cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Behavioural and physiological responses to simulated predator-induced stress in the eastern box turtle, Terrapene carolina carolina
Creators: name: Preston, Victoria L.
name: Vannatta, Jessica M.
name: Klukowski, Matthew
Publisher: name: Brill Online
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 60299 Ecology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: In spite of the fully-hinged shell being the defining characteristic of box turtles, few studies have quantified the behavioural use of the shell in response to predator encounters. While it is often assumed that box turtles simply withdraw into their shell in response to threats, we expected variability among individuals in shell usage and in the degree of head and limb retraction because withdrawal is likely to be costly. We tested the behavioural and physiological responses of free-ranging eastern box turtles to stimuli of varying intensity: observation only, a visual stimulus, a poke on the leg, or a pinch on the leg before being flipped. The more intense the simulated predatory stimulus, the more likely turtles were to fully close their shell. However, stimulus intensity did not affect plasma corticosterone or lactate levels. This may be due to too brief or weak of a stimulus, increased parasympathetic activity, or seasonal effects. Upon capture and during handling, almost all turtles withdrew into their shells and closed their anterior plastron, although fewer closed their posterior plastron, and a few engaged in other behaviours such as biting and urinating. Older, larger turtles were able to close their shells with greater strength than younger and smaller turtles. Our results indicate that in spite of their fully closable shell, box turtles exhibit a graded response to perceived threats. This suggests that full closure of the shell is likely to be costly and occurs only in response to the most intense stimuli.
Promacrolaelaps Costa 1971
Creators: name: Joharchi, Omid
name: Halliday, Bruce
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Mesostigmata
Laelapidae
Promacrolaelaps

description: Genus Promacrolaelaps Costa
 Promacrolaelaps Costa, 1971: 94.
 Type species: Promacrolaelaps hunteri Costa, 1971, by monotypy.
description: Published as part of Joharchi, Omid & Halliday, Bruce, 2020, Supplementary descriptions of thirteen species of soil mites (Mesostigmata: Laelapidae), pp. 23-42 in Persian Journal of Acarology 9 (1) on page 36, DOI: 10.22073/pja.v9i1.58256, http://zenodo.org/record/4635118
Board Gender Quotas : Exploring Ethical Tensions From A Multi-Theoretical Perspective
Creators: name: Terjesen, Siri A.
name: Sealy, Ruth
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Despite 40 years of equal opportunities policies and more than two decades of government and organization initiatives aimed at helping women reach the upper echelons of the corporate world, women are seriously underrepresented on corporate boards. Recently, fifteen countries sought to redress this imbalance by introducing gender quotas for board representation. The introduction of board gender quota legislation creates ethical tensions and dilemmas which we categorize in terms of motivations, legitimacy, and outcomes. We investigate these tensions through four overarching theoretical perspectives: institutional, stakeholder, social identity, and social capital. We outline a future research agenda based on how these tensions offer greater focus to research on quotas and more broadly to ethics and diversity in organizations in terms of theory, anticipated ethical tensions, data, and methodology. In sum, our review seeks to synthesize existing multidisciplinary research and stimulate future enquiry on this expanding set of legislation.
The fate of phonons in freely expanding Bose-Einstein condensates
Creators: name: Tozzo, Cesare
name: Dalfovo, Franco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Phonon-like excitations can be imprinted into a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate of cold atoms using light scattering. If the condensate is suddenly let to freely expand, the initial phonons lose their collective character by transferring their energy and momentum to the motion of individual atoms. The basic mechanisms of this evaporation process are investigated by using the Gross-Pitaevskii theory and dynamically rescaled Bogoliubov equations. Different regimes of evaporation are shown to occur depending on the phonon wavelength. Distinctive signatures of the evaporated phonons are visible in the density distribution of the expanded gas, thus providing a new type of spectroscopy of Bogoliubov excitations.
