cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
American public opinion on peace operations: The cases of Somalia, Rwanda, and Haiti
Creators: name: Klarevas, Louis J.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Peace operations have become the most prevalent and prominent form of operation undertaken by the U.S. military in the post-Cold War era. Still, there is little systematic scholarship devoted to mass American public opinion on peace operations. In an attempt to fill this void, this study employs a "structured, focused comparison" to discern patterns in the three most publicized, completed peace operations undertaken by the U.S. since the Gulf War: Operation Restore Hope in Somalia, Operation Support Hope in Rwanda, and Operation Uphold Democracy in Haiti. The main research question is: "Under what conditions does the public support U.S. military participation in post-Cold War peace operations?" Following a systematic and comprehensive analysis of the survey data related to each case, the study finds that there are several factors which can help secure and sustain public support: individual military objectives and overall principal policy objectives affect support, with humanitarian and foreign policy restraint objectives usually receiving higher support than internal political change objectives; news reports affect public support, with 'good news' reports---those implying successful outcomes---producing higher levels of public support than 'bad news' reports---those implying unsuccessful outcomes; fatalities affect support, with support dropping as the number of casualties---incurred and anticipated---rise; and the existence of a 'dissensus' among political leaders affects support, producing lower support when there is an observable division among the political elite. The identification of an operation as multilateral also seems to affect support positively, but only prior to the deployment of troops. Ultimately, however, the public usually does not consider a peace operation to be one of the most important problems facing the country. This provides the president with a greater degree of political latitude in formulating and executing military policy pertaining to peace operations. The study concludes with policy-relevant suggestions for securing and sustaining public support for the use of force in post-Cold War peace operations.
Cohomology of profinite groups of bounded rank
Creators: name: Symonds, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20J06

description: We generalise to profinite groups some of our previous results on the cohomology of pro-p groups of bounded sectional p-rank.
Abdominal wounds in war time
Creators: name: Creator not identified.
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 1940
Subjects: subject: Abdominal Wounds
subject: Abdominal Injuries
subject: War-Related Injuries
subject: Wounds, Penetrating
subject: Wounds, Nonpenetrating
subject: Perioperative Care
subject: Postoperative Complications
subject: Armed Conflicts

description: Procedures for treating abdominal wounds that occur in a war.
Agrilus frosti Knull 1920
Creators: name: Hallinen, Marie J.
name: Steffens, Wayne P.
name: Schultz, Jennifer L.
name: Aukema, Brian H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Agrilus
Agrilus frosti

