cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Behavioural Parent Training in Treating Noncompliance Behaviour among Preschool Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Creators: name: Mohamed, Noor Hassline
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 170106 Health, Clinical and Counselling Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 111704 Community Child Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111709 Health Care Administration
subject: 130102 Early Childhood Education (excl. Maori)
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: Developmental and Educational Psychology

description: Behavioural parent training programmes have been approved by the American Academy of Paediatrics (AAP) as effective for treating children with disruptive behaviour problems. The aim of this study is to examine the application of behavioural parent training in treating noncompliance behaviours among preschool children with ADHD. These children attended Special Integrated Preschool Education under Malaysia Ministry of Education (MOE) in Selangor. Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) is one of the promising behavioural parent training programmes has been employed in the study. The A-B single-case experimental design was applied to systematically test the effect of PCIT intervention throughout four different phases: Baseline (A2), Intensive Treatment (B-IT), Maintenance Treatment (B-MT) and Followup (F1). Parent’s verbalisation of Do and Don’t Skills and child compliance behaviour toward parental commands were measured repeatedly using four different instruments. The Eyberg Child Behaviour Inventory (ECBI) and Daily Parent Observation (DPO) were used to measure child’s noncompliance behaviour, Dyadic Parent-Child Interaction Coding System-III (DPICSIII) was used to measure parent’s verbalisation and child compliance behaviour and Therapy Attitude Test (TAI) was used to measure parents’ satisfaction toward the treatment. Findings of this study showed that PCIT was effective in reducing noncompliance behaviour among preschool children with ADHD. Parenting module as one of the early childhood interventions that based on the PCIT was recommended to improve positive parenting practices in rearing the children with behavioural problems.
Proceedings of the VI International Workshop on Locational Analysis and Related Problems
Creators: name: Albareda-Sambola, Maria
name: Martínez-Merino, Luisa I.
name: Rodríguez-Chía, Antonio M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Other Computer Science (cs.OH)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The International Workshop on Locational Analysis and Related Problems will take place during November 25-27, 2015 in Barcelona (Spain). It is organized by the Spanish Location Network and Location Group GELOCA (SEIO). GELOCA is a working group on location belonging to the Statistics and Operations Research Spanish Society. The Spanish Location Network is a group of more than 140 researchers distributed into 16 nodes corresponding to several Spanish universities. The Network has been funded by the Spanish Government. Every year, the Network organizes a meeting to promote the communication among its members and between them and other researchers, and to contribute to the development of the location field and related problems. Previous meetings took place in Sevilla (October 1-3, 2014), Torremolinos (Málaga, June 19-21, 2013), Granada (May 10-12, 2012), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (February 2-5, 2011) and Sevilla (February 1-3, 2010). The topics of interest are location analysis and related problems. This includes location, routing, networks, transportation and logistics models; exact and heuristic solution methods, and computational geometry, among others.
Quantum metrology
Creators: name: Giovannetti, Vittorio
name: Lloyd, Seth
name: Maccone, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We point out a general framework that encompasses most cases in which quantum effects enable an increase in precision when estimating a parameter (quantum metrology). The typical quantum precision-enhancement is of the order of the square root of the number of times the system is sampled. We prove that this is optimal and we point out the different strategies (classical and quantum) that permit to attain this bound.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures
Paratetrapedia basilaris , Aguiar & Melo 2006
Creators: name: RAMOS, KELLI S.
name: KAWADA, RICARDO
name: BRANDÃO, CARLOS ROBERTO F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Paratetrapedia
Paratetrapedia basilaris

description: Paratetrapedia basilaris
 Aguiar & Melo, 2011: 386
 Paratype: 1♂ ‘ Brasil, Pará, Alter do Chão, 19.ix.1969, Exp. Perm. Amaz.’ ‘ Paratipo, Paratetrapedia basilaris, Aguiar & Melo, 2006 ’.
description: Published as part of RAMOS, KELLI S., KAWADA, RICARDO & BRANDÃO, CARLOS ROBERTO F., 2015, Type specimens of bees (Hymenoptera, Apidae) deposited in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, pp. 335-361 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (São Paulo) (São Paulo) 55 (24) on page 348, DOI: 10.1590/0031-1049.2015.55.24, http://zenodo.org/record/4656393
Improved Gilbert-Varshamov Bound for Entanglement-Assisted Asymmetric Quantum Error Correction by Symplectic Orthogonality
Creators: name: Matsumoto, Ryutaroh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 81P73 94B65

description: We propose and prove an existential theorem for entanglement-assisted asymmetric quantum error correction. Then we demonstrate its superiority over the conventional one.
