cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Qatar-1: indications for possible transit timing variations
Creators: name: von Essen, C.
name: Schröter, S.
name: Agol, E.
name: Schmitt, J. H. M. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Variations in the timing of transiting exoplanets provide a powerful tool detecting additional planets in the system. Thus, the aim of this paper is to discuss the plausibility of transit timing variations on the Qatar-1 system by means of primary transit light curves analysis. Furthermore, we provide an interpretation of the timing variation. We observed Qatar-1 between March 2011 and October 2012 using the 1.2 m OLT telescope in Germany and the 0.6 m PTST telescope in Spain. We present 26 primary transits of the hot Jupiter Qatar-1b. In total, our light curves cover a baseline of 18 months. We report on indications for possible long-term transit timing variations (TTVs). Assuming that these TTVs are true, we present two different scenarios that could explain them. Our reported $\sim$ 190 days TTV signal can be reproduced by either a weak perturber in resonance with Qatar-1b, or by a massive body in the brown dwarf regime. More observations and radial velocity monitoring are required to better constrain the perturber's characteristics. We also refine the ephemeris of Qatar-1b, which we find to be \mbox{$T_0 = 2456157.42204 \pm 0.0001$ \bjdtdb} and \mbox{$P = 1.4200246 \pm 0.0000007$ days}, and improve the system orbital parameters.
La migración de los indígenas de Oaxaca, México, a Estados Unidos y su movilización social
Creators: name: Barabas, Alicia M.
Publisher: name: Comparative Cultural Studies - European and Latin American Perspectives
Year: 2016

description: The paper is a general view of transnational indigenous migration between Oaxaca in México to California. I’m concerned in three aspects: a) the frontier and the territoriality of migrants, b) the transnational communities and social mobilization and, c) the re-configuration of migrant’s cultures and the new dimensions of ethnic identity in migration contexts.
description: Comparative Cultural Studies - European and Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 1 No. 1 (2016)
¿Desde dónde se mide la marginación? Una observación a los indicadores absolutos de exclusión del Consejo Nacional de Población en México
Creators: name: Aguilar Edwards, Andrea
Publisher: name: Comparative Cultural Studies - European and Latin American Perspectives
Year: 2016

description: This paper focuses synthetically addressing some key aspects that add to itself -and serious- structural problems of political, economic and social order, creating conditions that exacerbate the marginalization from symbolic interaction in a society, either, but here it is the Mexican case addresses. The first part is theoretically analyzed the concepts of identity, culture and civilization, as generators of some of the conditions which, naturally, trigger processes of marginalization and social exclusion. This reflection becomes the framework that allows, in the second part of this work, a general review of the conceptual scheme of marginalization in Mexico, from the indicators that the National Population Council defined to measure rates marginalization in the country. Some final considerations point to the low relevance of these indicators and their inconsistency to support a report on the conditions of marginalization that even comes close to reality that exists in Mexico.
description: Comparative Cultural Studies - European and Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 1 No. 1 (2016)
Correcting a SHAPE-directed RNA structure by a mutate-map-rescue approach
Creators: name: Tian, Siqi
name: Cordero, Pablo
name: Kladwang, Wipapat
name: Das, Rhiju
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The three-dimensional conformations of non-coding RNAs underpin their biochemical functions but have largely eluded experimental characterization. Here, we report that integrating a classic mutation/rescue strategy with high-throughput chemical mapping enables rapid RNA structure inference with unusually strong validation. We revisit a paradigmatic 16S rRNA domain for which SHAPE (selective 2`-hydroxyl acylation with primer extension) suggested a conformational change between apo- and holo-ribosome conformations. Computational support estimates, data from alternative chemical probes, and mutate-and-map (M2) experiments expose limitations of prior methodology and instead give a near-crystallographic secondary structure. Systematic interrogation of single base pairs via a high-throughput mutation/rescue approach then permits incisive validation and refinement of the M2-based secondary structure and further uncovers the functional conformation as an excited state (25+/-5% population) accessible via a single-nucleotide register shift. These results correct an erroneous SHAPE inference of a ribosomal conformational change and suggest a general mutate-map-rescue approach for dissecting RNA dynamic structure landscapes.
Stigmaeidae Oudemans 1931
Creators: name: Irani-Nejad, Karim Haddad
name: Bagheri, Mohammad
name: Khanjani, Mohammad
name: Kamali, Karim
name: Saboori, Alireza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Prostigmata
Stigmaeidae

