cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Biodiesel Quality Analysis
Creators: name: Ngan, Patrick
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BEHAVIORAL EFFECTS OF RILUZOLE EXPOSURES IN WT AND SOD1 MUTANT ZEBRAFISH
Creators: name: Wensel, Karli
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Despite the growing use and characterization of the SOD1G93R mutant zebrafish ALS model, there is a lack of degeneration studies during chronic riluzole treatment. Most studies have focused on comparing the mutant zebrafish to control lines to show there is indeed development of ALS-like symptoms during their growth. This is the first study to treat SOD1 fish with 1 µM and 0.5 µM riluzole, chronically and for 1-week, respectively. At 10, 20, and 30 dpf, OMR, startle response, swimming activity, and body length were measured. SOD1G93R fish did not survive either of the two riluzole treatment conditions, whereas chronically riluzole-treated WT fish survived better than water- or vehicle-treated controls. SOD1G93R larvae exposed to vehicle for one week moved 0.999 mm more than chronically vehicle-treated (p = 0.015). When chronically-exposed to 1 µM riluzole, zebrafish larvae swam significantly less than water-treated (0.92 s, p = 0.019) and vehicle-treated fish (1.03 s, p = 0.012). SOD1G93R fish exposed to 1 week of 0.5 µM vehicle moved 0.98 mm/s slower than WT zebrafish in the same treatment condition (p = 0.001). Startle responses and OMR tests revealed no differences across treatments, however SOD1G93R fish responded significantly worse to clockwise stimuli than WT fish. Behavioral alterations due to strain and treatment were detectable in this study, but the spawning sensitivity of SOD1 mutants and their poor survival in riluzole presented difficulties that should be considered in future studies.
Comment on: "The asymptotic iteration method revisited" [J. Math. Phys. 61, 033501 (2020)]
Creators: name: Fernández, Francisco M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this comment we show that the eigenvalues of a quartic anharmonic oscillator obtained recently by means of the asymptotic iteration method may not be as accurate as the authors claim them to be.
Homoporus pulchripes Erdos 1953
Creators: name: Xiao, Hui
name: Zhang, Yan-Zhou
name: Huang, Da-Wei
name: Polaszek, Andrew
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pteromalidae
Homoporus
Homoporus pulchripes

description: Homoporus pulchripes Erdös, 1953
(Fig. 8)
 Homoporus pulchripes Erdös, 1953: 245; Holotype female, Hungary, in coll. Erdös [Not examined]; Delucchi, 1957: 405, 408; Graham, 1969: 447, 456.
 Material examined. – 1 female, NHM, ITALY: Sarre (Aosta), 13 Sep.1969, coll. Z. Boucek ˇ, Det. Z. Boucek ˇ; 1 female, IZCAS: CHINA: XingJiang, Shawan, 19 Jul.1957, coll. Wang Qing; 1 female, 1 male, IZCAS: Nei Mongol, Hailar, 14 Aug.1981, coll. Liao Ding-Xi; 1 male, IZCAS: CHINA: Nei Mongol, Manzhouli, 6 Aug.1984, coll. Liao Ding-Xi; 1 female, IZCAS: CHINA: Nei Mongol, Hohhot, 8 Aug.1984, coll. Liao Ding-Xi; 3 females, 1 male, IZCAS: CHINA: Hebei, Weichang, 7 Aug.1985, coll. Mi Hua-Fu; 1 female, IZCAS: CHINA: Ningxia, Yinchuan, 25 Aug.1984, coll. Liao Ding-Xi.
 Host(s). – Tetramesa aciculata Schlecht (Hymenoptera: Eurytomidae) (Erdös, 1961).
 Distribution. – CHINA (Xinjiang, Nei Mongol, Hebei, Ningxia); widely distributed in the Palaearctic region (Europe and Asia).
description: Published as part of Xiao, Hui, Zhang, Yan-Zhou, Huang, Da-Wei & Polaszek, Andrew, 2004, A Revision Of Homoporus (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) Of China, pp. 59-65 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 52 (1) on page 62, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4618919
Mode-Locking of the Hermite-Gaussian Modes of a Nanolaser
Creators: name: Sun, Yifan
name: Combrié, Sylvain
name: Bretenaker, Fabien
name: De Rossi, Alfredo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Mode-locking is predicted in a nanolaser cavity forming an effective photonic harmonic potential. The cavity is substantially more compact than a Fabry-Perot resonator with comparable pulsing period, which is here controlled by the potential. In the limit of instantaneous gain and absorption saturation, mode-locking corresponds to a stable dissipative soliton, which it very well approximated by the coherent state of a quantum mechanical harmonic oscillator. This property is robust against non-instantaneous material response and non-zero phase-intensity coupling.
Random Effects Models for Panel Count Data
Creators: name: Winkelmann, Rainer
name: Winkelmann, Rainer
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Poisson convolution
subject: multi-factor models
subject: Simulated Maximum Likelihood

