cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A Study on Agricultural Land Consolidation Potential in Changfeng County
Creators: name: SHU Gang
name: YU Zhongxiang
name: SHU Gang
name: YU Zhongxiang
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural land, Consolidation potential, Changfeng County

description: In this paper, we study the agricultural land consolidation quantity potential (including theoretical quantity potential and actual quantity potential) and quality potential in Changfeng County, use the new arable land area to denote the quantity potential, and use the food production improved after agricultural land consolidation to represent quality potential. On this basis, we measure and evaluate the agricultural land consolidation potential in Changfeng County.
SONAR SIGNATURE ENHANCEMENT USING QUASI-PERIODIC FACTORIZATION TECHNIQUES
Creators: name: DiZio, Brian
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This thesis is a part of a larger endeavor to yield a topological classification technique for use in many signal-processing settings. The first problem we encountered was a lack of data with minimal artifacts that was easily adjustable during reproduction. To date we have developed and tested a simple ray-trace simulator that handles double bounce reflections and we have verified its output against real experiments and vice-versa. Following this success, we decided to improve this simulator with a more flexible, boundary element method solver. This boundary element method solver yields sonar data that is from replicated experiments of the larger project, Dr. Robinson’s ‘Homological Features for Sonar Target Classification,’ so as allow us to perform parallel analysis to the real data. There, our technical approach includes using intrinsic, low-dimensional persistent homological features pulled from “raw” (high-dimensional) sonar echoes on which one can employ machine-learning techniques. Further, the boundary element method solver allowed us to verify the application of the theorem presented in (Ghrist and Robinson) in the form of the Quasi-Periodic Low Pass Filter algorithm from (Robinson "A Topological Lowpass Filter for Quasiperiodic Signals"). The theorem states that a set of geometric target symmetries is present in the sonar data and the algorithm allows us to find this set of symmetries. However, as currently implemented, the algorithm is highly constrained so we verified its effectiveness by applying it to the trivial quasi-periodic factorization of a mapping from the group of SO(3) rotations to R^9. Then, we used output from the boundary element method solver, noisy sonar simulations using targets each by a random element of SO(3), to extend the application of the quasi-periodic factorization algorithm closer to real data implementation. Ultimately this demonstrated the readiness of the algorithm for detecting geometrical symmetries in targets in real sonar data, contributing to the progress of topological analysis in signal processing.
Calisius pulcher Kormilev 1976
Creators: name: Carrenho, Renan
name: Rodrigues, Higor D. D.
name: Lima, Adriana Carneiro de
name: Schwertner, Cristiano F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Aradidae
Calisius
Calisius pulcher

description: Calisius pulcher Kormilev, 1976
 Calisius pulcher Kormilev, 1976: 737-739, fig. 3.
 Holotype: ♂, glued to pinned paper; Brazil, Minas Geraes [Gerais], Pedra Azul, XI.1971, Seabra and Oliveira col.
description: Published as part of Carrenho, Renan, Rodrigues, Higor D. D., Lima, Adriana Carneiro de & Schwertner, Cristiano F., 2020, Type specimens of true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) housed in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, pp. 1-16 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 60 on page 11, DOI: 10.11606/1807-0205/2020.60.17, http://zenodo.org/record/4614885
SONAR SIGNATURE ENHANCEMENT USING QUASI-PERIODIC FACTORIZATION TECHNIQUES
Creators: name: DiZio, Brian
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 49
subject: Mathematical sciences

