cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
PREDIPOSING FACTORS OF IRON  DEFICIENCY AMEMIA AMONG PREGNANT  WOMEN IN SOS HOSPITAL BAIDOA DISTRICT BAY SOMALIA.
Creators: name: Kheyrad, Mumin Haji
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: anemia
pregnant women
anemia among pregnant women

description: The term Iron Deficiency Anemia generally  refers both to Iron deficiency anemia on pregnant women. Most of which are related to a poor diet which can lead to severe and repeated infections, particularly in under privileged populations. Inadequate diet and diseases, were related living way, the environmental condition, and whether the population is able to meet its basic needs including the balance food, housing and health care. Iron deficiency is a health outcome as well as a risk factor for disease and can increase the risk of both of morbidity and mortality rates on the related Iron Deficiency anemia. pregnant women were associated with 54% of child deaths, anemia in pregnancy is a serious health issue that frequently affects underdeveloped nations and can have a detrimental impact on pregnancy. A risk factor for 50% of maternal fatalities is anemia. (T. Darmawati et.al,2018) 

The essential component of hemoglobin, that carrying oxygen (the oxygen-carrying Pigment in the blood). Iron is normally obtained through the diet and by the recycling of the iron from an old red blood cells and in the absence of the required iron blood concentrations, blood cannot carry oxygen effectively and hence normal functioning of every cell in the body will be affected.

 Anemia is one of the most common conditions that could affect pregnancies, with a dietary iron deficiency being the commonest cause. Maternal anemia were associated with a high risk to both the neonates and mothers.
Relationship between Personality Traits and Vocational Interests: A multi-faceted study
Creators: name: Barmanpek, Ufuk
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Personality traits and vocational interests are important constructs of the individual differences that exist in the many sub-fields of psychology. Many studies have examined one or both, and indeed the associations between these constructs. Most researchers have investigated these associations by conceptualising and measuring a typical model of the ‘Big Five’ – representing the ‘bright’ side of personality – and RIASEC vocational interests. However, although few studies have investigated the association between the ‘dark’ side of personality and vocational interests, no study has examined these associations by considering both the ‘bright’ and ‘dark’ sides of personality.This research investigates the relationship between personality traits and vocational interests by examining the ‘dark’ (i.e., Dark Triad) and ‘bright’ (i.e., HEXACO) sides of personality traits with vocational interests (i.e., RIASEC). These associations were investigated via four studies: longitudinal, cross-groups, cross-cultural, and the moderation effect of values on these associations within samples from undergraduates from Turkey (N=1,026) and the UK (N=445), and Turkish working adults (N=320).Overall, the conclusions of this thesis are: (i) the relationship between personality traits and vocational interests was generalizable and most likely did not differ across time, groups or cultures; (ii) concerning the relationships between the dimensions of vocational interests and personality, Enterprising was consistently associated with several types of personality: Extraversion and Dark Triad personality types were positively related to Enterprising, while Honesty-humility was negatively related to Enterprising across time, groups, and cultures, suggesting that these variables could be considered together to provide a context when psychological variables were examined within the context of the resultant relationships between personality and Enterprising; (iii) although values, personality, and vocational interests were shown to be interrelated, values were not generally observed to moderate this relationship, though with a few exceptions. Future research and the practical implications of these findings are also discussed.
Indication for Light Sneutrinos and Gauginos from Precision Electroweak Data
Creators: name: Altarelli, G.
name: Caravaglios, F.
name: Giudice, G. F.
name: Gambino, P.
name: Ridolfi, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The present Standard Model fit of precision data has a low confidence level, and is characterized by a few inconsistencies. We look for supersymmetric effects that could improve the agreement among the electroweak precision measurements and with the direct lower bound on the Higgs mass. We find that this is the case particularly if the 3.6 sigma discrepancy between sin^2 theta_eff from leptonic and hadronic asymmetries is finally settled more on the side of the leptonic ones. After the inclusion of all experimental constraints, our analysis selects light sneutrinos, with masses in the range 55-80 GeV, and charged sleptons with masses just above their experimental limit, possibly with additional effects from light gauginos. The phenomenological implications of this scenario are discussed.
description: 17 pages LaTex, 9 figures, uses epsfig
CCleaner Pro Crack + License Key (New 2024)
Creators: name: SEO Amsterdam Economics
name: Ch, Zain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: CCleaner Crack is a popular system optimization tool that helps computer users keep their devices running smoothly. It was developed by Piriform and later acquired by Avast in 2017. The software’s primary function is to remove unnecessary files, temporary files, and registry entries from your PC.

