cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Chromatic variation in populations of Xenodon merremi (Serpentes: Dipsadidae) in Paraguay
Creators: name: Cacciali, Pier
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2010

description: Xenodon merremi is a polychromatic species distributed in South America. Among its wide range of color patterns, the most common pattern resembles a pitviper of the genus Bothrops. In this work is recorded the different patterns found in Paraguayan populations of X. merremi. Four patterns can be observed: marked pattern, slightly marked pattern, smooth, and banded pattern. The marked pattern is the most common pattern (mimetic with pitvipers), and all juveniles bear this coloration. Only adults show variation in their coloration.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 5 No 1 (2010)
Ethno-racial diversity and planning practices in the Greater Toronto Area
Creators: name: Wallace, Marcia
name: Milroy, Beth Moore
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: City planning--Ontario--Toronto
subject: Urban policy--Ontario--Toronto
subject: Cultural pluralism--Ontario--Toronto
subject: Minorities--Ontario--Toronto

description: This research addresses the issue of whether ethno-racial diversity is acknowledged in planning practices in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA).
description: Centre of Excellence for Research in Immigration and Settlement
description: Part of the "Multiculturalism/Le multiculturalisme" section of issue.
description: The report discussed in this article was written by the authors in conjunction with a steering committee formed by the City of Toronto (Office of Access and Equity, and Department of Planning and Development), the Community Social Planning Council of Toronto, the Ontario Professional Planners Institute, and the Urban Alliance on Race Relations.
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/5419/Article014.pdf?sequence=3
Elliptic Curves with abelian division fields
Creators: name: Gonzalez-Jimenez, Enrique
name: Lozano-Robledo, Alvaro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let E be an elliptic curve over Q, and let n=>1. The central object of study of this article is the division field Q(E[n]) that results by adjoining to Q the coordinates of all n-torsion points on E(Q). In particular, we classify all curves E/Q such that Q(E[n]) is as small as possible, that is, when Q(E[n])=Q(zeta_n), and we prove that this is only possible for n=2,3,4, or 5. More generally, we classify all curves such that Q(E[n]) is contained in a cyclotomic extension of Q or, equivalently (by the Kronecker-Weber theorem), when Q(E[n])/Q is an abelian extension. In particular, we prove that this only happens for n=2,3,4,5,6, or 8, and we classify the possible Galois groups that occur for each value of n.
description: In this version we fix an error in the proof of Proposition 3.7. We thank Tyler Genao for pointing out this error to us. In Table 4 the elliptic curve 46800cw4 has been replaced by the elliptic curve 486720dr3. The elliptic curve 46800cw4 does not have 2-adic image equal to X58f
Relationship Between Pain with Intercourse and Psychological Distress Among Women with Vulvar Vestibulitis Syndrome
Creators: name: Hartung, Jessica
name: Shaw, Caitlin E.
name: Desai, Kinnari
name: Zolnoun, Denniz
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: Background: Vulvar Vestibulitis (VVS) is the most common cause of vulvo-vaginal pain in reproductive age women, affecting up to 15% of the general female population. Women with VVS have pain with intercourse, and sensitivity to touch on genital contact. Psychological characteristics such as anxiety and somatization are also common in the population. In this study, we sought to assess the relationship between self reported intercourse-related pain and psychological distress among women with VVS. We hypothesized that women who reported higher levels of intercourse related pain were more likely to have a higher level of psychological distress 1 year after their initial visit to the UNC Vulvar Pain Clinic..
Higher-order Oscillatory Planar Hall Effect in Topological Kagome Metal
Creators: name: Li, Leyi
name: Yi, Enkui
name: Wang, Bin
name: Yu, Guoqiang
name: Shen, Bing
name: Yan, Zhongbo
name: Wang, Meng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Exploration of exotic transport behavior for quantum materials is of great interest and importance for revealing exotic orders to bring new physics. In this Letter, we report the observation of exotic prominent planar Hall effect (PHE) and planar anisotropic magnetoresistivity (PAMR) in strange kagome metal KV$_3$Sb$_5$. The PHE and PAMR, which are driven by an in-plane magnetic field and display sharp difference from other Hall effects driven by an out-of-plane magnetic field or magnetization, exhibit exotic higher-order oscillations in sharp contrast to those following empirical rule only allowing twofold symmetrical oscillations. These higher-order oscillations exhibit strong field and temperature dependence and vanish around charge density wave (CDW) transition. The unique transport properties suggest a significant interplay of the lattice, magnetic and electronic structure in KV$_3$Sb$_5$. This interplay can couple the hidden anisotropy and transport electrons leading to the novel PHE and PAMR in contrast to other materials.
Additional file 2 of Developmental trends in young children’s device-measured physical activity and sedentary behaviour
Creators: name: Christian, Hayley E.
name: Adams, Emma K.
name: Moore, Hannah L.
name: Nathan, Andrea
name: Murray, Kevin
name: Schipperijn, Jasper
name: Trost, Stewart G.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Science Policy
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional Table 2. Unadjusted mean daily sedentary time and physical activity estimates.
Molecular Auger Decay Rates from Complex-Variable Coupled-Cluster Theory
Creators: name: Matz, Florian
name: Jagau, Thomas-C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The emission of an Auger electron is the predominant relaxation mechanism of core-vacant states in molecules composed of light nuclei. In this non-radiative decay process, one valence electron fills the core vacancy while a second valence electron is emitted into the ionization continuum. Because of this coupling to the continuum, core-vacant states represent electronic resonances that can be tackled with standard quantum-chemical methods only if they are approximated as bound states, meaning that Auger decay is neglected. Here, we present an approach to compute Auger decay rates of core-vacant states from coupled-cluster and equation-of-motion coupled-cluster wave functions combined with complex scaling of the Hamiltonian or, alternatively, complex-scaled basis functions. Through energy decomposition analysis, we illustrate how complex-scaled methods are capable of describing the coupling to the ionization continuum without the need to model the wave function of the Auger electron explicitly. In addition, we introduce in this work several approaches for the determination of partial decay widths and Auger branching ratios from complex-scaled coupled-cluster wave functions. We demonstrate the capabilities of our new approach by computations on core-ionized states of neon, water, dinitrogen, and benzene. Coupled-cluster and equation-of-motion coupled-cluster theory in the singles and doubles approximation both deliver excellent results for total decay widths, whereas we find partial widths more straightforward to evaluate with the former method. We also observe that the requirements towards the basis set are less arduous for Auger decay than for other types of resonances so that extensions to larger molecules are readily possible.
description: 15 pages, 6 figures, 9 tables
Future climate change spells catastrophe for Blanchard’s cricket frog, Acris blanchardi (Amphibia: Anura: Hylidae)
Creators: name: McCallum, Malcolm L.
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2010

