cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
THE OPTIMUM BIAS OF TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS IN THE CONTEXT OF TRANSACTIONS COSTS AND LOBBYING
Creators: name: De Janvry, Alain
name: Sadoulet, Elisabeth
name: Fafchamps, Marcel
name: De Janvry, Alain
name: Sadoulet, Elisabeth
name: Fafchamps, Marcel
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1988
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Agricultural Finance
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: The neoclassical theory of induced technological innovations, oioneered hy Hayami and Ruttan, has shown that changes in relative factor nrices heln explain the bias of technological change. We show in this paner that, when transactions costs on labor and land exist, structural and nolitical factors are additional important determinants of the bias of technology. The size of the research budget, average farm size, and inequality in the distribution of farm sizes are econometrically shown to all add to relative prices in exolaining the bias of technology. A larger research budget is, in narticular, observed to lead to a bias more congruent with democratic rules of public hudget allocation.
INTERLINKED LAND-LABOR CONTRACTS: THEIR RATIONALITY IN A LATIN AMERICAN CONTEXT
Creators: name: De Janvry, Alain
name: Sadoulet, Elisabeth
name: De Janvry, Alain
name: Sadoulet, Elisabeth
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1988
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Labor and Human Capital
Land Economics/Use

description: The rationality for interlinkages between land and labor contracts, where rent is paid in labor services, is explored. These contracts emerge in a structural context of large farms and dualism when there is either a risk of default on rents, involuntary unemployment, or costly transactions costs on the labor market. The resulting size of land plots leased is analyzed with Chilean data. Reforming these contracts without transforming the causes of their existence has led to efficiency and welfare losses.
Molecular beam epitaxy preparation and in situ characterization of FeTe thin films
Creators: name: Pereira, V. M.
name: Wu, C. N.
name: Liu, C. E.
name: Liao, S. -S.
name: Chang, C. F.
name: Kuo, C. -Y.
name: Koz, C.
name: Schwarz, U.
name: Lin, H. -J.
name: Tjeng, C. T. Chen. L. H.
name: Altendorf, S. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have synthesized Fe$_{1+y}$Te thin films by means of molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) under Te-limited growth conditions. We found that epitaxial layer-by-layer growth is possible for a wide range of excess Fe values, wider than expected from what is known on the bulk material. Using x-ray magnetic circular dichroism spectroscopy at the Fe L$_{2,3}$ and Te M$_{4,5}$ edges, we observed that films with high excess Fe contain ferromagnetic clusters while films with lower excess Fe remain nonmagnetic. Moreover, x-ray absorption spectroscopy showed that it is possible to obtain films with very similar electronic structure as that of a high quality bulk single crystal Fe$_{1.14}$Te. Our results suggest that MBE with Te-limited growth may provide an opportunity to synthesize FeTe films with smaller amounts of excess Fe as to come closer to a possible superconducting phase.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures accepted for publication in Physical Review Materials
Austrothaumalea uloola Sinclair 2008, n.sp.
Creators: name: Sinclair, Bradley J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Thaumaleidae
Austrothaumalea
Austrothaumalea uloola

description: Austrothaumalea uloola n.sp.
Figs 11–12
 Type material. HOLOTYPE ? “AUST:NSW: Royal /N.P., Uloola Falls / 17.xii.1993, seep behind /falls, B.J. Sinclair ”; “ HOLOTYPE / Austrothaumalea /uloola /Sinclair” (AMS). PARATYPES: New South Wales: 1 ?, 2 !!, same data as holotype (AMS); 2 ??, 1 !, Royal NP, National Falls, 29.xii.1993, B.J. Sinclair (ANIC); 1 ?, Royal NP, Uloola Falls, dry sclerophyll, 23.xi.1993, B.J. Sinclair (CNC).
 Recognition. This species is distinguished by the folded apical margin of the epandrium and short gonocoxal plate with small circular apex.
 Description. Wing length 1.8–2.0 mm. Coloration: Head dull, dark brown. Mesonotum and pleura dark brown and somewhat shiny; legs slightly paler than thorax; halter knob dark; abdomen dark brown; terminalia light brown. Wing evenly infuscate; R+R 1 +R 1+2 with macrotrichia along entire length, remaining veins bare; R 2 situated towards apex of R 1; bend in R 3 gentle, not sharply defined; R 3 and R 4+5 divergent toward wing margin; CuA with short basal appendage. Male abdominal sternite 1 narrow, spectacle-shaped; sternite 2 reduced to slender, median sclerite, with pair of small, posterolateral sclerites; sternites 3–6 rectangular, sparsely setose; sternite 7 trapezoidal-shaped, with 3 marginal setae; sternite 8 narrow, one-third length of sternite 7. Male terminalia (Figs 11–12): Epandrium broadly triangular from ventral aspect; posterior margin broad, folded internally, apex with pair of small rounded lobes; pointed posterolateral processes present. Hypandrium broad, one-half width of base of gonostylus. Gonocoxite broad, somewhat narrower at apex. Gonostylus shorter than gonocoxites, gradually curved, tapered; clothed in setulae. Parameres fused to form short, laterally flattened, broad blade-like process arched lengthwise. Gonocoxal plate with pale central portion; apical half strongly tapered with circle-shaped apex; basally not fused to hypandrium.