description: 13 pages, 16 figures
South Campus Neighborhood: A Strategy for Food System Sustainability in UBC’s University Town
Creators: name: Ko, Wan Chi
name: Ferris, Olivia
name: Carlson, Kathleen
name: Suess, Amy
name: Nagel, Rhianna
name: Wong, Joyce
name: Wong, Katrina
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Performance of machines for lattice QCD simulations
Creators: name: Wettig, Tilo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review the architecture of massively parallel machines used for lattice QCD simulations and present benchmarks for the performance of popular algorithms on these platforms. We cover commercial supercomputers, PC clusters, and custom-designed machines. We also speculate on future developments.
description: 22 pages, 13 figures, plenary talk at Lattice 2005, Dublin, July 25-30
Page 1 of 16 Lessons learned from private sector -friendly input subsidy programs in Tanzania and Ghana
Creators: name: Mather, David L.
name: Mather, David L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: International Development
subject: Africa
subject: fertilizer subsidy
subject: smallholder agriculture

description: As has been recognized by donors and African governments alike in recent years, one of the keys to reducing rural poverty and improving the nutritional status of rural households in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) will be to achieve wide-spread improvements in food crop productivity among smallholder farmers. Since the Abuja Declaration of 2006 and the international food price crisis of 2007/08, there has been a resurgence of large government -led fertilizer subsidy programs during this time period across a growing number of SSA countries including Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania and Zambia. In contrast to the government -led input subsidy programs of the pre-structural adjustment era in SSA, which typically took the form of state monopsonistic control of input distribution and a pan-territorial subsidized input price for all buyers, most of the large-scale fertilizer input subsidy programs (ISPs) from 2000 onward have attempted to improve program efficiency (and reduce the overall budget required) by using ‘smart subsidy’ design criteria, as proposed by Morris et al (2007).
Perturbative BF theory
Creators: name: Guadagnini, Enore
name: Rottoli, Federico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a superrenomalizable gauge theory of topological type, in which the structure group is equal to the inhomogeneous group ISU(2). The generating functional of the correlation functions of the gauge fields is derived and its connection with the generating functional of the Chern-Simons theory is discussed. The complete renomalization of this model defined in R^3 is presented. The structure of the ISU(2) conjugacy classes is determined. Gauge invariant observables are defined by means of appropriately normalized traces of ISU(2) holonomies associated with oriented, framed and coloured knots. The perturbative evaluation of the Wilson lines expectation values is investigated and the up-to-third-order contributions to the perturbative expansion of the observables, which correspond to knot invariants, are produced. The general dependence of the knot observables on the framing is worked out.
description: 35 pages, 13 figures
Additional file 1 of Trend of geographical distribution of stomach cancer in Iran from 2004 to 2014
Creators: name: Moradian, Farid
name: Fararouei, Mohammad
name: Karami, Maryam
name: Ghelichi-Ghojogh, Mousa
name: Gheibi, Zahra
name: Nikeghbalian, Zahra
name: Akbari, Atieh
name: Akbari, Mohammad-Esmaeil
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S1. Age-standardized incidence rates of gastric cancer by province in 2014 (females) (GIS map were designed in GIS center, Department of Epidemiology, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences).
The determinants of adoption of commercially -priced inorganic fertilizer for use on maize in Tanzania
Creators: name: Mather, David
name: Mather, David
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: International Development
subject: Africa
subject: fertilizer
subject: smallholder agriculture

description: While Tanzania has enjoyed strong growth in GDP per capita since 2000 (approximately 7% per year), until 2007, this growth had led to neither substantial reductions in rural poverty nor significant improvements in household nutritional status (World Bank, 2015). While basic needs poverty declined from 34.4 percent to 28.2 percent between 2007 and 2012 (and extreme poverty declined from 11.7 percent to 9.7 percent), a large share of the population remains right above or below the poverty line, which implies that small changes in the cost of living can result in many households transitioning either into or out of poverty (ibid, 2015). Rural areas account for over 70 percent of Tanzania’s population, 80 percent of the poor and the extreme poor in Tanzania live in rural areas, and more than half of the rural poor depend upon subsistence agriculture for their livelihoods (ibid, 2015). As has been recognized by donors and African governments alike in recent years, one of the keys to reducing rural poverty and improving the nutritional status of rural households in Tanzania will be to achieve wide -spread improvements in food crop productivity among smallholder farmers. Prior to the international food price crisis of 2007/08, maize yields in Tanzania remained low, averaging between 800-900 tons/ha nation-wide, despite Tanzania’s favorable agro-ecological potential (NBS, 2004)1. Subsequently, maize production stagnated during the 2000s and did not keep pace with population growth (World Bank, 2009). While there are like ly to be a range of factors which contribute to low maize yields in Tanzania, an obvious constraint is the fact that as of 2007/08 (NBS, 2008), few smallholders outside of the Southern Highlands region used inorganic fertilizer on maize or improved maize seed.
