cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Improving parent and child adjustment to epilepsy using parental strategic self -presentation and emotional disclosure
Creators: name: Marin, Nancy Watt
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 5203
subject: Clinical and health psychology
classificationCode: 5205
subject: Social and personality psychology

description: Children diagnosed with epilepsy face several physical and psychosocial stressors which place them at greater risk for behavioral and emotional difficulties. Parents of these children play a significant part in whether or not their offspring will cope successfully with or be negatively affected by their condition. By helping parents cultivate a positive self-image of themselves as successfully coping with their children's epilepsy they may be better equipped to deal with subsequent everyday challenges. Forty-five parents of epileptic patients at a major children's hospital were placed into one of three conditions: self-presentation, emotional disclosure, or information giving. Individuals in the self-presentation condition discussed, in a videotaped interview, the skills and coping resources they rely on to deal with certain negative aspects of their children's epilepsy. Patients in the emotional disclosure group discussed feelings related to their children's condition and coping with its associated stressors, also in a videotaped interview format. Individuals assigned to the information group watched an informational video regarding epilepsy. Parental adjustment was measured at baseline, post-intervention, and follow-up using measures of coping, family resources, anxiety, and parenting stress. Children's coping was also assessed using measures of coping, depression, anxiety, and self-perception. It was expected that parents in the strategic self-presentation condition would report decreased anxiety and parental stress and increased resources for management and ways of coping following the intervention. It was also expected that children whose parent participated in the strategic self-presentation intervention would be coping better and reporting fewer problems in their coping (e.g., anxiety, depression, negative self-perception) with epilepsy following the intervention. Contrary to expectations, individuals in the strategic self-presentation group did not evidence a significant decrease in stress and anxiety, nor did they show a significant increase in the number of resources or coping mechanisms. There was, however, a significant interaction between group and time. Upon closer examination of this trend, it was found that individuals in the emotional disclosure group evidenced a slight increase in anxiety after participating in the videotaped interview; however, at the three-month follow-up this group reported the lowest levels of parental anxiety. Children whose parents participated in the three groups were not significantly different from each other at either of the assessment periods. Furthermore, children across groups did not show a significant change on any of the dependent variables over time.
Additional file 1 of Precarious employment and migrant workers’ mental health: a protocol for a systematic review of observational studies
Creators: name: Ornek, Ozlem Koseoglu
name: Weinmann, Tobias
name: Waibel, Julia
name: Radon, Katja
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. PRISMA-P 2015 Checklist
Fly-by encounters between two planetary systems II: Exploring the interactions of diverse planetary system architectures
Creators: name: Li, Daohai
name: Mustill, Alexander J.
name: Davies, Melvyn B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Planetary systems formed in clusters may be subject to stellar encounter flybys. Here we create a diverse range of representative planetary systems with different orbital scales and planets' masses and examine encounters between them in a typical open cluster. We first explore the close-in multi-super earth systems $\lesssim0.1$ au. They are resistant to flybys in that only ones inside a few au can destabilise a planet or break the resonance between such planets. But these systems may capture giant planets onto wide orbits from the intruding star during distant flybys. If so, the original close-in small planets' orbits may be tilted together through Kozai--Lidov mechanism, forming a ``cold'' system that is significantly inclined against the equator of the central host. Moving to the intermediately-placed planets around solar-like stars, we find that the planets' mass gradient governs the systems' long-term evolution post-encounter: more massive planets have better chances to survive. Also, a system's angular momentum deficit, a quantity describing how eccentric/inclined the orbits are, measured immediately after the encounter, closely relates to the longevity of the systems -- whether or not and when the systems turn unstable in the ensuing evolution millions of years post-encounter. We compare the orbits of the surviving planets in the unstable systems through (1) the immediate consequence of the stellar fly or (2) internal interplanetary scattering long post-encounter and find that those for the former are systematically colder. Finally, we show that massive wide-orbit multi-planet systems like that of HR 8799 can be easily disrupted and encounters at a few hundreds of au suffice.
