cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The proliferation of small arms and light weapons in internal conflict: The challenge of human security in Nigeria
Creators: name: Abubakar, Jennifer Douglas
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: At the end of the Cold War, a surplus of small arms and light weapons exacerbated civil unrest throughout the Third World. West Africa has been particularly susceptible to this unfortunate situation. This research applied a human-interest approach in analyzing small-arms proliferation by examining perceived threats to human security rather than focusing on state security. The study was conducted within the most populous West African country of Nigeria with concentration on the religious, subcultural, and modernization issues facing the country. The uneven distribution of power and disenfranchisement of specific ethnic groups that fuel the sense of insecurity and civil strife are a collective focus of the investigation. This study examines the effects of demand-side dynamics upon militarization in civil conflict. The relatively new nature of the approach and dearth of related literature are also discussed. Data for the case studies were collected using the following three techniques: (1) initial field interviews with key informants, (2) detailed interviews conducted in both a structured and unstructured manner through focus-group discussions, and (3) field visits to conflict zones. Data analysis involved the classification of data into thematic domains that included the identification of sentinel encounters, episodes or practices precipitating violent conflict that led to small-arms proliferation, and the subsequent militarization of conflict. This study discusses organizations, groups, and subcultures, as well as the relationships among them that influence conflict. Information relevant to policy making is presented by providing a groundbreaking, in-depth analysis of internecine conflict within Nigeria. The findings of this research will provide policy makers with strategic options for containing the problem of arms proliferation effectively, and recommendations are made toward concrete measures for reducing its spread within Nigeria and the balance of West Africa.
Nesocyrtosoma hadratum Doyen and Poinar 1994
Creators: name: Hopp, Katie J.
name: Ivie, Michael A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Tenebrionidae
Nesocyrtosoma
Nesocyrtosoma hadratum

description: { Nesocyrtosoma hadratum Doyen and Poinar
 { Nesocyrtosoma hadratum Doyen and Poinar 1994: 46–47; Arillo and Ortuño 2005: 22; Perez-Gelabert 2008: 115.
 { Nesocyrtoma hadratum Perez-Gelabert 1999: 31 [lapsus calami].
 Type Material Examined. HOLOTYPE: Nesocyrtosoma; hadratum; Doyen and Poinar; HOLOTYPE. (GOPC).
 Diagnosis. This species can be distinguished from all other fossil species by its stouter, more convex body, and the pronotum continuously and strongly narrowed from base to apex.
 Description. See Doyen and Poinar (1994).
 Notes. This species is not redescribed because the fossil specimen is intersected by a fracture which opened during study and was repaired. The head is bent forward and nearly impossible to see; the pigment of the cuticle of the fossil is divided into irregular polygonal fragments obscuring surface detail, and the venter, including mouthparts, is obscured by a reflective layer of air and by clouded regions in the amber, thus making the specimen impossible to describe in any further detail than already described by Doyen and Poinar (1994).
description: Published as part of Hopp, Katie J. & Ivie, Michael A., 2009, A Revision Of The West Indian Genus Nesocyrtosoma Marcuzzi (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae), pp. 1-138 in The Coleopterists Bulletin (mo 8) (mo 8) 63 on page 79, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065x-63.sp8.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4912135
Have Middle-Class Earnings Risen in Canada? A Statistical Inference Approach
Creators: name: Beach, Charles
name: Beach, Charles
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: Financial Economics

