cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Memory for emotional events in individuals with autism spectrum disorders
Creators: name: Sollinger, Ann Bryan
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Autism is a pervasive developmental disorder characterized by impairments in reciprocal social interactions, restricted and repetitive interests and communication. Researchers have recently focused on the amygdala as a brain area involved in producing some of the social difficulties found in the disorder. If the amygdala does not function efficiently in individuals with autism, then we may expect that persons with this disorder would not demonstrate enhanced memory for emotional events, as the amygdala appears to be crucial for this effect. The present study sought to test the hypothesis that individuals with autism do not demonstrate enhanced memory for emotional events. We recruited 12 high-functioning individuals (ages 16--23) with an autism spectrum disorder and a group of controls matched for age, sex, Performance IQ, and Verbal IQ. Participants viewed two sets of slides accompanied by a taped narrative (one story was designed to be neutral, the other emotionally arousing) and then took a recognition memory test for these stories one week later. Contrary to our hypothesis, we found evidence that memory processes in high-functioning individuals with an autism spectrum disorder are aided by emotional arousal. Despite this, participants with autism displayed this memory enhancement for the phases of the stories with an aversive visual stimulus regardless of whether the accompanying narrative was neutral or emotional. That is, persons with autism appeared to demonstrate difficulty integrating the information from the narrative into their emotional reactions to the visual stimulus. Thus, they exhibited less selective enhancement of memory as compared to controls. We explain these results in terms of an inefficiency in emotion regulation or ability to integrate information (i.e., central coherence) in autism spectrum disorders. An inability to regulate emotion, integrate all available emotional information, and remember it as typically developing children do, may provide a partial explanation for the social and emotional difficulties of individuals with these disorders.
Eleodes (Tricheleodes) pilosus Horn 1870
Creators: name: Johnston, M. Andrew
name: Fleming, David
name: Franz, Nico M.
name: Smith, Aaron D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Tenebrionidae
Eleodes
Eleodes pilosus

description: Eleodes (Tricheleodes) pilosus Horn, 1870
(Fig. 5B)
 Diagnosis. Body elongate-ovate, covered in long, bristling setae. Pronotum confluently punctate, rugose, anterior angles slightly projected and weakly pointed. Elytra apparently impunctate, covered with small tubercles, each bearing a single, long seta, more or less arranged in striae. Profemora unspined. Prosternum with a rounded, slightly inflated bulge projected posteriorly of procoxae.
 Distribution. Navajo, Apache, and Gila Counties, Arizona. New Mexico west to California and north to Idaho.
 Remarks. This species can often be found on sand dunes and very sandy soils.
description: Published as part of Johnston, M. Andrew, Fleming, David, Franz, Nico M. & Smith, Aaron D., 2015, Amphidorini Leconte (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) of Arizona: Keys and Species Accounts, pp. 27-54 in The Coleopterists Bulletin (mo 14) (mo 14) 69 on page 49, DOI: 0.1649/0010-065X-69.mo4.27, http://zenodo.org/record/10086147
Linear scaling computation of the Fock matrix. IX. Parallel computation of the Coulomb matrix
Creators: name: Gan, Chee Kwan
name: Tymczak, C. J.
name: Challacombe, Matt
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present parallelization of a quantum-chemical tree-code [J. Chem. Phys. {\bf 106}, 5526 (1997)] for linear scaling computation of the Coulomb matrix. Equal time partition [J. Chem. Phys. {\bf 118}, 9128 (2003)] is used to load balance computation of the Coulomb matrix. Equal time partition is a measurement based algorithm for domain decomposition that exploits small variation of the density between self-consistent-field cycles to achieve load balance. Efficiency of the equal time partition is illustrated by several tests involving both finite and periodic systems. It is found that equal time partition is able to deliver 91 -- 98 % efficiency with 128 processors in the most time consuming part of the Coulomb matrix calculation. The current parallel quantum chemical tree code is able to deliver 63 -- 81% overall efficiency on 128 processors with fine grained parallelism (less than two heavy atoms per processor).
description: 7 pages, 6 figures
Memory for emotional events in individuals with autism spectrum disorders
Creators: name: Sollinger, Ann Bryan
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 5203
subject: Clinical and health psychology
classificationCode: 5204
subject: Cognitive and computational psychology

