cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: The Significance of Janus During the Augustan Principate
Creators: name: O'Keefe, Megan
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Janus
subject: Augustus
subject: Rome
subject: Janus Geminus Shrine
subject: Ara Pacis
subject: Augustan propaganda/politics

description: The influence of Janus during the Augustan principate is underestimated. Scholarship often overlooks Janus in favor of other prominent gods utilized by Augustus during his reign. This thesis will demonstrate that Janus should be considered a vital component of Augustan propaganda. I will begin with an examination of Janus’ mythology and history, paying particular attention to the Janus Geminus shrine and its rituals. I will next focus on the relationship, established by Augustus, between the Janus Geminus shrine and the Ara Pacis Augustae which demonstrated the shrine’s importance as a basis for one of the most significant Augustan monuments. Finally, I will demonstrate Janus’ significance by exploring Augustan archaism, refurbishment of temples and priesthoods, and the construction of new temples under Augustus, specifically the Apollo Palatinus and Mars Ultor. Additionally, comparison with other Augustan spectacles will help to hypothesize the particulars of the Janus Geminus ritual, again demonstrating Janus’ significance to Augustus.
Supplementary Materials and Figures from General isochronous rhythm in echolocation calls and social vocalizations of the bat Saccopteryx bilineata
Creators: name: Burchardt, Lara S.
name: Norton, Philipp
name: Behr, Oliver
name: Scharff, Constance
name: Knörnschild, Mirjam
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Validation analysis and additional supplementary figures are shown.
Graphis pernambucoradians M. Caceres & Lucking
Creators: name: R, Jeanne dos
name: Silva, eis
name: Aptroot, André
name: E, Marcela
name: S, ugenia da
name: Cáceres, ilva
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Ascomycota
Lecanoromycetes
Ostropales
Graphidaceae
Graphis
Graphis pernambucoradians

description: Graphis pernambucoradians M.Cáceres & Lücking
NEW REPORT. — Parque Nacional de Brasília, on bark, leg. J.A.R. Silva, ISE 52726. New to Distríto Federal.
description: Published as part of R, Jeanne dos, Silva, eis, Aptroot, André, E, Marcela, S, ugenia da & Cáceres, ilva, 2023, Lichens from dry central Brazil: a checklist of lichenized fungi from Distríto Federal and Goiás, pp. 117-133 in Cryptogamie, Mycologie 20 (9) on page 120, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-mycologie2023v44a9, http://zenodo.org/record/8434271
Measuring masses in low mass X-ray binaries via X-ray spectroscopy: the case of MXB 1659-298
Creators: name: Ponti, Gabriele
name: Bianchi, Stefano
name: Muñoz-Darias, Teo
name: Nandra, Kirpal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The determination of fundamental parameters in low-mass X-ray binaries typically relies on measuring the radial velocity curve of the companion star through optical or near-infrared spectroscopy. It was recently suggested that high resolution X-ray spectroscopy might enable a measurement of the radial velocity curve of the compact object by monitoring the Doppler shifts induced by the orbital motion of the disc wind or the disc atmosphere. We analysed a Chandra-HETG+NuSTAR soft state observation of MXB 1659-298, an eclipsing neutron star low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB). We measured a radial velocity curve whose phase offset and semi-amplitude are consistent with the primary star. We derived the value for the semi-amplitude of the radial velocity for the compact object $K_1=89\pm19$ km s$^{-1}$, constrained the mass of the secondary ($0.3\leq M_2\leq0.8$ M$_\odot$) and the orbital inclination of the binary system ($73\leq i\leq77^\circ$). These values are consistent with previous estimates from independent methods. Via the same technique, the next generation of X-ray observatories equipped with high spectral resolution instruments (e.g., Athena) will have the potential to measure the radial velocity curve of the primary in high inclination X-ray binaries to an accuracy of a few per cent.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS Letters
Highlights from the STAR experiment
Creators: name: Ye, Zhenyu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) studies properties and phase transitions of nuclear matter in various nucleus-nucleus collisions at center-of-mass energies per nucleon collision $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=7.7$-200 GeV. With a fixed target made of gold foils installed inside the beam pipe, STAR also starts to explore high baryon density regime ($μ_B\approx420$-720 MeV) at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=3.0$-7.7 GeV. A few selected results reported by the STAR collaboration at the Quark Matter 2018 (QM2018) conference are described in these proceedings.
description: 7 pages, 9 figures, proceedings fort the Quark Matter 2018 conference
Evidence for Complex Subleading Exponents from the High-Temperature Expansion of the Hierarchical Ising Model
Creators: name: Meurice, Y.
name: Ordaz, G.
name: Rodgers, V. G. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using a renormalization group method, we calculate 800 high-temperature coefficients of the magnetic susceptibility of the hierarchical Ising model. The conventional quantities obtained from differences of ratios of coefficients show unexpected smooth oscillations with a period growing logarithmically and can be fitted assuming corrections to the scaling laws with complex exponents.
description: 10 pages, Latex , uses revtex. 2 figures not included (hard copies available on request)
title: Investigation into Clinical Relevance of Filtered Out Novel Mutations in the Thermo Fisher Oncomine Focus Assay
Creators: name: Grissom, Luke R
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Next generation sequencing
subject: Novel mutations
subject: Oncology
subject: Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The Oncomine Focus Assay (OFA) is an assay developed by Thermo Fisher and is run on their Ion Torrent S5 next generation sequencing (NGS) platform. The purpose of this assay is to detect known clinically relevant “hotspot” driver mutations for various cancer types and report those mutations, along with potential therapies and clinical trials, to the oncologist for the patient being tested. Thermo Fisher’s reporter software automatically filters unknown novel mutations out, leaving only known hotspot driver mutations within the reports sent to the oncologists. The potential clinical relevance of these novel mutations is unknown. RStudio was used to compile and filter the exported sequencing data from 25 months of NGS runs from 1336 patient samples, and the PredictSNP2 bioinformatic tool was used to filter out predicted neutral and synonymous variants. Then NCBI and Varsome were utilized to search for relevant clinical data for the unique novel variants. In total, 374 novel SNPs were found to be potentially pathogenic, but only a few had documented evidence to support pathogenicity. Twelve unique variants in 15 samples were identified that have evidence of pathogenicity with references in NCBI. The remaining novel SNPs predicted to be pathogenic but do not have any documented evidence could be a potential source for future research of clinically relevant novel mutations in oncology.
A characterisation for Finsler metrics of constant curvature and a Finslerian version of Beltrami Theorem
Creators: name: Bucataru, Ioan
name: Creţu, Georgeta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C60, 53B40, 58E30, 49N45