description: This thesis is a part of a larger endeavor to yield a topological classification technique for use in many signal-processing settings. The first problem we encountered was a lack of data with minimal artifacts that was easily adjustable during reproduction. To date we have developed and tested a simple ray-trace simulator that handles double bounce reflections and we have verified its output against real experiments and vice-versa. Following this success, we decided to improve this simulator with a more flexible, boundary element method solver. This boundary element method solver yields sonar data that is from replicated experiments of the larger project, Dr. Robinson’s ‘Homological Features for Sonar Target Classification,’ so as allow us to perform parallel analysis to the real data. There, our technical approach includes using intrinsic, low-dimensional persistent homological features pulled from “raw” (high-dimensional) sonar echoes on which one can employ machine-learning techniques. Further, the boundary element method solver allowed us to verify the application of the theorem presented in (Ghrist and Robinson) in the form of the Quasi-Periodic Low Pass Filter algorithm from (Robinson "A Topological Lowpass Filter for Quasiperiodic Signals"). The theorem states that a set of geometric target symmetries is present in the sonar data and the algorithm allows us to find this set of symmetries. However, as currently implemented, the algorithm is highly constrained so we verified its effectiveness by applying it to the trivial quasi-periodic factorization of a mapping from the group of SO(3) rotations to R^9. Then, we used output from the boundary element method solver, noisy sonar simulations using targets each by a random element of SO(3), to extend the application of the quasi-periodic factorization algorithm closer to real data implementation. Ultimately this demonstrated the readiness of the algorithm for detecting geometrical symmetries in targets in real sonar data, contributing to the progress of topological analysis in signal processing.
BARING THEMSELVES: REPRESENTATIONS OF THE FEMALE NUDE BY AMERICAN WOMEN ARTISTS, 1880-1930
Creators: name: Summerlin, Amanda
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: In the late nineteenth century, increasing numbers of women artists began pursuing careers in the fine arts in the United States. However, restricted access to institutions and existing tracks of professional development often left them unable to acquire the skills and experience necessary to be fully competitive in the art world. Gendered expectations of social behavior further restricted the subjects they could portray. Existing scholarship has not adequately addressed how women artists navigated the growing importance of the female nude as subject matter throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. I will show how some women artists, working before 1900, used traditional representations of the figure to demonstrate their skill and assert their professional statuses. I will then highlight how artists Anne Brigman’s and Marguerite Zorach’s used modernist portrayals the female nude in nature to affirm their professional identities and express their individual conceptions of the modern woman.
title: Student integration in a new Higher Education Institution
Creators: name: Keegan, Thomas Anthony
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2010

description: Student integration is a concern for every educational institution. This study focuses on student integration within the business school of a new Higher Education Institution (HEI) based in Scotland. The case study HEI is fictitiously referred to as Thistle College. The study of integration is not new but most of the research has been based on retention and integration in American institutions, indicating a need for more research on integration in the UK. Initially the research focused on why students withdrew from College, but the research focus was revised due to the problems of accessing student drop-outs. The revised study investigated why students stayed on their course and what influenced their decision to persist in their studies. The methodology involved desk research, student questionnaires and semi structured interviews with students and staff. The research provides evidence of the changing face of the student population and the challenges faced by students who claim they need to spend as much time in part-time work as they do in the HEI. The research provides an analysis of the life of present day students and a better understanding of the student experience and the changing expectations of the student population. The research indicates that students are organising their College studies around their lives rather than their lives around their studies. There is less commitment to the College and more commitment to part-time work and their lifestyle outside of College. There is less academic and social integration: students rely more on the relationships formed with staff and their peers than the one they have with the College as an institution. The study provides a number of recommendations for the College to integrate and retain students through enhancing the student experience and managing expectations from pre-entry through to graduation. Although these recommendations are case study specific, HEIs which share similar characteristics may also find these recommendations relevant.
BARING THEMSELVES: REPRESENTATIONS OF THE FEMALE NUDE BY AMERICAN WOMEN ARTISTS, 1880-1930
Creators: name: Summerlin, Amanda
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3601
subject: Art history, theory and criticism

description: In the late nineteenth century, increasing numbers of women artists began pursuing careers in the fine arts in the United States. However, restricted access to institutions and existing tracks of professional development often left them unable to acquire the skills and experience necessary to be fully competitive in the art world. Gendered expectations of social behavior further restricted the subjects they could portray. Existing scholarship has not adequately addressed how women artists navigated the growing importance of the female nude as subject matter throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. I will show how some women artists, working before 1900, used traditional representations of the figure to demonstrate their skill and assert their professional statuses. I will then highlight how artists Anne Brigman’s and Marguerite Zorach’s used modernist portrayals the female nude in nature to affirm their professional identities and express their individual conceptions of the modern woman.
Migratory Resistance Communities: Italian Immigrants in Portland, Maine, 1880-1920
Creators: name: Svendsen, Robin Rae
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4303
subject: Historical studies
classificationCode: 4401
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: This thesis seeks to illuminate the resistance communities that existed in the rural southern villages of the Mezzogiorno region of Italy, specifically Lettomanoppello, before and after Italian Unification and removed to Portland, Maine in the United States to re-established their culture. Through multiple lines of evidence, including previous scholarship, documents, past interviews with immigrants and current personal communication with descendants of immigrants, the research contextualizes the presence of resistance in the immigrant’s interaction with capitalism and their continued resistance to the residual fallout in the form of individualism that attacked their familial ways and sacredly held joy of family “time”. From their first interaction with the new capital economy in their villages to the erosion of their old country ways, immigrants from Lettomanoppello clung to their pre-capital lives through language, subsistence farming, and la famiglia, and sought to transplant these ways in their new enclave of Portland, Maine in the United States.
Mezira gracilis Kormilev 1968
Creators: name: Carrenho, Renan
name: Rodrigues, Higor D. D.
name: Lima, Adriana Carneiro de
name: Schwertner, Cristiano F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Aradidae
Mezira
Mezira gracilis

