cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Effects of Indoor Plants in the Reduction of Stress
Creators: name: Abigail, Anastasya
name: Kang, Jonathan
name: Durnford, Kody
name: Liu, Michelle
name: Parker, Oliver
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: A correlational, between-subjects design was done in order to further investigate the positive effect that indoor plants have on stress in the UBC campus. The present study makes an initial attempt to evaluate the potential benefits of placing indoor plants in pocket lounges in the Nest, which are areas that students often use to either rest or study. A Profile of Mood States survey, that included other demographical questions, was administered to approximately 52 students who were present in the pocket lounge at the time when the experiment was conducted. Data were analyzed to compare the levels of stress, operationalized by measures of mood, before and after plants were added to the room. The findings suggest no significant (P > 0.05) decrease in the level of stress that students have even with the addition of various plants. The results show a minor decrease in the following items ranked in the survey, although other variables and confounds, such as timing and change blindness, may have affected the plant’s effect on the individual’s stress level. Overall, no differences were found between independent items in the survey, nor were they found in the comparisons between both conditions. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Acanthocollum melanurum
Creators: name: Opitz, Weston
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chaetosomatidae
Acanthocollum
Acanthocollum melanurum

description: Acanthocollum melanurum (Klug, 1842)
(Frontispiece; Figs. 1–12, 36; Map 1)
 Enoplium melanurum Klug, 1842: 376. Lectotype ♀. Herein designated. Brazil, v. Olf. (ZMHB). (Specimen point mounted, gender label affixed to paper point; support card; locality-identification label; specimen number label-58865; type label; Zoological Museum label; historical collection label; ZMHB acronymic label; lectotype label; identification label.). Lacordaire 1857; Corporaal 1949, 1950.
 Paralectotypes. Paralectotypes were not designated because this species was described on the basis of an unknown number of specimens.
 Diagnosis. The considerably sinuous side margins of the pronotum, dense setal tuft along the pronotal side margins, short funicle, and the longitudinal carinae on the elytra will conveniently distinguish the members of this species.
 Description. Size: Length 9.1 mm; width 2.5 mm. Form (see frontispiece): Triangular. Integumental color (Frontispiece, Fig. 36): Cranium mostly reddish brown; vertex with a black spot, antenna dark brown; pronotum black at lower sides and centrally on disc, reddish brown on upper sides; elytra mostly reddish brown, distal third light brown, legs dark brown. Head: HW/PW 1.0; EW/VW 1.0; frons profusely vested with yellow setae; antenna (Fig. 1) with funicle about as long as antennomere 8. Thorax: Pronotum with setose ridge (Fig. 5), PL/PW 1.0; elytra long rectangular, EL/PL 4.7; EL/EW 2.9; anterior margin of protibia with 14 spines. Male genitalia: Aedeagus slender.
 Variation. Size: length 9.1–11.3 mm; width 2.5– 3.3 mm. The extent of darkness on the distal portion of the elytral disc varies.
 Natural History. Specimens have been collected in October and November.
 Distribution. The distribution seems to be concentrated in central and southern Brazil (Map 1).
 Specimens Examined. Five. BRAZIL: Mato Grosso, Chapada; Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro. Specimens are deposited in CMNH, WOPC, and ZMHB.
description: Published as part of Opitz, Weston, 2010, Classification, Natural History, and Evolution of the Epiphloeinae (Coleoptera: Cleridae). Part VIII. The Genera Acanthocollum Opitz, Stegnoclava Opitz, and Ichnea Laporte, pp. 1-65 in The Coleopterists Bulletin (mo 9) (mo 9) 64 on pages 8-9, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-64.mo4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4908605
The politics of competitive sourcing: Cost savings, transaction costs, trade-offs and traditional public values
Creators: name: Diehl, Glen
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation examined the impact of costs savings on public-private competitions and the underlying forces driving competitive sourcing policy. This research is significant because it challenged the assumption of thirty percent savings when conducting a standard public-private competition. Also important is that this dissertation closely analyzed whether cost savings was the primary force driving competitive sourcing policy. The methodology used in this dissertation was a mixed model, which employed both quantitative analyses and qualitative interviewing. The quantitative model analyzed data on public-private competitions conducted on commercial activities in the Department of Defense from 1979--1994. This analysis also included transaction costs that accounted for contract support and government administration involved in the competitive sourcing process. The qualitative interviews asked two groups of federal government personnel questions regarding their agency experiences with competitive sourcing policy. The first group consisted of personnel directly involved in the implementation of competitive sourcing. The second group included Competitive Sourcing Officials (CSOs) or their designated agency representative(s). Additionally there was a historical content analysis that examined both the evolution of public values through government contracting and the development of competitive sourcing policy. The findings from this dissertation indicate three overarching themes. First, transaction costs matter and may dramatically impact the amount of cost savings produced through competitive sourcing. Second, the thirty percent cost savings figure reported in a number of studies could not be replicated, but it should be noted that savings did occur on a much smaller scale. Third, cost savings are not the only force driving competitive sourcing policy. Politics, public values and competing organizational goals have also played an active role in the development of competitive sourcing. A tangential theme of some importance was the representation of cost savings as a public value. Overall this research allows for a better understanding of the transaction costs, trade-offs and politics involved in the federal government's competitive sourcing policy.