description: 21. Agrilus frosti Knull, 1920
 County Records (n = 2): Hennepin and Olmsted.
Collection Dates: Unknown.
 Minnesota Hosts: Unspecified in collection records. Larval hosts recorded as Quercus sp.
Collection Method: Unspecified.
description: Published as part of Hallinen, Marie J., Steffens, Wayne P., Schultz, Jennifer L. & Aukema, Brian H., 2021, The Buprestidae (Coleoptera) of Minnesota, with a Discussion of the Emerald Ash Borer, Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire, pp. 173-190 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 75 (1) on page 177, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-75.1.173, http://zenodo.org/record/4837088
Learning transfer in patients with Schizophrenia: Implications for generalization effects and remediation of WCST deficits
Creators: name: Long, J. Frederick
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: A new card sorting task designed as an alternate to the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) was administered to twenty patients diagnosed with schizophrenia and a comparison group of twenty patients with non-schizophrenic diagnoses. The purpose of this study was to determine if patients diagnosed with schizophrenia could transfer learning of an alternate card sorting test (AST) to the WCST. Patients diagnosed with schizophrenia performed worse at baseline and on most trials of card-sorting tasks compared to other patients. Patients taught the AST significantly improved their performance on the WCST. Patients diagnosed with schizophrenia can learn, transfer, and apply basic card sorting principles from an alternate card sorting task to the WCST. Thereby demonstrating that learning of sorting principles is robust and not merely the rote recall of specific response sets as previously theorized.
Superconducting anti-dot arrays from self-assembly template methods
Creators: name: Zhukov, A. A.
name: Filby, E. T.
name: Ghanem, M. A.
name: Bartlett, P. N.
name: de Groot, P. A. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results of electrochemical deposition of superconducting Pb in the pores of templates prepared by self-assembly from colloidal suspensions of polystyrene latex spheres. This technique enables us to create highly ordered superconducting nano-structures with 3D architectures on length scales ranging from 50 - 1000 nm. The prepared samples show pronounced Little-Parks oscillations in Tc and matching effects in magnetization and magnetic susceptibility. Real and imaginary parts of susceptibility follow a universal Cole-Cole curve. Self-field effects play an important role in commensurability behaviour of magnetic moment at low temperatures.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures
Demonstration of Dispersion-Cancelled Quantum-Optical Coherence Tomography
Creators: name: Nasr, Magued B.
name: Saleh, Bahaa E. A.
name: Sergienko, Alexander V.
name: Teich, Malvin C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an experimental demonstration of quantum optical coherence tomography (QOCT). The technique makes use of an entangled twin-photon light source to carry out axial optical sectioning. QOCT is compared to conventional optical co1herence tomography (OCT). The immunity of QOCT to dispersion, as well as a factor of two enhancement in resolution, are experimentally demonstrated.
Managing the Flow of Liquid Light
Creators: name: Stroev, Nikita
name: Berloff, Natalia G
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Strongly coupled light-matter systems can carry information over long distances and realize low threshold polariton lasing, condensation and superfluidity. These systems are highly non-equilibrium in nature, so constant nonzero fluxes manifest themselves even at the steady-state and are set by a complicated interplay between nonlinearity, dispersion, pumping, dissipation and interactions between the various constituents of the system. Based on the mean-field governing equations of lasers or polariton condensates, we develop a method for engineering and controlling the velocity profiles by manipulating the system's spatial pumping and dissipation. We present analytically exact pumping and dissipation profiles that lead to a large variety of spatially periodic density and velocity profiles. Besides these, any physically relevant velocity profiles can be engineered by finding the stationary state of the conservative nonlinear Schrodinger equation in an external potential related to the velocity. Our approach opens the way to the controllable implementation of laser or polariton flows for ultra-fast information processing, integrated circuits, and analogue simulators.
description: Accepted version for publication by Physical Review B (Rapid Communication)
title: An examination of the uses to which time as a formal principle is employed in selected works of Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf
Creators: name: Forde, Clifford S
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1981

description: The following study examines the way in which a preoccupation with time is reflected in selected works of Conrad, Joyce and Virginia Woolf. The first part of the Conrad section serves as an introduction to time in the narrative, by examining the assumptions underlying the time scheme of the Victorian novel. Conrad's use of the time shift and of the 'unreliable narrator' in Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim are then considered as devices for questioning those assumptions and advancing a more complex notion of the individual's sense of identity. The last part of this section examines Conrad's notion of 'destiny', particularly as it relates to his use of the time shift in Nostromo. The study next focuses on Joyce's use of the 'epiphany' and traces its employment as an 'arrested moment' in Dubliners to its function as a moment of heightened awareness within consciousness in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Then, both the Portrait and Ulysses are considered separately as manifesting a vivid sense of time through the consciousness of Bloom and Stephen Dedalus. This section concludes with the argument put forward that n the relationship between Ulysses and its Homeric counterpart is to be sought in the identification of the artist with his work. Hence Ulysses is a celebration of the creative imagination throughout history. In the Virginia Woolf section, the first part examines her atomistic notion of experience as it relates to personal identity, and sees her argument with the "materialists" enacted in Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse in the conflict of characters. The second part contrasts external representations of time in these novels with subjective time in the flux of consciousness. The last part of the section looks at the way in which certain unifying patterns in the novel are related to Virginia Woolf's "moments of being". Finally, the Conclusion briefly examines the way in which these writers manipulate language and form in order to give the reader a more than usual awareness of the text.
Agrilus fulgens LeConte 1860
Creators: name: Hallinen, Marie J.
name: Steffens, Wayne P.
name: Schultz, Jennifer L.
name: Aukema, Brian H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Agrilus
Agrilus fulgens

description: 22. Agrilus fulgens LeConte, 1860
County Records: Unknown. Literature record only (Fisher 1928).
Collection Dates: Unknown.
 Minnesota Hosts: Larval host recorded as Corylus americana.
Collection Method: Unspecified
description: Published as part of Hallinen, Marie J., Steffens, Wayne P., Schultz, Jennifer L. & Aukema, Brian H., 2021, The Buprestidae (Coleoptera) of Minnesota, with a Discussion of the Emerald Ash Borer, Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire, pp. 173-190 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 75 (1) on page 177, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-75.1.173, http://zenodo.org/record/4837088
Intertwining the Busemann process of the directed polymer model
Creators: name: Bates, Erik
name: Fan, Wai-Tong Louis
name: Seppäläinen, Timo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 60K35, 65K37

