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Croce, Benedetto, Saggi sulla letteratura italiana del Seicento
Creators: name: Livingston, Arthur
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1911
Subjects: subject: Italian literature
subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: Europeans
subject: Romance literature

description: This volume comprises a series of eight studies, of which the first seven appeared between 1890 and 1900, now reissued in enlarged and corrected form. The eighth is entitled: Sensualismo e ingegniosità nella lirica del Seicento, and is intended to serve as an introduction to Croce's anthology of Lirici marinisti (Bari, Laterza, 1910), one of the first volumes in the gigantic series of I scrittori d'Italia, now in process of publication. This essay, of the whole number, (pp. 377-433) is the most broadly theoretical in its scope; it is also the most essentially new. To it therefore we will confine our few observations. With Croce's methods and views in this essay we are wholly in sympathy. His investigations proceed on the apparent assumption that before we explain the Seicento we must know what the characteristics of the Seicento really are.
Chaperina basipalmata Van Kampen 1906
Creators: name: Miracle, Eulàlia Gassó
name: Van, Lars W.
name: Ostende, Den Hoek
name: Arntzen, Jan Willem
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Amphibia
Anura
Microhylidae
Chaperina
Chaperina basipalmata

description: Chaperina basipalmata Van Kampen, 1906
Van Kampen, 1906. Nova Guinea, 5: 169; figs. 4, 5.
 Current name: Austrochaperina basipalmata (Van Kampen, 1906)
Syntypes: RMNH 4628, 1 spec. Loc.: “Timena-Fluss” [Irian Jaya, Indonesia]. Leg.: Nieuw Guinea Expeditie, 1903.
 RMNH 4629, 1 juv. Loc.: “Tawarin” [Irian Jaya, Indonesia]. Leg.: Nieuw Guinea Expeditie, 1903. Remarks. According to Van Tuijl (1995), other syntypes are in the Zoological Museum Amsterdam (ZMA 5875-5876).
description: Published as part of Miracle, Eulàlia Gassó, Van, Lars W., Ostende, Den Hoek & Arntzen, Jan Willem, 2007, Type specimens of amphibians in the National Museum of Natural History, Leiden, The Netherlands, pp. 25-68 in Zootaxa 1482 on page 35, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.176896
The Broadband XMM-Newton and NuSTAR X-ray Spectra of Two Ultraluminous X-ray Sources in the Galaxy IC 342
Creators: name: Rana, Vikram
name: Harrison, Fiona A.
name: Bachetti, Matteo
name: Walton, Dominic J.
name: Furst, Felix
name: Barret, Didier
name: Miller, Jon M.
name: Fabian, Andrew C.
name: Boggs, Steven E.
name: Christensen, Finn C.
name: Craig, William W.
name: Grefenstette, Brian W.
name: Hailey, Charles J.
name: Madsen, Kristin K.
name: Ptak, Andrew F.
name: Stern, Daniel
name: Webb, Natalie A.
name: Zhang, William W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results for two Ultraluminous X-ray Sources (ULXs), IC 342 X-1 and IC 342 X-2, using two epochs of XMM-Newton and NuSTAR observations separated by $\sim$7 days. We observe little spectral or flux variability above 1 keV between epochs, with unabsorbed 0.3--30 keV luminosities being $1.04^{+0.08}_{-0.06} \times 10^{40}$ erg s$^{-1}$ for IC 342 X-1 and $7.40\pm0.20 \times 10^{39}$ erg s$^{-1}$ for IC 342 X-2, so that both were observed in a similar, luminous state. Both sources have a high absorbing column in excess of the Galactic value. Neither source has a spectrum consistent with a black hole binary in low/hard state, and both ULXs exhibit strong curvature in their broadband X-ray spectra. This curvature rules out models that invoke a simple reflection-dominated spectrum with a broadened iron line and no cutoff in the illuminating power-law continuum. X-ray spectrum of IC 342 X-1 can be characterized by a soft disk-like black body component at low energies and a cool, optically thick Comptonization continuum at high energies, but unique physical interpretation of the spectral components remains challenging. The broadband spectrum of IC 342 X-2 can be fit by either a hot (3.8 keV) accretion disk, or a Comptonized continuum with no indication of a seed photon population. Although the seed photon component may be masked by soft excess emission unlikely to be associated with the binary system, combined with the high absorption column, it is more plausible that the broadband X-ray emission arises from a simple thin blackbody disk component. Secure identification of the origin of the spectral components in these sources will likely require broadband spectral variability studies.
description: 12 pages, 11 figures, 5 Tables, Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal
The Association Between Genetic Variants in SORL1 and Alzheimer Disease in an Urban, Multiethnic, Community-Based Cohort
Creators: name: Lee, Joshua H.
name: Cheng, Rong
name: Schupf, Nicole
name: Manly, Jennifer J.
name: Lantigua, Rafael Antonio
name: Stern, Yaakov
name: Farrer, Lindsay
name: Rogaeva, Ekaterina
name: Wakutani, Yosuke
name: St. George-Hyslop, Peter
name: Mayeux, Richard Paul
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Genetic polymorphisms
subject: Alzheimer's disease
subject: Older people--Mental health
subject: Alzheimer's disease--Genetic aspects
subject: Ethnic groups--Diseases
subject: Dementia
subject: Epidemiology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Mental health
subject: Gerontology

