cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Examining diabetic retinopathy in the zebrafish (Danio rerio) model
Creators: name: Burley, Ruth Anne
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: According to NIDDKD, 12,000--24,000 new cases of blindness due to diabetic retinopathy are reported yearly in the United States (Diseases 2005). This disease has well established models in mice and rats, but they have little genetic tractability, small sample sizes, and are expensive (Goldsmith, 2001). As an alternative researchers have begun looking at zebrafish, Danio rerio, as a model of diabetic retinopathy. Our work provides further information on the pathology of diabetic retinopathy in zebrafish by looking at GFAP and VEGF expression and pericyte cell changes following prolonged exposure to hyperglycemia. We found that GFAP expression has some fluctuations within the first month and noted expression is limited to Muller cell processes and endfeet. We were unable to detect VEGF expression, but provide suggestions to enhance detection. Lastly, we applied a trypsin digest protocol to eye tissue, to visualize vascular pericyte and endothelial cells. In some samples, we had difficulties identifying pericyte cells, but propose markers that will ease identification for future studies.
Improving THz Quality-of-Transmission with Systematic RLNC and Auxiliary Channels
Creators: name: Phung, Cao Vien
name: Engelmann, Anna
name: Kuerner, Thomas
name: Jukan, Admela
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we propose a novel solution that can improve the quality of THz transmission with systematic random linear network coding (sRLNC) and a low-bitrate auxiliary channel. To minimize complexity of channel coding, we complement a generic low complexity FEC code by a low complexity sRLNC. To increase the overall throughput of THz transmission, we propose to send the native data and coding redundancy in parallel over 2 differently configured THz channels, i.e., over 1 high bit rate main channel and 1 low bit rate low error rate auxiliary channel. The results show, that the main THz channel supported by low bit rate auxiliary channel can use a higher level modulation format and sent over longer distances with a higher throughput.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures, accepted at IEEE ICC'20 Workshop - TeraCom
On the propagator of a scalar field in AdS x S and in its plane wave limit
Creators: name: Dorn, Harald
name: Salizzoni, Mario
name: Sieg, Christoph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the scalar propagator on generic AdS x S backgrounds. For the conformally flat situations and masses corresponding to Weyl invariant actions, the propagator is powerlike in the sum of the chordal distances with respect to AdS(d+1) and S(d'+1). In these cases we analyze its source structure. In all other cases the propagator depends on both chordal distances separately. There an explicit formula is found for certain special mass values. For pure AdS we show how the well known propagators in the Weyl invariant case can be expressed as linear combinations of simple powers of the chordal distance. For AdS(5) x S(5) we relate our propagator to the expression in the plane wave limit and find a geometric interpretation of the variables occurring in the known explicit construction on the plane wave. As a byproduct of comparing different techniques, including the KK mode summation, a theorem for summing certain products of Legendre and Gegenbauer functions is derived.
description: 26 pages, LaTeX, 1 figure; extended final version, section added
Additional file 1 of Identification of the ABCC4, IER3, and CBFA2T2 candidate genes for resistance to paratuberculosis from sequence-based GWAS in Holstein and Normande dairy cattle
Creators: name: Sanchez, Marie-Pierre
name: Guatteo, Raphaël
name: Davergne, Aurore
name: Judikael Saout
name: Grohs, Cécile
name: Marie-Christine Deloche
name: Taussat, Sébastien
name: Fritz, Sébastien
name: Mekki Boussaha
name: Blanquefort, Philippe
name: Delafosse, Arnaud
name: Joly, Alain
name: Schibler, Laurent
name: Fourichon, Christine
name: Boichard, Didier
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. −log(P-value) plotted against the position of variants detected by GWAS (in grey) and conditional GWAS (GWAS_COJO; in blue).
