cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 6 of Sensitivity of migratory connectivity estimates to spatial sampling design
Creators: name: Vickers, Stephen H.
name: Franco, Aldina M. A.
name: Gilroy, James J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional file 6: Figure A6. A-C: Density plots of pairwise distances between individuals under spread-based scenarios, depicting how the distribution of sampled pairwise distances (solid lines) varies with the scale of sampling, relative to true distance distributions for the whole population (dotted lines). Inset schematics visualise the sampling regime on the breeding ground, with highlighted region indicating the zone of sampling. D: Mantel scores from 100 replicate simulated studies (circles), compared to the whole population of 10,000 individuals (crosses). Samples comprised 200 individuals chosen randomly across the nine sampling areas which varied in their spread. Error bars indicate standard deviation around the mean score of 100 replicates. These examples show the lowest level migratory connectivity simulated (Mantel MC 0.33).
Monotagma congestum Hagberg & R. Erikss. 2011, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Hagberg, Mats
name: Eriksson, Roger
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Zingiberales
Marantaceae
Monotagma
Monotagma congestum

description: 16. Monotagma congestum Hagberg & R.Erikss., sp. nov.  (Fig. 4C)
 Surculis aereis indeterminatis M. rudanii et M. ulei similis, sed ab eis differt inflorescentia congesta ovoidea.
 Type:— BRAZIL. Amazonas: Upper Rio Negro, Rio Dimití, on side of Cerro Dimití, 12–19 May 1948, Schultes & López 9957 (holotype IAN, isotypes UBC, US).
Herb. Basal parts unknown. Aerial shoots with 7–10 nodes, not organized as a synflorescence, main shoot indeterminate, without a terminal florescence, second and subsequent internodes short, <0.3 cm long, each node with a well-developed leaf, florescences and/or leafy shoots arising from axils of main shoot leaves. Leaf at lowermost node with sheath 14–16 cm, papyraceous to chartaceous, puberulent to ± glabrous, auriculate; petiole 0.6–1.2 cm long, terete, appressed-puberulent throughout; pulvinus 0.6–1.6 cm long, ± terete, appressed-puberulent throughout, without annulus; blade ovate, chartaceous when dry, base obtuse to truncate, apex caudate, centric, 25–28 × ca 10 cm, length from base to broadest part ca 8 cm, adaxial surface not papillose, hirtellous throughout, abaxial surface not papillose, glabrous. Florescences in axillary clusters forming a dense ± ovoid head with 17–38 florescences; lowermost florescence 3.5–6 cm long with 9–16 unilaterally arranged bracts, first internode 0.3–0.4 cm long, peduncle 0.4–0.5 cm long; lowermost bract 1.6– 1.7 × 0.5–0.6 cm, greenish, chartaceous, hirtellous throughout; first prophyll 9–11 mm long, hirtellous throughout. Flowers 6–8 per bract, white; pedicel 0.5–1 mm long; ovary 1–1.5 mm long, hirtellous apically; sepals 4–5 × 1–1.5 mm; corolla tube 10–13 × ca 0.5 mm, outside ± glabrous, inside hirtellous in mouth, lobes ca 4 × ca 2 mm; outer staminode ca 4 × ca 2 mm, obovate, apex entire; stamen ca 2 mm long, theca ca 1 mm long; callose staminode ca 3.5 × ca 2 mm, fleshy throughout; cucullate staminode ca 2.5 mm long, appendage ca 0.5 mm long; style ca 2 mm long (tripped). Capsule 9.5–10 × 2.5–3 mm; seed ca 8 × ca 2.5 mm; aril ca 2.5 mm long.
 Distribution:—Known only from the type locality, probably a premontane forest.
 Discussion:— Monotagma congestum is similar to M. rudanii and M. ulei, but is distinguished by a more condensed aerial shoot system with florescences forming a dense ± ovoid head.