description: Objective: To investigate the association between Alzheimer disease (AD) and variant alleles in SORL1 using a series of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in an urban, multiethnic, community-based population. Design: We used a nested case-control analysis in a population-based, prospective study of aging and dementia in Medicare recipients, 65 years and older. Setting: Northern Manhattan, NY. Participants: There were 296 patients with probable AD and 428 healthy, elderly controls. The participants were African American (34%), Caribbean Hispanic (51%), or non-Hispanic white (15%). Main Outcome Measures: We genotyped all 29 SNPs in SORL1 that were examined in the earlier report. We assessed allelic association with AD using standard case-control methods, which included apolipoprotein E genotype as a covariate. Results: Several individual SNPs and SNP haplotypes were significantly associated with AD in this prospectively collected community-based cohort, confirming the previously reported positive association of SORL1 with AD. Single nucleotide polymorphism 12, near the 5′ region, was associated with AD in African American and Hispanic individuals. Two SNPs in the 3′ region were also associated with AD in African American (SNP 26) and non-Hispanic white (SNP 20) individuals. A single haplotype in the 3′ region was associated with AD in Hispanic individuals. However, several different haplotypes were associated with AD in African American and white individuals, including the TTC haplotypes at SNPs 23 through 25 (P = .035), which was significantly associated with AD in the North European white individuals in our previous report. Conclusions: This study confirms the association between genetic variants in SORL1 and AD. While the associations observed in these data sets overlap with those previously reported, the finding of novel SNP and haplotype associations suggests that there may be extensive allelic heterogeneity in SORL1. Broad regions of the SORL1 gene will therefore need to be scrutinized for functional pathogenic variants.
title: Fire - Herbivory Interactions in an East African Savanna: Effects on Acacia Drepanolobium Trees
Creators: name: LaMalfa, Eric M.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2019

description: Globally, changes in plant community structure have occurred in ecosystems where humans have altered natural disturbance regimes. Many plants have adaptive life histories and morphological traits that have coevolved with fire and herbivory, which allows them to thrive despite repeated tissue losses. Therefore, altering the type, frequency, or severity of disturbance affects individual plant growth and competition among species. When these changes benefit or disadvantage different plant functional groups (i.e., grasses, shrubs, trees) it alters ecosystem structure and function. Understanding and predicting these vegetation changes, is critical for conservation and management of biodiversity, wildlife habitat, livestock forage, and water.
Savannas are characterized by the codominance of grasses and trees, but the proportion of tree cover responds dynamically to changes in precipitation, fire, and herbivory. These factors often cause a ‘demographic bottleneck,’ which delays transitions from sapling size (1 m). In this dissertation, I investigated several fire × herbivory interactions to gain a mechanistic understanding of sapling recruitment processes that ultimately affect savanna structure.
I made use of a long-term experiment that used semi-permeable fencing to manipulate presence and absence of different types of herbivores, to explore how fire and different combinations of domestic cattle, meso-wildlife, and megaherbivores (elephant and giraffe) affect sapling recruitment. First, I found clear evidence that a wide range of tree height classes resprout after being top-killed by fire, but they were all subsequently kept short by meso-wildlife browsing. Elephants played a key role in suppressing the largest resprouts after fire possibly because fire had reduced the presence of ant mutualists that defend the trees. Second, I found that in the absence of fire, cattle and wildlife indirectly affected saplings by altering competition with neighboring vegetation. Saplings competed with grass and trees during above-average rainfall years. Bare ground—a condition often caused by overgrazing—was positively associated with sapling growth. The highest sapling growth, however, occurred where large neighbor trees were absent, a condition maintained primarily by elephants browsing and damaging large neighbor trees. Finally, I found that saplings conditioned by pre-fire wildlife “browsing legacies” had high tolerance to combined fire and wildlife browsing. These results help explain how saplings tolerate repeated tissue loss to disturbance. Understanding how interactions between fire and herbivory affect sapling recruitment will help managers effectively use natural disturbance processes to manage savanna structure and function.
title: Micro- to Macro-Scale Structural and Lithological Architecture of Basal Nonconformities: Implications for Fluid Flow and Injection Induced Seismicity
Creators: name: Hesseltine, Garth
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2019

