cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Railroad Freight Tariffs in USSR: History and Analysis
Creators: name: Kahane, Adam
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3509
subject: Transportation, logistics and supply chains
classificationCode: 4303
subject: Historical studies
classificationCode: 4407
subject: Policy and administration

description: The study of the development of Soviet railroad freight tariffs can provide a student of Russian transportation with a substantial amount of information on the economics of Soviet transportation. The changes in tariffs reflect changes in economic policies of the Soviet government not only in the field of transportation but also in general.It presents interesting material for comparison with rate-making practices in "capitalist" countries.
Lepidacarus ornatissimus Csiszar 1961
Creators: name: Norton, Roy A.
name: Ermilov, Sergey G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Lohmanniidae
Lepidacarus
Lepidacarus ornatissimus

description: Lepidacarus ornatissimus Csiszár, 1961
 Larva: Haq 1978 (FB, Cul, Fd); Haq & Adolph 1981 (DT, Cul, Fd)
 Protonymph: Haq 1978 (FB, Cul, Fd); Haq & Adolph 1981 (DT, Cul, Fd)
 Deutonymph: Haq 1978 (FB, Cul, Fd); Haq & Adolph 1981 (DT, Cul, Fd)
 Tritonymph: Haq 1978 (FB, Cul, Fd); Haq & Adolph 1981 (DT, Cul, Fd)
description: Published as part of Norton, Roy A. & Ermilov, Sergey G., 2014, Catalogue and historical overview of juvenile instars of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida), pp. 1-132 in Zootaxa 3833 (1) on page 15, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3833.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5122134
Railroad Freight Tariffs in USSR: History and Analysis
Creators: name: Kahane, Adam
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The study of the development of Soviet railroad freight tariffs can provide a student of Russian transportation with a substantial amount of information on the economics of Soviet transportation. The changes in tariffs reflect changes in economic policies of the Soviet government not only in the field of transportation but also in general.It presents interesting material for comparison with rate-making practices in "capitalist" countries.
Towards a Realistic Neutron Star Binary Inspiral: Initial Data and Multiple Orbit Evolution in Full General Relativity
Creators: name: Miller, Mark
name: Gressman, Philip
name: Suen, Wai-Mo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper reports on our effort in modeling realistic astrophysical neutron star binaries in general relativity. We analyze under what conditions the conformally flat quasiequilibrium (CFQE) approach can generate ``astrophysically relevant'' initial data, by developing an analysis that determines the violation of the CFQE approximation in the evolution of the binary described by the full Einstein theory. We show that the CFQE assumptions significantly violate the Einstein field equations for corotating neutron stars at orbital separations nearly double that of the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) separation, thus calling into question the astrophysical relevance of the ISCO determined in the CFQE approach. With the need to start numerical simulations at large orbital separation in mind, we push for stable and long term integrations of the full Einstein equations for the binary neutron star system. We demonstrate the stability of our numerical treatment and analyze the stringent requirements on resolution and size of the computational domain for an accurate simulation of the system.
description: 22 pages, 18 figures, accepted to Phys. Rev. D
The effect of interrupting prolonged sitting with frequent bouts of light-intensity standing exercises on blood pressure and postprandial glucose response in stroke survivors: A dose-escalation trial
Creators: name: Mackie, Paul
name: Crowfoot, Gary
name: Gyawali, Prajwal
name: Janssen, Heidi
name: Holliday, Elizabeth
name: Dunstan, David
name: English, Coralie
Publisher: name: The Health & Fitness Journal of Canada
Year: 2022