description: Publisher's Open Access PDF
Compatibility, Intellectual Property, Innovation and Welfare in Durable Goods Markets with Network E§ects
Creators: name: Athanasopoulos, Thanos
name: Athanasopoulos, Thanos
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: Financial Economics

description: This article investigates dominant Örmsí approach towards the compatibility of their durable network goods with that of a future, innovative rival in the presence of overlapping generations of forward-looking consumers and the welfare e§ects from dominant Örmsí refusals to support compatibility. I consider sequential, substitutable product innovations, where a rival can build on a dominant Örmís existing knowledge. For moderately innovative future products, the market leader supports compatibility because strategic pricing allows him to extract more of the higher total surplus that emerges when compatibility is present. Incompatible networks increase consumer surplus and there is no market failure when network e§ects are weak.
The Capabilities of the EISCAT Svalbard Radar for Inter-hemispheric Coordinated Studies
Creators: name: Grydeland, Tom
name: Strømme, Anja
name: van Eyken, Tony
name: La Hoz, Cesar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this article we want to present the EISCAT Svalbard Radar (ESR) in some detail, as well as some of the instruments of interest for ionospheric and magnetospheric research that are located in the vicinity of it. We particularly describe how this instrument cluster, close to the geomagnetic conjugate point of the Chinese Antarctic Zhongshan station, can contribute to inter-hemispheric coordinated studies of the polar Ionosphere.
description: 12 pages, 3 PostScript figures
Nd$^+$ isotope shift measurements in a cryogenically-cooled neutral plasma
Creators: name: Bhatt, Nishant
name: Kato, Kosuke
name: Vutha, Amar C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report measurements of the isotope shifts of two transitions ($4f^46s\rightarrow [25044.7]^{\circ}_{7/2}$ and $4f^46s\rightarrow [25138.6]^{\circ}_{7/2}$) in neodymium ions (Nd$^+$) with hundredfold improved accuracy, using laser spectroscopy of a cryogenically-cooled neutral plasma. The isotope shifts were measured across a set of five spin-zero isotopes that spans a nuclear shape transition. We discuss the prospects for further improvements to the accuracy of Nd$^+$ isotope shifts using optical clock transitions, which could enable higher precision tests of King plot linearity for new physics searches.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables
Corporate Taxes and the Growth of the Firm
Creators: name: Liberini, Federica
name: Liberini, Federica
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: Financial Economics

description: It is desirable to reduce the number of ”artificial” merger and acquisitions (MA) designed to escape from high tax jurisdictions, without discouraging domestic firms from growing into highly productive multinational corporations. This paper studies the effect of corporate taxes on the headquarter’s decision to expand its extensive margins through the acquisition of pre-existing firms. A model for the investment behaviour of heterogeneous firms is built, and Corporate taxes are introduced. The model shows that higher home statutory corporate tax rates make exports relatively more expensive, making firms more likely to serve foreign demand through cross-border acquisitions. The model’s predictions are tested on a dynamic random parameter probit model estimated on firm-level data. The model’s predictions are confirmed by the results from the empirical investigation. The data also support the hypothesis that there are sunk costs associated with becoming a multinational corporation, and that domestic firm that overcome these costs and acquire their first foreign subsidiary are more likely to complete further acquisitions. In addition, the inability to shift profit to foreign locations makes domestic firms more sensitive to home corporate taxes, as their capacity to capture investment opportunity is negatively affected by a reduction in net tax profit.