description: Rising incidents of earthquakes caused by human activity in the United States, known as induced earthquakes, is a growing concern. Induced earthquakes may occur when fluid and/or wastewater is injected several kilometers beneath the Earth’s surface into sedimentary rocks. Fluids and pressures can migrate from the sedimentary rocks, which are typically friendlier to fluid flow, into underlying less friendlier crystalline rocks along fluid pathways weakening and possibly reactivating preexisting faults. Understanding potential fluid pathways and/or barriers from the sedimentary rocks to crystalline rocks is crucial. I investigate the structure, composition, and heterogeneity of rocks near the contact between the sedimentary and crystalline rocks, known as nonconformities, and highlight their possible role in the transmission of fluids and porefluid pressures into the crystalline basement.
To characterize nonconformities, we examined outcrop analogs and drillcore of nonconformities in New Mexico, Colorado, and Michigan. Geochemical, structural, and hydrological techniques were used to analyze the nonconformities at microscopic to megascopic scales. The nonconformities observed in this study consist of variably deformed, weathered, and altered igneous and metamorphic crystalline basement overlain by sedimentary rocks cut by outcrop- and map-scale faults. The nonconformity at the New Mexico sites includes a clay-rich weathered horizon atop deformed and jointed crystalline basement. Heterogeneity observed in the fracture and joint networks within the crystalline basement contributes to permeability heterogeneity and anisotropy. The crystalline basement adjacent to the nonconformity at the Colorado site is relatively fresh and unweathered and overlain by low permeability sandstones. The nonconformity and underlying slates in the Michigan drillcore are overprinted by hydrothermal alteration and carbonate mineralization, which provides evidence of hydrological communication between sedimentary and crystalline rocks. The nonconformities display a range of structural, hydrological, and geochemical styles and characteristics which vary over relatively small spatial extents. The geological and hydrogeological histories and complexities of nonconformity analogs provide valuable information to understand how fluids, past, and present, interact with the contact. This study introduces some of the factors that may control fluid flow adjacent to nonconformities and their possible significance to the interplay of deformation, fluid flow, and induced seismicity.
Laumonier, Paul, Ronsard, poete lyrique
Creators: name: Ruutz-Rees, C.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1911
Subjects: subject: Lyric poetry
subject: Poets, French
subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: Europeans
subject: Romance literature

description: It sometimes befalls a literary reputation to be shown so forcibly in one given aspect that every other would seem excluded even for the most independent of investigators. Such, as all know, was the case with that of Ronsard after Malherbe and Boileau had spoken their word; and such its fate once more, as has been less observed, since Romanticists and Parnassians set the great poet of the Pléiade upon his rightful throne. For, despite Sainte-Beuve's judicious connection of his name with that of Marot, Ronsard has remained for readers—and in general for critics—of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, not merely a great poet come at last to his own, but a great innovator also, one who broke with national tradition and set the feet of poetry in paths entirely new. As this was the view of himself proclaimed with vigor by Ronsard at the beginning of his career, it is not surprising that it should have obtained in the revival no less than in the eclipse of his reputation.
Chaperina macrorhyncha Van Kampen 1906
Creators: name: Miracle, Eulàlia Gassó
name: Van, Lars W.
name: Ostende, Den Hoek
name: Arntzen, Jan Willem
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Amphibia
Anura
Microhylidae
Chaperina
Chaperina macrorhyncha

description: Chaperina macrorhyncha Van Kampen, 1906
Van Kampen, 1906. Nova Guinea, 5: 168; fig. 3.
 Current name: Austrochaperina macrorhyncha (Van Kampen, 1906)
Holotype: RMNH 4630, 1 spec. Loc.: “Manikion-Gebiet” [Irian Jaya, Indonesia]. Leg.: Nieuw Guinea Expeditie, 1903.
description: Published as part of Miracle, Eulàlia Gassó, Van, Lars W., Ostende, Den Hoek & Arntzen, Jan Willem, 2007, Type specimens of amphibians in the National Museum of Natural History, Leiden, The Netherlands, pp. 25-68 in Zootaxa 1482 on page 35, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.176896
title: Methods for Meta–Analyses of Rare Events, Sparse Data, and Heterogeneity
Creators: name: Zabriskie, Brinley
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2019

description: The vast and complex wealth of information available to researchers often leads to a systematic review, which involves a detailed and comprehensive plan and search strategy with the goal of identifying, appraising, and synthesizing all relevant studies on a particular topic. A meta–analysis, conducted ideally as part of a comprehensive systematic review, statistically synthesizes evidence from multiple independent studies to produce one overall conclusion. The increasingly widespread use of meta–analysis has led to growing interest in meta–analytic methods for rare events and sparse data. Conventional approaches tend to perform very poorly in such settings. Recent work in this area has provided options for sparse data, but these are still often hampered when heterogeneity across the available studies differs based on treatment group. Heterogeneity arises when participants in a study are more correlated than participants across studies, often stemming from differences in the administration of the treatment, study design, or measurement of the outcome. We propose several new exact methods that accommodate this common contingency, providing more reliable statistical tests when such patterns on heterogeneity are observed. First, we develop a permutation–based approach that can also be used as a basis for computing exact confidence intervals when estimating the effect size. Second, we extend the permutation–based approach to the network meta–analysis setting. Third, we develop a new exact confidence distribution approach for effect size estimation. We show these new methods perform markedly better than traditional methods when events are rare, and heterogeneity is present.
Crestien's von Troyes Contes del Graal (Percevaus li galois)
Creators: name: Weeks, Raymond
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1911
Subjects: subject: Manuscripts, French
subject: French philology
subject: French literature
subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: Europeans
subject: Romance literature

