cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
International relations and national policies of Latin American broadcasting
Creators: name: Fox, Elizabeth Russell
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: The mass media are one of the most striking developments of modern Latin America. The spread of television and radio from experimental hobbies of elites to the mass coverage of today rivals the magnitude and speed of phenomena of urban growth and industrialization. Within a generation, radio and television were ubiquitous, revolutionizing the way people got information and news, spent their leisure time, and consumed. These changes did not go unnoticed by those sectors most affected: the state, political parties, commerce, and the media industries themselves. How the different sectors of society dealt with the distribution of broadcasting's benefits and obligations is the subject of national policy. International relations also played a role in the evolution of Latin American broadcasting, notably the U.S. commercial broadcasting industry, foreign governments, and trans-national corporations, advertising and selling their products worldwide. This study analyzes the distinct patterns of conflict and accommodation that accompanied the introduction and growth of radio and television in eight Latin American countries. As a form of comparative-historical analysis, it examines the relationships and different spheres of influence of international relations and national policies of broadcasting in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela. It shows patterns and accents contrasts in the events resulting in the monopolistic and politically autonomous broadcasting industries that formed or are forming in each country. By looking at more than one country and contrasting similar periods and conflicts over time, the study builds a framework for understanding patterns of domestic media policies and assessing the strong but not determinant force of the images and influences of U.S. commercial broadcasting. Latin American broadcasting as it stands today is not an atavist product of poverty, underdevelopment, and tyranny, nor is it an exclusive product of U.S. imperialism. Foreign influence was exerted strategically, randomly, and pervasively over the course of many decades. Yet, more than the product of their foreign relations, Latin American broadcasting industries are the product of a complex interplay of strong and weak governments, authoritarianism and populism, domestic and foreign markets, and largely excluded social forces.
Additional file 1 of High hepatocyte growth factor expression in primary tumor predicts better overall survival in male breast cancer
Creators: name: Qiu, Si-Qi
name: Rooijen, Johan Van
name: Nienhuis, Hilde H.
name: Vegt, Bert Van Der
name: Timmer-Bosscha, Hetty
name: Leeuwen-Stok, Elise Van
name: Walenkamp, Annemiek M. E.
name: Deurzen, Carolien H. M. Van
name: Bock, Geertruida H. De
name: Vries, Elisabeth G. E. De
name: Schröder, Carolien P.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Pattern of treatment for 487 patients without metastasis at diagnosis.
A post-merger enhancement only in star-forming Type 2 Seyfert galaxies: the deep learning view
Creators: name: Avirett-Mackenzie, M. S.
name: Villforth, C.
name: Huertas-Company, M.
name: Wuyts, S.
name: Alexander, D. M.
name: Bonoli, S.
name: Lapi, A.
name: Lopez, I. E.
name: Almeida, C. Ramos
name: Shankar, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Supermassive black holes require a reservoir of cold gas at the centre of their host galaxy in order to accrete and shine as active galactic nuclei (AGN). Major mergers have the ability to drive gas rapidly inwards, but observations trying to link mergers with AGN have found mixed results due to the difficulty of consistently identifying galaxy mergers in surveys. This study applies deep learning to this problem, using convolutional neural networks trained to identify simulated post-merger galaxies from survey-realistic imaging. This provides a fast and repeatable alternative to human visual inspection. Using this tool, we examine a sample of ~8500 Seyfert 2 galaxies (L[OIII] ~ $10^{38.5 - 42}$ erg/s) at z < 0.3 in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and find a merger fraction of $2.19_{-0.17}^{+0.21}$% compared with inactive control galaxies, in which we find a merger fraction of $2.96_{-0.20}^{+0.26}$%, indicating an overall lack of mergers among AGN hosts compared with controls. However, matching the controls to the AGN hosts in stellar mass and star formation rate reveals that AGN hosts in the star-forming blue cloud exhibit a ~$2\times$ merger enhancement over controls, while those in the quiescent red sequence have significantly lower relative merger fractions, leading to the observed overall deficit due to the differing $M_{\ast} - $SFR distributions. We conclude that while mergers are not the dominant trigger of all low-luminosity, obscured AGN activity in the nearby Universe, they are more important to AGN fuelling in galaxies with higher cold gas mass fractions as traced through star formation.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS. 20 pages, 13 figures (+ 5 in appendix)
Analysis of National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Chicago HelpLine Referral Data (2019-2020)
Creators: name: Rapoport, Andy
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: mental health
subject: health call center
subject: Chicago
subject: mental health services
subject: telehealth
subject: Mental Health Services
subject: Call Centers
subject: Telemedicine
subject: Illinois--Chicago

description: Thank you for the wonderful help by Joe, as well as the opportunity to work with the dataset and Jim, the advisor team. I also received R assistance (they did not view dataset), from connections I have who are skilled with R and/or Excel: George Abitante, Felix Angelov, Scarlett Wardrop.