description: This paper discusses the specification and extimation of random effects count data models. A new multivariate count data model with negative binomial marginals is derived. In contrast to the existing multivariate Poisson model, this model allows for over-dispersion, a phenomenon that is frequently encountered in real data applications. In addition, a multi-factor Poisson model with general individual specific covariance structure is formulated, and an algorithm for estimating the parameters of the model by Simulated Maximum Likelihood is presented.
The Act of Reading as a Transformative Experience: Emotions and Reflective Moral Transformation in Literature
Creators: name: Budanur, Ipek
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2021
Subjects: Moral transformation
Emotions
Critical reflection
Novels
Gestalt switch
Self-knowledge

description: This thesis emphasizes the significance of readers’ emotional engagement with characters in the process of reading novels which, in turn, plays a critical role in the reflective moral transformation of the reader. It approaches the analysis of the relationship between emotions, literature and ethics from the perspective of the perceptual theory of emotions. My claim is that our imaginative engagements with narrative fictions, and particularly realist novels, by triggering a critical reflection process through the arousal of our emotions, might prove to be a morally transformative experience. Reflective moral transformation is defined as a deepening of one’s moral understanding that often involves a shift in one’s perspective that comes about as a result of a critical reflection of one’s existing moral beliefs. As such, it entails a willingness to scrutinize one’s moral beliefs and to improve one’s moral understanding. I put forward here a model that will satisfactorily explain how engagement with realist novels can serve to morally transform ourselves.
Kinetic electrostatic structures in current-carrying pair plasmas
Creators: name: Luque, A.
name: Schamel, H.
name: Eliasson, B.
name: Shukla, P. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The existence and properties of phase-space structures in current-carrying pair plasmas is studied by means of the finite amplitude expressions of the pseudo-potential method. Emphasis is given to double layers, solitary structures and periodic waves. The results can be applied to electron-positron plasmas as well as to plasmas containing heavier charged particles with the same mass and opposite charges, such as fullerene ions and dust particles. They can also help to understand numerical simulations that showed the spontaneous formation of phase-space holes in linearly stable regimes.
description: 9 pages, 9 figures
Bayesian Analysis of Multivariate Count Data
Creators: name: Chib, Siddhartha
name: Winkelmann, Rainer
name: Chib, Siddhartha
name: Winkelmann, Rainer
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Correlated count data
subject: Markov Chain Monte Carlo
subject: Metropolis-Hastings algorithm

description: This paper is concerned with the analysis of multivariate count data. A class of models is proposed, based on the work of Aitchison and Ho (1989), in which the correlation amongst the counts is represented by correlated, outcome-specific, latent effects. Several interesting special cases of the model are discussed and a tuned and efficient Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm is developed to estimate the model. The ideas are illustrated with three real data examples of trivariate to sixteen variate correlated counts.
SHARED COGNITIVE PREDICTORS OF ANXIETY SUBTYPE SYMPTOMS AND READING ABILITY IN CHILDREN
Creators: name: Neiman, Jamie S.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 5203
subject: Clinical and health psychology
classificationCode: 5204
subject: Cognitive and computational psychology

description: Weaker reading ability is related to increased anxiety in children, but little is known about how this relationship differs across various subtypes of anxiety disorders, or which cognitive risk factors may compound this relationship. The current study investigates relationships between reading, cognitive ability, and anxiety subtypes dimensionally within a population-based sample. Reading and anxiety subtypes were differentially related: weaker reading ability was associated with increased social anxiety (SOC) symptoms, whereas, unexpectedly, weaker reading ability was significantly associated with lower generalized anxiety (GAD) symptoms. Of the cognitive predictors, only processing speed (PS) was uniquely associated with SOC symptoms. The relationship between reading and PS was robust to controlling for IQ. These findings suggest that the relationship between reading and SOC is partially attributable to cognitive factors associated with reading, particularly PS. The compounded risk for SOC in struggling readers may indicate a need for psychotherapeutic intervention to coincide with reading instruction.
title: Navigating the complexities of Acquired Brain Injury: Theorising everyday activities in identity (re)construction
Creators: name: Harvey, Jonathan Neil
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2014

