cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Gravitational Lens Recovery with GLASS: Measuring the mass profile and shape of a lens
Creators: name: Coles, Jonathan P.
name: Read, Justin I.
name: Saha, Prasenjit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use a new non-parametric gravitational modelling tool -- \Glass{} -- to determine what quality of data (strong lensing, stellar kinematics, and/or stellar masses) are required to measure the circularly averaged mass profile of a lens and its shape. \Glass{} uses an under-constrained adaptive grid of mass pixels to model the lens, searching through thousands of models to marginalise over model uncertainties. Our key findings are as follows: (i) for pure lens data, multiple sources with wide redshift separation give the strongest constraints as this breaks the well-known mass-sheet or steepness degeneracy; (ii) a single quad with time delays also performs well, giving a good recovery of both the mass profile and its shape; (iii) stellar masses -- for lenses where the stars dominate the central potential -- can also break the steepness degeneracy, giving a recovery for doubles almost as good as having a quad with time delay data, or multiple source redshifts; (iv) stellar kinematics provide a robust measure of the mass at the half light radius of the stars $r_{1/2}$ that can also break the steepness degeneracy if the Einstein radius $r_E \neq r_{1/2}$; and (v) if $r_E \sim r_{1/2}$, then stellar kinematic data can be used to probe the stellar velocity anisotropy $β$ -- an interesting quantity in its own right. Where information on the mass distribution from lensing and/or other probes becomes redundant, this opens up the possibility of using strong lensing to constrain cosmological models.
description: 18 pages, 11 figures, accepted to MNRAS
MPEC 2023-M20 : 2009 SQ
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Design and test of SX-FEL cavity BPM
Creators: name: Yuan, Renxian
name: Zhou, Weimin
name: Chen, Zhichu
name: Yu, Luyang
name: Wang, Baopen
name: Leng, Yongbin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper reports the design and cold test of the cavity beam position monitor (CBPM) for SX-FEL to fulfill the requirement of beam position measurement resolution of less than 1μm, even 0.1μm. The CBPM was optimized by using a coupling slot to damp the TM010 mode in the output signal. The isolation of TM010 mode is about 117dB, and the shunt impedance is about 200Ω@4.65GHz with the quality factor 80 from MAFIA simulation and test result. A special antenna was designed to load power for reducing excitation of other modes in the cavity. The resulting output power of TM110 mode was about 90mV/mm when the source was 6dBm, and the accomplishable minimum voltage was about 200μV. The resolution of the CBPM was about 0.1μm from the linear fitting result based on the cold test.
description: 4 pages,9 figures
Serum Amyloid A Induces Inflammation, Proliferation and Cell Death in Activated Hepatic Stellate Cells
Creators: name: Siegmund, Soren V.
name: Schlosser, Monika
name: Schildberg, Frank A.
name: Seki, Ekihiro
name: De Minicis, Samuele
name: Uchinami, Hiroshi
name: Kuntzen, Christian
name: Knolle, Percy A.
name: P.Strassburg, Christian
name: Schwabe, Robert F.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Liver cells
Acute phase proteins
Chemokines
Cytology
Medical sciences
Molecular biology

description: Serum amyloid A (SAA) is an evolutionary highly conserved acute phase protein that is predominantly secreted by hepatocytes. However, its role in liver injury and fibrogenesis has not been elucidated so far. In this study, we determined the effects of SAA on hepatic stellate cells (HSCs), the main fibrogenic cell type of the liver. Serum amyloid A potently activated IκB kinase, c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK), Erk and Akt and enhanced NF-κB-dependent luciferase activity in primary human and rat HSCs. Serum amyloid A induced the transcription of MCP-1, RANTES and MMP9 in an NF-κB- and JNK-dependent manner. Blockade of NF-κB revealed cytotoxic effects of SAA in primary HSCs with signs of apoptosis such as caspase 3 and PARP cleavage and Annexin V staining. Serum amyloid A induced HSC proliferation, which depended on JNK, Erk and Akt activity. In primary hepatocytes, SAA also activated MAP kinases, but did not induce relevant cell death after NF-κB inhibition. In two models of hepatic fibrogenesis, CCl4 treatment and bile duct ligation, hepatic mRNA levels of SAA1 and SAA3 were strongly increased. In conclusion, SAA may modulate fibrogenic responses in the liver in a positive and negative fashion by inducing inflammation, proliferation and cell death in HSCs.
Thils, G. - Brown, R. E. (dir. por). Exégèse et Théologie. Les Saintes Écritures et leur interprétation théologique. Donum natalicium Josephi Coppens. Vol. III. Ed. Duculot /Lethielleux. Vol. de XX+327 ps. 160x245. Paris 1968
Creators: name: Carreira, José Nunes
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 1970

description: Theologica, v. 5 n. 2 (1970)
Cladorchiidae Fischoeder 1901
Creators: name: Lunaschi, Lía I.
name: Drago, Fabiana B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Platyhelminthes
Trematoda
Plagiorchiida
Cladorchiidae