A model of superoutbursts in binaries of SU UMa type
Creators: name: Bisikalo, D. V.
name: Boyarchuk, A. A.
name: Kaygorodov, P. V.
name: Kuznetsov, O. A.
name: Matsuda, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new mechanism explaining superoutbursts in binaries of SU UMa type is proposed. In the framework of this mechanism the accretion rate increase leading to the superoutburst is associated with formation of a spiral wave of a new "precessional" type in inner gasdynamically unperturbed parts of the accretion disc. The possibility of existence of this type of waves was suggested in our previous work (astro-ph/0403053). The features of the "precessional" spiral wave allow explaining both the energy release during the outburst and all its observational manifestations. The distinctive characteristic of a superoutburst in a SU UMa type star is the appearance of the superhump on the light curve. The proposed model reproduces well the formation of the superhump as well as its observational features, such as the period that is 3-7% longer than the orbital one and the detectability of superhumps regardless of the binary inclination.
description: LaTeX, 20 pages, 4 figures, to be published in Astron. Zh
Income distribution and aggregate demand in the United States economy: An empirical investigation
Creators: name: Fernandez, Juan V.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation presents a neo-Kaleckian, open economy macroeconomic model that focuses on the simultaneous determination of the profit share of national income and the rate of capacity utilization, and tests this model using annual time-series data for the U.S. economy for the period 1955--2004. The model is summarized in two relationships, an investment-saving equilibrium condition ("IS curve"), which is the equation for capacity utilization, and a producer equilibrium condition ("PE curve"), which is the equation for the profit share. The slopes of both curves are ambiguous in theory, and the econometric analysis focuses primarily on determining these slopes. The two equations are estimated using both instrumental variables (IV) and ordinary least squares (OLS), due to ambiguous evidence about whether there is significant simultaneity bias in the OLS estimates. An unrestricted vector autoregression (VAR) model is also estimated as a sensitivity test and for comparison with previous studies. The data are converted to first differences of natural logarithms for stationarity reasons, and all equations are estimated using general-to-specific methods and rigorous specification tests following the London School of Economics approach to econometrics. Both the IV and OLS estimates (and a VAR model with five lags) show that the profit share has a significant, positive long-run effect on capacity utilization, but capacity utilization does not have a significant long-run effect on the profit share. However, in the short run, capacity utilization has a positive contemporaneous effect on the profit share, which is offset by a negative effect with a one-year lag. Another robust finding is that a measure of U.S. international labor cost competitiveness has a significant, positive long-run effect on the profit share. Some other results differ between the IV and OLS estimates, and may reflect simultaneity bias in the latter. There are no significant structural breaks in these relationships during the sample period, as has been argued by some previous authors. Impulse responses using the VAR model suggest that the dynamics of the system involve dampened oscillations. In addition, the slopes of the two curves are consistent with stability of the long-run equilibrium.