description: to appear in MNRAS
Experimental and theoretical chemical dynamics of small hydrocarbon molecules
Creators: name: Shahu, Milena
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The experimental and theoretical dynamics of three small unsaturated hydrocarbon radicals: vinyl, allyl and propargyl in their lowest excited states have been studied. The electronic spectrum of the perdeuterated vinyl radical (C2D 3) A2A″ ← X˜ 2A' has been measured between 505 and 450 nm using cavity ring-down spectroscopy. From the best fit of the experimental spectrum, the rotational constants and linewidths were determined for the first four vibrational bands. It was seen that the vibrational structure is very diffuse and the linewidth increased with increasing vibrational excitation. From this, we infer that the excited state lifetime decreases as the vibrational excitation increases. We believe that the short lifetimes in the excited electronic state of the vinyl radical and the diffuse vibrational structure are due to rapid predissociation. CASSCF calculations indicate that the most likely predissociation mechanism is via a conical intersection between the first excited electronic state and the ground electronic state. The geometry of the vinyl radical at the conical intersection is different from the geometry at the global minimum. It has a long C-C bond length (1.6--1.7 A) and a alpha C-C-H bond angle of less than 90°. After crossing to the ground electronic state at the conical intersection, we believe that the vinyl radical dissociates to give vibrationally excited acetylene (HCCH) plus hydrogen (H) atom. The conical intersection for the vinyl radical lies close in energy to the global minimum in the excited electronic state. Other possible predissociation mechanisms are discussed. The visible/near ultraviolet spectra of the allyl and propargyl radicals are similar to the vinyl spectrum. These spectra have diffuse vibrational structure. The diffuseness of the spectra may be attributed to rapid predissociation in the first excited electronic state. Based on the calculations carried out for the vinyl radical we suspect that the predissociation of the allyl and propargyl radicals may occur through a conical intersection. CASSCF calculations on allyl and propargyl radicals indicate that the most likely predissociation mechanism is via a conical intersection between the ground and first excited electronic states. The geometries of the allyl and propargyl radicals at the conical intersection are different from either of the equilibrium structures. The conical intersections for allyl and propargyl radicals are reached by decreasing the C-C-C angle and by twisting the C-C bonds and they lie close in energy to the zero-point vibrational levels in the excited electronic states. Once allyl and propargyl radicals get to the conical intersections, they may cross to the ground electronic state potential energy surfaces and dissociate into excited allene (H2CCCH2) plus hydrogen (H) atom, and excited propargylene (HCCCH) plus hydrogen (H) atom, respectively.
Hyper-decoherence in Density Hypercubes
Creators: name: Hefford, James
name: Gogioso, Stefano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study hyper-decoherence in three operational theories from the literature, all examples of the recently introduced higher-order CPM construction. Amongst these, we show the theory of density hypercubes to be the richest in terms of post-quantum phenomena. Specifically, we demonstrate the existence of a probabilistic hyper-decoherence of density hypercubes to quantum systems and calculate the associated hyper-phase group. This makes density hypercubes of significant foundational interest, as an example of a theory which side-steps a recent no-go result in an original and unforeseen way, while at the same time displaying fully fledged operational semantics.
description: In Proceedings QPL 2020, arXiv:2109.01534
Confidence Sets Based on Inverting Anderson-Rubin Tests
Creators: name: Davidson, Russell
name: MacKinnon, James G.
name: Davidson, Russell
name: MacKinnon, James G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Financial Economics

description: Economists are often interested in the coefficient of a single endogenous explanatory variable in a linear simultaneous-equations model. One way to obtain a confidence set for this coefficient is to invert the Anderson-Rubin test. The “AR confidence sets” that result have correct coverage under classical assumptions. However, AR confidence sets also have many undesirable properties. It is well known that they can be unbounded when the instruments are weak, as is true of any test with correct coverage. But, even when they are bounded, their length may be very misleading, and their coverage conditional on quantities that the investigator can observe, no- tably the Sargan statistic for overidentifying restrictions, can be far from correct. A similar property manifests itself, for similar reasons, when a confidence set for a single parameter is based on inverting an F test for two or more parameters.