description: The present edition of the poem of Chrétien de Troyes is issud anonymously. It is ascribd by rumor to Professor G. Baist. The volume is evidently meant for students of Old French literature and filology. It is provided with an index of proper names and with a vocabulary of difficult and interesting words. A note on p. 123 states that the text is not absolutely that of the MS. indicated, until after line 6175. We infer that, beginning with this line, the text is rigorously what the title indicates, a reproduction of MS. 794. Pp. 105-109 offer, under the caption: Hergestellte Lesung, a number of attempted ameliorations of the manuscript readings.
Dologale dybowskii
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Herpestidae
Dologale
Dologale dybowskii

description: Dologale dybowskii (Pousargues, 1893). Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr., 18:51. TYPE LOCALITY: Central African Republic, N. of Ubangi on Upper Kemo River. (6° 17 ' N, 17° 12' E.) DISTRIBUTION: N.E. Zaire; Central African Republic; S. Sudan; W. Uganda. COMMENT: May be congeneric with Helogale; see Hayman, 1936, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 10, 18: 625 -630, who also restricted type locality. ISIS NUMBER: 5301412005026001001 as Helogale dybowskii.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, pp. 244-289 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 272, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980
description: {"references": ["Hayman, R. W. 1936. A note on Dologale dybowskii. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 10, 18: 626 - 630."]}
Bibliographie hispanique, 1905 et 1906
Creators: name: Wagner, C. P.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1911
Subjects: subject: Bibliography--Catalogs
subject: Spanish literature
subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: Europeans
subject: Romance literature

description: Thus the anonymous compiler sets forth the scope of these modest volumes, which appeared, bearing no date of issue, in 1909. The volume for 1905 contains 1339 titles alphabetically arranged, and numbered. The volume for 1906 contains 1602 titles, and an appendix with 473 additions to the bibliography of 1905, including reviews of works already enumerated. Haute vulgarisation is not interpreted too rigidly, and l'histoire is allowed most generously to include Art, Education, Ex-Libris, Folk-Lore, Geography, Philosophy, Travel, etc. Over 275 periodicals have been analyzed for the year 1905 alone.
title: The Development, Implementation, and Assessment of a Home Component to the FIT Game Healthy Eating Program
Creators: name: Obray, Hali King
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2019

description: Researchers at Utah State University created a school intervention called the FIT Game that has successfully increased children’s vegetable intake during lunchtime. The aim of this project was to create a home aspect to the FIT Game for parents that would increase the availability of vegetables within the home. Studies within this thesis discuss the development and revision of parent newsletters for the FIT Game program, as well as the implementation and assessment of the revised newsletters. Results from the assessments indicate that providing parent newsletters is not enough to change the vegetable availability at home.
This home component was unsuccessful in provoking the desired change, and future FIT Game studies that choose to include a home component should consider multiple components for higher changes of likelihood of participation and increasing vegetable availability at home.
Galidia I. Geoffroy 1837
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Herpestidae
Galidia

description: Galidia I. Geoffroy, 1837. C. R. Acad. Sei. Paris, 5:580. ISIS NUMBER: 5301412005018000000.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, pp. 244-289 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 272, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980
Single-atom catalysts (SACs) for CO2 to CO conversion using Cu, Ni, and Co on graphene flakes support; a DFT study
Creators: name: Abdollahi, Nabiallah
name: Tavakol, Hossein
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biophysics
Biochemistry
Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: In this study, to convert the CO2 to more useful compound and in order to design the appropriate catalyst for this conversion, a graphene flakes support was considered for three transition metals of the 3d series (Cu, Co and Ni) as single-atom catalysts. Although different spin multiplicities for cobalt and nickel catalysts are possible, their relative energies and frontier orbital properties suggested the catalyst with the higher spin multiplicity is more suitable for this purpose. Moreover, to develop the mechanism of this conversion, two mechanistic routes were designed for the reaction and the structures of all reactants, products, intermediates and transition states of these routes were optimized and their enthalpies and Gibbs free energies were extracted. The final data showed that by the gas phase calculation, copper and cobalt are more favorable than nickel catalyst; copper is thermodynamically favorable and cobalt is kinetically favorable. The solvent effects were also considered using water and PCM methods, which showed, the solvent facilitate the reaction, especially for cobalt; therefore, in the solvent cobalt (and then, copper) is the most appropriate catalyst by both thermodynamic and kinetic data.
title: Understanding Industry’s Expectations of Engineering Communication Skills
Creators: name: de Souza Almeida, Lilian Maria
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2019