description: Autism is a pervasive developmental disorder characterized by impairments in reciprocal social interactions, restricted and repetitive interests and communication. Researchers have recently focused on the amygdala as a brain area involved in producing some of the social difficulties found in the disorder. If the amygdala does not function efficiently in individuals with autism, then we may expect that persons with this disorder would not demonstrate enhanced memory for emotional events, as the amygdala appears to be crucial for this effect. The present study sought to test the hypothesis that individuals with autism do not demonstrate enhanced memory for emotional events. We recruited 12 high-functioning individuals (ages 16--23) with an autism spectrum disorder and a group of controls matched for age, sex, Performance IQ, and Verbal IQ. Participants viewed two sets of slides accompanied by a taped narrative (one story was designed to be neutral, the other emotionally arousing) and then took a recognition memory test for these stories one week later. Contrary to our hypothesis, we found evidence that memory processes in high-functioning individuals with an autism spectrum disorder are aided by emotional arousal. Despite this, participants with autism displayed this memory enhancement for the phases of the stories with an aversive visual stimulus regardless of whether the accompanying narrative was neutral or emotional. That is, persons with autism appeared to demonstrate difficulty integrating the information from the narrative into their emotional reactions to the visual stimulus. Thus, they exhibited less selective enhancement of memory as compared to controls. We explain these results in terms of an inefficiency in emotion regulation or ability to integrate information (i.e., central coherence) in autism spectrum disorders. An inability to regulate emotion, integrate all available emotional information, and remember it as typically developing children do, may provide a partial explanation for the social and emotional difficulties of individuals with these disorders.
Comptonization in Super-Eddington Accretion Flow and Growth Timescale of Supermassive Black Holes
Creators: name: Kawaguchi, Toshihiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Super-Eddington accretion onto black holes (BHs) may occur at ultraluminous compact X-ray sources in nearby galaxies, Galactic microquasars and narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1s). Effects of electron scattering (opacity and Comptonization) and the relativistic correction (gravitational redshift and transverse Doppler effect) on the emergent spectra from super-Eddington accretion flows onto non-rotating BHs are examined for 10^{1.5} and 10^{6.5} M_sun BH masses (M_BH). With mdot [= Mdot / (L_Edd / c^2), where Mdot is the accretion rate] > 100, the spectral hardening factor via electron scattering is \lesssim 2.3 - 6.5. Due to the mdot-sensitive hardening factor, the color temperature of the innermost radiation is not proportional to L^{0.25}, differing from the simplest standard accretion disk. The model is applied to optical--soft X-ray emission from NLS1s. We pick up one NLS1, namely PG 1448+273 with an inferred M_BH of 10^{6.4} M_sun, among the highest mdot candidates. The broadband spectral distribution is successfully reproduced by the model with an extremely high mdot (= 1000) and the viscosity parameter alpha of 0.01. This implies that this object, as well as some other highest mdot systems, is really young: the inferred age, M_BH / Mdot, is about 10^6 years. We also briefly discuss the distribution of mdot for transient and highly variable NLS1s, finding that those are located at 3 \lesssim mdot \lesssim 300. Such a moderately high accretion rate is indicative of thermal instability. Furthermore, mdot for a possible type-2 counterpart of NLS1s, NGC 1068, is found to be similar to mdot for NLS1s.
description: 16 pages (including 14 color figures), LaTeX emulateapj5.sty, The Astrophysical Journal in press, corrected some typos and added references
Application of renormalization group theory for fluids to water
Creators: name: Tewari, Krishna P.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 51
subject: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
classificationCode: 5104
subject: Condensed matter physics
classificationCode: 5106
subject: Nuclear and plasma physics

description: Water is a complex fluid for variety of reasons. Liquid water has a normal liquid-gas critical point and a possibility of a second metastable liquid-liquid critical point close to the freezing transition. The challenge is, therefore, to apply Renormalization Group Theory for fluids, already developed by Professor White in the 1980s, to calculate the thermal properties of water at both near and far from the two critical points. This dissertation will show that using a simple square well potential, the theory gives results that are in good agreement with experimental data for water near and in large adjoining neighborhood of the first liquid-gas critical point.
Comparing prices received by participating and non-participating farmers in the custom feeding initiative of the National Red Meat Development Programme: A case of Kwa Zulu Natal Province
Creators: name: Lubinga, M.
name: Mazibuko, N.
name: Sotsha, K.
name: Lubinga, M.
name: Mazibuko, N.
name: Sotsha, K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis

description: We seek to evaluate how the National Red Meat Development Program has impacted on livestock farmers in the rural communities of South Africa. Specifically, we compare whether the average weight of cattle that benefit through the Custom Feeding Programme (CFP) initiative differs from that of their counterparts. In addition, we compare the average price received by farmers whose cattle are fed at the CFP facility versus what non-participating farmers earn. A two-sample t test was used to test the hypotheses. Findings indicate that cattle sold through the CFP facility weigh more than those sold through non-CFP facilities. Generally, CFP participating farmers receive higher incomes from cattle sales but when we took into consideration of the R800 fee paid per animal sold through the CFP facility, results were insignificant t (499) = 0.83, p = 0.41. This implies that higher mean price of about R125 received by farmers participating in CFP did not differ from the prices received by non-participants. Conclusively, the NMRDP plays a vital role in enabling farmers to gain access into the formal cattle market. As recommendation, the NMRDP team should devise means to reduce the R800 fee per animal sold through the CFP facility. Acknowledgement : Input provided by members of the National Read Meat Development Programme (NRMDP) team, especially Dr Ngetu Xolile, Mrs Khumbuzile Mosoma, Ms Thendo Ndou and the field officers as well as other stakeholders is duly acknowledged.
Possible superconductivity with Bogoliubov Fermi surface in lightly doped Kagome U(1) spin liquid
Creators: name: Jiang, Yi-Fan
name: Yao, Hong
name: Yang, Fan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Whether the doped t-J model on the Kagome lattice supports exotic superconductivity has not been decisively answered. In this paper, we propose a new class of variational states for this model and perform large-scale variational Monte Carlo simulation on it. The proposed variational states are parameterized by the SU(2)-gauge-rotation angles, as the SU(2)-gauge structure hidden in the Gutzwiller-projected mean-field ansatz for the undoped model is broken upon doping. These variational doped states smoothly connect to the previously studied U(1) $π$-flux or $0$-flux states, and energy minimization among them yields a chiral noncentrosymmetric nematic superconducting state with $2 \times 2$-enlarged unit cell. Moreover, this pair density wave state possesses a finite Fermi surface for the Bogoliubov quasi particles. We further study experimentally relevant properties of this intriguing pairing state.
description: 4.5 pages, 3 figures + supplement material. To appear in Phys. Rev. Lett
THE ROLE OF MARKET PRICE-WEIGHT RELATIONSHIPS IN OPTIMAL BEEF CATTLE MANAGEMENT MODELS
Creators: name: Buccola, Steven T.
name: Jessee, Warren B.
name: Buccola, Steven T.
name: Jessee, Warren B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1979
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries

description: Optimal beef cattle diet and rate-of-gain analyses normally ignore the relationship between the animal's market price and its weight. Theoretical and empirical models are developed to show that optimal daily weight gain tends to be less than the feasible maximum when market price per pound falls rapidly with weight increases.
FUTURES PRICES OF BEEF CATTLE, AND THE THEORY OF NONSTORABLE COMMODITIES
Creators: name: Blank, Steven
name: Blank, Steven
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1979
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries

description: The long-hald hypothesis of independence between futures prices of individual month contracts for nonstorable commodities is tested for live cattle and feeder cattle. The hypothesis is rejected for both sets of data. It is also suggested that certain characteristics of a market will influence prices generated by that market.
Asymptotics of solutions of the Einstein equations with positive cosmological constant
Creators: name: Rendall, Alan D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A positive cosmological constant simplifies the asymptotics of forever expanding cosmological solutions of the Einstein equations. In this paper a general mathematical analysis on the level of formal power series is carried out for vacuum spacetimes of any dimension and perfect fluid spacetimes with linear equation of state in spacetime dimension four. For equations of state stiffer than radiation evidence for development of large gradients, analogous to spikes in Gowdy spacetimes, is found. It is shown that any vacuum solution satisfying minimal asymptotic conditions has a full asymptotic expansion given by the formal series. In four spacetime dimensions, and for spatially homogeneous spacetimes of any dimension, these minimal conditions can be derived for appropriate initial data. Using Fuchsian methods the existence of vacuum spacetimes with the given formal asymptotics depending on the maximal number of free functions is shown without symmetry assumptions.
description: 23 pages
EFFECTS OF FOOD STAMPS ON THE EXPENDITURES FOR FOOD BY LOW INCOME FAMILIES IN THE SOUTH
Creators: name: Scearce, W.Keith
name: Scearce, W.Keith
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1979
Subjects: Food Security and Poverty