description: We study the Busemann process and competition interfaces of the planar directed polymer model with i.i.d.\ weights on the vertices of the planar square lattice, in both the general case and the solvable inverse-gamma case. We prove new regularity properties of the Busemann process without reliance on unproved assumptions on the shape function. For example, each nearest-neighbor Busemann function is strictly monotone and has the same random set of discontinuities in the direction variable. When all Busemann functions on a horizontal line are viewed together, the Busemann process intertwines with an evolution that obeys a version of the geometric Robinson-Schensted-Knuth correspondence. When specialized to the inverse-gamma case, this relationship enables an explicit distributional description: the Busemann function on a nearest-neighbor edge has independent increments in the direction variable, and its distribution comes from an inhomogeneous planar Poisson process. The distribution of the asymptotic competition interface direction of the inverse-gamma polymer is discrete and supported on the Busemann discontinuities which -- unlike in zero-temperature last-passage percolation -- are dense. Further implications follow for the eternal solutions and the failure of the one force -- one solution principle of the discrete stochastic heat equation solved by the polymer partition function.
description: 80 pages
title: An examination of the feasibility of converting atmospheric or solar energy to stored energy in the form of electrolytically generated hydrogen using low or intermediate technology.
Creators: name: Cosslett, John Kenneth
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1985

description: The object of this work is to establish if hydrogen can satisfy the fuel requirements of isolated, often third world, communities; also to consider how hydrogen can be produced electrolytically, using mainly low and intermediate technology. A study of the literature has shown that hydrogen could be used a) to provide heat using a conventional gas burner or catalytic heater and b), to do mechanical work via an internal combustion engine or fuel cell. Electricity required for hydrogen production on a small scale can be generated by wind turbines and water wheels, which themselves involve only low technology fabrication. Larger scale operations necessitate use of more sophisticated equipment, needing to be manufactured elsewhere. Solar cells, although requiring high technology manufacture, are robust, durable and readily installed. Production of hydrogen can be achieved using tank, or filter press, electrolytic cells; the latter can be made with solid polymer electrolytes, in place of alkaline solutions. Performance and operational safety of electrolytic cells have been assessed. The hydrogen produced can be stored either in low pressure gas holders, high pressure gas cylinders or chemically combined, as metal hydrides. The amount of power that could be produced from stored hydrogen by linking existing technological processes has been calculated for selected conditions. Results show that about 25% of the original electrical energy could be converted to useful work using the internal combustion engine, compared with 38% using a fuel cell. Other means of energy storage have been considered, either as an alternative to, or in association with hydrogen production. Lastly, energy requirements of two contrasting social groups have been assessed. It is concluded that use of hydrogen to store energy is technically feasible for isolated communities with no ready access to fossil fuels.
Learning transfer in patients with Schizophrenia: Implications for generalization effects and remediation of WCST deficits
Creators: name: Long, J. Frederick
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 5203
subject: Clinical and health psychology

description: A new card sorting task designed as an alternate to the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) was administered to twenty patients diagnosed with schizophrenia and a comparison group of twenty patients with non-schizophrenic diagnoses. The purpose of this study was to determine if patients diagnosed with schizophrenia could transfer learning of an alternate card sorting test (AST) to the WCST. Patients diagnosed with schizophrenia performed worse at baseline and on most trials of card-sorting tasks compared to other patients. Patients taught the AST significantly improved their performance on the WCST. Patients diagnosed with schizophrenia can learn, transfer, and apply basic card sorting principles from an alternate card sorting task to the WCST. Thereby demonstrating that learning of sorting principles is robust and not merely the rote recall of specific response sets as previously theorized.
A criterion for the logarithmic differential operators to be generated by vector fields
Creators: name: Schulze, Mathias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 32S65; 32C38

description: We study divisors in a complex manifold in view of the property that the algebra of logarithmic differential operators along the divisor is generated by logarithmic vector fields. We give a sufficient criterion for the property, a simple proof of F.J. Calderon-Moreno's theorem that free divisors have the property, a proof that divisors in dimension 3 with only isolated quasi-homogeneous singularities have the property, an example of a non-free divisor with non-isolated singularity having the property, an example of a divisor not having the property, and an algorithm to compute the V-filtration along a divisor up to a given order.
description: 10 pages
Agrilus geminatus
Creators: name: Hallinen, Marie J.
name: Steffens, Wayne P.
name: Schultz, Jennifer L.
name: Aukema, Brian H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Agrilus
Agrilus geminatus

