cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
IDENTIFICATION OF PEER COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES USING FACTORS OF SIGNIFICANCE TO THEIR CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICERS, TO IMPROVE INFORMATION SHARING AND DECISION MAKING
Creators: name: Sedivy, Robert Rudolph
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3903
subject: Education systems

description: Problem. The problem of this study was to: (1) identify the characteristics which can be used to compare privately-controlled, four-year, regionally-accredited, non-profit colleges and universities enrolling 2,000 to 5,000 FTE students; (2) determine which of those characteristics are most important to Chief Financial Officers (CFO's) interested in comparing institutions; (3) group the study institutions in terms of the "most important" characteristics; and (4) suggest ways CFO's can use this study's methods and outcomes in their work. Summary of Procedures and Findings. Based on a review of the related literature, thirty-eight institutional characteristics were identified which CFO's can use to compare colleges and universities. The CFO's of the study institutions were surveyed, using the Interinstitutional Comparison Factors Survey (ICFS), an instrument designed by the researcher, to determine which of those characteristics they viewed as most important. The twenty "most important" characteristics were used as a guide in the compilation of data on the study institutions. The institutional data were analyzed using the K-Means Clustering routine to group the 155 colleges and universities into twelve clusters. The twelve groups of similar colleges and universities constitute the major result of this study. Seven of these clusters, containing 142 institutions, each appeared homogeneous, yet distinctly separate from the others. The remaining 13 schools, grouped into five clusters, appeared to have little in common with the other colleges and universities examined. The Chief Financial Officers of the study institutions can use the twelve clusters when they wish to exchange information or compare ideas with their counterparts at similar colleges and universities. Chief Financial Officers at colleges and universities other than those examined in this research can, in addition, use the methodology of this study to construct their own groups of peer institutions. Thus this study could be of benefit to CFO's at more than just the 155 institutions it examined and clustered.
Additional file 6 of Type 2 diabetes induced microbiome dysbiosis is associated with therapy resistance in pancreatic adenocarcinoma
Creators: name: Kousik Kesh
name: Mendez, Roberto
name: Abdelrahman, Leila
name: Santanu Banerjee
name: Banerjee, Sulagna
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 6: Figure S6. Significantly changing microbial species in control vs T2D group: Top 50 bacterial genera changed between C1 and D1 (A), C4 vs D4 (B) and after Gem/Pac treatment in C4′ and D4′ group (C).
Цементбетон йўл қопламаларини қуришда равонликни таъминлаш муаммолари
Creators: name: Abduvokhid Yunusov
name: Tursoat Amirov
name: Begzod Kholikov
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 90502 Construction Engineering
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: Мақолада цементбетон йўл қопламаларини қуриш жараёнида равонликка таъсир қиладиган омиллар тахлили келтирилган. Қопламанинг равонлик кўрсаткичи экспериментал ва сонли усуллар ёрдамида тадқиқ қилинган ва тадқиқот натижалари асосида қурилиш даврида юқори даражадаги равонликка эришиш учун тавсиялар берилган.
Heterogeneity and Clustering of Defaults
Creators: name: Karlis, Alexandros
name: Galanis, Girogos
name: Terovitis, Spyridon
name: Turner, Matthew
name: Karlis, Alexandros
name: Galanis, Girogos
name: Terovitis, Spyridon
name: Turner, Matthew
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Financial crises
subject: hedge funds
subject: survival statistics
subject: bankruptcy

description: This paper studies an economy where privately informed hedge funds (HFs) trade a risky asset in order to exploit potential mispricings. HFs are allowed to have access to credit, by using their risky assets as collateral. We analyse the role of the degree of heterogeneity among HFs’ demand for the risky asset in the emergence of clustering of defaults. We find that fire-sales caused by margin calls is a necessary, yet not a sufficient condition for defaults to be clustered. We show that when the degree of heterogeneity is sufficiently high, poorly performing HFs are able to obtain a higher than usual market share at the end of the leverage cycle, which leads to an improvement of their performance. Consequently, their survival time is prolonged, increasing the probability of them remaining in operation until the downturn of the next leverage cycle. This leads to the increase of the probability of poorly and high-performing hedge funds to default in sync at a later time, and thus the probability of collective defaults.