description: We define a Weyl-type curvature tensor that provides a characterisation for Finsler metrics of constant flag curvature. When the Finsler metric reduces to a Riemannian metric, the Weyl-type curvature tensor reduces to the classic projective Weyl tensor. In the general case, the Weyl-type curvature tensor differs from the Weyl projective curvature, it is not a projective invariant, and hence Beltrami Theorem does not work in Finsler geometry. We provide the relation between the Weyl-type curvature tensors of two projectively related Finsler metrics. Using this formula we show that a projective deformation preserves the property of having constant flag curvature if and only if the projective factor is a Hamel function. This way we provide a Finslerian version of Beltrami Theorem.
description: 12 pages
title: The Interpretation of Various Skin Conditions on the Transfer of Secondary Touch DNA
Creators: name: Kirkland, Jade
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Secondary DNA
subject: DNA forensics

description: Secondary DNA transfer has been an increasing topic of study throughout the forensic science community recent years. Little information is known about how the condition of the surface of an individual’s hand may play a role in the transfer of secondary DNA. This study evaluated whether individuals’ hand conditions, whether oily or dry, played a role in the deposition of DNA onto another individuals’ hands and then onto a glass slab. Participants were assigned as the primary DNA contributor, meaning they would be the person touching the glass. Participants were then told their hand condition and the researcher and each participant had direct contact with each other for 30 seconds via handshakes after which the primary placed their hand on a glass substrate. Swabbings of the glass were taken them extracted, quantified, amplified, and then injected into the AB 3500 Genetic Analyzer. DNA typing results showed that under oily conditions, the secondary contributors' profile was likely to show up in more abundance than if that contributor had dry skin, having 35.4% of alleles detected when both contributors had oily hands and 20% of alleles detected when only the secondary contributor had oily hands.
The XXL Survey: XVI. The clustering of X-ray selected galaxy clusters at z~0.3
Creators: name: Marulli, F.
name: Veropalumbo, A.
name: Sereno, M.
name: Moscardini, L.
name: Pacaud, F.
name: Pierre, M.
name: Plionis, M.
name: Cappi, A.
name: Adami, C.
name: Alis, S.
name: Altieri, B.
name: Birkinshaw, M.
name: Ettori, S.
name: Faccioli, L.
name: Gastaldello, F.
name: Koulouridis, E.
name: Lidman, C.
name: Fèvre, J. -P. Le
name: Maurogordato, S.
name: Poggianti, B.
name: Pompei, E.
name: Sadibekova, T.
name: Valtchanov, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Galaxy clusters trace the highest density peaks in the large-scale structure of the Universe. Their clustering provides a powerful probe that can be exploited in combination with cluster mass measurements to strengthen the cosmological constraints provided by cluster number counts. We investigate the spatial properties of a homogeneous sample of X-ray selected galaxy clusters from the XXL survey, the largest programme carried out by the XMM-Newton satellite. The measurements are compared to $Λ$-cold dark matter predictions, and used in combination with self-calibrated mass scaling relations to constrain the effective bias of the sample, $b_{eff}$, and the matter density contrast, $Ω_{\rm M}$. We measured the angle-averaged two-point correlation function of the XXL cluster sample. The analysed catalogue consists of $182$ X-ray selected clusters from the XXL second data release, with median redshift $\langle z \rangle=0.317$ and median mass $\langle M_{500} \rangle\simeq1.3\cdot10^{14} M_\odot$. A Markov chain Monte Carlo analysis is performed to extract cosmological constraints using a likelihood function constructed to be independent of the cluster selection function. Modelling the redshift-space clustering in the scale range $10
description: 10 pages, 10 figures. Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics
The Self-Energy of Massive Lattice Fermions
Creators: name: Mertens, Bartholomeus P. G.
name: Kronfeld, Andreas S.
name: El-Khadra, Aida X.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We address the perturbative renormalization of massive lattice fermions. We derive expressions-valid to all orders in perturbation theory and for all values of the bare fermion mass-for the rest mass, the kinetic mass, and the wave-function renormalization factor. We obtain the fermion's self energy at the one-loop level with a mass-dependent, $O(a)$ improved action. Numerical results for two interesting special cases, the Wilson and Sheikholeslami-Wohlert actions, are given. The mass dependence of these results smoothly connects the massless and infinite-mass limits, as expected. Combined with Monte Carlo calculations our results can be employed to determine the quark masses in common renormalization schemes.
description: 33 pages; 11 figures (included)
title: Paper: "Chronology Related to a Science of Complexity, Generic Design Science and Interactive Management," 1998
Creators: name: Warfield, John
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Warfield, John N.
subject: Complexity
subject: Interactive Management (IM)
subject: Science of Generic Design
subject: Battelle Memorial Institute
subject: Large City Design Team
subject: Waller, Robert James
subject: Society for General Systems Research (SGSR)
subject: Demosophia
subject: Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM)
subject: Ford Motor Company