description: Purpose:  NAMI Chicago has a HelpLine for those who wish to contact them with mental health & wellness needs.1 There is a lot of data that is logged regarding these calls, and a lot of it is being analyzed already; however, there is an area in which analysis is definitely still needed, specifically with respect to resource connections, i.e., referrals. In other words, data pertains to what happens after a caller interfaces with the NAMI Chicago HelpLine & is directed toward a resource. In some cases, there are specific follow-ups by NAMI Chicago that happen. The objective is to provide quality assurance program evaluation and feedback to NAMI Chicago about using de-identified call data to analyze their processes: potential areas at the outset included barriers to referrals, facilitators, areas for improvement, etc. Procedures: The purpose of this research is quality assurance around barriers to follow-up identified by NAMI Chicago call center responders and to assess the frequency of the most typical barriers. NAMI Chicago provides telephone referrals to callers seeking mental health services throughout the Chicago area. It was estimated that 13,000 calls were fielded by NAMI in 2020 and an analysis of the barriers experienced by callers seeking referrals to mental health services will help NAMI improve services to people in the community. This analysis has ended up examining calls placed across all of 2019, as well as all of 2020.
Hadron resonance gas and nonperturbative QCD vacuum at finite temperature
Creators: name: Agasian, Nikita O.
name: Fedorov, Sergei M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the nonperturbative QCD vacuum with two light quarks at finite temperature in the framework of hadron resonance gas. Temperature dependence of the quark and gluon condensates in the confined phase are obtained. We demonstrate that the quark condensate and one half (chromo-electric component) of gluon condensate evaporate at the same temperature, which corresponds to the temperature of quark-hadron phase transition. Critical temperature is T_c~190 MeV when temperature shift of hadron masses is taken into account.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures; to appear in JETP Lett.; v2: references added
Clustering of Local Extrema in Planck CMB maps
Creators: name: Sadr, A. Vafaei
name: Movahed, S. M. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The clustering of local extrema will be exploited to examine Gaussianity, asymmetry, and the footprint of the cosmic-string network on the CMB observed by Planck. The number density of local extrema ($n_{\rm pk}$ for peak and $n_{\rm tr}$ for trough) and sharp clipping ($n_{\rm pix}$) statistics support the Gaussianity hypothesis for all component separations. However, the pixel at the threshold reveals a more consistent treatment with respect to end-to-end simulations. A very tiny deviation from associated simulations in the context of trough density, in the threshold range $θ\in [-2-0]$ for NILC and CR component separations, are detected. The unweighted two-point correlation function, of the local extrema, illustrates good consistency between different component separations and corresponding Gaussian simulations for almost all available thresholds. However, for high thresholds, a small deficit in the clustering of peaks is observed with respect to the Planck fiducial $Λ$CDM model. To put a significant constraint on the amplitude of the mass function based on the value of $Ψ$ around the Doppler peak ($θ\approx 70-75$ arcmin), we should consider $\vartheta\lesssim 0.0$. The scale-independent bias factors for the peak above a threshold for large separation angle and high threshold level are in agreement with the value expected for a pure Gaussian CMB. Applying the $n_{\rm pk}$, $n_{\rm tr}$, $Ψ_{\rm pk-pk}$ and $Ψ_{\rm tr-tr}$ measures on the tessellated CMB map with patches of $7.5^2$ deg$^2$ size prove statistical isotropy in the Planck maps. The peak clustering analysis puts the upper bound on the cosmic-string tension, $Gμ^{(\rm up)} \lesssim 5.59\times 10^{-7}$, in SMICA.