description: This thesis explores the (re )construction of identity after acquired brain injury (ABI). Within this thesis I draw meaning from the everyday experiences of six male ABI survivors and critically investigate their identity (re)construction after their ABI. As well as demonstrating identity (re)construction after ABI, the experiences of the participants have allowed me to investigate neurological rehabilitation after ABI from the perspective of ABI survivors. I seek to achieve a greater understanding of the identities of the participants through enlisting the explanatory qualities of contemporary social theory emphasising the fluidity of identity. As I am a brain injury survivor as well as the researcher in the study, this thesis also explores my experiences of rehabilitation following ABI, as well as my impact on the study. This thesis suggests that rehabilitation after ABI is often a continual process that extends beyond the formal, medically prescribed period. It is suggested further that identity after ABI is often (re )constructed in an unpredictable way; a way that emphasises the importance of reciprocal support and the uncertainty of future life.
SHARED COGNITIVE PREDICTORS OF ANXIETY SUBTYPE SYMPTOMS AND READING ABILITY IN CHILDREN
Creators: name: Neiman, Jamie S.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Weaker reading ability is related to increased anxiety in children, but little is known about how this relationship differs across various subtypes of anxiety disorders, or which cognitive risk factors may compound this relationship. The current study investigates relationships between reading, cognitive ability, and anxiety subtypes dimensionally within a population-based sample. Reading and anxiety subtypes were differentially related: weaker reading ability was associated with increased social anxiety (SOC) symptoms, whereas, unexpectedly, weaker reading ability was significantly associated with lower generalized anxiety (GAD) symptoms. Of the cognitive predictors, only processing speed (PS) was uniquely associated with SOC symptoms. The relationship between reading and PS was robust to controlling for IQ. These findings suggest that the relationship between reading and SOC is partially attributable to cognitive factors associated with reading, particularly PS. The compounded risk for SOC in struggling readers may indicate a need for psychotherapeutic intervention to coincide with reading instruction.
Higher Codimension Cycles on the Hilbert Scheme of Three Points on the Projective Plane
Creators: name: Ryan, Tim
name: Stathis, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14C05 (Primary), 14C17, 14C25 (Secondary)

description: In this paper, we study the higher codimensional cycle structure of the Hilbert scheme of three points in the projective plane. In particular, we compute all Chern (and Segre) classes of all tautological bundles on it and compute the nef (effective) cones of cycles in codimensions 2 and 3 (dimensions 2 and 3).
description: 20 pages, 3 figures
Homoporus subniger
Creators: name: Xiao, Hui
name: Zhang, Yan-Zhou
name: Huang, Da-Wei
name: Polaszek, Andrew
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pteromalidae
Homoporus
Homoporus subniger

description: Homoporus subniger (Walker, 1835)
(Figs. 12, 13)
 Pteromalus subniger Walker, 1835: 96; Lectotype females, designated by Graham in 1968, NHM No. 2751 [Examined].
 Pteromalus chalcomelas Walker, 1836: 476. Synonymised by Graham, 1969: 451.
 Homoporus (Phaenacrinodes) kurdjumovi Szelényi, 1956: 179-180.
 Homoporus danuvianus Delucchi, 1957: 418. Synonymised by Graham, 1969: 451.
 Homoporus subniger (Walker) - Graham, 1969: 451-452; Boucek ˇ, 1970: 65.
 Material examined. – Lectotype - females, NHM, notes: stood under this name in old NHM coll. C. Waterhouse Pteromalus subniger Walker.
Others – 1 female, NHM, WALES: Cenarth, 22 Jun.1977, coll. J.S. Noyes & Z. Boucek ˇ, 1977-308, Det. Boucekˇ 1980; 1 male, NHM, ENGLAND: Dungeness, Kent, 19.Sep.1971, coll. Boucek ˇ, Det. Boucek ˇ, 1980; 1 female, IZCAS: Yunnan, Jingdong, 3 May.1985, coll. Liao Ding-Xi.
 Host(s). – Graham (1969) recorded H. subniger from stems of Centaurea scabiosa L.(Asteraceae) (host probably Cynipidae: Phanacis centaureae Förster); Dzhanokmen (1978) recorded the hosts as Phanacis centaureae Förster, P. papaveris (Kieffer) (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae). Other host records include Apion sp (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) (Hopkins, 1984), Anacampsoides sp. (Lepidoptera: Glyphipterigidae) (Abdullah, Dawah & Jervis, 1989), and Cynipidae in the stems of Papaver, Centaurea and Verbascum (Graham, 1969).
 Distribution. – CHINA (Yunnan); widely distributed in the Palaearctic.
description: Published as part of Xiao, Hui, Zhang, Yan-Zhou, Huang, Da-Wei & Polaszek, Andrew, 2004, A Revision Of Homoporus (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) Of China, pp. 59-65 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 52 (1) on page 64, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4618919
Crystal Hall and crystal magneto-optical effect in thin films of SrRuO$_3$
Creators: name: Samanta, K.
name: Ležaić, M.
name: Merte, M.
name: Freimuth, F.
name: Blügel, S.
name: Mokrousov, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by the recently observed topological Hall effect in ultra-thin films of SrRuO$_3$ (SRO) grown on SrTiO$_3$ (STO) [001] substrate, we investigate the magnetic ground state and anomalous Hall response of the SRO ultra-thin films by virtue of spin density functional theory (DFT). Our findings reveal that in the monolayer limit of an SRO film, a large energy splitting of Ru-$t_{2g}$ states stabilizes an anti-ferromagnetic (AFM) insulating magnetic ground state. For the AFM ground state, our Berry curvature calculations predict a large anomalous Hall response upon doping. From the systematic symmetry analysis, we uncover that the large anomalous Hall effect arises due to a combination of broken time-reversal and crystal symmetries caused by the arrangement of non-magnetic atoms (Sr and O) in the SRO monolayer. We identify the emergent Hall effect as a clear manifestation of the so-called crystal Hall effect in terminology of Šmejkal et al. arXiv:1901.00445 (2019), and demonstrate that it persists at finite frequencies which is the manifestation of the crystal magneto-optical effect. Moreover, we find a colossal dependence of the AHE on the degree of crystal symmetry breaking also in ferromagnetic SRO films, which all together points to an alternative explanation of the emergence of the topological Hall effect observed in this type of systems.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures
The Economic Progress of Maori Men 1986-1996
Creators: name: Winkelmann, Rainer
name: Winkelmann, Rainer
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1998
Subjects: Labor and Human Capital
Public Economics

