cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Development and initial test of an identity disturbance skills module for borderline personality disorder: A series of N-of-1 trials
Creators: name: Guter, Madison M.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 5203
subject: Clinical and health psychology

description: Identity disturbance (ID) is a transdiagnostic symptom that has unique connections with borderline personality disorder (BPD). ID is associated with psychopathology severity and self-injury, less favorable treatment outcomes, and suicidal behaviors. Empirical research on interventions targeting ID is lacking, despite calls for researchers to develop such interventions. The current study sought to develop and provide an initial test of an Identity Disturbance Skills (IDS) Module using a multiple-baseline single-case experimental design (SCED). The study consisted of three phases: baseline (A), intervention (B), and follow-up. Four participants with BPD were randomized to the baseline phase (A), followed by the five-week IDS Module (B), and a 2- and 4-week follow-up period. Participants completed weekly measures of identity- and self-related constructs in addition to nontargeted, related symptoms (i.e., interpersonal functioning, emotion regulation, depression, and anxiety). Results showed that participants had improvements in their identity functioning across the intervention, as assessed through visual inspection. Results also showed significant and reliable changes in self-concept clarity across all four participants, with all participants demonstrating a reliable change from pre- to post-intervention, and from pre-intervention to follow-up. There was also a significant effect size across participants for both treatment and follow-up phases for self-concept clarity, and all four participants had significant changes in level of nonoverlapping data between baseline and treatment, and between treatment and follow-up. Results were marked by variability for the nontargeted symptoms. Visual inspection showed improvement in interpersonal functioning, emotion dysregulation, and depression for one participant, however this did not occur across participants. There was a significant effect size for interpersonal functioning for the treatment phase across participants, indicating that the IDS Module led to large improvements in interpersonal functioning. Participants reported high levels of satisfaction with the IDS Module. Participant and therapist data indicated that the intervention was both acceptable and feasible. Based upon this initial test, it appears that the IDS Module is acceptable to participants, feasible to implement, and that there is promising support for its effectiveness in treating identity disturbance. Future research can build upon this preliminary test by using group comparison to eliminate confounds and clearly establish causal support for the IDS Module.
Generalized Uncertainty Principle, Extra-dimensions and Holography
Creators: name: Scardigli, F.
name: Casadio, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider Uncertainty Principles which take into account the role of gravity and the possible existence of extra spatial dimensions. Explicit expressions for such Generalized Uncertainty Principles in 4+n dimensions are given and their holographic properties investigated. In particular, we show that the predicted number of degrees of freedom enclosed in a given spatial volume matches the holographic counting only for one of the available generalizations and without extra dimensions.
description: LaTeX, 13 pages, accepted for publication in Class. Quantum Grav
Acreage Decisions Under Risk: The Case of Corn and Soybeans
Creators: name: Chavas, Jean-Paul
name: Holt, Matthew T.
name: Chavas, Jean-Paul
name: Holt, Matthew T.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Corn-soybean acreage
subject: expected utility maximization
subject: risk
subject: truncation

description: An acreage supply response model is developed under expected utility maximization. The resulting framework is used to specify and estimate a system of risk-responsive acreage equations for corn and soybeans in the U.S. Particular attention is given to the truncation effects of government price supports on the distribution of corn and soybean prices. Also, a wealth variable is included in the acreage equations. The empirical results indicate that risk and wealth variables play an important role in cornsoybean acreage decisions. The analysis also shows that cross-commodity risk reduction is important in acreage allocation decisions.
Strategic Investments in Agriculture: How Do We Measure Risk?
Creators: name: Wilson, Paul N.
name: Anderson, David P.
name: Wilson, Paul N.
name: Anderson, David P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: adoption and diffusion
subject: technological change
subject: irrigation
subject: laser leveling

description: Decisions concerning strategic investments create risks associated with time and switching costs. In the case of cotton growers in Arizona, the decision to adopt laser leveled fields was positively related to f ann size, and negatively related to age and soil intake rates. The diffusion of this strategic investment was more sensitive to changes in government policy than to variability in output and input prices.
