cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Sounama (Stenaulophrys) nigra Liang & Webb 2002, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Liang, A. - P.
name: Webb, M. D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2002
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Aphrophoridae
Sounama
Sounama nigra

description: Sounama (Stenaulophrys) nigra sp. nov.
(®gures 89, 90, 109)
Length: 4.5±5.0 mm, 5.0±5.6 mm.
Dorsum dark brown; fore wing with a hyaline triangular shaped patch subapically on costal margin.Vertex without a medial longitudinal carina.
Male genitalia with subgenital plate (®gure 90) with basal expanded region large, nearly rectangular in ventrolateral aspect, a little widening apically, apical margin distinctly incised near middle in ventrolateral aspect, tapering apically along outer edge into dorsally directed, very short stout spinous process; style with apical process relatively strong and aedeagal shaft (®gure 89) narrow throughout length.
 Etymology. Named for its dark colour.
 Material examined. HOLOTYPE:, China: Yunnan, Xishuangbanna, Menghun, 1200±1400 m, 17 May 1958 (X.-W. Meng) (IZCAS). PARATYPES: China, Yunnan: 6, 15, same data as holotype except, 17 May 1958 (L.-Y. Zheng), 17, 19 May 1958 (C.-P. Hong), 23 May and 17 June 1958 (Y.- R. Zhang); 1, Longling, 1200 m, 19 May 1955 (Kryzhanovskij); 1, Xishuangbanna, Damenglong, 650 m, 17 April 1958 (F.-J. Pu); 1, Xishuangbanna, Menga, 1050±1080 m, 17 May 1958 (S.-Y. Wang); 1, Xishuangbanna, Menghai, Mt Nuoshan, 1200 m, 24 April 1957 (L.-C. Zang); 1, Xishuangbanna, Mengsong, 1600 m, 21 May 1958 (C.-P. Hong); 1, Xiaomengyang, 850 m, 2 April 1957 (D.-H. Liu) (IZCAS, BMNH); Tibet: 1, 2, Tangmai, 2050 m, 27 July 1978 (F.-S. Li) (IZCAS; CAUIC); 1, Bomi, Tangmai, 2100 m, 9 September 1973 (F.-S. Huang) (IZCAS); 1, 3, MeÃdog, 1050±1250 m, 19 September 1979 and 9, 11 May 1980 (G.- T. Jin and J.-Y. Wu) (SIE); 1, Nyingchi, 11 July 1997 (C.-D. Zhu) (IZCAS).
 Distribution. Southwestern China (Yunnan, Tibet).
 Remarks. This species can be distinguished from other species by its darker appearance. There is some variation in the shape of the subgenital plates in ventral aspect in the specimens from southeastern Tibet.
description: Published as part of Liang, A. - P. & Webb, M. D., 2002, New taxa and revisionary notes in Rhinaulacini spittlebugs from southern Asia (Homoptera: Cercopidae), pp. 729-756 in Journal of Natural History 36 (6) on page 754, DOI: 10.1080/00222930110062336, http://zenodo.org/record/4757353
Scattering and pair production by a potential barrier
Creators: name: Nikishov, A. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Scattering and electron-positron pair production by a one-dimensional potential is considered in the framework of the $S-$matrix formalism. The solutions of the Dirac equation are classified according to frequency sign. The Bogoliubov transformation relating the in- and out-states are given. We show that the norm of a solution of the wave equation is determined by the largest amplitude of its asymptotic form when $x_3\to \pm\infty$. For a number of potentials we give the explicit expressions for the complete in- and out-sets of orthonormalized wave functions. We note that in principle virtual vacuum processes in external field influence the phase of wave function of scattered particle..
description: 13 pages, LATEX 2e, no figures
COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS OF TWO REDUCED CALORIE DIETS AND THE INFLUENCE OF A LIQUID FORMULA NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENT IN WEIGHT REDUCTION
Creators: name: Schoonover, Reginald Arnold
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Alternating the daily caloric goals in a diet regimen may result in more weight loss and diet compliance than do traditional fixed-calorie diets. The intermittent use of a liquid nutritional supplement in place of food may also increase compliance and thus weight loss. To test these hypotheses, 60 women, aged 22-46, with a Body Mass Index between 24 and 43, were assigned by a quasi-random procedure to one of four treatment conditions in a 2 x 2 factorial design. Half the subjects alternated daily between caloric goals of 800 and 1200 kcal (alternating diet); the remaining half had a daily goal of 1000 kcal (fixed-calorie diet). Half the subjects in each diet group used a liquid nutritional supplement every other day in place of food to reach their caloric goal while the other half used food only. All four treatments lasted thirteen weeks, and all subjects received a group behavioral treatment program. The fixed diet with supplement was found to provide significantly less weight loss than the other treatment conditions only when dropouts were included in the analyses. Otherwise there was no difference in weight loss among the four treatment conditions. Attrition in the fixed-calorie plus supplement condition may have reflected difficulties in complying with that regimen. Supplement use was effective in increasing compliance with diet requirements, but did not clearly lead to greater weight loss. Average caloric intake and self-monitoring through food records also did not clearly contribute to weight loss. Subjects who rated their diet as more difficult lost less weight than did those who rated their diet as less difficult. High exercisers lost more weight than low exercisers. Limitations of the design and its implementation are discussed, as are suggestions for future research.
