cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Study on Growth Rules and Photosynthetic Physiology of Biennial Container Seedlings and Bare Root Seedlings of Phoebe
Creators: name: MA Yongzheng
name: HE Shuhuai
name: FEI Yongjun
name: MA Yongzheng
name: HE Shuhuai
name: FEI Yongjun
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Phoebe zhennan S. Lee, Growth rules, Photosynthetic characteristics, Physiological characteristics

description: Transplantation experiment was carried out using biennial container seedlings and bare root seedlings of Phoebe zhennan S. Lee as materials. In the experiment, it measured the growth indicators such as the seedling height, basal diameter, and number of branches and leaves. Besides, it also measured net photosynthetic rate (Pn), transpiration rate (Tr), stomatal conductance (Gs), intercellular CO2 concentration (Ci) and soluble sugar, soluble protein, malondialdehyde (MDA) content, superoxide dismutase activity and root activity. The results indicated that the growth indicators of the Phoebe container seedlings performed the best in the plant height, basal diameter, and number of branches and leaves; photosynthetic capacity was the strongest, and the fertilization could enhance the photosynthetic capacity of seedlings; soluble sugar, soluble protein content, superoxide dismutase activity and root activity of Phoebe container seedlings were higher than that of bare root seedlings.
Universal scaling behavior at the upper critical dimension of non-equilibrium continuous phase transitions
Creators: name: Lubeck, S.
name: Heger, P. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we analyze the universal scaling functions and the critical exponents at the upper critical dimension of a continuous phase transition. The consideration of the universal scaling behavior yields a decisive check of the value of the upper critical dimension. We apply our method to a non-equilibrium continuous phase transition. But focusing on the equation of state of the phase transition it is easy to extend our analysis to all equilibrium and non-equilibrium phase transitions observed numerically or experimentally.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
The construction of community participation : village family planning groups and the Indonesian state
Creators: name: Shiffman, Jeremy
Publisher: name: Journal of Social Science & Medicine
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Indonesia's family planning program has been one of the most effective in the developing world in promoting contraceptive use and contributing to fertility transition. In evaluating why the program has worked, analysts have given much credit to a network of village family planning groups that developed from the 1970s to the 1990s and that blanketed the archipelago. These groups, composed primarily of female volunteers, made contraception available to women in even the most remote parts of the country, and acted as agents of family planning motivation. They have been labeled by the Indonesian state family planning agency as an example of effective community participation on a national scale. In this paper, I investigate this claim and find it to be simplistic. I provide extensive evidence that the creation of this network was orchestrated by the Indonesian state. On the other hand, I show that these groups are not fully state entities, as they have several characteristics that mark them as socially embedded institutions. They are best labeled as unusual state-society hybrids. In my investigation I draw on one of the newest paradigms in the discipline of political science--the state-society approach--to uncover the odd nature of this family planning network. More deeply, I argue that the state-society approach ought to be adopted in family planning analysis on a comprehensive basis. The traditional organizational and social-demographic approaches that have dominated the field offer only limited understanding of the nature of family planning programs in developing countries. The state-society approach is ideally suited to identifying how family planning programs are institutions of a political nature, embedded in states and societies, and transformed by and transformative of each.
Multi-omics in nasal epithelium reveals three axes of dysregulation for asthma risk in the African Diaspora populations
Creators: name: Kammers, Kai
name: Altman, Matthew C.
name: Daya, Michelle
name: Cox, Madison S.
name: Cox, Corey
name: Beaty, Terri H.
name: Ruczinski, Ingo
name: Giles, B. Louise
name: Ober, Carole
name: Campbell, Monica
name: Szczesny, Brooke
name: Figueiredo, Camila A.
name: Lorizio, Wendy
name: Cruz, Alvaro A.
name: Landis, R. Clive
name: Barnes, Kathleen C.
name: Sogaolu, Olumide
name: Chavan, Sameer
name: Rotimi, Charles N.
name: Kelada, Samir N. P.
name: Johnson, Randi K.
name: Watson, Harold
name: Hansel, Nadia N.
name: Doumatey, Ayo P.
name: Mathias, Rasika A.
name: Liu, Andrew H.
name: Falade, Adegoke G.
name: Arinola, Ganiyu A.
name: Kenny, Eimear
name: Thompson, Emma E.
name: Yang, Ivana V.
name: Olopade, Christopher O.
name: Shankar, Gautam
name: Morin, Andréanne
name: Taub, Margaret A.
name: Naureckas, Edward T.
