cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The feminization of HIV/AIDS: An analysis of its impact on women in Trinidad and Tobago
Creators: name: Assing-Murray, Evva L.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4405
subject: Gender studies
classificationCode: 4410
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Women in Trinidad and Tobago are at increasing risk for HIV. This research highlights the various ways HIV/AIDS affects women: physically, socially, and economically. This dissertation study uses a combination of qualitative and quantitative research methodologies, informed by stratification theory. Face-to-face interviews were conducted with 50 HIV-positive and 50 HIV-negative women using semi-structured questionnaires. Samples were drawn from various urban sites throughout Trinidad and Tobago. The principal research question asks whether low socio-economic status increases female vulnerability to the virus, as is witnessed in other parts of the developing world. A number of themes are examined to determine the relationship between socio-economic status and the impact of HIV/AIDS on women's lives in Trinidad and Tobago. These measures address social background, socio-economic status, context and need, distribution of power in personal relationships, individual histories of violence and high-risk behavior, and subjective perceptions of HIV risk. The findings suggest that gender, status, class, and other economic, cultural and behavioral factors have left women in Trinidad and Tobago with limited autonomy over their own bodies, and decisions regarding safer sexual behavior. While these factors are all contributors to the growing HIV risk among women, female poverty and powerlessness are the two primary drivers behind the spread of HIV within this local setting. Recommendations are provided to contribute to efforts aimed at reducing the spread of HIV among this vulnerable population, and to help develop guidelines to improve the quality of their lives.
Clues on the evolution of the Carina dwarf spheroidal galaxy from the color distribution of its red giant stars
Creators: name: Rizzi, L.
name: Held, E. V.
name: Bertelli, G.
name: Saviane, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The thin red giant branch (RGB) of the Carina dwarf spheroidal galaxy appears at first sight quite puzzling and seemingly in contrast with the presence of several distinct bursts of star formation. In this Letter, we provide a measurement of the color spread of red giant stars in Carina based on new BVI wide-field observations, and model the width of the RGB by means of synthetic color-magnitude diagrams. The measured color spread, Sigma{V-I}=0.021 +/- 0.005, is quite naturally accounted for by the star-formation history of the galaxy. The thin RGB appears to be essentially related to the limited age range of its dominant stellar populations, with no need for a metallicity dispersion at a given age. This result is relatively robust with respect to changes in the assumed age-metallicity relation, as long as the mean metallicity over the galaxy lifetime matches the observed value ([Fe/H] = -1.91 +/- 0.12 after correction for the age effects). This analysis of photometric data also sets some constraints on the chemical evolution of Carina by indicating that the chemical abundance of the interstellar medium in Carina remained low throughout each episode of star formation even though these episodes occurred over many Gyr.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters
Building space for peace: Challenging the boundaries of Israel/Palestine
Creators: name: Hallward, Maia Carter
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation explores whether and how the bounding practices of Israeli and Palestinian groups working nonviolently towards a "just and lasting peace" (even in times of armed conflict) shape 'group' and 'individual' identities that differ from 'official' zero-sum Self-Other narratives. The dissertation extends previous work on peace and conflict resolution groups in Israel/Palestine by looking at (a) groups that continued their work (or were created anew) after the collapse of the Oslo Peace Process; (b) groups engaged in on-going nonviolent social change (including direct action) and not merely dialogue and coexistence programming; (c) the dynamic multi-dimensionality of the conflict through an approach that examines how social, political, and territorial boundaries are established, challenged, and maintained through words and deeds, and (d) relational theory as a means to bridge the gaps between International Relations, Geopolitical, and Peace and Conflict Resolution approaches to this subject. Based in over 80 formal interviews, dozens of informal interviews, and nine months of participant observation of group meetings and activities conducted during 2004-2005, the dissertation inventories the 'contested terrain' of articulations of peace and identity in the Israeli-Palestinian context. The results include a documentation of bounding mechanisms used by the groups and individuals studied and stories showing how non-zero sum identities are framed by those working for peace, and how 'peace-building' works in practice.
