cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Indigenous Belief in a Just World: New Zealand Māori and other Ethnicities Compared
Creators: name: Grimes, Arthur
name: MacCulloch, Robert
name: McKay, Fraser
name: Grimes, Arthur
name: MacCulloch, Robert
name: McKay, Fraser
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Public Economics
subject: culture
subject: beliefs
subject: institutions

description: Survey evidence has revealed large differences in beliefs held by different cultures and ethnicities which may affect their economic prosperity. We study how the beliefs of New Zealand’s indigenous Māori about the causes of wealth or poverty and the extent to which people are responsible for their own fate differ from non-Māori using World Values Survey data from 1995 to 2011. Māori are more likely to believe that (1) the poor have been unfairly treated and are not lazy; (2) a better life is due to luck and not hard work; (3) the Government is doing too little for those in need; and (4) business should not be run solely by the owners, compared to non-Māori. We control for income, education and employment status, inter alia. The paper also compares differences between Māori and non-Māori within NZ to those between (non-indigenous) blacks and non-blacks within the US, as a benchmark. Stark results hold with respect to non-economic beliefs: whereas Māori are 8.6% more likely to believe that the environment should be given priority over economic growth compared to non-Māori, blacks are 20.5% less likely to hold this view compared to other Americans. Hence the evidence suggests that being indigenous plays a role in belief formation.
Draw This Object: A Study of Debugging Representations
Creators: name: Sulír, Matúš
name: Juhár, Ján
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Domain-specific debugging visualizations try to provide a view of a runtime object tailored to a specific domain and highlighting its important properties. The research in this area has focused mainly on the technical aspects of the creation of such views so far. However, we still lack answers to questions such as what properties of objects are considered important for these visualizations, whether all objects have an appropriate domain-specific view, or what clues could help us to construct these views fully automatically. In this paper, we describe an exploratory study where the participants were asked to inspect runtime states of objects displayed in a traditional debugger and draw ideal domain-specific views of these objects on paper. We describe interesting observations and findings obtained during this study and a preliminary taxonomy of these visualizations.
Generic Statistical Information Model
Creators: name: Lalor, Therese
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013

description: Across the world statistical organizations undertake similar activities albeit with variation in the processes each uses. Each of these activities use and produce similar information (for example all agencies use classifications, create data sets and publish products). Although the information used by statistical organizations is at its core the same, all organizations tend to describe this information slightly differently (and often in different ways within each organization). There is no common means to describe the information we use. GSIM is a conceptual model that provides a set of standardized, consistently described information objects, which are the inputs and outputs in the design and production of statistics. GSIM must be implementable. In order to support the implementation of GSIM, known standards and tools have also been examined, to ensure that the reference framework is complete and useful in this respect. The relationship between GSIM and other models and standards is two-fold. The standards and models serve as inputs to the creation of GSIM, and also act as targets for the use of GSIM within organizations. This session aims to introduce the model, discuss the relationship with DDI and look at implementations in national statistical institutes.
DDF and Pohlmeyer invariants of (super)string
Creators: name: Schreiber, Urs
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show how the Pohlmeyer invariants of the bosonic string are expressible in terms of DDF invariants. Quantization of the DDF observables in the usual way yields a consistent quantization of the algebra of Pohlmeyer invariants. Furthermore it becomes straightforward to generalize the Pohlmeyer invariants to the superstring as well as to all backgrounds which allow a free field realization of the worldsheet theory.
description: 17 pp, minor typos corrected, references to papers by Isaev and Borodulin added, which contain essentially the same results as reported here
The Good, the Bad and the Census
Creators: name: Hayes, Justin
name: Dymond-Green, Rob
name: Wiseman, Richard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013

