cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Pop-diplomacy: Anime and manga as vehicles of cultural context, identity formation, and hybridity
Creators: name: Burkett, Morgan Elizabeth
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The purpose of this thesis is to critically examine how a community, or "fandom," of American consumers is interacting with certain aspects of Japanese popular culture and to explore these interactions as sites of cultural negotiation. Specifically, the purpose is to explore the rise in popularity of Japanese manga and anime, as well as the associated subcultures, in the US within a theoretical framework of hybridization and ask: How is the community framing discussions of cultural context and identity formation and are its members engaging in the hybridization of culture? In the case studies, fieldwork conducted at anime conventions and through analysis of public discussion on community web forums highlight two sites of cultural negotiation: conventions and cosplay and fansubs.
A Quantitative Cross-Regional Analysis of the Spanish VET Systems From an Integrated Approach
Creators: name: Moso-Diez, Monica
name: Mondaca-Soto, Antonio
name: Gamboa-Navarro, Juan P.
name: Albizu-Echevarria, Mikel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: vocational education and training in Spain
VET systems
VET cross-regional and cluster analysis
VET characterisation and indicators

description: Purpose: The aim of this paper is to analyse comparatively, at regional level, the current state and recent evolution of a wide range of indicators of Vocational Education and Training (VET) at regional level in Spain. This will make it possible to characterise and better understand the variety of regional VET systems, including the Initial VET (IVET) and Continuous VET (CVET) subsystems within Spain. Methods: Systemic analysis of Spanish VET indicators leads to a selection of 54 indicators, which are then compared at regional level using k-means clustering. This approach identifies similarities and differences across all of Spain's 17 autonomous communities. Findings: The results show that 19 indicators explain the main differences between autonomous communities, which form two distinct clusters. The VET-specific socioeconomic and employment indicators are the ones that most influence both cluster formation and inter-cluster differences. These are followed by the IVET indicators, where distinctions by level of education, STEM occupational group and state ownership of VET schools stand out. Conclusions: While it is necessary to analyse the differences between clusters in greater depth, the results suggest that Spain’s regions are split into two distinct groups in which the respective VET systems are developing and advancing at different speeds. These groups are the result of the regions’ territorial and structural idiosyncrasies, making an understanding of this situation essential to future policy-making.
Perdita (Heteroperdita) arenaria Timberlake 1954
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
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Andrenidae
Perdita
Perdita arenaria

description: Perdita (Heteroperdita) arenaria Timberlake, 1954
[Holotype: UCRC; ♂ 12.87 km east of Edom, Riverside Co., California, US; April 17, 1937]
Perdita arenaria has been collected in La Laguna Salada in the Lower Colorado Desert, BC (Portman et al. 2016) and it is found in southwestern deserts in the USA. See fig. 39.
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 88, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Emergence of pure spin current in doped excitonic magnets
Creators: name: Yamamoto, Shunsuke
name: Sugimoto, Koudai
name: Ohta, Yukinori
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An excitonic magnet hosts a condensate of spin-triplet excitons composed of conduction-band electrons and valence-band holes, and may be described by the two-orbital Hubbard model. When the Hamiltonian has the nearest-neighbor interorbital hopping integrals with $d$-wave symmetry and the number of electrons is slightly away from half filling, the $\boldsymbol{k}$-space spin texture appears in the excitonic phase with a broken time-reversal symmetry. We then show that, applying electric field to this doped excitonic magnet along a particular direction, a pure spin current emerges along its orthogonal direction. We discuss possible experimental realization of this type of the pure spin current in actual materials.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures
Analyzing Indigenous Representation and Engagement on TikTok
Creators: Thathiah, Natasha
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