Robust superfluid phases of 3He in aerogel
Creators: name: Fomin, I. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Within a phenomenological approach possible forms of the order parameter of the superfluid phases of 3He in a vicinity of the transition temperature are discussed. Effect of aerogel is described by a random tensor field interacting with the orbital part of the order parameter. With respect to their interaction with the random tensor field a group of "robust" order parameters which can maintain long-range order in a presence of the random field is specified. Robust order parameters, corresponding to Equal Spin Pairing (ESP) states are found and proposed as candidates for the observed A-like superfluid phase of liquid 3He in aerogel.
description: 5 pages, prepared for QFS 2003
Chironinae Blanchard 1845
Creators: name: Smith, Andrew B. T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae

description: Subfamily CHIRONINAE Blanchard, 1845  Original spelling and citation: Chironites Blanchard 1845: 225
 Type genus: Chiron MacLeay, 1819: 107
Remark: Although this family-group name was not originally proposed in a Latinized form, it has subsequently been Latinized by numerous authors and should be considered available under Article 11.7.2. The stem of this family-group name may be formed incorrectly but this spelling is in prevailing usage and must be maintained (Article 29.5).
description: Published as part of Smith, Andrew B. T., 2006, A Review Of The Family- Group Names For The Superfamily Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) With Corrections To Nomenclature And A Current Classification, pp. 144-204 in The Coleopterists Bulletin (mo 5) (mo 5) 60 on page 157, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065x(2006)60[144:arotfn]2.0.co;2, http://zenodo.org/record/4911861
Ceratina (Zadontomerus) apacheorum Daly 1973
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Ceratina (Zadontomerus) apacheorum Daly, 1973 *
[Holotype: CASC; ♂ Tucson, Arizona, USA; April 9, 1961]
Ceratina apacheorum represents a new species record for the BCP and Mexico. The CARCIB team collected one male in Vizcaíno Desert in November 2016. Additionally, the BBPT collected four females in the Baja California Mountains and one in the Coastal Sage Matorral in May 2022 (MABC). See fig. 150.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 225, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Building space for peace: Challenging the boundaries of Israel/Palestine
Creators: name: Hallward, Maia Carter
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: This dissertation explores whether and how the bounding practices of Israeli and Palestinian groups working nonviolently towards a "just and lasting peace" (even in times of armed conflict) shape 'group' and 'individual' identities that differ from 'official' zero-sum Self-Other narratives. The dissertation extends previous work on peace and conflict resolution groups in Israel/Palestine by looking at (a) groups that continued their work (or were created anew) after the collapse of the Oslo Peace Process; (b) groups engaged in on-going nonviolent social change (including direct action) and not merely dialogue and coexistence programming; (c) the dynamic multi-dimensionality of the conflict through an approach that examines how social, political, and territorial boundaries are established, challenged, and maintained through words and deeds, and (d) relational theory as a means to bridge the gaps between International Relations, Geopolitical, and Peace and Conflict Resolution approaches to this subject. Based in over 80 formal interviews, dozens of informal interviews, and nine months of participant observation of group meetings and activities conducted during 2004-2005, the dissertation inventories the 'contested terrain' of articulations of peace and identity in the Israeli-Palestinian context. The results include a documentation of bounding mechanisms used by the groups and individuals studied and stories showing how non-zero sum identities are framed by those working for peace, and how 'peace-building' works in practice.
