cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Judicial Activism and the Future of the World Trade Organization's Appellate Body
Creators: name: Beshkardana, Katayoon
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 48
subject: Law and legal studies
classificationCode: 4803
subject: International and comparative law

description: During the Uruguay Round of negotiations that led to the creation of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the United States advocated and supported the creation of the Appellate Body and a formalized dispute settlement mechanism. In the following years, the United States changed its position and became increasingly critical of the seven member standing Appellate Body. Although other WTO members shared some of the same concerns, it was the United States that blocked the appointments and reappointments of the Appellate Body members until it became impossible for the Appeals mechanism to function. The United States is of the view that the Appellate Body has exceeded its authority by engaging in “judicial activism.” This doctoral dissertation looks carefully at the criticism of the United States particularly (although not exclusively) in a series of anti-dumping cases addressing the U.S. use of zeroing methodology. It discusses the unique U.S. vision on the standard of review that has its origins in its domestic administrative law and doctrine of judicial deference. Although the zeroing reports are not the only cases where the United States criticizes the Appellate Body, they were a particular flash point for the relationship of the United States with the Appellate Body. The dissertation further examines the U.S. behavior towards the selection of the Appellate Body members in light of the dynamics of domestic politics and the nature of political influences in the appointment process. It concludes that the Appellate Body’s interpretive methodology is aligned with the customary rules of treaty interpretation as codified in the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties and applied in the jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice. It further concludes that the Appellate Body inherits an inevitable fragility when it conflicts with attributes of sovereignty. The institution is bound to fail on occasions of political interference with its judicial independence. Given that the consensus decision-making is integral to the structure of the Dispute Settlement Understanding (DSU) as a means to constrain the authority of the tribunal at this time any reform of the dispute settlement system will not be a long term or meaningful. Using the anti-fragility concept developed by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, this dissertation asserts that although the Appellate Body may be fragile, the jurisprudence it developed over more than two decades of its existence is “anti-fragile” and will continue to influence a rule based multilateral trading system.
4AirCRAFT D5.2 Communication, Dissemination and Awareness Plan
Creators: name: Gil, Vanesa
name: Bernad, Eduardo
name: Martinez, Marisa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Communication
Dissemination
Target Audience

description: The present deliverable describes the communication and dissemination action plan to be conducted during 4AirCRAFT proyect (Air Carbon Recycling for Aviation Fuel Technology). The plan for Communication, Dissemination and Awareness (CDAP) provides the guiding principles to support the aims of 4AirCRAFT and maximise the project’s impacts at a large audience during the 36 months of duration of the project and beyond, as some project results and findings will remain available once the project has finalised. This deliverable is structured addressing the different aspects that a CDAP may focus on: (i) the strategy from the project to the external audience, (ii) 4AirCRAFT key messages, (iii) the target audiences, (iv) the planned dissemination and communication material, (v) tools and channels, (vi) the basis of an efficient internal communication between 4AirCRAFT partners, (vii) evaluation of the activities carried out, (viii) contractual obligations of beneficiaries regarding Grant Agreement rules. This plan includes measures and tools for external and internal communication and the different channels of dissemination for target audiences (general, scientific and industrial, policy makers) to provide a regular flow of information. This plan and the progress, based on a strong cooperation of its partners which enables the impact at different sectors and levels, will be constantly monitored, reviewed and potentially adjusted twice throughout the project lifespan to include the track of foreseen communication activities carried out, as well as those non-foreseen activities and actions.
Deep Learning and Statistical Models for Time-Critical Pedestrian Behaviour Prediction
Creators: name: Dabrowski, Joel Janek
name: de Villiers, Johan Pieter
name: Rahman, Ashfaqur
name: Beyers, Conrad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The time it takes for a classifier to make an accurate prediction can be crucial in many behaviour recognition problems. For example, an autonomous vehicle should detect hazardous pedestrian behaviour early enough for it to take appropriate measures. In this context, we compare the switching linear dynamical system (SLDS) and a three-layered bi-directional long short-term memory (LSTM) neural network, which are applied to infer pedestrian behaviour from motion tracks. We show that, though the neural network model achieves an accuracy of 80%, it requires long sequences to achieve this (100 samples or more). The SLDS, has a lower accuracy of 74%, but it achieves this result with short sequences (10 samples). To our knowledge, such a comparison on sequence length has not been considered in the literature before. The results provide a key intuition of the suitability of the models in time-critical problems.