description: UK Data Service Census Support provides integrated access to recent UK censuses in ways that make the data easier to understand and use. Census Support is part of the Economic and Social Research Council's new UK Data Service, bringing together a long history of data management, support and facilitating access to census data to the UK research community. This poster illustrates the challenges we are facing while ingesting the 2011 census data into InFuse, our interface. On 27 March 2011, the three UK statistical agencies (ONS, NISRA and NRS) simultaneously conducted the census. We have developed an integrated data model that is flexible enough to cope with the issues raised by combining data from multiple census agencies. Some of the issues we are dealing with are; consistency of definitions within and across censuses, complicated geographic hierarchies, and different thresholds used to generate the small area statistics. InFuse demonstrates benefits of a data feed approach to dissemination, such as being able to filter across the entire dataset. The integration of metadata enhances the discoverability data. It also provides initial solutions to some generic challenges, including management of the sparsity of multi-dimensional datasets through guided queries, and complex operations upon hierarchical structures.
Exclusive two-photon annihilation at large energy or large virtuality
Creators: name: Diehl, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I review recent progress in the theory of gamma gamma annihilation into meson or baryon pairs at large energy, and of the process gamma* gamma* -> pi0 at large photon virtuality.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures. Presented at PHOTON 2003, Frascati, Italy, 7-11 April 2003
Precision calculation of critical exponents in the $O(N)$ universality classes with the nonperturbative renormalization group
Creators: name: De Polsi, Gonzalo
name: Balog, Ivan
name: Tissier, Matthieu
name: Wschebor, Nicolás
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the critical exponents $ν$, $η$ and $ω$ of $O(N)$ models for various values of $N$ by implementing the derivative expansion of the nonperturbative renormalization group up to next-to-next-to-leading order [usually denoted $\mathcal{O}(\partial^4)$]. We analyze the behavior of this approximation scheme at successive orders and observe an apparent convergence with a small parameter -- typically between $1/9$ and $1/4$ -- compatible with previous studies in the Ising case. This allows us to give well-grounded error bars. We obtain a determination of critical exponents with a precision which is similar or better than those obtained by most field theoretical techniques. We also reach a better precision than Monte-Carlo simulations in some physically relevant situations. In the $O(2)$ case, where there is a longstanding controversy between Monte-Carlo estimates and experiments for the specific heat exponent $α$, our results are compatible with those of Monte-Carlo but clearly exclude experimental values.
Additional file 5 of Potential of selected lactic acid bacteria from Theobroma cacao fermented fruit juice and cell-free supernatants from cultures as inhibitors of Helicobacter pylori and as good probiotic
Creators: name: Mabeku, Laure Kouitcheu
name: Ngue, Samuel
name: Nguemo, Idris Bonsou
name: Leundji, Hubert
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 5. Susceptibility of isolates to antibiotics.
Agricultural p roductivity in New Zealand: First e stimat es from the Longitudinal Business Database
Creators: name: Apatov, Eyal
name: Fabling, Richard
name: Jaffe, Adam
name: Morris, Michele
name: Thirtkettle, Matt
name: Apatov, Eyal
name: Fabling, Richard
name: Jaffe, Adam
name: Morris, Michele
name: Thirtkettle, Matt
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Firm-level productivity
subject: dairying
subject: sheep-beef farming
subject: Translog
subject: fixed effects

description: Exports of dairy and sheep/beef products account for over 40% of New Zealand's aggregate merchandise exports. As a consequence, the performance of farms in these industries has a significant impact on the New Zealand economy. In this study, we link financial and agricultural data from the New Zealand Longitudinal Business Database (LBD) to estimate production functions of dairy and sheep/beef firms in New Zealand. Overall, we find that the data enables us to explain much of the industry-level variation in productivity and output, offering greater flexibility and insight than simply examining the official (aggregated) statistics. We find that variation in output can be largely explained by variation in capital, labour, intermediate expenditure, and productive land. We also find differences across industries in the way various farm practices (e.g. stocking rates, fertilizer use, supplementary activities, etc.) and area characteristics (including weather) relate to output. Finally, we find that estimating firm productivity at the industry level is less likely to accurately model the relationships for some sub-groups of firms (e.g. firms with different land size). We believe that our methodology could be useful for future studies addressing research questions relevant to this sector.
The effect of public funding on research output: the New Zealand Marsden Fund
Creators: name: Gush, Jason
name: Jaffe, Adam B
name: Larsen, Victoria
name: Laws, Athene
name: Gush, Jason
name: Jaffe, Adam B
name: Larsen, Victoria
name: Laws, Athene
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: Science policy
subject: science funding
subject: New Zealand
subject: research
subject: Marsden Fund

description: We estimate the impact of participating in the NZ Marsden Fund on research output trajectories, by comparing the subsequent performance of funded researchers to those who submitted proposals but were not funded. We control for selection bias using the evaluations of the proposals generated by the grant selection process. We carry out the analysis in two data frames. First we consider the researcher teams behind 1263 second-round proposals submitted 2003- 2008, and look at the post-proposal publication and citation performance of the team as a whole, as a function of pre-proposal performance, the ranking of the proposal by the panel, and the funding. This estimation does not deal with individual researchers’ multiple proposals and funding over time. To disentangle these effects, we consider the 1500 New Zealand researchers who appeared on any of these proposals, and estimate a model predicting annual individual performance as a function of previous performance, recent proposal activity, ranking of any recent proposals, and funding received through recent proposals. Overall, we find that funding is associated with a 6-15% increase in publications and a 22-26% increase in citation-weighted papers for research teams. For individuals, funding is associated with a 3-5% increase in annual publications, and a 5-8% increase in citation-weighted papers for 5 years after grant; however, the lag structure and persistence of this effect post-grant is difficult to pin down. Surprisingly, we find no systematic evidence that the evaluation of proposals by the Marsden system is predictive of subsequent success. We conclude that the Marsden Fund is modestly successful in increasing scientific performance, but that the selection process does not appear to be effective in discriminating among second-round proposals in terms of their likely success.
Vadonocoris Villiers 1957
Creators: name: Castro-Huertas, Valentina
name: Melo, María Cecilia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Reduviidae
Vadonocoris

