cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Ptychopseustis beccarii Agassiz 2022, sp. n.
Creators: name: Agassiz, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Crambidae
Ptychopseustis
Ptychopseustis beccarii

description: Ptychopseustis beccarii sp. n.
Imago (fig. 43): Wingspan 12 mm.
Head and appendages pale buff, maxillary palpus <diameter of eye, labial palpus 2× diameter of eye. Thorax and tegulae pale buff. Forewing pale buff, antemedian fascia an irregular fuscous line, postmedian fascia similar but more weakly defined. Hindwing whitish.
Male genitalia (fig. 76): Uncus rounded, gnathos also rounded, almost as long as uncus, valva with a pointed structure arising shortly before apex, base of vinculum with clusters of specialised setae, one of these which is broad is curled immediately before the tip. Aedeagus simple with a single cornutus bearing a central lateral protrusion.
Female genitalia: not examined.
Diagnosis: This species is characterised by the distinct genitalia of the male, with rounded uncus and saccus and a slender pre-apical spine on the valva.
Life history: not known.
Derivation; from the captor who obtained the type series.
Distribution: Eritrea.
Type material: Holotype Eritrea, Cardiai 17.xi.1905 N. Beccari NHMUK 013698246.
Four paratypes, same data as holotype, NHMUK 013698246-013698250. one with BM Pyralidae Genitalia slide No. 21699 ♂.
Note: the type series comprises worn specimens with little in the way of features to define it.
description: Published as part of Agassiz, David, 2022, The tribe Cybalomiini (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea, Crambidae, Glaphyrinae) of sub-Saharan Africa, pp. 101-156 in Zootaxa 5174 (2) on page 131, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5174.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6986011
Physics Potential of a Radio Surface Array at the South Pole (ARENA 2018)
Creators: name: Schröder, Frank G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A surface array of radio antennas will enhance the performance of the IceTop array and enable new, complementary science goals. First, the accuracy for cosmic-ray air showers will be increased since the radio array provides a calorimetric measurement of the electromagnetic component and is sensitive to the position of the shower maximum. This enhanced accuracy can be used to better measure the mass composition, to search for possible mass-dependent anisotropies in the arrival directions of cosmic rays, and for more thorough tests of hadronic interaction models. Second, the sensitivity of the radio array to inclined showers will increase the sky coverage for cosmic-ray measurements. Third, the radio array can be used to search for PeV photons from the Galactic Center. Since IceTop is planned to be enhanced by a scintillator array in the near future, a radio extension sharing the same infrastructure can be installed with minimal additional effort and excellent scientific prospects. The combination of ice-Cherenkov, scintillation, and radio detectors at IceCube will provide unprecedented accuracy for the study of highenergy Galactic cosmic rays.
description: Proceedings of 8th ARENA 2018, to appear in EPJ WoC
Estereotipos y roles de género en personas cis y trans
Creators: name: Fernández García, Sara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: cis
cisgénero
trans
transgénero
estereotipos
género
roles
lgtb
roles de género
análisis de frecuencias
psicología

description: Para este estudio han sido revisados conceptos relacionados con el género, teorías constructivistas, roles, estereotipos y personas transgénero. Los participantes se dividieron según su género (cisgénero, transgénero, género no binario, género fluido y agénero). La hipótesis propuesta es que más personas cisgénero estarán de acuerdo con los roles y estereotipos de género que las personas no cisgénero. Los resultados indican que existe un mayor porcentaje de mujeres trans que apoyan estos estereotipos que hombres trans y mujeres cis. Sin embargo el porcentaje de hombres cis que está de acuerdo con ellos es el mayor de todos. La perpetuación de estos roles y estereotipos podría cambiar a través de la educación y el pensamiento crítico.
