cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Fear in the tellin': The silence, suffering, and survival of deaf professional women
Creators: name: Grant, Kathleen J.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Entering the secretive world of deaf professional women (DPW), I obtained their career life stories to learn who deaf professional women are, and what workplace issues they face. My linguistic methodology used text as an entry point for exploring relationships between culture and power and their effects on the experiences of deaf professional women. Silverman's (1993) analytic induction method and text analysis models from Leap (1995) and Linde (1993) framed my research to understand if DPW use an alternative means of "claiming" workplace citizenship. I discovered DPW have ambiguous citizenship from multiple subject positions formed by mechanisms of power that determines their social practice. Transgressive DPW broke cultural norms to go forth and become professionals while they defined citizenship as a sense of belonging. However, the workplaces they entered define just who can and cannot obtain citizenship, forcing DPW to developed coping strategies of "passing," disidentifying, and back-talking to survive their work experiences. I found from DPW's career life stories how they used a counter-hegemonic discourse to struggle against knowledge and power within a workplace where citizenship is not culturally driven. This counter-discourse is very different from deaf women that lacked voice. I found that DPW used their agency by crossing borders via: tellin' their stories; showing how systems of power cause social inequalities for DPW; creating new signs that empower not oppress; admitting they are watched in public and private spheres; and standing up to audism, racism, sexism, and homophobia as they expose social inequalities. The language of DPW, American Sign Language, is a visual symbolic confrontation with those in power because stereotypically they lack the prescribed discourses required to enter academia and other professional arenas. Secrets which unfolded from DPW's career life stories revealed sites of oppression that left them invisible at gateways to success as access is denied DPW not only due to their deafness, but also due to their gender, sexual orientation, race, and ethnicity. Deaf professional women are similar to other marginal groups; yet distinctive, because they can choose whether to reveal their difference as---Deaf Professional Women.
Additional file 1 of Impact of gender on post- traumatic intensive care and outcomes
Creators: name: Larsson, Emma
name: Ann-Charlotte Lindström
name: Eriksson, Mikael
name: Oldner, Anders
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Associations between patient- and injury characteristics and ICU admission, adjusted OR (95% CI).
Hylaeus (Paraprosopis) asininus
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Hylaeus (Paraprosopis) asininus (Cockerell & Casad, 1895)
[Syntype: USNM; ♂ Campus of Agricultural College, Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA; September 1984]
This species has been previously reported in the Gulf Coast, BCS in May 1921 (Cockerell 1924). We reviewed six specimens: two (1 ♀, 1 ♂) in the Magdalena Plains in October 1941, and four in the Gulf Coast, one in Concepción Bay in October 1941 (1 ♂), two males in Agua Verde Bay in March 1953, and one female in Las Animas Bay in May 1921 (CASC). Additionally, the BBPT collected two males in the Gulf Coast, BC in November 2020 and March 2021 (MABC). See fig. 163.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 241, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Direct Observation of a Feshbach-resonance by Coincidence-detection of Ions and Electrons in Penning Ionization Collisions
Creators: name: Margulis, Baruch
name: Narevicius, Julia
name: Narevicius, Edvardas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Observation of molecular dynamics with quantum state resolution is one of the major challenges in chemical physics. Complete characterization of collision dynamics leads to the microscopic understanding and unraveling of different quantum phenomena such as scattering resonances. We present a new experimental approach for observing molecular dynamics involving neutral particles and ions that is capable in providing state-to-state mapping of the dynamics. We use Penning ionization reaction between argon and metastable helium to generate argon ion and ground state helium atom pairs at separation of several angstroms. The energy of ejected electron carries the information about the initial electronic state of an ion. The coincidence detection of ionic products provides a state resolved description of the post-ionization ion-neutral dynamics. We demonstrate that correlation between the electron and ion energy spectra enables us to directly observe the spin-orbit excited Feshbach resonance state of HeAr$^+$. We measure the lifetime of the quasi-bound HeAr$^+$ A$_2$ state and discuss possible applications of our method.