Radio-Frequency Spectroscopy of Ultracold Fermions
Creators: name: Gupta, S.
name: Hadzibabic, Z.
name: Zwierlein, M. W.
name: Stan, C. A.
name: Dieckmann, K.
name: Schunck, C. H.
name: van Kempen, E. G. M.
name: Verhaar, B. J.
name: Ketterle, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Radio-frequency techniques were used to study ultracold fermions. We observed the absence of mean-field "clock" shifts, the dominant source of systematic error in current atomic clocks based on bosonic atoms. This is a direct consequence of fermionic antisymmetry. Resonance shifts proportional to interaction strengths were observed in a three-level system. However, in the strongly interacting regime, these shifts became very small, reflecting the quantum unitarity limit and many-body effects. This insight into an interacting Fermi gas is relevant for the quest to observe superfluidity in this system.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures
A calibration map for Wide Field Imager photometry
Creators: name: Koch, A.
name: Odenkirchen, M.
name: Grebel, E. K.
name: Caldwell, J. A. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a prescription to correct large-scale intensity variations affecting imaging data taken with the Wide Field Imager (WFI) at the MPG/ESO 2.2 m telescope at the European Southern Observatory at La Silla in Chile. Such smoothly varying, large-scale gradients are primarily caused by non-uniform illumination due to stray light, which cannot be removed using standard flatfield procedures. By comparing our observations to the well-calibrated, homogeneous multi-colour photometry from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey we characterise the intensity gradients across the camera by second-order polynomials. The application of these polynomials to our data removes the gradients and reduces the overall scatter. We also demonstrate that applying our correction to an independent WFI dataset significantly reduces its large-scale variations, indicating that our prescription provides a generally valid and simple tool for calibrating WFI photometry.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomische Nachrichten
EL RETORNO SOCIAL DE INVERSION DE UNA EMPRESA SOCIAL AGRÍCOLA EN EL SUR DE SONORA
The Social Return on Investment of an Agricultural Social Enterprise in the South of Sonora
Creators: name: Armenta, Marisol Arvizu
name: Morales, Carlos G. Borbón
name: Armenta, Marisol Arvizu
name: Morales, Carlos G. Borbón
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Social return on investment
subject: Green house
subject: social value.

description: The Social Return on Investment (SROI) measures the change through social, environmental and economic results using monetary terms to represent them. This allows to calculate the cost-benefit ratio that is value, rather than money. In the same way that a business plan contains much more than financial projections, the SROI is much more than just a number. It is a story about change, on which to base decisions, including case studies and qualitative, quantitative and financial information. You can group the social value generated by an entire organization, or focus only on a specific aspect of their work. Similarly, there are several ways of doing the SROI analysis since it can be performed largely as an internal exercise of the company or, alternatively, may be led by an outside investigator. The aim of this work is an evaluative SROI in a company of the agricultural sector in southern Sonora, dedicated to the production of organic vegetables under greenhouse conditions.
description: ISNN-1405-9282
Thermonuclear Kinetics in Astrophysics
Creators: name: Hix, W. R.