Development and initial test of an identity disturbance skills module for borderline personality disorder: A series of N-of-1 trials
Creators: name: Guter, Madison M.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Identity disturbance (ID) is a transdiagnostic symptom that has unique connections with borderline personality disorder (BPD). ID is associated with psychopathology severity and self-injury, less favorable treatment outcomes, and suicidal behaviors. Empirical research on interventions targeting ID is lacking, despite calls for researchers to develop such interventions. The current study sought to develop and provide an initial test of an Identity Disturbance Skills (IDS) Module using a multiple-baseline single-case experimental design (SCED). The study consisted of three phases: baseline (A), intervention (B), and follow-up. Four participants with BPD were randomized to the baseline phase (A), followed by the five-week IDS Module (B), and a 2- and 4-week follow-up period. Participants completed weekly measures of identity- and self-related constructs in addition to nontargeted, related symptoms (i.e., interpersonal functioning, emotion regulation, depression, and anxiety). Results showed that participants had improvements in their identity functioning across the intervention, as assessed through visual inspection. Results also showed significant and reliable changes in self-concept clarity across all four participants, with all participants demonstrating a reliable change from pre- to post-intervention, and from pre-intervention to follow-up. There was also a significant effect size across participants for both treatment and follow-up phases for self-concept clarity, and all four participants had significant changes in level of nonoverlapping data between baseline and treatment, and between treatment and follow-up. Results were marked by variability for the nontargeted symptoms. Visual inspection showed improvement in interpersonal functioning, emotion dysregulation, and depression for one participant, however this did not occur across participants. There was a significant effect size for interpersonal functioning for the treatment phase across participants, indicating that the IDS Module led to large improvements in interpersonal functioning. Participants reported high levels of satisfaction with the IDS Module. Participant and therapist data indicated that the intervention was both acceptable and feasible. Based upon this initial test, it appears that the IDS Module is acceptable to participants, feasible to implement, and that there is promising support for its effectiveness in treating identity disturbance. Future research can build upon this preliminary test by using group comparison to eliminate confounds and clearly establish causal support for the IDS Module.
Report of a post mortem examination in case of Wm. Patterson
Creators: name: Black, G. V. (Greene Vardiman), 1836-1915.
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 1883
Subjects: subject: Autopsy
subject: Peptic Ulcer--pathology
subject: Morgan County Medical Society (Ill.)
subject: William Patterson
subject: Autopsy
subject: Peptic Ulcer
subject: Peptic Ulcer/pathology

description: Read before the Morgan County Medical Society
description: The post mortem examination revealed that the subject had a gastric ulcer. A pathological specimen of the gastric ulcer was obtained from the subject.
"A woman's touch": The significance of hands in Northern Italian portraits of women, 1500-1600
Creators: name: Holdsworth, Alison C.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This thesis analyzes the distinctive formal and thematic qualities of depicting active hands in Northern Italian portraits of women, specifically between 1500 and 1600. Such analysis reframes the question of female agency in the Renaissance in key respects, as well as a better understanding of the somaesthetic experience of viewing portraits during that period. It is demonstrated that portraits by artists including Giovanni Battista Moroni and Bernardino Licinio that depict women’s hands as agents of touch provoke a desiring sensorial response in the presumed male viewer, specifically by means of the sitter touching her clothing or jewelry or by holding objects such as fans, books, or handkerchiefs. The viewing dynamic is animated by the beholder’s desire to access the sitter past the picture plane while simultaneously being reminded of her ultimate inaccessibility. The visual rhetoric of a given female sitter’s apparent transferability from picture plane to a real-life person due to her veristic depiction, and the representational emphasis on different aspects of touch, arguably endows her with a degree of agency that challenges previous scholarship on the strictly objectifying tendency in such portraits. By utilizing contemporary philosophical, medical, and poetical texts, as well as an examination of Renaissance material culture, artistic evocation of touch is situated in these portraits in positive rather than traditionally negative, gendered terms. Furthermore, that positive viewpoint of the selected portraits is heightened when situated within Northern Italian pictorial conventions of the period, which stressed individuality and the inclusion of highly specific and materially present attributes. Women also possessed greater financial autonomy in Northern Italy in the sixteenth century, which reveals possible ownership of jewelry and other accessories included in their portraits. The presence of those material goods further supports an interrogation of female agency that destabilizes the patriarchal conventions understood to inform pictures of women painted by male artists in this period.
Elliptical Symmetry and Mean Variance Portfolio Choice
Creators: name: Nelson, Carl H.
name: Nelson, Carl H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: Results of Chamberlain and Meyer are combined to extend Meyer's location-scale condition to portfolio choice models where the distribution of returns is elliptically symmetric. This extension implies that mean-variance choice is consisteht with expected utility maximizing choice for such models. All expected utility maximizing portfolios lie on the mean-variance efficiency frontier which can be generated with quadratic risk programming. A test for elliptical symmetry is also described. This test enables one to determine whether a given set of portfolio data satisfies the conditions which make mean-variance choice consistent with expected utility maximization.