Fear in the tellin': The silence, suffering, and survival of deaf professional women
Creators: name: Grant, Kathleen J.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4401
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology
classificationCode: 4405
subject: Gender studies

description: Entering the secretive world of deaf professional women (DPW), I obtained their career life stories to learn who deaf professional women are, and what workplace issues they face. My linguistic methodology used text as an entry point for exploring relationships between culture and power and their effects on the experiences of deaf professional women. Silverman's (1993) analytic induction method and text analysis models from Leap (1995) and Linde (1993) framed my research to understand if DPW use an alternative means of "claiming" workplace citizenship. I discovered DPW have ambiguous citizenship from multiple subject positions formed by mechanisms of power that determines their social practice. Transgressive DPW broke cultural norms to go forth and become professionals while they defined citizenship as a sense of belonging. However, the workplaces they entered define just who can and cannot obtain citizenship, forcing DPW to developed coping strategies of "passing," disidentifying, and back-talking to survive their work experiences. I found from DPW's career life stories how they used a counter-hegemonic discourse to struggle against knowledge and power within a workplace where citizenship is not culturally driven. This counter-discourse is very different from deaf women that lacked voice. I found that DPW used their agency by crossing borders via: tellin' their stories; showing how systems of power cause social inequalities for DPW; creating new signs that empower not oppress; admitting they are watched in public and private spheres; and standing up to audism, racism, sexism, and homophobia as they expose social inequalities. The language of DPW, American Sign Language, is a visual symbolic confrontation with those in power because stereotypically they lack the prescribed discourses required to enter academia and other professional arenas. Secrets which unfolded from DPW's career life stories revealed sites of oppression that left them invisible at gateways to success as access is denied DPW not only due to their deafness, but also due to their gender, sexual orientation, race, and ethnicity. Deaf professional women are similar to other marginal groups; yet distinctive, because they can choose whether to reveal their difference as---Deaf Professional Women.
Hylaeus (Hylaeus) sejunctus Snelling 1970
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Hylaeus (Hylaeus) sejunctus Snelling, 1970
[Holotype: LACM; ♂ Winterhaven, Imperial Co., California, USA; March 25, 1956]
This species is found in the deserts of the southwestern USA, and northwestern Mexico. We examined four specimens (2 ♀, 2 ♂) reported by Snelling (1970) that were collected in April 1939 in the Lower Colorado Desert (CASC). See fig. 162.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 241, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Meeting the Cool New Neighbors V: A 2MASS-Selected Sample of Ultracool Dwarfs
Creators: name: Cruz, Kelle L.
name: Reid, I. Neill
name: Liebert, James
name: Kirkpatrick, J. Davy
name: Lowrance, Patrick J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present initial results of our effort to create a statistically robust, volume-limited sample of ultracool dwarfs from the 2MASS Second Incremental Data Release. We are engaged in a multifaceted search for nearby late-type dwarfs and this is the first installment of our search using purely photometric selection. The goal of this work is a determination of the low-mass star and brown dwarf luminosity function in the infrared. Here, we outline the construction of the sample, dubbed 2MU2, and present our first results, including the discovery of 186 M7--L6 dwarfs--47 of these are likely to be within 20 pc of the Sun. These results represent 66% of the ultracool candidates in our sample yet constitute an 127% increase in the number of ultracool dwarfs known within the volume searched (covering 40% of the sky out to 20 pc). In addition, we have identified 10 M4--M6.5 objects that are likely to be within 20 pc (or within 1$σ$). Finally, based on these initial data, we present a preliminary luminosity function and discuss several interesting features of the partial sample presented here. Once our sample is complete, we will use our measured luminosity function to constrain the mass function of low-mass stars and brown dwarfs.
