cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Growth Effects of El Nino and La Nina: Local Weather Conditions Matter
Creators: name: Couharde, C.
name: Damette, O.
name: Generoso, R.
name: Mohaddes, K.
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge
Year: 2019
Subjects: Economic growth
ENSO events
weather shocks
climate change

description: This paper contributes to the climate-economy literature by analysing the role of weather patterns in influencing the transmission of global climate cycles to economic growth. More specifically, we focus on El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events and their interactions with local weather conditions, taking into account the heterogeneous and cumulative effects of weather patterns on economic growth and the asymmetry and nonlinearity in the global influence of ENSO on economic activity. Using data on 75 countries over the period 1975-2014, we provide evidence for the negative growth effects of ENSO events and show that there are substantial differences between its warm (El Nino) and cold (La Nina) phases and between climate zones. These differences are due to the heterogeneity in weather responses to ENSO events, known as teleconnections, which has so far not been taken into account by economists, and which will become more important in the climate-economy relationship given that climate change may substantially strengthen long-distance relationships between weather patterns around the world. We also show that the negative growth effects associated with these teleconnections are robust to the definition of ENSO events and more important over shorter meteorological onsets.
Testing Correlation in Error-Component Models
Creators: name: Jochmans, K.
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge
Year: 2019
Subjects: analysis of variance
clustered standard errors
error components
fixed effects
heteroskedasticity
within-group correlation
portmanteau test
short panel data

description: This paper concerns linear models for grouped data with group-specific effects. We construct a portmanteau test for the null of no within-group correlation beyond that induced by the group-specific effect. The approach allows for heteroskedasticity and is applicable to models with exogenous, predetermined, or endogenous regressors. The test can be implemented as soon as three observations per group are available and is applicable to unbalanced data. A test with such general applicability is not available elsewhere. We provide theoretical results on size and power under asymptotics where the number of groups grows but their size is held fixed. Extensive power comparisons with other tests available in the literature for special cases of our setup reveal that our test compares favorably. In a simulation study we find that, under heteroskedasticity, only our procedure yields a test that is both size-correct and powerful. In a large data set on mothers with multiple births we find that infant birthweight is correlated across children even after controlling for mother fixed effects and a variety of prenatal care factors. This suggests that such a strategy may be inadequate to take care of all confounding factors that correlate with the mother's decision to engage in activities that are detrimental to the infant's health.
Unusual electronic and vibrational properties in the colossal thermopower material FeSb$_2$
Creators: name: Homes, C. C.
name: Du, Q.
name: Petrovic, C.
name: Brito, W. H.
name: Choi, S.
name: Kotliar, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The iron antimonide FeSb$_2$ possesses an extraordinarily high thermoelectric power factor at low temperature, making it a leading candidate for cryogenic thermoelectric cooling devices. However, the origin of this unusual behavior is controversial, having been variously attributed to electronic correlations as well as the phonon-drag effect. The optical properties of a material provide information on both the electronic and vibrational properties. The optical conductivity reveals an anisotropic response at room temperature; the low-frequency optical conductivity decreases rapidly with temperature, signalling a metal-insulator transition. One-dimensional semiconducting behavior is observed along the $b$ axis at low temperature, in agreement with first-principle calculations. The infrared-active lattice vibrations are also symmetric and extremely narrow, indicating long phonon relaxation times and a lack of electron-phonon coupling. Surprisingly, there are more lattice modes along the $a$ axis than are predicted from group theory; several of these modes undergo significant changes below about 100 K, hinting at a weak structural distortion or phase transition. While the extremely narrow phonon line shapes favor the phonon-drag effect, the one-dimensional behavior of this system at low temperature may also contribute to the extraordinarily high thermopower observed in this material.
description: 7 pages with 5 figures and one table; 9 pages of supplementary material
Castanopsis hainanensis Merr.
Creators: name: Lin, Yun
name: Bi, Hai-Yan
name: Sun, Jun
name: Sun, Qian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Fagales
Fagaceae
Castanopsis
Castanopsis hainanensis

