cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Perfectionism and specific symptom clusters of depression
Creators: name: Caelian, Carmen Frances
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The present study aims to clarify relationships between aspects of perfectionism and specific symptom clusters of depression. More specifically, this study examines whether trait perfectionism dimensions (self-oriented, other-oriented, and socially prescribed perfectionism) and/or perfectionistic cognitions tend to be associated with certain types of depressive symptoms. A heterogeneous clinical sample of 75 individuals (39 males, 36 females) completed the Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (MPS), the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI). Additionally, a subclinical sample comprised of 225 individuals (71 males, 154 females) completed the MPS, the Perfectionism Cognitions Inventory (PCI), and the short form of the Multiscore Depression Inventory (SMDI). Our results reveal that socially prescribed perfectionism was significantly associated with depression in both samples. Specifically, this dimension was most strongly related to cognitive and affective depression symptoms, but also to somatic and behavioural symptoms. Additionally, regression analyses indicated that socially prescribed perfectionism was uniquely related to symptoms of low self-esteem, irritability, and hopelessness. Perfectionistic cognitions were also significantly associated with overall levels of depression and with cognitive and affective symptomatology. Furthermore, regression analyses revealed that perfectionistic thinking was uniquely related to symptoms of low self-esteem, guilt, pessimism, irritability, and sad mood. Taken together, these findings reveal that both socially prescribed perfectionism and perfectionistic thinking are relevant to depressive outcomes and are associated primarily with cognitive and affective symptomatology. The results of this study highlight the importance of attempts to further understand the role of perfectionism in depression and of studying multiple facets of depressive phenomena.
HLA and HIV Infection Progression: Application of the Minimum Description Length Principle to Statistical Genetics
Creators: name: Hraber, Peter T.
name: Korber, Bette T.
name: Wolinsky, Steven
name: Erlich, Henry A.
name: Trachtenberg, Elizabeth A.
name: Kepler, Thomas B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The minimum description length (MDL) principle states that the best model to account for some data minimizes the sum of the lengths, in bits, of the descriptions of the model and the residual error. The description length is thus a criterion for model selection. Description-length analysis of HLA alleles from the Chicago MACS cohort enables classification of alleles associated with plasma HIV RNA, an indicator of infection progression. Progression variation is most strongly associated with HLA-B. Individuals without B58s supertype alleles average viral RNA levels 3.6-fold greater than individuals with them.
description: 17 pages, 1 figure
title: Learning from the Church of Scotland mission initiative ‘Path of Renewal’ about the understanding, experience and practice of Christian discipleship
Creators: name: Clarkson, David Andrew
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2024

description: This thesis critically examines the Church of Scotland’s mission initiative, the Path of Renewal, launched in 2015 as a response to the decline and internal focus of congregations. Rooted in the organizational life cycle theory of William Bridges, the Path or Renewal aimed to guide congregations back to a more vital and missional state. The research involves reflections, recommendations and a comparative analysis with other growth-promoting programmes such as Purpose Driven Church, Natural Church Development, and the Alpha Course.

The study emphasises a shift within the Path of Renewal process, from transitioning from attractional to missional models of church to a focus on discipleship. Through a mixed methods approach, including interviews with participants, the thesis explores the theoretical and practical aspects of the process. It analyses the impact of the Path of Renewal process on participant’s understanding, experience and practice of discipleship, comparing initial objectives with outcomes and delving into the distinction between membership and discipleship.

The thesis highlights positive and negative aspects of the Path of Renewal process, exploring where congregations were before, what they did during the process and what difference it made. It scrutinises the multiplicity of aims, objectives and goals associated with the Path of Renewal process, presenting key findings and addressing issues raised during the research.

As a result of the analysis, the thesis provides recommendations for the future of the Path of Renewal process and suggests directions for ongoing work to support discipleship within the Church of Scotland. The study contributes to the broader understanding of congregational life, attractional versus missional paradigms and the role of discipleship in fostering sustainable church vitality.
Solariella quinni Barros & Pereira in Barros, Santos, & Francisco 2008
Creators: name: Cavallari, Daniel C.
name: Dornellas, Ana Paula S.
name: Simone, Luiz Ricardo L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Trochida
Solariellidae
Solariella
Solariella quinni

