cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Distinct requirements for extra-embryonic and embryonic bone morphogenetic protein 4 in the formation of the node and primitive streak and coordination of left-right asymmetry in the mouse
Creators: name: Hogan, Brigid L M
name: Sulik, Kathleen K
name: Dehart, Deborah B
name: Fujiwara, Takeshi
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2002

description: In the mouse and chick embryo, the node plays a central role in generating left-right (LR) positional information. Using several different strategies, we provide evidence in the mouse that bone morphogenetic protein 4 (Bmp4) is required independently in two different sites for node morphogenesis and for LR patterning. Bmp4 expression in the trophoblast-derived extra-embryonic ectoderm is essential for the normal formation of the node and primitive streak. However, tetraploid chimera analysis demonstrates that Bmp4 made in epiblast-derived tissues is required for robust LR patterning, even when normal node morphology is restored. In the absence of embryonic Bmp4, the expression of left-side determinants such as Nodal and Lefty2 is absent in the left lateral plate mesoderm (LPM). Noggin-mediated inhibition of Bmp activity in cultured wild-type embryos results in suppression of Nodal expression in the LPM. Thus, unlike previous models proposed in the chick embryo in which Bmp4 suppresses left-sided gene expression, our results suggest that Bmp acts as a positive facilitator of the left-sided molecular cascade and is required for Nodal induction and maintenance in the left LPM.
title: ADCO, Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les domaines de Beaune (XVe siècle), Cart. 177 (11 H 289), 197 folios, f. 0313
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2015
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: cartulaire

description: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les domaines de Beaune (XVe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 177 (11 H 289), 197 folios, f. 0313, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions d’Izeure (XVe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 177 (11 H 289), 197 folios, f. 0313, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
STRICT: Information Retrieval Based Search Term Identification for Concept Location
Creators: name: Rahman, Mohammad Masudur
name: Roy, Chanchal K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: During maintenance, software developers deal with numerous change requests that are written in an unstructured fashion using natural language. Such natural language texts illustrate the change requirement involving various domain related concepts. Software developers need to find appropriate search terms from those concepts so that they could locate the possible locations in the source code using a search technique. Once such locations are identified, they can implement the requested changes there. Studies suggest that developers often perform poorly in coming up with good search terms for a change task. In this paper, we propose a novel technique--STRICT--that automatically identifies suitable search terms for a software change task by analyzing its task description using two information retrieval (IR) techniques-- TextRank and POSRank. These IR techniques determine a term's importance based on not only its co-occurrences with other important terms but also its syntactic relationships with them. Experiments using 1,939 change requests from eight subject systems report that STRICT can identify better quality search terms than baseline terms from 52%--62% of the requests with 30%--57% Top-10 retrieval accuracy which are promising. Comparison with two state-of-the-art techniques not only validates our empirical findings and but also demonstrates the superiority of our technique.
description: The 24th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER 2017), pp. 79--90, Klagenfurt, Austria, February 2017
Decomposing blazar spectra into lepto-hadronic emission components
Creators: name: Gokus, A.
name: Richter, S.
name: Spanier, F.
name: Kreter, M.
name: Kadler, M.
name: Mannheim, K.
name: Wilms, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently reported coincidences between high-energy neutrino events and major blazar outbursts reinforce the relevance of lepto-hadronic emission models for blazars. We study the influence of physical parameters on the neutrino output modeling blazar spectral energy distributions self-consistently assuming a relativistically propagating acceleration zone surrounded by a larger cooling zone. We find that the gross features of the spectral energy distribution can readily be explained with the model. A rigorous test requires time-resolved measurements of blazar spectral energy distributions during an outburst and high-statistics neutrino measurements to discriminate the leptonic and hadronic emission components.
description: IBWS Proceedings, 6 pages, 4 figures
Magnetic Field Uniformity Across the GF 9-2 YSO, L1082C Dense Core, and GF 9 Filamentary Dark Cloud
Creators: name: Clemens, Dan P.
name: Batal, A. M. El
name: Cerny, C.
name: Kressy, S.
name: Schroeder, G.
name: Pillai, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The orientation of the magnetic field (B-field) in the filamentary dark cloud GF 9 was traced from the periphery of the cloud into the L1082C dense core that contains the low-mass, low-luminosity Class 0 young stellar object (YSO) GF 9-2 (IRAS 20503+6006). This was done using SOFIA HAWC+ dust thermal emission polarimetry (TEP) at 216 um in combination with Mimir near-infrared background starlight polarimetry (BSP) conducted at H-band (1.6 um) and K-band (2.2 um). These observations were augmented with published I-band (0.77 um) BSP and Planck 850 um TEP to probe B-field orientations with offset from the YSO in a range spanning 6000 AU to 3 pc. No strong B-field orientation change with offset was found, indicating remarkable uniformity of the B-field from the cloud edge to the YSO environs. This finding disagrees with weak-field models of cloud core and YSO formation. The continuity of inferred B-field orientations for both TEP and BSP probes is strong evidence that both are sampling a common B-field that uniformly threads the cloud, core, and YSO region. Bayesian analysis of Gaia DR2 stars matched to the Mimir BSP stars finds a distance to GF 9 of 270 +/- 10 pc. No strong wavelength dependence of B-field orientation angle was found, contrary to previous claims.
description: 18 pages, 6 figures ApJ, accepted
Yukawa Coupling Contribution to Magnetic Field Induced Dynamical Mass
Creators: name: Ferrer, Efrain J.
name: de la Incera, Vivian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By solving the gap equation in the quenched, ladder approximation for an Abelian gauge model with Yukawa interaction in the presence of a constant magnetic field, we show that the Yukawa interactions enhance the dynamical generation of fermion mass. The theory is then studied at finite temperature, where we prove that the critical magnetic field, required for the mass generation to be important at temperatures comparable to the electroweak critical temperature, can be substantially decreased due to the Yukawa coupling.
description: 20 pages, revtex
Overview of the CLEF-2018 CheckThat! Lab on Automatic Identification and Verification of Political Claims. Task 1: Check-Worthiness
Creators: name: Atanasova, Pepa
name: Barron-Cedeno, Alberto
name: Elsayed, Tamer
name: Suwaileh, Reem
name: Zaghouani, Wajdi
name: Kyuchukov, Spas
name: Martino, Giovanni Da San
name: Nakov, Preslav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.7
subject: 68T50