IDENTIFICATION OF PEER COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES USING FACTORS OF SIGNIFICANCE TO THEIR CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICERS, TO IMPROVE INFORMATION SHARING AND DECISION MAKING
Creators: name: Sedivy, Robert Rudolph
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Problem. The problem of this study was to: (1) identify the characteristics which can be used to compare privately-controlled, four-year, regionally-accredited, non-profit colleges and universities enrolling 2,000 to 5,000 FTE students; (2) determine which of those characteristics are most important to Chief Financial Officers (CFO's) interested in comparing institutions; (3) group the study institutions in terms of the "most important" characteristics; and (4) suggest ways CFO's can use this study's methods and outcomes in their work. Summary of Procedures and Findings. Based on a review of the related literature, thirty-eight institutional characteristics were identified which CFO's can use to compare colleges and universities. The CFO's of the study institutions were surveyed, using the Interinstitutional Comparison Factors Survey (ICFS), an instrument designed by the researcher, to determine which of those characteristics they viewed as most important. The twenty "most important" characteristics were used as a guide in the compilation of data on the study institutions. The institutional data were analyzed using the K-Means Clustering routine to group the 155 colleges and universities into twelve clusters. The twelve groups of similar colleges and universities constitute the major result of this study. Seven of these clusters, containing 142 institutions, each appeared homogeneous, yet distinctly separate from the others. The remaining 13 schools, grouped into five clusters, appeared to have little in common with the other colleges and universities examined. The Chief Financial Officers of the study institutions can use the twelve clusters when they wish to exchange information or compare ideas with their counterparts at similar colleges and universities. Chief Financial Officers at colleges and universities other than those examined in this research can, in addition, use the methodology of this study to construct their own groups of peer institutions. Thus this study could be of benefit to CFO's at more than just the 155 institutions it examined and clustered.
Kaon and antikaon properties in cold nuclear medium
Creators: name: Korpa, C. L.
name: Lutz, M. F. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results of a self-consistent calculation for the kaon and antikaon spectral functions in cold nuclear matter, using as input the kaon-nucleon and antikaon-nucleon scattering amplitudes of the vacuum. We investigate the effect of in-medium pion dressing on the antikaon-nucleon scattering amplitudes and antikaon spectral function. We find the influence of pion dressing to be minor on the antikaon spectral function and limited on the hyperon resonances causing only a small additional broadening. An exception is the Σ(1690). At nuclear saturation density an attractive mass shift of about 20 MeV and width of about 130 MeV is obtained. The kaon shows a repulsive mass increase of 36 MeV and a small width of the quasiparticle peak at saturation density.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Heavy Ion Physics
THAT ONE CONGENIAL FRIEND: THE READER'S PLACE IN "THE GOOD SOLDIER"
Creators: name: Tracy, Laura Kaplan
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This study analyzes the assumed reader in Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier. The assumed reader, as distinct from the "characterized" and the actual reader, is that reader toward whom the writer addresses the work in its entirety. A writer does not seek any reader, but rather that reader who promises to satisfy both consciously and unconsciously held needs and desires. The study argues that, to some extent, writers may be defined by the sorts of readers they seem to desire; the means they employ to get them; and what they want from or do to such readers. The concept of the assumed reader is used as a technique to determine the reliability of Ford's narrator John Dowell. Since Mark Schorer's 1948 essay, in which he decided that the book was a work of comic irony and Dowell was Ford's dupe, criticism has been divided on this crucial issue. I find that Dowell is no more unreliable than Ford; that the book is indeed ironic, but that Ford directs his irony against a generally insensitive world, rather than his narrator. Moreover, the study argues that Ford's irony was not entirely under his control, a consequence of his uncertain anticipation of his potential audience. The study juxtaposes three aspects of the novel: Ford's framing devices and dedicatory letter; Dowell's syntax, particularly his insistent use of ellipses and the adjective "poor"; and Dowell's description of tragic events in morbidly humorous language. The juxtaposition reveals that the covert thrust of Dowell's character is toward a will to power, disguised by the appearance of overt humility and victimization, corresponding to a parallel desire for authority masked by self-effacement on Ford's part in the framing devices. Both indicate that Ford projected his own best hopes outward, and pretended they were his readers.