description: The paper focuses on the food expenditures of low income families in the Southern Region of the United States. Regression models are developed that explain the impacts of various socio-economic factors on food expenditures. A primary factor in the analysis is the affect of participation of the families in the Food Stamp Program.
XMM-Newton RGS spectroscopy of LMC X-3
Creators: name: Page, M. J.
name: Soria, R.
name: Wu, K.
name: Mason, K. O.
name: Cordova, F. A.
name: Priedhorsky, W. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present soft X-ray spectroscopy of the black hole binary LMC X-3 from the XMM-Newton Reflection Grating Spectrometer. The observations span the full range of spectral states seen in LMC X-3. The spectra are completely dominated by continuum emission, and the neutral absorbing column measured from the O I edge (NH = 3.8 +0.8 -0.7 10^20 cm^-2) is consistent with the Galactic interstellar column density towards LMC X-3. We find no evidence for variability of the neutral absorbing column. We also constrain the ionized column density using the upper limits to the equivalent width of the O II - O VIII K-shell resonance lines: we find that the equivalent hydrogen column density of gas in which O is partially ionized is < 8 10^20 cm^-2. From this upper limit we can rule out a line driven stellar wind as the power source for the X-ray emission of LMC X-3 except when it is faint. At wavelengths longward of the peak emission the spectral shape is well described by a multi-temperature disk-blackbody spectrum; the powerlaw component which dominates at shorter wavelengths does not continue longward of the disk-blackbody peak. This implies that the multi-temperature disk-blackbody component supplies the seed photons which are Compton upscattered in the hot corona, consistent with the standard paradigm for black hole X-ray binary spectral states.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS
On the Origin of Power-Law Fluctuations in Stock Prices
Creators: name: Plerou, Vasiliki
name: Gopikrishnan, Parameswaran
name: Gabaix, Xavier
name: Stanley, H. Eugene
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Trading and Market Microstructure (q-fin.TR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: We respond to the issues discussed by Farmer and Lillo (FL) related to our proposed approach to understanding the origin of power-law distributions in stock price fluctuations. First, we extend our previous analysis to 1000 US stocks and perform a new estimation of market impact that accounts for splitting of large orders and potential autocorrelations in the trade flow. Our new analysis shows clearly that price impact and volume are related by a square-root functional form of market impact for large volumes, in contrast to the claim of FL that this relationship increases as a power law with a smaller exponent. Since large orders are usually executed by splitting into smaller size trades, procedures used by FL give a downward bias for this power law exponent. Second, FL analyze 3 stocks traded on the London Stock Exchange, and solely on this basis they claim that the distribution of transaction volumes do not have a power-law tail for the London Stock Exchange. We perform new empirical analysis on transaction data for the 262 largest stocks listed in the London Stock Exchange, and find that the distribution of volume decays as a power-law with an exponent $\approx 3/2$ -- in sharp contrast to FL's claim that the distribution of transaction volume does not have a power-law tail. Our exponent estimate of $\approx 3/2$ is consistent with our previous results from the New York and Paris Stock Exchanges. We conclude that the available empirical evidence is consistent with our hypothesis on the origin of power-law fluctuations in stock prices.
description: 6 pages 2 column format
An Improved Procedure for Evaluating Alternative Farm Sizes
Creators: name: Richardson, James W.
name: Condra, Gary D.
name: Richardson, James W.
name: Condra, Gary D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1979
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: The methodology used in existing farm size studies fails to explicitly consider such factors as time, uncertianty, alternative financial arrangements, income taxes, changing land prices, increasing input costs and year-to-year net cash flows. A procedure that incorporates these factors is described and demonstrated in this paper.
Application of renormalization group theory for fluids to water
Creators: name: Tewari, Krishna P.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Water is a complex fluid for variety of reasons. Liquid water has a normal liquid-gas critical point and a possibility of a second metastable liquid-liquid critical point close to the freezing transition. The challenge is, therefore, to apply Renormalization Group Theory for fluids, already developed by Professor White in the 1980s, to calculate the thermal properties of water at both near and far from the two critical points. This dissertation will show that using a simple square well potential, the theory gives results that are in good agreement with experimental data for water near and in large adjoining neighborhood of the first liquid-gas critical point.
title: The achievement of potential : an exploration in educational and social contexts
Creators: name: McArthur, Anne
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2008