description: The importance of communication in the engineering profession is widely acknowledged by various stakeholders, including industry, academia, professional engineers, and engineering students. Even though alternative strategies to help students improve their ability to communicate professionally have been approached by many engineering programs across the country, research indicates a continued dissatisfaction of employers when it comes to the performance of engineers as communicators in the workplace. This perspective suggests efforts to improve students’ communication skills in universities may be inconsistent with workplace needs, revealing an apparent gap between what is taught and what is expected from engineering professionals. This gap provides an opportunity for additional research to identify the specific communication competencies required for engineers to succeed in the workplace. Particularly, the requirements of industry concerning engineers’ communication skills need to be understood more deeply, so that new educational interventions may be carefully tailored according to employers’ expectations and that both communication and engineering faculty can revisit their strategies to teach students to become better communicators. In order to obtain a deeper understanding of industry’s expectations concerning engineering communication skills, a qualitative research study was implemented to provide a detailed description of the communication skills practicing engineers need while working in industry. The exclusive focus on industry was pursued through the development of case studies. Four industrial segments (High-Tech, Automotive, Aerospace, and Manufacturing) that employ a significant percentage of engineers in the U.S. were selected. Engineers in leadership positions from each of the selected industrial segments participated in in-depth interviews and discussed about the expected engineering communication skills in industry. The results revealed that: 1) oral communication is prevalent in the engineering profession; 2) engineers need to tailor their messages to multiple audiences and to select the most appropriate type of communication medium; 3) written communication is expected to be clear, concise, and precise; 4) global communication is an increasingly demanded requirement in industry.
Multi-dimensional fractional wave equation and some properties of its fundamental solution
Creators: name: Luchko, Yuri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 26A33, 35C05, 35E05, 35L05, 45K05, 60E99

description: In this paper, a multi-dimensional fractional wave equation that describes propagation of the damped waves is introduced and analyzed. In contrast to the fractional diffusion-wave equation, the fractional wave equation contains fractional derivatives of the same order $α,\ 1\le α\le 2$ both in space and in time. This feature is a decisive factor for inheriting some crucial characteristics of the wave equation like e.g. a constant phase velocity of the damped waves that are described by the fractional wave equation. Some new integral representations of the fundamental solution of the multi-dimensional wave equation are presented. In the one- and three-dimensional cases, the fundamental solution is obtained in explicit form in terms of elementary functions. In the one-dimensional case, the fundamental solution is shown to be a spatial probability density function evolving in time. However, for the dimensions grater than one, the fundamental solution can be negative and therefore does not allow a probabilistic interpretation anymore. To illustrate analytical findings, results of numerical calculations and numerous plots are presented.
description: 23 pages, 6 figures, presented at the workshop "Fractional Calculus, Probability and Non-local Operators: Applications and Recent Developments", Bilbao (Spain), 6-8 November 2013
title: Three Essays on Land Property Rights, Water Trade, and Regional Development
Creators: name: Ge, Muyang
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2019

description: This dissertation explores how property rights to a natural resource affect economic decisions for investment or sale, and how these decisions may in turn impact other areas of the economy. The first essay focuses on how incomplete land ownership on Indian Reservations in the United States affects landowner incentives to engage in agricultural production. The second essay explores how the transfer of water in arid regions via water right sales affects local labor markets and environmental outcomes. The third essay seeks to understand how shale-gas drilling has affected organic food production. This dissertation provides several policy implications. First, the findings suggest that the key to improving lagging agricultural development on American Indian land is to improve tribal farmers’ access to capital, so they can invest in agricultural systems (including irrigation) at the level of their neighbors enjoying fee-simple title. Second, while a potentially effective solution to reduce costly water shortfalls among high-value urban users, water sales from agricultural to urban users appear to simultaneously decrease employment and environmental quality in the water exporting region. Third, Drilling activities appear to discourage organic farming in Colorado. While farmers with mineral ownership benefit, identifying the direct causes of lost organic certification can inform policy that regulates negative externalities on organic farms caused by drilling.
The Case for Market Damages: Revisiting the Lost Profits Puzzle
Creators: name: Scott, Robert E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Damages
subject: Economics
subject: Liability (Law)
subject: Uniform commercial code
subject: Contracts
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: This article argues that the modern development is unfortunate and results from an incomplete understanding of the function of damage rules and the meaning of full performance compensation. Damage rules are contract terms. They do not merely measure losses differently; they allocate risks between the parties differently. Lost profits damages reflect an ex post perspective. They measure the value of the completed contract based on what the parties actually did. Market damages, on the other hand, apply a measure of events extrinsic to the parties' behavior. Before one measures damages, therefore, one must first decide how the parties expressly or impliedly allocated the relevant market risks. The question is not which damage rule better protects a given economic advantage. Rather, the question is what economic advantage the contract protects. In short, before one can place the injured party in the same position as if the parties had performed the contract, one must know which perspective on risk allocation the contract adopts. Part I reviews the current debate over alternative damage rules. Part II advances the hypothesis that most parties to fixed price market contracts would prefer the risk allocation implicit in a market damage award. Part III uses the risk allocation perspective as a guide for interpreting the damage rules specified in Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code.
The emerging role of a Stroke Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) in Early Supported Discharge: Developing a pathway for stroke nursing and model of care for stroke patients in the community. Protocol for a scoping review.
Creators: name: Murphy, Paul
name: Williams, David J
name: Byrne, Sarah-Jane
name: Horgan, Frances
name: Patton, Declan
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Nursing
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Public Health and Community Nursing
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Stroke Secondary Prevention
subject: Stroke Clinical Nurse Specialist
subject: Early Supported Discharge in Stroke

