cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Farmers Willingness to Share Data: A Study of Saskatchewan Farmers
Creators: name: Turland, M.
name: Slade, P.
name: Turland, M.
name: Slade, P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Research and Development/ Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Modern farm machinery captures geocoded data on all aspects of a farming operation. These detailed datasets are called big data. Although some of this data is useful to individual farmers, much of it has little value to the farmer that collects it. Capturing the true value of big data comes when it is aggregated over many farms, allowing researchers to find underlying trends. To analyze farmers willingness to share data we conduct a hypothetical choice experiment that asked farmers in Saskatchewan whether they would join a big data program. The choice tasks varied the type of organization that operated the big data program, and included financial and non-financial incentives. Heteroscedastic and random effects probit models are presented using data from a survey constructed for this study. The results are consistent across models and find that farmers are most willing to share their data with university researchers, followed by crop input suppliers or grower associations, and financial institutions or equipment manufacturers. Farmers are least willing to share their data with government. Farmers are more willing to share data in the presence of a financial incentive or non-financial incentive such as comparative benchmark statistics or prescription maps generated from the data submitted. Acknowledgement :
Cratiria vioxanthina Kalb & Elix, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Kalb, Klaus
name: Buaruang, Kawinnat
name: Mongkolsuk, Pachara
name: Boonpragob, Kansri
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Ascomycota
Lecanoromycetes
Teloschistales
Physciaceae
Cratiria
Cratiria vioxanthina

description: Cratiria vioxanthina (Elix) Kalb & Elix comb. nov. MycoBank MB 564176
 Basionym: Buellia vioxanthina Elix, Australasian Lichenology 64: 32 (2009).
 This saxicolous species was recently described by Elix (2009). It is characterized by a whitish to grey areolate thallus, sessile apothecia with a rather thick margin, a hymenium which is inspersed by minute oil droplets, especially in the lower part and an exciple which is dark brown at the inner and peripheral part but pale brown in the central part, mature ascospores with a distinctly rugulate (warty) outer wall and the presence of norstictic acid (major), connorstictic acid (minor), atranorin (minor), vioxanthin (minor) and demethylvioxanthin (minor). Many of these features are characteristic of the genus Cratira Marbach (2000: 160), so the species is transferred to that genus. Cratiria is distinguished from Buellia sensu str. by an exciple which is differentiated in a dark brown inner and peripheral part and a hyaline or pale brown central part (it is uniform and black in Buellia), a hymenium which is not inspersed or inspersed with minute globular oil droplets (the inspersion is always present in Buellia and is formed by rather large and irregular oil droplets) and by Buellia - type ascospores (Callispora - type in Buellia). Previously, C. vioxanthina was known only from Australia (northern Queensland and Northern Territory) but here is reported from South America for the first time. It is also a new addition to the lichen biota of Brazil.
 Specimens examined:— BRAZIL. Sergipe: Serra de Itabaiana, ca. 45 km NE of Aracuja, Parque Nacional Serra de Itabaiana, in an open Caatinga on a white arenite bolder near the ground, 240 m, 10°44’51’’ S, 37°20’29’’ W, 14 April 2010, K. Kalb & L. Rodrigues (hb. Kalb 37920);— São Paulo: Praia do Lázaro near Ubatuba, in a dry and light coastal forest not subject to flooding (Restinga) on a granite boulder, 2 m, 23°25’ S, 45°10’ W, 29 September 1979, K. Kalb (hb. Kalb 38977).
description: Published as part of Kalb, Klaus, Buaruang, Kawinnat, Mongkolsuk, Pachara & Boonpragob, Kansri, 2012, New or otherwise interesting Lichens. VI, including a lichenicolous fungus, pp. 35-47 in Phytotaxa 42 on pages 38-39, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.42.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/4894823
Connecting heterogeneous quantum networks by hybrid entanglement swapping
Creators: name: Guccione, G.
name: Darras, T.
name: Jeannic, H. Le
name: Verma, V. B.
name: Nam, S. W.
name: Cavaillès, A.
name: Laurat, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent advances in quantum technologies are rapidly stimulating the building of quantum networks. With the parallel development of multiple physical platforms and different types of encodings, a challenge for present and future networks is to uphold a heterogeneous structure for full functionality and therefore support modular systems that are not necessarily compatible with one another. Central to this endeavor is the capability to distribute and interconnect optical entangled states relying on different discrete and continuous quantum variables. Here we report an entanglement swapping protocol connecting such entangled states. We generate single-photon entanglement and hybrid entanglement between particle-like and wave-like optical qubits, and then demonstrate the heralded creation of hybrid entanglement at a distance by using a specific Bell-state measurement. This ability opens up the prospect of connecting heterogeneous nodes of a network, with the promise of increased integration and novel functionalities.