description: Manuscript: typescript, 7 pgs. 8.5" x 11" (21.6 cm x 29.7 cm
description: This is a chronology of events that relate to Warfield's work with complexity, the Science of Generic Design, and the development of Interactive Management (IM). It covers the period 1956 to 1998. John N. Warfield Collection 90.15
Supplementary Table S1 and Figures and S1-S3 from Leaf-cutter ants engineer large nitrous oxide hot spots in tropical forests
Creators: name: Soper, Fiona M.
name: Sullivan, Benjamin W.
name: Osborne, Brooke B.
name: Shaw, Alanna N.
name: Philippot, Laurent
name: Cleveland, Cory C.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Measured CO2 and CH4 fluxes, pile and colony areas and literature survey of leaf cutter ant density
One-Loop Splitting Amplitudes in Gauge Theory
Creators: name: Kosower, David A.
name: Uwer, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We recompute the functions describing the collinear factorization of one-loop amplitudes using the unitarity-based method. We present the results in a form suitable for use as an ingredient in two-loop calculations. We also present a function summarizing the behavior at one loop in both the soft and collinear limits.
description: two references added, minor changes in the text
Giant anomalous Nernst effect and quantum-critical scaling in a ferromagnetic semimetal
Creators: name: Sakai, Akito
name: Mizuta, Yo Pierre
name: Nugroho, Agustinus Agung
name: Sihombing, Rombang
name: Koretsune, Takashi
name: Suzuki, Michi-To
name: Takemori, Nayuta
name: Ishii, Rieko
name: Nishio-Hamane, Daisuke
name: Arita, Ryotaro
name: Goswami, Pallab
name: Nakatsuji, Satoru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In metallic ferromagnets, the Berry curvature of underlying quasiparticles can cause an electric voltage perpendicular to both magnetization and an applied temperature gradient, a phenomenon called the anomalous Nernst effect (ANE). Here, we report the observation of a giant ANE in the full-Heusler ferromagnet Co$_2$MnGa, reaching $S_{yx}\sim -6$ $μ$V/K at room $T$, one order of magnitude larger than the maximum value reported for a magnetic conductor. With increasing temperature, the transverse thermoelectric conductivity or Peltier coefficient $α_{yx}$ shows a crossover between $T$-linear and $-T \log(T)$ behaviors, indicating the violation of Mott formula at high temperatures. Our numerical and analytical calculations indicate that the proximity to a quantum Lifshitz transition between type-I and type-II magnetic Weyl fermions is responsible for the observed crossover properties and an enhanced $α_{yx}$. The $T$ dependence of $α_{yx}$ in experiments and numerical calculations can be understood in terms of a quantum critical scaling function predicted by the low energy effective theory over more than a decade of temperatures. Moreover, the observation of chiral anomaly or an unsaturated positive longitudinal magnetoconductance also provide evidence for the existence of Weyl fermions in Co$_2$MnGa.
description: 43 pages, 11 figures, 1 Table, To appear in Nature Physics
title: ADCO, Grènetier de Cîteaux : comptes (1499-1503) (11 H 1173), f. 00145
Creators: name: de la Côte-d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Petot, Frédéric
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CBMA/CG21/F.PETOT/2019
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: comptes
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: Grènetier de Cîteaux : comptes (1499-1503), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, (11 H 1173). Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Grènetier de Cîteaux : comptes (1499-1503), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, (11 H 1173), f. 00145, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https://manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
Hafellia curatellae Marbach
Creators: name: R, Jeanne dos
name: Silva, eis
name: Aptroot, André
name: E, Marcela
name: S, ugenia da
name: Cáceres, ilva
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Ascomycota
Lecanoromycetes
Caliciales
Caliciaceae
Hafellia
Hafellia curatellae