TikTok has transformed how we consume entertainment, gather information, build digital communities, and connect. Indigenous TikTok has emerged from Indigenous Peoples' desire for amplified and authentic visibility in digital spaces. Indigenous TikTokers use this social media application to educate users, revive cultural traditions, and express humour. Despite the thriving presence of Indigenous TikTok as a digital space for storytelling, learning, and socializing, fewer studies examine how audience engagement reflects interactions with and perceptions of Indigenous TikTok content. Rather than studying the work or experiences of Indigenous Tiktokers themselves, this research focuses on exploring how engagement metrics — likes, comments, saves, and shares — reflect the representation of Indigenous Peoples on TikTok. This qualitative study will employ an in-depth analysis of publicly available engagement data from videos of four influential Indigenous TikTokers located on Treaty 6 territory, carefully selected to represent a range of follower counts and engagement rates. The analysis will provide insights into how Indigenous TikTokers' content on online platforms resonates with their audiences and contributes to the co-construction of cultural narratives. The findings will contribute to a better understanding of how audience engagement with Indigenous TikTok plays a role in Indigenous representation, knowledge sharing, and community building.
Geodesic Noise and Gravitational Wave Observations by Pulsar Timing Arrays
Creators: name: Golat, Sebastian
name: Contaldi, Carlo R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Signals from millisecond pulsars travel to us on geodesics along the line-of-sight that are affected by the space--time metric. The exact path-geometry and redshifting along the geodesics determine the observed Time-of-Arrival (ToA) of the pulses. The metric is determined by the distribution of dark matter, gas, and stars in the galaxy and, in the final stages of travel, by the distribution of solar system bodies. The inhomogeneous distribution of stellar masses can have a small but significant statistical effect on the ToAs through the perturbation of geodesics. This will result in additional noise in ToA observations that may affect Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) constraints on gravitational waves at very low frequencies. We employ a simple model for the stellar distribution in our galaxy to estimate the scale of both static and dynamic sources of what we term generically "geodesic noise". We find that geodesic noise has a standard deviation of ${\cal O}(10)$ ns for typical lines-of-sight. This suggests geodesic noise is relevant for estimates of PTA sensitivity and may limit future efforts for detection of gravitational waves by PTAs.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, 1 table
Counting complexity classes for numeric computations II: algebraic and semialgebraic sets
Creators: name: Buergisser, Peter
name: Cucker, Felipe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: F.1.3; I1.2

description: We define counting classes #P_R and #P_C in the Blum-Shub-Smale setting of computations over the real or complex numbers, respectively. The problems of counting the number of solutions of systems of polynomial inequalities over R, or of systems of polynomial equalities over C, respectively, turn out to be natural complete problems in these classes. We investigate to what extent the new counting classes capture the complexity of computing basic topological invariants of semialgebraic sets (over R) and algebraic sets (over C). We prove that the problem of computing the (modified) Euler characteristic of semialgebraic sets is FP_R^{#P_R}-complete, and that the problem of computing the geometric degree of complex algebraic sets is FP_C^{#P_C}-complete. We also define new counting complexity classes in the classical Turing model via taking Boolean parts of the classes above, and show that the problems to compute the Euler characteristic and the geometric degree of (semi)algebraic sets given by integer polynomials are complete in these classes. We complement the results in the Turing model by proving, for all k in N, the FPSPACE-hardness of the problem of computing the k-th Betti number of the zet of real zeros of a given integer polynomial. This holds with respect to the singular homology as well as for the Borel-Moore homology.
description: 54 pages, 2 figures
Additional file 1 of Challenge accepted: uncovering the role of rare genetic variants in Alzheimer’s disease
Creators: name: Khani, Marzieh
name: Gibbons, Elizabeth
name: Bras, Jose
name: Guerreiro, Rita
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1.
The Winter I Refused
Creators: name: Kinnane, Claire
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The Winter I Refused is a nonfiction memoir of my hospitalization for anorexia nervosa in 1998. The 14-year-old speaker intimately describes the physical and psychological experience of anorexia. The retrospective voice, interwoven throughout the text, discovers that while the cause of her illness remains mysterious, the nature of it reveals a profound sense of alienation that has little to do with weight and food. Compelled toward self-destruction not by trauma but overwhelming boredom, the speaker discovers the dangers of an idle sensitive mind. Her recovery involves reinventing her relationship with consciousness itself. Anorexia, in this memoir, becomes a metaphor for introversion gone haywire, for discovering passion for life only after toying dangerously with existence itself.
Internationalisation Strategies of German VET Providers: Core Driving Forces and Reflections About Demand
Creators: name: Kühn, Ida Kristina
name: Holle, Larissa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: vocational education and training
vet service providers
internationalisation
market entry strategy
demand