THAT ONE CONGENIAL FRIEND: THE READER'S PLACE IN "THE GOOD SOLDIER"
Creators: name: Tracy, Laura Kaplan
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 47
subject: Language, communication and culture
classificationCode: 4705
subject: Literary studies

description: This study analyzes the assumed reader in Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier. The assumed reader, as distinct from the "characterized" and the actual reader, is that reader toward whom the writer addresses the work in its entirety. A writer does not seek any reader, but rather that reader who promises to satisfy both consciously and unconsciously held needs and desires. The study argues that, to some extent, writers may be defined by the sorts of readers they seem to desire; the means they employ to get them; and what they want from or do to such readers. The concept of the assumed reader is used as a technique to determine the reliability of Ford's narrator John Dowell. Since Mark Schorer's 1948 essay, in which he decided that the book was a work of comic irony and Dowell was Ford's dupe, criticism has been divided on this crucial issue. I find that Dowell is no more unreliable than Ford; that the book is indeed ironic, but that Ford directs his irony against a generally insensitive world, rather than his narrator. Moreover, the study argues that Ford's irony was not entirely under his control, a consequence of his uncertain anticipation of his potential audience. The study juxtaposes three aspects of the novel: Ford's framing devices and dedicatory letter; Dowell's syntax, particularly his insistent use of ellipses and the adjective "poor"; and Dowell's description of tragic events in morbidly humorous language. The juxtaposition reveals that the covert thrust of Dowell's character is toward a will to power, disguised by the appearance of overt humility and victimization, corresponding to a parallel desire for authority masked by self-effacement on Ford's part in the framing devices. Both indicate that Ford projected his own best hopes outward, and pretended they were his readers.
The concept of strong and weak virtual reality
Creators: name: Lisewski, A. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: F.4.1; I.2.4; H.1.2; H.5.1

description: We approach the virtual reality phenomenon by studying its relationship to set theory, and we investigate the case where this is done using the wellfoundedness property of sets. Our hypothesis is that non-wellfounded sets (hypersets) give rise to a different quality of virtual reality than do familiar wellfounded sets. We initially provide an alternative approach to virtual reality based on Sommerhoff's idea of first and second order self-awareness; both categories of self-awareness are considered as necessary conditions for consciousness in terms of higher cognitive functions. We then introduce a representation of first and second order self-awareness through sets, and assume that these sets, which we call events, originally form a collection of wellfounded sets. Strong virtual reality characterizes virtual reality environments which have the limited capacity to create only events associated with wellfounded sets. In contrast, the more general concept of weak virtual reality characterizes collections of virtual reality mediated events altogether forming an entirety larger than any collection of wellfounded sets. By giving reference to Aczel's hyperset theory we indicate that this definition is not empty, because hypersets encompass wellfounded sets already. Moreover, we argue that weak virtual reality could be realized in human history through continued progress in computer technology. Finally, we reformulate our characterization into a more general framework, and use Baltag's Structural Theory of Sets (STS) to show that within this general hyperset theory Sommerhoff's first and second order self-awareness as well as both concepts of virtual reality admit a consistent mathematical representation.
description: 17 pages; several edits in v2
Rodentia Bowditch 1821
Creators: name: Decher, Jan
name: Norris, Ryan W.
name: Abedi-Lartey, Michael
name: Oppong, James
name: Hutterer, Rainer
name: Weinbrenner, Martin
name: Koch, Martin
name: Podsiadlowski, Lars
name: Kilpatrick, C. William
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia

description: Order RODENTIA Bowditch, 1821  REMARK
A total of 238 individuals from 12 rodent species were verified by us during both expeditions to the Volta Region (Table 2).
description: Published as part of Decher, Jan, Norris, Ryan W., Abedi-Lartey, Michael, Oppong, James, Hutterer, Rainer, Weinbrenner, Martin, Koch, Martin, Podsiadlowski, Lars & Kilpatrick, C. William, 2021, A survey of small mammals in the Volta Region of Ghana with comments on zoogeography and conservation, pp. 253-281 in Zoosystema 43 (14) on page 261, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2021v43a14, http://zenodo.org/record/4783781
Monetary Policy and Welfare in a Currency Union
Creators: name: D'Aguanno, Lucio
name: D'Aguanno, Lucio
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Currency union
subject: Incomplete markets
subject: Nominal rigidities
subject: Local currency pricing
subject: Trade frictions
subject: Welfare

description: What are the welfare gains from being in a currency union? I explore this question in the context of a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with monetary barriers to trade, local currency pricing and incomplete markets. The model generates a tradeoff between monetary independence and monetary union. On one hand, distinct national monetary authorities with separate currencies can address business cycles in a countryspecific way, which is not possible for a single central bank. On the other hand, short-run violations of the law of one price and long-run losses of international trade occur if different currencies are adopted, due to the inertia of prices in local currencies and to the presence of trade frictions. I quantify the welfare gap between these two international monetary arrangements in consumption equivalents over the lifetime of households, and decompose it into the contributions of different frictions. I show that the welfare ordering of alternative currency systems depends crucially on the international correlation of macroeconomic shocks and on the strength of the monetary barriers affecting trade with separate currencies. I estimate the model on data from Italy, France, Germany and Spain using standard Bayesian tools, and I find that the tradeoff is resolved in favour of a currency union among these countries.
