cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
WILLINGNESS TO PAY FOR MORTALITY RISK REDUCTIONS: DOES LATENCY MATTER?
Creators: name: Alberini, Anna
name: Cropper, Maureen
name: Krupnick, Alan
name: Simon, Nathalie B.
name: Alberini, Anna
name: Cropper, Maureen
name: Krupnick, Alan
name: Simon, Nathalie B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Value of a Statistical Life
subject: mortality risks
subject: benefit-cost analysis

description: Using results from two contingent valuation surveys conducted in Canada and the U.S., we explore the effect of a latency period on willingness to pay (WTP) for reduced mortality risk using both structural and reduced form approaches. We find that delaying the time at which the risk reduction occurs by 10 to 30 years reduces WTP by more than half for respondents in both samples aged 40 to 60 years. Additionally, we estimate implicit discount rates equal to 8% for Canada and 4.5% for the U.S. – both well within the range established previously in the literature.
Phantom Field with O(N) Symmetry in Exponential Potential
Creators: name: Li, Xin-zhou
name: Hao, Jian-gang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we study the phase space of phantom model with O(\emph{N}) symmetry in exponential potential. Different from the model without O(\emph{N}) symmetry, the introduction of the symmetry leads to a lower bound $w>-3$ on the equation of state for the existence of stable phantom dominated attractor phase. The reconstruction relation between the potential of O(\textit{N}) phantom system and red shift has been derived.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, replaced with the version to appear on Phys. Rev. D
Linear Regression (Excel) and Cellular Respiration for Biology, Chemistry and Mathematics
Creators: name: Corriette, Irene
name: Gonzalez, Beatriz
name: Kitanska, Daniela
name: Mozsolits, Henriette
name: Vemu, Sheela
Publisher: name: QUBES Educational Resources
Year: 2022

description: Students typically find linear regression analysis of data sets in a biology classroom challenging. These activities could be used in a Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, or Statistics course. The collection provides student activity files with Excel instructions and Instructor Activity files with Excel instructions and solutions to problems. Students will be able to perform linear regression analysis, find correlation coefficient, create a scatter plot and find the r-square using MS Excel 365. Students will be able to interpret data sets, describe the relationship between biological variables, and predict the value of an output variable based on the input of an predictor variable.
Leptostylus corpulentus Bates 1880
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Leptostylus
Leptostylus corpulentus

description: 13. Leptostylus corpulentus Bates, 1880
Type locality — Nicaragua, Chontales. (BMNH). Distribution — Nicaragua.
 Leptostylus corpulentus Bates, 1880a: 152; Lameere, 1883: 68 (cat.); Chemsak et al., 1992: 140 (cat.); Maes et al., 1994: 41 (distr.).
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., 2005, Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part II. Subfamily Lamiinae, pp. 1-760 in Zootaxa 1023 (1) on pages 1-760, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.946.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5049553
Simulated JWST datasets for multispectral and hyperspectral image fusion
Creators: name: Guilloteau, Claire
name: Oberlin, Thomas
name: Berné, Olivier
name: Dobigeon, Nicolas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This paper aims at providing a comprehensive framework to generate an astrophysical scene and to simulate realistic hyperspectral and multispectral data acquired by two JWST instruments, namely NIRCam Imager and NIRSpec IFU. We want to show that this simulation framework can be resorted to assess the benefits of fusing these images to recover an image of high spatial and spectral resolutions. To do so, we create a synthetic scene associated with a canonical infrared source, the Orion Bar. This scene combines pre-existing modelled spectra provided by the JWST Early Release Science Program 1288 and real high resolution spatial maps from the Hubble space and ALMA telescopes. We develop forward models including corresponding noises for the two JWST instruments based on their technical designs and physical features. JWST observations are then simulated by applying the forward models to the aforementioned synthetic scene. We test a dedicated fusion algorithm we developed on these simulated observations. We show the fusion process reconstructs the high spatio-spectral resolution scene with a good accuracy on most areas, and we identify some limitations of the method to be tackled in future works. The synthetic scene and observations presented in the paper are made publicly available and can be used for instance to evaluate instrument models (aboard the JWST or on the ground), pipelines, or more sophisticated algorithms dedicated to JWST data analysis. Besides, fusion methods such as the one presented in this paper are shown to be promising tools to fully exploit the unprecedented capabilities of the JWST.
FIRE-RETARDANT PROPERTIES OF CELLULOSE TEXTILE MATERIALS WITH THE USE OF SOL-GEL TECHNOLOGY
Creators: name: Tausarova, B.
name: Baiimbetova, G.
Publisher: name: Norwegian Journal of Development of the International Science
Year: 2021
Subjects: cellulose materials
fire retardant properties
potassium hydrogen phosphate
sodium silicate
thi-ourea
sol-gel technology