description: Context: Dual Vocational Education and Training (IVET) and Continuing/Further Training (CVET) are considered as success factors for economic and social development in both Germany and internationally. Against this backdrop, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) currently runs a funding line to foster the internationalisation of vocational education and training (VET) service providers and support them to establish successful training provision abroad. Building on the limited research already available on international activities of German VET providers, this study aims to identify the most relevant drivers, obstacles and motivations for internationalisation of VET services within this context. Method: The analysis is based on an online survey conducted among German VET providers in international markets. It focuses on selected results related especially to the criteria of market selection (political, socio-cultural, economic, and technological criteria). Findings: Most internationalisation decisions of VET providers are driven by customer-oriented service/product development. While there are few obstacles to internationalisation as such, providers seem to face difficulties when it comes to further adapting training services to local needs. Three thirds of all VET service providers in our sample became active due to demand identified in the target country. Conclusions: VET service providers seem to enter markets that hold the most potential for the establishment of VET services. Next steps for further research would be to examine whether they a) act on the demand for VET services in the target country, b) mainly address German industry (parallel structures) at local level/abroad or c) artificially create demand for their products.
The Winter I Refused
Creators: name: Kinnane, Claire
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 47
subject: Language, communication and culture
classificationCode: 4705
subject: Literary studies

description: The Winter I Refused is a nonfiction memoir of my hospitalization for anorexia nervosa in 1998. The 14-year-old speaker intimately describes the physical and psychological experience of anorexia. The retrospective voice, interwoven throughout the text, discovers that while the cause of her illness remains mysterious, the nature of it reveals a profound sense of alienation that has little to do with weight and food. Compelled toward self-destruction not by trauma but overwhelming boredom, the speaker discovers the dangers of an idle sensitive mind. Her recovery involves reinventing her relationship with consciousness itself. Anorexia, in this memoir, becomes a metaphor for introversion gone haywire, for discovering passion for life only after toying dangerously with existence itself.
From Employee to Expert - Towards a Corona-Sensitive Approach for Data Collection
Creators: name: Langemeyer, Ines
name: Gronau, Norbert
name: Schmid-Walz, Sabrina
name: Kotarski, David
name: Reimann, Daniela
name: Teichmann, Malte
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: cross self-confrontation
recording of workplaces
corona-sensitive data collection
age-appropriate vocational training
augmented reality