When Shelf-based Scarcity Impacts Consumer Preferences
Creators: Parker, Jeffrey R.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Business
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Scarcity has long been known to impact consumers' choices. Yet, the impact of shelf-based scarcity in retail environments, created by stocking level depletion, has received almost no attention in the literature. Indeed, little research to date has even examined if consumers will attend to shelf-based scarcity in retail environments, much less how this cue can impact choice. A priori, given the inherently noisy and cue-filled nature of retail environments, it is quite reasonable to expect that shelf-based scarcity would play little to no role in consumers' choices. However, across six chapters, this dissertation demonstrates that shelf-based scarcity can impact consumers' choices and identifies the mechanism underlying these effects. To begin, Chapter 1 introduces the research question, while Chapter 2 outlines the relevant extant literature and develops the hypotheses to be tested. Chapter 3 demonstrates not only that shelf-based scarcity can impact choices, but also that it does so through the inferences that it induces (i.e., the process through which shelf-based scarcity impacts choice is an inferential one). Chapter 4 examines moderators of the effect, demonstrating that shelf-based scarcity effects are reversed when popular products are considered undesirable. Further, Chapter 4 shows that (i) the shelf locations of the available alternatives and (ii) the consumer's concern about persuasion attempts can impact the inferences that consumers make regarding shelf-based scarcity, thereby attenuating its impact on choice. Next, Chapter 5 focuses its attention on the robustness of shelf-based scarcity effects, showing that shelf-based scarcity impacts choices when (i) the choice is made either for oneself or for others, (ii) sales ranking, objective quality, or brand name information is available, and (iii) the choices being made are real. Chapter 5 also demonstrates two boundary conditions under which shelf-based scarcity effects are attenuated or overwhelmed. Specifically, shelf-based scarcity does not impact choices either when the consumer has prior strong preferences or when a price promotion is available in the category of interest. Finally, Chapter 6 closes this dissertation with a summary of the findings as well as a discussion of the implications of this work, its limitations, and potentially fruitful directions for future research.
Equation of motion for a domain wall coupled to gravitational field
Creators: name: Ishibashi, Akihiro
name: Ishihara, Hideki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The equation of motion for a domain wall coupled to gravitational field is derived from the Nambu-Goto action. The domain wall is treated as a source of gravitational field. The perturbed equation is also obtained with gravitational back reaction on the wall motion taken into account. For general spherically symmetric background case, the equation is expressed in terms of the gauge-invariant variables.
description: 13 pages, latex, no figures, uses REVTeX
When Worlds Collide--Art, Cartography, and Japanese Nanban World Map Screens
Creators: Loh, Joseph Faii
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Art
History
Asians

description: A number of Momoyama (1573-1615) and Edo (1615-1868) period folding screens feature Western maps of the world as their subject. These map screens are among the earliest examples of Japanese visual culture to feature pictorial imagery shaped by European cartographic science, geographic knowledge, and overseas trade and exploration. In these works, anonymous Japanese artists adapted Western European maps and book illustrations, often making substantial changes of form and content. This dissertation confronts many current assumptions concerning the nature of the map screens. The study argues that Japanese artists who produced the screens grappled with a complex tension between European pictorial cartographic representations of a newly introduced world and the world views that prevailed in Japan. It proposes that European map imagery and pictorial forms, through the process of reinvention for the Japanese format of the folding screen and for Japanese tastes and sensibilities, became vulnerable to alternative, and often unintended, interpretations by the Japanese political and social elite. The present study considers various dimensions of the world map screens: the manner of their production; their meaning in relation to maps of Japan and other subjects; their implications in regard to an established world view and cosmological order; their circulation in a changing political and cultural sphere; and their position within the modern history of Japanese maps and art.
The symmetric, D-invariant and Egorov reductions of the quadrilateral lattice
Creators: name: Doliwa, Adam
name: Santini, Paolo Maria
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a detailed study of the geometric and algebraic properties of the multidimensional quadrilateral lattice (a lattice whose elementary quadrilaterals are planar; the discrete analogue of a conjugate net) and of its basic reductions. To make this study, we introduce the notions of forward and backward data, which allow us to give a geometric meaning to the tau-function of the lattice, defined as the potential connecting these data. Together with the known circular lattice (a lattice whose elementary quadrilaterals can be inscribed in circles; the discrete analogue of an orthogonal conjugate net) we introduce and study two other basic reductions of the quadrilateral lattice: the symmetric lattice, for which the forward and backward data coincide, and the D-invariant lattice, characterized by the invariance of a certain natural frame along the main diagonal. We finally discuss the Egorov lattice, which is, at the same time, symmetric, circular and D-invariant. The integrability properties of all these lattices are established using geometric, algebraic and analytic means; in particular we present a D-bar formalism to construct large classes of such lattices. We also discuss quadrilateral hyperplane lattices and the interplay between quadrilateral point and hyperplane lattices in all the above reductions.