Additional file 5 of Type 2 diabetes induced microbiome dysbiosis is associated with therapy resistance in pancreatic adenocarcinoma
Creators: name: Kousik Kesh
name: Mendez, Roberto
name: Abdelrahman, Leila
name: Santanu Banerjee
name: Banerjee, Sulagna
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 5: Figure S5. Metacyc Rendition of metabolomic pathways identified in C4′/D4′.
Evaluation of Adolescent HIV Surveillance and Testing Program in Uptown Chicago, 2013-2017
Creators: name: Rader, Benjamin
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: HIV Testing
subject: Adolescents
subject: Chicago
subject: HIV surveillance
subject: HIV
subject: Adolescent Health
subject: Diagnostic Screening Programs
subject: Public Health Surveillance
subject: Sexual and Gender Minorities
subject: Uptown (Chicago, Ill.)

description: Introduction: Adolescent Men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender women (TW) are currently overrepresented among new HIV cases in the United States. To address this concern, the Adolescent Medicine division of Lurie Children's Hospital has operated an HIV testing program in Uptown Chicago geared towards these individuals. The purpose of this manuscript is to report on the evaluation of the HIV outcome, demographic, and risk behavior information resulting from longitudinal data collection performed as part of this program. The results of this paper will be used to drive future program direction and improve primary and secondary HIV prevention among LGBTQ youth in Chicago.Methods: From May 2013 to June 2017, 1058 individuals presented for HIV testing in the Adolescent Medicine division and filled out questionnaires detailing demographics, sex behavior and known HIV risk factors. This data was aggregated in R and subsetted by gender and sexual orientation. Bivariate analysis was conducted to compare risk factors among HIV positive and negative MSM and TW as well as compare old MSM to adolescent MSM HIV positive individuals. A logistic regression was performed to analyze risk factors for a positive HIV test among young MSM.Results: For MSM and TW, those of African American race were at the highest risk for a positive HIV test. In young MSM, social factors such as homelessness and previous incarceration were more salient risk factors than sexual behavior such as condomless sex. The TW tested showed a significantly higher HIV risk than the young MSM tested, but did not show significant differences between positive and negative HIV results. Older MSM individuals were more likely to report having condomless sex with a male or sex with an HIVpositive male partner. Conversely, individuals in the young group were more likely to report having sex with multiple partners and report having sex for drugs or money.Conclusion: The data presented in this analysis mirrors a trend in the United States; while HIV total infections are decreasing, African American youths show an increasing risk. The results also show the primary difference between those who receive a positive HIV test result and those who receive a negative one are social in nature and not precisely related to sex behavior. The Adolescent Medicine division can use these results to direct their resources towards primary prevention of HIV infection in young MSM and TW.
The Political Fallout of Chernobyl: Evidence from West-German Elections
Creators: name: Koenig, Christoph
name: Koenig, Christoph
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: Financial Economics

description: I study the effect of a formative experience on political beliefs in a distant country. This paper looks at the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of April 1986 and voters’ response in West Germany. The analysis uses a diff-in-diff estimation which exploits variation in proximity to the nearest nuclear power plant (NPP) across 301 counties. Proximity is used as proxy for the shock from perceived risk of a nuclear accident. Using data over almost 40 years and 11 elections, my results indicate that living closer to an NPP benefited the explicitly anti- and pro-nuclear parties, the Greens and the Conservatives. The findings are persistent and robust to the inclusion of several socioeconomic controls as well as checks for the validity of the identifying assumptions. The gains of the Greens are similar across social groups and in line with home-voter effects. The effect of proximity on the conservatives increases with education and the number of adolescents in their impressionable years. I argue that this can be explained by political belief formation and differences in assessing the economic benefits from nuclear power over the actual risk of an accident. Using variation in the scheduling of subsequent state elections, I can also show that the pro-nuclear response was stronger in counties which did not vote in the immediate aftermath of Chernobyl and thus had more time for a rational electoral choice.