description: In the context of the collaborative project Ageing-appropriate, process-oriented and interactive further training in SME (API-KMU), innovative solutions for the challenges of demographic change and digitalisation are being developed for SMEs. To this end, an approach to age-appropriate training will be designed with the help of AR technology. In times of the corona pandemic, a special research design is necessary for the initial survey of the current state in the companies, which will be systematically elaborated in this paper. The results of the previous methodological considerations illustrate the necessity of a mix of methods to generate a deeper insight into the work processes. Video-based retrospective interviews seem to be a suitable instrument to adequately capture the employees' interpretative perspectives on their work activities. In conclusion, the paper identifies specific challenges, such as creating acceptance among employees, open questions, e.g., how a transfer or generalization of the results can succeed, and hypotheses that will have to be tested in the further course of the research process.
The soft X-ray excess AGN RE J2248-511
Creators: name: Starling, R. L. C.
name: Puchnarewicz, E. M.
name: Romero-Colmenero, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We model the spectral energy distribution of the ultrasoft broad-line AGN RE J2248-511 with Comptonised accretion disc models. These are able to reproduce the steep optical and ultrasoft X-ray slopes, and the derived black hole mass is consistent with independent mass estimates. This AGN displays properties of both broad and narrow line Seyfert 1 galaxies, but we conclude that it is intrinsically a `normal' Seyfert 1 viewed at high inclination angle.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure. MG10 Proceedings
Gryffin: An algorithm for Bayesian optimization of categorical variables informed by expert knowledge
Creators: name: Häse, Florian
name: Aldeghi, Matteo
name: Hickman, Riley J.
name: Roch, Loïc M.
name: Aspuru-Guzik, Alán
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Designing functional molecules and advanced materials requires complex design choices: tuning continuous process parameters such as temperatures or flow rates, while simultaneously selecting catalysts or solvents. To date, the development of data-driven experiment planning strategies for autonomous experimentation has largely focused on continuous process parameters despite the urge to devise efficient strategies for the selection of categorical variables. Here, we introduce Gryffin, a general purpose optimization framework for the autonomous selection of categorical variables driven by expert knowledge. Gryffin augments Bayesian optimization based on kernel density estimation with smooth approximations to categorical distributions. Leveraging domain knowledge in the form of physicochemical descriptors, Gryffin can significantly accelerate the search for promising molecules and materials. Gryffin can further highlight relevant correlations between the provided descriptors to inspire physical insights and foster scientific intuition. In addition to comprehensive benchmarks, we demonstrate the capabilities and performance of Gryffin on three examples in materials science and chemistry: (i) the discovery of non-fullerene acceptors for organic solar cells, (ii) the design of hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites for light harvesting, and (iii) the identification of ligands and process parameters for Suzuki-Miyaura reactions. Our results suggest that Gryffin, in its simplest form, is competitive with state-of-the-art categorical optimization algorithms. However, when leveraging domain knowledge provided via descriptors, Gryffin outperforms other approaches while simultaneously refining this domain knowledge to promote scientific understanding.
description: 19 pages, 6 figures (SI: 16 pages, 14 figures). Expanded background, discussion, minor fixes and changes
Additional file 1 of “There hasn’t been a career structure to step into”: a qualitative study on perceptions of allied health clinician researcher careers
Creators: name: Brandenburg, Caitlin
name: Ward, Elizabeth C.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Interview questions.