"A woman's touch": The significance of hands in Northern Italian portraits of women, 1500-1600
Creators: name: Holdsworth, Alison C.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 36
subject: Creative arts and writing
classificationCode: 3601
subject: Art history, theory and criticism

description: This thesis analyzes the distinctive formal and thematic qualities of depicting active hands in Northern Italian portraits of women, specifically between 1500 and 1600. Such analysis reframes the question of female agency in the Renaissance in key respects, as well as a better understanding of the somaesthetic experience of viewing portraits during that period. It is demonstrated that portraits by artists including Giovanni Battista Moroni and Bernardino Licinio that depict women’s hands as agents of touch provoke a desiring sensorial response in the presumed male viewer, specifically by means of the sitter touching her clothing or jewelry or by holding objects such as fans, books, or handkerchiefs. The viewing dynamic is animated by the beholder’s desire to access the sitter past the picture plane while simultaneously being reminded of her ultimate inaccessibility. The visual rhetoric of a given female sitter’s apparent transferability from picture plane to a real-life person due to her veristic depiction, and the representational emphasis on different aspects of touch, arguably endows her with a degree of agency that challenges previous scholarship on the strictly objectifying tendency in such portraits. By utilizing contemporary philosophical, medical, and poetical texts, as well as an examination of Renaissance material culture, artistic evocation of touch is situated in these portraits in positive rather than traditionally negative, gendered terms. Furthermore, that positive viewpoint of the selected portraits is heightened when situated within Northern Italian pictorial conventions of the period, which stressed individuality and the inclusion of highly specific and materially present attributes. Women also possessed greater financial autonomy in Northern Italy in the sixteenth century, which reveals possible ownership of jewelry and other accessories included in their portraits. The presence of those material goods further supports an interrogation of female agency that destabilizes the patriarchal conventions understood to inform pictures of women painted by male artists in this period.
Changemakers in Emergency Management
Creators: name: Henrietta Kirkland, Heather Anita
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4401
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: This dissertation draws on sixteen months of research conducted virtually and in several cities of the United States including Boulder Colorado, Baltimore Maryland, Orlando Florida, Washington DC, Emmitsburg Maryland, Omaha Nebraska, College Station Texas, and Delaware. This research project contributes to the anthropological study of disasters focusing on the intersection of diversity, equity, and inclusion in Emergency Management. I examine the experiences of leaders working to foster change in hazard mitigation and emergency management, to improve outcomes for marginalized communities. The current demographic composition of the hazard and disaster mitigation field is not representative of the groups most impacted by disasters. Research findings to date highlight that “the phenomena of racial & ethnic minorities having increased difficulty evacuating before a crisis and being more likely to experience a disproportionate physical and financial loss in disasters” (Dixon and Louis-Charles 2015:21). There is a correlation between generational wealth and disaster outcomes. A longitudinal study examining the intersection of wealth inequality and disaster aid found that the needs of the disenfranchised and disempowered are often overlooked in the distribution of aid. My ethnographic study, set out to capture the experiences of people who are underrepresented in emergency management. This includes a range of people who are socially located on the margins of race, class, gender, sexuality, and functional access norms. In addition to semi structured and structured interviews, I conducted focus groups and participation observation at annual emergency management & natural hazard conferences. I also conducted roundtable discussions with lawmakers, social scientists, emergency mangers, and analyzed transcripts from panel discussions. The people featured in my study largely represent racial and ethnic marginalized groups, women, low-income populations, and people who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. I explore the intersectionality of these perspectives to understand how underrepresented groups navigate emergency management as leaders. The limitation with the sample is a lack of diversity among respondents in terms of geographic region and disability. The notable contribution of my dissertation research is recording and analysis of the most innovative ideas coming from outside of Emergency Management. This dissertation drives our field forward by refocusing our attention on community initiatives and inviting a perspective of hope in the future of disaster studies.
On the thermal description of the BTZ black holes
Creators: name: Cruz, Norman
name: Lepe, Samuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the limitations on the thermal description of three dimensional BTZ black holes. We derive on physical grounds three basic mass scales that are relevant to characterize these limitations. The Planck mass in 2+1 dimensions indicate the limits where the black hole can emit Hawking's radiation. We show that the back reaction is meaningless for spinless BTZ black hole. For stationary BTZ black holes the nearly extreme case is analyzed showing that may occur a break down of its description as a thermal object.
description: 7 pages. Accepted by Phys. Lett. B
Antigentests als ergänzendes Instrument in der Pandemiebekämpfung
Creators: name: Seifried, Janna
name: Böttcher, Sindy
name: Von Kleist, Max
name: Jenny, Mirjam A.