description: The article describes research on the use of a new composition based on sodium silicate, thiourea and potas-sium hydrogen phosphate for imparting fire retardant properties to cellulosic textile materials. The influence of the concentration of the initial components, temperature and time of heat treatment on the fire-retardant properties of textile materials has been investigated. It is shown that cellulosic materials modified with compositions based on sodium silicate and urea, potassium hydrogen phosphate increase fire-retardant properties.
Cosmology and Brane Worlds: A Review
Creators: name: Brax, Philippe
name: van de Bruck, Carsten
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cosmological consequences of the brane world scenario are reviewed in a pedagogical manner. According to the brane world idea, the standard model particles are confined on a hyper--surface (a so--called brane), which is embedded in a higher--dimensional spacetime (the so--called bulk). We begin our review with the simplest consistent brane world model: a single brane embedded in a five--dimensional Anti-de Sitter space--time. Then we include a scalar field in the bulk and discuss in detail the difference with the Anti-de Sitter case. The geometry of the bulk space--time is also analysed in some depth. Finally, we investigate the cosmology of a system with two branes and a bulk scalar field. We comment on brane collisions and summarize some open problems of brane world cosmology.
description: 37 pages; invited topical review for Classical and Quantum Gravity; to appear
Focus on Babies: Evidence on Parental Attitudes Towards Pesticide Risks
Creators: name: Maguire, Kelly B.
name: Owens, Nicole
name: Simon, Nathalie B.
name: Maguire, Kelly B.
name: Owens, Nicole
name: Simon, Nathalie B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: risk perceptions
subject: children’s health
subject: health valuation
subject: organic foods

description: Studies that estimate the benefits of reduced environmental exposure typically assume that individuals know the true magnitude of the risk reduction. However, the accuracy of risk perception assumptions may be questionable. This issue has not been resolved with respect to adult risk reductions and becomes even more complicated when considering risk reductions to small children. We report results from focus groups with parents of small children regarding their risk perceptions over organic and conventional babyfood. Our results yield surprisingly consistent results between scientific and perceived risks. Previous literature reports a scientific risk reduction estimate of 1.98 per million, reflecting the reduced risk of death from cancer by avoiding pesticides in foods during the first year of life. The results from our focus groups show that parents estimate that the median risk reduction ranges from 1 to 8 per million, depending on specific demographic characteristics. Individuals with less than a four-year college degree provide the highest estimates, while women, those with more education and purchasers of organic babyfood provide lower estimates. We use these results to estimate parental willingness to pay for pesticide risk reductions to their children. Results show that parents in our focus groups who purchase organic babyfood express a value of a statistical cancer of approximately $9 million. These results provide a lower bound on the estimate for the value of reduced cancer risk from pesticide exposure in the first year of life.
Partition Functions of Matrix Models as the First Special Functions of String Theory I. Finite Size Hermitean 1-Matrix Model
Creators: name: Alexandrov, A.
name: Mironov, A.
name: Morozov, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Even though matrix model partition functions do not exhaust the entire set of tau-functions relevant for string theory, they seem to be elementary building blocks for many others and they seem to properly capture the fundamental symplicial nature of quantum gravity and string theory. We propose to consider matrix model partition functions as new special functions. This means they should be investigated and put into some standard form, with no reference to particular applications. At the same time, the tables and lists of properties should be full enough to avoid discoveries of unexpected peculiarities in new applications. This is a big job, and the present paper is just a step in this direction. Here we restrict our consideration to the finite-size Hermitean 1-matrix model and concentrate mostly on its phase/branch structure arising when the partition function is considered as a D-module. We discuss the role of the CIV-DV prepotential (as generating a possible basis in the linear space of solutions to the Virasoro constraints, but with a lack of understanding of why and how this basis is distinguished) and evaluate first few multiloop correlators, which generalize semicircular distribution to the case of multitrace and non-planar correlators.
description: 64 pages, LaTeX
IS GHANA PREPARED TOWARDS THE MAJOR CHALLENGES IN THE EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION OF OIL AND GAS?
Creators: name: Egorova, E.
name: Dorcas, Y.
name: Nanan Danielle Stella Kacou
Publisher: name: Norwegian Journal of Development of the International Science
Year: 2021
Subjects: Oil and Gas
exploration
seismic
drilling
expectation
challenges