The Power of Bootstrap Tests
Creators: name: Davidson, Russell
name: MacKinnon, James G.
name: Davidson, Russell
name: MacKinnon, James G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1996
Subjects: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: Bootstrap tests are tests for which the signicance level is calculated using some variant of the bootstrap which may be parametric or nonparametric We show that the power of a bootstrap test will generally be very close to the power of the asymptotic test on which it is based provided that both tests are properly adjusted to have the correct size We also discuss the loss of power that can occur when the number of bootstrap samples is relatively small Some Monte Carlo results for two forms of omitted variable test in logit models are presented These illustrate the theoretical results of the paper and demonstrate that the sizeadjusted power of asymptotic tests can vary greatly depending on the method used for size adjustment
Efficient iterative Hi-C scaffolder based on N-best neighbors
Creators: name: Guan, Dengfeng
name: McCarthy, Shane A.
name: Ning, Zemin
name: Wang, Guohua
name: Wang, Yadong
name: Durbin, Richard
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: Software
Hi-C
Scaffolding

description: Abstract: Background: Efficient and effective genome scaffolding tools are still in high demand for generating reference-quality assemblies. While long read data itself is unlikely to create a chromosome-scale assembly for most eukaryotic species, the inexpensive Hi-C sequencing technology, capable of capturing the chromosomal profile of a genome, is now widely used to complete the task. However, the existing Hi-C based scaffolding tools either require a priori chromosome number as input, or lack the ability to build highly continuous scaffolds. Results: We design and develop a novel Hi-C based scaffolding tool, pin_hic, which takes advantage of contact information from Hi-C reads to construct a scaffolding graph iteratively based on N-best neighbors of contigs. Subsequent to scaffolding, it identifies potential misjoins and breaks them to keep the scaffolding accuracy. Through our tests on three long read based de novo assemblies from three different species, we demonstrate that pin_hic is more efficient than current standard state-of-art tools, and it can generate much more continuous scaffolds, while achieving a higher or comparable accuracy. Conclusions: Pin_hic is an efficient Hi-C based scaffolding tool, which can be useful for building chromosome-scale assemblies. As many sequencing projects have been launched in the recent years, we believe pin_hic has potential to be applied in these projects and makes a meaningful contribution.
title: Understanding and improving the reactivity of low loaded noble metal three-way catalysts
Creators: name: Felix, Noelia Cortes
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2014

description: Three-Way Catalysts (TWC) were created to control pollutants emissions from gasoline engines by performing simultaneous oxidation of CO and HC and reduction of NOX. Over the last 20 years, the main focus on their development has been the optimisation of the oxygen storage capacity (OSC) component, which is based on CeO2 materials. Improved thermal stability of these materials, in addition to improvements in fuel quality, has enabled the noble metal (NM) content of these catalysts to be reduced. As a result, the metal dispersion has improved and the interactions within the support become more important, making significant changes to the character of the noble metal, sometimes even leaving it fixed in a less reactive state. Conventional preparative routes to disperse low NM amounts (< 1wt %) have been successful in the past but this is reaching its limit. The proposed approach to disperse low NM contents on CeO2 materials is based on the precipitation method to create a more intimate contact between the NM and the ceria, and improve in this way the oxygen mobility. The effect of the Ce-precursor was firstly evaluated. The co-precipitation of Pd2+ and Ce3+ led to a catalyst with a similar Pd surface area to the material prepared by impregnation but with an improved Pd-Ce interaction, due to the partial ceria decoration of Pd particles. The co-precipitation of Pd2+ and Ce4+ led to a catalyst with low Pd surface area content, partly due to some Pd leaching during the preparation, but also likely to be due to higher encapsulation with the ceria. 0.5Pt-CeO2 and 0.5Rh-CeCO2 catalysts were also studied. The co-precipitation of these NM with Ce3+ also led to products with an improved NM-Ce interaction. However, in this case, the co-precipitated catalysts contained a lower NM surface area compared to their reference catalysts prepared by impregnation. The improved NM-Ce contact improved their OSC and pollutants conversions, but the lower surface metal content did not allow an improvement in their light-off temperatures. Overall, the catalysts prepared by the co-precipitation method have increased the number of NM and Ce atoms in contact leading to higher OSC and pollutants conversions. This leads to a more efficient usage of noble metals and potentially cheaper catalyst.