description: Published as part of Hagberg, Mats & Eriksson, Roger, 2011, New names in Monotagma (Marantaceae), pp. 1-25 in Phytotaxa 20 (1) on page 22, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.20.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4776634
Long-term orbital evolution of Galactic satellites and the effects on their star formation histories
Creators: name: Miyoshi, Takahiro
name: Chiba, Masashi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the orbital motions of dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) in the halo of the Milky Way (MW) to understand their possible effects on the diversity of the star formation histories seen in these MW satellites. In this work, we explicitly consider a time-varying gravitational potential due to the growth of the MW's dark halo mass to calculate the long-term orbital evolutions of the dSphs, guided with {\it Gaia} DR2 proper motions, over the past 13.5 billion years. We find that the infall time of a satellite, defined at which the galaxy first crosses within the growing virial radius of the MW's halo, coincides well with the time when the star formation rate (SFR) is peaked for the sample of classical dSphs. On the other hand, ultra-faint dSphs already finished their SF activity prior to their infall times as already suggested in previous works, but there is a signature that their earlier SF histories are affected by interaction with the growing MW's halo to some extent. We also find, for classical dSphs, that the relative fraction of stars formed after the peak of the SFR to the current stellar mass is smaller for the smaller pericentric radius of the galaxy at its first infall. These results suggest that the infalling properties of the dSphs into the MW and the resultant environmental effects such as ram-pressure stripping and/or tidal disturbance in the MW's dark halo containing hot gas play important roles in their star formation histories.
description: 13 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
A remark on Rasmussen's invariant of knots
Creators: name: Mackaay, Marco
name: Turner, Paul
name: Vaz, Pedro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We show that Rasmussen's invariant of knots, which is derived from Lee's variant of Khovanov homology, is equal to an analogous invariant derived from certain other filtered link homologies.
description: There are two errors in the proof of Proposition 3.2. in this paper. These are indicated in an erratum added at the beginning. As a consequence the proof of Proposition 3.2 no longer holds and the proof of Theorem 4.2, which relies on it, is no longer valid
A SYMMETRIC APPROACH TO THE LABOR MARKET
Creators: name: Van Praag, B. M. S.
name: Hop, J. P.
name: Eggink, E.
name: Van Praag, B. M. S.
name: Hop, J. P.
name: Eggink, E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Female labor supply
subject: simulated EM-algorithm
subject: set-valued estimation
subject: employer's maximum wage
subject: childcare

description: In this paper we present a modification of the usual labor market model. Three wage concepts are introduced. We assume that the worker has a minimum wage in mind for which she is willing to participate and that the employer has a maximum wage in mind, which he is willing to pay for a specific type of labor. If the female does not work we assume that the institutional wage does not lie between those wage levels. This model is estimated on a cross-section data set of 6352 working and non-working married females. We employ a flexible simulated EM-algorithm where we simulate from individually varying sets with positive or zero measure in IR3 and ile. The estimated model indicates that the presence of young children does not only reduce the female's willingness to participate but also the employer's willingness to hire. On the basis of the model we differentiate unemployment as being due to unwillingness of the worker, the employer or both to supply and demand of labor at the present institutional wage level. It is estimated that about 40% of female employment may be attributed to the "insider advantage". A political evaluation of some effects of wage measures is provided. It is found that, in addition to the manipulation of wages and wage costs, the supply of childcare facilities will have a considerable impact on female participation.
ON THE PERSISTENCE OF INEFFICIENT NORMS
Creators: name: Goyal, S.
name: Janssen, M.
name: Goyal, S.
name: Janssen, M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: This paper considers an infinite stage two person coordination game in which players are asymmetrically informed about the changes in the stage-game pay-offs. The main result is that, in all equilibria, if players start by conforming to a stage-game norm then, inspite of the existence of signalling possibilities, the informed player chooses not to signal an interval of strict pareto-improving changes in stage-game pay-offs, ,and this leads to the persistence of norms, which have become in-efficient.
Ethnic associations and the process of adaptation: The case of Iranians in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area
Creators: name: Biparva, Ebrahim
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The primary purpose of this research is to explore the role of ethnic associations in the process of adaptation of Iranian immigrants to American life. Data sources include semi-structured interviews with decision-makers of thirty-two Iranian associations in the Washington, D.C. area; informal interviews with other informants about the associations. Data analysis is conducted at two levels: first, using the organization itself as the unit of analysis, considering its purposes, activities, and services; then, using the individual as the unit of analysis, focusing on characteristics and behavior of association decision-makers. This report reviews different approaches to adaptation, Park's (1950) and Gordon's (1964) models of assimilation, the potential significance of ethnic associations in this process, conflicting roles they may play, and the purposes and activities of other ethnic associations described in the literature. A typology of Iranian associations based on their primary goals is developed. Following Gordon's distinction of the three subprocesses of assimilation, the roles the Iranian associations are found to play in the process of adaptation are ranked in order of importance as follows: preservation of Iranian cultural heritage, followed in turn by structural, cultural, and marital assimilation. Other roles played by associations serve political interests and attempts for unity among Iranians. Some associations are found to have made great contributions to the Iranian community, others to have achieved some objectives, several to have demonstrated little progress. For diverse reasons, most of these associations were not able to attract large numbers of Iranians, who are not traditionally accustomed to joining voluntary associations and uniting to serve their interest. Yet their continued attachement to Iranian culture and adjustment problems they face in the U.S. indicate that potentially important roles exist for associations in both preserving Iranian culture and easing immigrant adjustment problems. The findings suggest that Iranians are just beginning to meet these needs. Most members of the associations are male, educated, and middle class. Decision-makers in these groups indicate that cultural preservation and liberation of Iran from Islamic government are much more important to them than the future development of Iranian organizational life in the U.S.