CONFLICT AND COOPERATION OF SINO-AMERICAN RELATIONS IN THE GREAT-POWER TRIANGLE: THE APPROACHES OF CYBERNETICS, SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, AND SOCIAL FIELD THEORY
Creators: name: Wu, Ho-I
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This study has four objectives: (1) to move toward a more systematic approach in the analysis of Sino-American relations by applications of theoretical models, and to bring to bear some up-to-date quantitative methods; (2) to collect a considerable amount of quantified data through reviewing two major and relevant newspapers--Jen-min Jih-pao (1965-71) and the New York Times Index (1980-81); (3) to conduct exploratory work comparing the validity of three competing explanations for conflict and cooperation in great-power triangle--the cybernetic theory of communication and interaction versus the social-psychological theory of image and cognitive balance versus social field theory of attributes; and (4) to discover how closely interlocked are the behaviors of the USA, the PRC and the USSR. Through the applications of cybernetics, social psychology, and attribute theory, eight hypotheses are developed and empirically tested. Three pre-theories are supported in different degrees by the findings of partial correlation and multiple regression analyses. Among the most noteworthy of the results which contribute to theoretical development and policy relevance are the propositions that: (1) Action, feedback and learning are the key concepts to understanding Sino-American relations. (1.1) Between 1950 and 1973, the occurrences of Chinese internal conflict and prior year conflict toward the USA are positively related with Chinese conflict behavior toward the USA. (2) Chinese images toward the two superpowers and the cognitive balance model serve as important determining factors for Chinese conflictual or cooperative behaviors. (2.1) When the intensity of Chinese threat perception of the USSR increased, the conflict behavior sent by the Chinese to the USSR decreased. (2.2) In PRC-USA relations, the USSR conflictual interactions with each country make a significant impact on the countries' behavior toward each other. (3) Attribute distances play a moderate role in predicting conflictual and cooperative behaviors. The author concludes that each of the three different theoretical approaches proved to be appropriate in differing circumstances and that there is some evidence to indicate that they can be usefully combined as data becomes more readily available.
Competence vs. Loyalty: Political survival and electoral fraud in Russia’s regions 2000–2012
Creators: name: Koenig, Christoph
name: Koenig, Christoph
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: Financial Economics

description: Election fraud is a pervasive feature of autocracies but often only serves lower-tier officials to cast signals of loyalty or competence to the central government in order to pursue their own interests. How much such personal interests matter for electoral fraud under autocracy has however not been studied so far. In this paper, I exploit a radical policy change in Russia which allowed the president to replace governors of the country’s 89 regions at his own will. As a result, federal elections after December 2004 were organised by two types of governors: one was handpicked by the president, the other one elected before the law change and re-appointed. Even though both types faced removal in case of bad results, the need to signal loyalty was much lower for the first type. In order to estimate the effect of handpicked governors on electoral fraud, I use a diff-in-diff framework over 7 federal elections between 2000 and 2012. For this time period, I use results from about 95,000 voting stations to construct a new indicator of suspicious votes for each region and election. I show that this indicator correlates strongly with incidents of reported fraud. My baseline estimates show that in territories with a handpicked governor the share of suspicious votes decreased on average by more than 10 percentage points and dropped even further if the region’s economy had done well over the past legislature. These findings suggest that governors have less need to use rigging as a signal once loyalty is assured unless faced with circumstances raising doubts about their competence.
Chiroptera Blumenbach 1779
Creators: name: Decher, Jan
name: Norris, Ryan W.
name: Abedi-Lartey, Michael
name: Oppong, James
name: Hutterer, Rainer
name: Weinbrenner, Martin
name: Koch, Martin
name: Podsiadlowski, Lars
name: Kilpatrick, C. William
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera

description: Order CHIROPTERA Blumenbach, 1779
REMARK
Seventeen bat species were recorded from the Ghana-Togo Highlands based on our two expeditions in the Volta Region (19 nights netted). We list all species and their localities encountered in their zoogeographic context.
description: Published as part of Decher, Jan, Norris, Ryan W., Abedi-Lartey, Michael, Oppong, James, Hutterer, Rainer, Weinbrenner, Martin, Koch, Martin, Podsiadlowski, Lars & Kilpatrick, C. William, 2021, A survey of small mammals in the Volta Region of Ghana with comments on zoogeography and conservation, pp. 253-281 in Zoosystema 43 (14) on page 266, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2021v43a14, http://zenodo.org/record/4783781
Exact artificial boundary conditions of 1D semi-discretized peridynamics
Creators: name: Ji, Songsong
name: Pang, Gang
name: Zhang, Jiwei
name: Yang, Yibo
name: Perdikaris, Paris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: The peridynamic theory reformulates the equations of continuum mechanics in terms of integro-differential equations instead of partial differential equations. It is not trivial to directly apply naive approach in artificial boundary conditions for continua to peridynamics modeling, because it usually involves semi-discretization scheme. In this paper, we present a new way to construct exact boundary conditions for semi-discretized peridynamics using kernel functions and recursive relations. Specially, kernel functions are used to characterize one single source are combined to construct the exact boundary conditions. The recursive relationships between the kernel functions are proposed, therefore the kernel functions can be computed through the ordinary differential system and integral system with high precision. The numerical results demonstrate that the boundary condition has high accuracy. The proposed method can be applied to modeling of wave propagation of other nonlocal theories and high dimensional cases.