One of the most significant advantages of CCleaner is that it frees up valuable disk space on your computer, which can improve system performance significantly. With just a few clicks, you can clean up various areas of your PC’s hard drive or solid-state drive.

In addition to its cleaning functions, CCleaner Pro also includes features such as built-in uninstallers for unwanted programs and browser add-ons. You can also use the software to manage startup programs and disable unneeded services.

CCleaner is an essential tool for anyone looking to improve their computer’s performance quickly and easily. Its user-friendly interface makes it simple for even novice users to optimize their systems with minimal effort required.
Complexity in choice experiments: choice of the status quo alternative and implications for welfare measurement
Creators: name: Boxall, Peter C.
name: Adamowicz, Wiktor L.
name: Moon, Amanda
name: Boxall, Peter C.
name: Adamowicz, Wiktor L.
name: Moon, Amanda
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: choice experiments
subject: status quo
subject: welfare measurement

description: We examine the propensity of respondents to choose the status quo (SQ) or current situation alternative as a function of complexity in two separate state-of-the-world choice experiments. Complexity in each choice set was characterized as the number of single and multiple changes in levels of attributes from the current situation and the order of the choice task in the sequence of multiple tasks provided to respondents. We show that increasing complexity leads to increased choice of the SQ and that a respondent’s age and level of education also influenced this choice. We outline the effects of the alternate approaches for incorporating the SQ into welfare measurement. These findings have implications for the design of stated preference experiments, examining passive use values and for empirical analysis leading to welfare measurement.
Nonperturbative renormalization of staple-shaped Wilson line operators in lattice QCD
Creators: name: Shanahan, Phiala
name: Wagman, Michael L.
name: Zhao, Yong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quark bilinear operators with staple-shaped Wilson lines are used to study transverse-momentum-dependent parton distribution functions (TMDPDFs) from lattice quantum chromodynamics (QCD). Here, the renormalization factors for the isovector operators, including all mixings between operators with different Dirac structures, are computed nonperturbatively in the regularization-independent momentum subtraction scheme for the first time. This study is undertaken in quenched QCD with three different lattice spacings. With Wilson flow applied to the gauge fields in the calculations, the operator mixing pattern due to chiral symmetry breaking with the lattice regularization is found to be significantly different from that predicted by one-loop lattice perturbation theory calculations. These results constitute a critical step towards the systematic extraction of TMDPDFs from lattice QCD.
description: 18 pages, 17 figures. Journal version
Hog price transmission in Global markets: China EU and U.S
Creators: name: Tan, Ying
name: Zapata, Hector O.
name: Tan, Ying
name: Zapata, Hector O.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Price transmission
subject: hog industrial
subject: VECM

description: This paper analyzes the twelve years monthly hog price data from the Chinese ,U.S, and EU markets. The study’s methodology includes cointegration tests and VECM, followed by tests for Granger Causality. The analysis provides a broad view of international hog markets price linkage and price transmission mechanism. There are several results: first, rather weak price linkages are found among the the three markets; second, China is the least price responsive and the EU is the most price responsive market; third, the hypothesis of Granger causality is confirmed between the Chinese and the EU market prices but not in both directions; fourth, U.S. hog prices responds noticeably to a shock in the EU price but mildly to the shocks in the Chinese hog price.
Positivity of High Density Effective Theory
Creators: name: Hong, Deog Ki
name: Hsu, Stephen D. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the effective field theory of low energy modes in dense QCD has positive Euclidean path integral measure. The complexity of the measure of QCD at finite chemical potential can be ascribed to modes which are irrelevant to the dynamics at sufficiently high density. Rigorous inequalities follow at asymptotic density. Lattice simulation of dense QCD should be possible using the quark determinant calculated in the effective theory.
description: 10 pages, Revised version, to appear in Rapid Communications of Physical Review D
Jacobi Metric and Morse Theory of Dynamical Systems
Creators: name: Izquierdo, A. Alonso
name: Leon, M. A. Gonzalez
name: Guilarte, J. Mateos
name: Mayado, M. de la Torre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The generalization of the Maupertuis principle to second-order Variational Calculus is performed. The stability of the solutions of a natural dynamical system is thus analyzed via the extension of the Theorem of Jacobi. It is shown that the Morse Theory of the trajectories in the dynamical system is identical to the Morse Theory of geodesics in the Jacobi metric, even though the second-variation functionals around the action and the Jacobi length do not coincide. As a representative example, we apply this result to the study of the separatrix solutions of the Garnier System.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures. Talk delivered at the XI Fall Workshop on Geometry and Physics held at Oviedo, Spain, 2002
Conductance through a One-Dimensional Correlated System: Relation to Persistent Currents and Role of the Contacts
Creators: name: Molina, Rafael A.
name: Weinmann, Dietmar
name: Jalabert, Rodolfo A.
name: Ingold, Gert-Ludwig
name: Pichard, Jean-Louis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on a recent proposal [O.P. Sushkov, Phys. Rev. B 64, 155319 (2001)], we relate the quantum conductance through a sample in which electrons are strongly correlated to the persistent current of a large ring, composed of the sample and a non-interacting lead. A scaling law in the lead length allows to extrapolate to a well-defined value of the conductance, depending only on intrinsic properties of the sample and the nature of the contacts between the sample and the lead. For strongly disordered samples, the conductance is found to be enhanced by the interaction.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, RevTeX4
Reproductive Journeys: Indo-Caribbean Women Challenging Gendered Norms
Creators: name: Rozario, Tannuja
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2020