description: This paper extends the statistical inference approach developed in Beach (2016) to look at income changes over different regions of an income distribution. Specifically, it looks at relative-mean earnings (RME) ratios and mean earnings levels for lower earners, middle-class (MC) workers and higher earners in Canada since 1970. Formulas are developed for (asymptotic) standard errors of these distributional statistics. The most consistent pattern since 1980 has been the marked decline in RME for MC workers, which has been highly statistically significant. Since 2005, however, real earnings levels have increased significantly and have been broadly shared across these earnings groups.
The Edge of the Galaxy
Creators: name: Deason, Alis J.
name: Fattahi, Azadeh
name: Frenk, Carlos S.
name: Grand, Robert J. J.
name: Oman, Kyle A.
name: Garrison-Kimmel, Shea
name: Simpson, Christine M.
name: Navarro, Julio F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use cosmological simulations of isolated Milky Way-mass galaxies, as well as Local Group analogues, to define the "edge" -- a caustic manifested in a drop in density or radial velocity -- of Galactic-sized haloes, both in dark matter and in stars. In the dark matter, we typically identify two caustics: the outermost caustic located at ~1.4r_200m corresponding to the "splashback" radius, and a second caustic located at ~0.6r_200m which likely corresponds to the edge of the virialized material which has completed at least two pericentric passages. The splashback radius is ill defined in Local Group type environments where the halos of the two galaxies overlap. However, the second caustic is less affected by the presence of a companion, and is a more useful definition for the boundary of the Milky Way halo. Curiously, the stellar distribution also has a clearly defined caustic, which, in most cases, coincides with the second caustic of the dark matter. This can be identified in both radial density and radial velocity profiles, and should be measurable in future observational programmes. Finally, we show that the second caustic can also be identified in the phase-space distribution of dwarf galaxies in the Local Group. Using the current dwarf galaxy population, we predict the edge of the Milky Way halo to be 292 +/- 61 kpc.
description: 14 pages, 11 figures. MNRAS in press
Microscopic description of anisotropic flow in relativistic heavy ion collisions
Creators: name: Zabrodin, E.
name: Bravina, L.
name: Fuchs, C.
name: Faessler, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Anisotropic flow of hadrons is studied in heavy ion collisions at SPS and RHIC energies within the microscopic quark-gluon string model. The model was found to reproduce correctly many of the flow features, e.g., the wiggle structure of direct flow of nucleons at midrapidity, or centrality, rapidity, and transverse momentum dependences of elliptic flow. Further predictions are made. The differences in the development of the anisotropic flow components are linked to the freeze-out conditions, which are quite different for baryons and mesons.
description: Proceedings of the Erice School on Nuclear Physics (Erice, Italy, September 16-24, 2003)
Additional file 3 of Impact of gender on post- traumatic intensive care and outcomes
Creators: name: Larsson, Emma
name: Ann-Charlotte Lindström
name: Eriksson, Mikael
name: Oldner, Anders
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3: Table S3. Associations between baseline and injury characteristics and 1-year mortality, unadjusted and adjusted HR (95% CI).
Testing the CVAR in the fractional CVAR model
Creators: name: Johansen, SÃÿren
name: ÃŸrregaard Nielsen, Morten
name: Johansen, SÃÿren
name: ÃŸrregaard Nielsen, Morten
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Cointegration
subject: fractional integration
subject: likelihood inference
subject: vector autoregressive model

description: We consider the fractional cointegrated vector autoregressive (CVAR) model of Johansen and Nielsen (2012a) and show that the likelihood ratio test statistic for the usual CVAR model is asymptotically chi-squared distributed. Because the usual CVAR model lies on the boundary of the parameter space for the fractional CVAR in Johansen and Nielsen (2012a), the analysis requires the study of the fractional CVAR model on a slightly larger parameter space so that the CVAR model lies in the interior. This in turn implies some further analysis of the asymptotic properties of the fractional CVAR model.
Additional file 2 of Living la Vida T-LoCoH: site fidelity of Florida ranched and wild white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) during the epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus (EHDV) transmission period
Creators: name: Dinh, Emily T. N.
name: Cauvin, Allison
name: Orange, Jeremy P.
name: Shuman, Rebecca M.
name: Wisely, Samantha M.
name: Blackburn, Jason K.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. Sample sizes for testing significant differences in revisitation and duration between groups.
Daily Share Price-changes for Eleven D-J Companies over Five Three-month Periods and Short-term Profit-seeking
Creators: name: Hartwick, John
name: Hartwick, John
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Financial Economics
subject: interest carrying-cost
subject: average share price changes