 Distribution. This species is recorded from Royal National Park, just south of Sydney. Adults were swept from seepages and wet vegetation hanging beneath or behind the falls. These falls are surrounded by dry sclerophyll forest.
 Etymology. Named after the type locality, Uloola Falls.
 Remarks. See under A. theischingeri.
description: Published as part of Sinclair, Bradley J., 2008, New Species of Austrothaumalea Tonnoir from Australia (Diptera: Thaumaleidae), pp. 1-12 in Records of the Australian Museum 60 (1) on pages 9-10, DOI: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.60.2008.1490, http://zenodo.org/record/4676495
Positronium-Atom Collisions
Creators: name: Walters, H R J
name: Yu, A C H
name: Sahoo, S
name: Gilmore, Sharon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: New results are presented for Ps(1s) scattering by H(1s), He(1$^1$S) and Li(2s). Calculations have been performed in a coupled state framework, usually employing pseudostates, and allowing for excitation of both the Ps and the atom. In the Ps(1s)-H(1s) calculations the H$^-$ formation channel has also been included using a highly accurate H$^-$ wave function. Resonances resulting from unstable states in which the positron orbits H$^-$ have been calculated and analysed. The new Ps(1s)-He(1$^1$S) calculations still fail to resolve existing discrepancies between theory and experiment at very low energies. The possible importance of the Ps$^-$ formation channel in all three collision systems is discussed.
description: 19 pages, 8 figures. Nucl. Instrum. methods B Accepted
SIZE-SELECTIVE PREDATION AND SEXUAL SELECTION ON BODY SIZE VARIATION AMONG KARST SPRING POPULATIONS OF THE AMPHIPOD GAMMARUS MINUS
Creators: name: Cloud, Madeline
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Body size of sexually mature individuals varies widely across karst spring populations of the amphipod Gammarus minus. The mean size of Gammarus minus in eight karst springs in the presence of the Banded Sculpin (Cottus carolinae) (male: 37.1 to 45.3, female: 27.1 to 33.8 {head capsule length in ocular micrometer units]), is significantly smaller than those in nine springs without sculpins (male: 49.4 to 55.8, females: 36.3 to 42.8). Within populations of sculpin-less springs the positive correlation between male and female size is significantly higher (Pearson’s r = 0.36 to 0.70) than in populations with sculpins (0.18 to 0.61) (p=0.036). Bigger females have larger brood sizes in all populations, but the slope of the regression of brood size on female size is steeper in populations without sculpins (p=0.008). In populations with sculpins, the magnitude of the correlations between male and female size is not significantly correlated with the slopes of the regression of brood size on female size (p=0.566) whereas in populations without sculpins the magnitude of this correlation is almost significant (p=0.082). We interpret our results to mean that in populations with sculpins, the intensity of sexual selection to increase body size is countered by size-selective predation by sculpins, while in populations without sculpins the intensity of sexual selection is not countered by this predation pressure, partially accounting for the variation in body size among springs.
title: WHEAT VARIETIES AND THE ENERGY RETENTION OF BROILER CHICKENS.
Creators: name: Collier, Justin
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1997

description: There are differences in the productive performance of growing chickens fed different wheat samples, but these are not correlated with the determined metabolisable energies of the wheat samples. It is possible that metabolisable energy does not adequately describe the net energy of different wheat samples. The objectives of this experiment were to determine whether there are differences in the energy retention of broiler chickens fed 6 different wheat varieties grown in three field blocks and to assess whether these differences are correlated to differences in productive performance. A crop growth trial at Harper Adams College produced samples of 6 different UK wheat varieties (Dean, Brigadier, Beaver, Rialto, Riband and Haven) each from three different positional blocks in the 1994 harvest. Each of the 18 wheat samples was included at 650 g/kg in a pelleted broiler food that had a calculated composition of 225 g/kg crude protein and 12.5 MJ/kg of metabolisable energy. Each diet was fed to 4 cages of broiler chickens from 7 to 21 days of age. Each cage had a floor area of 0.1 m2 and contained two birds. Metabolisable energy was determined by collecting all excreta produced during the 4 days of the feeding period and energy retention was determined by gross energy analysis of carcases. The 18 wheat samples had similar chemical compositions with ranges of 867 to 876 g dry matter/kg, 114 to 160 g crude protein/kg dry matter, 18.3 to 19.1 MJ of gross energy/kg dry matter and specific weights of 75.9 to 78.7 kg/hl. There were no differences (P>0.05) in any of the measured variables of broiler growth or energy availability between the wheat samples grown in the three different field blocks. There were no (P>0.05) differences in AMEn between the 6 varieties, yet differences in energy retention (P<0.01) were significantly (P<0.01) correlated to the differences in food conversion ratio (P<0.05) and weight gain (P<0.05). Although some wheat samples do vary in their ME, there are few differences in ME between Autumn sown wheat varieties produced in the UK. This experiment also showed no difference in ME between the wheat samples but that wheat variety affected the energy retention of the broilers per MJ of ME intake. The experiment indicates that there were differences in the net energy of 6 UK wheat varieties that were correlated to differences in the productive performance of broilers, but these nutritional differences were not detected by metabolisable energy determinations, digesta viscosity or determined chemical analysis of the wheat samples.