description: The Achievement of Potential: an Exploration in Educational and Social Contexts outlines a qualitative study conducted in the North East of Scotland within the context of Scottish Education. This study had four purposes: (1) to explore the meaning of the concept of potential; (2) to consider the factors affecting the achievement of potential; (3) to explore the conditions necessary to enable all children achieve their potential; and (4) to identify implications for Scottish education policy and practice. The concept of potential presented in the literature was diverse - different constructs were generated at different historical times and within different disciplinary frameworks. Common features suggest that potential is something that everyone is born with and everyone achieves to some extent. It is suggested that potential can change throughout life because of influences from social contexts, personal relationships and cultural factors. Those who participated in the empirical study had a complex and rich understanding of the term. They understood the concept to refer to people maximising the development and use of a range of capabilities. The three key factors identified and which interacted were: the children themselves with their capabilities, aptitudes and attitudes, the schooling system and the home and wider social, cultural context. With respect to teachers and parents, differences in their values, perceptions of the purposes of education, power differentials and community identity emerged as aspects of the educational and social contexts impinging on relationships with pupils and their level of school engagement. The conditions necessary for the achievement of the fullest potential for all children and the barriers preventing an increasing proportion of children achieving their potential within the established educational system are identified and discussed. Educational strategies to promote the greatest possible amount of shared perceptions and values and harmonious interaction among the children themselves, their educational context and their social context to allow the children to develop a secure identity are suggested.
An anthropological analysis of successful aging: The Stockbridge -Munsee band of Mohican Indians
Creators: name: Wallace, Lillian Marie
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This ethnographic study investigates the social processes and programming that support successful aging in the Stockbridge-Munsee (Mohican) reservation community in northeastern Wisconsin. It found that the elder social services offered in this community both reinforced and built upon Mohican cultural beliefs and practices toward the elderly, and in so doing met all four of the conditions defined as necessary for successful aging. Three main characteristics of the Mohican elder services were found to facilitate the process of successful aging: they were structurally flexible and adaptable, valued personal engagement between elders and workers, and were culturally inflected. They were also supported by four aspects of the sociocultural construction of aging within the Mohican community: elders were embedded in a web of reciprocal relations, had an esteemed role as cultural transmitters, played an active role in the community's renegotiation of its identity, and were fully integrated into the life of the community. The study concludes with a discussion of the implications of these findings for our understanding of aging, for social service practices, and for future research.
World Population by Country and Region, 1950-2050
Creators: name: Urban, Francis
name: Trueblood, Michael
name: Urban, Francis
name: Trueblood, Michael
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: International Development
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Population
subject: population estimates
subject: projections
subject: population rates of growth
subject: countries
subject: regions

description: This report contains estimates of world population from 1950 to the late 1980's, depending on the latest .country census, and projections to 2050. It also shows annual rates of population growth for each country and region According to the projections, world population will expand from an estimated 5.3 billion in 1990 to 6.3 billion in the year 2000 and to 10.7 billion in the year 2050. However, the world population rate of growth is expected to decline from 1.7 percent per year in the 1990's to 0.7 percent between 2040 and 2050. The information is provided for 204 countries, grouped into 14 geographic regions. It is a part of the Bureau of the Census population data bank used in the Economic Research Service (ERS).
Theoretical Considerations on the Properties of Accreting Millisecond Pulsars
Creators: name: Nelson, Lorne A.
name: Rappaport, Saul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine a number of evolutionary scenarios for the recently discovered class of accretion-powered millisecond X-ray pulsars in ultracompact binaries, including XTE J0929-314 and XTE J1751-305, with orbital periods of 43.6 and 42.4 minutes, respectively. We focus on a particular scenario that can naturally explain the present-day properties of these systems. This model invokes a donor star that was either very close to the TAMS (i.e., main-sequence turnoff) at the onset of mass transfer or had sufficient time to evolve during the mass-transfer phase. We have run a systematic set of detailed binary evolution calculations with a wide range of initial donor masses and degrees of (nuclear) evolution at the onset of mass transfer. In general, the models whose evolutionary tracks result in the best fits to these ultracompact binaries start mass transfer with orbital periods of ~15 hr, then decrease to a minimum orbital period of less than or about 40 minutes, and finally evolve back up to about 43 minutes. We also carry out a probability analysis based on the measured mass functions of XTE J0929-314 and XTE J1751-305, and combine this with the results of our binary evolution models and find that the donor stars currently have masses in the range of about 0.012 - 0.025 solar masses, and radii of about 0.042 - 0.055 solar radii, and that these radii are likely to be factors of about 1.1 - 1.3 times larger than the corresponding zero-temperature ones. We also find that the interiors of the donors are largely composed of helium and that the surface hydrogen abundances are almost certainly less than 10% (by mass).
description: 16 pages, 6 figures, 3 tables
MARCS-Model Stellar Atmospheres, and Their Application to the Photometric Calibration of the Spitzer-IRS
Creators: name: Decin, L.
name: Morris, P. W.
name: Appleton, P. N.
name: Charmandaris, V.
name: Armus, L.
name: Houck, J. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe state-of-the-art MARCS-code model atmospheres generated for a group of A dwarf, G dwarf, and late-G to mid-K giant standard stars, selected to photometrically calibrate the Spitzer-IRS, and compare the synthetic spectra to observations of HR 6688, HR 6705, and HR 7891. The general calibration processes and uncertainties are briefly described, and the differences between various templated composite spectra of the standards are addressed. In particular, a contrast between up-to-date model atmospheres and previously published composite and synthetic spectra is illustrated for wavelength ranges around 8um (where the SiO Delta(v) = 1 band occurs for the cooler standards) and lambda greater than 20um, where the use of the Engelke function will lead to increasingly large discrepancies due to the neglect of gravity in cool stars. At this point, radiometric requirements are being met, absolute flux calibration uncertainties (1-sigma) are ~20% in the SH and LH, and ~15% in the SL and LL data, and order-to-order flux uncertainties are ~10% or less. Iteration between the MARCS model atmosphere inputs and the data processing will improve the S/N ratios and calibration accuracies.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in the ApJSS Spitzer edition
An anthropological analysis of successful aging: The Stockbridge -Munsee band of Mohican Indians
Creators: name: Wallace, Lillian Marie
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4401
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology
classificationCode: 45
subject: Indigenous studies