description: Family Cladorchiidae Fischoeder, 1901   Nematophila Travassos, 1934
 Nematophila grandis (Diesing, 1839) Travassos, 1934 Syn. Paramphistomum argentinum Cordero & Vogelsang, 1940 Hosts and records: Phrynops sp. (cited as probably Hydraspis sp.) (M), Phrynops hilarii (Duméril & Bibron, 1835) (C).
Site of infection: intestine.
Reference: Cordero & Vogelsang (1940), Lombardero & Moriena (1977).
description: Published as part of Lunaschi, Lía I. & Drago, Fabiana B., 2007, Checklist of digenean parasites of amphibians and reptiles from Argentina, pp. 51-68 in Zootaxa 1476 on page 57, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.176772
Camphorosma songorica Bunge
Creators: name: Sukhorukov, Alexander P.
name: Kushunina, Maria A.
name: Stepanova, Nina Yu.
name: Kalmykova, Olga G.
name: Golovanov, Yaroslav M.
name: Sennikov, Alexander N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Caryophyllales
Amaranthaceae
Camphorosma
Camphorosma songorica

description: Camphorosma songorica Bunge
Camphorosma songorica Bunge, Trudy Imp. S. - Peterburgsk. Bot. Sada 6 (2): 415 (1879).
– Camphorosma annua auct.: Iljin (1930).
Native status
Native.
Conservation status
Least Concern (LC).
EOO 91,000 km 2, AOO 80 km 2. The species was found in many localities in all parts of the territory. No decline was observed or projected.
Distribution
Orenburg Region (whole territory): Adamovka, Akbulak, Buzuluk, Dombarovka, Krasnaya Gvardia, Kuvandyk, Kvarkeno, Novoorsk, Orenburg, Pervomaiskii, Sharlyk, Sol' - Iletsk, Svetlyi, Tashla, Totskoe Districts (Fig. 57).
Previous reports: Iljin (1930), as C. annua; Ryabinina (1998), Knjazev (2009).
The species occurs on saline lands. It is common in the Region.
The species is distributed in Eastern Europe, Kazakhstan and western Siberia.
description: Published as part of Sukhorukov, Alexander P., Kushunina, Maria A., Stepanova, Nina Yu., Kalmykova, Olga G., Golovanov, Yaroslav M. & Sennikov, Alexander N., 2024, Taxonomic inventory and distributions of Chenopodiaceae (Amaranthaceae s. l.) in Orenburg Region, Russia, pp. e 121541 in Biodiversity Data Journal 12 on page e121541, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.12.e121541
Pectinator spekei Blyth 1855
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Ctenodactylidae
Pectinator
Pectinator spekei

description: Pectinator spekei Blyth, 1855. J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 24:294. TYPE LOCALITY: Somalia, 9° N., 47° E. DISTRIBUTION: Ethiopia; Somalia; Djibouti. COMMENT: Includes legerae and meridionalis; see Misonne, 1974, Part 6: 5. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410033004001001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 6), pp. 560-594 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 594, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353039
description: {"references": ["Misonne, X. 1974. Order Rodentia. Part 6. Pp. 1 - 39, in The mammals of Africa: An identification manual (J. Meester and H. W. Setzer, eds.). [issued 10 Sep 1974]. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., not continuously paginated."]}
Effective recombination coefficient and solar zenith angle effects on low-latitude D-region ionosphere evaluated from VLF signal amplitude and its time delay during X-ray solar flares
Creators: name: Basak, Tamal
name: Chakrabarti, Sandip Kumar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Excess solar X-ray radiation during solar flares causes an enhancement of ionization in the ionospheric D-region and hence affects sub-ionospherically propagating VLF signal amplitude and phase. In first part of the work, using the well known LWPC technique, we simulated the flare induced excess lower ionospheric electron density by amplitude perturbation method. Unperturbed D-region electron density is also obtained from simulation and compared with IRI-model results. Using these simulation results and time delay as key parameters, we calculate the effective electron recombination coefficient ($α_{eff}$) at solar flare peak region. Our results match with the same obtained by other established models. In the second part, we dealt with the solar zenith angle effect on D-region during flares. We relate this VLF data with the solar X-ray data. We find that the peak of the VLF amplitude occurs later than the time of the X-ray peak for each flare. We investigate this so-called time delay ($\bigtriangleup t$). For the C-class flares we find that there is a direct correspondence between $\bigtriangleup t$ of a solar flare and the average solar zenith angle $Z$ over the signal propagation path at flare occurrence time. Now for deeper analysis, we compute the $\bigtriangleup t$ for different local diurnal time slots $DT$. We find that while the time delay is anti-correlated with the flare peak energy flux $ϕ_{max}$ independent of these time slots, the goodness of fit, as measured by $reduced$-$χ^2$, actually worsens as the day progresses. The variation of the $Z$ dependence of $reduced$-$χ^2$ seems to follow the variation of standard deviation of $Z$ along the $T_x$-$R_x$ propagation path. In other words, for the flares having almost constant $Z$ over the path a tighter anti-correlation between $\bigtriangleup t$ and $ϕ_{max}$ was observed.
Extended methods and Statistical Analyses from Biomechanics of the optic nerve head and peripapillary sclera in a mouse model of glaucoma
Creators: name: Korneva, Arina
name: Kimball, Elizabeth C.
name: Jefferys, Joan L.
name: Quigley, Harry A.
name: Nguyen, Thao D.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110601 Biomechanics
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Extended Methods, Comparisons of strain to DVC computed strain error, IOP, and tables of statistical analyses
Selective Data Gathering in Community Sensor Networks
Creators: name: Faulkner, Matthew Nicholas
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 2014
Subjects: Sensor Selection
Sensor Networks
Community Sensing
Computer Science
Submodular Optimization