Multifractal PDF analysis for intermittent systems
Creators: name: Arimitsu, T.
name: Arimitsu, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The formula for probability density functions (PDFs) has been extended to include PDF for energy dissipation rates in addition to other PDFs such as for velocity fluctuations, velocity derivatives, fluid particle accelerations, energy transfer rates, etc, and it is shown that the formula actually explains various PDFs extracted from direct numerical simulations and experiments performed in a wind tunnel. It is also shown that the formula with appropriate zooming increment corresponding to experimental situation gives a new route to obtain the scaling exponents of velocity structure function, including intermittency exponent, out of PDFs of velocity fluctuations.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures
COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS OF TWO REDUCED CALORIE DIETS AND THE INFLUENCE OF A LIQUID FORMULA NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENT IN WEIGHT REDUCTION
Creators: name: Schoonover, Reginald Arnold
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 5203
subject: Clinical and health psychology

description: Alternating the daily caloric goals in a diet regimen may result in more weight loss and diet compliance than do traditional fixed-calorie diets. The intermittent use of a liquid nutritional supplement in place of food may also increase compliance and thus weight loss. To test these hypotheses, 60 women, aged 22-46, with a Body Mass Index between 24 and 43, were assigned by a quasi-random procedure to one of four treatment conditions in a 2 x 2 factorial design. Half the subjects alternated daily between caloric goals of 800 and 1200 kcal (alternating diet); the remaining half had a daily goal of 1000 kcal (fixed-calorie diet). Half the subjects in each diet group used a liquid nutritional supplement every other day in place of food to reach their caloric goal while the other half used food only. All four treatments lasted thirteen weeks, and all subjects received a group behavioral treatment program. The fixed diet with supplement was found to provide significantly less weight loss than the other treatment conditions only when dropouts were included in the analyses. Otherwise there was no difference in weight loss among the four treatment conditions. Attrition in the fixed-calorie plus supplement condition may have reflected difficulties in complying with that regimen. Supplement use was effective in increasing compliance with diet requirements, but did not clearly lead to greater weight loss. Average caloric intake and self-monitoring through food records also did not clearly contribute to weight loss. Subjects who rated their diet as more difficult lost less weight than did those who rated their diet as less difficult. High exercisers lost more weight than low exercisers. Limitations of the design and its implementation are discussed, as are suggestions for future research.
Sounama (Stenaulophrys) robustipenis Liang & Webb 2002, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Liang, A. - P.
name: Webb, M. D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2002
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Aphrophoridae
Sounama
Sounama robustipenis

description: Sounama (Stenaulophrys) robustipenis sp. nov.
(®gures 91, 92, 107)
Length: 4.8±5.2 mm.
 External characters as in S. (Sounama) acuta but medial longitudinal carina on vertex very faint.
 Male genitalia similar to asiatica but with subgenital plate (®gure 92) with basal expanded region more elongate, with a very short apical spine-like process, directed posterodorsally and aedeagal shaft (®gure 91) in lateral aspect slightly more robust with the distal part sinuate and tapered to slightly upturned acute apex.
 Etymology. This species is named after its robust aedeagal shaft.
 Material examined. HOLOTYPE: Laos: Vientiane Prov., Ban Van Eue, 15 December 1965 (native collector, Rondon) (BPBM). PARATYPE: China, 1, Yunnan, Cheli to Menghai, 1050 m, 23 April 1957 (S.-Y. Wang) (IZCAS).
 Distribution. Southwestern China (Yunnan) and Laos (Vientiane).