Conceptual analysis of quantum history theory
Creators: name: Nistico', Giuseppe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We give formal content to some concepts, naturally stemming from consistent history approach (CHA), which are not formalized in the standard formulation of the theory. The outcoming (extended) conceptual basis is used to perform a formal, conceptually transparent analysis of some debated questions in CHA. As results, the problems raised by contrary inferences of Kent are ruled out, whereas some prescriptions of the theory cannot be mantained.
description: to appear on Physics Essays, vol. 16 No.1
Examining diabetic retinopathy in the zebrafish (Danio rerio) model
Creators: name: Burley, Ruth Anne
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: According to NIDDKD, 12,000--24,000 new cases of blindness due to diabetic retinopathy are reported yearly in the United States (Diseases 2005). This disease has well established models in mice and rats, but they have little genetic tractability, small sample sizes, and are expensive (Goldsmith, 2001). As an alternative researchers have begun looking at zebrafish, Danio rerio, as a model of diabetic retinopathy. Our work provides further information on the pathology of diabetic retinopathy in zebrafish by looking at GFAP and VEGF expression and pericyte cell changes following prolonged exposure to hyperglycemia. We found that GFAP expression has some fluctuations within the first month and noted expression is limited to Muller cell processes and endfeet. We were unable to detect VEGF expression, but provide suggestions to enhance detection. Lastly, we applied a trypsin digest protocol to eye tissue, to visualize vascular pericyte and endothelial cells. In some samples, we had difficulties identifying pericyte cells, but propose markers that will ease identification for future studies.
Self-organization in a simple model of adaptive agents playing 2X2 games with arbitrary payoff matrices
Creators: name: Fort, H.
name: Viola, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze, both analytically and numerically, the self-organization of a system of "selfish" adaptive agents playing an arbitrary iterated pairwise game (defined by a 2X2 payoff matrix). Examples of possible games to play are: the Prisoner's Dilemma (PD) game, the Chicken game, the Hero game, etc. The agents have no memory, use strategies not based on direct reciprocity nor 'tags' and are chosen at random, i.e. geographical vicinity is neglected. They can play two possible strategies: cooperate (C) or defect (D). The players measure their success by comparing their utilities with an estimate for the expected benefits and update their strategy following a simple rule. Two versions of the model are studied: 1) the deterministic version (the agents are either in definite states C or D) and 2) the stochastic version (the agents have a probability c of playing C). Using a general Master Equation we compute the equilibrium states into which the system self-organizes, characterized by their average probability of cooperation c_{eq}. Depending on the payoff matrix, we show that c_{eq} can take five different values. We also consider the mixing of agents using two different payoff matrices an show that any value of c_{eq} can be reached by tunning the proportions of agents using each payoff matrix. In particular, this can be used as a way to simulate the effect a fraction d of "antisocial" individuals -incapable of realizing any value to cooperation- on the cooperative regime hold by a population of neutral or "normal" agents.
description: 15 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication in PRE
Additional file 2 of Whose responsibility? Part 2 of 2: views of patients, families, and clinicians about responsibilities for addressing the needs of persons with mental health problems in Chennai, India and Montreal, Canada
Creators: name: Iyer, Srividya N.
name: Malla, Ashok
name: Pope, Megan
name: Mustafa, Sally
name: Mohan, Greeshma
name: Rangaswamy, Thara
name: Schmitz, Norbert
name: Joober, Ridha
name: Shah, Jai
name: Margolese, Howard C.
name: Ramachandran, Padmavati
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2. Post-hoc tests for significant differences between raters (refer to additional file 1).
Parental optimism & self-efficacy: Associations with cognitive development in children born preterm
Creators: name: Doyle, Sarah Tyler
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: An increasing emphasis has been placed on identifying factors that facilitate and support optimal early development of susceptible children. Parents' cognitions have been documented as serving an important function in parent-child interactions, two parental cognitions that were investigated for this research. Optimism has proven to be associated with better psychological and physical adjustment to stressful events while high parental self-efficacy is strongly associated with the capacity to provide an adaptive, motivating, and nurturing environment for raising a child. The relationship between specific parental characteristics and the cognitive abilities of preterm pre-school aged children has not been studied in depth. Participants were 58 preterm children and 44 full term children who took part in a neurocognitive assessment, along with their parents who completed four questionnaires assessing parental optimism and self-efficacy. Parental optimism and self-efficacy did not demonstrate a significant association with cognitive outcome in this preschool-age cohort. However, a significant association was found between parent ratings of optimism of Extremely Low Birth children and their child's Special Nonverbal Composite.