description: 17 pages, 7 figures, and 3 tables. Including major revision and matched to the accepted version that appeared in MNRAS
Andrena (Diandrena) puthua
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
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Andrenidae
Andrena
Andrena puthua

description: Andrena (Diandrena) puthua (Cockerell, 1910)
[Holotype: ANSP; ♂ (labeled as female) Pasadena, Los Angeles Co., California, US; April 8. 1909]
Andrena puthua flies in the morning and early afternoon and specializes on pollen from plants in the genus Lasthenia Cass. (Thorp 1969). This species occurs in California, USA and BC, Mexico. We examined 19 specimens collected in March 2014 at the Baja California Mountains vouchered at the CNIN (12 ♀, 7 ♂), and one collected in April 1988 at SDNHM (1 ♀). Three females were collected as part of this project, two in March 2021, one in the Succulent Coastal Matorral, and the other in the Central Desert and another in Coastal Sage Matorral in Valle de Guadalupe in May 2021 (MABC). See fig. 11.
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 53, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Changes in diversity of farm income in Member States of the European Union
Creators: name: Chmielewska, Barbara
name: Chmielewska, Barbara
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: International Development
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: farm income
subject: accession
subject: diversity
subject: Member States of the European Union

description: Following enlargement of the European Union (EU) in 2004 and in the subsequent years, 13 new members, including Poland (EU-13), were covered with the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). The introduced reforms contributed to improvement of the agrarian structure and a drop in the labour inputs in agriculture. Consequently, countries from the group of the EU-13 were characterised by higher farm income growth dynamics than countries that have been members of the EU for a much longer time (EU-15). The paper aims at assessment of whether the period following the accession was marked by real convergences (in 2010 prices) of farm incomes per labour input unit expressed in AWU or whether the process was reversed – there occurred divergence between the EU Member States, especially between the group of the EU-13 and the EU-15. To this end, comparative analysis method was used relying on measure of diversity of distribution used in statistics. The study was mainly based on the Economic Accounts for Agriculture (EAA, Eurostat). The study covers the years between 2004 and 2016.
Heart of Darkness: the influence of galactic dynamics on quenching star formation in galaxy spheroids
Creators: name: Gensior, Jindra
name: Kruijssen, J. M. Diederik
name: Keller, Benjamin W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quenched galaxies are often observed to contain a strong bulge component. The key question is whether this reflects a causal connection - can star formation be quenched dynamically by bulges or the spheroids of early-type galaxies? We systematically investigate the impact of these morphological components on star formation, by performing a suite of hydrodynamical simulations of isolated galaxies containing a spheroid. We vary the bulge mass and scale radius, while the total initial stellar, halo and gas mass are kept constant, with a gas fraction of 5 per cent. In addition, we consider two different sub-grid star formation prescriptions. The first follows most simulations in the literature by assuming a constant star formation efficiency per free-fall time, whereas in the second model it depends on the gas virial parameter, following high-resolution simulations of turbulent fragmentation. Across all simulations, central spheroids increase the gas velocity dispersion towards the galactic centre. This increases the gravitational stability of the gas disc, suppresses fragmentation and star formation, and results in galaxies hosting extremely smooth and quiescent gas discs that fall below the galaxy main sequence. These effects amplify when using the more sophisticated, dynamics-dependent star formation model. Finally, we discover a pronounced relation between the central stellar surface density and star formation rate (SFR), such that the most bulge-dominated galaxies show the strongest deviation from the main sequence. We conclude that the SFR of galaxies is not only set by the balance between accretion and feedback, but carries a (sometimes dominant) dependence on the gravitational potential.