Additional file 4 of Preservation stress resistance of melanin deficient conidia from Paecilomyces variotii and Penicillium roqueforti mutants generated via CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing
Creators: name: Seekles, Sjoerd J.
name: Teunisse, Pepijn P. P.
name: Punt, Maarten
name: Van Den Brule, Tom
name: Dijksterhuis, Jan
name: Houbraken, Jos
name: Wösten, Han A. B.
name: Ram, Arthur F. J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 4: Figure S3. Diagnostic PCR on eight transformants in P. variotii PT39.26 missing the pvpP gene. a Diagnostic PCR to investigate the presence of the pvpP gene by amplifying outside the used flanks. If the gene is absent a band size of 2619 bps is expected. If the gene pvpP is still present, a band size of 9344 bps is present. The eight transformants all have lost the pvpP gene. The PCR fragments loaded on #6 and #7 were purified and subsequently send for sequencing. b Diagnostic PCR to investigate the presence of the pvpP gene by amplifying inside the gene. If the gene is absent, no band is expected. In wild-type situation, a PCR fragment of 1095 bps is expected. No transformants show the presence of pvpP gene. Taken together, these results show that 8/8 transformants had a full knock-out of the pvpP gene. Both contained the expected sequence for the repair DNA fragment, indicating repair by HDR.
Spiral wave drift in an electric field and scroll wave instabilities
Creators: name: Henry, Herve
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I present the numerical computation of speed and direction of the drift of a spiral wave in an excitable medium in the presence of an electric field. In contrast to earlier results, the drift speed presents a strong variation close to the parameter value where the drift speed component along the field changes direction. Using a simple phenomenological model and results from a numerical linear stability analysis of scroll waves, I show this behavior can be attributed to a resonance of the meander modes with the translation modes of the spiral wave. Extending this phenomenological model to scroll waves also clarifies the link between the drift and long wavelength instabilities of scroll waves.
description: Phys Rev E accepted
Judicial Activism and the Future of the World Trade Organization's Appellate Body
Creators: name: Beshkardana, Katayoon
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: During the Uruguay Round of negotiations that led to the creation of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the United States advocated and supported the creation of the Appellate Body and a formalized dispute settlement mechanism. In the following years, the United States changed its position and became increasingly critical of the seven member standing Appellate Body. Although other WTO members shared some of the same concerns, it was the United States that blocked the appointments and reappointments of the Appellate Body members until it became impossible for the Appeals mechanism to function. The United States is of the view that the Appellate Body has exceeded its authority by engaging in “judicial activism.” This doctoral dissertation looks carefully at the criticism of the United States particularly (although not exclusively) in a series of anti-dumping cases addressing the U.S. use of zeroing methodology. It discusses the unique U.S. vision on the standard of review that has its origins in its domestic administrative law and doctrine of judicial deference. Although the zeroing reports are not the only cases where the United States criticizes the Appellate Body, they were a particular flash point for the relationship of the United States with the Appellate Body. The dissertation further examines the U.S. behavior towards the selection of the Appellate Body members in light of the dynamics of domestic politics and the nature of political influences in the appointment process. It concludes that the Appellate Body’s interpretive methodology is aligned with the customary rules of treaty interpretation as codified in the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties and applied in the jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice. It further concludes that the Appellate Body inherits an inevitable fragility when it conflicts with attributes of sovereignty. The institution is bound to fail on occasions of political interference with its judicial independence. Given that the consensus decision-making is integral to the structure of the Dispute Settlement Understanding (DSU) as a means to constrain the authority of the tribunal at this time any reform of the dispute settlement system will not be a long term or meaningful. Using the anti-fragility concept developed by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, this dissertation asserts that although the Appellate Body may be fragile, the jurisprudence it developed over more than two decades of its existence is “anti-fragile” and will continue to influence a rule based multilateral trading system.
Holsacella Voigt 1999
Creators: name: Taylor, Paul D.
name: Martha, Silviu O.
name: Gordon, Dennis P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Bryozoa
Gymnolaemata
Cheilostomatida
Onychocellidae
Holsacella

description: Genus Holsacella Voigt, 1999
(Figure 13)
 Type species
 Holsacella biserialis, 1999, by original designation. Paleocene, Danian-aged glacial drift, Daerstorf, Niedersachsen, Germany.
 Diagnosis
Colony erect, biserial unifoliate with zooids opening on one side of the branch only (Figure 13 (a)). Autozooids hexagonal; zooidal boundaries grooved. Cryptocyst extensive, granular. Gymnocyst lacking. Opesia terminal, occupying less than one-third of frontal surface; rounded square, proximal and distal edges slightly convex, sides straight, lacking opesiular indentations and constrictions (Figure 13 (b)). Ovicells unknown. Avicularia interzooidal, symmetrical, small, about half the width of an autozooid and shorter in length, located on edges of branch distolaterally of the autozooids, one per autozooid (Figure 13 (b,c)); opesia terminal, longitudinally elliptical; rostrum very short.