description: Stigmaeidae Oudemans, 1931   Type genus: Stigmaeus Koch, 1836
description: Published as part of Irani-Nejad, Karim Haddad, Bagheri, Mohammad, Khanjani, Mohammad, Kamali, Karim & Saboori, Alireza, 2006, A new species of Stigmaeus Koch (Acari: Stigmaeidae) from Northwest of Iran, pp. 57-61 in Zootaxa 1354 on page 58, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.174568
Threshold effects and renormalization group evolution of neutrino parameters in TeV scale seesaw models
Creators: name: Goswami, Srubabati
name: Khan, Subrata
name: Mishra, Sasmita
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the threshold effect on the renormalization group (RG) evolution of the neutrino masses and mixing angles in TeV scale seesaw models. We obtain the analytic expressions using the factorization method in presence of threshold effects. We also perform numerical study of RG effects in two specific low scale seesaw models following the bottom-up approach and ascertain the role of seesaw thresholds in altering the values of masses and mixing angles during RG evolution.
description: 31 pages, 8 figures
Ontological Commitment and Reconstructivism
Creators: name: Varzi, Achille C.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: Metaphysics

description: Some forms of analytic reconstructivism take natural language (and common sense at large) to be ontologically opaque: ordinary sentences must be suitably rewritten or paraphrased before questions of ontological commitment may be raised. Other forms of reconstructivism take the commitment of ordinary language at face value, but regard it as metaphysically misleading: common-sense objects exist, but they are not what we normally think they are. This paper is an attempt to clarify and critically assess some common limits of these two reconstructivist strategies.
title: Τόπος απώλειας-Τόπος θεραπείας: Κέντρο αποθεραπείας και αναζωογόνησης ψυχικής και σωματικής υγείας στον χώρο του ανενεργού λατομείου στα Τσικαλαριά Χανίων
title: Place of loss-Place of treatment: Rehabilitation and recovery center of mental and physical health in the area of inactive quarry in Tsikalaria, Chania
Creators: name: Βασο Ιρyνα
name: Αποστολοπουλου Ευα
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2020

description: Η διπλωματική εργασία αυτή διαπραγματεύεται την αποκατάσταση και ανάδειξη του εγκαταλελειμμένου λατομείου στα Τσικαλαριά Χανιών συμπληρώνοντας και επανασυνθέτοντας μια πρόταση Κέντρου Αποθεραπείας και Αναζωογόνησης Ψυχικής και Σωματικής Υγείας που αποσκοπεί στην μετάφραση συμβόλων του τόπου. Με αυτόν τον τρόπο το παλαιό λατομείο βρίσκει μια νέα λειτουργία αντίθετη με τον χαρακτήρα του και έχει ως στόχο τη μετατροπή του από τόπο απώλειας σε τόπο θεραπείας. Η πρόταση εστιάζει στην ενοποίηση των υπαρχόντων κελυφών, μέσω της υπόσκαφης προέκτασης των εγκαταλελειμμένων εγκαταστάσεων και στη σύνδεση του λατομείου με την νέα κτιριακή προσθήκη μέσω πυρήνα κατακόρυφης κίνησης.
Hacia la construcción de un modelo interpretativo de las formas de rechazo en contra de las minorías religiosas en México: el caso del Protestantismo
Creators: name: Gervasi, Francesco
Publisher: name: Comparative Cultural Studies - European and Latin American Perspectives
Year: 2016

description: The two main objectives of this paper are to describe acts of intolerance towards religious minorities in Mexico and build an interpretative model of the forms of racism that occur in these acts, focusing on the case of Protestantism. The methodological approach is qualitative and scope of the research is descriptive and exploratory. The results highlight that cultural racism against Mexican Protestants is institutionalized, differentialist, with origins of the violence of identity type (defensive) and social. The findings indicate the need to develop more efficient mechanisms in defense of religious diversity that have been used to date, to aspire to really build societies based on tolerance and, consequently, in the peaceful coexistence of differences.
description: Comparative Cultural Studies - European and Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 1 No. 1 (2016)
Inelastic scattering puts in question recent claims of Anderson localization of light
Creators: name: Maret, Georg
name: Sperling, Tilo
name: Bührer, Wolfgang
name: Lubatsch, Andreas
name: Frank, Regine
name: Aegerter, Christof M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The interplay between nonlinear effects and Anderson localization in disordered optical fibres1 has recently attracted great interest, and it is important in the action of random lasers in which closed multiple scattering loops have enhanced intensity. As optical nonlinearities in TiO2 can give valuable information on the nature of light transport in strongly scattering powders, we studied these effects in an extended experimental and theoretical investigation (to be published). Now, Scheffold and Wiersma have ...
"systematics.tar.gz" of "Inclusive Deep Inelastic Scattering at High Q2 with Longitudinally Polarised Lepton Beams at HERA"
Creators: name: H1 Collaboration
Publisher: name: HEPData
Year: 2014