description: 23. Agrilus geminatus (Say, 1823)
 County Records (n = 2): Houston.
Collection Dates: 1 June.
 Minnesota Hosts: Unspecified in collection records. Larval host recorded as Quercus velutina. Adults also on Gymnocladus dioicus, Juglans nigra, and Q. alba.
Collection Method: Unspecified.
description: Published as part of Hallinen, Marie J., Steffens, Wayne P., Schultz, Jennifer L. & Aukema, Brian H., 2021, The Buprestidae (Coleoptera) of Minnesota, with a Discussion of the Emerald Ash Borer, Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire, pp. 173-190 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 75 (1) on page 177, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-75.1.173, http://zenodo.org/record/4837088
A New Rhynchocephalian from the Late Triassic of Southern Brazil Enhances Eusphenodontian Diversity
Creators: name: Vivar, Paulo R. Romo De
name: Martinelli, Agustín G.
name: Hsiou, Annie Schmaltz
name: Soares, Marina Bento
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: We describe a new eusphenodontian, Lanceirosphenodon ferigoloi gen. et sp. nov., from the Upper Triassic (Norian) Riograndia Assemblage Zone (AZ) of the Candelária Sequence (Santa Maria Supersequence) of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The new taxon consists of an almost complete left dentary with dentition, which exhibits a mosaic of features considered ‘typical’ of non-eusphenodontian rhynchocephalians, along with others reported for eusphenodontian taxa. It has the typical rhynchocephalian regionalized dentition with 19 teeth and also pleuroacrodont implantation; the additional dentition presents alternation of size and shape, with the last additional teeth resembling a spear in labial view. A well-developed chin is also present. Our phylogenetic analysis places Lanceirosphenodon as one of the most basal eusphenodontians and reinforces the hypothesis that Rhynchocephalia underwent an early diversification, probably in the Early Triassic, followed by an explosion in morphological disparity. Based on the ontogenetic sequence of Sphenodon, Lanceirosphenodon fitted between stages T2 and T3, representing a probable early juvenile individual. In spite of its ontogenetic stage, the set of characters present in Lanceirosphenodon, including two autapomorphies, supports its recognition as a new taxon. This new taxon increases our knowledge of the faunal diversity in the Triassic of Gondwana and more locally for the Riograndia Assemblage Zone of southern Brazil. https://zoobank.org:pub:1849FF5A-B5D3-484B-B16C-7D952AF62A26
Feature binding across sense modalities: Visual and tactual interactions
Creators: name: Lovelace, Christopher Terry
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: In spite of the distributed cortical processing of visual object attributes such as color and motion, these features can be bound into a unified conscious percept of a colored, moving object. The functional mechanisms underlying feature binding have been widely studied in vision. However, other object attributes are also processed in this distributed fashion. The principles governing visual feature binding have only recently been applied to non-visual sense modalities. The studies presented here represent an initial attempt to investigate the binding of features presented in separate sense modalities. Visuospatial frequency (visual sinusoidal luminance gratings) and vibrotactile frequency (fingertip vibrations) were combined in a conflict paradigm to investigate whether a binding mechanism could mediate the observed intersensory interaction between the perception of these two features. The results suggest that the interaction happens on the perceptual (rather than cognitive) level, but it is as yet unclear what role feature binding may play.
Return to work model after injury or illness: A Scoping Review Protocol
Creators: name: Su, Han
name: Park, Mirang
name: Thompson, Hilaire J.
name: O'Dwyer, Linda
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: scoping review
subject: model
subject: return to work
subject: protocol
subject: Return to Work
subject: Rehabilitation, Vocational