We Got You, Mama: How Facebook Mom Groups Support Members Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence
Creators: Tadman-Kickham, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

With the rise of social media, Facebook Mom Groups have become an important resource for mothers to connect over their shared identity and provide support and information to one another. These female-focused groups have become safe spaces for members to have vulnerable conversations, including sharing past and present experiences of intimate partner violence. Through the analysis of secondary data (existing Facebook posts and comments), this study explores what kind of support members of an international Facebook Mom Group seek out and receive, related to their experiences of intimate partner violence. In total, 71 original posts and 1,200 comments/replies were analyzed using both qualitative and quantitative content analysis. The study found that members who posted about intimate partner violence sought out advice, emotional support, social network connections, resources and confirmation of abuse from the group. The findings also revealed that 84.5% (N=60) of the 71 original posters received the type of support they were seeking from the group. Though the remaining 15.5% (N=11) did not receive the type of support they requested, they did receive at least one alternative type of support. The results of this research help to fill a gap in current knowledge, explore the benefits and risks associated with seeking support for intimate partner violence in a Facebook group, and can be used to inform communications strategies for social service agencies.
Towards a practical approach for self-consistent large amplitude collective motion
Creators: name: Almehed, Daniel
name: Walet, Niels R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the use of an operatorial basis in a self-consistent theory of large amplitude collective motion. For the example of the pairing-plus-quadrupole model, which has been studied previously at equilibrium, we show that a small set of carefully chosen state-dependent basis operators is sufficient to approximate the exact solution of the problem accuratly. This approximation is used to study the interplay of quadrupole and pairing degrees of freedom along the collective path for realistic examples of nuclei. We show how this leads to a viable calculational scheme for studying nuclear structure, and discuss the surprising role of pairing collapse.
description: 19 pages, 8 figures Revised version To be published in Phys. Rev. C
Epitaxial deposition mechanism of barium fluoride on single crystal silicon substrate using molecular beam epitaxy
Creators: name: Santiago, Francisco
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The deposition of films made of fluoride compounds has been a goal for researchers because of their application as insulators in integrated microelectronics and as substrates. Films of barium fluoride (BaF$\sb2)$ have been grown directly on both (111), and (100) oriented silicon (Si) crystals. BaF$\sb2$ films of excellent quality grow oriented along the (111) direction regardless of the substrate orientation. The Si crystal has a lattice constant of 5.45 A in contrast with BaF$\sb2$ with a lattice constant of 6.20 A. It is difficult to explain how BaF$\sb2$ can be grown on Si using a simple atomic stacking mechanism. Strains at the interface due to differences in lattice constants should not allow the hetero-epitaxy system to exist. This work deals with the first attempt to explain how BaF$\sb2$ can be grown on Si by investigating the chemistry at the interface. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy was used to analyze the interface between BaF$\sb2$ and Si. Results show that fluorine is not present at the interface but rather a barium-silicon compound is formed at the interface. X-ray diffraction measurements confirm the formation of a new compound at the interface. Further evidence of the chemical reaction at the interface is that by heating the BaF$\sb2$ films on Si, all of the film can be converted to the barium-silicon compound. This new Ba-Si film was used as a substrate for deposition of PbTe with excellent results. PbTe like BaF$\sb2$ has a lattice constant considerable larger that silicon (6.49 A). The PbTe films grew (100) oriented and had very little strain according to X-ray diffraction results. The results reported here suggest that a new procedure for making silicide films can be developed. Also the results can be used to explain the chemistry in other fluorides on Si.
Production risk and technical (in)efficiency amongst smallholder livestock farmers in Botswana: An exploratory investigation
Creators: name: Amuakwa-Mensah, F.
name: Chube, B.
name: Surry, Y.
name: Bahta, S.
name: Amuakwa-Mensah, F.
name: Chube, B.
name: Surry, Y.
name: Bahta, S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries

description: This article investigates production (in)efficiency and production risk among smallholder livestock farmers in Botswana. Using cross-sectional data for beef production households, we estimate stochastic production frontier model that accommodates both technical inefficiency and production risk simultaneously. Heteroscedasticity is assumed for both inefficiency and production risk functions. Potential endogeneity of off-farm income is investigated using the control function approach. The empirical results indicate that the deterministic beef production function exhibits decreasing returns to scale and it is mainly explained by herd size and capital equipment. Non-linear relationship between inefficiency and herd size is established with an inverted U shape. Whereas, off-farm income reduces inefficiency, an increase rainfall and household size were found to increase inefficiency. In addition, production risk increases with an increase in maximum temperature and off-farm income but reduces with an increase in rainfall. The average inefficiency and risk scores for beef production are 9.4% and 3.2% respectively. Acknowledgement :
The Effect of the Sectoral Composition of Economic Growth on Rural and Urban Poverty
Creators: name: Benfica, R.
name: Henderson, H.
name: Benfica, R.
name: Henderson, H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Food Security and Poverty

description: We examine the relationship between the sectoral composition of economic growth and the rural-urban composition of poverty. To this end, we use a new cross-country panel dataset consisting of 146 rural and urban poverty spells for 71 low- and middle-income countries. We find that rural (urban) poverty is highly responsive to agricultural (non-agricultural) productivity growth. The effect of agricultural productivity growth on rural poverty is particularly strong for countries with little dependence on natural resources. We also find that growth in the share of employment in the non-agricultural sector (i.e., structural transformation) reduces rural poverty, most notably for countries with a low initial level of development. These findings are robust to changes in key assumptions, including using alternative poverty lines. Finally, we use our estimates to examine the historical contribution of different sources of economic growth to rural and urban poverty reduction. Acknowledgement : We acknowledge the International Fund for Agricultural Development for supporting this research.
