cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
FUZZY CONTROL BASED ON PERTURB AND OBSERVE ALGORITHM FOR MAXIMUM POWER POINT TRACKING PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS
Creators: name: Madaci, Bouthaina
name: mellah, Hacene
name: Hemsas, Kamel Eddine
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 91503 Engineering Practice
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies

description: Photovoltaic (PV) energy is amongst the most helpful renewable and sustainable energy sources since it offers a variety of benefits. Because it has a number of advantages [1], including being free, having a long life of usage, requiring very little maintenance, having no moving parts, and not being polluted [2]. However, one of the most significant PV flaws is that it has a nonlinear feature with only one point of operation where the generated power is at its peak, known as the Maximum Power Point (MPP), which is affected by environmental conditions such as temperature and irradiance [2]. It is critical to working around the MPP in order to optimize the electricity generation. The maximum power tacking controller is required to harvest the maximum power from the Photovoltaics System (PVS) by managing the DC-DC converter in order to effectively pursue this goal, many researchers deal with this topic [3][4][5]. In order to improve the response of traditional MPPT techniques, the researchers are still improving these by mixing with them and the intelligent technics to form a hybrid and optimized approach. The performance and the intricacy of these approaches, as well as their topologies and hardware implementations, varies. However, these techniques have a mutual objective is to optimize the efficiency of the PVS. The Perturbation and Observation (P&O) algorithm is straightforward and low-cost [3][6]. However, it has a flaw in steady-state response instead of tracking the MPP consistently, it causes the system output to bounce about. Furthermore, the P&O technic is unable to adapt to environmental conditions variation since it is unable of distinguishing between changes in power owing to environmental causes and changes due to internal perturbations [3][6]. The main objectives of this work are tracking and operating at the MPP based on P&O and fuzzy logic controller (FLC), regulating the DC link voltage to 650 V. The suggested approach is simulated in Matlab/Simulink environment. The PVS has been tested with KC200GT solar panel under various operating conditions.
Hawking radiation for Dirac spinors on the RP^3 geon
Creators: name: Langlois, Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyse the Hawking(-Unruh) effect for a massive Dirac spinor on the Z_2 quotient of Kruskal spacetime known as the RP^3 geon. There are two distinct Hartle-Hawking-like vacua, depending on the choice of the spin structure, and suitable measurements in the static region (which on its own has only one spin structure) distinguish these two vacua. However, both vacua appear thermal in the usual Hawking temperature to certain types of restricted operators, including operators with support in the asymptotic future (or past). Similar results hold in a family of topologically analogous flat spacetimes, where we show the two vacua to be distinguished also by the shear stresses in the zero-mass limit. As a by-product, we display the explicit Bogolubov transformation between the Rindler-basis and the Minkowski-basis for massive Dirac fermions in four-dimensional Minkowski spacetime.
description: 23 pages, no figures, uses amsmath, amssymb, latexsym packages, replaced with version published in Phys.Rev.D
Plus Ca Change... Plus C'est (Presque) La Meme Chose - A Review of Barry Eichengreen's: Golden Fetters
Creators: name: Flanders, M. June
name: Flanders, M. June
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1995
Subjects: Financial Economics

description: This paper reviews Eichengreen's book and argues that coordination in the past was less important than he considers it, and in the present and future less possible than he suggests. It argues also that the 'golden fetters' of the interwar years may have been endogenously-imposed constraints on policy, the result, not the cause of the restrictive policies engaged in by a number of countries.
