cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Typicality of Heisenberg scaling precision in multi-mode quantum metrology
Creators: name: Gramegna, Giovanni
name: Triggiani, Danilo
name: Facchi, Paolo
name: Narducci, Frank A.
name: Tamma, Vincenzo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a measurement setup reaching Heisenberg scaling precision for the estimation of any distributed parameter $φ$ (not necessarily a phase) encoded into a generic $M$-port linear network composed only of passive elements. The scheme proposed can be easily implemented from an experimental point of view since it employs only Gaussian states and Gaussian measurements. Due to the complete generality of the estimation problem considered, it was predicted that one would need to carry out an adaptive procedure which involves both the input states employed and the measurement performed at the output; we show that this is not necessary: Heisenberg scaling precision is still achievable by only adapting a single stage. The non-adapted stage only affects the value of a pre-factor multiplying the Heisenberg scaling precision: we show that, for large values of $M$ and a random (unbiased) choice of the non-adapted stage, this pre-factor takes a typical value which can be controlled through the encoding of the parameter $φ$ into the linear network.
description: 14 pages, 3 figures
Additional file 3 of A Canadian evaluation framework for quality improvement in childhood arthritis: key performance indicators of the process of care
Creators: name: Barber, Claire E. H.
name: Twilt, Marinka
name: Pham, Tram
name: Currie, Gillian R.
name: Benseler, Susanne
name: Yeung, Rae S. M.
name: Batthish, Michelle
name: Blanchette, Nicholas
name: Guzman, Jaime
name: Lang, Bianca
name: LeBlanc, Claire
name: Levy, Deborah M.
name: O’Brien, Christine
name: Schmeling, Heinrike
name: Soon, Gordon
name: Spiegel, Lynn
name: Whitney, Kristi
name: Marshall, Deborah A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3. Summary of proposed Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), modifications and rationale. Summary of modifications to KPIs and rationale by the working group or Delphi panel.
The effective action for the 4-point functions in abelian open superstring theory
Creators: name: de Roo, Mees
name: Eenink, Martijn G. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct the derivative corrections to the four-point vertices in the abelian open string effective action to all orders in alpha'. The result is based on the structure of the string four-point function. Supersymmnetry of these vertices is guaranteed by the supersymmetry of the F^4 term in the effective action. By this construction we establish the existence of an infinite number of supersymmetry invariants, the number of invariants at order alpha'^n grows linearly with n.
description: 11 pages, 1 figure, v2: additional remarks in Section 5, added references, v3: additional remarks in Section 4 and minor corrections
Gender inequality and criminalization: A cross-national analysis of the legal social control of women
Creators: name: Danner, Mona J.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation presents a new thesis regarding gender inequality and the legal control of women. Gender inequality is the departure from parity in the representation of women and men in key dimensions of social life. Different from "women's status," gender inequality reveals disparities in the distribution of material resources to women and men. The study of social control essentially investigates the maintenance of the existing social order for, according to some theorists, the benefit of the materially powerful in a society; control increases when the powerful are threatened. Criminalization, the state's ultimate means of social control, is the selective process of applying the criminal law to social behavior. This new thesis challenges the "liberation hypothesis" of women's criminality and previous quantitative cross-national research in that tradition. I hypothesize that the rate of women's criminalization as a group is inversely related to the distribution of material resources by gender. The study utilizes factor analysis and regression procedures, a cross-national sample of 45 nations, and a cross-sectional research design (circa 1980 data). Eleven social indicators of gender inequality and one measure of national economic development comprise the initial independent variables; the dependent variable is the arrest rate of women aged 15-44 for all crimes. Results reveal that three factors underlie the gender inequality indicators: aspects of urbanization, personal-societal connection, feminized industrialization. The final model tests the significance of these factors and the measure of national wealth as predictors of the dependent variable. The statistically significant model explains 15% of the variance. Gender inequality in the personal-societal connection factor, the only statistically significant independent variable, has an inverse effect on the dependent variable. Nations with lower rates of women's arrests are those nations with greater fertility rates, maternal mortality rates, and female/male age differences at marriage, and lower ratios of women to men in the formal labor force and holding seats in the national legislature. The results indicate that greater inequality between women and men in the personal-societal connection factor seems to decrease the legal social control of women, while less inequality in that domain appears to increase women's criminalization.
ANCA-Associated Vasculitis: An Update
Creators: name: Almaani, Salem
name: Fussner, Lynn A.
name: Brodsky, Sergey
name: Meara, Alexa S.
name: Jayne, David
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: ANCA vasculitis
review
vasculitis
crescentic glomerulonephritis