Additional file 2 of Sexual-biased gene expression of olfactory-related genes in the antennae of Conogethes pinicolalis (Lepidoptera: Crambidae)
Creators: name: Dapeng Jing
name: Zhang, Tiantao
name: Shuxiong Bai
name: Kanglai He
name: Sivaprasath Prabu
name: Junbo Luan
name: Zhenying Wang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Table S1. Candidate OBPs, CSPs, ORs and IRs genes in Conogethes pinicolalis antennae.
Heterogeneity, Measurement Error, and Misallocation: Evidence from African Agriculture
Creators: name: Gollin, D.
name: Udry, C.
name: Gollin, D.
name: Udry, C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: Standard measures of productivity display enormous dispersion across farms in Africa. Crop yields and input intensities appear to vary greatly, seemingly in conflict with a model of efficient allocation across farms. In this paper, we present a theoretical framework for distinguishing between measurement error, unobserved heterogeneity, and potential misallocation. Using rich panel data from farms in Tanzania and Uganda, we estimate our model using a highly flexible specification in which we allow for several kinds of measurement error and heterogeneity. We find that measurement error and heterogeneity together account for a large fraction perhaps two-thirds to three-quarters -- of the dispersion in measured productivity. We suggest that the potential for efficiency gains through reallocation may be relatively modest. Acknowledgement : We are grateful for comments from Chris Barrett, Stefano Caria, Stefan Dercon, Andrew Foster, Talip Kilic, Karen Macours, and seminar participants at Yale, Oxford CSAE, UCLA, Northwestern, Heidelberg, Exeter, CEMFI Madrid, Manchester, Tufts, Hebrew University, and Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona.
The Writhe Distribution Of Stretched Polymers
Creators: name: Sinha, Supurna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Motivated by experiments in which single DNA molecules are stretched and twisted we consider a perturbative approach around very high forces, where we determine the writhe distribution in a simple, analytically tractable model. Our results are in agreement with recent simulations and experiments.
description: updated address
Twisted terahertz radiation generation using Laguerre-Gaussian laser pulse propagating in axially magnetized plasma
Creators: name: Mishra, Dinkar
name: Singh, Saumya
name: Kumar, Bhupesh
name: Jha, Pallavi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present analytical and simulation study of twisted terahertz (THz) radiation generation via propagation of a circularly polarized Laguerre Gaussian (LG) laser pulse in homogeneous plasma embedded in an axial magnetic field. Analytical formulation is based on perturbation technique and quasistatic approximation. Longitudinal and transverse wakefields generated via laser plasma interactions are evaluated using Lorentz force and Maxwells equations in the mildly nonlinear regime. It is observed that two linearly polarized twisted terahertz (THz) radiation beams are generated in mutually perpendicular planes. Superposition of the two beams result in a single linearly polarized twisted THz radiation beam with modified amplitude and polarization direction. Three dimensional (3D) particle in cell (PIC) simulations are performed for this configuration using FBPIC code. Graphical comparison of amplitude of the resultant THz beam obtained via analytical and simulation studies is presented.
Epitaxial deposition mechanism of barium fluoride on single crystal silicon substrate using molecular beam epitaxy
Creators: name: Santiago, Francisco
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 51
subject: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
classificationCode: 5104
subject: Condensed matter physics

description: The deposition of films made of fluoride compounds has been a goal for researchers because of their application as insulators in integrated microelectronics and as substrates. Films of barium fluoride (BaF$\sb2)$ have been grown directly on both (111), and (100) oriented silicon (Si) crystals. BaF$\sb2$ films of excellent quality grow oriented along the (111) direction regardless of the substrate orientation. The Si crystal has a lattice constant of 5.45 A in contrast with BaF$\sb2$ with a lattice constant of 6.20 A. It is difficult to explain how BaF$\sb2$ can be grown on Si using a simple atomic stacking mechanism. Strains at the interface due to differences in lattice constants should not allow the hetero-epitaxy system to exist. This work deals with the first attempt to explain how BaF$\sb2$ can be grown on Si by investigating the chemistry at the interface. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy was used to analyze the interface between BaF$\sb2$ and Si. Results show that fluorine is not present at the interface but rather a barium-silicon compound is formed at the interface. X-ray diffraction measurements confirm the formation of a new compound at the interface. Further evidence of the chemical reaction at the interface is that by heating the BaF$\sb2$ films on Si, all of the film can be converted to the barium-silicon compound. This new Ba-Si film was used as a substrate for deposition of PbTe with excellent results. PbTe like BaF$\sb2$ has a lattice constant considerable larger that silicon (6.49 A). The PbTe films grew (100) oriented and had very little strain according to X-ray diffraction results. The results reported here suggest that a new procedure for making silicide films can be developed. Also the results can be used to explain the chemistry in other fluorides on Si.