description: Hafellia curatellae (Malme) Marbach
NEW REPORT. — Parque Nacional de Brasília, on bark, leg. J.A.R. Silva, ISE 52996. New to Distríto Federal.
description: Published as part of R, Jeanne dos, Silva, eis, Aptroot, André, E, Marcela, S, ugenia da & Cáceres, ilva, 2023, Lichens from dry central Brazil: a checklist of lichenized fungi from Distríto Federal and Goiás, pp. 117-133 in Cryptogamie, Mycologie 20 (9) on page 120, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-mycologie2023v44a9, http://zenodo.org/record/8434271
Activated chemical defenses in tropical versus temperate seaweeds
Creators: name: Hay, M. E.
name: Cetrulo, G. L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2000

description: Chemical defenses that are rapidly activated in response to injury have been reported in numerous species of vascular plants, but activated chemical defense has been demonstrated for only 1 genus of seaweed. To investigate the frequency of potential activated chemical defenses in seaweeds and to determine if there are geographic differences in the frequency of theses, we conducted urchin and fish feeding assays using chemical extracts from 42 species of temperate or tropical seaweeds that were damaged immediately before extraction in organic solvents (= the potentially activated extract) or placed in organic solvents before they were damaged (= the non-activated extract). Seven species exhibited changes in palatability consistent with activated defenses while 4 species became more, rather than less, palatable if they were damaged 30 s before extraction. Frequency of activation did not vary geographically. Seventeen percent of tropical species (4 of 24) and 17% of temperate species (3 of 18) exhibited changes in palatability that were consistent with activation of chemical defenses. Thin-layer chromatography of lipid-soluble extracts indicated that damaging the thallus prior to extraction caused noticeable chemical changes in 70% of the species evaluated. Investigations of algal chemical defenses thus need to consider the effects of injury during herbivore attacks and the effects of extraction methodology on the types of, and concentrations of, metabolites discovered in seaweeds.
Study of the process e+e- to pi+pi-pi+pi-pi0 with CMD-2 detector
Creators: name: 2 Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The process e+e- to pi+ pi- pi+ pi- pi0 has been studied in the center of mass energy range 1280 -- 1380 MeV using 3.0 1/pb of data collected with the CMD-2 detector in Novosibirsk. Analysis shows that the cross section of the five pion production is dominated by the contributions of the eta pi+pi- and omega pi+pi- intermediate states.
description: 8 pages, 3 figure. Submitted to Phys. Lett. B
title: Essays on Labor, Health, and Entrepreneurship
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2019

description: This dissertation presents studies of the interaction of health policies and labor markets, including issues of occupational choice, labor demand, and compensating differentials. In the first essay, Health Insurance and the Supply of Entrepreneurs: Evidence from the ACA Medicaid Expansion, I examine whether the expansion of Medicaid eligibility under the Affordable Care Act increases the supply of entrepreneurs as measured by self-employment. Using the 2003–2017 Current Population Survey and focusing on childless adults in low-income households, I apply difference-in-differences, propensity score weighting, and instrumental variable (IV) methods. I find that expanding Medicaid eligibility raises the self-employment rate by 0.8 to 1.6 percentage points, without increasing self-employment exit. IV estimates imply that covered individuals have 8 to 11 percentage points higher probability to become self-employed. Exploiting additional variation by spousal coverage or poor health of individuals or their spouse within triple difference specifications, I also find evidence that the underlying mechanism of the effect was through the reduction of entrepreneurship lock. The results suggest that limited access to health insurance may be a barrier to entrepreneurship. In the second essay, Do Employer Insurance Mandates Reduce Employment? Evidence from the Massachusetts Reform, I study the impact of an employer health insurance mandate on employment in small business and firm size distribution by exploiting the Massachusetts employer mandate. Using a triple-difference method with County Business Patterns data from 2000 to 2013, I compare net employment and the number of establishments in establishment size classes above and below 10, the threshold employment of the mandate. The specification includes interactive fixed effects (size by state, size by year, state by year, industry by size, industry by state, industry by year). The results suggest that net employment above the thresholds fell by about 2 to 4 percent and the number of establishments in the same size group decreased by about 1 to 4 percent. In the third essay, Who Pays the Healthcare Costs of Chronic Diseases?, I (jointly with Chanup Jeung) examine whether 50-64 year-old workers covered by employer-sponsored insurance bear healthcare costs in the form of lower wages. Using a difference-in-difference approach with data from the Health and Retirement Study, we find that workers with chronic diseases receive significantly lower wages than healthy workers when they are covered by employer sponsored insurance. Part of the wage reduction among workers with chronic diseases can be explained by their higher healthcare usages.
Den selection by the spiny lobster Panulirus argus: testing attraction to conspecific odors in the field
Creators: name: Nevitt, G.
name: Lohmann, K. J.
name: Pentcheff, N. D.
name: Zimmer, R. K.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2000

