cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Onthophagus brevigena d'Orbigny 1902
Creators: name: Strümpher, Gimo M. Daniel Werner P.
name: Josso, Jean-François
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Onthophagus
Onthophagus brevigena

description: Onthophagus (sensu lato) brevigena d’Orbigny, 1902
Type locality: “Nord du Cameroun: Johann-Albrechtsĥhe” [Barombi Mbo, Cameroon].
Distribution: Cameroon (d’Orbigny 1902, 1913).
description: Published as part of Strümpher, Gimo M. Daniel Werner P. & Josso, Jean-François, 2023, Dung beetle fauna from Mount Mabu, Mozambique. Part 1: A new species of Onthophagus Latreille, 1802, and a checklist of species belonging to group 3 (d'Orbigny 1913) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae), pp. 429-442 in Zootaxa 5258 (4) on page 437, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5258.4.4, http://zenodo.org/record/7784471
Why do I feel homesick at a diverse university?
Creators: name: Rodriguez, Ana Celia
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: Latinx first generation college students face challenges on college campuses that may make it more difficult to adjust.  First, they are dealing with a steep learning curve from having a lack of knowledge about college compared to students whose parents have a college degree.  Secondly, they may also be dealing with racial tension, racial microaggressions, and cultural incongruity between home and school which influences a negative campus cultural climate.  The purpose of this qualitative case study is to understand the racial and cultural experiences of Latinx first generation college students at an ethnically diverse institution such as Rutgers University - Camden.  In fall 2016, almost half of the Rutgers Camden undergraduate population was non-White.  To gain an in-depth understanding of the racial realities for the Latinx students, I conducted in-depth interviews, and a focus group interview.  First, four Latinx first generation students were interviewed spring 2016 during a pilot study to shape the interview protocol for the dissertation.  Then, ten additional participants were interviewed summer 2017 for the dissertation.  Findings suggest that Latinx students perceived the college campus to be a place that is both welcoming and unwelcoming based on positive and negative aspects that exist on the campus.  The interviews also indicated that the campus is lacking representation from the Latinx culture, which influences feelings of invisibility.  Although, Rutgers Camden has widened access to ethnically diverse students, efforts must be done to foster a more positive cultural campus climate to help ease the transition from home to an unfamiliar environment for Latinx students.  Recommendations include integrating the Latinx culture (i.e. food, music, language, traditions) in areas of student affairs (i.e. residence life, student activities, and dining services).  Additional recommendations include diversifying areas in academic affairs by hiring Latinx professors, and offering a variety of culturally oriented courses to increase feelings of affirmation and visibility for Latinx students.
ANJEC report Winter 2015 Vol. 35 No. 1
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: This quarterly journal, published by the Association of New Jersey Environmental Commissions (ANJEC), offers practical suggestions for local action and explores environmental issues in New Jersey. Full-length feature articles in this issue cover subjects such as open space preservation, wetland water quality, and legislative actions.
ANJEC report Winter 2016 Vol. 36 No. 1
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: This quarterly journal, published by the Association of New Jersey Environmental Commissions (ANJEC), offers practical suggestions for local action and explores environmental issues in New Jersey. Full-length feature articles in this issue cover subjects such as plastic pollution, global warming, and flood protections.
The relationship between sulfate air quality and visibility at Los Angeles
Creators: name: Cass, Glen R.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1976

description: Routine air monitoring data taken by the Los Angeles Air Pollution Control District are related to visibility at downtown Los Angeles over the decade 1965 through 1974. The relationship between light extinction and total suspended particulate mass implied by the historical data base is shown to be consistent with the findings of previous short-term studies.

A non-linear regression model for light extinction at Los Angeles is constructed which combines available information on aerosol chemical composition with relative humidity and NO_2 data. It is shown that there is a pronounced increase in light scattering per unit sulfate solute mass on days of high relative humidity, as would be expected for a hygroscopic or deliquescent substance.

Using the chemically resolved regression model, estimates are made of the long-run visibility impact of reducing sulfates to one half and to one quarter of their measured historic values on each past day of record. It is found that the effect of such a sulfate concentration reduction would have been manifested most clearly in a decline in the number of days per year with average visibility less than three miles. The number of days per year with average visibility less than ten miles would be little affected. One reason for the disproportionate impact of sulfates on the days of the worst visibility is found in the high positive correlation between sulfate mass concentration and relative humidity. High values of light scattering per unit sulfate mass thus occur on days of high sulfate mass concentration.
description: © 1976 Environmental Quality Laboratory. California Institute of Technology.

