cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Immigrant Legal Status among Essential Frontline Workers in the U.S. during the COVID-19 Pandemic Era
Creators: name: Allen, Ryan
name: Pacas, José D.
name: Martens, Zoe
Publisher: name: Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota Population Center
Year: 2021
Subjects: essential workers
COVID-19
United States
immigrants
unauthorized immigration

description: Emerging evidence suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic has extracted a substantial toll on immigrant communities in the U.S., due in part to increased potential risk of exposure for immigrants to COVID-19 in the workplace. In this article we use federal guidance on which industries in the U.S. were designated essential during the COVID-19 pandemic, information about the ability to work remotely, and data from the 2019 American Community Survey to estimate the distribution of essential frontline workers by nativity and immigrant legal status. Our results indicate that a larger proportion of foreign-born workers are essential frontline workers compared to native-born workers and that 70 percent of unauthorized immigrant workers are essential frontline workers, substantially higher than other groups of workers we consider in our analysis. These results suggest that larger proportions of foreign-born workers, and especially unauthorized immigrant workers, face greater risk of potential exposure to COVID-19 in the workplace than native-born workers. Demographic, social, and economic characteristics of unauthorized immigrant essential frontline workers indicate they are more vulnerable to poor health outcomes related to COVID-19 than other groups of essential frontline workers. These findings help to provide a plausible explanation for why COVID-19 mortality rates for immigrants are higher than mortality rates for native-born residents.
description: Minnesota Population Center Working Paper Series
Online_Supplemental_Material_Relational_Competencies – Supplemental material for Preparing Teachers for Relationships With Students: Two Visions, Two Approaches
Creators: name: Theisen-Homer, Victoria
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: Education

description: Supplemental material, Online_Supplemental_Material_Relational_Competencies for Preparing Teachers for Relationships With Students: Two Visions, Two Approaches by Victoria Theisen-Homer in Journal of Teacher Education
Plate-height model of ion mobility-mass spectrometry: Part 2—Peak-to-peak resolution and peak capacity
Creators: name: Grabarics, Marko
name: Lettow, Maike
name: Kirk, Ansgar T.
name: Helden, Gert Von
name: Causon, Tim J.
name: Pagel, Kevin
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: drift tube
subject: ion mobility spectrometry
subject: peak capacity
subject: peak resolution
subject: traveling wave
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::540 Chemie::540 Chemie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften

description: In a previous work, we explored zone broadening and the achievable plate numbers in linear drift tube ion mobility-mass spectrometry through developing a plate-height model [1]. On the basis of these findings, the present theoretical study extends the model by exploring peak-to-peak resolution and peak capacity in ion mobility separations. The first part provides a critical overview of chromatography-influenced resolution equations, including refinement of existing formulae. Furthermore, we present exact resolution equations for drift tube ion mobility spectrometry based on first principles. Upon implementing simple modifications, these exact formulae could be readily extended to traveling wave ion mobility separations and to cases when ion mobility spectrometry is coupled to mass spectrometry. The second part focuses on peak capacity. The well-known assumptions of constant plate number and constant peak width form the basis of existing approximate solutions. To overcome their limitations, an exact peak capacity equation is derived for drift tube ion mobility spectrometry. This exact solution is rooted in a suitable physical model of peak broadening, accounting for the finite injection pulse and subsequent diffusional spreading. By borrowing concepts from the theoretical toolbox of chromatography, we believe that the present study will help in integrating ion mobility spectrometry into the unified language of separation science.
OBSERVATIONS ON COLLECTING SCALE INSECTS (HEMIPTERA: COCCOIDEA)
Creators: name: Kozar, F.
name: Miller, D.R.
name: Miller, D.R.
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: OBSERVATIONS ON COLLECTING SCALE INSECTS (HEMIPTERA: COCCOIDEA).

Scale insects have been primarily collected visually. Because scales are usually firmly attached to the host substrate, most mass-collecting techniques are ineffective. This paper provides information on the use of Berlese funnels, DVAC suction, pit-fall traps, sweeping, beating and screening for collecting scale insects and provides observations on how these methods compare with visual collecting methods.

Key words: collecting methods, visual methods, pheromone traps, suction traps, lights, vicarious collecting, herbaria specimens, Margarodidae, Ortheziidae, Pseudococcidae, Eriococcidae, Hungary, Africa.
description: Entomologica, Vol 33 (1999)
title: Research Note on Linking CPS ASEC Files
Creators: name: Pacas, José D.
name: Rodgers, Renae
Publisher: name: Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota Population Center
Year: 2021
Subjects: measurement
poverty
Current Population Series