Pump induced motion of an interface between competing orders
Creators: name: Sun, Zhiyuan
name: Millis, Andrew J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the motion of an interface separating two regions with different electronic orders following a short duration pump that drives the system out of equilibrium. Using a generalized Ginzburg-Landau approach and assuming that the main effect of the nonequilibrium drive is to transiently heat the system we address the question of the direction of interface motion; in other words, which ordered region expands and which contracts after the pump. Our analysis includes the effects of differences in free energy landscape and in order parameter dynamics and identifies circumstances in which the drive may act to increase the volume associated with the subdominant order, for example when the subdominant order has a second order free energy landscape while the dominant order has a first order one.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures
Do reforms affect countries' response to trade opening? Cross-country evidence and a case study of Albania
Creators: name: Kaltani, Linda
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics

description: This dissertation is composed of three essays on the topics of trade and reforms. Essay one studies how complementary reforms affect the link between trade openness and economic growth. This issue is illustrated with a Harris-Todaro model where output gains after trade liberalization depend on the degree of labor market flexibility. The model suggests that trade liberalization unambiguously increases per capita income only when labor markets are sufficiently flexible. The empirical section uses a non-linear specification and presents panel evidence on how the growth effect of openness depends on educational investment, financial depth, inflation stabilization, public infrastructure, governance, labor-market flexibility, ease of firm entry, and ease of firm exit. It finds that the growth effects of openness are positive and economically significant if certain complementary reforms are undertaken. Essay two uses the results of essay one to investigate whether reforms in a particular country, Albania, are sufficient for trade liberalization to be good for economic growth. The paper simulates the growth-producing effects of Albania's reforms given a pre-established change in trade openness. It then studies alternative reform proxies by comparing their level with that predicted by Albania's per capita income. The essay concludes that Albania's most urgent reforms are in the areas of financial development, infrastructure, and governance. Essay three studies how initial reform conditions affect the link between trade policy and trade outcomes. It first presents a theoretical model with convex adjustment costs that is broad enough to address the role of reforms in the link between various policy and outcome measures (including the link between openness and growth explored in essay one). Improvements in trade policy and/or reforms are conducive to greater trade outcomes. However, under some conditions, the effect on trade outcomes may be larger for less reformed countries. The empirical section adopts a non-linear specification and an event study methodology for a panel dataset; it suggests that for some initial conditions the trade outcome effect of trade policy changes may be larger for less advanced reformers.
Time-dependent mode structure for Lyapunov vectors as a collective movement in quasi-one-dimensional systems
Creators: name: Taniguchi, Tooru
name: Morriss, Gary P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Time dependent mode structure for the Lyapunov vectors associated with the stepwise structure of the Lyapunov spectra and its relation to the momentum auto-correlation function are discussed in quasi-one-dimensional many-hard-disk systems. We demonstrate mode structures (Lyapunov modes) for all components of the Lyapunov vectors, which include the longitudinal and transverse components of their spatial and momentum parts, and their phase relations are specified. These mode structures are suggested from the form of the Lyapunov vectors corresponding to the zero-Lyapunov exponents. Spatial node structures of these modes are explained by the reflection properties of the hard-walls used in the models. Our main interest is the time-oscillating behavior of Lyapunov modes. It is shown that the largest time-oscillating period of the Lyapunov modes is twice as long as the time-oscillating period of the longitudinal momentum auto-correlation function. This relation is satisfied irrespective of the particle number and boundary conditions. A simple explanation for this relation is given based on the form of the Lyapunov vector.
description: 39 pages, 21 figures, Manuscript including the figures of better quality is available from http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~gary/Research.html
Do reforms affect countries' response to trade opening? Cross-country evidence and a case study of Albania
Creators: name: Kaltani, Linda
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation is composed of three essays on the topics of trade and reforms. Essay one studies how complementary reforms affect the link between trade openness and economic growth. This issue is illustrated with a Harris-Todaro model where output gains after trade liberalization depend on the degree of labor market flexibility. The model suggests that trade liberalization unambiguously increases per capita income only when labor markets are sufficiently flexible. The empirical section uses a non-linear specification and presents panel evidence on how the growth effect of openness depends on educational investment, financial depth, inflation stabilization, public infrastructure, governance, labor-market flexibility, ease of firm entry, and ease of firm exit. It finds that the growth effects of openness are positive and economically significant if certain complementary reforms are undertaken. Essay two uses the results of essay one to investigate whether reforms in a particular country, Albania, are sufficient for trade liberalization to be good for economic growth. The paper simulates the growth-producing effects of Albania's reforms given a pre-established change in trade openness. It then studies alternative reform proxies by comparing their level with that predicted by Albania's per capita income. The essay concludes that Albania's most urgent reforms are in the areas of financial development, infrastructure, and governance. Essay three studies how initial reform conditions affect the link between trade policy and trade outcomes. It first presents a theoretical model with convex adjustment costs that is broad enough to address the role of reforms in the link between various policy and outcome measures (including the link between openness and growth explored in essay one). Improvements in trade policy and/or reforms are conducive to greater trade outcomes. However, under some conditions, the effect on trade outcomes may be larger for less reformed countries. The empirical section adopts a non-linear specification and an event study methodology for a panel dataset; it suggests that for some initial conditions the trade outcome effect of trade policy changes may be larger for less advanced reformers.