description: More information on the systematic errors
description: DESY-HERA. Measurements of single and double differential cross sections in E+-P neutral (NC) and charged (CC) current DIS processes. The data were taken at a centre-of-mass energy of 319 GeV with a total integrated luminosity of 333.7 pb-1 shared between the two lepton beam charges and the two longitudinal lepton polarisation modes. Cross sections are measured in the Q^2 range from 60-50000 GeV^2, Bjorken X between 0.0008 and 0.65. The cross sections are combined with previous H1 data to improve precision to determine the structure function xF3(gammaZ). A measurement of the NC parity violating structure function F2(gmmaZ) is presented for the first time. The polarisation dependence of the CC total cross section is also measured.
Marine debris from recreational fishing and plastic ingestion in two Australian fishes
Creators: name: Watson, Audrey-Rose
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Plastic is ubiquitous in our oceans and directly and indirectly threatens marine habitat and biota. Interactions such as entanglement and ingestion of plastics can cause serious health consequences and are thought to lead to stunted growth, reproductive abnormality and mortality in species. Surprisingly, however, there is little evidence to back up these claims in local Sydney fishes. This thesis, which assesses the impacts of plastics and other forms of debris on eastern Australian fishes, has two sections. The first reviews published literature marine debris associated with recreational fishing and its impacts. While the review is a global assessment, particular reference is made to temperate eastern Australian waters. The second section directly assesses the prevalence of plastic ingestion in two commercially and recreationally-important, wild-caught fish species in coastal eastern Australian waters: bluespotted flathead (Platycephalus caeruleopunctatus) and tailor (Pomatomus saltatrix). In this pilot study, individuals are assessed for the presence of plastics in the gastrointestinal tract, the liver and the muscle, and results considered in light of their feeding and life history strategies. Outcomes of this preliminary research are relevant for ecologists, managers, fishers, as well as food safety regulating bodies and consumers.
Supplementary.docx
Creators: name: Bullock, Martyn
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 110306 Endocrinology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental materials for " Foxe1 deletion in the mouse is associated with thyroidal mast cell infiltration and hypothyroidism". Figshare. Deposited April 10, 2022. 10.6084/m9.figshare.19565056.
title: Ein Schön new Christenlich lied, Einem yeden Christen menschen nützlich zu hören; [ca. 1538]
title: Kümbt her zu mir spricht Gottes Sun [et]c. Im dem thon. Was wöll wir aber heben an, [et]c.
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Grünwald, Georg
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2010

description: Verf. ermittelt
Migration policies and institutional frameworks. Development and evolution in Portugal
Creators: name: Padilla, Beatriz
name: França, Thais
Publisher: name: Comparative Cultural Studies - European and Latin American Perspectives
Year: 2016

description: Portugal has been recognised internationally for implementing migrant friendly policies, occupying the first place in the UN Report and second in MIPEX. Yet, there are several questions to be raised regarding the recognition and valorisation of diversity and difference. In this paper we take a historical approach to analyse how migration policies have been conceived and evolved in Portugal. The methodological approach includes documental analysis and secondary sources.
description: Comparative Cultural Studies - European and Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 1 No. 1 (2016)
Engineered spin-valve type magnetoresistance in Fe$_3$O$_4$-CoFe$_2$O$_4$ core-shell nanoparticles
Creators: name: Kumar, P. Anil
name: Ray, Sugata
name: Chakraverty, S.
name: Sarma, D. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Naturally occurring spin-valve-type magnetoresistance (SVMR), recently observed in Sr2FeMoO6 samples, suggests the possibility of decoupling the maximal resistance from the coercivity of the sample. Here we present the evidence that SVMR can be engineered in specifically designed and fabricated core-shell nanoparticle systems, realized here in terms of soft magnetic Fe3O4 as the core and hard magnetic insulator CoFe2O4 as the shell materials. We show that this provides a magnetically switchable tunnel barrier that controls the magnetoresistance of the system, instead of the magnetic properties of the magnetic grain material, Fe3O4, and thus establishing the feasibility of engineered SVMR structures.
description: Copyright (2013) American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics
Preventing Research Misconduct Through Education: The 2020 Plagiarism Case
Creators: name: Pan, Sophia Jui-An
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Academic Integrity
Plagiarism
Research Integrity
Research Misconduct
Thesis Integrity