description: The spiny lobster Panulirus argus is a model organism in laboratory studies of olfaction, but Little is known about how these animals use odor cues in the field. Juvenile spiny lobsters aggregate in dens, a behavior that may be mediated via chemical attraction to conspecific odor cues. To test this hypothesis, we developed a submersible system capable of perfusing odors of live spiny lobsters into experimental den sites within a natural reef setting. Using this system, we tested the effect of conspecific odor on aggregative behavior by measuring the frequency of attraction of lobsters to den sites perfused with either conspecific odor or natural seawater. We found that juvenile spiny lobsters were attracted preferentially to dens perfused with conspecific odor: scented dens captured an average of 2.0 lobsters den(-1) k(-1) and control dens captured an average of 0.60 lobsters den(-1) wk(-1). However, the distribution of the numbers of lobsters attracted to dens each day did not depart significantly from that predicted by a Poisson distribution, indicating that each capture was independent of all others. Our data thus suggest that the odor of conspecifics can act as an aggregation cue by spiny lobsters under field conditions, even in the absence of other sensory cues.
Supplementary Methods and Tables S1 from New Caledonian crows infer the weight of objects from observing their movements in a breeze
Creators: name: Jelbert, Sarah A.
name: Miller, Rachael
name: Schiestl, Martina
name: Boeckle, Markus
name: Cheke, Lucy G.
name: Gray, Russell D.
name: Taylor, Alex H.
name: Clayton, Nicola S.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 170299 Cognitive Science not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Description of the handling phase pre-test. Table with subject information.
title: Plan: Gulf Reston, Inc "Reston Master Plan," ca 1971
Creators: name: Gulf Reston, Inc.
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Reston (Va.)

description: Textual: plan, original; 22” x 17" (55.9 cm x 43.2 cm)
description: Plan created by Gulf Reston, Inc. entitled "Reston Master Plan" dated circa 1971. This is the master plan for Reston Virginia. The plan is in color. The plan shows major roads, population density, and public buildings that have been planned for Reston. It also includes several images from Reston. Planned Community Archives Collection, rm01.16
title: Comparing and Prioritizing Aircraft Requests in the Brazilian Air Force
Creators: name: D'Amato, Alessandro Sorgini
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Utility
subject: Value focused thinking
subject: Strategic
subject: Air force
subject: Value
subject: Affinity

description: Brazil is a huge country with vast natural reserves, mainly located in the Amazon region and the South Atlantic. In the last decade its economic growth and increasing importance in the global stage, have motivated Defense policies focused on the enhancement and strengthening of the Brazilian Armed Forces‘ operational capabilities. In the Brazilian Air Force (BAF), these policies are reflected mainly by the acquisition of new aircraft systems, which must be carefully selected according to the specific tasks and scenarios expected to be faced in the future. Hence, it is mandatory for the BAF to identify the required capabilities needed to accomplish the strategic objectives of the organization. The main purpose of this research is to develop a model composed of both a qualitative and a quantitative component, capable to function as a tool to compare how well different aircraft systems contribute to the accomplishment of the BAF‘s objectives and help decision makers to rank alternatives and define priorities among them.
title: Student Transition Empowerment Program: Discovering Trends on First-Generation Latino/a College Students
Creators: name: Yanez, George
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: First-generation
subject: Retention
subject: Summer bridge program
subject: Latino/a

description: This thesis describes the effect of the Student Transition Empowerment Program (STEP), a summer bridge program at George Mason University during the summer of 2014. Research is done in a case-study format, collecting interview data from six first-generational Latino/a college students participating in the program. The data is collected over the course of three interviews per participant, starting at the beginning of the program, the end of the program, and within the middle of their first semester. In the process of researching and writing this thesis, the author conducted a literature search and reviews research about summer bridge programs and mentoring relationships, highlighting trends from the literature to themes discovered through interviewing the participants. This thesis is slated to be a reference and resource for higher education institutions conducting their summer bridge programs in order to gauge the early effects on first-generation college students.
Responses of phytoplankton and Pfiesteria-like dinoflagellate zoospores to nutrient enrichment in the Neuse River Estuary, North Carolina, USA
Creators: name: Pinckney, James L.
name: Paerl, Hans W.
name: Haugen, Elin
name: Tester, Patricia A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2000