description: Accepted to AJ and scheduled for November 2003 issue. 80 pages (25 pages of text, 16 figures, 39 pages for 21 tables)
Effects of gratitude on subjective well -being, self -construal, and memory
Creators: name: Kirgiz, Ozge Gurel
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 5203
subject: Clinical and health psychology
classificationCode: 5205
subject: Social and personality psychology

description: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of induced gratitude on subjective well-being and self-construal. A gratitude letter manipulation was predicted to produce greater positive affect, satisfaction with life, and happiness scores and lower levels of negative affect than a neutral affect condition. The gratitude manipulation was also expected to result in more relational self-descriptive statements and greater recall of relational information compared to the neutral affect condition. Eighty-six college students were randomly assigned to one of the two conditions. The gratitude condition involved composing a letter to someone who made a major positive difference in their lives. The neutral affect condition involved listing the places they were and the routes they took in the previous day. Participants engaged in a memory task after the gratitude manipulation in which they viewed twenty relational and twenty non-relational statements about a college student and listed the statements they recalled eight minutes after the exposure. Prior to the manipulation, chronic relational self-construal and trait gratitude were measured. Analyses did not reveal a main effect of a condition on momentary gratitude, subjective well-being, self-descriptive statements, or type of information recalled in the memory task. Higher chronic relational self-construal was associated with greater positive affect. Greater trait gratitude was associated with higher momentary gratitude, satisfaction with life, and happiness. Higher trait gratitude was associated with lower negative affect. There was an interaction of condition and trait gratitude in predicting negative affect. In the gratitude manipulation condition, participants who were low on trait gratitude had more negative affect than those who were high on trait gratitude. In contrast, participants in the comparison condition did not differ in their negative affect as a function of their trait gratitude. Higher chronic relational self-construal was associated with more relational statements recalled. Higher trait gratitude predicted more non-relational statements recalled. Results indicate that both trait gratitude and chronic self-construal are associated with subjective well-being as well as with type of information recalled. Methodological considerations for the gratitude letter manipulation are discussed.
Effects of gratitude on subjective well -being, self -construal, and memory
Creators: name: Kirgiz, Ozge Gurel
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of induced gratitude on subjective well-being and self-construal. A gratitude letter manipulation was predicted to produce greater positive affect, satisfaction with life, and happiness scores and lower levels of negative affect than a neutral affect condition. The gratitude manipulation was also expected to result in more relational self-descriptive statements and greater recall of relational information compared to the neutral affect condition. Eighty-six college students were randomly assigned to one of the two conditions. The gratitude condition involved composing a letter to someone who made a major positive difference in their lives. The neutral affect condition involved listing the places they were and the routes they took in the previous day. Participants engaged in a memory task after the gratitude manipulation in which they viewed twenty relational and twenty non-relational statements about a college student and listed the statements they recalled eight minutes after the exposure. Prior to the manipulation, chronic relational self-construal and trait gratitude were measured. Analyses did not reveal a main effect of a condition on momentary gratitude, subjective well-being, self-descriptive statements, or type of information recalled in the memory task. Higher chronic relational self-construal was associated with greater positive affect. Greater trait gratitude was associated with higher momentary gratitude, satisfaction with life, and happiness. Higher trait gratitude was associated with lower negative affect. There was an interaction of condition and trait gratitude in predicting negative affect. In the gratitude manipulation condition, participants who were low on trait gratitude had more negative affect than those who were high on trait gratitude. In contrast, participants in the comparison condition did not differ in their negative affect as a function of their trait gratitude. Higher chronic relational self-construal was associated with more relational statements recalled. Higher trait gratitude predicted more non-relational statements recalled. Results indicate that both trait gratitude and chronic self-construal are associated with subjective well-being as well as with type of information recalled. Methodological considerations for the gratitude letter manipulation are discussed.