description: quinni, Solariella Barros & Pereira in Barros, Santos & Francisco 2008
 Solariella quinni Barros & Pereira in Barros, Santos, & Francisco, 2008: 13–14 (figs 15–21).
Gastropoda, Solariellidae
 Holotype: MZSP 77083.
 Paratype 1: MZSP 77082.
 Paratype 2: MZSP 77084.
 Paratype 3: MZSP 77085.
 Localities: Brazil, Pernambuco, 08°09' S, 34°34' W, gravel bottom, 69–71 m depth, 19 Dec. 2004; 1) 08°11' S, 34°34'W, 66–71 m, 18 Dec. 2004; 2) 08°11' S, 34°36'W, 69–71 m, 19 Dec. 2004; 3) 08°11' S, 34°36' W, 69–71 m, 19 Dec. 2004.
 Preservation: Dry.
description: Published as part of Cavallari, Daniel C., Dornellas, Ana Paula S. & Simone, Luiz Ricardo L., 2016, Second annotated list of type specimens of molluscs deposited in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, pp. 1-59 in European Journal of Taxonomy 213 on page 44, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2016.213, http://zenodo.org/record/3840125
Orbital Response of Evanescent Cooper Pairs in Paramagnetically Limited Al Films
Creators: name: Wu, X. S.
name: Adams, P. W.
name: Catelani, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a detailed study of the pairing resonance via tunneling density of states in ultra-thin superconducting Al films in supercritical magnetic fields. Particular emphasis is placed on effects of the perpendicular component of the magnetic field on the resonance energy and magnitude. Though the resonance is broadened and attenuated by $H_\bot$ as expected, its energy is shifted upward linearly with $H_\bot$. Extension of the original theory of the resonance to include strong perpendicular fields shows that at sufficiently large $H_\bot$ the overlap of the broadened resonance tail with the underlying degenerate Fermi sea alters the spectral distribution of the resonance via the exclusion principle. This leads to the shift of the the resonance feature to higher energy.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures
A Giant Loop of Ionized Gas Emerging from the Tumultuous Central Region of IC 5063
Creators: name: Maksym, W. Peter
name: Fabbiano, Giuseppina
name: Elvis, Martin
name: Ho, Luis C.
name: Oosterloo, Tom
name: Ma, Jingzhe
name: Travascio, Andrea
name: Fischer, Travis C.
name: Keel, William C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The biconical radiation pattern extending from an active galactic nucleus (AGN) may strongly photoionize the circumnuclear interstellar medium (ISM) and stimulate emission from the narrow line region (NLR). Observations of the NLR may provide clues to the structure of dense material that preferentially obscures the bicone at certain angles, and may reveal the presence of processes in the ISM tied to AGN accretion and feedback. Ground-based integral field units (IFUs) may study these processes via well-understood forbidden diagnostic lines such as [O III] and [S II], but scales of $\sim10$s of pc remain challenging to spatially resolve at these wavelengths for all but the nearest AGN. We present recent narrow filter Hubble Space Telescope (HST) observations of diagnostic forbidden ([O III], [S II]) and Balmer (H$α$, H$β$) lines in the NLR of IC 5063. This AGN's jet inclination into the plane of the galaxy provides an important laboratory for strong AGN-host interactions. We find evidence for a low-ionization loop which emits brightly in [S II] and [N II], and which may arise from plume-like hot outflows that ablate ISM from the galactic plane before escaping laterally. We also present spatially resolved Baldwin-Phillips-Terlevich diagnostic maps of the IC 5063 NLR. These maps suggest a sharp transition to lower-ionization states outside the jet path, and that such emission is dominated by $\sim10-40$ pc clumps and filamentary structure at large (>>25°) angles from the bicone axis. Such emission may arise from precursorless shocks when AGN outflows impact low-density hot plasma in the cross-cone.
description: Accepted by ApJ. 18 pages, 8 figures. Follow-up paper to arXiv:2009.10153
Spatio-Temporal Statistical Modeling of Livestock Waste in Streams
Creators: name: Cressie, Noel
name: Majure, James J.
name: Cressie, Noel
name: Majure, James J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1996
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries

description: Livestock agriculture (e.g., dairy, beef, pork, poultry) in the USA is tending rapidly toward operations where a large number of animals are concentrated in a relatively small area. The economies of scale are counterbalanced by the dangers of pollution from inadequate treatment of animal waste. Traditional methods of treatment involve lagoon retention and subsequent spreading on fields but the sheer volume of production seems to be outstripping these and other technologies. Surface-water runoff finds its way into streams and rivers, ultimately polluting all downstream segments of the watershed. The topic of this paper is spatio-temporal statistical modeling of (log) nitrate concentration in the upper North Bosque watershed, which is a region of concentrated dairy operations. A model is fitted from daily data collected over a period of 15 months, at 17 stream monitoring sites throughout the watershed. Optimal predictions of unknown nitrate concentration, at all stream locations at any given time, are obtained, along with a measure of their variability. The model allows for policy changes to be made, and assessed, based on the consequent spatio-temporal predictions.
Study of the gluon propagator in the large-N_f limit at finite temperature and chemical potential for weak and strong couplings
Creators: name: Blaizot, Jean-Paul
name: Ipp, Andreas
name: Rebhan, Anton
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: At finite temperature and chemical potential, the leading-order (hard-thermal-loop) contributions to the gauge-boson propagator lead to momentum-dependent thermal masses for propagating quasiparticles as well as dynamical screening and Landau damping effects. We compare the hard-thermal-loop propagator with the complete large-N_f gluon propagator, for which the usually subleading contributions, such as a finite width of quasiparticles, can be studied at nonperturbatively large effective coupling. We also study quantitatively the effect of Friedel oscillations in low-temperature electrostatic screening.
description: REVTEX, 23 pages, 20 figures
Sny Magill Watershed Modeling Project: Final Report
Creators: name: Saleh, Ali
name: Gassman, Philip W.
name: Kling, Catherine L.
name: Saleh, Ali
name: Gassman, Philip W.
name: Kling, Catherine L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: BMP
subject: land use
subject: modeling
subject: nutrient management
subject: water quality
subject: watershed