description: After injury or illness, return to work (RTW) is important for previously-employed patients, and is positively associated with functional recovery and economic status.1-5 Failure to return to work (RTW) following illness or injury is often, both theoretically and operationally, equated with work disability.6 In the past three decades, biomedical, social construction, and biopsychosocial models have proposed to describe the process and potential factors that influence human responses to work and the development of work disability. 7 Within the biomedical perspective, disability is produced by a medical condition, which deviates individuals from normal biomedical function or structure. 6 8 Factors such as context and environment are not considered. However, in the social construction paradigm, disability is viewed as a combination of activities, relationships, individual attributes, and conditions arising mainly from the social environment.8 Thus, disability depends on a societal response in a given context. The biopsychosocial models approach disability from both the social and the biomedical paradigms, which provide the most comprehensive view to discuss work disability. From the biopsychosocial point of view, multiple factors potentially affect RTW. The occupational disability model, which includes medical status (such as neurologic, cardiovascular), physical capability (physical status, work tolerance), work demands (biomechanical, psychological), and psychological/behavioral resources (workers traits, psychological readiness), is an example of an early biopsychosocial approach.9 Many other models have been proposed to understand RTW from the biopsychosocial approach, such as the Institute of Medicine model of disability,10 the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF)/the expanded ICF model,11 the cancer and work model,12 as well as the readiness for return to work model. The scoping review aims to 1) identify existing RTW models using biopsychosocial approach, 2) compare and contract these models, and 3) synthesis these models and proposed a comprehensive model.
Feature binding across sense modalities: Visual and tactual interactions
Creators: name: Lovelace, Christopher Terry
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: In spite of the distributed cortical processing of visual object attributes such as color and motion, these features can be bound into a unified conscious percept of a colored, moving object. The functional mechanisms underlying feature binding have been widely studied in vision. However, other object attributes are also processed in this distributed fashion. The principles governing visual feature binding have only recently been applied to non-visual sense modalities. The studies presented here represent an initial attempt to investigate the binding of features presented in separate sense modalities. Visuospatial frequency (visual sinusoidal luminance gratings) and vibrotactile frequency (fingertip vibrations) were combined in a conflict paradigm to investigate whether a binding mechanism could mediate the observed intersensory interaction between the perception of these two features. The results suggest that the interaction happens on the perceptual (rather than cognitive) level, but it is as yet unclear what role feature binding may play.
Controlled and secure direct communication using GHZ state and teleportation
Creators: name: Gao, Ting
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A theoretical scheme for controlled and secure direct communication is proposed. The communication is based on GHZ state and controlled quantum teleportation. After insuring the security of the quantum channel (a set of qubits in the GHZ state), Alice encodes the secret message directly on a sequence of particle states and transmits them to Bob supervised by Charlie using controlled quantum teleportation. Bob can read out the encoded messages directly by the measurement on his qubits. In this scheme, the controlled quantum teleportation transmits Alice's message without revealing any information to a potential eavesdropper. Because there is not a transmission of the qubit carrying the secret messages between Alice and Bob in the public channel, it is completely secure for controlled and direct secret communication if perfect quantum channel is used. The feature of this scheme is that the communication between two sides depends on the agreement of the third side.
description: 4 pages, no figure
Additional file 1 of Cost analysis of acute care resource utilization among individuals with sickle cell disease in a middle-income country
Creators: name: Lobo, Clarisse
name: Moura, Patricia
name: Fidlarczyk, Delaine
name: Duran, Jane
name: Barbosa, Roberto
name: Oliveira, Thais
name: do Nascimento, Emilia Matos
name: Bhakta, Nickhill
name: Hankins, Jane S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Supplemental Table 1. Standars of care for the treatment of acute complications of sickle cell disease in Brazil according to the Brazilian Ministry of Health ( PROTOCOLO CLÍNICO E DIRETRIZES TERAPÊUTICAS PARA DOENÇA FALCIFORME (conitec.gov.br ).
Accuracy estimate for a relativistic Hamiltonian approach to bound-state problems in theories with asymptotic freedom
Creators: name: Glazek, Stanislaw D.
name: Mlynik, Jaroslaw
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Accuracy of a relativistic weak-coupling expansion procedure for solving the Hamiltonian bound-state eigenvalue problem in theories with asymptotic freedom is measured using a well-known matrix model. The model is exactly soluble and simple enough to study the method up to sixth order in the expansion. The procedure is found in this case to match the precision of the best available benchmark method of the altered Wegner flow equation, reaching the accuracy of a few percent.
description: 10 pages of latex, 6 eps figures
Linking goal attainment to happiness: A moderator of the media effects on eating disorders?
Creators: name: Smith, Romy Anne
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Eating disorders have been recognized as a significant problem, particularly for women in Western society. Sociocultural theories of eating disorders have implicated the media in the promotion and maintenance of eating disorders, for the media portray an ultra-slender body image which is unattainable by many women. Researchers have begun to empirically test the potential effects of the media, and preliminary findings have suggested that looking at pictures of thin women, compared to looking at pictures of average or overweight women, leads subsequently to body dissatisfaction, depression, stress, shame, and insecurity. This study was designed to examine the question of why, if all women in our society are exposed to media images of thinness, only certain women develop pathological eating behaviors. Linking goals to happiness was examined as a potential moderator of the media effects on eating disorders. "Linkers", those who believe that the attainment of goals is necessary for happiness, were expected to report more distress after presented with images of thin women versus images of average-weight women. "Nonlinkers" were expected to be relatively unaffected by the experimental condition. There were 125 undergraduate students at American University who served as participants for this study. Subjects were randomly exposed to one of three sets of 15 magazine pictures: thin women, average-weight women, or control pictures containing no people. Overall, linkers reported more distress than nonlinkers, regardless of experimental condition. Contrary to previous research, those in the thin condition did not experience more distress, overall, than those in the average-weight condition. However, multiple regression analyses indicated an interaction between linking and condition, as expected. Linkers who were exposed to pictures of average-weight women reported higher levels of self-esteem, and lower levels of dysphoria, negative affect, and eating pathology than linkers who were exposed to either pictures of thin women or to control pictures. Nonlinkers exhibited the opposite pattern: they actually reported slightly higher levels of distress after viewing pictures of average-weight women than in either of the other two conditions. Additionally, the number of magazines that one typically reads was positively related to distress; the amount of television that one usually watches was not found to be related to distress.
Sparse Graph Codes for Quantum Error-Correction
Creators: name: MacKay, David J. C.
name: Mitchison, Graeme
name: McFadden, Paul L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present sparse graph codes appropriate for use in quantum error-correction. Quantum error-correcting codes based on sparse graphs are of interest for three reasons. First, the best codes currently known for classical channels are based on sparse graphs. Second, sparse graph codes keep the number of quantum interactions associated with the quantum error correction process small: a constant number per quantum bit, independent of the blocklength. Third, sparse graph codes often offer great flexibility with respect to blocklength and rate. We believe some of the codes we present are unsurpassed by previously published quantum error-correcting codes.
description: Version 7.3e: 42 pages. Extended version, Feb 2004. A shortened version was resubmitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory Jan 20, 2004
Agrilus granulatus subsp. granulatus granulatus (Say 1823
Creators: name: Hallinen, Marie J.
name: Steffens, Wayne P.
name: Schultz, Jennifer L.
name: Aukema, Brian H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Agrilus
Agrilus granulatus
Agrilus granulatus granulatus (say, 1823)