description: Little is known about the factors that influence people from the Caribbean to seek reproductive health services in the United States. In this paper, I focus on Indo-Caribbean women from Guyana and Trinidad who undertake reproductive journeys to New York. I ask: (1) What influences Indo-Caribbean women to begin their reproductive journeys to Richmond Hill, New York? (2) How do Indo-Caribbean women challenge gender norms during their reproductive journeys? (3) How does women’s class inform their decision making in challenging gendered norms? After conducting 30 in-depth interviews with Indo-Caribbean women from Guyana and Trinidad who seek reproductive health services in New York, I find that Indo-Caribbean women’s reproductive journeys are influenced by sexism experienced within households, communities, and doctors’ offices, lack of proper care, legal restrictions, and unaffordable treatment. Another driver is support from women networks. Social networks helped women challenge gendered norms around motherhood that are present within communities in home countries. As women receive support from their networks, they challenge gender norms varied by their class. Women from middle-income households are more likely to challenge gender norms outwardly. Obtaining reproductive health care abroad becomes a journey with multidimensional experiences of gendered negotiations and constraints.
Enhancing health policymaking, governance and research management in Ghana
Creators: name: Kirchuffs Atengble
name: Insor-Brown, Agnes
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 160508 Health Policy
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 160510 Public Policy
subject: Science Policy
subject: 160511 Research, Science and Technology Policy

description: Suggested citation - Atengble K, Insor-Brown A. Enhancing health policymaking, governance and research management in Ghana. 2019. doi: 10.6084/m9.figshare.10319297

Within this workshop, participants from the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons, and the Ghana Ministry of Health gathered at the Accra Marriott hotel for a training workshop that aimed to enhance health policymaking, governance and research management within the health sector in Ghana.
The workshop was facilitated through a collaboration between experienced trainers from the Clinical Informatics Research Unit of the University of Southampton and PACKS Africa, a Pan-Africa think tank working to improve the uptake of research and other forms of evidence in policy processes.
The event was funded by the University of Southampton.
The Role of Representational Flexibility in Toddlers' Manual Search
Creators: name: Hartstein, Lauren
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2014

description: In the model room task, children watch as a miniature toy is hidden somewhere in a scale model of a room and are asked to find the larger version of the toy in the corresponding place in the actual room. Previous work has shown that children under age three often perform very poorly on this task. One prominent theory for their failure is that they lack the ability to understand the model as both a physical object and as a symbolic representation of the larger room. An alternative hypothesis is that they need to overcome weak, competing representations of where the object was on a previous trial, and where it is in the present trial, in order to succeed in their search. Children aged 33-39 months were tested on measures of inhibitory control, cognitive flexibility, recognition memory, and receptive vocabulary, as well as the model room task. Results showed that performance on the model room task was not predicted by measures of inhibitory control, cognitive flexibility or vocabulary, but was predicted by performance on the Delayed Recognition Span Test (DRST), a measure of recognition memory. These findings lend support to the theory of competing representations. Given the predictive nature of the recognition memory task and the task’s sensitivity to lesions in the hippocampus, implications for the development of the hippocampus and its role in success on the model room task are discussed.
Comparative study of performance of parallel Alpha Beta Pruning for different architectures
Creators: name: Singhal, Shubhendra Pal
name: Sridevi, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Performance (cs.PF)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Optimization of searching the best possible action depending on various states like state of environment, system goal etc. has been a major area of study in computer systems. In any search algorithm, searching best possible solution from the pool of every possibility known can lead to the construction of the whole state search space popularly called as minimax algorithm. This may lead to a impractical time complexities which may not be suitable for real time searching operations. One of the practical solution for the reduction in computational time is Alpha Beta pruning. Instead of searching for the whole state space, we prune the unnecessary branches, which helps reduce the time by significant amount. This paper focuses on the various possible implementations of the Alpha Beta pruning algorithms and gives an insight of what algorithm can be used for parallelism. Various studies have been conducted on how to make Alpha Beta pruning faster. Parallelizing Alpha Beta pruning for the GPUs specific architectures like mesh(CUDA) etc. or shared memory model(OpenMP) helps in the reduction of the computational time. This paper studies the comparison between sequential and different parallel forms of Alpha Beta pruning and their respective efficiency for the chess game as an application.
description: 5 pages, 6 figures, Accepted in 2019 IEEE 9th International Advance Computing Conference(IEEE Xplore)
SunDown: Model-driven Per-Panel Solar Anomaly Detection for Residential Arrays
Creators: name: Feng, Menghong
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2020