Separability conditions from entropic uncertainty relations
Creators: name: Giovannetti, Vittorio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive a collection of separability conditions for bipartite systems of dimensions d X d which is based on the entropic version of the uncertainty relations. A detailed analysis of the two-qubit case is given by comparing the new separability conditions with existing criteria.
description: 10 pages, 2 figure (Typos removed. To appear in Phys. Rev. A)
The Conflict Between People's Urge to Punish AI and Legal Systems
Creators: name: Lima, Gabriel
name: Cha, Meeyoung
name: Jeon, Chihyung
name: Park, Kyungsin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Regulating artificial intelligence (AI) has become necessary in light of its deployment in high-risk scenarios. This paper explores the proposal to extend legal personhood to AI and robots, which had not yet been examined through the lens of the general public. We present two studies (N = 3,559) to obtain people's views of electronic legal personhood vis-à-vis existing liability models. Our study reveals people's desire to punish automated agents even though these entities are not recognized any mental state. Furthermore, people did not believe automated agents' punishment would fulfill deterrence nor retribution and were unwilling to grant them legal punishment preconditions, namely physical independence and assets. Collectively, these findings suggest a conflict between the desire to punish automated agents and its perceived impracticability. We conclude by discussing how future design and legal decisions may influence how the public reacts to automated agents' wrongdoings.
description: Published at Frontiers in AI and Robots - Ethics in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Section
Income distribution and aggregate demand in the United States economy: An empirical investigation
Creators: name: Fernandez, Juan V.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics
classificationCode: 3803
subject: Economic theory

description: This dissertation presents a neo-Kaleckian, open economy macroeconomic model that focuses on the simultaneous determination of the profit share of national income and the rate of capacity utilization, and tests this model using annual time-series data for the U.S. economy for the period 1955--2004. The model is summarized in two relationships, an investment-saving equilibrium condition ("IS curve"), which is the equation for capacity utilization, and a producer equilibrium condition ("PE curve"), which is the equation for the profit share. The slopes of both curves are ambiguous in theory, and the econometric analysis focuses primarily on determining these slopes. The two equations are estimated using both instrumental variables (IV) and ordinary least squares (OLS), due to ambiguous evidence about whether there is significant simultaneity bias in the OLS estimates. An unrestricted vector autoregression (VAR) model is also estimated as a sensitivity test and for comparison with previous studies. The data are converted to first differences of natural logarithms for stationarity reasons, and all equations are estimated using general-to-specific methods and rigorous specification tests following the London School of Economics approach to econometrics. Both the IV and OLS estimates (and a VAR model with five lags) show that the profit share has a significant, positive long-run effect on capacity utilization, but capacity utilization does not have a significant long-run effect on the profit share. However, in the short run, capacity utilization has a positive contemporaneous effect on the profit share, which is offset by a negative effect with a one-year lag. Another robust finding is that a measure of U.S. international labor cost competitiveness has a significant, positive long-run effect on the profit share. Some other results differ between the IV and OLS estimates, and may reflect simultaneity bias in the latter. There are no significant structural breaks in these relationships during the sample period, as has been argued by some previous authors. Impulse responses using the VAR model suggest that the dynamics of the system involve dampened oscillations. In addition, the slopes of the two curves are consistent with stability of the long-run equilibrium.
Topological properties of the Cosmic Microwave Background polarization map
Creators: name: Vachaspati, Tanmay
name: Lue, Arthur
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Rapid progress has been made in observations of the temperature anisotropies of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). These observations have enabled cosmologists to characterize the state of the universe at recombination, and observational efforts are now being directed towards obtaining the polarization map of the CMB. Here we draw an analogy between the CMB polarization map and nematic liquid crystals, pointing out that the two have similar defects. Making use of known results in the theory of defect formation we predict the statistical distribution of defects in the CMB polarization map and provide a novel tool for probing the CMB at large angular scales.
description: 3 pagex revtex, 2 figures. Reference added. To be published in PRD Rapid Communications
GAN Compression: Efficient Architectures for Interactive Conditional GANs
Creators: name: Li, Muyang
name: Lin, Ji
name: Ding, Yaoyao
name: Liu, Zhijian
name: Zhu, Jun-Yan
name: Han, Song
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (cGANs) have enabled controllable image synthesis for many vision and graphics applications. However, recent cGANs are 1-2 orders of magnitude more compute-intensive than modern recognition CNNs. For example, GauGAN consumes 281G MACs per image, compared to 0.44G MACs for MobileNet-v3, making it difficult for interactive deployment. In this work, we propose a general-purpose compression framework for reducing the inference time and model size of the generator in cGANs. Directly applying existing compression methods yields poor performance due to the difficulty of GAN training and the differences in generator architectures. We address these challenges in two ways. First, to stabilize GAN training, we transfer knowledge of multiple intermediate representations of the original model to its compressed model and unify unpaired and paired learning. Second, instead of reusing existing CNN designs, our method finds efficient architectures via neural architecture search. To accelerate the search process, we decouple the model training and search via weight sharing. Experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our method across different supervision settings, network architectures, and learning methods. Without losing image quality, we reduce the computation of CycleGAN by 21x, Pix2pix by 12x, MUNIT by 29x, and GauGAN by 9x, paving the way for interactive image synthesis.