description: Anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis (AAV) represents a group of small vessel vasculitides characterized by granulomatous and neutrophilic tissue inflammation, often associated with the production of antibodies that target neutrophil antigens. The two major antigens targeted by ANCAs are leukocyte proteinase 3 (PR3) and myeloperoxidase (MPO). AAV can be classified into 3 categories based on patterns of clinical involvement: namely, granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA), microscopic polyangiitis (MPA) and eosinophilic GPA (EGPA). Clinically, AAV involves many organ systems including the lungs, kidneys, skin, and nervous system. The prognosis of AAV has improved dramatically due to advances in the understanding of its pathogenesis and treatment modalities. This review will highlight some of the recent updates in our understanding of the pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, and treatment options in patients with AAV focusing on kidney involvement.
Bcl-2 Family of Proteins in the Control of Mitochondrial Calcium Signalling: An Old Chap with New Roles
Creators: name: Morris, Jordan L.
name: Gillet, Germain
name: Prudent, Julien
name: Popgeorgiev, Nikolay
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: Bcl-2 proteins
mitochondrial calcium homeostasis
VDAC
IP3R
apoptosis
cell migration

description: Bcl-2 family proteins are considered as one of the major regulators of apoptosis. Indeed, this family is known to control the mitochondrial outer membrane permeabilization (MOMP): a central step in the mitochondrial pathway of apoptosis. However, in recent years Bcl-2 family members began to emerge as a new class of intracellular calcium (Ca2+) regulators. At mitochondria-ER contacts (MERCs) these proteins are able to interact with major Ca2+ transporters, thus controlling mitochondrial Ca2+ homeostasis and downstream Ca2+ signalling pathways. Beyond the regulation of cell survival, this Bcl-2-dependent control over the mitochondrial Ca2+ dynamics has far-reaching consequences on the physiology of the cell. Here, we review how the Bcl-2 family of proteins mechanistically regulate mitochondrial Ca2+ homeostasis and how this regulation orchestrates cell death/survival decisions as well as the non-apoptotic process of cell migration.
Baryon quadrupole moment in the 1/N(c) expansion of QCD
Creators: name: Guzman, Victor Miguel Banda
name: Flores-Mendieta, Ruben
name: Hernandez, Johann
name: Rosales-Aldape, Felipe de Jesus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The quadrupole moments of ground state baryons are discussed in the framework of the 1/N(c) expansion of QCD, where N(c) is the number of color charges. Theoretical expressions are first provided assuming an exact SU(3) flavor symmetry, and then the effects of symmetry breaking are accounted for to linear order. The rather scarce experimental information available does not allow a detailed comparison between theory and experiment, so the free parameters in the approach are not determined. Instead, some useful new relations among quadrupole moments, valid even in the presence of first-order symmetry breaking, are provided. The overall predictions of the 1/N(c) expansion are quite enlightening.
description: 20 pages, 7 tables
Phaenops abies
Creators: name: Hallinen, Marie J.
name: Steffens, Wayne P.
name: Schultz, Jennifer L.
name: Aukema, Brian H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Phaenops
Phaenops abies

description: 97. Phaenops abies (Champlain and Knull, 1923)
 New State Record: Carlton County, South side, Ditch Banks Rd. T49, R19W, S18, 22 June–29 June 2001 (trap interval), J. Warren, Lindgren funnel trap baited with (-)-alpha-pinene and (+/-)-seudenol.
 County Records (n = 1): Carlton.
Collection Dates: 22–29 June (trap interval).
 Minnesota Hosts: Unspecified in collection records. Adults recorded on Abies balsamea.
Collection Method: Lindgren funnel trap baited with alpha-pinene and (+/-)-seudenol.
description: Published as part of Hallinen, Marie J., Steffens, Wayne P., Schultz, Jennifer L. & Aukema, Brian H., 2021, The Buprestidae (Coleoptera) of Minnesota, with a Discussion of the Emerald Ash Borer, Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire, pp. 173-190 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 75 (1) on page 185, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-75.1.173, http://zenodo.org/record/4837088
Parents’ experiences of caring for a young child with type 1 diabetes: a systematic review and synthesis of qualitative evidence
Creators: name: Kimbell, B.
name: Lawton, J.
name: Boughton, C.
name: Hovorka, R.
name: Rankin, D.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: Research Article
Nutrition, diet, physical health and endocrinology
Type 1 diabetes
Parents
Child
Qualitative synthesis