description: Climate change may be one of the greatest environmental catastrophes encountered by modern human civilization. The potential influence of this global disaster on wildlife populations is subject to question. I interpolated how seasonal variation in weather patterns influences growth and reproduction in the Blanchard’s cricket frog (Acris blanchardi). Then I extrapolated the influence of future climate conditions on these life history characteristics using fuzzy regression. Fuzzy regression was an accurate predictor of growth and reproduction based on the climate conditions present from 1900–2007. It predicted that the climate projections expected for Arkansas by 2100 could reduce total reproductive investment in the Blanchard’s cricket frog by 33–94%. If these results reflect responses by other poikilotherms, climate change could induce major population declines in many species. Because poikilotherms represent the vast majority of vertebrates and significant ecosystem components, it is imperative that we implement strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and circumvent this possible catastrophe.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 5 No 1 (2010)
The growth-predation risk trade-off in bivalves and fish
Creators: name: Van Denderen, Daniel
name: Zandveld, Jelle
name: Van Den Heuvel, Joost
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Poster presentation at the sixth workshop on Trait-based Approaches to Ocean Life - Copenhagen, Denmark, 15-17 August 2023.
Large deviations for the interchange process on the interval and incompressible flows
Creators: name: Kotowski, Michał
name: Virág, Bálint
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We use the framework of permuton processes to show that large deviations of the interchange process are controlled by the Dirichlet energy. This establishes a rigorous connection between processes of permutations and one-dimensional incompressible Euler equations. While our large deviation upper bound is valid in general, the lower bound applies to processes corresponding to incompressible flows, studied in this context by Brenier. These results imply the Archimedean limit for relaxed sorting networks and allow us to asymptotically count such networks.
description: 68 pages, journal version
Reptiles of Sardinia: updating the knowledge on their distribution
Creators: name: Salvi, Daniele
name: Bombi, Pierluigi
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2010