description: 24a. Agrilus granulatus granulatus (Say, 1823)
 County Records (n = 4): Anoka, Clearwater, and Chisago.
Collection Dates: 30 June–1 July.
 Minnesota Hosts: Unspecified in collection records. Larval hosts recorded as Betula sp., Populus deltoides, Populus deltoides ssp. monilifera (Ait.) Eckenwalder, and Populus nigra L.
 Collection Method: As C. fumipennis prey.
description: Published as part of Hallinen, Marie J., Steffens, Wayne P., Schultz, Jennifer L. & Aukema, Brian H., 2021, The Buprestidae (Coleoptera) of Minnesota, with a Discussion of the Emerald Ash Borer, Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire, pp. 173-190 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 75 (1) on page 177, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-75.1.173, http://zenodo.org/record/4837088
Potential and mass-matrix in gauged N=4 supergravity
Creators: name: de Roo, M.
name: Panda, S.
name: Trigiante, M.
name: Westra, D. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the potential and mass-matrix of gauged N=4 matter coupled supergravity for the case of six matter multiplets, extending previous work by considering the dependence on all scalars. We consider all semi-simple gauge groups and analyse the potential and its first and second derivatives in the origin of the scalar manifold. Although we find in a number of cases an extremum with a positive cosmological constant, these are not stable under fluctuations of all scalar fields.
description: 28 pages, LaTeX
title: An investigation of factors influencing adolescent health behaviour
Creators: name: Lindsay-Clift, Laura A.
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1986