Refuge from want? Virginia's almshouses, 1870--1930
Creators: name: Henry, Mary Ellen
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The rural county poorhouse as it appeared in a southern setting focuses this study analyzing the institution's role during a period of enormous change in poor policy administration. Almshouses, commonly called poorhouses, existed in almost every county and city in Virginia by 1870. Despite their ubiquitous presence and remarkable longevity, these facilities have remained relatively invisible in the historical landscape. Progressive Era reformers seeking their demise effectively used a pejorative rhetoric that pictured filthy, wretched places inhabited by the "dregs of humanity." An unsavory reputation associated with large urban institutions served to further cloud their role in sparsely populated country communities. In order to determine what, if any, useful purpose the poorhouse served, this study examines the institution and how it functioned in six Virginia localities representing the five geographical regions of the state: Alexandria, Caroline County, Highland County, Mecklenburg County, Rockbridge County, and Shenandoah County. Census data, county records, and annual reports to the General Auditor from the Overseers of the Poor, among other sources provide a look inside the facility, what was actually a poor farm, to determine its relative value to the community it served. In the late nineteenth century, almshouses functioned variously as hospitals, homeless shelters, and long-term care facilities for the aged and feeble-minded. In addition they provided temporary haven and relief for families and single mothers, both widowed and unwed. Essentially a paternalistic institution run by the superintendent and his wife, these farms, meant to be self-sufficient, developed their own sense of community. In the complicated southern racial picture, these rural poorhouses uniquely created a space open to both blacks and whites. Progressive reformers in the early twentieth century sought to close the poorhouses in favor of consolidated institutions for the aged as well as new state institutions for the epileptic, feeble-minded, and tubercular. Counties persuaded by their arguments, closed their almshouses beginning in 1926. However, these state measures served to harden racial lines with strict segregation, denied the feeble-minded basic rights, and left many poor in rural counties to shift for themselves.
Enacted Journalism Takes the Stage: How Audiences Respond to Reporting-Based Theater
Creators: name: Tenenboim, Ori
name: Stroud, Natalie Jomini
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: In a media environment where content far exceeds what people can pay attention to, news organizations have experimented with different ways of informing and engaging audiences. This article focuses on a face-to-face endeavor we term “enacted journalism”—reporting-based live-theater performances followed by conversation. Theoretically, we draw from literature on theater, journalism, and political communication to develop the concept of “enacted journalism” and to examine its effects. Based on surveys of audiences attending performances of three plays in the U.S. (n = 279) and in-depth interviews with 13 people involved in the plays, we show that enacted journalism can inform and increase intentions to participate in civic and political activities, functions performed by traditional journalism. It also expands audience conceptions of what counts as journalism, which, as we discuss, has mixed normative implications.
Imperfectly Informative Equilibria for Signalling Games
Creators: name: Fishman, Arthur
name: Fishman, Arthur
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1995
Subjects: Financial Economics

description: I analyze the equilibria of signalling games in which initially uninformed players may choose to become informed from an external source at a cost. It is shown that the lower this cost, the greater the extent to which the informed player's actions reveal its private information and the more the outcome resembles the symmetric information equilibrium.
Additional file 3 of Towards an ideotype for food-fuel dual-purpose wheat in Argentina with focus on biogas production
Creators: name: Gabbanelli, Nadia
name: Erbetta, Elisa
name: Smachetti, Maria Eugenia Sanz
name: Lorenzo, Máximo
name: Talia, Paola Mónica
name: Ramírez, Ignacio
name: Vera, Magdalena
name: Durruty, Ignacio
name: Pontaroli, Ana Clara
name: Echarte, Maria Mercedes
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 3. Kinetic parameters of biogas production and methane (CH4) percentage for wheat genotypes.
Search with Learning and Price Adjustment Dynamics
Creators: name: Fishman, Arthur
name: Fishman, Arthur
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1995
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis
Financial Economics

description: This paper presents a theory of limited price responsiveness to cost shocks in a context of search with learning. Consumers confuse general cost shocks, common to all firms in the industry, with firm specific shocks. In the case of a general cost increase, this confusion leads to an excessive propensity to search, temporarily inhibiting price increases, lest they encourage search. In the case of an idiosyncratic shock, consumers initially search too little, allowing the prices of high cost firms to temporarily overshoot.
Sericini Kirby 1837
Creators: name: Smith, Andrew B. T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Sericini

description: Tribe SERICINI Kirby, 1837  Original spelling and citation: Sericidae Kirby 1837: 128
 Type genus: Serica MacLeay, 1819: 146
Remark: Hope (1837) and Kirby (1837) both used Sericidae in the same year and the Hope (1837) paper refers to the Kirby (1837) paper. This is internal evidence in Hope (1837) that the Kirby (1837) paper was published first so Kirby should be credited with authorship of this family-group name.
