talk from PhyStat2003, Stanford, Ca, USA, September 2003, 4 pages, LaTeX, 1 eps figures. PSN WEJT002
Deconfined metallic quantum criticality: A $U(2)$ gauge-theoretic approach
Creators: name: Zou, Liujun
name: Chowdhury, Debanjan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss a new class of quantum phase transitions -- Deconfined Mott Transition (DMT) -- that describe a continuous transition between a Fermi liquid metal with a generic electronic Fermi surface and an electrical insulator without Fermi surfaces of emergent neutral excitations. We construct a unified $U(2)$ gauge theory to describe a variety of metallic and insulating phases, which include Fermi liquids, fractionalized Fermi liquids (FL*), conventional insulators and quantum spin liquids, as well as the quantum phase transitions between them. Using the DMT as a basic building block, we propose a distinct quantum phase transition -- Deconfined Metal-Metal Transition (DM$^2$T) -- that describes a continuous transition between two metallic phases, accompanied by a jump in the size of their electronic Fermi surfaces (also dubbed a 'Fermi transition'). We study these new classes of deconfined metallic quantum critical points using a renormalization group framework at the leading nontrivial order in a controlled expansion, and comment on the various interesting scenarios that can emerge going beyond this leading order calculation. We also study a $U(1)\times U(1)$ gauge theory that shares a number of similarities with the $U(2)$ gauge theory and sheds important light on many phenomena related to DMT, DM$^2$T and quantum spin liquids.
description: 16 pages + references + appendices
Learned violence: Violent and aggressive behavior among non-violent offenders in prison
Creators: name: Ahn-Redding, Heather M.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This study explores whether non-violent offenders graduate to more aggressive and violent behavior after being incarcerated. Specifically, it examines the effects of incarceration on non-violent offenders by assessing the types of disciplinary infractions they incur while in prison. By comparing non-violent offenders who have no self-reported history of violence to violent offenders and to non-violent offenders with self-reported violent histories, this study seeks to determine whether otherwise non-violent individuals are participating in violence in prison, thus predisposing them to violence upon release. By using inmate surveys from 1991 and 1997, I will examine inmates' personal histories, past offenses, current offenses, and disciplinary infractions through negative binomial regression models. The dependent variable will measure whether the inmates have been written up for physically assaulting guards/inmates and for possessing weapons. Finally, I intend to examine whether non-violent prisoners are faring worse in prison today than in the past by comparing the 1991 and 1997 surveys. The results of this analysis indicate that non-violent inmates are susceptible to violent behavior while in prison and demonstrate the same proclivities to engage in infractions as violent offenders.