description: The recently described toxic dinoflagellate Pfiesteria piscicida and morphologically similar Pfiesteria-like dinoflagellates have become a major water quality issue with possible fish mortality and reported human health implications. The linkages between accelerated nutrient loading, eutrophication, and the proliferation of this group of dinoflagellates, however, are not well established for natural systems. Phytoplankton primary production may provide a key link between nutrient inputs and potential outbreaks of Pfiesteria-like biflagellated zoospores in the Neuse River Estuary, North Carolina. The impacts of nutrient (NO3--nitrogen and PO43--phosphorus) supply rates, sediment-water column exchange, water column mixing, and phytoplankton prey on the abundance of Pfiesteria-like non-toxic biflagellated zoospores were examined seasonally over 18 mo in a region of the Neuse River Estuary where fish-kills attributed to P. piscicida have been reported. Phytoplankton community responses to the manipulated variables indicated that biomass and productivity were consistently N limited. Dominant phytoplankton taxa, including chlorophytes, diatoms, and cyanobacteria, exhibited significant biomass increases in response to N (as NO3-) additions. Phosphate (as PO43-) enrichments did not additionally influence the relative growth and abundance of individual algal groups. Pfiesteria-like zoospores did not exhibit significant increases in abundance in response to mixing, sediment, or nutrient-addition treatments. Seasonally, the number of Pfiesteria-like zoospores was positively correlated with phytoplankton biomass and productivity. The abundance of Pfiesteria-like zoospores followed general trends in phytoplankton biomass and production in the estuary, suggesting that the source of organic nutrition supporting growth is likely phytoplankton based. Lowering of phytoplankton growth and bloom potentials through proposed nutrient-input reduction strategies should translate into broad-based water quality improvement, including declines in the frequency and magnitudes of nuisance algal blooms, O2depletion, and associated fish and shellfish mortality in the Neuse River Estuary.
Competition between juvenile striped bass and bluefish: resource partitioning and growth rate
Creators: name: Buckel, Jeffrey A.
name: McKown, Kim A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2002

description: ABSTRACT: The potential for competition to influence the population dynamics of bluefish Pomatomus saltatrix and striped bass Morone saxatilis through interactions at the juvenile stage was examined. Habitat and diet utilization were compared between juvenile striped bass and bluefish in 3 New York Bight marine embayments. Juvenile bluefish and striped bass were seldom captured together during the summer and early fall, suggesting low habitat overlap at the scale of a beach seine haul. Diet overlap was also low; age-0 bluefish (spring- and summer-spawned cohorts) had a more piscivorous diet than age-0 and age-1 striped bass. A 60d laboratory growth experiment tested for interference competition between age-0 bluefish (spring-spawned) and age-1 striped bass fed fish prey in mixed- and single-species treatments. In the growth experiment, bluefish grew significantly faster than striped bass; however, within a species, there was no significant difference in growth between the mixed- and single-species treatments. Additionally, long-term field-monitoring data showed that annual estimates of growth rate for bluefish and striped bass were not correlated with annual estimates of their potential competitor’s density. These field and laboratory data provide no evidence for competitive interactions between juvenile striped bass and bluefish.
R-Invariant Topological Inflation
Creators: name: Izawa, K. -I.
name: Kawasaki, M.
name: Yanagida, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a topological inflation model in the framework of supergravity with $R$ invariance. This topological inflation model is not only free from the initial value problem of the inflaton field but also gives low reheating temperature which is favored in supergravity since the overproduction of gravitinos is avoided. Furthermore, the predicted spectrum of the density fluctuations is generally tilted, which will be tested by future observations on CMB anisotropies and large scale structure of the universe.
description: 7pages (RevTeX file)
Hafellia fraudans Pusswald
Creators: name: R, Jeanne dos
name: Silva, eis
name: Aptroot, André
name: E, Marcela
name: S, ugenia da
name: Cáceres, ilva
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Ascomycota
Lecanoromycetes
Caliciales
Caliciaceae
Hafellia
Hafellia fraudans

description: Hafellia fraudans (Starbäck) Pusswald
NEW REPORT. — Parque Nacional de Brasília, on bark, leg. J.A.R. Silva, ISE 53000. New to Distríto Federal.
description: Published as part of R, Jeanne dos, Silva, eis, Aptroot, André, E, Marcela, S, ugenia da & Cáceres, ilva, 2023, Lichens from dry central Brazil: a checklist of lichenized fungi from Distríto Federal and Goiás, pp. 117-133 in Cryptogamie, Mycologie 20 (9) on page 120, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-mycologie2023v44a9, http://zenodo.org/record/8434271
Top tagging : an analytical perspective
Creators: name: Dasgupta, Mrinal
name: Guzzi, Marco
name: Rawling, Jacob
name: Soyez, Gregory
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we study aspects of top tagging from first principles of QCD. We find that the method known as the CMS top tagger becomes collinear unsafe at high $p_t$ and propose variants thereof which are IRC safe, and hence suitable for analytical studies, while giving a comparable performance to the CMS tagger. We also develop new techniques to identify three-pronged jet substructure, based on adaptations of the Y-splitter method and its combination with grooming. A novel feature of our studies, relative to previous calculations of two-pronged substructure, is our use of triple-collinear splitting functions, which owes to the presence of two mass scales of the same order, $m_t$ and $m_W$, in the signal jet. We carry out leading logarithmic resummed calculations for the various top-taggers, for both background and signal jets, and compare the results to those from parton showers. We also identify and comment on the main features driving tagger performance at high $p_t$ and discuss the role of non-perturbative effects.
description: 51 pages, 15 figures
The Infrared Behavior of One-Loop QCD Amplitudes at Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order
Creators: name: Bern, Z.
name: Del Duca, V.
name: Kilgore, W. B.
name: Schmidt, C. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present universal factorization formulas describing the behavior of one-loop QCD amplitudes as external momenta become either soft or collinear. Our results are valid to all orders in the dimensional regularization parameter, $\eps$. Terms through $\Ord(\eps^2)$ can contribute in infrared divergent phase space integrals associated with next-to-next-to-leading order jet cross-sections.
description: Latex, 39 pages, normalization corrected in eq. (3.7)
Effect of diel and interday variations in light on the cell division pattern and in situ growth rates of the bloom-forming dinoflagellate Heterocapsa triquetra
Creators: name: Tester, P. A.
name: Duke, C. S.
name: Kenney, B. E.
name: Ramus, J.
name: Litaker, R. Wayne
name: Warner, V. E.
name: Rhyne, C.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2002