description: Ever since oil and gas was officially discovered in ghana in June 2007, there has been an extensive expectation as to how the country is going to immensely benefit from this resource. If this resource is effectively and efficiently exploited properly, Ghana will generate massive foreign earnings. Thus, the economy would be boosted and the standard of living would be low for the average Ghanaian. However, on the other side there seem to be a lot of challenges associated with oil and gas or even all resources. This present work reports an account on the important challenges and the preparedness of Ghana to deal with some of these problems.
Ultra Long Period Cepheids as standard candles from Gaia to Rubin-LSST
Creators: name: Musella, I.
name: Leccia, S.
name: Molinaro, R.
name: Marconi, M.
name: Cusano, F.
name: Di Criscienzo, M.
name: Fiorentino, G.
name: Braga, V.
name: Ripepi, V.
name: De Somma, G.
name: Gatto, M.
name: Luongo, E.
name: Sicignano, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An analysis of the Ultra Long Period Cepheids (ULPs) properties could significantly contribute to understanding the Hubble constant tension, e.g. the current discrepancy between determinations based on local distance indicators and those relying on cosmic microwave background measurements. These highly luminous variables are observable beyond 100 Mpc, so if they were confirmed to behave as standard candles, they would allow us a direct measurement of cosmological distances without any secondary distance indicator, thus reducing potential systematic errors in the calibration of the cosmic distance scale. This paper presents an analysis of the largest known sample of 73 ULPs, including 15 objects in nearby galaxies, with new accurate and homogeneous photometry obtained by Gaia DR3, and a new object, in our Galaxy, identified as Long Period Variable in Gaia DR3, but recently reclassified as ULP. The obtained results suggest that, by improving photometric accuracy, the ULP Period-Wesenheit relation shows a smaller dispersion than that obtained in literature and is in better agreement with the Classical Cepheid (CC) one, supporting the hypothesis that ULPs are the extension of the CCs at higher period, mass and luminosity. However, to reach this aim, it is necessary to enrich the sample with high-quality data. The Rubin-LSST survey offers the possibility to achieve this thanks to its photometric characteristics and time extension. In particular, we will explore the capabilities of the Rubin-LSST survey to recover ULP theoretical light-curves by using a new tool called PulsationStarRecovery, built by our group for this type of analysis.
description: Accepted, ApJS (Rubin Cadence Focus Issues), 17 pages, 12 figures
Improving Pose Estimation through Contextual Activity Fusion
Creators: name: Poulton, David
name: Klein, Richard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.4.9

description: This research presents the idea of activity fusion into existing Pose Estimation architectures to enhance their predictive ability. This is motivated by the rise in higher level concepts found in modern machine learning architectures, and the belief that activity context is a useful piece of information for the problem of pose estimation. To analyse this concept we take an existing deep learning architecture and augment it with an additional 1x1 convolution to fuse activity information into the model. We perform evaluation and comparison on a common pose estimation dataset, and show a performance improvement over our baseline model, especially in uncommon poses and on typically difficult joints. Additionally, we perform an ablative analysis to indicate that the performance improvement does in fact draw from the activity information.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures
THEORETICAL JUSTIFICATION OF CHOICE OF ANTI-HERPETIC PHYTOSUBSTANCE
Creators: name: Nesteruk Т.
name: Polovko, N.
name: Kovalova Т.
Publisher: name: Norwegian Journal of Development of the International Science
Year: 2021
Subjects: antiviral drugs
phytopreparations
medicinal plant materials.

description: The article provides information on the current state of development and use of phytopreparations for the treatment of herpes. The comparative characteristics of the composition of antiviral drugs of plant origin is pre-sented. The use of medicinal plant raw materials with antiherpetic effect is described. According to the generalized information about the mechanism of antiviral action, efficacy in relation to Herpes simplex type I and II mangiferin was selected to the composition of the drug with antiviral, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory and reparative action.
Characterization of Reuse Activities at Contaminated Sites
Creators: name: Vitulli, Angela
name: Dougherty, Charlotte
name: Bosworth, Kimberly
name: Vitulli, Angela
name: Dougherty, Charlotte
name: Bosworth, Kimberly
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: contaminated sites
subject: site reuse
subject: Superfund
subject: brownfields
subject: RCRA
subject: underground storage tanks

