cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Possibility of a White Dwarf as the Accreting Compact Star in CI Cam (= XTE J0421+560)
Creators: name: Ishida, Manabu
name: Morio, Kazuyuki
name: Ueda, Yoshihiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results from ASCA observations of the binary CI Cam both in quiescence and in outburst in order to identify its central accreting object. The quiescence spectrum of CI Cam consists of soft and hard components which are separated clearly at aound 2-3keV. A large equivalent width of an iron Ka emission line prefers an optically thin thermal plasma emission model to a non-thermal power-law model for the hard component, which favors a white dwarf as the accreting object, since the optically thin thermal hard X-ray emission is a common characteristic among cataclysmic variables (binaries including an accreting white dwarf). The outburst spectrum, on the other hand, is composed of a hard component represented by a multi-temperature optically thin thermal plasma emission and of an independent soft X-ray component that appears below 1 keV intermittently on a decaying light curve of the hard component. The spectrum of the soft component is represented well by a blackbody with the temperature of 0.07-0.12keV overlaid with several K-edges associated with highly ionized oxygen. This, together with the luminosity as high as ~1E38 erg/s is similar to a super-soft source (SSS). The outburst in the hard X-ray band followed by the appearance of the soft blackbody component reminds us of recent observations of novae in outburst. We thus assume the outburst of CI Cam is that of a nova, and obtain the distance to CI Cam to be 5-17kpc by means of the relation between the optical decay time and the absolute magnitude. This agrees well with a recent estimate of the distance of 5-9kpc in the optical band. All of these results from the outburst data prefer a white dwarf for the central object of CI Cam.
description: 20 pages, 5 figures, to appear in the Astrophysical Journal v601, n2, February 1, 2004 issue
title: T-box Genes in Limb Development and Disease
Creators: name: Rallis, Charalampos
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2004

description: T-box genes comprise an ancient family of transcriptional regulators with important functions during development. The aim of this study is to investigate the roles of two closely related T-box genes Tbx5 and Tbx3 in limb development using the mouse and chick embryo as model organisms. These genes are physically linked in the genome, and human mutations in TbX5 and TbX3 lead to congenital diseases.
 Tbx5, is expressed in the forelimb but not in the hindlimb of the developing vertebrate embryo and has been proposed to have a role in limb-type specification. However, Tbx5 is also required for normal limb development since haploinsufficiency of TBX5 in human causes Holt-Oram Syndrome (HOS), a dominant disorder characterized by fore(upper) limb deformities and heart defects. I have taken two approaches to investigate the role of Tbx5 in limb- type specification and outgrowth. The first is a conditional knock-out method in the mouse where I inactivated Tbx5 specifically in the developing forelimbs. As a complementary strategy I injected dominant-negative and dominant-active forms of Tbx5 in the developing chicken wing using replication-competent avian retroviruses. My results from the mouse, suggest that Tbx5 has a vital role during early limb formation. In addition, my data using the chicken retroviral system establish a role for Tbx5 in later limb patterning events and provide an insight into understanding the genesis of HOS deformities in man.
Innovations in Teaching Methods and Strategies
Creators: name: G, Praveen Kumar
name: M, Vasimalairaja
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Education