Dynamical Friction on Star Clusters near the Galactic Center
Creators: name: Kim, Sungsoo S.
name: Morris, Mark
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Numerical simulations of the dynamical friction suffered by a star cluster near the Galactic center have been performed with a parallelized tree code. Gerhard (2001) has suggested that dynamical friction, which causes a cluster to lose orbital energy and spiral in towards the galactic center, may explain the presence of a cluster of very young stars in the central parsec, where star formation might be prohibitively difficult owing to strong tidal forces. The clusters modeled in our simulations have an initial total mass of 10^5-10^6 Msun and initial galactocentric radii of 2.5-30 pc. We have identified a few simulations in which dynamical friction indeed brings a cluster to the central parsec, although this is only possible if the cluster is either very massive (~10^6 Msun), or is formed near the central parsec ( 10^6 Msun pc-3). The initial core collapse and segregation of massive stars into the cluster core, which typically happens on a much shorter time scale than that characterizing the dynamical inspiral of the cluster toward the Galactic center, can provide the requisite high density. Furthermore, because it is the cluster core which is most likely to survive the cluster disintegration during its journey inwards, this can help account for the observed distribution of presumably massive HeI stars in the central parsec.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ
Basiceros Schulz 1906
Creators: name: Ulysséa, Mônica Antunes
name: Prado, Lívia P.
name: Brandão, Carlos Roberto F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Basiceros

description: Genus Basiceros Schulz, 1906: 156
 Basiceros manni Brown & Kempf, 1960: 177. Paratypes: 1G 4W, COSTA RICA, Santa Clara, Hamburg Farm, 1924, F. Nevermann col. One worker missing L2, L3. Paratypes: 3W, C[OSTA] R [ICA], Colombiana [Columbiana Farm], iii.1920, W.M. Mann col.
 Creightonidris scambognatha Brown, 1949a: 89. Holotype: 1G, [BRAZIL], Goyás [Goiás], Campinas, x.[1]935, Schwarzmaier [leg.]. Missing L3, W1. Combination in Basiceros by Fernández, 2003c: 392; Feitosa, Brandão & Dietz, 2007: 19.
 Basiceros squamifer Borgmeier, 1937: 245. Syntypes: 24W, Cotypes[Syntypes]: 2G 3W, [BRAZIL], RJ [Rio de Janeiro], Angra dos Reis, Jussaral, 30.x.1935, [H.S.] Lopes & [H.] Lent [cols.]. Coll. Borgm. #5510. One worker with disarticulated head. Junior synonym of Basiceros convexiceps (Mayr, 1887: 581) by Brown & Kempf, 1960: 172.
description: Published as part of Ulysséa, Mônica Antunes, Prado, Lívia P. & Brandão, Carlos Roberto F., 2015, Type specimens of the traditional Myrmicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) ant tribes deposited in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil: Adelomyrmecini, Basicerotini, Blepharidatt ini, Crematogastrini, Formicoxenini, Lenomyrmecini, Myrmicini, Phalacromyrmecini, Pheidolini, Stegomyrmecini, Stenammini and Tetramoriini, pp. 175-204 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (São Paulo) (São Paulo) 55 (12) on page 179, DOI: 10.1590/0031-1049.2015.55.12, http://zenodo.org/record/4656343
STRUCTURAL CHANGES IN HARYANA AGRICULTURE— THE ISSUES OF GROWTH AND EQUITY
Creators: name: Lal, Roshal
name: Singh, R. P.
name: Lal, Roshal
name: Singh, R. P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1994
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Production Economics
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Technological breakthrough in Haryana agriculture has brough about significant shifts in the production, productivity and cropping pattern. Agriculture in the State is characterised by wide differences kits output and productivity performance across the crops and regions. The study, therefore, attempts to examine the structural changes in Haryana agriculture and its distributional pattern based on the secondary sources of data. The results revealed that agriculture In the State has undergone significant changes. However, the benefits of such changes have not been shared evenly across the crops and regions in the State. This resulted in an impressive growth in the production of the superior careals paddy and wheat while the coarse cereal and non-foodgrains crops except oil seed crops have not received due attention in the growth process. This invites special attention of the researchers and policy makers towards the crops along with equitable exploitation of irrigational resources for sustainable growth in agriculture.