description: 12. Castanopsis hainanensis Merr.
 (Fagaceae) in Philipp. J. Sci. 21(4): 340. 1922. TYPE:— CHINA. Hainan: Nam Fung, Hong Ma Ts’un, alt. 400 m, 3 December 1921, F. A. McClure 1796 (i.e. Canton Christian College Herbarium 8300) (syntype: PNH, destroyed, A 00033829 image!, ECON 00135761 image!).
 The name Castanopsis hainanensis Merr. was validly published with a single gathering “ McClure 8300 ” cited in the protologue (Merrill, 1922a). However, on the label of the syntype specimen (ECON 00135761), the collecting number is 1796 and the herbarium number is Canton Christian College Herbarium 8300. Therefore, the erroneous collecting number in the protologue is to be corrected.
description: Published as part of Lin, Yun, Bi, Hai-Yan, Sun, Jun & Sun, Qian, 2023, Correction of collecting number errors in the protologues of sixty-four taxon names from China, pp. 261-270 in Phytotaxa 613 (3) on page 263, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.613.3.5, http://zenodo.org/record/8345323
Why is inequality so unequal across the world? Part 1. The diversity of inequality in disposable income: multiplicity of fundamentals, or complex interactions between political settlements and market failures?
Creators: name: Palma, J. G.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: income distribution
inequality
ideology
reverse catching-up
institutional persistence
neo-liberalism
new left
poverty
Latin America
Southern Africa
US
Western and Eastern Europe
emerging Asia
Palma ratio and sectors

description: This is a two-part paper. Part 1 addresses the diversity in the distribution of disposable income across the world; and Part 2, that in market income (i.e., before taxes and transferences). There are many underlying questions to these phenomena: does the diversity of inequality in disposable incomes reflect a variety of fundamentals, or a multiplicity of power structures and choice? Is rising market inequality the product of somehow ‘exogenous’ factors (e.g., r>g), or of complex interactions between political settlements and market failures? If the latter, how do we get through the veils obscuring these interactions and distorting our vision of the often self-constructed nature of inequality? Has neoliberal globalisation broadened the scope for “distributional failures” by, for example, triggering a process of “reverse catching-up” among OECD countries, so that now highly unequal middle-income countries like those in Latin America embody the shape of things to come? If so, are we are all now converging towards features such as mobile élites creaming off the rewards of economic growth, and ‘magic realist’ politics that lack self-respect if not originality? (Should I say, ‘Welcome to the Third World’?) In Part 1 I also develop a new approach for examining and measuring inequality (distance from distributive targets). In turn, Part 2 concentrates on three issues: why there has been such a deterioration of market inequality among countries of the OECD, why this has led to a growing asymmetry between their distributions of market and of disposable incomes, and why inequality seems to move in "waves". The main conclusion is that to understand current distributive dynamics what matters is to comprehend the forces determining the share of the rich — and, in terms of growth, what they choose to do with it (and how they are allowed do it).
Why is inequality so unequal across the world? Part 2 The diversity of inequality in market income ─ and the increasing asymmetry between the distribution of income before and after taxes and transferences
Creators: name: Palma, J. G.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: income distribution
inequality
ideology
reverse catching-up
institutional persistence
neo-liberalism
new left
poverty
Latin America
Southern Africa
US
Western and Eastern Europe
emerging Asia
Palma ratio and sectors

description: This is a two-part paper. Part 1 addresses the diversity in the distribution of disposable income across the world; and Part 2, that in market income (i.e., before taxes and transferences). There are many underlying questions to these phenomena: does the diversity of inequality in disposable incomes reflect a variety of fundamentals, or a multiplicity of power structures and choice? Is rising market inequality the product of somehow ‘exogenous’ factors (e.g., r>g), or of complex interactions between political settlements and market failures? If the latter, how do we get through the veils obscuring these interactions and distorting our vision of the often self-constructed nature of inequality? Has neoliberal globalisation broadened the scope for “distributional failures” by, for example, triggering a process of “reverse catching-up” among OECD countries, so that now highly unequal middle-income countries like those in Latin America embody the shape of things to come? If so, are we are all now converging towards features such as mobile élites creaming off the rewards of economic growth, and ‘magic realist’ politics that lack self-respect if not originality? (Should I say, ‘Welcome to the Third World’?) In Part 1 I also develop a new approach for examining and measuring inequality (distance from distributive targets). In turn, Part 2 concentrates on three issues: why there has been such a deterioration of market inequality among countries of the OECD, why this has led to a growing asymmetry between their distributions of market and of disposable incomes, and why inequality seems to move in "waves". The main conclusion is that to understand current distributive dynamics what matters is to comprehend the forces determining the share of the rich — and, in terms of growth, what they choose to do with it (and how they are allowed do it).
Ceropegia angustilimba Merr.
Creators: name: Lin, Yun
name: Bi, Hai-Yan
name: Sun, Jun
name: Sun, Qian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Gentianales
Apocynaceae
Ceropegia
Ceropegia angustilimba