Molecular dynamics simulation analysis of structural dynamic cross correlation induced by odorant hydrogen-bonding in mouse eugenol olfactory receptor
Creators: name: Okamoto, Chisato
name: Ando, Koji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Structural fluctuations and dynamic cross-correlations in the mouse eugenol olfactory receptor (Olfr73) were studied by molecular dynamics (MD) simulation to characterize the dynamic response of the protein upon ligand binding. The initial structure was generated by the artificial intelligence tool AlfaFold2 due to the current lack of experimental data. We focused on the hydrogen (H) bond of the odorant eugenol to Ser113, Asn207, and Tyr260 of the receptor protein, the importance of which has been suggested by previous experimental studies. The H-bond was not observed in docking simulations, but in subsequent MD simulations the H-bond to Ser113 was formed in 2--4 ns. The lifetime of the H-bond was in the range of 1--20 ns. On the trajectory with the most stable (20 ns) H-bond, the structural fluctuation of the $α$-carbon atoms of the receptor main chain was studied by calculating the root mean square fluctuations, the dynamic cross-correlation map, and the time-dependent dynamic cross-correlation. The analysis suggested a correlation transfer pathway Ser113 $\to$ Phe182 $\to$ (Leu259 or Tyr260) $\to$ Tyr291 induced by the ligand binding with a time scale of 4--6 ns.
description: 6 pages, 8 figures
Melissodes (Eumelissodes) comatus LaBerge 1961
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Melissodes (Eumelissodes) comatus LaBerge, 1961
Endemic
[Holotype: CASC; ♂ La Laguna, Sierra Laguna, Baja California, México; October 14, 1941]
This species is likely endemic to the BCP. We reviewed four male paratypes from Sierra La Laguna, BCS, collected in October 1941 (CASC). Additionally, the CARCIB team collected three males and one female in the same region in September 2016. See fig. 107.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 174, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Additional file 2 of Precarious employment and migrant workers’ mental health: a protocol for a systematic review of observational studies
Creators: name: Ornek, Ozlem Koseoglu
name: Weinmann, Tobias
name: Waibel, Julia
name: Radon, Katja
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. Search Strings for the Databases
The impact of supermarket product differentiation with asymmetric information on consumer behavior
Creators: name: Webster, Suzanne Lehman
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation examines the empirical evidence behind the significant growth in the sale of private label food products. Previous research has shown a significant market share for supermarkets' own private label brands, which has been trending upward in recent years, from 15% in 1995 to 20.1% in 1999. To provide some insight into the explanation for these empirical findings, individualized consumer food purchase data has been linked with advertising data for brand and private label food products, thus allowing the study to assess the price and information determinants of the consumers' demand for private label food products. The major question examined in this thesis is the following: does the consumers' response to the relative advertising intensities for brand and private label products affect the products' market share or has the success of private label products been due solely to price considerations. The research tests these competing hypotheses by using Tobit regression analysis that relates economic and demographic characteristics of the consumer, as well as product specific data on prices and promotion to the purchases of food products. The underlying methodology is based on conventional utility maximization procedures, but an important feature is that information is an argument in the utility function. With information involved in the utility maximization process it then finds its way into the demand function. The analysis uses a new and unique database produced by AC Nielsen, which is sampled from a 52,000-member panel of households, that is geographically dispersed and demographically representative. The sample is spread across fifty-two markets within all four U.S. census regions. Advertising data is provided by the publication, Leading National Advertisers/Media Watch. The research shows an overwhelmingly positive response to advertising across all food categories, except for frozen plain vegetables. The other explanation of the empirical results of the growth of private label food products on market share relates to the effect of relative prices. Estimated price effects suggest that the consumers view private label and brand food products as imperfect substitutes. This means that even with a narrowing of the price gap between the two, the share of private label expenditures will continue to rise.
The impact of supermarket product differentiation with asymmetric information on consumer behavior
Creators: name: Webster, Suzanne Lehman
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics

description: This dissertation examines the empirical evidence behind the significant growth in the sale of private label food products. Previous research has shown a significant market share for supermarkets' own private label brands, which has been trending upward in recent years, from 15% in 1995 to 20.1% in 1999. To provide some insight into the explanation for these empirical findings, individualized consumer food purchase data has been linked with advertising data for brand and private label food products, thus allowing the study to assess the price and information determinants of the consumers' demand for private label food products. The major question examined in this thesis is the following: does the consumers' response to the relative advertising intensities for brand and private label products affect the products' market share or has the success of private label products been due solely to price considerations. The research tests these competing hypotheses by using Tobit regression analysis that relates economic and demographic characteristics of the consumer, as well as product specific data on prices and promotion to the purchases of food products. The underlying methodology is based on conventional utility maximization procedures, but an important feature is that information is an argument in the utility function. With information involved in the utility maximization process it then finds its way into the demand function. The analysis uses a new and unique database produced by AC Nielsen, which is sampled from a 52,000-member panel of households, that is geographically dispersed and demographically representative. The sample is spread across fifty-two markets within all four U.S. census regions. Advertising data is provided by the publication, Leading National Advertisers/Media Watch. The research shows an overwhelmingly positive response to advertising across all food categories, except for frozen plain vegetables. The other explanation of the empirical results of the growth of private label food products on market share relates to the effect of relative prices. Estimated price effects suggest that the consumers view private label and brand food products as imperfect substitutes. This means that even with a narrowing of the price gap between the two, the share of private label expenditures will continue to rise.