description: There has been significant growth in both utility-scale and residential-scale solar installa- tions in recent years, driven by rapid technology improvements and falling prices. Unlike utility-scale solar farms that are professionally managed and maintained, smaller residential- scale installations often lack sensing and instrumentation for performance monitoring and fault detection. As a result, faults may go undetected for long periods of time, resulting in generation and revenue losses for the homeowner. In this thesis, we present SunDown, a sensorless approach designed to detect per-panel faults in residential solar arrays. SunDown does not require any new sensors for its fault detection and instead uses a model-driven ap- proach that leverages correlations between the power produced by adjacent panels to de- tect deviations from expected behavior. SunDown can handle concurrent faults in multiple panels and perform anomaly classification to determine probable causes. Using two years of solar generation data from a real home and a manually generated dataset of multiple solar faults, we show that our approach has a MAPE of 2.98% when predicting per-panel output. Our results also show that SunDown is able to detect and classify faults, including from snow cover, leaves and debris, and electrical failures with 99.13% accuracy, and can detect multi- ple concurrent faults with 97.2% accuracy.
Repeat Victimisation in Online Fraud: The ‘ideal’ and ‘real’ victims of fraud
Creators: name: Hawkins, Claudette D.
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Drawing upon qualitative interviews as a primary research method with repeat and single victims of fraud, this study found that the impact of fraud is a highly personalised and interactive experience where both macro and micro societal elements play a role in the way victims of fraud experience victimisation. Coping strategies appeared to influence the severity of fraud, therefore there is very little difference between repeat and single victims in terms of the impact, although some repeat victims experienced a greater sense of shame. Moreover, both single and repeat victims used a variety of coping strategies to hide their victim identity, notably from the stigma associated with victimhood in fraud. Avoiding the victim label was a strong theme throughout, particularly for repeat victims who used ‘covering’ and ‘downplaying’ in an attempt to minimise or deny a repeat victim status. Rather than victimhood being experienced as a separate event, this study found a continuum emerged where it was discovered that there were a number of different trajectories to a ‘journey of acceptance’. This study offers new insights into understanding why some victims appear to reject or accept the victim label, whilst recognising that the different trajectories towards repeat victimisation are not confined to a distinct event but more broadly emanate from the victim’s own environment and relationships.
QCD at non-zero chemical potential and temperature from the lattice
Creators: name: Allton, C. R.
name: Ejiri, S.
name: Hands, S. J.
name: Kaczmarek, O.
name: Karsch, F.
name: Laermann, E.
name: Schmidt, Ch.
name: Scorzato, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A study of QCD at non-zero chemical potential, mu, and temperature, T, is performed using the lattice technique. The transition temperature (between the confined and deconfined phases) is determined as a function of mu and is found to be in agreement with other work. In addition the variation of the pressure and energy density with mu is obtained for small positive mu. These results are of particular relevance for heavy-ion collision experiments.
description: Invited paper presented at the Joint Workshop on Physics at the Japanese Hadron Facility, March 2002, Adelaide. 10 pages, uses ws-procs9x6.cls style file (provided)
Tauberian-Cardy formula with spin
Creators: name: Pal, Sridip
name: Sun, Zhengdi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We prove a $2$ dimensional Tauberian theorem in context of $2$ dimensional conformal field theory. The asymptotic density of states with conformal weight $(h,\bar{h})\to (\infty,\infty)$ for any arbitrary spin is derived using the theorem. We further rigorously show that the error term is controlled by the twist parameter and insensitive to spin. The sensitivity of the leading piece towards spin is discussed. We identify a universal piece in microcanonical entropy when the averaging window is large. An asymptotic spectral gap on $(h,\bar{h})$ plane, hence the asymptotic twist gap is derived. We prove an universal inequality stating that in a compact unitary $2$D CFT without any conserved current $Ag\leq \frac{π(c-1)r^2}{24}$ is satisfied, where $g$ is the twist gap over vacuum and $A$ is the minimal "areal gap", generalizing the minimal gap in dimension to $(h',\bar{h}')$ plane and $r=\frac{4\sqrt{3}}π\simeq 2.21$. We investigate density of states in the regime where spin is parametrically larger than twist with both going to infinity. Moreover, the large central charge regime is studied. We also probe finite twist, large spin behavior of density of states.
description: Multiple figures and inequalities! v2: ref updated, Eq 1.30 modified
Irreducibility of Equisingular Families of Curves - Improved Conditions
Creators: name: Keilen, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 14H10; 14H15; 14H20; Secondary 14J26; 14J27; 14J28; 14J70