description: 13. Ceropegia angustilimba Merr.
 (Asclepiadaceae) in Lingnan Sci. J. 11(1): 53. 1932. TYPE:— CHINA. Hainan: Hongmao Shan, 23 August 1929, Ip Yuk Shing 728 (i.e. Lingnan University Herbarium 18262) (holotype: NY 00318543 image!; isotype: A 00076267 image!).
 Merrill (1932) cited only one gathering, Ip Yuk Shing 18262 (NY), in the protologue of Ceropegia angustilimba Merr.. However, the collecting number on the label of the holotype specimen is 728, while the herbarium number is Lingnan University Herbarium 18262. Therefore, the collecting number is to be corrected.
description: Published as part of Lin, Yun, Bi, Hai-Yan, Sun, Jun & Sun, Qian, 2023, Correction of collecting number errors in the protologues of sixty-four taxon names from China, pp. 261-270 in Phytotaxa 613 (3) on page 263, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.613.3.5, http://zenodo.org/record/8345323
title: Police Training: The Effect of the Academy on Recruit Attitudes toward the Community
Creators: name: Ghoston, Lauren
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Police training
subject: Police academy
subject: Attitudes
subject: Community

description: Members of law enforcement are often categorized under a singular police culture or police personality that is highlighted by cynical attitudes and an “us versus them” mentality. The present study examines a cohort of police recruits enrolled in a police training academy on their attitudes toward typically disenfranchised groups (racial and ethnic minorities, women, members of the LGBT community, senior citizens, and juveniles) prior to and following their police training experience. Previous police research has focused largely on defining the police personality and most recently the interaction between the police and members of the community with regard to the community policing initiative. The current study examines if enrollment in the police training academy causes a change in recruit response to questions about the community. A comprehensive survey concerning various aspects of policing was administered to a cohort of police recruits enrolled in a training academy located in a large metropolitan area before and after the academy experience. The amount of change from before and after the police academy is calculated; this difference is analyzed with a paired samples test for any significant difference in responses and with chi-square tests for associations with the participant’s race/ethnicity, age, gender, level of education, and prior experiences in the military or as a sworn officer in another jurisdiction. Understanding recruit attitudes and how they are influenced is crucial because these attitudes are believed to influence the decisions officers make in the field, namely who to stop and who to arrest. While no statistically significant relationships are identified, there are several trends presented within the data that may be useful to future researchers. Future research ideas are also explored.
Associated Production of Gauginos and Gluinos at Hadron Colliders in Next-to-Leading Order SUSY-QCD
Creators: name: Berger, Edmond L.
name: Klasen, Michael
name: Tait, Tim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a next-to-leading order (NLO) calculation of the production of gaugino-like charginos ($\chargino$) and neutralinos ($\neutralino$) in association with gluinos ($\gluino$) at hadron colliders, including the strong corrections from colored particles and sparticles. We predict inclusive cross sections at the Fermilab Tevatron and CERN LHC. The NLO cross sections are more stable against variations in the hard-scattering scale parameter and are greater than the LO values.
description: 11 pages, LaTeX, includes two figures, version to appear in Phys. Lett. B
title: ADCO, Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les domaines de Saint-Jean de Losne et Losne (XVIIIe siècle), Cart. 198-01 (11 H 1055), 185 folios, f. 0174
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Petot, Frédéric
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2019
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: cartulaire
subject: LaMOP

description: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les domaines de Saint-Jean de Losne et Losne (XVIIIe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 198-01 (11 H 1055), 185 folios, f. 0174, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les domaines de Saint-Jean de Losne et Losne (XVIIIe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 198-01 (11 H 1055), 185 folios, f. 0174, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https://manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
title: Plan: Anonymous, "Park Central Affirmative Action Program," Circa 1979
Creators: name: Anonymous
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Affirmative action
subject: New communities

description: Textual: Plan, copy with edit marks; 11” x 8.5” (27.9 cm x 21.6 cm)
description: Anonymous plan entitled "Park Central Affirmative Action Program" from circa 1979. This excerpt of the affirmative action plan for Park Central discusses the developer’s commitment to equal housing opportunities, effective procedures, affirmative marketing plans, and marketing covenants. This is only section 1.01 through 1.04 of article I of this plan. Planned Community Archives Collection, 484.03
Electronic Theory for the Nonlinear Magneto-Optical Response of Transition-Metals at Surfaces and Interfaces: Dependence of the Kerr-Rotation on Polarization and on the Magnetic Easy Axis
Creators: name: Hubner, W.
name: Bennemann, K. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend our previous study of the polarization dependence of the nonlinear optical response to the case of magnetic surfaces and buried magnetic interfaces. We calculate for the longitudinal and polar configuration the nonlinear magneto-optical Kerr rotation angle. In particular, we show which tensor elements of the susceptibilities are involved in the enhancement of the Kerr rotation in nonlinear optics for different configurations and we demonstrate by a detailed analysis how the direction of the magnetization and thus the easy axis at surfaces and buried interfaces can be determined from the polarization dependence of the nonlinear magneto-optical response, since the nonlinear Kerr rotation is sensitive to the electromagnetic field components instead of merely the intensities. We also prove from the microscopic treatment of spin-orbit coupling that there is an intrinsic phase difference of 90$^{\circ }$ between tensor elements which are even or odd under magnetization reversal in contrast to linear magneto-optics. Finally, we compare our results with several experiments on Co/Cu films and on Co/Au and Fe/Cr multilayers. We conclude that the nonlinear magneto-optical Kerr-effect determines uniquely the magnetic structure and in particular the magnetic easy axis in films and at multilayer interfaces.
description: 23 pages Revtex, preprintstyle, 2 uuencoded figures
Chirita heterotricha Merr.
Creators: name: Lin, Yun
name: Bi, Hai-Yan
name: Sun, Jun
name: Sun, Qian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Lamiales
Gesneriaceae
Chirita
Chirita heterotricha