description: 25 pages, 22 figures, 2 tables; updated to version accepted by MNRAS (April 23, 2020)
Comparative cognitive processing of safety, threat and neutral cues by individuals with panic disorder
Creators: name: Heiber, Patricia Gabriela
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Whereas research supports a hypersensitivity to threat cues by individuals with anxiety disorders, less is known about attention to safety cues. In this investigation a cognitive psychology paradigm was utilized to empirically test the attentional biases in individuals with panic disorder towards both safety and threat cues. With a perceptual recognition task, different simultaneous pairings of safety, neutral, and threat cues were presented to demonstrate attentional focus. Specifically, 15 individuals with panic disorder and 15 normal controls were asked to read 18 pairs of threat, safety, and neutral words presented one pair at a time on a computer screen. Pairings were shown in all possible combinations. Words rated high in threat and safety value were obtained from polling 16 individuals with and 16 individuals without panic disorder. A single tachistoscopic presentation of all previously presented (primed) words interspersed with an equal number of non-presented threat, safety and neutral words immediately followed. Following the perceptual recognition task, the Know-Remember Test was administered to measure explicit and implicit memory for the primed words. There was no significant difference between perceptual recognition of threat, safety, or neutral words by the panic disorder group as compared to the normal control group. Nor did word pairings significantly affect perceptual recognition rates. Attentional bias and selective attention to threat or safety were not demonstrated in this investigation. Furthermore, the interpretation of these findings did not support an emotionality hypothesis to explain differential cognitive processing in anxiety disorders. The panic group and the normal control group had comparable implicit memory of study words, and implicit memory of a word was not related to whether a word was neutral, safe, or threatening. However, the panic group had significantly more explicit memory than the normal control group for threat words as compared to neutral or safety words. This enhanced explicit memory for threat was not related to whether threat was paired with threat, safety or neutral words. An enhanced explicit memory for threat remained even when the effects of state and trait anxiety and depression were statistically controlled.
Gravitational collapse from smooth initial data with vanishing radial pressure
Creators: name: Mahajan, Ashutosh
name: Goswami, Rituparno
name: Joshi, Pankaj S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study here the spherical gravitational collapse assuming initial data to be necessarily smooth, as motivated by the requirements based on physical reasonableness. A tangential pressure model is constructed and analyzed in order to understand the final fate of collapse explicitly in terms of the density and pressure parameters at the initial epoch from which the collapsedevelops. It is seen that both black holes and naked singularities are produced as collapse end states even when the initial data is smooth. We show that the outcome is decided entirely in terms of the initial data, as given by density, pressure and velocity profiles at the initial epoch, from which the collapse evolves.
description: 10 pages,3 figures,revtex4,Revised Version
Mean Value of the Quantum Potential and Uncertainty Relations
Creators: name: Nicacio, F.
name: Falciano, F. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we determine a lower bound to the mean value of the quantum potential for an arbitrary state. Furthermore, we derive a generalized uncertainty relation that is stronger than the Robertson-Schrödinger inequality and hence also stronger than the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. The mean value is then associated to the nonclassical part of the covariances of the momenta operator. This imposes a minimum bound for the nonclassical correlations of momenta and gives a physical characterization of the classical and semiclassical limits of quantum systems. The results obtained primarily for pure states are then generalized for density matrices describing mixed states.
description: 15 pages, 2 figures
Level of the current liquidity ratio versus financial efficiency of dairy cooperatives
Creators: name: Ganc, Marzena
name: Ganc, Marzena
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Production Economics
subject: dairy cooperatives
subject: current financial liquidity
subject: efficiency of dairy cooperatives

description: The study shows the efficiency of the dairy cooperative depending on the level of their current financial liquidity. Cooperatives were grouped according to the current liquidity ratio using quartiles methods and significance e test of the differences between the groups was conducted on the groups. Adopted to verify the hypothesis that dairy cooperatives with liquidity above the recommended standards of literature show highest efficiency adopted for verification. The most advantageous financial conditions were characterized by dairy cooperatives with liquidity above and within the limits recommended in the literature. This may be due to the fact that having adequate levels of liquidity may be in the form of cooperative farming more important than maximizing financial performance.