description: Data for the Census years 1986, 1991 and 1996 show that Maori-non-Maori differences in employment and unemployment rates increased over the ten-year period. In search for a possible explanation, multinomial logit models are estimated with unit record data in order to control for changes in socio-economic and demographic factors such as age, qualification, and family and parental situation. The analysis shows that the Maori-non-Maori differences in employment (unemployment) that are explained by the multinomial logit models decreased from 51% (43%) in 1986 to 38% (34%) in 1996. Two potential contributors for declining relative labour market outcomes of Maori men are identified: increasing returns to skills and changes in the sectoral composition of the workforce.
Additional file 7 of Investigation of sequence features of hinge-bending regions in proteins with domain movements using kernel logistic regression
Creators: name: Veevers, Ruth
name: Cawley, Gavin
name: Hayward, Steven
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional file 7: Figure S3. Precision-Recall curve for Group1_90%.
Additional file 8 of Investigation of sequence features of hinge-bending regions in proteins with domain movements using kernel logistic regression
Creators: name: Veevers, Ruth
name: Cawley, Gavin
name: Hayward, Steven
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional file 8: Figure S4. Area under Precision-Recall curves for different KLR models at different window lengths for Group1_90% dataset.
Rotation Effects on Mesonic Condensations in Isospin Matter
Creators: name: Zhang, Hui
name: Hou, Defu
name: Liao, Jin-feng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the rotation effects on the mesonic condensation in isospin matter . Using the two-flavor NJL effective model with a global rotation, we demonstrate two important effects of the rotation on its phase structure: a rotational suppression of the scalar-channel condensates, in particular the pion condensation region; and a rotational enhancement of the rho condensation region with vector-channel condensate. A new phase diagram for isospin matter under rotation is mapped out on the $ω-μ_I$ plane where three distinctive phases, corresponding to $σ$, $π$, $ρ$ dominated regions respectively, are separated by a second-order line at low isospin chemical potential and a first-order line at high rotation which are further connected at a tri-critical point.
description: 4 pages, proceedings for Quark Matter 2019
Stegana (Oxyphortica) nigripennis
Creators: name: Chen, Hong-wei
name: Wang, Bao-cheng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Drosophilidae
Stegana
Stegana nigripennis

description: Stegana (Oxyphortica) nigripennis species-group
 Diagnosis. – Interfrontal setulae dense, thick; lunule developed, black; mesonotum and pleura yellow with 3-4 black, longitudinal stripes (Fig. 2); wing dark brown to black, pale along posterior margin, with 3-4 yellow patches: one in the r 4+5 cell, one in the dm cell and one just beyond the latter (Fig. 2).
Legs: Yellow; all femora distally and tibiae basally brown to black; mid femur with 2-3 rows of strong, anterior setae.
Abdomen: Tergites yellow anteriorly, with laterally protruded, black band on posterior margin. Sternites yellow, narrow, long.
Male terminalia: Epandrium broad, with strong setae along posterior margin, pubescent except for anterior to ventral margins. Surstylus not pubescent, several distinct setae on distal margin and inner surface. Cercus small, separated from epandrium, pubescent and setigerous. Hypandrium somewhat oblong, antero-medially and laterally contiguous to paramere. Gonopods bilobed, baso-laterally contiguous to posterior ends of hypandrium, apico-laterally contiguous to surstylus. Paramere with several small sensilla submedially. Aedeagus bifurcate, basally contiguous to arm of aedeagal apodeme. Aedeagal apodeme long, rod-shaped.
description: Published as part of Chen, Hong-wei & Wang, Bao-cheng, 2004, Stegana (Oxyphortica) Nigripennis Species-Group, With Descriptions Of Four New Species From Southeast Asia (Insecta: Diptera: Drosophilidae), pp. 29-36 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 52 (1) on page 30, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4618889
title: The educational careers of high-aspiring working-class British Pakistani women
Creators: name: Dar, Aqsa
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2014