name: Boorgula, Meher Preethi
Publisher: name: Springer Nature
Year: 2024

description:
Asthma has striking disparities across ancestral groups, but the molecular underpinning of these differences is poorly understood and minimally studied. A goal of the Consortium on Asthma among African-ancestry Populations in the Americas (CAAPA) is to understand multi-omic signatures of asthma focusing on populations of African ancestry. RNASeq and DNA methylation data are generated from nasal epithelium including cases (current asthma, N = 253) and controls (never-asthma, N = 283) from 7 different geographic sites to identify differentially expressed genes (DEGs) and gene networks. We identify 389 DEGs; the top DEG, FN1, was downregulated in cases (q = 3.26 × 10−9) and encodes fibronectin which plays a role in wound healing. The top three gene expression modules implicate networks related to immune response (CEACAM5; p = 9.62 × 10−16 and CPA3; p = 2.39 × 10−14) and wound healing (FN1; p = 7.63 × 10−9). Multi-omic analysis identifies FKBP5, a co-chaperone of glucocorticoid receptor signaling known to be involved in drug response in asthma, where the association between nasal epithelium gene expression is likely regulated by methylation and is associated with increased use of inhaled corticosteroids. This work reveals molecular dysregulation on three axes – increased Th2 inflammation, decreased capacity for wound healing, and impaired drug response – that may play a critical role in asthma within the African Diaspora.
Additional file 3 of Patient-reported quality indicators to evaluate physiotherapy care for hip and/or knee osteoarthritis- development and evaluation of the QUIPA tool
Creators: name: Pek Ling Teo
name: Hinman, Rana S.
name: Thorlene Egerton
name: Krysia S. Dziedzic
name: Kasza, Jessica
name: Bennell, Kim L.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3. Characteristics of participants in the focus groups.
Epidemiology, healthcare resource utilization and healthcare costs for spinal muscular atrophy in Alberta, Canada
Creators: name: Chen, Guanmin
name: Sharif, Behnam
name: Gerber, Brittany
name: Farris, Megan S.
name: Cowling, Tara
name: Cabalteja, Czerysh
name: Wu, Jennifer W.
name: Maturi, Bridget
name: Klein-Panneton, Kristoph
name: Mah, Jean K.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a progressive neuromuscular disease associated with the degeneration of motor neurons in the brainstem and spinal cord. Studies examining the epidemiology and economic impact of SMA are limited in Canada. This study aimed to estimate the epidemiology as well as healthcare resource utilization (HRU) and healthcare costs for children with SMA in Alberta, Canada. We conducted a retrospective study using anonymized data from administrative healthcare databases provided by Alberta Health. Data from 1 April 2010 to 31 March 2018, were extracted for patients <18 years of age identified with SMA. Five-year incidence and prevalence were calculated for cases identified between 1 April 2012 and 31 March 2017. HRU and healthcare costs were assessed one year after SMA diagnosis, including hospitalizations, physician visits, ambulatory care visits and long-term care admissions. The five-year incidence and prevalence of pediatric onset SMA were 1.03 per 100,000 person-years and 9.97 per 100,000 persons, respectively. General practitioner, specialist, and ambulatory care visits were common among children with SMA in the first-year post-diagnosis. The mean (SD) total annual direct cost per patient in the first-year post-diagnosis was $29,774 ($38,407); hospitalizations accounted for 41.7% of these costs ($12,412 [$21,170]), followed by practitioner visits at 32.3% ($9,615 [$13,054]), and ambulatory care visits at 26.0% ($7,746 [$9,988]). Children with SMA experience substantial HRU, particularly for hospitalizations and practitioner visits, following diagnosis. Given the high costs of SMA, timely access to effective treatment strategies, such as the novel survival motor neuron (SMN)-restoring treatments recently approved for use, are needed to improve health outcomes and HRU.
Effect of Different Fruiting Treatments on the Enzymic Activity of Tricholoma giganteum Mycelia
Creators: name: YANG Shuilian
name: NIE Jian
name: MO Meihua
name: SONG Yueqi
name: HU Linlin
name: YANG Shuilian
name: NIE Jian
name: MO Meihua
name: SONG Yueqi
name: HU Linlin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Tricholoma giganteum, Mycelium, Primordial formation, Enzymic activity

description: In order to achieve the transformation from the conventional soil-covering cultivation of Tricholoma giganteum with bags to the soilless cultivation with bottles and understand the mechanism of primordium formation of Tricholoma giganteum, with Tricholoma giganteum mycelia as experimental materials, this paper studied the effect of different fruiting treatments on the activity of three enzymes in different time. The results showed that from the mycelial recovery to primardial formation and budding under three treatment groups which could form primordium, the tyrosinase activity was relatively stable, and under two treatment groups which could not form primordium, the tyrosinase activity dropped after the rise and reached a maximum on the 9th day, significantly higher than under the other three groups, indicating that too high tyrosinase inhibited primardial formation; the prolease and amylase activity was effectively activated before primardial formation, and the enzymic activity was significantly higher than under the two treatment groups which could not form primordium.