name: Meyer, B. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Over the billions of years since the Big Bang, the lives, deaths and afterlives of stars have enriched the Universe in the heavy elements that make up so much of ourselves and our world. This review summarizes the methods used to evolve these nuclear abundances within astrophysical simulations. These methods fall into 2 categories; evolution via rate equations and via equilibria. Because the rate equations in nucleosynthetic applications involve a wide range of timescales, implicit methods have proven mandatory, leading to the need to solve matrix equations. Efforts to improve the performance of such rate equation methods are focused on efficient solution of these matrix equations, in particular by making best use of the sparseness of these matrices, and finding methods that require less frequent matrix solutions. Recent work to produce hybrid schemes which use local equilibria to reduce the computational cost of the rate equations is also discussed. Such schemes offer significant improvements in the speed of reaction networks and are accurate under circumstances where calculations which assume complete equilibrium fail.
description: 27 pages, 2 figures, a review for a special issue of Nuclear Physics A
Board Gender Quotas : Exploring Ethical Tensions From A Multi-Theoretical Perspective
Creators: name: Terjesen, Siri A.
name: Sealy, Ruth
Publisher: name: Business Ethics Quarterly
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4405
subject: Gender studies

description: Despite 40 years of equal opportunities policies and more than two decades of government and organization initiatives aimed at helping women reach the upper echelons of the corporate world, women are seriously underrepresented on corporate boards. Recently, fifteen countries sought to redress this imbalance by introducing gender quotas for board representation. The introduction of board gender quota legislation creates ethical tensions and dilemmas which we categorize in terms of motivations, legitimacy, and outcomes. We investigate these tensions through four overarching theoretical perspectives: institutional, stakeholder, social identity, and social capital. We outline a future research agenda based on how these tensions offer greater focus to research on quotas and more broadly to ethics and diversity in organizations in terms of theory, anticipated ethical tensions, data, and methodology. In sum, our review seeks to synthesize existing multidisciplinary research and stimulate future enquiry on this expanding set of legislation.
LAS FUNDACIONES PRODUCE, UNA INNOVACION PARA LA INNOVACION
Produce Foundations, an Innovation for Innovation
Creators: name: Rebolledo, José Luis Solleiro
name: García, Hilda María Colin
name: Rebolledo, José Luis Solleiro
name: García, Hilda María Colin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Produce foundations
subject: management model
subject: innovation
subject: technology transfer
subject: learning

description: It has been demonstrated that the creation and participation of Produce Foundations and its National Coordinator, COFUPRO, have been an efficient and effective instrument to spearhead research, validation and technology transfer efforts in the Mexican agri-food sector. The model adopted by these Foundations represents a private-public alliance that has been effective in bringing together and coordinating the work of producers, researchers and representatives of the government sector over the last twenty years to achieve collective learning and capacity building that are essential factors for innovation in this sector. Here we present the management model of COFUPRO and Produce Foundations, its origin, social object, characteristics, networks and strategic alliances, as well as its main challenges. All this as a result of a strengthened documentary review with interviews to the headlines and representatives of the 32 foundations located in equal number of states. This paper aims to provide recommendations to strengthen the role of the foundations as promoters of sound programs and projects, as well as their development. It has been concluded that further development depends upon the diversification of funding sources of the Foundations which is a condition for greater autonomy and opportunity in responding to farmers’ needs.
description: ISNN-1405-9282
Is there a link between foreclosure and health?
Creators: name: Currie, Janet
name: Tekin, Erdal
Publisher: name: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: We investigate the relationship between foreclosures and hospital visits using data on all foreclosures and all hospital and emergency room visits from four states that were among the hardest hit by the foreclosure crisis. We find that living in a neighborhood with a spike in foreclosures is associated with significant increases in urgent unscheduled visits, including increases in visits for preventable conditions. The estimated relationships cannot be accounted for by increasing unemployment, declines in housing prices, migration, or by people switching from out-patient providers to hospitals.
Additional file 2 of Trend of geographical distribution of stomach cancer in Iran from 2004 to 2014
Creators: name: Moradian, Farid
name: Fararouei, Mohammad
name: Karami, Maryam
name: Ghelichi-Ghojogh, Mousa
name: Gheibi, Zahra
name: Nikeghbalian, Zahra
name: Akbari, Atieh
name: Akbari, Mohammad-Esmaeil
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Fig. S2. Age-standardized incidence rates of gastric cancer by province in 2014 (males) (GIS map were designed in GIS center, Department of Epidemiology, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences).