description: The scoping review will explore the evidence in relation to the role of the stroke nurse providing secondary prevention interventions to stroke patients in a community setting.
Galidia elegans I. Geoffroy 1837
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Herpestidae
Galidia
Galidia elegans

description: Galidia elegans I. Geoffroy, 1837. C. R. Acad. Sei. Paris, 5:580. TYPE LOCALITY: Madagascar, Tamatave. DISTRIBUTION: Madagascar. ISIS NUMBER: 5301412005018001001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, pp. 244-289 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 272, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980
title: Death Ends a Life Not a Relationship: The Embodied Mourning and Memorializing of Pets Through Material Culture
Creators: name: Koontz, Gemma N.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2019

description: Many individuals develop strong bonds with their pets, viewing them as close “furry” friends or family. When these beloved companions die, both their relational and physical absences are deeply felt. Lacking socially recognized rituals to mourn and memorialize their pets, owners turn to and adapt traditional “human practices,” primarily that of keeping meaningful or significant items of the deceased.
Using both personal experiences and perspectives from multiple fields, this thesis discusses the life-cycle of the human-animal bond, examines the types of items owners keep or create, and how these are used to facilitate both mourning (the outward expression of grief) and memorialization (the practice of remembering). I argue that because they allow owners to both literally and symbolically recreate the sensory experiences of pet ownership, material items such as hair, impressions, collars, cremains, and models are ideal ways to remember deceased pets.
As a result, this study adds to and deepens the understandings of the complexities surrounding the human-animal bond, in addition to how owners use and extend folkloric behaviors and principles, such as tradition and the material culture genre to include experiences and relationships with pets.
Chioglossa lusitanica subsp. longipes Arntzen & Alexandrino
Creators: name: Miracle, Eulàlia Gassó
name: Van, Lars W.
name: Ostende, Den Hoek
name: Arntzen, Jan Willem
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Amphibia
Caudata
Salamandridae
Chioglossa
Chioglossa lusitanica
Chioglossa lusitanica longipes arntzen & alexandrino

description: Chioglossa lusitanica longipes Arntzen & Alexandrino, in press
 Arntzen & Alexandrino In Arntzen, Groenenberg, Alexandrino, Sequeira & Ferrand, in press. Journal of Natural History.
Holotype: RMNH 40113, 1 ɗ. Loc.: “Mina das Águas Férreas, Serra de Santa Justa, Valongo, N 41°11’18.3’ and W8°29’18.4’; Valongo, Douro Litoral in north-western Portugal ”. Leg.: F. Sequeira and J.W. Arntzen.
Paratypes: RMNH 18796-18805, 10 specs. Loc.: “Ribeira da Silveirinha, Serra de Santa Justa, Valongo, N 41°10’45.9’ and W8°29’57.3’ ”. Leg. J.W. Arntzen.
RMNH 40114-40116, 3 specs. Loc.: “Mina das Águas Férreas, Serra de Santa Justa, Valongo, N 41°11’18.3’ and W8°29’18.4’; Valongo, Douro Litoral in north-western Portugal ”. Leg.: F. Sequeira and J.W. Arntzen.
 Remarks. Other paratypes are in the Museo Bocage in Lisbon (MB-06-450-01 - MB-06-450-04); the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales in Madrid (MNCN 43641-43644) and the Zoölogisch Museum Amsterdam (ZMA 7307a-e, ZMA 7340a-j, ZMA 7358 a-d, ZMA 7387 a-d, ZMA 7402, ZMA 7482, ZMA 7588a-c, ZMA 7669 and ZMA 8086a-k).
description: Published as part of Miracle, Eulàlia Gassó, Van, Lars W., Ostende, Den Hoek & Arntzen, Jan Willem, 2007, Type specimens of amphibians in the National Museum of Natural History, Leiden, The Netherlands, pp. 25-68 in Zootaxa 1482 on page 36, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.176896
Visualization of atomic-scale phenomena in superconductors: application to FeSe
Creators: name: Choubey, Peayush
name: Berlijn, T.
name: Kreisel, A.
name: Cao, C.
name: Hirschfeld, P. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a simple method of calculating inhomogeneous, atomic-scale phenomena in superconductors which makes use of the wave function information traditionally discarded in the construction of tight-binding models used in the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations. The method uses symmetry based first principles Wannier functions to visualize the effects of superconducting pairing on the distribution of electronic states over atoms within a crystal unit cell. Local symmetries lower than the global lattice symmetry can thus be exhibited as well, rendering theoretical comparisons with scanning tunneling spectroscopy data much more useful. As a simple example, we discuss the geometric dimer states observed near defects in superconducting FeSe.
Leisure Activity and Cognitive Decline in Incident Alzheimer Disease
Creators: name: Helzner, Elizabeth P.
name: Scarmeas, Nikolaos
name: Cosentino, Stephanie
name: Portet, Florence
name: Stern, Yaakov
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2007
Subjects: Alzheimer's disease
Leisure
Mentally ill older people
Cognition
Alzheimer's disease--Patients--Recreation
Alzheimer's disease--Patients
Dementia
Mental health
Epidemiology
Aging
Gerontology