description: Abstract: Aims: To synthesise the qualitative evidence on parents’ experiences of caring for a child aged ≤8 years with type 1 diabetes to identify: the challenges they encounter; their views about support received; ways in which support could be improved; and, directions for future research. Methods: We searched Medline, EMBASE, CINAHL, PsycINFO and Web of Science databases to identify qualitative studies reporting parents’ views and experiences of caring for a child with type 1 diabetes aged ≤8 years. Key analytical themes were identified using thematic synthesis. Results: Fourteen studies were included. The synthesis resulted in the generation of two overarching themes. Monopolisation of life describes the all-encompassing impact diabetes could have on parents due to the constant worry they experienced and the perceived need for vigilance. It describes how parents’ caring responsibilities could affect their wellbeing, relationships and finances, and how a lack of trusted sources of childcare and a desire to enable a ‘normal’ childhood constrained personal choices and activities. However, use of diabetes technologies could lessen some of these burdens. Experiences of professional and informal support describes how encounters with healthcare professionals, while generally perceived as helpful, could lead to frustration and anxiety, and how connecting with other parents caring for a child with type 1 diabetes provided valued emotional and practical support. Conclusions: This synthesis outlines the challenges parents encounter, their views about support received and ways in which support might be improved. It also highlights significant limitations in the current literature and points to important areas for future research, including how sociodemographic factors and use of newer diabetes technologies influence parents’ diabetes management practices and experiences. PROSPERO: https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?ID=CRD42019128710
Disobedience and Authority
Creators: name: Marino, Anthony M.
name: Matsusaka, John G.
name: Zabojnik, Jan
name: Marino, Anthony M.
name: Matsusaka, John G.
name: Zabojnik, Jan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Financial Economics

description: This paper presents a theory of the allocation of authority in an organization in which centralization is limited by the agent’s ability to disobey the principal. We show that workers are given more authority when they are costly to replace or do not mind looking for another job, even if they have no better information than the principal. The allocation of authority thus depends on external market conditions as well as the information and agency problems emphasized in the literature. Evidence from a national survey of organizations shows that worker autonomy is related to separation costs as the theory predicts.
Managerial Capital and the Market for CEOs
Creators: name: Murphy, Kevin J.
name: Zabojnik, Jan
name: Murphy, Kevin J.
name: Zabojnik, Jan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Financial Economics

description: This paper reconciles two pronounced trends in U.S. corporate governance: the increase in pay levels for top executives, and the increasing prevalence of appointing CEOs through external hiring rather than internal promotions. We propose that these trends reflect a shift in the relative importance of “managerial ability” (transferable across companies) and “firm-specific human capital” (valuable only within the organization). We show that if the supply of workers in the corporate sector is relatively elastic, an increase in the relative importance of managerial ability leads to fewer promotions, more external hires, and an increase in equilibrium average wages for CEOs. We test our model using CEO pay and turnover data from 1970 to 2000. We show that CEO compensation is higher for CEOs hired from outside their firm, and for CEOs in industries where outside hiring is prevalent.
Measurement of Branching Fraction and CP Asymmetry in B+ ->rho+ pi0
Creators: name: Zhang, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a measurement of the branching fraction for the decay $B^+ \to ρ^+π^0$ based on a 140 ${\rm fb}^{-1}$ data sample collected with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric $e^+e^-$ collider. We measure the branching fraction ${\cal B}(B^+ \to ρ^+π^0)=(13.2\pm 2.3({\rm stat.})^{+1.4}_{-1.9}({\rm sys.}))\times 10^{-6}$, and the CP-violating asymmetry ${\cal A}_{CP}(B^\mp \to ρ^\mpπ^0)=0.06\pm0.19({\rm stat.})^{+0.04}_{-0.06}({\rm sys.})$.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures; submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett
Gender inequality and criminalization: A cross-national analysis of the legal social control of women
Creators: name: Danner, Mona J.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4402
subject: Criminology
subject: FOS: Law
classificationCode: 4405
subject: Gender studies

