cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Evaluation of Casein Hydrolysate as an Alternative Dry-Off Treatment and Milk Quality Management Tool in Dairy Cows
Creators: name: Britten, Justine Elena
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2019

description: Mastitis, an infection of the mammary gland, is the most common and expensive animal health problem for the dairy industry and affects every dairy farm to some degree. This disease complex is painful for dairy cows, increases the on-farm use of antibiotics, presents a threat to milk quality and is a waste of time, money and milk production. Each year, the dairy industry loses as much as a billion dollars to mastitis.
Many cows will experience mastitis at least once during a lactation cycle and some animals will develop recurring mastitis episodes in a single mammary quarter. These mastitic quarters can be difficult to manage during the lactation cycle. Cessation of production in the quarter while continuing to milk the other three can be a beneficial management decision in this scenario. However, the current methods available for cessation of lactation in a single quarter are limited. This study investigated the use of casein hydrolysate as a non-antibiotic option for causing cessation of lactation in a quarter.
From this preliminary study we were able to apply our results to another aspect of mastitis prevention, which is the routine use of intramammary antibiotics at the end of the lactation cycle. This management practice is known as dry treatment and is a standard practice in the dairy industry with many years of proven efficacy against clearing infections present at the end of the lactation cycle. Increasing pressure from consumers to decrease antibiotic use in food production animals has caused this practice to come under scrutiny. This secondary study investigated the use of casein hydrolysates as a nonantibiotic alternative to standard antibiotic dry cow treatment.
Overall, these studies demonstrated that casein hydrolysate has some efficacy in inducing mammary involution of a single quarter mid-lactation and also potentially as an alternative dry cow treatment. None of the animals treated in these studies displayed any symptoms of pain or discomfort, and all treated quarters resumed milk production after the next calving. Additionally, all antimicrobial milk tests on treated animals were negative. Casein hydrolysates may be a useful management tool for milk quality and animal health within the dairy industry.
title: Experience of Microaggressions: White Bystanders’ Physiological and Psychological Reactions
Creators: name: Reveles, Alexandra K.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2019

description: The negative impacts of discriminatory events to the physiological and psychological stress of the recipient has been thoroughly documented. However, there is little to no evidence about the impacts to bystanders of these events, particularly White bystanders. Psychological impacts may emerge through academic achievement, which has implications for educational institutions and their diversity initiatives. This study examined the impact of witnessing discriminatory events on academic achievement, biological markers of distress, and emotional distress.
Academic achievement was negatively impacted for participants in the microaggression and blatant racism conditions when compared to a control condition. Study participants also experienced negative emotional impacts. These were evident through a decrease of positive emotion and an increase of negative emotion throughout the study. Counter to the stated hypothesis, biological markers of distress did not demonstrate a negative impact from the discriminatory event. Microaggressions, specifically, were not found to have negative impacts on academic achievement. There were also no differences in the relationship between biological markers of distress and academic achievement among the three conditions. These findings suggest that discriminatory behavior negatively impacts White bystanders emotional state and academic achievement.
M5 brane and four dimensional N=1 theories I
Creators: name: Xie, Dan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Four dimensional N=1 theories are engineered by compactifying six dimensional (2,0) theory on a Riemann surface with regular punctures. A generalized Hitchin's equation involving two Higgs fields is proposed as the BPS equation for N=1 compactification. The puncture is interpreted as the singular boundary condition of this equation, and regular puncture is shown to be labeled by a nilpotent commuting pair. In this paper, we focus on a subset of regular puncture which is described by rotating branes representing N=2 puncture. As an application, we show that the Seiberg duality of SU(N) SQCD with Nf=2N and certain superpotential term is realized as different degeneration limits of the same punctured Riemann surface, and also find four more dual theories.
description: 30 pages, 18 figures
Longitudinal Assessment of Patient Dependence in Alzheimer Disease
Creators: name: Brickman, Adam M.
name: Riba, Aliza
name: Bell, Karen L.
name: Marder, Karen
name: Albert, Marilyn
name: Brandt, Jason
name: Stern, Yaakov
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Dementia
subject: Alzheimer's disease
subject: Older people--Mental health
subject: Cognition in old age
subject: Dementia--Patients--Care
subject: Alzheimer's disease--Patients--Care
subject: Cognition
subject: Aging
subject: Gerontology
subject: Mental health
subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Background: The Dependence Scale measures the amount of assistance patients with dementia require in performing daily activities. Validity and reliability of this scale have been demonstrated, but the progression throughout long periods in patients with Alzheimer disease (AD) has not previously been examined. Objective: To determine the longitudinal course of patient dependence in a cohort of prospectively followed AD patients. Methods: Two hundred thirty AD patients enrolled in the Predictors Study were followed up prospectively at 6-month intervals for an average of 6.5 visits. The Dependence Scale was administered to a caregiver, and patients were assessed with the modified Mini-Mental State Examination (mMMSE) and the Blessed Dementia Rating Scale. Dependence level and the additive sum of the Dependence Scale items were considered for analysis. Results: Generalized estimating equations to regression analyses were used to determine that both Dependence Scale scores and dependence level significantly decline with time. By covarying mMMSE scores and self-care deficits factor scores of the Blessed Dementia Rating Scale, generalized estimating equations analysis also demonstrated that change in patient dependence was independent of global cognitive decline and other measures of activities of daily living, respectively. Conclusions: This study shows the validity of the Dependence Scale and demonstrated that dependency in AD significantly declines with time independent of global cognition and other self-care deficits. The scale is a valuable instrument for outcomes research, efficacy trials, and behavioral research in AD.
title: Male Reproductive Infection and Sexual Transmission of Zika Virus in an Immunocompromised Mouse Model
Creators: name: Clancy, Chad S.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2019