Robust Least Squares for Quantized Data Matrices
Creators: name: Clancy, Richard
name: Becker, Stephen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65K05, 90C99

description: In this paper we formulate and solve a robust least squares problem for a system of linear equations subject to quantization error in the data matrix. Ordinary least squares fails to consider uncertainty in the operator, modeling all noise in the observed signal. Total least squares accounts for uncertainty in the data matrix, but necessarily increases the condition number of the operator compared to ordinary least squares. Tikhonov regularization or ridge regression is frequently employed to combat ill-conditioning, but requires parameter tuning which presents a host of challenges and places strong assumptions on parameter prior distributions. The proposed method also requires selection of a parameter, but it can be chosen in a natural way, e.g., a matrix rounded to the 4th digit uses an uncertainty bounding parameter of 0.5e-4. We show here that our robust method is theoretically appropriate, tractable, and performs favorably against ordinary and total least squares.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures
Dose and elasticity of demand for self-administered cocaine in rats
Creators: name: Kearns, David
name: Silberberg, Alan
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The present experiment tested whether the elasticity of demand for self-administered cocaine in rats is dose-dependent. Subjects lever pressed for three different doses of intravenous cocaine - 0.11, 0.33, and 1.0 mg/kg/infusion - on a demand procedure where the number of lever presses required per infusion increased within a session. The main finding was that demand for the 0.11 mg/kg dose was more elastic than it was for the two larger doses. There was no difference in demand elasticity between the 0.33 and 1.0 mg/kg doses. These results parallel findings previously reported in monkeys. The present study also demonstrated that a within-session procedure can be used to generate reliable demand curves.
Measurement of the Charge Asymmetry in $B\to K^* (892)^{\pm}π^{\mp}$
Creators: name: Eisenstein, B. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on a search for a CP-violating asymmetry in the charmless hadronic decay B -> K*(892)+- pi-+, using 9.12 fb^-1 of integrated luminosity produced at \sqrt{s}=10.58 GeV and collected with the CLEO detector. We find A_{CP}(B -> K*(892)+- pi-+) = 0.26+0.33-0.34(stat.)+0.10-0.08(syst.), giving an allowed interval of [-0.31,0.78] at the 90% confidence level.
description: 7 pages postscript, also available through http://w4.lns.cornell.edu/public/CLNS, submitted to PRD
Dose and elasticity of demand for self-administered cocaine in rats
Creators: name: Kearns, David
name: Silberberg, Alan
Publisher: name: Journal of Behavioural Pharmacology
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: The present experiment tested whether the elasticity of demand for self-administered cocaine in rats is dose-dependent. Subjects lever pressed for three different doses of intravenous cocaine - 0.11, 0.33, and 1.0 mg/kg/infusion - on a demand procedure where the number of lever presses required per infusion increased within a session. The main finding was that demand for the 0.11 mg/kg dose was more elastic than it was for the two larger doses. There was no difference in demand elasticity between the 0.33 and 1.0 mg/kg doses. These results parallel findings previously reported in monkeys. The present study also demonstrated that a within-session procedure can be used to generate reliable demand curves.
L'Application Canonique $J:H^2(X) \otimes H^2(X)->H^1(X\otimes X)$ n'est pas Surjective en Général
Creators: name: Kouba, Omran
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46M05;47A56;47A68

description: We introduce the $H^1$-projective property, and use it to construct a Banach space $X$ such that the natural map $J:H^2(X)\otimes H^2(X) -> H^1(X\otimes X)$ is not onto.
description: 9 pages, French with abridged english version
Additional file 10 of PARIS induced defects in mitochondrial biogenesis drive dopamine neuron loss under conditions of parkin or PINK1 deficiency
Creators: name: Pirooznia, Sheila K.
name: Changqing Yuan
name: Khan, Mohammed Repon
name: Senthilkumar S. Karuppagounder
name: Wang, Luan
name: Yulan Xiong
name: Kang, Sung Ung
name: Yunjong Lee
name: Valina L. Dawson
name: Dawson, Ted M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 10: Table S6. Statistical comparison of total number of DA neurons and climbing performance by genotypes.