description: We present an overview of the CLEF-2018 CheckThat! Lab on Automatic Identification and Verification of Political Claims, with focus on Task 1: Check-Worthiness. The task asks to predict which claims in a political debate should be prioritized for fact-checking. In particular, given a debate or a political speech, the goal was to produce a ranked list of its sentences based on their worthiness for fact checking. We offered the task in both English and Arabic, based on debates from the 2016 US Presidential Campaign, as well as on some speeches during and after the campaign. A total of 30 teams registered to participate in the Lab and seven teams actually submitted systems for Task~1. The most successful approaches used by the participants relied on recurrent and multi-layer neural networks, as well as on combinations of distributional representations, on matchings claims' vocabulary against lexicons, and on measures of syntactic dependency. The best systems achieved mean average precision of 0.18 and 0.15 on the English and on the Arabic test datasets, respectively. This leaves large room for further improvement, and thus we release all datasets and the scoring scripts, which should enable further research in check-worthiness estimation.
description: Computational journalism, Check-worthiness, Fact-checking, Veracity
Facing contemporary global issues with faith
Creators: name: Obileye, Olatunbosun
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This is a webinar delivered to NILAA set 95 group.

The webinar focus on peculiar challenges to members spread across the globe. It aimed to probe into what are the main concerns of the members and attempted to guide them on solutions to mitigate and move on.
Examining the cancellation mechanism of neutron EDM in a model with dilaton-dominated susy breaking
Creators: name: Barr, S. M.
name: Khalil, Shaaban
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the cancellation mechanism between the different contributions to the electric dipole moment of the neutron in a model with dilaton-dominated SUSY breaking. We find these accidental cancellations occur at few points in parameter space. For a wide region of this space we must constrain the phase of $μ$ to be of order $10^{-1}$ and have the phases of $A$ and $μ$ strongly correlated in order to have small neutron EDM. Moreover, we consider the indirect CP violation parameter $ε$ in this region where the electric dipole moment is less than the experimental limit and find that we can generate $ε$ of order $10^{-6}$.
title: Early Bilingualism and Foreign Language Learning in Secondary School
Creators: name: Nguyen, My Viet Ha
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: DLL
subject: SLA
subject: Bilingualism
subject: Foreign language learning