description: Published as part of Smith, Andrew B. T., 2006, A Review Of The Family- Group Names For The Superfamily Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) With Corrections To Nomenclature And A Current Classification, pp. 144-204 in The Coleopterists Bulletin (mo 5) (mo 5) 60 on page 165, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065x(2006)60[144:arotfn]2.0.co;2, http://zenodo.org/record/4911861
A Theory of Price Inertia
Creators: name: Fishman, Arthur
name: Fishman, Arthur
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1995
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis
Financial Economics

description: I present a theory of price inertia in a market characterized by dual informational frictions. At the firm specific level, buyers must invest in costly search to learn the price of any seller. At the aggregate level, there is imperfect information about inflation. Thus, knowledge of a particular seller's nominal price only imperfectly conveys its real price. However, buyers can resolve aggregate uncertainty in advance of trade by acquiring additional information from an external source at a small cost. In equilibrium, buyers in fact do become informed. Thus, all market participants are well informed in advance of trade. Nevertheless the equilibrium price of the search good is unresponsive to inflation.
Semi-relativistic (e,2e) study with twisted electron beam on Cu and Ag
Creators: name: Mandal, Aditi
name: Dhankhar, Nikita
name: Sébilleau, Didier
name: Choubisa, Rakesh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this communication, we report our calculations of Triple Differential Cross-Section (TDCS) for the relativistic (e,2e) process with a twisted electron beam on Cu and Ag atomic targets in coplanar asymmetric geometry mode. The theoretical formalism has been developed in the first Born approximation (FBA) in which we use the Dirac plane wave as well as the twisted electron wave for the incident electron beam to study the effect of various parameters of the twisted electron beam on the (e,2e) process. We use Dirac plane wave, semi relativistic Coulomb wave and Darwin wave function for the scattered, ejected and K-shell electron respectively. We compare the angular profiles of the TDCS of the twisted electron impact (e,2e) process with that of the plane wave. We segregate the TDCS for charge-charge interaction and current-current interaction with their interference term and study the effect of different parameters of the twisted electron beam on them. The study is also extended to the macroscopic Cu and Ag targets to further investigate the effect of the opening angle of the twisted electron beam on TDCS. The spin asymmetry in TDCS caused by polarized incident electron beam is also studied to elucidate the effects of the twisted electron beam on the (e,2e) process.
description: Close to the accepted version
Reconstructing rights: What emerging practice on subsistence rights implies for human rights politics
Creators: name: Chong, Daniel P.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The international community has long distinguished civil and political rights from economic and social rights. For the past half-century, the global North has delegitimized the latter based on the presumption that such rights were inherently vague, positive, non-justiciable, and therefore invalid. Over the past decade, however, Northern NGOs have increasingly begun to work for the realization of subsistence rights, a subset of economic and social rights dealing with extreme poverty. This dissertation attempts to understand what emerging NGO work on subsistence rights implies for human rights politics. Employing an interpretive, multiple-method, qualitative research design, I investigate the emergence of subsistence rights among three types of NGOs: human rights, social justice, and humanitarian organizations. While human rights organizations have adopted a legal approach to subsistence rights, social justice and humanitarian organizations approach them predominantly through moral lenses. This diversity of NGO practice shows that the delegitimization of subsistence rights was misguided in two respects. First, human rights organizations are winning important advances for subsistence rights in the legal realm, thus demonstrating that these rights are legally valid when constructed as such. Second, by adopting a moral approach to rights, social justice and humanitarian organizations are demonstrating that subsistence rights can be effective tools to develop norms, transform cultural assumptions, and guide organizational practice even when they are not conceived in legal terms. I argue that this reconstruction of human rights politics is best understood through a social theory of human rights. Combining constructivism and post-positivist legal understandings, a social theory subsumes human rights, and the historical legalization of rights, within a broader social and political context. It argues that both legal and moral approaches to rights are valuable tools with their own sets of costs and benefits. It suggests that rhetorical, political and cultural contestation is central in the implementation of subsistence rights, whether or not legalization is the ultimate end of NGOs' efforts. An appreciation for a social theory of human rights enables practitioners and scholars to understand how recent NGO engagement with economic and social rights is rewriting the landscape of human rights politics.