Inter-response-time reinforcement and relative reinforcer frequency control choice
Creators: name: Tanno, Takayuki
name: Silberberg, Alan
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: In Conditions 1 and 3 of our Experiment 1, rats pressed levers for food in a two-component multiple schedule. The first component was concurrent variable-ratio (VR) 20 variable-interval (VI) 90 s, and the second was concurrent yoked VI (its reinforcement rate equaled that of the prior component's VR) VI 90 s. In Condition 2, the VR was changed to tandem VR 20, differential reinforcement of low rates (DRL) 0.8 s. Local response rates were higher in the VR than in the yoked VI schedule, and this difference disappeared between tandem VR DRL and yoked VI. The relative time allocations to VR and yoked VI, as well as to tandem VR DRL and yoked VI, were approximately the same across conditions. In Experiment 2, rats chose in a single session between five different VI pairs, each lasting for 12 reinforcer presentations (variable-environment procedure). The across-schedule hourly reinforcement rates were 120 and 40, respectively, in Conditions 1-3 and 4-6. During Conditions 2 and 5, one lever's VI was changed to tandem VI, DRL 2 s. High covariation between relative time allocations and relative reinforcer frequencies, as well as invariance in local response rates to the schedules, was evident in all conditions. In addition, the relative local response rates were biased toward the unchanged VI in Conditions 2 and 5. These results demonstrate two-process control of choice: Inter-response-time reinforcement controls the local response rate, and relative reinforcer frequency controls relative time allocations.
Maximum principle for space and time-space fractional partial differential equations
Creators: name: Kirane, Mokhtar
name: Torebek, Berikbol T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we obtain new estimates of the sequential Caputo fractional derivatives of a function at its extremum points. We derive comparison principles for the linear fractional differential equations, and apply these principles to obtain lower and upper bounds of solutions of linear and nonlinear fractional differential equations. The extremum principle is then applied to show that the initial-boundary-value problem for nonlinear anomalous diffusion possesses at most one classical solution and this solution depends continuously on the initial and boundary data. This answers positively to the open problem about maximum principle for the space and time-space fractional PDEs posed by Luchko in 2011. The extremum principle for an elliptic equation with a fractional derivative and for the fractional Laplace equation are also proved.
description: 24 pages. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1806.04886
Inter-response-time reinforcement and relative reinforcer frequency control choice
Creators: name: Tanno, Takayuki
name: Silberberg, Alan
Publisher: name: Psychonomic Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: In Conditions 1 and 3 of our Experiment 1, rats pressed levers for food in a two-component multiple schedule. The first component was concurrent variable-ratio (VR) 20 variable-interval (VI) 90 s, and the second was concurrent yoked VI (its reinforcement rate equaled that of the prior component's VR) VI 90 s. In Condition 2, the VR was changed to tandem VR 20, differential reinforcement of low rates (DRL) 0.8 s. Local response rates were higher in the VR than in the yoked VI schedule, and this difference disappeared between tandem VR DRL and yoked VI. The relative time allocations to VR and yoked VI, as well as to tandem VR DRL and yoked VI, were approximately the same across conditions. In Experiment 2, rats chose in a single session between five different VI pairs, each lasting for 12 reinforcer presentations (variable-environment procedure). The across-schedule hourly reinforcement rates were 120 and 40, respectively, in Conditions 1-3 and 4-6. During Conditions 2 and 5, one lever's VI was changed to tandem VI, DRL 2 s. High covariation between relative time allocations and relative reinforcer frequencies, as well as invariance in local response rates to the schedules, was evident in all conditions. In addition, the relative local response rates were biased toward the unchanged VI in Conditions 2 and 5. These results demonstrate two-process control of choice: Inter-response-time reinforcement controls the local response rate, and relative reinforcer frequency controls relative time allocations.
Exploration of Multi-modal Teaching Methods in Teaching of Agricultural Landscape Planning
Creators: name: HU Tian
name: WU Yarui
name: LIU Dong
name: HU Jing
name: HU Tian
name: WU Yarui
name: LIU Dong
name: HU Jing
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural landscape planning, Multi-modal teaching, Teaching method

description: Taking the teaching practice of agricultural landscape planning for example, this paper uses the multi-modal teaching idea for teaching design based on traditional lecture-style teaching, including multi-modal teaching materials, multi-modal teaching methods and multi-modal teaching evaluation. The results show that this method can effectively improve students' interest in learning, reinforce the theoretical basis of agricultural landscape planning theory, and improve agricultural landscape planning practical skills. It is the active exploration of multi-modal teaching model and useful complement to traditional classroom teaching.