Numerical methods for nonlocal and fractional models
Creators: name: D'Elia, Marta
name: Du, Qiang
name: Glusa, Christian
name: Gunzburger, Max
name: Tian, Xiaochuan
name: Zhou, Zhi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Partial differential equations (PDEs) are used, with huge success, to model phenomena arising across all scientific and engineering disciplines. However, across an equally wide swath, there exist situations in which PDE models fail to adequately model observed phenomena or are not the best available model for that purpose. On the other hand, in many situations, nonlocal models that account for interaction occurring at a distance have been shown to more faithfully and effectively model observed phenomena that involve possible singularities and other anomalies. In this article, we consider a generic nonlocal model, beginning with a short review of its definition, the properties of its solution, its mathematical analysis, and specific concrete examples. We then provide extensive discussions about numerical methods, including finite element, finite difference, and spectral methods, for determining approximate solutions of the nonlocal models considered. In that discussion, we pay particular attention to a special class of nonlocal models that are the most widely studied in the literature, namely those involving fractional derivatives. The article ends with brief considerations of several modeling and algorithmic extensions which serve to show the wide applicability of nonlocal modeling.
description: Revised/Improved version. 126 pages, 18 figures, review paper
Emerging Agricultural Cooperatives and The Structural Change of Crop Production in China
Creators: name: Liu, H.
name: Deng, H.
name: Xu, Z.
name: Lu, W.
name: Liu, H.
name: Deng, H.
name: Xu, Z.
name: Lu, W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: With the rapid development of agricultural cooperatives in China, a substantial number of them exist without any operation or service. To identify the true impact of agricultural cooperatives on crop production, we ought to parse out cooperatives that were registered but do not function properly. This paper analyzes the role of agricultural cooperatives in changing crop production structure in rural China, focusing on their status of activity. The data are from village surveys in three provinces (Jiangsu, Jilin, Sichuan) collected by the authors in years 2003, 2009 and 2014. Results show that agricultural cooperatives do not affect the production of grain crops, but do increase the size and share of farmland allocated to high-value crops. The effect only manifests in villages with well-functioning cooperatives. This indicates that strict monitoring system and incentive mechanisms need to be implemented to improve the performance of the cooperatives. Acknowledgement : The authors are grateful to Xuyuan Zheng, Xiaojing Liao, Zheyi Zhu,Yufeng Luo, Zixi Feng and other team members who helped collect the data. We would like to thank the financial support from National Natural Science Foundation (71361140370&71573133) and National Social Science Foundation (13ZD160&14ZDA038).
Additional file 1 of Positive deviance for dual-method promotion among women in Uganda: study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Hodaka Kosugi
name: Shibanuma, Akira
name: Kiriya, Junko
name: Ong, Ken Ing Cherng
name: Mucunguzi, Stephen
name: Muzoora, Conrad
name: Jimba, Masamine
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. SPIRIT 2013 Checklist: Positive deviance for dual-method promotion among women in Uganda: Study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial.
Perdita (Perdita) crotonis Cockerell 1896
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Andrenidae
Perdita
Perdita crotonis

description: Perdita (Perdita) crotonis Cockerell, 1896 *
[Syntype: ANSP; Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA; June 30, 1895]
Perdita crotonis specializes on pollen from plants in the genus Croton L. (Fowler 2020). This is a new record in the BCP. We examined specimens collected in the Lower Colorado Desert in San Felipe, in May 2005 (3 ♂, 1♀ MABC). See fig. 46.
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 98, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Additional file 3 of Whose responsibility? Part 2 of 2: views of patients, families, and clinicians about responsibilities for addressing the needs of persons with mental health problems in Chennai, India and Montreal, Canada
Creators: name: Iyer, Srividya N.
name: Malla, Ashok
name: Pope, Megan
name: Mustafa, Sally
name: Mohan, Greeshma
name: Rangaswamy, Thara
name: Schmitz, Norbert
name: Joober, Ridha
name: Shah, Jai
name: Margolese, Howard C.
name: Ramachandran, Padmavati
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3. Post-hoc tests for significant differences between support needs in Montreal and Chennai (refer to Fig. 3).
Parental optimism & self-efficacy: Associations with cognitive development in children born preterm
Creators: name: Doyle, Sarah Tyler
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 5201
subject: Applied and developmental psychology
classificationCode: 5203
subject: Clinical and health psychology

description: An increasing emphasis has been placed on identifying factors that facilitate and support optimal early development of susceptible children. Parents' cognitions have been documented as serving an important function in parent-child interactions, two parental cognitions that were investigated for this research. Optimism has proven to be associated with better psychological and physical adjustment to stressful events while high parental self-efficacy is strongly associated with the capacity to provide an adaptive, motivating, and nurturing environment for raising a child. The relationship between specific parental characteristics and the cognitive abilities of preterm pre-school aged children has not been studied in depth. Participants were 58 preterm children and 44 full term children who took part in a neurocognitive assessment, along with their parents who completed four questionnaires assessing parental optimism and self-efficacy. Parental optimism and self-efficacy did not demonstrate a significant association with cognitive outcome in this preschool-age cohort. However, a significant association was found between parent ratings of optimism of Extremely Low Birth children and their child's Special Nonverbal Composite.