 Remarks
 When introducing this monospecific genus, Voigt (1999) declined to assign it to a family but the extensive frontal wall that is entirely cryptocystal, combined with the lack of opesiules, allows its provisional assignment to Onychocellidae. Holsacella may be unique among onychocellid genera in having narrow erect branches with zooids opening only on one side, a colony form sometimes termed unifoliate.
 Range
Paleocene (Danian).
description: Published as part of Taylor, Paul D., Martha, Silviu O. & Gordon, Dennis P., 2018, Synopsis of ' onychocellid' cheilostome bryozoan genera, pp. 1657-1721 in Journal of Natural History (J. Nat. Hist.) (J. Nat. Hist.) 52 (25 - 26) on pages 1681-1682, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2018.1481235, http://zenodo.org/record/4747141
Bamboo biochar-catalytic degradation of lignin under microwave heating
Creators: name: Maimaitiaili Tayier
name: Yunfeng Zhao
name: Dengle Duan
name: Rongge Zou
name: Yunpu Wang
name: Ruan, Roger
name: Yuhuan Liu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Lignin biochar-catalytic depolymerization using biochar Fe-600, Fe-800, Ni-600, Ni-800 catalysts under microwave-heating (180 °C for 30 min) was explored in an ethanol/formic acid (1:1) media. Non-catalyst depolymerization was also studied and compared with the biochar-catalysts results. Characteristics of the bio-char catalysts were analyze by BET, XRD, and FT-IR. GPC, FT-IR, and MALDI-TOF MS spectrometry were also used to characterize the depolymerization products. The experimental results showed that the SBET, Vt, and Vmec and average pore diameter of the biochars are considerably dependent on the preparation temperature and type of cation (Ni2+ or Fe3+). The maximum yield of bio-oil product was obtained as 85 wt% with the addition of biochar Ni-600 and the total amount of oligomers or monomers with a molecular weight of 164 to 446 reaches 80.4%.
A Comprehensive Study of Thermonuclear X-ray Bursts from 4U 1820-30 with NICER: Accretion Disk Interactions and a Candidate Burst Oscillation
Creators: name: Jaisawal, Gaurava K.
name: Bostancı, Z. Funda
name: Boztepe, Tuğba
name: Güver, Tolga
name: Strohmayer, Tod E.
name: Ballantyne, David R.
name: Beck, Jens H.
name: Göğüş, Ersin
name: Altamirano, Diego
name: Arzoumanian, Zaven
name: Chakrabarty, Deepto
name: Gendreau, Keith C.
name: Guillot, Sebastien
name: Ludlam, Renee M.
name: Ng, Mason
name: Sanna, Andrea
name: Chenevez, Jérôme
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results obtained from timing and spectral studies of 15 thermonuclear X-ray bursts from 4U 1820-30 observed with the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) during its five years of observations between 2017-2022. All bursts showed clear signs of photospheric radius expansion, where the neutron star (NS) photosphere expanded more than 50 km above the surface. One of the bursts produced a super-expansion with a blackbody emission radius of 902 km for the first time with NICER. We searched for burst oscillations in all 15 bursts and found evidence of a coherent oscillation at 716 Hz in a burst, with a 2.9$σ$ detection level based on Monte Carlo simulations. If confirmed with future observations, 4U 1820-30 would become the fastest-spinning NS known in X-ray binary systems. The fractional rms amplitude of the candidate burst oscillation was found to be 5.8% in the energy range of 3-10 keV. Following the variable persistent model from burst time-resolved spectroscopy, an anti-correlation is seen between the maximum scaling factor value and the (pre-burst) persistent flux. We detected a low value of ionization at the peak of each burst based on reflection modeling of burst spectra. A partially interacting inner accretion disk or a weakly ionized outer disk may cause the observed ionization dip during the photospheric radius expansion phase.
description: 19 pages, 10 figures, Published in ApJ (2024 October)
Multivariate Hasse-Schmidt Derivation on Exterior Algebras
Creators: name: Bahadorykhalily, Fereshteh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 15A75

description: The purpose of this short note is to consider multi-variate Hasse-Schmidt derivations on exterior algebras and to show how they easily provide remarkable identities, holding in the algebra of square matrices, which generalise the classical theorem of Cayley-Hamilton.
