cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Uptake and binding of some neurotransmitter substances and their analogues in the developing cerebellum of normal rodents and neurologically mutant mice.
Creators: name: East, J. Malcolm
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1981

description: Cells dissociated from the postnatally developing rat cerebellum retain their high affinity carrier-mediated transport system for (3H) GABA (Kt = 1 .9 uM, V = 1.8 pmol per 106 cells per min.) and (3H) glutamate (Kt = 10 uM, V = 7.9 pmol per 106 cells per min.). Using a unit gravity sedimentation technique it was demonstrated that (3H) GABA was taken up principally into fractions which were enriched in such neuronal types as Purkinje, stellate and basket cells. (3H) 3-alanine (which is known to be taken up specifically by the glial GABA transport system) and (3H) glutamate were concentrated by cells of the same size range. (3H) glutamate uptake was minimal in fractions enriched in precursors of granule cells. These results are discussed in relation to reports of high affinity (3H) glutamate uptake by glia. The role of glutamate transport in glutamatergic cells is also considered. In addition the development of GABA, 3-adrenergic and muscarinic acetylcholine receptors in the cerebella of weaver (wv), reeler, (rl) staggerer (sg) and jimpy (jp), neurological mutant mice and their normal counterparts was examined using the radioligands, (3H) muscimol, (3H) dihydroalprenolol ((3H) DHA) and (3H) quinuclidinylbenzilate ( (3H) QNB) . The maximum increase in ligand binding occurred during the period 15-20 days for (3H) muscimol, 10-15 days for (3H) DHA, 5-15 days for (3H) QNB. Binding of all ligands was significantly reduced with respect to controls in the cerebellar mutants, wv, rl and sg. (3H) Muscimol binding was the most affected (4-19 per cent control at 20 days) and (3H) QNB binding was least affected (36-50 percent control at 20 days). The corresponding figures for (3H) DHA were 14-22 percent. Binding of these ligands to jp tissue was not significantly different from control except for (3H) QNB binding which was 80 percent of control at 20 days. Binding of all ligands was saturable and of high affinity (muscimol Kd = 12.8 nM; DHA Kd = 0.26 nM; QNB Kd = 0.14 nM) and the affinity constants for binding did not change significantly during development. These data are discussed in relation to (i) the known pharmacology and development of cerebellar neurons and (ii) the effects of the mutations on the development of cerebellar neurons.
Leveraging Spatial Uncertainty for Online Error Compensation in EMT
Creators: name: Krumb, Henry
name: Hofmann, Sofie
name: Kügler, David
name: Ghazy, Ahmed
name: Dorweiler, Bernhard
name: Schmitt, Robert
name: Sakas, Georgios
name: Mukhopadhyay, Anirban
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Purpose: Electromagnetic Tracking (EMT) can potentially complement fluoroscopic navigation, reducing radiation exposure in a hybrid setting. Due to the susceptibility to external distortions, systematic error in EMT needs to be compensated algorithmically. Compensation algorithms for EMT in guidewire procedures are only practical in an online setting. Methods: We collect positional data and train a symmetric Artificial Neural Network (ANN) architecture for compensating navigation error. The results are evaluated in both online and offline scenarios and are compared to polynomial fits. We assess spatial uncertainty of the compensation proposed by the ANN. Simulations based on real data show how this uncertainty measure can be utilized to improve accuracy and limit radiation exposure in hybrid navigation. Results: ANNs compensate unseen distortions by more than 70%, outperforming polynomial regression. Working on known distortions, ANNs outperform polynomials as well. We empirically demonstrate a linear relationship between tracking accuracy and model uncertainty. The effectiveness of hybrid tracking is shown in a simulation experiment. Conclusion: ANNs are suitable for EMT error compensation and can generalize across unseen distortions. Model uncertainty needs to be assessed when spatial error compensation algorithms are developed, so that training data collection can be optimized. Finally, we find that error compensation in EMT reduces the need for x-ray images in hybrid navigation.
The Impact of Food Labels on Consumers’ Sustainable Food Choices
Creators: name: Li, Mengshan
name: Ma, Yumi Lingjie
name: Masuda, Haruka
name: Wang, Jack
name: Xu, Hanxiang
name: Yeung, Kelly
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: In recent years, food sustainability has become a larger issue in the discussion surrounding climate change. In our research, we examine the effectiveness of different food labels on consumers’ sustainable food choices: we compare text-based labels measuring carbon output, and labels measuring climate-friendliness using the recognizable 5-star rating scale. We expect to find that labels using the 5-star scale are easier for consumers to understand as opposed to carbon emission labels. We therefore also expect to see that consumers more frequently choose more sustainable food options when observing the 5-star scale labels than when they observe the text-based labels. Conducting an one-way ANOVA and a post-hoc Tukey test, we find a significant difference between our two experimental conditions and control condition (p<0.01); the difference between the experiment conditions is not significant (p = 0.08). These results indicate that both experimental conditions had more participants choosing more sustainable food options than the control condition, but that text-based labels are as effective as the 5-star scale labels at getting participants to choose more sustainable food options. This finding indicates that it is important to measure specific concepts when designing food labels, to enable these labels to communicate their meanings effectively. 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.”
Syzeuctus flavimargo MEYER 1926
Creators: name: Riedel, Matthias
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Syzeuctus
Syzeuctus flavimargo