description: Background: Interrupting prolonged sitting can acutely lower blood pressure and postprandial glucose responses in overweight adults. However, the dose-response effect in stroke survivors is unknown. Purpose: To investigate different doses of light-intensity standing-based exercises that interrupts prolonged sitting and i) reduces blood pressure immediately and over 24 hours, and ii) attenuates postprandial glucose response in stroke survivors. Methods: Within-participant, laboratory-based, dose-escalation trial. Participants completed three 8-hour conditions: prolonged sitting and two experimental conditions. Experimental conditions involved light-intensity standing-based exercises of increasing frequency (2 × 5 min to 6 × 5 min bouts). Results: Twenty-nine stroke survivors (aged 66 ± 12 years) participated. Frequent bouts of standing-based exercises lowered mean systolic blood pressure following the 4 × 5 min (-2.1 mmHg [95% CI -3.6, -0.6]) and 6 × 5 min condition (-2.3 mmHg [95% CI -4.2, -0.5]) compared with prolonged sitting. Diastolic blood pressure was lowered following the 6 × 5 min condition (-1.4 mmHg [95% CI -2.7, -0.2]). Twenty-four-hour systolic blood pressure increased following the 2 × 5 min condition (6.9 mmHg [95% CI 3.1, 10.6]). Postprandial glucose was attenuated following the 4 × 5 mincondition (iAUC; -1.1 mmol/L.7 hour [95% CI -2.0, -0.1]) compared with prolonged sitting. Conclusion: Interrupting prolonged sitting with more frequent bouts of standing-based exercises lowers systolic and diastolic blood pressure and postprandial glucose in stroke survivors. However, reductions in blood pressure may only be short-term and investigations on sustained effects are warranted. Funding: Hunter Medical Research Institute project grant (2016) and Heart Foundation Vanguard Grant (2017 - #101727).
description: The Health & Fitness Journal of Canada, Vol. 14 No. 3 (2021): Proceedings from the 8th International Society for Physical Activity and Health Congress
The use of the Keeler Polygaph as a check on responses to personality test items
Creators: name: Strawberry, Kenneth R.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The assumption has been made that anxiety is reflected in bodily symptoms, If properly stimulated, some of these bodily symptoms can be measured and recorded with the aid of a psychophysical instrument. If a subject is stimulated with items that produce any of these bodily symptoms, and some measure is made of his reaction to these items, this will be an index of anxiety. Further, it was felt that if such paper and pencil tests that are used to measure anxiety were used as the stimuli for producing reactions of anxiety, the resulting effects would constitute a check on such a scale. The purpose then of this study is further to investigate a problem that has long bothered many clinicians, that is, whether or not paper and pencil questionnaires that we use in the laboratory reflect the bodily symptoms that are supposed to be characteristic of anxiety. In effect, the purpose of this study has been to investigate the usefulness of the Keeler Polygraph as a means of measuring anxiety, using the items of Winners Scale of Neuroticism as stimuli.
Operator inference for non-intrusive model reduction of systems with non-polynomial nonlinear terms
Creators: name: Benner, Peter
name: Goyal, Pawan
name: Kramer, Boris
name: Peherstorfer, Benjamin
name: Willcox, Karen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This work presents a non-intrusive model reduction method to learn low-dimensional models of dynamical systems with non-polynomial nonlinear terms that are spatially local and that are given in analytic form. In contrast to state-of-the-art model reduction methods that are intrusive and thus require full knowledge of the governing equations and the operators of a full model of the discretized dynamical system, the proposed approach requires only the non-polynomial terms in analytic form and learns the rest of the dynamics from snapshots computed with a potentially black-box full-model solver. The proposed method learns operators for the linear and polynomially nonlinear dynamics via a least-squares problem, where the given non-polynomial terms are incorporated in the right-hand side. The least-squares problem is linear and thus can be solved efficiently in practice. The proposed method is demonstrated on three problems governed by partial differential equations, namely the diffusion-reaction Chafee-Infante model, a tubular reactor model for reactive flows, and a batch-chromatography model that describes a chemical separation process. The numerical results provide evidence that the proposed approach learns reduced models that achieve comparable accuracy as models constructed with state-of-the-art intrusive model reduction methods that require full knowledge of the governing equations.
Instrumentation for ophthalmological service
Creators: name: Creator not identified.
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 1940
Subjects: subject: Instruments
subject: Ophthalmology
subject: Ophthalmologic Surgical Procedures
subject: Postoperative Care
subject: Surgical Instruments
subject: Surgical Equipment
subject: Equipment and Supplies, Hospital

description: Instruments for performing ophthalmologic surgical procedures, positioning patients on the operating table, and conducting postoperative care.
Renegotiation-Proof Mechanism Design
Creators: name: Neeman, Zvika
name: Pavlov, Gregory
name: Neeman, Zvika
name: Pavlov, Gregory
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: ex-post renegotiation
subject: interim renegotiation
subject: oracle renegotiation proofness

description: A mechanism is said to be renegotiation-proof if it is robust against renegotation both before and after it is played. We ask the following three related questions: (1) what kind of environments or mechanism design problems admit renegotiation-proof implementation? (2) what kind of social choice rules are implementable in a way that is renegotiation-proof? and (3) what kind of mechanisms are renegotiation-proof? We provide characterization results for environments, social choice rules, and mechanisms that facilitate renegotiation-proof implementation in complete information settings, and in incomplete information settings with independent private values. For incomplete information settings with correlated interdependent values we provide sufficient conditions for renegotiation-proof implementation. Importantly, our results imply that some common mechanism design problems do not admit the existence of any renegotiation-proof mechanism.
Random volumes in d-dimensional polytopes
Creators: name: Frieze, Alan
name: Pegden, Wesley
name: Tkocz, Tomasz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Suppose we choose $N$ points uniformly randomly from a convex body in $d$ dimensions. How large must $N$ be, asymptotically with respect to $d$, so that the convex hull of the points is nearly as large as the convex body itself? It was shown by Dyer-Füredi-McDiarmid that exponentially many samples suffice when the convex body is the hypercube, and by Pivovarov that the Euclidean ball demands roughly $d^{d/2}$ samples. We show that when the convex body is the simplex, exponentially many samples suffice; this then implies the same result for any convex simplicial polytope with at most exponentially many faces.
Lohmannia banksi Norton, Metz & Sharma 1978
Creators: name: Norton, Roy A.
name: Ermilov, Sergey G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Lohmanniidae
Lohmannia
Lohmannia banksi