"Don't buy another vote. I won't pay for a landslide": The sordid and continuing history of political corruption in West Virginia
Creators: name: Loughry, II, Allen Hayes
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 48
subject: Law and legal studies

description: This study documents the long and sordid history of corruption---both perceived and corroborated---in the West Virginia political process. The researcher explores the considerable amounts of money spent by wealthy individuals for election or re-election. It documents the effect of high-cost elections, an effect which in many instances has spawned criminal activity. The author relates ostensibly ceaseless measures of corruption at the executive, legislative, and judicial levels. The findings indicate the existence of problems in West Virginia politics since the State's inception in 1863, including vote buying, vote rigging, undue geographical barriers, and lawlessness leading to numerous declarations of martial law. The research chronicles a weak, ineffectual Ethics Act as well as a lack of statewide prosecutorial power and illuminates a lack of accountability for numerous criminal actions. The data attests that the ongoing practice of corruption has not been confined to one level of government as city, county, state, and even federal candidates have been subject to well warranted scrutiny including the nationally pivotal 1960 West Virginia Primary involving victorious candidate John F. Kennedy, Jr. The author examines Clean Money legislation as one potential avenue to reform providing that no reform will be successful without the elimination of the many advantages available only to incumbents. The researcher obtained information from books, magazines, state and federal cases, national and state newspapers, personal interviews of current and former candidates, elected officials, campaign workers, and citizens. Moreover, the author garnered information from his personal employment history in a governor's office, a United States Congressional office, two state supreme courts, a county prosecuting attorney's office, his work as a Senior Assistant Attorney General, as well as his experiences in campaign work on the county, state, and national levels. The principal initiative of this body of work is to serve as an educational tool promoting a grass roots effort to clean up the State's unfortunate political problems and mitigate voter apathy and cynicism.
title: Chemical control of the photoluminescent properties of up-converting phosphors
Creators: name: Rebollo Pedruelo, Maria del Puy
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2007

description: Up-conversion luminescence of Er3+ based phosphors was studied in the following host lattices: Y2O3, GCI2O3, Gd2-xYxO3, and YVO4, with a view to developing an understanding of how emission can be tailored by manipulating the local chemical environment of the activator ion.

Laser induced luminescence measurements of Y203:Er phosphors showed evidence of Stokes and Anti-Stokes emission bands arising from excited levels under 632.8 nm radiation. Emission from 4F7/2—> 4I15/2 transitions were found to be weaker in Gd203 phosphors and were not detected in YVO4 hosts. Relative intensity of Stokes / Anti-Stokes radiation were studied as a function of the host lattice, and variations found as a consequence of crystal field changes in the activator environment.

This work was extended to an investigation of the effect of co-dopants. Low levels of Yb3+ used as sensitizer, enhanced luminescence from 4F7/2—> 4I15/2 and 4F9/2—► 4I15/2 transitions, and a novel relaxation mechanism involving energy transfer from excited states is proposed to account for the variation observed in the intensity of the emission bands. Eu3+ used as co-dopant produced energy loss due to resonant energy transfer. This phenomenon was demonstrated by undertaking thermal studies on YV04:Er,Eu co-doped phosphors. Enhancement of 4H11/2 transitions from Er3+ ions in S6 symmetry sites was observed together with 4F7/2—> 4I15/2 transition activation with increasing Eu3+ concentration.

With a view to producing phosphor powders suitable for device application, wet chemical routes were investigated in order to prepare the materials studied in this work. The synthetic approaches studied were urea co-precipitation and combustion synthesis, the reaction conditions were carefully manipulated in order to optimise the composition and morphology of the product. Spherical uniform particles in the 300 - 600 nm range were routinely prepared.