New Low-Mass Members of the Taurus Star-Forming Region
Creators: name: Luhman, K. L.
name: Briceno, Cesar
name: Stauffer, John R.
name: Hartmann, Lee
name: Navascues, D. Barrado y
name: Caldwell, Nelson
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Briceno et al. recently used optical imaging, data from the Two-Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS), and follow-up spectroscopy to search for young low-mass stars and brown dwarfs in 8 square degrees of the Taurus star-forming region. By the end of that study, there remained candidate members of Taurus that lacked the spectroscopic observations needed to measure spectral types and determine membership. In this work, we have obtained spectroscopy of the 22 candidates that have A_V<=8, from which we find six new Taurus members with spectral types of M2.75 through M9. The new M9 source has the second latest spectral type of the known members of Taurus (~0.02 M_sun). Its spectrum contains extremely strong emission in H_alpha (W~950 A) as well as emission in He I 6678 A and the Ca II IR triplet. This is the least massive object known to exhibit emission in He I and Ca II, which together with the strong H_alpha are suggestive of intense accretion.
description: to be published in The Astrophysical Journal, 13 pages, 6 figures, also found at http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/sfgroup/preprints.html
Reconstructing rights: What emerging practice on subsistence rights implies for human rights politics
Creators: name: Chong, Daniel P.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: The international community has long distinguished civil and political rights from economic and social rights. For the past half-century, the global North has delegitimized the latter based on the presumption that such rights were inherently vague, positive, non-justiciable, and therefore invalid. Over the past decade, however, Northern NGOs have increasingly begun to work for the realization of subsistence rights, a subset of economic and social rights dealing with extreme poverty. This dissertation attempts to understand what emerging NGO work on subsistence rights implies for human rights politics. Employing an interpretive, multiple-method, qualitative research design, I investigate the emergence of subsistence rights among three types of NGOs: human rights, social justice, and humanitarian organizations. While human rights organizations have adopted a legal approach to subsistence rights, social justice and humanitarian organizations approach them predominantly through moral lenses. This diversity of NGO practice shows that the delegitimization of subsistence rights was misguided in two respects. First, human rights organizations are winning important advances for subsistence rights in the legal realm, thus demonstrating that these rights are legally valid when constructed as such. Second, by adopting a moral approach to rights, social justice and humanitarian organizations are demonstrating that subsistence rights can be effective tools to develop norms, transform cultural assumptions, and guide organizational practice even when they are not conceived in legal terms. I argue that this reconstruction of human rights politics is best understood through a social theory of human rights. Combining constructivism and post-positivist legal understandings, a social theory subsumes human rights, and the historical legalization of rights, within a broader social and political context. It argues that both legal and moral approaches to rights are valuable tools with their own sets of costs and benefits. It suggests that rhetorical, political and cultural contestation is central in the implementation of subsistence rights, whether or not legalization is the ultimate end of NGOs' efforts. An appreciation for a social theory of human rights enables practitioners and scholars to understand how recent NGO engagement with economic and social rights is rewriting the landscape of human rights politics.
Quantum size effects in Pb islands on Cu(111): Electronic-structure calculations
Creators: name: Ogando, E.
name: Zabala, N.
name: Chulkov, E. V.
name: Puska, M. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The appearance of "magic" heights of Pb islands grown on Cu(111) is studied by self-consistent electronic structure calculations. The Cu(111) substrate is modeled with a one-dimensional pseudopotential reproducing the essential features, i.e. the band gap and the work function, of the Cu band structure in the [111] direction. Pb islands are presented as stabilized jellium overlayers. The experimental eigenenergies of the quantum well states confined in the Pb overlayer are well reproduced. The total energy oscillates as a continuous function of the overlayer thickness reflecting the electronic shell structure. The energies for completed Pb monolayers show a modulated oscillatory pattern reminiscent of the super-shell structure of clusters and nanowires. The energy minima correlate remarkably well with the measured most probable heights of Pb islands. The proper modeling of the substrate is crucial to set the quantitative agreement.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures. Submitted
Pachypodini Erichson 1840
Creators: name: Smith, Andrew B. T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Melolonthidae
Pachypodini

description: Tribe PACHYPODINI Erichson, 1840  Original spelling and citation: Pachypoden Erichson 1840: 29
 Type genus: Pachypus Dejean, 1821: 57
 Remark: Although this family-group name was not originally proposed in a Latinized form, it has subsequently been Latinized by numerous authors and should be considered available under Article 11.7.2. Billberg (1820: 390) used the name Pachypus prior to Dejean (1821), but this name was not made available under the ICZN in that publication. Therefore, Dejean (1821) is the author of the genus and it is not a junior homonym.
