cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A META-ANALYSIS OF ENVIRONMENTAL KUZNETS CURVE STUDIES
Creators: name: Cavlovic, Therese A.
name: Baker, Kenneth H.
name: Berrens, Robert P.
name: Gawande, Kishore
name: Cavlovic, Therese A.
name: Baker, Kenneth H.
name: Berrens, Robert P.
name: Gawande, Kishore
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: An understanding of the empirical relationship between income and environmental quality is evolving through recent studies investigating the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC). The EKC represents an inverted-U relationship between income and environmental degradation. However, studies may employ different methods, evaluate different environmental indicators, and use different data, resulting in a broad spectrum of findings and leading to sometimes conflicting interpretations. The purpose of this paper is to synthesize the results of existing EKC findings by conducting a statistical meta-analysis, and to predict new income turning points (ITP). Results indicate how both methodological choices and pollutant types affect ITPs.
Unsettling physics in the quantum-corrected Schwarzschild black hole
Creators: name: Faraoni, Valerio
name: Giusti, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 83C57, 83C45

description: We study a quantum-corrected Schwarzschild black hole proposed recently in Loop Quantum Gravity. Prompted by the fact that corrections to the innermost stable circular orbit of Schwarzschild diverge, we investigate timelike and null radial geodesics. Massive particles moving radially outwards are confined, while photons make it to infinity with infinite redshift. This unsettling physics, which deviates radically from both Schwarzschild (near the horizon) and Minkowski (at infinity) is due to repulsion by the negative quantum energy density that makes the quasilocal mass vanish as one approaches spatial infinity.
description: 12 pages, no figures, Invited paper to appear in Symmetry
A GAME THEORETIC APPROACH TO ORGANIC FOODS: AN ANALYSIS OF ASYMMETRIC INFORMATION AND POLICY
Creators: name: McCluskey, Jill J.
name: McCluskey, Jill J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis

description: Demand for healthy, safe and environmentally friendly food products has been increasing. In response, producers are marketing organic and other quality-differentiated foods, sometimes claiming to have followed sound environmental and animal welfare practices. These products frequently have unobservable quality attributes. If the profit-maximizing producer is able to deceive the consumer with a false claim, then he or she will enjoy a higher price with lower production costs (compared to the full disclosure outcomes). The analysis described in this paper shows that repeat-purchase relationships and third party monitoring are required for high-quality credence goods to be available. Policy implications of this analysis for national organic food standards are discussed.
Plaquette expectation value and gluon condensate in three dimensions
Creators: name: Hietanen, A.
name: Kajantie, K.
name: Laine, M.
name: Rummukainen, K.
name: Schroder, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In three dimensions, the gluon condensate of pure SU(3) gauge theory has ultraviolet divergences up to 4-loop level only. By subtracting the corresponding terms from lattice measurements of the plaquette expectation value and extrapolating to the continuum limit, we extract the finite part of the gluon condensate in lattice regularization. Through a change of regularization scheme to MSbar and (inverse) dimensional reduction, this result would determine the first non-perturbative coefficient in the weak-coupling expansion of hot QCD pressure.
description: 11 pages
A REVIEW OF TARIFF RATE QUOTA ADMINISTRATION IN CANADIAN AGRICULTURE
Creators: name: Barichello, Richard R.
name: Barichello, Richard R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: To analyze Canada's Tariff Rate Quota (TRQ) administration, a model of efficient quota administration is put forward. After examining the operation of the Canadian TRQ system for its twenty-one TRQs, conclusions are drawn. In general this system has worked well in Canada. The quotas are almost all filled, and the administration is transparent and not costly for quota-holders to use. Among the international lessons from Canada's experience are that few WTO rules may be needed in this area, aside from steps to ensure the TRQ is fully available to users and can be freely transferred among them.
TARIFF RATE QUOTA IMPLEMENTATION AND ADMINISTRATION BY DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Creators: name: Abbott, Philip C.
name: Morse, B. Adair
name: Abbott, Philip C.
name: Morse, B. Adair
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: Tariff rate quota administration and implementation are empirically evaluated for the fourteen developing countries notifying the WTO of the use of TRQs. FAO trade data, UNCTAD data on applied tariffs and the WTO notifications permit us to assess underfill of quotas, discrimination among exporters, use of state trading as an implementation mechanism, and the extent of protection under these TRQs. Substantial liberalization was found, generally due to use of low MFN tariffs rather than through TRQs permitting greater market access. High tariff bindings and endogenous quotas allow these countries to pursue flexible trade regimes within their WTO commitments.