Scaling reward value with demand curves versus preference tests
Creators: name: Schwartz, Lindsay P.
name: Silberberg, Alan
name: Casey, Anna H.
name: Paukner, Annika
name: Suomi, Stephen J.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: In Experiment 1, six capuchins lifted a weight during a 10-min session to receive a food piece. Across conditions, the weight was increased across six different amounts for three different food types. The number of food pieces obtained as a function of the weight lifted was fitted by a demand equation that is hypothesized to quantify food value. For most subjects, this analysis showed that the three food types differed little in value. In Experiment 2, these monkeys were given pairwise choices among these food types. In 13 of 18 comparisons, preferences at least equaled a 3-to-1 ratio; in seven comparisons, preference was absolute. There was no relation between values based on degree of preference versus values based on the demand equation. When choices in the present report were compared to similar data with these subjects from another study, between-study lability in preference emerged. This outcome contrasts with the finding in demand analysis that test-retest reliability is high. We attribute the unreliability and extreme assignment of value based on preference tests to high substitutability between foods. We suggest use of demand analysis instead of preference tests for studies that compare the values of different foods. A better strategy might be to avoid manipulating value by using different foods. Where possible, value should be manipulated by varying amounts of a single food type because, over an appropriate range, more food is consistently more valuable than less. Such an approach would be immune to problems in between-food substitutability.
An investigation into waste-reducing vending products : office supplies
Creators: name: Tan, Hui
name: Li, James
name: Liu, Joey
name: Yu, Aobo
name: Xie, Root
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: This report investigates the plan to install vending machines that sells re-usable office supplies on UBC campus. The vending machines will provide students with easy access to green office supplies. Extensive primary and secondary researches was performed to examine the impacts of existing office supplies have on the environment as well as the implications of introducing re-usable office supplies to the campus. This report focuses on three commonly used office supplies: staplers, batteries, and disposable pens. Research has revealed that existing office supplies used on campus have profound negative impacts on the environment. Some of the negative impacts include consumption of steel and coal, emission of air pollutants, and emissions of toxic compounds. To better assess the feasibility of selling re-usable office supplies in vending machines, triple –bottom-line assessment was conducted to evaluate the environmental, social, and economical aspects of each of the three office supplies. For environmental aspects, research indicated that all three office supplies help to mitigate some of the environmental problems associated with existing office supplies. From a social perspective, results from student surveys indicated that most students on campus were not aware of the existence of the three re-usable office supplies but most of the students who took the surveys have responded in favor of using these three office supplies once they have learned the benefits. For economical aspect, research has shown that all three reusable office supplies are equally priced as the existing office supplies and in the long term, are cheaper than the existing office supplies. The re-usable office supplies are environmentally friendly, potentially widely acceptable, and economical to implement in vending machines on UBC campus. This report strongly recommends UBC AMS to installing vending machines on campus that sells these office supplies. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Mass functions and structure of the young open cluster NGC\,6611
Creators: name: Bonatto, C.
name: Bica, J. F. C. Santos Jr. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use 2MASS photometry to study colour-magnitude and colour-colour diagrams, structure and mass distribution in the ionizing open cluster NGC\,6611. Reddening variation throughout the cluster region is taken into account followed by field-star decontamination of the CMDs. The field-star decontamination showed that the lower limit of the main sequence (MS) occurs at $\rm\approx5\,\ms$. Based on the fraction of Ks excess stars in the colour-colour diagram we estimate an age of $1.3\pm0.3$\,Myr which is consistent with the presence of a large number of pre-main sequence (PMS) stars. The radial density distribution including MS and PMS stars is fitted by a King profile with a core radius $0.70\pm0.08\,pc$. The cluster density profile merges into the background at a limiting radius $6.5\pm0.5\,pc$. In the halo and through the whole cluster the MFs have slopes $\rmχ=1.52\pm0.13$ and $\rmχ=1.45\pm0.12$, respectively, thus slightly steeper than Salpeter's IMF. In the core the MF is flat, $\rmχ=0.62\pm0.16$, indicating some degree of mass segregation since the cluster age is a factor $\sim2$ larger than the relaxation time. Because of the very young age of NGC\,6611, part of this effect appears to be related to the molecular cloud-fragmentation process itself. We detect $362\pm120$ PMS stars. The total observed mass including detected MS (in the range $\rm5-85\,\ms$) and PMS stars amounts to $\sim1\,600\,\ms$, thus more massive than the Trapezium cluster. Compared to older open clusters of different masses, the overall NGC\,6611 fits in the relations involving structural and dynamical parameters. However, the core is atypical in the sense that it looks like an old/dynamically evolved core. Again, part of this effect must be linked to formation processes.
Bilingual Teaching Practice and Research of Introduction to Ecology in Physical Geography and Resource & Environment Discipline
Creators: name: WU Yarui
name: WU Yarui
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Ecology, Bilingual teaching, Teaching reform

description: Bilingual teaching of Introduction to Ecology is a new teaching practice adapting to the demands of the times. This paper firstly introduced the selection of teaching objects and teaching materials of the Introduction to Ecology in Physical Geography and Resource & Environment discipline. It mainly discussed three teaching methods for bilingual teaching of ecology: participating interactive teaching, heuristic teaching, and diversified teaching. Besides, it analyzed classroom effect and feedback of students of the bilingual teaching of the Introduction to Ecology. Finally, it came up with constructive recommendations for implementation of the bilingual teaching of the Introduction to Ecology.