description: In math.AG/0108089 we gave sufficient conditions for the irreducibility of the family V of irreducible curves in the linear system |D| with precisely r singular points of topological respectively analytical types S1,...,Sr on several classes of smooth projective surfaces S. The conditions where of the form (tau'(S1)+2)^2 +...+ (tau'(Sr)+2)^2 < c*(D-K)^2, where tau' is some invariant of singularity types, K is the canonical divisor of S and c is some constant. In the present paper we improve this condition, that is the constant c, by a factor 9.
description: This article uses the notation introduced in math.AG/0108089, and many results proved there. 12 pages
Cinema "Turns": Catalan Creative Documentary
Creators: name: Sainz Delgado, Celia
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2020

description: This thesis focuses on four women-directed films as a way to illustrate some characteristics shared by the new Catalan creative documentary: El cielo gira ( The Sky Turns, dir. Mercedes Álvarez, 2004), Nedar (Swim, dir. Carla Subirana, 2008), La plaga (The Plague, dir. Neus Ballús, 2013), and Penèlope (Penelope, dir. Eva Vila, 2018). My aim is to highlight their alternative cinematographic strategies, which stray from the hegemonic discourses of documentary filmmaking. In so doing, I analyze these films from three different angles: the relationship between the filmmaker and the material world; the alternative modalities of time; and the haptic connection between the spectator and the screen. Instead of preparing a traditional thesis in manuscript form, I engage with these films through a video-essay, the most appropriate mode of academic rhetoric and presentation to address this topic (Keathley 190). Entitled Cinema “Turns”: Catalan Creative Documentary, my video-essay articulates my study into three parts: in the first part, I analyze the limits of the realist discourse; in the second, I focus on how these films approach temporality; and in the third, I address their haptic visuality.
To view the accompanying video essay, please download the additional file below.
Multiple Superconducting Phases in New Heavy Fermion Superconductor PrOs4Sb12
Creators: name: Izawa, K.
name: Nakajima, Y.
name: Goryo, J.
name: Matsuda, Y.
name: Osaki, S.
name: Sugawara, H.
name: Sato, H.
name: Thalmeier, P.
name: Maki, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The superconducting gap structure of recently discovered heavy fermion superconductor PrOs4Sb12 was investigated by using thermal transport measurements in magnetic field rotated relative to the crystal axes. We demonstrate that a novel change in the symmetry of the superconducting gap function occurs deep inside the superconducting state, giving a clear indication of the presence of two distinct superconducting phases with twofold and fourfold symmetries. We infer that the gap functions in both phases have a point node singularity, in contrast to the familiar line node singularity observed in almost all unconventional superconductors.
description: 4 Pages, 4 Figures
Treating the Revolution: Health Care and Solidarity in El Salvador and Nicaragua in the 1980s
Creators: name: McWilliams, Brittany
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2020

