cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Botswana’s Elephant-Back Safari Industry – Stress-Response in Working African Elephants and Analysis of their Post-Release Movements
Creators: name: Lama, Tanya
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2017

description: Understanding how African elephants (Loxodonta africana) respond to human interactions in ecotourism operations is critical to safeguarding animal and human welfare and sustaining wildlife ecotourism activities. We investigated the stress response of elephants to a variety of tourist activities over a 15-month period at Abu Camp in northern Botswana. We compared fecal glucocorticoid metabolite (FGM) concentrations across three elephant groups, including: eight elephants in an elephant-tourism operation (Abu herd), three elephants previously reintroduced back into the wild from the Abu herd, and wild elephants. There were no differences in FGM concentrations between the three groups of elephants. The highest observed FGM concentrations were associated with episodic events (e.g. intraherd conflict, loud noise, physical injury) unrelated to tourist activities. FGM concentrations differed between the elephant-tourist activities with ride only and mixed ride/walk activities eliciting higher FGM concentrations compared to days when there were no elephant-tourist interactions.
The elephant experience tourism industry faces challenges in managing elephants who’s aggressive or unpredictable behavior makes them ill-suited to captivity, training, and interaction with handlers and tourists. Reintroduction of these elephants back into the wild may be a favorable solution if the welfare of released individuals, recipient wild animal populations, and human populations can be ensured. We describe the post-release movements of two African elephants, one female and one bull, from an elephant-back-safari enterprise in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. We compared the movements of the female with that of two wild females collared in the same wildlife management concession. We assess their home range size, proximity to human dwellings, and fidelity to their former home range as former members of their semi-captive, working herd from which they were released. We found significant differences between the home range size of our released elephant and that of the two wild elephants. Additionally, the released female and released bull occurred more frequently in close proximity (within 250 m) to tourist lodges throughout the Delta. The released elephants also frequented sites used by the working Abu herd with greater frequency than the wild elephants, and this visitation rate did not significantly decline during respective four- and two-year post-release monitoring periods, despite the positive growth in home range size.
Mass-deformed $\mathcal{N} = 3$ Supersymmetric Chern-Simons-Matter Theory
Creators: name: Inbasekar, Karthik
name: Janagal, Lavneet
name: Shukla, Ashish
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The maximal extension of supersymmetric Chern-Simons theory coupled to fundamental matter has $\mathcal{N} = 3$ supersymmetry. In this short note, we provide the explicit form of the action for the mass-deformed $\mathcal{N} = 3$ supersymmetric $U(N)$ Chern-Simons-Matter theory. The theory admits a unique triplet mass deformation term consistent with supersymmetry. We explicitly construct the mass-deformed $\mathcal{N} = 3$ theory in $\mathcal{N} = 1$ superspace using a fundamental and an anti-fundamental superfield.
description: 9 pages. v2: Reference added, matches published version in Phys. Rev. D
Hi-Tech ID with Digital Tracking System
Creators: name: Garg, Rishabh
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Blockchain
Citizen ID
DAG
Digital Identity
Hashgraph
Holochain
Multipurpose ID
Tempo
UID

description: The present communication proposes a digitally operative Unique Digital Identification Number leveraging the Distributed Ledger Technology. DLT is a protocol that allows secure functioning of a digital database that exists across several locations. It could be a Blockchain, DAG, Hashgraph, Holochain or Tempo (Radix). DLT backs up all information in a secure and accurate manner using cryptography. The digital identity ecosystem can work seamlessly across administrative domain viz. educational sector, health-care, finance, telecommunications, crowd operations, public distribution, taxation, legal enforcement and others. The system assures privacy and trust, with least involvement of bureaucracy.
description: {"references": ["Garg, R. (2016). Generic Information Tracker. 2nd India International Science Festival, New Delhi (Published in Times of India, 07 Dec 2016 and Dainik Bhaskar, 10 Dec 2016).", "Garg, R. Digital ID with Electronic Surveillance System. Patent pending with National Innovation Foundation - Autonomous Body of Department of Science & Technology, Government of India, 20 Aug 2017."]}
Infrared behavior of the running coupling constant and bound states in QCD
Creators: name: Baldicchi, M.
name: Prosperi, G. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The perturbative expression of the running strong coupling constant α_{\rm s}(Q^{2}) has an unphysical singularity for Q^{2} = Λ^{2}_{\rm QCD}. Various modification have been proposed for the infrared region. The effect of some of such proposals on the quark-antiquark spectrum is tested on a Bethe-Salpeter (second order) formalism which was successfully applied in previous papers to an overall evaluation of the spectrum in the light-light, light-heavy and heavy-heavy sectors (the only serious discrepancy with data being for the light pseudoscalar meson masses). In this paper only the {\rm c} \bar{\rm c}, {\rm b} \bar{\rm b} and {\rm q} \bar{\rm q} (q = u or d) cases are considered and fine structure is neglected. It is found that in the {\rm b} \bar{\rm b} and {\rm c} \bar{\rm c} cases the results are little sensitive to the specific choice. In the light-light case the Dokshitzer et al. prescription is again essentially equivalent to the truncation prescription used in the previous calculation and it is consistent with the same a priori fixing of the quark light masses on the typical current values m_{\rm u} = m_{\rm d} = 10 MeV (only the pion mass resulting completely out of scale of about 500 MeV). With the Shirkov-Solovtsov prescription, on the contrary, a reasonable agreement with the data is obtained only at the price of using a phenomenological momentum dependent effective mass for the quark. The use of such an effective mass should amount to a correction of the free quark propagator. It is remarkable that this has also the effect of bringing the pion mass in the correct range.
description: 12 pages, 1 figure
Principal eigenvectors of general hypergraphs
Creators: name: Cardoso, Kauê
name: Trevisan, Vilmar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C65, 15A69, 05C50, 15A18