Ensemble averaged Madelung energies of finite volumes and surfaces
Creators: name: Krüger, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Exact expressions for ensemble averaged Madelung energies of finite volumes are derived. The extrapolation to the thermodynamic limit converges unconditionally and can be used as a parameter-free real-space summation method of Madelung constants. In the large volume limit, the surface term of the ensemble averaged Madelung energy has a universal form, independent of the crystal structure. The scaling of the Madelung energy with system size provides a simple explanation for the structural phase transition observed in cesium halide clusters.
description: 15 pages, 3 figures
Laser ablation of Co:ZnO films deposited from Zn and Co metal targets on (0001) Al$_2$O$_3$ substrates
Creators: name: Prellier, W.
name: Fouchet, A.
name: Mercey, B.
name: Simon, Ch.
name: Raveau, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the synthesis of high-quality Co-doped ZnO thin films using the pulsed laser deposition technique on (0001)-Al$_2$O$_3$ substrates performed in an oxidizing atmosphere, using Zn and Co metallic targets. We firstly optimized the growth of ZnO in order to obtain the less strained film. Highly crystallized Co:ZnO thin films are obtained by an alternative deposition from Zn and Co metal targets. This procedure allows an homogenous repartition of the Co in the ZnO wurzite structure which is confirmed by the linear dependance of the out-of-plane lattice parameter as a function of the Co dopant. In the case of 5% Co doped, the film exhibits ferromagnetism with a Curie temperature close to the room temperature.
description: 8 pages, 5 Figures, accepted in Applied Physics Letters
EMPOWERING CHILDREN WITH AUTISM TO SUCCESS: WITHIN APPROPRIATE ECOSYSTEM
Creators: name: Kassim, Helmi
name: Siti Darzalina Mat Zoki
name: Mohamed, Noor Hassline
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 170103 Educational Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Clinical Psychology
subject: Developmental and Educational Psychology
subject: 111704 Community Child Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Early detection of developmental delays in children coupled with appropriate intervention is crucial to help children develop to their fullest potential. Over the next few years, Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF) will work with the Ministry of Health (MOH) to form a network of touch points across the health and preschool sectors. This would include doctors at the hospitals, polyclinics and family medicine practitioners in developmental screening, and pre-school teachers in early detection of children with developmental needs, so that they can be supported through timely intervention. Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) have a unique profiling personality in terms of diverse intelligence, natural learning patterns and styles, the most effective natural learning method and the thinking mindset. The journey begins when a child has been diagnosed with Autism, be it verbal or non-verbal. As days passed, some parents may wonder what they could do for the sake of them and their child. This paper draws attention to the strategies of how we can empower the child with ASD to gain success in life within an appropriate ecosystem. The ecosystem supports children with disabilities (ASD) and their families, so as to improve their quality of life. Existing initiatives will be enhanced to provide more holistic help and a smoother transition for children with ASD at different stages of their lives.
Pseudogap, competing order and coexistence of staggered flux and d-wave pairing in high-temperature superconductors
Creators: name: Zhou, Sen
name: Wang, Ziqiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the t-J-V model of a doped Mott insulator in connection to high-T_c superconductors. The nearest neighbor Coulomb interaction (V) is treated quantum mechanically on equal footing as the antiferromagnetic exchange interaction (J). Motivated by the SU(2) symmetry at half-filling, we construct a large-N theory which allows a systematic study of the interplay between staggered flux order and superconductivity upon doping. We solve the model in the large-N limit and obtain the ground state properties and the phase diagram as a function of doping. We discuss the competition and the coexistence of the staggered flux and the d-wave superconductivity in the underdoped regime and the disappearance of superconductivity in the overdoped regime
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, published version
Warwick Electron Microscopy Datasets
Creators: name: Ede, Jeffrey M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Large, carefully partitioned datasets are essential to train neural networks and standardize performance benchmarks. As a result, we have set up new repositories to make our electron microscopy datasets available to the wider community. There are three main datasets containing 19769 scanning transmission electron micrographs, 17266 transmission electron micrographs, and 98340 simulated exit wavefunctions, and multiple variants of each dataset for different applications. To visualize image datasets, we trained variational autoencoders to encode data as 64-dimensional multivariate normal distributions, which we cluster in two dimensions by t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding. In addition, we have improved dataset visualization with variational autoencoders by introducing encoding normalization and regularization, adding an image gradient loss, and extending t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding to account for encoded standard deviations. Our datasets, source code, pretrained models, and interactive visualizations are openly available at https://github.com/Jeffrey-Ede/datasets.