Universal threshold for single-spin asymmetries in fixed target experiments
Creators: name: Mochalov, V. V.
name: Vasiliev, A. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The analysis of inclusive $π$-meson single spin asymmetry measurements was done. It was found that the single spin asymmetry starts to grow up at the same value of the $π$-meson energy in the center of mass system for fixed target experiments at the beam energy range from 13 to 200 GeV.
description: 9 pages, 8 figures, submitted to Sov. Journ of Nucl Phys
BERTologyNavigator: Advanced Question Answering with BERT-based Semantics
Creators: name: Rajpal, Shreya
name: Usbeck, Ricardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.4; I.2.7

description: The development and integration of knowledge graphs and language models has significance in artificial intelligence and natural language processing. In this study, we introduce the BERTologyNavigator -- a two-phased system that combines relation extraction techniques and BERT embeddings to navigate the relationships within the DBLP Knowledge Graph (KG). Our approach focuses on extracting one-hop relations and labelled candidate pairs in the first phases. This is followed by employing BERT's CLS embeddings and additional heuristics for relation selection in the second phase. Our system reaches an F1 score of 0.2175 on the DBLP QuAD Final test dataset for Scholarly QALD and 0.98 F1 score on the subset of the DBLP QuAD test dataset during the QA phase.
description: Accepted in Scholarly QALD Challenge @ ISWC 2023
Lattice measurement of the couplings g_infinity and g_Bstar_B_pi
Creators: name: Abada, A.
name: Becirevic, D.
name: Boucaud, Ph.
name: Herdoiza, G.
name: Leroy, J. P.
name: Yaouanc, A. Le
name: Pène, O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of a quenched lattice QCD study of the coupling g_hat, in the static heavy quark limit. After combining this with our previous results obtained by using propagating heavy quarks with a mass around the physical charm quark, we are able to interpolate to the b-quark sector. Our results are g_hat_infinity = 0.48 +/- 0.03 +/- 0.11, g_hat_b = 0.58 +/- 0.06 +/- 0.10, and g_Bstar_ B_p = 47 +/- 5 +/- 8.
description: 20 pages, 10 figures
Oxygen service
Creators: name: Creator not identified.
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 1940
Subjects: subject: Oxygen
subject: Hypoxia
subject: Oxygen Inhalation Therapy

description: These procedures discuss the purpose of providing oxygen services, the personnel involved, the location of the machinery and equipment, how to request having oxygen therapy performed, the safety precautions and regulations of operating the machinery, nursing care, and a variety of techniques for transmitting oxygen including masks, tents, and nasal catheters.
Additional file 1 of Effectiveness of exercise on fatigue in hemodialysis patients: a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Salehi, Farzaneh
name: Dehghan, Mahlagha
name: Shahrbabaki, Parvin Mangolian
name: Ebadzadeh, Mohammad Reza
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1. Is a photo of the mini bike was used in this study. This photgraph was taken by the authors.
Asynchronous and Load-Balanced Union-Find for Distributed and Parallel Scientific Data Visualization and Analysis
Creators: name: Xu, Jiayi
name: Guo, Hanqi
name: Shen, Han-Wei
name: Raj, Mukund
name: Wang, Xueyun
name: Xu, Xueqiao
name: Wang, Zhehui
name: Peterka, Tom
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present a novel distributed union-find algorithm that features asynchronous parallelism and k-d tree based load balancing for scalable visualization and analysis of scientific data. Applications of union-find include level set extraction and critical point tracking, but distributed union-find can suffer from high synchronization costs and imbalanced workloads across parallel processes. In this study, we prove that global synchronizations in existing distributed union-find can be eliminated without changing final results, allowing overlapped communications and computations for scalable processing. We also use a k-d tree decomposition to redistribute inputs, in order to improve workload balancing. We benchmark the scalability of our algorithm with up to 1,024 processes using both synthetic and application data. We demonstrate the use of our algorithm in critical point tracking and super-level set extraction with high-speed imaging experiments and fusion plasma simulations, respectively.
description: Accepted by IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE TVCG Special Issue on IEEE PacificVis 2021)
Cryptolechia pittieriana Kalb, Lugo & J. E. Hern. 2012, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Kalb, Klaus
name: Buaruang, Kawinnat
name: Mongkolsuk, Pachara
name: Boonpragob, Kansri
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Oecophoridae
Cryptolechia
Cryptolechia pittieriana

description: Cryptolechia pittieriana Kalb, Lugo & J.E. Hern. sp. nov. Mycobank MB 564178
 Sicut Cryptolechia myriadella (Nyl.) D. Hawksw. & Dibben, sed ascosporis longioribus differt.