description: 21 pages, 14 figures
Cruising in the "Non-Traditional" Collections Lane with Your MAAP:  Challenges and Solutions
Creators: name: Kubilius, Ramune
name: Davis, Bart
name: Callahan, Beth
name: Snyder, Rebecca
name: Hilleglass, Stella
name: Erlichman, Evan
Publisher: name: Prism. Galter Health Sciences Library. Northwestern University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Libraries, Medical
subject: Library Collection Development
subject: Collection development (Libraries)

description: Slides and reference list from a panel presentation at the MLA / SLA'23 conference in Detroit, MI on May 19, 2023.  One presentation of six in: "Shifting Into Second Gear: The 2nd Symposium on Collection Development & Resource Sharing". Presented by: Beth Callahan, Bart Davis, and Rebecca Snyder. Moderated by Ramune K. Kubilius, and Evan Erlichman. This session was developed by Stella Hilleglass and Ramune K. Kubilius.
Leading Quenching Effects in the Proton Magnetic Moment
Creators: name: Young, R. D.
name: Leinweber, D. B.
name: Thomas, A. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first investigation of the extrapolation of quenched nucleon magnetic moments in quenched chiral effective field theory. We utilize established techniques in finite-range regularisation and compare with standard dimensional regularisation methods. Finite-volume corrections to the relevant loop integrals are also addressed. Finally, the contributions of dynamical sea quarks to the proton moment are estimated using a recently discovered phenomenological link between quenched and physical QCD.
description: 9 pages, 11 figs; v2: revised finite volume discussion
CONFLICT AND COOPERATION OF SINO-AMERICAN RELATIONS IN THE GREAT-POWER TRIANGLE: THE APPROACHES OF CYBERNETICS, SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, AND SOCIAL FIELD THEORY
Creators: name: Wu, Ho-I
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: This study has four objectives: (1) to move toward a more systematic approach in the analysis of Sino-American relations by applications of theoretical models, and to bring to bear some up-to-date quantitative methods; (2) to collect a considerable amount of quantified data through reviewing two major and relevant newspapers--Jen-min Jih-pao (1965-71) and the New York Times Index (1980-81); (3) to conduct exploratory work comparing the validity of three competing explanations for conflict and cooperation in great-power triangle--the cybernetic theory of communication and interaction versus the social-psychological theory of image and cognitive balance versus social field theory of attributes; and (4) to discover how closely interlocked are the behaviors of the USA, the PRC and the USSR. Through the applications of cybernetics, social psychology, and attribute theory, eight hypotheses are developed and empirically tested. Three pre-theories are supported in different degrees by the findings of partial correlation and multiple regression analyses. Among the most noteworthy of the results which contribute to theoretical development and policy relevance are the propositions that: (1) Action, feedback and learning are the key concepts to understanding Sino-American relations. (1.1) Between 1950 and 1973, the occurrences of Chinese internal conflict and prior year conflict toward the USA are positively related with Chinese conflict behavior toward the USA. (2) Chinese images toward the two superpowers and the cognitive balance model serve as important determining factors for Chinese conflictual or cooperative behaviors. (2.1) When the intensity of Chinese threat perception of the USSR increased, the conflict behavior sent by the Chinese to the USSR decreased. (2.2) In PRC-USA relations, the USSR conflictual interactions with each country make a significant impact on the countries' behavior toward each other. (3) Attribute distances play a moderate role in predicting conflictual and cooperative behaviors. The author concludes that each of the three different theoretical approaches proved to be appropriate in differing circumstances and that there is some evidence to indicate that they can be usefully combined as data becomes more readily available.