Is there a link between foreclosure and health?
Creators: name: Currie, Janet
name: Tekin, Erdal
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: We investigate the relationship between foreclosures and hospital visits using data on all foreclosures and all hospital and emergency room visits from four states that were among the hardest hit by the foreclosure crisis. We find that living in a neighborhood with a spike in foreclosures is associated with significant increases in urgent unscheduled visits, including increases in visits for preventable conditions. The estimated relationships cannot be accounted for by increasing unemployment, declines in housing prices, migration, or by people switching from out-patient providers to hospitals.
title: Evaluating Evaluations of Clinical Decision Support Systems: Case Studies From NHS Clinical Settings
Creators: name: Dune, Richard
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2016

description: The NHS is under increasing pressure to cut costs while delivering high quality care. At the same time, the demand for healthcare services has grown, driven in part by the increasing number of older people in the population. NHS Trusts are adopting clinical decision support systems (CDSSs) to help decision making at the point of care. CDSSs are said to bring benefits such as improvements in guideline adherence, clinical processes and user performance but evidence of these benefits is not always available and their effectiveness in terms of improving patient outcomes is often open to question. This thesis presents research that was carried out in a large teaching NHS Trust looking at the evaluations of three CDSSs. Semi structured interviews were carried out with key informants who were involved in their adoption, use and evaluations. Documentary analysis and observations were also used to augment the interviews. Most evaluations were carried out informally by the developers and were primarily driven by external regulatory pressures rather than patient outcomes and organisational needs. Evaluation documentation was inadequate or missing, thus making it difficult to systematically assess these evaluations. This thesis contends that evaluations are important to provide decision makers in NHS Trusts with adequate information to make decisions about CDSSs and computerised healthcare information technologies in general. NHS Trusts need to build organisational capacity and readiness to enable them to effectively carry out evaluations that will provide meaningful information to gain better understanding of CDSSs and to inform their successful adoption, implementation, usage and to justify the resource allocation. This research shows that CDSS evaluations investigated took a predominantly narrow view. It thus provides evidence for the need for a more systemic approach to evaluation.
A two-fluid model for black-hole accretion flows: particle acceleration and disc structure
Creators: name: Lee, Jason P.
name: Becker, Peter A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hot, tenuous advection-dominated accretion flows around black holes are ideal sites for the Fermi acceleration of relativistic particles at standing shock waves in the accretion disc. Previous work has demonstrated that the shock-acceleration process can be efficient enough to power the observed, strong outflows in radio-loud active galaxies such as M87. However, the dynamical effect (back-reaction) on the flow, exerted by the pressure of the relativistic particles, has not been previously considered, and this effect can have a significant influence on the disc structure. We reexamine the problem by developing a new, two-fluid model for the structure of the accretion disc that includes the dynamical effect of the relativistic particle pressure, combined with the pressure of the background (thermal) gas. The new model is analogous to the two-fluid model of cosmic ray acceleration in supernova-driven shock waves. As part of the model, we also develop a new set of shock jump conditions, which are solved along with the hydrodynamic conservation equations to determine the structure of the accretion disc. The solutions include the formation of a mildly relativistic outflow (jet) at the shock radius, driven by the relativistic particles accelerated in the disc. One of our main conclusions is that in the context of the new two-fluid accretion model, global smooth (shock-free) solutions do not exist, and the disc must always contain a standing shock wave, at least in the inviscid case considered here.
description: 34 pages, 9 figures
Correlation Measurements of Charged Particles and Jets at Mid-Rapidity with Event Activity at Backward-Rapidity in $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}}=200\,\mathrm{GeV}$ $p$+Au Collisions at STAR
Creators: name: Stewart, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Semi-inclusive charged jet spectra per trigger at STAR are presented binned by event activity (EA) as determined by the Beam Beam Counter (BBC) signal in the Au-going direction. The selected EA determination is motivated by correlations between the number of charged tracks in the Time Projection Chamber (TPC) ($|η|<1$) and EA ($η_\mathrm{EA}\in[-5,-2]$) which are also presented. The jet spectra per trigger at high EA are suppressed relative to the spectra at low EA. A PYTHIA investigation refutes that the suppression results from a trivial autocorrelation between jet kinematics and the acceptance of the EA and the TPC.
