cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Determinants of the lung microbiome in intubated premature infants at risk for bronchopulmonary dysplasia
Creators: name: Brewer, Mariana R.
name: Maffei, Diana
name: Cerise, Jane
name: Seungjun Ahn
name: DeVoti, James
name: Champa Codipilly
name: Lee, Annette
name: Weinberger, Barry
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Background: Airway dysbiosis in premature infants may be associated with bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD). Early oropharyngeal colostrum (OPC) administration alters the oral microbiome, which may impact the lung microbiome. We aim to compare the oral and tracheal microbiota during the first week of life, and to determine whether early OPC administration affects microbial diversity or leukocyte inflammatory activity in the lung. Methods: Intubated premature infants (n = 42) were evaluated. The oral microbiome was characterized on day of life (DOL) 3, and the tracheal microbiome on DOL 3 and DOL 7, using 16S ribosomal DNA sequencing. Gene expression for inflammatory markers was quantified in airway leukocytes by real-time q-PCR. Results: The oral and tracheal microbiota were significantly different on DOL 3, but the tracheal microbiome on DOL 7 was more similar to the oral from DOL 3. Tracheal bacterial diversity decreased from DOL 3 to DOL 7. Longer time to first OPC administration tended to be associated with lower bacterial diversity in the airways. Conclusions: The tracheal microbiome in intubated premature infants in the first week is likely determined, in part, by the composition of the oral microbiome. Bacterial diversity in intubated babies decreases during the first week of life, a pattern that could be consistent with risk for BPD. Decreased bacterial diversity and increased inflammatory activity in the lung may also be associated with delayed administration of OPC.
The Use of Optimization Business Process Method Based on Multi-Phase Optimization Models in Milk-Processing Industry
Creators: name: Petak, Bostjan
name: Pavlovic, Martin
name: Rozman, Crtomir
name: Petak, Bostjan
name: Pavlovic, Martin
name: Rozman, Crtomir
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Production Economics

description: An approach towards a use of multiphase optimization models for a decision making in milk processing industry is demonstrated. A model formation bases on analysis of a production and marketing process of cheese and milk products. The next phase in modeling is a construction of a graphical model structure based on Petry's net principle and preparation of all necessary input data for the computer handling (LOMP). A final phase in modeling is interpretation of computer calculated results (economic analysis) suitable for business decision-making. First test results validate the application of the model for further research.
The SHAPE of U: Mapping Out Protective Elements in mRNA Escapees
Creators: name: Miles, Jacob
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2020

description: A crucial step of the viral life cycle of Kaposi’s Sarcoma Herpesvirus (KSHV) lytic infection is the triggering of a massive RNA decay event termed “Host Shutoff”. Host Shutoff is driven by the viral endonuclease SOX which leads to the destruction of over 70% of the total transcriptome. This process cripples cellular gene expression and allows for viral reprograming of the cell for the purpose of viral replication. Co-evolution has led to the host developing a multitude of antiviral defenses aimed at preserving certain cellular RNAs linked to antiviral responses. One such defense are RNA secondary structures located within the 3’UTR of select host transcripts that protect them from SOX degradation. This structure, known as the SOX Resistant Element or SRE, has previously been isolated to a 200-nucleotide region found within the 3’UTR of the host transcript Interleukin-6. In this thesis, I sought to further define the structure of the IL-6 and other SREs using SHAPE-MaP to generate chemically-probed RNA structural models. Through this work, I demonstrated that the IL-6 SRE confers a form of active resistance to SOX cleavage, and based on structural analyses, likely acts as a scaffold for the recruitment of a protective ribonucleoprotein complex. This research highlights the importance of RNA secondary structures in influencing mRNA fate during viral infection and establishes the groundwork for understanding how these structural features can facilitate escape of cellular transcripts from viral endonucleases.
Dephasing by extremely dilute magnetic impurities revealed by Aharonov-Bohm oscillations
Creators: name: Pierre, F.
name: Birge, Norman O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have probed the magnetic field dependence of the electron phase coherence time $τ_ϕ$ by measuring the Aharonov-Bohm conductance oscillations of mesoscopic Cu rings. Whereas $τ_ϕ$ determined from the low-field magnetoresistance saturates below 1 K, the amplitude of Aharonov-Bohm $h/e$ oscillations increases strongly on a magnetic field scale proportional to the temperature. This provides strong evidence that a likely explanation for the frequently observed saturation of $τ_ϕ$ at low temperature in weakly disordered metallic thin films is the presence of extremely dilute magnetic impurities.
description: Accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters
Pandorathrips ascius Mound & Masumoto 2009, sp. n.
Creators: name: Mound, Laurence A.
name: Masumoto, Masami
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Thysanoptera
Thripidae
Pandorathrips
Pandorathrips ascius