description: Accepted for publication on Linear and Multilinear Algebra
Coping with COVID-19: Predictors and Mediators of Anxiety and Depression during the Pandemic
Creators: name: Carnahan, Nicolette
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The COVID-19 pandemic has led to increased levels of anxiety and depression worldwide. The current study examined predictors of anxiety and depression as well as longitudinal changes in distress at two times points during the pandemic in the United States. We also looked at disparities between White and Non-White participants. We found Non-White participants scored higher on all dependent measures than White participants in May 2020, indicating greater distress. Further, significant depression predictors for the whole sample were COVID-19 diagnosis, previous depression, and younger age, and health anxiety predictors were previous anxiety diagnosis and no COVID-19 diagnosis. Avoidant coping predicted state anxiety and depression; more time spent watching or reading COVID-19 related news predicted all three outcome variables; intolerance of uncertainty predicted state anxiety and health anxiety, and looming cognitive style predicted health anxiety. Spiritual well-being significantly mitigated all three types of symptoms. Finally, we found differences in predictors between White and non-White participants, such that for all three dependent measures there were more significant predictors for White participants, however there was substantial overlap in predictors. We further examined the impact of cognitive vulnerability factors and avoidant coping on anxiety and depression longitudinally. After testing for temporal directionality between looming cognitive style and intolerance of uncertainty, we found the best model fit and a significant serial mediation for looming cognitive style at time one leading to increased intolerance of uncertainty at time two leading to more avoidant coping resulting in increased anxiety and depression at time two. Depression scores significantly increased over time and moderation analyses revealed that when people had lower levels of depression at time one and used less avoidant coping, they had significantly less symptoms at time two; and when people had higher levels of depression at time one and used less approach coping, they had significantly higher levels of depression at time two. Results suggest a novel model in conceptualizing anxiety and depression during the pandemic, namely highlighting looming cognitive style as an underlying cognitive vulnerability factor and the impact of coping on distress. Further implications include understanding predictors and mitigating factors of psychological symptoms during COVID-19 to inform psychological treatment of depression and anxiety. Moreover, understanding the differences in predictors of anxiety and depression in White versus Non-White groups in creating treatment plans.
Flipped SO(10) model
Creators: name: Maekawa, Nobuhiro
name: Yamashita, Toshifumi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that as in the flipped SU(5) models, doublet-triplet splitting is realized by the missing partner mechanism in the flipped SO(10) models. The gauge group $SO(10)_F\times U(1)_{V'_F}$ includes $SU(2)_E$ gauge symmetry, that plays an important role in solving supersymmetric flavor problem by introducing non-abelian horizontal gauge symmetry and anomalous $U(1)_A$ gauge symmetry. The gauge group can be broken into the standard model gauge group by VEVs of only spinor fields, such models may be easier than $E_6$ models to be derived from the superstring theory.
description: 12 pages, examples are corrected
Solar Neutrino Oscillation Phenomenology
Creators: name: Goswami, Srubabati
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This article summarises the status of the solar neutrino oscillation phenomenology at the end of 2002 in the light of the SNO and KamLAND results. We first present the allowed areas obtained from global solar analysis and demonstrate the preference of the solar data towards the Large-Mixing-Angle (LMA) MSW solution. A clear confirmation in favor of the LMA solution comes from the \kl reactor neutrino data. The \kl spectral data in conjunction with the global solar data further narrows down the allowed LMA region and splits it into two allowed zones -- a low $Δm^2$ region (low-LMA) and high $Δm^2$ region (high-LMA). We demonstrate through a projected analysis that with an exposure of 3 kton-year (kTy) \kl can remove this ambiguity.
description: 12 pages, Plenary talk at 9th International Symposium on Particles, Strings and Cosmology (PASCOS 03), Mumbai, India, 3-8 Jan 2003
Enforcing Mean Reversion in State Space Models for Prawn Pond Water Quality Forecasting
Creators: name: Dabrowski, Joel Janek
name: Rahman, Ashfaqur
name: Pagendam, Daniel Edward
name: George, Andrew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The contribution of this study is a novel approach to introduce mean reversion in multi-step-ahead forecasts of state-space models. This approach is demonstrated in a prawn pond water quality forecasting application. The mean reversion constrains forecasts by gradually drawing them to an average of previously observed dynamics. This corrects deviations in forecasts caused by irregularities such as chaotic, non-linear, and stochastic trends. The key features of the approach include (1) it enforces mean reversion, (2) it provides a means to model both short and long-term dynamics, (3) it is able to apply mean reversion to select structural state-space components, and (4) it is simple to implement. Our mean reversion approach is demonstrated on various state-space models and compared with several time-series models on a prawn pond water quality dataset. Results show that mean reversion reduces long-term forecast errors by over 60% to produce the most accurate models in the comparison.