description: 14. Chirita heterotricha Merr.
 (Gesneriaceae) in Lingnan Sci. Journ. 13(1): 71. 1934. TYPE: — CHINA. Hainan: Hongmao Shan, 3 May 1929, W. T. Tsang, Tang & H. Fung 28 (i.e. Lingnan University Herbarium 17559) (holotype: NY 00063240 image!; isotype: A 00015874 image!).
 The name Chirita heterotricha Merr. was validly published with a gathering “ Tsang, Tang & Fung 17559 ” in NY designated as the type (Merrill, 1934b). However, the collecting number on the lable of the holotype specimen is 28, while its herbarium number is Lingnan University Herbarium 17559. Therefore, the erroneous collecting number in the designation of type is to be corrected.
description: Published as part of Lin, Yun, Bi, Hai-Yan, Sun, Jun & Sun, Qian, 2023, Correction of collecting number errors in the protologues of sixty-four taxon names from China, pp. 261-270 in Phytotaxa 613 (3) on pages 263-264, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.613.3.5, http://zenodo.org/record/8345323
Blood cholesterol, tumor clinical characteristics and risk of prostate cancer progression after radical prostatectomy
Creators: name: Rantaniemi, Lauri
name: Tammela, Teuvo L. J.
name: Kujala, Paula
name: Murtola, Teemu J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Objective: The effects of blood cholesterol levels on prostate cancer (PCa) prognosis are unclear. This study explored the associations between blood cholesterol levels and PCa clinical characteristics, including Gleason score and tumor, node, metastasis stage, as well as risk of PCa recurrence and death after radical prostatectomy. The association between statin-induced cholesterol decline and PCa prognosis was also studied. Materials and methods: The study cohort consisted of 1314 PCa patients who underwent radical prostatectomy as primary management at the Tampere University Hospital between 1995 and 2009. The follow-up continued until the end of 2016. Results: No associations between cholesterol and PCa severity were found. High-density lipoprotein (HDL) > 1 mmol/l and low-density lipoprotein (LDL) > 3 mmol/l were associated with reduced risk of all-cause death in time-dependent analysis. However, the risk association was short term as neither HDL or LDL measured 3 years earlier had an effect on PCa prognosis. Modest statin-induced cholesterol decline lowered the risk of PCa recurrence. Hazard ratios (95% confidence intervals) by modest total cholesterol and LDL declines were 0.24 (0.09–0.60) and 0.31 (0.11–0.88), respectively. Conclusions: The findings do not support cholesterol as a risk factor for PCa severity or prognosis after prostatectomy. Cholesterol decline by statin treatment was associated with improved recurrence-free survival compared to statin users whose cholesterol did not decline, which supports the importance of controlling for compliance with statin use when estimating the effects of statins in PCa.
Double Spin Asymmetries in P-wave Charmonium Hadroproduction
Creators: name: Nowak, Wolf-Dieter
name: Tkabladze, Avto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the double spin asymmetries in P-wave charmonium hadroproduction with non-zero transverse momenta at fixed target energies, $\sqrt{s}\simeq40$ GeV, within the framework of the NRQCD factorization approach. The size of the asymmetries and the projected statistical errors in a future option of HERA with longitudinally polarized protons scattering off a polarized target (HERA-$\vec N$) are calculated. Measurements of the $χ_{c1}$ and $χ_{c2}$ decays into dilepton plus photon should allow to distinguish between different parametrizations for the polarized gluon distribution in the proton. At higher energies ($\sqrt{s}=200$ GeV) the situation appears less favourable with the presently envisaged integrated luminosities of the polarized RHIC collider.
description: 10 pages, LaTeX, with 5 eps figs included with epsfig.sty
Sparse Representation and Non-Negative Matrix Factorization for image denoise
Creators: name: Farouk, R. M.
name: El-aziz, M. E. Abd
name: Adam, A. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recently, the problem of blind image separation has been widely investigated, especially the medical image denoise which is the main step in medical diag-nosis. Removing the noise without affecting relevant features of the image is the main goal. Sparse decomposition over redundant dictionaries become of the most used approaches to solve this problem. NMF codes naturally favor sparse, parts-based representations. In sparse representation, signals represented as a linear combination of a redundant dictionary atoms. In this paper, we propose an algorithm based on sparse representation over the redundant dictionary and Non-Negative Matrix Factorization (N-NMF). The algorithm initializes a dic-tionary based on training samples constructed from noised image, then it searches for the best representation for the source by using the approximate matching pursuit (AMP). The proposed N-NMF gives a better reconstruction of an image from denoised one. We have compared our numerical results with different image denoising techniques and we have found the performance of the proposed technique is promising. Keywords: Image denoising, sparse representation, dictionary learning, matching pursuit, non-negative matrix factorization.
Work-up and treatment of prostate cancer before and after publication of the first national guidelines on prostate cancer care in Sweden
Creators: name: Nugin, Hampus
name: Folkvaljon, Yasin
name: Jan-Erik Damber
name: Adolfsson, Jan
name: Robinson, David
name: Stattin, Pär
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer

description: Background and Objectives: In 2007, the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare published the first Swedish guidelines on prostate cancer (PCa) to improve care and decrease geographical and social inequalities. The aim of this analysis was to assess how these guidelines affected PCa care. Materials and Methods: Work-up and treatment for men diagnosed with PCa between 1998 and 2014 were assessed by use of data in the Prostate Cancer data Base Sweden (PCBaSe) with information from the National Prostate Cancer Register (NPCR) and other healthcare registries and demographic databases. Results: Overall, there were modest improvements in the performance for 14 selected quality indicators, with some notable exceptions. There was a strong increase in the use of active surveillance for very low-risk PCa, up from 56% in 2009 to 92% in 2014, and use of bone imaging for high-risk PCa up from 50% in 2008 to 77% in 2014. There were large differences in work-up and treatment of PCa between healthcare providers with modest decreases over time. The differences between counties were larger than differences according to socioeconomic status with one exception: use of curative treatment for high-risk PCa was more common in men with high income, highest versus lowest tertile, OR 2.74 (95% CI, 1.85-4.06). Conclusion: The modest improvements in PCa care after the publications of national guidelines indicate that if these are to make an impact on care, feedback to each point of care on their performance as well as local quality improvement programs implementing the guidelines are needed.
Self-energy embedding theory (SEET) for periodic systems
Creators: name: Rusakov, Alexander A.
name: Iskakov, Sergei
name: Tran, Lan Nguyen
name: Zgid, Dominika
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an implementation of the self-energy embedding theory (SEET) for periodic systems and provide a fully self-consistent embedding solution for a simple realistic periodic problem - 1D crystalline hydrogen - that displays many of the features present in complex real materials. For this system, we observe a remarkable agreement between our finite temperature periodic implementation results and well established and accurate zero temperature auxiliary quantum Monte Carlo data extrapolated to thermodynamic limit. We discuss differences and similarities with other Green's function embedding methods and provide the detailed algorithmic steps crucial for highly accurate and reproducible results.
A Radio Telescope Search for Axions
Creators: name: Blout, B. D.
name: Daw, E. J.
name: Decowski, M. P.
name: Ho, Paul T. P.
name: Rosenberg, L. J
name: Yu, D. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The axion is a hypothetical elementary particle and a cold dark matter candidate. It could dominate potential wells of most astrophysical objects. Axions spontaneously decay into nearly monochromatic microwave photons. We present results from a radio telescope search for these axion decay photons of mass between 298 and 363 micro-eV in Local Group dwarf galaxies. We report a limit on the axion-to-two-photon coupling constant g > 1.0 x 10^(-9) GeV^(-1).
description: Submitted to Astrophysical Journal. 11 pages of text plus 6 figures
title: Debating Identity and Origins in Early 20th-Century American Commemoratives
Creators: name: Brennan, Sheila A.
Publisher: name: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Collectors and collecting
subject: Federal government. United States. History
subject: Collecting