description: Smartphones and other powerful sensor-equipped consumer devices make it possible to sense the physical world at an unprecedented scale. Nearly 2 million Android and iOS devices are activated every day, each carrying numerous sensors and a high-speed internet connection. Whereas traditional sensor networks have typically deployed a fixed number of devices to sense a particular phenomena, community networks can grow as additional participants choose to install apps and join the network. In principle, this allows networks of thousands or millions of sensors to be created quickly and at low cost. However, making reliable inferences about the world using so many community sensors involves several challenges, including scalability, data quality, mobility, and user privacy.

This thesis focuses on how learning at both the sensor- and network-level can provide scalable techniques for data collection and event detection. First, this thesis considers the abstract problem of distributed algorithms for data collection, and proposes a distributed, online approach to selecting which set of sensors should be queried. In addition to providing theoretical guarantees for submodular objective functions, the approach is also compatible with local rules or heuristics for detecting and transmitting potentially valuable observations.  Next, the thesis presents a decentralized algorithm for spatial event detection, and describes its use detecting strong earthquakes within the Caltech Community Seismic Network. Despite the fact that strong earthquakes are rare and complex events, and that community sensors can be very noisy, our decentralized anomaly detection approach obtains theoretical guarantees for event detection performance while simultaneously limiting the rate of false alarms.
A novel de novo missense variant in netrin-1 (NTN1) associated with chorioretinal coloboma, sensorineural hearing loss and polydactyly.
Creators: name: Toms, Maria
name: Heppell, Cara
name: Owen, Nicholas
name: Malka, Samantha
name: Moosajee, Mariya
name: Consortium, Genomics England Research
Publisher: name: The Francis Crick Institute
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: Stem Cells
subject: Stem Cells
classificationCode: Gene Expression
subject: Gene Expression
classificationCode: Genetics & Genomics
subject: Genetics & Genomics
classificationCode: Developmental Biology
subject: Developmental Biology
classificationCode: Neurosciences
subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
classificationCode: Human Biology & Physiology
subject: Human Biology & Physiology
classificationCode: Model organisms
subject: Model organisms

description: Microphthalmia, anophthalmia and coloboma (MAC) comprise a highly heterogeneous spectrum of congenital ocular malformations with an estimated incidence of 1 in 5000 to 1 in 30 000 live births. Although there is likely to be a genetic component in the majority of cases, many remain without a molecular diagnosis. Netrin-1 was previously identified as a mediator of optic fissure closure from transcriptome analyses of chick and zebrafish and was shown to cause ocular coloboma when knocked out in both mouse and zebrafish. Here, we report the first patient with chorioretinal coloboma and microphthalmia harbouring a novel heterozygous likely pathogenic NTN1 missense variant, c.1483T>A p.(Tyr495Asn), validating a conserved gene function in ocular development. In addition, the patient displayed bilateral sensorineural hearing loss which was investigated by examining the sensory hair cells of ntn1a morphant zebrafish, suggesting a role for netrin-1 in hair cell development.
The Vela-X Pulsar Wind Nebula revisited with 4 years of Fermi-Large Area Telescope observations
Creators: name: Grondin, M. -H.
name: Romani, R. W.
name: Lemoine-Goumard, M.
name: Guillemot, L.
name: Harding, A. K.
name: Reposeur, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Vela supernova remnant is the closest supernova remnant to Earth containing an active pulsar, the Vela pulsar (PSR B0833-45). This pulsar is the archetype of the middle-aged pulsar class and powers a bright pulsar wind nebula (PWN), Vela-X, spanning a region of 2° x 3° south of the pulsar and observed in the radio, X-ray and very high energy gamma-ray domains. The detection of the Vela-X PWN by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) was reported in the first year of the mission. Subsequently, we have re-investigated this complex region and performed a detailed morphological and spectral analysis of this source using 4 years of Fermi-LAT observations. This study lowers the threshold for morphological analysis of the nebula from 0.8 GeV to 0.3 GeV, allowing inspection of distinct energy bands by the LAT for the first time. We describe the recent results obtained on this PWN and discuss the origin of the newly detected spatial features.
description: 12 pages, 9 figures, Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal
Quṭb al‐Dīn al‐Shīrāzī and His Political, Religious, and Intellectual Networks
Creators: name: Dreyer, Carina
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2023