"Don't buy another vote. I won't pay for a landslide": The sordid and continuing history of political corruption in West Virginia
Creators: name: Loughry, II, Allen Hayes
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This study documents the long and sordid history of corruption---both perceived and corroborated---in the West Virginia political process. The researcher explores the considerable amounts of money spent by wealthy individuals for election or re-election. It documents the effect of high-cost elections, an effect which in many instances has spawned criminal activity. The author relates ostensibly ceaseless measures of corruption at the executive, legislative, and judicial levels. The findings indicate the existence of problems in West Virginia politics since the State's inception in 1863, including vote buying, vote rigging, undue geographical barriers, and lawlessness leading to numerous declarations of martial law. The research chronicles a weak, ineffectual Ethics Act as well as a lack of statewide prosecutorial power and illuminates a lack of accountability for numerous criminal actions. The data attests that the ongoing practice of corruption has not been confined to one level of government as city, county, state, and even federal candidates have been subject to well warranted scrutiny including the nationally pivotal 1960 West Virginia Primary involving victorious candidate John F. Kennedy, Jr. The author examines Clean Money legislation as one potential avenue to reform providing that no reform will be successful without the elimination of the many advantages available only to incumbents. The researcher obtained information from books, magazines, state and federal cases, national and state newspapers, personal interviews of current and former candidates, elected officials, campaign workers, and citizens. Moreover, the author garnered information from his personal employment history in a governor's office, a United States Congressional office, two state supreme courts, a county prosecuting attorney's office, his work as a Senior Assistant Attorney General, as well as his experiences in campaign work on the county, state, and national levels. The principal initiative of this body of work is to serve as an educational tool promoting a grass roots effort to clean up the State's unfortunate political problems and mitigate voter apathy and cynicism.
title: DIE HÖRPOSAUNE
title: SCORE WRITTEN BY ANTONIA BAEHR FOR JULE FLIERL
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: hosted by Antonia Baehr and Jade Dreyfuss, make up productions,
Publisher: name: The Dynamic Archive
Year: 2021
Subjects: Performance

description: If you want to see one of these scores in its entirety, please send a mail to this address : thedynamicarchive@hfk-bremen.deOn this page you can find excerpts from the score that Antonia Baehr wrote for Jule Flierl.
Gender and political vocation: Women campaign consultants
Creators: name: Brewer, Sarah E.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This research explores why there are so few women political consultants and how the experiences of women consultants differ from their male counterparts. Women make up roughly 18.0% of the campaign consulting industry, including general consultants, media and direct mail consultants, pollsters and fund-raisers. This research seeks to see if there are differences between men and women consultants in terms of their professional and personal characteristics, their attitudes, and their relationships with other campaign actors: the political parties, candidates, and other consultants. A survey of 505 campaign consultants conducted for the Improving Campaign Conduct project by the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies and The Pew Charitable Trusts is used to compare men and women consultants on a variety of demographic variables, their attitudes about the role of consultants and the political parties in elections, and the quality of candidates running for office. In addition, elite interviews with men and women D.C. area consultants were conducted to further explore the experiences of men and women consultants and their relationships to each other, the political parties, and candidates, particularly women candidates. This research found that men and women differed on a few personal variables, most notably, women consultants were significantly less likely to be married and have children than their male counterparts. In addition, this research found that a gendered division of labor exists within the consulting profession and in the entry-level jobs in campaign politics. Women are more likely to be fund-raisers than their male counterparts and as such have less impact over the course of the campaigns that they work on. Finally, this research found evidence of a possible relationship between women consultants and women candidates. Future research should further examine the way in which gender impacts the hiring of a candidate's consultant team and the impact women consultants have on the overall structure and direction of the campaign.