 Type:— VENEZUELA. Aragua: Parque Nacional Henry Pittier, 12 km along the road from Maracay to Ocumare de la Costa, Estacion Biologica Dr. Alberto Fernandez Y. "Andrew Field trail", in an old tropical mountain rainforest (selva nublada), 1100-1200 m, 10°21' N, 67°40' W, 2 August 2010, G. Lugo, K. Kalb & J. Hernandez (holotype VEN; isotype hb. Kalb 38595).
 Etymology:—The new lichen is named after the type locality.
Thallus corticolous, thin, continuous to areolate-cracked, grey, prothallus not visible. Apothecia 0.2–0.3 mm diam., initially immersed in the thallus, then sessile with a constricted base, disc slightly concave or flat, waxy coloured. Margin thick and denticulate at first, becoming depressed and smooth with age, paler than the disc or developing a blackish tinge with age. Exciple paraplectenchymatous, laterally to 40 µm thick, composed of pachydermatous cells, 2–4 µm in diam. Hypothecium hyaline, 10–15 µm high. Hymenium hyaline, 110–140 µm high. Paraphyses simple, 1.5-2 µm wide, not thickened apically. Epihymenium with brown granules. Asci cylindrically clavate, 55–65 × 11–14 µm, with 12–16 spores. Ascospores long-ellipsoid, slightly tapering on one end, 6–9-septate, 23–38 × 2.5–3.5 µm. Pycnidia not seen.
 Notes:—Previously there were only three species of Cryptolechia known to have ascospores with up to seven septa, namely C. caudata Kalb from Africa and Australia, C. myriadella from Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia, and C. plurilocularis (Vain.) D. Hawksw. & Dibben from Africa (Kalb 2007). Cryptolechia caudata is distinguished by its tailed ascospores, C. myriadella has distinctly shorter and thicker ascospores (20–25 × 3.5–4.5 µm) while C. plurilocularis has only eight ascospores per ascus.
description: Published as part of Kalb, Klaus, Buaruang, Kawinnat, Mongkolsuk, Pachara & Boonpragob, Kansri, 2012, New or otherwise interesting Lichens. VI, including a lichenicolous fungus, pp. 35-47 in Phytotaxa 42 on pages 39-40, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.42.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/4894823
Higher meson resonances in $ρ\to π^0 π^0 γ$ and $ω\to π^0 π^0 γ$
Creators: name: Oh, Yongseok
name: Kim, Hungchong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The role of higher meson resonances with spin 1 and 2 is investigated quantitatively in the decay processes of $ρ\to π^0π^0 γ$ and $ω\to π^0 π^0 γ$. Among the higher resonances, we find that the $f_2(1270)$ tensor meson can give a nontrivial contribution especially to the $ω\to π^0 π^0 γ$ decay process. When the $f_2$ contribution is combined with the processes involving the vector and scalar meson intermediate states, a good agreement with the recent measurements is achieved for both decays. The effect of the $f_2(1270)$ is found to be sizable at the intermediate photon energies and may be verified by precise measurements of the recoil photon spectrum of the $ω\to π^0 π^0 γ$ decay. The dependence of the decay widths on various models for the $ρ$-$ω$ mixing in the literature is also investigated.
description: 16 pages, REVTeX, 6 figures, revised version, to appear in Phys. Rev. D
Time-Reversal Violating Schiff Moment of 225Ra
Creators: name: Engel, J.
name: Bender, M.
name: Dobaczewski, J.
name: de Jesus, J. H.
name: Olbratowski, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use the Skyrme-Hartree-Fock method, allowing all symmetries to be broken, to calculate the time-reversal-violating nuclear Schiff moment (which induces atomic electric dipole moments) in the octupole-deformed nucleus 225Ra. Our calculation includes several effects neglected in earlier work, including self consistency and polarization of the core by the last nucleon. We confirm that the Schiff moment is large compared to those of reflection-symmetric nuclei, though ours is generally a few times smaller than recent estimates.
description: Typos corrected, references added, minor changesin text. Version to appear in PRC. 10 pages, 4 figures
Effects of a brief cognitive behavioral video intervention with coping imagery on college student test anxiety and grade performance
Creators: name: Lindenmuth, Elise B.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of the Cognitive Behavioral Video Intervention (CBVI), utilizing stress inoculation with coping imagery, on course examination grade and test anxiety level prior to the course examination of a sample of undergraduate students. The study hypothesized that test anxiety level of students participating in the CBVI would be significantly lower than that for those students in the control group, and that the course examination grade for students who participated in the CBVI would be significantly higher than that for the control group. From a randomized sample of 495 undergraduate college students at York College of Pennsylvania, 112 students with high test anxiety as determined by the 75th percentile on the Test Anxiety Inventory (Spielberger, 1980) were randomly assigned to two conditions: (a) the brief, one-hour CBVI based on stress inoculation, or (b) an attention placebo control group. Pretreatment and posttreatment measures were collected on self-reported test anxiety on the Test Anxiety Inventory and course examination grades. After participating in the CBVI, students with high test anxiety were found to have significantly lower $(p < .05)$ test anxiety and higher course examination grades. These findings lead to the conclusions that effects of the CBVI included reduction of test anxiety and improvement of course examination grades of undergraduate college students. The implication is that a strategy such as the CBVI used by colleges and universities would be of benefit in dealing with students with high test anxiety due to ease of use, low cost, and brevity.