description: This ethnographic study investigates the social processes and programming that support successful aging in the Stockbridge-Munsee (Mohican) reservation community in northeastern Wisconsin. It found that the elder social services offered in this community both reinforced and built upon Mohican cultural beliefs and practices toward the elderly, and in so doing met all four of the conditions defined as necessary for successful aging. Three main characteristics of the Mohican elder services were found to facilitate the process of successful aging: they were structurally flexible and adaptable, valued personal engagement between elders and workers, and were culturally inflected. They were also supported by four aspects of the sociocultural construction of aging within the Mohican community: elders were embedded in a web of reciprocal relations, had an esteemed role as cultural transmitters, played an active role in the community's renegotiation of its identity, and were fully integrated into the life of the community. The study concludes with a discussion of the implications of these findings for our understanding of aging, for social service practices, and for future research.
Measuring our universe from galaxy redshift surveys
Creators: name: Lahav, Ofer
name: Suto, Yasushi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Galaxy redshift surveys have achieved significant progress over the last couple of decades. Those surveys tell us in the most straightforward way what our local universe looks like. While the galaxy distribution traces the bright side of the universe, detailed quantitative analyses of the data have even revealed the dark side of the universe dominated by non-baryonic dark matter as well as more mysterious dark energy (or Einstein's cosmological constant). We describe several methodologies of using galaxy redshift surveys as cosmological probes, and then summarize the recent results from the existing surveys. Finally we present our views on the future of redshift surveys in the era of Precision Cosmology.
description: 82 pages, 31 figures, invited review article published in Living Reviews in Relativity, http://www.livingreviews.org/lrr-2004-8
Rebuilding life after a brain injury: Do social comparisons help patients cope?
Creators: name: Arnold, Miriam Courtney
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 5203
subject: Clinical and health psychology
classificationCode: 5205
subject: Social and personality psychology

description: This was the first study to examine the social comparison process in brain-injured patients. Patients participating in rehabilitation were asked how they were coping in comparison to others and whether they preferred information about another patient who was "worse-off" or "better-off" across different domains (e.g., coping, physical functioning, ability to work). They also rated their mood and motivation after listening to a well adjusted (i.e., UT: upward target) and poorly adjusted target (i.e., DT, downward target). Patients made favorable comparisons when forced to compare. Preferences for comparison information varied based on the specific domain, due, perhaps to the perceived controllability or esteem-relevance of the domain. Forced exposure to the DT resulted in more negative affect as compared to exposure to the UT. Individual differences in perceived control determined affective responses to the DT and UT, such that higher levels of control were associated with less negative affect following either target and more positive affect following the UT. The inclusion of multiple measures provides an overview of the comparison process in a rehabilitation setting. Taken together, the results suggest that rehabilitation professionals should not offer comparison information unless they consider the specific domain and individual differences in perceived control. Future studies might examine the comparison process over time and use behavioral measures of persistence.
Eleodes (Blapylis) pimelioides Mannerheim 1843
Creators: name: Johnston, M. Andrew
name: Fleming, David
name: Franz, Nico M.
name: Smith, Aaron D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Tenebrionidae
Eleodes
Eleodes pimelioides