description: We link daily price-changes for 11 Dow-Jones companies for 5 three month periods to the prevailing interest rate. In "normal times", the in- terest carrying cost of owning a share exceeds average price change. In periods of high volatility (eg. August to November, 2008), average price change exceeds the interest carrying cost. We also observe considerable regularity across companies of volumes of shares traded per day and per- centage price changes. The intercept di¤ers across time periods (1995, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010). Larger volumes yield larger price changes, on average.
The proliferation of small arms and light weapons in internal conflict: The challenge of human security in Nigeria
Creators: name: Abubakar, Jennifer Douglas
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: At the end of the Cold War, a surplus of small arms and light weapons exacerbated civil unrest throughout the Third World. West Africa has been particularly susceptible to this unfortunate situation. This research applied a human-interest approach in analyzing small-arms proliferation by examining perceived threats to human security rather than focusing on state security. The study was conducted within the most populous West African country of Nigeria with concentration on the religious, subcultural, and modernization issues facing the country. The uneven distribution of power and disenfranchisement of specific ethnic groups that fuel the sense of insecurity and civil strife are a collective focus of the investigation. This study examines the effects of demand-side dynamics upon militarization in civil conflict. The relatively new nature of the approach and dearth of related literature are also discussed. Data for the case studies were collected using the following three techniques: (1) initial field interviews with key informants, (2) detailed interviews conducted in both a structured and unstructured manner through focus-group discussions, and (3) field visits to conflict zones. Data analysis involved the classification of data into thematic domains that included the identification of sentinel encounters, episodes or practices precipitating violent conflict that led to small-arms proliferation, and the subsequent militarization of conflict. This study discusses organizations, groups, and subcultures, as well as the relationships among them that influence conflict. Information relevant to policy making is presented by providing a groundbreaking, in-depth analysis of internecine conflict within Nigeria. The findings of this research will provide policy makers with strategic options for containing the problem of arms proliferation effectively, and recommendations are made toward concrete measures for reducing its spread within Nigeria and the balance of West Africa.
Novel Change of Measure Inequalities with Applications to PAC-Bayesian Bounds and Monte Carlo Estimation
Creators: name: Ohnishi, Yuki
name: Honorio, Jean
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We introduce several novel change of measure inequalities for two families of divergences: $f$-divergences and $α$-divergences. We show how the variational representation for $f$-divergences leads to novel change of measure inequalities. We also present a multiplicative change of measure inequality for $α$-divergences and a generalized version of Hammersley-Chapman-Robbins inequality. Finally, we present several applications of our change of measure inequalities, including PAC-Bayesian bounds for various classes of losses and non-asymptotic intervals for Monte Carlo estimates.
description: 20 pages
An economic investigation into the relationship between Food Stamp Program participation and obesity
Creators: name: Hinds, Camille D.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics
classificationCode: 3803
subject: Economic theory

description: This dissertation provides an economic analysis of the relationship between Food Stamp Program participation, fast food consumption, and the higher observed obesity prevalence among Food Stamp Program participants observed over the period 1988 to 1994. A theoretical model is developed to predict the role of Food Stamp Program benefits on participant weight levels through its affect on fast food consumption. A switching probit estimation framework is specified to test this theoretical prediction on three different specifications of the participant group and two different specifications of obesity on the sample of adults age 20 to 59 years. Results show that program participation positively affects fast food consumption for the average woman and reduces fast food consumption for the participating woman. Results also show that currently participating women who consume fast foods have an increased probability of being obese than current participants who do not consume fast foods.
Hylaeus (Hylaeana) knabi
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Hylaeus (Hylaeana) knabi (Cockerell, 1918)
[Type: USNM; ♂ Champerico, Guatemala; August 4, 1905]
Hylaeus knabi is native to Mexico; however, the distribution of this species remains poorly understood. We examined one male collected in Vizcaíno Desert in Sierra Placeres in March 1984 (CASC). See fig. 161.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 239, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
An economic investigation into the relationship between Food Stamp Program participation and obesity
Creators: name: Hinds, Camille D.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation provides an economic analysis of the relationship between Food Stamp Program participation, fast food consumption, and the higher observed obesity prevalence among Food Stamp Program participants observed over the period 1988 to 1994. A theoretical model is developed to predict the role of Food Stamp Program benefits on participant weight levels through its affect on fast food consumption. A switching probit estimation framework is specified to test this theoretical prediction on three different specifications of the participant group and two different specifications of obesity on the sample of adults age 20 to 59 years. Results show that program participation positively affects fast food consumption for the average woman and reduces fast food consumption for the participating woman. Results also show that currently participating women who consume fast foods have an increased probability of being obese than current participants who do not consume fast foods.
Analytical Evaluation of Dimensionally Regularized Massive On-Shell Double Boxes
Creators: name: Heinrich, G.
name: Smirnov, V. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The method of Mellin-Barnes representation is used to calculate dimensionally regularized massive on-shell double box Feynman diagrams contributing to Bhabha scattering at two loops.
description: 14 pages LaTeX, references updated, to appear in Phys. Lett. B
Inequality, Frictional Assignment and Home-ownership
Creators: name: Head, Allen
name: Lloyd-Ellis, Huw
name: Stacey, Derek
name: Head, Allen
name: Lloyd-Ellis, Huw
name: Stacey, Derek
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: House Prices
subject: Liquidity
subject: Search
subject: Income Inequality