Self-switching Kerr oscillations of counter-propagating light in microresonators
Creators: name: Woodley, Michael T. M.
name: Hill, Lewis
name: Del Bino, Leonardo
name: Oppo, Gian-Luca
name: Del'Haye, Pascal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the experimental observation of oscillatory antiphase switching between counter-propagating light beams in Kerr ring microresonators, including the emergence of periodic behaviour from a chaotic regime. Self-switching occurs in balanced regimes of operation and is well captured by a simple coupled dynamical system featuring only the self- and cross-phase Kerr nonlinearities. Switching phenomena are due to temporal instabilities of symmetry-broken states combined with attractor merging that restores the broken symmetry on average. Self-switching of counter-propagating light is robust for realising controllable, all-optical generation of waveforms, signal encoding and chaotic cryptography.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures
FARMER EFFICIENCY AND TECHNOLOGY USE WITH AGE
Creators: name: Tauer, Loren W.
name: Lordkipanidze, Nazibrola
name: Tauer, Loren W.
name: Lordkipanidze, Nazibrola
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: Farm Management
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Productivity of U.S. farmers by age is measured by non-parametric programming using 1992 Census data, decomposed into efficiency and technology Malmquist index components. Productivity increases slightly with age and then decreases. In most states productivity variations are from technology use rather than efficiency differences.
THE POTENTIAL IMPACT OF AIRLINE DEREGULATION ON FEEDER ROUTES IN THE FAR WEST
Creators: name: Shepard, Lawrence
name: Shepard, Lawrence
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1977
Subjects: Public Economics

description: In anticipation of the air transportation regulatory reform act, this paper assesses the consequences of deregulating the airline industry. Particular attention is devoted to the impact of deregulation on air fares, travel demand, and flight frequency for relatively short feeder routes connecting small cities and rural centers. On the basis of a sample of routes in the far western states, it appears that deregulation would raise fares on routes shorter than 100 miles while lowering prices on longer trunk routes connecting major metropolitan areas. Flight frequency on particular routes would be curtailed by approximately 28 percent as airlines substituted price competition for non-price rivalry under a new regulatory regime.
COMMODITY PRICES AND RESOURCE USE UNDER VARIOUS ENERGY ALTERNATIVES IN AGRICULTURE
Creators: name: Dvoskin, Dan
name: Heady, Earl O.
name: Dvoskin, Dan
name: Heady, Earl O.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1977
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: An interregional, large-scale linear programming model is used to evaluate the economic impact of the energy crisis on U.S. agricultural production. The study examines the changes in crop production under energy minimization, an energy shortage, high energy prices, and high agricultural exports accompanied by high energy prices. Results indicate that reduced supplies or higher prices for energy will have important impacts on commodity prices, irrigated agriculture, and on rural communities.
Role of family support and self-care practices in blood pressure control in individuals with hypertension; results from a cross sectional study in Kollam District, Kerala
Creators: name: Chacko, Susanna
name: Panniyammakal Jeemon
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111706 Epidemiology
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Background: Despite the availability of effective drugs, blood pressure (BP) control rate is sub-optimal in individual with hypertension in low and middle-income countries (LMIC). The role of self-care in management of BP is less studied in LMIC settings.Methods: We conducted a community-based, cross-sectional study in individuals with hypertension in Kollam district, Kerala. A multistage cluster sampling method was used for selection of study participants. We measured self-care by using an adapted Hypertension self-care activity level effects (H-SCALE) scale. Descriptive statistics were used to summarise the data and logistic regression analysis was conducted to identify factors associated with BP control.Results: In total, 690 individuals with hypertension (women=60%) and a mean age of 57±8 years participated in the study. More than half (54%) of the participants were adherent to anti-hypertensive medications. However, the adherence rate was much lower for the DASH diet (12.8%), recommended level of physical activity (24%) and weight management (11.4%). Overall BP control was achieved in two of five individuals (38.4%, 95%CI: 34.7-42.0%). Among self-care activities, adherence to medications (AOR: 1.8, 95%CI: 1.3-2.5), DASH diet (AOR: 1.5, 95%CI: 1.0-2.4),and non-smoking status (AOR: 3.3, 95%CI: 1.7-6.4) were associated with control of BP. Additionally, family support to self-care (AOR: 1.9, 95% CI: 1.1-3.1) was associated with control of BP.Conclusion: In individuals with hypertension, the BP control rate is achieved in two of five individuals. Adoption of self-care activities are sub-optimal. Both family support and adherence to self-care activities are associated with BP control. Family based interventions to improve adherence to self-care activities could have a significant public health impact in achieving better population-level BP control rates in Kerala, India.
Jahn-Teller systems at half filling: crossover from Heisenberg to Ising behavior
Creators: name: Ziegler, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Jahn-Teller model with $E\otimesβ$ electron-phonon coupling and local (Hubbard-like) Coulomb interaction is considered to describe a lattice system with two orbitals per site at half filling. Starting from a state with one electron per site, we follow the tunneling of the electrons and the associated creation of an arbitrary number of phonons due to electron-phonon interaction. For this purpose we apply a recursive method which allows us to organize systematically the number of pairs of empty/doubly occupied sites and to include infinitely many phonons which are induced by electronic tunneling. In lowest order of the recursion (i.e. for all processes with only one pairs of empty/doubly occupied sites) we obtain an effective anisotropic pseudospin 1/2 Heisenberg Hamiltonian $H_{eff}$ as a description of the orbital degrees of freedom. The pseudospin coupling depends on the physical parameters and the energy. This implies that the resulting resolvent $(z-H_{eff}(z))^{-1}$ has an infinite number of poles, even for a single site. $H_{eff}$ is subject to a crossover from an isotropic Heisenberg model (weak electron-phonon coupling) to an Ising model (strong electron-phonon coupling).