name: Antão, Esther-Maria
name: Oh, Djin-Ye
name: Jung-Sendzik, Tanja
name: Broich, Karl
name: Denkinger, Claudia
name: Bartenschlager, Ralf
name: Schaade, Lars
name: Hamouda, Osamah
name: Mielke, Martin
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: SARS-CoV-2
subject: Antigentest
subject: PCR
subject: Screening
subject: Teststrategie
subject: 610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Da mit Beginn der dritten Infektionswelle der überwiegende Teil der Bevölkerung noch nicht gegen SARS-CoV-2 geimpft und gleichzeitig ein Anstieg der Fallzahlen zu beobachten ist, bleiben nicht-pharmazeutische Maßnahmen wichtige Bausteine, um das Infektionsgeschehen zu kontrollieren. Zusätzlich zu den bestehenden Verhaltensregeln Abstand – Hygiene – Maske und Lüften, kann ein erweitertes Testkonzept, das auch die breite Testung von symptomfreien Personen mit einbezieht, zur Pandemiebekämpfung beitragen, indem es die Erkennung von Infektionen und so die Unterbrechung von Infektionsketten ermöglicht. Im Epidemiologischen Bulletin 17/2021 wird erläutert, wie Antigen-Schnelltests zur Pandemiekontrolle beitragen können. Außerdem werden die Chancen und Herausforderungen einer wiederholten Testung zur Reduktion des allgemeinen Transmissionsgeschehens und der zu erwartende Einfluss eines freiwilligen Testangebots auf das allgemeine Infektionsgeschehen diskutiert.
TESTING FOR SEASONAL UNIT ROOTS IN MONTHLY DATA
Creators: name: Franses, P. H.
name: Franses, P. H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: In Hylleberg, Engle, Granger and Yoo (1988) a method is proposed to test for seasonal unit roots in the presence of other unit roots and seasonal processes. This method is applied to quarterly time series. In the present paper the application of the method is extended to time series consisting of monthly observations. Tables with critical values for several test statistics are provided. A small empirical power investigation is also conducted.
Changemakers in Emergency Management
Creators: name: Henrietta Kirkland, Heather Anita
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation draws on sixteen months of research conducted virtually and in several cities of the United States including Boulder Colorado, Baltimore Maryland, Orlando Florida, Washington DC, Emmitsburg Maryland, Omaha Nebraska, College Station Texas, and Delaware. This research project contributes to the anthropological study of disasters focusing on the intersection of diversity, equity, and inclusion in Emergency Management. I examine the experiences of leaders working to foster change in hazard mitigation and emergency management, to improve outcomes for marginalized communities. The current demographic composition of the hazard and disaster mitigation field is not representative of the groups most impacted by disasters. Research findings to date highlight that “the phenomena of racial & ethnic minorities having increased difficulty evacuating before a crisis and being more likely to experience a disproportionate physical and financial loss in disasters” (Dixon and Louis-Charles 2015:21). There is a correlation between generational wealth and disaster outcomes. A longitudinal study examining the intersection of wealth inequality and disaster aid found that the needs of the disenfranchised and disempowered are often overlooked in the distribution of aid. My ethnographic study, set out to capture the experiences of people who are underrepresented in emergency management. This includes a range of people who are socially located on the margins of race, class, gender, sexuality, and functional access norms. In addition to semi structured and structured interviews, I conducted focus groups and participation observation at annual emergency management & natural hazard conferences. I also conducted roundtable discussions with lawmakers, social scientists, emergency mangers, and analyzed transcripts from panel discussions. The people featured in my study largely represent racial and ethnic marginalized groups, women, low-income populations, and people who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. I explore the intersectionality of these perspectives to understand how underrepresented groups navigate emergency management as leaders. The limitation with the sample is a lack of diversity among respondents in terms of geographic region and disability. The notable contribution of my dissertation research is recording and analysis of the most innovative ideas coming from outside of Emergency Management. This dissertation drives our field forward by refocusing our attention on community initiatives and inviting a perspective of hope in the future of disaster studies.
Experimental Study of Flexural Strength of Laminate Composite Material
Creators: name: Oleiwi, Jawad K.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 91202 Composite and Hybrid Materials
subject: FOS: Materials engineering
subject: 91299 Materials Engineering not elsewhere classified

description: The effect of fiber volume fraction on the flexural properties of the laminated composite test specimens constructed of two layers, one of them reinforced with glass fiber and the other layer reinforced with Kevlar fiber has been investigated experimentally. The results illustrate that tension stress decreases with the increase in fiber volume fraction of glass fiber of the lower layer while it increases with the increase of Kevlar volume fraction of the upper layer. As for compression stress, it increases with the increase in volume fraction of glass fiber of the lower layer while it decreases with the increase of volume fraction of Kevlar fiber of the upper layer. The results also show the maximum value of tension stress (= 25.3 MPa.) at Vf of Glass fiber (= 15 %) and Vf of Kevlar fiber (= 60 %), while the maximum value of compression stress (= -17.1 MPa.) at Vf of Glass fiber (= 60 %) and Vf of Kevlar fiber (= 15 %).