description: Vadonocoris Villiers, 1957
Type species: Vadonocoris striatus Villiers, 1957. Monotypic.
Diagnosis: Anterior pronotal lobe longer than wide; paramere long and longitudinally curved; posteromedial process of pygophore long, curved and apically with a caudal short projection (Villiers 1957, 1979).
description: Published as part of Castro-Huertas, Valentina & Melo, María Cecilia, 2025, Reassessment of the Saicini phylogeny and evolution of hairy attachment structures on tarsi (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Emesinae), pp. 1-20 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 203 (1) on page 15, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae171, http://zenodo.org/record/14826033
Additional file 1 of Socially-assigned race and health: a scoping review with global implications for population health equity
Creators: name: Kellee White
name: Jourdyn Lawrence
name: Tchangalova, Nedelina
name: Huang, Shuo
name: Cummings, Jason
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Search terms used in database searches
Fundamental limit of phase coherence in two-component Bose-Einstein condensates
Creators: name: Li, Yifan
name: Pawłowski, Krzysztof
name: Décamps, Boris
name: Colciaghi, Paolo
name: Fadel, Matteo
name: Treutlein, Philipp
name: Zibold, Tilman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We experimentally and theoretically study phase coherence in two-component Bose-Einstein condensates of $^{87}{\rm Rb}$ atoms on an atom chip. Using Ramsey interferometry we measure the temporal decay of coherence between the $|F=1,m_{F}=-1\rangle$ and $|F=2,m_{F}=+1\rangle$ hyperfine ground states. We observe that the coherence is limited by random collisional phase shifts due to the stochastic nature of atom loss. The mechanism is confirmed quantitatively by a quantum trajectory method based on a master equation which takes into account collisional interactions, atom number fluctuations, and losses in the system. This decoherence process can be slowed down by reducing the density of the condensate. Our findings are relevant for experiments on quantum metrology and many-particle entanglement with Bose-Einstein condensates and the development of chip-based atomic clocks.
Salvia cualensis J. G. Gonzalez 2012
Creators: name: González-Gallegos, Jesús Guadalupe
name: Castro-Castro, Arturo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Lamiales
Lamiaceae
Salvia
Salvia cualensis

description: Key to Salvia cualensis and its morphologically closest relatives
 1. Floral axis, pedicel and calyx covered with glandular-capitate hairs mixed with eglandular hairs (1.2–1.8 mm long) ......................................................................................................................................................... Salvia heterotricha
– Floral axis, pedicel and calyx covered with eglandular hairs and rarely with glandular-capitate hairs (less than 0.5 mm long)...................................................................................................................................................................... 2
 2. Petiole (0–) 3–15 mm long, leaf blade elliptic to oblancolate; upper calyx lip 5- to 7-veined; filament 1–1.6(–1.9) mm long, connective 3.5–5 mm long; style 7–7.4(–10.7) mm long........................................ Salvia jaimehintoniana
– Petiole 0–2.5 mm long, leaf blade oblong-lanceolate to linear; upper calyx lip 5-veined; filament 2.1–2.4 mm long, connective 4.5–7.5 mm long; style 9.5–13.6 mm long................................................................................................ 3
 3. Leaf blade oblong-lanceolate, (5.2–)8.6–14.4 × 0.9–1.7 cm; floral bract (7–)14–18.6 × 4–6.7 mm; pedicel 2.7–4.4 long; calyx 7.9–11 × 4.4–6.5 mm; corolla tube (7.5–)8.5–11 × 3.5–4.4 mm, upper lip 5.2–8 mm, lower lip 11.1–15 mm long; proximal connective gradually narrowed; style (11–) 12.4–13.6 mm long..................................................... ....................................................................................................................................... Salvia cualensis var. cualensis
 – Leaf blade linear, 4.7–10.5 × 0.3–0.5(–0.7) cm; floral bract (2–)7.5–11.2 × (1–) 2.3–3 mm long; pedicel 2–3 mm long; calyx 6–6.6 × 3–4.5 mm; corolla tube 6–7.6 × 3.5–3.9 mm, upper lip 3.3–6 mm, lower lip (7–) 8–12.2 mm long; proximal connective abruptly narrowed; style 9.5–11 mm long ............................... Salvia cualensis var. perezii
description: Published as part of González-Gallegos, Jesús Guadalupe & Castro-Castro, Arturo, 2012, Salvia cualensis and Salvia cualensis var. perezii (Lamiaceae), two new taxa from the Sierra de El Cuale, Jalisco, Mexico, pp. 47-58 in Phytotaxa 74 (1) on page 55, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.74.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/5066617
title: Asymmetry During Fast Stretching of a Liquid Bridge
Creators: name: Asghar, Muhammad Hassan
name: Brockmann, Philipp
name: Dong, Xulan
name: Niethammer, Matthias
name: Maric, Tomislav
name: Roisman, Ilia
name: Bothe, Dieter
Publisher: name: Wiley-VCH
Year: 2024