Identification of past and present gobies: distinguishing Gobius and Pomatoschistus (Teleostei: Gobioidei) species using characters of otoliths, meristics and body morphometry
Creators: name: Gut, Carolin
name: Vukić, Jasna
name: Šanda, Radek
name: Moritz, Timo
name: Reichenbacher, Bettina
Publisher: name: Brill Online
Year: 2020
Subjects: Paleontology

description: Gobies (Gobiidae + Oxudercidae) are among the largest groups of extant marine fishes. Fossils of gobies are abundant since the Miocene, and many species have been reported so far. However, delimitation of fossil goby species is challenging because molecular markers and diagnostic traits such as the disposition of sensory head papillae are lost. This study provides, for the first time, an actualistic framework for the identification of fossil goby species. We focus on characters that can in principle be recognized in fossils, and evaluate their ability to discriminate between extant goby species based on statistical analyses. Using 14 extant species of Gobius and seven species of Pomatoschistus, we conducted otolith morphometry, elliptic Fourier shape analysis of otoliths using the package ‘Momocs’, conventional fish morphometry, and meristic counts. In addition, the otoliths of all species are depicted based on SEM images and briefly described. Otolith Fourier shape analysis proved to be most efficient in discrimination of species within both genera, Gobius and Pomatoschistus. Several characters used in the other approaches also worked well, but the results were variable, and the relative taxonomic significance of particular variables tended to change depending on the species under consideration. We propose otolith shape analysis as a powerful tool to explore ancient goby species diversity when samples with abundant fossil otoliths are present. Overall, the herein presented data will greatly facilitate delimitation of fossil goby species in future studies, and will consequently shed new light on the evolution of goby diversity and biogeography through time.
Contribution of tenosynovitis of small joints to the symptom morning stiffness in patients presenting with undifferentiated and rheumatoid arthritis
Creators: name: AC Boer
name: DM Boeters
name: E Niemantsverdriet
name: AHM Van Der Helm-Van Mil
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Objective: Morning stiffness (MS) is characteristic of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Despite its association with functional disability, the extent to which local inflammatory processes contribute to this symptom is unknown. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-detected tenosynovitis of small joints is recognized as an early feature of RA, which is also associated with functional impairments. It has been proposed that tenosynovitis contributes to MS. Therefore, we assessed the relationship between MS and MRI-detected inflammation, in particular tenosynovitis. Method: In total, 286 consecutive patients newly presenting with undifferentiated arthritis and RA underwent contrast-enhanced 1.5 T MRI of (2–5) metacarpophalangeal, wrist, and (1–5) metatarsophalangeal joints. Scans were scored for tenosynovitis according to Haavardsholm, and for synovitis by Rheumatoid Arthritis Magnetic Resonance Imaging Scoring (RAMRIS). MS was dichotomized as ≥ 60 min or not. Associations between MS and tenosynovitis/synovitis were tested with logistic regression, data were categorized (solitary or simultaneous presence of synovitis/tenosynovitis), and the presence of an additive interaction was assessed. Results: MS was present in 40% of patients. Tenosynovitis was more often present in patients with MS than without MS [80% vs 65%, odds ratio (OR) 2.11, 95% confidence interval (1.21;3.69)]. Synovitis was more often present in patients with MS [58% vs 44%, OR 1.79 (1.11;2.91)]. In categorized analyses, concurrent synovitis and tenosynovitis had the largest association [OR 2.43 (1.30;4.54)], in contrast to solitary synovitis [OR 0.85 (0.21;3.47)]. The additive interaction was non-significant. The variance explained in all analyses was small (range 4–5%). Conclusion: Tenosynovitis, combined with synovitis, at small joints is associated with MS and contributes to the pathophysiology of MS.