description: Pandorathrips ascius sp. n.
(Figs 211–216)
 Female macroptera. Body and legs brownish yellow, pronotum with brown area medially; antennal segments I–III pale, VI–VIII brown; fore wings pale but very weakly shaded in basal half. Pronotum with transverse anastomosing striae. Mesonotum with transverse anastomosing striae; median pair of setae far from posterior margin. Fore wing with costal setae short; first vein with 7 setae near base, 1 seta at middle, 2 setae near apex; second vein with about 9 setae.
 Measurements (holotype, in microns). Body length 1050. Head, length 70; width across eyes 140. Pronotum, length 110; maximum width 165. Fore wing, length 480; first vein longest seta in basal row 13. Tergite IV S1 setae 10. Tergite IX, MD setae 35; PM S1 setae 45. Tergite X PM S1 setae 50. Antennal segments III–VIII, 37, 30, 27, 37, 10, 15.
 Male macroptera. Similar to female, including comb on tergite VIII; tergite IX with 4 slender setae.
 Specimens examined. Holotype female macroptera, New South Wales, Jamberoo Mt Road [15km west of Kiama], from Pandorea vine young leaves, 3.xi.2002 (LAM 4210).
 Paratypes: 14 females 4 males, taken with holotype; same locality and date, 1 female 2 males, from Morinda vines, 1 female from Cissus antarctica; Taree, Breakneck Hill, 13 females 2 males from Indigofera, 14.iv.2002. Queensland, Brisbane, Indooroopilly, 1 female, 27.ix.1998; Mt Glorious, 1 female from Cyathea frond, 13.x.2006; Lamington, O’Reilly’s, 2 females from Solanum flowers, 11.x.2006. Northern Territory, Standley Chasm, 5 females 3 males from Pandorea doratoxylon vine, 31.x and 1.xi.1999; Jabiru, 16 females 2 males from Livistona humilis flowers, 22.xii.1996.
 Comments. This species appears to be associated with leaves of various vines in the genus Pandorea (Bignoniaceae).
description: Published as part of Mound, Laurence A. & Masumoto, Masami, 2009, Australian Thripinae of the Anaphothrips genus-group (Thysanoptera), with three new genera and thirty-three new species, pp. 1-76 in Zootaxa 2042 (1) on page 72, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2042.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5313983
Neue rheinische Münzschatzfunde des 17. Jahrhunderts
Creators: name: Hagen, Wilhelmine
Publisher: name: Bonner Jahrbücher
Year: 2021

description: Bonner Jahrbücher, Bd. 147 (1942): Bonner Jahrbücher des Vereins von Altertumsfreunden im Rheinlande und des Rheinischen Provinzialmuseums in Bonn
Does Invasion Science Encompass the Invaded Range? A Comparison of the Geographies of Invasion Science Versus Management in the U.S.
Creators: name: Munro, Lara
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2020

description: Biases in invasion science lead to a taxonomic focus on plants, particularly a subset of well-studied plants, and a geographic focus on invasions in Europe and North America. Geographic biases could also cause some branches of invasion science to focus on a subset of environmental conditions in the invaded range, potentially leading to an incomplete understanding of the ecology and management of plant invasions. While broader, country-level geographic biases are well known, it is unclear whether these biases extend to a finer scale and thus affect research within the invaded range. This study assessed whether research sites for ten well-studied invasive plants in the U.S. are geographically biased relative to each species’ invaded range. We compared the distribution, climate, and land uses of research sites for 735 scientific articles to manager records from EDDMapS and iMap Invasives representing the invaded range. We attributed each study to one of five types: impact, invasive trait, mapping, management, and recipient community traits. While the number of research sites was much smaller than the number of manager records, they generally encompassed similar geographies. However, research sites tended to skew towards species’ warm range margins, indicating that researchers have knowledge on how these plants might behave in a warming climate. For all but one species, at least one study type encompassed a significantly different climate space from manager records, suggesting that some level of climatic bias is common. Impact and management studies occurred within the same climate space for all species, suggesting that these studies focus on similar areas – likely those with the greatest impacts and management needs. Manager records were more likely to be found near roads, which are both habitats and vectors for invasive plants, and on public land. Research sites were more likely to be found near a college or university. Studies on these plants largely occur across their invaded range, however, different study types occur within a narrower climate range. This clustering can create gaps in our general understanding of how these plants interact with different environments, which can have important policy and management consequences.
Electrostatics of Pagels-Tomboulis effective model
Creators: name: Arodz, H.
name: Slusarczyk, M.
name: Wereszczynski, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Long time ago Pagels and Tomboulis have proposed a model for the nonperturbative gluodynamics which in the Abelian sector can be reduced to a strongly nonlinear electrodynamics. In the present paper we investigate Abelian, static solutions with external charges in that model. Nonzero total charge implies that the corresponding field has infinite energy due to slow fall off at large distances. For a pair of opposite charges the energy is finite -- it grows like $R^α$, $0
description: 14 pages + 5 figures, Latex2e
COMPETITIVENESS OF DESTINATIONS WITHIN THE RURAL TOURISM CLUSTER: ZLATAR, ZLATIBOR
Creators: name: Sanja, Pavlović
name: Gordana, Čavlin
name: Sanja, Pavlović
name: Gordana, Čavlin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: rural tourism
subject: competitiveness
subject: cluster
subject: Zlatar
subject: Zlatibor