description: A theory of the distribution of housing tenure in a city is developed. Het- erogeneous houses are built by a competitive development industry and either rented competitively or sold to households which dier in their income and sort over housing types through a directed search process. In the absence of either nancial or supply restrictions, higher income households are more likely to own and lower quality housing is more likely to be rented. The composition of the housing stock and the rate of home-ownership depend on the distribution of income, the age of the population and construction costs. When calibrated to match average features of housing markets within U.S. cities, observed dif- ferences in these variables account well for the variation observed across cities in home-ownership and the price-rent ratio. A policy designed to improve housing aordability signicantly raises home-ownership among lower income households while lowering the quality supplied to high income households.
Lost in the Cloud: An Autoethnodramatic Inquiry on Digital Identity and Human Connection
Creators: Collins, Rebecca
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

In this capstone project, I employ an arts-based research methodology to explore multifaceted aspects of digital citizenship as I have encountered them within the context of the social and educational sphere. My autoethnographic research takes the form of an autoethnodramatic play, drawing on my personal experiences and researcher-created poetry. The aim of this capstone project is to shed light on the intricate web of online belonging and its impact on educational environments.

Inspired by the format of the play Albertine in Five Times by Michel Tremblay (1984), I represent myself being online at three different stages in my life. Like Tremblay's (1984) work, there is a throughline character that exists within all stages of my life online. Albertine in Five Times takes place on the front porch of Albertine’s childhood home and her bed in a private room of a seniors home. Lost in the Cloud takes place within the cloud, a representation of the internet. The internet is a place I found security, home, and refuge from the age of 10 years old; arguably the internet is my childhood home.
Sex, sports, and hormones: A case for space?
Creators: name: Basil, Meredith E.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The present study explored biological and experiential factors contributing to individual differences in spatial ability by investigating performance differences relating to sex, athleticism, and 2D:AD ratios, a marker of fetal testosterone and estrogen levels, on allocentric and egocentric measures of spatial ability. Men were more accurate than women on a Shepard & Metzler-type mental rotation task and significantly faster when making right-left identifications of asymmetrical everyday objects (e.g., hands, shoes). There were no sex differences on the egocentric Semmes Body task, the body mental rotation task, or the Phonological and Semantic Verbal Fluency tasks. Men had significantly lower 2D:AD ratios than women, indicative of high fetal testosterone relative to low fetal estrogen. Among men, low 2D:AD ratios correlated with greater accuracy on the Right-Left Differentiation task, whereas high 2D:AD ratios (i.e., indicating low fetal testosterone relative to fetal estrogen) correlated with faster mental rotation speed, supporting assertions that fetal testosterone in the low male range is optimal for allocentric spatial ability. Among women, high 2D:AD ratios correlated with better performance on both verbal fluency tasks. While athletes were significantly more accurate when dealing with parts of their own bodies (Semmes Body task) and making right-left determinations, they were not better on either mental rotation task. Correlations between 2D:AD ratios and athletic achievement revealed that lower 2D:AD ratios correlated with a higher level of athletic achievement in both men and women. Our findings suggest that higher prenatal testosterone may be predictive of better athletic ability in both sexes and might be related to greater skill in activities requiring egocentric spatial transformations among men. Whether the improved spatial abilities are the result of increased athletic experiences or are aptitudes that lead individuals to pursue and excel in sports, remains for future investigation.
Hybrid-Liouvillian formalism connecting exceptional points of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians and Liouvillians via postselection of quantum trajectories
Creators: name: Minganti, Fabrizio
name: Miranowicz, Adam
name: Chhajlany, Ravindra W.
name: Arkhipov, Ievgen I.
name: Nori, Franco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Exceptional points (EPs) are degeneracies of classical and quantum open systems, which are studied in many areas of physics including optics, optoelectronics, plasmonics, and condensed matter physics. In the semiclassical regime, open systems can be described by phenomenological effective non-Hermitian Hamiltonians (NHHs) capturing the effects of gain and loss in terms of imaginary fields. The EPs that characterize the spectra of such Hamiltonians (HEPs) describe the time evolution of a system without quantum jumps. It is well known that a full quantum treatment describing more generic dynamics must crucially take into account such quantum jumps. In a recent paper [F. Minganti $et$ $al.$, Phys. Rev. A $\mathbf{100}$, $062131$ ($2019$)], we generalized the notion of EPs to the spectra of Liouvillian superoperators governing open system dynamics described by Lindblad master equations. Intriguingly, we found that in situations where a classical-to-quantum correspondence exists, the two types of dynamics can yield different EPs. In a recent experimental work [M. Naghiloo $et$ $al.$, Nat. Phys. $\mathbf{15}$, $1232$ ($2019$)], it was shown that one can engineer a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian in the quantum limit by postselecting on certain quantum jump trajectories. This raises an interesting question concerning the relation between Hamiltonian and Lindbladian EPs, and quantum trajectories. We discuss these connections by introducing a hybrid-Liouvillian superoperator, capable of describing the passage from an NHH (when one postselects only those trajectories without quantum jumps) to a true Liouvillian including quantum jumps (without postselection). Beyond its fundamental interest, our approach allows to intuitively relate the effects of postselection and finite-efficiency detectors.
description: 16 pages, 6 figures
Sex, sports, and hormones: A case for space?
Creators: name: Basil, Meredith E.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 5204
subject: Cognitive and computational psychology