Topological characterization of non-Hermitian multiband systems using Majorana's Stellar Representation
Creators: name: Teo, Wei Xin
name: Li, Linhu
name: Zhang, Xizheng
name: Gong, Jiangbin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For topological characterization of non-Hermitian multiband systems, Majorana's stellar representation (MSR) is applied to 1D multiband models consisting of asymmetric nearest-neighbor hopping and imaginary on-site potentials. The number of edge states isolated from the continuous bulk bands in the complex energy plane is successfully linked with a topological invariant constructed from MSR. Specifically, the number of isolated edge states can be obtained from a winding number defined for the Majorana stars, which also allows for a geometric visualization of the topology related to the isolated edge modes. A remarkable success of our approach is that our winding number characterization remains valid even in the presence of exceptional points of the continuous bulk bands, where the Hamiltonian becomes non-diagonalizable and hence conventional topological invariants such as the Zak phase and the Chern number cannot be properly defined. Furthermore, cases with the so-called non-Hermitian skin effect are also studied, showing that the bulk-boundary correspondence between our defined winding numbers and isolated edge states can be restored. Of particular interest is a four-band example with an odd number of isolated edge states, where the Zak phase approach necessarily fails upon removing the skin effect, but our MSR-based characterization works equally well. For these reasons, our study is expected to be widely useful in topological studies of non-Hermitian multiband systems, regardless of the skin effect or the presence of the exceptional points in non-Hermitian systems.
description: 14 pages, 15 figures
Perdita (Heteroperdita) coldeniae Timberlake 1954
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
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Andrenidae
Perdita
Perdita coldeniae

description: Perdita (Heteroperdita) coldeniae Timberlake, 1954
[Holotype: CASC; ♂ Near Westmoreland, Imperial Co., California, US; May 31, 1930]
This species inhabits the southwestern USA and BC, Mexico. One specimen of P. coldeniae was collected in 1968 in the Lower Colorado Desert in BC (UCRC). See fig. 39.
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 88, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Crossing Boundaries in Higher Education: Linking Theory To Practice with two UK Case Studies
Creators: name: Andrea, Laczik
name: Kersh, Natasha
name: Emms, Katharine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: practically-based higher education
employer engagement
workplace learning

description: This paper aims to consider the configurations, strategies and implications of facilitating teaching and learning through bringing together and crossing boundaries between education and work, and theory and practice (Akkerman, 2011), specifically focusing on the context of practically-based higher education (HE). In this paper we argue that boundary crossing is a continuous feature of practically-based HE – the process which, as we will further argue, is constructed and co-constructed through collaboration between different actors: tutors, learners and employers. Drawing on data from two HE case studies, the paper endeavours to demonstrate how institutional cooperation and collaboration between various actors create instances of crossing boundaries that enhance the teaching and learning process. The case studies include the National Software Academy (NSA) at Cardiff University, which delivers a BSc in Applied Software Engineering. Parallel approaches are drawn with our second case study the Edge Hotel School (EHS) at the University of Essex, a practically-based HE offering, enabling university students to obtain foundation or honours degrees in hospitality and events management. These case studies provide examples of innovative approaches and models in HE, aiming to facilitate action-based learning and offering a distinct form of continuous, hands-on exposure to real-life workplace practices.
Perdita (Heteroperdita) yanegai Portman 2016
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
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Andrenidae
Perdita
Perdita yanegai