description: Lohmannia banksi Norton, Metz & Sharma, 1978
 Larva: Norton et al. 1978 (Ds, FB); Schatz & Schuster 2012 (Dsp)
 Protonymph: Norton et al. 1978 (Ds); Schatz & Schuster 2012 (Dsp)
 Deutonymph: Norton et al. 1978 (Ds); Norton 2010 (FB)
 Tritonymph: Norton et al. 1978 (Ds)
description: Published as part of Norton, Roy A. & Ermilov, Sergey G., 2014, Catalogue and historical overview of juvenile instars of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida), pp. 1-132 in Zootaxa 3833 (1) on page 15, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3833.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5122134
A global analysis strategy to resolve neutrino NSI degeneracies with scattering and oscillation data
Creators: name: Dutta, Bhaskar
name: Lang, Rafael F.
name: Liao, Shu
name: Sinha, Samiran
name: Strigari, Louis
name: Thompson, Adrian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Neutrino non-standard interactions (NSI) with the first generation of standard model fermions can span a parameter space of large dimension and exhibit degeneracies that cannot be broken by a single class of experiment. Oscillation experiments, together with neutrino scattering experiments, can merge their observations into a highly informational dataset to combat this problem. We consider combining neutrino-electron and neutrino-nucleus scattering data from the Borexino and COHERENT experiments, including a projection for the upcoming coherent neutrino scattering measurement at the CENNS-10 liquid argon detector. We extend the reach of these data sets over the NSI parameter space with projections for neutrino scattering at a future multi-ton scale dark matter detector and future oscillation measurements from atmospheric neutrinos at the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE). In order to perform this global analysis, we adopt a novel approach using the copula method, utilized to combine posterior information from different experiments with a large, generalized set of NSI parameters. We find that the contributions from DUNE and a dark matter detector to the Borexino and COHERENT fits can improve constraints on the electron and quark NSI parameters by up to a factor of 2 to 3, even when relatively many NSI parameters are left free to vary in the analysis.
description: Published in JHEP. References and plots updated, CENNS-10 analysis updated. Codes can be provided upon request
UBC Food Services Healthy Beverage Initiative : Student Survey
Creators: name: Wright, Ilan
name: Bicaci, Dafna
name: Wen, Ya
name: Gao, Amy
name: Shum, Dawn
name: Dong, Meng
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2018

description: Sugar sweetened beverages (SSBs) represent a large amount of sugar consumption in Canada (Malik, Popkin, Bray, Despres, Willet, 2010) and the habitual consumption of SSBs is associated with certain chronic diseases, such as obesity and diabetes (Vasanti, Barry, George, Jean-Pierre, Frank, 2010). Previous studies and reports have shown that certain interventions such as taxation, hydration stations and phasing out SSBs can help reduce the consumption SSBs (Jones & Hammond, 2017; Alfred Health, n.d). Healthy Beverage Initiative (HBI), led by various UBC divisions including UBC Wellbeing, aims to promote water consumption and considering phasing-out SSBs across the UBC Vancouver campus. The goal of our project is to understand UBC students’ behaviors and attitudes towards SSBs and gain feedbacks that could help develop the HBI. This was done by presenting background information of the HBI for classes and dining halls at UBC, and administering online surveys. In total, we collected 288 responses and analyzed 965 responses with extra provided by UBC Wellbeing. We identified increasing accessibility in clean/filtered tap water and providing cheaper healthier beverages as the preferred strategies by UBC students to reduce SSBs consumption. Both process evaluation and outcome evaluation have been done to confirm the survey effectiveness and community partner satisfaction. Future evaluation survey for our medium-term objectives is also proposed. We also created a report and an infographic for UBC Wellbeing to present to UBC executives. We hope this will enable the executives to make the decision that best serves the interests of UBC community. Through this project, we learned the importance of establishing a timeline and creating a Logic Model when working on a health driven intervention. We also acknowledged being flexible as essential in order to meet our community partners’ needs and concerns. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
White matter microstructure is related to aerobic fitness in treatment-resistant schizophrenia
Creators: name: Senften, Peter
name: Woodward, Melissa
name: Dvorak, Adam
name: Kolind, Shannon
name: Laule, Cornelia
name: Lai, Henry
name: Kaufman, Kai
name: Warburton, Darren
name: Gicas, Kristina
name: Kim, David
name: Su, Wayne
name: Honer, Wiliam
name: Rauscher, Alexander
name: Rauscher, Alexander
name: Lang, Donna
Publisher: name: The Health & Fitness Journal of Canada
Year: 2022