Additional file 4 of Development and validation of patients’ surgical safety checklist
Creators: name: Harris, Kristin
name: Søfteland, Eirik
name: Moi, Asgjerd Litleré
name: Harthug, Stig
name: Ravnøy, Mette
name: Storesund, Anette
name: Jurmy, Elaheh
name: Thakkar, Bhaumik
name: Haaverstad, Rune
name: Skeie, Eli
name: Valen, Hilde Wæhle
name: Sevdalis, Nick
name: Haugen, Arvid Steinar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 4.
Production of quark pairs from classical gluon fields
Creators: name: Gelis, F.
name: Kajantie, K.
name: Lappi, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute by numerical integration of the Dirac equation the number of quark-antiquark pairs produced in the classical color fields of colliding ultrarelativistic nuclei. Results for the dependence of the number of quarks on the strength of the background field, the quark mass and time are presented. We also perform several tests of our numerical method. While the number of qqbar pairs is parametrically suppressed in the coupling constant, we find that in this classical field model it could even be compatible with the thermal ratio to the number of gluons.
description: 8 pages, 12 figures, contribution to the proceedings of the Quark Gluon Plasma Thermalization Workshop, Vienna, August 2005
Additional file 5 of Development and validation of patients’ surgical safety checklist
Creators: name: Harris, Kristin
name: Søfteland, Eirik
name: Moi, Asgjerd Litleré
name: Harthug, Stig
name: Ravnøy, Mette
name: Storesund, Anette
name: Jurmy, Elaheh
name: Thakkar, Bhaumik
name: Haaverstad, Rune
name: Skeie, Eli
name: Valen, Hilde Wæhle
name: Sevdalis, Nick
name: Haugen, Arvid Steinar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 5.
Higher gauge theory and a non-Abelian generalization of 2-form electrodynamics
Creators: name: Pfeiffer, Hendryk
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In conventional gauge theory, a charged point particle is described by a representation of the gauge group. If we propagate the particle along some path, the parallel transport of the gauge connection acts on this representation. The Lagrangian density of the gauge field depends on the curvature of the connection which can be calculated from the holonomy around (infinitesimal) loops. For Abelian symmetry groups, say G=U(1), there exists a generalization, known as p-form electrodynamics, in which (p-1)-dimensional charged objects can be propagated along p-surfaces and in which the Lagrangian depends on a generalized curvature associated with (infinitesimal) closed p-surfaces. In this article, we use Lie 2-groups and ideas from higher category theory in order to formulate a discrete gauge theory which generalizes these models at the level p=2 to possibly non-Abelian symmetry groups. An important feature of our model is that it involves both parallel transports along paths and generalized transports along surfaces with a non-trivial interplay of these two types of variables. Our main result is the geometric picture, namely the assignment of non-Abelian quantities to geometrical objects in a coordinate free way. We construct the precise assignment of variables to the curves and surfaces, the generalized local symmetries and gauge invariant actions and we clarify which structures can be non-Abelian and which others are always Abelian. A discrete version of connections on non-Abelian gerbes is a special case of our construction. Even though the motivation sketched so far suggests applications mainly in string theory, the model presented here is also related to spin foam models of quantum gravity and may in addition provide some insight into the role of centre monopoles and vortices in lattice QCD.
description: 30 pages, LaTeX 2e with xypic for dvips and combined eps/PicTeX figures; v2: typos corrected
TESTING FOR WHITE NOISE IN TIME SERIES MODELS
Creators: name: Franses, P. H.
name: Franses, P. H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: The new pure significance test for white noise proposed in the present paper is based on the estimated R2 of ah ARMA model fitted to reeiduals. A small empirical size and power investigation is carried out, and the latter seems to indicate that this test meets its purpose more than the portmanteau test.
Apalonia (Apalonia) athetoides Pace 2015, spec. nov.
Creators: name: Pace, Roberto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Apalonia
Apalonia athetoides

description: Apalonia (Apalonia) athetoides spec. nov.
(Figg. 15, 78–80)
 Materiale tipico: Holotypus , Guyane Fr., Caussade, 7.XI.2011, leg. T. Struyve (SDEI).
Paratypi: 4 es., stessa provenienza (SDEI, IRSNB).