Urban government innovation: Identifying current innovations and factors that contribute to their adoption
Creators: name: Franzel, Joshua Michael
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4407
subject: Policy and administration

description: This dissertation presents two new sets of information regarding local government innovation. Using survey techniques, the research establishes a list of twenty-two modern local government innovations and identifies what are considered, by local government professionals, to be the top three mainstream local government innovations and cities leading in their usage. The research uses statistical techniques and previous research on the topic to test what effect factors related to the one hundred most populated US cities have on innovation usage. Among other variables, consistently, the population size, size of the advantaged population, and number of Democratic voters were found to be positively related to innovation usage by cities.
Urban government innovation: Identifying current innovations and factors that contribute to their adoption
Creators: name: Franzel, Joshua Michael
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation presents two new sets of information regarding local government innovation. Using survey techniques, the research establishes a list of twenty-two modern local government innovations and identifies what are considered, by local government professionals, to be the top three mainstream local government innovations and cities leading in their usage. The research uses statistical techniques and previous research on the topic to test what effect factors related to the one hundred most populated US cities have on innovation usage. Among other variables, consistently, the population size, size of the advantaged population, and number of Democratic voters were found to be positively related to innovation usage by cities.
Lensing Survey of the Most X-Ray Luminous Galaxy Clusters
Creators: name: Kausch, W.
name: Schindler, S.
name: Kronberger, T.
name: Wambsganss, J.
name: Schwope, A.
name: Erben, T.
name: ;
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first three galaxy clusters of a larger sample of the most X-ray luminous galaxy clusters selected from the ROSAT Bright Survey. This project, which is a systematic search for strong lensing, aims at arc statistics, mass determinations and studies of distant lensed galaxies. The three galaxy clusters presented here have been observed with the Wide Field Imager at the ESO2.2m in the R- and V-band. The images show lensing features like distinct distorted galaxies and arcs. Mass distributions of the lensing galaxy clusters and photometric properties of some arc candidates are presented. In addition we report the discovery of three giant arcs.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, to be published in the Proceedings of the XXXIX Rencontres de Moriond 'Exploring the Universe' (28.03.-04.04.2004, La Thuile, Italy)
Factors that influence the careers of women in computer science: A quantitative and qualitative analysis
Creators: name: Gulshan, Rima S.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The current study examined the impact of parents, teachers and role models/mentors on the problem of under representation of women in the field of Computer Science. The current study investigated the problem from two complementary perspectives. The first perspective investigated the opportunities available for women in Computer Science and the extent to which the three factors (parents, teachers, and role models/mentors) impact women in taking up these opportunities. The second perspective investigated the impact the three factors (parents, teachers, and role models/mentors) in retaining and increasing the number of women in Computer Science. The reason for conducting this study was to gain insight into this problem of inequity and to find possible ways to lessen, and hopefully eliminate it, over a period of time. The current study utilized survey research methodology to investigate the problem of under representation of women in Computer Science and also the impact of the three factors (parents, teachers, and role models/mentors) in addressing it. A combination of open and closed-ended questions and rank order statements on the survey questionnaire revealed that the three factors (parents, teachers, and role models/mentors) had a significant impact on taking women towards or away from Computer Science. Statistical analysis of the survey responses also indicated the relative order of importance of the three factors in their impact on women in the following order: (1) Parents; (2) Role models/mentors; (3) Teachers. The study concludes that the impact of strong, supportive relationships will continue to have a significant impact on who takes on the field of Computer Science as a profession. This study leaves implications for further research in socio-psychological and educational research in the hope of breaking social barriers of gender biased values that influence the psychological and educational perspectives of the entire society.