An econophysics approach to analyse uncertainty in financial markets: an application to the Portuguese stock market
Creators: name: Dionisio, Andreia
name: Menezes, Rui
name: Mendes, Diana A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Statistical Finance (q-fin.ST)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: In recent years there has been a closer interrelationship between several scientific areas trying to obtain a more realistic and rich explanation of the natural and social phenomena. Among these it should be emphasized the increasing interrelationship between physics and financial theory. In this field the analysis of uncertainty, which is crucial in financial analysis, can be made using measures of physics statistics and information theory, namely the Shannon entropy. One advantage of this approach is that the entropy is a more general measure than the variance, since it accounts for higher order moments of a probability distribution function. An empirical application was made using data collected from the Portuguese Stock Market.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures, presented in the conference Next Sigma-Phi 2005
investigation-on-the-performance-of-EDM-on-OHNS-steel-using-copper-composite-electrode (1).pdf
Creators: name: Madhusharanth Saravanan Venkataswamy
name: Kannan J
name: P, Sri Ram
name: Mathankumar P
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mechanical Engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering

description: Nowadays, Electrical Discharge Machine uses powder metallurgy green compact electrode to modify the machined surface. Therefore, an attempt had been made to fabricate copper-titanium di boride (Cu-TiB2) powder metallurgy electrode to test in EDM on OHNS steel material. The machining characteristics have analyzed using the developed model. In this study, three input parameters such as Pulse current, gap voltage and pulse on time are selected to evaluate the material removal rate (MRR) and surface roughness (SR) were selected as process parameters. The plan for the experiment i.e. Design of experiment (DoE) is based on the Central Composite Design (CCD) Material Removal Rate (MRR) and Surface Roughness (SR) were selected as output response. Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) model is implemented in this experiment to address the effect of each process parameter on MRR and SR. The adequacy of the developed regression model has tested through ANOVA test. Experiments are planned using center composite second-order rotatable design and the model is developed by response surface methodology. The desirability-based multi objective optimization is used to find the optimal process parameter which has given maximum MRR and minimum SR. The optimum process parameters obtained were then used as experimental parameters to find the accuracy of predicted response parameters.
Coping with COVID-19: Predictors and Mediators of Anxiety and Depression during the Pandemic
Creators: name: Carnahan, Nicolette
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 5203
subject: Clinical and health psychology

description: The COVID-19 pandemic has led to increased levels of anxiety and depression worldwide. The current study examined predictors of anxiety and depression as well as longitudinal changes in distress at two times points during the pandemic in the United States. We also looked at disparities between White and Non-White participants. We found Non-White participants scored higher on all dependent measures than White participants in May 2020, indicating greater distress. Further, significant depression predictors for the whole sample were COVID-19 diagnosis, previous depression, and younger age, and health anxiety predictors were previous anxiety diagnosis and no COVID-19 diagnosis. Avoidant coping predicted state anxiety and depression; more time spent watching or reading COVID-19 related news predicted all three outcome variables; intolerance of uncertainty predicted state anxiety and health anxiety, and looming cognitive style predicted health anxiety. Spiritual well-being significantly mitigated all three types of symptoms. Finally, we found differences in predictors between White and non-White participants, such that for all three dependent measures there were more significant predictors for White participants, however there was substantial overlap in predictors. We further examined the impact of cognitive vulnerability factors and avoidant coping on anxiety and depression longitudinally. After testing for temporal directionality between looming cognitive style and intolerance of uncertainty, we found the best model fit and a significant serial mediation for looming cognitive style at time one leading to increased intolerance of uncertainty at time two leading to more avoidant coping resulting in increased anxiety and depression at time two. Depression scores significantly increased over time and moderation analyses revealed that when people had lower levels of depression at time one and used less avoidant coping, they had significantly less symptoms at time two; and when people had higher levels of depression at time one and used less approach coping, they had significantly higher levels of depression at time two. Results suggest a novel model in conceptualizing anxiety and depression during the pandemic, namely highlighting looming cognitive style as an underlying cognitive vulnerability factor and the impact of coping on distress. Further implications include understanding predictors and mitigating factors of psychological symptoms during COVID-19 to inform psychological treatment of depression and anxiety. Moreover, understanding the differences in predictors of anxiety and depression in White versus Non-White groups in creating treatment plans.