 Remarks. The apex of the holotype aedeagus is missing and the genitalia of the ®gured paratype were lost subsequent to being drawn.
description: Published as part of Liang, A. - P. & Webb, M. D., 2002, New taxa and revisionary notes in Rhinaulacini spittlebugs from southern Asia (Homoptera: Cercopidae), pp. 729-756 in Journal of Natural History 36 (6) on page 755, DOI: 10.1080/00222930110062336, http://zenodo.org/record/4757353
SEPICH AS SOCIAL THINKER (ARGENTINA)
Creators: name: Frigerio, Alejandro
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 50
subject: Philosophy and religious studies
classificationCode: 5003
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: The work of Juan Ramon Sepich-Lange, twentieth-century Argentine philosopher, is reviewed and analyzed primarily in terms of his social thought. Following chapters on the character and history of twentieth-century Argentine philosophy and an overview of the body of Sepich's work, such considerations as the attitude of philosophers and the role of philosophy are examined with respect to the responsibilities of both. Sepich's continued preoccupation with existentialist thought, in the sense that acting is social, provides a metaphysical fundament for his political philosophy, which emphasizes the need for creating a sense of community and even more specifically a sense of community leading to a significant role in world affairs for Hispanic Catholic nations. Coming almost full circle, Sepich returns at the end of his life to a more abstract and even metaphysical social thought, especially with respect to establishing a unity and integration of philosophy and sociology. He is not necessarily less existential, but instead holds that a somewhat Hegelian emphasis on the philosophy of the spirit is the ultimate social goal for man, in that it promotes realization of individuals, awareness of others, and of future generations. The essay concludes with an epilogue reflecting on the relevance of Sepich's work to contemporary Argentine sociopolitical and philosophical dynamics.
On the Detection of CMB B-modes from Ground at Low Frequency
Creators: name: de la Hoz, E.
name: Vielva, P.
name: Barreiro, R. B.
name: Martínez-González, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The primordial CMB $B$-mode search is on the spotlight of the scientific community due to the large amount of cosmological information that is encoded in the primeval signal. However, the detection of this signal is challenging from the data analysis point of view, due to the relative low amplitude compared to the foregrounds, the lensing contamination coming from the leakage of $E$-modes, and the instrumental noise. Here, we studied the viability of the detection of the primordial polarization $B$-mode with a ground-based telescope operating in the microwave low-frequency regime (i.e., from 10GHz-120GHz) in a handful of different scenarios: i. the instrument's channels distribution and noise, ii. the tensor-to-scalar ratio ($r$) detectability considering different possible $r$ values and degrees of delensing, iii. the effect of including a possible source of polarized anomalous microwave emission (AME), iv. the strengths and weaknesses of different observational strategies and, v. the atmospheric and systematic noise impact on the recovery. We focused mainly on the removal of galactic foregrounds as well as noise contamination by applying a full-parametric pixel-based maximum likelihood component separation technique. Moreover, we developed a numerical methodology to estimate the residuals power spectrum left after component separation, which allow us to mitigate possible biases introduced in the primordial $B$-mode power spectrum reconstruction. Among many other results, we found that this sort of experiment is capable of detecting Starobinsky's $r$ even when no delensing is performed or, a possible polarized AME contribution is taken into account. Besides, we showed that this experiment is a powerful complement to other on-ground or satellite missions, such as LiteBIRD, since it can help significantly with the low-frequency foregrounds characterization.
description: 28 pages, 18 figures, submitted to JCAP
SEPICH AS SOCIAL THINKER (ARGENTINA)
Creators: name: Frigerio, Alejandro
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The work of Juan Ramon Sepich-Lange, twentieth-century Argentine philosopher, is reviewed and analyzed primarily in terms of his social thought. Following chapters on the character and history of twentieth-century Argentine philosophy and an overview of the body of Sepich's work, such considerations as the attitude of philosophers and the role of philosophy are examined with respect to the responsibilities of both. Sepich's continued preoccupation with existentialist thought, in the sense that acting is social, provides a metaphysical fundament for his political philosophy, which emphasizes the need for creating a sense of community and even more specifically a sense of community leading to a significant role in world affairs for Hispanic Catholic nations. Coming almost full circle, Sepich returns at the end of his life to a more abstract and even metaphysical social thought, especially with respect to establishing a unity and integration of philosophy and sociology. He is not necessarily less existential, but instead holds that a somewhat Hegelian emphasis on the philosophy of the spirit is the ultimate social goal for man, in that it promotes realization of individuals, awareness of others, and of future generations. The essay concludes with an epilogue reflecting on the relevance of Sepich's work to contemporary Argentine sociopolitical and philosophical dynamics.