Proper-Time Formalism in a Constant Magnetic Field at Finite Temperature and Chemical Potential
Creators: name: Inagaki, Tomohiro
name: Kimura, Daiji
name: Murata, Tsukasa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate scalar and spinor field theories in a constant magnetic field at finite temperature and chemical potential. In an external constant magnetic field the exact solution of the two-point Green functions are obtained by using the Fock-Schwinger proper-time formalism. We extend it to the thermal field theory and find the expressions of the Green functions exactly for the temperature, the chemical potential and the magnetic field. For practical calculations the contour of the proper-time integral is carefully selected. The physical contour is discussed in a constant magnetic field at finite temperature and chemical potential. As an example, behavior of the vacuum self-energy is numerically evaluated for the free scalar and spinor fields.
description: 17 pages, 4 figures. Compared previous result, comments, figure, reference added and typos corrected
Andrena (Diandrena) subchalybea Viereck 1917
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
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Andrenidae
Andrena
Andrena subchalybea

description: Andrena (Diandrena) subchalybea Viereck, 1917
[Holotype: ANSP (4024); ♀ Southern California, US, 1880]
Andrena subchalybea specializes on pollen from Agoseris Raf. and Lasthenia Cass. (Thorp 1969). This species has been reported in BC state (Ayala et al. 1996). There is one record of A. subchalybea collected in April 1961 from Chaparral area near the boundary with the Lower Colorado Desert. The specimen is vouchered at INHS (GBIF 2023). We reviewed nine females collected in April 1939 in the Succulent Coastal Sage in Rosarito Beach (CASC). See fig. 11.
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 54, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Comparative cognitive processing of safety, threat and neutral cues by individuals with panic disorder
Creators: name: Heiber, Patricia Gabriela
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 5203
subject: Clinical and health psychology

description: Whereas research supports a hypersensitivity to threat cues by individuals with anxiety disorders, less is known about attention to safety cues. In this investigation a cognitive psychology paradigm was utilized to empirically test the attentional biases in individuals with panic disorder towards both safety and threat cues. With a perceptual recognition task, different simultaneous pairings of safety, neutral, and threat cues were presented to demonstrate attentional focus. Specifically, 15 individuals with panic disorder and 15 normal controls were asked to read 18 pairs of threat, safety, and neutral words presented one pair at a time on a computer screen. Pairings were shown in all possible combinations. Words rated high in threat and safety value were obtained from polling 16 individuals with and 16 individuals without panic disorder. A single tachistoscopic presentation of all previously presented (primed) words interspersed with an equal number of non-presented threat, safety and neutral words immediately followed. Following the perceptual recognition task, the Know-Remember Test was administered to measure explicit and implicit memory for the primed words. There was no significant difference between perceptual recognition of threat, safety, or neutral words by the panic disorder group as compared to the normal control group. Nor did word pairings significantly affect perceptual recognition rates. Attentional bias and selective attention to threat or safety were not demonstrated in this investigation. Furthermore, the interpretation of these findings did not support an emotionality hypothesis to explain differential cognitive processing in anxiety disorders. The panic group and the normal control group had comparable implicit memory of study words, and implicit memory of a word was not related to whether a word was neutral, safe, or threatening. However, the panic group had significantly more explicit memory than the normal control group for threat words as compared to neutral or safety words. This enhanced explicit memory for threat was not related to whether threat was paired with threat, safety or neutral words. An enhanced explicit memory for threat remained even when the effects of state and trait anxiety and depression were statistically controlled.
Bulk viscosity in relativistic fluids: from thermodynamics to hydrodynamics
Creators: name: Gavassino, Lorenzo
name: Antonelli, Marco
name: Haskell, Brynmor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The approach of extended irreversible thermodynamics consists of promoting the dissipative fluxes to non-equilibrium thermodynamic variables. In a relativistic context, this naturally leads to the formulation of the theory of Israel and Stewart (1979), which is, to date, one of the most successful theories for relativistic dissipation. Although the generality of the principle makes it applicable to any dissipative fluid, a connection of the Israel-Stewart theory with microphysics has been established, through kinetic theory, only for the case of ideal quantum gases. By performing a convenient change of variables, we provide, for the case of bulk viscosity, an equivalent reformulation of the equations at the basis of extended irreversible thermodynamics. This approach maps any thermodynamic process which contributes to the bulk viscosity into a set of chemical reactions, whose reaction coordinates are abstract parameters describing the displacement from local thermodynamic equilibrium of the fluid element. We apply our new formalism to the case of the relativistic fluids, showing that the Israel-Stewart model for bulk viscosity is just the second-order expansion of a minimal model belonging to a larger class of non-perturbative theories for bulk viscosity which include the nuclear-reaction-mediated bulk viscosity of neutron star matter as a particular case. Furthermore, we show with concrete examples that our formalism provides new ways of computing the bulk viscosity directly and defines a simple prescription for constructing the Israel-Stewart model for a generic bulk-viscous fluid.