Complete NLO corrections to top-quark pair production with isolated photons
Creators: name: Stremmer, Daniel
name: Worek, Malgorzata
Publisher: name: RWTH Aachen University
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 530
subject: CERN LHC Coll
subject: electroweak interaction: effect
subject: higher-order: 1
subject: photon: bremsstrahlung
subject: quantum chromodynamics: perturbation theory
subject: top: decay
subject: top: pair production
subject: Higher Order Electroweak Calculations
subject: Higher-Order Perturbative Calculations
subject: Top Quark

description: 1-35 (2024). doi:10.48550/arXiv.2403.03796
Additional file 5 of Preservation stress resistance of melanin deficient conidia from Paecilomyces variotii and Penicillium roqueforti mutants generated via CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing
Creators: name: Seekles, Sjoerd J.
name: Teunisse, Pepijn P. P.
name: Punt, Maarten
name: Van Den Brule, Tom
name: Dijksterhuis, Jan
name: Houbraken, Jos
name: Wösten, Han A. B.
name: Ram, Arthur F. J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 5: Figure S4. Growth rate of P. variotii and P. roqueforti strains. Colony diameters were measured of P. variotii and P. roqueforti strains growing 2-5 days at 25°C point-inoculated on MEA plates. a Colony diameters of strains plotted against time. The average growth rate in millimeters was estimated by performing a best fit using linear regression. The slope represents the average millimeter increase in diameter per day. On average, all P. variotii strains increased 18-19 mm in diameter per day and all P. roqueforti strains increased 10-11 mm in diameter per day. No differences were observed between mutant strains and their parental strains. b Morphology of P. roqueforti strains growing on MEA plates. No differences are visible between mutant strains and their parental strains except for the expected change in spore coloration. c Morphology of P. variotii strains growing on MEA plates. No differences are visible between mutant strains and their parental strains except for the expected change in spore coloration
Shape fluctuations in a Fermi system with nonlinear dissipativity
Creators: name: Kolomietz, V. M.
name: Lukyanov, S. V.
name: Shlomo, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The contribution of thermal fluctuations to the widths of isoscalar giant multipole resonances (GMR) in heated nuclei is studied. Starting from the collisional kinetic equation, it is shown that an additional contribution to the nuclear friction and the corresponding GMR widths arises due to the nonlinear dissipativity effect. It is also shown that the magnitude of the contributions of the thermal fluctuations to the nuclear friction coefficient and the GMR widths do not exceed 20%.
description: 28 pages, 8 figures. Appearing in Phys. Rev. C
Half-solution to the two-body problem in General Relativity
Creators: name: Kuntz, Adrien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the introduction of two worldline parameters defines a different approach to computations in the effective field theory approach to the two-body problem in General Relativity and present some preliminary evidence for a reduction in computational complexity. These parameters obey a polynomial equation whose perturbative expansion recovers an infinite series of diagrams. Futhermore, we show that our equations define an effective two-body horizon for interacting particles in General Relativity; in the circular orbit case, it corresponds to the smallest conceivable separation up to which the orbit can remain circular. We expect our results to simplify higher-order computations in the two-body problem, as well as to give insights on the nonperturbative properties of interacting binaries.
description: 16 pages, 6 figures. More detailed version accepted in PRD
Hoplitaechmella Voigt 1949
Creators: name: Taylor, Paul D.
name: Martha, Silviu O.
name: Gordon, Dennis P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Bryozoa
Gymnolaemata
Cheilostomatida
Onychocellidae
Hoplitaechmella

description: Genus Hoplitaechmella Voigt, 1949
(Figure 14)
 Type species
 Cellepora vespertilio von Hagenow, 1839, by original designation. Cretaceous, early Maastrichtian, Rügen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. The type material of this species has been lost (see Voigt 1959) and no neotype has been designated. Although von Hagenow (1839) did not illustrate his species, two specimens from the type locality were figured in Marsson (1887, p. 9, fig. 15). No further material of this species has been described from Rügen but we here figure a Rügen specimen in the Voigt Collection (Figure 14 (g–i)).
 Diagnosis
Colony encrusting, zooidal boundaries grooved (Figure 14 (a)). Pore chambers present (Figure 14 (e)). Autozooids rounded hexagonal. Cryptocyst extensive, granular. Gymnocyst variably developed proximally and laterally. Opesia D shaped to bell shaped (Figure 14 (b)), small, about one-quarter of zooid length, terminal, lacking opesiular indentations and constrictions; oral spines present, usually numbering six; cryptocyst granular. Ovicells hyperstomial (Figure 14 (h), the ooecium not granular and apparently of exterior wall (Figure 14 (i)). Intramural buds common (Figure 14 (c,h)). Avicularia of two main types: small interzooidal avicularia often located distolaterally of autozooids, symmetrical, opesia long, rostrum short (Figure 14 (b)); large vicarious avicularia, rare, symmetrical, opesia either the same size as those of the interzooidal avicularia (Figure 14 (g)), or long and distally tapering, rostrum extending over cryptocyst of distal autozooid, condyles developed (Figure 14 (d)). Kenozooids with central foramen present (Figure 14 (g).