description: Proceedings for Quark Matter 2019 from Small Systems Parallel Session
Bring Local Food to UBC Campus: 2007 UBC Food System Project
Creators: name: Atti, Sukhi
name: Chongchitnant, Pailin
name: Lee, Linda
name: Robson, Karissa
name: Tedrjowarsito, Herlina
name: Tse, Iris
name: Wright, Laura-Ashley
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Best linear forecast of volatility in financial time series
Creators: name: Krivoruchenko, M. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Statistical Finance (q-fin.ST)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The autocorrelation function of volatility in financial time series is fitted well by a superposition of several exponents. Such a case admits an explicit analytical solution of the problem of constructing the best linear forecast of a stationary stochastic process. We describe and apply the proposed analytical method for forecasting volatility. The leverage effect and volatility clustering are taken into account. Parameters of the predictor function are determined numerically for the Dow Jones 30 Industrial Average. Connection of the proposed method to the popular ARCH models is discussed.
description: 8 pages, REVTeX, one Postscript figure. Maple source code for calculation of the predictor function is attached in a separate .txt file
The ancient main-sequence solar proxy HIP 102152 unveils the activity and rotational fate of our Sun
Creators: name: Lorenzo-Oliveira, Diego
name: Meléndez, Jorge
name: Ponte, Geisa
name: Galarza, Jhon Yana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a detailed analysis of the possible future Sun's rotational evolution scenario based on the 8 Gyr-old solar twin HIP 102152. Using HARPS high-cadence observations (and TESS light curves), we analyzed the modulation of a variety of activity proxies (Ca II, HI Balmer, and Na I lines), finding a strong rotational signal of 35.7 $\pm$ 1.4 days ($\log B_{\rm factor}\sim70$, in the case of Ca II K line). This value matches with the theoretical expectations regarding the smooth rotational evolution of the Sun towards the end of the main-sequence, validating the use of gyrochronology after solar age.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS Letters
Fermions on the brane in 6D with nonsingular exponential scale factors
Creators: name: Midodashvili, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce new realistic brane-solutions with exponential scale factors in the 6D-space-time. We show that for these solutions the zero modes of all bulk fields are sharply localized at different positions on the brane and have "Gaussian shape" wave-functions in the extra space. We also explicitly show that in the model there are cases when exactly three fermion generations naturally arise only through gravity. Because of localized fermion modes are also stuck at different positions in the extra space, there is possibility to provide a framework for natural explaining the fermion mass hierarchy in terms of higher dimensional geography.
description: 6 pages, revtex4,new section added, explicit forms of wavefunctions and of source functions added,corrected typos
Additional file 3 of Trend of geographical distribution of stomach cancer in Iran from 2004 to 2014
Creators: name: Moradian, Farid
name: Fararouei, Mohammad
name: Karami, Maryam
name: Ghelichi-Ghojogh, Mousa
name: Gheibi, Zahra
name: Nikeghbalian, Zahra
name: Akbari, Atieh
name: Akbari, Mohammad-Esmaeil
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3: Fig. S3. Distribution of gastric cancer by tumour location.
Overdensities of Extremely Red Objects in the Fields of High-Redshift Radio-Loud Quasars
Creators: name: Wold, M.
name: Armus, L.
name: Neugebauer, G.
name: Jarrett, T. H.