description: Patriotic commemorations flowered following World War I in the United States, as did campaigns for securing limited- issue federal postage stamps. Beginning in 1920 with the Pilgrim Tercentenary issue, commemorative stamp subjects were moving away from solely advertising world’s fairs as the U.S. Post Office Department (USPOD) celebrated battles, anniversaries, and individuals that were part of greater cultural trends that sought to define Americanness in post–World War I America. Because of the acces- sibility of American commemoratives, both in size and through imagery, these stamps served to reinforce and naturalize an exceptionalist and triumphalist vision of the Ameri- can past that obscured the complicated legacies of conquest and inequality. This article examines imagery from a few commemorative stamps from the inter-war years and the circumstances of their printing that celebrated regional anniversaries held in Plymouth Rock, Mayport, and Minneapolis, as well as stamps honoring Polish military heroes Casimir Pulaski and Theodore Kosciuszko. Conversations revolving around these stamps, in correspondence or in the public media, demonstrate how the USPOD became a powerful institution that legitimized and distributed historical narratives and one that allowed ordinary citizens to engage with its government. Knowing of the postal service’s power to circulate interpretations of the American past to millions of people, some citizens sought commemoratives as part of grander strategies fighting for social and political equality while others wanted stamps to perpetuate a romanticized view of colonial America. These debates over commemorative subjects reflected contemporary struggles over immigration restrictions, constructions of race, and definitions of citizenship in the United States in the 1920s and 1930s.
Material Barriers to Diffusive and Stochastic Transport
Creators: name: Haller, George
name: Karrasch, Daniel
name: Kogelbauer, Florian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We seek transport barriers and transport enhancers as material surfaces across which the transport of diffusive tracers is minimal or maximal in a general, unsteady flow. We find that such surfaces are extremizers of a universal, non-dimensional transport functional whose leading-order term in the diffusivity can be computed directly from the flow velocity. The most observable (uniform) transport extremizers are explicitly computable as null-surfaces of an objective transport tensor. Even in the limit of vanishing diffusivity, these surfaces differ from all previously identified coherent structures for purely advective fluid transport. Our results extend directly to stochastic velocity fields and hence enable transport barrier and enhancer detection under uncertainties.
description: Accepted, non-copyedited version (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
Cleistanthus saichikii Merr.
Creators: name: Lin, Yun
name: Bi, Hai-Yan
name: Sun, Jun
name: Sun, Qian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Malpighiales
Phyllanthaceae
Cleistanthus
Cleistanthus saichikii