This work has been supported by the Ford Foundation (Grant No. 740-0469), a grant to the author from Rockwell International, gifts to the Environmental Quality Laboratory, and by the California Air Resources Board (Contract No. AS-061-87). Thanks are due to the staff of the Metropolitan Zone of the Southern California Air Pollution Control District (formerly the Los Angeles Air Pollution Control District) for their cooperation and assistance in furnishing data for this analysis.
Structural and dynamical investigation of glassforming smectogen by X-ray diffraction and infra-red spectroscopy aided by density functional theory calculations
Creators: name: Deptuch, Aleksandra
name: Górska, Natalia
name: Baran, Stanisław
name: Urbańska, Magdalena
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Molecular arrangement in the chiral smectic phases of the glassforming (S)-4'-(1-methylheptylcarbonyl)biphenyl-4-yl 4-[7-(2,2,3,3,4,4,4-heptafluorobutoxy) heptyl-1-oxy]benzoate is investigated by X-ray diffraction. An increased correlation length of the positional short-range order in the supercooled state agrees with the previous assumption of the hexatic smectic phase. However, the registered X-ray diffraction patterns are not typical for the hexatic phases. Comparison of the smectic layer spacing and optical tilt angle indicates a strongly non-linear shape of molecules, which enables choice of the molecular models obtained by DFT calculations, used subsequently to interpret the infra-red spectra. The presumption of the hexatic smectic FA* or IA* phase is supported by the splitting of the absorption bands related to the C=O stretching in the supercooled state, which is absent in the smectic CA* phase above the melting temperature. The glass transition affects the temperature dependence of the smectic layer spacing but only subtly impacts the infra-red spectra. Application of the k-means cluster analysis enables distinction between the infra-red spectra below and above the glass transition temperature, but only for certain spectral ranges.
description: 33 pages, 12 figures
Diproctacanthus xanthurus
Creators: name: Andréfouët, Serge
name: Chen, Wei-Jen
name: Kinch, Jeff
name: Mana, Ralph
name: Russell, Barry C.
name: Tully, Dean
name: White, William T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Labridae
Diproctacanthus
Diproctacanthus xanthurus

description: Diproctacanthus xanthurus (Bleeker 1856) —Yellowtail tubelip
Status at New Ireland. New record, based on specimen photographed at Lissenung Island, Kavieng District, 2 m depth, by Dean Tully on 16 Sept. 2012; a video of a specimen taken at Pochol Island, east of New Hanover, at 6–7 m depth, St. KD 62, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell).
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: Eastern Andaman Sea and Indonesia east to Palau and New Guinea, north to Philippines, south to northern Australia and New Caledonia. Solitary, in sheltered coral reefs; young fishes remove parasites from other fishes, 2–25 m depth. Marine.
description: Published as part of Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, pp. 1-360 in Zootaxa 4588 (1) on page 227, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163
Scapheremaeus palaciosi Rios 1996
Creators: name: Colloff, Matthew J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Cymbaeremaeidae
Scapheremaeus
Scapheremaeus palaciosi

description: Scapheremaeus palaciosi Ríos, 1996
Scapheremaeus sp.: Norton & Palacios-Vargas, 1996, 87. Scapheremaeus palaciosi Ríos, 1996, 237, figs. 1–8.
Type depository: Microarthropod collection, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad Nacional Autonómia de México. Type locality: “Los Dínamos”, Mexico City; Popocatépetl Volcano; Nexapa, Amecameca, MEXICO. Habitat: mosses (“Los Dínbamos”; Ríos, 1996), epiphytic mosses and lichens (Popocatépetl; Norton & Palacios-Vargas,
1996), soil under Pinus hartureguii (Nexapa; Ríos, 1996).
Remarks: Norton & Palacios-Vargas (1987) consider this species to be specific to corticolous epiphytes (as opposed to underlying soil and leaf litter) at Popocatépetl.
description: Published as part of Colloff, Matthew J., 2009, Comparative morphology and species-groups of the oribatid mite genus Scapheremaeus (Acari: Oribatida: Cymbaeremaeidae), with new species from South Australia, pp. 1-46 in Zootaxa 2213 on page 40, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.189889
ANJEC report Winter 2017 Vol. 37 No. 1
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2017

description: This quarterly journal, published by the Association of New Jersey Environmental Commissions (ANJEC), offers practical suggestions for local action and explores environmental issues in New Jersey. Full-length feature articles in this issue cover subjects such as recycling, invasive species, sewer regulations, and environmental festival planning.
Onthophagus bufonidius Josso 2019
Creators: name: Strümpher, Gimo M. Daniel Werner P.
name: Josso, Jean-François
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Onthophagus
Onthophagus bufonidius

description: Onthophagus (sensu lato) bufonidius Josso, 2019
Type locality: “N Malawi, Misuku Hills, Mughese forest” [Mughese forest, Misuku Hills, Malawi].
Distribution: Malawi, Zambia (Josso & Génier 2019).
description: Published as part of Strümpher, Gimo M. Daniel Werner P. & Josso, Jean-François, 2023, Dung beetle fauna from Mount Mabu, Mozambique. Part 1: A new species of Onthophagus Latreille, 1802, and a checklist of species belonging to group 3 (d'Orbigny 1913) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae), pp. 429-442 in Zootaxa 5258 (4) on page 437, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5258.4.4, http://zenodo.org/record/7784471
Shedding Our Troubles: A realist investigation into a Men’s Shed – a community space for men
Creators: name: Markham, Steven
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 420602
subject: Health equity
classificationCode: 420603
subject: Health promotion
classificationCode: 420604
subject: Injury prevention
classificationCode: 420605
subject: Preventative health care
classificationCode: 420606
subject: Social determinants of health
classificationCode: 420699
subject: Public health not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 429999
subject: Other health sciences not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 420503
subject: Community and primary care
classificationCode: 420305
subject: Health and community services
classificationCode: 420309
subject: Health management
classificationCode: 420311
subject: Health systems
classificationCode: 420312
subject: Implementation science and evaluation
classificationCode: 420313
subject: Mental health services
classificationCode: 420318
subject: People with disability
classificationCode: 420319
subject: Primary health care
classificationCode: 420321
subject: Rural and remote health services
classificationCode: 420399
subject: Health services and systems not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 420210
subject: Social epidemiology
classificationCode: 420104
subject: Occupational therapy
classificationCode: 420199
subject: Allied health and rehabilitation science not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 520501
subject: Community psychology
classificationCode: 520502
subject: Gender psychology
classificationCode: 520505
subject: Social psychology

description: This thesis is concerned with how a health and wellbeing focused Men’s Shed impacts upon men’s wellbeing. Men’s Sheds are safe, community settings where men can come together for activities and socialisation. The relatively small amount of academic literature has to date mainly focussed on Men’s Sheds in Australia incorporating utilitarian activities. There was no literature found for this review on Men’s Sheds which primarily focus on wellbeing.The complexities and determinants of men’s health and issues around masculinity are discussed followed by the introduction of a framework for understanding wellbeing, the Human Givens (Griffin and Tyrrell, 2013). An appraisal of the Men’s Sheds literature informs the method chosen to carry out the empirical research, proposing the approach of realism and the Human Givens as programme theories to explain how improvements occur in Shed member’s wellbeing.This research analyses accounts of men who regularly participate in a Men’s Shed in the Republic of Ireland which has a primary wellbeing, rather than utilitarian, focus. The mechanisms responsible for facilitating the fulfilment of the men’s Human Givens fall under two main themes within the social environment of the Men’s Shed.The thesis concludes that the social environment of this Men’s Shed help to counteract some of the health inequalities experienced by men. A brief discussion then reveals potential implications of this research for future policy and practice, and its potential for further research.
Study of quasi-two-body B^{0}\rightarrow T(ππ, K\bar{K},πη) decays in perturbative QCD approach
Creators: name: Mu, Lun-Lian
name: Yu, Xian-Qiao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this study, we calculate the CP-averaged branching ratios and the direct CP-violating asymmetries of the three body decays B^{0}\rightarrow T(ππ, K\bar{K},πη) in the perturbative QCD approach, where T denotes tensor mesons a_{2}(1320), K^{*}_{2}(1430), f_{2}(1270) and f^{'}_{2}(1525), and the daughter branching is f_{0}(980)\rightarrow ππ, K\bar{K},f_{0}(500)\rightarrow ππ, a_{0}(980)\rightarrow K\bar{K}, πη. We found the following (a) With θ=135^{\circ}, we evaluate the branching fractions of B^{0} \rightarrow K^{*}_{2}(1430)f_{0}(980)[ \rightarrow π^ {+}π^{-}] to be 4.30\times10^{-6},then under the narrow-width approximation we extract the branching fraction of the decay B^{0} \rightarrow K^{*}_{2}(1430)f_{0}(980) to be 8.78\times10^{-6},which is consistent with the current experimental data well. (b) The decay rates for the considered decay modes are generally in the order of 10^{-8} to 10^{-5}. (c) The branching fractions are sensitive to the θ, and the opposite is true for ϕ. The ϕis really small, so the decay branching ratio has only little change, except for some decays involving f^{'}_{2}(1525). (d) The θand ϕcan bring remarkable change to the direct CP asymmetries of pure penguin processes so that it is not 0. (e) We calculate the relative partial decay widths Γ(a_{0} \rightarrow K\overline{K})/Γ(a_{0} \rightarrow πη) and the ratio {\cal B}(f_{0} \rightarrow K^{+}K^{-})/{\cal B}(f_{0} \rightarrow π^{+}π^{-}), which are in agreement with the existing experimental values. Our results can help one to understand the internal structure of scalar mesons and the nature of tensor mesons and can be tested by future experiments.
description: 24 pages, 7 figures,. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2207.13228
Applications of somatic education principles to voice pedagogy
Creators: name: Mingle, Alison
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: Students of voice are trained in complex processes of coordinated movements, many of which occur internally. Somatic education techniques may promote complementary skills, such as the ability to integrate the mind and body, to move with ease and efficiency, and to intervene with awareness and volition against interfering habits. After examining three related approaches to somatic education, a multiple case study was conducted on three professional voice teachers, each of whom is also certified in the somatic education disciplines of the Alexander Technique, the Feldenkrais Method, or Hanna Somatic Education. Each teacher was interviewed three times, and observed teaching four voice lessons. One voice student at each site was interviewed as well. A comparison and analysis of interview and observation data from these contexts may illuminate the ways in which somatic education principles can be applied to the teaching of voice.
Mit Luther oder Goethe in Italien: Irritation und Sehnsucht der Deutschen
Creators: name: Battafarano, Italo
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Trento
Year: 2007

description: Oggetto della ricerca � l?immagine dell?Italia nella letteratura tedesca moderna e contemporanea, indagata attraverso i due modelli principali di riferimento: la rappresentazione negativa dell?Italia, elaborata da Lutero nei ?Discorsi a Tavola?, e quella positiva, rappresentata dall?opera di Goethe, soprattutto dal suo ?Viaggio italiano? e dalle altre opere italianeggianti (?Mignon? ?Carnevale romane?, ?Elegie romane?, ?Epigrammi veneziani? ecc.).
L?analisi delle opere degli autori tedeschi che si sono richiamati a Lutero o a Goethe nel raccontare l?Italia, fornisce un?originalissima storia della cultura tedesca, che non ha eguali in altre letterature nazionali.
Caliothrips Daniel
Creators: name: Mound, Laurence A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Thysanoptera
Thripidae
Caliothrips

description: Caliothrips Daniel
This is one of only three genera of the subfamily Panchaetothripinae that involves species dependent on Poaceae. Currently this genus includes 22 species, and these are distributed widely around the tropics. All of them apparently breed only on leaves, with five species known to be specific to Poaceae but the others often associated with Fabaceae or more broadly polyphagous (Mound, Zhang & Bei, 2011). An identification and information system is web-available (Mound, Paris et al., 2011) to the species taken in Australia (C. graminicola and C. striatopterus).
description: Published as part of Mound, Laurence A., 2011, Grass-dependent Thysanoptera of the family Thripidae from Australia, pp. 1-40 in Zootaxa 3064 (1) on page 17, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3064.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/200567
Scapheremaeus palustris Sellnick 1924
Creators: name: Colloff, Matthew J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Cymbaeremaeidae
Scapheremaeus
Scapheremaeus palustris

description: Scapheremaeus palustris (Sellnick, 1924)
Cymbaeremaeus (Scapheremaeus) palustris Sellnick, 1924, 68, figs 6–9. Scapheremaeus palustris: Marshall, Reeves & Norton, 1987, 237. Scapheremaeus palustris: Mahunka, 1987, 375, figs. 36–39.
Type depository: type considered destroyed.
Type locality: ESTONIA.
Habitat: rotting moss, leaf-litter and wood in wet forests of Fraxino pannonicae-ulmetum association (Mahunka, 1987).
Distribution: Fennoscandia (Niemi et al., 1997); Eastern Baltic, Western Russia (Karppinen & Krivolutsky, 1982); Caucusus (Karppinen et al., 1986), Ukraine (Karppinen et al., 1992); USA and Canada (Marshall, Reeves & Norton, 1987).
description: Published as part of Colloff, Matthew J., 2009, Comparative morphology and species-groups of the oribatid mite genus Scapheremaeus (Acari: Oribatida: Cymbaeremaeidae), with new species from South Australia, pp. 1-46 in Zootaxa 2213 on page 40, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.189889
Performance-Portable Binary Neutron Star Mergers with AthenaK
Creators: name: Fields, Jacob
name: Zhu, Hengrui
name: Radice, David
name: Stone, James M.
name: Cook, William
name: Bernuzzi, Sebastiano
name: Daszuta, Boris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce an extension to the AthenaK code for general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) in dynamical spacetimes using a 3+1 conservative Eulerian formulation. Like the fixed-spacetime GRMHD solver, we use standard finite-volume methods to evolve the fluid and a constrained transport scheme to preserve the divergence-free constraint for the magnetic field. We also utilize a first-order flux correction (FOFC) scheme to reduce the need for an artificial atmosphere and optionally enforce a maximum principle to improve robustness. We demonstrate the accuracy of AthenaK using a set of standard tests in flat and curved spacetimes. Using a SANE accretion disk around a Kerr black hole, we compare the new solver to the existing solver for stationary spacetimes using the so-called "HARM-like" formulation. We find that both formulations converge to similar results. We also include the first published binary neutron star (BNS) mergers performed on graphical processing units (GPUs). Thanks to the FOFC scheme, our BNS mergers maintain a relative error of $\mathcal{O}(10^{-11})$ or better in baryon mass conservation up to collapse. Finally, we perform scaling tests of AthenaK on OLCF Frontier, where we show excellent weak scaling of $\geq 80\%$ efficiency up to 32768 GPUs and $74\%$ up to 65536 GPUs for a GRMHD problem in dynamical spacetimes with six levels of mesh refinement. AthenaK achieves an order-of-magnitude speedup using GPUs compared to CPUs, demonstrating that it is suitable for performing numerical relativity problems on modern exascale resources.
description: 25 pages, 19 figures; updated to match accepted version
Modified Jarzynski equality in a microcanonical ensemble
Creators: name: Williamson, L. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the conventional Jarzynski equality does not hold for a system prepared in a microcanonical ensemble. We derive a modified equality that connects microcanonical work fluctuations to entropy production, in an analogous way to the Jarzynski equality, but with reference to an inverse temperature that depends on the path of the work protocol. For close to isothermal processes the modified equality can improve on the bound $\langle W\rangle\ge ΔF$. Our result is a special case of a general expression for the microcanonical moment-generating function for any extensive quantity, which enables calculation of the breakdown of ensemble equivalence for thermodynamic fluctuations. We demonstrate our microcanonical Jarzynski equality in a system of driven two-level spins.
description: 7 pages, 1 figure
Epibulus brevis Carlson, Randall & Dawson 2008
Creators: name: Andréfouët, Serge
name: Chen, Wei-Jen
name: Kinch, Jeff
name: Mana, Ralph
name: Russell, Barry C.
name: Tully, Dean
name: White, William T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Labridae
Epibulus
Epibulus brevis

description: Epibulus brevis Carlson, Randall & Dawson 2008 —Latent slingjaw wrasse
Status at New Ireland. New record, based on a video of a specimen taken off Bauddisson Island, Kavieng District, at 2–35 m depth, St. KR 58, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell); another taken at Martha's Shoal, off eastern New Hanover, at 7–41 m depth, St. KR 122, in 2014.
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: Central Indonesia east to Palau and Papua New Guinea. Solitary in coastal and seaward reefs, 5–15 m depth. Marine.
description: Published as part of Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, pp. 1-360 in Zootaxa 4588 (1) on page 227, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163
Onthophagus carinicollis Raffray 1877
Creators: name: Strümpher, Gimo M. Daniel Werner P.
name: Josso, Jean-François
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Onthophagus
Onthophagus carinicollis

description: Onthophagus (sensu lato) carinicollis Raffray, 1877
Type locality: “Zanguebar. Montagnes de Schimba” [Shimba Hills, Kenya].
Distribution: Kenya (Raffray 1877), Tanzania (d’Orbigny 1913).
description: Published as part of Strümpher, Gimo M. Daniel Werner P. & Josso, Jean-François, 2023, Dung beetle fauna from Mount Mabu, Mozambique. Part 1: A new species of Onthophagus Latreille, 1802, and a checklist of species belonging to group 3 (d'Orbigny 1913) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae), pp. 429-442 in Zootaxa 5258 (4) on page 437, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5258.4.4, http://zenodo.org/record/7784471
Quantized axial charge of staggered fermions and the chiral anomaly
Creators: name: Chatterjee, Arkya
name: Pace, Salvatore D.
name: Shao, Shu-Heng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the 1+1D ultra-local lattice Hamiltonian for staggered fermions with a finite-dimensional Hilbert space, there are two conserved, integer-valued charges that flow in the continuum limit to the vector and axial charges of a massless Dirac fermion with a perturbative anomaly. Each of the two lattice charges generates an ordinary U(1) global symmetry that acts locally on operators and can be gauged individually. Interestingly, they do not commute on a finite lattice and generate the Onsager algebra, but their commutator goes to zero in the continuum limit. The chiral anomaly is matched by this non-abelian algebra, which is consistent with the Nielsen-Ninomiya theorem. We further prove that the presence of these two conserved lattice charges forces the low-energy phase to be gapless, reminiscent of the consequence from perturbative anomalies of continuous global symmetries in continuum field theory. Upon bosonization, these two charges lead to two exact U(1) symmetries in the XX model that flow to the momentum and winding symmetries in the free boson conformal field theory.
description: 8 pages plus appendices; v2: expanded discussions on the non-abelian algebra and added references; v3: published version
The impact of the announcement of athlete endorsements on firm value
Creators: name: Alotaibi, Rayed Moneer
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: This dissertation examines the financial market response to athlete endorsements. This popular marketing strategy comes at a high cost. The increasing costs of athlete endorsements constitute a large portion of firms' advertising budget. With such large expenditures by marketing strategists, it would be in their best interest to examine if the return is worth the investment, as marketers increasingly face pressure to communicate to top management the financial values that their marketing activities generate.     The financial value of marketing activities has received increasing interest in the marketing literature in recent years. However, the results have been largely mixed. Using a sample of 130 athlete endorsements of products of publicly traded firms over the period from 2003-2016, this dissertation employs an event data analysis to study the effect of athlete endorsements on firm performance. More specifically, the objective of the dissertation is to assess the profitability of using athlete endorsers as an advertising strategy by examining what role that the three elements, i.e. the endorser, the product, and the firm have in determining the effect of the endorsement announcement on firm value.     I present empirical evidence that shows that the stock market, on average, rewards firms that engage in endorsement deals. Likewise, the market highly rewards firms who associate their brands with endorsers of a higher stature. Additionally, the findings of this study indicate that athletes with multiple endorsements have a different effect on the investors’ reactions to endorsement announcements. Further examination reveals that this variable has an inverted U-shaped effect on firm value. Also, I find that investors react stronger to endorsements of athletes who play individual sports compared to those who play team sports. Another variable of interest in this dissertation is the gender of the endorser. Empirical results show that investors react stronger to an endorsement by a female athlete than an endorsement by a male athlete. This is noteworthy, since firms overwhelmingly sponsor men’s sports in much higher numbers and with much larger sponsorship deals compared to women’s sports.     Another variable I explore, which is largely overlooked in the literature, is age of the endorser. Results show that the financial market reacts more positively to endorsement deals of younger athletes than older athletes. More interestingly, further examination shows that younger female endorsers have a larger impact on firm value than younger male endorsers. Finally, I find that the endorsement of sport-related products have a larger positive impact on firm value than the endorsement of products unrelated to sports, which lends support for the match-up hypothesis. The conclusions in this dissertation offer valuable managerial strategies for increasing firm value through athlete endorsements.
Nigerian Software Engineer or American Data Scientist? GitHub Profile Recruitment Bias in Large Language Models
Creators: name: Nakano, Takashi
name: Shimari, Kazumasa
name: Kula, Raula Gaikovina
name: Treude, Christoph
name: Cheong, Marc
name: Matsumoto, Kenichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Large Language Models (LLMs) have taken the world by storm, demonstrating their ability not only to automate tedious tasks, but also to show some degree of proficiency in completing software engineering tasks. A key concern with LLMs is their "black-box" nature, which obscures their internal workings and could lead to societal biases in their outputs. In the software engineering context, in this early results paper, we empirically explore how well LLMs can automate recruitment tasks for a geographically diverse software team. We use OpenAI's ChatGPT to conduct an initial set of experiments using GitHub User Profiles from four regions to recruit a six-person software development team, analyzing a total of 3,657 profiles over a five-year period (2019-2023). Results indicate that ChatGPT shows preference for some regions over others, even when swapping the location strings of two profiles (counterfactuals). Furthermore, ChatGPT was more likely to assign certain developer roles to users from a specific country, revealing an implicit bias. Overall, this study reveals insights into the inner workings of LLMs and has implications for mitigating such societal biases in these models.
Essays on consumer behavior in contemporary music market in the U.S.
Creators: name: An, Hyun Sang
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: The first essay examines the gender differences in the U.S. millennial consumer’s emotional and behavioral responses toward foreign contemporary music (e.g., K-pop or Latin pop) based on the media richness theory and cognitive psychology which presents men and women’s different attention-paying behaviors toward auditory and visual stimulus. Based on the theoretical framework, I manipulate the richness of media conveying foreign contemporary music in 2 (visual cues: audio streaming vs. video streaming) x 2 (language: English vs. foreign native) x 2 (gender: male vs. female) between-subjects factorial design. Three-way ANOVA is used to test the main effect and the interaction effects of visual cues (audio vs. video) and language (English vs. foreign native language) in media richness and the gender differences. In today’s contemporary music scene in the U.S., artists from all around the world are eager to enter the U.S. contemporary music market and release songs and music videos in English in consequence. The advance of web technology in social media environments enables foreign artists to reach U.S. consumers easier than ever before. Therefore, this study will be able to contribute to not only consumer behavior academic literature but also real world marketing practice related to today’s contemporary music consumption context in which audio and video-based social media are heavily used and foreign artists perform in English and foreign native language.    The second essay examines U.S. Millennials’ responses to contemporary music by foreign artists who possibly enter the U.S contemporary music market. Their behavioral responses are possibly initiated by two stimuli: social media contents and foreign contemporary music related contents on social media. These stimuli influence their emotional and behavioral responses. Consumers’ behavioral responses are reflected as impulse paid-consumption of foreign contemporary music, sharing foreign contemporary music on social media sites, future paid-consumption of foreign contemporary music, intention to join the artist’s page on social media to interact with them, and intention to recommend foreign contemporary music to peers. For the theoretical framework, this study adopts Stimulus-Organism-Response (S-O-R) model to discover the relationships among stimulus, cognitive/emotional responses, and behavioral responses. Survey method is used to collect data and the result is analyzed by structural equation modeling (SEM).
Quality improvement or symbolic adoption
Creators: name: Ballard, Andrew
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: Performance management has gained significant momentum throughout the public sector in recent decades. A large share of public organizations claim to have adopted some form of performance system that involves the collection and use of operational information to inform managerial decision-making. This is particularly true in public health. The growth in popularity of quality improvement initiatives and PHAB accreditation have led to a boom in performance adoption. However, the study of performance in public health has lagged behind the practice. This study examines performance management in public health via three independent yet connected studies.   The first is an in-depth, qualitative case study of a mandated performance measurement system in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The study suggests that a centralized system of performance data collection require the active participation of the aggregating body to analyze and disseminate the information back to the reporting agencies. The second and third studies take this finding, a need for a robust performance information reporting framework, and evaluate two potential weaknesses in the communication of performance information. Through an experimental framework, the visual display of performance information is examined as well as bureaucratic susceptibility to framing effects data reporting are evaluated. These studies find that for more complex key performance indicators, bureaucrats attach more value to graphically displayed information. Additionally, they exhibit sensitivity to framing effects, information presented in a positive frame is received more positively and vice versa for negatively framed information. The findings of this study will contribute to the ongoing efforts of New Jersey and other states to develop meaningful and effective systems of performance management that will not only improve operational efficiency but indeed the overall health of the public.
Caprithrips Faure
Creators: name: Mound, Laurence A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Thysanoptera
Thripidae
Caprithrips

description: Caprithrips Faure
(Fig. 45)
Six species are recognised in this genus of small, wingless thrips, all of them leaf-feeding on grasses. The natural distributions of these species remain unclear, but two were described from India, one from Europe, one from Southeastern USA, and one from Australia, and a key to these is provided by Bhatti (1980). Of these six species, C. moundi lacks sternal craspeda and appears to be an Australian endemic, living on native Poa species in the Southeast of the continent. Two other species are known from Australia, both of which have sternal craspeda. C. orientalis has been found both near Darwin and in northern Queensland, and is otherwise known from India, Fiji and New Caledonia (Bournier & Mound, 2000), as well as Cape Verde Islands (zur Strassen, 1993). Single females of C. insularis have been seen from Queensland, near Brisbane and also near Cairns, as well as from four of the Torres Strait Islands. However, the species is common in Florida and Georgia on the leaves of Paspalum notatum, a cultivated grass native to Argentina (Sharma et al., 2011), and is also recorded from Trinidad, Surinam, and New Caledonia. Members of this genus share with those of five other genera in Australia the presence of one or more pairs of setae on the prosternal basisternum (Fig. 45) – Masamithrips, Karphothrips, Kranzithrips, Monothrips and Parexothrips. C. moundi usually has the prosternal ferna curving forwards and meeting in the mid-line, but some individuals have these plates forming simple transverse ovals.
description: Published as part of Mound, Laurence A., 2011, Grass-dependent Thysanoptera of the family Thripidae from Australia, pp. 1-40 in Zootaxa 3064 (1) on page 17, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3064.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/200567
The relationship between sulfate air quality and visibility at Los Angeles
Creators: name: Cass, Glen R.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1976

description: Routine air monitoring data taken by the Los Angeles Air Pollution Control District are related to visibility at downtown Los Angeles over the decade 1965 through 1974. The relationship between light extinction and total suspended particulate mass implied by the historical data base is shown to be consistent with the findings of previous short-term studies.

A non-linear regression model for light extinction at Los Angeles is constructed which combines available information on aerosol chemical composition with relative humidity and NO_2 data. It is shown that there is a pronounced increase in light scattering per unit sulfate solute mass on days of high relative humidity, as would be expected for a hygroscopic or deliquescent substance.

Using the chemically resolved regression model, estimates are made of the long-run visibility impact of reducing sulfates to one half and to one quarter of their measured historic values on each past day of record. It is found that the effect of such a sulfate concentration reduction would have been manifested most clearly in a decline in the number of days per year with average visibility less than three miles. The number of days per year with average visibility less than ten miles would be little affected. One reason for the disproportionate impact of sulfates on the days of the worst visibility is found in the high positive correlation between sulfate mass concentration and relative humidity. High values of light scattering per unit sulfate mass thus occur on days of high sulfate mass concentration.
description: © 1976 Environmental Quality Laboratory. California Institute of Technology.

This work has been supported by the Ford Foundation (Grant No. 740-0469), a grant to the author from Rockwell International, gifts to the Environmental Quality Laboratory, and by the California Air Resources Board (Contract No. AS-061-87). Thanks are due to the staff of the Metropolitan Zone of the Southern California Air Pollution Control District (formerly the Los Angeles Air Pollution Control District) for their cooperation and assistance in furnishing data for this analysis.
description: Submitted - EQLmemo18.pdf
Scapheremaeus parvula Banks 1909
Creators: name: Colloff, Matthew J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Cymbaeremaeidae
Scapheremaeus
Scapheremaeus parvula

description: Scapheremaeus parvula (Banks, 1909)
Cymbaeremaeus parvula Banks, 1909, 141, pl. 13, fig. 26.
Scapheremaeus parvula: Marshall, Reeves & Norton, 1987, 237. [recombination]
Type depository: Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard. Type locality: Guelph, Ontario, CANADA.
Habitat: under bark of ironwood.
description: Published as part of Colloff, Matthew J., 2009, Comparative morphology and species-groups of the oribatid mite genus Scapheremaeus (Acari: Oribatida: Cymbaeremaeidae), with new species from South Australia, pp. 1-46 in Zootaxa 2213 on page 40, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.189889
Scapheremaeus patella Berlese 1886
Creators: name: Colloff, Matthew J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Cymbaeremaeidae
Scapheremaeus
Scapheremaeus patella

description: Scapheremaeus patella (Berlese, 1886)
Eremaeus patella Berlese, 1886, fasc. 33, no. 10.
Cymbaeremaeus (Scapheremaeus) patella: Berlese, 1910, 226, fig. 63. Scapheremaeus patella: Mahunka, 1977, 914, figs. 14, 15.
Cymbaeremaeus (Scapheremaeus) patella: Castagnoli & Pegazzano, 1985, 309. Scapheremaeus patella: Mahunka & Mahunka-Papp, 1995, pp. 62, 160, fig. 75. Scapheremaeus patella: Perez-Iñigo, 1996, 43. [redescription]
Type depository: Berlese Acaroteca, Firenze.
Type locality: Firenze, ITALY.
Habitat: thin layer of dry moss on ground under Manuka shrub in thermal area (Hammer, 1966); soil at base of rocks near entrance to cave (Mahunka, 1977)
Distribution: Italy (Berlese, 1910); Greece (Mahunka, 1977); Austria (Schatz, 1983); Canary Islands (Pérez-Iñigo & Peña, 1996).
Note: S. patella Hammer, 1966 is a junior homonym of S. patella (Berlese, 1886) and was renamed S. hammerae (cf. Above) by Balogh and Balogh (2002).
description: Published as part of Colloff, Matthew J., 2009, Comparative morphology and species-groups of the oribatid mite genus Scapheremaeus (Acari: Oribatida: Cymbaeremaeidae), with new species from South Australia, pp. 1-46 in Zootaxa 2213 on pages 40-41, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.189889
From cultural genocide to cultural integrity
Creators: name: Benvenuto, Jeffrey
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: There lies a hidden history beneath the official language of Article 8 of the 2007 UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which defines the right to cultural integrity. The genealogy of this norm goes back to the lost concept of “cultural genocide,” or the destruction of a group’s unique characteristics. This latter concept was originally stillborn while drafting the 1948 Genocide Convention because a majority of countries assumed that assimilation, or the absorption of outsiders into dominant structures, was something normal and desirable in the construction of modern nation-states. Yet this old assumption fell out of date by the 1970s, as evidenced by the shift in the International Labor Organization from the 1957 Indigenous and Tribal Populations Convention (No. 107) to the 1989 Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention (No. 169). The abandoned norm of “cultural genocide” (also perplexingly referred to as “ethnocide”) was revived in this broader intellectual context. These two keywords were actually used in the original draft of what became Article 8 of the 2007 Declaration, but they were explicitly redacted from the final text due once again to more powerful interests. This hidden history exposes a paradox in international norm dynamics between competing currents of continuity and change. On the one hand, the 2007 Declaration is the outcome of what I describe as settler colonial globalism, or the logics of sovereignty and capitalism in the contemporary era of neoliberalism. Such an ideological filter was responsible for the carefully scripted wording of this international legal instrument. On the other hand, even with its textual redactions, Article 8 remains rooted in a spirit of Indigenous survival and resistance, not to mention the productive capacity of non-state actors to affect change in global affairs. The articulation of cultural integrity as a human right symbolizes a definitive break with the historical patterns that I identify as the normalcy of assimilation. In order to problematize the apparent “progress” of international norms in relation to certain continuities of power in global governance, however, I employ a theory of co-optation, defined as the incorporation of resistant elements into a dominant structure.
Mechanics of pressurized cellular sheets
Creators: name: Chandler, Thomas G. J.
name: Ferria, Jordan
name: Shorthose, Oliver
name: Allain, Jean-Marc
name: Maiolino, Perla
name: Boudaoud, Arezki
name: Vella, Dominic
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Everyday experience shows that cellular sheets are stiffened by the presence of a pressurized gas: from bicycle inner tubes to bubble wrap, the presence of an internal pressure increases the stiffness of otherwise floppy structures. The same is true of plants, with turgor pressure (due to the presence of water) taking the place of gas pressure; indeed, in the absence of water, many plants wilt. However, the mechanical basis of this stiffening is somewhat opaque: simple attempts to rationalize it suggest that the stiffness should be independent of the pressure, at odds with everyday experience. Here, we study the mechanics of sheets that are a single cell thick and show how a pressure-dependent bending stiffness may arise. Our model rationalizes observations of turgor-driven shrinkage in plant cells and also suggests that turgor is unlikely to provide significant structural support in many monolayer leaves, such as those found in mosses. However, for such systems, turgor does provide a way to control leaf shape, in accordance with observations of curling upon drying of moss leaves. Guided by our results, we also present a biomimetic actuator that un-curls upon pressurization.
description: Paper: 14 pages, 9 figures; Supplemental Material: 8 pages, 2 figures