description: This thesis follows Quṭb al‐Dīn al‐Shīrāzī (d. 1311), a brilliant and influential polymath, through the eighty years of his long life and focuses on him navigating changing environments in the Persianate Mongol world (i.e., the second half of the thirteenth century to the early decades of the fourteenth century). In order to retrace his life, this study draws extensively on contemporary chronicles, biographical dictionaries, autobiographies, hagiographies, and some of his own manuscripts to illuminate parts of his life unknown before. Through that, this thesis illustrates Quṭb al‐Dīn al‐Shīrāzī’s intellectual, political, and religious networks, with special attention to his patrons. Moreover, even though his fame in the modern world is primarily due to his astronomical treatises as part of the Maragha school, my thesis demonstrates his investment in medicine, Sufism, and religious sciences, including jurisprudence, Qurʼān interpretations, and ḥadīth studies.
Hence, Quṭb al-Dīn is an example of an intellectual in the Ilkhanid realm who developed informal networks transcending political, linguistic, and genre boundaries, that spanned an area from the western fringes of Anatolia to Khorasan, through bustling late medieval metropolises such as Shiraz, Sivas, Konya, Baghdad, Cairo, Tabriz, and Maragha.
Multiple-Channel Scattering Resonance of One-Dimensional Ultracold Spinor Bosons
Creators: name: Cui, Xiaoling
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: So far the interaction of ultacold atoms can only be tuned within one particular scattering channel near a resonance, where the spinor structure of atomic isotopes is destroyed due to the typically large magnetic field. In this Letter, we propose a scheme to realize {\it multiple-channel scattering resonance} (MCSR) of ultracold bosons in one-dimension while still keeping their spinor structure. The MCSR refers to a simultaneous scattering resonance among all different scattering channels, including those breaking SU(2) and SO(2) spin rotation symmetries. Essential ingredients for MCSR include the 3D interactions, the confinement potential and a spin-flipping field. Near MCSR a many-body spinor system exhibits exotic spin density distributions and pair correlations, which are significantly different from those near a single-channel resonance.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures
Detecting Actions of Fruit Flies
Creators: name: Eyjolfsdottir, Eyrun Arna
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 2014
Subjects: action detection
action classification
Computer Science
fruit flies

description: In this thesis we describe a system that tracks fruit flies in video and automatically detects and classifies their actions. We introduce Caltech Fly-vs-Fly Interactions, a new dataset that contains hours of video showing pairs of fruit flies engaging in social interactions, and is published with complete expert annotations and articulated pose trajectory features. We compare experimentally the value of a frame-level feature representation with the more elaborate notion of bout features that capture the structure within actions. Similarly, we compare a simple sliding window classifier architecture with a more sophisticated structured output architecture, and find that window based detectors outperform the much slower structured counterparts, and approach human performance. In addition we test the top performing detector on the CRIM13 mouse dataset, finding that it matches the performance of the best published method.
Architecture of Extraction: Imagining New Modes of Inhabitation and Reclamation in the Mining Lifecyle
Creators: name: DeWitt, Erica
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2023

description: Mining is the primary method through which modern society obtains the minerals needed to fuel the global economy, provide for modern energy requirements, and support the built environment. Presently, mining accounts for nearly 1% of the global ice-free land surface, with a dramatic increase anticipated in the coming decades. Mining permanently changes and often destroys the pre-existing topography, hydrology, and ecology of the ground, and efforts to reclaim mining landscapes—with the aim of encouraging reforestation and soil replenishment—are often unsuccessful, rendering the land of abandoned mines both unusable and uninhabitable.
This thesis addresses the current state of mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and focuses specifically on a cobalt and copper mining complex within and adjacent to the town of Kolwezi. This is a complex site that is crucial for the global transition to renewable energy, and yet contains many of the climate and social injustices currently implicit with mining. This research formulates a novel model of mine reclamation for the landscapes of Kolwezi, and, in the process, introduces new options for the symbiosis of extraction and inhabitation: the results of which will challenge many of the existing narratives within architecture. This model is guided by concepts of geologic and deep time, with an emphasis on long-term holistic solutions and uses the opportunity of building in terraformed land as a practice to invert traditional relationships of vertical space and hierarchy. Finally, this thesis works to create an alternative design for living, one that accounts for our outsized impact on planetary ecologies, ultimately redesigning and restructuring our relationships to our sacred ground.
Redrawing the US Obesity Landscape: Bias-Corrected Estimates of State-Specific Adult Obesity Prevalence
Creators: name: Ward, Zachary J.
name: Long, Michael W.
name: Resch, Stephen C.
name: Gortmaker, Steven L.
name: Cradock, Angie L.
name: Giles, Catherine
name: Hsiao, Amber
name: Wang, Claire
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Demography
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Obesity
subject: Nonparametric statistics
subject: Epidemiology
subject: Public health

description: Background
State-level estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) underestimate the obesity epidemic because they use self-reported height and weight. We describe a novel bias-correction method and produce corrected state-level estimates of obesity and severe obesity.

Methods
Using non-parametric statistical matching, we adjusted self-reported data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) 2013 (n = 386,795) using measured data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) (n = 16,924). We validated our national estimates against NHANES and estimated bias-corrected state-specific prevalence of obesity (BMI≥30) and severe obesity (BMI≥35). We compared these results with previous adjustment methods.