description: 8 pages, 1 figure
Governing disease, governing desire : subtitle subjectivity and the logic of recovery in Alcoholics Anonymous
Creators: name: Vrecko, Scott
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Through an examination of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), this thesis investigates the origins and implications of an alcoholic subjectivity that seems to necessitate the establishment of certain regimes of governance, both by alcoholics themselves and by agents of social regulation or coordination. Based on historical research, textual analysis of primary documents, and participant observation studies, it challenges prevailing accounts of AA, the dominant modality of alcoholism treatment in North America, as an exclusively spiritual or ethical program. Instead, it demonstrates that since the 1930s, in conjunction with medical, psychological, psychiatric, and social work disciplines, AA has produced a conceptualization of problem drinkers as inherently pathological individuals - alcoholics - and a corresponding regulatory regime to treat this pathology. The recovery program of AA is therefore examined as a bifurcated technology of governmentality, comprised of disciplinary and self-governing techniques.
PHYSICIAN PARTICIPATION IN MEDICAID
Creators: name: Kushman, John E.
name: Kushman, John E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1977
Subjects: Health Economics and Policy

description: An economic model of the physician's choice whether or not to treat patients in the Medicaid program is presented. Hypotheses derived from the model are tested using data from California's Medicaid program. Variations in Physician participation between urban and rural areas and the associated variations in access are examined. The impacts of federal and state health manpower programs on physician participation and access to cure are discussed.
Wave propagation in highly inhomogeneous thin films : exactly solvable models
Creators: name: Petite, Guillaume
name: Shvartsburg, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an exact treatment of wave propagation in some inhomogeneous thin films with highly space-dependent dielectric constant. It is based on a space transformation which replaces the physical space by the optical path. In the new space, the dispersion equation is that of a normal progressive wave. We will show that the dispersion properties of such films are plasma- or waveguide-like, the characteristic frequency being determined by the spatial characteristics of the dielectric constant's variations only. The theory is scalable, so that it can be applied in any wavelength range : optical, IR, radiofrequency, etc. depending only on the characteristic space scales. Several applications will be presented, concerning the reflection properties of such films (broadband anti-reflection, or dichroic coatings) or to the propagation and transmission through the film. We will show that depending on the type of space dependence, an incident wave can either propagate or tunnel through such films. We will investigate the behaviour of the light group-velocity and tunneling time inside or through such films. Though we can reproduce the phase-time saturation corresponding to the Hartman effect, analysis of the group velocity in the tunneling case shows no sign of superluminal propagation. A strong frequency dependence can be obtained in some situations, which allows to anticipate a strong reshaping of brodband laser pulses.
Intelligent Exploration for User Interface Modules of Mobile App with Collective Learning
Creators: name: Zhou, Jingbo
name: Tang, Zhenwei
name: Zhao, Min
name: Ge, Xiang
name: Zhuang, Fuzhen
name: Zhou, Meng
name: Zou, Liming
name: Yang, Chenglei
name: Xiong, Hui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: H.5.2; D.2.2; I.2.6

description: A mobile app interface usually consists of a set of user interface modules. How to properly design these user interface modules is vital to achieving user satisfaction for a mobile app. However, there are few methods to determine design variables for user interface modules except for relying on the judgment of designers. Usually, a laborious post-processing step is necessary to verify the key change of each design variable. Therefore, there is a only very limited amount of design solutions that can be tested. It is timeconsuming and almost impossible to figure out the best design solutions as there are many modules. To this end, we introduce FEELER, a framework to fast and intelligently explore design solutions of user interface modules with a collective machine learning approach. FEELER can help designers quantitatively measure the preference score of different design solutions, aiming to facilitate the designers to conveniently and quickly adjust user interface module. We conducted extensive experimental evaluations on two real-life datasets to demonstrate its applicability in real-life cases of user interface module design in the Baidu App, which is one of the most popular mobile apps in China.
description: 10 pages, accepted as a full paper in KDD 2020
Maalmi_Supplementary Material.docx
Creators: name: Maalmi, Haifa
name: Herder, Christian
name: Strassburger, Klaus
name: Urner, Sofia
name: Jandeleit-Dahm, Karin
name: Zaharia, Oana-Patricia
name: Yanislava Karusheva
name: Bongaerts, Brenda W. C.
name: Rathmann, Wolfgang
name: Burkart, Volker
name: Szendroedi, Julia
name: Roden, Michael
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biomarkers
subject: 110306 Endocrinology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Multiple novel associations between biomarkers of inflammation and glomerular filtration rate in middle-aged individuals with recent-onset type 1 and type 2 diabetes
THE INCREASING ROLE OF STATES IN WATER MANAGEMENT: THE WYOMING EXPERIENCE
Creators: name: Jacobs, James J.
name: Taylor, David T.
name: Jacobs, James J.
name: Taylor, David T.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1989
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: The net effect of states providing large grants for water development is cheap water for some uses. The resulting low cost of water promotes and inefficient water-using policy rather than an efficient water-conserving policy. An alternative is for states to require project benefits to equal project costs and to limit grant size to identified public and secondary benefits. In this case project beneficiaries would pay for all project costs less identified public and secondary benefits, encouraging more efficient use of existing water supplies.