description: Mezira gracilis Kormilev, 1968
 Mezira gracilis Kormilev, 1968: 52-53, figs. 5-6.
 Holotype: ♂, glued to pinned paper; Brasil, Amazonas, Manaus, VIII.1962 K. Lenko col.
 Paratype: 1♂, glued to pinned paper; same data as holotype.
description: Published as part of Carrenho, Renan, Rodrigues, Higor D. D., Lima, Adriana Carneiro de & Schwertner, Cristiano F., 2020, Type specimens of true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) housed in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, pp. 1-16 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 60 on page 11, DOI: 10.11606/1807-0205/2020.60.17, http://zenodo.org/record/4614885
Migratory Resistance Communities: Italian Immigrants in Portland, Maine, 1880-1920
Creators: name: Svendsen, Robin Rae
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This thesis seeks to illuminate the resistance communities that existed in the rural southern villages of the Mezzogiorno region of Italy, specifically Lettomanoppello, before and after Italian Unification and removed to Portland, Maine in the United States to re-established their culture. Through multiple lines of evidence, including previous scholarship, documents, past interviews with immigrants and current personal communication with descendants of immigrants, the research contextualizes the presence of resistance in the immigrant’s interaction with capitalism and their continued resistance to the residual fallout in the form of individualism that attacked their familial ways and sacredly held joy of family “time”. From their first interaction with the new capital economy in their villages to the erosion of their old country ways, immigrants from Lettomanoppello clung to their pre-capital lives through language, subsistence farming, and la famiglia, and sought to transplant these ways in their new enclave of Portland, Maine in the United States.
AN INTRODUCTION TO CRYPTOGRAPHY RSA, ELGAMAL AND ELLIPTIC CURVE ENCRYPTION
Creators: name: Gilbert, Sawyer Perham
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The purpose of this research is to understand the basic principles of public key encryption from a mathematically perspective and identify security ﬂaws in basic RSA and ElGamal encryption. In the digital age it is important to both understand how to securely send information between parties, and identify potential data leaks. This project analyses research in three types of encryption and summarizes the most important aspects of each type. For ElGamal and RSA there are sections regarding possible attacks on the basic encryption schemes as well as discussion on how to improve security with minimal loss in eﬃciency. Understanding encryption is vital for securing information and this paper will hopefully lead to more research into secure eﬃcient encryption methods.
PROTOCOL: Does executive compensation predict publicly traded firms’ financial performance or inaccurate financial reporting?
Creators: name: Rousseau, Denise
name: Beck, Donna
name: ByeongJo Kim
name: Splenda, Ryan
name: Young, Sarah
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Library and Information Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: This is the protocol for a Campbell review. The objectives are as follows: One goal of
this systematic review is to identify whether incentive terms in CEO contracts predictfirm financial performance over time; a second goal is to identify whether incentiveterms in CEO contracts predict subsequent inaccurate financial reporting as manifestin restatement of accounting data due to errors or other distortions in reportingfinancial information.
Mezira pilosa Kormilev 1968
Creators: name: Carrenho, Renan
name: Rodrigues, Higor D. D.
name: Lima, Adriana Carneiro de
name: Schwertner, Cristiano F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Aradidae
Mezira
Mezira pilosa

description: Mezira pilosa Kormilev, 1968
 Mezira pilosa Kormilev, 1968: 51-52, figs. 3-4.
 Holotype: ♂, glued to pinned paper; Mexico, E[sta]do. Mexico, Bosenchebe, 01.III.1964, P. Reyes C. col.
description: Published as part of Carrenho, Renan, Rodrigues, Higor D. D., Lima, Adriana Carneiro de & Schwertner, Cristiano F., 2020, Type specimens of true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) housed in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, pp. 1-16 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 60 on page 11, DOI: 10.11606/1807-0205/2020.60.17, http://zenodo.org/record/4614885
Althos terminalis Brailovsky 1990
Creators: name: Carrenho, Renan
name: Rodrigues, Higor D. D.
name: Lima, Adriana Carneiro de
name: Schwertner, Cristiano F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Coreidae
Althos
Althos terminalis