Geometry-aware Compensation Scheme for Morphing Drones
Creators: name: Fabris, Amedeo
name: Kleber, Kevin
name: Falanga, Davide
name: Scaramuzza, Davide
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Morphing multirotors, such as the Foldable Drone , can increase the versatility of drones employing in-flight-adaptive-morphology. To further increase precision in their tasks, recent works have investigated stable flight in asymmetric morphologies mainly leveraging the low-level controller. However, the aerodynamic effects embedded in multirotors are only analyzed in fixed shape aerial vehicles and are completely ignored in morphing drones. In this paper, we investigate the effects of the partial overlap between the propellers and the main body of a morphing quadrotor. We perform experiments to characterize such effects and design a morphology-aware control scheme to account for them. To guarantee the right trade-off between efficiency and compactness of the vehicle, we propose a simple geometry-aware compensation scheme based on the results of these experiments. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach by deploying the compensation scheme on the Foldable Drone, a quadrotor that can fold its arms around the main body. The same set of experiments are performed and compared against one another by activating and deactivating the compensation scheme offline or during the flight. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work counteracting the aerodynamic effects of a morphing quadrotor during flight and showing the effects of partial overlap between a propeller and the central body of the drone.
Additional file 1 of Biodiesel and flavor compound production using a novel promiscuous cold-adapted SGNH-type lipase (HaSGNH1) from the psychrophilic bacterium Halocynthiibacter arcticus
Creators: name: Le, Ly Thi Huong Luu
name: Wanki Yoo
name: Sangeun Jeon
name: Changwoo Lee
name: Kim, Kyeong Kyu
name: Lee, Jun Hyuck
name: Kim, T. Doohun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1. Additional figures.
Blockade before bread: Allied relief for Nazi Europe, 1939--1945
Creators: name: Hindley, Meredith
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 43
subject: History, heritage and archaeology
classificationCode: 4303
subject: Historical studies

description: This study provides the first analysis of Allied relief policy for Nazi-occupied territories---and by extension Allied humanitarian policy---during the Second World War. When the war began, Britain implemented an economic warfare campaign that sought to prevent Germany from importing any goods that would fuel the Nazi war machine. Food and clothing, the building blocks of relief programs, were included in the ban. In order for relief goods to pass Britain's blockade against Germany, humanitarian organizations had to prove to Britain, and later the United States, that the goods would not aid the German war effort. Consequently, from the being of the war, a fundamental contradiction existed between Allied strategy and the humanitarian impulse. How the Allies negotiated that contradiction while pursuing victory is the subject of this study. Over the course of the war, relief programs were allowed for political reasons or when conditions became so inhumane as to demand action. As a result of having to address the relief issue, a decision-making rubric for responding to humanitarian crises was in place long before the Allies had knowledge of the Final Solution. The existence of such a policy reinforces the need to see Allied response to the Holocaust as grounded in decisions regarding the conduct of the war. The study also shows an unprecedented critique of Allied strategy by the British and American people. Mass movements in favor of relief developed in both countries that forced British and American officials to justify the conduct of the war.
Interfacial layering in a three-component polymer system
Creators: name: Aradian, A.
name: Saulnier, F.
name: Raphael, E.
name: de Gennes, P. -G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study theoretically the temporal evolution and the spatial structure of the interface between two polymer melts involving three different species (A, A* and B). The first melt is composed of two different polymer species A and A* which are fairly indifferent to one another (Flory parameter chi_AA* ~ 0). The second melt is made of a pure polymer B which is strongly attracted to species A (chi_AB < 0) but strongly repelled by species A* (chi_A*B > 0). We then show that, due to these contradictory tendencies, interesting properties arise during the evolution of the interface after the melts are put into contact: as diffusion proceeds, the interface structures into several adjacent "compartments", or layers, of differing chemical compositions, and in addition, the central mixing layer grows in a very asymmetric fashion. Such unusual behaviour might lead to interesting mechanical properties, and demonstrates on a specific case the potential richness of multi-component polymer interfaces (as compared to conventional two-component interfaces) for various applications.
description: Revised version, to appear in Macromolecules
Hylaeus (Paraprosopis) calvus
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Hylaeus (Paraprosopis) calvus (Metz, 1911)
[Type: ♂ Santa Clara Co., California, USA]
Hylaeus calvus occurs in the western USA, and BC, Mexico. Snelling (1970) reported a female from Sierra San Pedro Mártir collected in June 1958. See fig. 163.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 241, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Additional file 2 of Phytochemical analysis and Evaluation of hepatoprotective effect of Maytenus royleanus leaves extract against anti-tuberculosis drug induced liver injury in mice
Creators: name: Shabbir, Maria
name: Tayyaba Afsar
name: Razak, Suhail
name: Almajwal, Ali
name: Khan, Muhammad Rashid
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2: Figure S1. Standard calibration curve of standard compounds.