description: The present study explored biological and experiential factors contributing to individual differences in spatial ability by investigating performance differences relating to sex, athleticism, and 2D:AD ratios, a marker of fetal testosterone and estrogen levels, on allocentric and egocentric measures of spatial ability. Men were more accurate than women on a Shepard & Metzler-type mental rotation task and significantly faster when making right-left identifications of asymmetrical everyday objects (e.g., hands, shoes). There were no sex differences on the egocentric Semmes Body task, the body mental rotation task, or the Phonological and Semantic Verbal Fluency tasks. Men had significantly lower 2D:AD ratios than women, indicative of high fetal testosterone relative to low fetal estrogen. Among men, low 2D:AD ratios correlated with greater accuracy on the Right-Left Differentiation task, whereas high 2D:AD ratios (i.e., indicating low fetal testosterone relative to fetal estrogen) correlated with faster mental rotation speed, supporting assertions that fetal testosterone in the low male range is optimal for allocentric spatial ability. Among women, high 2D:AD ratios correlated with better performance on both verbal fluency tasks. While athletes were significantly more accurate when dealing with parts of their own bodies (Semmes Body task) and making right-left determinations, they were not better on either mental rotation task. Correlations between 2D:AD ratios and athletic achievement revealed that lower 2D:AD ratios correlated with a higher level of athletic achievement in both men and women. Our findings suggest that higher prenatal testosterone may be predictive of better athletic ability in both sexes and might be related to greater skill in activities requiring egocentric spatial transformations among men. Whether the improved spatial abilities are the result of increased athletic experiences or are aptitudes that lead individuals to pursue and excel in sports, remains for future investigation.
Additional file 2 of Impact of gender on post- traumatic intensive care and outcomes
Creators: name: Larsson, Emma
name: Ann-Charlotte Lindström
name: Eriksson, Mikael
name: Oldner, Anders
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. Associations between baseline and injury characteristics and 30-day mortality, unadjusted and adjusted HR (95% CI).
Gender differences in psychological responsibility for children
Creators: name: Bodnar, Laura Elizabeth
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 5203
subject: Clinical and health psychology