The Importance of Food Security from the Perspective of Food Issue of the Roman Empire
Creators: name: MA Lianjing
name: WANG Chenyu
name: MA Lianjing
name: WANG Chenyu
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Roman Empire, Food security, Regulation, Recommendations

description: This paper firstly introduced characteristics of the food production (or grain production) and regulation of the prosperous period of the Roman Empire. Then, it discussed the shortcomings and summarized the experience and lessons. It is expected to provide some references for construction of China’s food security.
title: Large Eddy Simulation of Coastal Structures-Induced Large Scale Coherent Eddy and Sediment Transport
Creators: name: Gumbira, Gugum
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2020

description: The existence of structures, such as groynes, breakwaters and dykes as the coastal protection system can produce continuous disturbance in the vertical shear flow. As a consequence, large-predominantly 2D coherent structures are introduced to the main flow. The structures, that can grow due to energy transfer from shear stress and dissipate due to bottom friction, have lateral dimension larger than water depth. One of the primary objectives in this study is to take into account of these structures in the numerical models. To resolve the large-scale, high containing energy and modelled the small eddies, Large Eddy Simulation that moves beyond spatial filtering procedure rather than time averaging is adopted in this study. By using this approach, the existence of coherent eddy induced by coastal structures can be preserved in the numerical modelling. To overcome the anisotropy issue caused by the mesh size differences between horizontal and vertical layers, Anisotropy Smagorinsky Model (ASM) is used as the SGS closure system.
Additional file 11 of PARIS induced defects in mitochondrial biogenesis drive dopamine neuron loss under conditions of parkin or PINK1 deficiency
Creators: name: Pirooznia, Sheila K.
name: Changqing Yuan
name: Khan, Mohammed Repon
name: Senthilkumar S. Karuppagounder
name: Wang, Luan
name: Yulan Xiong
name: Kang, Sung Ung
name: Yunjong Lee
name: Valina L. Dawson
name: Dawson, Ted M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 11: Table S7. Statistical comparison of DA neuron number and climbing performance by age groups.
An electron-counting rule to determine the interlayer magnetic coupling of the van der Waals materials
Creators: name: Xiao, Jiewen
name: Yan, Binghai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In layered magnetic materials, the magnetic coupling between neighboring van der Waals layers is challenging to understand and anticipate, although the exchange interaction inside a layer can be well rationalized for example by the superexchange mechanism. In this work, we elucidate the interlayer exchange mechanism and propose an electron-counting rule to determine the interlayer magnetic order between van der Waals layers, based on counting the $d$-orbital occupation ($d^n$, where $n$ is the number of $d$-electrons at the magnetic cation). With this rule, we classify magnetic monolayers into two groups, type-I ($n<5$) and type-II ($n\geq5$), and derive three types of interlayer magnetic coupling for both insulators and metals. The coupling between two type-II layers prefers the antiferromagnetic (AFM) order, while type-I and type-II interfaces favor the ferromagnetic (FM) way. However, for two type-I layers, they display competition between FM and AFM orders and even lead to the stacking dependent magnetism. Additionally, metallic layers can also be incorporated into this rule with a minor correction from the free carrier hopping. Therefore, this rule provides simple guidance to understand the interlayer exchange and further design van der Waals junctions with desired magnetic orders.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures and the supplementary materials attached
title: Alternatywne formy zamieszkiwania osób starszych
Creators: name: Janowski, Maciej
name: Pokajewicz, Małgorzata
Publisher: name: Publishing House of Poznan University of Technology
Year: 2020

description: Zeszyty Naukowe Politechniki Poznańskiej. Architektura, Urbanistyka, Architektura wnętrz, 1, 121-142
Scaling reward value with demand curves versus preference tests
Creators: name: Schwartz, Lindsay P.
name: Silberberg, Alan
name: Casey, Anna H.
name: Paukner, Annika
name: Suomi, Stephen J.