description: Background: Aerobic fitness may benefit brain white matter (WM) microstructure, which is known to be adversely affected in schizophrenia. Purpose: To examine the relationship between aerobic fitness (VO2max) and WM integrity in treatment-resistant schizophrenia. Methods: Measurements of VO2max and magnetic resonance imaging markers for myelin (myelin water fraction (MWF), radial diffusivity (RD), and axons (fractional anisotropy (FA), axial diffusivity (AD) were obtained from exercise naïve volunteers (n = 15 =schizophrenia/schizoaffective disorder patients, n = 10 healthy age, sex and education matched volunteers). Results: MWF and FA were significantly reduced, and RD was significantly increased in the WM of patients relative to controls. Patient VO2max was significantly associated with MWF, FA, and RD in frontal and temporal WM (r = 0.14 – 0.16, p<0.001). No associations between WM microstructure and VO2max were seen, except in the splenium of healthy volunteers (r = 0.22, p = 0.02). Conclusion: Abnormal WM microstructure in patients appears to be more responsive to exercise intervention in comparison to healthy volunteers, as healthy volunteers may already have optimized WM. Our results suggest that investigating ways to increase aerobic fitness in schizophrenia patients may be a low-risk intervention to improve WM tissue health in treatment-resistant schizophrenia patients. Funding: Grant operating funds to DJL for this study were provided by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (Grant # 231233-BSB) and the BC Mental Health Authority Research Services.
description: The Health & Fitness Journal of Canada, Vol. 14 No. 3 (2021): Proceedings from the 8th International Society for Physical Activity and Health Congress
Galaxy Luminosity Functions from Deep Spectroscopic Samples of Rich Clusters
Creators: name: Christlein, Daniel
name: Zabludoff, Ann
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using a new spectroscopic sample and methods accounting for spectroscopic sampling fractions that vary in magnitude and surface brightness, we present R-band galaxy luminosity functions (GLFs) for six nearby galaxy clusters with redshifts 4000 < cz < 20000 km/s and velocity dispersions 700 < sigma < 1250 km/s. In the case of the nearest cluster, Abell 1060, our sample extends to M_R=-14 (7 magnitudes below M*), making this the deepest spectroscopic determination of the cluster GLF to date. Our methods also yield composite GLFs for cluster and field galaxies to M_R=-17 (M*+4), including the GLFs of subsamples of star forming and quiescent galaxies. The composite GLFs are consistent with Schechter functions (M*_R=-21.14^{+0.17}_{-0.17}, alpha=-1.21^{+0.08}_{-0.07} for the clusters, M*_R=-21.15^{+0.16}_{-0.16}, alpha=-1.28^{+0.12}_{-0.11} for the field). All six cluster samples are individually consistent with the composite GLF down to their respective absolute magnitude limits, but the GLF of the quiescent population in clusters is not universal. There are also significant variations in the GLF of quiescent galaxies between the field and clusters that can be described as a steepening of the faint end slope. The overall GLF in clusters is consistent with that of field galaxies, except for the most luminous tip, which is enhanced in clusters versus the field. The star formation properties of giant galaxies are more strongly correlated with the environment than those of fainter galaxies.
description: 53 pages, 8 figures, 1 ASCII table; accepted for publication in ApJ
Lohmannia carolensis Norton, Metz & Sharma 1978
Creators: name: Norton, Roy A.
name: Ermilov, Sergey G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Lohmanniidae
Lohmannia
Lohmannia carolensis

description: Lohmannia carolensis Norton, Metz & Sharma, 1978
 Larva: Norton et al. 1978 (Ds, FB)
 Protonymph: Norton et al. 1978 (Ds, FB)
 Deutonymph: Norton et al. 1978 (Ds, FB)
 Tritonymph: Norton et al. 1978 (Ds, FB)
description: Published as part of Norton, Roy A. & Ermilov, Sergey G., 2014, Catalogue and historical overview of juvenile instars of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida), pp. 1-132 in Zootaxa 3833 (1) on page 15, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3833.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5122134
Szenario: SZ-HB-III-2-02 Studieninteressierte*r sucht Studierende
Creators: name: Peil, Ricarda
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: BIRD
Bildungsraum Digital
Recherchebegleitung
Matching
Gruppenfindung
Peers
Buddy Finder
Bildungsplattform
Studieninteressierte*r

description: Die Anforderungen für das BIRD-Portal wurden mithilfe von Szenario-basiertem Design abgeleitet. Die zugrundeliegende Szenariensammlung soll nun Schritt für Schritt veröffentlicht werden.
Sex-differences in physical activity levels, knowledge, outcome expectations and task self-efficacy in atrial fibrillation patients
Creators: name: Vidal-Almela, Sol
name: Way, Kimberley
name: Wilson, Janet
name: Reed, Jennifer
Publisher: name: The Health & Fitness Journal of Canada
Year: 2022