description: Using innovative methods of teaching is a crucial skill for teachers and education staff. Scientific research has shown that innovative teaching methods and approaches can significantly enhance the student learning process. However, experimenting new methods and strategies we can improve student engagement and attainment and is a win-win for both students and teachers. In this paper we have to discuss about innovative teaching methods and strategies.
Multiple Chemodynamic Stellar Populations of the Ursa Minor Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy
Creators: name: Pace, Andrew B.
name: Kaplinghat, Manoj
name: Kirby, Evan
name: Simon, Joshua D.
name: Tollerud, Erik
name: Muñoz, Ricardo R.
name: Côté, Patrick
name: Djorgovski, S. G.
name: Geha, Marla
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a Bayesian method to identify multiple (chemodynamic) stellar populations in dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) using velocity, metallicity, and positional stellar data without the assumption of spherical symmetry. We apply this method to a new Keck/DEIMOS spectroscopic survey of the Ursa Minor (UMi) dSph. We identify 892 likely members, making this the largest UMi sample with line-of-sight velocity and metallicity measurements. Our Bayesian method detects two distinct chemodynamic populations with high significance ($\ln{B}\sim33$). The metal-rich ($[{\rm Fe/H}]=-2.05\pm0.03$) population is kinematically colder (radial velocity dispersion of $σ_v=4.9\pm0.8 \, {\rm km \, s^{-1}}$) and more centrally concentrated than the metal-poor ($[{\rm Fe/H}]=-2.29\pm0.05$) and kinematically hotter population ($σ_v =11.5\pm0.9\, {\rm km \, s^{-1}}$). Furthermore, we apply the same analysis to an independent MMT/Hectochelle data set and confirm the existence of two chemodynamic populations in UMi. In both data sets, the metal-rich population is significantly flattened ($ε=0.75\pm0.03$) and the metal-poor population is closer to spherical ($ε=0.33_{-0.09}^{+0.12}$). Despite the presence of two populations, we are unable to robustly estimate the slope of the dynamical mass profile. We found hints for prolate rotation of order $\sim 2 \, {\rm km \, s^{-1}}$ in the MMT data set, but further observations are required to verify this. The flattened metal-rich population invalidates assumptions built into simple dynamical mass estimators, so we computed new astrophysical dark matter annihilation (J) and decay profiles based on the rounder, hotter metal-poor population and inferred $\log_{10}{(J(0.5^{\circ})/{\rm GeV^{2} \, cm^{-5}})}\approx19.1$ for the Keck data set. Our results paint a more complex picture of the evolution of Ursa Minor than previously discussed.
description: 20 pages, 11 figures, data included. Comments welcome. Accepted to MNRAS
Additional file 2 of Comprehensive analysis of a TNF family based-signature in diffuse gliomas with regard to prognosis and immune significance
Creators: name: Wang, Qiang-Wei
name: Lin, Wei-Wei
name: Zhu, Yong-Jian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. Figure S1. The landscape of TNF family members in gliomas. Figure S2. Heatmap and clinicopathological features of low-risk and high-risk group in GSE16011 and Rembrandt dataset. Figure S3. Associations between TNF family-based signature and pathological features in GSE16011 and Rembrandt dataset. Figure S4. Predictive value of signature, age and grade for overall survival in GSE16011 and Rembrandt dataset. Figure S5. Corrplots show correlation between risk score (RS) and six immune cell types. Figure S6. Corrplots show correlation between risk score (RS) and clinical molecular features. Table S1. Correlation between RS and clinicopathological factors of glioma patients.
Generalized Parton Distributions of the Pion
Creators: name: Bissey, F.
name: Cudell, J. R.
name: Cugnon, J.
name: Lansberg, J. P.
name: Stassart, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Off-forward structure functions of the pion are investigated in twist-two and twist-three approximation. A simple model is used for the pion, which allows to introduce finite size effects, while preserving gauge invariance. Results for the imaginary parts of the gamma^* pi -> gamma^* pi off-forward amplitude and of the structure functions are presented. Generalized Callan-Gross relations are obtained.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures, LaTeX, uses espcrc2.sty (included), presented at QCD03 Conference, Montpellier, France, July 2003
Improved Likelihood Ratio Tests for Cointegration Rank in the VAR Model
Creators: name: Boswijk, H. Peter
name: Jansson, Michael
name: ÃŸrregaard Nielsen, Morten
name: Boswijk, H. Peter
name: Jansson, Michael
name: ÃŸrregaard Nielsen, Morten
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Cointegration rank
subject: efficiency
subject: likelihood ratio test
subject: vector autoregression

description: We suggest improved tests for cointegration rank in the vector au- toregressive (VAR) model and develop asymptotic distribution theory and local power results. The tests are (quasi-)likelihood ratio tests based on a Gaussian likelihood, but as usual the asymptotic results do not require normally distributed innovations. Our tests differ from existing tests in two respects. First, instead of basing our tests on the conditional (with respect to the initial observations) likelihood, we follow the recent unit root literature and base our tests on the full likelihood as in, e.g., Elliott, Rothenberg, and Stock (1996). Secondly, our tests incorporate a "sign" restriction which generalizes the one-sided unit root test. We show that the asymptotic local power of the proposed tests dominates that of existing cointegration rank tests.
Frontoparietal Connectivity Neurofeedback Training for Promotion of Working Memory: An fNIRS Study in Healthy Male Participants
Creators: name: Xia, Meiyun
name: Xu, Pengfei
name: Yang, Yuanbin
name: Jiang, Wenyu
name: Wang, Zehua
name: Gu, Xiaolei
name: Yang, Mingxi
name: Li, Deyu
name: Li, Shuyu
name: Dong, Guijun
name: Wang, Ling
name: Wang, Daifa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Neurofeedback cognitive training is a promising tool used to promote cognitive functions effectively and efficiently. In this study, we investigated a novel functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS)-based frontoparietal functional connectivity (FC) neurofeedback training paradigm related to working memory, involving healthy adults. Compared with conventional cognitive training studies, we chose the frontoparietal network, a key brain region for cognitive function modulation, as neurofeedback, yielding a strong targeting effect. In the experiment, 10 participants (test group) received three cognitive training sessions of 15 min using fNIRS-based frontoparietal FC as neurofeedback, and another 10 participants served as the control group. Frontoparietal FC was significantly increased in the test group (p D 0.03), and the cognitive functions (memory and attention) were significantly promoted compared with the control group (accuracy of 3-back test: p D 0.0005, reaction time of 3-back test: p D 0.0009). After additional validations on long-term training effect and on different patient populations, the proposed method exhibited considerable potential to be developed as a fast, effective, and widespread training approach for cognitive function enhancement.
How Targeted is Targeted Tax Relief? Evidence from the Unemployment Insurance Youth Hires Program
Creators: name: Webb, Matthew
name: Sweetman, Arthur
name: Warman, Casey
name: Webb, Matthew
name: Sweetman, Arthur
name: Warman, Casey
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: Financial Economics