Sangaris luteonotata Monne & Monne 2009
Creators: name: Lanuza-Garay, Alfredo
name: Taboada-Verona, Carlos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Sangaris
Sangaris luteonotata

description: Sangaris luteonotata Monné & Monné, 2009
(Fig. 11)
Known distribution. Ecuador (Napo) (Monné & Monné 2009; Lingafelter et al. 2014; Tavakilian & Chevillotte 2025).
Material examined. 1 specimen female, PERU (New country record), Loreto, Explorama Lodge, Yanamono R. (Affl. Amazon R.), 80 km NE Iquitos, 7.xi.1990, D. Quintero and R. Cambra T. leg. (MIUP).
description: Published as part of Lanuza-Garay, Alfredo & Taboada-Verona, Carlos, 2025, Description of a new species of Colobothea Lepeletier & Audinet-Serville, 1825 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae) from Central America, and new distributional records and taxonomic notes of Peruvian and Panamanian Cerambycidae, pp. 273-284 in Zootaxa 5621 (2) on page 279, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5621.2.7, http://zenodo.org/record/15262683
How to Compute Using Quantum Walks
Creators: name: Kendon, Viv
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum walks are widely and successfully used to model diverse physical processes. This leads to computation of the models, to explore their properties. Quantum walks have also been shown to be universal for quantum computing. This is a more subtle result than is often appreciated, since it applies to computations run on qubit-based quantum computers in the single walker case, and physical quantum walks in the multi-walker case (quantum cellular automata). Nonetheless, quantum walks are powerful tools for quantum computing when correctly applied. In this paper, I explain the relationship between quantum walks as models and quantum walks as computational tools, and give some examples of their application in both contexts.
description: In Proceedings QSQW 2020, arXiv:2004.01061
Millisecond Proto-Magnetars & Gamma Ray Bursts
Creators: name: Thompson, Todd A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the seconds after core collapse and explosion, a thermal neutrino-driven wind emerges from the cooling, deleptonizing newly-born neutron star. If the neutron star has a large-scale magnetar-strength surface magnetic field and millisecond rotation period, then the wind is driven primarily by magneto-centrifugal slinging, and only secondarily by neutrino interactions. The strong magnetic field forces the wind to corotate with the stellar surface and the neutron star's rotational energy is efficiently extracted. As the neutron star cools, and the wind becomes increasingly magnetically-dominated, the outflow becomes relativistic. Here I review the millisecond magnetar model for long-duration gamma ray bursts and explore some of the basic physics of neutrino-magnetocentrifugal winds. I further speculate on some issues of collimation and geometry in the millisecond magnetar model.
description: Proceedings of the 4th workshop on Gamma Ray Bursts in the Afterglow Era, Rome, 2004; 6 pages
Influence of Absolute Humidity, Temperature and Population Density on COVID-19 Spread and Decay Durations: Multi-prefecture Study in Japan
Creators: name: Rashed, Essam A.
name: Kodera, Sachiko
name: Gomez-Tames, Jose
name: Hirata, Akimasa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This study analyzed the spread and decay durations of the COVID-19 pandemic in different prefectures of Japan. During the pandemic, affordable healthcare was widely available in Japan and the medical system did not suffer a collapse, making accurate comparisons between prefectures possible. For the 16 prefectures included in this study that had daily maximum confirmed cases exceeding ten, the number of daily confirmed cases follow bell-shape or log-normal distribution in most prefectures. A good correlation was observed between the spread and decay durations. However, some exceptions were observed in areas where travelers returned from foreign countries, which were defined as the origins of infection clusters. Excluding these prefectures, the population density was shown to be a major factor affecting the spread and decay patterns, with R2=0.39 (p<0.05) and 0.42 (p<0.05), respectively, approximately corresponding to social distancing. The maximum absolute humidity was found to affect the decay duration normalized by the population density (R2>0.36, p <0.05). Our findings indicate that the estimated pandemic spread duration, based on the multivariate analysis of maximum absolute humidity, ambient temperature, and population density (adjusted R2=0.53, p-value<0.05), could prove useful for intervention planning during potential future pandemics, including a second COVID-19 outbreak.
description: Submitted to: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Loop Variables and the (Free) Open String in a Curved Background
Creators: name: Sathiapalan, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the loop variable formalism as applied to a sigma model in curved target space, we give a systematic method for writing down gauge and generally covariant equations of motion for the modes of the free open string in curved space. The equations are obtained by covariantizing the flat space equation and then demanding gauge invariance, which introduces additional curvature couplings. As an illustration of the procedure, the spin two case is worked out explicitly.
description: 19 pages, Latex; One reference added
Loneura colombiana Garcia Aldrete, Gonzalez & Carrejo.