description: Cluster analysis is gaining increasing importance in the contemporary development of tourism. These are mostly areas that have similar tourist values. This paper presents the competitiveness of tourist destinations in the cluster of rural tourism Zlatar, Zlatibor, as defined in the Master Plan for Sustainable Development of Rural Tourism in Serbia. Having used AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) criteria pairs have been first compared, and then the alternatives (villages of Zlatar and Zlatibor). The seven criteria used in this paper are the following: factors and attractors, accessibility and infrastructure, accommodation facilities, unemployment, experience in rural tourism, proximity of the marketplace, and seasonality. The AHP method has been used to determine relations between the influence factors and the dominance of one factor in relation to another.It has been noted a relatively weak dominance of the villages of Zlatibor, by all criteria, except when it comes to unemployment, which is dominated by the villages of Zlatar.
description: Original scientific paper
On the design of convolutional neural networks for automatic detection of Alzheimer's disease
Creators: name: Liu, Sheng
name: Yadav, Chhavi
name: Fernandez-Granda, Carlos
name: Razavian, Narges
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Early detection is a crucial goal in the study of Alzheimer's Disease (AD). In this work, we describe several techniques to boost the performance of 3D deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) trained to detect AD using structural brain MRI scans. Specifically, we provide evidence that (1) instance normalization outperforms batch normalization, (2) early spatial downsampling negatively affects performance, (3) widening the model brings consistent gains while increasing the depth does not, and (4) incorporating age information yields moderate improvement. Together, these insights yield an increment of approximately 14% in test accuracy over existing models when distinguishing between patients with AD, mild cognitive impairment, and controls in the ADNI dataset. Similar performance is achieved on an independent dataset.
description: Machine Learning for Health Workshop, NeurIPS2019. Authors Fernandez-Granda and Razavian are joint last authors
MOLDOVAN AGRI-FOOD SECTOR DILEMMA: EAST OR WEST?
Creators: name: Stratan, Alexandru
name: Stratan, Alexandru
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: free trade agreement
subject: export
subject: import
subject: agri-food trade
subject: customs union

description: During the period 2010-2013, Republic of Moldova launched a number of initiatives to develop the trade policy in order to ensure a more facilitating legal framework for the implementation of economic and trade relations with the key external partners. An agreement on the creation of a free trade area in the CIS was signed in this period. Similarly, Republic of Moldova started negotiating the Association Agreement with the European Union, which was signed in June this year and is part of the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA). This article aims to assess the main effects of signing the Association Agreement for the Moldovan agricultural sector, while examining its reaction, if Moldova would have opted for integration within the Customs Union - Russian Federation, Belarus, and Kazakhstan.
description: Original scientific paper
ECONOMIC ISSUES OF BROILER PRODUCTION LENGTH
Creators: name: László, Szőllősi
name: István, Szűcs
name: András, Nábrádi
name: László, Szőllősi
name: István, Szűcs
name: András, Nábrádi
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: annual broiler cycles
subject: slaughter age
subject: down-time period
subject: profit maximization
subject: simulation model

description: The length of broiler production cycle is also an important factor when profitability is measured. This paper is to determine the effects of different market ages and down-time period, overall broiler production cycle length on performance and economic parameters based on Hungarian production and financial circumstances. A deterministic model was constructed to manage the function-like correlations of age-related daily weight gain, daily feed intake and daily mortality data. The results show that broiler production cycle length has a significant effect on production and economic performance. Cycle length is determined by the length of down-time and grow-out periods. If down-time period is reduced by one day, an average net income of EUR 0.55 per m2 is realizable. However, the production period is not directly proportional either with emerging costs or obtainable revenues. Profit maximization is attainable if the production period is 41-42 days.
description: Original scientific paper
Measurement of charged-particle multiplicity distributions and their H_q moments in hadronic Z decays at LEP
Creators: name: L3 Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The charged-particle multiplicity distribution is measured for all hadronic events as well as for light-quark and b-quark events produced in e+e- collisions at the Z pole. Moments of the charged-particle multiplicity distributions are calculated. The H moments of the multiplicity distributions are studied, and their quasi-oscillations as a function of the rank of the moment are investigated.
description: Matches published version
Eberdarstellung und Ebersymbolik in Iran
Creators: name: Erdmann, Kurt
Publisher: name: Bonner Jahrbücher
Year: 2021