description: 31 pages, 5 figures, published on Classical and Quantum Gravity (CQG), see https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6382/abe588/meta
A comparative assessment of the effectiveness of a peer versus a counselor in presenting a date rape prevention intervention program to college students
Creators: name: Savage Miccio, Barbara Lynn
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The study examined the perceived effectiveness of a peer (college senior) versus a professional counselor, as assessed through the Counselor Rating Form (CRF), in presenting the Date Rape Prevention (DRP) video in a sample of undergraduate college students. The three dimensions of Effectiveness that were assessed were Attractiveness, Expertness, and Trustworthiness. Further, an Overall Effectiveness rating combining the assessment of the three dimensions was determined. Four hypotheses postulated that the mean CRF Expertness, Attractiveness, Trustworthiness, and Overall Effectiveness scores for subjects grouped by pre-DRP video information that its presenter's status was a peer would be significantly higher than that for subjects told the presenter was a professional counselor. An experimental, randomized between-subject research design was employed. Data used in hypotheses testing were elicited from 186 undergraduate college students enrolled in six Introductory Psychology courses. Students were divided into two groups, 90 of whom were told the presenter in the DRP video was a peer and 96 of whom were told the presenter in the DRP video was a professional counselor. Data were obtained through the CRF and the Participant Information Inventory (PII). The CRF developed by A. Barak & M. B. LaCrosse in 1975, was used to assess the presenter's effectiveness. The PII was developed by the author for this study to gather demographic information about its participants, participants' personal involvement with date rape and rating of the DRP video. The t-test was used in testing each hypothesis. The standard for significance was p $\le$.05. The findings in this study indicate that subjects who were told the presenter in the DRP video was a peer did not perceive the presenter's "expertness," "attractiveness," "trustworthiness," or "overall effectiveness" differently than did subjects who were told the presenter's status was a professional counselor. Therefore, each of the four study hypotheses was not confirmed. These findings seem to warrant the conclusion that campus intervention programs that are designed to educate undergraduate college students about date rape and teach them behaviors that could lead to the prevention of the problem can be presented as effectively by a peer as they can by a professional counselor.
Additional file 2 of Health systems influence on the pathways of care for lung cancer in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review
Creators: name: Ugochinyere I. Nwagbara
name: Themba G. Ginindza
name: Khumbulani W. Hlongwana
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. Degree of agreement calculation.
KKLT without AdS
Creators: name: Linde, Andrei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: According to the KKLT scenario, metastable dS vacua are formed as a result of uplifting of supersymmetric AdS vacua by $\overline {D3}$ branes. I describe an extended version of this scenario where metastable dS vacua appear after an uplift from a state where the potential of the volume modulus in the absence of $\overline {D3}$ branes would be unbounded below. This mechanism may considerably strengthen vacuum stabilization in the early universe.
description: 10 pages, 2 figures. Discussion section is extended; the version to appear in JHEP
The Giant Pillars of the Carina Nebula
Creators: name: Rathborne, J. M.
name: Brooks, K. J.
name: Burton, M. G.
name: Cohen, M.
name: Bontemps, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Results are presented from a multi-wavelength study of the giant pillars within the Carina Nebula. Using near-IR data from 2MASS, mid-IR data from MSX, 843MHz radio continuum maps from the MOST, and molecular line and continuum observations from the SEST, we investigate the nature of the pillars and search for evidence of ongoing star formation within them. Photodissociation regions (PDRs) exist across the whole nebula and trace the giant pillars, as well as many ridges, filaments, and condensations (Av > 7 mag). Morphological similarities between emission features at 21um and 843MHz adjacent to the PDRs, suggests that the molecular material has been carved by the intense stellar winds and UV radiation from the nearby massive stars. In addition, star forming cores are found at the tips of several of the pillars. Using a stellar density distribution, several candidate embedded clusters are also found. One is clearly seen in the 2MASS images and is located within a dense core (G287.84-0.82). A search for massive young stellar objects and compact HII regions using mid-IR colour criteria, reveal twelve candidates across the complex. Grey-body fits to SEDs for four of these objects are suggestive of OB-stars. We find that massive star formation in the Carina Nebula is occurring across the whole complex and confirm it has been continuous over the past 3 Myrs.