The Effectiveness of 3D Displays on Sorting Behaviour in Post- Secondary Institutions
Creators: name: Fu, Alice
name: Siu, Andy
name: Misra, Reshma
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Visual processing has shown to improve greater conceptual understanding and how visual cues are situated spatially can also increase cognition processes (Gozli, Chasteen & Pratt, 2013). Another aspect of visual processing of a target is described by Bardy & Laurent (1991) as the time-to-contact parameter (Tc), which determines what information an individual can visually absorb. Spatial representation alongside the dilation rate of the target on the retina can help garner individuals’ attention before they dispose of their items through their respective bins (Gozli, Chasteen & Pratt, 2013; Bardy & Laurent, 1991). With the addition of 3D displays, it is possible to implement findings on visual acuity to improve sorting behaviours at UBC’s Stir It Up Café in the Buchanan A building. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Aspects of the Synthesis of Thin Film Superconducting Infinite-Layer Nickelates
Creators: name: Lee, Kyuho
name: Goodge, Berit H.
name: Li, Danfeng
name: Osada, Motoki
name: Wang, Bai Yang
name: Cui, Yi
name: Kourkoutis, Lena F.
name: Hwang, Harold Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recent observation of superconductivity in Nd$_{0.8}$Sr$_{0.2}$NiO$_{2}$ calls for further investigation and optimization of the synthesis of this metastable infinite-layer nickelate structure. Here, we present our current understanding of important aspects of the growth of the parent perovskite compound via pulsed laser deposition on SrTiO$_{3}$ (001) substrates, and the subsequent topotactic reduction. We find that to achieve single-crystalline, single-phase superconducting Nd$_{0.8}$Sr$_{0.2}$NiO$_{2}$, it is essential that the precursor perovskite Nd$_{0.8}$Sr$_{0.2}$NiO$_{3}$ thin film is stabilized with high crystallinity and no impurity phases; in particular, a Ruddlesden-Popper-type secondary phase is often observed. We have further investigated the evolution of the soft-chemistry topotactic reduction conditions to realize full transformation to the infinite-layer structure with no film decomposition or formation of other phases. We find that capping the nickelate film with a subsequent SrTiO$_{3}$ layer provides an epitaxial template to the top region of the nickelate film, much like the substrate. Thus, for currently optimized growth conditions, we can stabilize superconducting single-phase Nd$_{0.8}$Sr$_{0.2}$NiO$_{2}$ (001) epitaxial thin films up to ~ 10 nm.
Valence-Quark Distribution of the Kaon and Pion from Lattice QCD
Creators: name: Lin, Huey-Wen
name: Chen, Jiunn-Wei
name: Fan, Zhouyou
name: Zhang, Jian-Hui
name: Zhang, Rui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first lattice-QCD calculation of the kaon valence-quark distribution functions using the large-momentum effective theory (LaMET) approach. The calculation is performed with multiple pion masses with the lightest one around 220 MeV, 2 lattice spacings $a=0.06$ and 0.12 fm, $(M_π)_\text{min} L \approx 5.5$, and high statistics ranging from 11,600 to 61,312 measurements. We also calculate the valence-quark distribution of pion and find it to be consistent with the FNAL E615 experimental results, and our ratio of the $u$ quark PDF in the kaon to that in the pion agrees with the CERN NA3 experiment. We also make predictions of the strange-quark distribution of the kaon.
Effects of a brief cognitive behavioral video intervention with coping imagery on college student test anxiety and grade performance
Creators: name: Lindenmuth, Elise B.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3903
subject: Education systems
classificationCode: 3904
subject: Specialist studies in education

description: The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of the Cognitive Behavioral Video Intervention (CBVI), utilizing stress inoculation with coping imagery, on course examination grade and test anxiety level prior to the course examination of a sample of undergraduate students. The study hypothesized that test anxiety level of students participating in the CBVI would be significantly lower than that for those students in the control group, and that the course examination grade for students who participated in the CBVI would be significantly higher than that for the control group. From a randomized sample of 495 undergraduate college students at York College of Pennsylvania, 112 students with high test anxiety as determined by the 75th percentile on the Test Anxiety Inventory (Spielberger, 1980) were randomly assigned to two conditions: (a) the brief, one-hour CBVI based on stress inoculation, or (b) an attention placebo control group. Pretreatment and posttreatment measures were collected on self-reported test anxiety on the Test Anxiety Inventory and course examination grades. After participating in the CBVI, students with high test anxiety were found to have significantly lower $(p < .05)$ test anxiety and higher course examination grades. These findings lead to the conclusions that effects of the CBVI included reduction of test anxiety and improvement of course examination grades of undergraduate college students. The implication is that a strategy such as the CBVI used by colleges and universities would be of benefit in dealing with students with high test anxiety due to ease of use, low cost, and brevity.