Classic sociological theory and the subprime mortgage industry: Marx, Weber and Durkheim in a contemporary context
Creators: name: Brooks, Connor J.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4410
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: This thesis has three goals. The first is to demonstrate the relevance of the classic sociological theories of Weber, Durkheim and Marx to contemporary socio-economic situations. The second is to examine the critical outlooks expressed by these three authors toward capitalism. The third is to examine the sociological content of the subprime lender-borrower relationship through the lenses of classic sociological theory. I examine Weber's conception of the vocational attitude toward work as well as his multiple forms of rationalities in the context of lenders' explanations for their actions. I explore Durkheim's concepts of anomie at both the societal and individual level as well as his arguments regarding professional ethics in the economic sphere of society, applying the concepts specifically to subprime practices. From Marx's work, I focus on his conception of exploitative relationships and the reification of interest-bearing capital in the context of the lender-borrower relationship and risk mechanisms.
Classic sociological theory and the subprime mortgage industry: Marx, Weber and Durkheim in a contemporary context
Creators: name: Brooks, Connor J.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This thesis has three goals. The first is to demonstrate the relevance of the classic sociological theories of Weber, Durkheim and Marx to contemporary socio-economic situations. The second is to examine the critical outlooks expressed by these three authors toward capitalism. The third is to examine the sociological content of the subprime lender-borrower relationship through the lenses of classic sociological theory. I examine Weber's conception of the vocational attitude toward work as well as his multiple forms of rationalities in the context of lenders' explanations for their actions. I explore Durkheim's concepts of anomie at both the societal and individual level as well as his arguments regarding professional ethics in the economic sphere of society, applying the concepts specifically to subprime practices. From Marx's work, I focus on his conception of exploitative relationships and the reification of interest-bearing capital in the context of the lender-borrower relationship and risk mechanisms.
Born renormalization in classical Maxwell electrodynamics
Creators: name: Kijowski, J.
name: Podles, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We define and compute the renormalized four-momentum of the composed physical system: classical Maxwell field interacting with charged point particles. As a `reference' configuration for the field surrounding the particle, we take the Born solution. Unlike in the previous approach [Gen. Relat. Grav. 26 (1994) 167; Acta Phys. Pol. A 85 (1994) 771; Commun. Math. Phys. 198 (1998), 711], based on the Coulomb `reference', a dependence of the four-momentum of the particle (`dressed' with the Born solution) upon its acceleration arises in a natural way. This will change the resulting equations of motion. Similarly, we treat the angular momentum tensor of the system.
description: LaTeX file, 20 pages
On Cross-correlating Weak Lensing Surveys
Creators: name: Munshi, Dipak
name: Valageas, Patrick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The present generation of weak lensing surveys will be superseded by surveys run from space with much better sky coverage and high level of signal to noise ratio, such as SNAP. However, removal of any systematics or noise will remain a major cause of concern for any weak lensing survey. One of the best ways of spotting any undetected source of systematic noise is to compare surveys which probe the same part of the sky. In this paper we study various measures which are useful in cross correlating weak lensing surveys with diverse survey strategies. Using two different statistics - the shear components and the aperture mass - we construct a class of estimators which encode such cross-correlations. These techniques will also be useful in studies where the entire source population from a specific survey can be divided into various redshift bins to study cross correlations among them. We perform a detailed study of the angular size dependence and redshift dependence of these observables and of their sensitivity to the background cosmology. We find that one-point and two-point statistics provide complementary tools which allow one to constrain cosmological parameters and to obtain a simple estimate of the noise of the survey.