description: ABSTRACT This presentation consists of three parts. First, I will describe the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the scenes for practical academic ethics (RCR/research integrity) education in Taiwan. In this part, I will introduce the adjustments that were implemented to teaching formats (such as how do face-to-face and online courses complement each other) to comply with the government’s epidemic prevention and control policies. Face-to-face teaching on RCR/research integrity and all teaching at all levels have been fully resumed in the third and fourth quarters of 2020. Therefore, I will describe the epidemic prevention measures that were conducted to secure participants’/students’ health across instructional sites. Second, I will review a case of plagiarism from the master’s thesis of a Taiwanese mayoral candidate. This accusation was made during the time of a mayoral by-election campaign in 2020. I will focus on the reflections on this case from an RCR/research integrity perspective, including any lessons brought to local academic research and the higher education community. These include any unsolved issues that have been actively studied in recent lessons. Examples include the following questions: what are the specific methods for establishing a quality assurance mechanism for degree theses? what are the methods for effectively detecting improper behavior, such as contract and Internet-facilitated cheating? how can the contract cheating industry and relevant advertisements be detected and then dealt with? and how can the quality and commitment of mentorship relationships be enhanced? While we do not wish to see any cases of integrity breaches in local academic settings, we are grateful to study this case because it offers the opportunity to rethink our current academic ethics education and the issues regarding the higher education system that have not previously been studied in detail. It also enables us to consider potential solutions. Finally, in the third part of my presentation, I will present a brief overview of the Taiwan Association for Academic Ethics Education (TAAEE), which was only recently established in the middle of 2020. The TAAEE is a non-profit, non-governmental, and professional organization formed by local academic ethics educators and scholars. The society’s philosophy is to join with local teachers, students, and management personnel at all levels (across universities, research institutes, and middle schools) to work collaboratively to deepen the spirit and values of academic ethics in every corner of our campuses.
Facing diversity and democracy: European neo-nationalism, Canadian multiculturalism and Latin American experiences
Creators: name: Campani, Giovanna
Publisher: name: Comparative Cultural Studies - European and Latin American Perspectives
Year: 2016

description: The paper tries to demonstrate that the debate about cultural diversity cannot avoid issues concerning the historical nature of the European nation-state, the transformations provoked by the creation of the European Union, and the relationship between the nation state and democracy. The European historical specificities mark the forms multiculturalism can take. The paper tries as well to show how multiculturalism policies vary according to the contexts. In a comparative perspective, the paper considers the development of multiculturalism outside Europe, looking in the first place at the Canadian experience, Canada being a pioneer in making of multiculturalism an official policy; then at the Latin American experiences of multiculturalism and of “multinationalism” (Barabas, 2015). In order to clarify how multiculturalism (and multinationalism) was implemented in Latin America, the paper briefly discusses the historical formation of the Latin American states. It finally considers how a comparative Europe/Latin America perspective can be useful to clarify the European dilemmas.
description: Comparative Cultural Studies - European and Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 1 No. 1 (2016)
Study plan: Moderation of the assimilative effect of pairing despite opposition relation by the informative value of the relational information – (startstop1)
Creators: name: Bar-Anan, Yoav
name: Nudler, Yahel
name: Moran, Tal
name: Bar-Anan Lab
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Social Psychology
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Attitudes
subject: Evaluative Conditioning
subject: Propositional Learning
subject: Associative Learning

description: A follow-up study aimed to examine whether the discriminative value of the relational information moderates the assimilative effect of EC despite opposition relational information, by adding a similarity relation.
La diversidad de las diversidades. Reflexiones sobre el pluralismo cultural en América Latina
Creators: name: Bartolomé, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: Comparative Cultural Studies - European and Latin American Perspectives
Year: 2016

description: This analytical essay argues that the issue of ethnicity in Latin America is not an appeal to the past, but an important component of social thought and contemporary politics. A brief historical approach suggests that Latin American states were formed as uninational political apparatus on ethnic configurations, highlighting the cultural repression and ethnic domination are an integral part of its state design. The essay realizes that the poverty of ethnic groups is not accidental, as it represents the result of a specific historical project. It also discusses the current existence of multiple cultural predicates allocable to liberal and individualistic concept of citizenship.
description: Comparative Cultural Studies - European and Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 1 No. 1 (2016)
Giant monopoles as a dark matter candidate
Creators: name: Evslin, Jarah Markar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The most prominent successes of weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) models of dark matter are at comoving scales of megaparsecs. At kiloparsec scales they face challenges in explaining the density profiles, abundances and phase space distributions of satellite galaxies in our local group. An alternate dark matter candidate, the giant 't Hooft-Polyakov monopole, is proposed which may share the large distance successes of WIMPs while evading their short distance problems. These are classical field theory solutions of a dark sector including a nonabelian gauge field, an adjoint scalar field and fundamental fermions. In such models each halo consists of a single monopole characterized by a conserved integer charge.
description: 6 pages, talk presented at The Modern Physics of Compact Stars and Relativistic Gravity
Generation of arbitrary complex quasi-non-diffracting optical patterns
Creators: name: Ortiz-Ambriz, Antonio
name: Lopez-Aguayo, Servando
name: Kartashov, Yaroslav V.
name: Vysloukh, Victor A.
name: Petrov, Dmitri
name: Garcia-Gracia, Hipolito
name: Gutiérrez-Vega, Julio C.
name: Torner, Lluis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Due to their unique ability to maintain an intensity distribution upon propagation, non-diffracting light fields are used extensively in various areas of science, including optical tweezers, nonlinear optics and quantum optics, in applications where complex transverse field distributions are required. However, the number and type of rigorously non-diffracting beams is severely limited because their symmetry is dictated by one of the coordinate system where the Helmholtz equation governing beam propagation is separable. Here, we demonstrate a powerful technique that allows the generation of a rich variety of quasi-non-diffracting optical beams featuring nearly arbitrary intensity distributions in the transverse plane. These can be readily engineered via modifications of the angular spectrum of the beam in order to meet the requirements of particular applications. Such beams are not rigorously non-diffracting but they maintain their shape over large distances, which may be tuned by varying the width of the angular spectrum. We report the generation of unique spiral patterns and patterns involving arbitrary combinations of truncated harmonic, Bessel, Mathieu, or parabolic beams occupying different spatial domains. Optical trapping experiments illustrate the opto-mechanical properties of such beams.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures, to be published in Optics Express
Dimensione pubblica e sfera privata nello spazio transnazionale: genere, politica e azione sociale tra Europa e America Latina (Italiano, English, Español)
Creators: name: Chiappelli, Tiziana
name: Mancaniello, Maria Rita
name: Aguilar Edwards, Andrea
Publisher: name: Comparative Cultural Studies - European and Latin American Perspectives
Year: 2016