Gender and political vocation: Women campaign consultants
Creators: name: Brewer, Sarah E.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4405
subject: Gender studies
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: This research explores why there are so few women political consultants and how the experiences of women consultants differ from their male counterparts. Women make up roughly 18.0% of the campaign consulting industry, including general consultants, media and direct mail consultants, pollsters and fund-raisers. This research seeks to see if there are differences between men and women consultants in terms of their professional and personal characteristics, their attitudes, and their relationships with other campaign actors: the political parties, candidates, and other consultants. A survey of 505 campaign consultants conducted for the Improving Campaign Conduct project by the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies and The Pew Charitable Trusts is used to compare men and women consultants on a variety of demographic variables, their attitudes about the role of consultants and the political parties in elections, and the quality of candidates running for office. In addition, elite interviews with men and women D.C. area consultants were conducted to further explore the experiences of men and women consultants and their relationships to each other, the political parties, and candidates, particularly women candidates. This research found that men and women differed on a few personal variables, most notably, women consultants were significantly less likely to be married and have children than their male counterparts. In addition, this research found that a gendered division of labor exists within the consulting profession and in the entry-level jobs in campaign politics. Women are more likely to be fund-raisers than their male counterparts and as such have less impact over the course of the campaigns that they work on. Finally, this research found evidence of a possible relationship between women consultants and women candidates. Future research should further examine the way in which gender impacts the hiring of a candidate's consultant team and the impact women consultants have on the overall structure and direction of the campaign.
Additional file 1 of The effect of dialectical behaviour therapy in autism spectrum patients with suicidality and/ or self-destructive behaviour (DIASS): study protocol for a multicentre randomised controlled trial
Creators: name: Huntjens, Anne
name: L. M. C. Wies Van Den Bosch
name: Sizoo, Bram
name: Kerkhof, Ad
name: Huibers, Marcus J. H.
name: Gaag, Mark Van Der
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Checklist Standard Protocol Items: Recommendations for Intervention Trials (SPIRIT).
Development of a Simulation Framework for Spherical Proportional Counters
Creators: name: Katsioulas, I.
name: Knights, P.
name: Matthews, J.
name: Neep, T.
name: Nikolopoulos, K.
name: Owen, R.
name: Ward, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The spherical proportional counter is a novel gaseous detector with numerous applications, including direct dark matter searches and neutron spectroscopy. The strengths of the Geant4 and Garfield++ toolkits are combined to create a simulation framework for spherical proportional counters. The interface is implemented by introducing Garfield++ classes within a Geant4 application. Simulated muon, electron, and photon signals are presented, and the effects of gas mixture composition and anode support structure on detector response are discussed.
description: 11 pages, 11 figures, proceedings of 15th Topical Seminar on Innovative Particle and Radiation Detectors (IPRD19) 14-17 October 2019 Siena, Italy
"Reverse Bayesianism": A Choice-Based Theory of Growing Awareness
Creators: name: Karni, Edi
name: VierÃÿ, Marie-Louise
name: Karni, Edi
name: VierÃÿ, Marie-Louise
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: International Development
subject: Awareness
subject: unawareness
subject: reverse Bayesianism
subject: null events

description: This paper introduces a new approach to modeling the expanding universe of de- cision makers in the wake of growing awareness, and invokes the axiomatic approach to model the evolution of decision makers' beliefs as awareness grows. The expanding universe is accompanied by extension of the set of acts, the preference relations over which are linked by a new axiom, invariant risk preferences, asserting that the ranking of lotteries is independent of the set of acts under consideration. The main results are representation theorems and rules for updating beliefs over expanding state spaces and null events that have the flavor of "reverse Bayesianism."
Asymptotics for the conditional-sum-of-squares estimator in multivariate fractional time series models
Creators: name: ÃŸrregaard Nielsen, Morten
name: ÃŸrregaard Nielsen, Morten
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Asymptotic normality
subject: conditional-sum-of-squares estimator
subject: consistency
subject: fractional integration
subject: fractional time series
subject: likelihood inference
subject: long memory
subject: nonstationary
subject: uniform convergence

description: This paper proves consistency and asymptotic normality for the conditional-sum-of-squares estima- tor, which is equivalent to the conditional maximum likelihood estimator, in multivariate fractional time series models. The model is parametric and quite general, and, in particular, encompasses the multivariate non-cointegrated fractional ARIMA model. The novelty of the consistency result, in par- ticular, is that it applies to a multivariate model and to an arbitrarily large set of admissible parameter values, for which the objective function does not converge uniformly in probablity, thus making the proof much more challenging than usual. The neighborhood around the critical point where uniform convergence fails is handled using a truncation argument.