description: Given the increased focus on reuse activity within EPA and state site cleanup programs, policy makers would benefit from looking across programs to better understand the extent and nature of reuse; examine site characteristics that influence reuse; leverage lessons learned; and coordinate reuse activities, data collection, and information management. This research paper begins to examine these issues. It reports the results of a preliminary review and analysis of available EPA and state program data on the extent and nature of reuse and factors influencing site reuse. Numerous factors can influence the reuse potential of contaminated sites. Characteristics include on-site factors (e.g., site size and configuration, prior use, type and extent of contamination), as well as off-site factors such as local real estate market conditions. We provide a preliminary analysis of the roles of site contamination type and prior use in influencing reuse potential. To put this analysis in broader context, we also review the literature on the role of off-site factors, and specifically local real estate market conditions, in affecting the reuse potential of contaminated sites. An important finding of this analysis is that EPA and state programs currently do not collect data needed to fully characterize the nature and extent of contaminated site reuse within and across programs, or to determine the relative influence of various factors that influence the potential for reuse after cleanup.
Quantum corrections to the mass of self-dual vortices
Creators: name: Izquierdo, A. Alonso
name: Fuertes, W. Garcia
name: Mayado, M. de la Torre
name: Guilarte, J. Mateos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The mass shift induced by one-loop quantum fluctuations on self-dual ANO vortices is computed using heat kernel/generalized zeta function regularization methods.
description: 4 pages RevTex, version to appear in Physical Review D
title: Intermittent colocolic intussusception in a child with an hamartomatous polyp
Creators: name: Pinto, Ana Luísa
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Paediatric radiology
subject: Abdomen
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: Paediatric
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Ultrasound-Colour Doppler
subject: Endoscopy
subject: Congenital
subject: Clinical Cases

description: Clinical History: A 2-year-old boy was admitted to our hospital with a one-month history of intermittent mild abdominal pain, hematochezia and mucus stool. Stool cultures were negative and blood tests revealed negative inflammatory markers, no transglutaminase or anti-gliadin antibodies and normal serum IgE potentially suggestive of cow milk or soy allergy.

description: 2 years, male
Formation Path Following Control of Underactuated AUVs -- With Proofs
Creators: name: Matouš, Josef
name: Pettersen, Kristin Y.
name: Paliotta, Claudio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This paper proposes a novel method for formation path following of multiple underactuated autonomous underwater vehicles. The method combines line-of-sight guidance with null-space-based behavioral control, allowing the vehicles to follow curved paths while maintaining the desired formation. We investigate the dynamics of the path-following error using cascaded systems theory, and show that the closed-loop system is uniformly semi-globally exponentially stable. We validate the theoretical results through numerical simulations.
description: Extended version, accepted to the 20th European Control Conference, July 12-15 2022, London, UK, 16 pages, 4 figures
A note on Neuberger's double pass algorithm
Creators: name: Chiu, Ting-Wai
name: Hsieh, Tung-Han
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We analyze Neuberger's double pass algorithm for the matrix-vector multiplication R(H).Y (where R(H) is (n-1,n)-th degree rational polynomial of positive definite operator H), and show that the number of floating point operations is independent of the degree n, provided that the number of sites is much larger than the number of iterations in the conjugate gradient. This implies that the matrix-vector product $ (H)^{-1/2} Y \simeq R^{(n-1,n)}(H) \cdot Y $ can be approximated to very high precision with sufficiently large n, without noticeably extra costs. Further, we show that there exists a threshold $ n_T $ such that the double pass is faster than the single pass for $ n > n_T $, where $ n_T \simeq 12 - 25 $ for most platforms.
description: 18 pages, v3: CPU time formulas are obtained, to appear in Physical Review E
title: Genetic predisposition to genomic instability in cancer.
Creators: name: Vessey, Carina Jayne
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1998

description: Ataxia telangiectasia and Bloom's syndrome are cancer prone genomic instability disorders for which the causative genes ATM and BLM have only recently been identified. The cellular localisation and biochemical roles of these proteins are currently being defined. ATM shares sequence homology with several lipid and protein kinases but at the outset of this work a kinase function for ATM itself was not established and the extent to which the kinase domain contributed to the cellular phenotype of A-T was unknown. In addition the role of ATM heterozygosity and genomic instability in breast cancer had been suggested but not elucidated.

 During the course of this work, the anti-ATM antibody (CN-12) and anti-BLM antibody (IHIC-27), were developed and affinity purified. Antibody CN-12 successfully demonstrated the presence of the 350 kDa ATM protein by immunoblotting and immunoprecipitation in HeLa cells. The protein was largely nuclear in localisation with a minor microsomal fraction but was found to be absent in AT2RO cells which contain a homozygous truncating mutation of ATM. Tumour cell lines provided by the NCI showed varying expression of ATM except for the promyelocytic leukaemia cell line HL60 in which no ATM was detected. Antibody IHIC-27 demonstrated the presence of a 180 kDa protein in HeLa cells which was absent in the Bloom's cell line GM8505. Studies using antibodies directed to the C and N-termini showed BLM instability and cell fractionation studies demonstrated that the protein was nuclear in localisation. Anti-BLM monoclonal antibodies 185a and 32e were able to identify the fusion protein to which they were raised and BLM immunoprecipitated by IHIC-27 but could not identify BLM in whole cell lysates. Neither ATM nor BLM antibodies were useful for immunohistochemical studies with the protocols tested despite successful immunostaining of the positive control.