Risk, FDI and economic growth: A dynamic panel data analysis of the determinants of FDI and its growth impact in Africa
Creators: name: Lumbila, Kevin N.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: In spite of its bountiful natural resources Sub-Saharan Africa is commonly perceived as a violent and risky place to do business. Yet, the continent whose majority of the people is trapped in poverty is in desperate need of investment to ignite economic growth, the necessary condition to reduce poverty. Countries throughout the world are competing over foreign investment because of its alleged positive externalities on growth of the host economy. Africa has been attracting significant amount of FDI since 1990s. The motivation of this dissertation is twofold: (1) identify factors that determine FDI flows to Africa: where does the continent stand and how it is doing in terms of FDI determinants and, in particular, the role of country risk; (2) and assess the contribution of foreign direct investment (versus that of domestic investment and aid) to economic growth in Africa. The study will also investigate the issue of growth convergence---to what extent FDI has been helping Africa to grow faster---and how the sectoral distribution of FDI determines the impact of FDI on growth.
Additional file 8 of Successful incorporation of single reviewer assessments during systematic review screening: development and validation of sensitivity and work-saved of an algorithm that considers exclusion criteria and count
Creators: name: Nassr Nama
name: Hennawy, Mirna
name: Barrowman, Nick
name: O’Hearn, Katie
name: Sampson, Margaret
name: McNally, James Dayre
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 8: Figure S1. Description of five algorithms developed based on the exploratory analysis. Otherwise refer to when the first reviewer retained the abstract or excluded it, but selected exclusion criteria did not satisfy the algorithm requirements.
Risk, FDI and economic growth: A dynamic panel data analysis of the determinants of FDI and its growth impact in Africa
Creators: name: Lumbila, Kevin N.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics
classificationCode: 3803
subject: Economic theory

description: In spite of its bountiful natural resources Sub-Saharan Africa is commonly perceived as a violent and risky place to do business. Yet, the continent whose majority of the people is trapped in poverty is in desperate need of investment to ignite economic growth, the necessary condition to reduce poverty. Countries throughout the world are competing over foreign investment because of its alleged positive externalities on growth of the host economy. Africa has been attracting significant amount of FDI since 1990s. The motivation of this dissertation is twofold: (1) identify factors that determine FDI flows to Africa: where does the continent stand and how it is doing in terms of FDI determinants and, in particular, the role of country risk; (2) and assess the contribution of foreign direct investment (versus that of domestic investment and aid) to economic growth in Africa. The study will also investigate the issue of growth convergence---to what extent FDI has been helping Africa to grow faster---and how the sectoral distribution of FDI determines the impact of FDI on growth.
AWARENESS OF EDUCATIONAL VIDEO GAMES AMONG MIDDLE SCHOOL TEACHERS
Creators: name: G, Praveen Kumar
name: M, Vasimalairaja
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Education

description: Educational Video Games can clearly consume the attention of children and adolescents. However, it is important to assess the extent that educational video game technology had an impact on childhood education.so the teachers are aware about the educational video games. In this paper consists as 300 middle school teachers from sivagangai, Pudukkottai and Tiruchirappalli district in Tamilnadu, India. The sample has been chosen through stratified random sampling technique. Educational Video Games Awareness Inventory (EVGAI) was constructed and validated by the investigator has been used to collect the data from 300 middle school teachers. Analyses of the data were done by using descriptive analysis and differential analysis. The findings of the study revealed that the level of educational video games awareness of middle school teachers is average, the sub- sample Gender and Educational qualification of middle school teachers do not differ significantly in their educational video games awareness and locale of the student differ significantly in their educational video games awareness.