description: Bonner Jahrbücher, Bd. 147 (1942): Bonner Jahrbücher des Vereins von Altertumsfreunden im Rheinlande und des Rheinischen Provinzialmuseums in Bonn
Electrons in Dry DNA from Density Functional Calculations
Creators: name: Artacho, E.
name: Machado, M.
name: Sanchez-Portal, D.
name: Ordejon, P.
name: Soler, J. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The electronic structure of an infinite poly-guanine - poly-cytosine DNA molecule in its dry A-helix structure is studied by means of density-functional calculations. An extensive study of 30 nucleic base pairs is performed to validate the method. The electronic energy bands of DNA close to the Fermi level are then analyzed in order to clarify the electron transport properties in this particularly simple DNA realization, probably the best suited candidate for conduction. The energy scale found for the relevant band widths, as compared with the energy fluctuations of vibrational or genetic-sequence origin, makes highly implausible the coherent transport of electrons in this system. The possibility of diffusive transport with sub-nanometer mean free paths is, however, still open. Information for model Hamiltonians for conduction is provided.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures
Fränkische Gläser aus dem Rheinland
Creators: name: Rademacher, Franz
Publisher: name: Bonner Jahrbücher
Year: 2021

description: Bonner Jahrbücher, Bd. 147 (1942): Bonner Jahrbücher des Vereins von Altertumsfreunden im Rheinlande und des Rheinischen Provinzialmuseums in Bonn
QCD effective actions from the solutions of the transport equations
Creators: name: Manuel, Cristina
name: Mrowczynski, Stanislaw
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We solve the collisionless transport equations of a quark-gluon plasma interacting through mean chromodynamic fields. The system is assumed to be translation invariant in one or more space-time directions. We present exact solutions that hold if the vector gauge fields in the direction of the translation invariance commute with their covariant derivatives. We also solve the equations perturbatively when the commutation condition is relaxed. Further, we derive the color current and the associated effective action. For the static quasi-equilibrium system, our results reproduce the full one-loop effective action of QCD in the presence of constant background fields, where the above mentioned commutation condition is satisfied.
description: 19 pages; Sec. VA rewritten, one appendix and one reference added
Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain: Hindsight in 2020
Creators: name: Murphy, Kenneth
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2020

description: The paintings that comprise Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain: Hindsight in 2020 are the output of my research and artistic practice at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. These paintings make visible the complex experiences and misperceptions of men in contemporary society. My intent was to create paintings that bring light to some of the darker aspects of manhood and rework phobias about manhood and male homosexuality through self-deprecation. This reworking is accomplished through the integration of disparate ideas and images, including perception, location, and exteriority, into compositions wherein representation and portraiture (specifically self- portraiture) make visible particular psychological states and hidden impulses attributed to men: the torment of failure, or the desire for power and sex.
Autobiography and confessions can become the best mirrors for deeper forms of self-discovery. One can be both aggressive and protected while remaining effective and hidden. The work, charming or terrifying as it may be, questions the democracies of viewership, privacy, censorship and interpersonal relationships that can exist within a multicultural society. These paintings represent my own understanding of manhood, identity and sexual orientation; the ways one shields oneself from others, develops modes of self-preservation and transcends life's inherent suffering.
THE ANALYSIS OF ASPECTS OF FOOD INDUSTRY COMPETITIVENESS IN SERBIA
Creators: name: Cariša, Bešić
name: Dragan, Ćoćkalo
name: Dejan, Đorđević
name: Srđan, Bogetić
name: Cariša, Bešić
name: Dragan, Ćoćkalo
name: Dejan, Đorđević
name: Srđan, Bogetić
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: competitiveness
subject: food industry
subject: quality
subject: management

description: Competitive ability of the company in modern business conditions is difficult to achieve and easy to lose. The reason for this attitude is the fact that the rapid technological improvement enabled the technology with becoming available to everyone in the world under reasonable terms. Competitiveness of domestic companies is very low. Insufficient application of knowledge, low technological level of enterprises, unproductiveness and inefficiency are just part of the problem. Food industry in Serbia shares the fate of domestic economy – non-competitiveness is one of the main factors which affect the crisis in agricultural sector. The authors of this paper, based on the available national and international statistical data, have done analysis and display of competitive opportunities of domestic economy in general and in particular sectors of food industry. The authors also indicate the possibility of improving competitiveness.
description: Review Article
An Investigation of Chinese Learners' Acquisition and Understanding of Bushou and Their Attitude on Formal In-Class Bushou Instruction
Creators: name: Liu, Yan P
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2014