NP-Completeness Results for Graph Burning on Geometric Graphs
Creators: name: Gupta, Arya Tanmay
name: Lokhande, Swapnil A.
name: Mondal, Kaushik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Graph burning runs on discrete time steps. The aim is to burn all the vertices in a given graph in the least number of time steps. This number is known to be the burning number of the graph. The spread of social influence, an alarm, or a social contagion can be modeled using graph burning. The less the burning number, the faster the spread. Optimal burning of general graphs is NP-Hard. There is a 3-approximation algorithm to burn general graphs where as better approximation factors are there for many sub classes. Here we study burning of grids; provide a lower bound for burning arbitrary grids and a 2-approximation algorithm for burning square grids. On the other hand, burning path forests, spider graphs, and trees with maximum degree three is already known to be NP-Complete. In this article we show burning problem to be NP-Complete on connected interval graphs, permutation graphs and several other geometric graph classes as corollaries.
description: 17 pages, 5 figures
Shortcuts to Spherically Symmetric Solutions: A Cautionary Note
Creators: name: Deser, S.
name: Franklin, J.
name: Tekin, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spherically symmetric solutions of generic gravitational models are optimally, and legitimately, obtained by expressing the action in terms of the two surviving metric components. This shortcut is not to be overdone, however: a one-function ansatz invalidates it, as illustrated by the incorrect solutions of [1].
description: 2 pages. Amplified derivation, accepted for publication in Class Quant Grav
Ethnic associations and the process of adaptation: The case of Iranians in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area
Creators: name: Biparva, Ebrahim
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 47
subject: Language, communication and culture
classificationCode: 4702
subject: Cultural studies

description: The primary purpose of this research is to explore the role of ethnic associations in the process of adaptation of Iranian immigrants to American life. Data sources include semi-structured interviews with decision-makers of thirty-two Iranian associations in the Washington, D.C. area; informal interviews with other informants about the associations. Data analysis is conducted at two levels: first, using the organization itself as the unit of analysis, considering its purposes, activities, and services; then, using the individual as the unit of analysis, focusing on characteristics and behavior of association decision-makers. This report reviews different approaches to adaptation, Park's (1950) and Gordon's (1964) models of assimilation, the potential significance of ethnic associations in this process, conflicting roles they may play, and the purposes and activities of other ethnic associations described in the literature. A typology of Iranian associations based on their primary goals is developed. Following Gordon's distinction of the three subprocesses of assimilation, the roles the Iranian associations are found to play in the process of adaptation are ranked in order of importance as follows: preservation of Iranian cultural heritage, followed in turn by structural, cultural, and marital assimilation. Other roles played by associations serve political interests and attempts for unity among Iranians. Some associations are found to have made great contributions to the Iranian community, others to have achieved some objectives, several to have demonstrated little progress. For diverse reasons, most of these associations were not able to attract large numbers of Iranians, who are not traditionally accustomed to joining voluntary associations and uniting to serve their interest. Yet their continued attachement to Iranian culture and adjustment problems they face in the U.S. indicate that potentially important roles exist for associations in both preserving Iranian culture and easing immigrant adjustment problems. The findings suggest that Iranians are just beginning to meet these needs. Most members of the associations are male, educated, and middle class. Decision-makers in these groups indicate that cultural preservation and liberation of Iran from Islamic government are much more important to them than the future development of Iranian organizational life in the U.S.