description: 16. Cleistanthus saichikii Merr.
 (Euphorbiaceae) in Philipp. J. Sci. 23(3): 248. 1923.TYPE:— CHINA. Hainan: Fan Ta, 18 April 1922, F. A. McClure 2590 (i.e. Canton Christian College Herbarium 9148) (syntype: PNH, destroyed, A 00045975 image!, A 00045976 image!).
 McClure 9148 was the only gathering cited in the protologue of the name Cleistanthus saichikii Merr. (Merrill, 1923). However, the collecting number on the label of the syntype specimen (A 00045975) is 2590, while its herbarium number is Canton Christian College Herbarium 9148. Thus, the collecting number cited in the protologue is to be corrected.
description: Published as part of Lin, Yun, Bi, Hai-Yan, Sun, Jun & Sun, Qian, 2023, Correction of collecting number errors in the protologues of sixty-four taxon names from China, pp. 261-270 in Phytotaxa 613 (3) on page 264, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.613.3.5, http://zenodo.org/record/8345323
Protease-activated receptor 4 activity promotes platelet granule release and platelet-leukocyte interactions
Creators: name: Rigg, Rachel A.
name: Healy, Laura D.
name: Chu, Tiffany T.
name: Ngo, Anh T. P.
name: Mitrugno, Annachiara
name: Zilberman-Rudenko, Jevgenia
name: Aslan, Joseph E.
name: Hinds, Monica T.
name: Vecchiarelli, Lisa Dirling
name: Morgan, Terry K.
name: Gruber, András
name: Temple, Kayla J.
name: Lindsley, Craig W.
name: Duvernay, Matthew T.
name: Hamm, Heidi E.
name: McCarty, Owen J. T.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Human platelets express two protease-activated receptors (PARs), PAR1 (F2R) and PAR4 (F2RL3), which are activated by a number of serine proteases that are generated during pathological events and cause platelet activation. Recent interest has focused on PAR4 as a therapeutic target, given PAR4 seems to promote experimental thrombosis and procoagulant microparticle formation, without a broadly apparent role in hemostasis. However, it is not yet known whether PAR4 activity plays a role in platelet-leukocyte interactions, which are thought to contribute to both thrombosis and acute or chronic thrombo-inflammatory processes. We sought to determine whether PAR4 activity contributes to granule secretion from activated platelets and platelet-leukocyte interactions. We performed in vitro and ex vivo studies of platelet granule release and platelet-leukocyte interactions in the presence of PAR4 agonists including PAR4 activating peptide, thrombin, cathepsin G, and plasmin in combination with small-molecule PAR4 antagonists. Activation of human platelets with thrombin, cathepsin G, or plasmin potentiated platelet dense granule secretion that was specifically impaired by PAR4 inhibitors. Platelet-leukocyte interactions and platelet P-selectin exposure the following stimulation with PAR4 agonists were also impaired by activated PAR4 inhibition in either a purified system or in whole blood. These results indicate PAR4-specific promotion of platelet granule release and platelet-leukocyte aggregate formation and suggest that pharmacological control of PAR4 activity could potentially attenuate platelet granule release or platelet-leukocyte interaction-mediated pathological processes.
Surround & Squash: The Interstellar Medium around Scorpius Centaurus OB2
Creators: name: Krause, Martin G. H.
name: Burkert, Andreas
name: Diehl, Roland
name: Fierlinger, Katharina
name: Gaczkowski, Benjamin
name: Kroell, Daniel
name: Ngoumou, Judith
name: Roccatagliata, Veronica
name: Siegert, Thomas
name: Preibisch, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We exploited observational constraints on stars, gas and nucleosynthesis ashes for the closest region of recent massive-star formation, Scorpius-Centaurus OB2, and combined them with 3D hydrodynamical simulations, in order to address physics and history for the case of the Scorpius-Centaurus superbubble. We used published cold gas observations through PLANCK survey data processing, HERSCHEL and APEX, continuum and molecular line observations. We analysed the Galactic All Sky Survey (GASS) to investigate shell structures in atomic hydrogen, and used HIPPARCOS and Gaia data in combination with interstellar absorption against stars to obtain new constraints for the distance to the Hi features. Hot gas is traced in soft X-rays via the ROSAT all sky survey. Nucleosynthesis ejecta from massive stars were traced with new INTEGRAL spectrometer observations via 26Al radioactivity. We also performed 3D hydrodynamical simulations for the Sco-Cen superbubble. To investigate the impact of massive star feedback on extended clouds, we simulate the interaction of a turbulent cloud with the hot, pressurised gas in a superbubble. The hot gas fills the tenuous regions of the cloud and compresses the denser parts. Stars formed in these dense clumps would have distinct spatial and kinematic distributions. The combined results from observations and simulations are consistent with a scenario where dense gas was initially distributed in a band elongated in the direction now occupied by the OB association. Superbubbles powered by massive stars would then repeatedly break out of the elongated parent cloud, surround and squash the denser parts of the gas sheet and thus induce more star formation. The expected spatial and kinematic distribution of stars is consistent with observations of Sco-Cen. The scenario might apply to many similar regions in the Galaxy and also to AGN-related superbubbles.
description: 14 pages, 11 figures, accepted by Astronomy & Astrophysics
title: Memorandum: Donald R. Richberg, ca. 1956
Creators: name: Richberg, Donald R.
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Schools
subject: Integration
subject: Segregation
subject: Desegregation

description: Memorandum: 2 pgs, typescript unsigned, 11" x 8.5" (27.9 cm x 21.6 cm)
description: Memorandum by Donald R. Richberg, entitled "A Legal Commentary on Senator McCue's Segregation Bill." Richberg's commentary provided a legal constitutional justification for proposed legislation that would "...apply equally to white and colored children and give to both equal protection against being compelled to attend mixed schools." C. Harrison Mann, Jr. Collection 43.06
title: ADCO, Grènetier de Cîteaux : comptes (1499-1503) (11 H 1173), f. 00388
Creators: name: de la Côte-d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CBMA/CG21/F.PETOT/2019
name: Petot, Frédéric
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: comptes
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge

description: Grènetier de Cîteaux : comptes (1499-1503), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, (11 H 1173). Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Grènetier de Cîteaux : comptes (1499-1503), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, (11 H 1173), f. 00388, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https://manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
title: Botnets and Crypto Currency - Effects of Botnets on the Bitcoin Ecosystem
Creators: name: Dharmdasani, Hitesh
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Bitcoin
subject: Botnets
subject: Malware

description: Nearly every aspect of a hacked computer and a users online life can be and has been commoditized. Recent trends into crypto currencies have made the former even more true as cyber criminals are now committing crime for monetary benefit and not just to out smart each other. In this study, I look more closely at Bitcoin, a de-centralized crypto currency which has become increasingly popular in the last six months. This study focuses on the analysis of the bitcoin economy, the involvement of malware and botnets and its effect to the currency.
Diospyros hainanensis Merr.
Creators: name: Lin, Yun
name: Bi, Hai-Yan
name: Sun, Jun
name: Sun, Qian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Ericales
Ebenaceae
Diospyros
Diospyros hainanensis