description: Measuring change over time in areas such as family structure, employment, income, and poverty is of great interest to social scientists. The panel component of the Current Population Survey (CPS) affords the opportunity to observe short-term change in these areas. The Annual Social and Economic supplement (ASEC), with its wealth of information on income, health insurance coverage, benefits receipt, and many other topics, is a particularly popular resource for this purpose. However, commonly used methods for linking CPS ASEC files do not address how to link the ASEC oversample records across years, leading to smaller linked sample sizes and unreliable estimates for certain subpopulations. In this research note, we describe how to link individuals from the ASEC oversamples in the 2005-2020 data and the increase in sample size researchers can achieve by doing so. Finally, we illustrate the importance of including oversample records by examining poverty transitions over time.
description: Minnesota Population Center Working Paper Series
title: The Anglo-Egyptian treaty of 1936 with special reference to the contemporary situation in Egypt and the Sudan.
Creators: name: Ibrahim, Hasan A.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1970

description: Although Anglo-Egyptian negotiations began in 1920, it was only in 1936 that a treaty was concluded. This was mainly due to the radical change of the Wafd's tactics in the 1930's from extremism to moderation. Chapter I suggests the reasons for this and describes the successful attempts of the wafd to persuade the Egyptian public to accept an alliance with Britain. Though signs of the Fascist imperialist aims had begun to appear in the mid 1930's, Nahhas and his colleagues do not appear to have been convinced of a real and immediate Italian danger, and may have used the Abyssinian crisis as a face-saving pretext. Chapter II, discusses these topics and also the reasons for the desire in Britain to have a treaty with Egypt, Chapter III is devoted to a discussion of the reasons of the Palace and minority parties in Egypt, and of some extreme Conservatives in Britain, for opposing the 1936 negotiations, and their attempts to wreck them. Chapters IV, V, and VI give a detailed account of the military, Sudan, and the civil clauses of the treaty, and reactions to them in Britain and Egypt. The Appendix gives the texts of the 1936 treaty (with a map printed at the War Office to illustrate it) and an important memorandum handed by Nahhas, the Prime Minister, to Lampson, the High Commissioner, on 1 June 1936.
TRIALS FOR THE CONTROL OF THE CITRUS MEALYBUG IN CITRUS ORCHARDS BY AUGMENTATIVE RELEASE OF TWO ENCYRTID PARASITOIDS
Creators: name: Mendel, Z.
name: Gross, S.
name: Steinberg, S.
name: Blumberg, D.
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: TRIALS FOR THE CONTROL OF THE CITRUS MEALYBUG IN CITRUS ORCHARDS BY AUGMENTATIVE RELEASE OF TWO ENCYRTID PARASITOIDS.

Since the 1980s, the citrus mealybug Planococcus citri (Risso) has become a key pest in Israel, owing to intensive planting of highly susceptible varieties, the introduction of Insect Growth Regulators (which adversely affect coccinellids) and the development of resistance to chlorpyrifos. Management of the mealybug populations in citrus orchards by augmentative releases of parasitoids was investigated between 1993 and 1996 in a series of tests involving the release of 5,000-10,000 Leptomastix dactylopii (Howard) (Encyrtidae) per hectare. Results showed no significant effect on the density of the mealybug on the fruits. In general, the establishment of L. dactylopii was poor and population levels were inferior to those of the naturally occurring Anagyrus pseudococci (Girault) (Encyrtidae). In 1996-1997, augmentative early-spring releases of A. pseudococci at the rates of 10,000-50,000 individuals per hectare markedly increased the population density of A. pseudococci during April and June but had no significant effect on either the mealybug infestation or on fruit damage caused by the pest and its fruit moth associates.

Key words: grapefruit, persimmon, custard apple, coffee, cacao, Citrus, Diospyros, Annona, life cycle, damage, Coccidoxenoides peregrinus, Cryptolaemus montrouzieri, Sympherobius sanctus, mass rearing, cork ring, potato sprout, potato trap, low temperatures, fruit moths.
description: Entomologica, Vol 33 (1999)
title: Caste and sect in an Assamese village.
Creators: name: Cantlie, Audrey
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1980

description: The thesis is concerned with the relations between the Vaishnava devotional movement and the caste order in Assam. The first part is a village study in which caste is analysed with reference to economic differentiation, kinship, affinity and food transactions within the context of local sectarian organization. The second part examines the nature of the caste process in historical perspective and discusses both the traditional institutions and beliefs of the sect and the impact upon these institutions of the new reform movements which have arisen since the 1930s. The object of the thesis is to describe the beliefs and practices of one regional variant of the many devotional sects based on the teachings of the Bhagavata Purana with specific reference to its complex and changing relations with the caste order.
title: The Province of Damascus from 1723 to 1783, with special reference to the 'Azm Pashas.
Creators: name: Rafeq, Abdul K.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1963