description: Improved assessment of flow, sediment, and nutrient losses from watersheds with computer simulation models is needed in order to identify and control nonpoint source pollution. One model, currently under consideration by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for watershed assessments, is the Soil Water and Assessment Tool (SWAT). We describe an application of SWAT for the Sny Magill Creek Watershed (SMCW), which covers 7,100 hectares in northeastern Iowa. The goal of this application was to further evaluate the suitability of using SWAT for Iowa conditions. Model output was compared to sediment and nutrient measurements collected at various stream sites within the watershed for validation. The model was generally able to predict flow, sediment, and nutrient losses, considering the limited quantity of available monitoring data. Thus, this study supports the hypothesis that SWAT could be used to estimate rapidly, accurately, and inexpensively the factors important for water quality assessments, such as flow, sediment, and nutrient losses at the watershed level. The SWAT model also provided useful insights regarding the importance of accurate data inputs (rainfall, for example), weaknesses in some of the data collecting methodologies (such as the frequency of the organic-N and -P measurements), and the impacts of best management practices (BMPs) (terraces, for example) on water quality.
description: Replaced with revised version of paper 10/29/08.
On the Treatment of Optimization Problems with L1 Penalty Terms via Multiobjective Continuation
Creators: name: Bieker, Katharina
name: Gebken, Bennet
name: Peitz, Sebastian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present a novel algorithm that allows us to gain detailed insight into the effects of sparsity in linear and nonlinear optimization, which is of great importance in many scientific areas such as image and signal processing, medical imaging, compressed sensing, and machine learning (e.g., for the training of neural networks). Sparsity is an important feature to ensure robustness against noisy data, but also to find models that are interpretable and easy to analyze due to the small number of relevant terms. It is common practice to enforce sparsity by adding the $\ell_1$-norm as a weighted penalty term. In order to gain a better understanding and to allow for an informed model selection, we directly solve the corresponding multiobjective optimization problem (MOP) that arises when we minimize the main objective and the $\ell_1$-norm simultaneously. As this MOP is in general non-convex for nonlinear objectives, the weighting method will fail to provide all optimal compromises. To avoid this issue, we present a continuation method which is specifically tailored to MOPs with two objective functions one of which is the $\ell_1$-norm. Our method can be seen as a generalization of well-known homotopy methods for linear regression problems to the nonlinear case. Several numerical examples - including neural network training - demonstrate our theoretical findings and the additional insight that can be gained by this multiobjective approach.
description: Accepted by IEEE TPAMI 2021
Measurement of the ttbar Production Cross Section in ppbar Collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV in Dilepton Final States
Creators: name: D0 Collaboration
name: Abazov, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a measurement of the top quark pair (ttbar) production cross section in ppbar collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV using 230 pb-1 of data collected by the DO detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. We select events in the dilepton final states ee, emu and mumu based on kinematical properties consistent with ttbar events. For a top quark mass of 175 GeV, we measure a top pair production cross section sigma(ttbar) = 8.6 +3.2-2.7 (stat) +/-1.1 (syst) +/-0.6 (lumi) pb, in good agreement with the standard model prediction.
description: 7 pages. 1 Figure. Submitted to Phys. Lett. B
Amtliche Mitteilungen der Technischen Universität Dortmund Nr.17/2020
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Prüfungsordnung für die Bachelorstudiengänge Maschinenbau, Logistik und Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen der Fakultät Maschinenbau an der Technischen Universität Dortmund vom 27. Juli 2020
description: Prüfungsordnung für die Masterstudiengänge Maschinenbau, Logistik und Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen der Fakultät Maschinenbau an der Technischen Universität Dortmund vom 27. Juli 2020
description: Ordnung zur Änderung der Einschreibungsordnung der Technischen Universität Dortmund vom 20. August 2020
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Technischen Universität Dortmund;2020, 17
Geometric approach to inhomogeneous Floquet systems
Creators: name: Lapierre, Bastien
name: Moosavi, Per
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new geometric approach to Floquet many-body systems described by inhomogeneous conformal field theory in 1+1 dimensions. It is based on an exact correspondence with dynamical systems on the circle that we establish and use to prove existence of (non)heating phases characterized by the (absence) presence of fixed or higher-periodic points of coordinate transformations encoding the time evolution: Heating corresponds to energy and excitations concentrating exponentially fast at unstable such points while nonheating to pseudoperiodic motion. We show that the heating rate (serving as the order parameter for transitions between these two) can have cusps, even within the overall heating phase, and that there is a rich structure of phase diagrams with different heating phases distinguishable through kinks in the entanglement entropy, reminiscent of Lifshitz phase transitions. Our geometric approach generalizes previous results for a subfamily of similar systems that used only the $\mathfrak{sl}(2)$ algebra to general smooth deformations that require the full infinite-dimensional Virasoro algebra, and we argue that it has wider applicability, even beyond conformal field theory.
description: 15 pages, REVTeX, 11 figures; final published version
Economic Impact of a Ban on the Use of Over-the-Counter Antibiotics in U.S. Swine Rations
Creators: name: Hayes, Dermot J.
name: Jensen, Helen H.
name: Backstrom, Lennart
name: Fabiosa, Jacinto F.
name: Hayes, Dermot J.
name: Jensen, Helen H.
name: Backstrom, Lennart
name: Fabiosa, Jacinto F.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: antibiotic
subject: ban
subject: economic impact
subject: finishing feeds
subject: grower feeds
subject: hog farms
subject: over-the-counter
subject: pork industry
subject: pork market
subject: sow
subject: starter feeds