description: Eleodes (Blapylis) pimelioides Mannerheim, 1843
(Fig. 13B)
 Diagnosis. Body ovate-elongate. Pronotum covered with large punctures, lateral margins strongly arcuate, constricted and parallel-sided posteriorly. Elytra covered in fairly large, rounded tubercles, each bearing a single seta, interspersed with smaller tubercles in between. Propleura weakly rugose, without distinct tubercles. Prosternum declivous, not projected posteriorly of procoxae.
 Distribution. CoconinoCounty,Arizona.Wyoming south to Colorado, west to California and north to British Columbia, Canada.
 Remarks. After examining Blaisdell types at the California Academy of Sciences, we have decided to apply the name E. pimelioides to the taxon represented in Arizona. The type of E. pimelioides patruelis Blaisdell, 1933 is externally very similar and likely conspecific with the current species. Boddy (1957) synonymized E. pimelioides patruelis with E. verrucula Blaisdell, which he simultaneously sank as a subspecies of the then resurrected species E. rotundipennis LeConte, which itself had been treated by Blaisdell (1909) as a subspecies of E. cordatus Eschscholtz. This complex of species, with some 16 synonyms and subspecies, is in great need of revision before any taxonomic changes can justifiably be made.
description: Published as part of Johnston, M. Andrew, Fleming, David, Franz, Nico M. & Smith, Aaron D., 2015, Amphidorini Leconte (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) of Arizona: Keys and Species Accounts, pp. 27-54 in The Coleopterists Bulletin (mo 14) (mo 14) 69 on page 49, DOI: 0.1649/0010-065X-69.mo4.27, http://zenodo.org/record/10086147
Cyclotron Resonance of Wigner Crystals on Liquid Helium
Creators: name: Dinh, Van An
name: Saitoh, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The cyclotron resonance of the correlated two-dimentional electrons on liquid helium in high magnetic fields is investigated on the basis of the newly developed theory. Electrons are assumed to form a Wigner crystal, and the electron correlation effect is taken into account through the self-consistently determined Wigner phonons, where the electron-electron interaction, the electron-ripplon and electron-vapor atom scatterings are considered on the same footing. The numerical calculations show a very good agreement with experiments without any fitting parameters.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures. Presented at EP2DS15 conference (2003). to be appeared in Physica E (in press)
LLL & ABC
Creators: name: Dokchitser, Tim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11D04, 11D41, 11D99

description: This note is an observation that the LLL algorithm applied to prime powers can be used to find "good" examples for the ABC and Szpiro conjectures.
description: 6 pages; record algebraic example included; final version, to appear in J. Number Theory
Spectroscopic Confirmation of a Coma Cluster Progenitor at z ~ 2.2
Creators: name: Darvish, Behnam
name: Scoville, Nick Z.
name: Martin, Christopher
name: Sobral, David
name: Mobasher, Bahram
name: Rettura, Alessandro
name: Matthee, Jorryt
name: Capak, Peter
name: Chartab, Nima
name: Hemmati, Shoubaneh
name: Masters, Daniel
name: Nayyeri, Hooshang
name: O'Sullivan, Donal
name: Paulino-Afonso, Ana
name: Sattari, Zahra
name: Shahidi, Abtin
name: Salvato, Mara
name: Lemaux, Brian C.
name: Fevre, Olivier Le
name: Cucciati, Olga
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the spectroscopic confirmation of a new protocluster in the COSMOS field at $z$ $\sim$ 2.2, COSMOS Cluster 2.2 (CC2.2), originally identified as an overdensity of narrowband selected H$α$ emitting candidates. With only two masks of Keck/MOSFIRE near-IR spectroscopy in both $H$ ($\sim$ 1.47-1.81 $μ$m) and $K$ ($\sim$ 1.92-2.40 $μ$m) bands ($\sim$ 1.5 hour each), we confirm 35 unique protocluster members with at least two emission lines detected with S/N $>$ 3. Combined with 12 extra members from the zCOSMOS-deep spectroscopic survey (47 in total), we estimate a mean redshift and a line-of-sight velocity dispersion of $z_{mean}$=2.23224 $\pm$ 0.00101 and $σ_{los}$=645 $\pm$ 69 km s$^{-1}$ for this protocluster, respectively. Assuming virialization and spherical symmetry for the system, we estimate a total mass of $M_{vir}$ $\sim$ $(1-2) \times$10$^{14}$ $M_{\odot}$ for the structure. We evaluate a number density enhancement of $δ_{g}$ $\sim$ 7 for this system and we argue that the structure is likely not fully virialized at $z$ $\sim$ 2.2. However, in a spherical collapse model, $δ_{g}$ is expected to grow to a linear matter enhancement of $\sim$ 1.9 by $z$=0, exceeding the collapse threshold of 1.69, and leading to a fully collapsed and virialized Coma-type structure with a total mass of $M_{dyn}$($z$=0) $\sim$ 9.2$\times$10$^{14}$ $M_{\odot}$ by now. This observationally efficient confirmation suggests that large narrowband emission-line galaxy surveys, when combined with ancillary photometric data, can be used to effectively trace the large-scale structure and protoclusters at a time when they are mostly dominated by star-forming galaxies.
Mp-small summands increase knot width
Creators: name: Hendricks, Jacob
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M25, 57M27