description: This research is concerned with the barriers and opportunities experienced by working class British Pakistani women who aspired to higher education and to obtaining professional jobs. It examines the career trajectories of nine second generation British Pakistani women who were born in a working class area of a former textile town in the north of England. These women pursued educational qualifications as the means to acquire new knowledge and experiences and in order to secure higher status jobs. This is in marked contrast to the traditional trajectory which they saw other British Pakistani women following, of marrying and having children soon after leaving school. My informants viewed a career outside the home as affording advantages in terms of personal and social development, family pride and economic rewards. While, at the time of the research, some of them were still caught up in 'making themselves' in terms of their careers, others had already secured professional jobs. The women in this study reflect on changing ideas about British Pakistani womanhood, their educational routes to social mobility, and the effects of problematic perceptions of Pakistani Muslims in schools and workplaces. In this thesis I explore the kinds of cultural capital relevant to their careers, the obstacles they faced, and how they negotiated these. I conducted in-depth biographical interviews using a qualitative approach that was designed to be culturally sensitive, revealing how relationships with parents, siblings, peers, neighbours, teachers and colleagues, as well as local contexts and opportunities, feature in informants' lives. The study is a contribution to the small but growing literature that sets out to understand social mobility through qualitative research methods, exploring the processes involved. It also illuminates the life stories of a specific group of British Pakistani women at a particular time in their community's history.
Sugar Cane Log Turning Business Plan
Creators: name: Barlow, Jordan
name: Kenneh, Morgan
name: LeDrew, Kimberley
name: Saddler, Sarah
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
In Search of Ethical Preferences in Private Markets: The Demand for Chilean Wine in Canada from 1962 to 1994
Creators: name: Clark, Jeremy
name: Clark, Jeremy
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis
Public Economics

description: Departures from self-interested behavior have been observed in a broad range of economics experiments, and suggested by case studies of ethical purchase behaviour. These are often attributed to people's ethical preferences or altruism. This paper looks for empirical evidence of ethical purchase behaviour in a decentralized, private good market. From the assumption that a good's marginal utility is conditional upon its perceived ethical status, it follows that demand for the good should shift with changes in its perceived ethical status relative to other goods. This assumption is tested with reference to Canadian demand for Chilean wine in the years 1962 to 1994. It is asked whether consumer demand shifted to the left during Chile's military dictatorship between 1973 and 1989. Despite suggestive changes in export trade patterns before and after the dictatorship, no significant evidence of ethical purchase behaviour is found after controlling for relative prices and expenditure.
Predictability of large future changes in major financial indices
Creators: name: Sornette, D.
name: Zhou, W. -X.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Statistical Finance (q-fin.ST)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: We present a systematic algorithm testing for the existence of collective self-organization in the behavior of agents in social systems, with a concrete empirical implementation on the Dow Jones Industrial Average index (DJIA) over the 20th century and on Hong Kong Hang Seng composite index (HSI) since 1969. The algorithm combines ideas from critical phenomena, the impact of agents' expectation, multi-scale analysis and the mathematical method of pattern recognition of sparse data. Trained on the three major crashes in DJIA of the century, our algorithm exhibits a remarkable ability for generalization and detects in advance 8 other significant drops or changes of regimes. An application to HSI gives promising results as well. The results are robust with respect to the variations of the recognition algorithm. We quantify the prediction procedure with error diagrams.
description: 28 Latex pages including 8 eps figures
Boundary susceptibility in the spin-1/2 chain: Curie like behavior without magnetic impurities
Creators: name: Fujimoto, Satoshi
name: Eggert, Sebastian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the low-temperature thermodynamics of the spin-1/2 Heisenberg chain with open ends. On the basis of boundary conformal field theory arguments and numerical density matrix renormalization group calculations, it is established that in the isotropic case the impurity susceptibility exhibits a Curie-like divergent behavior as the temperature decreases, even in the absence of magnetic impurities. A similar singular temperature dependence is also found in the boundary contributions of the specific heat coefficient. In the anisotropic case, for $1/2
description: 5 pages, 1 figure, final version
Stegana (Oxyphortica) Duda 1923
Creators: name: Chen, Hong-wei
name: Wang, Bao-cheng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Drosophilidae
Stegana