description: Published as part of Smith, Andrew B. T., 2006, A Review Of The Family- Group Names For The Superfamily Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) With Corrections To Nomenclature And A Current Classification, pp. 144-204 in The Coleopterists Bulletin (mo 5) (mo 5) 60 on page 164, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065x(2006)60[144:arotfn]2.0.co;2, http://zenodo.org/record/4911861
Brane induced gravity in warped backgrounds and the absence of the radion
Creators: name: Smolyakov, Mikhail N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A model with brane-localized curvature terms in a warped background is proposed. The model is based on the Randall-Sundrum solution for the background metric and possesses some interesting features, in particular, the radion field is absent in it. Although there is no modification of gravity at long distances, the model predicts deviations from Newton's law at short distances. This effect can be observed in the experiments for testing gravity at sub-millimeter scales.
description: LaTeX, 11 pages, corrected typos. Accepted to Nuclear Physics B
Additional file 1 of Automated Hypofractionated IMRT treatment planning for early-stage breast Cancer
Creators: name: Ting-Chun Lin
name: Chih-Yuan Lin
name: Kai-Chiun Li
name: Jin-Huei Ji
name: Ji-An Liang
name: An-Cheng Shiau
name: Liang-Chih Liu
name: Ti-Hao Wang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1 : Table S1. The objective template for dosimetry optimization.
Navigating crises in Sino-American relations: Apology, nationalism, and historical memory
Creators: name: Dahl, Elizabeth S.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Why is apology---theoretically a simple action that could mitigate a crisis situation---not utilized more frequently in international relations? Apologies are a frequent issue among Asian countries as well as in US bilateral relations and can generate significant internal and interstate debate. This project considers recent diplomatic crises in which China has requested an apology from the United States, and the short- and long-term impact on international peace and stability of such discussions. Two contentious episodes are investigated: the apology debates over the 2001 EP-3E airplane collision near Hainan Island, and the 1999 NATO bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade. Most foreign policy experts interpret these incidents as indicating the on-going problem of Taiwan in the resolution of disputes between the US and China. Upon closer inspection, however, indications are that traumatic historical memories fueled the crises and prevented early resolution given the virulence of American and Chinese nationalist reaction to these episodes. In addition, these events provide a way to evaluate apology as a potential conflict resolution mechanism, indicating that gendered notions of honor and prestige often serve as stumbling blocks to the constructive resolution of conflict.
Navigating crises in Sino-American relations: Apology, nationalism, and historical memory
Creators: name: Dahl, Elizabeth S.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Why is apology---theoretically a simple action that could mitigate a crisis situation---not utilized more frequently in international relations? Apologies are a frequent issue among Asian countries as well as in US bilateral relations and can generate significant internal and interstate debate. This project considers recent diplomatic crises in which China has requested an apology from the United States, and the short- and long-term impact on international peace and stability of such discussions. Two contentious episodes are investigated: the apology debates over the 2001 EP-3E airplane collision near Hainan Island, and the 1999 NATO bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade. Most foreign policy experts interpret these incidents as indicating the on-going problem of Taiwan in the resolution of disputes between the US and China. Upon closer inspection, however, indications are that traumatic historical memories fueled the crises and prevented early resolution given the virulence of American and Chinese nationalist reaction to these episodes. In addition, these events provide a way to evaluate apology as a potential conflict resolution mechanism, indicating that gendered notions of honor and prestige often serve as stumbling blocks to the constructive resolution of conflict.
Additional file 2 of Triglyceride glucose index is an independent predictor for the progression of coronary artery calcification in the absence of heavy coronary artery calcification at baseline
Creators: name: Ki-Bum Won
name: Park, Eun Ji
name: Donghee Han
name: Lee, Ji Hyun
name: Choi, Su-Yeon
name: Chun, Eun Ju
name: Park, Sung Hak
name: Hae-Won Han
name: Jidong Sung
name: Jung, Hae Ok
name: Chang, Hyuk-Jae
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. TyG index (per 1-unit increase) and the risk of CAC progression according to baseline CACS 100.
Colletes annae Cockerell 1987
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: Colletes annae Cockerell, 1987
[USNM; ♂ Mesilla, Doña Ana, New Mexico, USA; August 29, 1896]
Colletes annae specializes on pollen from a broad range of plants in the family Asteraceae (Fowler 2020). This record is based on a single male specimen reported by Stephen (1954) collected in 1941 from Bahia Concepción in the Gulf Coast region of BCS. See fig. 153.