description: In this paper we obtain bounds for the extreme entries of the principal eigenvector of hypergraphs; these bounds are computed using the spectral radius and some classical parameters such as maximum and minimum degrees. We also study inequalities involving the ratio and difference between the two extreme entries of this vector.
description: Keywords - Hypergraph; Adjacency tensor; Spectral radius; Principal eigenvector
title: Value-based bricolage
title: Resource mobilization in the circular economy
Creators: name: Klein, Sascha Pascal
name: Liszt-Rohlf, Verena
name: Spieth, Patrick
Publisher: name: Universität Kassel
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: bricolage
subject: circular economy
subject: circular economy business model
subject: multiple-case study
subject: resource mobilization
subject: value-based bricolage
subject: 330
subject: 650
subject: Bricolage
subject: Kreislaufwirtschaft
subject: Ressourcenmanagement

description: Gefördert im Rahmen des Projekts DEAL
CA-SBA-992: Archaeological site record for CA-SBA-992
Creators: name: Kekich, Jessica
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Santa Barbara (County)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/3486/santa-barbara-county
subject: Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/85469/vandenberg-air-force-base-vafb
subject: Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/85584/vandenberg-space-force-base-vsfb
subject: United States of America (Country)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/384/united-states-of-america-country
subject: North America (Continent)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/2890/north-america-continent
subject: California (State / Territory)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/1484/california-state-territory
subject: Prehistoric
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/53/prehistoric
subject: SBA 992
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/138359/sba-992
subject: CA-SBA-992
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/118597/ca-sba-992
subject: VD-1
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/138360/vd-1
subject: SBa-992
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/20187/sba-992
subject: Archaeological Feature
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/339/archaeological-feature
subject: Artifact Scatter
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/340/artifact-scatter
subject: sparse to moderate-density scatter of lithic debris
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/5436/sparse-to-moderate-density-scatter-of-lithic-debris
subject: Cores
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/125/cores
subject: granite slab metate fragment
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/4957/granite-slab-metate-fragment
subject: biface tip fragment
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/4830/biface-tip-fragment
subject: edge modified flake
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/4958/edge-modified-flake
subject: Chipped Stone
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/2/chipped-stone
subject: Hammerstone fragments
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/4802/hammerstone-fragments
subject: Fire Cracked Rock
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/5/fire-cracked-rock
subject: Ground Stone
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/7/ground-stone
subject: Lithic Scatter
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/2473/lithic-scatter
subject: Lithic Debitage
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/2812/lithic-debitage
subject: Archaeological Overview
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/1/archaeological-overview
subject: Reconnaissance / Survey
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/7/reconnaissance-survey
subject: Site Evaluation / Testing
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/10/site-evaluation-testing

description: This document is the archaeological site record for CA-SBA-992. The record consists of 3 recordation events.
Israel conditions for the Gauss-Bonnet theory and the Friedmann equation on the brane universe
Creators: name: Gravanis, Elias
name: Willison, Steven
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Assuming an Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet theory of gravitation in a ($D \geq 5$)-dimensional spacetime with boundary, we consider the problem of the boundary dynamics given the matter Lagrangian on it. The resulting equation is applied in particular on the derivation of the Friedmann eq. of a 3-brane, understood as the non-orientable boundary of a 5d spacetime. We briefly discuss the contradictory conclusions of the literature.
description: 8 pages, published version
Epigallocatechin-3-Gallate Reduces Fat Accumulation in Caenorhabditis Elegans
Creators: name: liu, jinning
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2017