description: TREATING THE REVOLUTION: HEALTH CARE AND SOLIDARITY IN EL SALVADOR AND NICARAGUA IN THE 1980S
MAY 2020
BRITTANY MCWILLIAMS, B.A., NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
M.A., UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST
Directed by: Professor Kevin A. Young
Health care played an important role in the revolutions of El Salvador and Nicaragua. Both the Sandinistas and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) prioritized popular health throughout the 1980s. Clinics and hospitals served as sites of revolution that drew healthcare solidarity activists from the United States. These health internationalists worked to build community-level networks that relied upon trained medical volunteers. In both El Salvador and Nicaragua, women comprised a bulk of the community health workers. These women chose to interact with revolution by building on radical promises of universal healthcare access. Healthcare solidarity activists trained community volunteers and encouraged women to pursue their own needs within the revolutionary frameworks. Health internationalists actively undermined United States’ policies toward Central America. In the 1980s, the United States implemented economic policies and supported military violence that targeted healthcare infrastructure. In training community health workers, treating civilians, sharing knowledge through international exchange, and sending funds and medical supplies, health activists mitigated some of the damage being done. This thesis posits that health care was an important site of revolution for Central Americans and internationalists alike. By choosing to mend bodies, medical activists stood in direct opposition to the violence of the decade. They also served as fundamental to the revolution because they helped carry out the will of the people. The revolutions rested on the hope of improving the lives of every day Nicaraguans and Salvadorans. As the violence of the 1980s forced the guerillas of El Salvador and the leaders of Nicaragua to focus on war, the people continued to implement revolutionary health goals at the community level. This thesis argues that understanding how health internationalists, women, and community activists engaged revolutionary ideas of medicine is vital to the study of 1980s Central America.
Anaphothrips whyalla Mound & Masumoto 2009, sp. n.
Creators: name: Mound, Laurence A.
name: Masumoto, Masami
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Thysanoptera
Thripidae
Anaphothrips
Anaphothrips whyalla

description: Anaphothrips whyalla sp. n.
(Figs 158–162)
 Female macroptera. Body light brown, head dark brown, antennal segments I–II dark brown, III-IV largely yellow, V-IX brown, but V slightly paler; wings pale; tergite IX setae shaded. Head wider than long, cheeks almost straight, transversely reticulate behind eyes, ocellar triangle with little or no sculpture; eyes with 6 pigmented facets; ocellar setae III within ocellar triangle, slightly anterior to level of anterior margins of hind ocelli (Fig. 159); postocular setae not transverse, setae I–III along inner and posterior margins of eye. Antennae 9-segmented; II without microtrichia; III–IV slender with weakly rounded margins and small forked sensorium; VI weakly pedicellate, suture between VI–VII transverse (Fig. 158). Pronotum reticulate; posteromarginal setae subequal in size. Metascutal reticulations small medially (Fig. 160); median setae fine and well back from anterior margin; MCS present. Prosternal ferna divided medially. Fore wing first vein with about 10 setae on basal half and 2 or 3 setae on distal half; second vein with 15–17 setae irregularly spaced, 2 setae basal to veinal fork; clavus with 6–7 veinal setae and one basal seta (Fig. 162). Abdominal tergites I–VII with faint transverse sculpture medially, lateral reticulation bearing small microtrichia; VIII posterior margin with no comb medially but a few small microtrichia laterally (Fig. 161), spiracular area small; IX with S1–S2 capitate (Fig. 161); X with longitudinal sculpture lines, S1 capitate. Sternite VII median setae far in front of posterior margin.
 Measurements (holotype, in microns). Body length 1600. Head, length 110; width across eyes 150. Pronotum, length 135; maximum width 200. Fore wing, length 780; median width 57; first vein longest seta in basal row 15. Tergite IV S1 setae 7. Tergite IX, MD setae 12; PM S1 setae 75. Tergite X, length 80; PM S1 setae 65. Antennal segments III–IX, 50, 45, 38, 38, 12, 10, 15.
 Specimens examined. Holotype female macroptera, South Australia, 14km north of Port Augusta, from Acacia oswaldii, 13.iii.1996 (LAM 2969).