description: Targeted employment subsidy programs are commonly employed by governments. This study examines one such initiative that rebated unemployment insurance premi- ums to employers with net increases in insurable earnings for youth aged 18 to 24. In each of two datasets, statistically and economically signficant impacts on employment are observed for the targeted age group relative to older age groups. However, neither dataset exhibits a concurrent change in aggregate unemployment; instead there is a reduction in those not in the labour force. Oddly, no program impacts are observed for females and all of the effects involve only males. Notably, evidence of displacement -- substitution away from slightly older non-subsidized workers towards the younger subsidized group -- is observed. Although modest, these spillovers suggest that the aggregate impact of the program is less than that observed for the targeted group.
Perdita (Perdita) abdominalis Timberlake 1960
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Andrenidae
Perdita
Perdita abdominalis

description: Perdita (Perdita) abdominalis Timberlake, 1960
[Holotype: UCRC; ♀ Cathedral City, Riverside Co., California, USA; Oct 8, 1945]
Perdita abdominalis is widely distributed in the SD in Arizona and California, USA in the north and down to the BCP in the Gulf Coast and the Sarcocaulescent Shrubland ecoregions in the tip of BCS. It specializes on pollen from plants in the genus Pectis L. (Fowler 2020). We reviewed 14 specimens including 13 paratypes (9 ♂, 4 ♀) collected in Canipole (2 ♂, 1 ♀) and San Pedro (7 ♂, 3 ♀), BCS in October 1941 (CASC). See fig. 43.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Least Squares Model Averaging by Prediction Criterion
Creators: name: Xie, Tian
name: Xie, Tian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Model Averaging
subject: MAPC
subject: Convex Optimization
subject: Optimality
subject: Statistical Inference

description: This paper proposes a new estimator for least squares model averaging. A model average estimator is a weighted average of common estimates obtained from a set of models. We propose computing weights by minimizing a model average prediction criterion (MAPC). We prove that the MAPC estimator is asymptotically optimal in the sense of achieving the lowest possible mean squared error. For statistical inference, we derive asymptotic tests for single hypotheses and joint hypotheses on the average coefficients for the “core” regressors. These regressors are of primary interest to us and are included in every approximation model. To improve the finite sample performance, we also consider bootstrap tests. In simulation experiments the MAPC estimator is shown to have significant efficiency gains over existing model selection and model averaging methods. We also show that the bootstrap tests have more reasonable rejection frequency than the asymptotic tests in small samples. As an empirical illustration, we apply the MAPC estimator to cross-country economic growth models.
Xenopus laevis as UberXL for nematodes
Creators: name: Schoeman, Anneke L
name: Tracy-Lee Joubert
name: Preez, Louis H Du
name: Svitin, Roman
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: The effect of invasive species on local parasite dynamics is often overlooked. The African Clawed Frog Xenopus laevis (Daudin, 1802) (Anura: Pipidae) is a global invader, with established populations on four continents and is a domestic exotic in southern Africa. Despite a century of parasitological surveys, the current study reports seven previously unrecorded nematode species parasitising X. laevis across South Africa. These are adult Capillaria sp. and Falcaustra sp. from the intestine, third stage larvae of Contracaecum sp. encysted in the body cavity, third stage larvae of Paraquimperia sp. and Tanqua sp. from the intestine and two different species of second stage nematode larvae from the lungs and kidneys, respectively. Morphological descriptions, photomicrographs and molecular data of the 18S and 28S rRNA and COI genes are provided to aid future investigations. We propose that these nematodes could well be using X. laevis as a definitive, paratenic and intermediate host, probably involving native fish, piscivorous birds, semi-aquatic reptiles and invertebrates in their life cycles. All recovered nematodes are recorded for the first time herein in association with X. laevis, except for the genus Contracaecum, members of which have previously been recorded from invasive X. laevis from California and Chile. The current study illustrates that X. laevis is an important parasite reservoir in its native range, with implications for its role in the invasive range. The fact that none of these nematodes could be identified to species level underscores the importance of provid ing morphological descriptions and molecular data when reporting on parasitological surveys, especially those of known invasive species.
"Palm Wine" selected poems
Creators: name: Kuznick, Simki Ghebremichael
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 47
subject: Language, communication and culture
classificationCode: 4705
subject: Literary studies