description: Background: High rates of leisure activity have been associated with reduced risk of Alzheimer disease (AD). Objective: To determine whether prediagnosis leisure activity modifies the rate of cognitive decline in patients with AD. Design: Inception cohort followed up longitudinally for a mean of 5.3 years (up to 13.9 years). Setting: Urban community. Participants: A total of 283 patients with incident AD (mean age, 79 years; 56.2% Hispanic and 31.1% African American). Main Outcome Measures: Change in a composite cognitive score from diagnosis on and during the entire study follow-up. Results: In multivariate-adjusted generalized estimating equation models of postdiagnosis change (n = 133), each leisure activity was associated with an additional yearly decline of 0.005 of a z-score unit in cognitive score (P = .17). In models expanded to include cognitive change during study follow-up, including evaluations before and after diagnosis (n = 283), each activity was associated with an additional yearly decline of 0.005 of a z-score unit in cognitive score (P = .03). The association was strongest for intellectual activities. Conclusions: Greater participation in prediagnosis leisure activities, especially intellectual activities, was associated with faster cognitive decline, supporting the hypothesis that the disease course in AD may vary as a function of cognitive reserve.
Nonmetallic catalysts with high activity and selectivity for the electrocatalytic reduction of CO2 to CO
Creators: name: Ma, Yingfei
name: Sun, Guodong
name: Shi, Jiangyi
name: Chen, Yao
name: Cai, Peirong
name: Li, Deqing
name: Sun, Mengchen
name: Cao, Yanan
name: Zhang, Yan
name: Cai, Jiahong
name: Zhao, Kaiyang
name: Lei, Qihuan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: The escalating reliance on fossil fuels has intensified CO2 emissions, presenting significant environmental challenges. Electrocatalytic CO2 reduction offers a dual solution by converting CO2 into valuable chemicals, but complex mechanisms limit selectivity and efficiency. This study introduces a nitrogen-doped carbon catalyst, JGNC, synthesized via pyrolysis with predominantly pyrrolic N (8.18% N content). The JGNC catalysts achieved a current density of −770 mA·cm−2 at −1.2 V (V as. RHE) and CO selectivity of 96.55% at −1.1 V (V vs. RHE), surpassing most catalysts. In situ characterizations and theoretical analyses reveal that pyrrolic N lowers the energy barrier for CO2 reduction more effectively than pyridinic and graphitic forms, stabilizing the CO intermediate. These results highlight the potential of pyrrolic N in advancing CO2 reduction technologies, offering promising pathways for developing highly active and selective catalysts.
Distinct Pools of β-Amyloid in Alzheimer Disease-Affected Brain: A Clinicopathologic Study
Creators: name: Steinerman, Joshua R.
name: Irizarry, Michael
name: Scarmeas, Nikolaos
name: Raju, Susan
name: Brandt, Jason
name: Albert, Marilyn
name: Blacker, Deborah
name: Hyman, Bradley
name: Stern, Yaakov
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Alzheimer's disease
subject: Amyloid beta-protein
subject: Amyloid beta-protein precursor
subject: Alzheimer's disease--Etiology
subject: Alzheimer's disease--Pathophysiology
subject: Dementia
subject: Epidemiology
subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Gerontology