description: Zika virus (ZIKV) is a sexually transmitted viral infection most frequently transmitted by mosquitoes. The source of infectious virions in the male reproductive tract has yet to be elucidated. The goals of the studies included developing and characterizing two mouse models for reproductive transmission studies and demonstration of sexual transmission of virus via artificial insemination. The mouse strains used in the study lacked receptors to interferon molecules, key signaling proteins of the host immune response. Inflammation severity was assessed during acute disease, 5-11 days after infection using a novel histopathology grading system. ZIKV proteins and genome were initially detected in epididymal epithelial cells in males. Inflammation was first observed in the epididymis and progressed to the testicle in both AG129 and Ifnar-/- males. Infection of Ifnar-/- mice may better recapitulate Zika virus pathology in humans due to milder histopathologic lesions, the presence of histologically normal sperm in epididymal tubules, and an ability to survive the acute phase of disease. In further studies, male Ifnar-/- mice were challenged subcutaneously with ZIKV. Artificial insemination fluid derived from experimentally infected males showed positive sexual transmission at 7 days post infection (DPI) but not 35 or 70 DPI. These studies show passage of virus from epididymal flush and seminal plasma to females via insemination during acute ZIKV disease in males and provides a model for sexual transmission of ZIKV.
Magnetic Fields in Low-mass Stars: An Overview of Observational Biases
Creators: name: Reiners, Ansgar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Stellar magnetic dynamos are driven by rotation, rapidly rotating stars produce stronger magnetic fields than slowly rotating stars do. The Zeeman effect is the most important indicator of magnetic fields, but Zeeman broadening must be disentangled from other broadening mechanisms, mainly rotation. The relations between rotation and magnetic field generation, between Doppler and Zeeman line broadening, and between rotation, stellar radius, and angular momentum evolution introduce several observational biases that affect our picture of stellar magnetism. In this overview, a few of these relations are explicitly shown, and the currently known distribution of field measurements is presented.
description: 8 pages, proceedings article IAUS 302 Magnetic Fields Throughout Stellar Evolution
Ceratophrys Boiei Wied-Neuwied 1824
Creators: name: Miracle, Eulàlia Gassó
name: Van, Lars W.
name: Ostende, Den Hoek
name: Arntzen, Jan Willem
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Amphibia
Anura
Ceratophryidae
Ceratophrys