 Studies of immunoprecipitated ATM using a variety of assay conditions with p53 peptides and PHAS-I as substrates did not reveal any serine/threonine protein kinase activity, although low levels of autophosphorylation were identified. H1299 cells transfected with a mutant ATM kinase domain did not exhibit a dominant negative phenotype, which curtailed further studies of the cellular function of the domain.

 DNA repair in peripheral blood lymphocytes from breast cancer patients and controls was assessed by the comet assay. Although the patients generally showed less DNA repair than the controls at 30 min and 120 min, the difference was not found to be statistically significant.
Using the Zone 01 Proximal Development As a Conceptual Framework to Create a Unique High-Fidelity Simulation Program in Undergraduate Anesthesia Education
Creators: name: Applegarth, Oliver
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: High-Fidelity Patient Simulation (HPS) has become an important component of medical education, and its role in undergraduate anesthesia education in no exception. While there is an ever-increasing body of work looking at its uses and the outcomes it creates, little analysis exists examining at the epistemological assumptions that drive this powerful learning tool. We have attempted to reconsider the pedagogical foundation upon which simulation is utilized at the undergraduate level and have asked ourselves whether there exists some current educational theories that could better inform HPS . To this end we have drawn on the work of Lev Vygotsky, specifically with respect to the zone of proximal development (ZPD). From these conceptual ideas has grown a unique style of simulation that is not rigid in its delivery, but rather one that becomes adaptable to the needs of the individual student and can support the individualized level of development that each student brings to the simulator. Collaborative development in this environment is a key. It is one thing to theorize, but we have attempted to move from the conceptual into reality. One key element we have incorporated arises from work looking at situational awareness in a simulated environment, in which the simulator can be frozen. We have termed our program "freeze-action" simulation, a unique simulation environment for delivery to the undergraduate anesthesia clerkship at the University of British Columbia. This program utilizes "freeze-Action" simulation initiated by the learners themselves. The freezes are thought of as individual moments of potential learning initiated at the discretion of the learner and they are used to explore educational opportunities surrounding the "freeze" based on the needs of each student. We have aligned the medical student with a peer learner, an "expert" anesthesia resident and adjuvant learning materials to help navigate this novice learner through perioperative resuscitative scenarios that are designed to operate above their current developmental level. It is hoped that ultimately through researching this unique environment we can obtain data on all students individual zone of proximal development, the role that the "expert" plays in expanding this ZPD, and how this environment can be harnessed to maximize the educational efficiency on HPS. Understanding the ZPD could lead to modifications to medical curriculum that improve development and alter all student's ZPD in a positive fashion. It is believed that our "freeze-action" simulation environment could be a major contributor to this developmental process.
Leptostylus cretatellus Bates 1863
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Leptostylus
Leptostylus cretatellus