description: Background: Canadian physical activity (PA) guidelines recommend moderate-to-vigorous PA (MVPA, ≥150 min/wk) and strength training (≥2 d/wk). The PA levels, knowledge, outcome expectations (e.g. walking will make me feel better) and task self-efficacy (i.e. confidence in doing PA) of females and males with atrial fibrillation (AF), a burgeoning patient population, are unknown. Purpose: To examine sex-differences in MVPA levels, % of AF patients meeting the PA guidelines; and their associations with PA knowledge, outcome expectations and task self-efficacy. Methods: In this observational cohort study AF patients completed questionnaires including the Short-Form International Physical Activity Questionnaire. Responses were compared between sexes with Mann-Whitney-U and chi-square tests. Spearman correlations were used for sex-specific associations. Results: Of 621 patients, 33% were female. No sex-differences were observed in MVPA (median [95% CI], F:60 [0, 142], M:120 [90, 155] min/wk, p=0.132). Many did not meet the MVPA (F:57%, M:54%, p=0.430) or strength training (F:84%, M:75%, p=0.018) targets. Few patients knew the MVPA (F:14%, M:13%, p=0.230) or strength training (F:40%, M:36%, p=0.151) guidelines. Some patients (F:45%, M:35%, p=0.066) felt PA was unsafe if their heart rate became too fast, which was negatively associated with MVPA in males (ρ=-0.155, p=0.006), not females ( p=0.052). More females did not feel confident doing moderate PA (F:33%, M:21%, p=0.011) or strength training (F:45%, M:32%, p=0.036), which were significantly associated with MVPA (F:ρ=0.464, M:ρ=0.426) and strength training (F:ρ=0.507, M:ρ=0.572). Conclusions: Most AF patients did not meet/know the PA guidelines; strategies to increase knowledge translation of the guidelines and patients' PA confidence are needed. Funding: Servier Inc, Canada.
description: The Health & Fitness Journal of Canada, Vol. 14 No. 3 (2021): Proceedings from the 8th International Society for Physical Activity and Health Congress
The Diaspora and the Process of Economic Development in Cameroon
Creators: name: Saidou Baba Oumar
name: Urie Eléazar Jumbo
name: Salihu Zummo Hayatudeen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Economics

description: The greener pasture syndrome erupts on the African continent in 1980s, two decades after attainment of independence for most former colonies from the colonial powers. Today in 2020, some forty years after, the syndrome continues to register more disciples from the continent due to economic hardships that threaten a greater portion of her population. Consequently, the movement of people towards the promise land from poor to rich countries across the world amplifies to the extent that some industrialised countries find themselves invaded by emigrants of all types. In Cameroon for example, this type of migration concerns the intellectuals who are not employed or those who are underemployed in the country. Cameroonians of this category often cross the national boundaries to Europe, Canada, United States [US] and as of 1990 South Africa [SA] to pick up jobs that can fetch them better salary package than what is offered at home. This paper employs the simple descriptive method of data analysis to capture the objectives of the inquiry using simple percentages, tables and diagrams to interpret the data. Besides, the paper generates its data from personal observations and structured interviews with community members and from secondary sources. And generally on arrival to destination, the Diaspora people team up in form of social ethnic groups or village associations to reflect on the problems besetting their relations and give a helping hand towards alleviating the living conditions of their people back home. Results of the paper reveal that these Diaspora alliances have rendered immense services to their respective communities as regards poverty mitigation in families, construction of private houses, and provision of social infrastructures such as first aid centres, school equipments and water supply points, on one hand. On the other hand, they have also inflicted severe harms to their communities back home. Thus, the paper recommends that the Government of Cameroon [GoC] recognises and incorporates the Diaspora potentials into the country’s development strategies so as to accelerate its participation to the economic development equation and process of the economy.
The Role of Internal Dynamics in the Political Reform Process in the ASC 2004-2010
Creators: name: Hamad, Jawad El
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160699 Political Science not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Political science

description: This main paper's objective is to evaluate the role of the internal dynamics in the political reform process in the ASC. Its main problem is the deficit of political reform achievements compared to the people’s demands in the period under study. Its central question is why this process couldn’t overcome the deficit and what are the main repercussions of such failure on the political stability of the ASC regimes. A reform process is generally wide-reaching. It is economical and social and goes much deeper to affect change in society as a comprehensive process as per (Kroeber, 1996). However, the focus of this paper is mainly on the internal dynamics of the political reform process. Therefore, the paper analyzes the internal efforts, roles, and results of the political reform dynamics and initiatives and their applications. These efforts should be understood within the political scene that prevailed in the Arab Spring Countries "ASC" in 2004, which this paper considers as the start of the benchmark period for the political reform process. The paper analyzes the internal leading reform initiatives and efforts. It examines their elements, conditions, ability to affect the political reform process. It evaluates their results within the ASC context in the period under study 2004-2010 with a particular focus on the cases of Egypt and Jordan.
The ALMA view of the high-redshift relation between supermassive black holes and their host galaxies
Creators: name: Pensabene, A.
name: Carniani, S.
name: Perna, M.
name: Cresci, G.
name: Decarli, R.
name: Maiolino, R.
name: Marconi, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This work aims at studying the $M_{BH}-M_{dyn}$ relation of a sample of $2 5-10$) and the gas kinematics is spatially resolved and dominated by ordered rotation. The estimated dynamical masses place $6$ out of $10$ quasars above the local relation yielding to a $M_{BH}/M_{dyn}$ ratios $\sim10\times$ higher than those estimated in low-$z$ galaxies. On the other hand, we found that $4$ quasars at $z\sim 4-6$ have dynamical-to-BH mass ratios consistent with what is observed in early-type galaxies in the local Universe.
description: 31 pages, 31 figures, latest version (published in A&A)
Protein and enzyme supplementation on growth performances of broilers
Creators: name: Rashid, M. B.
name: Ahmed, S.
name: Ahmad, N.
name: Myenuddin, M.
name: Rashid, M. B.
name: Ahmed, S.
name: Ahmad, N.
name: Myenuddin, M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Broilers
subject: Protein
subject: Enzyme
subject: Body weight
subject: Haemato-biochemical