description: Ceratophrys Boiei Wied-Neuwied, 1824
Wied-Neuwied, 1824. Isis v. Oken, 14: 673.
 Current name: Proceratophrys boiei (Wied-Neuwied, 1824)
Lectotype: RMNH 24109 (formerly RMNH 2151), 1 spec. Loc.: “ Brasil ”. Leg.: J. Natterer.
 Remarks. Hoogmoed (1990: 269) designated RMNH 24109 as lectotype. A paralectotype is probably in the Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. The type locality was given as “Bahia” and “Rio de Janeiro” by Wied-Neuwied (1825: 592). Bokermann (1966a: 25) restricted the type locality to “Rio de Janeiro, Guanabara”.
description: Published as part of Miracle, Eulàlia Gassó, Van, Lars W., Ostende, Den Hoek & Arntzen, Jan Willem, 2007, Type specimens of amphibians in the National Museum of Natural History, Leiden, The Netherlands, pp. 25-68 in Zootaxa 1482 on page 35, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.176896
More Properties on Multi Poly-Euler Polynomials
Creators: name: Jolany, Hassan
name: Corcino, Roberto B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we establish more properties of generalized poly-Euler polynomials with three parameters and we investigate a kind of symmetrized generalization of poly- Euler polynomials. Moreover, we introduce a more general form of multi poly-Euler polynomials and obtain some identities parallel to those of the generalized poly-Euler polynomials.
description: 17 pages
Gravitational lensing and shadow by a Schwarzschild-like black hole in metric-affine bumblebee gravity
Creators: name: Gao, Xiao-Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we investigate the gravitational lensing effect and the shadow around a Schwarzschild-like black hole in metric-affine bumblebee gravity, which leads to the Lorentz symmetry breaking. We first present a generalized formalism for calculating higher-order corrections to light weak bending angle in a static, spherically symmetric and not asymptotically flat spacetime, and then applying this general formalism to the metric-affine bumblebee gravity. Moreover, we derive the light deflection angle and the size of the Einstein ring within the weak field in this scenario. In addition, we analyze the black hole shadow in this theory framework. By using observational data from the Einstein's ring of the galaxy ESO325-G004 and the black hole shadow of the ${\rm M}87$ galaxy, we estimate the upper bounds of the Lorentz symmetry breaking coefficient $\ell$, respectively.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures, Accepted for publication in European Physical Journal C
Systematic study of magnetic linear dichroism and birefringence in (Ga,Mn)As
Creators: name: Tesarova, N.
name: Ostatnicky, T.
name: Novak, V.
name: Olejnik, K.
name: Subrt, J.
name: Ellis, C. T.
name: Mukherjee, A.
name: Lee, J.
name: Sipahi, G. M.
name: Sinova, J.
name: Hamrle, J.
name: Jungwirth, T.
name: Nemec, P.
name: Cerne, J.
name: Vyborny, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetic linear dichroism and birefringence in (Ga,Mn)As epitaxial layers is investigated by measuring the polarization plane rotation of reflected linearly polarized light when magnetization lies in the plane of the sample. We report on the spectral dependence of the rotation and ellipticity angles in a broad energy range of 0.12-2.7 eV for a series of optimized samples covering a wide range on Mn-dopings and Curie temperatures and find a clear blue shift of the dominant peak at energy exceeding the host material band gap. These results are discussed in the general context of the GaAs host band structure and also within the framework of the k.p and mean-field kinetic-exchange model of the (Ga,Mn)As band structure. We find a semi-quantitative agreement between experiment and theory and discuss the role of disorder-induced non-direct transitions on magneto-optical properties of (Ga,Mn)As.
description: 18 pages
Bibliographie lyonnaise: Recherches sur les Imprimeurs, Libraires, Relieurs et Fondeurs de Lettres de Lyon au XVIe...
Creators: name: Gerig, John L.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1911
Subjects: Sixteenth century
Romance literature
Europeans

description: The last volume of this remarkable series reveals, on the part of the authors,
the same critical acumen and patient research that characterised its predecessors.We can only compare it to Picot's Catalogue de la Bibliothèque Rothschild, which set the standard for careful and thorough bibliography, and Pellechet's Catalogue des Incunables, especially as it has been continued by M. Polin. Thanks to these scholars, we have at last a bibliographic method that will stand the test of the time.
title: An Examination of Seasonal Shifts in Climate and Visitation, and Perspectives on Seasonal Shifts and Climate Adaptation Strategies in Tourism and Recreation Businesses for Moab, Utah
Creators: name: Cook, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2019

description: The city of Moab, an outdoor recreation hub in eastern Utah, has been encountering both shifts in the seasonality of visitation, and increases in tourist visitation, even with summer temperatures above the normal high. Tourism research describing the effects of climate change on the outdoor recreation industry has focused on winter, snow-dependent activities, while studies in Moab city have focused on the economic value of outdoor recreational activities. Few studies have described the relationship between seasonal tourism and climate change for arid desert locations. The purpose of this study is to describe how the tourism and recreation industry in Moab, Utah is experiencing and adapting to changes in climate. The first part of the research is a regression analysis of existing data, exploring the correlation between monthly national park visitation and climate factors (long-term monthly average temperature and temperature anomaly) that influence tourism seasonality in Arches National Park and Canyonlands National Park. Using an online survey, the second part of the research identifies how seasonality shifts are perceived by different actors in Moab and how they are responding to manifestations of climate change. Regression results indicate that as temperature increases in the region around Moab, national park visitation also increases. Moab businesses are not directly adapting to climate change, but are adapting to perceived increases in visitation throughout the year. The majority of Moab businesses do not attribute the increase in visitation to climate variables, instead visitation increases are believed to be a result of the popularity of the town and the region.
Ceratophrys turpicola Schlegel 1837
Creators: name: Miracle, Eulàlia Gassó
name: Van, Lars W.
name: Ostende, Den Hoek
name: Arntzen, Jan Willem
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Amphibia
Anura
Ceratophryidae
Ceratophrys
Ceratophrys turpicola