name: Lehnert, M. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have examined the occurrence of Extremely Red Objects (EROs) in the fields of 13 luminous quasars (11 radio-loud and two radio-quiet) at 1.8 < z < 3.0. The average surface density of K_s<=19 mag EROs is two-three times higher than in large, random-field surveys, and the excess is significant at the $\approx 3$ sigma level even after taking into account that the ERO distribution is highly inhomogeneous. This is the first systematic investigation of the surface density of EROs in the fields of radio-loud quasars above z=2, and shows that a large number of the fields contain clumps of EROs, similar to what is seen only in the densest areas in random-field surveys. The high surface densities and angular distribution of EROs suggest that the excess originates in high-z galaxy concentrations, possibly young clusters of galaxies. The fainter EROs at K_s>19 mag show some evidence of being more clustered in the immediate 20 arcsec region around the quasars, suggesting an association with the quasars.Comparing with predictions from spectral synthesis models, we find that if the $K_s\approx19$ mag ERO excess is associated with the quasars at $z\approx2$, their magnitudes are typical of >~ L* passively evolving galaxies formed at z~3.5 (Omega_m=0.3, Omega_l=0.7, and H0=70 km/s/Mpc). Another interpretation of our results is that the excess originates in concentrations of galaxies at $z\approx1$ lying along the line of sight to the quasars. If this is the case, the EROs may be tracing massive structures responsible for a magnification bias of the quasars.
description: Accepted for publication in AJ
A thermodynamic description of the glass state and its application to glass transition
Creators: name: Shirai, Koun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Many properties of solids such as the glass state are commonly treated as nonequilibrium phenomena, which involve many conceptual difficulties. However, few studies have addressed the problem of understanding equilibrium itself. Equilibrium is commonly assessed based on the assumption that its thermodynamic state should be determined solely by temperature and pressure. However, this assumption must be reappraised from the beginning through a rigorous definition of equilibrium because no rigorous proof for this assumption exists. Previous work showed that for solids, the equilibrium positions of all constituent atoms of the solid are state variables (TC). In this study, this conclusion is further elaborated starting from the principles of solid-state physics. This theory has been applied to glass materials. Results show that first, the glass state is an equilibrium state. Accordingly, the properties of a glass can be solely described by the present positions of the atom, irrespective of their previous history. Second, the glass transition, although a nonequilibrium phenomenon, is well described using TCs if the thermal part of the energy is be assumed to be well separated from the structural part. The only dynamic parameter involved in this approach is the relaxation time, which is uniquely determined using the present values of the TCs. Therefore, complicated functions describing the past history are unnecessary. This implies that the activation energy for the structural relaxation strongly depends on TCs. This finding provides a reasonable understanding of the large deviations from the Arrhenius law. The unrealistic values of the activation energy and of the pre-exponential factor of the relaxation time can be resolved on this basis. The theory is particularly suitable for experiments that do not involve hypothetical quantities and models; therefore, all quantities are measurable.
Additional file 4 of Trend of geographical distribution of stomach cancer in Iran from 2004 to 2014
Creators: name: Moradian, Farid
name: Fararouei, Mohammad
name: Karami, Maryam
name: Ghelichi-Ghojogh, Mousa
name: Gheibi, Zahra
name: Nikeghbalian, Zahra
name: Akbari, Atieh
name: Akbari, Mohammad-Esmaeil
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 4: Fig. S4. Distribution of the location of gastric cancer tumors by gender.
title: 01_1135
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
title: An Exploration of the Values and Behaviours Determining Sustainable Well-Being in Hungary
Creators: name: Antal, Bálint
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2016

description: This study is an attempt to address the issue of exploring values and behaviour in terms of how they relate and contribute to well-being and sustainable lifestyles. As argued by Rokeach (1968), values work as a “centrally held, enduring belief’ (p. 161.). In everyday life this belief guides actions and judgments in specific situations and helps the navigation through decision-making situations. According to Guez and Allen (2000) behaviour is “the way an individual acts towards people, society or objects” (p. 9). In other words, behaviour can be interpreted as values manifest in decision-making and can be seen “in reference to social norms, or the way in which one treats others or handles objects” (p. 9). Values and behaviours, which are influenced by culture, family background and social environment, have an impact on lifestyles, consumer habits and decisions, and appear individually or in communities. For these reasons exploring values, traits and motivations is essential, especially in the case of young people, who form the basis of the change of generations.