 Comments. This species is based on a single specimen, but the capitate major setae on tergites IX and X are unique within this genus (Fig. 161). In most species these major setae are acute, although in both A. parsonsiae and A. westringiae their apices are chisel-shaped.
description: Published as part of Mound, Laurence A. & Masumoto, Masami, 2009, Australian Thripinae of the Anaphothrips genus-group (Thysanoptera), with three new genera and thirty-three new species, pp. 1-76 in Zootaxa 2042 (1) on page 56, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2042.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5313983
The contribution of the four-parton final states to gamma* gamma* -> hadrons
Creators: name: Del Duca, V.
name: Maltoni, F.
name: Trocsanyi, Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the analysis of the total cross section for the gamma* gamma* -> hadrons process, we include the four parton final states, which are part of the O(alpha_s^2) corrections. The four-parton final states contain the diagrams with gluon exchange in the crossed channel, which constitute the leading order of the BFKL resummation. We show that the diagrams with gluon exchange in the crossed channel play an important role in the large Y region, however their contribution to the cross section must be evaluated exactly. In fact, the high-energy limit, which constitutes the kinematic framework of the BFKL resummation, is not sufficiently accurate at LEP2 energies. The inclusion of the diagrams with gluon exchange in the crossed channel reduces the discrepancy between the theory and the LEP2 data collected by the L3 Collaboration, but the data still lie above the theory, even allowing for a large scale uncertainty in the theory. Thus, in order to describe accurately the data for gamma* gamma* -> hadrons in the large Y region, corrections of an order higher than O(alpha_s^2) seem to be necessary.
description: 32 pages, 10 figures, published version
Realizing a scalable building block of a U(1) gauge theory with cold atomic mixtures
Creators: name: Mil, Alexander
name: Zache, Torsten V.
name: Hegde, Apoorva
name: Xia, Andy
name: Bhatt, Rohit P.
name: Oberthaler, Markus K.
name: Hauke, Philipp
name: Berges, Jürgen
name: Jendrzejewski, Fred
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the fundamental laws of physics, gauge fields mediate the interaction between charged particles. An example is quantum electrodynamics -- the theory of electrons interacting with the electromagnetic field -- based on U(1) gauge symmetry. Solving such gauge theories is in general a hard problem for classical computational techniques. While quantum computers suggest a way forward, it is difficult to build large-scale digital quantum devices required for complex simulations. Here, we propose a fully scalable analog quantum simulator of a U(1) gauge theory in one spatial dimension. To engineer the local gauge symmetry, we employ inter-species spin-changing collisions in an atomic mixture. We demonstrate the experimental realization of the elementary building block as a key step towards a platform for large-scale quantum simulations of continuous gauge theories.
Tertiary treatment of municipal wastewater using isolated algal strains: treatment efficiency and value-added products recovery
Creators: name: Rani, Swati
name: Chowdhury, Raja
name: Wendong Tao
name: Srinivasan, Asha
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Two microalgal strains (Chlorella sorokiniana, A&B,) grown optimally at pH 9 (A) and 7 (B) were isolated from a municipal wastewater treatment plant. These strains were used to check their efficacy for nutrients and organic carbon removal capacities from the tertiary wastewater. The strains were characterised using 18S rDNA sequencing method and both the strains closely related to Chlorella sorokiniana. Different inoculum doses (IDs) of both the strains were tried to check their efficacy on wastewater treatment. Due to the increase in the IDs, hydraulic retention time decreased from 6 d to 1 d. On an average, 12–100% of total kjeldahl nitrogen, 53–96% NO3–N, and 59–92% PO4–P, were removed. Despite the same growth environment, strain A with the highest ID (700 mg/L) showed the best performance in terms of overall organic carbon removal, nutrient removal, and value-added products recovery. Strain A showed an increase in carbohydrate and protein content by 42% and 13%, respectively. Both the strains showed luxury phosphorus uptake and found suitable for advanced wastewater treatment.
Are Two Rents Better than None? When Monopoly Harvester Co-ops are Preferred to a Rent Dissipated Resource Sector
Creators: name: Manning, Dale T.
name: Uchida, Hirotsugu
name: Manning, Dale T.
name: Uchida, Hirotsugu
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Resource rent
subject: cooperatives
subject: fishery
subject: antitrust law
subject: monopoly rent