description: 14 pages, 10 figures (low resolution), accepted by A&A
Reading Neural Encodings using Phase Space Methods
Creators: name: Abarbanel, Henry D. I.
name: Tumer, Evren C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Environmental signals sensed by nervous systems are often represented in spike trains carried from sensory neurons to higher neural functions where decisions and functional actions occur. Information about the environmental stimulus is contained (encoded) in the train of spikes. We show how to "read" the encoding using state space methods of nonlinear dynamics. We create a mapping from spike signals which are output from the neural processing system back to an estimate of the analog input signal. This mapping is realized locally in a reconstructed state space embodying both the dynamics of the source of the sensory signal and the dynamics of the neural circuit doing the processing. We explore this idea using a Hodgkin-Huxley conductance based neuron model and input from a low dimensional dynamical system, the Lorenz system. We show that one may accurately learn the dynamical input/output connection and estimate with high precision the details of the input signals from spike timing output alone. This form of "reading the neural code" has a focus on the neural circuitry as a dynamical system and emphasizes how one interprets the dynamical degrees of freedom in the neural circuit as they transform analog environmental information into spike trains.
description: Published in Springer Applied Mathematical Sciences Series Celebratory Volume for the Occasion of the 70th birthday of Larry Sirovich
Additional file 1 of Health systems influence on the pathways of care for lung cancer in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review
Creators: name: Ugochinyere I. Nwagbara
name: Themba G. Ginindza
name: Khumbulani W. Hlongwana
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Search strategy.
A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF A MASTER OF SCIENCE DEGREE IN AGRICULTURAL AND APPLIED ECONOMICS, UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI
Creators: name: Nyang’au, Paul Nyamweya
name: Nzuma, Jonathan
name: Irungu, Patrick
name: Muriithi, Beatrice
name: Nyang’au, Paul Nyamweya
name: Nzuma, Jonathan
name: Irungu, Patrick
name: Muriithi, Beatrice
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: Mango (Mangifera indica) is one of the leading tropical fruits grown in Kenya and is ranked third after banana and pineapples in terms of acreage and total production volume. However, production has fallen below consumption due in part to fruit fly (Bactrocera invadens) infestation. About 40 percent of annual mango production in Kenya estimated at US$ 32 million, is lost due to direct damage of fruit flies. In an effort to improve production, the International center for Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) has developed a set of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) technologies aimed at controlling fruit fly infestation in mangoes. However, the impact of these technologies on the food security are not well understood. This study evaluated the impact of IPM technology for mango fruit fly control on food availability and accessibilty among 600 mango farmers in Mwala and Kangundo sub-Counties selected using a stratified sampling procedure. A seven-day recall was used to elicit Per Capita Calorie Intake while a 30-day recall was used to measure household dietary diversity. To evaluate the impact of IPM on food security the difference-in-difference method (DD) was used. The results indicate that 67 percent of IPM participants in Mwala and 75 percent of nonparticipants in Kangundo were food secure as they had attained the 2,250 Kcal threshold recommended by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS). The OLS regression results show that the IPM technology had a positive impact on per capita calorie intake but not on the quality of food intake (HDDI) estimated by the poison regression. This suggests that farmers using IPM technology benefit from income gains, and higher incomes improve the economic availability to food but not food access. The study recommends that the government should promote IPM technology for the control of mango fruit fly as it is likely to improve the food security of smallholder farmers.
A Distributionally Robust Area Under Curve Maximization Model
Creators: name: Ma, Wenbo
name: Lejeune, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Area under ROC curve (AUC) is a widely used performance measure for classification models. We propose two new distributionally robust AUC maximization models (DR-AUC) that rely on the Kantorovich metric and approximate the AUC with the hinge loss function. We consider the two cases with respectively fixed and variable support for the worst-case distribution. We use duality theory to reformulate the DR-AUC models and derive tractable convex optimization problems. The numerical experiments show that the proposed DR-AUC models -- benchmarked with the standard deterministic AUC and the support vector machine models - perform better in general and in particular improve the worst-case out-of-sample performance over the majority of the considered datasets, thereby showing their robustness. The results are particularly encouraging since our numerical experiments are conducted with training sets of small size which have been known to be conducive to low out-of-sample performance.