description: 17 pages, 9 Figures, Submitted to MNRAS
Conspicuous consumption in a pre-Georgian society: An analysis of Feature 2 Site 18CH354, Charles County, Maryland
Creators: name: Cooper, Kelly M.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Colonial Chesapeake Society, in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, saw a series of changes in the standards of living, including social, political and economic transformations. This thesis addresses the advent of a "conspicuous consumption" at an early-to-mid eighteenth century domestic site in Southern Maryland. Using Deetz's (1977) model of Georginization, Carson's (1994) interpretation of the consumer revolution, and Gibb's (1996) model of consumer behavior, this thesis attempts to identify changing consuming patterns in the material culture associated with foodways (faunal remains and ceramics), to understand some of these early transformations in colonial society. In order to identify the advent of a consumer revolution, in this thesis I analyze the faunal remains and ceramics recovered from a sealed context trash-filled cellar hole to look for changes in artifact consumption patterning; it is believed that as worldviews changed from folk to courtly, so too did the tastes and preferences for various recipes and cuisines, as well as the need for more specialized wares.
Fokas method for linear boundary value problems involving mixed spatial derivatives
Creators: name: Batal, Ahmet
name: Fokas, Athanassios S.
name: Özsarı, Türker
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35A22, 35C15, 35G16, 35K20, 35K35, 35Q41

description: We obtain solution representation formulas for some linear initial boundary value problems posed on the half space that involve mixed spatial derivative terms via the unified transform method (UTM), also known as the Fokas method. We first implement the method on the second order parabolic PDEs; in this case one can alternatively eliminate the mixed derivatives by a linear change of variables. Then, we employ the method to biharmonic problems, where it is not possible to eliminate the cross term via a linear change of variables. A basic ingredient of the UTM is the use of certain invariant maps. It is shown here that these maps are well-defined provided that certain analyticity issues are appropriately addressed.
description: 16 pages, 6 figures
A gap of the exponents of repetitions of Sturmian words
Creators: name: Ohnaka, Suzue
name: Watanabe, Takao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 68R15 (Primary) 11A55, 11A63 (Secondary)

description: By measuring second occurring times of factors of an infinite word $x$, Bugeaud and Kim introduced a new quantity ${\rm rep}(x)$ called the exponent of repetition of $x$. It was proved by Bugeaud and Kim that $1 \leq {\rm rep}(x) \leq r_{\max} = \sqrt{10} - 3/2$ if $x$ is a Sturmian words. In this paper, we determine the value $r_1$ such that there is no Sturmian word $x$ satisfying $r_1 < {\rm rep}(x) < r_{\max}$ and $r_1$ is an accumulation point of the set of ${\rm rep}(x)$ when $x$ runs over the Sturmian words.
description: 31 pages
title: Spatial genetic structure in the clonal marine angiosperm Cymodocea nodosa: the influence of dispersal potential, mating system and species interactions
Creators: name: Ruggiero, Maria Valeria
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2004

description: In the present thesis, the factors influencing population’s genetic structure in the clonal marine angiosperm Cymodocea nodosa have been investigated. C. nodosa is a dioecious seagrass, exhibiting both vegetative propagation and sexual reproduction. Seed dispersal is expected to be extremely restricted. I selected seven microsatellite loci through genomic library screening to investigate the relative effects of sexual and clonal reproduction on the genetic diversity and structure in a Cymodocea nodosa population from the Gulf of Naples (Italy). High clonal diversity and genet density were found. Autocorrelation analyses confirmed the expectations of very restricted seed dispersal (observed dispersal range 1-21m) in this species. The effect of mating system on genetic structure were investigated comparing the clonal architectures of the dioecious Cymodocea nodosa and monoecious Zostera noltii. An intermingled configuration of genets has been found in the dioecious Cymodocea nodosa while a clumped distribution of clones in the hermaphroditic Zostera noltii has been observed. I hypothesise that the possibility of reduction in the seed-set would drive genet distribution. On a phylogeographic spatial scale, the existence of population differentiation and of genetic disjunction within the Mediterranean Sea was investigated in Cymodocea nodosa. Populations displayed a wide variability in clonal diversity. A Bayesian analysis revealed that “supra-population” panmictic units are present in the Mediterranean basin. Genetic substructure from a phylogeographic tree coincided with major geographical boundaries within the Mediterranean basin. In general, in Cymodocea nodosa, seed dispersal is poor at the within-population level, but long-range dispersal events can occur, allowing high levels of gene flow at a phylogeographic scale. The observed “guerrilla” clonal architecture allows to reduce the effect of genetic identity on the genetic structure of the population, but it is also advantageous by allowing pollen availability and therefore a sufficient seed-set in this dioecious species.