Cryptothecia napoensis Kalb & Jonitz 2012, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Kalb, Klaus
name: Buaruang, Kawinnat
name: Mongkolsuk, Pachara
name: Boonpragob, Kansri
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Ascomycota
Arthoniomycetes
Arthoniales
Arthoniaceae
Cryptothecia
Cryptothecia napoensis

description: Cryptothecia napoensis Kalb & Jonitz sp. nov. (Fig. 1E, F) Mycobank MB 564179
 Sicut Cryptothecia candida (Kremp.) R. Sant., sed materia chemica differt.
 Type:— ECUADOR. Napo: Between Tena and Pto. Misahuallí, a few km W of Misahuallí, walking trail to ‘ Cascada de Latas’, on bamboo stipes in a tropical rainforest, 480 m, 01°01.9’ S, 77°44’ W, 3 September 2011. K. Kalb, J. Kalb & H. Jonitz (holotype hb. Kalb 38968, isotype UPS).
 Etymology:—The specific epithet refers to Napo Province in Ecuador where the type was collected.
 Thallus up to 4 cm wide, but sometimes several thalli confluent and then forming patches up to 10 cm wide, firmly attached to the substrate, smooth, dull, grey, greenish grey to green, heteromerous, thin, up to 50 µm thick; prothallus byssoid, brownish to black; medulla white, I+ blue; photobiont trentepohlioid, with several cells aggregated. Ascigerous parts delimited, round to elongated, raised, white, I+ violet, 0.4–1 mm diam. Paraphysoids tightly enclosing the asci. Asci frequent, ± globose, ca. 50 µm diam., walls 5–6 µm thick, usually with (4–)6(–8) ascospores. Ascospores ellipsoid but often curved and slightly thickened in the middle, with 9–13 transverse and 1–3(–4) longitudinal septa, (40–)45–55(–60) × (12–)13–15(–18) µm. Chemistry: confluentic acid (major), 2’- O -methylmicrophyllinic acid (trace) and 2’- O -methylperlatolic acid (trace) [J. Elix 2011, HPLC, TLC].
 Notes:— Cryptothecia napoensis is closely related to the epiphyllous C. candida, and initially a new species was not described despite its occurence on bamboo. Bamboo culms provide a habitat often exploited by foliicolous species (Santesson 1952). However, C. candida is distinguished by its slightly larger ascospores (48–)52–60(–65) × (16–)17–20(–22) µm (Thor 1997) and especially by its alternative chemistry, i.e. not gyrophoric acid as mentioned by Thor (1997), but 2’- O -methylperlatolic acid and 2’- O -methylanziaic acid (Lücking et al. 2006). The morphologically identical neotropical C. filicina differs in having perlatolic acid. Until now, the chemistry of the new species is unique within the genus.
description: Published as part of Kalb, Klaus, Buaruang, Kawinnat, Mongkolsuk, Pachara & Boonpragob, Kansri, 2012, New or otherwise interesting Lichens. VI, including a lichenicolous fungus, pp. 35-47 in Phytotaxa 42 on pages 40-41, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.42.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/4894823
Markov Chain Monte Carlo joint analysis of Chandra X-ray imaging spectroscopy and Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect data
Creators: name: Bonamente, Massimiliano
name: Joy, Marshall K.
name: Carlstrom, John E.
name: Reese, Erik D.
name: LaRoque, Samuel J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: X-ray and Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect data can be combined to determine the distance to galaxy clusters. High-resolution X-ray data are now available from the Chandra Observatory, which provides both spatial and spectral information, and Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect data were obtained from the BIMA and OVRO arrays. We introduce a Markov chain Monte Carlo procedure for the joint analysis of X-ray and Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect data. The advantages of this method are the high computational efficiency and the ability to measure simultaneously the probability distribution of all parameters of interest, such as the spatial and spectral properties of the cluster gas and also for derivative quantities such as the distance to the cluster. We demonstrate this technique by applying it to the Chandra X-ray data and the OVRO radio data for the galaxy cluster Abell 611. Comparisons with traditional likelihood-ratio methods reveal the robustness of the method. This method will be used in follow-up papers to determine the distances to a large sample of galaxy clusters.
description: ApJ accepted, scheduled for ApJ 10 October 2004, v614 issue. Title changed, added more convergence diagnostic tests, Figure 7 converted to lower resolution for easier download, other minor changes
Component-aware Orchestration of Cloud-based Enterprise Applications, from TOSCA to Docker and Kubernetes
Creators: name: Bogo, Matteo
name: Soldani, Jacopo
name: Neri, Davide
name: Brogi, Antonio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Enterprise IT is currently facing the challenge of coordinating the management of complex, multi-component applications across heterogeneous cloud platforms. Containers and container orchestrators provide a valuable solution to deploy multi-component applications over cloud platforms, by coupling the lifecycle of each application component to that of its hosting container. We hereby propose a solution for going beyond such a coupling, based on the OASIS standard TOSCA and on Docker. We indeed propose a novel approach for deploying multi-component applications on top of existing container orchestrators, which allows to manage each component independently from the container used to run it. We also present prototype tools implementing our approach, and we show how we effectively exploited them to carry out a concrete case study.