description: This learner-oriented study investigated the character and Bushou information from first year textbooks, Integrated Chinese Level 1 Part 1 and Integrated Chinese Level 1 Part 2, that are used by the participants; participants’ understanding and acquisition of Bushou; and their attitude on bringing in formal Bushou instruction to first year Chinese language courses. The study first classified all the characters that appear in the vocabulary lists in the 20 lessons from a set of first year textbooks that the participants use. Then it identified, organized, and analyzed the Bushou that appear in the characters. After soliciting and understanding students’ perceptions of Bushou and opinions on Bushou teaching and learning, and their acquisition of Bushou knowledge, a suggestion will be made on whether or not Bushou should be taught in class in this particular program. Sixty-eight students in Chinese classes from the elementary and intermediate Chinese classes participated in the study. The study findings revealed that students in both levels have a fragmented understanding of the concept of Bushou and a low level of Bushou knowledge; however, based on the descriptive analyses of the survey on Bushou teaching and learning, students in these two levels consider Bushou knowledge to be helpful for character learning and the majority of the participant want like to receive formal in-class instruction on Bushou.
The study results suggest that curriculum developers should consider incorporating formal Bushou instruction into their first year Chinese language program.
ACTIVATION OF LOCAL COMMUNITIES FOR DEVELOPMENT OF RURAL AREAS
Creators: name: Doitchinova, Julia
name: Stoyanova, Zornitsa
name: Doitchinova, Julia
name: Stoyanova, Zornitsa
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: LEADER
subject: local action group (LAG)
subject: rural development
subject: rural development program

description: The article examines the main problems encountered during the development of area-based partnerships in rural Bulgaria. These partnerships were created to enhance endogenous development in rural areas and have been rapidly adopted due to the requirement to run the European Union LEADER type program. Purpose of the article is to assess the practice and the problems of implementation of the LEADER approach in Bulgaria for the first membership program period and to offer recommendations to increase the motivation of local communities for the development and implementation of local development strategies. Conclusions and recommendations for improving the practice of implementation of the Leader approach is based on the results of the survey and analysis of the documents of local action groups and the Program for Rural Development, realized within a research project by a team from the University of National and World Economy Sofia.
description: Review Article
Spätantike Gläser aus Gräbern von Mayen
Creators: name: Haberey, Waldemar
Publisher: name: Bonner Jahrbücher
Year: 2021

description: Bonner Jahrbücher, Bd. 147 (1942): Bonner Jahrbücher des Vereins von Altertumsfreunden im Rheinlande und des Rheinischen Provinzialmuseums in Bonn
From Intentional Awareness to Environmental Action: The Relationship Between Mindfulness and Pro-Environmental Behaviors
Creators: name: Neupane, Nischal
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2020

description: Mindfulness is defined as the ‘awareness that arises through paying attention to the present moment, on purpose, non-judgmentally’. Despite ample empirical evidence of its efficacy in inducing positive behavior change, almost no work has investigated the viability of using mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) to promote pro-environmental behavior. Some recent studies have demonstrated consistent correlational relationships between mindfulness levels and pro-environmental attitudes (e.g., connectedness to nature), intentions, and some pro-environmental behaviors (e.g., recycling, “green” purchasing decisions), but no past work has explicitly examined mindfulness in the context of energy saving behaviors. Results from both quantitative and qualitative research conducted as part of this project add to existing evidence of a link between engagement in mindfulness practices and pro-environmental engagement, including, but not limited to, household energy use behaviors. Results from a couple of quantitative studies that were a part of this project show that dispositional facets Observe and Non-React were significant predictors of self-reported household energy behaviors, along with frequent engagement with mindfulness practices such as meditation, yoga, and breathing exercises.
The results from the qualitative study present mindfulness to be a complex, multidimensional concept that is understood and experienced differently by different people. Unlike usually value-neutral academic and corporate conceptualizations, long-term practitioners who engage with the concept report their practice to have strong ethical dimensions. Engagement with mindfulness as a practice impacts practitioners' perceived connectedness to nature and supports their environmental behaviors. The study provides conceptual models that attempt to explain the relationship between mindfulness practice, connectedness to nature, and pro-environmental behaviors. Results from these studies suggest the possibility that mindfulness-based interventions could provide a novel approach to improving environmental behaviors though further research is needed to determine whether this is indeed the case. Implications and limitations of the study are discussed.
Hierarchical Ensemble Representations: Forming Ensemble Representations across Multiple Spatial Scales
Creators: name: pandey, sandarsh
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2020

description: An ensemble representation refers to a statistical summary representation of a group of similar objects. Recent work has shown that we can form multiple ensemble representations – ensemble representations for a single feature dimension across multiple stimulus groups, ensemble representations for multiple feature dimensions in the same stimulus group, and ensemble representations across multiple sensory domains. In our study, we use hierarchical stimuli based on the Navon figures (Navon 1977) to study properties of ensemble representations across multiple spatial scales. In Experiments 1 and 3, we study properties of ensemble representations for the orientation and size feature dimension, respectively. In Experiment 2, we study properties of individual representations for the orientation feature dimension. Results indicate that it is possible to form ensemble representations across multiple spatial scales. Experiment 1 shows that the global ensemble representations may be extracted automatically (without intent) whereas the local ensemble representation is only extracted in response to task demands (with intent). Finally, in both Experiment 1 and Experiment 3, participants were more accurate at reporting the global ensemble representation than the local ensemble representation whereas in Experiment 2, performance did not differ across the levels. These results point towards global precedence in the formation of ensemble representations.
Mitigation of Teratogenic Agents: Is There Promise in Ion Modulating Drugs?
Creators: name: Pokharel, Aastha
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2020