Creators: name: Obando, Ranulfo González
name: Gironza, Nancy Carrejo
name: Panche, Jeferson
name: Aldrete, Alfonso Neri García
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Psocodea
Ptiloneuridae
Loneura
Loneura colombiana

description: L. colombiana García Aldrete, González & Carrejo. Female
(Figs 136–140)
 This species was described on basis of males, collected at Vereda Argentina, Villavicencio, Meta, Colombia (García Aldrete et al. 2011a). In this survey, upon examination of specimens from the Alexander von Humboldt Institute Collection, we found two females and one male from the National Natural Park Tayrona (Magdalena Department, Pueblito and Cañaveral). The pigmentation pattern of head, thorax, legs and forewings, as well as the wing shape and wing venation of the females are similar to those of the males of L. colombiana García Aldrete et al. , so we assign those females to L. colombiana.
 Color. Body, head, legs and wings as in the male. Subgenital plate hyaline, with pigmented area V-shaped, light brown posteriorly, dark brown anteriorly. Gonapophyses brown, ninth sternum light brown. Epiproct and paraprocts missing.
 Morphology. Head (Fig. 138) H/MxW: 1.0; compound eyes large, H/d: 3.55; IO/MxW: 0.44. Vertex at the same level of the upper border of the compound eyes; outer cusp of lacinial tips broad, with 8 denticles. Mx4/Mx2: 1.34. Forewings (Fig. 136) L/W: 2.38; pterostigma: lp/wp: 4.36, elongate, wider in the middle; M five-branched, M5 forked; areola postica: la/ha: 1.50, tall, broadly triangular, apically rounded. Hindwings (Fig. 137) l/w: 2.85; M four-branched. Subgenital plate (Fig. 139) wide, setose, with posterior border rounded. Gonapophyses (Fig. 140): v1 elongate, slender and acuminate; v2+3 with a proximal short heel, v2 with a row of 7 macrosetae; distal process long, sinuous and acuminate, bearing microspicules on surface. Ninth sternum (Fig. 140) distinctly pigmented, oval.
 Measurements. FW: 3800, HW: 2925, F: 1100, T: 1742, t1: 700, t2: 83, t3: 111, ctt1: 27, f1: 775, f2: 712, Mx4: 227, IO: 455, D: 413, d: 290, IO/d: 1.57, PO: 0.70.
 Material studied. COLOMBIA. Magdalena. National Natural Park Tayrona. 1 male, 2 females. Cañaveral, 11°18’N: 73°56’W, 50 m. 7–13.I.2003. Malaise trap. C. Sarmiento.
description: Published as part of Obando, Ranulfo González, Gironza, Nancy Carrejo, Panche, Jeferson & Aldrete, Alfonso Neri García, 2020, The genus Loneura Navás (Insecta: Psocodea: ' Psocoptera': Ptiloneuridae) in Colombia, description of new species and key for identification, pp. 201-249 in Zootaxa 4802 (2) on page 242, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4802.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3904978
TDCOSMO III: Dark matter substructure meets dark energy -- the effects of (sub)halos on strong-lensing measurements of $H_0$
Creators: name: Gilman, Daniel
name: Birrer, Simon
name: Treu, Tommaso
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Time delay cosmography uses the arrival time delays between images in strong gravitational lenses to measure cosmological parameters, in particular the Hubble constant $H_0$. The lens models used in time delay cosmography omit dark matter subhalos and line-of-sight halos because their effects are assumed to be negligible. We explicitly quantify this assumption by analyzing mock lens systems that include full populations of dark matter subhalos and line-of-sight halos, applying the same modeling assumptions used in the literature to infer $H_0$. We base the mock lenses on six quadruply-imaged quasars that have delivered measurements of the Hubble constant, and quantify the additional uncertainties and/or bias on a lens-by-lens basis. We show that omitting dark substructure does not bias inferences of $H_0$. However, perturbations from substructure contribute an additional source of random uncertainty in the inferred value of $H_0$ that scales as the square root of the lensing volume divided by the longest time delay. This additional source of uncertainty, for which we provide a fitting function, ranges from $0.7 - 2.4\%$. It may need to be incorporated in the error budget as the precision of cosmographic inferences from single lenses improves, and sets a precision limit on inferences from single lenses.