Propagation of non-linear waves in hot, ideal, and non-extensive quark-gluon plasma
Creators: name: Bhattacharyya, Trambak
name: Mukherjee, Abhik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the propagation of energy density perturbation in a hot, ideal quark-gluon medium in which quarks and gluons follow the Tsallis-like momentum distributions. We have observed that a non-extensive MIT bag equation of state obtained with the help of the quantum Tsallis-like distributions gives rise to a breaking wave solution of the equation dictating the evolution of energy density perturbation. However, the breaking of waves is delayed when the value of the Tsallis q parameter and the Tsallis temperature T are higher.
description: Matches with the version accepted by the European Physical Journal C
Austrothaumalea victoriae Theischinger 1986
Creators: name: Sinclair, Bradley J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Thaumaleidae
Austrothaumalea
Austrothaumalea victoriae

description: Austrothaumalea victoriae Theischinger
 Austrothaumalea victoriae Theischinger, 1986: 311.
 Material examined. New South Wales: 2 ??, Kosciusko NP, Kosciusko Rd, 1600 m, upper Pipers Ck, 7.xii.1994 (CNC). Victoria: 4 ??, 1 ! (including pair in copula) Errinundra Plateau, Gap Rd, Result Ck Falls, 6–7.xii.1994 (AMS); 4 ??, 9 km N Warburton, Cement Ck, 1–3. xii.1994 (ANIC); 2 ??, Warburton Rd to Mt. Donna Buang, roadcut seep/ stream, 3.xii.1994 (AMS).
 Remarks: The specimens from Kosciusko bear a pair of short lateral epandrial processes on each side, rather than a single pointed process.
description: Published as part of Sinclair, Bradley J., 2008, New Species of Austrothaumalea Tonnoir from Australia (Diptera: Thaumaleidae), pp. 1-12 in Records of the Australian Museum 60 (1) on page 10, DOI: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.60.2008.1490, http://zenodo.org/record/4676495
The Pre-Explosion Mass Distribution of Hydrogen-Poor Superluminous Supernova Progenitors and New Evidence for a Mass-Spin Correlation
Creators: name: Blanchard, Peter K.
name: Berger, Edo
name: Nicholl, Matt
name: Villar, V. Ashley
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Despite indications that superluminous supernovae (SLSNe) originate from massive progenitors, the lack of a uniformly analyzed statistical sample has so far prevented a detailed view of the progenitor mass distribution. Here we present and analyze the pre-explosion mass distribution of hydrogen-poor SLSN progenitors as determined from uniformly modelled light curves of 62 events. We construct the distribution by summing the ejecta mass posteriors of each event, using magnetar light curve models presented in our previous works (and using a nominal neutron star remnant mass). The resulting distribution spans $3.6-40$ M$_{\odot}$, with a sharp decline at lower masses, and is best fit by a broken power law described by ${\rm d}N/{\rm dlog}M \propto M^{-0.41 \pm 0.06}$ at $3.6-8.6$ M$_{\odot}$ and $\propto M^{-1.26 \pm 0.06}$ at $8.6-40$ M$_{\odot}$. We find that observational selection effects cannot account for the shape of the distribution. Relative to Type Ib/c SNe, the SLSN mass distribution extends to much larger masses and has a different power-law shape, likely indicating that the formation of a magnetar allows more massive stars to explode as some of the rotational energy accelerates the ejecta. Comparing the SLSN distribution with predictions from single and binary star evolution models, we find that binary models for a metallicity of $Z\lesssim 1/3$ Z$_{\odot}$ are best able to reproduce its broad shape, in agreement with the preference of SLSNe for low metallicity environments. Finally, we uncover a correlation between the pre-explosion mass and the magnetar initial spin period, where SLSNe with low masses have slower spins, a trend broadly consistent with the effects of angular momentum transport evident in models of rapidly-rotating carbon-oxygen stars.
description: 18 pages, 11 figures, Submitted to ApJ
Analysis of the distribution of some Potentially Harmful Elements (PHEs) in the Krugersdorp Game Reserve, Gauteng, South Africa
Creators: name: Shapi, Michael
name: Jordaan, Maryam Amra
name: Nadasan, Devandren Subramoney
name: Davies, Theophilus C.
name: Chirenje, Emmanuel
name: Dube, Mpumelelo
name: Lekoa, Mammusa R.