description: The "Shavar Star Bro" broiler chicks were used to evaluate the effect of protein and enzyme supplementation on growth performance and haemato-biochemical parameters. The birds were randomly divided into four equal groups (n = 5). Group A was considered as control, fed only with commercial broiler ration, Group B with enzyme (CP 1gm/L drinking water), Group C with protein (60% protein concentrate @ 10% with commercial ration) and Group D with enzyme and protein combined at the dosage mentioned earlier. Body weights increased significantly (p<0.05) in all treated groups over control and highest was recorded in Group D. Haemoglobin (gm/di) incre.ased and ESR decreased significantly (p<0.05) with combine protein and enzyme supplementation. No significant (p>0.05) differences were observed among the groups for PCV and TEC. The serum SGOT and SGPT level were decreased with the same kind of supplementation. The present study reveals that combine supplementation of protein and enzyme gives better result over control and singly supplemented groups in respect to body weight gain and haemato-biochemical parameter without any potential hazards birds.
The use of the Keeler Polygaph as a check on responses to personality test items
Creators: name: Strawberry, Kenneth R.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 5205
subject: Social and personality psychology

description: The assumption has been made that anxiety is reflected in bodily symptoms, If properly stimulated, some of these bodily symptoms can be measured and recorded with the aid of a psychophysical instrument. If a subject is stimulated with items that produce any of these bodily symptoms, and some measure is made of his reaction to these items, this will be an index of anxiety. Further, it was felt that if such paper and pencil tests that are used to measure anxiety were used as the stimuli for producing reactions of anxiety, the resulting effects would constitute a check on such a scale. The purpose then of this study is further to investigate a problem that has long bothered many clinicians, that is, whether or not paper and pencil questionnaires that we use in the laboratory reflect the bodily symptoms that are supposed to be characteristic of anxiety. In effect, the purpose of this study has been to investigate the usefulness of the Keeler Polygraph as a means of measuring anxiety, using the items of Winners Scale of Neuroticism as stimuli.
Harmonic resolution as a holographic quantum number
Creators: name: Bousso, Raphael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Bekenstein bound takes the holographic principle into the realm of flat space, promising new insights on the relation of non-gravitational physics to quantum gravity. This makes it important to obtain a precise formulation of the bound. Conventionally, one specifies two macroscopic quantities, mass and spatial width, which cannot be simultaneously diagonalized. Thus, the counting of compatible states is not sharply defined. The resolution of this and other formal difficulties leads naturally to a definition in terms of discretized light-cone quantization. In this form, the area difference specified in the covariant bound converts to a single quantum number, the harmonic resolution K. The Bekenstein bound then states that the Fock space sector with K units of longitudinal momentum contains no more than exp(2 pi^2 K) independent discrete states. This conjecture can be tested unambiguously for a given Lagrangian, and it appears to hold true for realistic field theories, including models arising from string compactifications. For large K, it makes contact with more conventional but less well-defined formulations.
description: 19 pages
Open Science – Time to unlock the potential of the digital age
Creators: name: Terry, Robert
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Open Science
Covid-19

description: This keynotes talk was given by Robert Terry at OPEN SCIENCE FAIR 2021 on 20 September 2021. Video is available online on YouTube. In the last decade significant outbreaks in infectious diseases from influenza, Ebola, Zika and now Covid-19 have highlighted the necessity to rethink and reengineer how science is organised. We need to change how researchers are rewarded and ensure knowledge can be disseminated in ways that integrates data and literature across disciplines. The current system of research publication and reward has been found wanting, when we needed it most. Covid-19 is set to affect the planet for the near future and climate change will further impact our environment and health. These are significant challenges and we need to take equally significant brave and bold steps to rise to them. We must put in place more efficient, effective and equitable mechanisms to manage knowledge with the key aim to benefit human and environmental health. In this talk Robert will reflect on his 20 years of experience in developing open access and data sharing initiatives that included the human genome project at the Wellcome Trust to the open access initiatives at the World Health Organization.
Thermal effect on keeping quality of Yoghurt (Dahi)
Creators: name: Shaheen, S. M. S.
name: Uddin, M. J.
name: Islam, M. N.
name: Sarkar, M. M.
name: Shaheen, S. M. S.
name: Uddin, M. J.
name: Islam, M. N.
name: Sarkar, M. M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Thermal treatment
subject: keeping quality
subject: deterioration/spoilage
subject: Dahi