description: Perdita (Heteroperdita) yanegai Portman, 2016
[Holotype: BBSL (120002); ♂ Devil’s Playground, San Bernardino Co., California, US; June 4, 1980]
Perdita yanegai has been collected in the Lower Colorado Desert, north of San Luis Gonzaga Bay in BC (UCRC) and it is known from southwestern USA. See fig. 40.
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 88, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Perdita (Hexaperdita) arnaudi Timberlake 1958
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
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Andrenidae
Perdita
Perdita arnaudi

description: Perdita (Hexaperdita) arnaudi Timberlake, 1958
Endemic
[Holotype: CASC; ♀ Ruffo Ranch, Isla Cerralvo, Baja California Sur, Mexico; March 22, 1953]
This is an endemic species to the southern BCP. It has only been collected in the Sarcocaulescent Shrubland region in the Island Jacques Cousteau (Isla Cerralvo) near the tip of the peninsula (Timberlake 1958) and it has not been recently detected. See fig. 41.
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 90, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
The effects of MDMA preexposure on MDMA-induced taste aversions
Creators: name: Albaugh, Daniel L.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Although changes in a drug's aversive effects may impact its abuse potential, little is known about factors that impact the aversive effects of MDMA. To that end, the present study used the conditioned taste aversion (CTA) preparation to assess how prior MDMA experience may affect the drug's aversive properties. In Experiment 1, a dose-response analysis of MDMA-induced taste aversions was conducted with Sprague-Dawley rats using three doses of MDMA (1.0, 1.8, 3.2 mg/kg) and vehicle. CTA's induced by MDMA were dose-dependent, with the greatest aversions obtained with 3.2 mg/kg MDMA. In Experiment 2, the effects of a prior MDMA history on MDMA-induced CTA's were examined. Rats preexposed to MDMA (1.8 mg/kg) displayed attenuated aversions, as compared to MDMA-naive rats conditioned with MDMA. Results are discussed in terms of pharmacological tolerance to the aversive properties of MDMA, which may contribute to increased abuse liability among subpopulations of MDMA users.
The effects of MDMA preexposure on MDMA-induced taste aversions
Creators: name: Albaugh, Daniel L.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Although changes in a drug's aversive effects may impact its abuse potential, little is known about factors that impact the aversive effects of MDMA. To that end, the present study used the conditioned taste aversion (CTA) preparation to assess how prior MDMA experience may affect the drug's aversive properties. In Experiment 1, a dose-response analysis of MDMA-induced taste aversions was conducted with Sprague-Dawley rats using three doses of MDMA (1.0, 1.8, 3.2 mg/kg) and vehicle. CTA's induced by MDMA were dose-dependent, with the greatest aversions obtained with 3.2 mg/kg MDMA. In Experiment 2, the effects of a prior MDMA history on MDMA-induced CTA's were examined. Rats preexposed to MDMA (1.8 mg/kg) displayed attenuated aversions, as compared to MDMA-naive rats conditioned with MDMA. Results are discussed in terms of pharmacological tolerance to the aversive properties of MDMA, which may contribute to increased abuse liability among subpopulations of MDMA users.
Formation of quantum dots in GaN/AlGaN FETs
Creators: name: Otsuka, Tomohiro
name: Abe, Takaya
name: Kitada, Takahito
name: Ito, Norikazu
name: Tanaka, Taketoshi
name: Nakahara, Ken
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: GaN and the heterostructures are attractive in condensed matter science and applications for electronic devices. We measure the electron transport in GaN/AlGaN field-effect transistors (FETs) at cryogenic temperature. We observe formation of quantum dots in the conduction channel near the depletion of the 2-dimensional electron gas (2DEG). Multiple quantum dots are formed in the disordered potential induced by impurities in the FET conduction channel. We also measure the gate insulator dependence of the transport properties. These results can be utilized for the development of quantum dot devices utilizing GaN/AlGaN heterostructures and evaluation of the impurities in GaN/AlGaN FET channels.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures
Magnetic polarisability of the nucleon using a Laplacian mode projection
Creators: name: Bignell, Ryan
name: Kamleh, Waseem
name: Leinweber, Derek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Conventional hadron interpolating fields, which utilise gauge-covariant Gaussian smearing, are ineffective in isolating ground state nucleons in a uniform background magnetic field. There is evidence that residual Landau mode physics remains at the quark level, even when QCD interactions are present. In this work, quark-level projection operators are constructed from the $SU(3) \times U(1)$ eigenmodes of the two-dimensional lattice Laplacian operator associated with Landau modes. These quark-level modes are formed from a periodic finite lattice where both the background field and strong interactions are present. Using these eigenmodes, quark-propagator projection operators provides the enhanced hadronic energy-eigenstate isolation necessary for calculation of nucleon energy shifts in a magnetic field. The magnetic polarisability of both the proton and neutron is calculated using this method on the $32^3 \times 64$ dynamical QCD lattices provided by the PACS-CS Collaboration. A chiral effective-field theory analysis is used to connect the lattice QCD results to the physical regime, obtaining magnetic polarisabilities of $β^p = 2.79(22)({}^{+13}_{-18}) \times 10^{-4}$ fm$^3$ and $β^n = 2.06(26)({}^{+15}_{-20}) \times 10^{-4}$ fm$^3$, where the numbers in parantheses describe statistical and systematic uncertainties.
description: 16 Pages, Version published in Phys. Rev. D
A Sociocultural Approach to Interprofessional Learning and Collaboration in Robotic-Assisted Surgery: Challenges of the Scientification of Work in the Operating Room
Creators: name: Kloetzer, Laure
name: Cristofari, Hélène
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: learning robotic-assisted surgery
training in robotic-assisted surgery
cross self-confrontations
interprofessional collaboration