description: Sardinia shows a clear lack of herpetological data due to an evident paucity of herpetological surveys. This gap of knowledge is worthy of attention, since Sardinia hosts a rich herpetofauna with a large proportion of endemic species, and distribution data are crucial for targeting conservation efforts. In this paper we provide new distribution data for Sardinian reptiles, with the aim of updating our knowledge on their specific distribution. Data were opportunistically recorded during ten years of field research in Sardinia, carried out in more than twenty campaigns from April 1999 to June 2009. All the eighteen reptile species belonging to the Sardinian fauna were recorded. A total amount of 293 faunistic data were collected from 178 different localities covering the entire study area. Within this dataset, 137 faunistic data fall outside known species’ ranges as reported in the Atlas of Italian amphibians and reptiles. In conclusion, data presented here produced a remarkable increase of knowledge on Sardinian reptiles distribution compare to that reported in the last available syntheses. Nevertheless, it should be evidenced that, notwithstanding the present updating, the knowledge of Sardinian reptiles’ distribution is probably still far from being exhaustive. Thus, further investigations are strongly required for obtaining a complete picture and identifying conservation priorities in terms of isolated species/populations and areas of high diversity and endemicity.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 5 No 2 (2010)
The Hausdorff dimension of multivariate operator-self-similar Gaussian random fields
Creators: name: Sönmez, Ercan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $\{X(t) : t \in \mathbb{R}^d \}$ be a multivariate operator-self-similar random field with values in $\mathbb{R}^m$. Such fields were introduced in [24] and satisfy the scaling property $\{X(c^E t) : t \in \mathbb{R}^d \} \stackrel{\rm d}{=} \{c^D X(t) : t \in \mathbb{R}^d \}$ for all $c > 0$, where $E$ is a $d \times d$ real matrix and $D$ is an $m \times m$ real matrix. We solve an open problem in [24] by calculating the Hausdorff dimension of the range and graph of a trajectory over the unit cube $K = [0,1]^d$ in the Gaussian case. In particular, we enlighten the property that the Hausdorff dimension is determined by the real parts of the eigenvalues of $E$ and $D$ as well as the multiplicity of the eigenvalues of $E$.
Amphibians of the “Cilento e Vallo di Diano” National Park (Campania, Southern Italy): updated check list, distribution and conservation notes
Creators: name: Romano, Antonio
name: Ventre, Nicola
name: De Riso, Laura
name: Pignataro, Camillo
name: Spilinga, Cristiano
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2010

description: In this study, we present the results of our field and bibliographic survey on the amphibians of the “Cilento and Vallo di Diano” National Park (Southern Italy). Two hundred and thirty three spawning sites (167 original and 66 derived from literature), and 11 amphibian species were found. Reproductive activity was recorded for Salamandra salamandra, Salamandrina terdigitata, Triturus carnifex, Lissotriton italicus, Bufo bufo, Hyla intermedia, Rana italica, Rana dalmatina and Pelophylax synkl. hispanica. The distribution record of many species is widely improved with respect to bibliographic data. Our results also suggested that preservation and restoration of small aquatic sites, in particular of the artificial ones, such as stony wells and drinking-troughs, are fundamental for an appropriate conservation management of amphibians in the “Cilento and Vallo di Diano” National Park.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 5 No 2 (2010)
Additional file 2 of Analysis of ductal carcinoma in situ by self-reported race reveals molecular differences related to outcome
Creators: name: Strand, Siri H.
name: Houlahan, Kathleen E.
name: Branch, Vernal
name: Lynch, Thomas
name: Rivero-Guitiérrez, Belén
name: Harmon, Bryan
name: Couch, Fergus
name: Gallagher, Kristalyn
name: Kilgore, Mark
name: Wei, Shi
name: DeMichele, Angela
name: King, Tari
name: McAuliffe, Priscilla
name: Curtis, Christina
name: Owzar, Kouros
name: Marks, Jeffrey R.
name: Colditz, Graham A.
name: Hwang, E. Shelley
name: West, Robert B.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Cell Biology
Biotechnology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 2
Morphometric study on tadpoles of Bombina variegata (Linnaeus, 1758) (Anura; Bombinatoridae)
Creators: name: Di Cerbo, Anna Rita
name: Biancardi, Carlo M.
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2010

description: The tadpoles of Yellow-bellied toad (Bombina variegata) can be easily recognized from other Italian anuran species, except those of B. pachypus (though the two congeneric species are allopatric). In this paper we report morphometric data on B. variegata tadpoles from a Lombard population living near a torrent at 450 m a.s.l. On a sample of 264 tadpoles (stages 19-44, according to Gosner, 1960) we measured the following five variables: snout-vent length, tail length, maximum tail height, total length and weight. We found a slight allometric relationship between snout-vent length and tail length, while, as expectes,.the weight is nearly proportional to the cube of linear measures. According to literature data, our results point to highly constant proportions during the development phases up to prometamorphic stages. The ratio between snout-vent length and tail length was about 0.75 during the whole growing phase, while from stage 42 the proportion increases as the resorption of the tail starts.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 5 No 2 (2010)
Finanzermittlungen. Lagebild 2012
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Nordrhein-Westfalen , Geldwäsche ,
subject: 360