description: Stegana (Oxyphortica) Duda, 1923
 Oxyphortica Duda, 1923: 34 (as subgenus of Phortica).
 Type species: Drosophila convergens de Meijere, 1911.
 Diagnosis. – M 1+2 distally curved forward weakly.
 Included species. – Stegana (Oxyphortica) adentata Toda & Peng, 1992 (Southern China); S. (O.) burmensis Sidorenko, 1997 (Myanmar); S. (O.) convergens (de Meijere, 1911) (Taiwan, Viet Nam, Borneo, Java, New Guinea); S. (O.) enigma Sidorenko, 1998 (Viet Nam); S. (O.) maichouensis Sidorenko, 1998 (Viet Nam); S. (O.) meichiensis Chen & Toda, 1994 (Southern China); S. (O.) nigripennis (Hendel, 1914) (Japan, Taiwan); S. (O.) pyinoolwinensis Sidorenko, 1997 (Myanmar); S. (O.) setifrons Sidorenko, 1997 (China); S. (O.) subconvergens Okada, 1988 (Sri Lanka); and S. (O.) watabei Sidorenko, 1998 (Indonesia).
description: Published as part of Chen, Hong-wei & Wang, Bao-cheng, 2004, Stegana (Oxyphortica) Nigripennis Species-Group, With Descriptions Of Four New Species From Southeast Asia (Insecta: Diptera: Drosophilidae), pp. 29-36 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 52 (1) on page 30, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4618889
Vibrationally resolved NO dissociative excitation cross sections by electron impact
Creators: name: Laporta, V.
name: Tennyson, J.
name: Schneider, I. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81V55

description: A theoretical investigation of the dissociative excitation by electron impact on the NO molecule is presented, aiming to make up for the lack of data for this process in the literature. A full set of vibrationally-resolved cross sections and corresponding rate coefficients are calculated using the Local-Complex-Potential approach and five resonant states of NO^-.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Self-binormal solutions of the Localized Induction Approximation: Singularity formation
Creators: name: Gutierrez, Susana
name: Vega, Luis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35Q35, 35J10

description: We investigate the formation of singularities in a self-similar form of regular solutions of the Localized Induction Approximation (also referred as to the binormal flow). This equation appears as an approximation model for the self-induced motion of a vortex filament in an inviscid incompressible fluid. The solutions behave as 3d-logarithmic spirals at infinity. The proofs of the results are strongly based on the existing connection between the binormal flow and certain Schrödinger equations.
description: 60 pages, 8 figures
Phonons and Oxygen Diffusion in Bi2O3 and (Bi0.7Y0.3)2O3
Creators: name: Goel, Prabhatasree
name: Gupta, M. K.
name: Mittal, R.
name: Skinner, S. J.
name: Rols, S. Mukhopadhyay S.
name: Chaplot, S. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report investigation of phonons and oxygen diffusion in Bi2O3 and (Bi0.7Y0.3)2O3. The phonon spectra have been measured in Bi2O3 at high temperatures up to 1083 K using inelastic neutron scattering. Ab-initio calculations have been used to compute the individual contributions of the constituent atoms in Bi2O3 and (Bi0.7Y0.3)2O3 to the total phonon density of states. Our computed results indicate that as temperature is increased, there is a complete loss of sharp peak structure in the vibrational density of states. Ab-initio molecular dynamics simulations show that even at 1000 K in δ-phase Bi2O3, Bi-Bi correlations remain ordered in the crystalline lattice while the correlations between O-O show liquid like disordered behavior. In the case of (Bi0.7Y0.3)2O3, the O-O correlations broadened at around 500 K indicating that oxygen conductivity is possible at such low temperatures in (Bi0.7Y0.3)2O3 although the conductivity is much less than that observed in the undoped high temperature δ-phase of Bi2O3. This result is consistent with the calculated diffusion coefficients of oxygen and observation by QENS experiments. Our ab-initio molecular dynamics calculations predict that macroscopic diffusion is attainable in (Bi0.7Y0.3)2O3 at much lower temperatures, which is more suited for technological applications. Our studies elucidate the easy directions of diffusion in δ-Bi2O3 and (Bi0.7Y0.3)2O3.
Syneches apiciflavus Yang, Yang & Hu 2002
Creators: name: Yang, Ding
name: Grootaert, Patrick
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Hybotidae
Syneches
Syneches apiciflavus