description: The period under study was characterized by two min features: the appointment of members of the local family as governors and the trend towards lengthening the tenure of governors. An investigation of the causes which brought about these developments shows that the decline of the Ottoman central administration facilitated the emergence of local power groups. The transfer of the command of the Pilgrimage, previously mainly held by local notables, to the governors of Damascus was a major factor behind the lengthening of their tenure. The object of this study is to show how these developments came about and how the history of Damascus was shaped as a result The principal sources include Arabic manuscripts and archival material. These are surveyed in the first chapter. The second chapter deals with the limits of the province of Damascus, analyses the importance of the period under study and examines various aspects of the administration and the religious institutions. The local political developments which immediately preceded the appointment of the first 'Azm governor, Ismail Pasha, to Damascus are discussed, together with the origin of the 'Azms, in the first half of Chapter 3. The remaining part of the chapter deals with his governorship and with the causes behind the downfall of the 'Azm governors in 1730. The period between 1730 and 1741 which is discussed in chapter 4, saw five governors appointed to Damascus, one of whom was a 'Azm. The causes behind the rehabilitation of the 'Azms are discussed here. Chapter 5 is devoted to the third phase of 'Azm rule in Damascus in the period between 1741 and 1757. After it their power was weakened. It was not till 1771 that a 'Azm was again appointed to Damascus. The period between 1757 and 1760, which is discussed in Chapter 6, saw the governors seriously challenged by local forces inside and outside Damascus. They held the field for the time being, however, After 1760 the forces in Damascus were quiescent, but the outside dangers were increasing. A large part of Chapter 7 is devoted, therefore, to an analysis of these dangers, which culminated with the occupation of Damascus by the Mamluks of Egypt in 1771. The final chapter discusses the difficulties which the 'Azm governor, Muhammad Pasha, encountered in his attempt to restore the hegemony of Damascus. His death in 1783 marks the decline of 'Azm power and the transfer of the political initiative in southern Syria to the governor of Sidon, Ahmad Pasha al-Jazzar,
Orientation toward humans predicts cognitive performance in orang-utans
Creators: name: Damerius, Laura A.
name: Forss, Sofia I. F.
name: Kosonen, Zaida K.
name: Willems, Erik P.
name: Burkart, Judith M.
name: Call, Josep
name: Galdikas, Birute M. F.
name: Liebal, Katja
name: Haun, Daniel B. M.
name: Schaik, Carel P. Van
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Animal behaviour
subject: Evolutionary developmental biology
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 100 Philosophie und Psychologie::150 Psychologie

description: Non-human animals sometimes show marked intraspecific variation in their cognitive abilities that may reflect variation in external inputs and experience during the developmental period. We examined variation in exploration and cognitive performance on a problem-solving task in a large sample of captive orang-utans (Pongo abelii & P. pygmaeus, N = 103) that had experienced different rearing and housing conditions during ontogeny, including human exposure. In addition to measuring exploration and cognitive performance, we also conducted a set of assays of the subjects’ psychological orientation, including reactions towards an unfamiliar human, summarized in the human orientation index (HOI), and towards novel food and objects. Using generalized linear mixed models we found that the HOI, rather than rearing background, best predicted both exploration and problem-solving success. Our results suggest a cascade of processes: human orientation was accompanied by a change in motivation towards problem-solving, expressed in reduced neophobia and increased exploration variety, which led to greater experience, and thus eventually to higher performance in the task. We propose that different experiences with humans caused individuals to vary in curiosity and understanding of the physical problem-solving task. We discuss the implications of these findings for comparative studies of cognitive ability.
MONITORING CALIFORNIA RED SCALE AND ITS APHELINID PARASITOID USING YELLOW STICKY TRAPS
Creators: name: Tawfik, M.H.
name: Ghabbour, M.W.
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: MONITORING CALIFORNIA RED SCALE AND ITS APHELINID PARASITOID USING YELLOW STICKY TRAPS.

Yellow sticky traps, which had been erected to monitor the dispersal of the sweet-potato whitefly, Bemisia tabaci Gennadius, from cotton fields to citrus orchards in Texas, also attracted adult male Aonidiella aurantii (Maskell) and its parasitoid Aphytis sp. Populations in three citrus orchards representing different host-plant varieties and maturity were studied and the effect of these and some environmental parameters on the numbers of male A. aurantii and of its parasitoid caught on the traps are described.

Key words: Rio Grand Valley, Aphelinidae, Diaspididae, flight periods, temperature, relative humidity, evaporation, wind speed, correlations
description: Entomologica, Vol 33 (1999)
title: Anglo-Egyptian relations and the construction of the Alexandria-Cairo-Suez railway, (1833-1858).
Creators: name: Omar, Omar Abdel-Aziz
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1966