description: As reported by the CDC, birth defects remain a common occurrence in the United States, with malformations originating in many places in the developing organism. Furthermore, the etiology of many of these defects remain unknown, with some factors consisting of genetics, environmental pollutants and teratogens. In our study, we examined whether insults by teratogenic agents, ethanol in particular, can be mitigated by hyperpolarizing agents acting to restore the cell’s potential. We first evaluated whether three hyperpolarizing drugs (Lamotrigine, Gabapentin, and Ivermectin) induced teratogenic effects on CD-1 mice and found that Ivermectin induced craniofacial malformations, and exposure to Lamotrigine and Gabpentin resulted in limb defects in the offspring. For the second part of our study, pregnant CD-1 mice were orally dosed with Lamotrigine or Gabapentin from gestational day (GD) 0 till parturition. On GD 8, we exposed females to one hit of ethanol, creating four treatment groups: Vehicle, EtOH only, Lamotrigine + EtOH and Gabapentin + EtOH. We evaluated a variety of different endpoints: gestational outcomes, maternal outcomes, neonatal outcomes, behavioral outcomes in pups at prepuberty, and changes in brain weight, shape, and morphology. We observed that both Gabapentin and Lamotrigine, although in varied ways, mitigate some of the perturbations resulting from ethanol, but not all. Our study provides a preliminary, but insightful, look into the role of hyperpolarizing agents on teratogenic insults induced by ethanol. It highlights the future directions of research which include, but are not limited to, understanding the mode of action through which teratogens alter individual cell behavior and the interactions between hyperpolarizing agents on the cell’s potential when this alteration occurs.
Viable secret neutrino interactions with ultralight dark matter
Creators: name: Cline, James M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Several anomalies in neutrino oscillation experiments point to the existence of a $\sim 1\,$eV sterile neutrino $ν_s$ mixing with $ν_e$ at the level of $U_{e4}\cong 0.1$, but such a neutrino is strongly disfavored by constraints on additional light degrees of freedom ($δN_{\rm eff}$) and total neutrino mass ($\sum_νm_ν$) from cosmology. "Secret neutrino interactions" that have been invoked to suppress the cosmological production of $ν_s$ typically falter, but recently it was pointed out that $ν_s$ could get a large mass in the early universe by coupling to ultralight dark matter $ϕ$, which can robustly suppress its production. The model has essentially two free parameters: $m_ϕ$, and $m_{s,0}$, the mass of the sterile neutrino at early times, enhanced by its coupling to $ϕ$. I determine the parameter regions allowed by limits on $δN_{\rm eff}$ and $\sum_νm_ν$ from the cosmic microwave background and big bang nucleosynthesis, using a simplified yet accurate treatment of neutrino oscillations in the early universe. This mechanism could have an important impact on laboratory experiments that suggest oscillations with sterile neutrinos.
description: 5 pages, 1 figure, submitted to PLB. v2: corrected $\nu_e$ damping rate and thermal self-energy, added discussion of spectral distortion and references
Ein Werkstattfund von Bildlampen der frühesten Kaiserzeit aus Köln
Creators: name: Fremersdorf, Fritz
Publisher: name: Bonner Jahrbücher
Year: 2021

description: Bonner Jahrbücher, Bd. 147 (1942): Bonner Jahrbücher des Vereins von Altertumsfreunden im Rheinlande und des Rheinischen Provinzialmuseums in Bonn
Über einen gallorömischen Typus des Mars
Creators: name: Neugebauer, Karl Anton
Publisher: name: Bonner Jahrbücher
Year: 2021

description: Bonner Jahrbücher, Bd. 147 (1942): Bonner Jahrbücher des Vereins von Altertumsfreunden im Rheinlande und des Rheinischen Provinzialmuseums in Bonn
Nebrioporus ceresyi
Creators: name: Toledo, Mario
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Dytiscidae
Nebrioporus
Nebrioporus ceresyi

description: Nebrioporus ceresyi (Aubé, 1838)
Fig. 5
 Hydroporus ceresyi Aubé, (1838a: 260) (orig. descr.).
 For a bibliography see Fery et al. (1996) and Nilsson (2001). The distribution in Turkey of this species is poorly known: a new record for the Asian part of this Country is given here.
 Material examined. Turkey: Çanakkale, 21.VII.1990, 16 km N. Babadere, leg. Schödl (1) (4 exs. NMW).
 Description. See Fery et al. (1996: 307).
 Distribution. A very widespread, Holomediterranean species, known from: Algeria, Bulgaria, Canary Islands (Fuerteventura, Lanzarote), Corsica, Crete, Crimea, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, southern France, Greece, Israel, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Libya, Madeira (Porto Santo), Malta, Morocco, Pantelleria Island, Portugal, Sardinia, Sicily, Spain, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, (after Fery et al. 1996).
description: Published as part of Toledo, Mario, 2009, Revision in part of the genus Nebrioporus Régimbart, 1906, with emphasis on the N. laeviventris-group (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae), pp. 1-111 in Zootaxa 2040 on page 18
Kor und Kab
Creators: name: Oxé, August
Publisher: name: Bonner Jahrbücher
Year: 2021