description: 16 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables
title: The effects of neurotrophic factors on enteric ganglion cells in vitro
Creators: name: Korsak, Kris
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2003

description: The effects of neurotrophic factors on enteric ganglion cells were studied using variety of techniques. NT-3 was found to have protective effects on enteric neurons exposed to hydrogen peroxide. The second neurotrophic factor tested, GDNF, did not exhibit a similar, protective effect. Investigation of the effects of these factors on the levels of catalase and SOD Cu/Zn revealed that NT-3 does not affect levels of either enzyme after 12 and 36 hour incubation. In contrast to NT-3, GDNF was able to increase the levels of both enzymes, although this effect was observed only at the 36 hour time point. To investigate the mechanism of NT-3 induced protective effects, the signalling pathways initiated by NT-3 were also studied. PI-3K, an enzyme known to play a role in the survival responses initiated by trophic factors in many cell types was blocked using a specific inhibitor, LY294002. As a result, a dramatic decrease in cell numbers was observed in control as well as NT-3 and GDNF treated cultures. Inhibition of PI-3K also nullified the effects of trophic factors on the cells. Subsequently, the effects of NT-3 and combined NT-3/LY294002 treatment on the activity of several signalling proteins were examined. Control cultures showed steady, easily detectable levels of phosphorylated Akt, as well as total protein levels of bcl-2 and c-fos, which were independent of signalling initiated by addition of exogenous NT-3. In contrast, phosphorylation of MEK and ERK proteins was dependent upon exogenous NT-3. LY294002 treatment severely reduced the amount of phosphorylated Akt present in the cells. Additionally, the presence of phosphorylated MEK and ERK was observed at the point of NT-3 treatment, suggesting that in was independent of exogenous NT-3. Total protein levels of bcl-2 and c-fos proteins in the LY294002 treated cultures were elevated compared to controls.
Bicolletes Friese 1908
Creators: name: RAMOS, KELLI S.
name: KAWADA, RICARDO
name: BRANDÃO, CARLOS ROBERTO F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Colletidae
Bicolletes

description: Bicolletes Friese
  Panurginus decoloratus Ducke, 1908: 66  Paralectotype: 1♂ ‘[Brazil], Ceará, Baturité, 26.06.1908, Ducke [col.]’. Currtent status: Bicolletes decolorata (Ducke, 1908). Comments: Paralectotype according designation by Nascimento (1979: 8).
description: Published as part of RAMOS, KELLI S., KAWADA, RICARDO & BRANDÃO, CARLOS ROBERTO F., 2015, Type specimens of bees (Hymenoptera, Apidae) deposited in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, pp. 335-361 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (São Paulo) (São Paulo) 55 (24) on page 350, DOI: 10.1590/0031-1049.2015.55.24, http://zenodo.org/record/4656393
Thermodynamics of strong coupling 2-color QCD
Creators: name: Nishida, Yusuke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: 2-color QCD at finite temperature T and chemical potential μis revisited in the strong coupling limit on the lattice. The phase structure in the space of T, μand the quark mass m is elucidated with the use of the mean field approximation and the large dimensional expansion. We put special emphasis on the interplay among the chiral condensate, the diquark condensate and the quark density in the T-μ-m space. Qualitative comparison is made between our results and those of recent Monte-Carlo simulations in 2-color QCD.
description: To appear in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Finite Density QCD at Nara, Japan, July 10-12, 2003
The Use of Wood in Construction: A Triple Bottom Line Assessment of the use of Laminated Wood in Construction Relative to Reinforced Concrete
Creators: name: Barr, Christopher
name: Lam, Alvin
name: Wei, Wei
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: 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.”
Exponential increase in mortality with age is a generic property of a simple model system of damage accumulation and death
Creators: name: Ledberg, Anders
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The risk of dying increases exponentially with age, in humans as well as in many other species. This increase is often attributed to the "accumulation of damage" known to occur in many biological structures and systems. The aim of this paper is to describe a generic model of damage accumulation and death in which mortality increases exponentially with age. The damage-accumulation process is modeled by a stochastic process know as a queue, and risk of dying is a function of the accumulated damage, i.e. length of the queue. The model has four parameters and the main characteristics of the model are: (i) damage occurs at random times with a constant high rate; (ii) the damage is repaired at a limited rate, and consequently damage can accumulate; (iii) the efficiency of the repair mechanism decays linearly with age; (iv) the risk of dying is a function of the accumulated damage. Using standard results from the mathematical theory of queues it is shown that there is an exponential dependence between risk of dying and age in these models, and that this dependency holds irrespective of how the damage-accumulation process is modeled. Furthermore, the ways in which this exponential dependence is shaped by the model parameters are also independent of the details of the damage accumulation process. These generic features suggest that the model could be useful when interpreting changes in the relation between age and mortality in real data. To examplify, historical mortality data from Sweden are interpreted in the light of the model. The decrease in mortality seen between cohorts born in 1905, compared to those born in 1885, can be accounted for by higher threshold to damage. This fits well with the many advances made in public health during the 20th century.