description: Das vorliegende Lagebild bietet Kerninformationen zum Stand und zur Entwicklung der Finanzermittlungen in Nordrhein-Westfalen. Es wird dabei zwischen den verfahrensunabhängigen Finanzermittlungen (Geldwäscheermittlungen) und der Vermögensabschöpfung als Teilbereich der verfahrensintegrierten Finanzermittlungen differenziert.
Mixed Boundary Value Problems on Cylindrical Domains
Creators: name: Auscher, Pascal
name: Egert, Moritz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study second-order divergence-form systems on half-infinite cylindrical domains with a bounded and possibly rough base, subject to homogeneous mixed boundary conditions on the lateral boundary and square integrable Dirichlet, Neumann, or regularity data on the cylinder base. Assuming that the coefficients A are close to coefficients A\_0 that are independent of the unbounded direction with respect to the modified Carleson norm of Dahlberg, we prove a priori estimates and establish well-posedness if A\_0 has a special structure. We obtain a complete characterization of weak solutions whose gradient either has an L^2-bounded non-tangential maximal function or satisfies a Lusin area bound. Our method relies on the first-order formalism of Axelsson, McIntosh, and the first author and the recent solution of Kato's conjecture for mixed boundary conditions due to Haller-Dintelmann, Tolksdorf, and the second author.
description: Upload of the published version
Electrophoretic comparison of blood-serum proteins of Apathya cappadocica (Sauria, Lacertidae) subspecies from Anatolia
Creators: name: Ilgaz, Çetin
name: Arıkan, Hüseyin
name: Kumlutaş, Yusuf
name: Avcı, Aziz
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2010

description: Blood-serum proteins of the known subspecies of Apathya cappadocica (Werner, 1902) were studied comparatively by polyacrylamide disc gel electrophoresis. In order to obtain useful biochemical data for classification, differences between the electrophoreograms of the samples included in the morphologically different subspecies were distinguished qualitatively and quantitatively. These comparisons indicated that electrophoretic results supported morphological discrimination of the known subspecies of A. cappadocica.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 5 No 2 (2010)
Learning Translation Succeeding A Leadership Development Programme: A Network Social Capital Perspective
Creators: name: Brockliss, Jane
Publisher: name: University of Derby
Year: 2016
Subjects: social capital
vocational learning
learning transfer
leadership development

description: Leadership quality is recognised as a major contributor to organisational performance. With a talent war looming, there is an increasing emphasis on developing an internal leadership talent pipeline. Formal leadership development programmes are a major vehicle for this purpose. Leadership development programmes find themselves competing with other organisational projects for funds and are expected to show a return on investment. Successful learning translation from the programme to the workplace is therefore essential to fulfil this requirement. Yet, the generally accepted transfer rate of 10% is worryingly low. Traditional learning transfer research, with the working environment explored from a hierarchical and single dyad perspective, provides inconsistent results and little advice for the human resource development (HRD) profession on how to improve transfer performance. This research creates a new conversation by considering learning transfer from a network social capital perspective; a perspective, arguably, more aligned to the socially situated nature of leadership. A longitudinal case study of a senior leadership development programme, underpinned by a critical realist philosophy, is used to explore how a leader’s network social capital – defined as the value inherent in the relationships within the leader’s organisational, professional and home networks – may influence leadership learning translation in the workplace. The results show a far wider range of social network actors are perceived as enabling or hindering the translation of leadership programme knowledge into improved practice than currently considered in the literature. Further, the four groups of identified developmental roles enacted by the social network and forming the leader’s network social capital (Opportunity to participate in learning translation, Structure for learning translation, Learning assistance and Access to vicarious leadership practice) can be sourced from many different parts of the leader’s network. The diversity, multiplexity and individuality of network social capital may explain the ambiguity and contradiction within the extant learning transfer results. Mechanisms facilitating the formation and flow of the four social capital groups are also isolated and then discussed within the context of the leader’s personal agency. The research is limited by a single case focus and its outcomes may be influenced by the seniority of the leaders within the case. However, the inference of the study’s findings is that the HRD community needs to think far wider than the leader’s line manager when designing strategies to support leadership learning translation. The emergence of two distinct drivers of social capital flows suggests consideration of two distinct solutions for improving translation – one focussed on the organisation and one directed at the leader.
Asian Discrimination and Mental Health during COVID-19 Pandemic in the U.S.: A Scoping Review
Creators: name: ElTohamy, Abdelrahman
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health
subject: Psychiatric and Mental Health
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Medical Specialties
subject: Trauma
subject: Mental and Social Health
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Racial minority
subject: Racial trauma
subject: Racism
subject: Scoping review
subject: stress

description: The purpose of this scoping review is to investigate the tools used to measure racial discrimination and its effects on the mental health of Asian Americans in the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Long- and short-term impact of temperature on snake detection in the wild: further evidence from the snake Hemorrhois hippocrepis
Creators: name: Zamora-Camacho, Francisco J.
name: Moreno-Rueda, Gregorio
name: Pleguezuelos, Juan M.
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2010