Error -prone translesion synthesis with human DNA polymerase eta on DNA containing 3,4-dihydroxy-1,2-epoxy-1,2,3,4-tetrahydrobenzo[c]phenanthrene dA adducts
Creators: name: Bryant-Phillips, Tracy
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 3101
subject: Biochemistry and cell biology
classificationCode: 34
subject: Chemical sciences
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Human DNA polymerase eta was used to copy four stereoisomeric trans and cis ring opened benzo[c]phenanthrene 1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-3,4-diol-1,2-epoxide adducts placed on the N6 position of dA residues. Utilizing sequence 3 ' CGTCGAGATTT*AGAC 5', incorporation of G, A, T, and C were observed using templates containing trans R, trans S, cis R, and cis S ring opened adducts. Incorporation of dNTPs across from the adducts occurred primarily at a similar or lower rate than undamaged DNA. Trans S and cis S adducts, however, had several dNTP incorporations that occurred at slightly higher rates. The same two isomers showed remarkable rates of extension of (mis)incorporation. The extension rate at trans S adducts showed an increase for G, A, T and C pairs with adducted A of 6.5x, 1.6x, 2.7x and 1.2x respectively over the rates for non-adducted (undamaged) DNA. Cis S extension of (mis)incorporation showed a dramatic increase over non-adducted DNA for all 4 bases, G. A, T, and C of 9.1x, 20x, 14x, and 3.1x respectively. Trans R and cis R adducts both inhibit DNA extension. The active site of pol eta seems to prefer adducts in the S position during extension but not during incorporation. The position of the adduct in the DNA may interfere with extension at R adducts but not at S adducts. It is suggested that the rate-limiting step of nucleotide incorporation by DNA polymerase eta during extension is eliminated by trans S and cis S isomers only.
Spontaneus pion emission during fission - a new nuclear radioactivity
Creators: name: Ion, D. B.
name: Ion-Mihai, Reveica
name: Ion, M. L.
name: Sandru, Adriana I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper a short review of the theoretical problems of the pionic radioactivity is presented. The essential experimental results obtained in the 18 years of existence of the nuclear pionic radioactivity are reviewed. Moreover, using the recent results on the spontaneous fission half lives of the heavy nuclei with Z >= 100 new predictions on the pionic yields in the region of superheavy elements are established.
description: 20 pages, 8 figures
Giving Operational Meaning to the Superposition of Causal Orders
Creators: name: Pinzani, Nicola
name: Gogioso, Stefano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this work, we give rigorous operational meaning to superposition of causal orders. This fits within a recent effort to understand how the standard operational perspective on quantum theory could be extended to include indefinite causality. The mainstream view, that of "process matrices", takes a top-down approach to the problem, considering all causal correlations that are compatible with local quantum experiments. Conversely, we pursue a bottom-up approach, investigating how the concept of indefiniteness emerges from specific characteristics of generic operational theories. Specifically, we pin down the operational phenomenology of the notion of non-classical (e.g. "coherent") control, which we then use to formalise a theory-independent notion of control (e.g. "superposition") of causal orders. To validate our framework, we show how salient examples from the literature can be captured in our framework.
description: In Proceedings QPL 2020, arXiv:2109.01534
Public-Place Smoking Laws and Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS)
Creators: name: Carpenter, Christopher
name: Postolek, Sabina
name: Warman, Casey
name: Carpenter, Christopher
name: Postolek, Sabina
name: Warman, Casey
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Financial Economics

description: Public-place smoking restrictions are the most important non-price tobacco control measures worldwide, yet surprisingly little is known about their effects on exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). We study these laws in Canada using data with questions about respondents’ ETS exposure in public and private places. In fixed-effects models we find these laws had no effects on smoking but induced large and statistically significant reductions in public-place ETS exposure, especially in bars and restaurants. We do not find significant evidence of ETS displacement to private homes. Our results indicate wide latitude for health improvements from banning smoking in public places.