description: Palm Wine explores the beginning of the poet's journey toward self-identity, investigating how she is propelled toward her own destiny by the act of naming. The poet moves through experiences that bring her inexorably out of the cocoon of childhood to the danger of being a woman in a man's world. Searching for what it means to be truly human, she immerses herself in the cultures of West Africa, India, Eastern Europe, always returning to her roots in Sebastopol, California. Poet Michael Gushue writes that Ms. Kuznick's poems "are infused with the personal and lyrical, but also move outward to history and our human, communal concerns. They are filled with vivid images that are also an aural delight, and that come from closely looking at and attending to the world. And while they reach out towards an insight or truth, it is one shaded by the larger uncertainties of our time.".
Additional file 1 of The design of an evaluation framework for diabetes self-management education and support programs delivered nationally
Creators: name: Olson, Jenny Louise
name: White, Becky
name: Mitchell, Helen
name: Halliday, Jennifer
name: Skinner, Timothy
name: Schofield, Deborah
name: Sweeting, Jennifer
name: Watson, Natasha
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
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.
Perdita (Perdita) acaciae Timberlake 1962
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Andrenidae
Perdita
Perdita acaciae

description: Perdita (Perdita) acaciae Timberlake, 1962 **
[Holotype: CASC; ♀ San Felipe Creek, near Scissors Crossing, San Diego Co., California, USA; June 5, 1936]
This species represents a new species record for Mexico confirmed by reviewing 32 specimens collected in Rosarito and Rancho el Progreso in September 1977 (LACM). See fig. 43.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Do Consumers Always Gain When More People Buy the Same Brand
Creators: name: Chou, Chien-Fu
name: Shy, Oz
name: Chou, Chien-Fu
name: Shy, Oz
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Network Effects
subject: Brands
subject: Supporting Services
subject: Compatibility
subject: Computer Industry
subject: Software Industry