description: Antibiotic drugs are currently used in 90 percent of starter feeds, 75 percent of grower feeds, more than 50 percent of finishing feeds and at least 20 percent of sow feeds (USDA/APHIS). A ban on the use of feed-grade antibiotics would lead to changes in production processes and practices in production of pork, and hence would have an economic impact on the U.S. pork industry and pork market. This study considers the economic effects of a ban in pork production, with no change of regulation on other meats. The analysis uses a set of technical assumptions that are based in large part on a historical analysis of how the Swedish ban influenced the Swedish pork industry to anticipate the potential economic effects. A range of cases is examined. The cases use evidence from the experience in Sweden to describe what is most likely, given this evidence and (other) various expert opinions, to occur if the ban were to be implemented in the United States. The estimated effects of a ban on the use of over-the-counter antibiotics would increase production costs per head by $6.05 initially, and by $5.24 at the end of the 10-year period considered for the most-likely case, with reservations for all uncertainties about assumptions made. However, with higher prices due to reduced supply, net profit would decline only by $0.79 per head. The net present value of forgone profit to the industry over 10 years is $1.039 billion. These results include the costs of adding troughs and space to allow restricted feeding. On the consumer side, the effects of a ban would raise the retail price of pork by $0.05 per pound, and increase costs of pork to a family of four by $11 per year, or, increase costs for all consumers by $748 million per year. The estimated impact of a ban on an "average" or "representative" farm presented here masks very wide differences across farms. The greatest impact may be on densely populated farms in areas with large numbers of hog farms who have older buildings and who do not follow sound management practices. While certain general patterns stand out, technical evidence from the Swedish experience must be regarded very cautiously as an exact indicator of what might happen in the United States.
Was unterstützt Heilpädagoginnen und Heilpädagogen bei der Erkennung von psychischen Störungen bei Kindern und Jugendlichen mit einer geistigen Behinderung?
Creators: name: Maier, Christina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Sonderpädagogik
Masterarbeit