Probing cosmology via the clustering of critical points
Creators: name: Shim, Junsup
name: Pichon, Christophe
name: Pogosyan, Dmitri
name: Appleby, Stephen
name: Cadiou, Corentin
name: Kim, Juhan
name: Kraljic, Katarina
name: Park, Changbom
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Exclusion zones in the cross-correlations between critical points (peak-void, peak-wall, filament-wall, filament-void) of the density field define quasi-standard rulers that can be used to constrain dark matter and dark energy cosmological parameters. The average size of the exclusion zone is found to scale linearly with the typical distance between extrema. The latter changes as a function of the matter content of the universe in a predictable manner, but its comoving size remains essentially constant in the linear regime of structure growth on large scales, unless the incorrect cosmology is assumed in the redshift-distance relation. This can be used to constrain the dark energy parameters when considering a survey that scans a range of redshifts. The precision of the parameter estimation is assessed using a set of cosmological simulations, and is found to be a 4$σ$ detection of a change in matter content of 5%, or about 3.8$σ$ detection of 50% shift in the dark energy parameter using a full sky survey up to redshift 0.5.
description: 12 pages (including a 3-page appendix, 9 figures, 2 tables. Submitted to MNRAS
Entanglement and quantum tomography with top quarks at the LHC
Creators: name: Afik, Yoav
name: de Nova, Juan Ramón Muñoz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Entanglement is a central subject in quantum mechanics. Due to its genuine relativistic behavior and fundamental nature, high-energy colliders are attractive systems for the experimental study of fundamental aspects of quantum mechanics. We propose the detection of entanglement between the spins of top-antitop-quark pairs at the LHC, representing the first proposal of entanglement detection in a pair of quarks, and also the entanglement observation at the highest energy scale so far. We show that entanglement can be observed by direct measurement of the angular separation between the leptons arising from the decay of the top-antitop pair. The detection can be achieved with high statistical significance, using the current data recorded during Run 2 at the LHC. In addition, we develop a simple protocol for the quantum tomography of the top-antitop pair. This experimental technique reconstructs the quantum state of the system, providing a new experimental tool to test theoretical predictions. Our work explicitly implements canonical experimental techniques in quantum information in a two-qubit high-energy system, paving the way to use high-energy colliders to also study quantum information aspects.
description: 15 pages, 5 figures
Error -prone translesion synthesis with human DNA polymerase eta on DNA containing 3,4-dihydroxy-1,2-epoxy-1,2,3,4-tetrahydrobenzo[c]phenanthrene dA adducts
Creators: name: Bryant-Phillips, Tracy
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Human DNA polymerase eta was used to copy four stereoisomeric trans and cis ring opened benzo[c]phenanthrene 1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-3,4-diol-1,2-epoxide adducts placed on the N6 position of dA residues. Utilizing sequence 3 ' CGTCGAGATTT*AGAC 5', incorporation of G, A, T, and C were observed using templates containing trans R, trans S, cis R, and cis S ring opened adducts. Incorporation of dNTPs across from the adducts occurred primarily at a similar or lower rate than undamaged DNA. Trans S and cis S adducts, however, had several dNTP incorporations that occurred at slightly higher rates. The same two isomers showed remarkable rates of extension of (mis)incorporation. The extension rate at trans S adducts showed an increase for G, A, T and C pairs with adducted A of 6.5x, 1.6x, 2.7x and 1.2x respectively over the rates for non-adducted (undamaged) DNA. Cis S extension of (mis)incorporation showed a dramatic increase over non-adducted DNA for all 4 bases, G. A, T, and C of 9.1x, 20x, 14x, and 3.1x respectively. Trans R and cis R adducts both inhibit DNA extension. The active site of pol eta seems to prefer adducts in the S position during extension but not during incorporation. The position of the adduct in the DNA may interfere with extension at R adducts but not at S adducts. It is suggested that the rate-limiting step of nucleotide incorporation by DNA polymerase eta during extension is eliminated by trans S and cis S isomers only.
An interesting spectroscopic method for chromofluorogenic detection
Creators: name: Alizadeh, Abdolhamid
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Organic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: 5-[4-(dimethylamino)benzylidene) pyrimidine-2,4,6(1H,3H,5H)]-trione (DMP-3H), the receptorwas synthesized which played a chemosensor role for cyanide ion (CN−) in aqueous solution with colorimetricand fluorescence turn-off responses. Upon addition of CN− ion into the solution containing the receptor, acolor change visible to the naked eye was observed from yellow to colourless and also, the fluorescence of thesolution was immediately quenched. Moreover, DMP-3H exhibited a selective response to cyanide ion overmany other anions such as F−, Cl−, Br−, I−, SO2−3 , OCN−, ClO−3 , CO2−3 , IO−3 , N−3 , C2O2−4 and SCN−. Thedetection limit toward CN− was 8.1 × 10−7 mol.L−1, which is satisfactory enough for monitoring CN− levelsin physiological and environmental systems.