An Investigation into Sustainable Water Consumption (Bottled Water versus WaterFillz Units)
Creators: name: Chang, Jenson
name: Chen, Keqin
name: Fallahi, Maryam
name: Lee, Jeremy
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: 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.”
THE GLOBAL PREVALENCE AND DIAGNOSIS OF AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER AMONG YOUNG CHILDREN
Creators: name: Mohamed, Noor Hassline
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Developmental and Educational Psychology
subject: 170106 Health, Clinical and Counselling Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 170113 Social and Community Psychology

description: Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) refers to a group of developmental disorders. Although global prevalence of ASD is reported to be between 3-6 children per 1000, there is difficulty in comparing prevalence of ASD across countries because of the variation in methodology, age group of population and the sample size studied. Prevalence of ASD shows an increasing trend and factors attributing to the rise in prevalence include the increase in awareness on the signs and symptoms of ASD, the increase in access to services, the changes in the definition of autism over time and the broadening of the diagnostic criteria. Among the administrative factors also linked to the increase in prevalence were changes in reporting practices and availability of records. Prior to 1990’s diagnosis of ASD was more often after entrance to school. Currently there are diagnostic tools available and the diagnosis can be made among toddlers. However for those on the milder end of the spectrum with average or above average language and cognitive abilities, the diagnosis is still made after school entry. Early detection, diagnosis and intervention are important in promoting better long-term outcomes and as such screening programmes need to be in place. Sustainability of the program requires training of primary care providers, use of specially designed tools for screening and protocols for referral, and a multidisciplinary diagnostic team. This paper shares the Malaysian experience in implementing a screening programme since 2011 and the outcomes of the screening programme for ASD in primary care
Statistical Significance of Small Scale Anisotropy in Arrival Directions of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays
Creators: name: Yoshiguchi, Hiroyuki
name: Nagataki, Shigehiro
name: Sato, Katsuhiko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, the High Resolution Fly's Eye (HiRes) experiment claims that there is no small scale anisotropy in the arrival distribution of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) above $E>10^{19}$ eV contrary to the Akeno Giant Air Shower Array (AGASA) observation. In this paper, we discuss the statistical significance of this discrepancy between the two experiments. We calculate arrival distribution of UHECRs above $10^{19}$ eV predicted by the source models constructed using the Optical Redshift Survey galaxy sample. We apply the new method developed by us for calculating arrival distribution in the presence of the galactic magnetic field. The great advantage of this method is that it enables us to calculate UHECR arrival distribution with lower energy ($\sim 10^{19}$ eV) than previous studies within reasonable time by following only the trajectories of UHECRs actually reaching the earth. It has been realized that the small scale anisotropy observed by the AGASA can be explained with the source number density $\sim 10^{-5 \sim -6}$ Mpc$^{-3}$ assuming weak extragalactic magnetic field ($B \le 1$ nG). We find that the predicted small scale anisotropy for this source number density is also consistent with the current HiRes data. We thus conclude that the statement by the HiRes experiment that they do not find small scale anisotropy in UHECR arrival distribution is not statistically significant at present. We also show future prospect of determining the source number density with increasing amount of observed data.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures
Challenging Students’ perspectives with Game Design for Older Adults
Creators: name: Hausknecht, Simone
name: Zhang, Fan
name: Jeremic, Julija
name: Owens, Hollis
name: Kaufman, David
Publisher: name: Journal of Digital Media & Interaction
Year: 2021

description: Older adults are a group that is often overlooked by the game industry, even though they make up a reasonable portion of gamers. It is important for game designers to be able to consider different users and the needs involved. In this study, game design students were challenged with the task of making a video game for older adults that had some level of learning and social interaction. A total of sixty students, 13 older adults, an instructor, and the researchers were involved in the study. Seven games were created over two semesters. Older adults participated in the design by providing feedback. The students initially were disappointed with this assignment and resistant to the task, but as the project continued, they were able to embrace the challenge and see the benefits of designing for older adults. It challenged them to think from a different perspective and consider game design that is accessible to a wider audience. What they thought was intuitive (e.g. easy for the player to understand and use) did not always turn out to be so for the older cohort. This required the students adjust their design to suit a wider audience. User-centered design with a cohort different from their own was a beneficial approach to getting students to think of a broader audience.