description: In this study, the Ajzen and Fishbein model, developed from their theory of reasoned action, was applied to the investigation of factors influencing adolescent health behaviour. This model proposes that intentions (by extension, behaviour) are explained by a weighted combination of evaluated beliefs about that behaviour (i.e. attitudes) and motivation to comply with the wishes of significant referents concerning that behaviour (i.e. perceived social pressures). Recent innovations in Health Education in schools seem implicitly to be based on this rationale. They seek to establish beliefs leading to good health behaviour and to develop in pupils the confidence to act in accordance with these beliefs in the face of possible contrary social pressures. Questionnaires for measuring adolescents' intentions, beliefs and perceptions of social pressures concerning drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes, keeping fit and diet were developed through a series of pilot trials, adapting the approaches suggested by Ajzen and Fishbein and subsequent workers. The reliability of these measures was shown to be satisfactory. Face and content validity were ensured during development: convergent and discriminant validity were evident, post hoc. The criterion-related validities of the scales were established, demonstrating the internal and external validity of the model itself. A representative sample of pupils aged 11 to 18 years, from Berkshire secondary schools, completed these questionnaires. The amount of variance in intentions explained by the weighted combination of the variance in beliefs and social pressures was statistically significant for all the topics and similar in magnitude to that frequently reported in attitude-behaviour studies with adolescents. It was lower, however, than that reported by researchers using the Ajzen and Fishbein model with adults. Reasons for this short-fall are considered: the unsuitability of the model for use with adolescents; the incorporation of constant and random error in the data; and the use of short scales. Finally, the implications of the results for Health Education programmes are considered.
Additional file 2 of Cost analysis of acute care resource utilization among individuals with sickle cell disease in a middle-income country
Creators: name: Lobo, Clarisse
name: Moura, Patricia
name: Fidlarczyk, Delaine
name: Duran, Jane
name: Barbosa, Roberto
name: Oliveira, Thais
name: do Nascimento, Emilia Matos
name: Bhakta, Nickhill
name: Hankins, Jane S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Supplemental Table 2. Monthly costs of services by type of visit.
A Function in the Congruence Theory
Creators: name: Smarandache, Florentin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Mathematics (math.GM)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 33B99, 11A25, 11A07

description: In this paper we define a function $L$ which will allow us to (separately or simultaneously) generalize many theorems from Number Theory obtained by Wilson, Fermat, Euler, Gauss, Lagrange, Leibniz, Moser, and Sierpinski.
description: 8 pages
Kobayashi complete domains in complex manifolds
Creators: name: Masanta, Rumpa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 32Q45 (Primary) 53C23, 32Q28 (Secondary)

description: In this paper, we give sufficient conditions for Cauchy-completeness of Kobayashi hyperbolic domains in complex manifolds. The first result gives a sufficient condition for completeness for relatively compact domains in several large classes of manifolds. This follows from our second result, which may be of independent interest, in a much more general setting. This extends a result of Gaussier to the setting of manifolds.
description: 7 pages
Additional file 3 of Cost analysis of acute care resource utilization among individuals with sickle cell disease in a middle-income country
Creators: name: Lobo, Clarisse
name: Moura, Patricia
name: Fidlarczyk, Delaine
name: Duran, Jane
name: Barbosa, Roberto
name: Oliveira, Thais
name: do Nascimento, Emilia Matos
name: Bhakta, Nickhill
name: Hankins, Jane S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3: Supplemental Table 3. Diagnoses of ED visits excluded from analysis.
Linking goal attainment to happiness: A moderator of the media effects on eating disorders?
Creators: name: Smith, Romy Anne
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 5203
subject: Clinical and health psychology

description: Eating disorders have been recognized as a significant problem, particularly for women in Western society. Sociocultural theories of eating disorders have implicated the media in the promotion and maintenance of eating disorders, for the media portray an ultra-slender body image which is unattainable by many women. Researchers have begun to empirically test the potential effects of the media, and preliminary findings have suggested that looking at pictures of thin women, compared to looking at pictures of average or overweight women, leads subsequently to body dissatisfaction, depression, stress, shame, and insecurity. This study was designed to examine the question of why, if all women in our society are exposed to media images of thinness, only certain women develop pathological eating behaviors. Linking goals to happiness was examined as a potential moderator of the media effects on eating disorders. "Linkers", those who believe that the attainment of goals is necessary for happiness, were expected to report more distress after presented with images of thin women versus images of average-weight women. "Nonlinkers" were expected to be relatively unaffected by the experimental condition. There were 125 undergraduate students at American University who served as participants for this study. Subjects were randomly exposed to one of three sets of 15 magazine pictures: thin women, average-weight women, or control pictures containing no people. Overall, linkers reported more distress than nonlinkers, regardless of experimental condition. Contrary to previous research, those in the thin condition did not experience more distress, overall, than those in the average-weight condition. However, multiple regression analyses indicated an interaction between linking and condition, as expected. Linkers who were exposed to pictures of average-weight women reported higher levels of self-esteem, and lower levels of dysphoria, negative affect, and eating pathology than linkers who were exposed to either pictures of thin women or to control pictures. Nonlinkers exhibited the opposite pattern: they actually reported slightly higher levels of distress after viewing pictures of average-weight women than in either of the other two conditions. Additionally, the number of magazines that one typically reads was positively related to distress; the amount of television that one usually watches was not found to be related to distress.
Agrilus juglandis Knull 1920
Creators: name: Hallinen, Marie J.
name: Steffens, Wayne P.
name: Schultz, Jennifer L.
name: Aukema, Brian H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Agrilus
Agrilus juglandis