Results
Compared to NHANES, self-reported BRFSS data underestimated national prevalence of obesity by 16% (28.67% vs 34.01%), and severe obesity by 23% (11.03% vs 14.26%). Our method was not significantly different from NHANES for obesity or severe obesity, while previous methods underestimated both. Only four states had a corrected obesity prevalence below 30%, with four exceeding 40%–in contrast, most states were below 30% in CDC maps.

Conclusions
Twelve million adults with obesity (including 6.7 million with severe obesity) were misclassified by CDC state-level estimates. Previous bias-correction methods also resulted in underestimates. Accurate state-level estimates are necessary to plan for resources to address the obesity epidemic.
Auftritt Der An dem heuntigen Fest-Tag eigenthumlich prangenden Hochlöbl. Ertz-Bruderschafft Corporis Christi, Welche zu München in St. Peters Pfarr-Kirchen für das Jahr 1750. die im alten Testament vorbedeutete Hochheit, Nutzbarkeit, und Herrlichkeit, des Allerheiligisten Altars-Geheimnuß In 11. Ferculis, oder Figuren dem Andächtigen Volck vorstellet; [1750]
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2013

description: Vorlageform des Erscheinungsvermerks: Allda gedruckt und zu finden bey Johann Jacob Vötter, Churfl. Hof- und Gem. Löbl. Landschaffts-Buchdruckern
Guía didáctica: Gender Equality in University Education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)
Creators: name: W-STEM Consortium
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Women, Science, Engineering, gender, STEM, W-STEM

description: Guía didáctica en español del curso Gender Equality in University Education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)
description: The European Commission support for the production of this publication does not constitute an endorsement of the contents which reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
Population synthesis on high-mass X-ray binaries: prospects and constraints from the universal X-ray luminosity function
Creators: name: Zuo, Zhao-Yu
name: Li, Xiang-Dong
name: Gu, Qiu-Sheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using an updated population synthesis code initially developed by Hurley et al. we modeled the synthetic X-ray binary (XRB) populations for direct comparison with the universal, featureless X-ray luminosity function (XLF) of high mass X-ray binaries (HMXBs) in star-forming galaxies. Our main goal is to use the universal XLF to constrain the model parameters, given the current knowledge of binary evolution. We find that the one-dimensional (1D) Maxwellian velocity dispersion of the natal kick can be constrained to be of the order of ~150km/s, supporting earlier findings that neutron stars (NSs) formed in binaries seem to receive significantly smaller natal kicks than the velocities of Galactic single pulsars would indicate. The super-Eddington accretion factor is further confirmed in the framework of stellar mass black holes (BHs), revealing the true origin of the most of the ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) may indeed be the high-luminosity extension of ordinary HMXBs which harbor stellar-mass BHs rather than exotic intermediate-mass BHs or ones. We present the detail properties of the model-predicted present-day HMXBs, which may be investigated by future high-resolution X-ray and optical observations of sources in nearby star-forming galaxies.
description: 41 pages, 11 figures, 2 tables, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Legislative Theory and the Rule of Law: Some Comments on Ru­bin
Creators: name: Strauss, Peter
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1989
Subjects: subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: Law--Interpretation and construction
subject: Administrative law
subject: Rule of law
subject: Administrative agencies
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: Rubin succeeds in persuading us that the traditional equation of "legislation" and "law" is problematic in the administrative state -- that legislation is more often concerned with the (other) organs of government from which "law" emerges than with its direct formulation. Yet even if we accept this as a natural development, not a disease of which the body politic should be purged, the relationships between those responsible for "legislation" and those responsible for "law" should be a matter of active concern. Our wish for law, for conditions that will conduce to its creation, remains relevant to any theories we may hold for legislation. If delegation and void-for-vagueness, for example, do not serve well as direct measures of the worth or validity of legislative products, they continue to embody systemic values deserving of respect and consequently influencing our notions of appropriate relations between the legislative and law making efforts to the extent those are distinct. An insight that properly turns our attention from performance to control needs to notice how various options on the placement or exercise of control may affect the law-character of the system's ultimate output. Congress is not the only institution controlling, and the new theory for which Rubin calls must be concerned both with separation-of-powers questions concerning the appropriate allocation of controls across the whole of government, and the probable impact on Congress's legislating of the various kinds of controls that might be imagined. While today's theory of legislation must be differentiated from our theory of law, one cannot free one from the other. Professor Rubin's analysis pays insufficient heed to the continuing relationships.
Brachycoeliidae Johnston 1912
Creators: name: Lunaschi, Lía I.
name: Drago, Fabiana B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Platyhelminthes
Trematoda
Plagiorchiida
Brachycoeliidae