Self-contained definition of the Collins-Soper kernel
Creators: name: Vladimirov, Alexey A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The rapidity anomalous dimension (RAD), or Collins-Soper kernel, defines the scaling properties of transverse momentum dependent distributions and can be extracted from the experimental data. I derive a self-contained nonperturbative definition that represents RAD without reference to a particular process. This definition makes possible exploration of the properties of RAD by theoretical methods on one side, and the properties of QCD vacuum with collider measurements on another side. To demonstrate these possibilities, I compute the power correction to RAD, its large-b asymptotic, and compare these estimations with recent phenomenological extractions.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures; v2. minor changes, update to the journal version
Congruence and dissonance of individual and organizational achieving styles: Relationship to perception of career advancement opportunities
Creators: name: Leary, Carol Ann
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship of individual and organizational achieving styles to perception of career advancement opportunities. Individual achieving styles were defined as strategies for accomplishing goals; organizational achieving styles were defined as the perceived rewarded strategies for accomplishing goals. Gender differences in achieving styles and perceptions of career advancement were also examined. The research design used was a survey mailed to the total administrative staff (264 members) of George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. The administrators completed three research instruments--the Individual Achieving Styles Inventory and Organizational Achieving Styles Inventory both developed by Lipman-Blumen and Leavitt, and the Career Advancement Questionnaire designed by the researcher. The responses from 66 percent (N = 174) of the surveyed population were analyzed. The study was based on the concept that the interaction between individuals and their organizations determines how individuals think in those organizations. Their thoughts or perceptions about career advancement opportunities are considered critical intervening variables related to career decision making, work motivation, and organizational commitment. It was hypothesized that administrators with an achieving style domain congruent to the perceived organizational achieving style domain would have more positive perceptions of career advancement opportunities than administrators who were dissonant. The findings showed no differences in the way congruent or dissonant administrators perceived their career advancement. Therefore, a match of individual achieving style domain with the perceived organizational achieving style domain was not related to more positive perceptions. The examination of the data for differences by gender showed some rank order differences but no statistical differences in achieving style behaviors or in perception of career advancement opportunities. Therefore, at George Mason University, males and females achieved their goals with similar strategies and viewed their advancement opportunities in similar ways. These results suggested that stylistic differences in management as well as differences in perception between male and female administrators must be empirically tested before assumptions about work styles or organizational attitudes are made based on gender alone.
An Investigation into the Impact of Support from Action for Healthy Kids on School Health Index Module Scores
Creators: name: Crowe, Autumn N.
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Action for Healthy Kids
subject: School Health Index
subject: school health
subject: child health
subject: school implementation of health policies and practices
subject: Child Health
subject: School Health Services
subject: Action for Healthy Kids (Organization)
subject: United States

description: The current study investigated the impact of funding and technical assistance from AFHK on schools implementation of school health policies and practices. The AFHK SHI was used to assess if schools improved their rates of implementation and if improvement occurred at similar rates across all 8 modules. Baseline and final SHI module percent scores of 601 elementary schools in the United States that received support from AFHK between the years of 2015 and 2018 were examined. Descriptive statistics were employed to assess which modules had the highest and lowest implementation rates at the final time point and to examine which module experienced the greatest and least growth in score. Paired samples t-tests assessed if changes in score from the baseline to the final time point were significantly different from each other. School Counseling, Psychological, and Social Services had the highest rates of implementation while Health Promotion for Staff had the lowest rates of implementation at the final time point. Family and Community Involvement experienced the greatest growth in score while School Counseling, Psychological and Social Services experienced the least amount of growth. All percent scores increased significantly from the baseline to the final time point. These findings inform AFHK of the impact of their support on schools implementation of health practices and policies as all areas of school health improved significantly. The findings can guide AFHK's future efforts regarding how to best support schools to address areas where schools need the greatest support to bolster school health.