description: Ziel der vorliegenden theoretisch und empirisch-qualitativen Arbeit ist es, konkrete Faktoren aus der Praxis der Heilpädagogik aufzuzeigen, welche zum Erkennen von psychischen Störungen bei Kindern und Jugendlichen mit einer geistigen Behinderung beitragen können. Dazu wurden Heilpädagoginnen und Heilpädagogen anhand eines problemzentrierten Interviews befragt. Mit der Untersuchung konnten einerseits personenbezogene Faktoren als auch Rahmenbedingungen exploriert werden. Zudem verdeutlicht die vorliegende Studie eine grosse Diskrepanz zwischen theoretischen Erkenntnissen und deren Umsetzung in der Praxis und verweist auf notwendige Entwicklungsarbeit, welche in diesem Bereich geleistet werden muss.
Stochastic Quantization of $(λϕ^{4})_d$ Scalar Theory: Generalized Langevin Equation with Memory Kernel
Creators: name: Menezes, G.
name: Svaiter, N. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review the method of stochastic quantization for a scalar field theory. We first give a brief survey for the case of self-interacting scalar fields, implementing the stochastic perturbation theory up to the one-loop level. The divergences therein are taken care of by employing the usual prescription of the stochastic regularization, introducing a colored random noise in the Einstein relations. We then extend this formalism to the case where we assume a Langevin equation with a memory kernel. We have shown that, if we also maintain the Einstein's relations with a colored noise, there is convergence to a non-regularized theory.
description: 25 pages
Assumption-Lean Analysis of Cluster Randomized Trials in Infectious Diseases for Intent-to-Treat Effects and Network Effects
Creators: name: Park, Chan
name: Kang, Hyunseung
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Cluster randomized trials (CRTs) are a popular design to study the effect of interventions in infectious disease settings. However, standard analysis of CRTs primarily relies on strong parametric methods, usually mixed-effect models to account for the clustering structure, and focuses on the overall intent-to-treat (ITT) effect to evaluate effectiveness. The paper presents two assumption-lean methods to analyze two types of effects in CRTs, ITT effects and network effects among well-known compliance groups. For the ITT effects, we study the overall and the heterogeneous ITT effects among the observed covariates where we do not impose parametric models or asymptotic restrictions on cluster size. For the network effects among compliance groups, we propose a new bound-based method that uses pre-treatment covariates, classification algorithms, and a linear program to obtain sharp bounds. A key feature of our method is that the bounds can become narrower as the classification algorithm improves and the method may also be useful for studies of partial identification with instrumental variables. We conclude by reanalyzing a CRT studying the effect of face masks and hand sanitizers on transmission of 2008 interpandemic influenza in Hong Kong.
The National Pilot Program Integrated Modeling System: Environmental Baseline Assumptions and Results for the APEX Model
Creators: name: Gassman, Philip W.
name: Gassman, Philip W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: This paper presents the underlying assumptions and results for the Agricultural Policy/Environmental eXtender (APEX) model, which was applied within an integrated modeling system for the National Policy Program (NPP) environmental baseline simulations for the Upper North Bosque River Watershed (UNBRW), located in Earth County, Texas. The integrated modeling system consists of an economic model that is linked to an environmental component comprising the field-scale APEX and watershed-scale Soil Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) models. The environmental baseline simulations test and calibrate the complete environmental component, using monitoring data obtained during 1993-94 in the UNBRW. The economic model was not executed for the environmental baseline, although underlying assumptions built into the economic model were used. The results are edge-of-field environmental indicators obtained from the APEX model.
A Chandra and XMM-Newton study of the wide-angle tail radio galaxy 3C465
Creators: name: Hardcastle, M. J.
name: Sakelliou, I.
name: Worrall, D. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have observed the prototypical wide-angle tail radio galaxy 3C465 with Chandra and XMM-Newton. X-ray emission is detected from the active nucleus and the inner radio jet, as well as a small-scale, cool component of thermal emission, a number of the individual galaxies of the host cluster (Abell 2634), and the hotter thermal emission from the cluster itself. The X-ray detection of the jet allows us to argue that synchrotron emission may be an important mechanism in other well-collimated, fast jets, including those of classical double radio sources. The bases of the radio plumes are not detected in the X-ray, which supports the model in which these plumes are physically different from the twin jets of lower-power radio galaxies. The plumes are in fact spatially coincident with deficits of X-ray emission on large scales, which argues that they contain little thermal material at the cluster temperature, although the minimum pressures throughout the source are lower than the external pressures estimated from the observed thermal emission. Our observations confirm both spatially and spectrally that a component of dense, cool gas with a short cooling time is associated with the central galaxy. However, there is no evidence for the kind of discontinuity in external properties that would be required in many models of the jet-plume transition in WATs. Although the WAT jet-plume transition appears likely to be related to the interface between this central cool component and the hotter intra-cluster medium, the mechanism for WAT formation remains unclear. We revisit the question of the bending of WAT plumes, and show that the plumes can be bent by plausible bulk motions of the intra-cluster medium, or by motion of the host galaxy with respect to the cluster, as long as the plumes are light.
description: Accepted for MNRAS
Spiripockia punctata Simone 2012
Creators: name: Cavallari, Daniel C.
name: Dornellas, Ana Paula S.
name: Simone, Luiz Ricardo L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Littorinimorpha
Pomatiopsidae
Spiripockia
Spiripockia punctata

description: punctata, Spiripockia Simone, 2012
 Spiripockia punctata Simone, 2012a: 516–523 (figs 1–33).
Gastropoda, Pomatiopsidae
 Holotype: MZSP 105000.
 Paratypes (19 spc): MZSP 104435.
 Locality: Brazil, Bahia, Serra Ramalho Karst Area, Middle São Francisco River Basin, Lapa dos Peixes Cave, 13°49'21.78" S, 43°57'24.39" W (type locality) 29 Jul. 2005.
 Collector: M.E. Bichuette.
 Preservation: Dry, 70% ethanol.
description: Published as part of Cavallari, Daniel C., Dornellas, Ana Paula S. & Simone, Luiz Ricardo L., 2016, Second annotated list of type specimens of molluscs deposited in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, pp. 1-59 in European Journal of Taxonomy 213 on page 43, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2016.213, http://zenodo.org/record/3840125
Assessing the Impacts of Low Carbohydrate Related Health Information on the Market Demand for US Vegetables
Creators: name: Paudel, Laxmi
name: Adhikari, Murali
name: Houston, Jack E.
name: Paudel, Laxmi
name: Adhikari, Murali
name: Houston, Jack E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Carbohydrate Information Index
subject: Vegetable Demand
subject: Structural Change
subject: Carbohydrate Information