Factors that influence the careers of women in computer science: A quantitative and qualitative analysis
Creators: name: Gulshan, Rima S.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3904
subject: Specialist studies in education

description: The current study examined the impact of parents, teachers and role models/mentors on the problem of under representation of women in the field of Computer Science. The current study investigated the problem from two complementary perspectives. The first perspective investigated the opportunities available for women in Computer Science and the extent to which the three factors (parents, teachers, and role models/mentors) impact women in taking up these opportunities. The second perspective investigated the impact the three factors (parents, teachers, and role models/mentors) in retaining and increasing the number of women in Computer Science. The reason for conducting this study was to gain insight into this problem of inequity and to find possible ways to lessen, and hopefully eliminate it, over a period of time. The current study utilized survey research methodology to investigate the problem of under representation of women in Computer Science and also the impact of the three factors (parents, teachers, and role models/mentors) in addressing it. A combination of open and closed-ended questions and rank order statements on the survey questionnaire revealed that the three factors (parents, teachers, and role models/mentors) had a significant impact on taking women towards or away from Computer Science. Statistical analysis of the survey responses also indicated the relative order of importance of the three factors in their impact on women in the following order: (1) Parents; (2) Role models/mentors; (3) Teachers. The study concludes that the impact of strong, supportive relationships will continue to have a significant impact on who takes on the field of Computer Science as a profession. This study leaves implications for further research in socio-psychological and educational research in the hope of breaking social barriers of gender biased values that influence the psychological and educational perspectives of the entire society.
Ichnea gregata Opitz, new species
Creators: name: Opitz, Weston
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Ichnea
Ichnea gregata

description: Ichnea gregata Opitz, new species
(Figs. 52, 3, 168, 186; Map 4)
 Holotype. Male. Utcuyacu, Tarma Junín, Peru, III-15-1948. A second label-F. Woytkowski, Coll. - Donor Wm. Procter (AMNH). (Specimen point mounted, antenna and gender label affixed to paper point; mount card; locality label; collector label; AMNH acronymic label; holotype label; plastic vial with aedeagus.)
 Diagnosis. The transverse configuration of the eighth antennomere (Fig. 168) will distinguish the members of this species from congeners.
 Description. Size: Length 6.8 mm; width 2.0 mm. Form: Narrowly triangular. Integumental color (Fig. 52): Cranium light brown at front, epicranium black; pronotum lower sides and middle of disc black, remainder yellow; elytra mostly yellow, with dark markings at sutural margin where dark marking unites with broad, black, oblique fascia, latter narrowly conjoined with narrow dark epipleural line that ends just behind humeral angle. Head: HW/PW 1.0; frons indented; EW/ VW 2.1; antenna as in Fig. 168, funicle compressed. Thorax: PL/PW 1.3; elytra strongly flared to posterior two-thirds, EL/PL 5.5; EL/EW 2.8; anterior margin of protibia with 9 spines. Male genitalia: Aedeagus as in Fig. 186.
 Natural History. The holotype was collected in March.
 Distribution. Known only from the type locality (Map 4).
 Etymology. The specific epithet stems from the Latin grego (= assemble) that refers to the compressed nature of the funicle.
description: Published as part of Opitz, Weston, 2010, Classification, Natural History, and Evolution of the Epiphloeinae (Coleoptera: Cleridae). Part VIII. The Genera Acanthocollum Opitz, Stegnoclava Opitz, and Ichnea Laporte, pp. 1-65 in The Coleopterists Bulletin (mo 9) (mo 9) 64 on pages 36-37, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-64.mo4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4908605
Exploiting the Matching Information in the Support Set for Few Shot Event Classification
Creators: name: Lai, Viet Dac
name: Dernoncourt, Franck
name: Nguyen, Thien Huu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The existing event classification (EC) work primarily focuseson the traditional supervised learning setting in which models are unableto extract event mentions of new/unseen event types. Few-shot learninghas not been investigated in this area although it enables EC models toextend their operation to unobserved event types. To fill in this gap, inthis work, we investigate event classification under the few-shot learningsetting. We propose a novel training method for this problem that exten-sively exploit the support set during the training process of a few-shotlearning model. In particular, in addition to matching the query exam-ple with those in the support set for training, we seek to further matchthe examples within the support set themselves. This method providesmore training signals for the models and can be applied to every metric-learning-based few-shot learning methods. Our extensive experiments ontwo benchmark EC datasets show that the proposed method can improvethe best reported few-shot learning models by up to 10% on accuracyfor event classification
description: Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD) 2020
Student Aid and the Distribution of Educational Attainment
Creators: name: Jones, Maggie
name: Jones, Maggie
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Public Economics
subject: Education
subject: post-secondary funding
subject: student aid
subject: education choice

description: I examine the effect of student aid on the distribution of educational attainment in the context of a post-secondary funding program for Indigenous students in Canada. I show that student aid programs targeted at marginalized groups can increase average educational attainment; however, these benefits are driven by an increase in college training, not in the number of university degrees. For students living in remote com- munities that face above average costs to graduating high school, the elimination of post-secondary funding programs can have adverse effects on high school graduation rates, highlighting the importance of considering the effect of student aid on the entire distribution of educational attainment.