Death squads, security forces and private justice organizations: Paramilitaries in contemporary Latin America
Creators: name: Mazzei, Julie M.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: This dissertation investigates the emergence and political role of paramilitary groups in modern Latin America. Using a comparative case study of Chiapas, Mexico, Colombia and El Salvador, the study looks at domestic political alignments and the condition of the state, as well as additional domestic and international actors and events as explanatory factors in the emergence of paramilitary groups. In addition, the dissertation studies the role(s) paramilitaries play in state politics, and the effect paramilitary violence has on domestic and international politics and policy. Specifically, the research investigates whether paramilitaries are officially or unofficially aligned with the state, the extent of state knowledge or complicity with paramilitary violence, and whether paramilitary groups typically evolve into political parties.
Effect of Immediate Physical Environment on Opinions about Biodiversity
Creators: name: Gill, Lauren
name: Lau, Matthew
name: Iakovleva, Natalia
name: McMillan, Sarah
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Biodiversity loss today is often caused by anthropological impact, and although most people are aware of this, biodiversity conservation action is relatively rare. One challenge with biodiversity conservation is that it can be too temporally or spatially distant for an individual to fully comprehend its implications (Macia et al., 2003). In this study, we asked university community members a series of questions on the location and conservation of biodiversity at different locations on campus. Each location varied in the amount of biodiversity present, the idea being that in a more biodiverse location respondents would care more its conservation as well as locate it closer to themselves. We found mixed results, but in general the biodiversity level of a location did not impact opinions on biodiversity. Our results suggest potentially different types of people may have different opinions on biodiversity, and people’s choices to be in more biodiverse locations may be relevant to future studies on biodiversity conservation. This and future research may be relevant to university landscapers and planners attempting to gain support for conservation and create a biodiverse-rich campus. 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.”
Death squads, security forces and private justice organizations: Paramilitaries in contemporary Latin America
Creators: name: Mazzei, Julie M.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation investigates the emergence and political role of paramilitary groups in modern Latin America. Using a comparative case study of Chiapas, Mexico, Colombia and El Salvador, the study looks at domestic political alignments and the condition of the state, as well as additional domestic and international actors and events as explanatory factors in the emergence of paramilitary groups. In addition, the dissertation studies the role(s) paramilitaries play in state politics, and the effect paramilitary violence has on domestic and international politics and policy. Specifically, the research investigates whether paramilitaries are officially or unofficially aligned with the state, the extent of state knowledge or complicity with paramilitary violence, and whether paramilitary groups typically evolve into political parties.
Psammodiini Mulsant 1842
Creators: name: Smith, Andrew B. T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae

description: Tribe PSAMMODIINI Mulsant, 1842  Original spelling and citation: Psammodiaires Mulsant 1842: 317
 Type genus: Psammodius Fallén, 1807: 37
Remark: Although this family-group name was not originally proposed in a Latinized form, it has subsequently been Latinized by numerous authors and should be considered available under Article 11.7.2.