Additional file 2 of In their own words: a qualitative study of factors promoting resilience and recovery among postpartum women with opioid use disorders
Creators: name: Goodman, Daisy J.
name: Saunders, Elizabeth C.
name: Wolff, Kristina B.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Additional file 2. ‘In their own words’ COREQ Checklist. Completed COREQ Checklist fo the ‘In their own words’ study
Identification of mutagens in drinking water and classification of mutations on DNA
Creators: name: Lu, Chuang
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 34
subject: Chemical sciences
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
classificationCode: 3401
subject: Analytical chemistry

description: The objective of this work was to develop a method to recover and identify mutagenic electrophiles present in drinking water and then to develop a method for rapidly determining the types of mutation such mutagens create in DNA. I. 5,5$\sp\prime$-dithiobis-(2-nitrobenzoic acid) was esterified to a carbohydrate polymer coating on controlled pore glass and reduced to the free thiol, creating an immobilized nucleophile, 5-mercapto-2-nitrobenzoyl (MNB) glass. MNB glass was used to trap the electrophilic mutagens present in drinking water concentrates (DWC). After washing to remove non-covalently bound material, the nucleophile-electrophile adducts were released by treatment with strong base. HPLC was used to separate and purify these products. II. A series of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon diol epoxides (PAHDEs) and small alkylating agents was tested for mutagenicity in Salmonella typhimurium strains TA100 and TA104. The relative levels of mutagenicity observed in the two strains correlated with the known amounts of adduct formed at dG and dA by the compounds, suggesting that the relative response of the two strains might be used to predict unknown ratios of chemical attack of a mutagen on dG vs dA in DNA. The analysis with TA100 and TA104 was then extended to DWC and the DWC mutagen MX, whose extent of reaction with dG vs dA is unknown. The results indicated MX is a dG favoring mutagen while the mutagens in DWC other than MX are more dA favoring compared to MX. The F$\sp\prime$ episomes of six LacZ$\sp-$ Escherichia coli (E. coli) strains, CC101-106, each of which is reverted by one of the six possible base pair substitutions, were transferred to E. coli strain EE122, which carries $\Delta$uvrB and rfa, to create six intermediate strains, CL101-106. Plasmid pKM101 was transferred to CL101-106 to create six new strains, CL101P-106P. The CL101P-106P strains were treated in parallel with a set of PAHDEs to generate mutational spectra or quantitative measurements of the relative amounts of the six kinds of point mutation that are produced by the compounds. The results were close to the published mutational spectra for these compounds, which were determined by various DNA sequencing studies, except CL103P (reverted by GC $\to$ CG transversions) responded very poorly. Excluding the underresponsiveness of CL103P, PAHDEs mainly created GC $\to$ TA and AT $\to$ TA transversions (70-80%) while MX mostly generated GC $\to$ TA and AT $\to$ CG transversions (90%).
Eschatogonia dissecta Timdal & R. Sant.
Creators: name: Kalb, Klaus
name: Buaruang, Kawinnat
name: Mongkolsuk, Pachara
name: Boonpragob, Kansri
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Ascomycota
Lecanoromycetes
Lecanorales
Ramalinaceae
Eschatogonia
Eschatogonia dissecta

description: Eschatogonia dissecta Timdal & R. Sant.
 This lichen was recently described by Timdal and reported from Peru, French Guiana and Venezuela (Timdal 2008). The material cited below matches the description by Timdal (2008) in all respects. We found homosekikaic acid and hyperhomosekikaic acid as major substances and sekikaic acid as a trace substance (TLC). The latter was not mentioned by Timdal. Eschatogonia dissecta is a new addition to the Brazilian lichen biota.
 Specimen examined:— BRAZIL. Mato Grosso: Serra dos Coroados; Chapada dos Guimarães, trail down to the waterfall ‘ Véu de Noiva’ of Rio Coxipó, in a dark tropical rainforest, 575 m, 15°30’ S, 55°40’ W, 7 July 1980, K. Kalb & M. Marcelli (hb. Kalb 33526).
description: Published as part of Kalb, Klaus, Buaruang, Kawinnat, Mongkolsuk, Pachara & Boonpragob, Kansri, 2012, New or otherwise interesting Lichens. VI, including a lichenicolous fungus, pp. 35-47 in Phytotaxa 42 on page 41, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.42.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/4894823
1915-04-29 G.V. Black to McKay - Unsigned
Creators: name: Black, G. V. (Greene Vardiman), 1836-1915.
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 1915
Subjects: Dental Fluorosis
Tooth Abnormalities
Fluoridation
Colorado

description: Title: G.V. Black to McKay Container: c02 id: level: (Another version)