description: Althos terminalis Brailovsky, 1990
 Althos terminalis Brailovsky, 1990: 76-79, figs. 13-15, 67, 68, 85, 86, 106, 124, 239.
 Paratypes: 1♀, 1♂, pinned; Brasil, MG [Minas Gerais], Serra [do] Caraça 1380 m, XI.[1]961, Kloss, Lenko, Martins and Silva col. 1♂, pinned; Brasil, São Paulo, Osasco, 09.XI.1956, M.A. Vulcano col.
 Remarks: In the original description, the specimens from Minas Gerais are reported to occur in the state of Mato Grosso.This was probably a misunderstanding of the initials written on the label – MG refers to Minas Gerais.
description: Published as part of Carrenho, Renan, Rodrigues, Higor D. D., Lima, Adriana Carneiro de & Schwertner, Cristiano F., 2020, Type specimens of true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) housed in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, pp. 1-16 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 60 on page 11, DOI: 10.11606/1807-0205/2020.60.17, http://zenodo.org/record/4614885
Fermionic Ising glasses with BCS pairing interaction in the presence of a transverse field
Creators: name: Zimmer, F. M.
name: Magalhaes, S. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the present work we have analyzed a fermionic infinite-ranged Ising spin glass with a local BCS coupling in the presence of transverse field. This model has been obtained by tracing out the conduction electrons degrees of freedom in a superconducting alloy. The transverse field Γis applied in the resulting effective model. The problem is formulated in the path integral formalism where the spins operators are represented by bilinear combination of Grassmann fields. The problem can be solved by combining previous approaches used to study a fermionic Heisenberg spin glass and a Ising spin glass in a transverse field. The results are show in a phase diagram T/J {\it versus} Γ/J (J is the standard deviation of the random coupling J_{ij}) for several values of g (the strength of the pairing interaction). For small g, the line transition T_c(Γ) between the normal paramagnetic phase and the spin glass phase decreases when increases Γ, until it reaches a quantum critical point. For increasing g, a PAIR phase (where there is formation of local pairs) has been found which disappears when is close to Γ_c showing that the transverse field tends to inhibited the PAIR phase.
description: 2 pages, 2 figures, accepted in Physica C Proceedings M2SRIO
Nonlinear flag manifolds as coadjoint orbits
Creators: name: Haller, Stefan
name: Vizman, Cornelia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 58D10 (primary), 37K65, 53C30, 53D20, 58D05

description: A nonlinear flag is a finite sequence of nested closed submanifolds. We study the geometry of Frechet manifolds of nonlinear flags, in this way generalizing the nonlinear Grassmannians. As an application we describe a class of coadjoint orbits of the group of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms that consist of nested symplectic submanifolds, i.e., symplectic nonlinear flags.
A Precise Measurement of the B+, B0 and Mean b-hadron Lifetime with the DELPHI Detector at LEP I
Creators: name: The DELPHI Collaboration
name: Abdallah, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Final results from the DELPHI Collaboration on the lifetime of B+ and B0 mesons and the mean b-hadron lifetime, are presented using the data collected at the Z0 peak in 1994 and 1995. Elaborate, inclusive, secondary vertexing methods have been employed to ensure a b-hadron reconstruction with good efficiency. To separate samples of B+ and B0 mesons, high performance neural network techniques are used that achieve very high purity signals. The results obtained are: tau_B+ = 1.624 +/- 0.014 (stat) +/- 0.018 (syst) ps tau_B0 = 1.531 +/- 0.021 (stat) +/- 0.031 (syst) ps tau_B+/tau_B0 = 1.060 +/- 0.021 (stat) +/- 0.024 (syst) and for the average b-hadron lifetime: tau_b = 1.570 +/- 0.005 (stat) +/- 0.008 (syst) ps.
description: 30 pages, 10 figures, Accepted by Eur. Phys. J. C
AN INTRODUCTION TO CRYPTOGRAPHY RSA, ELGAMAL AND ELLIPTIC CURVE ENCRYPTION
Creators: name: Gilbert, Sawyer Perham
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 49
subject: Mathematical sciences

description: The purpose of this research is to understand the basic principles of public key encryption from a mathematically perspective and identify security ﬂaws in basic RSA and ElGamal encryption. In the digital age it is important to both understand how to securely send information between parties, and identify potential data leaks. This project analyses research in three types of encryption and summarizes the most important aspects of each type. For ElGamal and RSA there are sections regarding possible attacks on the basic encryption schemes as well as discussion on how to improve security with minimal loss in eﬃciency. Understanding encryption is vital for securing information and this paper will hopefully lead to more research into secure eﬃcient encryption methods.
Paryphes pullulus Brailovsky 1986
Creators: name: Carrenho, Renan
name: Rodrigues, Higor D. D.
name: Lima, Adriana Carneiro de
name: Schwertner, Cristiano F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Coreidae
Paryphes
Paryphes pullulus