description: This dissertation presents a new thesis regarding gender inequality and the legal control of women. Gender inequality is the departure from parity in the representation of women and men in key dimensions of social life. Different from "women's status," gender inequality reveals disparities in the distribution of material resources to women and men. The study of social control essentially investigates the maintenance of the existing social order for, according to some theorists, the benefit of the materially powerful in a society; control increases when the powerful are threatened. Criminalization, the state's ultimate means of social control, is the selective process of applying the criminal law to social behavior. This new thesis challenges the "liberation hypothesis" of women's criminality and previous quantitative cross-national research in that tradition. I hypothesize that the rate of women's criminalization as a group is inversely related to the distribution of material resources by gender. The study utilizes factor analysis and regression procedures, a cross-national sample of 45 nations, and a cross-sectional research design (circa 1980 data). Eleven social indicators of gender inequality and one measure of national economic development comprise the initial independent variables; the dependent variable is the arrest rate of women aged 15-44 for all crimes. Results reveal that three factors underlie the gender inequality indicators: aspects of urbanization, personal-societal connection, feminized industrialization. The final model tests the significance of these factors and the measure of national wealth as predictors of the dependent variable. The statistically significant model explains 15% of the variance. Gender inequality in the personal-societal connection factor, the only statistically significant independent variable, has an inverse effect on the dependent variable. Nations with lower rates of women's arrests are those nations with greater fertility rates, maternal mortality rates, and female/male age differences at marriage, and lower ratios of women to men in the formal labor force and holding seats in the national legislature. The results indicate that greater inequality between women and men in the personal-societal connection factor seems to decrease the legal social control of women, while less inequality in that domain appears to increase women's criminalization.
Dynamics of Affective Polarization: From Consensus to Partisan Divides
Creators: name: Nettasinghe, Buddhika
name: Percus, Allon G.
name: Lerman, Kristina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Politically divided societies are also often divided emotionally: people like and trust those with similar political views (in-group favoritism) while disliking and distrusting those with different views (out-group animosity). This phenomenon, called affective polarization, influences individual decisions, including seemingly apolitical choices such as whether to wear a mask or what car to buy. We present a dynamical model of decision-making in an affectively polarized society, identifying three potential global outcomes separated by a sharp boundary in the parameter space: consensus, partisan polarization, and non-partisan polarization. Analysis reveals that larger out-group animosity compared to in-group favoritism, i.e. more hate than love, is sufficient for polarization, while larger in-group favoritism compared to out-group animosity, i.e., more love than hate, is necessary for consensus. We also show that, counter-intuitively, increasing cross-party connections facilitates polarization, and that by emphasizing partisan differences, mass media creates self-fulfilling prophecies that lead to polarization. Affective polarization also creates tipping points in the opinion landscape where one group suddenly reverses their trends. Our findings aid in understanding and addressing the cascading effects of affective polarization, offering insights for strategies to mitigate polarization.
Taxation and Transaction Costs in a General Equilibrium Asset Economy
Creators: name: Milne, Frank
name: Jin, Xing
name: Milne, Frank
name: Jin, Xing
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Taxation
subject: Transaction Costs
subject: General Equilibrium
subject: Asset Economy

description: Most financial asset pricing models assume frictionless, competitive markets that imply the absence of arbitrage opportunities. Given the absence of arbitrage opportunities and complete asset markets, there exists a unique martingale measure that implies martingale pricing formulae and replicating asset portfolios. In incomplete markets, or markets with transaction costs, these results must be modified to admit non-unique measures and the possibility of imperfectly replicating portfolios. Similar difficulties arise in markets with taxation. Some theoretical research has argued that some taxation functions will imply arbitrage opportunities and the non-existence of a competitive asset economy. In this paper we construct a multi-period, discrete time/state general equilibrium model of asset markets with transaction costs and taxes. The transaction cost technology and the tax system are quite general, so that we can include most discrete time/state models with transaction costs and taxation. We show that a competitive equilibrium exists. Our results require careful modeling of the government budget constraints to rule out tax arbitrage possibilities.
Description of a quantum convolutional code
Creators: name: Ollivier, H.
name: Tillich, J. -P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe a quantum error correction scheme aimed at protecting a flow of quantum information over long distance communication. It is largely inspired by the theory of classical convolutional codes which are used in similar circumstances in classical communication. The particular example shown here uses the stabilizer formalism, which provides an explicit encoding circuit. An associated error estimation algorithm is given explicitly and shown to provide the most likely error over any memoryless quantum channel, while its complexity grows only linearly with the number of encoded qubits.
description: 4 pages, uses revtex4. Minor correction in the encoding and decoding circuits
Generalized Sum of Stella Octangula Numbers
Creators: name: Sparavigna, Amelia Carolina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Groupoid Representations
On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
OEIS
Integer Sequences
Binary Operators
Generalized Sums
Cardano formula

description: A generalized sum is an operation that combines two elements to obtain another element, generalizing the ordinary addition. Here we discuss that concerning the Stella Octangula Numbers. We will also show that the sequence of these numbers, OEIS A007588, is linked to sequences OEIS A033431, OEIS A002378 (oblong or pronic numbers) and OEIS A003154 (star numbers). The Cardano formula is also discussed. In fact, the sequence of the positive integers can be obtained by means of Cardano formula from the sequence of Stella Octangula numbers.
VOLUNTARY ADOPTION OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE MECHANISMS
Creators: name: Anand, Anita
name: Milne, Frank
name: Purda, Lynnette
name: Anand, Anita
name: Milne, Frank
name: Purda, Lynnette
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Financial Economics