 Remarks
 Aside from the type species, Voigt (1949) assigned four other species from the Late Cretaceous to Hoplitaechmella when he erected the genus. The dimorphic avicularia and oral spine bases are characteristic, as is the presence of pore chambers as well as autozooidal frontal walls that may have a narrow but appreciable marginal gymnocyst. The latter two characters in particular raise some doubts about the classification of Hoplitaechmella within Onychocellidae.
 A poorly preserved colony from the Late Paleocene to Early Eocene Red Bluff Tuff of Chatham Island, New Zealand, was questionably assigned to Hoplitaechmella by Gordon and Taylor (1999). Otherwise, the genus is known only from the European and Central Asian Late Cretaceous (Voigt 1949, 1951, 1962, 1967, 1979; Veenstra 1963) and Danian (Berthelsen 1962).
 Range
Cretaceous (Campanian) to Paleocene (Danian,?Thanetian),?Eocene (Ypresian).
description: Published as part of Taylor, Paul D., Martha, Silviu O. & Gordon, Dennis P., 2018, Synopsis of ' onychocellid' cheilostome bryozoan genera, pp. 1657-1721 in Journal of Natural History (J. Nat. Hist.) (J. Nat. Hist.) 52 (25 - 26) on pages 1682-1683, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2018.1481235, http://zenodo.org/record/4747141
HETEROGENEITY IN EXPECTATIONS, OFFICIAL INFORMATION AND PRICE-SETTING BEHAVIOR
Creators: name: Rojas-Matute, Gustavo
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics

description: How firms set their prices is of special importance in macroeconomics and, in particular, for monetary policy. This dissertation investigates price-setting behavior from two different perspectives and two different environments, from low inflation to hyperinflation. In Chapter 1, I point out that firms seem to pay more attention to GDP growth rates in economies with well-anchored inflation expectations than CPI inflation. I study how this heterogeneity affects price-setting behavior. I analyze three types of firms: those that only track GDP, those that only track CPI, and those that track both. The findings can be summarized as follows: (i) both GDP growth rate and CPI inflation expectations affect price-setting behavior but in opposite directions; (ii) the impact of long-run inflation expectations on price-setting behavior is more substantial than short-run expectations; (iii) in the presence of adjustment costs, the frequency of price changes of those firms that only track GDP growth rate is highly correlated with the series estimated by Nakamura et al., (2018) with data provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS); (iv) in the short run, the output response to a monetary shock is larger while the price response is smaller in those firms that only track GDP growth rate than in those firms that only update CPI; (v) adjustment costs amplify monetary non-neutrality in only-GDP firms. If the aggregate effect is driven by ``only-GDP" firms, as suggested in (iii), the results are consistent with recent findings suggesting that the Phillips curve is flat (Del Negro et al., 2020, Hazell et al., 2020).In Chapter 2, I take advantage of a ``natural experiment" to study the impact of the lack of official information on price-setting behavior. In particular, I study a case between December 2015 and May 2019, when the Central Bank of Venezuela stopped releasing official economic statistics, including inflation rate, GDP, and balance of payments. Using a combination of data sets from the Billion Prices Project, I find that the lack of official information increases the size of price changes (intensive margin), leading the intensive margin to be the main driver of the variance of the inflation. The empirical results are confirmed with the calibration of a price-setting behavior model. The model suggests that the turning point occurred when the Central Bank started delaying the publications (2012-2014) before deciding to stop them entirely in 2015. These findings are groundbreaking because they occur in a context of hyperinflation where prices change very frequently and differ from the most recent literature that has shown that the extensive margin contributes the most during high inflation and hyperinflation (Alvarez et al., 2019, Gagnon, 2009). The evidence also suggests that, despite the surge of different non-official inflation indicators publicly available, firms rely on private sources.