description: Paryphes pullulus Brailovsky, 1986
 Paryphes pullulus Brailovsky, 1986a: 108-110, figs. 5, 6, 17, 18, 23-25.
 Paratypes: 2♀, pinned; [Brazil], Amaz [onas]., Manaus, Rio Negro, 14.VII.1927, J.F. Zikán col.
description: Published as part of Carrenho, Renan, Rodrigues, Higor D. D., Lima, Adriana Carneiro de & Schwertner, Cristiano F., 2020, Type specimens of true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) housed in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, pp. 1-16 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 60 on page 11, DOI: 10.11606/1807-0205/2020.60.17, http://zenodo.org/record/4614885
Full counting statistics in the gapped XXZ spin chain
Creators: name: Calabrese, Pasquale
name: Collura, Mario
name: Di Giulio, Giuseppe
name: Murciano, Sara
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We exploit the knowledge of the entanglement spectrum in the ground state of the gapped XXZ spin chain to derive asymptotic exact results for the full counting statistics of the transverse magnetisation in a spin block of length. We found that for a subsystem of even length the full counting statistics is Gaussian, while for odd subsystems it is the sum of two Gaussian distributions. We test our analytic predictions with accurate tensor networks simulations. As a byproduct, we also obtain the symmetry (magnetisation) resolved entanglement entropies.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures
Correlation between UV resilience and wavelength of narrow DIBs
Creators: name: Omont, A.
name: Bettinger, H. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Carriers of diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) still need to be identified. In a recent paper, we reported a correlation between the DIB wavelength and the apparent UV resilience (or boost) of their carriers. We proposed that this might be an indication of the important role of conjugated elongated molecules among the DIB carriers. The aim of this paper is to further understand the origin of this correlation. The analysis of 509 optical DIBs on the lines of sight of HD 183143 and/or HD 204827 reported in the literature shows that this correlation mainly implies the 386 narrow DIBs with a band width < 1.1 A, which include most of the identified DIBs of the C2 and zeta families, while the majority of the 123 broader DIBs, including the identified sigma DIBs, do not display such a correlation. We present a possible origin of this correlation from very strong bands of large conjugated elongated molecules, such as carbon chains, polyacenes, or other catacondensed polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. The total amount of carbon contained in all the carriers of these narrow DIBs is a very small fraction of the interstellar carbon if their oscillator strengths are
Floquet spectrum for anisotropic and tilted Dirac materials under linearly polarized light at all field intensities
Creators: name: Sandoval-Santana, J. C.
name: Ibarra-Sierra, V. G.
name: Kunold, A.
name: Naumis, Gerardo G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Floquet spectrum in an anisotropic tilted Dirac semimetal modulated by linearly polarized light is addressed through the solution of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation for the two-dimensional Dirac Hamiltonian via the Floquet theorem. The time-dependent wave functions and the quasienergy spectrum of the two-dimensional Dirac Hamiltonian under the normal incidence of linearly polarized waves are obtained for an arbitrarily intense electromagnetic radiation. We applied a set of unitary transformations to reduce the Schrödinger equation to an ordinary second-order differential Hill equation with complex coefficients. Through the stability analysis of this differential equation, the weak and strong field regimes are clearly distinguished in the quasi-spectrum. In the weak electric field regime, above a certain threshold given by the field parameters, the spectrum mostly resembles that of free electrons in graphene. Below this threshold, in the strong electric field regime, the spectrum abruptly becomes highly anisotropic and a gap opens up. As an example, we apply the results to the particular case of borophene.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures
DOES SOCIAL INTERACTION FACILITATE LEARNING IN YOUTH WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER?
Creators: name: Mason-Callaway, Alani D.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: The purpose of this research was to explore the relationship between social interaction and learning in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). A survey was administered to 28 parents of children aged 3-17 with ASD, no other learning disorders, and no Intellectual Disability, who attended school (including homeschooled children) in the United States. Parents reported their child’s ability, demographic and situational characteristics, and experiences learning information and skills while interacting with others. No significant differences were found in learning by social interaction or the reported frequency thereof, though interactors showed a trend toward a higher mean reported learning score than non-interactors. A significant correlation was found between age and learning. There were significant differences in learning between interactors and non-interactors based on age group. No significant differences emerged in learning among categorical type of material learned, but a significant difference was found in the association between social interaction and learning by dichotomous type of material (information or skill). No significant differences were found in the association between social interaction and learning among SRS groups. There were no significant differences in learning between interactors and non-interactors based on race/ethnicity. These findings may spark further research into social interaction and learning in individuals with Autism.
Stenoprasia abortiva Brailovsky 1986
Creators: name: Carrenho, Renan
name: Rodrigues, Higor D. D.
name: Lima, Adriana Carneiro de
name: Schwertner, Cristiano F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Coreidae
Stenoprasia
Stenoprasia abortiva