description: 14. Leptostylus cretatellus Bates, 1863
Type locality — Brazil, Pará: Óbidos. (MNHN). Distribution — Nicaragua, Costa Rica, French Guiana, Brazil (Pará).
 Leptostylus cretatellus Bates, 1863: 102; Monné & Hoffmann, 1981: 250, fig. 4; Chemsak et al., 1992: 140 (cat.); Maes et al., 1994: 41 (distr.).
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., 2005, Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part II. Subfamily Lamiinae, pp. 1-760 in Zootaxa 1023 (1) on pages 1-760, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.946.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5049553
Gribov horizon in the presence of dynamical mass generation in Euclidean Yang-Mills theories in the Landau gauge
Creators: name: Sobreiro, R. F.
name: Sorella, S. P.
name: Dudal, D.
name: Verschelde, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The infrared behavior of the gluon and ghost propagators is analyzed in Yang-Mills theories in the presence of dynamical mass generation in the Landau gauge. By restricting the domain of integration in the path-integral to the Gribov region $Ω$, the gauge propagator is found to be suppressed in the infrared, while the ghost propagator is enhanced.
description: 10 pages, final version to appear in Phys. Lett. B
Knowing Rome from Home: Reassessing Early Manuscript Witnesses of Papal Letters, Pilgrim Itineraries and Syllogae in England and Francia, c. 600 – 900 CE
Creators: name: Lawton, Rebecca J.
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Alcuin’s De Animae Ratione explains how the tripartite soul facilitates the perception of distant people and places. Perception is facilitated through mental images, built from experience of the bodily senses. Alcuin illustrates the differences between the perception of a known or unknown place with an analogy, using Rome and Jerusalem as examples. Texts that reflect the cityscape of Rome, and the people associated with the cityscape, would have been an important medium through which distant readers perceived Rome. Three such types of text are papal letters, pilgrim itineraries and syllogae collections of inscriptions. These were often composed in Rome but read elsewhere. The materiality of these texts would have had an influence on the perception of Rome that was possible for their readers. However, the extant historiography of these three types of text has rarely considered the message in the medium through which their earliest readers accessed them. This thesis focuses on the early manuscript witnesses of these texts to explore the perception of Rome possible for their readers. These early manuscript witnesses are interpreted via application of Alcuin’s explanation of perception of place in his De Aminae Ratione. Each chapter focuses on one or two core manuscripts. The first chapter will examine the dissemination of Alcuin’s De Animae Ratione, by conducting a detailed analysis of the ninth-century manuscript copies. Chapters 2, 3 and 4 each focus on one key manuscript containing an early copy of one or more of the topographical texts. Chapter 5 will examine how papal letters and epitaphs are displayed in the earliest surviving manuscripts of Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum. These manuscripts provide a route into understanding the circulation, reading experience and impact of these texts as they were accessed by their earliest readers in England and Francia.
Effect of Indoor Temperature and Glazing with Saturated Color on Visual Perception of Daylight
Creators: name: Chinazzo, Giorgia
name: Wienold, Jan
name: Andersen, Marilyne
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: This paper presents the combined effect of indoor temperature (19 °C, 22 °C, and 26 °C) and colored glazing (blue, orange, and neutral) on visual perception of daylight. Experiments were performed in an office-like test room, in which 75 participants were fully immersed under visual and thermal stimuli. Findings are discussed in terms of cross-modal effects of indoor temperature on visual perception, as well as of unimodal effects of glazing color on visual perception, investigated in terms of color of light and visual environment evaluations. Results show the presence of cross-modal effects of indoor temperature on visual perception of both the visual environment and the color of light. Indoor temperature affected the visual environment evaluation as, first, brightness comfort resulted higher at lower temperatures, and second, the light was associated to warmth adjectives more often at higher temperatures. On the other hand, indoor temperature influenced the color of light evaluation as, only at lower temperatures, daylight tinted by the blue glazing was considered less pleasant and less comfortable, and was chosen less often over the daylight tinted by the orange glazing. In terms of unimodal effect of colored glazing on visual perception, results indicate that the neutral glazing was always preferred over the two colored ones, probably due to the use of saturated colors. The orange glazing, however, was associated with the most relaxing and warmest daylight. These findings have important implications regarding the use of glazing with saturated colors in buildings and expand our understanding of temperature–color interaction – so far investigated only with electric light – to daylight evaluations.
Multiplex networks quantify robustness of the mental lexicon to catastrophic concept failures, aphasic degradation and ageing
Creators: name: Stella, Massimo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Concepts and their mental associations influence how language is processed and used. Networks represent powerful models for exploring such cognitive system, known as mental lexicon. This study investigates lexicon robustness to progressive word failure with multiplex network attacks. The average lexicon of an adult English speaker is built by considering 16000 words connected through semantic free associations and phonological sound similarities. Progressive structural degradation is modelled as random and targeted attacks. Words with higher psycholinguistic features (e.g. frequency, length, age of acquisition, polysemy) or network centrality (e.g. closeness, PageRank, betweenness and degree) are targeted first. Aphasia-inspired attacks are introduced here and target first words named correctly, more or less frequently, by patients with anomic aphasia, a pathology disrupting word finding. Robustness is measured as connectedness, fundamental for activation spreading and lexical retrieval, and viability, a multi-layer connectivity identifying language kernels. The lexicon is resilient to random, aphasia-inspired and psycholinguistic attacks. Catastrophic phase transitions happen when phonological and semantic degrees are combined, making the lexicon fragile to multidegree attacks. The viable kernel is fragile to multi-PageRank and to aphasia-inspired attacks. Consequently, connectedness in the lexicon is mediated by hubs, whereas viability enables a lexical semantic/phonological interplay and corresponds to a facilitative naming effect in aphasia. These effects persist also through ageing, in different network representations of younger and older lexicons. This study indicates the need to prevent failure of high multidegree and viable words in the mental lexicon when pursuing the design of effective language restoration strategies against cognitive impairing.
description: 13 pages, 4 figures
$t\to cV$ via SUSY FCNC couplings in the unconstrained MSSM
Creators: name: Liu, Jian Jun
name: Li, Chong Sheng
name: Yang, Li Lin
name: Jin, Li Gang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We recalculate the branching ratios for $t\to cV$ ($V=g,γ,Z$) induced by SUSY FCNC couplings within the general unconstrained MSSM framework using mass eigenstate approach. Our results show that the branching ratios for these decays are larger than ones reported in previous literatures in the MSSM with R-parity conservation, and they can reach $\sim 10^{-4}$, $\sim 10^{-6}$, and $\sim 10^{-6}$, respectively, for favorable parameter values allowed by current precise experiments. Thus, the branching ratios for $t\to cg$ and $t\to cγ$ may be measurable at the LHC.
description: 15 pages, 3 figures, minor changs in the Table 1
Benefit Transfer Functions for Avoided Morbidity: A Preference Calibration Approach
Creators: name: Van Houtven, George L.
name: Pattanayak, Subhrendu K.
name: Smith, V. Kerry
name: Van Houtven, George L.
name: Pattanayak, Subhrendu K.
name: Smith, V. Kerry
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Benefit transfer
subject: preference calibration
subject: health valuation