description: This study conceptualized and investigated the construct of psychological responsibility for children. Psychological responsibility was defined as the anticipation of and cognitive planning for the child's needs, the ongoing awareness of the child and his/her needs as a priority, and the feeling of primary commitment to the child if other systems of support fail. Survey data from 114 parents (57 mother-father dyads) was used to examine gender differences in feelings of psychological responsibility, as well as variables that impact maternal feelings of psychological responsibility and paternal involvement in childcare. Evidence is provided in support of the conceptualization of psychological responsibility as distinct from direct childcare responsibilities. In addition, findings indicated gender differences in both levels and content of psychological responsibilities for children. Variables including maternal belief in sex differences in parenting abilities, maternal feelings regarding paternal caregiving competence, and maternal self-identity were found to impact maternal feelings of psychological responsibility. Finally, maternal feelings of psychological responsibility and paternal hours of employment were found to be predictive of paternal involvement in the direct care of young children. Implications for coparenting and paternal involvement with children are discussed.
Gender differences in psychological responsibility for children
Creators: name: Bodnar, Laura Elizabeth
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This study conceptualized and investigated the construct of psychological responsibility for children. Psychological responsibility was defined as the anticipation of and cognitive planning for the child's needs, the ongoing awareness of the child and his/her needs as a priority, and the feeling of primary commitment to the child if other systems of support fail. Survey data from 114 parents (57 mother-father dyads) was used to examine gender differences in feelings of psychological responsibility, as well as variables that impact maternal feelings of psychological responsibility and paternal involvement in childcare. Evidence is provided in support of the conceptualization of psychological responsibility as distinct from direct childcare responsibilities. In addition, findings indicated gender differences in both levels and content of psychological responsibilities for children. Variables including maternal belief in sex differences in parenting abilities, maternal feelings regarding paternal caregiving competence, and maternal self-identity were found to impact maternal feelings of psychological responsibility. Finally, maternal feelings of psychological responsibility and paternal hours of employment were found to be predictive of paternal involvement in the direct care of young children. Implications for coparenting and paternal involvement with children are discussed.
Superposition
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Superposition, Superimposition, Kunst und Raum, Workshop

description: Der letzte IPCC Bericht, Hannah Höchs Küchenmesser, Ljubow Popowas Malerei und Film-Narrationen von Maya Deren bis David Lynch teilen eine grundlegende Skepsis gegenüber linearer Zeit. Wer heute noch an Fortschritt als gleichmäßigen, unabhängigen Fluß synchron tickender Uhrwerke glaubt, wird dieser Tage nachdrücklich eines Besseren belehrt – entweder von den Naturwissenschaften oder von Christopher Nolens Versuch das Kino mit invertierten Filmplots zu retten. „If we could stand outside the world, we would see the present affecting the past.“ Das Ende der linearen Zeit wird räumlich markiert durch holographische Prinzipien in der Quantengravitation und die nahenden Kippelemente beschleunigter Klimaerwärmung in der Erdsystemforschung. Anstatt Fortschrittsglauben durch einen ebenso bequemen Glauben an den unausweichlichen Untergang zu ersetzen sehen wir den Raum als simultane Superposition paralleler Möglichkeiten. „Step one: Look around you. Step two: find the set of all possible histories that end up as a universe like the one you see. Step three: add them together and create a history for yourself.“
Blockchain-based Settlement for Asset Trading
Creators: name: Chiu, Jonathan
name: Koeppl, Thorsten
name: Chiu, Jonathan
name: Koeppl, Thorsten
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Securities Settlement
subject: Blockchain
subject: Block Size
subject: Block Time
subject: Transaction Fees
subject: Club Good