description: Published as part of Smith, Andrew B. T., 2006, A Review Of The Family- Group Names For The Superfamily Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) With Corrections To Nomenclature And A Current Classification, pp. 144-204 in The Coleopterists Bulletin (mo 5) (mo 5) 60 on page 159, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065x(2006)60[144:arotfn]2.0.co;2, http://zenodo.org/record/4911861
Bi-nary objections: Voices on bisexual identity misappropriation and bisexual resistance
Creators: name: Miller, Andrea D.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This research project makes clear the ways social forces, social structures, and social interactions combine to shape and situate bisexual bodies. While there is much literature on the development of gender in relation to sexuality, there have been few opportunities to practically apply sociological theory about gender to the social construction of sexuality in general, and specifically, to bisexuality. In-depth conversations with forty-eight self-identified bisexual women and men attempt to rectify this disjuncture primarily by proposing that the gendering and sexualizing process serves as a foundation for a social landscape that proselytizes either/or dichotomous categories; thus, leaving little space for a bisexual identity to stand alone. The central research problem is the myriad ways heterosexism both hides my informants and makes them boldly appear. I suggest that some bisexuals have a unique position in that they may challenge assumptions of heterosexism by calling into question the "either/or" dichotomy of heterosexual/homosexual. Because bisexuality locates one's social sexual identity as fluid, dynamic and ever-changing, binary categories are not sufficient. Coupling grounded theory method with contextual notes, I offer a new theoretical construct, "doing bisexuality," to describe how the self-identified bisexuals in this study confront and even temporarily disrupt what one respondent aptly called "the dichotomous imagination.". Providing both a theoretical and a practical lens to commingle sociological theories of gender with social constructions of sexuality is integral to understanding the empirical lives of my respondents. In my final analysis, I introduce an improved framework for understanding how self-identified bisexuals deviate from a paradigm that insists one's sex and gender are linked to one's sexuality. By using social constructionism as the starting point, the self-identified bisexuals in this study begin to understand their impact on the meaning-making systems over which they have some control. As I ultimately conclude, rather than simply reproducing "normative" structures of heterosexism, some bisexuals resist and transform such structures; thus, creating a new theoretical space for an authentic bisexual identity to take root.
Ceratina (Zadontomerus) nautlana Cockerell 1897
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Ceratina (Zadontomerus) nautlana Cockerell, 1897
[USNM: ♀ San Rafael, Veracruz, Mexico]
This species was collected in the CFP in La Rinconada, Ensenada in June 1961 (SEMC) and in the Lower Colorado Desert in the Mexicali Valley by the ECOAB team in May 2021 (1 ♂). It is likely that C. nautlana is a species complex that requires a taxonomic revision. See fig. 151.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 225, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Optical Continuum Variability of the Active Galaxy Mrk 279 - Implications for Different Accretion Regimes
Creators: name: Bachev, Rumen
name: Strigachev, Anton
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results from a recent broad-band monitoring in optics of the Seyfert 1 type galaxy Mrk 279. We build and analyse the BVRI light curve covering a period of seven years (1995 - 2002). We also show some evidence for the existence of two different states in brightness and suggest, based on a modelling of the optical continuum, that these states may result from transition between a thin disk and an ADAF accretion modes. We assume that the short-term variability is due to a reprocessing of a variable X-ray emission from an inner ADAF part of the flow, while the long-term one may be a result from a change of the transition radius. Our tests show a good match with the observations for a reasonable set of accretion parameters, rather close to the ones, expected for Mrk 279.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures. To appear in AN. Minor cosmetic changes
Nonextensive Thermostatistics and the $H$-Theorem Revisited
Creators: name: Ramos, Fernando M.
name: Rosa, Reinaldo R.
name: Bambace, Luis A. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we present a new derivation of the $H$-theorem and the corresponding collisional equilibrium velocity distributions, within the framework of Tsallis' nonextensive thermostatistics. Unlike previous works, in our derivation we do not assume any modification on the functional form of Boltzmann's original "molecular chaos hypothesis". Rather, we explicitly introduce into the collision scenario, the existence of statistical dependence between the molecules before the collision has taken place, through a conditional distribution $f(\vec{v}_2|\vec{v}_1)$. In this approach, different equilibrium scenarios emerge depending on the value of the nonextensive entropic parameter.