description: accepted by Astronomy and Astrophysics
Key Questions for Modelling COVID-19 Exit Strategies
Creators: name: Thompson, Robin N
name: Hollingsworth, T Deirdre
name: Isham, Valerie
name: Arribas-Bel, Daniel
name: Ashby, Ben
name: Britton, Tom
name: Challoner, Peter
name: Chappell, Lauren H K
name: Clapham, Hannah
name: Cunniffe, Nik J
name: Dawid, A Philip
name: Donnelly, Christl A
name: Eggo, Rosalind
name: Funk, Sebastian
name: Gilbert, Nigel
name: Gog, Julia R
name: Glendinning, Paul
name: Hart, William S
name: Heesterbeek, Hans
name: House, Thomas
name: Keeling, Matt
name: Kiss, Istvan Z
name: Kretzschmar, Mirjam
name: Lloyd, Alun L
name: McBryde, Emma S
name: McCaw, James M
name: Miller, Joel C
name: McKinley, Trevelyan J
name: Morris, Martina
name: ONeill, Philip D
name: Pearson, Carl A B
name: Parag, Kris V
name: Pellis, Lorenzo
name: Pulliam, Juliet R C
name: Ross, Joshua V
name: Tildesley, Michael J
name: Tomba, Gianpaolo Scalia
name: Silverman, Bernard W
name: Struchiner, Claudio J
name: Trapman, Pieter
name: Webb, Cerian R
name: Mollison, Denis
name: Restif, Olivier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Other Quantitative Biology (q-bio.OT)
subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Combinations of intense non-pharmaceutical interventions ('lockdowns') were introduced in countries worldwide to reduce SARS-CoV-2 transmission. Many governments have begun to implement lockdown exit strategies that allow restrictions to be relaxed while attempting to control the risk of a surge in cases. Mathematical modelling has played a central role in guiding interventions, but the challenge of designing optimal exit strategies in the face of ongoing transmission is unprecedented. Here, we report discussions from the Isaac Newton Institute 'Models for an exit strategy' workshop (11-15 May 2020). A diverse community of modellers who are providing evidence to governments worldwide were asked to identify the main questions that, if answered, will allow for more accurate predictions of the effects of different exit strategies. Based on these questions, we propose a roadmap to facilitate the development of reliable models to guide exit strategies. The roadmap requires a global collaborative effort from the scientific community and policy-makers, and is made up of three parts: i) improve estimation of key epidemiological parameters; ii) understand sources of heterogeneity in populations; iii) focus on requirements for data collection, particularly in Low-to-Middle-Income countries. This will provide important information for planning exit strategies that balance socio-economic benefits with public health.
Zitterbewegung, chirality, and minimal conductivity in graphene
Creators: name: Katsnelson, M. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has been recently demonstrated experimentally that graphene, or single-layer carbon, is a gapless semiconductor with massless Dirac energy spectrum. A finite conductivity per channel of order of $e^{2}/h$ in the limit of zero temperature and zero charge carrier density is one of the striking features of this system. Here we analyze this peculiarity based on the Kubo and Landauer formulas. The appearance of a finite conductivity without scattering is shown to be a characteristic property of Dirac chiral fermions in two dimensions.
description: final version; 4 pages, 1 eps figure
Detecting Temporal Correlation via Quantum Random Number Generation
Creators: name: Shikano, Yutaka
name: Tamura, Kentaro
name: Raymond, Rudy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: G.3; B.8.1

description: All computing devices, including quantum computers, must exhibit that for a given input, an output is produced in accordance with the program. The outputs generated by quantum computers that fulfill these requirements are not temporally correlated, however. In a quantum-computing device comprising solid-state qubits such as superconducting qubits, any operation to rest the qubits to their initial state faces a practical problem. We applied a statistical analysis to a collection of random numbers output from a 20-qubit superconducting-qubit cloud quantum computer using the simplest random number generation scheme. The analysis indicates temporal correlation in the output of some sequences obtained from the 20 qubits. This temporal correlation is not related to the relaxation time of each qubit. We conclude that the correlation could be a result of a systematic error.
description: In Proceedings QSQW 2020, arXiv:2004.01061
A new paradigm for the low-T glassy-like thermal properties of solids
Creators: name: Baggioli, Matteo
name: Zaccone, Alessio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Glasses and disordered materials are known to display anomalous features in the density of states, in the specific heat and in thermal transport. Nevertheless, in recent years, the question whether these properties are really anomalous (and peculiar of disordered systems) or rather more universal than previously thought, has emerged. New experimental and theoretical observations have questioned the origin of the boson peak and the linear in T specific heat exclusively from disorder and TLS. The same properties have been indeed observed in ordered or minimally disordered compounds and in incommensurate structures for which the standard explanations are not applicable. Using the formal analogy between phason modes (e.g. in quasicrystals and incommensurate lattices) and diffusons, and between amplitude modes and optical phonons, we suggest the existence of a more universal physics behind these properties. In particular, we strengthen the idea that linear in T specific heat is linked to low energy diffusive modes and that a BP excess can be simply induced by gapped optical-like modes.