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 229, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Breaking the rules: Using theories of deprivation and importation to analyze inmate behavior
Creators: name: Palla, Seri
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Early penologists argued that environmental characteristics of prisons were entirely responsible for inmate behavior; this deprivation theory led to the importation argument that inmate characteristics were responsible for determining behavior in prison. The marrying of these theories has led criminologists to recognize that both inmate and prison characteristics are important to understand inmate behavior and adjustment. To explore the impact of these characteristics, a multilevel model of inmate behavior was conducted. In this research, two secondary datasets were examined: at the prison-level, the Census of State and Federal Correctional Facilities 2000, and at the inmate-level, the 1997 Survey of Prison Inmates, both collected by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). Hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) was used to analyze the data. The findings indicate that there is very little variation across prisons, and characteristics of the inmates are more significant in determining prison behavior than the characteristics of the prison. The theoretical and methodological implications of these results are discussed.
Additional file 1 of Handling and packaging of medical bags at acute disaster sites under high-temperature conditions
Creators: name: Ando, Wataru
name: Imamura, Yumika
name: Nagashima, Hideyuki
name: Kondo, Kouji
name: Nakamura, Kazunori
name: Otori, Katsuya
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Based on 29 medicines by the DMAT Secretariat of the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare of Japan.
Breaking the rules: Using theories of deprivation and importation to analyze inmate behavior
Creators: name: Palla, Seri
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4402
subject: Criminology
subject: FOS: Law

description: Early penologists argued that environmental characteristics of prisons were entirely responsible for inmate behavior; this deprivation theory led to the importation argument that inmate characteristics were responsible for determining behavior in prison. The marrying of these theories has led criminologists to recognize that both inmate and prison characteristics are important to understand inmate behavior and adjustment. To explore the impact of these characteristics, a multilevel model of inmate behavior was conducted. In this research, two secondary datasets were examined: at the prison-level, the Census of State and Federal Correctional Facilities 2000, and at the inmate-level, the 1997 Survey of Prison Inmates, both collected by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). Hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) was used to analyze the data. The findings indicate that there is very little variation across prisons, and characteristics of the inmates are more significant in determining prison behavior than the characteristics of the prison. The theoretical and methodological implications of these results are discussed.
Keeping spies on course: Searching for patterns in the oversight of United States intelligence
Creators: name: Nolan, Cynthia M.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4407
subject: Policy and administration

description: Oversight of the U.S. intelligence community has been a difficult subject to examine because of secrecy. Most studies have been centered on congressional oversight of the intelligence community, because the U.S. Congress tends to be more accessible than executive branch agencies. In contrast, this study investigates how both the legislative and executive branches oversee the intelligence community, and it disaggregates executive branch oversight to discern differences between agencies. The primary question this study seeks to answer is: "Do the ways in which congressional and executive branch officials approach intelligence oversight tend to differ in distinct patterns? If so, why and to what effect?" Its primary source materials were declassified and public record documents, and elite interviews with legislators, congressional staff, White House officials, and intelligence agency personnel. The interviews concentrated on two periods during the Clinton administration, 1993-1994 and 1999-2000. The oversight activity each respondent described was categorized in terms of its objective, focus, means, and timing. Based on prior research about oversight in general, the approaches described by respondents were categorized as either a priori or ex post facto. The former efforts tend to be anticipatory, while the latter are reactionary. It was expected that congressional oversight would tend to be reactionary, while executive branch oversight would tend to be anticipatory. However, the findings departed from the expected results. Probably due to the pressure of outside events, neither branch of government seemed to privilege one style over another in a consistent fashion. Institutional demands and personal priorities seemed to influence the oversight style equally. Despite anticipatory intentions, the intrusion of unpredictable events forced overseers into a reactionary position. The most important general explanatory factors seem to be: personal motivations, time constraints, and external events. In fact, during the Clinton administration, it appears that oversight of the U.S. intelligence community was tied to personal incentives. Thus oversight styles by the Executive and Congress appear to be set by institutional boundaries and motivated by individuals at a speed and direction set by events outside of the overseers' control.