description: 48 pages, 6 figures; 1 section added, to appear in J. Geom. & Phys
A unified theory of grain growth in polycrystalline materials
Creators: name: Hu, Jianfeng
name: Wang, Xianhao
name: Zhang, Junzhan
name: Shen, Zhijian
name: Luo, Jun
name: Luo, Jian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Grain growth is a ubiquitous and fundamental phenomenon observed in the cellular structures with the grain assembly separated by a network of grain boundaries, including metals and ceramics. However, the underlying mechanism of grain growth has remained ambiguous for more than 60 years. The models for grain growth, based on the classically linear relationship between the grain boundary migration and capillary driving force, generally predict normal grain growth. Quantitative model for abnormal grain growth is lacking despite decades of efforts. Here, we present a unified model to reveal quantitatively how grain growth evolves, which predicts the normal, abnormal and stagnant behaviors of grain growth in polycrystalline materials. Our model indicates that the relationship between grain boundary migration and capillary driving force is generally nonlinear, but will switch to be the classically linear relationship in a specific case. Furthermore, the grain growth experiments observed in polycrystalline SrTiO3 demonstrates the validity of the unified model. Our study provides a unified, quantitative model to understand and predict grain growth in polycrystalline materials, and thus offers helpful guides for the microstructural design to optimize the properties of polycrystalline materials.
Ptychopseustis sinualis Agassiz 2022, sp. n.
Creators: name: Agassiz, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Crambidae
Ptychopseustis
Ptychopseustis sinualis

description: Ptychopseustis sinualis sp. n.
Imago (fig. 44): Wingspan 12–15 mm. Head pale ochreous, maxillary palpus short, lpale ochreous, labial palpus> 2× diameter of eye, pale ochreous with central dorsal black spot; antenna pale ochreous. Thorax and tegulae pale ochreous with a scattering of blackish scales. Forewing with termen distinctly sinuate below apex; ground colour pale ochreous with a few scattered blackish scales, a narrow irregular antemedian fascia, a pair of dark spots in disc, an irregular subterminal fascia, a sequence of black dots before termen, fringe line dark fuscous. Hindwing pale fuscous.
Male genitalia (fig. 77): Uncus rounded, gnathos also with rounded apex; valva slender, ventral process before with a blunt poing well before apex; vinculum bearing a pair of coremata each with about four specialised setae two on each side with a node before apex. Aedeagus simple, a long serrate cornutus.
Female genitalia (fig. 102): Ovipositor very long and slender, apophyses posteriores more than half length of abdomen; ductus bursae narrow, about as long as apophyses, corpus bursae spherical sclerotised at junction with ductus, corpus covered with textured sclerotisation.
Diagnosis: Distinguished from other species in the genus by the sinuate termen and clear forewing markings.
Life history: not known.
Derivation: from the shape of the termen.
Distribution: Madagascar.
Type material: Holotype ♀ [Madagascar] Diego Suarez 15.iv.1917 (G. Melou) NHMUK013696751, Two paratypes ♂ NHMUK010919123 same data as holotype but date 25.iv.1917 and BM Pyralidae Genitalia slide No. 23241, ♀ NHMUK010919122 same data but date 19.ii.1917 and BM Pyralidae Genitalia slide No. 23240.
Other material examined: [Madagascar] Diego Suarez (G. Melou) 3♂ 16.iv.1917, 23.iv.1917 and 24.xii.1916 (without abdomen); 9 ♀♀ 24.xii.1916, ii.1917 (3), 5.ii.1917, 23.iv.1917, 12.vii.1917, 16.vii.1917, 17-26.viii.1917; 1♀ no data E. Diehl 1953, 1♀ Sabaramy N.E. Madagascar 16.ii.1917 (G. Melou).
description: Published as part of Agassiz, David, 2022, The tribe Cybalomiini (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea, Crambidae, Glaphyrinae) of sub-Saharan Africa, pp. 101-156 in Zootaxa 5174 (2) on page 132, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5174.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6986011
When practice does not make perfect:  Differentiating between productive and unproductive persistence
Creators: Almeda, Ma. Victoria Quintos
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Educational psychology
Persistence
Data mining
Learning strategies

description: Research has suggested that persistence in the face of challenges plays an important role in learning. However, recent work on wheel-spinning—a type of unproductive persistence where students spend too much time struggling without achieving mastery of skills—has shown that not all persistence is uniformly beneficial for learning. For this reason, Study 1 used educational data-mining techniques to determine key differences between the behaviors associated with productive persistence and wheel-spinning in ASSISTments, an online math learning platform. This study’s results indicated that three features differentiated between these two modes of persistence: the number of hints requested in any problem, the number of bottom-out hints in the last eight problems, and the variation in the delay between solving problems of the same skill. These findings suggested that focusing on number of hints can provide insight into which students are struggling, and encouraging students to engage in longer delays between problem solving is likely helpful to reduce their wheel-spinning. Using the same definition of productive persistence in Study 1, Study 2 attempted to investigate the relationship between productive persistence and grit using Duckworth and Quinn’s (2009) Short Grit Scale. Correlational results showed that the two constructs were not significantly correlated with each other, providing implications for synthesizing literature on student persistence across computer-based learning environments and traditional classrooms.
When is Leaving Preferable to Staying? Exploring the Factors Essential to A Successful Residential Relocation
Creators: Li, Haolun
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Moving, Household
subject: Land use, Urban
subject: Relocation (Housing)
subject: City planning
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: The expansion of overcrowded residential communities with the lack of basic amenities has been witness in many developing countries for the last five decades. Relocations have been adopted to solve the issue because the “best practice” offers opportunities for original residents to dwell in a safer and better living environment, while allows governments and developers to redevelop the previous settlement with the potential to create more public benefits. The research aims to draw generic conclusions on essential factors that contribute to a successful relocation, by studying literature and previous projects. Based on evaluation of three cases in south and southeast of Asia, including MUTP resettlement and rehabilitation in Mumbai, Shanghai “Old Town” renewal and relocation, and UCDO housing projects in Bangkok, suggestions are made for future projects. MUTP case covers the most categories of relocation factor matrix by demonstrating a typical bottom-up scenario and providing post-resettlement support. Besides, it is also found that other features such as community-based information collection, compensation system, incentives for landowners and developers, housing development loans, and encouragement of return resettlement can contribute greatly to the positive effects of a residential relocation.
Formal enantioselective total synthesis of bisdehydroneostemoninine
Creators: name: Kai-Qing Ma
name: Hu-Bin Ren
name: Chao, Jian-Bin
name: Qin, Xue-Mei
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: A formal enantioselective total synthesis of bisdehydroneostemoninine employing L-glutamic acid as the chiral pool is described. The key features of the synthesis include regioselective and enantioselective opening the chiral epoxide with dimethylsulfonium methylide and tandem Friedel–Crafts cyclization followed by lactonization to form the 5-7-5 tricyclic core of the target stemona alkaloids. The synthetic route provides opportunities to explore the biological behavior of enantiopure bisdehydroneostemoninine.
Noncommutative Manifolds the Instanton Algebra and Isospectral Deformations
Creators: name: Connes, Alain
name: Landi, Giovanni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We give new examples of noncommutative manifolds that are less standard than the NC-torus or Moyal deformations of $\Rb^n$. They arise naturally from basic considerations of noncommutative differential topology and have non-trivial global features. The new examples include the instanton algebra and the NC-4-spheres $S^4_θ$. The noncommutative algebras $\Ac=C^{\ify} (S^{4}_θ)$ of functions on NC-spheres are solutions to the vanishing, $ {\rm ch}_j (e) = 0, j < 2 $, of the Chern character in the cyclic homology of $\Ac$ of an idempotent $e \in M_4 (\Ac), e^2 = e, e = e^*$. The universal noncommutative space defined by this equation is a noncommutative Grassmanian defined by very non trivial cubic relations. This space ${\rm Gr}$ contains the suspension of a NC-3-sphere intimately related to quantum group deformations ${\rm SU}_q (2)$ of ${\rm SU} (2)$ but for unusual values (complex values of modulus one) of the parameter $q$ of $q$-analogues, $q=\exp (2πi \t)$. We then construct the noncommutative geometry of $S_{\t}^4$ as given by a spectral triple $(\Ac, \Hc, D)$ and check all axioms of noncommutative manifolds. The Dirac operator $D$ on the noncommutative 4-spheres $S_{\t}^4$ gives a solution to the basic quartic equation defining the `volume form' $ < (e - {1/2}) [D,e]^4 > = \g_5$, where $
description: We introduce the notion of admissible morphism and use it to clarify a confusing point. Definite version to appear in CMP. 20 pages, latex
Temperature dependent percolation mechanism for conductivity in Y$_{0.63}$Ca$_{0.37}$TiO$_3$ revealed by a microstructure study
Creators: name: German, R.
name: Zimmer, B.
name: Koethe, T. C.
name: Barinov, A.
name: Komarek, A. C.
name: Braden, M.
name: Parmigiani, F.
name: van Loosdrecht, P. H. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have performed optical microscopy, micro-photoelectron spectroscopy, and micro-Raman scattering measurements on Y$_{0.63}$Ca$_{0.37}$TiO$_3$ single crystals in order to clarify the interplay between the microstructure and the temperature dependent electronic transport mechanisms in this material. Optical microscopy observations reveal dark and bright domain patterns on the surface with length scales of the order of several to a hundred micrometers showing a pronounced temperature dependent evolution. Spatially resolved photoelectron spectroscopy measurements show the different electronic character of these domains. Using micro-Raman spectroscopy, we observe a distinct temperature dependence of the crystal structure of these domains. On the basis of these findings the different domains are assigned to insulating and metallic volume fractions, respectively. By decreasing the temperature, the volume fraction of the conducting domains increases, hence allowing the electrons to percolate through the sample at temperatures lower than $\sim$150 K.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
When beginning mathematics teachers report acquiring successful attributes: Reflections on teacher education
Creators: Wasserman, Nicholas Henning
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Mathematics--Study and teaching
Mathematics--Study and teaching (Secondary)
Mathematics teachers--Training of
Mathematics teachers--Education

description: Education plays a vital role in any society; so much so, that countries strive to have not only adequate, but excellent educators in their classrooms. The aim of this study was to understand how beginning secondary mathematics teachers define success and to what experiences they attribute that success. Specifically, the central research question addressed was, "To what degree were significant attributes or experiences, important to the success of the first year teaching, learned pre-teacher education program, during a program, or post-program?" The practical goal of filling classrooms with great educators needs to be informed by research on how best to recruit highly qualified candidates into the field of mathematics education and how best to facilitate the teacher preparation process. This study employed a mixed methodology, using a sample of beginning secondary mathematics teachers to gather both quantitative and qualitative data on when they reported gaining influential knowledge or experiences. In particular, input from those who have had some success as beginning mathematics teachers was desired. The interview protocol designed for these participants added depth to the survey responses. Emphasis was placed on the relative importance of the three stages, pre-, during, and post-program, in developing common attributes associated with good teaching. Two characteristics were generally discussed as developing pre-program: being a self-starting and hard-working individual, and holding a belief that every student can learn. Beginning teachers viewed these traits as important for their success. Participants also felt that they acquired both practical classroom tools and educational theory from their teacher education program; having program instructors model pedagogy and mathematical instruction, and having opportunities to practice incorporating theory into their teaching were also seen as important. These aspects distinguished particularly prominent roles that the teacher education program played in shaping its graduates. Classroom management and being flexible and adaptive to different contexts were the most notable qualities frequently reported as being learned post-program. The study's results have implications for informing the types of students a mathematics education program should try to attract or recruit and defining areas where practicum or internship components might be incorporated into the teacher education process.
Quasilocal Smarr relations for static black holes
Creators: name: Villalba, F. D.
name: Bargueño, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Generalized Smarr relations in terms of quasilocal variables are obtained for Schwarzschild and Reissner-Nordström black holes. The approach is based on gravitational path integrals with finite boundaries on which, following Brown and York, thermodynamic variables are identified through a Hamilton-Jacobi analysis of the action. The resulting expressions allow us to construct the relation between the quasilocal energy obtained in this setting and the Komar and Misner-Sharp energies, which are regarded as thermodynamical internal energy in other approaches. The quasilocal Smarr relation is obtained through scaling arguments, and terms evaluated in the external boundary and the horizon are present. By considering some properties of the metric, it is shown that this quasilocal Smarr relation can be regarded as a thermodynamical realization of Einstein equations. The approach is suitable to be generalized to any spherically symmetric metric.
description: 12 pages, 1 figure. Accepted for publication in Physical Review D
The nature of fast radio bursts
Creators: name: Pen, Ue-Li
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Physical constraints on the sources of fast radio bursts are few, and therefore viable theoretical models are many. However, no one model can match all the available observational characteristics, meaning that these radio bursts remain one of the most mysterious phenomena in astrophysics.
description: Published in Nature Astronomy. This 3-page PDF is the submitted version - here is a free link to the published article: https://rdcu.be/basGo
Population genetic structure and phylogeography of the oak gall wasp Andricus chodjaii (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) in Turkey as inferred from mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences
Creators: name: Mutun, Serap
name: Dinç, Serdar
name: Çimen, Erhan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Sequence data of mitochondrial cytochrome b gene and nuclear ITS2 region were used to assess genetic diversity, intraspecific phylogeography and population genetic structure of the oak gall wasp Andricus chodjaii from Turkey. We examined 293 individuals from 21 localities which generated 57 cyt b haplotypes and 8 ITS2 alleles. The average genetic diversity was 0.575 for cyt b and 0.202 ITS2, and the average nucleotide diversity 0.015 for cyt b gene and 0.001 for the ITS2 region. Phylogenetic analyses of cyt b haplotypes produced mostly similar topologies with geographically significant groupings. The ITS2 data provided less resolution without robust and apparent geographic structure. Population demographic analysis indicated that some eastern populations expanded, however, some others underwent either expansion or decline resulting in genetically structured populations. Molecular clock applied to the mtDNA data indicated that ingroup haplotypes diversified from the outgroup haplotypes around Early Pliocene. Further diversification events throughout Pleistocene resulted in major clade formations. It appears that geographic formations and glacial and interglacial cycles of Pleistocene were crucial for shaping the phylogeographic structure of A. chodjaii in Turkey.
Gravitational Radiation Reaction
Creators: name: Mino, Yasushi
name: Sasaki, Misao
name: Tanaka, Takahiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the radiation reaction to the motion of a point-like particle of mass $m$ and specific spin $S$ traveling on a curved background. Assuming $S=O(Gm)$ and $Gm\ll L$ where $L$ is the length scale of the background curvature, we divide the spacetime into two regions; the external region where the metric is approximated by the background metric plus perturbations due to a point-like particle and the internal region where the metric is approximated by that of a black hole plus perturbations due to the tidal effect of the background curvature, and use the technique of the matched asymptotic expansion to construct an approximate metric which is valid over the entire region. In this way, we avoid the divergent self-gravity at the position of the particle and derive the equations of motion from the consistency condition of the matching. The matching is done to the order necessary to include the effect of radiation reaction of $O(Gm)$ with respect to the background metric as well as the effect of spin-induced force. The reaction term of $O(Gm)$ is found to be completely due to tails of radiation, that is, due to curvature scattering of gravitational waves. In other words, the reaction force is found to depend on the entire history of the particle trajectory. Defining a regularized metric which consists of the back- ground metric plus the tail part of the perturbed metric, we find the equations of motion reduce to the geodesic equation on this regularized metric, except for the spin-induced force which is locally expressed in terms of the curvature and spin tensors. Some implications of the result and future issues are briefly discussed.
description: 34 pages ptptex file. To appear in Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement No.128 (1997) `Perturbative and Numerical Approaches to Gravitational Radiation'
Ptychopseustis umbroterminalis Agassiz 2022, sp. n.
Creators: name: Agassiz, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Crambidae
Ptychopseustis
Ptychopseustis umbroterminalis

description: Ptychopseustis umbroterminalis sp. n.
Imago (fig. 45): Wingspan 13–16 mm. Head pale buff, maxillary palpus upturned, buff, labial palpus 1.5 × diameter of eye with a dark band just beyond halfway; antenna buff. Thorax and tegulae pale buff. Forewing buff, irregular oblique antemedian fascia, sometimes obsolete, pair of spots in disc, second irregular subterminal fascia, black spots along termen, a dark fuscous line in terminal fringe. Hindwing pale buff, dark fuscous spots along termen.
Male genitalia (fig. 78): Uncus broad, gnathos digitate, as long as uncus; valva slender, gently tapered, ventral process just before apex; vinculum with specialised setae, two or three on each side, not angled before apex.
Female genitalia (fig. 107): Ostial chamber cylindrical, ductus with some sclerotisation before wide ductus seminalis, ductus continuing broad then even wider before corpus bursae which has a scobinate patch.
Diagnosis: Distinguished from other species in the genus by the dark terminal cilia and the characters of the genitalia as figured.
Life history: not known.
Derivation: from the colouration of the forewing.
Distribution: Madagascar.
Type material: Holotype ♂ Madagascar, Prov. Maharanja, Tsingyde Namoroke N.P S 16° 28.154’ E 45° 20.090’ 125 m 02–12.ix.2012 G. Martin; Paratype ♂ Diego Suarez 12–15.ix.1917 (G. Melou) BM Pyralidae slide 23212 NHMUK103698177.
Other material examined: all [MADAGASCAR] Diego Suarez (G. Melou) 1 without abdomen 24.xii.1916, 1♀ 1 without abdomen 8.i.1917, 1 without abdomen 16.ii.1917, 1♀ 19.ii.1917, 1♀ 4.iii.1917, 2♀ iii–iv.1917, 1♀ iii.1917, 2♀ 26–28.iii.1917, 1♀ 16.iv.1917, 1♀ 21.iv.1917, 2♀ 24.iv.1917, 1♀ 19.v.1917, 1♂ 1♀ 26.v.1917, 1♂ 18.vi.1917, 1♂ 24.vi.1917, 1♀ 12.vii.1917, 2♂ 2♀ 16.vii.1917, 1♀ 17–26.vii.1917, 1♀ 4.ix.1917 BM Pyralidae slide 23205, 2♂ 10.ix.1917, 1♂ 12–15.ix.1917.
description: Published as part of Agassiz, David, 2022, The tribe Cybalomiini (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea, Crambidae, Glaphyrinae) of sub-Saharan Africa, pp. 101-156 in Zootaxa 5174 (2) on page 132, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5174.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6986011
The entanglement cost under operations preserving the positivity of partial transpose
Creators: name: Audenaert, K.
name: Plenio, M. B.
name: Eisert, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the entanglement cost under quantum operations preserving the positivity of the partial transpose (PPT-operations). We demonstrate that this cost is directly related to the logarithmic negativity, thereby providing the operational interpretation for this easily computable entanglement measure. As examples we discuss general Werner states and arbitrary bi-partite Gaussian states. Equipped with this result we then prove that for the anti-symmetric Werner state PPT-cost and PPT-entanglement of distillation coincide giving the first example of a truly mixed state for which entanglement manipulation is asymptotically reversible.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure
Cosmological constraints on the velocity-dependent baryon-dark matter coupling
Creators: name: Ooba, Junpei
name: Tashiro, Horoyuki
name: Kadota, Kenji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the cosmological constraints on the cross section of baryon-dark matter interactions for the dark matter mass below the MeV scale from the Planck CMB (cosmic microwave background) and SDSS (Sloan Digital Sky Survey) Lyman-$α$ forest data. To explore the dark matter mass $m_χ\lesssim 1$ MeV for which the dark matter's free-streaming effect can suppress the observable small scale density fluctuations, in addition to the acoustic oscillation damping in existence of the baryon-dark matter coupling, we apply the approximated treatment of dark matter free-streaming analogous to that of the conventional warm dark matter. We also demonstrate the mass dependence of the baryon-dark matter cross section bounds (for the dark matter mass down to $m_χ \sim 5~{\rm keV}$), in contrast to the dark matter mass independence of the cross section constraints for the light dark matter below the MeV scale claimed in the previous literature.
description: 8 pages, 13 figures, 2 tables
Identifying Gaps and Opportunities in UBC’s Arts and Cultural District for Non-Campus Populations
Creators: name: Luk, Timothy
name: Oscilowicz, Emilia
name: Cho, Wonjun
name: Roe, Jean
name: Cruz, Jorge Soler
name: Taylor, Tru
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: The UBC Arts & Culture District (the District) provides many events and services to people both affiliated and not affiliated with UBC. This research project aims to understand how people who do not work, study or live at UBC use the District. Many people not affiliated with the University attend cultural events in the District – from museum nights at the Museum of Anthropology to world-renowned musicians at the Chan Centre for Performing Arts. In partnership with UBC SEEDs, the UBC School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP) and the Arts & Culture District, this research project was guided by the following three key objectives: 1. Identify what compels or prevents people who are not affiliated with UBC to stay on campus before or after events. 2. Identify the barriers and motivations that exist for non-affiliated visitors in terms of attending nighttime events at UBC. 3. Provide recommendations for the barriers and gaps identified. From January to March 2019, the researchers (SCARP students) conducted a literature review, non-participant observations, intercept interviews, and pop-up engagement to reach the research objectives. The researchers attended two events (at the Museum of Anthropology and the Chan Centre). There they utilised pop-up engagements and one-on-one interviews as the primary data gathering techniques. Approximately 60 participants were engaged in total. The two major themes that emerged from the participant data were related to transportation and a lack of information and amenities. Participants faced barriers with regards to parking, distance from home, and transportation options. Additionally, many participants were unaware of services in the District or felt that there was a lack of options. Lastly, the researchers provide recommendations to build place-based and targeted awareness about the renowned events and services offered in the Arts & Culture District at UBC. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Multiplicity results for some nonlinear Schroedinger equations with potentials
Creators: name: Ambrosetti, A.
name: Malchiodi, A.
name: Secchi, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove some multiplicity results for a nonlinear equation of Schroedinger type with potential functions
When “Self-Sufficiency” Is Not Sufficient: How the American Refugee Resettlement System Fails to Protect and Fulfill Refugees’ Social and Economic Rights
Creators: Renfroe, SaraJane
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Human rights
Refugees
Immigrants--Civil rights

description: The American refugee resettlement program’s stated goal within the 1980 Refugee Act is to help refugees achieve “economic self-sufficiency... as quickly as possible.”1 The Act is the genesis and primary policy source of the current resettlement system. Through constructing self-sufficiency along economic terms and limiting the reception and placement program to ninety days, the Act creates a definition of economic self-sufficiency attainable for case workers and refugees along this short timeline, effectively defining the program’s main goal to be job placement, rather than career or sustainable employment support.2 This implementation begs the question: What are the effects of this policy goal on the implementation of resettlement in the United States, and how does this impact refugees’ social and economic rights? In what follows, I consider this question, as well as its relevant counterpart: Does the resettlement system facilitate refugees’ integration into American society? To respond, I interrogate the American refugee resettlement system’s ability to protect and fulfill refugees’ economic and social rights in the United States. I define these rights as they are described in the 1967 Protocol to the 1951 Refugee Convention, and the U.S.’s 1980 Refugee Act. Over a period of six months, I engaged case workers and refugees (n=11) in interviews to examine their experiences with the resettlement program, and to ask their thoughts on the “success” of the current resettlement system. By broadly framing success, I created space for interviewees to determine their own indicators, and this demonstrates important limitations of the American resettlement system with implications for the protection of refugees’ rights. All of my interviewees presented structural critiques of the current resettlement system and critiqued its ability to facilitate refugee “self-sufficiency,” which they defined differently than the rather limited definition in the 1980 Refugee Act. This critique also arose often in resettlement literature focused on the American system, and through putting my research and relevant research into conversation together, I assert that the current system fails to adequately protect and fulfill refugees’ economic and social rights in the United States, outlined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the 1951 Refugee Convention and 1967 Protocol, and other international human rights conventions.
Preparation of synthetic auxin-amino acid conjugates
Creators: name: Panagiota-Kyriaki Revelou
name: Constantinou-Kokotou, Violetta
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Auxin amide conjugates are regulators of the most important auxin, indole-3-acetic acid (IAA), which is considered responsible for many important processes within the plants. Herein, amide conjugates of IAA were synthesized employing a simple and efficient coupling method with WSCI·HCl, a water-soluble condensing reagent, in the presence of 1-hydroxybenzotriazole. IAA conjugates with 10 amino acids along with their corresponding methyl esters were prepared in excellent yields, up to 95%, aiming to facilitate their identification in plant species. Eight IAA-amino acid methyl ester conjugates are characterized here for the first time.
Where Subjects were Citizens:  The Emergence of a Republican Language and Polity in Colonial American Law Court Culture, 1750-1776
Creators: Savage, Robert Mark
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: History
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: This thesis examines the role of the colonial American jury, particularly the petit jury, during the quarter century leading up to the American Revolution.  The thesis argues that the colonial jury at the inferior and superior court levels was central to a "law court culture" that provided colonists with the education, language and experience to assume the responsibilities of participatory, autonomous citizenship, as opposed to a passive subjecthood that deferred to social and political authority.  Within their law court culture, colonial American jurors acted as powerful, independent decision makers, representatives of their communities judging matters of law as well as fact.  Jurors sometimes even acted as arbiters in highly charged political disputes, to challenge the power of governors and of the empire itself.  When outside British forces threatened this colonial American law court culture and the independence of those citizen jurors, Americans began to perceive themselves as a people apart from the English, uniting to preserve and protect their institutions, particularly their law court culture.
Whence We Come, Whither We Go: Return and Renewal in Lineage for Large Orchestra
Creators: Di Castri, Sophia
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Music
Composition (Music)
Orchestral music

description: This paper presents a conceptual and musical analysis of my composition Lineage, an eleven-minute work for large orchestra, written in 2013 for the New World Symphony and the San Francisco Symphony. Lineage takes as its premise the imagining of faux-folkloric music from a fictitious, distant culture. It engages with the idea of my artistic and personal ancestry, and revolves around the concept of return through the reworking of my own material, the re-contextualization of and linkage to past music traditions, and the repetition and transformation of musical material. I discuss the meaning behind the music, the choice of source material, and my compositional process, including descriptions of how I use technology. I place my work in relation to other composers who have revisited material, including Pierre Boulez, Yan Maresz, and György Ligeti. I also compare Lineage to Phonotopographie, my 2012 work for chamber ensemble that is closely related. The theoretical analysis involves an in-depth explanation of formal concerns, compositional techniques such as polyphonic and resonant usages of stratification, harmonic and pitch material from traditional, microtonal, and spectral sources, and finally rhythm. I conclude with a brief discussion on sideshadowing and temporal openess, a literary concept developed by Gary Saul Morson. I propose that the use of digital audio workstations (DAWs) as a compositional tool may provide composers with a form of musical sideshadowing - a way of understanding the plurality of possibilities present, while contemplating the global formal design.