description: The dynamics of an axisymmetric liquid bridge stretch are investigated by means of numerical simulations, and the results are validated experimentally. The constant acceleration of the lower substrate stretches the liquid bridge. A simplified simulation model of the experimental setup is developed for the unstructured volume‐of‐fluid two‐phase flow simulation method, which models the lower substrate as a fluid with a prescribed constant acceleration of the retracting substrate. The effect of stretching acceleration, fluid properties, and liquid volume on the liquid bridge dynamics is investigated. It is shown that at low acceleration the length of the lower portion of the bridge is greater than the upper portion, which is reversed at high acceleration. With increasing viscosity, this effect is decreased and the bridge becomes more symmetric.
Scenarios for Semantic Data Discovery
Creators: name: Vasilly Bunakov
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013

description: ENGAGE projectnbsp;aims to build an information infrastructure for Public Sector Information (PSI) which is typically an aggregated data published by national and local governments, or other public bodies. An automated or semi-automated discovery of PSI datasets would cater for the needs of researchers in social science, behavioral science, and economics who want to consider freely available PSI sources for their study, in addition to other data perhaps collected or compiled via a dedicated research project. The researchers could then provide either an explicit or an implicit feedback for the relevance of the discovered PSI to their research needs. This would add up to the quality of data exposed via ENGAGE infrastructure, and empower other ENGAGE users: researchers, as well as citizens who are the second major ENGAGE user category, with the links from PSI aggregated data to the concepts and other datasets including well curated micro-data. We see our poster presentation as a means to suggest an approach to data linking and to gather requirements from data practitioners for the rest of the project.
Methane and Metrics: From global climate policy to the NZ farm
Creators: name: Dorner, Zack
name: Kerr, Suzi
name: Dorner, Zack
name: Kerr, Suzi
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Climate change policy
subject: methane
subject: metrics
subject: New Zealand
subject: agriculture
subject: greenhouse gas
subject: economic impact
subject: dairy farm
subject: sheep and beef farm

description: Stroombergen and Reisinger’s (2012) modelling suggests global pricing of all greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, including agricultural emissions, would be beneficial for the New Zealand economy, with higher GHG prices leading to greater economic benefit. Though this inference may seem counter-intuitive for a country in which agriculture is economically important, when the effects of GHG charges flow on to global commodity prices, the rise in global prices more than compensates NZ for the costs of our GHG emissions. These conclusions rest on a single set of models and several assumptions; however, the broad direction of the conclusions makes sense given the relatively low GHG emissions intensity of agriculture in NZ and the high importance of global commodity prices for NZ’s economic fortunes. In this paper we investigate the implications of Stroombergen and Reisinger’s (2012) results for a model NZ dairy and model NZ sheep and beef farm. We consider three climate policy scenarios that differ by whether agricultural emissions are included and priced globally, and in NZ. We find that NZ farmer interests generally align with NZ’s economic interests, though farmers are more greatly affected by differing international policy scenarios compared with the NZ economy as a whole. We find that the impact of the choice of metric (that is, how agricultural emissions are traded off against carbon dioxide emissions) is minor, especially when compared with the differences between international and domestic policy scenarios. On balance, our results suggest that long term, the best scenario for NZ and our farmers is to fully price global agricultural emissions within an international climate change agreement that allows NZ farmers to exploit their competitive advantage.
Distributed Adaptive Learning Under Communication Constraints
Creators: name: Carpentiero, Marco
name: Matta, Vincenzo
name: Sayed, Ali H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This work examines adaptive distributed learning strategies designed to operate under communication constraints. We consider a network of agents that must solve an online optimization problem from continual observation of streaming data. The agents implement a distributed cooperative strategy where each agent is allowed to perform local exchange of information with its neighbors. In order to cope with communication constraints, the exchanged information must be unavoidably compressed. We propose a diffusion strategy nicknamed as ACTC (Adapt-Compress-Then-Combine), which relies on the following steps: i) an adaptation step where each agent performs an individual stochastic-gradient update with constant step-size; ii) a compression step that leverages a recently introduced class of stochastic compression operators; and iii) a combination step where each agent combines the compressed updates received from its neighbors. The distinguishing elements of this work are as follows. First, we focus on adaptive strategies, where constant (as opposed to diminishing) step-sizes are critical to respond in real time to nonstationary variations. Second, we consider the general class of directed graphs and left-stochastic combination policies, which allow us to enhance the interplay between topology and learning. Third, in contrast with related works that assume strong convexity for all individual agents' cost functions, we require strong convexity only at a network level, a condition satisfied even if a single agent has a strongly-convex cost and the remaining agents have non-convex costs. Fourth, we focus on a diffusion (as opposed to consensus) strategy. Under the demanding setting of compressed information, we establish that the ACTC iterates fluctuate around the desired optimizer, achieving remarkable savings in terms of bits exchanged between neighboring agents.
description: Submitted for publication
Relative Income and Subjective Wellbeing: Intra-national and Inter-national Comparisons by Settlement and Country Type
Creators: name: Grimes, Arthur
name: Reinhardt, Marc
name: Grimes, Arthur
name: Reinhardt, Marc
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Income comparison
subject: wellbeing
subject: Easterlin Paradox
subject: spatial equilibrium