description: We analyze markets for goods in which the consumer's value for a specific brand increases with an increase in the variety of the brand's specific supporting services. We demonstrate that consumers are not always better off with an increase in the number of consumers purchasing the same brand even though the variety of the brand specific supporting services may increase. The paper also analyzes the effects of changing the distribution of consumer tastes on the market shares of brand producing firms and the variety of services supporting each brand. Then, we ask whether consumers and firms benefit from having supporting services that are compatible with all brands.
Additional file 1 of Exploring the causal role of intimate partner violence and abuse on depressive symptoms in young adults: a population-based cohort study
Creators: name: Herbert, Annie
name: Heron, Jon
name: Barnes, Maria
name: Barter, Christine
name: Feder, Gene
name: Meghrawi, Khadija
name: Szilassy, Eszter
name: Fraser, Abigail
name: Howe, Laura D.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1:. Boxes S1-S4; Figs. S1-S3; Tables S1-S9. Box S1: IPVA questionnaire; Box S2: Antisocial behaviour questionnaire; Box S3: Inverse Probability Treatment Weighting (IPTW) methods; Box S4: Difference-in-difference (DiD) methods; Fig. S1: Propensity score distributions; Fig. S2: Standardised differences; Table S1: Cohort characteristics; Table S2: Logged outcome vs. not (multivariable regression and IPTW); Table S3: Logged outcome vs. not (DiD); Table S4: Comparison of results from different analysis samples (multivariable regression and IPTW); Table S5: Comparison of results from different analysis samples (DiD); Table S6: Exposure number of IPVA types (multivariable regression and IPTW); Table S7: Exposure number of IPVA types (DiD); Fig. S3: Plot of estimated outcome over time, exposure number of IPVA types (DiD); Table S8: Analyses stratified by child maltreatment (multivariable regression and IPTW, complete data); Table S8: Analyses stratified by child maltreatment (multivariable regression and IPTW, complete data)
$α'$-Cosmology: solutions and stability analysis
Creators: name: Bernardo, Heliudson
name: Franzmann, Guilherme
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review O$(d,d)$ Covariant String Cosmology to all orders in $α'$ in the presence of matter and study its solutions. We show that the perturbative analysis for a constant dilaton in the absence of a dilatonic charge does not lead to a time-independet equation of state. Meanwhile, the non-perturbative equations of motion allow de Sitter solutions in the String frame parametrized by the equation of state and the dilatonic charge. Among this set of solutions, we show that a cosmological constant equation of state implies a de Sitter solution both in String and Einstein frames while a winding equation of state implies a de Sitter solution in the former and a static phase in the latter. We also consider the stability of these solutions under homogeneous linear perturbations and show that they are not unstable, therefore defining viable cosmological scenarios.
description: 13 pages, 1 figure, references updated, typos fixed
Additional file 1 of Droplet precautions on-site (DroPS) during the influenza season 2018/2019: a possible alternative to single room isolation for respiratory viral infections
Creators: name: Birrer, Michèle
name: Perrig, Martin
name: Hobi, Fabienne
name: Gfeller, Christina
name: Atkinson, Andrew
name: Egger, Martin
name: Bartholdi, Corinne
name: Aujesky, Drahomir
name: Marschall, Jonas
name: Sommerstein, Rami
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. DroPS for the prevention of respiratory viral infection.
"Palm Wine" selected poems
Creators: name: Kuznick, Simki Ghebremichael
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Palm Wine explores the beginning of the poet's journey toward self-identity, investigating how she is propelled toward her own destiny by the act of naming. The poet moves through experiences that bring her inexorably out of the cocoon of childhood to the danger of being a woman in a man's world. Searching for what it means to be truly human, she immerses herself in the cultures of West Africa, India, Eastern Europe, always returning to her roots in Sebastopol, California. Poet Michael Gushue writes that Ms. Kuznick's poems "are infused with the personal and lyrical, but also move outward to history and our human, communal concerns. They are filled with vivid images that are also an aural delight, and that come from closely looking at and attending to the world. And while they reach out towards an insight or truth, it is one shaded by the larger uncertainties of our time.".
Radius Stabilization in a Supersymmetric Warped Compactification
Creators: name: Eto, Minoru
name: Maru, Nobuhito
name: Sakai, Norisuke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A supersymmetric (SUSY) model of radius stabilization is constructed for the S^1/Z_2 warped compactifications with a hypermultiplet in five dimensions. Requiring the continuity of scalar field across the boundaries, we obtain radius stabilization preserving SUSY, realizing the SUSY extension of the Goldberger-Wise mechanism. Even if we allow discontinuities of the Z_2 odd field across the boundary, we always obtain SUSY preservation but obtain the radius stabilization only when the discontinuity is fixed by other mechanism.
description: 6 pages, revtex, Errors of the products of distributions are corrected and the results are reanalyzed, references added, final version to appear in PRD
Unhealthy exposures: Health-promoting and health-compromising product advertisements in Black, Hispanic, and White women's magazines
Creators: name: Young, Jessica Le'vette
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Minority women suffer from preventable diseases at higher rates than their white peers. Previous research has shown that unequal promotion of health-compromising food, tobacco, and beverage products to minorities could be a factor in health disparities in obesity, diabetes, cancer, and cardiovascular diseases among minorities compared to whites. The purpose of this study was to document the differences in food, beverage, and tobacco product advertising to three different racial groups in popular magazines. A content analysis of food, beverage, and tobacco product advertisements show that Black women are exposed to twice as many health-compromising product advertisements than health-promoting products, whereas Hispanic women are exposed to health-compromising and health-promoting products at about an equal rate. White women are exposed to health-compromising and health-promoting products at a 1:3 ratio. Future research is needed to explore the effects these differences in advertising have on health disparities.
Airline Deregulation and the Choice of Networks
Creators: name: Berechman, Joseph
name: Shy, Oz
name: Berechman, Joseph
name: Shy, Oz
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Public Economics
subject: Airline Deregulation
subject: Hub-and-Spoke
subject: Networks

description: /n this paper, we explore how incumbent airline firms restructure their route network in order to deter entry caused by deregulation. We demonstrate that under the threat of entry, following market deregulation, incumbent airline firms are more likely to operate hub-and-spoke type networks. In doing so, the firms will increase the frequency of service compared with a fully-connected type network case. Consequently, consumers' welfare will rise with deregulation.
Perdita (Pentaperdita) erudita Cockerell 1923
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Andrenidae
Perdita
Perdita erudita

description: Perdita (Pentaperdita) erudita Cockerell, 1923
Endemic
[Holotype: CASC; ♂ Palm Cañon, Isla Angel de la Guarda, Gulf of California, Baja California; May 3, 1921]
This species is endemic to BC (Ayala et al. 1996) and was first described by Cockerell (1923) with a single specimen from Isla Angel de la Guarda. See fig. 43.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Cavity ring-down spectroscopy of CO$_2$ near $λ$ = 2.06 $μ$m: Accurate transition intensities for the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) "strong band"
Creators: name: Fleurbaey, Hélène
name: Yi, Hongming
name: Adkins, Erin M.
name: Fleisher, Adam J.
name: Hodges, Joseph T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The $λ$ = 2.06 $μ$m absorption band of CO$_2$ is widely used for the remote sensing of atmospheric carbon dioxide, making it relevant to many important top-down measurements of carbon flux. The forward models used in the retrieval algorithms employed in these measurements require increasingly accurate line intensity and line shape data from which absorption cross-sections can be computed. To overcome accuracy limitations of existing line lists, we used frequency-stabilized cavity ring-down spectroscopy to measure 39 transitions in the $^{12}$C$^{16}$O$_2$ absorption band. The line intensities were measured with an estimated relative combined standard uncertainty of $u_r$ = 0.08 %. We predict the $J$-dependence of the measured intensities using two theoretical modesl: a one-dimensional spectroscopic model with Herman-Wallis rotation-vibration corrections, and a line-by-line ab initio dipole moment surface model [Zak et al. JQSRT 2016;177:31-42]. For the second approach, we fit only a single factor to rescale the theoretical integrated band intensity to be consistent with the measured intensities. We find that the latter approach yields an equally adequate representation of the fitted $J$-dependent intensity data and provides the most physically general representation of the results. Our recommended value for the integrated band intensity equal to 7.183$\times$10$^{-21}$ cm molecule$^{-1}$ $\pm$ 6$\times$10$^{-24}$ cm molecule$^{-1}$ is based on the rescaled ab initio model and corresponds to a fitted scale factor of 1.0069 $\pm$ 0.0002. Comparisons of literature intensity values to our results reveal systematic deviations ranging from $-$1.16 % to +0.33 %.
description: 34 pages, 10 figures, 4 tables, 54 references
Unhealthy exposures: Health-promoting and health-compromising product advertisements in Black, Hispanic, and White women's magazines
Creators: name: Young, Jessica Le'vette
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences
classificationCode: 4206
subject: Public health

description: Minority women suffer from preventable diseases at higher rates than their white peers. Previous research has shown that unequal promotion of health-compromising food, tobacco, and beverage products to minorities could be a factor in health disparities in obesity, diabetes, cancer, and cardiovascular diseases among minorities compared to whites. The purpose of this study was to document the differences in food, beverage, and tobacco product advertising to three different racial groups in popular magazines. A content analysis of food, beverage, and tobacco product advertisements show that Black women are exposed to twice as many health-compromising product advertisements than health-promoting products, whereas Hispanic women are exposed to health-compromising and health-promoting products at about an equal rate. White women are exposed to health-compromising and health-promoting products at a 1:3 ratio. Future research is needed to explore the effects these differences in advertising have on health disparities.
International Fiscal Policy Coordination and Competition
Creators: name: Razin, Assaf
name: Sadka, Efraim
name: Razin, Assaf
name: Sadka, Efraim
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1991
Subjects: Financial Economics

description: The paper highlights key considerations necessary for the analysis of international tax competition and the desirability of international tax harmonization. The analysis of a Nash—Cournot international tax competition is carried out for (1) competing countries that cannot exercise significant market power in the world economy when setting tax rates, (2) competing countries that incorporate the indirect effect on world prices into the tax design and (3) competing governments that are unable to commit themselves to a preannounced path of tax for the entire future. The discussion is carried out by using basic principles of international taxation under full integration of goods and capital world markets.
Deformation Projected RMF Calculation for Cr and Fe nuclei in Hybrid Derivative Coupling Model
Creators: name: Mitra, Parna
name: Gangopadhyay, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ground state properties of even mass Cr and Fe isotopes are studied using the generalized hybrid derivative coupling model. The energy surface of each isotope is plotted as a function of the mass quadrupole moment. The neutron numbers N=20 and N=40 are seen to remain magic numbers but N= 28 and 50 are predicted to be non-magic. The neutron number N=70 turns out to be a magic number according to the present calculation. In all the isotopes studied the calculated binding energy values are less than those obtained from experiment while the deformation is in better agreement.
description: To appear in Int. Jour. Mod. Phys. E
THE EFFECT OF CORONA VIRUS ON HEALTH RISK TOURISM
Creators: name: Putri, Rini Mai Exsa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150603 Tourism Management
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: ESSAY ABOUT THE EFFECT OF CORONA VIRUS ON HEALTH RISK TOURISM
Reducing explicit and implicit mental illness stigma through perspective taking
Creators: name: Colangelo, Anna M.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 5203
subject: Clinical and health psychology
classificationCode: 5205
subject: Social and personality psychology