description: The purpose of this thesis is to study the construction of the first Egyptian railway and its impact on Anglo-Egyptian relations; it appempts to throw new light on a neglected subject and period of 19th century Egypt. The railway was a matter of interest to the British government and produced a vast correspondence, which highlights Anglo-French rivalries in Egypt. It covers the reign of 'Abbas I, of which it illuminates several aspects, and modifies the accepted view. It is therefore intended as a contribution to a more objective appraisal of 'Abbas's rule. The principal sources used include unpublished British and French documents and published Arabic and Western materials as listed in the bibliography. After an introductory survey of British policy concerning Middle East communications, the thesis falls into five chapters. Chapter One traces how the railway project was originated and developed, and discusses Britain's views in the setting of her general policy concerning communications with India. It explains Muhammad 'Ali's interest in the project, and assesses his motives for abandoning it. Chapter Two examines the railway issue in view of 'Abbas's internal and external policies, and Britain's relations with both Egypt and the Ottoman Empire, and attempts to revise the verdict as to who initiated the construction of the railway. It analyses French opposition, and appraises the motives of 'Abbas's Anglophile policy. Chapter Three deals with efforts made by Britain to secure the completion of the railway during Sa'id's reign, when French influence predominated, and to annul any attempt to cede the railway to foreign speculators. Chapter Pour enquires into the programme of construction of the railway, the organisation of the railway administration, the system of management, and the employment of English drivers and technicians. It also investigates the policy of substituting Egyptians for Europeans, the qualifications of the former and Britain's reaction to this policy. The final chapter examines the social and economic significance for Egypt of the railway, dealing especially with the corvee and with effects on the growth of towns, internal trade and communications and transit traffic.
THE IMPORTANCE OF OILS IN THE INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT OF THE PYRIFORM SCALE IN AVOCADO ORCHARDS IN ISRAEL. THE IMPORTANCE OF OILS IN THE INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT OF THE PYRIFORM SCALE IN AVOCADO ORCHARDS IN ISRAEL.
Creators: name: Ben-Yehuda, S.
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: The pyriform scale, Protopulvinaria pyriformis (Cockerell) (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Coccidae) was discovered in Israel in 1980 and within a few years had spread to most of the avocado growing regions of the country. Several major avocado varieties (mainly Nabal) are highly susceptible to the pyriform scale. Other less susceptible avocado varieties, in the vicinity of the infected sites, can become damaged as well. The damage is caused by the secretion of large amounts of honeydew, resulting in a thick cover of sooty-mould on the leaves and on the fruit. Despite the large numbers of local natural enemies which accumulate in infested areas, as well as the establishment of the introduced encyrtid Metaphycus stanleyi Compere, which between them often cause high mortality of the scale, injury to susceptible avocado varieties has not been prevented. As a routine, application of synthetic insecticides in avocado orchards in Israel is avoided. Hence, to lower the pyriform scale populations with minimum negative consequences to the natural enemies, we studied the effect of several oils and a soap applications on the pyriform scale and the activity of the natural enemies. Several mineral oils (“mayonnaise-type” 1.75% (80% A.I.) and “stylet- oil” 1% (80% A.I.)) effectively controlled the scale nymphal stages. Therefore, oil application is conducted in the spring (February-April) and in the second half of the summer (July-October), when the population consists of mainly immature stages. Cotton oil and soap (potassium salt of fatty acids) were less effective. Application of the above mentioned compounds did not interfere with the activity of the natural enemies of the scale.
description: Entomologica, Vol 33 (1999)
title: National Couples' Health and Time Study (NCHAT): Methodology Report
Creators: name: Marlar, Jenny
name: Kamp Dush, Claire M.
name: Manning, Wendy D.
name: Berrigan, Miranda N.
name: VanBergen, Alexandra M.
name: Tsabutashvili, Dato
name: Chattopadhyay, Manas
name: Theodorou, Angelina
Publisher: name: Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota Population Center
Year: 2022
Subjects: same-gender couples
different-gender couples
health
survey
time diary
dyadic data

description: Gallup fielded the National Couples' Health and Time Study (NCHAT) from September 1, 2020, to April 25, 2021. The survey covered adults between the ages of 20 and 60 who were cohabiting with or married to same- and different-gender partners. The study included primary respondents and their partners. The sample was drawn from the Gallup Panel and the Gallup Recontact sample. Both sample sources are probability-based and are representative of the U.S. adult population. Respondents were asked to complete a 40-minute survey and one 24-hour time-diary. All survey materials were translated into English and Spanish, and 3,642 primary respondents and 1,515 partners completed the survey. This methodology document details the survey procedures.
description: Minnesota Population Center Working Paper Series
HONEYDEW SUGARS ELIMINATED BY STIGMACOCCUS SP. NR. ASPER HEMPEL (HEMIPTERA: MARGARODIDAE) FEEDING ON LEGUMINOUS TREES IN BRAZIL.
Creators: name: Bogo, A.
name: Watson, G.W.
name: Mantle, P.G.
name: Mottana, G.M.
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: HONEYDEW SUGARS ELIMINATED BY STIGMACOCCUS SP. NR ASPER HEMPEL (HEMIPTERA: MARGARODIDAE) FEEDING ON LEGUMINOUS TREES IN BRAZIL.