description: We extend the Easterlin Paradox (EP) literature in two key respects, testing whether inter-national as well as intra-national income comparisons matter for subjective wellbeing, and testing whether these effects differ by settlement-type as well as by country-type. We confirm the intra-national EP predictions (that subjective wellbeing is left unchanged by an equi-proportionate rise in all intra-country incomes) across four developed country settlement types ranging from rural areas to large cities. The EP result also holds for rural areas in transitional countries but not for larger settlement sizes in those countries. For all country-settlement types, we confirm the importance also of inter-national income comparisons in determining people’s subjective wellbeing. Again, however, the effect is less prominent in larger transitional country cities. We also show that once we control for personal characteristics and income-related factors, we cannot reject the presence of a spatial equilibrium in life satisfaction. Our results indicate that each individual government that wishes to raise the life satisfaction of its residents still needs to boost those residents’ incomes in order to raise their subjective wellbeing. However, at least amongst developed countries, this practice results in an international Prisoners Dilemma in which mean life satisfaction stays stable despite rising global incomes.
Escola Nacional de Informação para a sociedade contemporânea: uma proposta aberta
Creators: name: M. Pimenta, Ricardo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Apresentação realizada na sessão “O meu Póster em 1 minuto”, da 15ª Conferência Lusófona de Ciência Aberta, na Escola Superior de Enfermagem do Porto (ESEP), de 01 a 04 de outubro de 2024.
Influence of microscopic transport coefficients on the formation probabilities for super-heavy elements
Creators: name: Rummel, Christian
name: Hofmann, Helmut
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The formation probability is shown to increase by a few orders of magnitude if microscopic transport coefficients are used rather than those of the common macroscopic pictures. Quantum effects in collective dynamics are taken into account through the fluctuating force, as exhibited in diffusion coefficients for a Gaussian process. In the range of temperatures considered here, they turn out to be of lesser importance.
description: 20 pages, 9 figures, replaced by revised version accepted for publication in NPA
Identification and temporal trends of patients with neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder in a US insurance claims database
Creators: name: Exuzides, Alex
name: Wu, Ning
name: Sheinson, Daniel
name: Avile, Carlos Flores
name: Costantino, Cristina
name: Sidiropoulos, Paris
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer

description: This US claims-based study aimed to identify and characterize temporal trends in diagnostic pathways for patients likely to have neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD). Patients were identified from IBM MarketScan Commercial Databases if, within 1 year, they had two NMOSD claims separated by ≥ 60 days; two transverse myelitis (TM) or optic neuritis (ON) claims separated by ≥ 60 days, and one additional symptom (TM, ON, or area postrema syndrome); or one NMOSD claim and one additional symptom. The first NMOSD or TM/ON claim was the index date, and the second claim was the diagnosis date. Similar methodology was used in temporal trend and incidence and prevalence analyses. Among 1,901 patients with NMOSD, 34.2% were identified by two NMO claims, 53.2% by ON or TM +1 symptom, and 12.6% by one NMOSD claim +1 symptom. Anti–aquaporin-4 immunoglobin G (AQP4-IgG) autoantibody tests and magnetic resonance imaging was used for 23.0% and 71.9% of cases, respectively. Across cohorts, 21.4–49.1% had multiple sclerosis (MS) diagnosis claims prior to index date, and 37.3–60.6% had an MS diagnosis, 14.9–31.0% had MS disease-modifying therapy (DMT) claims and 6.3–44.8% had immunosuppressive therapy (IST) claims <1 year after diagnosis. Over time, there were slight changes in MS diagnosis claims, AQP4-IgG autoantibody testing, and DMT and IST use before and after NMOSD diagnosis. This study is limited by the information available in US claims databases, which included the potential for misclassification of NMOSD based solely on claims codes and lack of reimbursement for AQP4-IgG testing by insurance companies. Among patients likely to have NMOSD, low AQP4-IgG testing rates, IST use, frequent MS diagnosis claims, and DMT use highlight the need for a diagnostic algorithm and timely treatment of NMOSD.
Additional file 4 of Potential of selected lactic acid bacteria from Theobroma cacao fermented fruit juice and cell-free supernatants from cultures as inhibitors of Helicobacter pylori and as good probiotic
Creators: name: Mabeku, Laure Kouitcheu
name: Ngue, Samuel
name: Nguemo, Idris Bonsou
name: Leundji, Hubert
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 4. Resistance to acidic pH (pH = 2) of isolated lactic acid bacteria at different incubation times (3h, 6h and 24h).
Promoting perinatal healthcare by raising awareness of the multidimensional impacts of birth trauma : recommendations for family nurse practitioners
Creators: name: Merat-Fournier, Anais
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: Background: One-third of women giving birth every year in Canada perceive they have experienced psychological birth trauma. While health researchers have focused on postnatal depression (PND) and postnatal psychosis, there is a growing recognition of other perinatal mental health conditions such as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Post-Traumatic Stress (PTS) following traumatic childbirth experiences. However, the concept of birth trauma and its impact is still not well understood. This paper aims to raise awareness of birth trauma in primary care providers through education and presentation of screening tools and available interventions to prevent birth trauma and support patients who have experienced birth trauma. Methods: A literature search was undertaken within the last ten years, limited to manuscripts from Western countries, in English and peer-reviewed. A total of 35 articles were included, with most of the studies being primary source research. A professional poster and infographics were created to disseminate the findings generated from the current literature review. Findings: Women with pre-existing mental conditions, a history of sexual trauma, fear of childbirth, low perceived support system, and giving birth during the COVID-19 pandemic had an increased risk of perceiving their birth as a traumatic experience. Furthermore, dynamics arising during childbirth such as severe psychological distress, a discrepancy between expectations and reality, insufficient communication with care providers, and feeling ignored by health care providers were identified as contributing factors for birth trauma. PTSD, PTS, breastfeeding and mother-infant interaction difficulties, as well as fear of subsequent childbirth were found to be the principal complications. Conclusion: Primary care providers are key professionals in screening the population at risk of perceiving their childbirth as traumatic, as well as identifying and providing early interventions to women with childbirth trauma in order to minimize the potential short and long-term consequences for the mothers and babies.
Archive and Data Management Training Center
Creators: name: Horton, Laurence
name: Recker, Astrid
name: Katsanidou, Alexia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013

description: The Archive and Data Management Training Center exists to ensure excellence in the creation, management, and long-term preservation of social science research data. Our aim is to increase data quality and data availability for the benefit of the social sciences. At the center of activities lies the importance of sharing publicly funded research data and meeting funder requirements on data management, preservation, and re-use as well as awareness of good practice in data licensing, documentation and data enhancement, methods of data sharing, file formats, physical and digital data storage, and preservation planning. We offer training and consulting on data management planning for researchers, projects, and centers. Additionally, we provide courses on long-term archiving and preservation, data dissemination and security, licensing data for use, managing access systems, format migration and verification. Our target audiences include (a) principal investigators for research projects who plan the data management and are responsible for its implementation and oversight, (b) individual researchers or researchers who are members of project teams and who actually implement data management procedures, (c) social science and humanities data archivists responsible for digital curation, data enhancement, and long-term preservation.
Search for Doubly-Charged Higgs Bosons Decaying to Dileptons in ppbar Collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV
Creators: name: CDF Collaboration
name: Acosta, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of a search for doubly-charged Higgs bosons (H+/-+/-) decaying to dileptons using ~240/pb of ppbar collision data collected by the CDF II experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron. In our search region, given by same-sign dilepton mass m_ll' > 80 GeV/c^2 (100 GeV/c^2 for dielectron channel), we observe no evidence for doubly-charged Higgs production. We set limits on sigma (ppbar --> H++H-- --> l+l+l-l-) as a function of the mass of the doubly-charged Higgs boson and the chirality of its couplings. Assuming exclusive same-sign dilepton decays, we derive lower mass limits on H+/-+/-_L of 133 GeV/c^2, 136 GeV/c^2, and 115 GeV/c^2 in the ee, mu mu, and e mu channels, respectively, and a lower mass limit of 113 GeV/c^2 on H+/-+/-_R in the mu mu channel, all at the 95% confidence level.
description: 15 pages, 3 figures, submitted to PRL
A New Cross Country Measure of Material Wellbeing and Inequality Methodology, Construction and Results
Creators: name: Grimes, Arthur
name: Hyland, Sean
name: Grimes, Arthur
name: Hyland, Sean
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Public Economics
subject: Material wellbeing
subject: quality of life
subject: national accounts
subject: cross-country analysis
subject: distributions
subject: inequality
subject: household durables.