description: Global change is causing an average temperature increment which affects several aspects of organisms’ biology, especially in ectotherms. Nevertheless, there is still scant knowledge about how this change is affecting reptiles. This paper shows that, the higher average temperature in a year, the more individuals of the snake Hemorrhois hippocrepis are found in the field, because temperature increases the snakes’ activity. Furthermore, the quantity of snakes found was also correlated with the temperature of the previous years. Our results suggest that environmental temperature increases the population size of this species, which could benefit from the temperature increment caused by climatic change. However, we did not find an increase in population size with the advance of years, suggesting that other factors have negatively impacted on this species, balancing the effect of increasing temperature.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 5 No 2 (2010)
Finanzermittlungen. Lagebild für NRW 2014
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nordrhein-Westfalen , Geldwäsche
subject: 360

description: Das vorliegende Lagebild bietet Kerninformationen zum Stand und zur Entwicklung der Finanzermittlungen in Nordrhein-Westfalen. Es wird dabei zwischen den verfahrensunabhängigen Finanzermittlungen und der Vermögenssicherung als Teilbereich der verfahrensintegrierten Finanzermittlungen differenziert. Verfahrensunabhängige Finanzermittlungen dienen der Erforschung von verdachtsbegründenden Sachverhalten, die sich zum Beispiel aus Finanztransaktionen oder auffälligem Finanzgebaren ergeben, ohne dass bereits eine Straftat erkennbar zugeordnet werden kann.
Interprofessional Care in Primary Care Settings: Key Components and Implications for Improving Outcomes for Transitional Age
Creators: name: Jones, Anne
name: Zerden, Lisa de Saxe
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Workshop Overview: I. Introductions II. Key components and characteristics of interprofessional care III. UNC School of Social Work & training for work in integrated care IV. Meeting the behavioral health needs of transitional-age youth (TAY) and families
Distribution of tadpoles of Ollotis occidentalis (Amphibia: Anura: Bufonidae) along the Río Salado, Puebla, México
Creators: name: Woolrich-Piña, Guillermo A.
name: Smith, Geoffrey R.
name: Oliver-López, Luis
name: Barbosa Morales, Monica
name: Lemos-Espinal, Julio A.
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2010

description: We examined monthly variation in the characteristics of river sections along the Río Salado (Puebla, Mexico) and how these factors were associated with the dis- tribution of the tadpoles of the toad Ollotis occidentalis. Tadpoles were observed in the river in March 2007, and from November 2007 through February 2008 and were only found in the main river channel. Sections of the Río Salado with tadpoles were deeper, wider, and longer than sections without tadpoles. Dissolved oxygen levels were higher and salinity was lower in river sections with tadpoles compared to the sections without tadpoles. There was no difference in temperature between sections with and without tadpoles. Tadpoles were found in river sections that contained more vegeta- tion than river section without tadpoles. Our results suggest that the distribution of tadpoles of O. occidentalis is related to the permanence of water, the chemical nature of the water, and the presence of vegetation.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 5 No 2 (2010)
Spatial epidemiology and adaptive targeted sampling to manage the Chagas disease vector Triatoma dimidiata
Creators: name: Case, B. K. M.
name: Young, Jean-Gabriel
name: Penados, Daniel
name: Monroy, Carlota
name: Hébert-Dufresne, Laurent
name: Stevens, Lori
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Widespread application of insecticide remains the primary form of control for Chagas disease in Central America, despite only temporarily reducing domestic levels of the endemic vector Triatoma dimidiata and having little long-term impact. Recently, an approach emphasizing community feedback and housing improvements has been shown to yield lasting results. However, the additional resources and personnel required by such an intervention likely hinders its widespread adoption. One solution to this problem would be to target only a subset of houses in a community while still eliminating enough infestations to interrupt disease transfer. Here we develop a sequential sampling framework that adapts to information specific to a community as more houses are visited, thereby allowing us to efficiently find homes with domiciliary vectors while minimizing sampling bias. The method fits Bayesian geostatistical models to make spatially informed predictions, while gradually transitioning from prioritizing houses based on prediction uncertainty to targeting houses with a high risk of infestation. A key feature of the method is the use of a single exploration parameter, $α$, to control the rate of transition between these two design targets. In a simulation study using empirical data from five villages in southeastern Guatemala, we test our method using a range of values for $α$, and find it can consistently select fewer homes than random sampling, while still bringing the village infestation rate below a given threshold. We further find that when additional socioeconomic information is available, much larger savings are possible, but that meeting the target infestation rate is less consistent, particularly among the less exploratory strategies. Our results suggest new options for implementing long-term T. dimidiata control.
Finanzermittlungen. Lagebild für NRW 2016
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Nordrhein-Westfalen , Geldwäsche
subject: 360