description: Early exposure to multiple languages shapes children's experiences and language background as well as influences later functioning. Prior research indicates that students who speak a minority language at home experience unique benefits when learning an additional third language (L3) in school. In the context of the United States, where foreign language learning is not mandatory, it is challenging to directly examine this relationship. Not all students decide to take a foreign language course, and it is assumed that those who enroll in these courses differ from those who do not in several unique ways. Earlier findings reveal that student characteristics may influence their motivation to learn a foreign language. Thus, the present study examined the relationship between student's early language status (monolingual, dual language learner [DLL], and bilingual) and later foreign language course enrollment and performance in middle and high school. The current research used prospective longitudinal data from the Miami School Readiness Project (MSRP) with an ethnically diverse and low-income population. A total of 33,247 students (58.8% Latino, 33.4% Black/African American, 6.9% White/Asian/other; 81.8% free/reduced lunch) who attended public school pre-K or received subsidies for center-based family childcare in the community were assessed for school readiness at age four and prospectively followed through high school. School record data indicated DLL status in kindergarten, early English proficiency, and foreign language course taking in middle and high school. Hierarchical regression analyses were run to predict foreign language course enrollment and performance in middle or high school as the outcomes, with students’ demographic, school readiness, and elementary school academic performance as covariates. Results suggested complex relationships among different factors; however, early language status significantly predicts later enrollment and performance in foreign language courses, even after controlling for student demographic, school readiness skills, and early academic achievement. Early bilinguals were more likely to take foreign language courses than DLLs, who enrolled in such courses more than monolingual students, controlling for all other factors. The same pattern favoring bilinguals, then DLLs, then monolinguals was found for performance in foreign language courses. I explored the findings in detail pertaining to general foreign language enrollment, as well as performance and enrollment across different level and languages. Limitations and implications were discussed.
Measurement of B(K -> pnn)
Creators: name: Kettell, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The experimental measurement of positive kaons decaying to a positive pion and a neutrino, anti-neutrino pair (pnn) is reviewed. Recent results from experiment E787 at BNL are presented: with data from 1995--97 the branching ratio has been measured to be B(pnn) = (1.5^{+3.4}_{-1.2}) \times10^{-10}. The future prospects for additional data in this mode are examined.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures, LaTeX, invited talk at the 7th Conference on the Intersections of Particle and Nuclear Physics; Quebec City, Canada, May 22-28, 2000
Large Scale Electronic Structure Calculations with Multigrid Acceleration
Creators: name: Briggs, E. L.
name: Sullivan, D. J.
name: Bernholc, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have developed a set of techniques for performing large scale ab initio calculations using multigrid accelerations and a real-space grid as a basis. The multigrid methods permit efficient calculations on ill-conditioned systems with long length scales or high energy cutoffs. The technique has been applied to systems containing up to 100 atoms, including a highly elongated diamond cell, an isolated C$_{60}$ molecule, and a 32-atom cell of GaN with the Ga d-states in valence. The method is well suited for implementation on both vector and massively parallel architectures.
description: 4 pages, 1 postscript figure
The Schrödinger Functional and Non-Perturbative Improvement
Creators: name: Edwards, R. G.
name: Heller, U. M.
name: Klassen, T. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: After describing the Schrödinger functional for standard and improved gluon and quark actions we present results for the non-perturbative clover coefficients of the SW quark action coupled to the Wilson plaquette action for $β\geq 5.7$, as well as the Lüscher-Weisz one-loop tadpole improved gauge action, both in the quenched approximation.
description: 6 pages, LaTeX, 5 ps/eps figures. Contribution to Lattice '97
journal club talk about arxiv /1811.01753
Creators: name: Houghton, Conor
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: Slide for a journal club talk about "How deep is deep enough ? Quantifying class separability in the hidden layers of deep neural networks" Schilling, Metzner, Rietsch, Gerum, Schulze and Krauss (arxiv 1811.01753)
THE DARK ARTS OF GOVERNANCE: MACHIAVELLIAN TACTICS AMONG NIGERIAN LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELITES
Creators: name: Ayoade, Oluwaseun Adebayo
name: Yetunde, Grace Ogunleye
Publisher: name: noland journals
Year: 2024
Subjects: Elites, Dividends of democracy and good governance, Local Government, Pervasive Machiavellian Tactics, Nigerian Fourth Republic