Holomorphic flexibility properties of complex manifolds
Creators: name: Forstneric, Franc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 32E10, 32E30, 32H02, 32J15, 32Q28, 14J26, 14J27, 14J28, 14R99

description: We obtain results on approximation of holomorphic maps by algebraic maps, jet transversality theorems for holomorphic and algebraic maps, and the homotopy principle for holomorphic submersions of Stein manifolds to certain algebraic manifolds.
description: To appear in Amer. J. Math
title: 01_0583
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
THE ROLE OF THE STATE IN CAPITAL ACCUMULATION AND CLASS FORMATION IN ZAMBIA
Creators: name: Mumeka, Lundondo
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This research on the political economy of Zambia has been based on the hypothesis that in a developing economy such as Zambia, where private capital plays a negligible part in the process of capital formation, the state plays a pivotal role as a vehicle for capital accumulation. This research also has been based on the complementary hypothesis that in an economy in which the public sector is dominant, the economic role of the state is central to the process of class formation. Other hypotheses particularly germane to the study have guided our analysis. These are that no economic policy as a mode of state intervention can be properly analyzed without taking into account its class content, and that the state is neither a neutral instrument nor a monolithic weapon in the service of the ruling class. The purpose of this study is threefold: First, to analyze and measure the macroeconomic impact of state intervention in the economy. This calls for analysis of the operations of the parastatal sector as a whole, and of individual enterprises therein with sufficient weight to exert perceptible impact on macroeconomic parameters. Second, to analyze and measure the macroeconomic effects of Zambia's integration into the international division of labor in the face of the inherent centrifugal tendencies of modern capitalism. Third, to determine the class characteristics of the Zambian State and to analyze the impact of its economic intervention on the processes of class formation. The results of the research support the hypothesized centrality of the Zambian State as a vehicle for capital accumulation and class formation. In this connection, no evidence has been found to suggest that the Zambian State is a simple instrument used by the ruling class to protect its economic interest. Instead, the Zambian State is found to have its own dynamics. Its real relationship with local and foreign class forces is largely an empirical question dictated by historical conjunctures. Finally, the results of the research also stress the importance of exogenous factors in determining the effectiveness of state intervention in the economy as a result of Zambia's integration into the new global economy.
Controlled transport of stored light
Creators: name: Li, Wei
name: Islam, Parvez
name: Windpassinger, Patrick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Controlled manipulation, storage and retrieval of quantum information is essential for quantum communication and computing. Quantum memories for light, realized with cold atomic samples as the storage medium, are prominent for their high storage efficiencies and lifetime. We demonstrate the controlled transport of stored light over 1:2 mm in such a storage system and show that the transport process and its dynamics only have a minor effect on the coherence of the storage. Extending the presented concept to longer transport distances and augmenting the number of storage sections will allow for the development of novel quantum devices such as optical race track memories or optical quantum registers.
Missles and war wounds
Creators: name: Creator not identified.
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 1940
Subjects: subject: Missile Wounds
subject: War Wounds
subject: War-Related Injuries
subject: Wounds, Penetrating
subject: Wounds, Nonpenetrating
subject: Armed Conflicts

description: Description of the different kinds of projectiles such as bullets, artillery shells, bombs and grenades used during a war; and the injuries that they cause. It compares the nature of WWII wounds with those of WWI.
Asteroseismology: radial oscillations of neutron stars with realistic equation of state
Creators: name: Sagun, V.
name: Panotopoulos, G.
name: Lopes, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study radial oscillations of non-rotating neutron stars (NSs) in four-dimensional General Relativity. The interior of the NS was modelled within a recently proposed multicomponent realistic equation of state (EoS) with the induced surface tension (IST). In particular, we considered the IST EoS with two sets of model parameters, that both reproduce all the known properties of normal nuclear matter, give a high quality description of the proton flow constraint, hadron multiplicities created in nuclear-nuclear collisions, consistent with astrophysical observations and the observational data from the NS-NS merger. We computed the 12 lowest radial oscillation modes, their frequencies and corresponding eigenfunctions, as well as the large frequency separation for six selected fiducial NSs (with different radii and masses of 1.2, 1.5 and 1.9 solar masses) of the two distinct model sets. The calculated frequencies show their continuous growth with an increase of the NS central baryon density. Moreover, we found correlations between the behaviour of first eigenfunction calculated for the fundamental mode, the adiabatic index and the speed of sound profile, which could be used to probe the internal structure of NSs with the asteroseismology data.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures, accepted to Phys. Rev. D
THE ROLE OF THE STATE IN CAPITAL ACCUMULATION AND CLASS FORMATION IN ZAMBIA
Creators: name: Mumeka, Lundondo
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics

description: This research on the political economy of Zambia has been based on the hypothesis that in a developing economy such as Zambia, where private capital plays a negligible part in the process of capital formation, the state plays a pivotal role as a vehicle for capital accumulation. This research also has been based on the complementary hypothesis that in an economy in which the public sector is dominant, the economic role of the state is central to the process of class formation. Other hypotheses particularly germane to the study have guided our analysis. These are that no economic policy as a mode of state intervention can be properly analyzed without taking into account its class content, and that the state is neither a neutral instrument nor a monolithic weapon in the service of the ruling class. The purpose of this study is threefold: First, to analyze and measure the macroeconomic impact of state intervention in the economy. This calls for analysis of the operations of the parastatal sector as a whole, and of individual enterprises therein with sufficient weight to exert perceptible impact on macroeconomic parameters. Second, to analyze and measure the macroeconomic effects of Zambia's integration into the international division of labor in the face of the inherent centrifugal tendencies of modern capitalism. Third, to determine the class characteristics of the Zambian State and to analyze the impact of its economic intervention on the processes of class formation. The results of the research support the hypothesized centrality of the Zambian State as a vehicle for capital accumulation and class formation. In this connection, no evidence has been found to suggest that the Zambian State is a simple instrument used by the ruling class to protect its economic interest. Instead, the Zambian State is found to have its own dynamics. Its real relationship with local and foreign class forces is largely an empirical question dictated by historical conjunctures. Finally, the results of the research also stress the importance of exogenous factors in determining the effectiveness of state intervention in the economy as a result of Zambia's integration into the new global economy.