The sources of American conduct in international affairs: From the colonial era to the Civil War
Creators: name: Kagan, Robert William
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation is an interpretive synthesis of American foreign policy from the early 17th century through the Civil War. It argues that Americans were never really isolationist and "exemplarist" in their approach to the world. From the colonial era to the mid-19 th century Americans were territorial, commercial, political and "ideological" expansionists. The engine of this multifaceted expansionism was the normal human desire for gain strengthened and legitimized by a modern, liberal set of beliefs about human nature and the conduct of human affairs. The dissertation also demonstrates the continuity of the American expansionist vision from the early republic through the "expansionist 1840s." The territorial goals of the later expansionists in the 1840s and 1850s differed little from those of the founding generation. Nor did American statesmen in the late 18th and early 19th century limit their ambitions to the continent. The Monroe Doctrine was a conscious effort to keep America's extra-continental expansionist options open for the future. In advancing this argument for continuity, the dissertation challenges some of the distinctions historians have tried to draw among alleged competing American traditions with regard to "mission" and expansion. Misjudgments about the character of early American foreign policy have provided the foundation for Americans' most popular self-created myth: it is the myth of America in repose---geopolitically passive, ideologically restrained, inherently isolationist---until provoked by some outside threat or other stimulus. When viewed from a broader perspective that takes into account American Indian policy, territorial expansion against both Indians and Spaniards, and American forays into the Mediterranean and other parts of the world in pursuit of overseas markets, it becomes clear that "isolation" and "nonentanglement" were not guiding principles of early American foreign policy at all. They were merely a set of tactics to be used, selectively, in achieving the broader goals that this first generation of Americans set for their young nation. And those broader goals were not different from the goals that Americans would consistently seek for the next two hundred years.
Persistence of Power: Repeated Multilateral Bargaining
Creators: name: Agranov, Marina
name: Cotton, Christopher
name: Tergiman, Chloe
name: Agranov, Marina
name: Cotton, Christopher
name: Tergiman, Chloe
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Political Economy
subject: dynamic bargaining
subject: political institutions
subject: laboratory experiment

description: In a variety of settings, budgets are set by a committee that interacts repeatedly over many budget cycles. To capture this, we study a model of repeated multilateral bargaining by a budget committee. Our focus is on the transition of agenda setting power from one cycle to the next, and how such considerations affect bargaining and coalition formation over time. Specifically, we compare a rule that approximates the budget process in many parliamentary democracies in which a vote of confidence is traditionally attached to each budget proposal, and a rule that approximates the budget process in congressional systems where party leadership must maintain the support of a majority of other legislators to hold onto power. As is standard in the literature, we use stationary equilibrium refinements to make predictions about behavior in our environments. In a controlled laboratory experiment, we find no support for the standard equilibrium refinements used in the literature. In sharp contrast to the theoretical predictions, in the experiment, both rules give rise to stable and persistent coalitions in terms of coalition size, identity, and shares of coalition partners and feature high persistence of agenda-setter power. Our results call into question the validity of restricting attention to history independent strategies in dynamic bargaining games. We conclude by showing that weakening the standard equilibria concepts to allow players to condition on one piece of history (the most recent deviator) is enough to generate equilibria which are consistent with outcomes and behavior observed in the experiments.
On the Curvature of the Central Path of Linear Programming Theory
Creators: name: Dedieu, Jean-Pierre
name: Malajovich, Gregorio
name: Shub, Mike
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 90C51 (Primary); 90C60,68Q25,65H10 (Secondary)

description: We prove a linear bound on the average total curvature of the central path of linear programming theory in terms on the number of independent variables of the primal problem, and independent on the number of constraints.