description: An Almost Ideal Demand System was estimated to examine the impacts of low carbohydrate information on the market demand for US vegetables. Analysis was extended to examine the performance of alternative carbohydrate information indexes. Study shows significant robust impacts of low carbohydrate information across all included vegetables. Results favor the general and weighted carbohydrate information index.
Product Quality and Grower Reputation: Dynamic Contracts With Adverse Selection
Creators: name: Wang, Yanguo
name: Jaenicke, Edward C.
name: Wang, Yanguo
name: Jaenicke, Edward C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Agribusiness

description: We investigate the design of a two-period contract between an agricultural processor and growers whose quality-ability types are not observable to the processor. After characterizing the optimal contracts and establishing conditions for a separating equilibrium, we investigate how a payment based on first-period reputation may induce more first-period effort. We show that this reputation-based payment can improve both the processor's and the grower's welfare, resulting in a dominant equilibrium.
Reelection Incentives and Political Corruption: Evidence from Brazilian Audit Reports
Creators: name: Finan, Frederico
name: Ferraz, Claudio
name: Finan, Frederico
name: Ferraz, Claudio
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Political Economy

description: As part of a recent anti-corruption campaign, the Brazilian government began to audit the municipal expenditure of federally-transferred funds. Using these audit reports, we construct a unique data set of political corruption to test whether reelection incentives affect the level of corruption in a municipality. Consistent with a political economy agency model, we find that mayors who are in their second and final term are significantly more corrupt than first-term mayors. In particular, second-term mayors on average divert, R$188,431.4 more than first-term mayors, which is approximately 4 percent of the total amount transferred to municipalities. We also find much more pronounced effects among municipalities where the costs of rent-extraction are lower, and the density of pivotal voters is higher. Our results also illustrate an important trade-off: second-term mayors, while more corrupt, provide a higher level of public goods. As Brazil and other countries continue their decentralization process, our findings promote the need for a better understanding of how local institutions can help reduce the incentives for corruption.
An Ex post Evaluation of Economic Impacts of Foot-and-Mouth Disease on Taiwan Using a Dynamic Computable General Equilibrium Model
Creators: name: Hsu, Shih-Hsun
name: Lee, Duu-Hwa
name: Chang, Ching-Cheng
name: Lin, Hsing-Chun
name: Yang, Tzu-Chiang
name: Hsu, Shih-Hsun
name: Lee, Duu-Hwa
name: Chang, Ching-Cheng
name: Lin, Hsing-Chun
name: Yang, Tzu-Chiang
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Foot-and-mouth disease
subject: Ex post simulation
subject: Computable General Equilibrium (CGE)

description: The outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in 1997 has resulted in significant losses to Taiwan's hog industry which was the most important industry in Taiwan's agricultural sector at that time. Hog farmers have suffered great losses due to the cost of slaughtering infected hogs and reduced revenues in the hog market. Furthermore, all pork exports are prohibited according to the Office International des Epizooties (OIE) regulation. There have been a number of ex ante studies that have quantified the potential impacts of FMD on Taiwan's economy (e.g., Tsai 1999, Lin and Hsu 1999). That is, the potential impact assessment was done when the event of FMD just broke out. This article provides an ex post economy-wide assessment of the FMD impacts on Taiwan. The model used is Taiwan General Equilibrium Model (TAIGEM-D), a dynamic, multi-sectoral computable general equilibrium (CGE) model of the Taiwan's economy, which is derived from the Australian ORANI model and the MONASH model (Dixon, Parmenter, Sutton and Vincent, 1982; Dixon and Rimmer, 2002). The input-output database was compiled from the 150-sector Use Table of the 1996 Taiwan's Input-Output Tables. To provide an ex post evaluation, we use historical closure and ex post closure (a closure similar to decomposition closure) originally from MONASH innovations. Comparisons with other ex ante FMD impact assessments are also provided. Results indicate that only a few industries like other livestock products and other processed food sectors would benefit from FMD, while almost all other industries in Taiwan suffered with output losses as well as employment and welfare reductions. Loss to gross domestic product (GDP) of Taiwan is estimated to be 0.28 percent which is much smaller than those predicted by the previous ex ante, partial equilibrium studies.
Manningiella rolfbrandti Temcharoen 1971
Creators: name: Cavallari, Daniel C.
name: Dornellas, Ana Paula S.
name: Simone, Luiz Ricardo L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Littorinimorpha
Hydrobiidae
Manningiella
Manningiella rolfbrandti