description: Epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), also known as epigallocatechin-3-gallate, is a polyphenol that is most abundant in tea. It has been shown from many studies that consumption of EGCG can contribute to weight loss, however, the underlying mechanism is not fully understood. To determine how EGCG acts to reduce fat, an organism model Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) is introduced, which is a useful animal system in exploring crucial biological mechanisms that are readily applicable to humans. In this study, different strains were raised for two days on a diet with or without 100µM and 200µM EGCG treatment: N2 (i.e., wild type) and mutants (i.e., knockdown of fat metabolism related genes). EGCG’s effect on fat reduction was characterized by triglyceride content, food consumption and physiological behaviors. Our results showed that 100 and 200 µM EGCG significantly reduced the triglyceride content of wild type worms by 10% and 20%, respectively, without affecting its food intake and physiological behaviors. Additionally, EGCG could effectively reduce fat accumulation in C. elegans dependent on acs-2 and atgl-1.
Cocoyam [Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott] Encyclopedia
Creators: name: Otekunrin, Olutosin A.
name: Sawicka, Barbara
name: Adeyonu, Abigail A.
name: Oluwaseun A. Otekunrin
name: Rachon, Leszek
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 70302 Agronomy
subject: FOS: Agriculture, forestry and fisheries
subject: 70108 Sustainable Agricultural Development
subject: FOS: Other agricultural sciences

description: Taro (Cocoyam) [Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott] is an important tropical root crop grown purposely for its starchy corms or underground stem . It is regarded as one of the most important staple crops in the Pacific Islands, Asia and Africa. It is one of the oldest world’s food crops believed to have been first domesticated in Southeast Asia before its eventual spread to other parts of the world . The two most commonly cultivated species of Taro (Colocasia esculenta and Xanthosoma sagittifolium) belong to the Araceae family and are extensively cultivated in Africa.
Adoptive Parenting Cognitions, Compatibility, and Attachment Among Domestically Adoptive Families
Creators: name: Lo, Albert
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2017

description: Adoptive families may experience challenges because the parent and child are not biologically related. For example, many adoptive parents realize that their experiences may be different from those of biological parents and may respond to this realization through varying degrees of acknowledging this difference. These thoughts that adoptive parents have about the adoption, or adoptive parenting cognitions, may have implications for adjustment in the adoptive family. Research has been dedicated to examining the relationship between the adoptive parents’ level of acknowledgment of differences and child outcomes; however, fewer studies exist on how this acknowledgment affects the parent-child bond. The current study aimed to longitudinally examine the link between adoptive parent’s level of acknowledgement of differences and the level of attachment between the adoptive parent and adopted child, as perceived by the adolescent. The study also aimed to examine the potential mediating effects of parent-child compatibility, or the match between characteristics of a child and the parenting style of the parent, on this relationship. Data from the current study originate from the Minnesota/Texas Adoption Research Project. Acknowledgement of differences was measured at Wave 1 when the children were 4 to12 years old, adolescent-perceived attachment was measured at Wave 2 when the children were 11 to 20 years old, and parent-perceived compatibility was measured at both waves. Acknowledgement of differences was measured using the Kirk Adoption Questionnaire. Parent-perceived compatibility was assessed using a measure derived from combining four subscales of the Parenting Stress Index. Finally, attachment was measured using the Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment and a subscale from the Parenting Stress Index. Results of the present study indicated that higher levels of acknowledgement of differences predicted higher levels of adolescent-perceived attachment at a later time point in adoptive father-child dyads but not adoptive mother-child dyads. In addition, parent-perceived incompatibility did not partially mediate this relationship for either mothers or fathers. Implications of the results and areas of further research are discussed.
Fields and Characteristic Impedances of Dipole and Quadrupole Cylindrical Stripline Kickers
Creators: name: Sen, Tanaji
name: Tu, Yisheng
name: Ostiguy, Jean-Francois
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present semi-analytical methods for calculating the electromagnetic field in dipole and quadrupole stripline kickers with curved plates of infinitesimal thickness. Two different methods are used to solve Laplace's equation by reducing it either to a single or to two coupled matrix equations; they are shown to yield equivalent results. Approximate analytic solutions for the lowest order fields (dipole or quadrupole) are presented and their useful range of validity are shown. The kickers plates define a set of coupled transmission lines and the characteristic impedances of modes relevant to each configuration are calculated. The solutions are compared with those obtained from a finite element solver and found to be in good agreement. Mode matching to an external impedance determines the kicker geometry and this is discussed for both kicker types. We show that a heuristic scaling law can be used to determine the dependence of the characteristic impedance on plate thickness. The solutions found by semi-analytical methods can be used as a starting point for a more detailed kicker design.
description: 39 pages, 18 figures
Cicurina (Cicurella) bullis Cokendolpher 2004
Creators: name: Paquin, Pierre
name: Dupérré, Nadine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Hahniidae
Cicurina
Cicurina bullis