description: This paper advances a new framework for defining a country’s material wellbeing based on the distribution of consumer durables, building on the recent material wellbeing literature that calls for an increased focus on both the level and the distribution of consumption and wealth. Our framework is demonstrated using household-level data from the OECD PISA surveys, from which triennial metrics are constructed consistently for 40 countries since 2000. Comparisons with income-based alternative metrics suggest that our consumption-based measure captures important aspects of material wellbeing at both the micro and the macro level. Differences between the two approaches is shown to be associated with life-cycle smoothing, an important aspect that should be captured in material wellbeing estimates.
Supplementary document for Continuous and precise modulation of vortex beams based on terahertz full-space coding metasurfaces - 7335935.pdf
Creators: name: Yan, Xin
name: Huai, Fei
name: Zhang, Yonggang
name: lv, kaikai
name: Liang, Lanju
name: Li, Zhenhua
name: wang, ziqun
name: Yao, Haiyun
name: hu, xiaofei
name: Li, Yuanping
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: S1. The properties of VO2,S2. Principle of phase arrangement on metasurface and mode purity calculation formulae,S3. Logical fraction coding strategies for Ni less than one,S4. The principle of convolution
Lagrangian multiforms on Lie groups and non-commuting flows
Creators: name: Caudrelier, Vincent
name: Nijhoff, Frank
name: Sleigh, Duncan
name: Vermeeren, Mats
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe a variational framework for non-commuting flows, extending the theories of Lagrangian multiforms and pluri-Lagrangian systems, which have gained prominence in recent years as a variational description of integrable systems in the sense of multidimensional consistency. In the context of non-commuting flows, the manifold of independent variables, often called multi-time, is a Lie group whose bracket structure corresponds to the commutation relations between the vector fields generating the flows. Natural examples are provided by superintegrable systems for the case of Lagrangian 1-form structures, and integrable hierarchies on loop groups in the case of Lagrangian 2-forms. As particular examples we discuss the Kepler problem, the rational Calogero-Moser system, and a generalisation of the Ablowitz-Kaup-Newell-Segur system with non-commuting flows. We view this endeavour as a first step towards a purely variational approach to Lie group actions on manifolds.
description: 51 pages. v2: author accepted manuscript
The impact of R&D subsidy on innovation: a study of New Zealand firms
Creators: name: Jaffee, Adam
name: Le, Trinh
name: Jaffee, Adam
name: Le, Trinh
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Industrial policy
subject: innovation
subject: R&D

description: This paper examines the impact of government assistance through R&D grants on innovation output for firms in New Zealand. Using a large database that links administrative and tax data with survey data, we are able to control for large number of firm characteristics and thus minimise selection bias. We find that receipt of an R&D grant significantly increases the probability that a firm in the manufacturing and service sectors applies for a patent during 2005–2009, but no positive impact is found on the probability of applying for a trademark. Using only firms that participated in the Business Operation Survey, we find that receiving a grant almost doubles the probability that a firm introduces new goods and services to the world while its effects on process innovation and any product innovation are relatively much weaker. Moreover, there is little evidence that grant receipt has differential effects between small to medium (<50 employees) and larger firms. These findings are broadly in line with recent international evidence from Japan, Canada and Italy which found positive impacts of public R&D subsidy on patenting activity and the introduction of new products.
Villiersella Schouteden 1950
Creators: name: Castro-Huertas, Valentina
name: Melo, María Cecilia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Reduviidae
Villiersella