description: Ceratophrys turpicola Schlegel, 1837
 Schlegel, 1837 -1844. Abbild. Neuer Unvollst. Amph., 1: 30; pl. X, fig. 4. Current name: Asterophrys turpicola (Schlegel, 1837)
Syntypes: RMNH 2153, 2 ɗɗ. Loc.: “Westküste von Neu-Guinea” [Irian Jaya, Indonesia]. Leg.: S. Müller and H.C. Macklot.
 Remarks. Brongersma (1953: 573) restricted the type locality to “Lobo district, Triton Bay, Dutch New Guinea ”. Though the publication date on the first page of Schlegel’s Abbildungen is 1837-1844, the work was issued in parts. See Stejneger’s Herpetology of Japan (1907: 540) for the publication dates.
description: Published as part of Miracle, Eulàlia Gassó, Van, Lars W., Ostende, Den Hoek & Arntzen, Jan Willem, 2007, Type specimens of amphibians in the National Museum of Natural History, Leiden, The Netherlands, pp. 25-68 in Zootaxa 1482 on page 35, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.176896
title: The Rise and Run of Women Corporate Leaders
Creators: name: Ingersoll, Alicia R.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2019

description: The purpose of this research was to understand the contexts that support the barriers to women’s advancement and to identify the conditions under which women leaders overcome the barriers to attain top corporate leadership positions. I have identified and discussed three distinct approaches for understanding how we can increase women’s representation and influence in the executive and director ranks within top U.S. corporations. The first approach investigates the complexities of leveraging the social and cultural capital attained through post-secondary education in order gain entry into the corporate elite. The second approach examines gendered stereotypes of risk-taking versus the organizational risk-taking realities that are inherent in women corporate leaders’ climb to the top. The final approach considers the impact of external pressures in increasing the prevalence, power and influence of women corporate directors. Findings reveal some of the complexity in both the antecedents and consequences of gender diversity within top leadership of large U.S. firms. Taken together, the results convey the organizational and societal contexts that lead to more diverse corporate leadership.
Crossarchus ansorgei Thomas 1910
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Herpestidae
Crossarchus
Crossarchus ansorgei

description: Crossarchus ansorgei Thomas, 1910. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 5, 8:195. TYPE LOCALITY: Angola, Dalia Tando. DISTRIBUTION: N. Angola; S.E. Zaire. ISIS NUMBER: 5301412005024002001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, pp. 244-289 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 272, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980
Quantum phases of 1D Hubbard models with three- and four-body couplings
Creators: name: Dolcini, Fabrizio
name: Montorsi, Arianna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The experimental advances in cold atomic and molecular gases stimulate the investigation of lattice correlated systems beyond the conventional on-site Hubbard approximation, by possibly including multi-particle processes. We study fermionic extended Hubbard models in a one dimensional lattice with different types of particle couplings, including also three- and four-body interaction up to nearest neighboring sites. By using the Bosonization technique, we investigate the low-energy regime and determine the conditions for the appearance of ordered phases, for arbitrary particle filling. We find that three- and four-body couplings may significantly modify the phase diagram. In particular, diagonal three-body terms that directly couple the local particle densities have qualitatively different effects from off-diagonal three-body couplings originating from correlated hopping, and favor the appearance of a Luther-Emery phase even when two-body terms are repulsive. Furthermore, the four-body coupling gives rise to a rich phase diagram and may lead to the realization of the Haldane insulator phase at half-filling.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures, to appear in Physical Review B (2013)
Disruptive Behavior as a Predictor in Alzheimer Disease
Creators: name: Scarmeas, Nikolaos
name: Brandt, Jason
name: Blacker, Deborah
name: Albert, Marilyn
name: Hadjigeorgiou, Georgios
name: Dubois, Bruno
name: Devanand, Devangere P.
name: Honig, Lawrence S.
name: Stern, Yaakov
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Alzheimer's disease
subject: Older people--Mental health
subject: Alzheimer's disease--Etiology
subject: Diseases--Risk factors
subject: Dementia
subject: Epidemiology
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Gerontology
subject: Mental health