description: Cicurina (Cicurella) bullis Cokendolpher 2004
(Figs 20–21, 134)
 Cicurina bullis Cokendolpher 2004a: 16, 18–22, 24–27, 34, 39– 41, 52, 54, figs 34–36 (description of female). — Reddell & Cokendolpher 2004: 80; Paquin & Hedin 2004: 3243–3246, 3253.
 HOLOTYPE female: “ Texas: Bexar County: Isocow Cave. Zone 3. 2 March 1994, W. Elliot, G. Veni ”. Examined (AMNH).
 Additional material examined. UNITED STATES: Bexar County: Platypus Pit, 30.iii.1995, 1♀ [TMM #35354], J. Reddell, M. Reyes, PARATYPE (TMM); Root Canal Cave (Camp Bullis), 20.iv.1999 (molted on 25.viii.1999, 09.iv.2000 and matured on 03.xii.2000), 1♀, J. Reddell, M. Reyes, PARATYPE (TMM); Eagles Nest Cave (Camp Bullis), 01.xi.2001, 1♀ [TMM #34452] J. Reddell, M. Reyes, PARATYPE (TMM); Hilger Hole (Camp Bullis), 15.xii.2000, 1♀, J. Reddell, M. Reyes, PARATYPE (TMM).
 Description. Female holotype
Total length: 3.96; carapace length: 1.80; carapace width: 1.26; opisthosoma length: 2.16. Eyes absent. Cheliceral promargin right side with 3 teeth (1 large, 2 small), left side likewise; retromargin right side with 7 denticles (3 large, 4 small), left side likewise. Leg I: total length: 5.15; femur: 1.35; patella: 0.55; tibia: 1.25; metatarsus: 1.20; tarsus: 0.80; leg IV: total length: 5.95; femur: 1.65; patella: 0.55; tibia: 1.35; metatarsus: 1.55; tarsus: 0.85. Tarsal claw IV: 0.15. Epigynum: 0.350 mm. Epigynal ventral plate with long transverse slit, bearing medial, shallow indentation; atrium rectangular, half intruded by dorsal plate, atrial aperture small; bursa enlarged, not fused; copulatory ducts touching at midpoint, reaching slightly over primary lobe apex; copulatory ducts constriction located basally; primary pores not visible; stalk, short, straight, horizontal, joining the primary lobe at the aperture of the dictynoid pore; dictynoid pore rounded; primary lobe earshaped; secondary lobe absent; fertilization canal short, externally positioned from dictynoid pore; fertilization duct medially attached to the primary lobe base.
 Distribution. Known from five caves in Bexar County (Texas, Fig. 134): Eagles Nest Cave, Hilger Hole, Isocow Cave (type locality), Platypus Pit, and Root Canal Cave.
 Remarks. Male unknown. Data added in Cokendolpher (2004a) for holotype “top of 3.6 m drop to top of 4.6 m Pit”. According to Cokendolpher (2004a), C. bullis and C. platypus are found in sympatry in Platypus Pit, the type locality of C. platypus.
description: Published as part of Paquin, Pierre & Dupérré, Nadine, 2009, of 60 troglobitic species of the subgenus Cicurella (Araneae: Dictynidae), and a first visual assessment of their distribution, pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 2002 on page 17
title: The doctrine of diminished responsibility in English criminal law
Creators: name: Lownie, Ralph H
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 1989

description: This thesis examines the development of the doctrine of diminished responsibility in English criminal law since its introduction by section 2 of the Homicide Act, 1957. Initially the study considers whether the concept has a sound jurisprudential base and attempts to trace its roots in English law prior to 1957, including the political background to the Act and the drafting of section 2, As it was claimed at its inception that what had been done was to 'adopt and adapt' the doctrine of diminished responsibility then existing in Scotland, the relevant law of Scotland is examined both before and after 1957. It is the main contention of this thesis that not only has English law adopted and adapted the Scottish doctrine but in the thirty years since, in contradistinction to Scotland, has greatly 'advanced' the doctrine. A critical examination has been made of the character and scope of the doctrine as set out in the Act and the interpretation given to the elements of the section by the courts over the years under review. This has involved considering in detail all the reported cases together with a comprehensive survey of all the cases in the first five years of the Act and in the period 1980 -1984. Sample files have been examined over a period at the Old Bailey, a shire court and a northern industrial court. Particular conditions which appear to fall within the doctrine (mental retardation, schizophrenia, epilepsy, etc.) are examined together with ancillary and associated conditions (psychopaths, irresistible impulse, P.M.T. and mercy killing) which have won a place under the section. A close examination has been made of the changing attitudes of the judiciary to procedural matters and to sentencing. The future of the doctrine in terms of the Penal Code has come under scrutiny as have discernible trends to absorb other defences such as insanity.
Peter Mack Show
Creators: name: Mack, Peter
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2017

description: My animations and videos are personal articulations and reflections of the roles in life I assume: father, employee and artist. I have a particular interest in the seemingly mundane interactions in life, which often becomes a starting point for me to explore larger themes of family life, failure, and happiness. I approach these themes with humor and playfulness. The “show-and-tell” manner of many of my narratives, working in tandem with humor and DIY production values, gives my work the feeling of a strange children’s educational TV show in which I play the host, while underlining the personal nature of my work.
Detailed Balance and Sea-Quark Flavor Asymmetry of Proton
Creators: name: Zhang, Yong-Jun
name: Zhang, Bin
name: Ma, Bo-Qiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this study, the proton is taken as an ensemble of quark-gluon Fock states. Using the principle of detailed balance, the probabilities of finding every Fock states of the proton are obtained without any parameter. A new origin of the light flavor sea quark asymmetry, i.e., $\bar{u} \not= \bar{d}$, is given as a pure statistical effect. It is found that $\bar{d}-\bar{u} \approx 0.124$, which is in surprisingly agreement with the experimental observation.
description: significant changes in title and content, 12 latex pages, to appear in PLB
Bailed Out With A Little Help From My Friends: Social Similarity And Currency Swaps During The 2008 Crisis
Creators: name: Marple, Timothy
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2017