An investigation into the current and alternative methods for produce storage and transportation at the UBC Farm
Creators: name: Bouthot, Stephan
name: Agarwal, Rushat
name: Wason, Tejbir
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: This report examines the economic costs of three produce transportation and storage methods for the UBC Farm in Vancouver, Canada. It looks in depth at the current storage method, the rubbermaid totes, as well as two potential replacements, corrugated cardboard boxes and burlap-lined totes. The report not only accounts for the direct monetary costs, but also for the opportunity cost for factors such as labour. Due to the approximations made for opportunity cost, this report may not be applicable to similar for-profit farms. The report conducts a thorough market research to inform the reader about the current practices in similar (small and big scale) operations. Cost prices are taken from prices published by other farm operation units in the greater Vancouver area. After comparing the three alternatives, this report concludes that burlap-lined rubber-maid totes are the most long term cost-effective option for the UBC Farm, while taking opportunity cost into account. The corrugated cardboard boxes save money on recurring costs due to labour, washing, and broken equipment but the cost of replacing the single-use boxes adds up over twenty years. The rubber-maid totes saved money due to its long lifespan, but the recurring costs and opportunity costs remains high. By modifying the existing system and adding a burlap-lining drastically reduces the washing cost and labour opportunity cost. This report recommends the UBC Farm modify their existing infrastructure and purchase burlap to line the plastic totes they already own. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Additional file 1 of Demand for community-based care services and its influencing factors among the elderly in affordable housing communities: a case study in Nanjing City
Creators: name: Tiantian Gu
name: Yuan, Jingfeng
name: Lingzhi Li
name: Qiuhu Shao
name: Chuanjun Zheng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Questionnaire on demands of the elderly for community-based care services in affordable housing communities. This is the questionnaire that was used to collect the data used in the study.
Congruence and dissonance of individual and organizational achieving styles: Relationship to perception of career advancement opportunities
Creators: name: Leary, Carol Ann
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3904
subject: Specialist studies in education

description: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship of individual and organizational achieving styles to perception of career advancement opportunities. Individual achieving styles were defined as strategies for accomplishing goals; organizational achieving styles were defined as the perceived rewarded strategies for accomplishing goals. Gender differences in achieving styles and perceptions of career advancement were also examined. The research design used was a survey mailed to the total administrative staff (264 members) of George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. The administrators completed three research instruments--the Individual Achieving Styles Inventory and Organizational Achieving Styles Inventory both developed by Lipman-Blumen and Leavitt, and the Career Advancement Questionnaire designed by the researcher. The responses from 66 percent (N = 174) of the surveyed population were analyzed. The study was based on the concept that the interaction between individuals and their organizations determines how individuals think in those organizations. Their thoughts or perceptions about career advancement opportunities are considered critical intervening variables related to career decision making, work motivation, and organizational commitment. It was hypothesized that administrators with an achieving style domain congruent to the perceived organizational achieving style domain would have more positive perceptions of career advancement opportunities than administrators who were dissonant. The findings showed no differences in the way congruent or dissonant administrators perceived their career advancement. Therefore, a match of individual achieving style domain with the perceived organizational achieving style domain was not related to more positive perceptions. The examination of the data for differences by gender showed some rank order differences but no statistical differences in achieving style behaviors or in perception of career advancement opportunities. Therefore, at George Mason University, males and females achieved their goals with similar strategies and viewed their advancement opportunities in similar ways. These results suggested that stylistic differences in management as well as differences in perception between male and female administrators must be empirically tested before assumptions about work styles or organizational attitudes are made based on gender alone.
A general theory of twentieth century political revolution
Creators: name: Luna, Carl John
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: A general theory of twentieth century political revolution, derived from Marx's analysis of social structure, is tested against four historical revolutions: the Russian, Cuban, Guatemalan, and Iranian. This model hypothesizes that revolution is a function of the degree of contradiction (stability) between the levels of rewards and sanctions distributed across the society by the ideological, economic, and social subsystems. The probability of a revolution occurring in a given society varies as its stability varies. Stability is defined as the degree of correlation in the rank orderings of the level of rewards/punishments received by groups in the population measured in each of the societal subsystems. Political revolution is defined as the rapid transformation of the distribution of rewards and penalties among specific groups within a society. An artificial intelligence-based computer simulation is used to test the research hypothesis. Cognitive/Decision models postulated for political actors in four revolutions are programmed in a computer simulation of the political environment. Actor-models select goal-satisfying strategies in competition with other actors. The simulation replicates the decision-making process of participating actors, the tactical nature of their decisions, and resolves the outcomes of decisions in terms of changes in actor capabilities. Measurements are made of the satisfaction of goals underlying these decisions. The record of actor-model decisions and simulation outcomes is regressed against the actor's historical decisions to establish the statistical validity of the actor models and each revolution simulation. The measures of levels of goal satisfaction obtained from the simulations for the modeled actors are used to calculate rank orderings for actor goal satisfaction associated with each societal subsystem. The correlation of these rank orderings obtained for each round of simulation is statistically compared to an ordinally scaled measure of revolutionary intensity also measured for each round of simulation. This test addresses the research hypothesis that the probability of revolution, as measured by revolutionary intensity, varies negatively with political stability, as measured by the correlation of goal satisfaction rankings. The outcome of experimental testing supported the research hypothesis.