The sooty mould coating the trunks of mature trees of Schizolobium excelsum in Brazil was found to be associated with honeydew being eliminated by an undescribed species of margarodid near Stigmacoccus asper Hempel. Analysis of the honeydew sugars by paper chromatography revealed a complex composition. The principal sugar was sucrose, but there were significant amounts of fructose, glucose and three components identified as di-, tri- and tetrasaccharides. The disaccharides were maltose, trehalose, trehalulose and a hexose-hexitol. The other, apparently novel, pair of oligosaccharides were composed of glucose(s) 1,4 linked to the glucose of sucrose. The sugar composition of the tree sap was also determined and found to be glucose and sucrose only. The findings, therefore, imply significant and novel metabolic transformations of sugars by the scale insect and/or its microbial symbionts.

Key words: Xylococcinae, sexual reproduction, stigmatriose, stigmatetraose, Amazonia.
description: Entomologica, Vol 33 (1999)
title: The discourse of development: The control of communication between cultures.
Creators: name: Querejazu, Moira
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1987

description: This thesis focusses on the various levels involved in the development process with particular attention to a Quechua speaking community in the Andes in Southern Bolivia in which several development projects are being Implemented. The process of development involves the identification of problems, the setting of certain goals, and the provisions of certain means to achieve. what is perceived as a change which will go towards solving the Identified problems. However, for this process to work from the outset it assumes the groups of people Involved share the same interpretation of the terms and criteria to Identify the problems, of the problems themselves, of the need for the type of change intended and of the preconceptions and aims in general. This thesis considers that this situation is a great deal more complicated. It explores the extent to which there is understanding, conflict and miscommunication about the relevant concepts, ideas and assumptions on the part of those differentially involved in and affected by the development process. Since 'development' involves political and cultural interests of different groups questions are raised concerning the relationship between economic goals, power, communication and translation. It is precisely because of these that the discourse approach to development is considered relevant.
title: Time is on their side? A duration analysis of U.S. immigration court decisions
Creators: name: Levesque, Christopher
Publisher: name: Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota Population Center
Year: 2022
Subjects: deportation
immigration detention
immigration court
New Hispanic destinations
attorney representation

description: The growing U.S. immigration court backlog and resulting slowdown in judicial decision-making raises fundamental questions about immigrants’ access to justice, as well as their access to time during their deportation trial. Using administrative data for fiscal years (FYs) 2007 to 2019, I estimate the likelihood of U.S. immigration court decisions – relief, termination, removal (deportation) orders, and voluntary departure – based on the time length from case initiation to final decision. I measure (1) an immigrant respondent’s daily probability of surviving each decision, and (2) how much longer a case would take if decision i is eliminated from possibility. I then provide detailed comparisons of survival and life expectancy by attorney representation, detention status, and New Hispanic destination. Results indicate clear disparities in adjudication times, particularly for removal decisions which typically occur faster compared to others, except when cases involve detained individuals. Further results show the salience of removal decisions, particularly for those without an attorney, in reducing a case’s lifespan. These findings hold important implications for migration research in the U.S. today, showing the important role that time plays in studying immigration courts as contexts of reception as well as mechanisms of social stratification.
description: Minnesota Population Center Working Paper Series
The Role of Streptococcus spp. in Bovine Mastitis
Creators: name: Kabelitz, Tina
name: Aubry, Etienne
name: Vorst, Kira Van
name: Amon, Thomas
name: Fulde, Marcus
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: dairy
subject: cow
subject: mastitis
subject: bovine
subject: streptococci
subject: udder
subject: infection
subject: inflammation
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::630 Landwirtschaft::636 Viehwirtschaft
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::616 Krankheiten

description: The Streptococcus genus belongs to one of the major pathogen groups inducing bovine mastitis. In the dairy industry, mastitis is the most common and costly disease. It not only negatively impacts economic profit due to milk losses and therapy costs, but it is an important animal health and welfare issue as well. This review describes a classification, reservoirs, and frequencies of the most relevant Streptococcus species inducing bovine mastitis (S. agalactiae, S. dysgalactiae and S. uberis). Host and environmental factors influencing mastitis susceptibility and infection rates will be discussed, because it has been indicated that Streptococcus herd prevalence is much higher than mastitis rates. After infection, we report the sequence of cow immune reactions and differences in virulence factors of the main Streptococcus species. Different mastitis detection techniques together with possible conventional and alternative therapies are described. The standard approach treating streptococcal mastitis is the application of ß-lactam antibiotics. In streptococci, increased antimicrobial resistance rates were identified against enrofloxacin, tetracycline, and erythromycin. At the end, control and prevention measures will be considered, including vaccination, hygiene plan, and further interventions. It is the aim of this review to estimate the contribution and to provide detailed knowledge about the role of the Streptococcus genus in bovine mastitis.
DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOUR OF THE LONGTAILED MEALYBUG PSEUDOCOCCUS LONGISPINUS (TARGIONI TOZZETTI) (HEMIPTERA: PSEUDOCOCCIDAE) AGAINST THE BROWN LACEWING SYMPHEROBIUS FALLAX NAVAS (NEUROPTERA: HEMEROBIIDAE).
Creators: name: Gillani, W.A.
name: Copland, M.J.W.
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOUR OF THE LONGTAILED MEALYBUG PSEUDOCOCCUS LONGISPINUS (TARGIONI TOZZETTI) (HEMIPTERA: PSEUDOCOCCIDAE) AGAINST THE BROWN LACEWING SYMPHEROBIUS FALLAX NAVAS (NEUROPTERA: HEMEROBIIDAE).