description: The paper examined the relationship between elites’ pervasive Machiavellian tactics and the performance of local governments in the Nigerian Fourth Republic. Through 1976 reform, local government became third tier of government which receives, apart from its internal revenues, monthly financial allocations from the Federation Account. The essence is to make it effective and efficient in carrying out its constitutional roles of promoting dividends of both democracy and good governance at the grassroots. Also, to reach wide spectrum of the Nigerian grassroots, it has undergone incremental reorganisations from 301 in 1984 to 774. Despite the reforms and incremental reorganisations, local governments are found to underperform their constitutional responsibilities to the grassroots’ people. The paper employed analytico-causal approach which was done through library research. It was found out that the failure of Nigerian local governments in providing grassroots people with dividends of democracy and good governance was sequel to elites’ pervasive Machiavellian tactics input into 1999 Nigerian Constitution. This is not without negative implications for Nigeria’s security and socio-economic development. To make local governments deliver dividends of democracy and good governance to Nigerian grassroots, the removal of elite’s Machiavellian tactics input into the 1999 Nigerian Constitution which alienates grassroots people from the controls of local governments is necessary. It is also important to prioritize democracy as a national ideal in order assuage the negative implications of non-performance of local governments in Nigeria
Influence of pump coherence on the quantum properties of spontaneous parametric down-conversion
Creators: name: Giese, Enno
name: Fickler, Robert
name: Zhang, Wuhong
name: Chen, Lixiang
name: Boyd, Robert W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The correlation properties of the pump field in spontaneous parametric down-conversion are crucial in determining the degree of entanglement of generated signal and idler photons. We find theoretically that continuous-variable entanglement of the transverse positions and momenta of these photons can be achieved only if the coherence of the pump beam is sufficiently high. The positions of signal and idler photons are found to be correlated, even for an incoherent pump. However, the momenta of the signal and idler photons are not anti-correlated, even though transverse momentum is conserved.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures, author's original
Numerical Solution of the Evolution Equation for Orbital Angular Momentum of Partons in the Nucleon
Creators: name: Martin, O.
name: Hagler, P.
name: Schafer, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The evolution of orbital angular momentum distributions within the radiative parton model is studied. We use different scenarios for the helicity weighted parton distributions and consider a broad range of input distributions for orbital angular momentum. In all cases we are lead to the conclusion that the absolute value of the average angular momentum per parton peaks at relatively large $x\approx 0.1$ for perturbatively accessible scales. Furthermore, in all scenarios considered here the average orbital angular momentum per parton is several times larger for gluons than for quarks which favours gluon initiated reactions to measure orbital angular momentum. The large gluon polarization typically obtained in NLO-fits to DIS data is primarily canceled by the gluon orbital angular momentum.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures, revised version (appendix removed), to appear in Phys. Lett. B
On the complete next-to-leading order pQCD prediction for the pion form factor
Creators: name: Melic, B.
name: Nizic, B.
name: Passek, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We comment on the results of a complete leading-twist next-to-leading order QCD analysis of the spacelike pion electromagnetic form factor at large-momentum transfer Q. For the asymptotic distribution amplitude, we have examined the sensitivity of the predictions to the choice of the renormalization scale. The results show that reliable perturbative predictions for the pion electromagnetic form factor can already be made at a momentum transfer Q below 10 GeV.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures included; talk presented by K. Passek at Nuclear and Particle Physics with CEBAF at Jefferson Lab Conference, Dubrovnik, 3-10 November 1998
Additional file 4: of Admission rates in emergency departments in Geneva during tennis broadcasting: a retrospective study
Creators: name: Correia, Jorge
name: Braillard, Olivia
name: Combescure, Christophe
name: Gerstel, Eric
name: HervĂŠ Spechbach
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Marine Biology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Table S4. Admission rates at Geneva University Hospitals and at La Colline according to the age of admitted patients. The admission rates by center and by category of age of patients assessed using negative binomial regression models with mixed effects. Admission rates are expressed in number of admitted patients per hour and reported with 95% confidence intervals in brackets. (DOCX 12 kb)
Clearance of a dermal Huffmanela sp. in a sandbar shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus) using levamisole
Creators: name: Fatzinger, Michael H.
name: MacLean, Robert A.
name: Harms, Craig A.
name: Woolard, Kevin D.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2006

description: A wild-caught captive sandbar shark Carcharhinus plumbeus developed a contiguous network of darkly pigmented linear tracks that progressed from the snout to the ventral cervical region. Microscopic examination of a skin scraping revealed nematode eggs of the genus Huffmanela, a group of histozoic nematodes that is known to parasitize requiem sharks and marine and freshwater teleosts. The fresh eggs were darkly pigmented with bipolar plugs, contained a larva, and measured 73.3 to 86.4 by 39.0 to 47.4 microm (n = 10). Formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded eggs were significantly smaller (Wilcoxon rank sums test, p < 0.005), measuring 70.5 to 78.9 by 33.6 to 41.3 microm (n = 13). These measurements do not correlate with previously reported species of Huffmanela. Serial treatment with levamisole (10 mg kg(-1), intramuscular [i.m.]) cleared the egg tracks within 21 d, with no recurrence or apparent complications.
Kirbyana furcata Zhi & Chen 2021
Creators: name: Chen, Xiang-Sheng
name: Zhi, Yan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cixiidae
Kirbyana
Kirbyana furcata