description: rolfbrandti, Hubendickia Temcharoen, 1971
 Hubendickia rolfbrandti Temcharoen, 1971: 96–98 (pl. 6, fig. 6 + text fig. 6).
Gastropoda, Pomatiopsidae
 Probable paratype: MZSP 95948 (Fig. 3 E–F).
 Locality: Laos, Mekong River, Muang Khong, near Wat (type locality), 20 Mar. 1969.
 Preservation: Dry.
 Remarks: Former Jens Hemmen Collection. As per measurements and data on the specimens’ label, this is a possible remainder of a 1000-specimen paratype lot originally catalogued as SMRL 16076. According to Temcharoen (1971), these specimens were left under the care of the SMRL.
description: Published as part of Cavallari, Daniel C., Dornellas, Ana Paula S. & Simone, Luiz Ricardo L., 2016, Second annotated list of type specimens of molluscs deposited in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, pp. 1-59 in European Journal of Taxonomy 213 on page 44, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2016.213, http://zenodo.org/record/3840125
Troubles for observing the inflaton potential
Creators: name: de Oliveira, H. P.
name: Terrero-Escalante, C. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Robustness of the solutions to the inflaton potential inverse problem based on the slow-roll approximation is addressed. With that aim it is introduced a measure of the difference of the outputs obtained using first and second order respectively in the horizon-flow expansion. The evolution of this measure is determined by a second order linear non-autonomous non-homogeneous differential equation. Boundedness of the general solutions to this equation is analyzed. It is shown that they diverge for most of the physically meaningful cases. Examples for typical inflationary models are presented. It is argued that this lack of robustness is due to the limitations of the slow-roll expansion for probing the scale-dependence of the inflationary spectra.
Algebraic correlations and anomalous fluctuations in ordered flocks of Janus particles fueled by an AC electric field
Creators: name: Iwasawa, Junichiro
name: Nishiguchi, Daiki
name: Sano, Masaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the polar collective dynamics of Janus colloidal particles fueled by an AC electric field. When the density is high enough, the polar interactions between the particles induce a polar orientationally ordered state which exhibits features reminiscent of the Vicsek model such as true long-range order and giant number fluctuations. Independent measurements of the polarity and velocity at the single particle level allowed us to investigate the single particle dynamics within the ordered state. We discovered theoretically-unaddressed statistical properties of the ordered state such as the asymmetric relation of polarity and velocity, enhanced rotational diffusion stronger than in the disordered state, and an algebraic auto-correlation of the polarity. Our experimental findings, at the crossroad of the Vicsek physics and the Active Brownian Particles physics, shed light on the so-far-unexplored physics arising from the interplay between the polarity and the velocity.
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Extent, Location, and Characteristics of Land Cropped Due to Insurance Subsidies
Creators: name: Claassen, Roger
name: Lubowski, Ruben N.
name: Roberts, Michael J.
name: Claassen, Roger
name: Lubowski, Ruben N.
name: Roberts, Michael J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Land Economics/Use