description: Villiersella Schouteden, 1950
Type species: Polytoxus inermis Villiers, 1950a. By original designation, four species included.
Diagnosis: Humeral angles flat; parameres long; posterolateral margin of pygophore usually with a protruding process on each side (Elkins 1956, Villiers 1969). In addition, head rounded, gular region with simple setae; second visible labial segment as long as third visible labial segment; posteromedial surface of the abdominal sternite 8 with processes; apex of paramere flat; and distal portion of endosoma membranous.
Examined material: Villiersella agalma Elkins, 1956: one male, GHANA: Tafo, 2.v.1966, Leston / U. V.trap (MNHN). Villiersella inermis (Villiers): one male, GHANA: Tafo, 26.iv.1966, Leston / U. V. trap (MNHN). Villiersella longispinis Villiers, 1966: one female, GHANA: Tafo, 4.v.1966, Leston / U. V. trap (MNHN). Villiersella testacea Villiers, 1967: one male, GHANA: Tafo, 28.iv.1966, Leston/U. V. trap (MNHN).
description: Published as part of Castro-Huertas, Valentina & Melo, María Cecilia, 2025, Reassessment of the Saicini phylogeny and evolution of hairy attachment structures on tarsi (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Emesinae), pp. 1-20 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 203 (1) on pages 15-16, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae171, http://zenodo.org/record/14826033
Nitrogen Trading in Lake Taupo
Creators: name: Duhon, Madeline
name: McDonald, Hugh
name: Kerr, Suzi
name: Duhon, Madeline
name: McDonald, Hugh
name: Kerr, Suzi
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: This paper provides an overview and early evaluation of the Lake Taupo nitrogen cap and trade programme, established as part of Waikato Regional Council’s 2011 Regional Plan Variation Five. The policy establishes a catchment-wide cap on nitrogen losses by allocating farmers individual nitrogen discharge allowances and allowing those farmers flexibility to trade allowances amongst themselves and to sell allowances to a public fund while remaining within the overall catchment cap. The Taupo trading scheme is the world’s first agricultural non-pointsource water-quality cap and trade scheme. This paper explains the structure and evolution of the nitrogen trading market, and analyses its impact thus far. Research drawn from written material and descriptive quantitative data provides the basis for analysing the policy, while interviews with relevant stakeholders provide insight into the successful, surprising and contentious issues that arose throughout its development and implementation.
Η ιστορία και η κληρονομιά του Seinfeld
Creators: name: Ξανθίδης, Γεώργιος Δημητρίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2024
Subjects: Seinfeld
Κωμωδία κατάστασης
Ανάλυση τριών μερών
Sitcom
Three-part analysis

description: Since the early days of American television, sitcoms became a most popular genre. However, not all successful sitcoms have managed to become classics or genre paradigms. This informative thesis examines Seinfeld (NBC, 1989 - 1998), how it rose to fame, how it achieved its status, and how it influenced contemporary television since its finale. Drawing from various sources, including books, documentaries, and interviews, this essay offers a thorough investigation of the show’s production after examining the sociocultural context that led to its pilot. To assess the sitcom’s success during its original broadcast, this thesis examines the thematic qualities and storytelling devices of a select pool of episodes. Finally, the thesis tackles Seinfeld’s legacy by examining its success in syndication, its effects on the sitcom genre, and its influence on pop-culture.
description: Η εκπομπές sitcom απέδειξαν το δημοφιλια τους από τις πρώτες μέρες της Αμερικανικής τηλεόρασης. Αυτή η διπλωματική εργασία μελετάει το Seinfeld, ελέγχει την δημιουργία της σειράς, πως κατάφερε να γίνει δημοφιλή και πως επηρέασε την τηλεόραση μετά την προβολή της. Αυτό γίνεται κάνοντας έρευνα σε τρία μέρη, ερευνώντας την ιστορία, θεματολογία, και επιρροή της σειράς.
Magnetorotational Instability in a Couette Flow of Plasma
Creators: name: Noguchi, Koichi
name: Pariev, Vladimir I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: All experiments, which have been proposed so far to model the magnetorotational instability (MRI) in the laboratory, involve a Couette flow of liquid metals in a rotating annulus. All liquid metals have small magnetic Prandtl numbers, Pm, of about 10^{-6} (the ratio of kinematic viscosity to magnetic diffusivity). With plasmas both large and small Pm are achievable by varying the temperature and the density of plasma. Compressibility and fast rotation of the plasma result in radial stratification of the equilibrium plasma density. Evolution of perturbations in radially stratified viscous and resistive plasma permeated by an axial uniform magnetic field is considered. The differential rotation of the plasma is induced by the ExB drift in applied radial electric field. Global unstable eigenmodes are calculated by our newly developed matrix code. The plasma is shown to be MRI unstable for parameters easily achievable in experimental setup.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures; to be published in the Proceedings of the 3d Workshop on Non-Neutral Plasmas, July 2003, Santa Fe, USA
Additional file 1 of Assessing health system responsiveness in primary health care facilities in Tanzania
Creators: name: Ntuli Kapologwe
name: Kibusi, Stephen
name: Borghi, Josephine
name: Gwajima, Dorothy
name: Kalolo, Albino
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Questionnaire on patient exit interview.