The internationalization of the academic library : A systematic review of 25 years of literature on international students
Creators: name: Click, Amanda B.
name: Wiley, Claire Walker
name: Houlihan, Meggan
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This study is a systematic review of the library and information science (LIS) literature related to international students and academic libraries. A systematic review involves the methodical collection and analysis of a body of literature and is growing in popularity in the LIS field. Three well-known LIS databases were systematically searched for articles related to the topic, and manual bibliography searches were conducted to find additional publications. Journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers were included or excluded based on established criteria. Findings show that articles published about international students and academic libraries have increased steadily between 1990 and 2014. The majority of authors are affiliated with universities and institutions in the United States, although an increase in represented countries is apparent. Fewer than half of the articles can be considered original research, and surveys are the most popular method for data collection. The LIS field—and international students—would benefit from further exploration of this topic, particularly from original research with practical implications.
A Fokker--Planck description for Parrondo's games
Creators: name: Toral, R.
name: Amengual, P.
name: Mangioni, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss in detail two recently proposed relations between the Parrondo's games and the Fokker--Planck equation describing the flashing ratchet as the overdamped motion of a particle in a potential landscape. In both cases it is possible to relate exactly the probabilities of the games to the potential in which the overdamped particle moves. We will discuss under which conditions current-less potentials correspond to fair games and vice versa.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures
The internationalization of the academic library : A systematic review of 25 years of literature on international students
Creators: name: Click, Amanda B.
name: Wiley, Claire Walker
name: Houlihan, Meggan
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4610
subject: Library and information studies

description: This study is a systematic review of the library and information science (LIS) literature related to international students and academic libraries. A systematic review involves the methodical collection and analysis of a body of literature and is growing in popularity in the LIS field. Three well-known LIS databases were systematically searched for articles related to the topic, and manual bibliography searches were conducted to find additional publications. Journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers were included or excluded based on established criteria. Findings show that articles published about international students and academic libraries have increased steadily between 1990 and 2014. The majority of authors are affiliated with universities and institutions in the United States, although an increase in represented countries is apparent. Fewer than half of the articles can be considered original research, and surveys are the most popular method for data collection. The LIS field—and international students—would benefit from further exploration of this topic, particularly from original research with practical implications.
Absorption line abundances in the SMC-like galaxy UGC 5282: evidence for ISM dilution from inflows on kiloparsec scales
Creators: name: Bowen, David V.
name: Tripp, Todd M.
name: Jenkins, Edward B.
name: Pettini, Max
name: Chelouche, Doron
name: Cen, Renyue
name: York, Donald G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an HST Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) spectrum of the QSO SDSS J095109.12+330745.8 ($z_{em} = 0.645$) whose sightline passes through the SMC-like dwarf galaxy UGC 5282 ($M_B = -16.0$, $cz = 1577$ km s$^{-1}$ ), 1.2 kpc in projection from the central HII region of the galaxy. Damped Ly$α$ (DLA) absorption is detected at the redshift of UGC 5282 with $\log$[$N$(HI) cm$^{-2}\:$] = 20.89$^{+0.12}_{-0.21}\:\:$. Analysis of the accompanying SII, PII and OI metal lines yields a neutral gas metallicity, $Z_{HI}$, of [S/H] $\simeq$ [P/H] $= -0.80\pm0.24$. The metallicity of ionized gas from the central HII region, $Z_{HII}\:$, measured from its emission lines is [O/H]$= -0.37\pm0.10$, a difference of $+0.43\pm 0.26$ from $Z_{HI}\:$. This difference $δ$ is consistent with that seen towards HII regions in other star-forming galaxies and supports the idea that ionized gas near star forming regions shows systematically higher metallicities than exist in the rest of a galaxy's neutral interstellar medium (ISM). The positive values of $δ$ found in UGC 5282 (and the other star forming galaxies) is likely due to infalling low metallicity gas from the intergalactic medium that mixes with the galaxy's ISM on kpc scales. This model is also consistent with broad Ly$α$ emission detected at the bottom of the DLA absorption, offset by $\sim 125$ km s$^{-1}$ from the absorption velocity. Models of galaxy evolution that attempt to replicate population characteristics, such as the mass-metallicity relation, may need to start with a galaxy metallicity represented by $Z_{HI}$ rather than that measured traditionally from $Z_{HII}\:$.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ. This version: typos corrected, references updated