description: Background: Disruptive behavior is common in Alzheimer disease (AD). There are conflicting reports regarding its ability to predict cognitive decline, functional decline, institutionalization, and mortality. Objective: To examine whether the presence of disruptive behavior has predictive value for important outcomes in AD. Design: Using the Columbia University Scale for Psychopathology in Alzheimer Disease (administered every 6 months, for a total of 3438 visit-assessments and an average of 6.9 per patient), the presence of disruptive behavior (wandering, verbal outbursts, physical threats/violence, agitation/restlessness, and sundowning) was extracted and examined as a time-dependent predictor in Cox models. The models controlled for the recruitment cohort, recruitment center, informant status, sex, age, education, a comorbidity index, baseline cognitive and functional performance, and neuroleptic use. Setting: Five university-based AD centers in the United States and Europe (Predictors Study). Participants: Four hundred ninety-seven patients with early-stage AD (mean Folstein Mini-Mental State Examination score, 20 of 30 at entry) who were recruited and who underwent semiannual follow-up for as long as 14 (mean, 4.4) years. Main Outcome Measures: Cognitive (Columbia Mini-Mental State Examination score, ≤ 20 of 57 [approximate Folstein Mini-Mental State Examination score, ≤ 10 of 30]) and functional (Blessed Dementia Rating Scale score, parts I and II, ≥ 10) ratings, institutionalization equivalent index, and death. Results: At least 1 disruptive behavioral symptom was noted in 48% of patients at baseline and in 83% at any evaluation. Their presence was associated with increased risks of cognitive decline (hazard ratio 1.45 [95% confidence interval (CI), 1.03-2.03]), functional decline (1.66 [95% CI, 1.17-2.36]), and institutionalization (1.47 [95% CI, 1.10-1.97]). Sundowning was associated with faster cognitive decline, wandering with faster functional decline and institutionalization, and agitation/restlessness with faster cognitive and functional decline. There was no association between disruptive behavior and mortality (hazard ratio, 0.94 [95% CI, 0.71-1.25]). Conclusion: Disruptive behavior is very common in AD and predicts cognitive decline, functional decline, and institutionalization but not mortality.
MPEC 2025-C64 : DAILY ORBIT UPDATE (2025 February 6)
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Crossarchus obscurus F. Cuvier 1825
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Herpestidae
Crossarchus
Crossarchus obscurus

description: Crossarchus obscurus F. Cuvier, 1825. In E. Geoffroy and F. Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Mamm., 47:3. TYPE LOCALITY: West Africa. DISTRIBUTION: Sierra Leone to Cameroun. ISIS NUMBER: 5301412005024003001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, pp. 244-289 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 272, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980
The long-term evolution of the X-ray pulsar XTE J1814-338: a receding jet contribution to the quiescent optical emission?
Creators: name: Baglio, Maria Cristina
name: D'Avanzo, Paolo
name: Munoz-Darias, Teo
name: Breton, Rene P.
name: Campana, Sergio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a study of the quiescent optical counterpart of the Accreting Millisecond X-ray Pulsar XTE J1814-338, carrying out multiband (BVR) orbital phase-resolved photometry using the ESO VLT/FORS2. The optical light curves are consistent with a sinusoidal variability modulated with the orbital period, showing evidence for a strongly irradiated companion star, in agreement with previous findings. The observed colours cannot be accounted for by the companion star alone, suggesting the presence of an accretion disc during quiescence. The system is fainter in all analysed bands compared to previous observations. The R band light curve displays a possible phase offset with respect to the B and V band. Through a combined fit of the multi-band light curves we derive constraints on the companion star and disc fluxes, on the system distance and on the companion star mass. The irradiation luminosity required to account for the observed day-side temperature of the companion star is consistent with the spin-down luminosity of a millisecond radio pulsar. The flux decrease and spectral evolution of the quiescent optical emission observed comparing our data with previous observations, collected over 5 years, cannot be well explained with the contribution of an irradiated companion star and an accretion disc alone. The progressive flux decrease as the system gets bluer could be due to a continuum component evolving towards a lower, bluer spectrum. While most of the continuum component is likely due to the disc, we do not expect it to become bluer in quiescence. Hence we hypothesize that an additional component, such as synchrotron emission from a jet was contributing significantly in the earlier data obtained during quiescence and then progressively fading or moving its break frequency toward longer wavelengths.
description: 7 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in Section 7. Stellar structure and evolution of Astronomy and Astrophysics
PROFESSIONAL TA'LIM O'QUVCHILARI KASBIY KOMPETENSIYALARINI WORLDSKILLS STANDARTLARI ASOSIDA SHAKLLANTIRISHNING DOLZARBLIGI
Creators: name: Sharapov, Ilxom
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Mazkur maqolada professional ta’lim tizimida o‘quvchilarning kasbiy kompetensiyalarini WorldSkills xalqaro standartlari asosida shakllantirishning dolzarbligi, afzalliklari va amaliy yondashuvlari yoritilgan. Xususan, zamonaviy o‘quv dasturlarining WorldSkills mezonlariga muvofiqlashtirilishi, o‘qituvchilarning malaka oshirish tizimi, innovatsion texnologiyalarning o‘quv jarayoniga tatbiqi va musobaqalarning o‘quvchilar kompetensiyalariga ta’siri tahlil qilingan.
Cynictis Ogilby 1833
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Herpestidae
Cynictis