description: We model firms’ incentives to voluntarily adopt corporate governance mechanisms and hypothesize that management’s ability to extract private benefits, the need for external funds, and the ease with which a firm’s assets may be monitored are important determinants of the level of governance. Using hand-collected data, we test these hypotheses and examine firms’ propensity to adopt recommended but not required governance standards from their home and neighboring country’s jurisdictions. We document that a significant level of voluntary adoption occurs and that this level has been both increasing over time and declining in variability across firms. Governance mechanisms are least likely to be voluntarily implemented when management controls a significant portion of common stock votes or a majority owner exists. In contrast, voluntary adoption increases when the firm faces significant investment opportunities and employs large levels of expenditures which are difficult to monitor such as research and development expenses.
Takeovers and Cooperatives
Creators: name: Milne, Frank
name: Kelsey, David
name: Milne, Frank
name: Kelsey, David
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: corporate governance
subject: co-operative
subject: take-over
subject: free-rider

description: If consumers wholly or partially control a rm with market power they will charge less than the pro t maximising price. Starting at the usual monopoly price, a small price reduction will have a second order e¤ect on pro ts but a rst order e¤ect on consumer surplus. Despite this desirable static result, it has been argued that cooperatives are vulnerable to take-over by outsiders who will run them as for-pro t businesses. This paper studies takeovers of cooperatives. We argue that cooperatives are in fact quite stable due to the Grossman-Hart problem of free riding during takeovers.
Designing Asymmetric Shift Operators for Decentralized Subspace Projection
Creators: name: Mollaebrahim, Siavash
name: Beferull-Lozano, Baltasar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: A large number of applications in wireless sensor networks include projecting a vector of noisy observations onto a subspace dictated by prior information about the field being monitored. In general, accomplishing such a task in a centralized fashion, entails a large power consumption, congestion at certain nodes, and suffers from robustness issues against possible node failures. Computing such projections in a decentralized fashion is an alternative solution that solves these issues. Recent works have shown that this task can be done via the so-called graph filters where only local inter-node communication is performed in a distributed manner using a graph shift operator. Existing methods designed the graph filters for symmetric topologies. However, in this paper, the design of the graph shift operators to perform decentralized subspace projection for asymmetric topologies is studied.
Protection for Sale or Surge Protection?
Creators: name: Imai, Susumu
name: Katayama, Hajime
name: Krishna, Kala
name: Imai, Susumu
name: Katayama, Hajime
name: Krishna, Kala
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Protection for Sale
subject: Lobbying
subject: Political Economy

description: This paper asks whether the results obtained from using the standard approach to testing the inuential Grossman and Helpman protection for salemodel of political economy might arise from a simpler setting. A model of imports and quotas with protection occuring in response to import surges, but only for organized industries, is simulated and shown to provide parameter estimates consistent with the protection for sale framework. This suggests that the standard approach may be less of a test than previously thought.
On Hausdorff integrations of Lie algebroids
Creators: name: del Hoyo, Matias
name: Garcia, Daniel López
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 22A22, 53D17, 57R30

description: We present Hausdorff versions for Lie Integration Theorems 1 and 2 and apply them to study Hausdorff symplectic groupoids arising from Poisson manifolds. To prepare for these results we include a discussion on Lie equivalences and propose an algebraic approach to holonomy. We also include subsidiary results, such as a generalization of the integration of subalgebroids to the non-wide case, and explore in detail the case of foliation groupoids.
description: Final version, 20 pages
Impacts of the Point System and Immigration Policy Levers on Skill Characteristics of Canadian Immigrants
Creators: name: Beach, Charles
name: Green, Alan G.
name: Worswick, Christopher
name: Beach, Charles
name: Green, Alan G.
name: Worswick, Christopher
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Financial Economics
International Development