description: Kirbyana furcata Zhi & Chen, 2021
 Kirbyana furcata Zhi & Chen, in Zhi et al., 2021: 8.
(Figs 37‒38)
 Material examined. 1♂, CHINA: Jinzhuping Village (22°56’, 104°30’), Dulong Town, Maguan County, Yunnan Province, 14 August 2017, leg. Yan Zhi, Qiang Luo and Nian Gong (holotype); 1♂ 1♀, Jinchengjiang Park (24°41’, 108°3’), Hechi City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, 17 July 2015, leg. Ying-Jian Wang (paratypes).
 Host plant. Bamboo (Poaceae, Bambuseae).
 Distribution. China (Guangxi, Yunnan).
 Remarks. This species can be distinguished from the other species of the genus by the following characters: ventral margin of periandrium with three spinous processes, two on base and one on apex; apex of periandrium with a long spinous process on the right side; endosoma with three spinous processes on or near the apex.
description: Published as part of Chen, Xiang-Sheng & Zhi, Yan, 2023, Taxonomic study of the Eucarpiini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae) from China, pp. 1-100 in Zootaxa 5347 (1) on page 57, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5347.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8390836
title: (Two) wheels on the bus : road user perceptions of a bike bus and how this links to addressing global health challenges
Creators: name: Harrington, Deirdre
name: Bardid, Farid
name: Cory, Katherine
name: Dixon, James
name: Drakopoulou Dodd, Sarah
name: Ferguson, Neil
name: Roberts, Jen
name: Bonner, James
Publisher: name: Strathprints - University of Strathclyde
Year: 2099

description: Background: Excessive car use hampers progress towards tackling global health challenges, including climate and sustainability issues and is linked to lower physical activity. Local communities have been developing solutions through bike buses. The paper, one of the first on bike buses, explores how a bike bus is perceived by other road and place users. Methods: An interdisciplinary instrument with dialogic-style questions was distributed on flyers to road and place users on the bike bus route including when the bike bus was passing. Responses were thematically analysed using analytic framing to identify themes and sub-themes. This paper focusses two domains related to physical activity’s link to the global health challenges of climate and sustainability issues of excess car traffic: climate actions and community level activism. Results: Overall, 172 responses were received from 542 distributed flyers (31.8%). The climate actions domain identified: a bike bus as a solution that creates a transport mode shift, reduces emissions, improves air quality. Themes associated with community level activism domain include perception that a bike bus is a form of activism or a protest and that it is a disruption to the status quo on the roads. Conclusions: Our findings indicate that this active mobility practice goes beyond the utility of getting children to school and being a way to promote physical activity. A bike bus is seen as local level community action that could create a transport mode shift, draw attention to road space allocation and help tackle global health challenges.
title: Behavioral Interventions in Energy Consumption
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2019

description: The “Energy Paradox”, whereby consumers undervalue energy efficiency investments, is one of the most puzzling phenomenon for energy policy researchers. Within this sector behavioral economics is beginning to provide understandings that cannot be explained using neoclassical economic theory. Using the results of a field experiment designed for this dissertation, several theories of behavior toward electricity consumption are examined. One of those theories, prospect theory, is applied for the first time using an incentive structure, or frame, called an Energy Efficiency Escrow (EEE). This treatment is compared with a traditional financial incentive structure called pay-for-performance (P4P), which itself has not yet been applied to the residential household energy sector. Although there were substantial energy reductions in both groups, the research found that consumers who were forced to calculate their potential gains (P4P-implicit gains) conserved more energy than those who were constantly updated on their potential losses (EEE-explicit losses). The P4P group also underestimated their final reward relative to the EEE group. Users who found elements of the EEE confusing actually increased their energy usage relative to their baseline. Additionally, higher baseline energy users in both groups conserved a higher percentage of their baseline energy use relative to lower baseline energy users.
Scaling Theory of Antiferromagnetic Heisenberg Ladder Models
Creators: name: Hatano, Naomichi
name: Nishiyama, Yoshihiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The $S=1/2$ antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model on multi-leg ladders is investigated. Criticality of the ground-state transition is explored by means of finite-size scaling. The ladders with an even number of legs and those with an odd number of legs are distinguished clearly. In the former, the energy gap opens up as $ΔE\sim{J_\perp}$, where ${J_\perp}$ is the strength of the antiferromagnetic inter-chain coupling. In the latter, the critical phase with the central charge $c=1$ extends over the whole region of ${J_\perp}>0$.
description: 12 pages with 9 Postscript figures. To appear in J. Phys. A: Math. Gen
Future Kaon Programs at BNL and FNAL
Creators: name: Kettell, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Future kaon decay programs at BNL and FNAL are discussed. The primary focus of these programs is the measurement of the golden modes, the neutral and charged kaon decays to a pion and two neutrinos. The observation of the charged mode by E787 at BNL is the first step in a series of measurements which will completely determine the unitarity triangle within the kaon system.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures, LaTeX, invited talk at the 7th Conference on the Intersections of Particle and Nuclear Physics; Quebec City, Canada, May 22-28, 2000
Brain-Machine Interface: Application of Pre-emptive Policies
Creators: name: Caudill, Nicholas
Publisher: name: Automated Intelligence Community College
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: brain-machine interface
subject: brain-computer interface
subject: large-language model
subject: Mathematical logic
subject: Cognitive neuroscience