description: Cynictis Ogilby, 1833. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1833:48. ISIS NUMBER: 5301412005025000000.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, pp. 244-289 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 272, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980
Deep Probability Segmentation: Are segmentation models probability estimators?
Creators: name: Fassio, Simone
name: Monaco, Simone
name: Apiletti, Daniele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Deep learning has revolutionized various fields by enabling highly accurate predictions and estimates. One important application is probabilistic prediction, where models estimate the probability of events rather than deterministic outcomes. This approach is particularly relevant and, therefore, still unexplored for segmentation tasks where each pixel in an image needs to be classified. Conventional models often overlook the probabilistic nature of labels, but accurate uncertainty estimation is crucial for improving the reliability and applicability of models.
 In this study, we applied Calibrated Probability Estimation (CaPE) to segmentation tasks to evaluate its impact on model calibration. Our results indicate that while CaPE improves calibration, its effect is less pronounced compared to classification tasks, suggesting that segmentation models can inherently provide better probability estimates. We also investigated the influence of dataset size and bin optimization on the effectiveness of calibration. Our results emphasize the expressive power of segmentation models as probability estimators and incorporate probabilistic reasoning, which is crucial for applications requiring precise uncertainty quantification.
Dante in English Literature from Chaucer to Cary (1380-1844)
Creators: name: Hamilton, George L.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1911
Subjects: Italian literature--Translations into English
Comparative literature--English and Italian
Comparative literature--Italian and English
Romance literature
Europeans

description: P. Toynbee in his Dante in English Literature offers a valuable collection of
material for the future historian of either the influence of Italy on English literature, or of the vicissitudes of literary taste, from Chaucer, the first Englishman
to translate portions of Dante, to the death of Henry Cary. Cary's translation, even to-day, represents Dante to the majority of English-speaking people, and was the first contribution to the subject treated by Mr. Toynbee on account of the citations of the many passages of English poets which owed their inspiration to the verses of the Italian poet, for which they often serve as the best comment.
Ellipsometry with polarisation analysis at cryogenic temperatures inside a vacuum chamber
Creators: name: Bauer, S.
name: Grees, B.
name: Spitzer, D.
name: Beck, M.
name: Bottesch, R.
name: Ortjohann, H. -W.
name: Ostrick, B.
name: Schäfer, T.
name: Telle, H. H.
name: Wegmann, A.
name: Zbořil, M.
name: Weinheimer, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we describe a new variant of null ellipsometry to determine thicknesses and optical properties of thin films on a substrate at cryogenic temperatures. In the PCSA arrangement of ellipsometry the polarizer and the compensator are placed before the substrate and the analyzer after it. Usually, the polarizer and the analyzer are rotated to find the intensity minimum searched for in null ellipsometry. In our variant we rotate the polarizer and the compensator instead, both being placed in the incoming beam before the substrate. Therefore the polarization analysis of the reflected beam can be realized by an analyzer at fixed orientation. We developed this method for investigations of thin cryogenic films inside a vacuum chamber, where the analyzer and detector had to be placed inside the cold shield at a temperature of T approx. 90K close to the substrate. All other optical components were installed at the incoming beam line outside the vacuum chamber, including all components which need to be rotated during the measurements. Our null ellipsometry variant has been tested with condensed krypton films on a highly oriented pyrolytic graphite substrate (HOPG) at a temperature of T approx. 25K. We show that it is possible to determine the indices of refraction of condensed krypton and of the HOPG substrate as well as thickness of krypton films with reasonable accuracy.
description: 22 pages, 12 figures
Cynictis penicillata
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Herpestidae
Cynictis
Cynictis penicillata

description: Cynictis penicillata (G. Cuvier, 1829). Regn. Anim., 2nd ed., 1:158. TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, Uitenhage. DISTRIBUTION: South Africa; Namibia; S. Angola; Botswana; S.W. Zimbabwe. ISIS NUMBER: 5301412005025001001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, pp. 244-289 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 272, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980
The Braggart Soldier and The Rufián in The Spanish Drama of Sixteenth Century
Creators: name: Wickersham Crawford, J. P.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1911
Subjects: Sixteenth century
Boastfulness in literature
Spanish drama (Comedy)
Romance literature
Europeans