description: This paper examines how changes in immigration policy levers actually affect the skill characteristics of immigrant arrivals using a unique Canadian immigrant landings database. We first review the Canadian experience with a point system as part of its immigrant policy. Section III of the paper describes some overall patterns of immigrant arrivals since 1980. Section IV identifies some relevant hypotheses on the possible effects on immigrant skill characteristics of the total immigration rate, the point system weights and immigrant class weights. The “skill” admissions examined are level of education, age, and fluency in either English or French. Regressions are then used to test the hypotheses from Canadian landings data. It is found that (i) the larger the inflow rate of immigrants the lower the average skill level of the arrivals; (ii) increasing the proportion of skill-evaluated immigrants raises average skill levels; (iii) increasing point system weights on a specific skill dimension indeed has the intended effect of raising average skill levels in this dimension among arriving principal applicants; and (iv) increasing the proportion of skill-evaluated immigrants appears to have the strongest effects among the immigration policy levers.
Revelation, intellectual intuition and reason in the philosophy of Mulla Sadra: An analysis of the "al-Hikmat al-'arshiyyah"
Creators: name: Moris, Zailan
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The objective of this dissertation is to examine critically the legitimacy of a very important and widely held claim made by Islamic philosophers and scholars of Islamic Philosophy about Mulla Sadra's philosophy. The claim is that Mulla Sadra's philosophy is a synthesis of the truth claims of revelation, gnosis and discursive philosophy. The task of determining whether or not the claim is a legitimate one, is divided into three parts or stages of examination. First, to examine whether or not there exists a synthesis of the truth claims of revelation, gnosis and discursive philosophy in Mulla Sadra's philosophy? Second, if there exists a synthesis of the three truth claims in Mulla Sadra's philosophy, how does he synthesize them? Third, to evaluate whether Mulla Sadra's synthesis is a successful synthesis?; An examination of the fundamental principles of Mulla Sadra's philosophy which constitute its foundation reveals that there exists a synthesis of revelation, gnosis and discursive philosophy in their formulations. Mulla Sadra's important and synoptic philosophical text al-Hikmat al-'arshiyyah is chosen as the basis of the analysis of his method of synthesis. An analysis of Mulla Sadra's manner of approach, method of reasoning and philosophical vocabulary in the al-Hikmat al-'arshiyyah demonstrates that Mulla Sadra's synthesis of the three truth claims is based on his synthesis of the three sources of knowledge: revelation, intellectual intuition and discursive reasoning. The evaluation of the two syntheses based on the criteria of their internal coherence, conformity to Islamic teachings and the impact and influence of Mulla Sadra's philosophy on subsequent Islamic philosophers after him demonstrates that both syntheses are successful. Thus, there exists sufficient evidences to support the claim that Mulla Sadra's philosophy is a synthesis of the truth claims of revelation, gnosis and discursive philosophy and that this synthesis is based on his synthesis of revelation, intellectual intuition and reason.
Measurements of CP-violating Asymmetries in $B^{0}\to K_{s}^{0}π^{0}$ Decays
Creators: name: The BABAR Collaboration
name: Aubert, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a measurement of the time-dependent CP-violating (CPV) asymmetries in $B^{0}\to K_{s}^{0}π^{0}$ decays based on 124 million $Υ(4S)\to B\bar{B}$ decays collected with the BaBar detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy $B$ Factory at SLAC. In a sample containing $122\pm 16$ signal decays, we obtain the magnitude of the direct CPV asymmetry $C_{K_{s}^{0}π^{0}} = 0.40^{+0.27}_{-0.28} \pm 0.09$ and the magnitude of the CPV asymmetry in the interference between mixing and decay $S_{K_{s}^{0}π^{0}} = 0.48^{+0.38}_{-0.47} \pm 0.06$ where the first error is statistical and the second systematic.
description: 7 pages, 2 postscript figures, submitted to PRL
Additional file 2 of A Canadian evaluation framework for quality improvement in childhood arthritis: key performance indicators of the process of care
Creators: name: Barber, Claire E. H.
name: Twilt, Marinka
name: Pham, Tram
name: Currie, Gillian R.
name: Benseler, Susanne
name: Yeung, Rae S. M.
name: Batthish, Michelle
name: Blanchette, Nicholas
name: Guzman, Jaime
name: Lang, Bianca
name: LeBlanc, Claire
name: Levy, Deborah M.
name: O’Brien, Christine
name: Schmeling, Heinrike
name: Soon, Gordon
name: Spiegel, Lynn
name: Whitney, Kristi
name: Marshall, Deborah A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Select guidelines or standards of care or recommendations endorsed by various medical societies. Sources and links/references for guidelines, standards of care and recommendations endorsed by various medical societies.
Revelation, intellectual intuition and reason in the philosophy of Mulla Sadra: An analysis of the "al-Hikmat al-'arshiyyah"
Creators: name: Moris, Zailan
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 50
subject: Philosophy and religious studies
classificationCode: 5003
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
classificationCode: 5004
subject: Religious studies