description: Heterocapsa triquetra is an important bloom-forming dinoflagellate found in estuaries and nearshore regions worldwide. In an initial time-intensive study, the shallow, tidally mixed New- port River estuary, North Carolina, USA, was sampled from a fixed point located in the middle of the estuary every 2 h for 2 wk during the development of an H. triquetra bloom. The objective of this study was to investigate how short-term, high-frequency changes in temperature, light and salinity affected diel and interday cell division patterns and in situ growth rates of H. triquetra. During this study, phytoplankton samples were preserved in buffered formaldehyde and mitotic indices deter- mined by acridine orange staining. The diel division pattern showed a nocturnal maximum between 23:00 and 05:00 h with reduced division during the day, a pattern characteristic of most dinoflagel- lates. The relative proportion of binucleate cells present during the day was influenced by interday variations in total irradiance, increasing during 2 of the 3 periods when there were 3 or more consec- utive high light days (>28 E m-2 d-1). Approximately 40% of the overall variation in interday division rates could be accounted for by differences in daily irradiance. The interday light differences were largely due to well-developed atmospheric frontal systems that brought increased cloud cover to the study area at regular 3 to 4 d intervals. The initial study, however, was of insufficient length to deter- mine if the transient day-to-day light limitation could significantly affect seasonal bloom formation. A second longer-term, spatially intensive study was therefore undertaken to assess the relative impor- tance of the incident light levels and nutrient inputs in controlling H. triquetra bloom initiation. Dur- ing the second study, the estuary was monitored for photosynthetically active radiation (PAR), salin- ity, temperature, inorganic nutrients and cell densities of H. triquetra at 9 locations every wk from 23 December 1997 to 27 March 1998. Maximal H. triquetra bloom formation occurred during a 2 wk period when daily incident light levels were at or near the annual low. This suggested that H. triquet- ra is well adapted for utilizing low light levels and that variation in in situ growth rates in response to daily changes in PAR had little effect on bloom development. Instead, bloom initiation began with inputs of nitrogen-rich water following a runoff event, indicating that nutrient inputs are much more important in controlling bloom development than is light.
title: Letter: Norman L. Collton to C. Harrison Mann, Jr., December 15, 1967
Creators: name: Collton, Norman L.
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Driver's licenses
subject: Traffic

description: Letter: typescript signed, 11" x 8.5" (29.7 cm x 21.6 cm)
description: Letter from Norman L. Collton to C. Harrison Mann, Jr. regarding several suggestions for improved traffic safety and driver's license renewal. C. Harrison Mann, Jr. Collection 1.27
Estimating the spatial extent of bottom-water hypoxia and habitat degradation in a shallow estuary
Creators: name: Pinckney, James L.
name: Buzzelli, Christopher P.
name: McNinch, Jesse E.
name: Luettich Jr., Richard A.
name: Powers, Sean P.
name: Paerl, Hans W.
name: Peterson, Charles H.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2002