description: One policy reaction of the Federal Reserve to the 2008 financial crisis was the extension of currency swap lines to various foreign central banks; this constituted the global transfer of billions of US dollars of wealth and exhibited the role of the US as a global lender of last resorts. Some have attempted to explain the supply of these lines as a function of risk mitigation for domestic US banks with foreign holdings, but no one has yet investigated the social dynamics of this phenomenon. In recognizing that the global demand for emergency liquidity was greater than the Federal Reserve’s supply, this paper investigates how the similarity of foreign central banks affected the selection of which banks would receive liquidity extensions. I calculate similarity scores to the US Federal Reserve for foreign banks which applied for liquidity extensions during the crisis. These scores measure the textual similarity of foreign central bankers’ speeches to those of the Fed, the institutional design similarity to that of the Fed, and the similarity of foreign central banks’ governors’ educational and professional backgrounds to those of the 2008 Federal Open Markets Commission members. I find that the similarity of foreign central banks to the US with regard to these three criteria offers a significantly stronger and statistically more robust answer to the question of what drove this decision process, and offer implications for international regulatory mechanisms to ameliorate this tendency toward social homophily.
Cell-Based Sensing of Endocrine Disrupting Substances Using Fluorescent Protein-Gold Nanoparticle Complexes
Creators: name: Wang, Xian
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2014

description: Developing a sensitive and effective in vitro bioassay to detect endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) would reduce the cost, eliminate the possibility of low dose effects, detect the non-monotonic dose responses, and identify mechanisms of actions. The “chemical nose” sensing method using supramolecular complexes composed of cationic monolayer functionalized gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) and fluorescent proteins (FPs) can successfully distinguish serum proteins, mammalian cells, tissue lysates, and chemotherapeutic drug mechanisms. EDCs regulate target cells via genomic or non-genomic pathways in terms of proliferative effect and response time. In this thesis, green fluorescent protein-gold nanoparticle (GFP-AuNP) sensors were used to detect the proliferative effect of 17b-estradiol (E2) and bisphenol A (BPA) on MCF7 and T47D cell lines at fM or pM dose range. Non-monotonic dose responses were also observed at different exposure times. The dose-response relationships using GFP-AuNP sensors could be correlated to the cell cycle analysis. Interestingly, tamoxifen, an estrogen antagonist, showed distinct patterns at low doses on HepG2 cells using triple channel FP-AuNP sensors, which might indicate different mechanisms of actions in this dose range.
CA-SBA-991: Archaeological site record for CA-SBA-991
Creators: name: Zalud, Arianna
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Santa Barbara (County)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/3486/santa-barbara-county
subject: Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/85469/vandenberg-air-force-base-vafb
subject: Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/85584/vandenberg-space-force-base-vsfb
subject: United States of America (Country)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/384/united-states-of-america-country
subject: North America (Continent)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/2890/north-america-continent
subject: California (State / Territory)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/1484/california-state-territory
subject: Prehistoric
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/53/prehistoric
subject: CA-SBA-991
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/118596/ca-sba-991
subject: SBA 991
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/138361/sba-991
subject: temporary hunting site
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/5437/temporary-hunting-site
subject: Archaeological Feature
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/339/archaeological-feature
subject: Artifact Scatter
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/340/artifact-scatter
subject: sparse to moderate-density scatter of lithic debris
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/5436/sparse-to-moderate-density-scatter-of-lithic-debris
subject: bifacially flaked obsidian blade
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/4959/bifacially-flaked-obsidian-blade
subject: projectile point tip fragment
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/4960/projectile-point-tip-fragment
subject: unifacially ground cobble
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/4961/unifacially-ground-cobble
subject: Chipped Stone
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/2/chipped-stone
subject: core/battered stone
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/4962/corebattered-stone
subject: Fire Cracked Rock
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/5/fire-cracked-rock
subject: Ground Stone
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/7/ground-stone
subject: Lithic Debitage
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/2812/lithic-debitage
subject: Archaeological Overview
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/1/archaeological-overview
subject: Reconnaissance / Survey
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/7/reconnaissance-survey
subject: Site Evaluation / Testing
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/10/site-evaluation-testing

description: This document is the archaeological site record for CA-SBA-991. The record consists of 2 recordation events.
A media analysis of food crisis: from qualitative analysis to a quantitative approach
Creators: name: Yuksel, Hatice
name: Karantininis, Konstantinos
name: Hess, Sebastian
name: Yuksel, Hatice
name: Karantininis, Konstantinos
name: Hess, Sebastian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: food crisis
subject: media bias
subject: content analysis
subject: relative income