description: The objective of this dissertation is to examine critically the legitimacy of a very important and widely held claim made by Islamic philosophers and scholars of Islamic Philosophy about Mulla Sadra's philosophy. The claim is that Mulla Sadra's philosophy is a synthesis of the truth claims of revelation, gnosis and discursive philosophy. The task of determining whether or not the claim is a legitimate one, is divided into three parts or stages of examination. First, to examine whether or not there exists a synthesis of the truth claims of revelation, gnosis and discursive philosophy in Mulla Sadra's philosophy? Second, if there exists a synthesis of the three truth claims in Mulla Sadra's philosophy, how does he synthesize them? Third, to evaluate whether Mulla Sadra's synthesis is a successful synthesis?; An examination of the fundamental principles of Mulla Sadra's philosophy which constitute its foundation reveals that there exists a synthesis of revelation, gnosis and discursive philosophy in their formulations. Mulla Sadra's important and synoptic philosophical text al-Hikmat al-'arshiyyah is chosen as the basis of the analysis of his method of synthesis. An analysis of Mulla Sadra's manner of approach, method of reasoning and philosophical vocabulary in the al-Hikmat al-'arshiyyah demonstrates that Mulla Sadra's synthesis of the three truth claims is based on his synthesis of the three sources of knowledge: revelation, intellectual intuition and discursive reasoning. The evaluation of the two syntheses based on the criteria of their internal coherence, conformity to Islamic teachings and the impact and influence of Mulla Sadra's philosophy on subsequent Islamic philosophers after him demonstrates that both syntheses are successful. Thus, there exists sufficient evidences to support the claim that Mulla Sadra's philosophy is a synthesis of the truth claims of revelation, gnosis and discursive philosophy and that this synthesis is based on his synthesis of revelation, intellectual intuition and reason.
A realistic example of chaotic tunneling: The hydrogen atom in parallel static electric and magnetic fields
Creators: name: Delande, Dominique
name: Zakrzewski, Jakub
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Statistics of tunneling rates in the presence of chaotic classical dynamics is discussed on a realistic example: a hydrogen atom placed in parallel uniform static electric and magnetic fields, where tunneling is followed by ionization along the fields direction. Depending on the magnetic quantum number, one may observe either a standard Porter-Thomas distribution of tunneling rates or, for strong scarring by a periodic orbit parallel to the external fields, strong deviations from it. For the latter case, a simple model based on random matrix theory gives the correct distribution.
description: Submitted to Phys. Rev. A
An Investigation into the Development of the UBC Free Store
Creators: name: Kydyrbayev, Adil
name: Huang, Daisy
name: Huang, Hsien-Hung
name: Lim, Li Jun
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: This report was written to address the problems faced by an innovative concept newly introduced to the UBC community, the UBC Free Store. As a new establishment on campus, the free store receives little to no attention from students and faculty. They have little funding and few volunteers that dedicate their time to keep the store organised and maintain smooth operations. During the initial client meeting, UBC Free Store approached the team with the problems it currently faces. While this largely involves promoting the store and getting more involvement from the UBC community, the problems addressed in this report include the following: • How to promote UBC Free Store? • What are students’ prime material needs? • How can the store expand the locations of its donation bins? • How does UBC Free Store compare to similar stores in other campuses? The scope of this project was constraint to the UBC community. While it was realised that the concept of a free store would also be beneficial to include larger scale communities such as the residents of Vancouver, it was determined that the free store has to first overcome its challenges in UBC before venturing its concepts outside of campus. The methods taken to gather the information presented in this report included conducting a survey and researching the web about free stores on other campuses. Research on articles relating to the economic, environmental and social aspects of circular economy were also found and referenced in the report. Results and important findings from the team’s internal and external research process are also summarised in this report. As requested by the client, recommendations for both future APSC 262 students and the UBC Free Store are included in this report. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Holistic Thinking in Collections and Collection Development
Creators: name: Kubilius, Ramune K.
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: collection development
subject: Libraries, Medical
subject: Collection development (Libraries)
subject: Scholarly publishing