description: Stenoprasia abortiva Brailovsky, 1986
 Stenoprasia abortiva Brailovsky, 1986b: 457, fig. 10.
 Holotype: ♂, pinned; [Brazil], Est[ado]. do Amazonas, Rio Juruá, 1901, E. Garbe col.
description: Published as part of Carrenho, Renan, Rodrigues, Higor D. D., Lima, Adriana Carneiro de & Schwertner, Cristiano F., 2020, Type specimens of true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) housed in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, pp. 1-16 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 60 on page 11, DOI: 10.11606/1807-0205/2020.60.17, http://zenodo.org/record/4614885
DOES SOCIAL INTERACTION FACILITATE LEARNING IN YOUTH WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER?
Creators: name: Mason-Callaway, Alani D.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The purpose of this research was to explore the relationship between social interaction and learning in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). A survey was administered to 28 parents of children aged 3-17 with ASD, no other learning disorders, and no Intellectual Disability, who attended school (including homeschooled children) in the United States. Parents reported their child’s ability, demographic and situational characteristics, and experiences learning information and skills while interacting with others. No significant differences were found in learning by social interaction or the reported frequency thereof, though interactors showed a trend toward a higher mean reported learning score than non-interactors. A significant correlation was found between age and learning. There were significant differences in learning between interactors and non-interactors based on age group. No significant differences emerged in learning among categorical type of material learned, but a significant difference was found in the association between social interaction and learning by dichotomous type of material (information or skill). No significant differences were found in the association between social interaction and learning among SRS groups. There were no significant differences in learning between interactors and non-interactors based on race/ethnicity. These findings may spark further research into social interaction and learning in individuals with Autism.
Sundarus volutatorius Brailovsky 1988
Creators: name: Carrenho, Renan
name: Rodrigues, Higor D. D.
name: Lima, Adriana Carneiro de
name: Schwertner, Cristiano F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Coreidae
Sundarus
Sundarus volutatorius

description: Sundarus volutatorius Brailovsky, 1988
 Sundarus volutatorius Brailovsky, 1988: 578-580, fig. 49.
 Paratype: 1♀, pinned; [Brazil], Amaz.[onas], Pará, Santarém, R [io] Juruá 1901, E. Garbe col.
description: Published as part of Carrenho, Renan, Rodrigues, Higor D. D., Lima, Adriana Carneiro de & Schwertner, Cristiano F., 2020, Type specimens of true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) housed in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, pp. 1-16 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 60 on page 11, DOI: 10.11606/1807-0205/2020.60.17, http://zenodo.org/record/4614885
Chronic exposure to heavy metals induces nuclear abnormalities and micronuclei in erythrocytes of marsh frog (Pelophylax ridibundus Pallas, 1771)
Creators: name: Mitkovska, V.
name: Dimitrov, H.
name: Chassovnikarova, T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: genotoxicity, nuclear abnormalities, micronuclei, heavy metals, Pelophylax ridibundus