description: Preference calibration has been proposed as a method for improving benefit transfers (Smith et al., 2002). The objective of this method is to develop a WTP function that can be used to predict individuals’ values for a wide range of quality changes. The analyst’s specification of preferences determines the form of this WTP function, and existing empirical studies provide the information that is needed to identify values for its parameters. The purpose of this paper is to explore and illustrate how the logic of preference calibration can be applied in the area of morbidity valuation. Using relatively simple functional forms for utility, we consider both acute (short-term) and chronic (long-term) illness. To identify values for key preference parameters, we combine information about WTP, health indexes, income, and, in some cases, duration of illness. We then use the calibrated parameters to specify WTP functions. Finally, we demonstrate how these functions can serve as benefit transfer functions, using them to predict WTP for a range of reductions in the severity and/or duration of illness and for different income levels.
Manifesting hidden dynamics of a sub-component dark matter
Creators: name: Kamada, Ayuki
name: Kim, Hee Jung
name: Park, Jong-Chul
name: Shin, Seodong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We emphasize the distinctive cosmological dynamics in multi-component dark matter scenarios and its impact in probing a sub-dominant component of dark matter. We find that the thermal evolution of the sub-component dark matter is significantly affected by the sizable self-scattering that is naturally realized for sub-${\rm GeV}$ masses. The required annihilation cross section for the sub-component sharply increases as we consider a smaller relative abundance fraction among the dark-matter species. Therefore, contrary to a naive expectation, it can be easier to detect the sub-component with smaller abundance fractions in direct/indirect-detection experiments and cosmological observations. Combining with the current results of accelerator-based experiments, the abundance fractions smaller than $10\,\%$ are strongly disfavored; we demonstrate this by taking a dark photon portal scenario as an example. Nevertheless, for the abundance fraction larger than $10\,\%$, the warm dark matter constraints on the sub-dominant component can be complementary to the parameter space probed by accelerator-based experiments.
description: 48 pages, 11 figures
The Use of Voluntary Approaches for Environmental Policymaking in the U.S.
Creators: name: Brouhle, Keith
name: Griffiths, Charles
name: Walverton, Ann
name: Brouhle, Keith
name: Griffiths, Charles
name: Walverton, Ann
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: voluntary programs
subject: pollution control options
subject: market incentives