description: We examine changes in land use caused by the large increase in crop insurance premium subsidies under the 1994 Federal Crop Insurance and Reform Act (FCIRA). We use a conditional logit model to estimate changes in six major land uses from 1992 and 1997 as a function of the change in expected return to crop insurance. Our data on individual land parcels across the entire coterminous United States enable identification of the extent, location, and physical characteristics of the land brought into and retained in production as a result of the crop insurance policies. Results indicate the additional crop insurance premium subsidies increased cultivated cropland area on the order of 1.9 million acres (0.6%), consistent with the lower range of previous estimates of crop insurance acreage effects. The estimated lands in production due to the subsidy increases are of lower quality than cropland overall in term of both Land Capability Classification and proneness to flooding, as well as more environmentally sensitive in terms of erodibility and proportion in wetlands.
Ghosts, Strong Coupling and Accidental Symmetries in Massive Gravity
Creators: name: Deffayet, Cedric
name: Rombouts, Jan-Willem
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the strong self-interaction of the scalar polarization of a massive graviton can be understood in terms of the propagation of an extra ghost-like degree of freedom, thus relating strong coupling to the sixth degree of freedom discussed by Boulware and Deser in their Hamiltonian analysis of massive gravity. This enables one to understand the Vainshtein recovery of solutions of massless gravity as being due to the effect of the exchange of this ghost which gets frozen at distances larger than the Vainshtein radius. Inside this region, we can trust the two-field Lagrangian perturbatively, while at larger distances one can use the higher derivative formulation. We also compare massive gravity with other models, namely deconstructed theories of gravity, as well as DGP model. In the latter case we argue that the Vainshtein recovery process is of different nature, not involving a ghost degree of freedom.
description: 21 pages
Similarity network fusion for scholarly journals
Creators: name: Baccini, Federica
name: Barabesi, Lucio
name: Baccini, Alberto
name: Khelfaoui, Mahdi
name: Gingras, Yves
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper explores intellectual and social proximity among scholarly journals by using network fusion techniques. Similarities among journals are initially represented by means of a three-layer network based on co-citations, common authors and common editors. The information contained in the three layers is then combined by building a fused similarity network. The fusion consists in an unsupervised process that exploits the structural properties of the layers. Subsequently, partial distance correlations are adopted for measuring the contribution of each layer to the structure of the fused network. Finally, the community morphology of the fused network is explored by using modularity. In the three fields considered (i.e. economics, information and library sciences and statistics) the major contribution to the structure of the fused network arises from editors. This result suggests that the role of editors as gatekeepers of journals is the most relevant in defining the boundaries of scholarly communities. In information and library sciences and statistics, the clusters of journals reflect sub-field specializations. In economics, clusters of journals appear to be better interpreted in terms of alternative methodological approaches. Thus, the graphs representing the clusters of journals in the fused network are powerful instruments for exploring research fields.
description: 21 pages, 4 figures
Evaluation on the effectiveness of directly observed treatment short course among newly diagnosed tuberculosis patients at the chest service, department of health, Hong Kong, 1996
Creators: name: Noertjojo, Kukuh
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Setting: The Chest Service, Department of Health, Hong Kong, 1996. Problem: The notification rate of tuberculosis in Hong Kong has failed to decline since 1990 and has remained persistently high since then. The notification rate of 1996 was 103/100,000 population, ten times those of the industrialized countries. Objectives of the study: 1. To study the trend of tuberculosis in the past four decades 2. To determine the outcome of the tuberculosis treatment program in a random sample of patients Study design: Retrospective cohort study among newly diagnosed tuberculosis cases in 1996. Results: 1. Tuberculosis notification rate has been increasing from 103/100,000 population in 1996 to 115/100,000 in 1998 (10 times those in the developed countries) 2. Age and sex differences were prominent in the distribution of tuberculosis patients in 1996 3. There were high-risk groups, namely patients with diabetes mellitus, silicosis, and alcoholism 4. The treatment completion rate at 6 and 12 months among sputum smear positive tuberculosis patients were significantly lower than the rate of 85% (p < 0.05) targeted by the IUATLD and the WHO for developing countries 5. Relatively high treatment default rate (8.4% of all cases) at 12 months 6. The prevalence of resistance to any four first line tuberculosis drugs was higher than other industrialized countries 7. Despite the adoption of the multiple drug treatment for 6 months since 1989, about half of tuberculosis patients received treatment for longer than 6 months 8. Only 34.4% of tuberculosis patients had fully supervised treatment Recommendations: 1. Ensuring that every patient receives treatment through DOT in order to increase treatment completion rate 2. Reducing the number of defaulters by expanding incentives and enablers programs given to the patients 3. Focusing resources to reduce tuberculosis incidence among the elderly by conducting a pilot screening program for tuberculosis among residents in old age homes 4. Improving the adherent to treatment by enforcing the policy of 6 months chemotherapy 5. Increasing the awareness among health care professionals about the high prevalence of tuberculosis especially among the elderly 6. Development of an evaluation database on all patients being treated for tuberculosis
Hedonic Housing Prices and Agricultural Pollution: An Empirical Investigation on Semiparametric Models
Creators: name: Bontemps, Christophe
name: Simioni, Michel
name: Surry, Yves R.
name: Bontemps, Christophe
name: Simioni, Michel
name: Surry, Yves R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: Many empirical studies challenged the parametric approach to estimate nonlinear house price models and to use instead nonparametric or semiparametric model specifications. In the area of environmental analysis using house price models, Stock (1991) and McMillen and Thorsen (2000) applied semi-parametric models to estimate the impact of hazardous wastes on house prices. Furthermore, estimating nonparametricaly house price models is gaining now additional momentum because Ekeland et al. (2002) provided a theoretical justification to use such an empirical approach to estimate hedonic price models. The objective of this paper is to assess the impact of agricultural pollution in a livestock intensive region of France using alternative non-parametric and semi-parametric hedonic price models. We propose a two stage estimation procedure were the first step is based on the partially linear model introduced by Robinson (1988). In the second step, once the parametric part of the model has been estimated on the house characteristics, we propose four specifications for the remaining functional form on the environmental variables. A parametric, a fully nonparametric, an additive, and a single index specifications are proposed and estimated using appropriate econometric procedures similar to those developed by Horowitz and Lee (2001), Iwata et al. (2000) and Robinson (1988). The performances of these models are examined, compared with respect to the benchmark nonparametric model and specification tests are proposed.