description: Journal of Digital Media & Interaction, vol. 4 n.º 11 (2021): Cultural Representations in Digital Games, Vol.4, No.11
Search for New Physics at Colliders
Creators: name: Chiarelli, Giorgio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper I present the most recent results of the ongoing searches, mainly from Tevatron Collider experiments, for new physics beyond the Standard Model. While no signal has been seen so far, many analyses are reaching the point in which either a discovery will take place or strong limit on currently popular theories will be set.
description: To appear in Proceedings of PIC05
Collapse of the vacuum in hexagonal graphene quantum dots: a comparative study between the tight-binding and the mean-field Hubbard models
Creators: name: Polat, Mustafa
name: Sevinçli, Hâldun
name: Güçlü, A. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we perform a systematic study on the electronic, magnetic, and transport properties of the hexagonal graphene quantum dots (GQDs) with armchair edges in the presence of a charged impurity using two different configurations: (1) a central Coulomb potential and (2) a positively charged carbon vacancy. The tight binding (TB) and the half-filled extended Hubbard models are numerically solved and compared with each other in order to reveal the effect of electron interactions and system sizes. Numerical results point out that off-site Coulomb repulsion leads to an increase in the critical coupling constant to $β_{\text{c}}$ = 0.6 for a central Coulomb potential. This critical value of the $β$ is found to be independent of GQD size, reflecting its universality even in the presence of electron-electron interactions. In addition, a sudden downshift in the transmission peaks shows a clear signature of the transition from subcritical $β$ $$ $β_{\text{c}}$ regime. On the other hand, for a positively charged vacancy, the collapse of the lowest bound state occurs at $β_{\text{c}}$ = 0.7 for the interacting case. Interestingly, the local magnetic moment, induced by a bare carbon vacancy, is totally quenched when the vacancy is subcritically charged, whereas the valley splittings in electron and hole channels continue to exist in both regimes.
CAPITAL REQUIREMENT FOR OPTIMIZATION OF RESOURCE USE ON MARGINAL AND SMALL FARMS IN OLD ALLUVIAL ZONE OF WEST BENGAL
Creators: name: Rahim, Kazi M. B.
name: Rahim, Kazi M. B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1995
Subjects: Farm Management
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Estimation of capital requirement for modernisation of Indian farms of different sizes over different agro-climatic zones in India is an important and long felt need. The present paper has made an effort. to *estimate capital requirements while optimizin2 the resource use on marginal and small farms in the old alluvitl zone of West Bengal. The district 61-Burchyan shON•ying..the minimum divergence between the districts's .crdp yield' index 'and. average (i.e. 100) in absolute term was selected for the' stu4. A' total of 150 farm households (small and marginal) formed the primary units,of this study. , . Linear programming approach was applied considering that it might handle best the problem of estimation of,capi.tal requirement, .among all other , approaches. The return over :variable cost (ROVC), aenerated, from the, optimum •.% plans was found to be increased with the. change .in the :level of te•chnology in. the order of existing to progressive, and to, recommended technology. Obvioiisly capital requirenient and RQVC.inc.reased increi.ise in size - of farMS. It was also 'noticed that the capital requirement for optimum plan • prepared considering progressive " farrners'f•technold-a)'..Was. Comparatively ' lower than those in the plans prepared considering both existing tecimoloay and reconunended teclmology in the study area. It was suggested that those optimal plan(s) required less capital and generated more, ROV,C in.other ‘‘ oats, having higher ratio between ROVC, and capital requirement) might be chosen for implementation.
Agrilus mansuetus Thomson 1879
Creators: name: Curletti, Gianfranco
name: Migliore, Letizia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Agrilus
Agrilus mansuetus

description: Agrilus mansuetus Thomson, 1879
 Agrilus mansuetus Thomson, 1879: 59.