description: Scharlemann and Schultens have shown that for any pair of knots K_1 and K_2, w(K_1 # K_2) is greater than or equal to max{w(K_1),w(K_2)}. Scharlemann and Thompson have given a scheme for possible examples where equality holds. Using results of Scharlemann-Schultens, Rieck-Sedgwick and Thompson, it is shown that for K the connected sum of mp-small knots and K' any non-trivial knot, w(K # K')>w(K).
description: Published by Algebraic and Geometric Topology at http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/agt/AGTVol4/agt-4-44.abs.html
Properties of cluster satellites in hydrodynamical simulations
Creators: name: Tormen, Giuseppe
name: Moscardini, Lauro
name: Yoshida, Naoki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the dynamical and thermal evolution of dark matter and ICM in hydrodynamical Tree-SPH simulations of galaxy clusters. Starting from a sample of 17 high-resolution objects, with virial mass ranging from 3 10^{14} to 1.7 10^{15} M_sun, we follow the build-up of the systems in dark matter and hot gas through the repeated merging of satellites along their merging history trees. We measure the self-bound mass fraction of subhaloes as a function of time after the merging, estimate the satellite mean orbital properties as a function of the mass ratio with the main cluster at merging time, and study the evolution of their internal velocity dispersion, gas temperature and entropy as the substructure is disrupted by various dynamical processes, reaching eventually thermo-dynamic equilibrium in the gravitational potential of the main cluster. We model some relevant properties of subhalo orbits, as the time of the first pericentric and apocentric passages, and the typical distances and velocities at the corresponding times. This survival study can be used to interpret the dynamics of observed merging clusters; as an example we apply our results to the system 1E0657-56. We show that, in the light of our results, the most likely interpretation of the data for this cluster points to the merger of a small group with mass M\approx 1 10^{13} M_sun with a massive cluster with M\approx 1.3 10^{15} M_sun.
description: 14 pages, version accepted for publication on MNRAS
Eleodes (Melaneleodes) rileyi Casey 1892
Creators: name: Johnston, M. Andrew
name: Fleming, David
name: Franz, Nico M.
name: Smith, Aaron D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Tenebrionidae
Eleodes
Eleodes rileyi

description: Eleodes (Melaneleodes) rileyi Casey, 1892
(Fig. 9A)
 Diagnosis. Body elongate-ovate, rather parallelsided. Pronotum subquadrate, slightly arcuate laterally, widest just anterior of middle, disc moderately and evenly punctate. Elytra punctate-striate with punctures becoming scabrous to slightly tuberculate laterally and posteriorly on disc. Profemora unarmed, clavate. Prosternum flat, slightly projected posteriorly of procoxae.
 Distribution. Coconino and Apache Counties, Arizona. Widely distributed from Minnesota west to California and north to Montana.
 Remarks. This species is most similar to E. carbonarius and can be distinguished from the latter by the scrabrous punctures of the elytra. It also resembles E. halli, which can be separated from the present species by the elytra bearing small though well-formed tubercles each with a single, black seta.
description: Published as part of Johnston, M. Andrew, Fleming, David, Franz, Nico M. & Smith, Aaron D., 2015, Amphidorini Leconte (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) of Arizona: Keys and Species Accounts, pp. 27-54 in The Coleopterists Bulletin (mo 14) (mo 14) 69 on page 49, DOI: 0.1649/0010-065X-69.mo4.27, http://zenodo.org/record/10086147
R code used to generate competition ontcomes of pairwise species under R*-preemption tradeoff
Creators: name: Qi, Man
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: This deposition contains the codes that was used to generate competition outcomes in paper "Qi, M., Demalach, N., Dong, Y., Zhang, H., Sun, T. (2022) Coexistence under hierarchical resource exploitation: the role of R*-preemption tradeoff. The American Naturalist". The deposition consists of: A R script (under R version 4.0.2) that can generate parameter spaces of different competition outcomes under R*-preemption tradeoff. A metadata of above R script.
Cubic function fields with prescribed ramification
Creators: name: Karemaker, Valentijn
name: Marques, Sophie
name: Sijsling, Jeroen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11R16, 11R58 (11R11, 14H05, 14H10)

description: This article describes cubic function fields $L/K$ with prescribed ramification, where $K$ is a rational function field. We give general equations for such extensions, an explicit procedure to obtain a defining equation when the purely cubic closure $K'/K$ of $L/K$ is of genus zero, and a description of the twists of $L/K$ up to isomorphism over $K$. For cubic function fields of genus at most one, we also describe the twists and isomorphism classes obtained when one allows Möbius transformations on $K$. The article concludes by studying the more general case of covers of elliptic and hyperelliptic curves that are ramified above exactly one point.
description: 24 pages; published version
Anthophorula (Anthophorula) deserticola
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Anthophorula (Anthophorula) deserticola (Timberlake, 1947) **
[Holotype: CASC; ♀ Cronise, Mojave Desert, California, USA; July 9, 1938]
This species was previously known only from the southwestern USA (Timberlake 1980b). It represents a new species record to the BCP and Mexico with the record of two females collected in the Vizcaíno Desert in June 2017 by the CARCIB team. See fig. 123.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 192, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532