A PHYSICALIST CRITIQUE OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF ATOMISM IN EARLY GREEK PHILOSOPHY
Creators: name: Davis, Daniel Clay
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 50
subject: Philosophy and religious studies
classificationCode: 5003
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: In this dissertation I uncover a logic of the development of atomism in early Greek philosophy that has not been previously recognized in the philosophical literature. This logic results from the nature of subjectivity and the attempt by reflective subjects to understand the world in which they live. Thus because of the nature of illusions built in to perception and reflection, reflective subjects who attempt to understand their world will develop more or less accurate accounts according to their ability to see through these illusions. Physicalism, as it is understood by Professor Phillip Scribner of The American University and explained in currently unpublished manuscripts, provides the interpretative key that reveals the underlying logic in the development of early Greek philosophy. It is therefore necessary to explain this particular form of physicalism in some detail in order to understand the terminology and categories to be used in the historical analysis. To this end I explain the physicalist ontology and philosophy of science, the genesis of the problem of mind in Modern and Contemporary philosophy, the physicalist solution to the problem of mind, and the nature of the physicalist critique of the history of philosophy. In the historical sections the themes of materialism, reductionism, and realism are used to compare the views of Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes, Parmenides, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, Leucippus, and Democritus and to show how their various positions on the themes follow from their assumptions about the nature of subjectivity. I argue that the predecessors of atomism (except Parmenides) were all naive realists and that this assumption about the nature of mind generates the problems of early Greek philosophy. The resolution of these problems follows from the development of critical realism by Leucippus and a form of proto-physicalism by Democritus. The main sources used are English translations of Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker by H. Diels, edited by W. Kranz, and a variety of secondary sources which provide the consensus of modern authorities.
A PHYSICALIST CRITIQUE OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF ATOMISM IN EARLY GREEK PHILOSOPHY
Creators: name: Davis, Daniel Clay
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: In this dissertation I uncover a logic of the development of atomism in early Greek philosophy that has not been previously recognized in the philosophical literature. This logic results from the nature of subjectivity and the attempt by reflective subjects to understand the world in which they live. Thus because of the nature of illusions built in to perception and reflection, reflective subjects who attempt to understand their world will develop more or less accurate accounts according to their ability to see through these illusions. Physicalism, as it is understood by Professor Phillip Scribner of The American University and explained in currently unpublished manuscripts, provides the interpretative key that reveals the underlying logic in the development of early Greek philosophy. It is therefore necessary to explain this particular form of physicalism in some detail in order to understand the terminology and categories to be used in the historical analysis. To this end I explain the physicalist ontology and philosophy of science, the genesis of the problem of mind in Modern and Contemporary philosophy, the physicalist solution to the problem of mind, and the nature of the physicalist critique of the history of philosophy. In the historical sections the themes of materialism, reductionism, and realism are used to compare the views of Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes, Parmenides, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, Leucippus, and Democritus and to show how their various positions on the themes follow from their assumptions about the nature of subjectivity. I argue that the predecessors of atomism (except Parmenides) were all naive realists and that this assumption about the nature of mind generates the problems of early Greek philosophy. The resolution of these problems follows from the development of critical realism by Leucippus and a form of proto-physicalism by Democritus. The main sources used are English translations of Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker by H. Diels, edited by W. Kranz, and a variety of secondary sources which provide the consensus of modern authorities.
Construction of Charged Cylindrical Gravastar-like Structures
Creators: name: Yousaf, Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we extend the work of gravastars to analyze the role of electromagnetic field in $f(R,T)$ gravity. We consider the irrotational cylindrically symmetric geometry and established the $f(R,T)$ field equations and conservation laws. After considering charged exterior geometry, the mathematical quantities for evaluating Israel junction conditions are being calculated. The mass of the gravastar-like cylindrical structure is calculated through the equations of motion at the hypersurface in the presence of an electromagnetic field. The behavior of electric charge on the length of the thin shell, energy content, and entropy of gravastar is being studied graphically. We concluded that charge has an important role in the length of the thin shell, energy content, and entropy of gravastar.
description: 18 pages, 4 figures, version accepted for publication in Physics of the Dark Universe
A STUDY OF THE CONNOTATIVE MEANINGS OF SPECIAL EDUCATION CENTERS AS MEASURED BY THE SEMANTIC DIFFERENTIAL
Creators: name: Hughes-de Monasterio, Rhonda S.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The purpose of this study was to compare the reactions of experienced teachers, beginning teachers and parents of preschool handicapped children towards special education concepts. Reactions towards neutral, positive and negative concepts were measured using the semantic differential. The study investigated if there were statistically significant differences in the ratings by the three groups of the different concepts. The semantic differential consisted of a total of twenty concepts defined as belonging to the positive, negative or neutral categories. The study contained four neutral concepts, ten negative concepts, and six positive concepts. The study first compared the mean rating values of the three groups of subjects in their evaluation of the meaning of the positive, negative and neutral concepts. An overall significance was found for the F value of the multivariate analysis. The data were then further analyzed at the univariate level. Significant differences among group means were found for the positive and negative concept categories. Finally, post-hoc, pair-wise comparisons were applied. These comparisons showed that the major differences were caused by significantly high ratings for the positive concept category by the beginning teachers, and by significantly low ratings for the negative concept category by the experienced teachers. The study then compared the mean rating values for six positive concepts and for ten negative concepts. Hypotheses were tested using a one-way univariate analysis of variance. These analyses showed significant differences for two positive concepts and seven negative concepts. Post-hoc, pair-wise comparisons were applied to these concepts. These comparisons showed the experienced teacher ratings were significantly lower for the seven negative concepts than those of the other two groups. The comparisons also showed that the beginning teacher ratings for the two positive concepts were significantly higher than those of the other two groups.