description: Research indicates that perspective taking reduces stigma towards many groups. Perspective taking and mental illness stigma have not been examined. Research investigating other areas of mental illness stigma employed primarily explicit measures of attitudes. The current study collected data from 124 participants to determine if perspective taking reduces explicit and implicit mental illness stigma. It was predicted that perspective taking would lower stigmatizing attitudes. No significant differences in stigmatizing attitudes were found between conditions on the implicit measure and most of the explicit measures. There was a marginally significant difference between groups for social distance. Unexpectedly, those in the perspective taking condition had higher levels of stigma. The effectiveness of perspective taking in reducing mental illness stigma was not confirmed.
Complexity Considerations and Market Behavior
Creators: name: Fershtman, Chaim
name: Kalai, Ehud
name: Fershtman, Chaim
name: Kalai, Ehud
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The paper is concerned with market behavior when firms have limited ability to handle effectively the complexity of changing market conditions and strategic interaction. Modelling the managerial bounded rationality by using the concept of strategic complexity as measured by finite automaton, we altered once there show that market behavior can be considerably is a limit on the complexity of strategies. In particular the paper demonstrates that when an incumbent firm operates in several markets an entry to one market may induce the incumbent to exit from another market (divestiture) in order to "concentrate" on the competition it faces. For different parameters the incumbent may react to such an entry by exit from the same market creating specialization. The paper also demonstrates that bounded complexity can serve as an entry barrier giving an advantage to the established incumbent firm.
Additional file 1 of Concurrent chemoradiotherapy with cisplatin + S-1 versus cisplatin + other third-generation agents for locally advanced non-small-cell lung cancer: a meta-analysis of individual participant data
Creators: name: Taniguchi, Yuri
name: Okamoto, Hiroaki
name: Shimokawa, Tsuneo
name: Sasaki, Tomonari
name: Seto, Takashi
name: Niho, Seiji
name: Ohe, Yuichiro
name: Saigusa, Yusuke
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Medicine
Cancer

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary tables.
Observation of GRB 030131 with the INTEGRAL satellite
Creators: name: Gotz, D.
name: Mereghetti, S.
name: Hurley, K.
name: Deluit, S.
name: Feroci, M.
name: Frontera, F.
name: Fruchter, A.
name: Gorosabel, J.
name: Hartmann, D. H.
name: Hjorth, J.
name: Hudec, R.
name: Mirabel, I. F.
name: Pian, E.
name: Pizzichini, G.
name: Ubertini, P.
name: Winkler, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A long Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) was detected with the instruments on board the INTEGRAL satellite on January 31 2003. Although most of the GRB, which lasted $\sim$150 seconds, occurred during a satellite slew, the automatic software of the INTEGRAL Burst Alert System was able to detect it in near-real time. Here we report the results obtained with the IBIS instrument, which detected GRB 030131 in the 15 keV - 200 keV energy range, and ESO/VLT observations of its optical transient. The burst displays a complex time profile with numerous peaks. The peak spectrum can be described by a single power law with photon index $Γ\simeq$1.7 and has a flux of $\sim$2 photons cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$ in the 20-200 keV energy band. The high sensitivity of IBIS has made it possible for the first time to perform detailed time-resolved spectroscopy of a GRB with a fluence of 7$\times10^{-6}$ erg cm$^{-2}$ (20-200 keV).
description: Accepted for publication in A&A, 5 pages, 4 figures, latex
Microwave electrometry via electromagnetically induced absorption in cold Rydberg atoms
Creators: name: Liao, Kai-Yu
name: Tu, Hai-Tao
name: Yang, Shu-Zhe
name: Chen, Chang-Jun
name: Liu, Xiao-Hong
name: Liang, Jie
name: Zhang, Xin-Ding
name: Yan, Hui
name: Zhu, Shi-Liang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The atom-based traceable standard for microwave electrometry shows promising advantages by enabling stable and uniform measurement. Here we theoretically propose and then experimentally realize an alternative direct International System of Units (SI)-traceable and self-calibrated method for measuring a microwave electric field strength based on electromagnetically induced absorption (EIA) in cold Rydberg atoms. Comparing with the method of electromagnetically induced transparency, we show that the equivalence relation between microwave Rabi frequency and Autler-Townes splitting is more valid and is even more robust against the experimental parameters in the EIA's linear region. Furthermore, a narrower linewidth of cold Rydberg EIA enables us to realize a direct SI-traceable microwave-electric-field measurement as small as $\sim$100 $μ\mathrm{\!V} \mathrm{cm}^{\!-\!1}$.
Complementary Network Externalities and Technological Adoption
Creators: name: Church, Jeffrey
name: Gandal, Neil
name: Church, Jeffrey
name: Gandal, Neil
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1991
Subjects: Financial Economics