description: The braggart soldier has been a favorite character of comedy since early times. Livius Andronicus is said to have first introduced him on the Roman stage, and by the time of Plautus and Terence, the figure had become more or less stereotyped. He appears in six plays by Plautus, and has the principal role in Miles
Gloriosus. A brief analysis of the character of Pyrgopolinices, the Miles Gloriosus in Plautus' play of that name, will serve to show the chief characteristics of the type.
Formation of gapless triplets in the bond-doped spin-gap antiferromagnet (C$_4$H$_{12}$N$_2$)(Cu$_2$Cl$_6$)
Creators: name: Glazkov, V. N.
name: Skoblin, G.
name: Hüvonen, D.
name: Yankova, T. S.
name: Zheludev, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report results of an electron spin resonance (ESR) study of a spin-gap antiferromagnet (C$_4$H$_{12}$N$_2$)(Cu$_2$Cl$_6$) (nicknamed PHCC) with chlorine ions partially substituted by bromine. We found that up to 10% of nominal doping the contribution of the random defects to the absorption spectra remains at about 0.1% per copper ion, almost the same as in the pure system. Instead, a particular kind of ESR absorption corresponding to gapless S=1 triplets is observed at low temperatures in samples with high nominal bromine content x>5%. Increase of bromine concentration also leads to the systematic broadening of ESR absorption line indicating reduction of the quasi-particles lifetime.
description: This is an author-created, un-copyedited version of an article accepted for publication in Journal of Physics: Condenses Matetr. IOP Publishing Ltd is not responsible for any errors or omissions in this version of the manuscript or any version derived from it. The Version of Record is available online at doi:10.1088/0953-8984/26/48/486002
A Relational Theory of Default Rules for Commercial Contracts
Creators: name: Scott, Robert E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Commercial law
subject: Damages
subject: Uniform commercial code
subject: Risk
subject: Contracts
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: In Section I of this article, I argue that complex risk-allocation models are inconsistent in important respects with the assumption that commercial actors are rational utility maximizers. I suggest instead that rational commercial actors are motivated by a dominant strategy of cooperative risk reduction. In Section II, I use the cooperative approach to risk allocation in order to develop criteria for selecting optimal default rules. Finally, in Section III, I confront an apparent paradox: an egoistic model (though normatively implausible) best explains the default rules now in use in commercial law. I resolve that paradox by proposing a relational theory of commercial law: under this approach the pervasive use of binary default rules in commercial contracting results from the intersection of two forces. First, on the legal side, the current enforcement mechanisms are necessarily crude and inexact and are likely to remain that way. Second, in response to the weakness of the rules of legal enforcement, powerful social pressures arise to encourage the enforcement of commercial undertakings. The proper choice of default rules depends, therefore, not only on the internal operation of the legal system but also on the linkages between the legal system and the norms of social enforcement that are too often ignored. Understanding how these different systems operate together in the context of long-term commercial contracts thus offers both a positive explanation and a normative justification for the existing scheme of commercial-law default rules.
title: The Ties that Bind: Identifying Connections that Facilitate Students’ Successful Re-Entry to Higher Education
Creators: name: Asay, Toni
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2019

description: The ubiquitous roadblocks to university graduation have been investigated, identified, and interrogated for 7 decades, yet the mystery of retaining students to graduation continues to elude even the most prestigious universities. This researcher’s approach to increasing graduation began with the concession that increasingly, students may leave school at some point due to one or more of the retention issues that we recognize all too well—finances, illness, family problems, pregnancies, and other educational obstacles. However, leaving school does not mean that there is no going back. Student’s dropout status changes when they re-enroll in school; they take on new identities as stop-out students who forge their own nontraditional path to graduation. This work explored the lived experiences of this often-overlooked subset of university students—students who begin courses in higher education but then forgo their studies for a time before returning. These students are known in the literature as stop-out students, a cohort seldom acknowledged, studied, or desegregated from dropout statistics. An online survey was used to determine the demographics of the stop-out participants, and face-to-face, semi-structured interviews were then conducted to allow students to relate their experiences, in and out of school, in their own voices. Of particular interest was the effect of students’ perceived connections to faculty, staff, and/or administration as an influence in their decisions to return to school.
The study was analyzed through the lens of care theory as a way to investigate how students’ persistence was affected by feelings of connection or caring. Only one of twelve interviewees had formed a relationship with a professor before he left school, and this relationship was maintained during his absence and renewed when he returned. The other interviewees acknowledged that they felt no specific connections to any person, office, or administration when they left.
The stop-out population is one that higher education needs to acknowledge and support with targeted services. In many cases, they are only a few semesters from graduation. Rather than blocking their way when they run for the hills, we should be lighting their path back to success.
2-10 μm Mid-infrared Supercontinuum Generation in As2Se3 Photonic Crystal Fiber
Creators: name: Yuan, Wu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For the first time, we demonstrated that a hyper-broadband from 2μm to 10μm can be generated with a high spectral flatness by using a ~4 um pump and an As2Se3 photonic crystal fiber. The broad and flat dispersion profile and the low guiding loss of the endlessly single-mode As2Se3 photonic crystal fibers combining with the high nonlinearity and wide mid-infrared transparent window of As2Se3 chalcogenide glass are essential for this high performance mid-infrared laser source.
description: published in Laser Phys. Lett. 10 (2013) 095107
The sound of ancient Egypt - acoustics and volume measurements
Creators: name: Köpp-Junk, Heidi
Publisher: name: ARS INTER CULTURAS
Year: 2020