Thermodynamic nonextensivity in a closed string gas
Creators: name: Cobas, Manuel A.
name: Osorio, M. A. R.
name: Suárez, María
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Well known results in string thermodynamics show that there is always a negative specific heat phase in the microcanonical description of a gas of closed free strings whenever there are no winding modes present. We will carefully compute the number of strings in the gas to show how this negative specific heat is related to the fact that the system does not have thermodynamic extensivity. We will also discuss the consequences for a system of having a microcanonical negative specific heat versus the exact result that such a thing cannot happen in any canonical (fixed temperature) description.
description: Title + 13 pages, more typos corrected
Hylaeus (Paraprosopis) polifolii
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Hylaeus (Paraprosopis) polifolii (Cockerell, 1901)
[Type: USNM; ♂ Alpine Tavern, Mount Lowe, about 1,524 mts elev., Los Angeles Co., California, USA; August 12, 1901]
Hylaeus polifolii is common in California, USA and been previously recorded in February 1946 in the Coastal Sage Matorral in BC (UCRC). We reviewed one female collected in the Coastal Sage Matorral in February 1958 (CASC). The BBPT collected four specimens (3 ♂, 1 ♀) in the same ecoregion in Ensenada City in May 2020, and Maneadero in March 2021 and May 2022 (MABC). See fig. 164.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 241, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Trade Liberalization and Income Equalization: A Long-Run Perspective
Creators: name: Ben-David, Dan
name: Bohara, Alok K.
name: Ben-David, Dan
name: Bohara, Alok K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1995
Subjects: Financial Economics
International Relations/Trade

description: An examination of the impact of trade reform on the behavior of income differentials among countries provides the setting for the utilization of an income convergence test that differs from the conventional cross-country regressions. The existence, or non-existence, of convergence involves joint estimation of augmented Dickey-Fuller type equations using seemingly unrelated regression (SUR) techniques. Monte Carlo simulations are used to calculate the critical values which are in turn used to determine the significance of convergence. The findings here provide support for a link between trade liberalization and income convergence.
Cross-correlating galaxy catalogs and gravitational waves: a tomographic approach
Creators: name: Calore, F.
name: Cuoco, A.
name: Regimbau, T.
name: Sachdev, S.
name: Serpico, P. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Unveiling the origin of the coalescing binaries detected via gravitational waves (GW) is challenging, notably if no multi-wavelength counterpart is detected. One important diagnostic tool is the coalescing binary distribution with respect to the large scale structures (LSS) of the universe, which we quantify via the cross-correlation of galaxy catalogs with GW ones. By using both existing and forthcoming galaxy catalogs and using realistic Monte Carlo simulations of GW events, we find that the cross-correlation signal should be marginally detectable in a 10-year data taking of advanced LIGO-Virgo detectors at design sensitivity, at least for binary neutron star mergers. The expected addition of KAGRA and LIGO-India to the GW detector network would allow for a firmer detection of this signal and, in combination with future cosmological surveys, would also permit the detection of cross-correlation for coalescing black holes. Such a measurement may unveil, for instance, a primordial origin of coalescing black holes. To attain this goal, we find that it is crucial to adopt a tomographic approach and to reach a sufficiently accurate localization of GW events. The depth of forthcoming surveys will be fully exploited by third generation GW detectors such as the Einstein Telescope or the Cosmic Explorer, which will allow one to perform precision studies of the coalescing black hole LSS distribution and attain rather advanced model discrimination capabilities.
description: 14 pages, 11 multi-panel figures. v2: Improved discussion and presentation, results and conclusions unchanged; closely matches published version
Blockade before bread: Allied relief for Nazi Europe, 1939--1945
Creators: name: Hindley, Meredith
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This study provides the first analysis of Allied relief policy for Nazi-occupied territories---and by extension Allied humanitarian policy---during the Second World War. When the war began, Britain implemented an economic warfare campaign that sought to prevent Germany from importing any goods that would fuel the Nazi war machine. Food and clothing, the building blocks of relief programs, were included in the ban. In order for relief goods to pass Britain's blockade against Germany, humanitarian organizations had to prove to Britain, and later the United States, that the goods would not aid the German war effort. Consequently, from the being of the war, a fundamental contradiction existed between Allied strategy and the humanitarian impulse. How the Allies negotiated that contradiction while pursuing victory is the subject of this study. Over the course of the war, relief programs were allowed for political reasons or when conditions became so inhumane as to demand action. As a result of having to address the relief issue, a decision-making rubric for responding to humanitarian crises was in place long before the Allies had knowledge of the Final Solution. The existence of such a policy reinforces the need to see Allied response to the Holocaust as grounded in decisions regarding the conduct of the war. The study also shows an unprecedented critique of Allied strategy by the British and American people. Mass movements in favor of relief developed in both countries that forced British and American officials to justify the conduct of the war.
Subnational determinants of foreign direct investment: The case of Vietnam
Creators: name: Le, Thuy Le
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation studies subnational determinants of FDI inflows with the case of Vietnam's provinces. We analyze the relative significance of 6 major groups of determinants: agglomeration, market size, labor and human capital, infrastructure, policies and institutions, and geography. Two models are estimated using a panel data set covering 57 provinces over nine years. Models of FDI value and project count are estimated by feasible generalized least square (FGLS) and fixed-effect Poisson estimators respectively. Both levels and changes of the explanatory variables are included, as are both national and provincial market variables. Overall results of our models show reasonable fitness and robustness to different specifications. Some variables are found to have consistent effects on FDI flows in count and value. National but not provincial market size affects FDI flows strongly and positively, in contrast to findings of previous studies. FDI flows are strongly discouraged by high labor costs. FDI flows are also significantly and positively determined by agglomeration effects from local economies. Some determinants affect FDI value and project count models differently. FDI agglomeration is significant in value model but not in project count model. Human capital variables are significant in both models, however, their signs are different. Market institution variables strongly affect FDI project count but not FDI value. Both level and change of infrastructure variables are significant determinants of FDI project count but only the change is a significant determinant of FDI value. These differences can be explained by different responses of FDI projects with different sizes. Smaller FDI projects are more sensitive to market institutions, infrastructure and agglomeration effects than large ones. Our findings of significant agglomeration effects imply that the extreme patterns will continue into the future. Whether over-concentration, infrastructure bottleneck, and costly negative externalities will eventually work to disperse FDI flows to other provinces remains a question for future work. We find supports for policies in affecting regional FDI inflows by maintaining stable and favorable macro economic environments, promoting private sector and market institution, and providing public goods such as education, labor training and other social policies.
Hylaeus (Paraprosopis) megalotis
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Hylaeus (Paraprosopis) megalotis (Swenk & Cockerell, 1910)
[Type: UNSM; Glen, Sioux Co., Nebraska, USA; August 17, 1906]
Hylaeus megalotis occurs in the xeric regions of North America. This species was collected in El Mayor in the Lower Colorado Desert in April 1939. To our knowledge, there are no recent records of this species in the BCP. See fig. 163.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 241, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
ISO spectroscopy of gas and dust: from molecular clouds to protoplanetary disks
Creators: name: van Dishoeck, Ewine F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Observations of interstellar gas-phase and solid-state species in the 2.4-200 micron range obtained with the spectrometers on board the Infrared Space Observatory are reviewed. Lines and bands due to ices, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, silicates and gas-phase atoms and molecules (in particular H2, CO, H2O, OH and CO2) are summarized and their diagnostic capabilities illustrated. The results are discussed in the context of the physical and chemical evolution of star-forming regions, including photon-dominated regions, shocks, protostellar envelopes and disks around young stars.