description: In 2007-2008, when food prices started to increase dramatically, purchasing power parity of consumers started to decrease automatically. High food prices were argued to cause poverty, hunger, and food riots among urban populations. Henceforward, ‘food crisis’ became a new story line on the current debate. This paper analyzes different media coverage of urban consumers and rural producers under changes in relative incomes for the 2000-2013 period and propounds media bias on the food crisis debate by using content analysis and OLS regression model.
La enseñanza de la traducción en contextos de dominio limitado de la L2: analítica visual para la optimización de la planificación y la intervención
Creators: name: Barros Garcia, Benami
name: , Arroyo-Machado
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Data visualisation
Teaching Translation
Russian as a Foreign Language
Educational Data Mining
Second Language Acquisition

description: Talk presented at the CIUTI Conference in Granada, 2021.
Coherence in logical quantum channels
Creators: name: Iverson, Joseph K.
name: Preskill, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effectiveness of quantum error correction against coherent noise. Coherent errors (for example, unitary noise) can interfere constructively, so that in some cases the average infidelity of a quantum circuit subjected to coherent errors may increase quadratically with the circuit size; in contrast, when errors are incoherent (for example, depolarizing noise), the average infidelity increases at worst linearly with circuit size. We consider the performance of quantum stabilizer codes against a noise model in which a unitary rotation is applied to each qubit, where the axes and angles of rotation are nearly the same for all qubits. In particular, we show that for the toric code subject to such independent coherent noise, and for minimal-weight decoding, the logical channel after error correction becomes increasingly incoherent as the length of the code increases, provided the noise strength decays inversely with the code distance. A similar conclusion holds for weakly correlated coherent noise. Our methods can also be used for analyzing the performance of other codes and fault-tolerant protocols against coherent noise. However, our result does not show that the coherence of the logical channel is suppressed in the more physically relevant case where the noise strength is held constant as the code block grows, and we recount the difficulties that prevented us from extending the result to that case. Nevertheless our work supports the idea that fault-tolerant quantum computing schemes will work effectively against coherent noise, providing encouraging news for quantum hardware builders who worry about the damaging effects of control errors and coherent interactions with the environment.
description: 113 pages, 21 figures. Corrected typos, added references, and added subsections 1.2 and 1.3 (v2)
Fully numerical calculations on atoms with fractional occupations. Range-separated exchange functionals
Creators: name: Lehtola, Susi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A recently developed finite element approach for fully numerical atomic structure calculations [S. Lehtola, Int. J. Quantum Chem. 119, e25945 (2019)] is extended to the description of atoms with spherically symmetric densities via fractionally occupied orbitals. Specialized versions of Hartree-Fock as well as local density and generalized gradient approximation density functionals are developed, allowing extremely rapid calculations at the basis set limit on the ground and low-lying excited states even for heavy atoms. The implementation of range-separation based on the Yukawa or complementary error function (erfc) kernels is also described, allowing complete basis set benchmarks of modern range-separated hybrid functionals with either integer or fractional occupation numbers. Finally, computation of atomic effective potentials at the local density or generalized gradient approximation levels for the superposition of atomic potentials (SAP) approach [S. Lehtola, J. Chem. Theory Comput. 15, 1593 (2019)] that has been shown to be a simple and efficient way to initialize electronic structure calculations is described. The present numerical approach is shown to afford beyond microhartree accuracy with a small number of numerical basis functions, and to reproduce literature results for the ground states of atoms and their cations for $1 \leq Z \leq 86 $. Our results indicate that the literature values deviate by up to 10 μEh from the complete basis set limit. The numerical scheme for the erfc kernel is shown to work by comparison to results from large Gaussian basis set calculations from the literature. Spin-restricted ground states are reported for Hartree-Fock and Hartree-Fock-Slater calculations with fractional occupations for $1 \leq Z \leq 118$.
description: 20 pages
A faithful braid group action on the stable category of tricomplexes
Creators: name: Khovanov, Mikhail
name: Qi, You
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Bicomplexes of vector spaces frequently appear throughout algebra and geometry. In Section 2 we explain how to think about the arrows in the spectral sequence of a bicomplex via its indecomposable summands. Polycomplexes seem to be much more rare. In Section 3 of this paper we rethink a well-known faithful categorical braid group action via an action on the stable category of tricomplexes.
description: 32 pages. Dedicated to Dmitry Fuchs on his 80th birthday
Microtransplantation of Rat Brain Neurolemma into Xenopus Laevis Oocytes to Study the Effect of Environmental Toxicants on Endogenous Voltage-Sensitive Ion Channels
Creators: name: Murenzi, Edwin
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2017