description: The experiment was conducted to evaluate the shelf-life of normal and heat treated yoghurt (dahi) at room (28.3 °C) and refrigerated temperature (5 to 6 °C). Normal dahi at room temperature was good upto 2.3±0.58 days but at refrigerated temperature it was good upto 7.3±0.58 days. Heat treated dahi at room temperature was good upto 3.3±0.58 days and at refrigerated condition it was in good condition upto 38.3±7.64 days. Physical tests showed that smell and taste; body and consistency; colour and texture deteriorated depending on storage time. Deterioration was rapid at room temperature in case of normal dahi samples. Chemical analysis showed that fat, protein, total solids and ash content did not undergo any change but significant difference was found in case of pH (P<0.01) and acidity percentage (P<0.05). In case of microbial count/g (log value) differences were found except yeast count (P<0.01) and significant differences were found in total viable (P<0.05) and mold count (P<0.01) except yeast just before spoilage (JBS) with increasing of storage time. It was found that normal dahi spoiled rapidly and heat treatment was an effective way to increase the shelf life of dahi.
Structural and operational variations of marine set-bag-net (MSBN) used in the Bay of Bengal of Bangladesh
Creators: name: Rahman, M. J.
name: Mazid, M. A.
name: Zaher, M.
name: Haroon, A. K. Y.
name: Rahman, M. J.
name: Mazid, M. A.
name: Zaher, M.
name: Haroon, A. K. Y.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Production Economics
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Marine set-bag-net
subject: Structure
subject: Operation
subject: The Bay of Bengal
subject: Bangladesh

description: Structural and operational variations of marine set-bag-net (MSBN) in the Bay of Bengal of Bangladesh were studied comprehensively during July 2003-June 2004. Total number of crafts, gears and owners of MSBN fishery in different areas of the country were also estimated. The estimated total number of MSBN was 6,055 and total number of boats used to operate these nets was 909. The total number of people dependent for their livelihood on the MSBN fishery was about 2,52,000 individuals. Detail structures (dimensions, mesh size and twine) and functions of different parts and sub-parts of the gear were analyzed. Details about the operation of MSBN such as, area of operation, setting duration, number of set per day, how many days operate in a month, off season, peak season, etc. were also recorded from each of the operating areas. Observations on the structural design of the gear revealed the potential of improving the efficiency and selectivity of the gear by changing the mesh sizes and incorporating a simple device to prevent escaping of larger individuals, while escaping of small individuals.
Classical Tools for Antipodal Identification in Reissner-Nordström Spacetime
Creators: name: Strauss, Nathaniel A.
name: Whiting, Bernard F.
name: Franzen, Anne T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend the discussion of the antipodal identification of black holes to the Reissner-Nordström (RN) spacetime by developing the classical tools necessary to define the corresponding quantum field theory (QFT). We solve the massless Klein-Gordon equation in the RN background in terms of scattering coefficients and provide a procedure for constructing a solution for an arbitrary analytic extension of RN. The behavior of the maximally extended solution is highly dependent upon the coefficients of scattering between the inner and outer horizons, so we present the low-frequency behavior of, and numerical solutions for, these quantities. We find that, for low enough frequency, field amplitudes of solutions with purely positive or negative frequency at each horizon will acquire only a phase after passing both the inner and outer horizons, while at higher frequencies the amplitudes will tend to grow exponentially either to the future or to the past, and decay exponentially in the other direction. Regardless, we can always construct a basis of globally antipodal symmetric and antisymmetric solutions for any finite analytic extension of RN. We have characterized this basis in terms of positive and negative frequency solutions for future use in constructing the corresponding QFT.
description: 35 pages, 17 figures
Effect of stocking density on the growth and production of Thai Koi (Anabas testudineus) in Mymensingh region
Creators: name: Karim, A.
name: Bakshi, A. K.
name: Amin, M. R.
name: Nahiduzzaman, M.
name: Karim, A.
name: Bakshi, A. K.
name: Amin, M. R.
name: Nahiduzzaman, M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Specific growth rate
subject: Stocking density
subject: Production
subject: Water quality
subject: Survival rate