FairRec: Two-Sided Fairness for Personalized Recommendations in Two-Sided Platforms
Creators: name: Patro, Gourab K
name: Biswas, Arpita
name: Ganguly, Niloy
name: Gummadi, Krishna P.
name: Chakraborty, Abhijnan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We investigate the problem of fair recommendation in the context of two-sided online platforms, comprising customers on one side and producers on the other. Traditionally, recommendation services in these platforms have focused on maximizing customer satisfaction by tailoring the results according to the personalized preferences of individual customers. However, our investigation reveals that such customer-centric design may lead to unfair distribution of exposure among the producers, which may adversely impact their well-being. On the other hand, a producer-centric design might become unfair to the customers. Thus, we consider fairness issues that span both customers and producers. Our approach involves a novel mapping of the fair recommendation problem to a constrained version of the problem of fairly allocating indivisible goods. Our proposed FairRec algorithm guarantees at least Maximin Share (MMS) of exposure for most of the producers and Envy-Free up to One item (EF1) fairness for every customer. Extensive evaluations over multiple real-world datasets show the effectiveness of FairRec in ensuring two-sided fairness while incurring a marginal loss in the overall recommendation quality.
description: In Proceedings of The Web Conference (WWW) 2020
Which Sustainability Campaign : “Ripples”, “Emily”, and “Sort it Out” : is Most Well-known Amongst UBC Students?
Creators: name: Hasegawa, Kaho
name: Chen, Shanny
name: Hong, Je Ho
name: Xie, Yunpeng
name: Lu, Xiaoke
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: The study investigated which sustainability campaign - Ripple Effect, Emily, and Sort it Out - is most well-known amongst the UBC undergraduate students. The hypothesis was that the students will be more successful in associating Sort it Out campaign with sustainability campaign, as will be shown through the frequency of being successfully associating this campaign with the words sustainability, environment, and recycling. Using the surveys in a within-subject design, the participants were put into four conditions - General campaigns (control), and three experimental conditions - Ripple Effect, Emily, and Sort it Out campaigns. In the control condition, the participants wrote campaigns they were aware of at UBC. In the experimental conditions, they wrote what comes to their mind when they see the three sustainability-related campaigns’ images. The students were most successful in associating Sort it Out campaign with sustainability, which supported the hypothesis. The frequency and use of direct words of the Sort it Out image may have been one reason that have affected the differences between the latter two images. Consequently, this can be concluded that using the images more frequently around the campus, and using slogans or words rather than only images may be more effective in promoting sustainability campaigns at UBC. 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.”
Quantitative Interpretation of Quasar Microlensing Light Curves
Creators: name: Kochanek, C. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a general method for analyzing the light curves of microlensed quasars and apply it to the OGLE light curves of the four-image lens Q2237+0305. We simultaneously estimate the effective source velocity, the average stellar mass, the stellar mass function, and the size and structure of the quasar accretion disk. The light curves imply an effective source plane velocity of 10200 km/s < v_e h / sqrt() < 39600 km/s (68% confidence). Given an independent estimate for the source velocity, found by combining estimates for the peculiar velocity of the lens galaxy with its measured stellar velocity dispersion, we obtain a mean stellar mass of =0.037h^2 solar masses (0.0059h^2 < /Msun < 0.20h^2). We were unable to distinguish a Salpeter mass function from one in which all stars had the same mass, but we do find a strong lower bound of 50% on the fraction of the surface mass density represented by the microlenses. Our models favor a standard thin accretion disk model as the source structure over a simple Gaussian source. For a face-on, thin disk radiating as a black body with temperature profile T_s ~ R^(-3/4), the radius r_s where the temperature matches the filter pass band (2000 Angstroms or T_s(r_s)=70000K) is (1.4 x 10^15)/h cm < r_s < (4.5 x 10^15)/h cm. The flux predicted by the disk model agrees with the observed flux of the quasar, so non-thermal or optically thin emission processes are not required. From the disk structure we estimate a black hole mass of M_BH = (1.1_(-0.7)^(+1.4) x 10^9) h^(-3/2) (L/L_E)^(-1/2) solar masses, consistent with the mass estimated under the assumption that the quasar is radiating at the Eddington luminosity (L/L_E=1).
description: 39 pages, 11 figures (some only in jpeg format), submitted to ApJ
Additional file 1 of Triglyceride glucose index is an independent predictor for the progression of coronary artery calcification in the absence of heavy coronary artery calcification at baseline
Creators: name: Ki-Bum Won
name: Park, Eun Ji
name: Donghee Han
name: Lee, Ji Hyun
name: Choi, Su-Yeon
name: Chun, Eun Ju
name: Park, Sung Hak
name: Hae-Won Han
name: Jidong Sung
name: Jung, Hae Ok
name: Chang, Hyuk-Jae
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Association between clinical variables and CAC progression.