Andrena (Erandrena) principalis LaBerge 1986
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
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Andrenidae
Andrena
Andrena principalis

description: Andrena (Erandrena) principalis LaBerge, 1986
[Holotype: INHS; ♀ Buck Meadows-Mather area, Tuolomne Co., California, US; March 28, 1971]
Andrena principalis is the type species for the subgenus Erandrena and specializes on pollen from Arctostaphylos Adanson (LaBerge 1985). This species was previously reported in the Coastal Sage Matorral in Ensenada, 19 mi. S. in February 1946, BC (LaBerge 1986). The MABC team collected an additional specimen of this species (1 ♀) in Valle de Guadalupe in February 2018. See fig. 12.
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 55, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Disease investigation of small indigenous fishes from KaiIla beel in Mymensingh area
Creators: name: Ahmed, G. U.
name: Parveen, R.
name: Sultana, S.
name: Ahmed, G. U.
name: Parveen, R.
name: Sultana, S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Production Economics
subject: Disease
subject: Small fish
subject: Kailla beel

description: An experiment was carried out for a period of ten months from April 2000 to January 2001 in order to investigate diseases of small indigenous fishes through clinical and histopathological techniques. Fishes like Channa punctatus, Puntius ticto and Nandus nandus were collected from KaiIla beel of Mymensingh area on monthly basis. Clinically and pathologically C. punctatus were more affected than other fish and less affected one was N. nandus. Clinically rough skin, mild necrosis, dermal lesion and discoloration of gill were found in C. punctatus. Rough skin, ill health, red spot in ventral region, skin lesion and necrosis in gill were observed in P. ticto. Weak body, ulcer in ventral region and thick gill filament were seen in N. nandus. The observed pathology were necrosis, pyknosis, inflammation, hemorrhage, hypertrophy, hyperplasia and missing of primary and secondary gill lamelle. Monogenetic trematodes and protozoan cysts were found in gill filaments of all the fish species. Fungal granuloma were observed in skin, muscle and liver of C. punctatus and only skin and muscle of P. ticto and N. nandus. The observed diseases were trichodiniasis, myxoboliasis, dactylogyrosis, gyrodactylosis and epizootic ulcerative syndrome (EUS) in the sampled fish species. It was also found that the external organs like skin and gill were more affected than internal organs such as muscle, liver and kidney. The examined fishes of KaiIla beel were more affected towards the coldest months of the year i.e., December and January, in comparison with other months.
Spectral Evolution of weak bursts from SGR 1806-20 observed with INTEGRAL
Creators: name: Gotz, D.
name: Mereghetti, S.
name: Mirabel, I. F.
name: Hurley, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on bursts from the Soft Gamma-Ray Repeater SGR 1806--20 detected with INTEGRAL in October 2003, during a period of moderate activity of the source. The spectral and temporal properties of 21 short bursts are consistent with those found in previous observations, even if these bursts are among the faintest observed in the 15-200 keV range from this source. During some of the bursts a clear spectral evolution is visible. The data also show, for the first time, evidence for a hardness-intensity anti-correlation within SGR 1806--20 bursts.
description: Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics Letters
Variational Time Discretizations of Higher Order and Higher Regularity
Creators: name: Becher, Simon
name: Matthies, Gunar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65L05, 65L20, 65L60

description: We consider a family of variational time discretizations that are generalizations of discontinuous Galerkin (dG) and continuous Galerkin-Petrov (cGP) methods. The family is characterized by two parameters. One describes the polynomial ansatz order while the other one is associated with the global smoothness that is ensured by higher order collocation conditions at both ends of the subintervals. The presented methods provide the same stability properties as dG or cGP. Provided that suitable quadrature rules of Hermite type for evaluating the integrals in the variational conditions are used, the variational time discretization methods are connected to special collocation methods. For this case, we will present error estimates, numerical experiments, and a computationally cheap postprocessing that allows to increase both the accuracy and the global smoothness by one order.
description: 28 pages