description: Poster talk presented during the Health Sciences Librarians of Illinois (HSLI) virtual conference on October 27, 2021.
description: Libraries' sizes and organizational structures differ when it comes to assignment of official responsibilities for collection development and management. Publisher and vendor questionnaires ask whether one has final responsibility or an advisory role in decision-making. An argument can be made that we all can and should have a role in knowing about and providing information resources for our primary users, no matter our official job responsibilities. And more. Especially in today's scholarly communications and publishing landscape. A few use cases will be shared that make the argument that we all have access to and can take advantage of various opportunities- to monitor, watch, be informed about, act on, or "connect the dots" in health sciences collections-related work, in our libraries, in our parent institutions, and professionally. As new publishing trends bring new resources to the forefront, many that are free, traditional print collections and online subscriptions no longer should limit our definitions of collections-related work. Official duties and job titles should not limit us from thinking and acting holistically, in order to also take advantage of opportunities provided by interim responsibilities, committees and working groups. The objective is to look for interconnections, share and repurpose work, where possible, and to think holistically.
Machine Learning based prediction of noncentrosymmetric crystal materials
Creators: name: Song, Yuqi
name: Lindsay, Joseph
name: Zhao, Yong
name: Nasiri, Alireza
name: Louis, Steph-Yves
name: Ling, Jie
name: Hu, Ming
name: Hu, Jianjun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Noncentrosymmetric materials play a critical role in many important applications such as laser technology, communication systems,quantum computing, cybersecurity, and etc. However, the experimental discovery of new noncentrosymmetric materials is extremely difficult. Here we present a machine learning model that could predict whether the composition of a potential crystalline structure would be centrosymmetric or not. By evaluating a diverse set of composition features calculated using matminer featurizer package coupled with different machine learning algorithms, we find that Random Forest Classifiers give the best performance for noncentrosymmetric material prediction, reaching an accuracy of 84.8% when evaluated with 10 fold cross-validation on the dataset with 82,506 samples extracted from Materials Project. A random forest model trained with materials with only 3 elements gives even higher accuracy of 86.9%. We apply our ML model to screen potential noncentrosymmetric materials from 2,000,000 hypothetical materials generated by our inverse design engine and report the top 20 candidate noncentrosymmetric materials with 2 to 4 elements and top 20 borate candidates
description: 13 pages
Phaenops aeneola
Creators: name: Hallinen, Marie J.
name: Steffens, Wayne P.
name: Schultz, Jennifer L.
name: Aukema, Brian H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Phaenops
Phaenops aeneola

description: 98. Phaenops aeneola (Melsheimer, 1845)
 County Records (n = 11): Chisago, Crow Wing, Hubbard, and Washington.
Collection Dates: 3–31 July.
 Minnesota Hosts: Unspecified in collection records. Larval host recorded as Pinus resinosa. Adults also on Picea sp. and Pinus banksiana.
 Collection Method: Lindgren funnel trap baited with alpha-pinene and ethanol and as C. fumipennis prey.
description: Published as part of Hallinen, Marie J., Steffens, Wayne P., Schultz, Jennifer L. & Aukema, Brian H., 2021, The Buprestidae (Coleoptera) of Minnesota, with a Discussion of the Emerald Ash Borer, Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire, pp. 173-190 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 75 (1) on page 185, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-75.1.173, http://zenodo.org/record/4837088
Supercritical fluids extraction and on-line methylation of long chain saturated/unsaturated fatty acids
Creators: name: Tian, Li
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 34
subject: Chemical sciences
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
classificationCode: 3401
subject: Analytical chemistry

description: Supercritical fluid extraction procedures for fatty acids have been investigated. The fast mass transfer rate, excellent solvating power and mild extraction conditions of supercritical fluids, using XAD-4 resin as the matrix, gives quantitative extraction of fatty acid methyl esters (chain length from 14 to 18). The extraction of 50 ppm level linoleic acid methyl ester was complete within 60 minutes at 300 atm and 70$\sp\circ$C with a recovery of 98% and a SD less than 5%. The extraction of free fatty acids by supercritical carbon dioxide requires higher temperature and higher pressure than that of methyl esters because of their polarity and hydrogen bonding. Using 5% hydrochloric acid in pure methanol to serve as a catalyst/methylation reagent on solid matrices of XAD-4 resin, the on-line methylation reaction of fatty acids with supercritical fluids was complete within 20 minutes at 70$\sp\circ$C. Applying the same mild conditions used for methyl esters, the methylation/extraction of fatty acids, both saturated and unsaturated, can be completed within 80 minutes with an overall recovery of 95% and a SD less than 7%. The fatty acids used for this study were myristic acid, palmitic acid, palmitoleic acid, stearic acid, oleic acid and linoleic acid. The effect of temperature on the extraction/methylation of fatty acids and the effect of static extraction time on the percentage recovery of fatty acids were studied. A comparison between supercritical carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide for on-line methylation of fatty acids was made. Both fluids give satisfactory results under identical conditions. The effect of methanol, hexane and methylene chloride on the extraction and methylation at different temperatures was studied. It was found that higher temperature (70$\sp\circ$C) facilitates the extraction. The effect of water on the extraction and methylation reaction was investigated and it was found that while trace amount of water (1-2 $\mu$l/ml) did not interfere the methylation, large amount of water ($>$2 $\mu$l/ml) interfered with the extraction of fatty acid methyl esters.
Supplementary Material from Parallel evolution of phenological isolation across the speciation continuum in serpentine-adapted annual wildflowers
Creators: name: Sianta, Shelley A.
name: Kay, Kathleen M.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology

description: Supplementary Appendices, Tables and Figures