description: 56 pages, 17 figures. To appear in Ann. Rev. Astron. Astrophys. 2004. Higher resolution version posted at http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/~ewine/araa04.pdf
Optimizing AMS Pocket Lounges : The Effects of Nature Sounds on Perceived Stress
Creators: name: Pflaum, Alex
name: Mann, Alexandra Lee
name: Hassun, Cherihan
name: Hernandez-Pinto, Daniel
name: De Hoyos, Santiago R.
name: Komnenic, Nadja
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Our goal is to contribute to the AMS by optimizing the university Pocket Lounges in order to reduce students’ perceived stress levels. Previous studies indicate that nature has psychologically restorative effects and, based on that assumption, we hypothesized that exposure to nature sounds will also have a psychologically restorative effect. In the experimental condition, 31 students were exposed to nature sounds (birds, wind, running water) emitted by a small portable speaker. In the control condition, 28 students were exposed to the normal sounds and settings of the pocket lounge. We administered the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) in one of seven Pocket Lounges to 59 UBC students. Our research aimed to determine whether exposure to nature sounds decreases students’ perceived stress levels. Our results, however, did not indicate any variance in perceived stress among the two groups. We believe this is due to various factors involved in the manner in which we collected our data (time of day, volume of nature sounds, time of semester, duration of time spent in the lounge, etc.). Further studies should be done to assess the effectiveness of nature sounds for reduction of perceived stress. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Hartman effect in presence of Aharanov Bohm flux
Creators: name: Bandopadhyay, Swarnali
name: Krishnan, Raishma
name: Jayannavar, A. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Hartman effect for the tunneling particle implies the independence of group delay time on the opaque barrier width, with superluminal velocities as a consequence. This effect is further examined on a quantum ring geometry in the presence of Aharonov-Bohm flux. We show that while tunneling through an opaque barrier the group delay time for given incident energy becomes independent of the barrier thickness as well as the magnitude of the flux. The Hartman effect is thereby extended beyond one dimension and in the presence of Aharonov-Bohm flux.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Subnational determinants of foreign direct investment: The case of Vietnam
Creators: name: Le, Thuy Le
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics

description: This dissertation studies subnational determinants of FDI inflows with the case of Vietnam's provinces. We analyze the relative significance of 6 major groups of determinants: agglomeration, market size, labor and human capital, infrastructure, policies and institutions, and geography. Two models are estimated using a panel data set covering 57 provinces over nine years. Models of FDI value and project count are estimated by feasible generalized least square (FGLS) and fixed-effect Poisson estimators respectively. Both levels and changes of the explanatory variables are included, as are both national and provincial market variables. Overall results of our models show reasonable fitness and robustness to different specifications. Some variables are found to have consistent effects on FDI flows in count and value. National but not provincial market size affects FDI flows strongly and positively, in contrast to findings of previous studies. FDI flows are strongly discouraged by high labor costs. FDI flows are also significantly and positively determined by agglomeration effects from local economies. Some determinants affect FDI value and project count models differently. FDI agglomeration is significant in value model but not in project count model. Human capital variables are significant in both models, however, their signs are different. Market institution variables strongly affect FDI project count but not FDI value. Both level and change of infrastructure variables are significant determinants of FDI project count but only the change is a significant determinant of FDI value. These differences can be explained by different responses of FDI projects with different sizes. Smaller FDI projects are more sensitive to market institutions, infrastructure and agglomeration effects than large ones. Our findings of significant agglomeration effects imply that the extreme patterns will continue into the future. Whether over-concentration, infrastructure bottleneck, and costly negative externalities will eventually work to disperse FDI flows to other provinces remains a question for future work. We find supports for policies in affecting regional FDI inflows by maintaining stable and favorable macro economic environments, promoting private sector and market institution, and providing public goods such as education, labor training and other social policies.