description: The present study was conducted to optimize stocking density of Thai Koi (Anabas testudineus) in monoculture for a period of 98 days in 6 ponds of 0.2 ha each in a commercial farm under Mymensingh district. Three stocking densities of Thai Koi at 74,100, 86,450 and 98,800 ha-1 were assigned to treatments Ti, T2 and T3, respectively. Each treatment had two replicate ponds. The mean initial weight of Thai Koi was 0.2 g. A pelleted commercial diet containing 32-35% protein was fed twice daily at the rate of 20, 15, 12, 10, 8, 5 and 4% of the total body weight of the fish which was adjusted fortnightly. Feed conversion ratio (FCR) ranged from 1.73 to1.94 among the treatments. The water quality parameters were measured fortnightly and the ranges of temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen and total alkalinity were 27.5-29.6°C, 7.8 - 8.7, 5.1-6.2 mgC and 101-144 mgl..", respectively. Percent survival (%) of Thai Koi varied from 82.03 to 90.47. The weight gain of Thai Koi in Ti (91.0g) was significantly higher (P<0.05) compared with that of T2(84.1g) and T3(76.5g). This result indicated higher growth in weight (g) at lower stocking densities and the growth rate gradually decreased with increasing density. The Specific Growth Rates (SGR %) were 6.73, 6.60, 6.54 in T1, T2 and T3 respectively and demonstrated no significant difference (P>0.05) among the treatments. The achieved production in weight were 6,584.84, 6,388.29 and 5,700.31 kgha-lin T3, T2 and Ti, respectively. The production of Thai Koi was significantly higher (P<0.05) in T3 than those the T2 and Ti. But the highest net profit (Tk. 109.35 kgfish-1) was derived in Ti and lowest (Tk. 77..90 kgfish-1) in T3. The investment was rather highest in T3(Tk. 72.09 kgfish-1) and lowest in T1 (Tk 60.65 kgfish-1). That means the market value of per kg fish is decreasing in higher stocking density than the lower stocking density for its individual weight. Therefore, from the results of this study, it is concluded that for higher profit a total stocking density of 74100 ha "1 for Thai Koi (Anabas testudineus) monoculture in pond aquaculture system may be recommended.
Lohmannia jornoti Mahunka 1985
Creators: name: Norton, Roy A.
name: Ermilov, Sergey G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Lohmanniidae
Lohmannia
Lohmannia jornoti

description: Lohmannia jornoti Mahunka, 1985
 Larva: Schatz 1993 (Ds, FB, FLg, LSA)
 Protonymph: Schatz 1993 (Ds, FB, LSA)
 Deutonymph: Schatz 1993 (Ds, FB, LSA); Schatz & Schuster 2012 (DsP)
 Tritonymph: Schatz 1993 (Ds, FB, LSA)
description: Published as part of Norton, Roy A. & Ermilov, Sergey G., 2014, Catalogue and historical overview of juvenile instars of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida), pp. 1-132 in Zootaxa 3833 (1) on page 15, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3833.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5122134
Building Flat-Band Lattice Models from Gram Matrices
Creators: name: Xu, Youjiang
name: Pu, Han
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a powerful and convenient method to systematically design flat-band lattice models, which overcomes the difficulties underlying the previous method. Especially, our method requires no elaborate calculations, applies to arbitrary spatial dimensions, and guarantees to result in a completely flat ground band. We use this method to generate several classes of lattice models, including models with both short- and long-range hoppings, both topologically trivial and non-trivial flat bands. Some of these models were previously known. Our method, however, provides crucial new insights. For example, we have reproduced and generalized the Kapit-Mueller model [Kapit and Mueller, Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{105}, 215303 (2010)] and demonstrated a universal scaling rule between the flat band degeneracy and the magnetic flux that was not noticed in previous studies. We show that the flat band of this model results from the (over-)completeness properties of coherent states.
DigitalHub poster
Creators: name: Gutzman, Karen E
name: Ilik, Violeta
name: Kubilius, Ramune Karolina
name: Holmes, Kristi
name: Wishnetsky, Susan J
name: Pastva, Joelen
name: Olson, Anton J
name: Shank, Jonathan P
name: Hebal, Piotr
name: Stirnaman, Jason T Todd
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: DigitalHub
subject: Digital repository
subject: Open access
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Advertisement
subject: Galter Health Sciences Library
subject: Open Access Publishing
subject: Information Dissemination
subject: Institutional repositories
subject: Northwestern Medicine
subject: Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute
subject: Feinberg School of Medicine

description: Marketing materials for DigitalHub in 2016.
Piecewise quadratic growth during the 2019 novel coronavirus epidemic
Creators: name: Brandenburg, Axel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The temporal growth in the number of deaths in the COVID-19 epidemic is subexponential. Here we show that a piecewise quadratic law provides an excellent fit during the thirty days after the first three fatalities on January 20 and later since the end of March 2020. There is also a brief intermediate period of exponential growth. During the second quadratic growth phase, the characteristic time of the growth is about eight times shorter than in the beginning, which can be understood as the occurrence of separate hotspots. Quadratic behavior can be motivated by peripheral growth when further spreading occurs only on the outskirts of an infected region. We also study numerical solutions of a simple epidemic model, where the spatial extend of the system is taken into account. To model the delayed onset outside China together with the early one in China within a single model with minimal assumptions, we adopt an initial condition of several hotspots, of which one reaches saturation much earlier than the others. At each site, quadratic growth commences when the local number of infections has reached a certain saturation level. The total number of deaths does then indeed follow a piecewise quadratic behavior.
description: 9 pages, 14 figures, 2 tables, published in Infectious Disease Modelling