description: Syneches apiciflavus Yang, Yang & Hu, 2002
 Syneches apiciflavus Yang, Yang & Hu, 2002: 733.
 Material examined. – 3 males, 1 female, Guangdong: Liuxihe, 16 Jul.2003, coll. Xingyue Liu (CAU); 1 male, 6 females, Guangdong: Shixing, Chebaling National Nature Reserve, 10 Jul.2003, coll. Shuwen An (CAU).
 Diagnosis. – Antenna blackish, but first flagellomere with yellow apex. Femora yellow with extreme tip blackish. Wing hyaline; stigma rather short, wider than long. R 4+5 and M 1 parallel apically.
 Distribution. – China (Guangdong, Hainan).
description: Published as part of Yang, Ding & Grootaert, Patrick, 2004, Revision Of The Species Of Syneches From Guangdong (Diptera: Empidoidea: Hybotinae), pp. 347-350 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 52 (2) on pages 347-348, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4618945
Additional file 6 of Investigation of sequence features of hinge-bending regions in proteins with domain movements using kernel logistic regression
Creators: name: Veevers, Ruth
name: Cawley, Gavin
name: Hayward, Steven
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional file 6: Figure S2. (A) ROC curves for the quadratic model with window length 81 on Group1_90% with various proportions of positive to negative training examples. (B) Plots of the AUROC against proportion of positive to negative training examples for different window lengths.
Theory of valuations on manifolds, III. Multiplicative structure in the general case
Creators: name: Alesker, Semyon
name: Fu, Joseph H. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This article is the third part of the series of articles where the theory of valuations on manifolds is constructed. In math.MG/0503399 the notion of a smooth valuation on a manifold was introduced. The goal of this article is to put a canonical multiplicative structure on the space of smooth valuations on general manifolds, thus extending some of the affine constructions from math.MG/0301148, math.MG/0503397.
description: 33 pages; in the title the second sentence is added; the introduction is expanded; minor changes in the abstract; references
A novel planar back-gate design to control the carrier concentrations in GaAs-based double quantum wells
Creators: name: Scharnetzky, J.
name: Meyer, J. M.
name: Berl, M.
name: Reichl, C.
name: Tiemann, L.
name: Dietsche, W.
name: Wegscheider, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The precise control of a bilayer system consisting of two adjacent two-dimensional electron gases (2DEG) is demonstrated by using a novel planar back-gate approach based on ion implantation. This technique overcomes some common problems of the traditional design like the poor 2DEG mobility and leakage currents between the gate and the quantum well. Both bilayers with and without separate contacts have been prepared and tested. Tuning the electron density in one layer while keeping the second 2DEG at fixed density, one observes a dramatic increase of the carrier concentration. This tunneling resonance, which occurs at equal densities of both layers, demonstrates the separated contacts to each individual layer. In another sample with a smaller tunneling barrier and parallel contacted 2DEGs, the transition from a single 2DEG to a bilayer system is investigated at 50 mK in magnetic fields up to 12 T, showing the gate stability in high magnetic fields and very low temperatures. Transitions into an insulating (Wigner crystal) phase are observed in the individual layers in high fields at filling factors below 1/3. The absence of a fractional quantum Hall liquid at filling factor 1/5 in our structure seems to be a consequence of confining the electrons in quantum wells rather than at interfaces. The observed metal-insulator transitions appear to be nearly unaffected by the presence of the second layer separated by a barrier which is only 3 nm thick. We believe that this planar back-gate design holds great promise to produce controllable bilayers suitable to investigate the exotic (non-abelian) properties of correlated states.
description: 9 pages, 12 figures
Spatial filtering, color constancy, and the color-changing dress
Creators: name: Dixon, Erica L.
name: Shapiro, Arthur
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The color-changing dress is a 2015 Internet phenomenon in which the colors in a picture of a dress are reported as blue-black by some observers and white-gold by others. The standard explanation is that observers make different inferences about the lighting (is the dress in shadow or bright yellow light?); based on these inferences, observers make a best guess about the reflectance of the dress. The assumption underlying this explanation is that reflectance is the key to color constancy because reflectance alone remains invariant under changes in lighting conditions. Here, we demonstrate an alternative type of invariance across illumination conditions: An object that appears to vary in color under blue, white, or yellow illumination does not change color in the high spatial frequency region. A first approximation to color constancy can therefore be accomplished by a high-pass filter that retains enough low spatial frequency content so as to not to completely desaturate the object. We demonstrate the implications of this idea on the Rubik’s cube illusion; on a shirt placed under white, yellow, and blue illuminants; and on spatially filtered images of the dress. We hypothesize that observer perceptions of the dress’s color vary because of individual differences in how the visual system extracts high and low spatial frequency color content from the environment, and we demonstrate cross-group differences in average sensitivity to low spatial frequency patterns.
Additional file 1 of Genome wide screening and comparative genome analysis for Meta-QTLs, ortho-MQTLs and candidate genes controlling yield and yield-related traits in rice
Creators: name: Khahani, Bahman
name: Elahe Tavakol
name: Shariati, Vahid
name: Fornara, Fabio
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. The chromosomal location of MQTLs and initial QTLs for YLD, HD, PH, GW and TN on 12 chromosomes of rice. MQTLs are shown on each chromosome and the lines on the right side of chromosomes indicate the CI of initial QTLs with 95% confidence intervals. Each color represents a specific trait; GW, HD, PH, YLD and TN are presented in red, dark green, blue, light green and purple, respectively. The markers are shown on the right side of chromosomes. The genetic distance (cM) is indicated on the left side of each chromosome.
Pheretima ceramensis
Creators: name: James, Samuel W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Clitellata
Opisthopora
Megascolecidae
Pheretima
Pheretima ceramensis