The Financial Capital Constraint and the Valuation of Commercial Banking Activity
Creators: name: Hartwick, John M.
name: Hartwick, John M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1996
Subjects: Financial Economics
Public Economics

description: Equity capital makes the value of liabilities equal the value of assets in a commercial banks balance sheet This fact makes valuation of banking activity straightforward The cost of shareholder riskbearing becomes a natural entry into the cost side of valueadded Expected losses from lending become an entry in valueadded and this leads to the concept of ex ante and ex post valueadded A model of a protmaximizing bank is set out and the role of homogeneity in the production functions turns out to be crucial in dening inputs and output The implicit price of deposit capital is analyzed including the question of whether deposits are a cheap source of funds to the bank
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PERSONALITY TYPE AND ADOPTION CHOICES (MBTI)
Creators: name: Kaser, Joyce Simpson
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3904
subject: Specialist studies in education

description: The field of adoption faces a major supply and demand problem. Although there are many children available for adoption, many prospective parents are thwarted in their attempts to adopt. Can an understanding of Jung's psychological types provide insight into who is most likely to adopt waiting children, most of whom are older, have a mental or physical condition, or are of a minority racial or ethnic group?; One-hundred-thirty-nine adopters and 102 nonadopters, most from the Washington, D.C. area, volunteered for this study. The experimental group took the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and answered twenty questions about themselves and their adoption. Previously taking the MBTI, the control group completed a thirteen question profile about themselves and their willingness to adopt certain types of children. Data showed that the adopters and nonadopters were very similar demographically. The experimental group had adopted seventy-six children, seventy-eight percent of whom were nontraditional, that is, they were older at the time of adoption, their health was other than excellent, and/or they were of a race or ethnic group different from that of their parents. The nonadoptive couples indicated a high willingness to adopt different types of children, both traditional and nontraditional. The researcher hypothesized that those choosing nontraditional children (who may need more care and nurturing than a traditional child) would more likely prefer feeling over thinking on the MBTI thinking/feeling scale. Data did not support this hypothesis. However, she did find more introverts on the extraversion/introversion scale and more intuitors on the sensing/intuition scale of the MBTI than normally found in the general population, a finding typical for a sample from high socioeconomic strata. There were no significant differences on the judging/perception scale. Another finding was that women are more likely to be the driving force in adoption, regardless of whether they are thinkers or feelers. Although Jung's psychological type theory can be useful to both prospective parents and adoption professionals, it may be more helpful in explaining how people go about adopting rather than the specific adoption choices they make.