description: Comparative Cultural Studies - European and Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 1 No. 1 (2016)
Coexistence of Superconductivity and Ferromagnetism in P-doped EuFe2As2
Creators: name: Nandi, S.
name: Jin, W. T.
name: Xiao, Y.
name: Su, Y.
name: Price, S.
name: Shukla, D. K.
name: Strempfer, J.
name: Jeevan, H. S.
name: Gegenwart, P.
name: Brückel, Th.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The magnetic structure of the Eu2+ moments in the superconducting EuFe2(As1-xPx)2 sample with x = 0.15 has been determined using element specific x-ray resonant magnetic scattering. Combining magnetic, thermodynamic and scattering measurements, we conclude that the long range ferromagnetic order of the Eu2+ moments aligned primarily along the c axis coexists with the bulk superconductivity at zero field. At an applied magnetic field >= 0.6 T, superconductivity still coexists with the ferromagnetic Eu2+ moments which are polarized along the field direction. We propose a spontaneous vortex state for the coexistence of superconductivity and ferromagnetism in EuFe2(As0.85P0.15)2.
description: Accepted, Phys. Rev. B
Una nuova rivista online consacrata ai “cultural studies”, «Comparative Cultural Studies: European and Latin America Perspectives». A quale scopo? (Italiano, English, Español)
Creators: name: Campani, Giovanna
name: Lombardi, Alessandra
Publisher: name: Comparative Cultural Studies - European and Latin American Perspectives
Year: 2016

description: Comparative Cultural Studies - European and Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 1 No. 1 (2016)
Intrinsic Motivation in Public Service: Theory and Evidence from State Supreme Courts
Creators: name: Ash, Elliott
name: MacLeod, W. Bentley
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Economics
subject: Labor economics
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: This paper provides a theoretical and empirical analysis of the intrinsic preferences of state appellate court judges. We construct a panel data set using published decisions from state supreme court cases merged with institutional and biographical information on all (1,700) state supreme court judges for the 50 states of the United States from 1947 to 1994. We exploit variation in the employment conditions of judges over this period of time to measure the effect of these changes on a number of measures of judicial performance. The results are consistent with the hypothesis that judges are intrinsically motivated to provide high-quality decisions, and that at the margin they prefer quality over quantity. When judges face less time pressure, they write more well-researched opinions that are cited more often by later judges. When judges are up for election then performance falls, consistent with the hypothesis that election politics is time-consuming. These effects are strongest when judges have more discretion to select their case portfolio, consistent with psychological theories that posit a negative effect of contingency on motivation (e.g. Deci, 1971). Finally, the intrinsic preference for quality appears to be higher among judges selected by non-partisan elections than among those selected by partisan elections.
Finding Information Through Integrated Ad-Hoc Socializing in the Virtual and Physical World
Creators: name: von der Weth, Christian
name: Hauswirth, Manfred
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Despite the services of sophisticated search engines like Google, there are a number of interesting information sources which are useful but largely inaccessible to current Web users. These information sources are often ad-hoc, location-specific and only useful for users over short periods of time, or relate to tacit knowledge of users or implicit knowledge in crowds. The solution presented in this paper addresses these problems by introducing an integrated concept of "location" and "presence" across the physical and virtual worlds enabling ad-hoc socializing of users interested in, or looking for similar information. While the definition of presence in the physical world is straightforward - through a spatial location and vicinity at a certain point in time - their definitions in the virtual world are neither obvious nor trivial. Based on a detailed analysis we provide an integrated spatial model spanning both worlds which enables us to define presence of users in a unified way. This integrated model allows us to enable ad-hoc socializing of users browsing the Web with users in the physical world specific to their joint information needs and allows us to unlock the untapped information sources mentioned above. We describe a proof-of-concept implementation of our model and provide an empirical analysis based on real-world experiments.
APLC-Optimization: an apodized pupil Lyot coronagraph design survey toolkit
Creators: name: Nickson, Bryony F.
name: Por, Emiel H.
name: Nguyen, Meiji M.
name: Soummer, Remi
name: Laginja, Iva
name: Sahoo, Ananya
name: Pueyo, Laurent
name: Laurent, Kathryn St.
name: N'Diaye, Mamadou
name: Zimmerman, Neil T.
name: Noss, James
name: Perrin, Marshall
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a publicly available software package developed for exploring apodized pupil Lyot coronagraph (APLC) solutions for various telescope architectures. In particular, the package optimizes the apodizer component of the APLC for a given focal-plane mask and Lyot stop geometry to meet a set of constraints (contrast, bandwidth etc.) on the coronagraph intensity in a given focal-plane region (i.e. dark zone). The package combines a high-contrast imaging simulation package HCIPy with a third-party mathematical optimizer (Gurobi) to compute the linearly optimized binary mask that maximizes transmission. We provide examples of the application of this toolkit to several different telescope geometries, including the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) and the High-contrast imager for Complex Aperture Telescopes (HiCAT) testbed. Finally, we summarize the results of a preliminary design survey for the case of a 6~m aperture off-axis space telescope, as recommended by the 2020 NASA Decadal Survey, exploring APLC solutions for different segment sizes. We then use the Pair-based Analytical model for Segmented Telescope Imaging from Space (PASTIS) to perform a segmented wavefront error tolerancing analysis on these solutions.
description: 17 pages, 16 figures, SPIE conference
Intraovarian regulation of gonadotropin-dependent folliculogenesis depends on notch receptor signaling pathways not involving Delta-like ligand 4 (Dll4)
Creators: name: Zimmermann, Ralf C.
name: Jovanovic, Vuk P.
name: Sauer, Christopher M.
name: Shawber, Carrie
name: Gomez, Raul
name: Wang, Xing
name: Sauer, Mark V.
name: Kitajewski, Jan K.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Obstetrics
subject: Gynecology

description: Background: In-situ hybridisation studies demonstrate that Notch receptors and ligands are expressed in granulosa cells (GCs) and in the theca layer vasculature of growing follicles. Notch signaling involves cell-to-cell interaction mediated by transmembrane receptors and ligands. This signaling pathway may represent a novel intraovarian regulator of gonadotropin-dependent follicular development to the preovulatory stage. We hypothesized that blocking Notch pathways would disrupt follicular maturation in the mouse ovary. Methods: Hypophysectomized CD21 female mice were administered pregnant mare serum gonadotropin (PMSG) for 3 days to stimulate follicular development. In one experiment, a pan-notch inhibitor, compound E, was initiated 2 days prior to and throughout stimulation (n = 10), while in a second experiment, a humanized phage Dll4 blocking antibody, YW152F, was used (n = 5). After sacrifice, ovarian histology, serum estradiol levels and uterine weights were compared to controls. The ovarian morphology was evaluated with hematoxylin/eosin staining and immunohistochemistry was performed for Notch1, Notch2, Notch3, Notch4, Jagged1, Dll4, platelet endothelial cell adhesion molecule (PECAM) and alpha-smooth muscle actin (α-SMA) detection. Results: We localized specific Notch ligands and receptors in the following structures: Dll4 is specific to theca layer endothelial cells (ECs); Notch1/Notch4 and Jagged1 are expressed in theca layer ECs and vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs), whereas Notch3 is restricted to VSMCs; Notch2 is expressed mostly on GCs of small follicles. Administration of a pan-Notch inhibitor, compound E, inhibits follicular development to the preovulatory stage (8.5 preovulatory follicles in treatment vs. 3.4 preovulatory follicles in control, p
Electrical Characterization of a Thin Edgeless N-on-p Planar Pixel Sensors For ATLAS Upgrades
Creators: name: Bomben, M.
name: Bagolini, A.
name: Boscardin, M.
name: Bosisio, L.
name: Calderini, G.
name: Chauveau, J.
name: Giacomini, G.
name: La Rosa, A.
name: Marchori, G.
name: Zorzi, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In view of the LHC upgrade phases towards the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC), the ATLAS experiment plans to upgrade the Inner Detector with an all-silicon system. Because of its radiation hardness and cost effectiveness, the n-on-p silicon technology is a promising candidate for a large area pixel detector. The paper reports on the joint development, by LPNHE and FBK of novel n-on-p edgeless planar pixel sensors, making use of the active trench concept for the reduction of the dead area at the periphery of the device. After discussing the sensor technology, and presenting some sensors' simulation results, a complete overview of the electrical characterization of the produced devices will be given.
description: 9 pages, 9 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the 15th International Workshops on Radiation Imaging Detectors
Ordered Bose Glass of Vortices in Superconducting YBa$_{2}$Cu$_{3}$O$_{7-δ}$ Thin Films with a Periodic Pin Lattice Created by Focused Helium Ion Irradiation
Creators: name: Backmeister, Lucas
name: Aichner, Bernd
name: Karrer, Max
name: Wurster, Katja
name: Kleiner, Reinhold
name: Goldobin, Edward
name: Koelle, Dieter
name: Lang, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The defect-rich morphology of YBa$_{2}$Cu$_{3}$O$_{7-δ}$ (YBCO) thin films leads to a glass-like arrangement of Abrikosov vortices which causes the resistance to disappear in vanishing current densities. This vortex glass consists of entangled vortex lines and is identified by a characteristic scaling of the voltage-current isotherms. Randomly distributed columnar defects stratify the vortex lines and lead to a Bose glass. Here, we report on the observation of an ordered Bose glass in a YBCO thin film with a hexagonal array of columnar defects with 30 nm spacings. The periodic pinning landscape was engineered by a focused beam of 30 keV He$^+$ ions in a helium-ion microscope.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures
A sharp bound for the inscribed radius under mean curvature flow
Creators: name: Brendle, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider a family of embedded, mean convex hypersurfaces which evolve by the mean curvature flow. It follows from general results of White that the inscribed radius at each point on the surface is at least $\frac{c}{H}$, where $c$ is a constant that depends only on the initial data. Andrews recently gave a new proof of that fact using a direct monotonicity argument. In this paper, we improve this result and show that the inscribed radius is at least $\frac{1}{(1+δ) \, H}$ at each point where the curvature is large.
Crimes and Punishments
Creators: name: Torrengo, Giuliano
name: Varzi, Achille C.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: Logic