description: 24 pages. This is a fully revised version, and the last section of the paper was rewritten, for clarity
Optimal Unemployment Insurance and Redistribution
Creators: name: Boadway, Robin
name: Cuff, Katherine
name: Boadway, Robin
name: Cuff, Katherine
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Optimal Income Taxation
subject: Unemployment Insurance

description: We characterize optimal income taxation and unemployment insurance in a search-matching framework where both voluntary and involuntary unemployment are endogenous and Nash bargaining determines wages. Individuals differ in utility when voluntarily unemployed (non-participants in the labour market) and decide whether to participate as a job seeker and if so, how much search effort to exert. Unemployment insurance trades of insurance versus moral hazard due to search. We show that it is optimal to have a positive linear wage tax without any redistributive concerns even if search is effcient so the Hosios condition is satisfied. We also allow for different productivity types so there is a redistributive role for the income tax and show that a proportional wage tax internalizes the macro effects arising from endogenous wages. Lump-sum income taxes and transfers can then redistribute between individuals of differing skills and employment states. Our analysis embeds optimal unemployment insurance into an extensive-margin optimal redistribution framework where transfers to the involuntary and voluntary unemployed can differ, and nests several standard models in the literature.
The sources of American conduct in international affairs: From the colonial era to the Civil War
Creators: name: Kagan, Robert William
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 43
subject: History, heritage and archaeology
classificationCode: 4303
subject: Historical studies

description: This dissertation is an interpretive synthesis of American foreign policy from the early 17th century through the Civil War. It argues that Americans were never really isolationist and "exemplarist" in their approach to the world. From the colonial era to the mid-19 th century Americans were territorial, commercial, political and "ideological" expansionists. The engine of this multifaceted expansionism was the normal human desire for gain strengthened and legitimized by a modern, liberal set of beliefs about human nature and the conduct of human affairs. The dissertation also demonstrates the continuity of the American expansionist vision from the early republic through the "expansionist 1840s." The territorial goals of the later expansionists in the 1840s and 1850s differed little from those of the founding generation. Nor did American statesmen in the late 18th and early 19th century limit their ambitions to the continent. The Monroe Doctrine was a conscious effort to keep America's extra-continental expansionist options open for the future. In advancing this argument for continuity, the dissertation challenges some of the distinctions historians have tried to draw among alleged competing American traditions with regard to "mission" and expansion. Misjudgments about the character of early American foreign policy have provided the foundation for Americans' most popular self-created myth: it is the myth of America in repose---geopolitically passive, ideologically restrained, inherently isolationist---until provoked by some outside threat or other stimulus. When viewed from a broader perspective that takes into account American Indian policy, territorial expansion against both Indians and Spaniards, and American forays into the Mediterranean and other parts of the world in pursuit of overseas markets, it becomes clear that "isolation" and "nonentanglement" were not guiding principles of early American foreign policy at all. They were merely a set of tactics to be used, selectively, in achieving the broader goals that this first generation of Americans set for their young nation. And those broader goals were not different from the goals that Americans would consistently seek for the next two hundred years.
Melecta (Melecta) pacifica Cresson 1878
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Melecta (Melecta) pacifica Cresson, 1878 **
[Lectotype: ANSP: ♂ California, USA]
This species has a wide distribution in the USA and this study presents the first documented report of Melecta pacifica in Mexico. Both females and males were collected during April and May in 2021 and 2022 in the Coastal Sage Matorral of Guadalupe Valley (MABC). See fig. 140.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 213, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Did genetic lineage divergence or spatial environmental variance lead to global subspecies differentiation of northern goshawk (Accipiter gentilis)?
Creators: name: Un-Hyang Ho
name: Sam-Rang Song
Publisher: name: Brill Online
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 60399 Evolutionary Biology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: When a widely distributed species undergoes ecological or geological isolation, it tends to divide into subspecies. In general, subspecies differentiation is affected by environmental variance and genetic divergence. But the extent to which these two factors influence subspecies differentiation in species with different distribution ranges and modes of living, might be different. Despite having high breeding habitat fidelity, northern goshawk is a forest raptor that is widely dispersed. We investigated morphological traits in combination with the genetic background of northern goshawk individuals at a large global scale. We also collected genetic, palynological and climatic data to reveal what caused global subspecies differentiation in northern goshawk. Eurasian and North American subspecies populations are thought to have diverged approximately 660,000 years ago to undergo different evolutionary routes, which remarkably facilitated intercontinental subspecies differentiation through genetic lineage divergence. During the last glacial period (18,000 years ago) the different isolation levels of northern goshawk refugia on the continents caused genetic lineage divergences, which, however, are unlikely to have led to subspecies differentiation directly. Spatial environmental variance due to the wide distribution of northern goshawks made an important contribution to subspecies differentiation throughout continents.