description: The author claims that the study and use of philosophy is bottlenecked by the lack of certain engineering applications.
title: References for The Great Society Subway: A History of the Washington Metro
Creators: name: Schrag, Zachary
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Metro

description: References for Preface to the 2014 paperback edition of The Great Society Subway: A History of the Washington Metro
description: For production reasons, the paperback edition of The Great Society Subway does not include footnote or endnote references for the new preface. While I tried to make clear in the main text of the preface the main sources of my information, I offer complete citations here for those who are interested.
Thermally Driven Topology in Frustrated Systems
Creators: name: Yu, Jie-Xiang
name: Daly, Morgan
name: Zang, Jiadong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Non-trivial topology in a two-dimensional frustrated spin system with the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interaction was investigated by Monto Carlo simulations. At finite temperatures, thermally driven topology was discovered and was found to be dominant at low magnetic field. This topological charge has a quadratic relation with the DM interaction and linear realtions with the external magnetic field or the uniaxial magnetic anisotropy. We also proposed a real frustrated system, the Mn-Bi mono-layer film with exceedingly large DM interaction, to enable thermally driven topology. Other topological non-trivial phases in high magnetic field region were also discussed in this real system.
Kirbyana pacifica Emeljanov & Hayashi 2007
Creators: name: Chen, Xiang-Sheng
name: Zhi, Yan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cixiidae
Kirbyana
Kirbyana pacifica

description: Kirbyana pacifica Emeljanov & Hayashi, 2007
 Kirbyana pagana Tsaur & Hsu, 2003: 432 (misidentification).
 Kirbyana pacifica Emeljanov & Hayashi, 2007: 136.
(Fig. 42)
 Material examined. No specimen has been obtained by the authors.
 Distribution. China (Taiwan); Japan.
 Host plant. Unknown.
 Remarks. Based on the description and the figures by Emeljanov and Hayashi (2007), this species can be distinguished from other species of the genus by the following characters: right side of periandrium with 1 spinous process near base, apex dorsocaudally directed; longest one originating from right side of periandrium apically, apex ventrocephalically directed; middle part of ventral margin with 1 long spinous process, apex ventrocephalically directed; endosoma with a spinous process dorsomedially, apex ventrocephalically directed.
description: Published as part of Chen, Xiang-Sheng & Zhi, Yan, 2023, Taxonomic study of the Eucarpiini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae) from China, pp. 1-100 in Zootaxa 5347 (1) on pages 57-64, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5347.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8390836
Polymeric Phase of Simplicial Quantum Gravity
Creators: name: Gabrielli, Davide
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We deduce the appearance of a polymeric phase in 4-dimensional simplicial quantum gravity by varying the values of the coupling constants and discuss the geometric structure of the phase in terms of ergodic moves. A similar result is true in 3-dimensions.
description: 6 pages, revtex
title: Generative design in structural engineering
Creators: name: Kicinger, Rafal P.
name: Arciszewski, Tomasz
name: De Jong, Kenneth A.
Publisher: name: American Society of Civil Engineers Press
Year: 2005

description: This paper proposes a new approach to representing structural system inspired by various models of complex systems. Several types of generative representations of steel structural systems are provided and empirically investigated. These representations utilize various kinds of cellular automata to generate design concepts of steel structures in tall buildings. In the paper, a brief overview of the state-of-the-art in cellular automata and generative design is presented. Next, several types of generative representations of steel structural systems in tall buildings are described. The paper also reports the results of several design experiments. They have shown that generative representations produce novel structural shaping patterns which are qualitatively different than the patterns obtained using traditionally used parameterized representations. They also significantly improve the performance of evolutionary algorithms optimizing the structural systems. Finally, research conclusions are presented and most promising paths of future research are discussed.
On a Problem of Wang Concerning the Hamiltonicity of Bipartite Digraphs
Creators: name: Darbinyan, Samvel Kh.
name: Karapetyan, Iskandar A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: R. Wang (Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, vol. 19(3), 2017) proposed the following problem. \textbf{Problem.} Let $D$ be a strongly connected balanced bipartite directed graph of order $2a\geq 8$. Suppose that $d(x)\geq 2a-k$, $ d(y)\geq a+k$ or $d(y)\geq 2a-k$, $ d(x)\geq a+k$ for every pair of vertices $x,y$ with a common out-neighbour, where $2 \leq k\leq a/2$. Is $D$ Hamiltonian? In this paper, we prove that if a digraph $D$ satisfies the conditions of this problem, then (i) $D$ contains a cycle factor, (ii) for every vertex $x\in V(D)$ there exists a vertex $y\in V(D)$ such that $x$ and $y$ have a common out-neighbour.
description: 8 pages
HOW HABITAT DEGRADATION THROUGH FISHERY DISTURBANCE ENHANCES IMPACTS OF HYPOXIA ON OYSTER REEFS
Creators: name: Peterson, Charles H.
name: Lenihan, Hunter S.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1998