description: This collaborative research was conducted on robotic-assisted surgery within a Swiss academic hospital. We used a methodology of cross self-confrontation to investigate learning and training in the operating room with three different populations: surgeons, surgical nurses and operating room assistants. In particular, we researched whether videorecordings from real operations can be transformed into learning and teaching tools. We highlight three aspects of our findings: (a) all professions report mixed feelings regarding a demanding situation; (b) an academic hospital is a setting in which a complex and flexible interplay of technical and didactic functions is observed; (c) the solving of potential technical problems tends to be delegated by surgeons to hierarchically lower-level professionals, i.e. surgical nurses and operating room assistants. As a conclusion, the research exemplifies the needs for additional teaching and learning spaces outside the operating room, as well as the challenges of learning scientificated knowledge—in-action in this medical setting.
Deep Agent: Studying the Dynamics of Information Spread and Evolution in Social Networks
Creators: name: Garibay, Ivan
name: Oghaz, Toktam A.
name: Yousefi, Niloofar
name: Mutlu, Ece C.
name: Schiappa, Madeline
name: Scheinert, Steven
name: Anagnostopoulos, Georgios C.
name: Bouwens, Christina
name: Fiore, Stephen M.
name: Mantzaris, Alexander
name: Murphy, John T.
name: Rand, William
name: Salter, Anastasia
name: Stanfill, Mel
name: Sukthankar, Gita
name: Baral, Nisha
name: Fair, Gabriel
name: Gunaratne, Chathika
name: Hajiakhoond, Neda B.
name: Jasser, Jasser
name: Jayalath, Chathura
name: Newton, Olivia
name: Saadat, Samaneh
name: Senevirathna, Chathurani
name: Winter, Rachel
name: Zhang, Xi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper explains the design of a social network analysis framework, developed under DARPA's SocialSim program, with novel architecture that models human emotional, cognitive and social factors. Our framework is both theory and data-driven, and utilizes domain expertise. Our simulation effort helps in understanding how information flows and evolves in social media platforms. We focused on modeling three information domains: cryptocurrencies, cyber threats, and software vulnerabilities for the three interrelated social environments: GitHub, Reddit, and Twitter. We participated in the SocialSim DARPA Challenge in December 2018, in which our models were subjected to extensive performance evaluation for accuracy, generalizability, explainability, and experimental power. This paper reports the main concepts and models, utilized in our social media modeling effort in developing a multi-resolution simulation at the user, community, population, and content levels.
description: 16 pages
The free energy of the two-dimensional dilute Bose gas. II. Upper bound
Creators: name: Mayer, Simon
name: Seiringer, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We prove an upper bound on the free energy of a two-dimensional homogeneous Bose gas in the thermodynamic limit. We show that for $a^2 ρ\ll 1$ and $βρ\gtrsim 1$ the free energy per unit volume differs from the one of the non-interacting system by at most $4 πρ^2 |\ln a^2 ρ|^{-1} (2 - [1 - β_{\mathrm{c}}/β]_+^2)$ to leading order, where $a$ is the scattering length of the two-body interaction potential, $ρ$ is the density, $β$ the inverse temperature and $β_{\mathrm{c}}$ is the inverse Berezinskii--Kosterlitz--Thouless critical temperature for superfluidity. In combination with the corresponding matching lower bound proved in \cite{DMS19} this shows equality in the asymptotic expansion.
description: LaTeX, 24 pages; final version, to appear in J. Math. Phys
Universal behavior of localization of residue fluctuations in globular proteins
Creators: name: Wu, Yinhao
name: Yuan, Xianzhang
name: Gao, Xia
name: Fang, Haiping
name: Zi, Jian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Quantitative Biology (q-bio)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Localization properties of residue fluctuations in globular proteins are studied theoretically by using the Gaussian network model. Participation ratio for each residue fluctuation mode is calculated. It is found that the relationship between participation ratio and frequency is similar for all globular proteins, indicating a universal behavior in spite of their different size, shape, and architecture.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures. To appear in Phys. Rev. E
The effects of dopamine receptor genes on the trajectories of sport participation from adolescence through young adulthood
Creators: name: Lee, Chung Gun
name: Hyoyoul Moon
name: Seiyeong Park
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Background: Although previous studies suggest that dopamine receptor genes partially affect physical activity-related behaviours, all of these studies were cross-sectional studies that examined the effects of dopamine receptor genes on physical activity-related behaviours at some point in time. Therefore, the nature and extent of this relationship across the lifespan are even more uncertain. Aim: The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of dopamine receptor genes (i.e. DRD2, DRD4 and DRD5) on sport participation trajectories from adolescence to young adulthood. Subjects and methods: This study used the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health data (wave 1–4). Group-based trajectory modelling was used to investigate the effect of dopamine receptor genes on the probability of being in each sport participation trajectory group. Results: A three-group model was the best fitting model for men whereas a two-group model was the best fitting model for women. The more participants possess the A1 allele of the DRD2, the less likely they are to be in the “high-decreasing group” rather than the “low-stable group” in both men and women. In male participants, the more participants carry the A1 allele of the DRD2, the more likely they are to be in the “high-stable group” rather than the “high-decreasing group” (coefficient = 0.206, p Conclusions: These results can contribute to the literature by providing important information on the effects of dopamine receptor genes on sport participation trajectories from adolescence through young adulthood.
Platycrepidius eburatus Champion
Creators: name: Johnson, Paul J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2000
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Elateridae
Platycrepidius
Platycrepidius eburatus