description: Amphibians have big potential as bio-indicators based on their combined life cycle as aquatic and terrestrial forms. They can play the role of prey or predator, making them a key element in toxic substances transfer between aquatic and terrestrial habitats. The nuclear abnormalities (NAs) in amphibians’ erythrocytes in recent years have been used as a successful biomarker for anthropogenic pollution. The NAs including micronuclei in erythrocytes of the marsh frog (P. ridibundus) have been studied to assess the cytotoxic and genotoxic effect in heavy metal polluted area in situ. Here we assess the cyto- and genotoxic potential of the polluted waters (Chaya River) close to the lead-zinc smelter near Plovdiv (Bulgaria) situated in an area that has been contaminated with heavy metals for 60 years. Frogs from Strandzha Natural Park were used as a negative control. Peripheral blood smears have been dyed with acridine orange. NAs of the following types: notched nuclei, nuclear buds and blebbed nuclei have shown highest frequency. There is no sexual dependence in the formation of different types of NAs. The significant differences (P≤0.0001) in the mean total NAs (‰) in erythrocytes of marsh frogs from the polluted area compared to the total NAs from the background region “Strandzha” NP demonstrates the presence of in vivo active cytotoxic and genotoxic agents in the impacted area. The obtained results for NAs in erythrocytes of P. ridibundus are evidence for successful application of NAs as a biomarker in amphibians for the purpose of biomonitoring.
Avoiding the Judicialization of Politics in Pakistan's Supreme Court: A Comparative Study of Self-Restraint Justiciability Doctrines and Procedures for Judicial Review in India, the United States, and Pakistan
Creators: name: Husain, Waris
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Since 2004, the Supreme Court of Pakistan has emerged as a dominant force in the tri-partite constitutional system in Pakistan. In some instances, the Court has engaged in hyper-active use of judicial review over the laws passed by Parliament or the policies of the Prime Minister. This trend was perhaps most obvious in two cases decided by the Supreme Court under the leadership of Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry: a) the unilateral disqualification of Prime Minister Yousef Raza Gilani in 2012, b) the Court’s invalidation of a constitutional amendment as a means to ensure the Chief Justice of Pakistan’s near-complete control over judicial appointments without substantive involvement from elected officials. These two cases demonstrate one of the many dangers posed by a Supreme Court that lacks a self-restraining justiciability standard and procedure: namely, without a standard or procedure, the Court will always be open to politicization under the leadership of an overly-active Chief Justice. This study uses the counter-examples of India and the United States in order to present a justiciability standard and procedure for the Supreme Court of Pakistan to adopt. Rather than attempting to apply American or Indian jurisprudence wholesale to Pakistan, the study begins by tracing the divergent development of judicial review in each country based on the impact of colonial judicial systems. The study then moves onto comparing the roles of the courts in each country as envisioned by their respective Constitutional Founders. Next, the structural differences in the constitutions of each country will be compared, which leads to an examination of justiciability doctrines developed by the Supreme Courts of the United States, India, and Pakistan. Lastly, the study will propose a justiciability standard and the creation of a Justiciability Council as a companion organization to the Supreme Court of Pakistan. In order to test the effectiveness of the proposed Council and test, two narrow legal questions will be examined: whether the Court should exercise judicial review over a) disqualifications of the Executive and b) appointment of judges. The aim of this study is to take into account Pakistan’s unique political and legal development and suggest a method to regulate and solidify the recently-established power of the Supreme Court.
Balance of Payments Constrained Economic Growth in Nigeria
Creators: name: Emmanuel, Igbinoba
name: Emmanuel, Igbinoba
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Growth
subject: Balance of Payment
subject: GLMM Model
subject: Nigeria

description: This paper applies the adjusted balance of payment (BOP) constrained growth framework modified by Thirwall and Hussain (1982) on Nigeria's economic growth to estimate the determinants of the long run rate of growth in Nigeria. With Nigeria adopting the import substitution industrialization policy in 1960, we apply cointegration test on time series data to estimate the long-run relationship between Nigeria's real GDP (output) and its real export. Results signify cointegration between our variables, lending support to Thirwall's BOP constrained model as a suitable framework to explain Nigeria's long term growth and reinforces the opinion that external factors constrain Nigeria's economic growth.
Foreign Direct Investment and Public Sector Management and Institutions: The Acquaintances in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) Low-Income Economies
Creators: name: Jumanne, Bilali Basesa
name: Keong, Choong Chee
name: Jumanne, Bilali Basesa
name: Keong, Choong Chee
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: FDI inflows
subject: poverty reduction
subject: public sector management and institutions
subject: SSA low-income economies

description: This study examines the direct role played by governments of the SSA low-income countries to attract potential FDI inflows in their accountabilities as advocates of public sector management and institutions for poverty reduction. The study employs panel data for 24 SSA low-income economies over the period 2005-2015. Panel unit root tests by IPS and Fisher-ADF are applied to test for data stationarity thus furthering the conduct of panel cointegration analysis using Pedroni tests. Both tests confirm for data stationarity and long-run relationships. The major finding using GMM estimator reveals that public sector in SSA low-income economies negatively influence FDI inflows. This implies that public sector is plagued with lack of transparency, accountability and corruption in delivering public services. Thus, the authorities and policy makers in SSA lowincome economies need to undertake meticulous measures by strengthening public institutions that adhere to the rule of law, accountability for achieving human development, safety and fairness to general public. The failure of public sector instigates catastrophe for the survival of private sector and market mechanisms. Moreover, amiable regulations, rule of law and control of corruption are vital for public and private sectors to work together towards poverty alleviation.
Sundarus zonatus Brailovsky 1988
Creators: name: Carrenho, Renan
name: Rodrigues, Higor D. D.
name: Lima, Adriana Carneiro de
name: Schwertner, Cristiano F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Coreidae
Sundarus
Sundarus zonatus