HETEROGENEITY IN EXPECTATIONS, OFFICIAL INFORMATION AND PRICE-SETTING BEHAVIOR
Creators: name: Rojas-Matute, Gustavo
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: How firms set their prices is of special importance in macroeconomics and, in particular, for monetary policy. This dissertation investigates price-setting behavior from two different perspectives and two different environments, from low inflation to hyperinflation. In Chapter 1, I point out that firms seem to pay more attention to GDP growth rates in economies with well-anchored inflation expectations than CPI inflation. I study how this heterogeneity affects price-setting behavior. I analyze three types of firms: those that only track GDP, those that only track CPI, and those that track both. The findings can be summarized as follows: (i) both GDP growth rate and CPI inflation expectations affect price-setting behavior but in opposite directions; (ii) the impact of long-run inflation expectations on price-setting behavior is more substantial than short-run expectations; (iii) in the presence of adjustment costs, the frequency of price changes of those firms that only track GDP growth rate is highly correlated with the series estimated by Nakamura et al., (2018) with data provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS); (iv) in the short run, the output response to a monetary shock is larger while the price response is smaller in those firms that only track GDP growth rate than in those firms that only update CPI; (v) adjustment costs amplify monetary non-neutrality in only-GDP firms. If the aggregate effect is driven by ``only-GDP" firms, as suggested in (iii), the results are consistent with recent findings suggesting that the Phillips curve is flat (Del Negro et al., 2020, Hazell et al., 2020).In Chapter 2, I take advantage of a ``natural experiment" to study the impact of the lack of official information on price-setting behavior. In particular, I study a case between December 2015 and May 2019, when the Central Bank of Venezuela stopped releasing official economic statistics, including inflation rate, GDP, and balance of payments. Using a combination of data sets from the Billion Prices Project, I find that the lack of official information increases the size of price changes (intensive margin), leading the intensive margin to be the main driver of the variance of the inflation. The empirical results are confirmed with the calibration of a price-setting behavior model. The model suggests that the turning point occurred when the Central Bank started delaying the publications (2012-2014) before deciding to stop them entirely in 2015. These findings are groundbreaking because they occur in a context of hyperinflation where prices change very frequently and differ from the most recent literature that has shown that the extensive margin contributes the most during high inflation and hyperinflation (Alvarez et al., 2019, Gagnon, 2009). The evidence also suggests that, despite the surge of different non-official inflation indicators publicly available, firms rely on private sources.
DOES CHANGING OUTCOME EXPECTANCIES AND BEHAVIORAL REINFORCERS AFFECT SMOKING-RELATED OUTCOMES AMONG YOUNG ADULTS?
Creators: name: Kaufmann, Amanda (Lily)
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The cigarette smoking literature shows that smoking and smoking cessation are related to different cognitive and behavioral factors. While individual research projects tend to focus on either cognitive or behavioral factors, it is rarer to see studies that incorporate both. The present work developed a novel, brief intervention containing elements adapted from the cognitive (expectancy challenge) and behavioral (behavioral activation/behavioral reinforcement) smoking cessation literature. Young adult smokers aged 18-35 were recruited to participate in an Internet-based study examining the effects of this cognitive-behavioral intervention on motivation to quit smoking and likelihood of initiating a quit attempt by one-month follow-up. The intervention was compared with a cognitive-only intervention and a neutral reading task. 159 participants completed baseline measures and were randomly assigned to condition. 93 participants responded to requests to complete follow-up measures online one month later. While the intervention did not significantly affect motivation to quit, participants who received the combined cognitive-behavioral intervention were more likely to initiate a quit attempt compared with participants who completed the control task. Participants who completed the cognitive-only intervention did not significantly differ from either the control or combined groups. These results show preliminary utility for the brief cognitive-behavioral intervention in promoting smoking cessation attempts.
DOES CHANGING OUTCOME EXPECTANCIES AND BEHAVIORAL REINFORCERS AFFECT SMOKING-RELATED OUTCOMES AMONG YOUNG ADULTS?
Creators: name: Kaufmann, Amanda (Lily)
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 5203
subject: Clinical and health psychology

description: The cigarette smoking literature shows that smoking and smoking cessation are related to different cognitive and behavioral factors. While individual research projects tend to focus on either cognitive or behavioral factors, it is rarer to see studies that incorporate both. The present work developed a novel, brief intervention containing elements adapted from the cognitive (expectancy challenge) and behavioral (behavioral activation/behavioral reinforcement) smoking cessation literature. Young adult smokers aged 18-35 were recruited to participate in an Internet-based study examining the effects of this cognitive-behavioral intervention on motivation to quit smoking and likelihood of initiating a quit attempt by one-month follow-up. The intervention was compared with a cognitive-only intervention and a neutral reading task. 159 participants completed baseline measures and were randomly assigned to condition. 93 participants responded to requests to complete follow-up measures online one month later. While the intervention did not significantly affect motivation to quit, participants who received the combined cognitive-behavioral intervention were more likely to initiate a quit attempt compared with participants who completed the control task. Participants who completed the cognitive-only intervention did not significantly differ from either the control or combined groups. These results show preliminary utility for the brief cognitive-behavioral intervention in promoting smoking cessation attempts.