description: v1: 5 pages, 4 figures
MODELING OPERATING RATE DECISIONS IN THE CANADIAN FOREST INDUSTRIES
Creators: name: Constantino, Luis
name: Townsend, Gary
name: Constantino, Luis
name: Townsend, Gary
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1989
Subjects: Production Economics

description: This article examines the problem of characterizing production structures when there is input fixity but fixed inputs can be utilized with varying intensities. Unless the rate of utilization of quasi-fixed factors is adequately measured, primal or dual characterizations of producer behavior common in the empirical literature may not be valid. The problem is overcome by specifying another input, the operating rate, which firms can use the short run to adjust to unexpected market changes when there is quasi-fixity in production. The model is applied to the Canadian pulp and paper and sawmilling industries. The results do not permit rejection of the hypotheses of quasi-fixity and varying utilization of quasi-fixed factors in the short run. A model of instantaneous adjustment of factor inputs is clearly outperformed by the quasi-fixity model incorporating an operating rate decision.
title: LA SCUOLA È APERTA A TUTTI. Modelli ed esperienze di formazione docenti e dirigenti nel master FAMI. Organizzazione e gestione delle istituzioni scolastiche in contesti multiculturali
Creators: name: Pillera, Giuseppe
name: Stillo, Lisa
name: Tomarchio, Maria
name: Fiorucci, Massimiliano
Publisher: name: Roma TrE-Press
Year: 2021

description: Il presente volume raccoglie le riflessioni e le esperienze maturate all’interno del progetto di formazione e ricerca-azione relativo al Master in “Organizzazione e gestione delle Istituzioni scolastiche in contesti multiculturali” realizzato in 27 università italiane. I contributi si articolano in tre parti, con l’obiettivo di dar conto dei numerosi apporti maturati da questa preziosa esperienza di formazione interculturale. L’intero percorso promuove l’organicità e la condivisione di modelli di riferimento,  contenuti,  strutture e strategie. Attraverso la valorizzazione dei modelli pedagogici, l’approfondimento sulla formazione di tipo riflessivo e laboratoriale e l’analisi delle esperienze di ricerca-azione, si vuole restituire valore alla proposta pedagogica interculturale all’interno di una scuola di tutti e di ciascuno. Pertanto, il volume si configura come spazio di riflessione, analisi ed approfondimento delle numerose esperienze e buone pratiche realizzate, al fine di costituire un effettivo patrimonio condiviso per un progetto formativo ancora in divenire.
A numerical examination of an evolving black string horizon
Creators: name: Garfinkle, D.
name: Lehner, L.
name: Pretorius, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use the numerical solution describing the evolution of a perturbed black string presented in Choptuik et al. (2003) to elucidate the intrinsic behavior of the horizon. It is found that by the end of the simulation, the affine parameter on the horizon has become very large and the expansion and shear of the horizon in turn very small. This suggests the possibility that the horizon might pinch off in infinite affine parameter.
description: 5 pages, 6 figures; acknowledgements added
Electrical control of spin relaxation anisotropy during drift transport in a two-dimensional electron gas
Creators: name: Hernandez, F. G. G.
name: Ferreira, G. J.
name: Luengo-Kovac, M.
name: Sih, V.
name: Kawahala, N. M.
name: Gusev, G. M.
name: Bakarov, A. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spin relaxation was studied in a two-dimensional electron gas confined in a wide GaAs quantum well. Recently, the control of the spin relaxation anisotropy by diffusive motion was first shown in D. Iizasa et al., arXiv:2006.08253 (2020). Here, we demonstrate electrical control by drift transport in a system with two-subbands occupied. The combined effect of in-plane and gate voltages was investigated using time-resolved Kerr rotation. The measured relaxation time present strong anisotropy with respect to the transport direction. For an in-plane accelerating electric field along $\left[110\right]$, the lifetime was strongly suppressed irrespective of the applied gate voltage. Remarkably, for transport along $\left[1\bar{1}0\right]$, the data shows spin lifetime that was gate-dependent and longer than in the $\left[110\right]$ direction regardless of the in-plane voltage. In agreement, independent results of anisotropic spin precession frequencies are also presented. Nevertheless, the long spin lifetime, strong anisotropy and drift response seen in the data are beyond the existing models for spin drift and diffusion.
The capture of vision by audition : examining temporal ventriloquism
Creators: name: Morein-Zamir, Sharon
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Four experiments were conducted to investigate whether sounds can draw the perception of lights further apart in time in a visual temporal order judgment task, thereby improving performance. In the first experiment, presenting a sound before the first light and after the second light improved performance relative to the baseline condition in which sounds appeared simultaneously with the lights. The second . experiment ruled out a simple alerting account of this effect and indicated that the effect was due to the second sound trailing the second light. The third experiment extended the duration of the lags between the first sound and light, and the second light and sound, and found that performance returned to baseline level with lags of 450 milliseconds. In the final experiment, the second sound was found to improve performance only when the first sound was present, suggesting the importance of the pairing of the audiovisual stimuli. The results are interpreted as reflecting the temporal analogue of the classic spatial ventriloquist effect.