Diphucephalini Laporte 1840
Creators: name: Smith, Andrew B. T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Melolonthidae

description: Tribe DIPHUCEPHALINI Laporte, 1840  Original spelling and citation: Diphucéphalites Laporte 1840: 145
 Type genus: Diphucephala Dejean, 1821: 58
Remark: Although this family-group name was not originally proposed in a Latinized form, it has subsequently been Latinized by numerous authors and should be considered available under Article 11.7.2.
description: Published as part of Smith, Andrew B. T., 2006, A Review Of The Family- Group Names For The Superfamily Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) With Corrections To Nomenclature And A Current Classification, pp. 144-204 in The Coleopterists Bulletin (mo 5) (mo 5) 60 on page 165, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065x(2006)60[144:arotfn]2.0.co;2, http://zenodo.org/record/4911861
Keeping spies on course: Searching for patterns in the oversight of United States intelligence
Creators: name: Nolan, Cynthia M.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Oversight of the U.S. intelligence community has been a difficult subject to examine because of secrecy. Most studies have been centered on congressional oversight of the intelligence community, because the U.S. Congress tends to be more accessible than executive branch agencies. In contrast, this study investigates how both the legislative and executive branches oversee the intelligence community, and it disaggregates executive branch oversight to discern differences between agencies. The primary question this study seeks to answer is: "Do the ways in which congressional and executive branch officials approach intelligence oversight tend to differ in distinct patterns? If so, why and to what effect?" Its primary source materials were declassified and public record documents, and elite interviews with legislators, congressional staff, White House officials, and intelligence agency personnel. The interviews concentrated on two periods during the Clinton administration, 1993-1994 and 1999-2000. The oversight activity each respondent described was categorized in terms of its objective, focus, means, and timing. Based on prior research about oversight in general, the approaches described by respondents were categorized as either a priori or ex post facto. The former efforts tend to be anticipatory, while the latter are reactionary. It was expected that congressional oversight would tend to be reactionary, while executive branch oversight would tend to be anticipatory. However, the findings departed from the expected results. Probably due to the pressure of outside events, neither branch of government seemed to privilege one style over another in a consistent fashion. Institutional demands and personal priorities seemed to influence the oversight style equally. Despite anticipatory intentions, the intrusion of unpredictable events forced overseers into a reactionary position. The most important general explanatory factors seem to be: personal motivations, time constraints, and external events. In fact, during the Clinton administration, it appears that oversight of the U.S. intelligence community was tied to personal incentives. Thus oversight styles by the Executive and Congress appear to be set by institutional boundaries and motivated by individuals at a speed and direction set by events outside of the overseers' control.
Additional file 1 of Sedum sarmentosum Bunge extract ameliorates lipopolysaccharide- and D-galactosamine-induced acute liver injury by attenuating the hedgehog signaling pathway via regulation of miR-124 expression
Creators: name: Hao, Li
name: Liu, Ming-Wei
name: Gu, Song-Tao
name: Huang, Xue
name: Deng, Hong
name: Wang, Xu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Treatment with SSB extract increased the survival rate of mice with LPS/D-GalN-induced acute liver injury. 120 h after the administration of LPS/D-GalN plus SSB extract, the survival rate of mice with LPS/D-GalN-induced acute liver injury was determined. Data are expressed as mean ± SD. **P 0.05: control group compared with the control treatment group. Figure S1. Treatment with SSB extract increased the survival rate of mice with LPS/D-GalN-induced acute liver injury. 120 h after the administration of LPS/D-GalN plus SSB extract, the survival rate of mice with LPS/D-GalN-induced acute liver injury was determined. Data are expressed as mean ± SD. **P 0.05: control group compared with the control treatment group. Table S1 and Fig. S1. The survival rate of mice before revision. Table S2. same as table S1. **P 0.05: control group compared with the control treatment group. Figure S2. same as Figure S1. **P 0.05: control group compared with the control treatment group. Table S2 and Fig. S2. The survival rate of mice after revision.