The defensive tactics of 2nd- and 3rd-instar nymphal and adult Pseudococcus longispinus (Targioni Tozzetti) against larval Sympherobius fallax Navas were studied. When attacked by 1st- and 2nd-instar predators, these three mealybug stages were able to secrete ostiolar fluids which spread and hardened on the mouthparts of the predators; 1st-instar mealybugs appeared to be unable to secrete ostiolar fluids. Adult mealybugs also successfully defended themselves against 1st-instar predators by simply pushing them away with their cerarial wax fringe. Of the lacewing stages, 3rd-instar S. fallax larvae were the most successful at overcoming the defense tactics of P. longispinus.

Key words: lacewings, Chrysopidae, Chrysoperla carnea, behavioural defence, morphological defence, potato sprouts, haemolymph.
description: Entomologica, Vol 33 (1999)
Reviewer_2_v.1 – Supplemental material for A rare and fatal respiratory disease: bronchial Dieulafoy’s disease
Creators: name: Shi-Xia Liao
name: Sun, Peng-Peng
name: Bang-Guo Li
name: He, Shuang-Fei
name: Mao-Mao Liu
name: Ou-Yang, Yao
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111702 Aged Health Care
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110203 Respiratory Diseases

description: Supplemental material, Reviewer_2_v.1 for A rare and fatal respiratory disease: bronchial Dieulafoy’s disease by Shi-xia Liao, Peng-peng Sun, Bang-guo Li, Shuang-fei He, Mao-mao Liu and Yao Ou-Yang in Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease
Base partition for mixed families of finitary and cofinitary matroids
Creators: name: Erde, Joshua
name: Gollin, Pascal
name: Joó, Attila
name: Knappe, Paul
name: Pitz, Max
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let ${\mathcal{M} = (M_i \colon i\in K)}$ be a finite or infinite family consisting of matroids on a common ground set $E$ each of which may be finitary or cofinitary. We prove the following Cantor-Bernstein-type result: If there is a collection of bases, one for each $M_i$, which covers the set $E$, and also a collection of bases which is pairwise disjoint, then there is a collection of bases which partitions $E$. We also show that the failure of this Cantor-Bernstein-type statement for arbitrary matroid families is consistent relative to the axioms of set theory ZFC.
title: Religion in Tamang society: A Buddhist community in northern Nepal.
Creators: name: Hall, Andrew R.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1982

description: This thesis examines the interrelationship of the religious rituals, beliefs and specialists of a Tamang community in northern Nepal, where a variant of Tibetan Mahayana Buddhism ('Lamaism') is found in tandem with Hindu festivals and an array of traditional tribal beliefs and practices including shamanism. A comprehensive account is first given of the community, including its economic basis and social structure. Particular attention is paid to household composition and the domestic cycle, and to clan and lineage structures. The importance of ritual in strengthening social bonds is noted, as is the way in which utilitarian activities are subordinated to religious values and ordered according to symbolic ideas of time and space. Three ritual modes are then described and discussed. First, those concerned with the protection of the individual and the community, either by appeals to the traditional village guardians or by invoking the Buddhist protective deities. Second, the use of exorcism to expel evil, personified as the demons and witches believed to cause illness, misfortune and death. Third, rituals which, by means of offerings to the high Buddhist deities, seek access to their divine power and compassion in order to transform the worshippers. In the course of this account the religious ideas which structure the rituals are encountered, as are the symbolic forms through which they are realised. Then the selection, training and empowerment of religious specialists are examined, as is their role as mediators between men and the gods. Finally, the different religious complexes are shown to be linked by common procedures and strategies for dealing with external threats to individual and communal well-being - and hence in competition with one another, but differentiated and opposed by their attitude towards traditional authority. Additionally they are hierarchically ordered in terms of values and moral range.
title: Associations of household and neighborhood contexts and hair cortisol among adolescents from low-income Mexican immigrant families
Creators: name: Ip, Ka I
name: Wen, Wen
name: Sim, Lester
name: Chen, Shanting
name: Kim, Su Yeong
Publisher: name: Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota Population Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: neighborhood socioeconomic status
hair cortisol
immigrant
racial-ethnic concentration
adolescents
HPA axis
stress