description: Microtransplantation of mammalian neurolemma into Xenopus laevis oocytes has been used to study ion channels in terms of their structure and function in the central nervous system. Use of microtransplanted neurolemma is advantageous in that tissue can be obtained from various sources, ion channels and receptors are present in their native configuration and they can be used to evaluate numerous channelpathies caused by environmental toxicants. Here we show that Xenopus oocytes injected with fragments of rat brain neurolemma successfully express functional native ion channels that are assembled in their own plasma membrane. Using a high throughput two electrode voltage clamp (TEVC) electrophysiological system, currents that were sensitive to tetrodotoxin (TTX), omega-conotoxin MVIIC, and tetraethylammonium (TEA) were detected, indicating the presence of multiple voltage-sensitive ion channels (voltage-sensitive sodium, calcium and potassium channels, respectively). In this current research, a “proof-of-principle” experiment was conducted where TTX-sensitive voltage-sensitive sodium channel (VSSC) currents were measured. VSSCs are a well-established site of action for 1,1,1-trichloro-2,2-di(4-chlorophenyl)ethane (DDT) but not for its non-toxic metabolite 1,1-bis-(4-chlorophenyl)-2,2-dichloroethene (DDE). A differential sensitivity of DDT versus DDE on TTX-sensitive sodium current in neurolemma-injected oocytes was determined. DDT elicited an increase in depolarization-dependent, TTX-sensitive sodium current while DDE had no significant effect. Additionally, DDT resulted in a slowing of sodium channel inactivation kinetics whereas DDE has no similar effect. These results are consistent with the findings obtained using heterologous expression of single isoforms of rat brain VSSCs by injecting cRNA into Xenopus oocytes. By demonstrating the classic structural activity relationship of DDT and DDE on mammalian voltage-gated sodium channels isolated in rat brain neurolemma, this study supports the use of automated high-throughput electrophysiology to study the effects of various environmental toxicants on multiple mammalian cellular targets. More importantly, using rat brain neurolemma ensures that the proteins of interest have been transcribed and have undergone all the necessary post-translational modifications before they were injected and expressed in the Xenopus oocytes which is not the case for traditional heterologous expression.
Two-loop effective potential for the minimal supersymmetric standard model
Creators: name: Martin, Stephen P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I compute the complete two-loop effective potential for the minimal supersymmetric standard model in the Landau gauge. This enables an accurate determination of the minimization conditions for the vacuum expectation values of the Higgs fields. Checks on the result follow from supersymmetric limits and from renormalization-scale invariance. The renormalization group equations for the field-independent vacuum energy and the vacuum expectation values are also presented. I provide numerical examples showing the improved accuracy and scale dependence obtained with the full two-loop effective potential.
description: 30 pages
Короткий огляд антропогенних підземель Канева і Канівщини
Creators: name: Syvolap, Mykhaylo
name: Марченко О.В.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 210199 Archaeology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: History and archaeology

description: Марченко О.В., Сиволап М.П. Короткий огляд антропогенних підземель Канева і Канівщини. Матеріали ІІ науково-краєзнавчих Сорокопудівських читань «Історія Канівщини в контексті історії України» з нагоди відзначення століття від дня народження краєзнавця, почесного громадянина міста Канева Івана Сорокопуда (1917-2015) і святкування дня міста. Канів, 5 жовтня 2017 року. - К. 2019. - С.42-50.
Predictors of Anemia Among HIV Patients in Uganda
Creators: name: Nagawa, Catherine
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2017

description: HIV-related anemia is associated with increased risk of death. Prior studies suggest an inverse relationship between CD4 cell count and anemia, and a positive relationship between HIV-clinical stage and anemia. However, none have assessed the role of antiretroviral therapy (ART) treatment combinations in these relationships. Therefore, we conducted a cross-sectional study to evaluate the relationship between CD4 cell count, HIV clinical stage and anemia among 4803 Ugandan HIV-patients, and assessed the role of ART treatment combinations. We included HIV patients (> 15 years) receiving ART therapy combinations between 2010- 2015. We evaluated CD4 cell count and anemia using blood tests, and HIV-clinical staging was based upon the World Health Organization HIV-clinical staging system. Information on ART treatment combinations was obtained from patients’ medical records. Multinomial logistic regression was used to model the relationship between CD4 cell count, HIV clinical stages and anemia. We performed a sensitivity analysis to examine the role of ART treatment combinations. The odds of being severely anemic were highest among those classified in the low CD4 cell count category (<200cells/μL), and those at WHO stage IV. Odds Ratios were 3.7 (95% CI; 1.48-9.26) and 3.2 (95% CI; 1.75-5.70), respectively. Stratification by ART treatment combinations (TDF-based versus ADZ-based combination treatment) indicated an increase in the odds of being anemic with increase in HIV-clinical stage (stage II, OR: 1.99, 95% CI; 1.44-2.78; stage III, OR:3.17, 95% CI; 2.21-4.54, & stage IV, OR; 4.42, 95% CI; 2.68-7.30), for individuals receiving TDF-based treatment only. Results suggest that HIV-patients with a low CD4 cell count and, those in advanced HIV-clinical stages should consider regular hemoglobin follow-up to identify and treat anemia at its earliest stages.
Cost-effectiveness of agri-environmental measures when aiming at promoting ecosystem service availability, species diversity or species of conservation concern
Creators: name: Miettinen, Antti
name: Korpela, Eeva-Liisa
name: Hyytiäinen, Kari
name: Kuussaari, Mikko
name: Miettinen, Antti
name: Korpela, Eeva-Liisa
name: Hyytiäinen, Kari
name: Kuussaari, Mikko
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: agri-environmental scheme (AES)
subject: farmland biodiversity conservation
subject: bumblebee
subject: butterfly
subject: cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA)