description: Oysters are ecosystem engineers that create biogenic reef habitat important to estuarine biodiversity, benthic-pelagic coupling, and fishery production. Prevailing explanations for the dramatic decline of eastern oysters (Crassostrea virginica) during the last century overlook ecosystem complexity by ignoring interactions among multiple environmental disturbances. To explain oyster loss, we tested whether (1) mortality of oysters on natural oyster reefs varies with water depth (3 m vs. 6 m), (2) harvesting by oyster dredges reduces the height of oyster reefs, and (3) bottom-water hypoxia/anoxia and reduction in reef height through fishery disturbance interact to enhance mortality of oysters in the Neuse River estuary, North Carolina, USA. The percentage of oysters found dead (mean ± 1 SD) during a survey of natural reefs in May 1993 was significantly greater at 6-m (92 ± 10%) than at 3-m (28 ± 9%) water depth. Less than one scason's worth of oyster dredging reduced the height of restored oyster reefs by ∼30%. During stratification of the water column in summer, oxygen depletion near the seafloor at 6 m caused mass mortality of oysters, other invertebrates, and fishes on short, deep experimental reefs, while oysters and other reef associates elevated into the surface layer by sufficient reef height or by location in shallow water survived. Highly mobile blue crabs (Callinectes sapidus) abandoned burrows located in hypoxic/anoxic bottom waters but remained alive in shallow water. Our results indicate that interaction of reef habitat degradation (height reduction) through fishery disturbance and extended bottom-water hypoxia/anoxia caused the pattern of oyster mortality observed on natural reefs and influences the abundance and distribution of fish and invertebrate species that utilize this temperate reef habitat. Interactions among environmental disturbances imply a need for the integrative approaches of ecosystem management to restore and sustain estuarine habitat.
Additional file 2: of Admission rates in emergency departments in Geneva during tennis broadcasting: a retrospective study
Creators: name: Correia, Jorge
name: Braillard, Olivia
name: Combescure, Christophe
name: Gerstel, Eric
name: HervĂŠ Spechbach
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Table S2. Association between the admission rate and periods with/without tennis matches, adjusted for the center, the day of the week, the season and the year of the tennis match. The association between the tennis match broadcasting and the admission rate (number of admissions per hour) was investigated by using a multivariable negative binomial regression model with mixed effects. Associations are expressed as ratios of admission rates compared with the reference categories. 95% confidence intervals are reported in brackets. In this model, the intercept was random, for instance the ratio of 0.90 indicated that the admission rate in periods with a tennis match was 0.90 time the admission rate in periods without a tennis match (i.e. 10% lower). The variance of the random effects, 0.03 (95%confidence interval 0.01 to 0.11), indicated that the admission rates varied moderately across periods after adjustment. (DOCX 16 kb)
Additional file 3: of Admission rates in emergency departments in Geneva during tennis broadcasting: a retrospective study
Creators: name: Correia, Jorge
name: Braillard, Olivia
name: Combescure, Christophe
name: Gerstel, Eric
name: Spechbach, Hervé
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Table S3. Admission rate ratios (ARR) between periods with and without a match, according to the reason of attendance and emergency degree and adjusted for centers. Description of data: The association between the of a tennis match and the admission rate (number of admissions per hour) was investigated focusing on various types of admissions (traumatology related attendance, non traumatology related attendance, admissions with an emergency degree of 1 to 3 and admissions with an emergency degree of 4). For each type of admission, two negative binomial regression models with mixed effects with adjustment on center were used. In the first model, the “exposure variable” was binary (periods with a tennis versus without a tennis match). In the second model, periods with a tennis match were splitted into two categories (semi-finals and finals). Associations are expressed as ratios of admission rates compared with the reference categories. 95% confidence intervals are reported in brackets. (DOCX 15 kb)
On numbers divisible by the product of their nonzero base $b$ digits
Creators: name: Sanna, Carlo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11A63 (Primary) 11N25 (Secondary)