description: We address the adoption of technology when there are network externalities and networks are characterized by complementary products produced by different firms. We show that the market outcome is efficient if the software firms are monopolistic competitors. If the software firms are Bertrand competitors, a hardware technology with lower software development costs is adopted for many parameter values for which it is socially optimal to adopt the other technology. The overadoption is due to a discrepancy between the private and social value of having a larger network: this divergence is increasing in the software development costs. We also examine various contractual arrangements between hardware firms and software firms which internalize the network externality.
Curculio scutellaris
Creators: name: Frank W. Pelsue, Jr.
name: Zhang, Runzhi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2000
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Curculio
Curculio scutellaris

description: Curculio scutellaris (Chevrolat)
Figs. 21–22, 62–65
description: Published as part of Frank W. Pelsue, Jr. & Zhang, Runzhi, 2000, A Review Of The Curculio From China With Descriptions Of New Taxa. Part II. The Curculio Alboscutellatus Group (Curculionidae: Curculioninae: Cyrculionini), pp. 467-496 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 54 (4) on page 488, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065x(2000)054[0467:arotcf]2.0.co;2, http://zenodo.org/record/4900281
Reducing explicit and implicit mental illness stigma through perspective taking
Creators: name: Colangelo, Anna M.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Research indicates that perspective taking reduces stigma towards many groups. Perspective taking and mental illness stigma have not been examined. Research investigating other areas of mental illness stigma employed primarily explicit measures of attitudes. The current study collected data from 124 participants to determine if perspective taking reduces explicit and implicit mental illness stigma. It was predicted that perspective taking would lower stigmatizing attitudes. No significant differences in stigmatizing attitudes were found between conditions on the implicit measure and most of the explicit measures. There was a marginally significant difference between groups for social distance. Unexpectedly, those in the perspective taking condition had higher levels of stigma. The effectiveness of perspective taking in reducing mental illness stigma was not confirmed.
Photometric redshifts with the Multilayer Perceptron Neural Network: application to the HDF-S and SDSS
Creators: name: Vanzella, E.
name: Cristiani, S.
name: Fontana, A.
name: Nonino, M.
name: Arnouts, S.
name: Giallongo, E.
name: Grazian, A.
name: Fasano, G.
name: Popesso, P.
name: Saracco, P.
name: Zaggia, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a technique for the estimation of photometric redshifts based on feed-forward neural networks. The Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) Artificial Neural Network is used to predict photometric redshifts in the HDF-S from an ultra deep multicolor catalog. Various possible approaches for the training of the neural network are explored, including the deepest and most complete spectroscopic redshift catalog currently available (the Hubble Deep Field North dataset) and models of the spectral energy distribution of galaxies available in the literature. The MLP can be trained on observed data, theoretical data and mixed samples. The prediction of the method is tested on the spectroscopic sample in the HDF-S (44 galaxies). Over the entire redshift range, $0.1
description: 17 pages. Submitted to A&A in Feb. 2003, revised in Oct. 2003
Exploring U.N.-led Negotiation processes: The case of the Manhasset rounds between Morocco and the POLISARIO
Creators: name: Ghoulidi, Amine
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: This study explores the stalemate in the U.N.-led Negotiations between Morocco and the Frente POLISARIO on the status of the "Western Sahara" territory. It suggests that the U.N., as a host and mediator of these rounds, has had a significant impact on the process and that it shares responsibility for the current stalemate. It asserts that Bercovitch's contingency framework applies generically to the Manhasset case and provides a modified version of it that better correspond to mediations by Personal Envoys of the U.N. Secretary General. Finally, this study proposes an alternative mediation approach to the "Western Sahara" conflict that calls for a Moroccan engagement of Algeria through a secret track in parallel to the official U.N.-led Morocco-POLISARIO one.