description: Bottom-water hypoxia (<2 mg l-1dissolved oxygen [DO]) greatly modifies the benthic habitat of estuaries, depending upon spatial extent, duration, and frequency. Bottom-water hypoxia often develops under conditions of density stratification, which inhibits vertical mixing, and warm temperatures, which enhance biological oxygen demand. Long-term, mid-channel data from the Neuse River Estuary in North Carolina permitted evaluation of how stratification and temperature combined to affect DO concentrations at the bottom. Salinity stratification (ΔS) and water temperature (T) explained respectively 30 and 23 % of the variance in bottom-water DO concentrations. The amount of salinity stratification required to induce bottom-water hypoxia declined with increasing water temperature. About 80 % of observed hydrographic profiles exhibited bottom hypoxia when AS exceeded 5 psu and T exceeded 20°C. Using cross-channel hydrographic surveys as verification, we derived a general set of methods to estimate the lateral extent of low-DO bottom water from mid-channel hydrographic profiles. The method involves cross-estuary and along-estuary extrapolation based on assumption of a flat oxycline. Occasional violation of this assumption resulted in modest overestimation in cross-channel extent of low DO, Application of this method produced estimates ranging from 0 to 116 km2of bottom area (0 to 42% of the estuarine study area) exposed to hypoxia over all sample dates in summer 1997. The maximal bottom area exposed to hypoxia corresponded closely with an independent estimate of the area (100 km2) that experienced almost complete mortality of Macoma spp. clams, the key benthic resource for demersal fishes and crabs. Consequently, mid-channel hydrographic profiles taken along the mid-channel of the estuary can be employed to assess the spatial scale of bottom habitat degradation due to hypoxia.
title: Uwarunkowania rozwoju dobrowolnych programów emerytalnych
title: Perspektywa makro- i mikroekonomiczna
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Marcinkiewicz, Edyta
Publisher: name: Wydawnictwo Politechniki Łódzkiej
Year: 2018

description: W ostatnich trzech dekadach jest obserwowana fala reform systemów emerytalnych przeprowadzanych w wielu krajach. Jedną z ich głównych przyczyn są trendy demograficzne, zarówno korzystne, takie jak wydłużający się średni
czas trwania życia, jak i negatywne, tj. obniżające się wskaźniki dzietności. Zmiany te rzutują na proporcje między pokoleniem emerytów a pokoleniem pracującym. Problem starzejących się społeczeństw dotyka szczególnie kraje
europejskie. Według danych Eurostatu obecnie średnio w krajach UE na 100 osób w wieku 15-64 lat przypada 28 osób w wieku 65+, zaś prognozuje się, że w 2060 roku ta relacja wyniesie odpowiednio 100 do 52. Największy relatywny przyrost
liczby emerytów jest oczekiwany dla takich krajów jak Słowacja i Polska, w których prognozuje się prawie 3-krotny wzrost.
New closures for more precise modeling of Landau damping in the fluid framework
Creators: name: Hunana, P.
name: Zank, G. P.
name: Laurenza, M.
name: Tenerani, A.
name: Webb, G. M.
name: Goldstein, M. L.
name: Velli, M.
name: Adhikari, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Incorporation of kinetic effects such as Landau damping into a fluid framework was pioneered by Hammett and Perkins PRL 1990, by obtaining closures of the fluid hierarchy, where the gyrotropic heat flux fluctuations or the deviation of the 4th-order gyrotropic fluid moment, are expressed through lower-order fluid moments. To obtain a closure of a fluid model expanded around a bi-Maxwellian distribution function, the usual plasma dispersion function $Z(ζ)$ that appears in kinetic theory or the associated plasma response function $R(ζ)=1 + ζZ(ζ)$, have to be approximated with a suitable Padé approximant in such a way, that the closure is valid for all $ζ$ values. Such closures are rare, and the original closures of Hammett and Perkins are often employed. Here we present a complete mapping of all plausible Landau fluid closures that can be constructed at the level of 4th-order moments in the gyrotropic limit and we identify the most precise closures. Furthermore, by considering 1D closures at higher-order moments, we show that it is possible to reproduce linear Landau damping in the fluid framework to any desired precision, thus showing convergence of the fluid and collisionless kinetic descriptions.
description: Phys. Rev. Lett
No sign of denitrification in a Baltic Sea cyanobacterial bloom
Creators: name: Moisander, Pia H.
name: Tuominen, Liisa
name: Hietanen, Susanna
name: Kuparinen, Jorma
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2002

description: ABSTRACT: Denitrification in sediments is of major importance to the Baltic Sea nitrogen (N) budget. However, little is known about denitrification in the water column in the Baltic. We tested whether denitrification could be active in pelagic cyanobacterial aggregates, commonly found in the Baltic Sea during warm summer months. In these aggregates, anoxic microniches may form. Such microzones suggest a possibility for anaerobic processes, such as denitrification by the heterotrophic bacteria associated with the cyanobacteria. Denitrification and nitrogen (N₂) fixation in a cyanobacterial bloom were measured on a 3 wk cruise in the Baltic Sea in order to determine whether the Baltic Sea cyanobacterial blooms act as sources or sinks of N. Experimental conditions analogous to formation of anoxic microniches within cyanobacterial aggregates did not activate the denitrification process, even when anoxic conditions prevailed for several hours. Only in 3 cases was denitrification, measured using the 15N-isotope pairing method, detectable, giving rates of 0.8 to 1.8 nmol N₂ l–1 h–1. Nitrogen fixation, determined using the acetylene reduction assay, varied from 0.03 to 1.85 μmol N₂ l–1 h–1. According to this study, the blooms of N₂-fixing cyanobacteria in the Baltic Sea must be seen solely as sources, not sinks for N in the marine pelagic environment.