description: Can securities be settled on a blockchain and, if so, what are the gains relative to existing settlement systems? We consider a blockchain that ensures delivery-vs-payment by linking transfers of assets with payments and operates via a Proof-of-Work protocol. The main problem is to overcome settlement fails where participants fork the chain to get rid of trading losses. To deter forking, the blockchain needs to restrict block size and block time in order to generate sucient transaction fees which nance costly mining. We show that large enough trading volume, suciently strong preferences for fast settlement and limited trade size and risk are necessary conditions for blockchain-based settlement to be feasible. Despite mining being a deadweight cost, our estimates based on the market for US corporate debt show that gains from moving to faster and more exible settlement are in the range of 1-4 bps relative to existing legacy settlement systems.
Three essays on the effects of taxation on corporate financial policy
Creators: name: Contos, George
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation is composed of three essays aimed at examining the effects that the existing United States tax system has on the financial decisions made by firms. Corporate revenues are currently subject to double taxation. Profits are taxed first on the corporate level and then, when distributed as dividends or when capital gains are realized, taxed a second time on the individual level. Critics argue that the current tax system discourages business entities from organizing as taxable corporations and encourages corporations to veer from socially efficient decisions (Scholes et al. 2005, 336). The deductibility of interest expenses allowed by the tax system creates an incentive for corporations, when raising capital, to use debt instead of equity. Using confidential firm-level U.S. corporate tax return data this thesis studies how the deductibility of interest expenses affects the capital structure of taxable corporations. The first essay tests for the relation between a firm's tax status and its cumulative debt policy using data from a panel of corporate tax returns for the 8-year period form 1993 to 2000. The essay provides evidence of a positive relation between the debt-to-asset ratio and the tax status proxy for firms of all sizes. The second essay tests for the effects of taxation on the financial policy of closely held corporations by taking advantage of a number of legislative acts that affected the tax treatment of both taxable and S corporations. Using a difference-in-difference approach the work provides significant evidence that corporate taxation affects the financial policy of closely held taxable corporations. Finally, the third essay uses tax return data for the 1993 to 2002 period to estimate the amount of additional debt issued by firms due to taxation. Using two different tax incentive proxies, the work presents evidence that an increase in the marginal tax rate of taxable corporations by one percentage point will lead to, depending on the proxy for the tax incentive used, an increase in the growth rate of the interest paid deduction of 2 to 15 percent yearly.
Three essays on the effects of taxation on corporate financial policy
Creators: name: Contos, George
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics

description: This dissertation is composed of three essays aimed at examining the effects that the existing United States tax system has on the financial decisions made by firms. Corporate revenues are currently subject to double taxation. Profits are taxed first on the corporate level and then, when distributed as dividends or when capital gains are realized, taxed a second time on the individual level. Critics argue that the current tax system discourages business entities from organizing as taxable corporations and encourages corporations to veer from socially efficient decisions (Scholes et al. 2005, 336). The deductibility of interest expenses allowed by the tax system creates an incentive for corporations, when raising capital, to use debt instead of equity. Using confidential firm-level U.S. corporate tax return data this thesis studies how the deductibility of interest expenses affects the capital structure of taxable corporations. The first essay tests for the relation between a firm's tax status and its cumulative debt policy using data from a panel of corporate tax returns for the 8-year period form 1993 to 2000. The essay provides evidence of a positive relation between the debt-to-asset ratio and the tax status proxy for firms of all sizes. The second essay tests for the effects of taxation on the financial policy of closely held corporations by taking advantage of a number of legislative acts that affected the tax treatment of both taxable and S corporations. Using a difference-in-difference approach the work provides significant evidence that corporate taxation affects the financial policy of closely held taxable corporations. Finally, the third essay uses tax return data for the 1993 to 2002 period to estimate the amount of additional debt issued by firms due to taxation. Using two different tax incentive proxies, the work presents evidence that an increase in the marginal tax rate of taxable corporations by one percentage point will lead to, depending on the proxy for the tax incentive used, an increase in the growth rate of the interest paid deduction of 2 to 15 percent yearly.
Trade and Convergence Among Countries
Creators: name: Ben-David, Dan
name: Ben-David, Dan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1995
Subjects: Financial Economics
International Relations/Trade