description: 6 pages, 1 figure, to appear in Physica A
Ceratina (Zadontomerus) pacifica H. S. Smith 1907
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Ceratina (Zadontomerus) pacifica H. S. Smith, 1907 **
[Holotype: UNSM; ♀ Wilson Peak, 1,829 mts, Los Angeles Co., California, USA]
This species is a new species record for Mexico. The BBPT collected it in May 2022 and April 2023 within a highland Chaparral in Sierra San Pedro Mártir. Six males are currently vouchered at MABC. See fig. 151.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 226, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
The Petrov type of the five-dimensional Myers-Perry metric
Creators: name: De Smet, Pieter-Jan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We point out that the Myers-Perry metric in five dimensions is algebraically special. It has Petrov type \underline{22}, which is the Petrov type of the five-dimensional Schwarzschild metric.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure
Rhyparini Schmidt 1910
Creators: name: Smith, Andrew B. T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Aphodiidae

description: Tribe RHYPARINI Schmidt, 1910  Original spelling and citation: Rhyparina Schmidt 1910: 130
 Type genus: Rhyparus Westwood, 1845: xciii (Westwood 1845 b *)
 Remark: The original spelling of the type genus is Ryparus and Agassiz (1847) later made the unjustified emendation to Rhyparus. Since this unjustified emendation is in prevailing usage, it should be considered a justified emendation (Article 33.2.3.1). The emended spelling avoids homonymy with Ryparus Spinola, 1844 (Coleoptera: Cleridae). Rhyparus Westwood, 1845 is a senior homonym of Rhyparus Agassiz, 1847 (Coleoptera: Cleridae). The later name is an unjustified emendation of Ryparus Spinola, 1844 and is not in prevailing usage. Since the emended spelling is not in prevailing usage for the Cleridae name, Ryparus Spinola, 1844 and the Cleridae Rhyparus Agassiz, 1847 should both be treated as separate names.
description: Published as part of Smith, Andrew B. T., 2006, A Review Of The Family- Group Names For The Superfamily Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) With Corrections To Nomenclature And A Current Classification, pp. 144-204 in The Coleopterists Bulletin (mo 5) (mo 5) 60 on page 159, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065x(2006)60[144:arotfn]2.0.co;2, http://zenodo.org/record/4911861
An Online Learning Framework for Energy-Efficient Navigation of Electric Vehicles
Creators: name: Åkerblom, Niklas
name: Chen, Yuxin
name: Chehreghani, Morteza Haghir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Energy-efficient navigation constitutes an important challenge in electric vehicles, due to their limited battery capacity. We employ a Bayesian approach to model the energy consumption at road segments for efficient navigation. In order to learn the model parameters, we develop an online learning framework and investigate several exploration strategies such as Thompson Sampling and Upper Confidence Bound. We then extend our online learning framework to multi-agent setting, where multiple vehicles adaptively navigate and learn the parameters of the energy model. We analyze Thompson Sampling and establish rigorous regret bounds on its performance. Finally, we demonstrate the performance of our methods via several real-world experiments on Luxembourg SUMO Traffic dataset.
description: Accepted at IJCAI 2020 Main Track. Sole copyright holder is IJCAI (International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence), all rights reserved. Available at https://www.ijcai.org/Proceedings/2020/284
Additional file 9 of Successful incorporation of single reviewer assessments during systematic review screening: development and validation of sensitivity and work-saved of an algorithm that considers exclusion criteria and count
Creators: name: Nassr Nama
name: Hennawy, Mirna
name: Barrowman, Nick
name: O’Hearn, Katie
name: Sampson, Margaret
name: McNally, James Dayre
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 9: Figure S2. Loss of sensitivity using a single reviewer to a paper based on specific criteria (A) or for multiple reasons (B). Each circle is proportional in size the count of papers excluded based on this criterion. Error bars reflect 95%CI. In panel (A), the blue dotted line reflects the 1% threshold used in the algorithm development stage. Analysis is based on the systematic reviews in the derivation set (red) and the validation set (green).
A Census of the Young Cluster IC 348
Creators: name: Luhman, K. L.
name: Stauffer, John R.
name: Muench, A. A.
name: Rieke, G. H.
name: Lada, E. A.
name: Bouvier, J.
name: Lada, C. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new census of the stellar and substellar members of the young cluster IC 348. We have obtained images at I and Z for a 42'x28' field encompassing the cluster and have combined these measurements with previous optical and near-infrared photometry. From spectroscopy of candidate cluster members appearing in these data, we have identified 122 new members, 15 of which have spectral types of M6.5-M9, corresponding to masses of 0.08-0.015 M_sun by recent evolutionary models. The latest census for IC 348 now contains a total of 288 members, 23 of which are later than M6 and thus are likely to be brown dwarfs. From an extinction-limited sample of members (A_V<=4) for a 16'x14' field centered on the cluster, we construct an IMF that is unbiased in mass and nearly complete for M/M_sun>=0.03 (<=M8). In logarithmic units where the Salpeter slope is 1.35, the mass function for IC 348 rises from high masses down to a solar mass, rises more slowly down to a maximum at 0.1-0.2 M_sun, and then declines into the substellar regime. In comparison, the similarly-derived IMF for Taurus from Briceno et al. and Luhman et al. rises quickly to a peak near 0.8 M_sun and steadily declines to lower masses. The distinctive shapes of the IMFs in IC 348 and Taurus are reflected in the distributions of spectral types, which peak at M5 and K7, respectively. These data provide compelling, model-independent evidence for a significant variation of the IMF with star-forming conditions.