description: 27. Agrilus juglandis Knull, 1920
 New State Record: Winona County, King’ s Bluff, Great River Bluffs State Park, 30 June 1922, H. H. Knight.
 County Records (n = 5): Anoka, Chisago, and Winona.
Collection Dates: 30 June–11 July.
 Minnesota Hosts: Unspecified in collection records. Larval host recorded as Juglans cinerea L. Adults also on J. nigra.
 Collection Method: As C. fumipennis prey.
description: Published as part of Hallinen, Marie J., Steffens, Wayne P., Schultz, Jennifer L. & Aukema, Brian H., 2021, The Buprestidae (Coleoptera) of Minnesota, with a Discussion of the Emerald Ash Borer, Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire, pp. 173-190 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 75 (1) on page 177, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-75.1.173, http://zenodo.org/record/4837088
Social and Emotional Intelligence as a Protective Factor in Youth Development
Creators: name: Filipčić, Sara
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: 160799 Social Work not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: This qualitative research examined to what extent is there a need for the development of Social and Emotional Intelligence within education. Social and Emotional intelligence (SEI) is defined as a cross-section of interrelated social and emotional competencies and skills which determines how one effectively understands and express themselves, how one understand and relates with others, and how one copes with daily demands (Fernarandez – Berrocal & Extermera, 2006, Bar-On, 2005). The research includes 6 participants from United World College (UWC) in Maastricht who were selected using the combination of purposeful and snowball sampling. The researcher used 3 main interview questions to guide the data collecting process. The questions were designed to collect the data about their experiences, backgrounds, opinions and perspectives related to SEI. Our findings show that SEI had an important role in shaping young academics adjustments to their international environment. We end with a note towards the participants’ perspectives on developing SEI through education and SEI as a protective factor in youth development. Our research aims to offer a deeper understanding of the need for SEI development through and within education, and offer suggestions for SEI programs and future research.
Casimir Force between a Small Dielectric Sphere and a Dielectric Wall
Creators: name: Sopova, V.
name: Ford, L. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The possibility of repulsive Casimir forces between small metal spheres and a dielectric half-space is discussed. We treat a model in which the spheres have a dielectric function given by the Drude model, and the radius of the sphere is small compared to the corresponding plasma wavelength. The half-space is also described by the same model, but with a different plasma frequency. We find that in the retarded limit, the force is quasi-oscillatory. This leads to the prediction of stable equilibrium points at which the sphere could levitate in the Earth's gravitational field. This seems to lead to the possibility of an experimental test of the model. The effects of finite temperature on the force are also studied, and found to be rather small at room temperature. However, thermally activated transitions between equilibrium points could be significant at room temperature.
description: 16 pages, 5 figures
title: An investigation into the relationship between the stability of a biological community and both community complexity and environmental heterogeneity.
Creators: name: Larter, Richard John
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1984

description: The aim of this dissertation is to study two aspects of the stability properties of a biological community. These are firstly their relationship with the structural complexity of the community and secondly the effect of spatial heterogeneity of the environment in which the community lives. Chapter 1 introduces the subject of population dynamics and discusses the reasons for using mathematical models to study it . The first part of Chapter 2 defines the terminology, especially the meaning of stability. The second part considers the biological evidence for a relationship between stability and complexity while the third part investigates the stability properties of mathematical models of communities of varying complexities. It is concluded that there is no general relationship, but that the more complex a community the more unlikely it is to be stable. The first part of Chapter 3 discusses the biological evidence for the importance of the effect of spatial heterogeneity on stability and proposes a definition of this term. The second part describes different ways of modelling community population dynamics in spatially heterogeneous environments. It is concluded that spatial heterogeneity is not likely to make a community less stable.