THE EFFECT OF FUNCTIONAL FORM ON THE ESTIMATED MARGINAL PROPENSITIES TO SPEND OUT OF FOOD STAMPS AND MONEY INCOME AND THE IMPLICATIONS FOR A CASH-ONLY FOOD STAMP PROGRAM
Creators: name: Levedahl, J. William
name: Levedahl, J. William
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Food Security and Poverty

description: Using linear in the coefficients specifications (LCS), previous estimates of the marginal propensity to spend on food out of food stamps are about 4 to 5 times the MPS out of income. This magnitude implies that food expenditures would fall drastically if the program was cashed-out. The LCS and a specification of the expenditure equation based on a generalization of Roy's identity and a translog indirect utility function are estimated. The implications of these functional forms on cashing-out the Food Stamp Program are discussed.
Additional file 3 of Type 2 diabetes induced microbiome dysbiosis is associated with therapy resistance in pancreatic adenocarcinoma
Creators: name: Kousik Kesh
name: Mendez, Roberto
name: Abdelrahman, Leila
name: Santanu Banerjee
name: Banerjee, Sulagna
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 3: Figure S3. Heatmap of pathways enriched in T2D vs Control group.
A STUDY OF THE CONNOTATIVE MEANINGS OF SPECIAL EDUCATION CENTERS AS MEASURED BY THE SEMANTIC DIFFERENTIAL
Creators: name: Hughes-de Monasterio, Rhonda S.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3904
subject: Specialist studies in education

description: The purpose of this study was to compare the reactions of experienced teachers, beginning teachers and parents of preschool handicapped children towards special education concepts. Reactions towards neutral, positive and negative concepts were measured using the semantic differential. The study investigated if there were statistically significant differences in the ratings by the three groups of the different concepts. The semantic differential consisted of a total of twenty concepts defined as belonging to the positive, negative or neutral categories. The study contained four neutral concepts, ten negative concepts, and six positive concepts. The study first compared the mean rating values of the three groups of subjects in their evaluation of the meaning of the positive, negative and neutral concepts. An overall significance was found for the F value of the multivariate analysis. The data were then further analyzed at the univariate level. Significant differences among group means were found for the positive and negative concept categories. Finally, post-hoc, pair-wise comparisons were applied. These comparisons showed that the major differences were caused by significantly high ratings for the positive concept category by the beginning teachers, and by significantly low ratings for the negative concept category by the experienced teachers. The study then compared the mean rating values for six positive concepts and for ten negative concepts. Hypotheses were tested using a one-way univariate analysis of variance. These analyses showed significant differences for two positive concepts and seven negative concepts. Post-hoc, pair-wise comparisons were applied to these concepts. These comparisons showed the experienced teacher ratings were significantly lower for the seven negative concepts than those of the other two groups. The comparisons also showed that the beginning teacher ratings for the two positive concepts were significantly higher than those of the other two groups.
Optical-Field Driven Charge-Transfer Modulations near Composite Nanostructures
Creators: name: Lee, Kwang Jin
name: Beyreuther, Elke
name: Jalil, Sohail A.
name: Kim, Sang Jun
name: Eng, Lukas
name: Guo, Chunlei
name: Andre, Pascal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Optical activation of material properties illustrates the potentials held by tuning light-matter interactions with impacts ranging from basic science to technological applications. Here, we demonstrate for the first time that composite nanostructures providing nonlocal environments can be engineered to optically trigger photoinduced charge transfer dynamic (CTD) modulations in the solid state. The nanostructures herein explored lead to unprecedented out-of-phase behaviour between charge separation and recombination dynamics, along with linear CTD variations with the optical-field amplitude. Using transient absorption spectroscopy, up to 270 % increase in charge separation rate is obtained in organic semiconductor thin films. We provide evidences that composite nanostructures allow for surface photovoltages to be created, which kinetics vary with the composite architecture and last beyond optical pulse temporal characteristics. Furthermore, by generalizing Marcus theory framework, we explain why CTD modulations can only be unveiled when optic field effects are enhanced by nonlocal image dipole interactions. Demonstrating that composite nanostructures can be designed to use optical fields as CTD remote actuators opens the path for their use in practical and original applications ranging from photochemistry to optoelectronics.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures