cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Antechinus flavipes subsp. flavipes
Creators: name: Dyck, Steve Van
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Dasyuromorphia
Dasyuridae
Antechinus
Antechinus flavipes
A. flavipes flavipes (waterhouse)

description: (9) A. arktos versus  A. flavipes flavipes (Waterhouse)
 Pelage: A. arktos has a brownish-grey head that changes markedly to an orange-brown rump, fuscous black hindfeet, a thick-based, finely-furred, black tail and an orange-yellow eye and cheek patch; A. f. flavipes has marked orange-tonings on the hands, feet and tail base and a pale eye ring.
 External Measurements: A. arktos is significantly larger than A. f. flavipes in hf for males and females and in tv for males (Table 5).
 Craniodental Characters: A. arktos is smaller than A. f. flavipes in absolute measurement for SWR-LC 1 B in males and females. A. arktos is significantly smaller than A. f. flavipes for males in M 2 W, R-LC 1, R-LM 2 and M 2 W, and in females in M 2 W. A. arktos is larger than A. f. flavipes in absolute measurement for a range of craniodental characters for males and females: APV, IBW, IOW, PL, TC, NWR, PML, HT-B, I 1 -P 3, I 1 -P 3 and UPL. A. arktos is significantly larger than A. f. flavipes for a range of characters in males and females: BL, Dent, PPV, HT and UML (Table 5).
 Other Comments: A. arktos occur in south-east Qld and north-east NSW in areas of high elevation and rainfall on the Tweed Volcano caldera, whereas A. f. flavipes occurs in a wide range of drier habitat in south-east Australia. Genetics: uncorrected pairwise range differences at the mitochondrial gene Cytochrome B (CytB) between A. arktos and A. f. flavipes are 12.6–13.2%.
description: Published as part of Dyck, Steve Van, 2014, The Black-tailed Antechinus, Antechinus arktos sp. nov.: a new species of carnivorous marsupial from montane regions of the Tweed Volcano caldera, eastern Australia, pp. 101-133 in Zootaxa 3765 (2) on page 116, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3765.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5045725
Pathways to delinquency: The role of parental attachment, family socioeconomic status, and deviant peer relationships in risk behaviors and delinquency among urban African-American middle school students
Creators: name: Carswell, Steven B.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The present study utilized a cross-sectional design and a structural equation modeling statistical approach to evaluate the viability of four models in explaining the relationships among parental attachment, family socioeconomic status, deviant peer relationships and youth participation in risk behaviors and delinquency among urban African-American middle school students. The conceptual framework utilized for this study was Hirschi's social control theory. Archival data obtained from 536 African-American students, consisting of 260 males (48.5%) and 276 females (51.5%) who were 12--14 years of age, were examined. Significant findings indicated that family socioeconomic status was not related to parental attachment and parental attachment was not related to risk behaviors. However, higher family socioeconomic status was related to decreased youth participation in risk behaviors and higher parental attachment was related to decreased youth involvement in both deviant peer relationships and delinquency. Moreover, higher youth involvement in deviant peer relationships was related to higher participation in both risk behaviors and delinquency. Finally, higher youth participation in risk behaviors was related to higher participation in delinquency. With respect to gender considerations, similar to previous research findings, adolescent males and females participated in many of the same types of risk behaviors and delinquent activities, with males participating in a greater number and variety than females. However, contrary to previous findings from arrest data, females were less likely than males to be involved in minor crimes or status offenses, specifically with respect to larceny theft and truancy. Moreover, no significant differences between males and females were found with respect to running away from home. The findings from this study contribute to the growing body of knowledge concerning the role that risk and protective factors play in the development of deviant behaviors among youth. These results suggest that early preventive strategies aimed at reducing problem behaviors among youth involve strengthening the bonds between parent and child, possibly through the development of, and utilization of, after-school programs and family-focused preventive intervention programs.
Foreign Ownership of U.S. Agricultural Land Through December 31, 1989
Creators: name: DeBraal, J. Peter
name: DeBraal, J. Peter
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Agricultural land
subject: foreign landownership
subject: landholdings
subject: land acquisitions
subject: land dispositions

description: Foreigners owned 12.9 million acres of U.S. agricultural land as of December 31, 1989. This is slightly less than 1 percent of all privately held agricultural land and 0.6 percent of all land in the United States. These and other findings are based on an analysis of reports submitted in compliance with the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act of 1978.
Triepeolus kathrynae Rozen 1989
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Triepeolus kathrynae Rozen, 1989
[Holotype: AMNH; ♀ 17.70 km North Rodeo, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico, USA; August 19, 1968]
This species has a wide distribution from central Mexico to the southern border states of the USA. We reviewed three females collected in September 1977: one in La Giganta Ranges, one in the Sarcocaulescent Shrubland (LACM), and one in the Tropical Dry Forest (CASC). See fig. 133.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 204, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
THE EFFECT OF INTERGOVERNMENTAL GRANTS ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT SPENDING AND PRODUCTION DECISIONS: A PRELIMINARY ECONOMETRIC MODEL
Creators: name: Savage, John F.
name: Weber, Bruce A.
name: Savage, John F.
name: Weber, Bruce A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1979
Subjects: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: OLS regression results from a theoretically based model of county spending indicate that mental health (NH) grants stimulate NH spending. 3SLS regression estimates of a simultaneous NH wage-labor-output model indicate that grants stimulate NH employment, that wages are not endogenous, and that production relationships need better specification.
Cooperation and dependencies in multipartite systems
Creators: name: Klobus, Waldemar
name: Miller, Marek
name: Pandit, Mahasweta
name: Ganardi, Ray
name: Knips, Lukas
name: Dziewior, Jan
name: Meinecke, Jasmin
name: Weinfurter, Harald
name: Laskowski, Wieslaw
name: Paterek, Tomasz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose an information-theoretic quantifier for the advantage gained from cooperation that captures the degree of dependency between subsystems of a global system. The quantifier is distinct from measures of multipartite correlations despite sharing many properties with them. It is directly computable for classical as well as quantum systems and reduces to comparing the respective conditional mutual information between any two subsystems. Exemplarily we show the benefits of using the new quantifier for symmetric quantum secret sharing. We also prove an inequality characterizing the lack of monotonicity of conditional mutual information under local operations and provide intuitive understanding for it. This underlines the distinction between the multipartite dependence measure introduced here and multipartite correlations.
description: 9 pages, journal version
title: Experiences of pre-eclampsia: developing the feminist critique of medicalised childbirth
Creators: name: Savage, Julie
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2007

description: This thesis explores women’s experiences of pre-eclampsia and attempts to construct a critique of the existing feminist challenge to medicalised childbirth. The argument presented here suggests that an analysis of the experiences of women with serious pregnancy complications is required to develop this challenge, which presently results in the marginalisation of such women. This thesis does not claim to present a fully developed critique of medicalised childbirth. Rather, it intends to present a challenge to the existing conventional feminist critique and identify a possible way forward whereby such development might be attained. Based on a self-selecting sample of thirty women, all of whom had experienced pre-eclampsia, the research explored their changing perceptions of pregnancy, their subjective experiences of pre-eclampsia and their ideas on how improvements might be made to health care provision. Face-to-face and telephone interviews were the primary methods, but some women chose to supply written accounts of their experiences guided by the thematic scheme of the interview schedule. A subset of six interviews and written accounts of the women’s significant others, namely their husbands and mothers, was also included. The analysis strategy adopted was informed by the principles of grounded theory. The contribution of the thesis lies, firstly, in challenging conventional feminist assumptions that have provided the foundation for the existing critique of medicalised childbirth. It is suggested that these assumptions can be understood as deriving from the way in which the challenge has been constructed within the constraints of binary thinking. Secondly, the thesis begins the process of remedying this problem by raising the possibility of an approach which is constructed beyond binary thinking, aided partly through an analysis of the construction of risk by childbearing women. This theoretical suggestion is then related, more briefly, to maternity policy and midwifery practice.
Multiplicative Decomposition of Heterogeneity in Mixtures of Continuous Distributions
Creators: name: Nunes, Abraham
name: Alda, Martin
name: Trappenberg, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A system's heterogeneity (\textit{diversity}) is the effective size of its event space, and can be quantified using the Rényi family of indices (also known as Hill numbers in ecology or Hannah-Kay indices in economics), which are indexed by an elasticity parameter $q \geq 0$. Under these indices, the heterogeneity of a composite system (the $γ$-heterogeneity) is decomposable into heterogeneity arising from variation \textit{within} and \textit{between} component subsystems (the $α$- and $β$-heterogeneity, respectively). Since the average heterogeneity of a component subsystem should not be greater than that of the pooled system, we require that $γ\geq α$. There exists a multiplicative decomposition for Rényi heterogeneity of composite systems with discrete event spaces, but less attention has been paid to decomposition in the continuous setting. We therefore describe multiplicative decomposition of the Rényi heterogeneity for continuous mixture distributions under parametric and non-parametric pooling assumptions. Under non-parametric pooling, the $γ$-heterogeneity must often be estimated numerically, but the multiplicative decomposition holds such that $γ\geq α$ for $q > 0$. Conversely, under parametric pooling, $γ$-heterogeneity can be computed efficiently in closed-form, but the $γ\geq α$ condition holds reliably only at $q=1$. Our findings will further contribute to heterogeneity measurement in continuous systems.
L^1-convergence of complex double Fourier series
Creators: name: Kaur, Kulwinder
name: Bhatia, S S
name: Ram, Babu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 42A20, 42A32

description: It is proved that the complex double Fourier series of an integrable function $f(x,y)$ with coefficients $\{c_{jk}\}$ satisfying certain conditions, will converge in $L^{1}$-norm. The conditions used here are the combinations of Tauberian condition of Hardy--Karamata kind and its limiting case. This paper extends the result of Bray [1] to complex double Fourier series.
description: 9 pages, no figures, no tables
Pathways to delinquency: The role of parental attachment, family socioeconomic status, and deviant peer relationships in risk behaviors and delinquency among urban African-American middle school students
Creators: name: Carswell, Steven B.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4410
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: The present study utilized a cross-sectional design and a structural equation modeling statistical approach to evaluate the viability of four models in explaining the relationships among parental attachment, family socioeconomic status, deviant peer relationships and youth participation in risk behaviors and delinquency among urban African-American middle school students. The conceptual framework utilized for this study was Hirschi's social control theory. Archival data obtained from 536 African-American students, consisting of 260 males (48.5%) and 276 females (51.5%) who were 12--14 years of age, were examined. Significant findings indicated that family socioeconomic status was not related to parental attachment and parental attachment was not related to risk behaviors. However, higher family socioeconomic status was related to decreased youth participation in risk behaviors and higher parental attachment was related to decreased youth involvement in both deviant peer relationships and delinquency. Moreover, higher youth involvement in deviant peer relationships was related to higher participation in both risk behaviors and delinquency. Finally, higher youth participation in risk behaviors was related to higher participation in delinquency. With respect to gender considerations, similar to previous research findings, adolescent males and females participated in many of the same types of risk behaviors and delinquent activities, with males participating in a greater number and variety than females. However, contrary to previous findings from arrest data, females were less likely than males to be involved in minor crimes or status offenses, specifically with respect to larceny theft and truancy. Moreover, no significant differences between males and females were found with respect to running away from home. The findings from this study contribute to the growing body of knowledge concerning the role that risk and protective factors play in the development of deviant behaviors among youth. These results suggest that early preventive strategies aimed at reducing problem behaviors among youth involve strengthening the bonds between parent and child, possibly through the development of, and utilization of, after-school programs and family-focused preventive intervention programs.
Corruption and the time horizons of politicians
Creators: name: Jin, Jongsoon
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4407
subject: Policy and administration

description: This study focuses primarily on the reasons for political corruption around the world. This paper suggests that the incentive structure for politicians under certain government institutional frameworks will decide the level of corruption. I attempt to shed some light, empirically, on an incentive for politicians engage in corrupt behavior, namely, time horizons of politicians. The research question of this paper is: do time horizons of politicians affect the levels of corruption? The hypothesis of this study is that the time horizons of politicians provide an incentive for them to redesign government institutions in certain ways. Politicians who have short-term horizons would not protect collective property rights, because they do not expect to get an increased return from citizens later. They would deliberately choose to make inefficient institutions and policies that increase present gains but give up future revenue. In contrast, long-term horizons of politicians could give them an incentive to secure collective property rights because they would predictably try to get more corrupt money from a growing economic pie. Paradoxically, protecting property rights will reduce the level of corruption over all. Then, politicians will have fewer opportunities to be involved in corrupt behavior. For empirical analysis, this study uses political stability and regime types as proxies of the time horizons of politicians. The results of this study imply that a proper design of government institutions is a prerequisite for controlling corruption. Corruption control efforts must focus on government institutions rather than people. Metaphorically speaking, picking a rotten apple from a wet box does not save the other apples. The box itself must be dried and fixed to keep the apples fresh.
Corruption and the time horizons of politicians
Creators: name: Jin, Jongsoon
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This study focuses primarily on the reasons for political corruption around the world. This paper suggests that the incentive structure for politicians under certain government institutional frameworks will decide the level of corruption. I attempt to shed some light, empirically, on an incentive for politicians engage in corrupt behavior, namely, time horizons of politicians. The research question of this paper is: do time horizons of politicians affect the levels of corruption? The hypothesis of this study is that the time horizons of politicians provide an incentive for them to redesign government institutions in certain ways. Politicians who have short-term horizons would not protect collective property rights, because they do not expect to get an increased return from citizens later. They would deliberately choose to make inefficient institutions and policies that increase present gains but give up future revenue. In contrast, long-term horizons of politicians could give them an incentive to secure collective property rights because they would predictably try to get more corrupt money from a growing economic pie. Paradoxically, protecting property rights will reduce the level of corruption over all. Then, politicians will have fewer opportunities to be involved in corrupt behavior. For empirical analysis, this study uses political stability and regime types as proxies of the time horizons of politicians. The results of this study imply that a proper design of government institutions is a prerequisite for controlling corruption. Corruption control efforts must focus on government institutions rather than people. Metaphorically speaking, picking a rotten apple from a wet box does not save the other apples. The box itself must be dried and fixed to keep the apples fresh.
The Impact of Coronavirus (COVID-19) on Tourism
Creators: name: M Husein
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150606 Tourist Behaviour and Visitor Experience
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150604 Tourism Marketing
subject: 150601 Impacts of Tourism

description: Dampak dari penyebaran coronavirus terhadap pariwisata dan perhotelan.
Secure BB84-type quantum key distribution with simple phase error formula
Creators: name: Yin, Hua-Lei
name: Chen, Zeng-Bing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: BB84-based quantum key distribution system is limited in high speed and chip integration due to the requirement of four states preparation and measurement. Recently, the simplified BB84 protocol with only three states preparation and measurement has showed the approximate secret key rate with standard BB84. However, the security proof is only valid under the collective attack and requires the basis-independent detection efficiency condition. Here, we provide a security proof against the coherent attack, which simultaneously removes the basis-independent detection efficiency condition. Importantly, the phase error rate formula is quite simple through a subtle observation. We expect that the simplified BB84 protocol with decoy-state method can be widely implemented in reality.
description: This protocol cannot resist coherent attacks with the current phase error rate
The Ionizing Efficiency of the First Stars
Creators: name: Venkatesan, Aparna
name: Truran, James W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate whether a single population of first stars could have influenced both the metal enrichment and reionization of the high-redshift intergalactic medium (IGM), by calculating the generated ionizing radiation per unit metal yield as a function of the metallicity of stellar populations. We examine the relation between the ionizing radiation and carbon created by the first stars, since the evidence for the widespread enrichment of the IGM at redshifts $z$ about 3-4 comes from the detection of C IV absorption. We find that the number of ionizing photons per baryon generated in association with the detected IGM metallicity may well exceed that required for a late hydrogen reionization at $z$ of about 6, by up to a factor of 10-20 for metal-free stars in a present-day initial mass function (IMF). This would be in agreement with similar indications from recent observations of the microwave background and the high-$z$ IGM. In addition, the contribution from intermediate-mass stars to the total metal yield, neglected in past works, substantially impacts such calculations. Lastly, a top-heavy IMF is not necessarily preferred as a more efficient high-$z$ source of ionizing radiation, based on nucleosynthetic arguments in association with a given level of IGM enrichment.
description: 5 pages, 1 figure. Accepted for publication in ApJLetters, v. 594 (Sept. 1, 2003); minor revisions, results unchanged
Antechinus flavipes subsp. leucogaster Gray
Creators: name: Dyck, Steve Van
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Dasyuromorphia
Dasyuridae
Antechinus
Antechinus flavipes
A. flavipes leucogaster gray

description: (10) A. arktos versus  A. flavipes leucogaster Gray
 Pelage: A. arktos has a brownish-grey head that changes markedly to an orange-brown rump, fuscous black hindfeet, a thick-based, finely-furred, black tail and an orange-yellow eye and cheek patch; A. f. leucogaster has marked yellowish-brown fur on the hands, feet and tail base and a pale eyering.
 External Measurements: A. arktos is significantly larger than A. f. leucogaster in tv and hf for males and females, and in wt and hb for males (Table 5).
 Craniodental Characters: A. arktos is significantly smaller than A. flavipes leucogaster in R-LM 2 for males and females. A. arktos is larger than A. f. leucogaster in absolute measurement for a range of craniodental measures in males and females: APV, BL, Dent, IBW, IOW, PPV, PL, TC, NWR, PML, UML, HT-B, I 1 -P 3, LML, I 1 -P 3 and UPL. A. arktos is significantly larger than A. f. leucogaster in males and females for HT (Table 5).
 Other Comments: A. arktos occur in south-east Qld and north-east NSW in areas of high elevation and rainfall on the Tweed Volcano caldera, whereas A. f. leucogaster only occurs on the other side of the continent, in southwest Western Australia. Genetics: Uncorrected pairwise range differences at the mitochondrial gene CytB between A. arktos and A. f. leucogaster are 11.4–12.8%.
description: Published as part of Dyck, Steve Van, 2014, The Black-tailed Antechinus, Antechinus arktos sp. nov.: a new species of carnivorous marsupial from montane regions of the Tweed Volcano caldera, eastern Australia, pp. 101-133 in Zootaxa 3765 (2) on pages 116-117, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3765.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5045725
Global weak solutions to the relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell system revisited
Creators: name: Rein, Gerhard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 35Q60;35D05;82D10

description: In 1989, R. DiPerna and P.-L. Lions established the existence of global weak solutions to the Vlasov-Maxwell system. In the present notes we give a somewhat simplified proof of this result for the relativistic version of this system, the main purpose being to make this important result of kinetic theory more easily accessible to newcomers in the field. We show that the weak solutions preserve the total charge.
description: 16 pages, LaTeX
Twelve tips for teaching the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health with a view to enhancing a biopsychosocial approach to care
Creators: name: Scholten, Ingrid
name: Barradell, Sarah
name: Bickford, Jane
name: Moran, Monica
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The World Health Organization International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health has the power to shape professional behaviour and positively influence all aspects of health and social care practice. The visual depiction of the ICF framework belies the complexity of this multifaceted classification and coding system which students and practitioners can find challenging to grasp. This guide offers twelve integrated practical tips to help health and social care educators embed the ICF throughout the curriculum with a view to supporting student learning and ultimately interprofessional and inclusive practice.
A Systematic Search for Galaxy Proto-Cluster Cores at $z\sim 2$
Creators: name: Ando, Makoto
name: Shimasaku, Kazuhiro
name: Momose, Rieko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A proto-cluster core is the most massive dark matter halo (DMH) in a given proto-cluster. To reveal the galaxy formation in core regions, we search for proto-cluster cores at $z\sim 2$ in $\sim 1.5\, \mathrm{deg}^{2}$ of the COSMOS field. Using pairs of massive galaxies ($\log(M_{*}/M_{\odot})\geq11$) as tracers of cores, we find 75 candidate cores, among which 54\% are estimated to be real. A clustering analysis finds that these cores have an average DMH mass of $2.6_{-0.8}^{+0.9}\times 10^{13}\, M_{\odot}$, or $4.0_{-1.5}^{+1.8}\, \times 10^{13} M_{\odot}$ after contamination correction. The extended Press-Schechter model shows that their descendant mass at $z=0$ is consistent with Fornax-like or Virgo-like clusters. Moreover, using the IllustrisTNG simulation, we confirm that pairs of massive galaxies are good tracers of DMHs massive enough to be regarded as proto-cluster cores. We then derive the stellar mass function (SMF) and the quiescent fraction for member galaxies of the 75 candidate cores. We find that the core galaxies have a more top-heavy SMF than field galaxies at the same redshift, showing an excess at $\log(M_{*}/M_{\odot})\gtrsim 10.5$. The quiescent fraction, $0.17_{-0.04}^{+0.04}$ in the mass range $9.0\leq \log(M_{*}/M_{\odot})\leq 11.0$, is about three times higher than that of field counterparts, giving an environmental quenching efficiency of $0.13_{-0.04}^{+0.04}$. These results suggest that stellar mass assembly and quenching are accelerated as early as at $z\sim 2$ in proto-cluster cores.
description: 14 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS, 10th June 2020
International student adjustment, technology use and English language learning in academia
Creators: name: Brewer, Athos K.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This study explored innovative methods of language learning by comparing non-traditional with traditional language learning methods at a community college. It also explored the interaction between the methods of instruction and the levels of adjustments of second language learners. Two tests (pretest and post-test), and two survey instruments, survey used to record demographic information, technology use and the Noncognitive Questionnaire (NCQ) to measure adjustment areas related to academic success were administered to 140 students in eight English as a Second Language (EL 102) classes at a community college in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. A quasi-experimental design, the non-equivalent control-group design, was employed to address research questions. Results of the study reveal that non-traditional language learning methods were significant with respect to paragraph writing compared to traditional methods favoring grammar. In regards to student adjustment, better adjusted students scored higher on all four tests (pretest grammar and paragraph writing, post-test grammar and paragraph writing) regardless of teaching methods. Statistical significance was found in the mean scores of post paragraph writing tests for better adjusted international students and the Generation 1.5 group. For the Generation 1.5 group, students with less than 11 months of prior English studied out-performed those with 12 months or more of prior English studied with respect to paragraph writing. According to the National Association of Bilingual Education (1996), a key predictor of academic success is a student's fluency in his or her native language. For Generation 1.5 students, more months of English studied in U.S high schools correlated to less time spent developing native language fluency. To improve the success and retention rates of international students, faculty and administrators in higher education must consider the importance of a student's levels of adjustment and its impact on test scores. Efforts and opportunities should be made to get international students and Generation 1.5 students with lower than average scores on the NCQ better adjusted to U.S. academia if we wish improve their test scores and ultimately retain them.
Deviations of the distributions of seismic energies from the Gutenberg-Richter law
Creators: name: Pisarenko, V.
name: Sornette, D.
name: Rodkin, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new non-parametric statistic is introduced for the characterization of deviations from power laws. It is tested on the distribution of seismic energies given by the Gutenberg-Richter law. Based on the two first statistical log-moments, it evaluates quantitatively the deviations of the distribution of scalar seismic moments from a power-like (Pareto) law. This statistic is close to zero for the Pareto law with arbitrary power index, and deviates from zero for any non-Pareto distribution. A version of this statistic for discrete distribution of quantified magnitudes is also given. A methodology based on this statistics consisting in scanning the lower threshold for earthquake energies provides an explicit visualization of deviations from the Pareto law, surpassing in sensitivity the standard Hill estimator or other known techniques. This new statistical technique has been applied to shallow earthquakes (h < 70 km) both in subduction zones and in mid-ocean ridge zones (using the Harvard catalog of seismic moments, 1977-2000), and to several regional catalogs of magnitudes (California, Japan, Italy, Greece). We discover evidence for log-periodicity and thus for a discrete hierarchy of scales for low-angle dipping, low-strain subduction zones with a preferred scaling ratio g=7+-1 for seismic moments, compatible with a preferred scaling ratio of 2 for linear rupture sizes, and consistent with previous reports. We propose a possible mechanism in terms of cascades of fault competitions.
description: 20 pages, 1 table, 33 figures
International student adjustment, technology use and English language learning in academia
Creators: name: Brewer, Athos K.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3903
subject: Education systems
classificationCode: 3904
subject: Specialist studies in education

description: This study explored innovative methods of language learning by comparing non-traditional with traditional language learning methods at a community college. It also explored the interaction between the methods of instruction and the levels of adjustments of second language learners. Two tests (pretest and post-test), and two survey instruments, survey used to record demographic information, technology use and the Noncognitive Questionnaire (NCQ) to measure adjustment areas related to academic success were administered to 140 students in eight English as a Second Language (EL 102) classes at a community college in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. A quasi-experimental design, the non-equivalent control-group design, was employed to address research questions. Results of the study reveal that non-traditional language learning methods were significant with respect to paragraph writing compared to traditional methods favoring grammar. In regards to student adjustment, better adjusted students scored higher on all four tests (pretest grammar and paragraph writing, post-test grammar and paragraph writing) regardless of teaching methods. Statistical significance was found in the mean scores of post paragraph writing tests for better adjusted international students and the Generation 1.5 group. For the Generation 1.5 group, students with less than 11 months of prior English studied out-performed those with 12 months or more of prior English studied with respect to paragraph writing. According to the National Association of Bilingual Education (1996), a key predictor of academic success is a student's fluency in his or her native language. For Generation 1.5 students, more months of English studied in U.S high schools correlated to less time spent developing native language fluency. To improve the success and retention rates of international students, faculty and administrators in higher education must consider the importance of a student's levels of adjustment and its impact on test scores. Efforts and opportunities should be made to get international students and Generation 1.5 students with lower than average scores on the NCQ better adjusted to U.S. academia if we wish improve their test scores and ultimately retain them.
Antechinus flavipes subsp. rubeculus Van Dyck 1982
Creators: name: Dyck, Steve Van
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Dasyuromorphia
Dasyuridae
Antechinus
Antechinus flavipes
A. flavipes rubeculus van dyck

description: (11) A. arktos versus  A. flavipes rubeculus Van Dyck
 Pelage: A. arktos has a brownish-grey head that changes markedly to an orange-brown rump, fuscous black hindfeet, a thick-based, finely-furred, black tail and an orange-yellow eye and cheek patch; A. f. rubeculus has orange-toned fur on the upper hind feet and tail base and a pale eyering.
 External Measurements: A. arktos has a significantly larger tv in males than A. f. rubeculus (see Table 5).
 Craniodental Characters: A. arktos is smaller than A. f. rubeculus in absolute measurement for a range of measurements in males and females: IPV, M 2 W, R-LC 1, R-LM 1, R-LM 2 and SWR-LC 1 B. A. arktos is significantly smaller than A. f. rubeculus for R-LM 1 T and M 2 W in males and females. A. arktos is larger than A. f. rubeculus in absolute measurement for a range of characters in males and females: APV, IOW, I 1 -P 3, I 1 -P 3, UPL, and at TC in males only. A. arktos is significantly larger than A. f. rubeculus for a range of characters in males: BL, Dent, IBW, PPV, HT, PL, NWR and HT-B, and in females at: Dent, PPV, HT, PL, PML and HT-B (Table 5).
 Other Comments: A. arktos occur in south-east Qld and north-east NSW in areas of high elevation and rainfall on the Tweed Volcano caldera, whereas A. f. rubeculus is only found in the wet tropics of north-east Qld. Genetics: Uncorrected pairwise range differences at the mitochondrial gene CytB between A. arktos and A. f. rubeculus are 12.2–12.8%.
description: Published as part of Dyck, Steve Van, 2014, The Black-tailed Antechinus, Antechinus arktos sp. nov.: a new species of carnivorous marsupial from montane regions of the Tweed Volcano caldera, eastern Australia, pp. 101-133 in Zootaxa 3765 (2) on page 117, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3765.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5045725
Imprisonment for drug behaviors: An examination of social -structural determinants
Creators: name: Beatty, Phillip Wayne
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4402
subject: Criminology
subject: FOS: Law
classificationCode: 4410
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: The rapidly rising U.S. incarceration rate over the course of the last three decades has been driven in large part by an exceptional growth in the rate at which individuals are incarcerated for drug offenses. The number of people incarcerated for drug offenses in the year 2000 was about 458,000. This is approximately the same number of prisoners who were incarcerated for all offenses in 1980. African-Americans are disproportionately represented among those who are placed in U.S. prisons for drug behaviors, despite government-sponsored research indicating little racial variation in drug use. A large number of behavioral and social science inquiries seek individual-level correlates of drug use and criminal justice involvement. Since the distribution of individuals who are imprisoned for drug behaviors does not approximate the known patterns of illicit drug use across racial groups in the United States, the current research seeks to illuminate the social-structural predictors of imprisonment for drug behaviors at the county level. For this research I linked 6 publicly-available sources of information about U.S. counties, to create a unique dataset that contains a wide variety of variables describing county-level characteristics in 1996. My multivariate regression models indicate that the single largest predictor of the drug imprisonment rate is the size of the per-capita policing budget, even after controlling for the significant effect of the violent crime rate. This finding illustrates the importance of policing in the social construction of crime rates and criminal justice outcomes. The percentage of African Americans in the population, the unemployment rate, and the level of Republican party support are also positively related to the drug imprisonment rate, indicating that the disproportional impact of drug imprisonment in the U.S. is related to the persistent ways in which our communities are stratified and segregated by these characteristics. Growing rates of drug imprisonment are dysfunctional for African Americans and others who are disproportionately impacted by this recent trend. High rates of drug imprisonment persist because they are functional for privileged subpopulations that are not targets of this punitive practice.