Publisher: name: Mangosuthu University of Technology (MUT)
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Geochemistry
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Geography
subject: Mineralogy

description: The Mintails Mogale Gold (MMG) and the Rand Uranium (RU) are two large-scale mining consortiums active in re-mining old tailings dams and dumps in Krugersdorp and are a source of mine discharge feed into the Krugersdorp Game Reserve (KGR). This has resulted in a noticeable accumulation of potentially harmful elements (PHEs) over a number of years. Efforts were implemented to interpret the concentration levels of PHEs in soils of the study areas of which a total of 36 georeferenced soil samples were collected (in triplicate) from the MMG, RU and KGR, including samples from farmlands and waterways adjacent to the mining sites. Samples were then analysed by both inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES) and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) for 36 elements. From the 36 elements of this study, detailed evaluations of the occurrence of 12 selected elements were discussed. The geochemical landscape at the KGR is shown to be in flux. The major mediating influences on the behaviour of As, Co, Cu, Hg and Pb, as they enter the KGR largely in the form of acid mine drainage (AMD), are the geological substrate (mostly in carbonate form). Analysis of the soils showed high levels of contamination for As and Co in ppm. The mean maximum of As ranged from (5.00–170.30) with the highest level found in the Krugersdorp site. The mean maximum of Co ranged from (46.00–102.30) with the highest level found in MMG. All of these values were well above the recommended maximum acceptable concentration (MAC) values, i.e., As (15–20) and Co (20–50). The mean maximum values for Pb (12.40–92.30); Cu (18.50–115.30) and Hg (12.40–92.30) content in surface soils of all four segments studied falls well within the MAC range for agricultural soils i.e., Cu (60–150); Hg (0.5–5) and Pb (20–300).
DARLING CLEMENTINE AND “THE SEMIOTICS OF BEAVERS”
Creators: name: Bryant, Danielle Rae
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: It isn’t the abuse that kills. It’s the silence. This creative thesis includes two works—"Darling Clementine,” an excerpt of a novel manuscript, and “The Semiotics of Beavers: The In-Différant Girl and the Hierarchal Girl,” a hybrid creative/critical essay. In both works, a girl, one fictitious and one real, explores and survives incestual abuse. In a literary culture that continues to publish and herald the girl as victim as told through the eyes of a male writer, these narratives attempt to explore abuse and survival through a gender authentic lens. #metoo.
EFFECTS OF TRADE LIBERALIZATION ON MARKET SHARES AND IMPORTS IN THE JAPANESE BEEF MARKET
Creators: name: Lin, Biing-Hwan
name: Mori, Hiroshi
name: Jones, James R.
name: Gorman, William D.
name: Lin, Biing-Hwan
name: Mori, Hiroshi
name: Jones, James R.
name: Gorman, William D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1988
Subjects: International Relations/Trade
Livestock Production/Industries

description: A market share model for the Japanese imported beef was constructed to estimate the effects of political manipulation of import quotas and price competition on market shares of Australia, the United States and New Zealand .. The Japanese demand for imported beef was ~lso estimated, using quarterly data from 1978 through 1987, and reductions of the wholesale price of imported beef were calculated to estimate the extent of market expansion for imported beef in Japan, had the market been liberalized in 1979. The demand function for imported beef and the market share model were then utilized to estimate Japanese imports of beef from Australia, the United States and New Zealand under partial and complete trade liberalization, had them been implemented in 1979. Empirical results suggest that Australia and New Zealand could have captured bigger shares, at the expense of the United States, of an expanded market in Japan. It was found to be possible that the Japanese imports of beef from the United States could have actually declined under partial trade liberalization.
DARLING CLEMENTINE AND “THE SEMIOTICS OF BEAVERS”
Creators: name: Bryant, Danielle Rae
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3602
subject: Creative and professional writing

description: It isn’t the abuse that kills. It’s the silence. This creative thesis includes two works—"Darling Clementine,” an excerpt of a novel manuscript, and “The Semiotics of Beavers: The In-Différant Girl and the Hierarchal Girl,” a hybrid creative/critical essay. In both works, a girl, one fictitious and one real, explores and survives incestual abuse. In a literary culture that continues to publish and herald the girl as victim as told through the eyes of a male writer, these narratives attempt to explore abuse and survival through a gender authentic lens. #metoo.
Challenges in generating density perturbations from a fluctuating inflaton coupling
Creators: name: Enqvist, Kari
name: Mazumdar, Anupam
name: Postma, Marieke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the possibility of generating adiabatic density perturbations from spatial fluctuations in the inflaton decay rate which are due to quantum fluctuations of light moduli fields coupling to the inflaton. We point out that non-renormalizable operators, which lift the flatness of the moduli potential, play an important role for the density perturbations. In particular, the non-renormalizable terms give rise to a considerable damping of the fluctuations and thereby pose an obstruction to the construction of possible models.
description: 3 pages
Signatures of the Higgs mode in transport through a normal-metal--superconductor junction
Creators: name: Tang, Gaomin
name: Belzig, Wolfgang
name: Zülicke, Ulrich
name: Bruder, Christoph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A superconductor subject to electromagnetic irradiation in the terahertz range can show amplitude oscillations of its order parameter. However, coupling this so-called Higgs mode to the charge current is notoriously difficult. We propose to achieve such a coupling in a particle-hole-asymmetric configuration using a DC-voltage-biased normal-metal--superconductor tunnel junction. Using the quasiclassical Green's function formalism, we demonstrate three characteristic signatures of the Higgs mode: (i) The AC charge current exhibits a pronounced resonant behavior and is maximal when the radiation frequency coincides with the order parameter. (ii) The AC charge current amplitude exhibits a characteristic nonmonotonic behavior with increasing voltage bias. (iii) At resonance for large voltage bias, the AC current vanishes inversely proportional to the bias. These signatures provide an electric detection scheme for the Higgs mode.
description: 5.2+3 pages
Additional file 18 of Exercising with Baxter: preliminary support for assistive social-physical human-robot interaction
Creators: name: Fitter, Naomi T.
name: Mohan, Mayumi
name: Kuchenbecker, Katherine J.
name: Johnson, Michelle J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 18 Opening survey (survey 1) completed by study participants.
Agricultural Externalities and Environmental Policy: Re-Emergence of an Old Issue
Creators: name: Crutchfield, Stephen R.
name: Crutchfield, Stephen R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1988
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Environmental Economics and Policy

description: Agricultural production in the United States has an off-farm environmental impact. This paper examines the impact of agricultural externalities on U.S. water resources. Also discussed are policy options for controlling agricultural contamination, issues relevant to these policy options, and an agenda for further economic research.
UNRAVELING THE LINKAGE BETWEEN MET AND EGFR FAMILY OF RECEPTORS IN TPL2-RELATED SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA
Creators: name: Bienefeld, Mary
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma (cSCC) is a cancer of the epidermal layer of the skin that affects over 1 million people in the United States each year. The prevalence of cSCC has increased substantially over the past 3 decades, and thus understanding the mechanisms by which it forms is crucial. Development or progression of tumors rely on the absence or presence of tumor suppressor genes and oncogenes. One such tumor suppressor gene is Tpl2, also called MAP3K8 in humans, which is a serine/threonine kinase in the MAPK signaling pathway. This pathway plays a crucial role in the regulation of cell proliferation, differentiation, cell apoptosis and inflammation. Research has shown that when Tpl2 is absent, squamous cell carcinoma is more likely to occur and at a faster rate. The reason for the increase in tumorigenesis in the absence of Tpl2 is still being elucidated. Receptor tyrosine kinase MET and its ligand HGF are upregulated in Tpl2-/- mice. Some recent publications link MET with the EGFR family of receptors. In some models, upregulation or inhibition of either receptor affects the other, suggesting that these two receptors interact to activate downstream signal transduction pathways. To study a possible relationship between MET and the EGFR family of receptors, keratinocytes from Tpl2+/+ and Tpl2-/- mice were treated with inhibitors specific to each receptor alone and in combination. Downstream proteins were analyzed using a variety of methods such as RTK assay, Western blotting, tube formation assay and gelatin zymography. We found that EGFR and MET do interact in our model in terms of activation of downstream signaling, MMP-9 activity and angiogenesis. Further, we identified HER-2 as a protein receptor that may be central to the relationship between EGFR and MET, and therefore should be evaluated further in the future.
Niphta Theischinger 1986
Creators: name: Sinclair, Bradley J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Thaumaleidae
Niphta

description: Genus Niphta Theischinger
 Niphta Theischinger, 1986: 314.
 The genus Niphta is characterized by a distinct ridge (supraalar region) in front of the wing, microtrichia of first vein (R+R 1 +R 1+2) confined to base near humeral crossvein, crossvein closer to origin of R 3 than to apex of R 1+2, R 3 with arch not strongly produced, basal appendage of CuA absent, gonocoxites broad, not much longer than wide and hypandrium narrow.
description: Published as part of Sinclair, Bradley J., 2008, New Species of Austrothaumalea Tonnoir from Australia (Diptera: Thaumaleidae), pp. 1-12 in Records of the Australian Museum 60 (1) on page 11, DOI: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.60.2008.1490, http://zenodo.org/record/4676495
Optimal Database Search: Waves and Catalysis
Creators: name: Patel, Apoorva
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Grover's database search algorithm, although discovered in the context of quantum computation, can be implemented using any system that allows superposition of states. A physical realization of this algorithm is described using coupled simple harmonic oscillators, which can be exactly solved in both classical and quantum domains. Classical wave algorithms are far more stable against decoherence compared to their quantum counterparts. In addition to providing convenient demonstration models, they may have a role in practical situations, such as catalysis.