description: For each integer $b \geq 3$ and every $x \geq 1$, let $\mathcal{N}_{b,0}(x)$ be the set of positive integers $n \leq x$ which are divisible by the product of their nonzero base $b$ digits. We prove bounds of the form $x^{ρ_{b,0} + o(1)} < \#\mathcal{N}_{b,0}(x) < x^{η_{b,0} + o(1)}$, as $x \to +\infty$, where $ρ_{b,0}$ and $η_{b,0}$ are constants in ${]0,1[}$ depending only on $b$. In particular, we show that $x^{0.526} < \#\mathcal{N}_{10,0}(x) < x^{0.787}$, for all sufficiently large $x$. This improves the bounds $x^{0.495} < \#\mathcal{N}_{10,0}(x) < x^{0.901}$, which were proved by De Koninck and Luca.
RACK: Code Search in the IDE using Crowdsourced Knowledge
Creators: name: Rahman, Mohammad Masudur
name: Roy, Chanchal K.
name: Lo, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Traditional code search engines often do not perform well with natural language queries since they mostly apply keyword matching. These engines thus require carefully designed queries containing information about programming APIs for code search. Unfortunately, existing studies suggest that preparing an effective query for code search is both challenging and time consuming for the developers. In this paper, we propose a novel code search tool--RACK--that returns relevant source code for a given code search query written in natural language text. The tool first translates the query into a list of relevant API classes by mining keyword-API associations from the crowdsourced knowledge of Stack Overflow, and then applies the reformulated query to GitHub code search API for collecting relevant results. Once a query related to a programming task is submitted, the tool automatically mines relevant code snippets from thousands of open-source projects, and displays them as a ranked list within the context of the developer's programming environment--the IDE. Tool page: http://www.usask.ca/~masud.rahman/rack
description: The 39th International Conference on Software Engineering (Companion volume) (ICSE 2017), pp. 51--54, Buenos Aires, Argentina, May, 2017
Higher Twist Distribution Amplitudes of Vector Mesons in QCD: Twist-4 Distributions and Meson Mass Corrections
Creators: name: Ball, Patricia
name: Braun, V. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a systematic study of twist-4 light-cone distribution amplitudes of vector mesons in QCD, which is based on conformal expansion. The structure of meson mass corrections is studied in detail. A complete set of distribution amplitudes is constructed, which satisfies all (exact) equations of motion and constraints from conformal expansion. Nonperturbative input parameters are estimated from QCD sum rules. Our study suggests that meson mass corrections may present a dominant source of higher twist effects in exclusive processes.
description: 38 pages Latex, 2 postscript figures
Is Glue Production by Seeds of Salvia Columbariae a Deterrent to Desert Granivores?
Creators: name: Fuller, Patricia J.
name: Hay, Mark E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1983

description: With a few notable exceptions (Borchert and Jain 1978, Inouye et at. 1980, O'Dowd and Hay 1980, Hay and Fuller 1981), most ecological studies on seed-granivore interactions in arid communities have concentrated on the adaptations and ecology of the granivores and not on characteristics of the seeds that may deter granivory. Since a large portion of the annual seed crop of many desert ephemerals is lost to seed predators (Chew and Chew 1970, French et al. 1974, Nelson and Chew 1977, Brown et al. 1979), characteristics that significantly reduce losses to granivores should be strongly selected. In this paper we show that under natural conditions seeds of the desert annual Salvia columhariae produce a glue-like substance when wetted that strongly binds sand grains to the seeds, and that seeds thus covered by sand suffer significantly less loss to desert granivores.
title: The Impact of Digital Marketing on the Recruitment of Martial Arts Students: A Case Study of Trident Academy of Martial Arts
Creators: name: Conklin, James T
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Martial arts
subject: Digital marketing
subject: Social media
subject: Recruitment
subject: Retention

description: There is a broad array of recreational and fitness activities and options in which people can participate, among these is the study and practice of a martial art. How does the owner of a martial arts studio differentiate his or her school from all the other choices, either from other activities or even other martial arts facilities in the area? Without students, there can be no school. Once there are students in the program, how does a school retain them? The purpose of this study was to determine what factors impact the recruitment and retention of martial arts students. Does the use of digital marketing and other more “traditional” methods impact the operation of a martial arts school? Do they help, hinder or are they a “neutral steer” (i.e., no effect) in attracting new clients and maintaining the current base. There is little research dealing with digital marketing and martial arts schools specifically, or traditional methods for that matter. This research employed a case study approach focusing on a local martial arts studio, with interviews of the owner and program manager to identify the digital marketing methods they have used to recruit students, and the results of those methods. The results of the case study indicated that further research is required to determine how, if at all, the student population was influenced by the methods employed.