description: Although neighborhood contexts are upstream determinants of health, how neighborhood contexts “get under the skin” is unclear, especially among Mexican low-income immigrant youth who are disproportionally concentrated in highly disadvantaged yet coethnic neighborhoods. The current study examined associations between household and neighborhood socioeconomic status, neighborhood racial-ethnic and immigrant structuring and hair cortisol concentration (HCC) – a physiological index of chronic stress response - among Mexican-origin American adolescents from low-income immigrant families. Methods. 297 (54.20% female; Mage = 17.61, SD = .93) Mexican-origin adolescents’ hair cortisol were collected and residential addresses were geocoded and merged with the American Community Survey. Results. Neighborhoods with higher Hispanic and foreign-born residents were associated with higher neighborhood disadvantage, whereas neighborhoods with higher white residents were associated with higher neighborhood affluence. Mexican-origin adolescents living in neighborhood with a higher proportion of Hispanic residents showed lower levels of HCC, consistent with the protective role of ethnic enclave. In contrast, adolescents living in more affluence neighborhoods showed higher levels of HCC, possibly reflecting a physiological toll. No association was found between household SES and HCC. Conclusions. Findings infer that relocating low-income racial-ethnic minorized families to more affluent neighborhoods without understanding its racial-ethnic structuring and providing socio-cultural support could backfire.
description: Minnesota Population Center Working Paper Series
Appendix_table_1 – Supplemental material for Induction chemotherapy followed by radiotherapy versus concurrent chemoradiotherapy in the treatment of different risk locoregionally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma
Creators: name: Liu, Li-Ting
name: Liang, Yu-Jing
name: Guo, Shan-Shan
name: Mo, Hao-Yuan
name: Guo, Ling
name: Wen, Yue-Feng
name: Xie, Hao-Jun
name: Tang, Qing-Nan
name: Sun, Xue-Song
name: Liu, Sai-Lan
name: Li, Xiao-Yun
name: Yang, Jin-Hao
name: Yang, Zhen-Chong
name: Tang, Lin-Quan
name: Chen, Qiu-Yan
name: Mai, Hai-Qiang
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: Oncology and Carcinogenesis not elsewhere classified
Aged Health Care
Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Respiratory Diseases

description: Supplemental material, Appendix_table_1 for Induction chemotherapy followed by radiotherapy versus concurrent chemoradiotherapy in the treatment of different risk locoregionally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma by Li-Ting Liu, Yu-Jing Liang, Shan-Shan Guo, Hao-Yuan Mo, Ling Guo, Yue-Feng Wen, Hao-Jun Xie, Qing-Nan Tang, Xue-Song Sun, Sai-Lan Liu, Xiao-Yun Li, Jin-Hao Yang, Zhen-Chong Yang, Lin-Quan Tang, Qiu-Yan Chen and Hai-Qiang Mai in Therapeutic Advances in Medical Oncology
title: The social organisation of Indian students in the London area.
Creators: name: Kanitkar, H. A.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1972

description: The aim of this thesis is to show that regional and linguistic affiliations are the most significant bases for both formal and informal relationships and social ties among Indian students in the U.K. It is held that the closest interactees of the friendship groins formed by them, i.e. those to whom they turn for financial help, personal advice, or the satisfaction of relaxed social interaction, hail from their own region of India and speak the same native tongue. The nature and functions of these close friendship circles are examined, and their place in the Indian student's social relationships in Britain, Insofar as it is relevant to a study of the students' situation, I have incorporated material relating to Indian professionals resident and working here, since the social interaction of the students with other Indians is almost wholly confined to those of the same class. Background data for both students and professionals is given in the early part of the thesis. From the study of the influence of regional/linguistic ties on informal friendship circles, I examine how they affect formally organised relationships in the regionally and linguistically based associations. Membership, leadership and organisation of these associations are reviewed, as well as their purpose and function, and their influence in maintaining a student's ties with, and consciousness of, his own society. Although a hard core of association leaders is composed of fairly permanent residents in Britain, temporary student members can bring about changes if they get elected to Committee. Ordinary membership fluctuates through departures to and arrivals from India; thereby, lively contacts with the home society are maintained, and the potency of the far-reaching sanction of gossip preserved. These associations maintain cultural and social ties with India, providing a readymade avenue of retreat from British society for one who is too shy, or disinclined, to cope with the adjustments required, and insulating such a student from making contact with the host society; a relevant part of a student's foreign education. More positively, regional associations provide an anchor for those who might become socially disoriented in an alien environment, and give opportunity for healthy competition for office and the responsibility of leadership. Briefly, it is intended to show that the consciousness of regional differentiation is actively and effectively perpetuated by Indian students and professionals in Britain, in spite of rival and complementary demands within their social environment.
Computational Identification and Stuart-Landau Modeling of Collective Dynamical Behaviors of Octuple Laminar Diffusion Flame Oscillators
Creators: name: Yang, Tao
name: Ma, Yuan
name: Zhang, Peng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Annular chambers, consisting of multiple flame nozzles, are frequently used in many industrial processes, for example, rocket engines and gas turbines. In the study, we proposed a novel approach to the problem of annular combustion with emphasis on the collective dynamical behaviors that its individuals do not have. A series of circular arrays of octuple flickering laminar buoyant diffusion flames were investigated computationally and theoretically. Five distinct dynamical modes, such as the merged, in-phase mode, rotation, flickering death, partially flickering death, and anti-phase modes, were computationally identified and interpreted from the perspective of vortex dynamics. A unified regime diagram was obtained in terms of the normalized flame frequency f/f_0 and the combined parameter (α-1)Gr^1/2, where α=l/D is the ratio of the flame separation distance l to the flame nozzle diameter D and Gr is the Grashof number. The bifurcation transition from the in-phase mode and the anti-phase mode to the totally or partially flickering death occurs at (α-1)Gr^1/2=655+-55. In addition, a Stuart-Landau model with a time-delay coupling was utilized to reproduce the general features and collective modes of the octuple oscillators flame systems.
description: research paper (32 pages, 11 figures)
title: Racial/Ethnic Differences in Social Contact Patterns and Implications for COVID-19
Creators: name: Dorélien, Audrey
name: Shridhar, Ashwini
Publisher: name: Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota Population Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: social or interpersonal contact
occupational exposure
racial disparities
COVID-19
time use