Additional file 1 of Sensitivity of migratory connectivity estimates to spatial sampling design
Creators: name: Vickers, Stephen H.
name: Franco, Aldina M. A.
name: Gilroy, James J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional file 1: Figure A1. Simulating the breeding and non-breeding locations of 10,000 individuals. A. An individual is given a breeding location by placing the individual at random within the breeding area. The individual is then moved a set distance in a southerly direction B. The individual is then moved to a final non-breeding location. The direction of this movement is taken at random (C left) and the distance is drawn from a log-normal distribution (C right) which we varied to change the relative strength of migratory connectivity. D. This process is repeated for 10,000 individuals in the simulated population.
Additional file 10 of A pipeline for targeted metagenomics of environmental bacteria
Creators: name: Grieb, Anissa
name: Bowers, Robert M.
name: Monike Oggerin
name: Goudeau, Danielle
name: Lee, Janey
name: Malmstrom, Rex R.
name: Woyke, Tanja
name: Fuchs, Bernhard M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 10: Figure S10. Signal intensity of formaldehyde fixed Gramella forsetii cells, after HCR-FISH with different treatments. CARD-FISH and the former protocol (yellow bar: in hybridization buffer A, no denaturation, 45 min amplification) were used for comparison. 30 min denaturation at 65°C and 85°C were tested in combination with hybridization buffer A and hybridization buffer B for three amplification times: 15 min, 45 min and 120 min. The signal intensities were measured via microscopy and are given in RU. The choice of hybridization buffer did not make a significant difference to signal intensity, but HCR-FISH signals were slightly higher when buffer B was used (see materials and methods for details in composition). Increasing chain reaction amplification time from 15 or 45 min to 120 min enhanced fluorescence from 0.3 (15 min) and 0.4 RU (45 min) to 1.1 RU (average values).
Additional file 2 of Demand for community-based care services and its influencing factors among the elderly in affordable housing communities: a case study in Nanjing City
Creators: name: Tiantian Gu
name: Yuan, Jingfeng
name: Lingzhi Li
name: Qiuhu Shao
name: Chuanjun Zheng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Table S1. Logistic regression results of the main demands for community-based care services (with confidence intervals data), describes the regression coefficients and confidence intervals data of these five models.
Parabolic approaches to curvature equations
Creators: name: Bryan, Paul
name: Ivaki, Mohammad N.
name: Scheuer, Julian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We employ curvature flows without global terms to seek strictly convex, spacelike solutions of a broad class of elliptic prescribed curvature equations in the simply connected Riemannian spaceforms and the Lorentzian de Sitter space, where the prescribed function may depend on the position and the normal vector. In particular, in the Euclidean space we solve a class of prescribed curvature measure problems, intermediate $L_p$-Aleksandrov and dual Minkowski problems as well as their counterparts, namely the $L_{p}$-Christoffel-Minkowski type problems. In some cases we do not impose any condition on the anisotropy except positivity, and in the remaining cases our condition resembles the constant rank theorem/convexity principle due to Caffarelli-Guan-Ma (Commun. Pure Appl. Math. 60 (2007), 1769--1791). Our approach does not rely on monotone entropy functionals and it is suitable to treat curvature problems that do not possess variational structures.
description: 32 pages
Galilean symmetry in noncommutative field theory
Creators: name: Horvathy, P. A.
name: Martina, L.
name: Stichel, P. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: When the interaction potential is suitably reordered, the Moyal field theory admits two types of Galilean symmetries, namely the conventional mass-parameter-centrally-extended one with commuting boosts, but also the two-fold centrally extended ``exotic'' Galilean symmetry, where the commutator of the boosts yields the noncommutative parameter. In the free case, one gets an ``exotic'' two-parameter central extension of the Schroedinger group. The conformal symmetry is, however, broken by the interaction.
description: Corrected version. Further remarks and references added. LaTex, 8 pages, no figures
A general theory of twentieth century political revolution
Creators: name: Luna, Carl John
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: A general theory of twentieth century political revolution, derived from Marx's analysis of social structure, is tested against four historical revolutions: the Russian, Cuban, Guatemalan, and Iranian. This model hypothesizes that revolution is a function of the degree of contradiction (stability) between the levels of rewards and sanctions distributed across the society by the ideological, economic, and social subsystems. The probability of a revolution occurring in a given society varies as its stability varies. Stability is defined as the degree of correlation in the rank orderings of the level of rewards/punishments received by groups in the population measured in each of the societal subsystems. Political revolution is defined as the rapid transformation of the distribution of rewards and penalties among specific groups within a society. An artificial intelligence-based computer simulation is used to test the research hypothesis. Cognitive/Decision models postulated for political actors in four revolutions are programmed in a computer simulation of the political environment. Actor-models select goal-satisfying strategies in competition with other actors. The simulation replicates the decision-making process of participating actors, the tactical nature of their decisions, and resolves the outcomes of decisions in terms of changes in actor capabilities. Measurements are made of the satisfaction of goals underlying these decisions. The record of actor-model decisions and simulation outcomes is regressed against the actor's historical decisions to establish the statistical validity of the actor models and each revolution simulation. The measures of levels of goal satisfaction obtained from the simulations for the modeled actors are used to calculate rank orderings for actor goal satisfaction associated with each societal subsystem. The correlation of these rank orderings obtained for each round of simulation is statistically compared to an ordinally scaled measure of revolutionary intensity also measured for each round of simulation. This test addresses the research hypothesis that the probability of revolution, as measured by revolutionary intensity, varies negatively with political stability, as measured by the correlation of goal satisfaction rankings. The outcome of experimental testing supported the research hypothesis.
Opportunity and regression: American blacks in the post-Civil Rights era
Creators: name: Depallo, Mildred Ann
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Much scholarly debate over the past twenty years in the field of race relations in the U.S. concerns the issue of whether and to what extent life chances have improved for black Americans as a result of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. While both optimistic and pessimistic analyses of the problem abound in the literature, the present investigation discloses that there is no simple answer to the question, and that the persistence in regarding black Americans as a homogeneous group who have been affected uniformly by social and economic change has contributed to considerable conceptual confusion regarding the nature and degree of black progress. The present dissertation shows that certain economic and political trends in the U.S. over the past twenty years have resulted in a growing differential in opportunity and achievement for two segments of the black population: the new black middle class whose ranks have increased considerably in recent decades, and whose access to a brighter socioeconomic status has improved; and the growing black underclass, whose access to even minimal goods and services of society has been steadily eroding since the early 1970s. This paper examines empirical evidence of the development of this class differential among blacks, looking specifically at changes in four indicators: occupation, income, education, and housing. Using data drawn primarily from the U.S. Census Bureau and other federal reports, the examination discloses evidence of both progress and regression for blacks on all four indicators. Further examination explores the economic and political factors which have accompanied and promoted the differential among blacks. The economic factors include a recession-riddled economy in the midst of profound transformation from industrial production to high-tech and services. The contributing political factors include the inception of various social policies and programs (and ultimately the dismantling of some of them) which have had different impacts on different segments of the black population. These differential impacts of policy are explored for each of the four indicators.
Urosolenia extensa Karthick & Kociolek 2011, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Karthick, B.
name: Kociolek, J. P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Chromista
Ochrophyta
Bacillariophyceae
Rhizosoleniales
Rhizosoleniaceae
Urosolenia
Urosolenia extensa

description: Urosolenia extensa Karthick & Kociolek, sp. nov. (Figs 7–8, holotype illustrated in Fig. 7–A)
 Frustula cylindrica. Valvae symmertica conicae, angustatis longissimis, rectis ad undulates. Processus positatus ad centrum valvae, extense ramo-simili visibili LM. Latitudo frustuli 3.2–5.1 µm. Longitudo processes 15.4–44.4 µm. Copulae 5–7/ 10 µm.
Frustules cylindrical. Valves symmetrical, conical, continuing in a very long straight to slightly undulated process. Process positioned on valve center. Process possessing branch-like extension visible in LM. Frustules width 3.2–5.1 µm, length of process 15.4–44.4 µm, copulae density 5–7/ 10 µm.
 Type: Hirebhaskar Dam (14°05’48” N, 74°53’30”E, altitude 552 meters above sea level), Sharavathi River, Shimoga District, Karnataka, India. Collected by H P Gandhi on 11 th January 1955. (Sample No. Sr. 110 in Gandhi's collection) (holotype CESH-5-1884, Centre for Ecological Science Herbarium Diatom Collection, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, INDIA; isotypes BM 101460).
 Etymology: Named for the elongated process of the valve.
In the SEM, the calyptra is funnel-shaped, tapered to form a tubular, extended process (Figs 8–A, B). Striae of the calyptra are in linear rows (Figs 8–A, G). The linearly arranged striae can be interrupted by elongated, narrowly rectangular openings (Figs 8–B, E). The elongated girdle consists of imbricate broad half bands, each isolated by a rim-like structure. Regularly distributed elongated areolae are present on the girdle (Fig 8– C, D). The base of the calyptra is a rim without additional ornamentation. The conical part of the valve has small areolae with density of 8–9/ 1 µm. The extension process possesses a small branch like projections and ends bluntly pointed (Fig 8–F).
 Urosolenia extensa differs from all other known Urosolenia species by its shape and absence of structure on valve lamina as observed in U. curvata and U. diademata Rott & Kling ( Rott et al. 2006). U. extensa can be differentiated from the U. delicatissima by the absence of buttonhole shaped external labiate opening on the valve (Sala et al. 2008. Fig 13, 14) and the presence of branch like projections on the process (Fig 8–F).
description: Published as part of Karthick, B. & Kociolek, J. P., 2011, Four new centric diatoms (Bacillariophyceae) from the Western Ghats, South India, pp. 25-40 in Phytotaxa 22 (1) on pages 34-35, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.22.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/4776708
Opportunity and regression: American blacks in the post-Civil Rights era
Creators: name: Depallo, Mildred Ann
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 47
subject: Language, communication and culture
classificationCode: 4702
subject: Cultural studies

description: Much scholarly debate over the past twenty years in the field of race relations in the U.S. concerns the issue of whether and to what extent life chances have improved for black Americans as a result of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. While both optimistic and pessimistic analyses of the problem abound in the literature, the present investigation discloses that there is no simple answer to the question, and that the persistence in regarding black Americans as a homogeneous group who have been affected uniformly by social and economic change has contributed to considerable conceptual confusion regarding the nature and degree of black progress. The present dissertation shows that certain economic and political trends in the U.S. over the past twenty years have resulted in a growing differential in opportunity and achievement for two segments of the black population: the new black middle class whose ranks have increased considerably in recent decades, and whose access to a brighter socioeconomic status has improved; and the growing black underclass, whose access to even minimal goods and services of society has been steadily eroding since the early 1970s. This paper examines empirical evidence of the development of this class differential among blacks, looking specifically at changes in four indicators: occupation, income, education, and housing. Using data drawn primarily from the U.S. Census Bureau and other federal reports, the examination discloses evidence of both progress and regression for blacks on all four indicators. Further examination explores the economic and political factors which have accompanied and promoted the differential among blacks. The economic factors include a recession-riddled economy in the midst of profound transformation from industrial production to high-tech and services. The contributing political factors include the inception of various social policies and programs (and ultimately the dismantling of some of them) which have had different impacts on different segments of the black population. These differential impacts of policy are explored for each of the four indicators.
Resonant activation in the presence of non-equilibrated baths
Creators: name: Dybiec, Bartlomiej
name: Gudowska-Nowak, Ewa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the generic problem of the escape of a classical particle over a fluctuating barrier under the influence of non-Gaussian noise mimicking the effects of not-fully equilibrated bath. Our attention focuses on the effect of the stable noises on the mean escape time and on the phenomenon of resonant activation (RA). Possible physical interpretation of the occurrence of Lévy noises in the system of interest is discussed and the connection between the Tsallis statistics and the Fractional Fokker Planck Equation is addressed.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures, RevTex4. Submitted for printing
Nicos Poulantzas: For Gramsci
Creators: name: Kardaras, Basil P.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4410
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Nicos Poulantzas' work makes a major epistemological contribution to the study of the production and reproduction of the social relations of existence. This work is an in-depth exegesis and analysis of Poulantzas' view on the capitalist State, social classes, ideology, and the democratic transition to democratic socialism. Poulantzas' relational or articulation theory is systematically developed with regard to the political, ideological, and economic practices. It is shown that these practices are fundamental ensembles whose particular form of articulation establishes the morphology of concrete social formations. There is also an examination of the work of Antonio Gramsci and Louis Althusser. The linkages between Gramsci's problematic and Poulantzas' problematic are revealed on a variety of levels through a symptomatic reading. Poulantzas makes wide use of Gramsci's concepts, e.g., hegemony, historical bloc, etc., which he articulates with the structural concepts of Althusser to form a new and more powerful epistemology. It is further noted that Althusser's work on ideology, like that of Poulantzas, is heavily overdetermined by Gramsci's problematic.