REDUCTION OF STATE VARIABLE DIMENSION IN STOCHASTIC DYNAMIC OPTIMIZATION MODELS WHICH USE TIME-SERIES DATA
Creators: name: Burt, Oscar R.
name: Taylor, C. Robert
name: Burt, Oscar R.
name: Taylor, C. Robert
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1989
Subjects: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: Statistical procedures are developed for reducing the number of autonomous state variables in stochastic dynamic optimization models when these variables follow a stationary process over time. These methods essentially delete part of the information upon which decisions are based while maintaining a logically consistent model. The relatively simple linear autoregressive process as well as the general case is analyzed and the necessary formulae for practical application are derived. Several applications in agricultural economics are discussed and results presented which quantify the relative amount of information sacrificed with the reduction in number of state variables.
A unification in the theory of linearization of second order nonlinear ordinary differential equations
Creators: name: Chandrasekar, V. K.
name: Senthilvelan, M.
name: Lakshmanan, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this letter, we introduce a new generalized linearizing transformation (GLT) for second order nonlinear ordinary differential equations (SNODEs). The well known invertible point (IPT) and non-point transformations (NPT) can be derived as sub-cases of the GLT. A wider class of nonlinear ODEs that cannot be linearized through NPT and IPT can be linearized by this GLT. We also illustrate how to construct GLTs and to identify the form of the linearizable equations and propose a procedure to derive the general solution from this GLT for the SNODEs. We demonstrate the theory with two examples which are of contemporary interest.
description: 8 pages
Improved Asymptotic Expressions for the Eigenvalues of Laplace's Tidal Equations
Creators: name: Townsend, R. H. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Laplace's tidal equations govern the angular dependence of oscillations in stars when uniform rotation is treated within the so-called traditional approximation. Using a perturbation expansion approach, I derive improved expressions for the eigenvalue associated with these equations, valid in the asymptotic limit of large spin parameter $q$. These expressions have a relative accuracy of order $q^{-3}$ for gravito-inertial modes, and $q^{-1}$ for Rossby and Kelvin modes; the corresponding absolute accuracy is of order $q^{-1}$ for all three mode types. I validate my analysis against numerical calculations, and demonstrate how it can be applied to derive formulae for the periods and eigenfunctions of Rossby modes.
description: 10 pages, 2 figures, accepted by MNRAS
ALTERNATIVE FORMS OF PRICE EXPECTATIONS IN SUPPLY ANALYSIS FOR U.S. CORN AND SOYBEAN ACREAGES
Creators: name: Shideed, Kamil H.
name: White, Fred C.
name: Shideed, Kamil H.
name: White, Fred C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1989
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: The consequences of frequently used price expectation models are analyzed by comparing the responsiveness of U.S. corn and soybean acreages to six alternative formulations. The trade-off between bias and variance associated with these forecasts is investigated. The results of this study have important implications for future research on supply analysis.
Observation of the Decay Xi^0 --> Sigma^+ mu^- nu(bar)
Creators: name: KTeV Collaboration
name: Abouzaid, E.
name: Alexopoulos, T.
name: Arenton, M.
name: Barbosa, R. F.
name: Barker, A. R.
name: Bellantoni, L.
name: Bellavance, A.
name: Blucher, E.
name: Bock, G. J.
name: Cheu, E.
name: Coleman, R.
name: Corcoran, M. D.
name: Cox, B.
name: Erwin, A. R.
name: Escobar, C. O.
name: Glazov, A.
name: Golossanov, A.
name: Gomes, R. A.
name: Gouffon, P.
name: Hanagaki, K.
name: Hsiung, Y. B.
name: Huang, H.
name: Jensen, D. A.
name: Kessler, R.
name: Kotera, K.
name: LaDue, J.
name: Ledovskoy, A.
name: McBride, P. L.
name: Monnier, E.
name: Nelson, K. S.
name: Nguyen, H.
name: Niclasen, R.
name: Ping, H.
name: Prasad, V.
name: Qi, X. R.
name: Ramberg, E. J.
name: Ray, R. E.
name: Ronquest, M.
name: Santos, E.
name: Shields, J.
name: Slater, W.
name: Smith, D.
name: Solomey, N.
name: Swallow, E. C.
name: Toale, P. A.
name: Tschirhart, R.
name: Velissaris, C.
name: Wah, Y. W.
name: Wang, J.
name: White, H. B.
name: Whitmore, J.
name: Wilking, M.
name: Winstein, B.
name: Winston, R.
name: Worcester, E. T.
name: Worcester, M.
name: Yamanaka, T.
name: Zimmerman, E. D.
name: Zukanovich, R. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Xi^0 muon semi-leptonic decay has been observed for the first time with nine identified events using the KTeV beam line and detector at Fermilab. The decay is normalized to the Xi^0 beta decay mode and yields a value for the ratio of decay rates of $(1.8^{+0.7}_{-0.5}(stat.)\pm0.2(syst.))\times 10^{-2}$. This is in agreement with the SU(3) flavor symmetric quark model.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures; changed authors list, figure added