description: COVID-19 has devastated Black and Hispanic communities in the United States, impacting these groups much more than Whites and Asians. These racial disparities are primarily driven by unequal infection risks. Since COVID-19 is primarily transmitted through close person-to-person contact, it is important to study how and why interpersonal contacts vary by race and ethnicity. We analyze racial/ethnic differences in the duration of social contacts (a key risk factor for covid exposure) from 2019-2021 using the American Time Use Survey data. We examine differences in social contact durations by location (home, workplace, public (indoor and outdoor) and by race/ethnicity (Asian/Other, Black, Hispanic, and White). During the pandemic, Black people had a significantly lower duration of social contacts at home compared to Whites and other racial groups. In contrast, Black and Hispanic respondents had longer duration of social contacts at work compared to White respondents and these differences did not disappear after controlling for a host of factors. Studies that rely on occupation to determine workplace COVID-19 exposures may be underestimating the true magnitude of racial disparities. Differences in duration of social contacts in public indoor and outdoor locations other than respondents’ workplace were not very large. Policies should focus on reducing workplace exposures to reduce COVID-19 racial disparities in COVID-19 exposures and cases. These policies will likely have spillover effects since high-risk individuals are more likely to live in multigenerational households and may have higher rates of contact with each other.
description: Minnesota Population Center Working Paper Series
title: Dialogues with the dead: The experience of mortality and its discussion among the Sora of Central India.
Creators: name: Vitebsky, Piers
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1982

description: Living Sora hold frequent dialogues with the dead, who speak with them through mediums in trances. The thesis explores the problems of understanding which this presents to the anthropologist. It takes the awareness of mortality as a universal human experience which is however discussed differently in different cultures, according to their underlying metaphysical assumptions. Sora trance is considered as a technique for operating on this experience by means of a postulate (sonum, conventionally translated as 'spirit') which represents the continuing influence of a dead person on the living. The thesis is built on the analysis of extensive tape- recorded dialogues between mourners and the dead. It falls into three parts. Part I outlines the relevant areas of Sora ethnography and metaphysics. After sketching in something of Sora politics and social structure, it discusses their view of the person, of relations between persons and of "subjective" and "objective" reality. This leads to the crucial Sora dichotomy between the Ancestor and Experience aspects of the dead suid the mapping of these on to incompatible areas of the landscape. Part II examines a funeral dialogue in which the deceased is cross-examined to establish the nature of his Ancestor and Experience aspects. The subsequent attempts to transform the terms of this verdict in order to modify his future influence on the survivors leads to a discussion of the grammar of verbs of experience and suffering and thence to a provisional English translation of the word sonum. Part III develops the implications of this translation across time. A series of linked case-studies explores the healing of private emotion, the arguing out of ambiguities in inheritance and in the unfolding of the lineage, and finally the Sora sense of the interplay between transience, permanence and repetition and with this the counterbalancing of grief with joy. A final chapter discusses the inadequency of any translation of sonum by making a comparison with Freud's theory of bereavement.
Signatures of topological Josephson junctions
Creators: name: Peng, Yang
name: Pientka, Falko
name: Berg, Erez
name: Oreg, Yuval
name: Oppen, Felix Von
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::530 Physik

description: Quasiparticle poisoning and diabatic transitions may significantly narrow the window for the experimental observation of the 4π-periodic dc Josephson effect predicted for topological Josephson junctions. Here, we show that switching- current measurements provide accessible and robust signatures for topological superconductivity which persist in the presence of quasiparticle poisoning processes. Such measurements provide access to the phase-dependent subgap spectrum and Josephson currents of the topological junction when incorporating it into an asymmetric SQUID together with a conventional Josephson junction with large critical current. We also argue that pump-probe experiments with multiple current pulses can be used to measure the quasiparticle poisoning rates of the topological junction. The proposed signatures are particularly robust, even in the presence of Zeeman fields and spin-orbit coupling, when focusing on short Josephson junctions. Finally, we also consider microwave excitations of short topological Josephson junctions which may complement switching-current measurements.