Publisher: name: Journal of Animal Cognition
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: In Experiment 1, six capuchins lifted a weight during a 10-min session to receive a food piece. Across conditions, the weight was increased across six different amounts for three different food types. The number of food pieces obtained as a function of the weight lifted was fitted by a demand equation that is hypothesized to quantify food value. For most subjects, this analysis showed that the three food types differed little in value. In Experiment 2, these monkeys were given pairwise choices among these food types. In 13 of 18 comparisons, preferences at least equaled a 3-to-1 ratio; in seven comparisons, preference was absolute. There was no relation between values based on degree of preference versus values based on the demand equation. When choices in the present report were compared to similar data with these subjects from another study, between-study lability in preference emerged. This outcome contrasts with the finding in demand analysis that test-retest reliability is high. We attribute the unreliability and extreme assignment of value based on preference tests to high substitutability between foods. We suggest use of demand analysis instead of preference tests for studies that compare the values of different foods. A better strategy might be to avoid manipulating value by using different foods. Where possible, value should be manipulated by varying amounts of a single food type because, over an appropriate range, more food is consistently more valuable than less. Such an approach would be immune to problems in between-food substitutability.
$H^1$-Projective Banach Spaces
Creators: name: Kouba, Omran
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46M05;46M10;46B08

description: We study the $H^1$-projective Banach spaces. We prove that they have the Analytic Radon-Nikodym Property, and that they are cotype 2 spaces which satisfy Grothendieck's Theorem. We show also that the ultraproduct of $H^1$-projective spaces is $H^1$-projective. Other results are also discussed.
description: 17 pages
Problems in Development of Gannan Navel Orange and Recommendations
Creators: name: CHEN Yayan
name: CHEN Yayan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Problems, Recommendations, Navel orange industry, Gannan

description: The rapid development of Gannan navel orange industry has made it become a regional superior industry in China. However, with the rapid expansion of the planting scale, the market dilemma of “vast planting but low income” of navel orange growers is increasingly deteriorating, and Gannan navel orange industrial system is to be further transformed and upgraded. Taking the quality and marketing as the bottleneck of industrial development, this paper analyzed factors influencing these two aspects. It came up with recommendations, including building superior regions, improving industrial quality and safety, and stressing multi-dimensional marketing, relying on government, enterprises, scientific research institutions, colleges and universities, non-governmental organizations, and navel orange growers, to promote high efficient and sustainable development of Gannan navel orange industry.
Atmospheric neutrino oscillations from upward throughgoing muon multiple scattering in MACRO
Creators: name: The MACRO Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The energy of atmospheric neutrinos detected by MACRO was estimated using multiple coulomb scattering of upward throughgoing muons. This analysis allows a test of atmospheric neutrino oscillations, relying on the distortion of the muon energy distribution. These results have been combined with those coming from the upward throughgoing muon angular distribution only. Both analyses are independent of the neutrino flux normalization and provide strong evidence, above the 4 sigma level, in favour of neutrino oscillations.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures, submitted to Physics Letters B
Electrocatalysis of endosulfan based on Fe3O4: an experimental and computational approach
Creators: name: Uwaya, Gloria
name: Gumede, Njabulo Joyfull
name: Bisetty, Krishna
Publisher: name: Mangosuthu University of Technology (MUT)
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 30604 Electrochemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 30102 Electroanalytical Chemistry
subject: Computational Chemistry
subject: Molecular Biology

description: The present work reports the electrocatalytic oxidation of the organochlorine pesticide endosulfan (EDS) using iron oxide (Fe3O4) nanoparticles synthesized from Callistemon viminalis leaf extracts. As a sensor for EDS, Fe3O4 was combined with functionalized multiwalled carbon nanotubes (f-MWCNTs) on a glassy carbon electrode (GCE). Cyclic voltammetry, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, and the differential pulse voltammetry experiment were conducted to investigate the electro?chemistry of EDS on the GCE/f-MWCNT/Fe3O4 sensor. Based on optimized experimental conditions, the reports of analytical parameters show a limit of detection of 3.3 μM and an effective sensitivity of 0.06464 μA/ μM over a range of concentrations from 0.1 to 20 μM. With the proposed method, we were able to demonstrate recoveries between 94 and 110% for EDS determinations in vegetables. Further, a series of computational modeling studies were carried out to better understand the EDS surface adsorption phenomenon on the GCE/f-MWCNT/ Fe3O4 sensor. The highest occupied molecular orbital−lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (HOMO−LUMO) energy gap (−5.18 eV) computed by density functional theory (DFT) supports the layer-by-layer electrode modification strategy’s charge transfer and stability. Finally, transition state modeling was able to predict and confirm the mechanism of endosulfan oxidation.