description: Das vorliegende Lagebild bietet Kerninformationen zum Stand und zur Entwicklung der Finanzermittlungen in Nordrhein-Westfalen. Es wird dabei zwischen den verfahrensunabhängigen Finanzermittlungen und der Vermögenssicherung als Teilbereich der verfahrensintegrierten Finanzermittlungen differenziert. Verfahrensunabhängige Finanzermittlungen dienen der Erforschung von verdachtsbegründenden Sachverhalten, die sich zum Beispiel aus Finanztransaktionen oder auffälligem Finanzgebaren ergeben, ohne dass bereits eine Straftat erkennbar zugeordnet werden kann.
CKM mixings from mass matrices with five texture zeros
Creators: name: Giraldo, Yithsbey
name: Rojas, Eduardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we carry out an exhaustive study to find quark mass matrices in the Standard Model~(SM), with the maximum number of texture zeros consistent with the experimental data. We found four viable configurations of five texture zeros that adjust the quark masses, the mixing angles and the CP violation phase, with deviations below $1σ$ level respect to the current SM best fit values. One of the most important aspects of this work is an economic procedure to find the texture zeros: we resort to the weak basis transformation method, which, as we will show, exhaustively search every possible configuration. We report various leading order relations between the mixing angles and the quark masses for each case.
description: Accepted for publication in Physical Review D. 10 pages
IMPACT OF GOVERNMENT POLICIES ON AMERICAN MUSLIMS AFTER 9/11
Creators: name: Dr. Ibrahim, A. Qasim
Publisher: name: CARSON JOURNAL
Year: 2024
Subjects: American Muslims, demographic diversity, religious affiliation, United States population, Muslim communities

description: American Muslim communities are diverse, growing, and play an increasingly significant role in the United States. Estimating their numbers is challenging due to limitations on gathering religious affiliation data by government agencies. However, estimates suggest a population of two to seven million American Muslims, constituting a minority but still significant percentage of the total population. This demographic diversity underscores the importance of understanding the experiences and needs of American Muslims as an integral part of the nation's social fabric
Towards understanding the magnetic properties of the breathing pyrochlore compound Ba3Yb2Zn5O11: A single crystal study
Creators: name: Dissanayake, Sachith
name: Shi, Zhenzhong
name: Rau, Jeffrey G.
name: Bag, Rabindranath
name: Steinhardt, William
name: Butch, Nicholas P.
name: Frontzek, Matthias
name: Podlesnyak, Andrey
name: Graf, David
name: Marjerrison, Casey
name: Liu, Jue
name: Gingras, Michel J. P.
name: Haravifard, Sara
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ba3Yb2Zn5O11 is unique among breathing pyrochlore compounds for being in the nearly decoupled limit where inter-tetrahedron interactions are weak, hosting isolated clusters or "molecular magnet" like tetrahedra of magnetic ytterbium (Yb3+) ions. In this work, we present the first study carried out on single-crystal samples of the breathing pyrochlore Ba3Yb2Zn5O11, using a variety of magnetometry and neutron scattering techniques along with theoretical modeling. We employ inelastic neutron scattering to investigate the magnetic dynamics as a function of applied field (with respect to both magnitude and direction) down to a temperature of 70 mK, where inelastic scattering reveals dispersionless bands of excitations as found in earlier powder sample studies, in good agreement with a single-tetrahedron model. However, diffuse neutron scattering at zero field and dc-susceptibility at finite field exhibit features suggesting the presence of excitations at low-energy that are not captured by the single tetrahedron model. Analysis of the local structure down to 2 K via pair distribution function analysis finds no evidence of structural disorder. We conclude that effects beyond the single tetrahedron model are important in describing the low-energy, low temperature physics of Ba3Yb2Zn5O11, but their nature remains undetermined.
Bone-Anchored Hearing Aids on Speech-in-Noise and Localization Tasks in Children with Unilateral Hearing Loss: A Systematic Review
Creators: name: Pearson, Adrienne
name: Fischer, Evan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Purpose: The purpose of this systematic review is aimed to examine the current literature and findings to determine if use of intervention with a bone-anchored hearing aid (BAHA) in children with unilateral hearing loss leads to improved localization and speech in noise test results over no intervention. Background: Many studies have demonstrated that children with unilateral hearing loss may struggle both academically as well as behaviorally. These studies have also found that people with UHL demonstrate greater difficulty in noisy situations than normal hearing peers. There remains limited data on the efficacy of different treatment options for unilateral hearing loss (UHL) in children, however. One such option is a surgically placed BAHA. This is typically only recommended in cases of profound unilateral hearing loss and is currently only approved for use in adults and in children ages 5 and older. Methods: We conducted a systematic review using the search strategy (BAHA OR bone anchored hearing aid) AND (localization OR “speech in noise”) AND child* AND (UHL or unilateral hearing loss) on two databases, Pubmed and CINAHL, while using Google Scholar as a supplementary database. We restricted our publication dates of articles used from anytime-March 2017. Our exclusion criteria included case studies, expert opinion articles, participants over 18, non-English studies, cochlear implants or hearing aids, and bilateral hearing loss. Anticipated Results: We expect to find little research in this area, but also expect to find some positive findings that a BAHA will be beneficial for children with UHL in speech in noise and localization tests. Discussion: While there was some evidence of benefit and no evidence of detriment in the use of a BAHA to treat children with UHL, the lack of high quality research indicates that larger and more in depth studies are needed.
Jugendkriminalität und Jugendgefährdung in NRW. Lagebild 2011
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Nordrhein-Westfalen , Jugendkriminalität , Jugendgefährdung
subject: 360