Incidence of resident mistreatment in the learning environment across three institutions
Creators: name: Hammoud, Maya M.
name: Nital P. Appelbaum
name: Wallach, Paul M.
name: Burrows, Heather L.
name: Komal Kochhar
name: Hemphill, Robin R.
name: Daniel, Michelle
name: Clery, Michael J.
name: Santen, Sally A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Mistreatment in the learning environment is associated with negative outcomes for trainees. While the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) annual Graduation Questionnaire (GQ) has collected medical student reports of mistreatment for a decade, there is not a similar nationally benchmarked survey for residents. The objective of this study is to explore the prevalence of resident experiences with mistreatment. Residents at three academic institutions were surveyed using questions similar to the GQ in 2018. Quantitative data were analyzed based on frequency and Mann-Whitney U tests to detect gender differences. Nine hundred ninety-six of 2682 residents (37.1%) responded to the survey. Thirty-nine percent of residents reported experiencing at least one incident of mistreatment. The highest reported incidents were public humiliation (23.7%) and subject to offensive sexist remarks/comments (16.0%). Female residents indicated experiencing significantly more incidents of public embarrassment, public humiliation, offensive sexist remarks, lower evaluations based on gender, denied opportunities for training or rewards, and unwanted sexual advances. Faculty were the most frequent instigators of mistreatment (66.4%). Of trainees who reported experiencing mistreatment, less than one-quarter reported the behavior. Mistreatment in the academic learning environment is a concern in residency programs. There is increased frequency among female residents.
Imprisonment for drug behaviors: An examination of social -structural determinants
Creators: name: Beatty, Phillip Wayne
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The rapidly rising U.S. incarceration rate over the course of the last three decades has been driven in large part by an exceptional growth in the rate at which individuals are incarcerated for drug offenses. The number of people incarcerated for drug offenses in the year 2000 was about 458,000. This is approximately the same number of prisoners who were incarcerated for all offenses in 1980. African-Americans are disproportionately represented among those who are placed in U.S. prisons for drug behaviors, despite government-sponsored research indicating little racial variation in drug use. A large number of behavioral and social science inquiries seek individual-level correlates of drug use and criminal justice involvement. Since the distribution of individuals who are imprisoned for drug behaviors does not approximate the known patterns of illicit drug use across racial groups in the United States, the current research seeks to illuminate the social-structural predictors of imprisonment for drug behaviors at the county level. For this research I linked 6 publicly-available sources of information about U.S. counties, to create a unique dataset that contains a wide variety of variables describing county-level characteristics in 1996. My multivariate regression models indicate that the single largest predictor of the drug imprisonment rate is the size of the per-capita policing budget, even after controlling for the significant effect of the violent crime rate. This finding illustrates the importance of policing in the social construction of crime rates and criminal justice outcomes. The percentage of African Americans in the population, the unemployment rate, and the level of Republican party support are also positively related to the drug imprisonment rate, indicating that the disproportional impact of drug imprisonment in the U.S. is related to the persistent ways in which our communities are stratified and segregated by these characteristics. Growing rates of drug imprisonment are dysfunctional for African Americans and others who are disproportionately impacted by this recent trend. High rates of drug imprisonment persist because they are functional for privileged subpopulations that are not targets of this punitive practice.
Pfister involutions
Creators: name: Bayer-Fluckiger, E
name: Parimala, R
name: Queguiner-Mathieu, A
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The question of the existence of an analogue, in the framework of central simple algebras with involution, of the notion of Pfister form is raised. In particular, algebras with orthogonal involution which split as a tensor product of quaternion algebras with involution are studied. It is proven that, up to degree 16, over any extension over which the algebra splits, the involution is adjoint to a Pfister form. Moreover, cohomological invariants of those algebras with involution are discussed.
description: 13 pages, no figures, no tables
Triepeolus diversipes Cockerell 1924
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Triepeolus diversipes Cockerell, 1924 **
[Holotype: CASC; ♂ San Pedro, California, USA; October 25, 1909]
Triepeolus diversipes represents a new species record for the BCP and Mexico. It was previously known only to inhabit the xeric regions of the western USA. This record arises from three females we reviewed collected in the Baja California Mountains in September 1981 and identified by Molly Rightmyer (SDNHM). See fig. 132.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 203, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532