description: 4 pages (v2) 6 pages, RevTeX4. Title changed. Substantially expanded to include stability considerations, quantum domain analysis, application to catalysis. (v3) Version accepted for publication. (v4) Error in Eqs.(10,11) corrected by replacing \omega by \omega^2. No change in implementation and application
UNRAVELING THE LINKAGE BETWEEN MET AND EGFR FAMILY OF RECEPTORS IN TPL2-RELATED SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA
Creators: name: Bienefeld, Mary
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma (cSCC) is a cancer of the epidermal layer of the skin that affects over 1 million people in the United States each year. The prevalence of cSCC has increased substantially over the past 3 decades, and thus understanding the mechanisms by which it forms is crucial. Development or progression of tumors rely on the absence or presence of tumor suppressor genes and oncogenes. One such tumor suppressor gene is Tpl2, also called MAP3K8 in humans, which is a serine/threonine kinase in the MAPK signaling pathway. This pathway plays a crucial role in the regulation of cell proliferation, differentiation, cell apoptosis and inflammation. Research has shown that when Tpl2 is absent, squamous cell carcinoma is more likely to occur and at a faster rate. The reason for the increase in tumorigenesis in the absence of Tpl2 is still being elucidated. Receptor tyrosine kinase MET and its ligand HGF are upregulated in Tpl2-/- mice. Some recent publications link MET with the EGFR family of receptors. In some models, upregulation or inhibition of either receptor affects the other, suggesting that these two receptors interact to activate downstream signal transduction pathways. To study a possible relationship between MET and the EGFR family of receptors, keratinocytes from Tpl2+/+ and Tpl2-/- mice were treated with inhibitors specific to each receptor alone and in combination. Downstream proteins were analyzed using a variety of methods such as RTK assay, Western blotting, tube formation assay and gelatin zymography. We found that EGFR and MET do interact in our model in terms of activation of downstream signaling, MMP-9 activity and angiogenesis. Further, we identified HER-2 as a protein receptor that may be central to the relationship between EGFR and MET, and therefore should be evaluated further in the future.
The Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxy VCC848 Formed by Dwarf-Dwarf Merging
Creators: name: Zhang, Hong-Xin
name: Paudel, Sanjaya
name: Smith, Rory
name: Duc, Pierre-Alain
name: Puzia, Thomas H.
name: Peng, Eric W.
name: Cote, Patrick
name: Ferrarese, Laura
name: Boselli, Alessandro
name: Wang, Kaixiang
name: Oh, Se-Heon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has long been speculated that many starburst or compact dwarf galaxies are resulted from dwarf-dwarf galaxy merging, but unequivocal evidence for this possibility has rarely been reported in the literature. We present the first study of deep optical broadband images of a gas-dominated blue compact dwarf galaxy (BCD) VCC848 (Mstar=2e8Msun) which hosts extended stellar shells and thus is confirmed to be a dwarf-dwarf merger. VCC848 is located in the outskirts of the Virgo Cluster. By analyzing the stellar light distribution, we found that VCC848 is the result of a merging between two dwarf galaxies with a primary-to-secondary mass ratio < ~ 5 for the stellar components and < ~ 2 for the presumed dark matter halos. The secondary progenitor galaxy has been almost entirely disrupted. The age-mass distribution of photometrically selected star cluster candidates in VCC848 implies that the cluster formation rate (CFR, proportional to star formation rate) was enhanced by a factor of ~ 7 - 10 during the past 1 Gyr. The merging-induced enhancement of CFR peaked near the galactic center a few hundred Myr ago and has started declining in the last few tens of Myr. The current star formation activities, as traced by the youngest clusters, mainly occur at large galactocentric distances (> ~ 1 kpc). The fact that VCC848 is still (atomic) gas-dominated after the period of most violent collision suggests that gas-rich dwarf galaxy merging can result in BCD-like remnants with extended atomic gas distribution surrounding a blue compact center, in general agreement with previous numerical simulations.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures, accepted by ApJL
Interstellar Turbulence I: Observations and Processes
Creators: name: Elmegreen, Bruce G.
name: Scalo, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This two-part review summarizes interstellar turbulence and its implications. The first part begins with diagnostics and energy sources. Turbulence theory is considered in detail, including the basic fluid equations, solenoidal and compressible modes, global inviscid quadratic invariants, scaling arguments, energy transfer and cascade, velocity probability distributions, and turbulent pressure. Theories of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence, including collisionless MHD turbulence, are discussed, emphasizing various proposals for energy spectra. A large variety of numerical simulations of interstellar turbulence are reviewed. Models have reproduced many of the basic features of the observed scaling relations, predicted fast decay rates for supersonic MHD turbulence, and derived probability distribution functions for density. Thermal instabilities and thermal phases have a new interpretation in a turbulent medium. Large-scale models with various combinations of self-gravity, magnetic fields, supernovae, and star formation are beginning to resemble the observed interstellar medium in morphology and statistical properties. The role of self-gravity in turbulent gas is clarified, leading to new paradigms for the formation of star clusters, the stellar mass function, the origin of stellar rotation and binary stars, and the effects of magnetic fields.
description: 71 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Annual Reviews of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Machine Song
Creators: name: Martinez, Brahidaliz
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Machine Song, a science fantasy novel with dystopian and post-apocalyptic elements, explores the relationships between humans and technology. The thesis portion (part 1) shows how technology, including artificial intelligence, can be used to manipulate, threaten, and benefit individuals and society. The dynamics between organic and artificial people are shown through memory and trauma. People and things connect in moments of compassion and understanding. Thus, this thesis strives to explore the concept of human and AI interactions.
Hybridization effect on the X-ray absorption spectra for actinide materials: Application to PuB$_4$
Creators: name: Chiu, Wei-ting
name: Tutchton, Roxanne M.
name: Resta, Giacomo
name: Lee, Tsung-Han
name: Bauer, Eric D.
name: Ronning, Filip
name: Scalettar, Richard T.
name: Zhu, Jian-Xin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Studying the local moment and 5$f$-electron occupations sheds insight into the electronic behavior in actinide materials. X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) has been a powerful tool to reveal the valence electronic structure when assisted with theoretical calculations. However, the analysis currently taken in the community on the branching ratio of the XAS spectra generally does not account for the hybridization effects between local $f$-orbitals and conduction states. In this paper, we discuss an approach which employs the DFT+Gutzwiller rotationally-invariant slave boson (DFT+GRISB) method to obtain a local Hamiltonian for the single-impurity Anderson model (SIAM), and calculates the XAS spectra by the exact diagonalization (ED) method. A customized numerical routine was implemented for the ED XAS part of the calculation. By applying this technique to the recently discovered 5$f$-electron topological Kondo insulator PuB$_4$, we determined the signature of 5$f$-electronic correlation effects in the theoretical X-ray spectra. We found that the Pu 5$f$-6$d$ hybridization effect provides an extra channel to mix the $j=5/2$ and $7/2$ orbitals in the 5$f$ valence. As a consequence, the resulting electron occupation number and spin-orbit coupling strength deviate from the intermediate coupling regime.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables
The Effect of Stolen Goods Markets on Crime: Evidence from a Quasi Natural Experiment
Creators: name: D'Este, Rocco
name: D'Este, Rocco
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: Financial Economics

description: This paper investigates the effect of stolen goods markets on crime. We focus on pawnshops, a business that have long been suspected of illicit trade. The analysis of a unique panel dataset of 2176 US counties from 1997 - 2010 uncovers an elasticity of pawnshops to theft crimes of 0.8 to 1.4. We then exploit the raise in gold price as a quasi - natural experiment, where the intensity of the treatment is given by the predetermined concentration of pawnshops in the county. A one standard deviation increase in pawnshops’ initial allocation raises the effect of gold price on burglaries by 0.05 to 0.10 standard deviation. No effect is ever detected on any other type of crime.
Resonant Quantum Search with Monitor Qubits
Creators: name: Wilczek, Frank
name: Hu, Hong-Ye
name: Wu, Biao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an algorithm for the generalized search problem (searching $k$ marked items among $N$ items) based on a continuous Hamiltonian and exploiting resonance. This resonant algorithm has the same time complexity $O(\sqrt{N/k})$ as the Grover algorithm. A natural extension of the algorithm, incorporating auxiliary "monitor" qubits, can determine $k$ precisely, if it is unknown. The time complexity of our counting algorithm is $O(\sqrt{N})$, similar to the best quantum approximate counting algorithm, or better, given appropriate physical resources.
description: 12 pages, 1 figure
Niphta bickeli Theischinger 1986
Creators: name: Sinclair, Bradley J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Thaumaleidae
Niphta
Niphta bickeli

description: Niphta bickeli Theischinger
 Niphta bickeli Theischinger, 1986: 314.
 Material examined. New South Wales: 4 ??, Dorrigo NP, Wonga Walk, 700 m, Crystal Shower Falls, 2.iv.1995 (AMS); 1 ?, 1 !, Dorrigo NP, Rosewood Ck, 23.i.1995 (CNC).
 Distribution. This species is confined to Dorrigo National Park.
description: Published as part of Sinclair, Bradley J., 2008, New Species of Austrothaumalea Tonnoir from Australia (Diptera: Thaumaleidae), pp. 1-12 in Records of the Australian Museum 60 (1) on page 11, DOI: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.60.2008.1490, http://zenodo.org/record/4676495
Deep learning for 2D passive source detection in presence of complex cargo
Creators: name: Baines, Weston
name: Kuchment, Peter
name: Ragusa, Jean
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 92C55, 82-XX, 68T05

description: Methods for source detection in high noise environments are important for single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) medical imaging and especially crucial for homeland security applications, which is our main interest. In the latter case, one deals with passively detecting the presence of low emission nuclear sources with significant background noise (with Signal To Noise Ratio ($SNR$) $1\%$ or less). In passive emission problems, direction sensitive detectors are needed, to match the dimensionalities of the image and the data. Collimation, used for that purpose in standard Anger $γ$-cameras, is not an option. Instead, Compton $γ$-cameras (and their analogs for other types of radiation) can be utilized. Backprojection methods suggested before by two of the authors and their collaborators enable detection in the presence of a random uniform background. In most practical applications, however, cargo packing in shipping containers and trucks creates regions of strong absorption and scattering, while leaving some streaming gaps open. In such cases backprojection methods prove ineffective and lose their detection ability. Nonetheless, visual perception of the backprojection pictures suggested that some indications of presence of a source might still be in the data. To learn such features (if they do exist), a deep neural network approach is implemented in 2D, which indeed exhibits higher sensitivity and specificity than the backprojection techniques in a low scattering case and works well when presence of complex cargo makes backprojection fail completely.
Machine Song
Creators: name: Martinez, Brahidaliz
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3602
subject: Creative and professional writing

description: Machine Song, a science fantasy novel with dystopian and post-apocalyptic elements, explores the relationships between humans and technology. The thesis portion (part 1) shows how technology, including artificial intelligence, can be used to manipulate, threaten, and benefit individuals and society. The dynamics between organic and artificial people are shown through memory and trauma. People and things connect in moments of compassion and understanding. Thus, this thesis strives to explore the concept of human and AI interactions.
CHARACTERIZATION OF POLY(ETHYLENE - CO - ACRYLIC ACID) COMPOSITE WITH INTUMESCENT CHITOSAN FLAME RETARDANT
Creators: name: Gill, Rachel Marie
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The purpose of this research is to develop a novel intumescent flame-retardant for polyethylene utilizing a green alternative, chitosan. Thermal and flammability properties were determined using thermal gravimetric analysis, cone calorimetry, and flame spread measurements. Addition of chitosan in poly(ethylene-co-acrylic acid) (PEAA) was found to reduce thermal stability, but form layer of char due to the decomposition of chitosan. An increase in the residual weight% was observed from 2.79% to approximately 10% for both additions of 20% chitosan dissolved in hypophosphourous acid and poly(acrylic acid) (ChitHP) and 20% chitosan dissolved in acetic acid and poly(acrylic acid) (ChitAC). Using cone calorimetry, peak heat release rate (PHRR) of the composite polymers containing chitosan were found to be 1546.59 and 1499.92 kW2 for ChitAC and ChitHP respectively while PEAA was 2005.15 kW/m2. The effective heat of combustion of PEAA decreased with the addition of chitosan as well proving that chitosan does inhibit combustion of the polymer. However, there is a significant difference between ChitHP and ChitAC char formation that was observed with SEM. Polymeric materials were all determined to meet the V0 classification based on horizontal burn and vertical burn UL-94 flammability tests. The crystallinity of both the ChitHP and ChitAC-PEAA polymeric materials was also found to be higher than that of pure PEAA from 34% to roughly 38%. After submersion in artificial saltwater and deionized water ChitHP samples disintegrated in artificial saltwater after 24 hours and broke apart in deionized water after 72 hours, and ChitAC samples disintegrated in deionized water after 72 hours and broke apart in artificial salt water after 72 hours. Overall the addition of chitosan was found to have promising performance as an intumescent flame-retardant, but compatibility issues must be addressed.
CHARACTERIZATION OF POLY(ETHYLENE - CO - ACRYLIC ACID) COMPOSITE WITH INTUMESCENT CHITOSAN FLAME RETARDANT
Creators: name: Gill, Rachel Marie
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 34
subject: Chemical sciences
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: The purpose of this research is to develop a novel intumescent flame-retardant for polyethylene utilizing a green alternative, chitosan. Thermal and flammability properties were determined using thermal gravimetric analysis, cone calorimetry, and flame spread measurements. Addition of chitosan in poly(ethylene-co-acrylic acid) (PEAA) was found to reduce thermal stability, but form layer of char due to the decomposition of chitosan. An increase in the residual weight% was observed from 2.79% to approximately 10% for both additions of 20% chitosan dissolved in hypophosphourous acid and poly(acrylic acid) (ChitHP) and 20% chitosan dissolved in acetic acid and poly(acrylic acid) (ChitAC). Using cone calorimetry, peak heat release rate (PHRR) of the composite polymers containing chitosan were found to be 1546.59 and 1499.92 kW2 for ChitAC and ChitHP respectively while PEAA was 2005.15 kW/m2. The effective heat of combustion of PEAA decreased with the addition of chitosan as well proving that chitosan does inhibit combustion of the polymer. However, there is a significant difference between ChitHP and ChitAC char formation that was observed with SEM. Polymeric materials were all determined to meet the V0 classification based on horizontal burn and vertical burn UL-94 flammability tests. The crystallinity of both the ChitHP and ChitAC-PEAA polymeric materials was also found to be higher than that of pure PEAA from 34% to roughly 38%. After submersion in artificial saltwater and deionized water ChitHP samples disintegrated in artificial saltwater after 24 hours and broke apart in deionized water after 72 hours, and ChitAC samples disintegrated in deionized water after 72 hours and broke apart in artificial salt water after 72 hours. Overall the addition of chitosan was found to have promising performance as an intumescent flame-retardant, but compatibility issues must be addressed.
Observation of the Hadronic Transitions Chi_{b 1,2}(2P) -> omega Upsilon(1S)
Creators: name: Severini, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The CLEO Collaboration has observed the first hadronic transition among bottomonium (b bbar) states other than the dipion transitions among vector states, Upsilon(nS) -> pi pi Upsilon(mS). In our study of Upsilon(3S) decays, we find a significant signal for Upsilon(3S) -> gamma omega Upsilon(1S) that is consistent with radiative decays Upsilon(3S) -> gamma chi_{b 1,2}(2P), followed by chi_{b 1,2} -> omega Upsilon(1S). The branching ratios we obtain are Br(chi_{b1} -> omega Upsilon(1S) = 1.63 (+0.35 -0.31) (+0.16 -0.15) % and Br(chi_{b2} -> omega Upsilon(1S) = 1.10 (+0.32 -0.28) (+0.11 - 0.10)%, in which the first error is statistical and the second is systematic.
description: submitted to XXI Intern'l Symp on Lepton and Photon Interact'ns at High Energies, August 2003, Fermilab