description: John was driving 150 km/h. The law says you cannot exceed 130 km/h, so John got fined. He got fined twice. “Why twice?” Because there were two speed detection devices—one at km 50 and one at km 100—so they caught him twice. “What if the devices were closer to each other, at km 50 and at km 60?” Same story: if they catch you twice, you get fined twice. “What if there was a third device in between, at km 55?” Three devices, three measurements, three infractions—hence three fines. “But they could measure any number of times in between. What if they placed a device every kilometer?” They would fine you for each time a distinct device would measure an infraction. “But that is absurd. By that pattern, I could be fined uncountably many times for speed driving a single meter.”A “pattern” is a mathematical abstraction, and no one will ever risk bankruptcy for a brief infringement of the Traffic Code. But John’s lawyer has a point. How long should the infringement last in order for two or more fines to be applicable? A fine is a punishment in which we incur if we perform a forbidden action—a crime—and there is a strong intuition to the effect that crimes and punishments should go hand in hand: every criminal act ought to be matched by a corresponding punishment, and every punishment ought to reflect a criminal act. We know how to count punishments, especially if they come in the form of a fine. But how do we count crimes?
title: Reflections on their motivations to move. A case study of wealthy Chinese migration to western democratic countries in the past two decades
Creators: name: Chau, Wai Fong
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2023