Perdita (Perdita) covilleae Timberlake 1958
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Andrenidae
Perdita
Perdita covilleae

description: Perdita (Perdita) covilleae Timberlake, 1958
[Holotype: USNM; ♂ Whitewater, Riverside Co., California, USA; April 19, 1925]
This species is widely distributed in the southwestern USA, and it is present in the Lower Colorado Desert and the Coastal Sage Matorral of BC (Timberlake 1958). This bee specializes on pollen from Larrea tridentata (DC.) Coville (Fowler 2020). We reviewed three males: two collected in the Lower Colorado Desert and one in the Coastal Sage Matorral in April 1939 (CASC). See fig. 46.
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 98, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Conspicuous consumption in a pre-Georgian society: An analysis of Feature 2 Site 18CH354, Charles County, Maryland
Creators: name: Cooper, Kelly M.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 43
subject: History, heritage and archaeology
classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4401
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Colonial Chesapeake Society, in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, saw a series of changes in the standards of living, including social, political and economic transformations. This thesis addresses the advent of a "conspicuous consumption" at an early-to-mid eighteenth century domestic site in Southern Maryland. Using Deetz's (1977) model of Georginization, Carson's (1994) interpretation of the consumer revolution, and Gibb's (1996) model of consumer behavior, this thesis attempts to identify changing consuming patterns in the material culture associated with foodways (faunal remains and ceramics), to understand some of these early transformations in colonial society. In order to identify the advent of a consumer revolution, in this thesis I analyze the faunal remains and ceramics recovered from a sealed context trash-filled cellar hole to look for changes in artifact consumption patterning; it is believed that as worldviews changed from folk to courtly, so too did the tastes and preferences for various recipes and cuisines, as well as the need for more specialized wares.
Simulation results on a real-time in water tritium monitor
Creators: name: Azevedo, C. D. R.
name: Baeza, A.
name: Chauveau, E.
name: Corbacho, J. A.
name: Díaz, J.
name: Domange, J.
name: Marquet, C.
name: Martínez-Roig, M.
name: Piquemal, F.
name: Veloso, J. F. C. A.
name: Yahlali, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we present simulation results for a modular tritium in-water real-time monitor. The system allows for scalability in order to achieve the required sensitivity. The modules are composed by 340 uncladed scintillating fibers immersed in water and 2 photosensors for light readout. Light yield and Birks' coefficient uncertainties for low energy beta particles is discussed. A study of the detection efficiency according to the fiber length is presented. Discussion on the system requirements and background mitigation for a device with sensitivity of 100\,Bq/L, required to comply with the European directive 2013/51/Euratom, is presented. Due to the low energetic beta emission from tritium a detection efficiency close to 3.3\% was calculated for a single 2\,mm round fiber.
Additional file 9 of Framework for personalized prediction of treatment response in relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis
Creators: name: E. Stühler
name: S. Braune
name: F. Lionetto
name: Y. Heer
name: E. Jules
name: C. Westermann
name: A. Bergmann
name: P. Van Hövell
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional file 9. “Clinical site effect”: Supplementary figures.
Additional file 1 of Towards a values framework for integrated health services: an international Delphi study
Creators: name: Zonneveld, Nick
name: Raab, Jörg
name: Minkman, Mirella M. N.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Questionnaire Delphi study File showing the full three-round Delphi online questionnaire
To What Extent Does the Educational Biography of VET Teachers Influence the Understanding of Mentoring. Interim Results from the Mentor Qualification in Mecklenburg Western Pomerania
Creators: name: Dahn, Stephanie
name: Struck, Philipp
name: Kaiser, Franz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: educational biography
mentoring
cognitive apprenticeship
vocational teachers

description: The purpose of the article is to present initial results from the mentoring qualification of VET teachers at the University of Rostock. With the method of guided, narrative interviews, it is investigated whether the educational biography has an influence on the teachers' understanding of mentoring. Initial findings indicate that there are differences between teachers with an undergraduate degree and lateral entrants. The groups define different objectives and options for action in mentoring. Conclusions can be drawn for the practice of teacher training.