description: Bonner Jahrbücher, Bd. 147 (1942): Bonner Jahrbücher des Vereins von Altertumsfreunden im Rheinlande und des Rheinischen Provinzialmuseums in Bonn
The Sutras as Poetry: Wang Wei's Use of Buddhist Philosophy as Poetic Image
Creators: name: Zhang, Yan
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2020

description: The present academic studies on Wang Wei usually focus on his landscape poems and claim that these landscape poems imply Buddhism. Their methods usually analyze Wang Wei’s Buddhist tendencies from his life experience. But it needs more textual analysis to prove that the relationship between his poem and Buddhism. The Introduction section provides the relationship between the Buddhist principles and Wang Wei’s Buddhist poems. The Buddhist principles were figuratively represented in Wang Wei’s poems by describing certain images from Buddhist Sutras. Chapter 1 presents the analysis of the couplets of each Buddhist poem through their connection to Buddhist doctrines. Chapter 2 summarizes the characteristics of Wang Wei’s Buddhist poems and emphasizes the use of Buddhist philosophy as a poetic image.
MEASUREMENT OF COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGES OF PROCESSED FOOD SECTOR OF SERBIA IN THE INCREASING THE EXPORT
Creators: name: Ignjatijević, Svetlana
name: Čavlin, Miroslav
name: Đorđević, Dragomir
name: Ignjatijević, Svetlana
name: Čavlin, Miroslav
name: Đorđević, Dragomir
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Serbia
subject: Danube region
subject: comparative advantages
subject: processed food sector

description: The subject of this research is to analyse the comparative advantages of export of processed food sector, in order to define the position of the processed food sector in Serbia in compare to the Danube region and highlight the products that were and will be the main exporting agricultural product of Serbia. In this research, we have applied the following indexes: RXA, RTA, ln RXA, RC, RCA, LFI, GL, Sm. We have examined the movement of the index for the period 2005 - 2011th year. We have investigated the existence of correlations RCA index of processed food sectors with the application of the Pearson and Spearman index determined as RCA variable mutual co-variant. We found that following products showed an increase of comparative advantage in export as measured by the Balassa index: milk products, cheese and curd, groats and meal of other cereals, preparations of cereals, flour, starch, vegetables, roots and tubers, processed, prepared and Fruit products, sugar, molasses and honey, chocolate and other food preparations with cocoa, animal food (including un milled cereals), edible products and preparations, alcoholic beverages, non-alcoholic beverages, solid vegetable fats, oils, ‘ soft ‘ and animal and vegetable fats.
description: Review Article
(Fermionic)Mass Meets (Intrinsic)Curvature
Creators: name: Tolksdorf, Jürgen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 70S15; 53Z05

description: Using the notion of vacuum pairs we show how the (square of the) mass matrix of the fermions can be considered geometrically as curvature. This curvature together with the curvature of space-time, defines the total curvature of the Clifford module bundle representing a ``free'' fermion within the geometrical setup of spontaneously broken Yang-Mills-Higgs gauge theories. The geometrical frame discussed here gives rise to a natural class of Lagrangian densities. It is shown that the geometry of the Clifford module bundle representing a free fermion is described by a canonical spectral invariant Lagrangian density.
description: 14 pages
Workshop Summary
Creators: name: Gilman, Frederick J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent progress in understanding the physics of B mesons and of CP violation, as presented to this Workshop, is put in historical perspective and summarized.
description: 22 pages, 7 figures, invited talk presented at BCP4, Ise-Shima, Japan, February 19-23, 2001
Development of Smartphone Application for Evaluation of Passenger Comfort
Creators: name: Machaj, Juraj
name: Brida, Peter
name: Krejcar, Ondrej
name: Petkovic, Milica
name: Shi, Quingjiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Nowadays, smartphones are not utilized for communications only. Smartphones are equipped with a lot of sensors that can be utilized for different purposes. For example, inertial sensors have been used extensively in recent years for measuring and monitoring performance in many different applications. Basically, data from the sensors are utilized for estimation of smartphone orientation. There is a lot of applications which can utilize these data. This paper deals with an algorithm developed for inertial sensors data utilization for vehicle passenger comfort assessment.
description: The final publication is available at springerlink.com
How Can Employers Contribute to Reducing Commuter-Generated Carbon Emissions? Evaluating Employer-Provided Commuter Benefits in Cambridge, MA
Creators: name: Richards, Mary
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2020