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PERSONALITY TYPE AND ADOPTION CHOICES (MBTI)
Creators: name: Kaser, Joyce Simpson
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The field of adoption faces a major supply and demand problem. Although there are many children available for adoption, many prospective parents are thwarted in their attempts to adopt. Can an understanding of Jung's psychological types provide insight into who is most likely to adopt waiting children, most of whom are older, have a mental or physical condition, or are of a minority racial or ethnic group?; One-hundred-thirty-nine adopters and 102 nonadopters, most from the Washington, D.C. area, volunteered for this study. The experimental group took the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and answered twenty questions about themselves and their adoption. Previously taking the MBTI, the control group completed a thirteen question profile about themselves and their willingness to adopt certain types of children. Data showed that the adopters and nonadopters were very similar demographically. The experimental group had adopted seventy-six children, seventy-eight percent of whom were nontraditional, that is, they were older at the time of adoption, their health was other than excellent, and/or they were of a race or ethnic group different from that of their parents. The nonadoptive couples indicated a high willingness to adopt different types of children, both traditional and nontraditional. The researcher hypothesized that those choosing nontraditional children (who may need more care and nurturing than a traditional child) would more likely prefer feeling over thinking on the MBTI thinking/feeling scale. Data did not support this hypothesis. However, she did find more introverts on the extraversion/introversion scale and more intuitors on the sensing/intuition scale of the MBTI than normally found in the general population, a finding typical for a sample from high socioeconomic strata. There were no significant differences on the judging/perception scale. Another finding was that women are more likely to be the driving force in adoption, regardless of whether they are thinkers or feelers. Although Jung's psychological type theory can be useful to both prospective parents and adoption professionals, it may be more helpful in explaining how people go about adopting rather than the specific adoption choices they make.
Nitric oxide, coagulation and cancer
Creators: name: Derman, Benjamin A.
name: Kwaan, Hau C
name: Elbatarny, Mark
name: Othman, Maha
Publisher: name: Springer International Publishing
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: cancer
subject: Neoplasms
subject: Blood Coagulation
subject: Fibrinolysis
subject: Nitric Oxide
subject: Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor 1
subject: Blood Platelets

description: original_citation: Derman, A. B., Kwaan, C. H., Elbatarny, M., & Othman, M. (2015). Nitric Oxide, Coagulation and Cancer. In B. Bonavida (Ed.), Nitric Oxide and Cancer: Pathogenesis and Therapy (pp. 281-295). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
OIL POLITICS AND ECONOMICS: HISTORY, THEORY AND EVIDENCE, SIXTEENTH-TWENTIETH CENTURIES
Creators: name: Portella, John L.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation examines historical and theoretical aspects of the relationship between oil politics and economics. The analysis is designed to reveal what combination of antecedent political and economic conditions led to the subsequent 1973-74 oil crisis. Few of the many past analyses of the oil embargo and oil price increases have shown even a minimum of historical knowledge about war-related trade disruptions, despite the historical importance of commerce-harassing as the classical strategy of weaker military powers. Fewer still have focused in a systematic way on the global consequences of the oil price increases that began in 1973, increases which produced two global recessions more serious than any since the 1930s. The history of oil politics and economics is decribed and explained in terms of shifts in three paradigms or general theories: the conservative, liberal and radical. Each paradigm contains propositions concerning appropriate or necessary levels of government intervention in economic affairs. Conservatives want a minimum of government policy planning and regulation. They believe that oil prices went up in the 1970s and early 1980s because of scarcity, and that these price changes were merely "market" phenomena rather than the result of international politics. Liberals, on the other hand, argue that the key variables associated with the oil crisis are political. In their view, the oil price increases presented the conservative paradigm of oil politics and economics with a fatal anomaly--the inability to solve the puzzle of oil policy and economic development with the tools at its disposal. The empirical evidence suggests that the political variables of the liberal and radical paradigms had more explanatory value than the strictly economic variables of their conservative counterpart. While liberals want renewed antitrust and regulatory enforcement in the oil industry, radicals insist on changes in the ownership structure of the means of oil production. Liberals and radicals share the view that only those countries with state structures strong enough to support and regulate domestic and international oil enterprises were able to solve the puzzle of oil policy and economic development.
An ergodic theorem for filtering with applications to stability
Creators: name: Chigansky, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 93E11, 60J57

description: Ergodic properties of the signal-filtering pair are studied for continuous time finite Markov chains, observed in white noise. The obtained law of large numbers is applied to the stability problem of the nonlinear filter with respect to initial conditions. The Furstenberg-Khasminskii formula is derived for the top Lyapunov exponent of the Zakai equation and is used to estimate the stability index of the filter.