Rights approaches: Case studies in Egypt and Liberia
Creators: name: Krupar, Allyson
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society

description: Human rights advocacy varies across countries due to state policies, violations, organizational resources and networks. Egyptian and Liberian advocacy presents two cases of the complicated implications of the international human rights regime once it is translated locally. Through interviews with advocates in both case studies, this research explores the local dynamics of human rights movements, grounding advocates' experiences in the larger context of pressures faced and strategies utilized. Local organizations play a vital role in the international human rights movement as information gatherers, trend setters and translators of the human rights regime into diverse local environments. This research posits that local advocates face particular challenges to their work promoting both civil and political rights (CP) and economic, social and cultural rights (ESC). These challenges originate from local structures and international human rights movements and necessitate a pluralist approach to universal problems in human rights advocacy worldwide.
Rights approaches: Case studies in Egypt and Liberia
Creators: name: Krupar, Allyson
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Human rights advocacy varies across countries due to state policies, violations, organizational resources and networks. Egyptian and Liberian advocacy presents two cases of the complicated implications of the international human rights regime once it is translated locally. Through interviews with advocates in both case studies, this research explores the local dynamics of human rights movements, grounding advocates' experiences in the larger context of pressures faced and strategies utilized. Local organizations play a vital role in the international human rights movement as information gatherers, trend setters and translators of the human rights regime into diverse local environments. This research posits that local advocates face particular challenges to their work promoting both civil and political rights (CP) and economic, social and cultural rights (ESC). These challenges originate from local structures and international human rights movements and necessitate a pluralist approach to universal problems in human rights advocacy worldwide.
Additional file 8 of Framework for personalized prediction of treatment response in relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis
Creators: name: E. Stühler
name: S. Braune
name: F. Lionetto
name: Y. Heer
name: E. Jules
name: C. Westermann
name: A. Bergmann
name: P. Van Hövell
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional file 8. “Comparison of predicted treatment effectiveness”: Supplementary tables.
Evaluation of Welfare Effects of Rising Price of Food Imports in Italy
Creators: name: Arfini, Filippo
name: Aghabeygi, Mona
name: Arfini, Filippo
name: Aghabeygi, Mona
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Import
subject: Welfare
subject: CV
subject: AIDS
subject: Italy

description: In Italy as one of the developed countries, the agricultural sector is reason to supplying food, food security and food safety. In this study, the amount and value of imports for various foodstuffs in Italy has been used. At first, compensatory price elasticities were calculated by using the Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS) and the effect of increasing the global price of food on welfare was studied. The results show that the welfare index of compensatory changes calculated for the entire food groups is 1061.48 billion USD. Meat and fruit groups have the most and the least compensatory changes respectively.
A comparison of clustering procedures and similarity measures in creating clusters using warping functions
Creators: name: Elguindi, Anne Charlotte
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Functional data is data that can be represented as continuous curves, such as stock prices, temperature changes across time, or the growth of the human body. This study focuses on clustering functional data that is characterized by variation along the time axis through the clustering of the curves' warping functions, by-products of curve registration procedures that represent a summarized version of each curve's timing of events relative to other curves in the sample. This approach is optimized by comparing two ways to define the similarity of these warping functions---using their B-spline coefficients and an approximation of the squared L2 distance between curves---and a variety of agglomerative hierarchical and partitioning clustering procedures. The results will be compared to alternative approaches by applying these same similarity measures and clustering procedures to the original smoothed curves.
Antisymmetric solitons and their interactions in strongly dispersion-managed fiber-optic systems
Creators: name: Feng, Bao-Feng
name: Malomed, Boris A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By means of the variational approximation (VA), a system of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) is derived to describe the propagation of antisymmetric solitons in a multi-channel (WDM) optical fiber link subject to strong dispersion management. Results are reported for a prototypical model including two channels. Using the VA technique, conditions for stable propagation of the antisymmetric dispersion-managed (ASDM) solitons in one channel are found, and complete and incomplete collisions between the solitons belonging to the different channels are investigated. In particular, it is shown that formation of a bound inter-channel state of two ASDM solitons is possible under certain conditions (but may be easily avoided). The VA predictions for the single- and two-channel systems are compared with direct simulations of the underlying partial differential equations. In most cases, the agreement is very good, but in some cases (very closely spaced channels) the collision may destroy the ASDM solitons. The timing-jitter suppression factor (JSF) for the ASDM soliton in one channel, and the crosstalk timing jitter induced by collision between the solitons belonging to the different channels are also estimated analytically. In particular, the JSF for the ASDM soliton may be much larger than for its fundamental-soliton counterpart in the same system.
description: 15 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in Optics Communications
Tinotus amplus Notman 1920
Creators: name: Hanley, Rodney S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2002
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Tinotus
Tinotus amplus

description: Tinotus amplus Notman
 Tinotus amplus Notman, 1920:723 [description]; Bernhauer and Scheerpeltz, 1926:714 [catalog listing]; Seevers, 1978:276 [catalog listing].
 Syntype. Whereabouts unknown, 1 male [‘‘Enterprise, October 30, Cassias’’].
 Type Locality. U.S.A.: Florida, Enterprise.
description: Published as part of Hanley, Rodney S., 2002, A New Species Of Mexican Tinotus From The Refuse Piles Of Atta Ants, Including An Annotated World Catalog Of Tinotus (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae: Aleocharini), pp. 453-471 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 56 (4) on pages 457-458, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X(2002)056[0453:ANSOMT]2.0.CO;2, http://zenodo.org/record/4900473
Submartingale property of set-valued stochastic integration associated with Poisson process and related integral equations on Banach spaces
Creators: name: Zhang, Jinping
name: Mitoma, Itaru
name: Okazaki, Yoshiaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65C30 (primary) 26E25, 54C65 (Secondary)

description: In an M-type 2 Banach space, firstly we explore some properties of the set-valued stochastic integral associated with the stationary Poisson point process. By using the Hahn decomposition theorem and bounded linear functional, we obtain the main result: the integral of a set-valued stochastic process with respect to the compensated Poisson measure is a set-valued submartingale but not a martingale unless the integrand degenerates into a single-valued process. Secondly we study the strong solution to the set-valued stochastic integral equation, which includes a set-valued drift, a single-valued diffusion driven by a Brownian motion and the set-valued jump driven by a Poisson process.
description: 20 pages
A comparison of clustering procedures and similarity measures in creating clusters using warping functions
Creators: name: Elguindi, Anne Charlotte
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 49
subject: Mathematical sciences
classificationCode: 4905
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Functional data is data that can be represented as continuous curves, such as stock prices, temperature changes across time, or the growth of the human body. This study focuses on clustering functional data that is characterized by variation along the time axis through the clustering of the curves' warping functions, by-products of curve registration procedures that represent a summarized version of each curve's timing of events relative to other curves in the sample. This approach is optimized by comparing two ways to define the similarity of these warping functions---using their B-spline coefficients and an approximation of the squared L2 distance between curves---and a variety of agglomerative hierarchical and partitioning clustering procedures. The results will be compared to alternative approaches by applying these same similarity measures and clustering procedures to the original smoothed curves.
Testing the Theory of Planned Behavior in the Field of Tax Compliance Among Students From Vocational Business Colleges
Creators: name: Cechovsky, Nora
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: tax compliance
theory of planned behavior,
attitudes
behavioral intentions
vocational students

description: To gain deeper understanding on how tax compliance decisions are made, it is important to study potential influence factors like knowledge, attitudes and social norms. A theory to explain the relationship between attitudes and behavior is the theory of planned behavior. In this study, this theory is tested in the field of tax compliance among vocational business students. 688 vocational business students aged between 16 and 22 took part in a questionnaire study. The emphasis was on voluntary compliance, tax avoidance and tax evasion and factors influencing the behavioral intentions. A regression analysis was conducted to test the theory. The analysis shows that attitudes and subjective norms have high explanatory power for tax compliance intentions in all three subject areas. Perceived behavioral control is only relevant for the category of tax avoidance. Overall findings suggest that the theory of planned behavior as well as the theory of reasoned action are suitable to explain behavioral intentions in the field of tax compliance among vocational students. In vocational business colleges education should focus on promoting positive attitudes towards taxes and knowledge of the importance of taxes rather than only focusing on developing competences in the field of tax avoidance.
Comparative examination and effects of abnormal light and diseases in the vertebrate pineal and retina
Creators: name: Guillaume, Roza
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: In this review, the vertebrate retina and pineal are compared in terms of morphology and function, focusing on light perception, phototransduction, and circadian rhythm. The objectives are to: (1) Describe the general morphology of the retina and pineal, (2) Explain phototransduction in both structures, (3) Explain circadian rhythms in both structures, and (4) Explain how altered circadian rhythms, either through environmental changes or diseases, lead to changes in both the retina and pineal.