Is economic hegemony necessary for maintaing open trade? an empirical challenge to the hegemonic stability theory
Creators: name: Silvia, Stephen
name: Stanaitis, Michael Richard
Publisher: name: American Political Science Association
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics

description: Old international relations theories never die. They don’t even fade away. Perhaps the most tenacious of them all is hegemonic stability theory (HST), which is the argument that a hegemonic power is necessary to maintain a stable, open international economic order because only a hegemon is able and potentially willing to do what is needed to preserve openness. Despite repeated criticism over four decades, HST – like James Cameron’s terminator – keeps coming back. Two things explain HST’s enduring popularity. First, many scholars find discussing US perceived hegemony – and its ostensive demise – intellectually irresistible. Second, and perhaps more important, HST has proved devilishly difficult to specify and to assess empirically. This paper strives to surmount those challenges by producing the first ever assessment of HST using inferential statistics. It models HST with both a single hegemon and an alternative variant involving collective hegemony by a relatively small number of leading economies. Results show significant correlations between hegemony and openness, but the sign is always the opposite of what hegemonic stability theorists anticipate. That is, economic diffusion rather than hegemony is associated with openness. Similarly, the data do not indicate that the United States has been willing to play a key role that Kindleberger ascribes to the hegemon: serving as a market for distress goods. We offer an alternative explanation for contemporary economic openness rooted in microeconomic theories of competition. These findings suggest that observers should not necessarily take a decline in the concentration of economic power, either of the United States or the world’s leading economies, to be a harbinger of a reversal of economic openness.
Intertwined Order in Fractional Chern Insulators from Finite-Momentum Pairing of Composite Fermions
Creators: name: Sohal, Ramanjit
name: Fradkin, Eduardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the problem of intertwined orders in fractional Chern insulators by considering lattice fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states arising from pairing of composite fermions in the square-lattice Hofstadter model. At certain filling fractions, magnetic translation symmetry ensures the composite fermions form Fermi surfaces with multiple pockets, leading to the formation of finite-momentum Cooper pairs in the presence of attractive interactions. We obtain mean-field phase diagrams exhibiting a rich array of striped and topological phases, establishing paired lattice FQH states as an ideal platform to investigate the intertwining of topological and conventional broken symmetry order.
description: 15 pages, 11 figures. v2: Updated references and acknowledgments. v3: Published version
Is economic hegemony necessary for maintaing open trade? an empirical challenge to the hegemonic stability theory
Creators: name: Silvia, Stephen
name: Stanaitis, Michael Richard
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Old international relations theories never die. They don’t even fade away. Perhaps the most tenacious of them all is hegemonic stability theory (HST), which is the argument that a hegemonic power is necessary to maintain a stable, open international economic order because only a hegemon is able and potentially willing to do what is needed to preserve openness. Despite repeated criticism over four decades, HST – like James Cameron’s terminator – keeps coming back. Two things explain HST’s enduring popularity. First, many scholars find discussing US perceived hegemony – and its ostensive demise – intellectually irresistible. Second, and perhaps more important, HST has proved devilishly difficult to specify and to assess empirically. This paper strives to surmount those challenges by producing the first ever assessment of HST using inferential statistics. It models HST with both a single hegemon and an alternative variant involving collective hegemony by a relatively small number of leading economies. Results show significant correlations between hegemony and openness, but the sign is always the opposite of what hegemonic stability theorists anticipate. That is, economic diffusion rather than hegemony is associated with openness. Similarly, the data do not indicate that the United States has been willing to play a key role that Kindleberger ascribes to the hegemon: serving as a market for distress goods. We offer an alternative explanation for contemporary economic openness rooted in microeconomic theories of competition. These findings suggest that observers should not necessarily take a decline in the concentration of economic power, either of the United States or the world’s leading economies, to be a harbinger of a reversal of economic openness.
An investigation into types of display board and interactive
Creators: name: Ton, Hason
name: De Vera, John
name: Fong, Joshua
name: Twist, Theo
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: This report investigates the feasibility and effects of putting in a display board in the new Student Union Building at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Through the use of articles and past surveys, this report finds that UBC needs to communicate their initiatives in a better fashion. This document also reinforces the need to have a proper marketing perspective for a positive impact of the community. A display board is the ideal way to communicate an eco-friendly lifestyle. Installing a display board is feasible if the stakeholders decide on multiple projector based displays, as this option offers the best environmental, social and economic trade-offs. The content to be displayed must be interactive and dynamic to effectively keep the community's attention. It is important to note that there is a marked reduction in a user’s overall information acquisition with time. Hence, all recommendations implemented in the display board should have a positive effect on the UBC community. Using the triple bottom line assessment, it was found that projectors are not only economically attractive due to its low cost and ease of maintenance but also environmentally- and user-friendly. The display content ought to be frequently updated to prevent losing the interest of the SUB users on campus matters and sustainability development. Energy consumption metrics and Twitter were found to be effective in increasing environmental awareness and promoting sustainable use of resources. It is recommended to set up a student committee to manage the display content to promote student involvement in UBC’s sustainability efforts. All in all, the recommendations made in this report are believed to have positive economic, environmental, and social impacts on the SUB users in general and the UBC population as a whole. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”