description: Objective: To determine whether β-amyloid (Aβ) peptides segregated into distinct biochemical compartments would differentially correlate with clinical severity of Alzheimer disease (AD). Design: Clinicopathologic correlation study. Participants: Twenty-seven patients from a longitudinal study of AD and 13 age- and sex-matched controls without a known history of cognitive impairment or dementia were included in this study. Interventions: Temporal and cingulate neocortex were processed using a 4-step extraction, yielding biochemical fractions that are hypothesized to be enriched with proteins from distinct anatomical compartments: TRIS (extracellular soluble), Triton (intracellular soluble), sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) (membrane associated), and formic acid (extracellular insoluble). Levels of Aβ₄₀ and Aβ₄₂ were quantified in each biochemical compartment by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Results: The Aβ₄₂ level in all biochemical compartments was significantly elevated in patients with AD vs controls (P < .01). The Aβ₄₀ levels in the TRIS and formic acid fractions were elevated in patients with AD (temporal, P < .01; cingulate, P = .03); however, Triton and SDS Aβ₄₀ levels were similar in patients with AD and in controls. Functional impairment proximal to death correlated with Triton Aβ₄₂ (r = 0.48, P = .02) and SDS Aβ₄₂ (r = 0.41, P = .04) in the temporal cortex. Faster cognitive decline was associated with elevated temporal SDS Aβ₄₂ levels (P < .001), whereas slower decline was associated with elevated cingulate formic acid Aβ₄₂ and SDS Aβ₄₂ levels (P = .02 and P = .01, respectively). Conclusion: Intracellular and membrane-associated Aβ, especially Aβ₄₂ in the temporal neocortex, may be more closely related to AD symptoms than other measured Aβ species.
Galidictis I. Geoffroy 1839
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Herpestidae
Galidictis

description: Galidictis I. Geoffroy, 1839. Mag. Zool., Mammal. Art. No. 5, p. 33, footnote, 37. ISIS NUMBER: 5301412005019000000.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, pp. 244-289 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 272, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980
Revealing the Asymmetry of the Wind of the Variable Wolf-Rayet Star WR1 (HD4004) Through Spectropolarization
Creators: name: St-Louis, Nicole
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, high quality spectropolarimetric observations of the Wolf-Rayet (WR) Star WR1 (HD4004) obtained with ESPaDOnS at CFHT are presented. All major emission lines present in the spectrum show depolarization in the relative Stokes parameters Q/I and U/I. From the behaviour of the amount of line depolarization as a function of line strength, the intrinsic continuum light polarization of WR1 is estimated to be P/I=0.443 \pm 0.028 % with an angle of θ=-26.2^o. Although such a level of polarization could in principle be caused by a wind flattened by fast rotation, the scenario in which it is a consequence of the presence in the wind of Corotating Interaction Regions (CIRs) is preferred. This is supported by previous photometric and spectroscopic observations showing periodic variations with a period of 16.9 days. This is now the third WR star thought to exhibit CIRs in its wind that is found to have line depolarization. Previous authors have found a strong correlation between line depolarization and the presence of an ejected nebula, which they interpret as a sign that the star has reached the WR phase relatively recently since the nebula are thought to dissipate very fast. In the cases where the presence of CIRs in the wind is favoured to explain the depolarization across spectral lines, the above mentioned correlation may be indicating that those massive stars have only very recently transited from the previous evolutionary phase to the WR phase.
description: 29 pages, 3 Figures, refereed journal paper
Single-atom catalysts (SACs) for CO2 to CO conversion using cu, ni, and co on graphene flakes support; a DFT study
Creators: name: Abdollahi, Nabiallah
name: Tavakol, Hossein
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biophysics
Biochemistry
Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: In this study, to convert the CO2 to more useful compound and in order to design the appropriate catalyst for this conversion, a graphene flakes support was considered for three transition metals of the 3d series (Cu, Co and Ni) as single-atom catalysts. Although different spin multiplicities for cobalt and nickel catalysts are possible, their relative energies and frontier orbital properties suggested the catalyst with the higher spin multiplicity is more suitable for this purpose. Moreover, to develop the mechanism of this conversion, two mechanistic routes were designed for the reaction and the structures of all reactants, products, intermediates and transition states of these routes were optimized and their enthalpies and Gibbs free energies were extracted. The final data showed that by the gas phase calculation, copper and cobalt are more favorable than nickel catalyst; copper is thermodynamically favorable and cobalt is kinetically favorable. The solvent effects were also considered using water and PCM methods, which showed, the solvent facilitate the reaction, especially for cobalt; therefore, in the solvent cobalt (and then, copper) is the most appropriate catalyst by both thermodynamic and kinetic data.
Some Paranormed Difference Sequence Spaces Derived by Using Generalized Means
Creators: name: Manna, Atanu
name: Maji, Amit
name: Srivastava, P. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46A45, 46A35, 46B45

description: This paper presents new sequence spaces $X(r, s, t, p ;Δ)$ for $X \in \{l_\infty(p), c(p), c_0(p), l(p)\}$ defined by using generalized means and difference operator. It is shown that these spaces are complete under a suitable paranorm. Furthermore, the $α$-, $β$-, $γ$- duals of these sequence spaces are computed and also obtained necessary and sufficient conditions for some matrix transformations from $X(r, s, t, p ;Δ)$ to $X$. Finally, it is proved that the sequence space $l(r, s, t, p ;Δ)$ is rotund when $p_n>1$ for all $n$ and has the Kadec-Klee property.
description: 19 pages. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1307.5817, arXiv:1307.6208, arXiv:1307.5883