description: This paper examines the relationship between international trade and income convergence among countries by focusing on groups of countries comprising major trade partners. The majority of these trade-based groups ex hibited significant convergence. Furthermore, a comparison of the tradebased groups with different country groupings (randomly selected, or according to other criteria) shows that the former were more likely to exhibit convergence than the latter.
Hylaeus (Hylaeana) panamensis Michener 1954
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Hylaeus (Hylaeana) panamensis Michener, 1954
[Holotype: AMNH; ♂ El Valle de Antón, 731 mts elev., Coclé, Panama; June 5, 1945]
Hylaeus panamensis has been reported in BC and BCS (Cockerell 1924; Snelling 1968). We reviewed three specimens collected in the Central Desert, 11 in Vizcaíno Desert and 15 collected in the Gulf Coast vouchered in CASC (Supplementary material 1). Additionally, the BBPT collected six specimens from: Succulent Coastal Matorral in July 2020 (1 ♂), in the Gulf Coast (2 ♀), Vizcaíno Desert (1 ♂), and Central Desert (1 ♂) in March 2021, and in the Lower Colorado Desert in April 2022 (1 ♂). Voucher specimens are in MABC. See fig. 161.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 240, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Additional file 1 of Living la Vida T-LoCoH: site fidelity of Florida ranched and wild white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) during the epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus (EHDV) transmission period
Creators: name: Dinh, Emily T. N.
name: Cauvin, Allison
name: Orange, Jeremy P.
name: Shuman, Rebecca M.
name: Wisely, Samantha M.
name: Blackburn, Jason K.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Deer collared for this study. †30 Apr – 30 Oct = 183 days. ×Individuals excluded from home range behavior analysis. ^Individuals collared beyond 31 Oct 2017.
Nesocyrtosoma phthanatum Doyen and Poinar 1994
Creators: name: Hopp, Katie J.
name: Ivie, Michael A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Tenebrionidae
Nesocyrtosoma
Nesocyrtosoma phthanatum

description: { Nesocyrtosoma phthanatum Doyen and Poinar
(Fig. 257)
 { Nesocyrtosoma phthanatum Doyen and Poinar 1994: 46, 48, Fig. 28; Arillo and Ortuño 2005: 23; Perez-Gelabert 2008: 115.
 { Nesocyrtoma phthanatum Perez-Gelabert 1999: 31 [lapsus calami].
 Type Material Examined. HOLOTYPE: Nesocyrtosoma; phthanata; Doyen and Poinar; HOLOTYPE. (GOPC).
 Diagnosis. This species can be distinguished from all other fossil species by the uniform width of the pronotum and elytra until the apical 1/4 of the elytra tapered weakly to become more slender, the anterior angles of the pronotum very broadly rounded, weakly produced, and the lateral edges of the pronotum entirely straight to the apex.
 Redescription (modified from Doyen and Poinar 1994) (sex unknown). 6.7 mm long, 3.1 mm wide. Small, elongate oval, moderately convex (Fig. 257). Elytra shining green. Head densely punctate dorsally; largest punctures larger than a single eye facet, deeply impressed. Dorsal surface of pronotum densely punctate; punctures separated by 0.5–1.0 diameters. Pronotal marginal bead complete laterally, anterior margin with marginal bead effaced medially, posterior margin lacking marginal bead; anterior angles of pronotum nearly obtuse, weakly produced and widely rounded apically; lateral edge of pronotum straight to base; pronotum evenly convex (Fig. 257). Elytral striae deeply impressed, present as rows of small punctures with a deeply impressed line through the middle of the punctures; elytral interstriae roundly convex; scutellum triangular, normal (Fig. 257). All femora reaching past edge of elytra. Venter completely obscured by thick layer of amber.
description: Published as part of Hopp, Katie J. & Ivie, Michael A., 2009, A Revision Of The West Indian Genus Nesocyrtosoma Marcuzzi (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae), pp. 1-138 in The Coleopterists Bulletin (mo 8) (mo 8) 63 on pages 80-81, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065x-63.sp8.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4912135
Boundary lubrication with a glassy interface
Creators: name: Lemaître, Anaël
name: Carlson, Jean
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently introduced constitutive equations for the rheology of dense, disordered materials are investigated in the context of stick-slip experiments in boundary lubrication. The model is based on a generalization of the shear transformation zone (STZ) theory, in which plastic deformation is represented by a population of mesoscopic regions which may undergo non affine deformations in response to stress. The generalization we study phenomenologically incorporates the effects of aging and glassy relaxation. Under experimental conditions associated with typical transitions from stick-slip to steady sliding and stop start tests, these effects can be dominant, although the full STZ description is necessary to account for more complex, chaotic transitions.
Hylaeus (Paraprosopis) alocaspidus Snelling 1975
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Hylaeus (Paraprosopis) alocaspidus Snelling, 1975
Endemic
[Holotype: LACM; ♀ Punta Colnett, Baja California, Mexico; April 23, 1972]
Endemic to the Succulent Coastal Matorral, Hylaeus alocaspidus was described by Snelling (1975) with two females collected in Colonet, BC in April 1972. See fig. 162.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 241, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532