description: The use of voluntary approaches to achieve environmental improvements has grown dramatically in the United States since they were first introduced thirteen years ago. As of 2004, there are over 50 voluntary programs in the U.S. at the federal level alone. These programs take a variety of forms, from large, cross-industry efforts to reduce global climate impacts to smaller, “boutique” efforts aimed at specific industrial sectors. Other voluntary approaches used in the U.S. include negotiated agreements, industry-initiated unilateral commitments, and state and regional voluntary initiatives, but these tend to be used less regularly. Despite the diversity of voluntary approaches in the U.S., they often pursue common, and sometimes overlapping environmental objectives and use similar methodologies to achieve such goals. While most voluntary initiatives in the U.S. state an explicit environmental goal, they may also have less direct policy objectives such as enhancing innovation or increasing awareness of environmental issues. In addition, information about firm participation or environmentally responsible products and products is sometimes shared with consumers. Many argue in favor of the increased use of voluntary approaches in environmental policymaking on the basis of environmental effectiveness, economic efficiency, reductions in government administrative, monitoring and enforcement costs, increases in environmental awareness, and encouragement of innovation. Few programs have been evaluated properly on the basis of these objectives, however. The empirical literature sheds little light on the value of voluntary approaches in achieving goals set by U.S. environmental policy. The difficulty in evaluating voluntary approaches lies in sorting through the myriad of programs, identifying a discernible environmental goal, gathering adequate data for analysis, and measuring achievement of the environmental goal relative to a reasonable baseline scenario.
On Classification with Large Language Models in Cultural Analytics
Creators: name: Bamman, David
name: Chang, Kent K.
name: Lucy, Li
name: Zhou, Naitian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this work, we survey the way in which classification is used as a sensemaking practice in cultural analytics, and assess where large language models can fit into this landscape. We identify ten tasks supported by publicly available datasets on which we empirically assess the performance of LLMs compared to traditional supervised methods, and explore the ways in which LLMs can be employed for sensemaking goals beyond mere accuracy. We find that prompt-based LLMs are competitive with traditional supervised models for established tasks, but perform less well on de novo tasks. In addition, LLMs can assist sensemaking by acting as an intermediary input to formal theory testing.
Gravity in higher codimension de Sitter Brane Worlds
Creators: name: Olasagasti, I.
name: Tamvakis, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study solutions of Einstein's equations corresponding codimension n>2 global topological defects with de Sitter slices. We analyze a class of solutions that are cylindrically symmetric and admit positive, negative or zero bulk cosmological constant. We derive the relevant graviton equations. For an extended brane, the properties of the solution depend on apropriate boundary conditions that the exterior solutions have to satisfy near the core. As an alternative we consider matching copies of the exterior solution related by symmetry. We show that we can get localization only when the bulk cosmological constant is negative. We obtain a condition on the global defect symmetry breaking scale which ultimately controls the size of the n-1 internal dimensions at the position of the brane. The induced metric on the brane, in the case of mirror spacetimes, is a direct product of a de Sitter space and an (n-1)-sphere, while the metric of the embedding spacetime is a warped product and the actual size of the (n-1)-sphere changes as we move along the radial direction. The solutions possess naked singularities, which nevertheless satisfy no-flow conditions.
description: 15 pages, 2 figures
Generalized Chaplygin Gas Models tested with SNIa
Creators: name: Biesiada, Marek
name: Godlowski, Wlodzimierz
name: Szydlowski, Marek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The so called Generalized Chaplygin Gas (GCG) with the equation of state $p = - \frac{A}{ρ^α}$ was recently proposed as a candidate for dark energy in the Universe. In this paper we confront the GCG with SNIa data. Specifically we have tested the GCG cosmology in three different classes of models with (1) $Ω_m= 0.3$, $Ω_{Ch}= 0.7$; (2) $Ω_m= 0.05$, $Ω_{Ch}= 0.95$ and (3) $Ω_m = 0$, $Ω_{Ch} = 1$, as well as the model withouth any assumption on $Ω_m$. The best fitted models are obtained by minimalizing the $χ^2$ function and $χ^2$ levels in the $(A_0, α)$ plane. We supplemented our analysis with confidence intervals in the $(A_0, α)$ plane, as well as one-dimensional probability distribution functions for models parameter. The general conclusion is that SNIa data strongly support the Chaplygin gas (with $α= 1$). Extending our analysisby relaxing the flat prior lead to the result that even though the best fitted values of $Ω_k$ are formally non-zero, still they are close to flat case. It should be viewed as an advantage of the GCG model since in similar analysisof $Λ$CDM model high negative value of $Ω_{k}$ were found to be bestfitted to the data and independent inspiration from CMBR and extragalactic astronomy has been invoked to fix the curvature problem. Our results show clearly that in Generalized Chaplygin Gas cosmology distant $z >1$ supernovae should be brighter than in $Λ$CDM model.This prediction seems to be confirmed with new Riess high redshift SNIa sample. Moreover, we argue that with the future SNAP data it would be possible to differentiate between models with various value of $α$ parameter and/or discriminated between GCG, Cardassian and $Λ$CDM models
description: 54 pages 29 figures improved version analysis flat prior relaxed high redshift Riess SNIa sample included
Leptostylus cristulatus Bates 1872
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Leptostylus
Leptostylus cristulatus

description: 15. Leptostylus cristulatus Bates, 1872
Type locality — Nicaragua, Chontales. (BMNH). Distribution — Nicaragua to Panama.
 Leptostylus cristulatus Bates, 1872: 213; 1880a: 151 (distr.); 1885: 386 (distr.); Chemsak et al., 1992: 140 (cat.); Maes et al., 1994: 42 (distr.).
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., 2005, Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part II. Subfamily Lamiinae, pp. 1-760 in Zootaxa 1023 (1) on pages 1-760, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.946.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5049553