description: Pheretima ceramensis
 Pheretima ceramensis Cognetti, 1922: p.1.
 Material examined. – Type - 1 adult (BMNH 1921.7.30.7/8), Ceram, Indonesia, coll. Pratt, no date.
 Description. – Dusky pigmentation, no stripes; 160mm x 13 mm (viii), 7-8 mm elsewhere. Spermathecal pores 7/8, 5 mm apart; male pores xviii 5 mm apart in 6 th setal line, one seta between male pores; female pore single; no genital markings.
Septa 4/5-7/8, 10/11-13/14 muscular, 8/9 membranous, 9/10 absent; nephridial masses on anterior faces of septa 5/6/7. Large gizzard viii, esophagus vascular but not lamellar xixiii, intestinal origin _xv, typhlosole low thin fold from xxvii; 36 longitudinal vessels in intestinal wall; caeca origin xxvii, extends forward to xxiv, simple with smooth margins.
Lateral commissures vii-ix, hearts x-xiii esophageal; supraesophageal vessel visible x-xiii, extraesophageal vessel receives posterior latero-parietal vessels in xiii; these vessels extend from clitellum segments forward to xiii.
Spermathecae in vii, large rounded ampulla filled with coagulated material, soil particles, and small ovate discs <1mm diam.; duct short, broad; diverticulum stalk short, straight, chamber sausage-shaped. Holandric, testes sacs paired, ventral; seminal vesicles xi, xii acinous with dorsal appendage; vasa deferentia slightly muscularized, distinctly two tubules but adherent, becoming fused towards junction with ental end of prostatic duct; prostates in four lobes wrapped around large hemispherical copulatory pouch, duct enters apex of pouch; pouch muscular in external appearance, with thick blocky penis from roof, floor with four oval pads, two medial and two lateral to copulatory pouch opening.
description: Published as part of James, Samuel W., 2004, New Species Of Amynthas, Pheretima And Pleionogaster (Clitellata: Megascolecidae) Of The Mt. Kitanglad Range, Mindanao Island, Philippines, pp. 289-313 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 52 (2) on page 299, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4618925
The interpretation of non-Markovian stochastic Schrödinger equations as a hidden-variable theory
Creators: name: Gambetta, Jay
name: Wiseman, H. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Do diffusive non-Markovian stochastic Schrödinger equations (SSEs) for open quantum systems have a physical interpretation? In a recent paper [Phys. Rev. A 66, 012108 (2002)] we investigated this question using the orthodox interpretation of quantum mechanics. We found that the solution of a non-Markovian SSE represents the state the system would be in at that time if a measurement was performed on the environment at that time, and yielded a particular result. However, the linking of solutions at different times to make a trajectory is, we concluded, a fiction. In this paper we investigate this question using the modal (hidden variable) interpretation of quantum mechanics. We find that the noise function $z(t)$ appearing in the non-Markovian SSE can be interpreted as a hidden variable for the environment. That is, some chosen property (beable) of the environment has a definite value $z(t)$ even in the absence of measurement on the environment. The non-Markovian SSE gives the evolution of the state of the system ``conditioned'' on this environment hidden variable. We present the theory for diffusive non-Markovian SSEs that have as their Markovian limit SSEs corresponding to homodyne and heterodyne detection, as well as one which has no Markovian limit.
description: 9 pages
title: Tbx1 functions in pharyngeal arch and cardiovascular development
Creators: name: Cinzia, Caprio
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2014

description: Tbx1, a gene encoding a T-box transcription factor, is required for embryonic development in humans and mice. Half dosage of this gene causes most of the features of the DiGeorge or Velocardiofacial syndrome phenotypes, including aortic arch and cardiac outflow tract abnormalities. Here we show that genetic ablation of Trp53 or pharmacological inhibition of its protein product p53 rescues almost completely aortic arch defects and significantly ameliorates outflow tract defects of Tbx1 mouse mutants. Trp53 deletion rescues the cell proliferation deficit in the second heart field of Tbx1 mutants. In addition, and surprisingly, Tbx1 and p53 proteins can be found on neighboring sites on chromatin, suggesting that they share a set of target genes. In a search for shared targets, we found that the expression of Gbx2, a gene that interacts with Tbx1 during development of the aortic arch arteries, is down regulated by Tbx1 heterozygosity and rescued by Trp53 heterozygosity. In addition, Tbx1 and p53 occupy the Gbx2 gene, indicating that both contribute to its regulation.

Overall our data identify unexpected interactions between Tbx1 and Trp53 and provide a proof of principle that developmental defects associated with reduced dosage of Tbx1 can be rescued pharmacologically.