description: Das Lagebild dient dazu, jährlich die Ergebnisse polizeilicher Kriminalitätsbekämpfung in diesem Phänomenbereich zu dokumentieren. Auf Basis eines bundesweit abgestimmten Erhebungsverfahrens und einheitlicher Definitionskriterien werden mittels statistischer Daten und exemplarischer Falldarstellung sowohl erkannte Brennpunkte kriminellen Handelns, als auch Schwerpunkte polizeilicher Ermittlungstätigkeit aufgezeigt. Die Klammerwerte im Text beziehen sich, sofern nicht anders angegeben, auf die entsprechenden Vorjahreswerte. Das Lagebild soll polizeiliche und politische Entscheidungsträger unterstützen, das Gefahren- und Schadenspotenzial dieses Phänomenbereiches und dessen Bedeutung für die Kriminalitätslage in Nordrhein-Westfalen einzuschätzen. Gleichzeitig dient es der Information der Öffentlichkeit.
Widespread bacterial infection affecting Rana temporaria tadpoles in mountain areas
Creators: name: Tiberti, Rocco
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2011

description: Periodic mass die-offs of Rana temporaria tadpole populations have occurred in the ponds of prealpine mountain areas of Brescia (northern Italy) since the early 2000s. The author reports some observational data and analytical results from three sites: tadpoles from mortality events had erythema, especially on the legs, suggestive of septicemia. Bacterial culture of these tadpoles revealed Aeromonas hydrophila and Aeromonas sobria, two organisms often associated with Red leg disease. Egg mass counts from 29 pastureland ponds did not revealed breeding activity declines over five years in the Monte Guglielmo area. Aeromonas hydrophila and Aeromonas sobria usually behave as opportunistic bacteria that can become pathogenic after suppression of the immune system by endogenous or exogenous stressors. Thus, a plurality of environmental factors may contribute to mortality events; some of them are discussed, including loss of high altitude breeding ponds resulting in overcrowding and poor water quality in remaining ponds and the presence of other pathogens.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 6 No 1 (2011)
Canonical mean-field molecular dynamics derived from quantum mechanics
Creators: name: Huang, Xin
name: Plechac, Petr
name: Sandberg, Mattias
name: Szepessy, Anders
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 35Q40, 81Q20, 82C10

description: Canonical quantum correlation observables can be approximated by classical molecular dynamics. In the case of low temperature the ab initio molecular dynamics potential energy is based on the ground state electron eigenvalue problem and the accuracy has been proven to be $\mathcal O(M^{-1})$, provided the first electron eigenvalue gap is sufficiently large compared to the given temperature and $M$ is the ratio of nuclei and electron masses. For higher temperature eigenvalues corresponding to excited electron states are required to obtain $\mathcal O(M^{-1})$ accuracy and the derivations assume that all electron eigenvalues are separated, which for instance excludes conical intersections. This work studies a mean-field molecular dynamics approximation where the mean-field Hamiltonian for the nuclei is the partial trace $h:={\rm Tr}(H e^{-βH})/{\rm Tr}(e^{-βH})$ with respect to the electron degrees of freedom and $H$ is the Weyl symbol corresponding to a quantum many body Hamiltonian $\widehat{H}$. It is proved that the mean-field molecular dynamics approximates canonical quantum correlation observables with accuracy $\mathcal O (M^{-1}+ tε^2)$, for correlation time $t$ where $ε^2$ is related to the variance of mean value approximation $h$. Furthermore, the proof derives a precise asymptotic representation of the Weyl symbol of the Gibbs density operator using a path integral formulation. Numerical experiments on a model problem with one nuclei and two electron states show that the mean-field dynamics has similar or better accuracy than standard molecular dynamics based on the ground state electron eigenvalue.
description: 50 pages, 13 figures
The effect of different policy designs on public support for carbon and other pricing measures designed to protect the natural environment: a rapid review
Creators: name: Wabnitz, Katharina
name: Marteau, Theresa
name: Omrani, Omnia
name: rutter, harry
name: Ventsel, Minna
name: Hollands, Gareth
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Environmental Policy
subject: Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Economic Policy

description: Rapid literature review on the effect of different policy designs on public support for carbon and other pricing measures designed to protect the natural environment.
Urban planning in a multicultural society
Creators: name: Grenier, Sylvie
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Cultural pluralism--Canada
subject: City planning--Canada

description: Summary of one of the seven themes of the 2001 CIP conference in Ottawa - "multiculturalism".
description: Appears in issue table of contents as "Multiculturalism/Le multiculturalisme".
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/5420/Article013.pdf?sequence=3
An Integrated Framework to Recommend Personalized Retention Actions to Control B2C E-Commerce Customer Churn
Creators: name: Renjith, Shini
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Considering the level of competition prevailing in Business-to-Consumer (B2C) E-Commerce domain and the huge investments required to attract new customers, firms are now giving more focus to reduce their customer churn rate. Churn rate is the ratio of customers who part away with the firm in a specific time period. One of the best mechanism to retain current customers is to identify any potential churn and respond fast to prevent it. Detecting early signs of a potential churn, recognizing what the customer is looking for by the movement and automating personalized win back campaigns are essential to sustain business in this era of competition. E-Commerce firms normally possess large volume of data pertaining to their existing customers like transaction history, search history, periodicity of purchases, etc. Data mining techniques can be applied to analyse customer behaviour and to predict the potential customer attrition so that special marketing strategies can be adopted to retain them. This paper proposes an integrated model that can predict customer churn and also recommend personalized win back actions.
description: 6 pages, 7 figures, Published with International Journal of Engineering Trends and Technology (IJETT)
The phylogenetic position of Lygodactylus angularis and the utility of using the 16S rDNA gene for delimiting species in Lygodactylus (Squamata, Gekkonidae)
Creators: name: Castiglia, Riccardo
name: Annesi, Flavia
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2011

description: The African genus Lygodactylus Gray, is composed of roughly 60 species of diurnal geckos that inhabit tropical and temperate Africa, Madagascar, and South America. In this study, we assessed the phylogenetic position of L. angularis, for which molecular data were so far lacking, by means of sequence analysis of the mitochondrial 16S rDNA gene. We also compared intraspecific vs. interspecific genetic divergences using an extended data set (34 species, 153 sequences), to determine whether a fragment of this gene can be useful for species identification and to reveal the possible existence of new cryptic species in the genus. The analysis placed L. angularis in a monophyletic group together with members of “fischeri” and “picturatus” groups. Nevertheless, the independence of the “angularis” lineage is supported by the high genetic divergence. Comparison of intraspecific vs. interspecific genetic distances highlights that, assuming an equal molecular rate of evolution among the studied species for the used gene, the threshold value useful for recognising a candidate new species can be tentatively placed at 7%. We identified four species that showed an intraspecific divergence higher than, or close to, the 7% threshold: L. capensis (8.7%), L. gutturalis (9.3%), L. madagascariensis (6.5%) and L. picturatus (8.1%). Moreover, two species, L. mombasicus and L. verticillatus, are paraphyletic in terms of gene genealogy. Thus, the study shows that a short fragment of the 16S rDNA gene can be an informative tool for species-level taxonomy in the genus Lygodactylus.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 6 No 1 (2011)
The effectiveness of self-distanced and self-immersed reflection with adults: Systematic review and meta-analysis of experimental studies - Addendum 2nd August 2021
Creators: name: Gucciardi, Daniel
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Health Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Update from Version 1: we erroneously included the term ‘reflection’ in the specific search protocols for each database in item 10, which differed from the approach outlined in the main section for this item.
Magnetic-cations doped into a Double Perovskite Semiconductor
Creators: name: Jin, Lun
name: Ni, Danrui
name: Gui, Xin
name: Straus, Daniel B.
name: Zhang, Qiang
name: Cava, Robert J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report two solid solutions based on magnetic ion doping of the double perovskite oxide Sr2GaSbO6: Sr2Ga1-xCrxSbO6 (0.1 < x < 0.4) and Sr2Ga1-xFexSbO6 (0.1 < x < 0.4). All compositions crystallize in the same space group (I4/m) as their undoped parent phase Sr2GaSbO6, with the trivalent magnetic cations Cr3+ or Fe3+ partially substituting for non-magnetic Ga3+ in one of the B-cation sites. The Cr- and Fe-doped phases display dominant antiferromagnetic coupling among the dopant magnetic moments, and exhibit decreasing band gaps with increasing substitution level.
description: 22 pages, 6 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2109.10405
Quantum Kasteleyn transition
Creators: name: Powell, Stephen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dimer models arise as effective descriptions in a variety of physical contexts, and provide paradigmatic examples of systems subject to strong local constraints. Here we present a quantum version of the venerable Kasteleyn model, which has an unusual phase transition from a dimer solid to a U(1) liquid. We show how the phase structure of the quantum model can be understood in terms of the quantum mechanics of one-dimensional strings and determine the exact value of the critical coupling. By constructing effective models to describe the properties of these strings, we calculate properties such as the dimer-dimer correlation function in the neighborhood of the transition. We also discuss the full phase structure of the model, in the ground state and at nonzero temperature.
description: 10 pages, 9 figures