description: 47 pages, 14 figures, 3rd para of 4.5.3 has been added, this is final version in press at ApJ, also found at http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/sfgroup/preprints.html
Bi-nary objections: Voices on bisexual identity misappropriation and bisexual resistance
Creators: name: Miller, Andrea D.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4405
subject: Gender studies
classificationCode: 4410
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: This research project makes clear the ways social forces, social structures, and social interactions combine to shape and situate bisexual bodies. While there is much literature on the development of gender in relation to sexuality, there have been few opportunities to practically apply sociological theory about gender to the social construction of sexuality in general, and specifically, to bisexuality. In-depth conversations with forty-eight self-identified bisexual women and men attempt to rectify this disjuncture primarily by proposing that the gendering and sexualizing process serves as a foundation for a social landscape that proselytizes either/or dichotomous categories; thus, leaving little space for a bisexual identity to stand alone. The central research problem is the myriad ways heterosexism both hides my informants and makes them boldly appear. I suggest that some bisexuals have a unique position in that they may challenge assumptions of heterosexism by calling into question the "either/or" dichotomy of heterosexual/homosexual. Because bisexuality locates one's social sexual identity as fluid, dynamic and ever-changing, binary categories are not sufficient. Coupling grounded theory method with contextual notes, I offer a new theoretical construct, "doing bisexuality," to describe how the self-identified bisexuals in this study confront and even temporarily disrupt what one respondent aptly called "the dichotomous imagination.". Providing both a theoretical and a practical lens to commingle sociological theories of gender with social constructions of sexuality is integral to understanding the empirical lives of my respondents. In my final analysis, I introduce an improved framework for understanding how self-identified bisexuals deviate from a paradigm that insists one's sex and gender are linked to one's sexuality. By using social constructionism as the starting point, the self-identified bisexuals in this study begin to understand their impact on the meaning-making systems over which they have some control. As I ultimately conclude, rather than simply reproducing "normative" structures of heterosexism, some bisexuals resist and transform such structures; thus, creating a new theoretical space for an authentic bisexual identity to take root.
Ceratina (Zadontomerus) punctigena Cockerell 1916
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Ceratina (Zadontomerus) punctigena Cockerell, 1916 **
[Holotype: CASC; ♀ mountains near Claremont, Los Angeles Co., California, USA]
Ceratina punctigena is a new record for Mexico and the BCP. The BBPT collected one male in September 2022 within the Coastal Sage Matorral near Ensenada City (MABC). See fig. 151.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 226, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Costs, size and returns to scale among Canadian and U.S. commercial banks
Creators: name: McKeown, Robert
name: McKeown, Robert
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: Financial Economics

description: I compare returns to scale in the U.S. and Canadian banking system from 1996 to 2015. I estimate a parametric trans-log cost function and, for robustness, an inputoriented distance function. I do this in a way that is commensurate with the limitations of these models. Among the ten largest commercial banks, I find evidence for small but statistically significant increasing returns to scale (RTS). This reflects the descriptive data that offers little evidence for extremely large scale economies. Comparatively, I find constant RTS for the Canadian banks. They paid fewer costs per asset, particularly lower labour costs and legal penalties. Comparing income statement items, I find that, despite higher firm concentration in Canada, the U.S. banks had higher net interest margin rate, paid a lower rate of interest on funds, and had higher credit losses per financial assets. If the U.S. banking system is more competitive, this questions whether an increase in bank competition will create a net positive outcome for society.