description: This thesis analyses the subjective reasons for the migration of wealthy Chinese to four Western democratic countries in the past two decades. It explores the subjective social, economic, political, and environmental factors that influence the migration decisions of those wealthy Chinese. The study uses qualitative data from 60 semi-structured interviews with mainland Chinese migrants to Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and analysis of the resulting data shows that wealthy Chinese move abroad due to a combination of subjective reasons that include securing better quality of education, cleaner air, personal freedom and wealth security, and a comfortable and more autonomous lifestyle in Western democratic countries. The thesis illustrates that no single theory can explain the reasons behind the emigration of wealthy Chinese due to the multi-faceted characterstics of the process. This study shows that wealthy Chinese migrants pursue the goals of increased freedoms and improved political status in the country of residence by taking advantage of their economic privilege in their country of origin. Moreover, the study resonates with Hirschman’s argument that poor governance and limited access to rights in undemocratic countries are important factors driving people to leave their home countries (Hirschman, 1993), even when these countries have achieived rapid economic growth. The findings contribute to the literature on Chinese migration in three ways. Firstly, they explain that the perennial problems associated with China’s single-party communist rule remain significant in pushing the wealthy class to relocate to Western democratic countries. The findings also add nuance to earlier research results by revealing that the introduction of the Social Credit System, the ‘original sin’ problem[sup]1 , ‘just one voice’, and the perceived likelihood of political regression under Xi Jinping’s leadership, together with weak protection of private property are identified by private entrepreneurs interviewed in this study as the most important drivers for leaving China. These political issues driving wealthy Chinese to leave their home country have been largely overlooked by prior research. Secondly, the present study illustrates Chinese migrants’ heterogeneous demographic characteristics and unearths empirical evidence on the intergenerational dynamics surrounding the migration of wealthy Chinese. Thirdly, this analysis suggests that the correlations between the effects of air pollution and migration decisions may be related to the geographical region of migrants’ hometowns and the specific year of migration. In short, the recent migration outflow from China has been politically motivated together with education, environmental, and lifestyle considerations.
Monotone Smoothing Splines Using General Linear Systems
Creators: name: Nagahara, Masaaki
name: Martin, Clyde F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, a method is proposed to solve the problem of monotone smoothing splines using general linear systems. This problem, also called monotone control theoretic splines, has been solved only when the curve generator is modeled by the second-order integrator, but not for other cases. The difficulty in the problem is that the monotonicity constraint should be satisfied over an interval which has the cardinality of the continuum. To solve this problem, we first formulate the problem as a semi-infinite quadratic programming, and then we adopt a discretization technique to obtain a finite-dimensional quadratic programming problem. It is shown that the solution of the finite-dimensional problem always satisfies the infinite-dimensional monotonicity constraint. It is also proved that the approximated solution converges to the exact solution as the discretization grid-size tends to zero. An example is presented to show the effectiveness of the proposed method.
Drawing up a project data management plan with DMP OPIDoR. Practical Guide
Creators: name: Sébire, Fanny
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: DMP OPIDoR
Data management plan
Research data

description: The Institut Pasteur provides its scientists with a project data management plan (DMP) template that can be completed using the DMP OPIDoR tool. Using this tool allows to:
 - Work with others on the DMP, including with French or foreign partners;
 - Easily view tips and examples of answers associated with each question;
 - Easily update the DMP during the project;
 - Export the DMP in PDF or Word format to send it to the funder. The purpose of this document is to guide scientists in the use of DMP OPIDoR for writing a project DMP.
The Genetic Evaluation and Comparison Between Internal and Imported (Canada, America, Europe) Sperms for Milk Yield, Fat Yield and Milk Fat Percentage in Some Daily Farms of Isfahan Province
Creators: name: Nilforooshan, Mohammad Ali
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003

description: Abstract: In this study, for the purpose of genetic evaluation and comparison between internal and imported sperms (Canada, America, Europe) and assessing genetic and environmental parameters affecting some productive traits (Milk Yield, Fat Yield and Milk Fat Percentage) and some reproductive and longevity traits (age at 1st calving, herd life and productive life), lactation and pedigree data of 45 herds was collected from Animal Breeding Centre of the Agricultural Ministry in Isfahan province between 1374/01/01 and 1380/09/30. The (GLM) and (REG) procedures of SAS software was used to evaluate the way and the extent to which affecting factors influence records. Genetic parameters of Milk Yield, Fat Yield and Milk Fat percentage traits were calculated by six univariate animal models and one multivariate animal model with Derivative - Free Restricted Maximum Likelihood (DFREML) method. Direct heritabilities of Milk Yield, Fat Yield and Milk Fat Percentage traits were obtained 0.23, 0.24 and 0.393 respectively with using univariate analysis method. Also, direct heritabilities of Milk Yield, Fat Yield and Milk Fat Percentage traits were obtained 0.34, 0.276 and 0.312 respectively with using multivariate analysis method. The effect of sire origin including Iranian, Canadian, American and European sires was a significant factor for all traits in this study. American and European sires have the highest mean of breeding values in both Milk and Fat Yield traits; while the mean of breeding values of Iranian sires in both Milk and Fat Yield traits was in the lowest level. The European and Iranian sires have the highest and American sires has the least mean of breeding values in Milk Fat Percentage trait. Iranian daughters had the lowest level than the three other groups in herd life and productive life. Therefore, according to the improvement in most of the traits in this study by imported sperms the use of imported sperms is recommended with regarding to other conditions for Holstein dairy farms of Isfahan province. In addition using American sperms without considering the breeding value of the bull in Milk Fat Percentage is never recommended for those herds which confront with low Milk Fat Percentage.
description: MSc Thesis
Effects of Amphetamine, Methylphenidate and Atomoxetine on Inhibitory Control: a Systematic Review.
Creators: name: Ettinger, Ulrich
name: Müller, Charlotte
name: Faßbender, Kaja
name: Kumari, Veena
name: Yaira Chamorro
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Psychiatry and Psychology
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: The attached file contains the PRISMA-P Protocol.