 Descrizione: Lunghezza 2,1 mm. Avancorpo debolmente opaco, addome lucido. Corpo nero-bruno; elitre giallo-brune; zampe giallo-rossicce. Occhi, in visione dorsale, più lunghi della regione postoculare. Secondo antennomero più breve del primo, terzo lungo quanto il secondo, dal quarto al decimo trasversi. Reticolazione dell’avancorpo forte, quella dell’addome non visibile. Punteggiatura del capo fitta e poco evidente. Granulosità di pronoto ed elitre fitta e poco saliente, quella dell’addome visibile solo al margine posteriore di ciascun urotergo libero. Edeago come in Figg. 78–79, spermateca come in Fig. 80.
 Etimologia: Il nome della nuova specie significa “Dall’habitus di Atheta ”. Atheta è un genere delle Aleocharinae della tribù Athetini.
description: Published as part of Pace, Roberto, 2015, Introduzione alla conoscenza della sottofamiglia Aleocharinae nella Guyana Francese: Parte V (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae), pp. 131-156 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 65 (1) on page 138, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.65.1.75-84, http://zenodo.org/record/4753790
Causes of variability in fine particulate matter concentrations (PM2.5) on the American University campus in Washington, D.C.
Creators: name: Braddock, Stephanie
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Particulate matter is a highly important indicator of air quality, and yet its behavior in urban environments is still not well understood. Further complicating attempts to understand causes of variability is the relative scarcity of regulatory-grade air monitors, which makes it difficult to account for local and community-scale variations. This study explores the use of low-cost air quality monitors as a more accessible alternative for air quality measurements, using American University as a test case. Using generalized additive mixed models (GAMMs), the influence of different meteorological and environmental variables on fine particulate matter are explored. The model selected wind speed, relative humidity, temperature, vegetation density, precipitation, atmospheric pressure, and traffic congestion as significant explanatory variables, with an adjusted R-squared of 0.368. Future work is needed to evaluate the generalizability of these results to other locations.
The Polk Sanitary Milk Company
Creators: name: The Polk Sanitary Milk Company
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 1942
Subjects: subject: 12th General Hospital
subject: World War II
subject: Receipts
subject: Milk
subject: Operational rations (Military supplies)
subject: 12th General Hospital
subject: Fort Benjamin Harrison (Ind.)

description: Receipt from the Polk Sanitary Milk Company.
The Euler-Lagrange Cohomology and General Volume-Preserving Systems
Creators: name: Zhou, Bin
name: Guo, Han-Ying
name: Pan, Jianzhong
name: Wu, Ke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We briefly introduce the conception on Euler-Lagrange cohomology groups on a symplectic manifold $(\mathcal{M}^{2n}, ω)$ and systematically present the general form of volume-preserving equations on the manifold from the cohomological point of view. It is shown that for every volume-preserving flow generated by these equations there is an important 2-form that plays the analog role with the Hamiltonian in the Hamilton mechanics. In addition, the ordinary canonical equations with Hamiltonian $H$ are included as a special case with the 2-form $\frac{1}{n-1} H ω$. It is studied the other volume preserving systems on $({\cal M}^{2n}, ω)$. It is also explored the relations between our approach and Feng-Shang's volume-preserving systems as well as the Nambu mechanics.
description: Plain LaTeX, use packages amssymb and amscd, 15 pages, no figures
Causes of variability in fine particulate matter concentrations (PM2.5) on the American University campus in Washington, D.C.
Creators: name: Braddock, Stephanie
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 41
subject: Environmental sciences
classificationCode: 4105
subject: Pollution and contamination

description: Particulate matter is a highly important indicator of air quality, and yet its behavior in urban environments is still not well understood. Further complicating attempts to understand causes of variability is the relative scarcity of regulatory-grade air monitors, which makes it difficult to account for local and community-scale variations. This study explores the use of low-cost air quality monitors as a more accessible alternative for air quality measurements, using American University as a test case. Using generalized additive mixed models (GAMMs), the influence of different meteorological and environmental variables on fine particulate matter are explored. The model selected wind speed, relative humidity, temperature, vegetation density, precipitation, atmospheric pressure, and traffic congestion as significant explanatory variables, with an adjusted R-squared of 0.368. Future work is needed to evaluate the generalizability of these results to other locations.
SEASONALITY, OUTLIERS AND LINEARITY
Creators: name: Franses, P. H.
name: Franses, P. H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Seasonal Unit Roots
subject: Additive Outliers
subject: Bilinearity

description: In the present paper a case is made for the simultaneous treatment of seasonality, outliers and nonlinearity in economic time series. It is empirically shown that outlying observations may cause that a regularly applied differencing procedure for monthly data induces a nonlinear time series. A more appropriate handling of the eventual seasonality and nonstationarity yields that linearity can not be rejected.