description: Platycrepidius eburatus Champion, new country record
 Historical. Champion (1895) described this species from 4 specimens collected at Bugaba, Panama.
 Specimens Examined. COSTA RICA, Prov. Puntarenas, CRI002366763 (?), CRI001843103 (/), CRI001843147 (?), CRI001846035 (/); Golfo Dulce, 24 km W of Piedras Blancos (4, UCRC), R. Riyoto, Rancho Quemodo (UCRC), Cerro Rincon (1, UCRC); Pen. Osa (/)(UCRC) Golfo Dulce, 3 km SW. Rincon (/)(PJJC); Prov. Heredia, La Selva Biol. Sta. (/)(PJJC).
description: Published as part of Johnson, Paul J., 2000, New Species And Records Of Platycrepidius Candèze From Costa Rica And Panama (Coleoptera: Elateridae), pp. 284-290 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 54 (3) on page 288, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065x(2000)054[0284:nsarop]2.0.co;2, http://zenodo.org/record/4900263
Theoretical Perspectives on Resource Tax Design
Creators: name: Boadway, Robin
name: Keen, Michael
name: Boadway, Robin
name: Keen, Michael
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Financial Economics

description: The importance and complexity of petroleum and hard minerals operations is matched by the importance and complexity of finding effective ways to tax them. Many of these challenges arise in other activities too (exhaustibility of deposits being the main exception), but they take such extreme form in relation to resources as to have led to a proliferation of creative instruments and analytical methods. This paper reviews the challenges for tax policy in dealing with the resource sector, the principal instruments used, and some of the central design issues.
Bars
Creators: name: Schacht, Eugene
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: During the second coming of prohibition in America, Adam has life made. He has the six-figure income, the luxury sedan, and, in a time of high moral prudence, all the women and alcohol a man can ask for. That's the life he leaves behind when he meets Rachel, a speakeasy waitress. After a night of heavy drinking, Adam wakes up in a car with Rachel, en route to Mexico trafficking alcohol. Over the course of the next three days, Adam discovers the preconceived notions he has about himself and the world aren't necessarily realistic, and maybe he should have stayed home instead.
Additional file 1 of Epidemiology of Astrovirus, Norovirus and Sapovirus in Greek pig farms indicates high prevalence of Mamastrovirus suggesting the potential need for systematic surveillance
Creators: name: Stamelou, Efthymia
name: Giantsis, Ioannis A.
name: Papageorgiou, Konstantinos V.
name: Petridou, Evanthia
name: Davidson, Irit
name: Polizopοulou, Zoe S.
name: Papa, Anna
name: Kritas, Spyridon K.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Name, detected virus(es), sampling site, animal host age and GenBank accession number for all analyzed samples. All samples derived from asymptomatic animals.
title: Irradiated Accretion Discs in Low Mass X-ray Transients
Creators: name: Powell, Craig Robert
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2004

description: The disc instability model successfully explains the outbursts of dwarf novae, but modifications are required to account for the differences observed in the outbursts of Low Mass X-ray Binaries. I investigate the effects of X-ray irradiation on the accretion disc during outburst and find that the shape of the decaying lightcurve can be simply accounted for. Fitting the decay provides a new way to determine system parameters based on the accretion disc radius, supplementing existing methods. The effects of X-rays in the period following outburst allow echo outbursts to occur on timescales much longer than those of dwarf novae, as observed. In developing this work I determine a new form for the surface density profile of the disc during the decay from outburst.

 I examine observations of XTE J 1118+480 taken at UKIRT to find the magnitude and spectrum of the system in its near-quiescent state. From the photometry I determine a new, more accurate orbital period. In the spectrum produced hydrogen and helium emission lines from the disc are apparent.

 I also searched for the optical counterparts of two newly detected X-ray sources. Although no strong candidate was found for either, a list of less probable candidates is provided for each star.
Bars
Creators: name: Schacht, Eugene
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 47
subject: Language, communication and culture
classificationCode: 4705
subject: Literary studies

description: During the second coming of prohibition in America, Adam has life made. He has the six-figure income, the luxury sedan, and, in a time of high moral prudence, all the women and alcohol a man can ask for. That's the life he leaves behind when he meets Rachel, a speakeasy waitress. After a night of heavy drinking, Adam wakes up in a car with Rachel, en route to Mexico trafficking alcohol. Over the course of the next three days, Adam discovers the preconceived notions he has about himself and the world aren't necessarily realistic, and maybe he should have stayed home instead.
Perdita (Hexaperdita) bidentata Timberlake 1956
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: Perdita (Hexaperdita) bidentata Timberlake, 1956
Endemic
[Holotype: CASC; ♂ San Pedro, Baja California Sur, Mexico, October 7, 1941]
This is an endemic species and has been collected in the Gulf Coast and Sarcocaulescent Shrubland regions in BCS. Specimens collected in Los Cabos in April 1985 are vouchered at UCRC (SCAN 2023). Additionally we examined two specimens collected in San Pedro, BCS in October 1941 (CASC). See fig. 41.
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 91, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Platycrepidius grandini Candeze
Creators: name: Johnson, Paul J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2000
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Elateridae
Platycrepidius
Platycrepidius grandini

description: Platycrepidius grandini Candèze, new country records
 Historical. Candèze (1864) described this species from Mexico. Champion (1895) additionally recorded this species from Nicaragua.
 Specimens Examined. COSTA RICA, Guanacaste Province, CRI001836984 (?); CRI001810523 (/); CRI001121756 (/); CRI001038445 (/); CRI002204757 (/); CRI001121755 (/); 22–27 June 1981 (?)[no database tag] (PJJC). PANAMA, Panama Altos (Isla) de Maje (?)(UNLC).
 Notes. The posterior pronotal maculae are absent on specimen CRI001121755.
description: Published as part of Johnson, Paul J., 2000, New Species And Records Of Platycrepidius Candèze From Costa Rica And Panama (Coleoptera: Elateridae), pp. 284-290 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 54 (3) on page 288, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065x(2000)054[0284:nsarop]2.0.co;2, http://zenodo.org/record/4900263