description: Sundarus zonatus Brailovsky, 1988
 Sundarus zonatus Brailovsky, 1988: 593-596, figs. 43, 57.
 Paratypes: 1♂, pinned; Peru, Satipo, II.1938, P. Paprizyck col. 1♂, pinned; Peru, Satipo, Huancayo, I. 1944, P. Paprizyck col. 1♂, pinned; Peru, Satipo, Huancayo, II.1944, P. Paprizyck col. 1♀, pinned; Peru, Satipo, Huancayo, III.1944, P. Paprizyck col. 1♂, pinned; Peru, Satipo, Huancayo, II.1944, P. Paprizyck col.
description: Published as part of Carrenho, Renan, Rodrigues, Higor D. D., Lima, Adriana Carneiro de & Schwertner, Cristiano F., 2020, Type specimens of true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) housed in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, pp. 1-16 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 60 on page 11, DOI: 10.11606/1807-0205/2020.60.17, http://zenodo.org/record/4614885
Avoiding the Judicialization of Politics in Pakistan's Supreme Court: A Comparative Study of Self-Restraint Justiciability Doctrines and Procedures for Judicial Review in India, the United States, and Pakistan
Creators: name: Husain, Waris
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 48
subject: Law and legal studies
classificationCode: 4803
subject: International and comparative law

description: Since 2004, the Supreme Court of Pakistan has emerged as a dominant force in the tri-partite constitutional system in Pakistan. In some instances, the Court has engaged in hyper-active use of judicial review over the laws passed by Parliament or the policies of the Prime Minister. This trend was perhaps most obvious in two cases decided by the Supreme Court under the leadership of Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry: a) the unilateral disqualification of Prime Minister Yousef Raza Gilani in 2012, b) the Court’s invalidation of a constitutional amendment as a means to ensure the Chief Justice of Pakistan’s near-complete control over judicial appointments without substantive involvement from elected officials. These two cases demonstrate one of the many dangers posed by a Supreme Court that lacks a self-restraining justiciability standard and procedure: namely, without a standard or procedure, the Court will always be open to politicization under the leadership of an overly-active Chief Justice. This study uses the counter-examples of India and the United States in order to present a justiciability standard and procedure for the Supreme Court of Pakistan to adopt. Rather than attempting to apply American or Indian jurisprudence wholesale to Pakistan, the study begins by tracing the divergent development of judicial review in each country based on the impact of colonial judicial systems. The study then moves onto comparing the roles of the courts in each country as envisioned by their respective Constitutional Founders. Next, the structural differences in the constitutions of each country will be compared, which leads to an examination of justiciability doctrines developed by the Supreme Courts of the United States, India, and Pakistan. Lastly, the study will propose a justiciability standard and the creation of a Justiciability Council as a companion organization to the Supreme Court of Pakistan. In order to test the effectiveness of the proposed Council and test, two narrow legal questions will be examined: whether the Court should exercise judicial review over a) disqualifications of the Executive and b) appointment of judges. The aim of this study is to take into account Pakistan’s unique political and legal development and suggest a method to regulate and solidify the recently-established power of the Supreme Court.
Global alignments of parsec-scale AGN radio jets and their polarization planes
Creators: name: Blinov, D.
name: Casadio, C.
name: Mandarakas, N.
name: Angelakis, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A number of works reported on the existence of a large scale alignment of the polarization plane of extragalactic sources as well as the alignment of radio-sources structural axes. However, both claims and their interpretation remain controversial. For the first time we explore the parsec-scale jets alignments. Additionally, we use archival polarimetric data at different wavelengths in order to compare relative orientations of the jets and the polarization planes of their emission. Using the flux density distribution in very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) radio maps from the Astrogeo database, we determine the parsec-scale jet orientation for the largest sample of active galactic nuclei (AGN) to date. Employing the method of parallel transport and a sample statistics characterizing the jet orientation dispersion among neighbors, we test whether the identified jets are significantly aligned. We show that the parsec-scale jets in our sample do not demonstrate any significant global alignments. Moreover, the jet direction is found to be weakly correlated with the polarization plane direction at different frequencies.
description: 8 pages, 9 figures, accepted by Astronomy and Astrophysics
Optical properties of self-organized wurtzite InN/GaN quantum dots: A combined atomistic tight-binding and full configuration interaction calculation
Creators: name: Baer, N.
name: Schulz, S.
name: Schumacher, S.
name: Gartner, P.
name: Czycholl, G.
name: Jahnke, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we investigate the electronic and optical properties of self-assembled InN/GaN quantum dots. The one-particle states of the low-dimensional heterostructures are provided by a tight-binding model that fully includes the wurtzite crystal structure on an atomistic level. Optical dipole and Coulomb matrix elements are calculated from these one-particle wave functions and serve as an input for full configuration interaction calculations. We present multi-exciton emission spectra and discuss in detail how Coulomb correlations and oscillator strengths are changed by the piezoelectric fields present in the structure. Vanishing exciton and biexciton ground state emission for small lens-shaped dots is predicted.
description: 3 pages, 2 figures