description: Family Brachycoeliidae Johnston, 1912   Mesocoelium Odhner, 1910
 Mesocoelium monas (Rudolphi, 1819) Freitas, 1958
 Hosts and records: Sibynomorphus ventrimaculatus (Boulenger 1885) (M, Ch), S. turgidus (Cope, 1868) (M, ER), Tomodon ocellatus Duméril, Bibron & Duméril 1854 (BA). Site of infection: small intestine.
Reference: Caubisens Poumarou (1968).
 Mesocoelium sibynomorphi Ruiz & Leão, 1943
 Host and record: Sibynomorphus turgidus (Cope, 1868) (M). Site of infection: small intestine.
Reference: Caubisens Poumarou (1968).
description: Published as part of Lunaschi, Lía I. & Drago, Fabiana B., 2007, Checklist of digenean parasites of amphibians and reptiles from Argentina, pp. 51-68 in Zootaxa 1476 on page 57, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.176772
The Courts and the Congress: Should Judges Disdain Political History?
Creators: name: Strauss, Peter
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: History
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: Constitutional law
subject: Legislative histories
subject: Judges
subject: Law--Interpretation and construction
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: In an earlier article in these pages, Professor John Manning argued that the use of legislative materials by courts in effect permits Congress to engage in delegation of its authority to subunits of the legislature, in violation of the separation of powers. Professor Strauss, acknowledging that the previous generation of courts may have excessively credited the minutiae of legislative history, responds that judicial attention to the political history of legislation is required, not forbidden, by considerations of constitutional structure. Only awareness of that history will promote interpretation reflective of the context and political moment of Congress's action. Our history of previous conflicts between legislature and judiciary ought to have demonstrated the hazards of a judiciary that holds itself aloof from the legislative enterprise. Both long traditions of the common law and constitutional allocations of authority counsel judges to interpret statutes with a view to adding 'force and life" to the remedies legislatures adopt. Professor Strauss acknowledges that, for the reasons Professor Manning evoked, courts should not accord legal authority to individual elements of legislative history. Nonetheless, he argues, the use of political history to inform the judge's own interpretation fits comfortably within a broad range of judicial practice; and pointedly ignoring political history risks releasing the courts from separation of powers constraints equally important to their own functioning. An intelligent, independent, and respectful attention to political history need reflect neither judicial subservience to the legislature nor, what would be as objectionable, judicial disdain for its work.
Insights into Chinese Second Language Acquisition: The Relationship between Glossing and Vocabulary Recall in Reading
Creators: name: DeVellis, Steven S
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2023

description: Reading enhancement strategies are an important tool utilized by foreign language teachers. One of the most common types of during-reading assistance is the marginal gloss, which provides first language (L1) translations of selected foreign language (L2) terms in the margins of a text.
Glossing is an inherently individual approach to reading. It is predominantly motivation-driven, and provides as much assistance to the learner as he or she is willing to use it. Studies to this point have been largely inconsistent in regards to the exact usefulness of glossing, analyzing many variables such as the size, scope, and type of gloss, as well as the language read.
The present study uses glossing while reading a text to investigate whether glossing helps L2 learners learn Chinese and/or helps with their long-term memory. The text was adapted from a pedagogical website for Western learners of Chinese, and the gloss comprised six of the most meaningful terms in the text.
A total of 10 students learning Chinese as a foreign language participated in the present study. These beginner learners were divided into one of two groups, where the only variable was the presence or absence of a marginal vocabulary gloss.
The participants were tasked with reading a short passage in Chinese while responding to comprehension questions in English. Group A read the text without the assistance of a gloss, while Group B read while using a gloss. Participants had access to the text (and gloss, if applicable) while working on the text.
One week later, participants were tasked with remembering the meanings of the selected Key Terms which appeared in the passage. They were also asked to briefly summarize the text in as much detail as they remembered.
In analyzing the responses of the participants after both Part 1 and Part 2, it was found that glossing provided minimal assistance in regards to vocabulary recall in the future, but did much more to aid in comprehension at the time of reading. In addition, L1 translations which appear in the gloss are more likely to be remembered than the L2 terms to which they correspond.
Moreover, this study sheds light on various language acquisition theories, such as incidental vocabulary learning, involvement load, cognitive load, and Input Hypothesis. The results support the efficacy of glossing on during-reading comprehension through the aforementioned theories. Evidence of many of these theories of language processing are evident in the responses of each of the participants and will be analyzed on a case-by-case basis.
Didactic guidelines: Gender Equality in University Education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)
Creators: name: W-STEM Consortium
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Women, Science, Engineering, gender, STEM, W-STEM

description: Didactic guidelines: Gender Equality in University Education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)
description: The European Commission support for the production of this publication does not constitute an endorsement of the contents which reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
CANDELS+3D-HST: compact SFGs at z~2-3, the progenitors of the first quiescent galaxies
Creators: name: Barro, G.
name: Faber, S. M.
name: Perez-Gonzalez, P. G.
name: Pacifici, C.
name: Trump, J. R.
name: Koo, D. C.
name: Wuyts, S.
name: Guo, Y.
name: Bell, E.
name: Dekel, A.
name: Porter, L.
name: Primack, J.
name: Ferguson, H.
name: Ashby, M.
name: Caputi, K.
name: Ceverino, D.
name: Croton, D.
name: Fazio, G.
name: Giavalisco, M.
name: Hsu, L.
name: Kocevski, D.
name: Koekemoer, A.
name: Kurczynski, P.
name: Kollipara, P.
name: Lee, J.
name: McIntosh, D.
name: McGrath, E.
name: Moody, C.
name: Somerville, R.
name: Papovich, C.
name: Salvato, M.
name: Santini, P.
name: Williams, C. C.
name: Willner, S.
name: Zolotov, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the star-forming and structural properties of 45 massive (log(M/Msun)>10) compact star-forming galaxies (SFGs) at 2
description: Submitted to ApJ
Association of Birth Weight and Preterm Birth with Subsequent Risk for Hypertension in Women from the Women’s Health Initiative
Creators: name: Daniele, Christian P
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2023