Characterizing Speech Adversarial Examples Using Self-Attention U-Net Enhancement
Creators: name: Yang, Chao-Han Huck
name: Qi, Jun
name: Chen, Pin-Yu
name: Ma, Xiaoli
name: Lee, Chin-Hui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recent studies have highlighted adversarial examples as ubiquitous threats to the deep neural network (DNN) based speech recognition systems. In this work, we present a U-Net based attention model, U-Net$_{At}$, to enhance adversarial speech signals. Specifically, we evaluate the model performance by interpretable speech recognition metrics and discuss the model performance by the augmented adversarial training. Our experiments show that our proposed U-Net$_{At}$ improves the perceptual evaluation of speech quality (PESQ) from 1.13 to 2.78, speech transmission index (STI) from 0.65 to 0.75, short-term objective intelligibility (STOI) from 0.83 to 0.96 on the task of speech enhancement with adversarial speech examples. We conduct experiments on the automatic speech recognition (ASR) task with adversarial audio attacks. We find that (i) temporal features learned by the attention network are capable of enhancing the robustness of DNN based ASR models; (ii) the generalization power of DNN based ASR model could be enhanced by applying adversarial training with an additive adversarial data augmentation. The ASR metric on word-error-rates (WERs) shows that there is an absolute 2.22 $\%$ decrease under gradient-based perturbation, and an absolute 2.03 $\%$ decrease, under evolutionary-optimized perturbation, which suggests that our enhancement models with adversarial training can further secure a resilient ASR system.
description: The authors have revised some annotations in Table 4 to improve the clarity. The authors thank reading feedbacks from Jonathan Le Roux. The first draft was finished in August 2019. Accepted to IEEE ICASSP 2020
Additional file 1 of Phytochemical analysis and Evaluation of hepatoprotective effect of Maytenus royleanus leaves extract against anti-tuberculosis drug induced liver injury in mice
Creators: name: Shabbir, Maria
name: Tayyaba Afsar
name: Razak, Suhail
name: Almajwal, Ali
name: Khan, Muhammad Rashid
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Pathology report.
Additional file 2 of Most dominant roles of insect gut bacteria: digestion, detoxification, or essential nutrient provision?
Creators: name: Jing, Tian-Zhong
name: Feng-Hui Qi
name: Wang, Zhi-Ying
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2. Supplementary methods and Supplementary figures S1-S9.
Interaction of formal and informal institutions: The case of low -wage labor migration from Kyrgyzstan to the United States
Creators: name: Liebert, Saltanat
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4407
subject: Policy and administration
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: This dissertation examines the interaction between formal and informal institutions in the process of migration from Kyrgyzstan to the United States for low-wage labor. More specifically, it demonstrates how formal and informal institutions interact in the process of irregular labor migration and how informal institutions influence the implementation of immigration policy of the United States. Focusing on countries of origin and destination, this study explains how the process of illegal labor migration from Kyrgyzstan to the United States works and what formal and informal institutions are involved in this process. This dissertation illuminates what happens when institutions in developing and developed countries interact with each other and how such transnational interactions influence formal institutional outcomes. This project embraces a case study research method relying on multiple data sources, including in-depth interviews with low-wage Kyrgyz labor migrants in the United States, migration intermediaries, Kyrgyz migration officials and policy makers, U.S. consular personnel in Kyrgyzstan, and analysis of migration laws and regulations of the United States and Kyrgyzstan. This study argues that formal and informal institutions involved in the process of labor migration from Kyrgyzstan to the United States interact in three principal ways that have distinct effects on formal institutional outcomes. This dissertation facilitates a better understanding of the role of informal institutions as one of the determining factors in the success or failure of public policies. It also brings a comparative transnational perspective into the institutionalism research. Finally, this dissertation addresses a major gap in migration literature by presenting the first study of irregular labor migration from the former Soviet Union the United States.