Barriers to antiracist practices in PK-12 districts for white leaders
Creators: name: Mendonsa, Marisa
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation of practice sought to answer two questions: What are the barriers to implementing antiracist policies and practices in the PK-12 setting for White leaders? And how can White leaders use their privilege to dismantle dominant White supremacy culture in schools and districts? We completed a knowledge review, conducted interviews with eleven school and district leaders in predominantly White schools and districts in Massachusetts and sought feedback on a toolkit we developed for White leaders to use in this setting. Five major barriers implementing antiracist practices were identified in our research with White leaders: Leaders' outright resistance or lack of understanding about antiracist practice and policy; The implicit biases educators or leaders hold; Leaders' anxiety of being unprepared or fear of stakeholder backlash; Using a color-blind approach to antiracism; Leaders' lack of self-work in this area. Through our analysis, we were able to identify several equity detours (Gorski, 2019) that impacted White leaders' implementation of antiracist policies and practices. Our findings suggest that participants who responded to the initial toolkit found it to be a useful roadmap on how to complete this work in schools and districts. However, when asked to implement any part of the toolkit, participants indicated that obstacles prevented them from doing so, similar to the obstacles they faced when completing the antiracist work they wanted to do in their district. Those obstacles were often suggested to be a result of COVID-19 or participants feeling the need for permission from those who hold higher positions of authority within their organizations to do this work. The researchers believe that these "obstacles" are in actuality equity detours that White leaders use as excuses when faced with the decision to implement antiracist practices, which leads to major pushback, both internal and external to the organization.
Additional file 6 of Development and validation of patients’ surgical safety checklist
Creators: name: Harris, Kristin
name: Søfteland, Eirik
name: Moi, Asgjerd Litleré
name: Harthug, Stig
name: Ravnøy, Mette
name: Storesund, Anette
name: Jurmy, Elaheh
name: Thakkar, Bhaumik
name: Haaverstad, Rune
name: Skeie, Eli
name: Valen, Hilde Wæhle
name: Sevdalis, Nick
name: Haugen, Arvid Steinar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 6.
Effect of (Al2O3) on Flexural Analysis of Polymer Matrix Composite Reinforced by Unidirectional Glass Fiber
Creators: name: Oleiwi, Jawad K.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 91202 Composite and Hybrid Materials
subject: FOS: Materials engineering
subject: 91299 Materials Engineering not elsewhere classified

description: The flexural analysis of the composite specimens made from polymer matrix composite that reinforced with different volume fraction of glass fiber and alumina powder (Al2O3) were studied here experimentally and numerically by using finite element method. The composite specimens was employed in this research made three ratios of volume fraction of glass fiber and five ratios of volume fraction of alumina powder (Al2O3). The results illustrated that the deflection increases in linear relationship with increase of the load, while decrease in nonlinear relationship with increase the volume fraction of (glass) and (Al2O3) for both experimental and numerical studies. The maximum value of deflection for the specimen equals to 1.85 mm at Vf of (glass) = 10% only and without Vf of (Al2O3). While the minimum value of deflection equals to 0.392 mm at Vf of (glass) = 30% and Vf of (Al2O3) = 5% for the same value of load = 10 N and for experimental results.
Analysis of Binarized High Frequency Financial Data
Creators: name: Sazuka, Naoya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Statistical Finance (q-fin.ST)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: A non-trivial probability structure is evident in the binary data extracted from the up/down price movements of very high frequency data such as tick-by-tick data for USD/JPY. In this paper, we analyze the Sony bank USD/JPY rates, ignoring the small deviations from the market price. We then show there is a similar non-trivial probability structure in the Sony bank rate, in spite of the Sony bank rate's having less frequent and larger deviations than tick-by-tick data. However, this probability structure is not found in the data which has been sampled from tick-by-tick data at the same rate as the Sony bank rate. Therefore, the method of generating the Sony bank rate from the market rate has the potential for practical use since the method retains the probability structure as the sampling frequency decreases.