description: Hypertension is a chronic disease with an estimated prevalence of nearly 50% in US adults. In addition to sociodemographic and lifestyle factors, evidence suggests that in utero and early life exposures may contribute to life-long risk of hypertension. This study aimed to investigate the potential associations between an individual’s birthweight and preterm birth status with their risk for hypertension in the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) cohort. WHI is a large, multi-racial cohort of postmenopausal women. At study entry, birthweight and preterm birth status were self-reported by category (< 6 lbs., 6-7 lbs. 15 oz., 8-9 lbs. 15 oz., or ≥ 10 lbs.; ≥ 4 weeks premature or full term). Baseline and incident hypertension status were self-reported; mean systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, and 30-second pulse were also recorded at baseline by trained study staff. Linear, logistic, and Cox-proportional hazards regression models were used to generate crude and adjusted beta estimates, odds ratios, and hazards ratios, respectively. After adjusting for demographic and lifestyle factors, we found that participants born at a low birthweight had a higher mean systolic blood pressure than participants born at a normal birthweight and were at increased risk for both baseline and incident hypertension. Women born at a higher birthweight had a lower mean systolic blood pressure and were at lower risk for baseline and incident hypertension. When compared to participants born full term, participants born preterm were at increased risk for baseline and incident hypertension. These results support current research on early life exposures and health risks later in life. Long term follow-up or targeted counseling may be required for individuals born prematurely or at low birthweights to prevent and treat hypertension and associated cardiovascular outcomes.
Buis, P., Le Deutéronome. Verbum Salutis: Ancien Testament. 4. Ed. Beauchesne. Vol. de 484 ps. 117x185. Paris 1969
Creators: name: Carreira, José Nunes
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 1970

description: Theologica, v. 5 n. 2 (1970)
Physisch-Chymische Betrachtungen über den Torf in Preußen; 1761
Creators: name: Hagen, Heinrich
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2013

description: Vorlageform des Erscheinungsvermerks: Königsberg, 1761. Gedruckt in der Hartungschen Buchdruckerey
Investigating Design-Functional Dimension Of Affordable Housing With Prefabrication On Dense Suburbs Of Chelsea, MA
Creators: name: Dabhia, Siddharth Jagadishbhai
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2023

description: This thesis addresses innovation in affordable housing. Many people face homelessness or suffer from the burden of renting a house that they cannot afford. In Boston, Massachusetts only 35% of the population are homeowners, resulting in more people renting in the city if they manage to find housing there at all. The increasing cost of housing in the United States presents a significant obstacle for immigrant families, many of whom are already struggling to make a living due to language barriers and limited access to employment opportunities. As housing prices continue to rise across the country, immigrant families face mounting challenges in securing safe and affordable housing, which can result in overcrowding, homelessness, and other adverse outcomes that exacerbate existing social and economic inequalities. To address the housing problem this research engages the solution of high-quality affordable housing for immigrant families in Chelsea, MA (a suburban neighborhood of Boston) by analyzing density and methods of prefabrication. Along with the solution of affordability, the intellectual node of the thesis also discusses the importance of suburbia and its advantage vi of providing a nurturing community. This thesis intends to develop certain functional parameters of design using a Prefabricated Panelized Approach. The prefabricated design for affordability approach provides a technique which can save time and money using off-site manufacturing of products and on-site assembly. This kind of development offers an opportunity to optimize the construction process and an efficient way to build affordable housing. Through this approach, the thesis intends to provide opportunities for home ownership, promote a sense of community among immigrant families, and offer language support to facilitate their growth.
Maxi Obexers 'Europas längster Sommer' aus der Sicht eines Oberschlesiers
Creators: name: Kubik, Adam
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 200524 Comparative Literature Studies
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: 200299 Cultural Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other humanities
subject: 200509 Central and Eastern European Literature (incl. Russian)
subject: 200304 Central and Eastern European Languages (incl. Russian)
subject: 200205 Culture, Gender, Sexuality
subject: 200307 German Language
subject: 200399 Language Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: 200405 Language in Culture and Society (Sociolinguistics)
subject: 200406 Language in Time and Space (incl. Historical Linguistics, Dialectology)
subject: 209999 Language, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classified
subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: 200512 Literature in German
subject: 200523 Middle Eastern Literature
subject: 200209 Multicultural, Intercultural and Cross-cultural Studies
subject: 200208 Migrant Cultural Studies
subject: 200310 Other European Languages
subject: 200515 Other European Literature
subject: 200211 Postcolonial Studies