description: This paper evaluates the conditions under which a fish-harvester cooperative (co-op) with monopoly power represents a preferable outcome when compared to a rent dissipated fishery. Currently, United States anti-trust law prevents harvesters from coordinating to restrict output. In a fishery, this coordination can represent an improvement, despite the creation of market power because a monopolist builds the resource stock. We show, analytically, how a monopolist harvester co-op generates both resource and monopoly rent. While the monopolist generates monopoly rent by restricting production to generate higher prices, it also manages the fish stock to lower stock dependent harvesting costs. We demonstrate the conditions under which a monopoly is likely to be favored over rent dissipation. Given that a monopoly can be efficiency-improving in a common property resource sector, policymakers should consider both the costs and benefits of co-op formation in the case of a rent dissipated fishery.
Reshuffling the OPE: Delocalized Operator Expansion
Creators: name: Hoang, A. H.
name: Hofmann, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A prescription for the short-distance expansion of Euclidean current correlators based on a delocalized modification of the multipole expansion of perturbative short-distance coefficient functions is proposed that appreciates the presence of nonlocal physics in the nonperturbative QCD vacuum. This expansion converges better than the local Wilson OPE, which is recovered in the limit of infinite resolution. As a consequence, the usual local condensates in the Wilson OPE become condensates that depend on a resolution parameter and that can be expressed as an infinite series of local condensates with increasing dimension. In a calculation of the nonperturbative correction to the ground state energy level of heavy quarkonia the improved convergence properties of the delocalized expansion are demonstrated. Phenomenological evidence is gathered that the gluon condensate, often being the leading nonperturbative parameter of the Wilson OPE, is indeed a function of resolution. The delocalized expansion is applied to derive a leading order scaling relation for $f_D/f_B$ in the heavy mass expansion.
description: 28 pages, 4 figures, replaced with version published in PRD
Untwinned YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{7-δ}$ thin films on MgO substrates: a platform to study strain effects on the local orders in cuprates
Creators: name: Arpaia, Riccardo
name: Andersson, Eric
name: Kalaboukhov, Alexei
name: Schröder, Elsebeth
name: Trabaldo, Edoardo
name: Ciancio, Regina
name: Dražić, Goran
name: Orgiani, Pasquale
name: Bauch, Thilo
name: Lombardi, Floriana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have grown untwinned YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{7-δ}$ (YBCO) films on (110) MgO substrates that were pre-annealed at high temperature in oxygen atmosphere. The annealing results in surface reconstruction with shallow facets, which induce the suppression of the YBCO twinning domains, and the preferential alignment of the CuO chains along one of the in-plane directions of the substrate. Because of the large mismatch between the in-plane lattice parameters of film and substrate, the strain induced by the MgO into the YBCO layer is strong and very peculiar. The YBCO film is compressed, with respect to the bulk, and presents a unidirectional buckling of the atomic planes, along the chains' direction, due to a deformation of the copper-oxygen octahedra. The YBCO films, which can be grown with thicknesses down to few unit cells and oxygen doping levels spanning most of the superconducting dome, are patterned into nanowires with dimensions down to 50 nm. The anisotropies due to the untwinning state are preserved in these structures; moreover, additional anisotropies appear, in ultrathin structures where strain effects become more pronounced. Such untwinned and compressively strained films can therefore be used as a platform to study the interplay between strain and the various local orders in the normal state of YBCO.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures
Diorganyl tellurides as substrates in Sonogashira coupling reactions under mild conditions
Creators: name: Shaozhong Zhang
name: Ailneni, Chandra
name: Osamah Al-Mohammed Baqer
name: Mahati Lolla
name: Mannava, Bala Bharathi
name: Parvinlal Siraswal
name: Changchi Yen
name: Jin, Jin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: A new method of Sonogashira coupling reactions between diorganyl tellurides and terminal alkynes is reported. The coupling reactions are performed using Pd(dppf)Cl2 as a catalyst, CuI as a co-catalyst in the presence of K2CO3 in DMSO. The reactions are carried out at room temperature and completed within 2 h when phenyl acetylene is used as a terminal alkyne. For aliphatic terminal alkynes, such as 1-hexyne and 1-octyne, an elevated temperature and longer reaction time are needed for the completion of the reactions. This process results in good yields of Sonogashira coupling products which is applicable for diaryl, divinyl and dialkynyl tellurides but not applicable for dialkyl tellurides.
Measurement of B-->K*gamma Branching Fractions and Charge Asymmetries
Creators: name: Aubert, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The branching fractions of the exclusive decays $B^0\to K^{*0}γ$ and $B^+ \to K^{*+}γ$ are measured from a sample of $(22.74\pm 0.36)\times 10^6$ $B\bar B$ decays collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP II asymmetric $e^{+}e^{-}$ collider. We find ${\cal B}(B^0\to K^{*0}γ) = (4.23\pm 0.40({\rm stat.})\pm 0.22({\rm sys.}))\times 10^{-5}$, ${\cal B}(B^+\to K^{*+}γ) = (3.83\pm 0.62({\rm stat.})\pm 0.22({\rm sys.}))\times 10^{-5}$ and constrain the CP-violating charge asymmetry to be $-0.170 < A_{CP}(B \to K^*γ) < 0.082$ at 90% C.L.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Physical Review Letters
Our Souls are Already Cared For: Indigenous Reactions to Religious Colonialism in Seventeenth-Century New England, New France, and New Mexico
Creators: name: Coughlin, Gail
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2020

description: This thesis takes a comparative approach in examining the reactions of residents of three seventeenth-century Christian missions: Natick in New England, Kahnawake in New France, and Ohkay Owingeh, New Mexico in New Spain, to religious colonialism. Particular attention is paid to their religious beliefs and participation in colonial warfare. This thesis argues that missions in New England, New France, and New Mexico were spaces of Indigenous culture and autonomy, not due to differing colonial practices of colonizing empires, but due to the actions, beliefs, and worldviews of Indigenous residents of missions. Indigenous peoples, no matter which European powers they interacted with, reacted to Christian worldviews that permeated all aspects of European colonial cultures.