description: Encouraging a more sustainable commuter mode shift and improving urban transportation systems have the potential to reduce anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs), a major contributor to climate change. Replacing some single-occupancy vehicle (SOV) trips with alternative modes of transportation, such as public transit, walking, or bicycling, represents one approach to begin reducing transportation-related emissions. Collectively, these shifts in transportation patterns would help to reduce the negative social, economic, and environmental costs associated with high rates of personal vehicle use. Employer-provided benefits programs have the potential to influence commuter behavior by making sustainable, alternative commuting choices a more convenient and economically feasible option. In addition, the implementation of these programs can have broader benefits such as helping to achieve municipal and regional sustainability goals and improving community members’ physical health and quality of life.
This study applies qualitative and quantitative analysis to investigate employee commuting behavior in response to employer-provided benefits in Kendall Square, a neighborhood in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The employee and employer survey data analyzed in this research was originally collected by TransAction, a transportation consulting firm in the Greater Boston region. To comply with Cambridge’s Parking and Transportation Demand Management (PTDM) Ordinance, TransAction works closely with companies to coordinate and manage onsite commuter services programs and prepare PTDM Annual Reports. The primary objectives of this research are: 1) to introduce the multi-dimensional benefits of re-envisioning the existing transportation networks; 2) to determine the influence of employer-provided commuting benefits on employee commute mode choice; 2) to provide guidance for employers interested in promoting a more sustainable employee commute mode split; and 3) to present the broader implications and applications of this research for employers, municipalities, and coordinating agencies interested in reducing SOV commuting trips and promoting the use of more sustainable, alternative modes of transportation.
Overall, the findings from this research illustrate that while employers have the ability to promote more sustainable transportation choices among their employees, the complexity of the transportation network (and its interdependencies) requires collaboration among all stakeholders to initiate widespread, comprehensive changes.
Ein Typus römischer Sarkophage
Creators: name: Rodenwaldt, Gerhart
Publisher: name: Bonner Jahrbücher
Year: 2021

description: Bonner Jahrbücher, Bd. 147 (1942): Bonner Jahrbücher des Vereins von Altertumsfreunden im Rheinlande und des Rheinischen Provinzialmuseums in Bonn
INNOVATION OF ORGANIZATION MODEL FOR INTEGRAL RURAL DEVELOPMENT - SERBIA CASE STUDY
Creators: name: Nikolić, Vladimir
name: Ivaniš, Marko
name: Stevović, Ivan
name: Nikolić, Vladimir
name: Ivaniš, Marko
name: Stevović, Ivan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Integral Rural Development
subject: the model of organization
subject: an agricultural incubator

description: The experience of the EU in the way of stimulating rural development has been accepted as a starting position in Serbia. The level of economic growth, even in rural areas, despite efforts is not at the desired level. Ways to stimulate rural development process are researched deductively on the example of two municipalities in Sumadija, Serbia. The result of the research pointed to the need to specify the policy of integrated rural development of the municipality and the need to innovate the existing models of organization. It is concluded that the policy of rural municipalities should be directed to: active access to finance, identity politics, and continuing education. Innovation in the organization involves: an Initiative team who prepare the documentation as a basis for decision-making, implementation of agricultural incubator (a symbiosis of business, technology and incubator for a quality management system), and establishing a system of vertical mergers.
description: Review Article
f_1(1285) Formation in Two-Photon Collisions at LEP
Creators: name: L3 Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The eta pi^+ pi^- final state in two-photon collisions is studied with the L3 detector at LEP, at centre-of-mass energies from 183 to 209 GeV with an integrated luminosity of 664.6/pb. The f_1(1285) meson is observed and the Q^2 dependence of its production is compared to different form factor models. The gamma-gamma coupling parameter is found to be 3.5 +/- 0.6(stat.) +/- 0.5(sys.) keV. The branching fraction (f_1(1285) -> a_0 pi) / (f_1(1285) -> eta pi pi) is also measured.
Different responses of the Rayleigh-Taylor type and resistive drift wave instabilities to the velocity shear
Creators: name: Zhang, Yanzeng
name: Krasheninnikov, S. I.
name: Smolyakov, A. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effects of velocity shear on the unstable modes driven by the effective gravity (Rayleigh-Taylor and interchange) and resistive drift wave instabilities for inhomogeneous equilibrium fluid/plasma density are analyzed for the localized eigenmode problems. It is shown that the effect of the velocity shear drastically depends on the type of instability. Whereas the velocity shear can significantly suppress both Rayleigh-Taylor and interchange instabilities, it has only a week impact on the growth rate of the resistive drift wave. This is directly related to the physical nature of these instabilities. For the Rayleigh-Taylor and interchange instabilities, the shear flow tilts the eddies of the stream functions, while for the resistive drift wave instability the shear flow simply shifts the eddies in the radial direction with no tilting. However, for large velocity shear, the eigenmode solutions for resistive drift waves cease to exist.