description: Eine Buchbesprechung des Essayromans „Europas längster Sommer“ von Maxi Obexer, die unternommen aus der Perspektive eines Oberschlesiers aufzuweisen versucht, dass Literatur anderer Grenzgebiete, durch ein Potenzial von analogen Erfahrungen der schwierigen Vergangenheit, zu einem besseren Verstehen des Eigenen und des Fremdsein-Gefühls außerhalb der eigenen Heimat in der Gegenwart beisteuern kann. Die dabei ausgelösten Reflexionen verdeutlichen die Bedeutung einzelner Bestandteile beim Sozialisierungsprozess (wie Bildung in Muttersprachen oder kulturelles Umfeld) von Grenzlandmenschen. Im Buch wird ebenso Kritik an der gegenwärtig sich verbreitenden rechtspopulistisch-nationalistischen Trends in Europa geübt. Darüber hinaus zeigt der Essayroman das länderübergreifende Verständigungspotenzial von Literatur als solcher auf, in dem Fall am Beispiel der Grenzlandliteratur.
Spin turbulence with small spin magnitude in spin-1 spinor Bose-Einstein condensates
Creators: name: Fujimoto, Kazuya
name: Tsubota, Makota
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We theoretically and numerically study spin turbulence (ST) with small spin magnitude in spin-1 spinor Bose-Einstein condensates by using the spin-1 spinor Gross-Pitaevskii (GP)equations. This kind of ST is realized in two cases: (i) with antiferromagnetic interaction and (ii) with ferromagnetic interaction under a static magnetic field. The ST with small spin magnitude can exhibit two characteristic power laws in the spectrum of the spin-dependent interaction energy: -1 and -7/3 power laws in the low- and high-wave-number regions, respectively. These power laws are derived from a Kolmogorov-type dimensional scaling analysis for the equations of motion of the spin vector and nematic tensor. To confirm these power laws, we perform a numerical calculation of the spin-1 spinor GP equations in a two-dimensional uniform system. In case (i), the -7/3 power law appears in the high-wave-number region, but the spectrum in the low-wave-number region deviates from the -1 power law. In contrast, both -1 and -7/3 power laws are found to clearly appear in case (ii).
description: 9 pages, 6 figures
Sedobassia sedoides Freitag & G. Kadereit
Creators: name: Sukhorukov, Alexander P.
name: Kushunina, Maria A.
name: Stepanova, Nina Yu.
name: Kalmykova, Olga G.
name: Golovanov, Yaroslav M.
name: Sennikov, Alexander N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Caryophyllales
Amaranthaceae
Sedobassia
Sedobassia sedoides

description: Sedobassia sedoides (Pall.) Freitag & G. Kadereit
Sedobassia sedoides (Pall.) Freitag & G. Kadereit, Taxon 60 (1): 72 (2011) ≡ Salsola sedoides Pall., Reise 1: 492 (1771), nom. cons. ≡ Bassia sedoides (Pall.) Asch. in Schweinfurth, Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 1: 187 (1867).
Native status
Native.
Conservation status
Least Concern (LC).
EOO 120,000 km 2, AOO 170 km 2. The species is one of the most common plants in saline sites, showing no decline.
Distribution
Orenburg Region (whole territory): Adamovka, Aleksandrovka, Asekeevka, Belyaevka, Buguruslan, Buzuluk, Gai, Grachevka, Ilek, Krasnaya Gvardia, Kurmanaevka, Kuvandyk, Kvarkeno, Novoorsk, Novosergievka, Orenburg, Saraktash, Sol' - Iletsk, Svetlyi, Totskoe, Yasnyi Districts, Orsk Town (Fig. 58).
Previous reports: Iljin (1930), Ryabinina (1998), Knjazev (2009).
The species occurs on saline substrates. It is common in the Region.
The species is distributed as native in Central and Eastern (southern part) Europe, Kazakhstan, western China (Sennikov and Freitag 2014). It is known as a rare alien in the forest zone of Europe.
description: Published as part of Sukhorukov, Alexander P., Kushunina, Maria A., Stepanova, Nina Yu., Kalmykova, Olga G., Golovanov, Yaroslav M. & Sennikov, Alexander N., 2024, Taxonomic inventory and distributions of Chenopodiaceae (Amaranthaceae s. l.) in Orenburg Region, Russia, pp. e 121541 in Biodiversity Data Journal 12 on page e121541, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.12.e121541
Carnivora Bowdich 1821
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora

description: ORDER CARNIVORA COMMENT: Includes Pinnipedia (Otariidae, Odobenidae, Phocidae); see Tedford, 1977; but also see Hall, 1981, and Corbet and Hill, 1980. ISIS NUMBER: 5301412000000000000.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, pp. 244-289 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 244, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980
description: {"references": ["Hall, E. R. 1981. The mammals of North America. Second ed. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1: 1 - 600 + 90, 2: 601 - 1181 + 90.", "Corbet, G. B., and J. E. Hill. 1980. A world list of mammalian species. British Museum (Natural History), London, 226 pp."]}