description: In ancient Egypt performances inside and outside buildings are documented (open air, under canopies, in rooms). The article discusses the different acoustic conditions at the various performance venues. Within the scope of experimental music archaeology, the volume of replicas of musical instruments from ancient Egypt and modern equivalents was measured. This technical approach in connection with iconographic, textual, and archaeological evidence provides a valuable, practice-oriented contribution to our knowledge of ancient Egypt and its music archaeology.
description: ARS INTER CULTURAS, Nr 9 (2020): Ars inter Culturas
title: Mandement De Monseigneur L'Archevêque De Paris, Au sujet d'un Écrit qui a pour titre: Dissertation sur les Miracles, et en particulier sur ceux qui ont été operez au tombeau de M. de Paris en l'Eglise de S. Médard de Paris; 1731
title: avec la relation et les preuves de celui qui s'est fait le 3. Novembre 1730. en la personne d'Anne le Franc, de la Paroisse de S. Barthelemy
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Vintimille du Luc, Charles-Gaspard-Guillaume de
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2010

description: Verf. ermittelt. - Vorlageform des Erscheinungsvermerks: A Paris, Chez Pierre Simon, Imprimeur de Monseigneur ... Archevêque, au bas de la ruë de la Harpe, à l'Hercule. MDCCXXXI
Highly Effective Actions
Creators: name: Schwarz, John H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is conjectured that the world-volume action of a probe D3-brane in an $AdS_5 \times S^5$ background of type IIB superstring theory, with one unit of flux, can be reinterpreted as the exact effective action (or highly effective action) for U(2), ${\cal N} = 4$ super Yang-Mills theory on the Coulomb branch. An analogous conjecture for $U(2)_k \times U(2)_{-k} $ ABJM theory is also presented. The main evidence supporting these conjectures is that the brane actions have all of the expected symmetries and dualities. Highly effective actions have general coordinate invariance, even though they describe nongravitational theories.
description: 37 pages
title: Assessing Paleoenvironmental and Geomorphic Variability in Relationship to Paleoindian Site Burial; Centennial Valley, Montana
Creators: name: Jones, Hillary A.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2019

description: Wave action along the shores of Lima Reservoir in Centennial Valley, Montana is actively eroding the southern margins of three neighboring Paleoindian sites. Despite ostensible similarity among the sites, major site formation differences are apparent in exposed sediments. Shoreline cutbank exposures one-to-five meters high connect the sites and reveal a complicated geomorphic history. Although each site contains artifact evidence of terminal Pleistocene-early Holocene occupations, Paleoindian components at these three localities occur in very different contexts: one is buried, while the other two are apparent surface scatters. This raise the question of why sites of the same age are in both buried and exposed contexts. Moreover, buried sites are more likely to have preserved spatial layout and sites with buried components are more likely to be considered significant under National Register of Historic Places criteria. These factors therefore prompt the management question of where might other buried sites be located in the valley? In order to answer these questions, I used a multi-pronged approach including optically stimulated luminescence dating, sediment grain size analysis, stratigraphic profiling and sediment facies analysis. I accomplished two nested objectives with this research. First, I reconstructed the last 60,000 years of geomorphic events for the area surrounding the three sites in order to determine what conditions resulted in site burial. Second, I used those findings to outline criteria for differentiating occupation-age and pre-occupation-age stratigraphic layers in Centennial Valley. I determined, in part, that cultural-age deposits are present at both high and low elevations and that they may be marked by a specific soil sequence. The oldest packages, far pre-dating potential human occupation, are deep lake and high energy stream sediments that may be recognized by soil color alteration and thick gypsum horizons.
Dologale Thomas 1926
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Herpestidae
Dologale

description: Dologale Thomas, 1926. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 17, 9: 183. COMMENT: Formerly included in Helogale; see Hayman, 1936, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 10, 18:625-630.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, pp. 244-289 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 272, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980
description: {"references": ["Hayman, R. W. 1936. A note on Dologale dybowskii. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 10, 18: 626 - 630."]}