description: 8pages, 4figures, contribution to the 3rd International Conference NEXT-SigmaPhi
Barriers to antiracist practices in PK-12 districts for white leaders
Creators: name: Mendonsa, Marisa
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3902
subject: Education policy, sociology and philosophy
classificationCode: 3904
subject: Specialist studies in education

description: This dissertation of practice sought to answer two questions: What are the barriers to implementing antiracist policies and practices in the PK-12 setting for White leaders? And how can White leaders use their privilege to dismantle dominant White supremacy culture in schools and districts? We completed a knowledge review, conducted interviews with eleven school and district leaders in predominantly White schools and districts in Massachusetts and sought feedback on a toolkit we developed for White leaders to use in this setting. Five major barriers implementing antiracist practices were identified in our research with White leaders: Leaders' outright resistance or lack of understanding about antiracist practice and policy; The implicit biases educators or leaders hold; Leaders' anxiety of being unprepared or fear of stakeholder backlash; Using a color-blind approach to antiracism; Leaders' lack of self-work in this area. Through our analysis, we were able to identify several equity detours (Gorski, 2019) that impacted White leaders' implementation of antiracist policies and practices. Our findings suggest that participants who responded to the initial toolkit found it to be a useful roadmap on how to complete this work in schools and districts. However, when asked to implement any part of the toolkit, participants indicated that obstacles prevented them from doing so, similar to the obstacles they faced when completing the antiracist work they wanted to do in their district. Those obstacles were often suggested to be a result of COVID-19 or participants feeling the need for permission from those who hold higher positions of authority within their organizations to do this work. The researchers believe that these "obstacles" are in actuality equity detours that White leaders use as excuses when faced with the decision to implement antiracist practices, which leads to major pushback, both internal and external to the organization.
A robust sample of submillimetre galaxies: constraints on the prevalence of dusty, high-redshift starbursts
Creators: name: Ivison, R. J.
name: Smail, Ian
name: Dunlop, J. S.
name: Greve, T. R.
name: Swinbank, A. M.
name: Stevens, J. A.
name: Mortier, A. M. J.
name: Serjeant, S.
name: Targett, T. A.
name: Bertoldi, F.
name: Blain, A. W.
name: Chapman, S. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The modest significance of most sources detected in current submm surveys can potentially compromise some analyses due to the inclusion of spurious sources in catalogues typically selected at >3.0-3.5sigma. Here, we develop and apply a dual-survey extraction technique to SCUBA and MAMBO images of the Lockman Hole. Cut above 5sigma, our catalogue of SMGs is more robust than previous samples, with a reduced likelihood of real, but faint SMGs (beneath and around the confusion limit) entering via superposition with noise. The effective flux limit of the survey is well matched to our deep 1.4-GHz image. The former is sensitive to luminous, dusty galaxies at extreme redshifts whilst the latter probes the z<3 regime. A high fraction of our robust SMGs (~80%) have radio counterparts which, given the ~10% contamination by spurious sources, suggests that very distant SMGs (z>>3) are unlikely to make up more than ~10% of the bright SMG population. This implies that almost all of the bright SMG population is amenable to study via the deepest current radio imaging. We use these radio counterparts to provide an empirical calibration of the positional uncertainty in SMG catalogues. We then go on to outline the acquisition of redshifts for radio-identified SMGs, from sample selection in the submm, to counterpart selection in the radio and optical/IR, to slit placement on spectrograph masks. We determine a median of z=2.05 +/- 0.41 from a sample of six secure redshifts for unambigious radio-identified submm sources and z=2.14 +/- 0.27 when we include submm sources with multiple radio counterparts and/or less reliable redshifts. These figures are consistent with previous estimates, suggesting that our knowledge of the median redshift of bright SMGs population has not been biased by the low significance of the source catalogues employed.
description: In press at MNRAS
Beatwave Excitation of Plasma Waves Based on Relativistic Bi-Stability
Creators: name: Shvets, Gennady
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A nonlinear beatwave regime of plasma wave excitation is considered. Two beatwave drivers are considered: intensity-modulated laser pulse and density-modulated (microbunched) electron beam. It is shown that a long beatwave pulse can excite strong plasma waves in its wake even when the beatwave frequency is detuned from the electron plasma frequency. The wake is caused by the dynamic bi-stability of the nonlinear plasma wave if the beatwave amplitude exceeds the analytically calculated threshold. In the context of a microbunched beam driven plasma wakefield accelerator, this excitation regime can be applied to developing a femtosecond electron injector.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Lathrobium hebes ASSING 2014
Creators: name: Assing, Volker
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Lathrobium
Lathrobium hebes

description: Lathrobium hebes ASSING, 2014
 Material examined: Nepal: 1 , 1 , SW-Dhaulagiri, Jaljala La env., 28°30'N, 83°15'E, 3300–3500 m, 12., 13.& 21.V.2012, leg. Schmidt (NME, cAss).
 Comment: The above specimens were collected near the type locality.
description: Published as part of Assing, Volker, 2015, New species and additional records of Lathrobium and Elytrobium from the Palaearctic region, with special reference to the fauna of East Yunnan (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae), pp. 41-74 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 65 (1) on page 45, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.65.1.41-74, http://zenodo.org/record/4753882