description: The final version to appear in Syst. Contr. Letters after a substantial revision
OIL POLITICS AND ECONOMICS: HISTORY, THEORY AND EVIDENCE, SIXTEENTH-TWENTIETH CENTURIES
Creators: name: Portella, John L.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: This dissertation examines historical and theoretical aspects of the relationship between oil politics and economics. The analysis is designed to reveal what combination of antecedent political and economic conditions led to the subsequent 1973-74 oil crisis. Few of the many past analyses of the oil embargo and oil price increases have shown even a minimum of historical knowledge about war-related trade disruptions, despite the historical importance of commerce-harassing as the classical strategy of weaker military powers. Fewer still have focused in a systematic way on the global consequences of the oil price increases that began in 1973, increases which produced two global recessions more serious than any since the 1930s. The history of oil politics and economics is decribed and explained in terms of shifts in three paradigms or general theories: the conservative, liberal and radical. Each paradigm contains propositions concerning appropriate or necessary levels of government intervention in economic affairs. Conservatives want a minimum of government policy planning and regulation. They believe that oil prices went up in the 1970s and early 1980s because of scarcity, and that these price changes were merely "market" phenomena rather than the result of international politics. Liberals, on the other hand, argue that the key variables associated with the oil crisis are political. In their view, the oil price increases presented the conservative paradigm of oil politics and economics with a fatal anomaly--the inability to solve the puzzle of oil policy and economic development with the tools at its disposal. The empirical evidence suggests that the political variables of the liberal and radical paradigms had more explanatory value than the strictly economic variables of their conservative counterpart. While liberals want renewed antitrust and regulatory enforcement in the oil industry, radicals insist on changes in the ownership structure of the means of oil production. Liberals and radicals share the view that only those countries with state structures strong enough to support and regulate domestic and international oil enterprises were able to solve the puzzle of oil policy and economic development.
THE ROLE OF THE HYDROCARBON SECTOR IN THE ALGERIAN DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE: 1965-1985
Creators: name: Rechache, Mustapha
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics

description: The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the role of the hydrocarbon sector in the economic development of Algeria during the last two decades. This role is assessed in terms of the sector's contribution to economic growth as well as its overall impact on economic transformation. The study uses a national accounting equation and two export growth models to measure and evaluate the contribution to economic growth. The possibility of a negative impact of the fluctuations of oil proceeds on economic growth is also explored through the use of regression models which include instability indices as one of the explanatory variables. The impact on the diversification of the economy is studied through the use of the concepts of backward, forward, fiscal and consumption linkages, developed by Hirschman. The results indicate a substantial contribution of the hydrocarbon sector to economic growth during the study period. Part of this impact is due to its higher marginal factor productivities. In recent years, however, its influence on economic growth has declined indicating a transition toward less dependence on oil. But the oil sector's weak overall linkages prevented it from having a significant impact on the economic transformation of the country. No beneficial externalities were found to exist between this sector and the rest of the economy. Finally, no indication of any impact of oil proceeds instability on economic growth was found. The study suggests that the potential negative impact of export fluctuations may have been counteracted by a judicious foreign debt management strategy. The study concludes that in spite of its contribution to economic growth, the oil sector did not contribute significantly to the overall development of Algeria. Sustainable economic growth has not been improved by the development strategy of the last 15 years because there has been no diversification of the economy. The windfall oil rent has been used to finance a capital intensive unbalanced growth approach, weakening agriculture, eliminating all other exports, and perpetuating an acute unemployment problem. These are symptoms of the Dutch disease which has affected so many other oil producing countries.
THE ROLE OF THE HYDROCARBON SECTOR IN THE ALGERIAN DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE: 1965-1985
Creators: name: Rechache, Mustapha
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the role of the hydrocarbon sector in the economic development of Algeria during the last two decades. This role is assessed in terms of the sector's contribution to economic growth as well as its overall impact on economic transformation. The study uses a national accounting equation and two export growth models to measure and evaluate the contribution to economic growth. The possibility of a negative impact of the fluctuations of oil proceeds on economic growth is also explored through the use of regression models which include instability indices as one of the explanatory variables. The impact on the diversification of the economy is studied through the use of the concepts of backward, forward, fiscal and consumption linkages, developed by Hirschman. The results indicate a substantial contribution of the hydrocarbon sector to economic growth during the study period. Part of this impact is due to its higher marginal factor productivities. In recent years, however, its influence on economic growth has declined indicating a transition toward less dependence on oil. But the oil sector's weak overall linkages prevented it from having a significant impact on the economic transformation of the country. No beneficial externalities were found to exist between this sector and the rest of the economy. Finally, no indication of any impact of oil proceeds instability on economic growth was found. The study suggests that the potential negative impact of export fluctuations may have been counteracted by a judicious foreign debt management strategy. The study concludes that in spite of its contribution to economic growth, the oil sector did not contribute significantly to the overall development of Algeria. Sustainable economic growth has not been improved by the development strategy of the last 15 years because there has been no diversification of the economy. The windfall oil rent has been used to finance a capital intensive unbalanced growth approach, weakening agriculture, eliminating all other exports, and perpetuating an acute unemployment problem. These are symptoms of the Dutch disease which has affected so many other oil producing countries.