description: Syzeuctus flavimargo MEYER, 1926
H o l o t y p e: (♀) " Odessa, 6.VII.1923, leg. L.S. Zimin" (St. Petersburg?). Type not studied and actually not found in the collection in St. Petersburg (personal communication of D.R. KASPARYAN).
 T r a n s l a t i o n o f o r i g i n a l D e s c r i p t i o n: Apicaltransversalcarina of propodeum absent. Head and mesosoma coarsely punctate. Metasoma matte, densely finely punctate. 1 st to 4 th tergites longer than wide, following tergites transverse. Ovipositor as long as the metasoma.
 Color: Antenna red, blackish basally. Mesosoma yellowish, with black spots, scutellum and postscutellum yellow, tegula ivory. Metasoma red, all tergites with wide yellow apical bands, 1 st tergite without yellow lateral spots. Legs reddish-yellow, coxae red and yellow, trochanters blackish. Wings almost hyaline, pterostigma dark brown. ♂ as the ♀.
 R e m a r k: According to AUBERT (1978: 128), the species differs from S. dusmeti and S. robustus by its color pattern and matt metasoma with dense punctures, but it seems doubtful if AUBERT had really seen the type material of S. flavimargo in St. Petersburg.
description: Published as part of Riedel, Matthias, 2021, The genus Syzeuctus FÖRSTER in the Western Palaearctic region and Central Asia (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Banchinae), with descriptions of 17 new species, pp. 1013-1098 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 52 (2) on page 1077, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5038739
Rural Cooperatives Magazine, July/August 2011
Creators: name: Campbell, Dan
name: Brooks, Greg
name: DuMont, Amber
name: MacLeod, Rebecca
name: Madeja, Robert
name: Campbell, Dan
name: Brooks, Greg
name: DuMont, Amber
name: MacLeod, Rebecca
name: Madeja, Robert
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Agribusiness
Community/Rural/Urban Development

description: Features - Co-op sales, income second highest ever; 7,000 jobs added; All the right moves; Farm Credit turns 95; Co-ops: Sprouting ideas and innovations!; Smith, Jenkins win communications honors; New Web tool helps dairy farmers capture energy savings
Understanding vehicle crashes in work zones: Analysis of workplace health and safety data as an alternative to police-reported crash data in Queensland, Australia
Creators: name: Blackman, Ross
name: Ashim Kumar Debnath
name: Narelle Haworth
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Objectives: Vehicle crashes in work zones are significantly underreported in official crash datasets of many countries, including Australia. This leads to underestimations of work zone crash frequencies and limited understanding of crash causation factors. To address this important gap in the literature, this paper examines historical data from two different sources – police-reported crash data and organizational Workplace Health and Safety (WHS) records – to understand work zone crashes and their characteristics in Queensland, Australia. Methods: WHS data including text fields were cleaned and coded to match police-reported crash data variables for comparative descriptive analysis of a 45-month period. involvement of a moving vehicle that collided with another vehicle, pedestrian, object, or overturned, at a work zone accessible to public traffic. Results: There were more work zone crashes in the WHS data (N = 820) than the police-reported data (N = 128) and the WHS data offered a deeper understanding of incident causes due to the greater breadth of information available. The two data sets varied in terms of the patterns of crash type, the mixes of road users and vehicles involved, and the contributing factors that were identified, highlighting dangers of relying on single sources for understanding crash characteristics. The WHS data appear relatively consistent with the overall work zone safety literature, but their use has limitations regarding processing and reliability. Conversely, police-reported crash data can be analyzed efficiently but they suffer from underreporting and selective reporting. Conclusions: The WHS dataset is a valuable alternative to police-reported crash data for understanding vehicle crash characteristics in work zones, particularly where restrictive reporting criteria lead to inability to identify these crashes in police data. Reliability and utility of WHS data could be improved through advanced reporting systems and procedures, potentially including development of an app-based system for use on mobile electronic devices.
Decay in a uniform field: an exactly solvable model
Creators: name: Cavalcanti, R. M.
name: Giacconi, P.
name: Soldati, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the time evolution of the decay (or ionization) probability of a D-dimensional model atom (D=1,2,3) in the presence of a uniform (i.e., static and homogeneous) background field. The model atom consists in a non-relativistic point particle in the presence of a point-like attractive well. It is shown that the model exhibits infinitely many resonances leading to possible deviations from the naive exponential decay law of the non-decay (or survival) probability of the initial atomic quantum state. Almost stable states exist due to the presence of the attractive interaction, no matter how weak it is. Analytic estimates as well as numerical evaluation of the decay rates are explicitly given and discussed.
description: 21 pages, 2 figures. v3: typos corrected
Sphecodes puncticeps Thomson 1870
Creators: name: Gérard, Maxence
name: Fiordaliso, William
name: Ferrais, Louise
name: Fournier, Chloé
name: Hairault, Malo
name: Lheureux, Lise
name: Rosa, Paolo
name: Ghisbain, Guillaume
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Halictidae
Sphecodes
Sphecodes puncticeps

description: Sphecodes puncticeps Thomson, 1870
Conservation status
LC
description: Published as part of Gérard, Maxence, Fiordaliso, William, Ferrais, Louise, Fournier, Chloé, Hairault, Malo, Lheureux, Lise, Rosa, Paolo & Ghisbain, Guillaume, 2025, Wild bee diversity of the National Park of the Semois Valley (Belgium), pp. e 144223 in Biodiversity Data Journal 13 on page e144223, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.13.e144223
Spin reorientation in FeCrAs revealed by single-crystal neutron diffraction
Creators: name: Jin, W. T.
name: Meven, M.
name: Deng, H.
name: Su, Y.
name: Wu, W.
name: Julian, S. R.
name: Kim, Young-june
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The magnetic structure of the "nonmetallic metal" FeCrAs, a compound with the characters of both metals and insulators, was examined as a function of temperature using single-crystal neutron diffraction. The magnetic propagation vector was found to be $\mathit{k}$ = (1/3, 1/3, 0), and the magnetic reflections disppeared above $\mathit{T_{N}}$ = 116(1) K. In the ground state, the Cr sublattice shows an in-plane spiral antiferromagnetic order. The moment sizes of the Cr ions were found to be small, due to strong magnetic frustration in the distorted Kagome lattice or the itinerant nature of the Cr magnetism, and vary between 0.8 and 1.4 $μ_{B}$ on different sites as expected for a spin-density-wave (SDW) type order. The upper limit of the moment on the Fe sublattice is estimated to be less than 0.1 $μ_{B}$. With increasing temperature up to 95 K, the Cr moments cant out of the $\mathit{ab}$ plane gradually, with the in-plane components being suppressed and the out-of-plane components increasing in contrast. This spin-reorientation of Cr moments can explain the dip in the $\mathit{c}$-direction magnetic susceptibility and the kink in the magnetic order parameter at $\mathit{T_{O}}$ ~ 100 K, a second magnetic transition which was unexplained before. We have also discussed the similarity between FeCrAs and the model itinerant magnet Cr, which exhibits spin-flip transitions and SDW-type antiferromagnetism.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures, Accepted by Phys. Rev. B
Ordering phenomena in cooling granular mixtures
Creators: name: Cattuto, Ciro
name: Marconi, Umberto Marini Bettolo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report two phenomena, induced by dynamical correlations, that occur during the free cooling of a two-dimensional mixture of inelastic hard disks. First, we show that, due to the onset of velocity correlations, the ratio of the kinetic energies associated with the two species changes from the value corresponding to the homogeneous cooling state to a value approximately given by the mass ratio m_1/m_2 of the two species. Second, we report a novel segregation effect that occurs in the late stage of cooling, where interconnected domains appear. Spectral analysis of the composition field reveals the emergence of a growing characteristic length.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett
Rural Cooperatives Magazine, September/October 2012
Creators: name: Ali, Sarah
name: Chesnick, David
name: Reynolds, Bruce J.
name: Tranovich, Anja
name: Ali, Sarah
name: Chesnick, David
name: Reynolds, Bruce J.
name: Tranovich, Anja
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: Agribusiness
Community/Rural/Urban Development

description: Features - Farm co-ops set sales, income records; Top 100 ag co-ops eclipse previous sales record by $18 billion; Gearing Up the Co-op Economy; Use of joint ventures by ag co-ops on rise; ‘The pillar of my home’
p-Adic pseudodifferential operators and p-adic wavelets
Creators: name: Kozyrev, S. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a new wide class of p-adic pseudodifferential operators. We show that the basis of p-adic wavelets is the basis of eigenvectors for the introduced operators.
description: 12 pages, LaTeX, some formulas corrected
Alastor mediomaculatus GIORDANI SOIKA 1952
Creators: name: Schmid, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eumenidae
Alastor
Alastor mediomaculatus

description: Alastor mediomaculatus GIORDANI SOIKA, 1952
M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Fars prov., 1♂, 16.v.2019 Schiras 19 km SE, Maharlu Lake 29.4381 N 52.7528 E, 1480 m.
D i s t r i b u t i o n i n I r a n: New for the Fauna of Iran. Already known from Israel, Syria and Jordan (GUSENLEITNER 2013).
description: Published as part of Schmid, Christian, 2021, New records of Vespidae (Hymenoptera) from Iran with descriptions of three species, pp. 1105-1121 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 52 (2) on page 1107, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5038766
Rural Cooperatives Magazine, November/December 2013
Creators: name: Ginsburg, Laura
name: Hazen, Paul
name: Thompson, Stephen P.
name: Ling, K. Charles
name: Ginsburg, Laura
name: Hazen, Paul
name: Thompson, Stephen P.
name: Ling, K. Charles
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: Agribusiness
Community/Rural/Urban Development

description: Features - Going Local in Big Sky Country; USDA to fund advanced biofuels projects; Overseas co-op formations help reduce poverty, fight hunger; Growing a Cleveland Renaissance; Essential economic roles of farmer co-ops; Article Index 2013
Rural Cooperatives Magazine, September/October 2013
Creators: name: Ali, Sarah
name: Chesnick, David
name: Ali, Sarah
name: Chesnick, David
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: Agribusiness
Community/Rural/Urban Development

description: Features - Grain, farm supply sectors lead way as ag co-ops set sales, income records; Top 100 ag co-ops set sales, income records; Co-ops: an engine for rural progress
Large-scale Gender/Age Prediction of Tumblr Users
Creators: name: Zhan, Yao
name: Hu, Changwei
name: Hu, Yifan
name: Kasturi, Tejaswi
name: Ramasamy, Shanmugam
name: Gillingham, Matt
name: Yamamoto, Keith
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Tumblr, as a leading content provider and social media, attracts 371 million monthly visits, 280 million blogs and 53.3 million daily posts. The popularity of Tumblr provides great opportunities for advertisers to promote their products through sponsored posts. However, it is a challenging task to target specific demographic groups for ads, since Tumblr does not require user information like gender and ages during their registration. Hence, to promote ad targeting, it is essential to predict user's demography using rich content such as posts, images and social connections. In this paper, we propose graph based and deep learning models for age and gender predictions, which take into account user activities and content features. For graph based models, we come up with two approaches, network embedding and label propagation, to generate connection features as well as directly infer user's demography. For deep learning models, we leverage convolutional neural network (CNN) and multilayer perceptron (MLP) to prediction users' age and gender. Experimental results on real Tumblr daily dataset, with hundreds of millions of active users and billions of following relations, demonstrate that our approaches significantly outperform the baseline model, by improving the accuracy relatively by 81% for age, and the AUC and accuracy by 5\% for gender.
Chaotic hybrid new inflation in supergravity with a running spectral index
Creators: name: Yamaguchi, Masahide
name: Yokoyama, Jun'ichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose an inflation model in supergravity, in which chaotic and hybrid inflation occurs successively, followed by new inflation. During hybrid inflation, adiabatic fluctuations with a running spectral index with $\ns >1$ on a large scale and $\ns <1$ on a smaller scale are generated, as favored by recent results of the first year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe. The initial condition of new inflation is also set dynamically during hybrid inflation, and its duration and the amplitude of density fluctuations take appropriate values to help early star formation to realize early reionization.
description: 15 pages, to appear in Phys. Rev. D
Rural Cooperatives Magazine, January/February 2015
Creators: name: Quanbeck, Kathryn
name: Gwin, Lauren
name: Pitman, Lynn
name: Reynolds, Bruce J.
name: Liebrand, Carolyn
name: Bau, Margaret M.
name: Gray, Thomas
name: Quanbeck, Kathryn
name: Gwin, Lauren
name: Pitman, Lynn
name: Reynolds, Bruce J.
name: Liebrand, Carolyn
name: Bau, Margaret M.
name: Gray, Thomas
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: Agribusiness
Community/Rural/Urban Development

description: Features - Forging a Self-help Network; Investing in Knowledge; Farmer Co-op Conference ‘14; Proposed changes in USDA’s B&I program could aid in development of new co-ops; Survey results shed light on dairy co-op financial performance; Required Reading; Resolving Member Conflicts
Alastor zoroaster GUSENLEITNER 1986
Creators: name: Schmid, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eumenidae
Alastor
Alastor zoroaster

description: Alastor zoroaster GUSENLEITNER, 1986
M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Hormozgan prov., 2♀♀, 05.v.2019 Hajjiabad 4 km NW 28.3329 N 55.8441 E, 1276 m. Fars prov., 1♂, 15.v.2019 Qatruyeh 19 km E 29.1595 N 54.9078 E, 1673 m,. 1♂, 18.v.2019 Parishan, 1,3 km N 29.5426 N 51.8161 E, 1205 m.
D i s t r i b u t i o n i n I r a n: RAHMANI et al. (2020).
description: Published as part of Schmid, Christian, 2021, New records of Vespidae (Hymenoptera) from Iran with descriptions of three species, pp. 1105-1121 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 52 (2) on page 1107, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5038766
Noticias
Creators: name: BAD, Cadernos
Publisher: name: Cadernos BAD
Year: 1964

description: - Biblioteca Nacional de Lisboa - Maria Fernanda Antunes Ribeiro - A Exposição do Livro Alemão - Maria Armanda de Almeida e Sousa - Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra - IV Centenário de Shakespeare - Homenagem ao Dr. Sérgio da Silva Pinto - Svend Dahl (1887-1963)
description: Cadernos BAD, N.º 5 (1964)
Causal heat conduction contravening the fading memory paradigm
Creators: name: L
name: :
name: Herrera
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a causal heat conduction model based on a heat kernel violating the fading memory paradigm. The resulting transport equation produces an equation for the temperature. The model is applied to the discussion of two important issues such as the thermohaline convection and the nuclear burning (in)stability. In both cases the behaviour of the system appears to be strongly dependent on the transport equation assumed, bringing out the effects of our specific kernel on the final description of these problems. A possible relativistic version of the obtained transport equation is presented.
description: 22 pages Latex. Published in the special issue of Entropy: Entropy generation and heat transfer II
title: THE USE OF PRE-QUESTIONS IN THE TEACHING OF COMPREHENSION
Creators: name: Davidson, Hugh Mackay
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1979

description: My dissertation is concerned with the problems of pupils in understanding passages they read. Many readers are able to interpret a passage only at the level of literal recall without relating the passage to their own experience of without seeing the authors’ intention. This dissertation consequently is concerned with the extent to which pre-questions (about the ideas of the passage) are beneficial in these aspects of reading comprehension. I decided on this because it is generally considered that realisation of context is an aid to fluency and comprehension. (Please see chapters on ‘Review of Relevant Literature’ and ‘What Does It Mean to Understand a Text’). My main hypothesis was that in any test situation these readers (pupils) who had taken the pre-questions would perform better on interpretation questions (questions set on a passage) than those who had not. Several sets of tests were administered and in several cases the pre-questions proved helpful and in the last set of tests these results were significant. This led me to conclude that context, comprehension and fluency were linked, that pre-questions could be a help to the teacher both in the reading and study of extracts and also in encouraging and developing reading. Since the tests results indicate a connection between comprehension and context, I would later like to consider pupil motivation and choice of fiction.
Implementing a strategy to reduce the instrument count in panel GMM
Creators: name: Bontempi, Maria Elena
name: Mammi, Irene
name: Bontempi, Maria Elena
name: Mammi, Irene
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: pca2
subject: proliferation of instruments
subject: principal component analysis
subject: panel data
subject: generalized method of moments

description: The problem of instrument proliferation and its consequences—overfitting of the endogenous explanatory variables, biased instrumental-variables and generalized method of moments estimators, and weakening of the power of the overidentification tests—are well known. This article introduces a statistical method to reduce the instrument count. Principal component analysis is applied on the instrument matrix, and the principal-component analysis scores are used as instruments for the panel generalized method of moments estimation. This strategy is implemented through the new command pca2.
Investigating the dynamics of COVID-19 pandemic in India under lockdown
Creators: name: Pai, Chintamani
name: Bhaskar, Ankush
name: Rawoot, Vaibhav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we investigate the ongoing dynamics of COVID-19 in India after its emergence in Wuhan, China in December 2019. We discuss the effect of nationwide lockdown implemented in India on March 25, 2020 to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Susceptible-Exposed-Infectious-Recovered (SEIR) model is used to forecast active COVID-19 cases in India considering the effect of nationwide lockdown and possible inflation in the active cases after its removal on May 3, 2020. Our model predicts that with the ongoing lockdown, the peak of active infected cases around 43,000 will occur in the mid of May, 2020. We also predict a 7$\%$ to 21$\%$ increase in the peak value of active infected cases for a variety of hypothetical scenarios reflecting a relative relaxation in the control strategies implemented by the government in the post-lockdown period. For India, it is an important decision to come up with a non-pharmaceutical control strategy such as nationwide lockdown for 40 days to prolong the higher phases of COVID-19 and to avoid severe load on its public health-care system. As the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak remains a global threat, it is a challenge for all the countries to come up with effective public health and administrative strategies to battle against COVID-19 and sustain their economies.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures, 1 table
Aceria chenopodia Xue, Sadeghi & Hong 2009
Creators: name: Bahirai, Fereshteh
name: Jafari, Shahriar
name: Lotfollahi, Parisa
name: Shakarami, Jahanshir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Prostigmata
Eriophyidae
Aceria
Aceria chenopodia

description: Aceria chenopodia Xue, Sadeghi & Hong, 2009
 Material examined – This species was collected as vagrant on leaves of pigweed, Chenopodium album L. ( Amaranthaceae). 11 females and four males, Aligudarz County, 2 July 2018; six females, Borujerd County, 12 August 2018; 10 females and two males Sarabe Doreh, 3 September 2017; Lorestan Province, Iran.
 Remarks – This species was reported from Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran for the first time (Xue et al. 2009). Also, Lotfollahi et al. (2017) reported this species from East Azarbaijan, Iran. This is a new record of this species from Lorestan Province.
description: Published as part of Bahirai, Fereshteh, Jafari, Shahriar, Lotfollahi, Parisa & Shakarami, Jahanshir, 2021, Eriophyoidea (Acari: Trombidiformes) of the Lorestan Province and first record of Aceria querci (Garnam, 1883) outside of the USA, pp. 111-119 in Persian Journal of Acarology 10 (1) on page 113, DOI: 10.22073/pja.v10i1.63306, http://zenodo.org/record/5037942
Conductance and polarization in quantum junctions
Creators: name: Bokes, P.
name: Godby, R. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We revisit the expression for the conductance of a general nanostructure -- such as a quantum point contact -- as obtained from the linear response theory. We show that the conductance represents the strength of the Drude singularity in the conductivity $σ(k,k';iω\to 0)$. Using the equation of continuity for electric charge we obtain a formula for conductance in terms of polarization of the system. This identification can be used for direct calculation of the conductance for systems of interest even at the {\it ab-initio} level. In particular, we show that one can evaluate the conductance from calculations for a finite system without the need for special ``transport'' boundary conditions.
Estimating the treatment effect in a clinical trial using difference in restricted mean survival time
Creators: name: Royston, Patrick
name: Royston, Patrick
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: strmst
subject: randomized trial
subject: time-to-event data
subject: treatment effect
subject: restricted mean
subject: flexible parametric model
subject: nonproportional hazards

description: The causal effect of a new medical treatment compared with a standard regimen is best assessed in a randomized controlled trial setting. When the main outcome is time to some event of interest, such as death, studies often use the hazard ratio to describe the treatment effect. Typically, proportional hazards are assumed. Here I discuss several significant disadvantages of using the hazard ratio, including its vulnerability to the proportionality assumption, its relative nature, and its lack of relationship with time-to-event or survival probabilities. I describe the use of restricted mean survival time as an alternative outcome measure in time-to-event trials. With this method, the treatment effect is defined as the difference in restricted mean between the trial arms. I suggest the use of Royston and Parmar's (2002, Statistics in Medicine 21: 2175–2197) class of flexible parametric models, implemented through the command stpm2 (Lambert and Royston [2009, Stata Journal 9: 265–290] and Andersson and Lambert [2012, Stata Journal 12: 623–638]), to estimate the required quantities. With this approach, proportional hazards are not assumed. I describe a new command, strmst, for implementing these calculations. This method supports "direct" adjustment for covariates by using marginalization over their observed distribution, and it supports estimation of treatment effects conditional on fixed values of covariates. I illustrate the methodology using data from a trial in primary biliary cirrhosis. I provide an example that demonstrates the importance of understanding the relationship between the treatment effect, the prognosis of the disease outcome, and the often-neglected time domain.
title: Time and Chemical Change: The Development of Temporal Concepts in Chemistry with Special Reference to the Work of Augustus Vernon Harcourt.
Creators: name: King, M. Christine
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1981

description: The concept of time is an important one in the History of Philosophy and of Science. But ideas concerning time and its related phenomenon, that of change, are inherently complex. The study of chemistry involves an understanding of the process of change, a time—dependent function. In fact, the development of temporal ideas in chemistry evolved very late in its theory, around 1850, when Ludwig Wilhelmy first carried out measurements of chemical rate and Alexander Williamson, in the same year, published his ideas on the dynamics of chemistry. In chemistry, the concept of time is to be found most clearly established in the discipline of reaction kinetics. In its development, this has been bound to the idea of the course of chemical change, as a phenomenon quite distinct from the study of the products of chemical reaction, or chemical composition, on which many of the early chemists were so deeply engrossed. The establishment of time into chemical theory was due largely to the ideas and work of Guldberg and Waage in Norway, and Harcourt and Esson at Oxford. Harcourt recognised at a very early stage in his studies that what chemists had always neglected was the close observation of the actual course of chemical change, of the time factor involved in these changes. The foundations of these ideas were laid at the very beginning Harcourt's long career at Oxford, but he was to spend the subsequent fifty years perfecting his techniques. Perhaps because of the late development of their time awareness, some philosophers of science have come to believe n that chemists desired, somehow, to 'eliminate time' from chemical theory. The present work is an attempt to trace the evolution of temporal ideas in chemistry and the eventual recognition of the course of chemical change as a dynamic phenomenon. It also discusses the role of philosophy in the development of chemical theories, a development which is bound, like all events, to the element of time.
Studying coincidences with network analysis and other multivariate tools
Creators: name: Escobar, Modesto
name: Escobar, Modesto
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: coin
subject: coincidence analysis
subject: multivariate analysis
subject: social network analysis

description: In this article, I introduce a new user-written command (coin) to study data structures. coin is founded on a combination of statistical and social network analyses. The purpose of this procedure is to ascertain the most frequent events in a given set of scenarios and to study the relationships between them. coin uses a variety of procedures, such as multidimensional scaling, principal components analysis, correspondence analysis, biplot representations, agglomeration techniques, and network analysis algorithms. Because of this, it works with dichotomous variables and can be applied to the exploratory analysis of questionnaires, the study of textual networks, the review of database contents, and the comparison of different statistical analyses of interdependence.
As Condições de Conservação do Livro na Sala dos Reservados da Biblioteca Geral da Universidade de Coimbra
Creators: name: Vaz, Maria Laurinda Antunes
Publisher: name: Cadernos BAD
Year: 1964

description: As Condições de Conservação do Livro na Sala dos Reservados da Biblioteca Geral da Universidade de Coimbra
description: Cadernos BAD, N.º 5 (1964)
Testing for spectral Granger causality
Creators: name: Tastan, Hüseyin
name: Tastan, Hüseyin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: bcgcausality
subject: Granger causality
subject: Geweke measure
subject: VAR

description: In this article, I introduce a command (bcgcausality) to implement Breitung and Candelon's (2006, Journal of Econometrics, 132: 363–378) Granger causality test in the frequency domain.
Position Sensing from Charge Dispersion in Micro-Pattern Gas Detectors with a Resistive Anode
Creators: name: Dixit, M. S.
name: Dubeau, J.
name: Martin, J. -P.
name: Sachs, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Micro-pattern gas detectors, such as the Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) and the Micromegas need narrow high density anode readout elements to achieve good spatial resolution. A high-density anode readout would require an unmanageable number of electronics channels for certain potential micro-detector applications such as the Time Projection Chamber. We describe below a new technique to achieve good spatial resolution without increasing the electronics channel count in a modified micro-detector outfitted with a high surface resistivity anode readout structure. The concept and preliminary measurements of spatial resolution from charge dispersion in a modified GEM detector with a resistive anode are described below.
description: 14 pages, 8 figures, submitted to Nucl. Inst. Meth; typo in eqn 4 corrected, fig 2 updated accordingly
The Effects of Biophilic Art on Affective Well-Being
Creators: name: Lutrin, Aimee
name: Gupta, Varnika
name: Kahlon, Prabhangad
name: Naik, Trisha
name: Spencer, Krysten
name: Jokar, Bita
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: Current research indicates the positive benefits of biophilia as well as art on affective well-being. However, there is a knowledge gap surrounding the effects of biophilic art on affective well-being, specifically when integrated into design. This study examines the effects of biophilic art compared to actual biophilia on affective well-being in the context of biophilic design elements. We hypothesise that actual biophilia and biophilic art have similar effects on affective well-being. We conducted an independent-samples T-test between the two conditions on 10 measures: Motivated, Calm, Tired, Bored, Gloomy, Active, At ease, Anxious, Annoyed, and Happy. Our preliminary findings reveal there is no significant difference found between the two conditions on any measure, indicating that biophilic art may be an appropriate substitute for actual biophilia in interior design. 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.”
Vorticity and the Nernst Effect in Cuprate Superconductors
Creators: name: Ong, N. P.
name: Wang, Yayu
name: Ono, S.
name: Ando, Yoichi
name: Uchida, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a review of the vortex-Nernst effect in the 3 cuprate families La_{2-x}Sr_xCuO_4, Bi_2Sr_2CaCu_2O_8, and YBa_2Cu_3O_{y}, and discuss the scenario that the superconducting transition in the hole-doped cuprates corresponds to the destruction of long-range phase coherence rather than the vanishing of the order-parameter amplitude.
description: 5 pages with 5 figures. To be published in Annalen der Physik (Leipzig, Germany)
Bloch oscillations of cold atoms in optical lattices
Creators: name: Kolovsky, Andrey R.
name: Korsch, Hans Jürgen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This work is devoted to Bloch oscillations (BO) of cold neutral atoms in optical lattices. After a general introduction to the phenomenon of BO and its realization in optical lattices, we study different extentions of this problem, which account for recent developments in this field. These are two-dimensional BO, decoherence of BO, and BO in correlated systems. Although these problems are discussed in relation to the system of cold atoms in optical lattices, many of the results are of general validity and can be well applied to other systems showing the phenomenon of BO.
description: submitted to the review section of IJMPB, few misprints are corrected
Anocellidus Quiroga, Bolaños & Litvaitis, 2006, n. gen.
Creators: name: Quiroga, Sigmer Y.
name: Bolaños, D. Marcela
name: Litvaitis, Marian K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Platyhelminthes
Rhabditophora
Polycladida
Anocellidae
Anocellidus

description: Genus: Anocellidus n. gen.
Definition: with the characters of the family
description: Published as part of Quiroga, Sigmer Y., Bolaños, D. Marcela & Litvaitis, Marian K., 2006, First description of deep­sea polyclad flatworms from the North Pacific: Anocellidus n. gen. profundus n. sp. (Anocellidae, n. fam.) and Oligocladus voightae n. sp. (Euryleptidae), pp. 1-19 in Zootaxa 1317 on page 5, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1317.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/173981
Complete automation of a participant characteristics table
Creators: name: Lirette, Seth T.
name: Lirette, Seth T.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: partchart
subject: reproducibility
subject: participant characteristics
subject: baseline characteristics
subject: table automation

description: Most published research that contains real-world data displays a table of participant characteristics, baseline characteristics, or demographics. I present a program, partchart, that provides automatic output of the participant characteristics table in multiple formats and gives the user control over formatting, thus facilitating complete reproducibility.
Speaking Stata: A set of utilities for managing missing values
Creators: name: Cox, Nicholas J.
name: Cox, Nicholas J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: missing
subject: missing values
subject: system missing
subject: extended missing values
subject: data management
subject: numeric variables
subject: string variables
subject: drop
subject: list
subject: table
subject: tag

description: Identifying frequencies and patterns of missing values and preliminary cleaning of missing data are common and fundamental parts of statistical data management. I offer a new command, missings, as a replacement for, and extension of, my previous commands nmissing (Cox 1999, Stata Technical Bulletin 49: 7–8; 2001a, Stata Technical Bulletin 60: 2–3; 2003, Stata Journal 3: 449; 2005, Stata Journal 5: 607) and dropmiss (Cox 2001b, Stata Technical Bulletin 60: 7–8; 2008, Stata Journal 8: 594). I also make comparisons with similar commands.
Antepipona barrei
Creators: name: Schmid, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eumenidae
Antepipona
Antepipona barrei

description: Antepipona barrei (RADOSZKOWSKI, 1893)
M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Kerman prov., 1♀, 13.v.2019 Bam 40 km NW 29.3970 N 57.8506 E, 1741 m, 1♀, 14.v.2019 Rayen, 3 km NE 29.6220 N 57.4590 E, 2117 m.
D i s t r i b u t i o n i n I r a n: RAHMANI et al. (2020).
description: Published as part of Schmid, Christian, 2021, New records of Vespidae (Hymenoptera) from Iran with descriptions of three species, pp. 1105-1121 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 52 (2) on page 1107, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5038766
Search for Dark Matter in Upsilon Decays at BABAR Experiment
Creators: name: Godang, Romulus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent investigations have suggested that the singlet six-quark combination $uuddss$ may be a deeply bound state $S$, called Sexaquark. An essentially stable state $S$ is a potentially excellent Dark Matter candidate. We present the first search for a stable, doubly strange six-quark state in the decays of $Υ(4S) \to Λ\barΛ$. Based on a data sample of $Υ(2S)$ and $Υ(3S)$ decays collected by the BABAR Experiment we report the most recent results and set stringent limits on the existence of such exotic particle.
description: Contributed to the Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics, Toyama, Japan. This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy
Bell's inequalities detect efficient entanglement
Creators: name: Acin, Antonio
name: Gisin, Nicolas
name: Masanes, Lluis
name: Scarani, Valerio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review the status of Bell's inequalities in quantum information, stressing mainly the links with quantum key distribution and distillation of entanglement. We also prove that for all the eavesdropping attacks using one qubit, and for a family of attacks of two qubits, acting on half of a maximally entangled state of two qubits, the violation of a Bell inequality implies the possibility of an efficient secret-key extraction.
description: 9 pages, for the Proceedings of EQIS'03 (Kyoto, Sept. 2003)