description: 17. Diospyros hainanensis Merr.
 (Ebenaceae) in Philipp. J. Sci. 23(3): 258. 1923. TYPE:— CHINA. Hainan: Wuzhishan, Wuzhi Shan, alt. 1200 m, 16 December 1921, F. A. McClure 2033 (i.e. Canton Christian College Herbarium 8462) (syntype: PNH, destroyed, A 00010595 image!, A 00010597 image!, NY 00335026 image!).
 The name Diospyros hainanensis Merr. was validly published with a gathering “ McClure 8462 ” designated as the type (Merrill, 1923). However, on the label of the syntype specimen (A 00010595) exists in A, the collecting number is 2033 and the herbarium number is Canton Christian College Herbarium 8462. Therefore, the erroneous collecting number in the designation of type is to be corrected.
description: Published as part of Lin, Yun, Bi, Hai-Yan, Sun, Jun & Sun, Qian, 2023, Correction of collecting number errors in the protologues of sixty-four taxon names from China, pp. 261-270 in Phytotaxa 613 (3) on page 264, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.613.3.5, http://zenodo.org/record/8345323
The role of resonances in non-leptonic hyperon decays
Creators: name: Borasoy, B.
name: Holstein, B. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the importance of resonances for the non-leptonic hyperon decays in the framework of chiral perturbation theory. Lower lying resonances are included into the effective theory. Integrating out the heavy degrees of freedom in the resonance saturation scheme generates higher order counterterms in the effective Lagrangian, providing an estimate of the pertinent coupling constants. A fit to the eight independent decay amplitudes that are not related by isospin symmetry is performed and reasonable agreement for both s- and p- waves is achieved.
description: 16 pages, 2 figures
Lifting PIE limits with strict projections
Creators: name: Szyld, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We give a unified direct proof of the lifting of PIE limits to the 2-category of algebras and (pseudo) morphisms, which specifies precisely which of the projections of the lifted limit are strict and detect strictness. In the literature, these limits were lifted one by one, so as to keep track of these projections in each case. We work in the more general context of weak algebra morphisms, so as to include lax morphisms as well. PIE limits are also all simultaneously lifted in this case, provided some specified arrows of the diagram are pseudo morphisms. Again, this unifies the previously known lifting of many particular PIE limits, which were also treated separately.
description: 11 pages
Thermal Percolation Threshold and Thermal Properties of Composites with Graphene and Boron Nitride Fillers
Creators: name: Kargar, Fariborz
name: Barani, Zahra
name: Lewis, Jacob S.
name: Debnath, Bishwajit
name: Salgado, Ruben
name: Aytan, Ece
name: Lake, Roger
name: Balandin, Alexander A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigated thermal properties of the epoxy-based composites with a high loading fraction - up to f=45 vol.% - of the randomly oriented electrically conductive graphene fillers and electrically insulating boron nitride fillers. It was found that both types of the composites revealed a distinctive thermal percolation threshold at the loading fraction f>20 vol.%. The graphene loading required for achieving the thermal percolation was substantially higher than the loading for the electrical percolation. Graphene fillers outperformed boron nitride fillers in the thermal conductivity enhancement. It was established that thermal transport in composites with the high filler loading, above the thermal percolation threshold, is dominated by heat conduction via the network of percolating fillers. Unexpectedly, we determined that the thermal transport properties of the high loading composites were influenced strongly by the cross-plane thermal conductivity of the quasi-two-dimensional fillers. The obtained results shed light on the debated mechanism of the thermal percolation, and facilitate the development of the next generation of the efficient thermal interface materials for electronic applications.
description: 29 pages; 5 figures
title: Interpolating Pixel Art
Creators: name: Rutherford, Anson
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Interpolation
subject: Pixel art
subject: Animation
subject: Optical flow

description: We present a method of generating plausible interpolations between frames from ani- mated pixel art. We do this in the hopes of helping artists working in the style by providing a simple method of interpolation, which would reduce the amount of by-hand work required by the artists. We adapt an existing method for image interpolation, which uses energy cost minimization to define motion for each pixel position in the image. The specific challenges inherent in interpolating pixel art are discussed and examined. We describe the reasons the original paper's methods won't adequately work for our specific problem. Then, we describe the changes we make to the original paper's energy cost function to attempt to accommodate those challenges provided by pixel art. These changes focus on gathering more information from the source images, to make up for the limited amount of color infor- mation. We examine these changes and their results by interpolating the same images with different weights for the various factors we propose. We discuss which methods work best in general, and in specific cases.