description: This paper attempts to rank agri-environmental measures based on their long-term contribution on biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services as well as on net income received from agriculture and forestry. Environmental fallows proved to be a cost-effective measure in promoting bumblebee abundance and, hence, in increasing the availability of pollination services. An environmental fallow or a biodiversity strip established with a mixture of red clover, timothy and meadow fescue seeds increased total species richness of bumblebees, butterflies and diurnal moths most effectively compared with its costs. Forest biodiversity zones offered a cost-effective way to achieve the conservation goals of habitat-specialist butterflies.
Cicurina (Cicurella) caliga Cokendolpher & Reddell 2001
Creators: name: Paquin, Pierre
name: Dupérré, Nadine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Hahniidae
Cicurina
Cicurina caliga

description: Cicurina (Cicurella) caliga Cokendolpher & Reddell 2001
(Figs 24–25, 129)
 Cicurina caliga Cokendolpher & Reddell 2001: 38, figs 1–2 (description of female). — Cokendolpher 2004b: 61; Paquin & Hedin 2004: 3243–3245, 3247–3248, 3253; Taylor et al. 2005: 98.
 HOLOTYPE female: “ Texas: Bell County: Triple J Cave, Nov. 1994, M. Warton ”. Examined (AMNH).
 Additional material examined. UNITED STATES: Bell County: Buchanan Cave (Fort Hood), 05.v.1999, 1♀ [TMM #14189], J. Reddell, M. Reyes PARATYPE (TMM); Streak Cave (Fort Hood), 13.vi.2000, 1♀ [TMM #31589], J. Krejca, J. Reddell, M. Reyes, P. Sprouse PARATYPE (TMM).
 Description. Female holotype
Total length: 3.96; carapace length: 1.98; carapace width: 1.26; opisthosoma length: 1,98. Eyes absent. Cheliceral promargin right side with 3 teeth (2 large, 1 small), left side likewise; retromargin right side with 7 denticles (3 large, 4 small), left side with 6 denticles (3 large, 3 small). Leg I: total length: 5.53; femur: 1.40; patella: 0.60; tibia: 1.40; metatarsus: 1.28; tarsus: 0.85; leg IV: total length: 6.30; femur: 1.65; patella: 0.55; tibia: 1.50; metatarsus: 1.70; tarsus: 0.90. Tarsal claw IV: 0.16. Epigynum: 0.336 mm. Epigynal ventral plate with short transverse slit, bearing medial, very deep, inverted V-shaped indentation; atrium squared, almost completely intruded by dome-shaped dorsal plate, atrial aperture small; bursa not enlarged nor fused; copulatory ducts separated at midpoint, reaching primary lobe apex; copulatory ducts constriction located basally; primary pores visible (1 seen); stalk, short, straight, horizontal, joining the primary lobe at the aperture of the dictynoid pore; dictynoid pore rounded; primary lobe hat-shaped; secondary lobe absent; fertilization canal short, externally positioned from dictynoid pore; fertilization duct medially attached to the primary lobe base.
 Distribution. Reported from three caves: Buchanan Cave, Streak Cave, and Triple J Cave (type locality), (Bell County, Texas, Fig. 129).
 Remarks. Male unknown. According to Cokendolpher & Reddell (2001), C. caliga is found in sympatry with C. hoodensis in Buchanan Cave, the type locality of C. hoodensis.
description: Published as part of Paquin, Pierre & Dupérré, Nadine, 2009, of 60 troglobitic species of the subgenus Cicurella (Araneae: Dictynidae), and a first visual assessment of their distribution, pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 2002 on page 19
A New Measurement of the Cascade(c)+ Lifetime
Creators: name: FOCUS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A precise determination of the charm-strange baryon Cascade(c)+ lifetime is presented. The data were accumulated by the Fermilab high-energy photoproduction experiment FOCUS. The measurement is made with 300 Cascade(c)+ --> Cascade- pi+ pi+ decays, 130 Cascade(c)+ --> Sigma+ K- pi+ decays, 45 Cascade(c)+ --> p K- pi+ decays and 58 Cascade(c)+ --> Lambda K- pi+ pi+ decays. The Cascade(c)+ lifetime is measured to be 0.439+/-0.022+/-0.009 ps.
description: Submitted to PLB. 11 pages, 12 postscript figures (eps), uses elsart.cls