 Material examinado: BRASIL, São Paulo, Franca, 1 ex., X.1910, E. Garbe leg. Théry det.: Agrilus mansuetus var.?
description: Published as part of Curletti, Gianfranco & Migliore, Letizia, 2014, O gênero Agrilus Curtis, 1829 nas coleções do Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), pp. 81-106 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (São Paulo) (São Paulo) 54 (8) on page 103, DOI: 10.1590/0031-1049.2014.54.08, http://zenodo.org/record/4656297
Dynamical Structure Factor in Cu Benzoate and other spin-1/2 antiferromagnetic chains
Creators: name: Essler, F. H. L.
name: Furusaki, A.
name: Hikihara, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent experiments of the quasi-one-dimensional spin-1/2 antiferromagnet Copper Benzoate established the existence of a magnetic field induced gap. The observed neutron scattering intensity exhibits resolution limited peaks at both the antiferromagnetic wave number and at incommensurate wave numbers related to the applied magnetic field. We determine the ratio of spectral weights of these peaks within the framework of a low-energy effective field theory description of the problem.
description: 5 pages, 3figures
A Multi-Step Reconfiguration Model for Active Distribution Network Restoration Integrating DG Start-Up Sequences
Creators: name: Sekhavatmanesh, Hossein
name: Cherkaoui, Rachid
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: The ever-increasing penetration of Distributed Generators (DGs) in distribution networks suggests to enable their potentials in better fulfilling the restoration objective. The objective of the restoration problem is to resupply the maximum energy of loads considering their priorities using minimum switching operations. Basically, it is desired to provide a unique configuration that is valid regarding the load and generation profiles along the entire restorative period. However, this unique configuration may not satisfy at the same time: I) the DG start-up requirements at the beginning of the restoration plan and II) the topological conditions that would allow the DG to provide later on the most efficient support for the supply of loads. Therefore, it is proposed in this paper to allow a limited number of reconfiguration steps according to the DG start-up requirements. In addition, this paper presents a novel formulation for the reconfiguration problem that accounts for partial restoration scenarios where the whole unsupplied area cannot be restored. The decision variables of the proposed multi-step restoration problem are: I) the line switching actions at each step of the reconfiguration process, II) the load switching actions during the whole restorative period and, III) the active/reactive power dispatch of DGs during the whole restorative period. A relaxed AC power flow formulation is integrated to the optimization problem in order to ensure the feasibility of the solution concerning the operational safety constraints. The overall model is formulated in terms of a mixed-integer second-order cone programming. Two simulation scenarios are studied in order to illustrate different features of the proposed strategy and to demonstrate its effectiveness particularly in the case of large-scale outages in distribution networks.
A Meta-analysis of Water Conservation Policies in the Southern Ogallala Aquifer Region
Creators: name: Fan, Yubing
name: Park, Seong C.
name: Fan, Yubing
name: Park, Seong C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Production Economics
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: groundwater management
subject: water conservation policy
subject: Ogallala Aquifer
subject: meta-analysis
subject: effect size

description: To extend the economic life of the Ogallala Aquifer, policy makers and stakeholders have considered and implemented several water conservation policies. Starting with an empirical study by Segarra and Feng (1994), the inter-temporal dynamic approach has been adopted in literature to evaluate impacts of these policies in the region. To integrate the findings and make comparable evaluations, we conducted a meta-analysis of the literature. After a systematic identification and screening of relevant publications including journal articles, meeting papers and reports, the meta-analysis included 19 studies focusing on nine major water conservation polices, including irrigation technology adoption, water use restriction, biotechnology, permanent and temporary conversion to dryland production. The average number of policies analyzed by the literature was 3.33, and more than 60% of the studies included one or more counties in the Southern High Plains region of Texas. The average planning horizon was 52 years. The estimated average decrease of saturated thickness was 59 feet. The economic impacts of these policies were significantly different in each study.
The Great Bee Migration: Spatial and Temporal Variation in Honey Bee Colony Shipments into California for Almond Pollination
Creators: name: Goodrich, Brittney K
name: Williams, Jeffrey
name: Goodhue, Rachael E
name: Goodrich, Brittney K
name: Williams, Jeffrey
name: Goodhue, Rachael E
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Bees
subject: Almonds
subject: Pollination Services
subject: Supply

description: Over the last two decades, the quantity of honey bee colonies required to perform pollination services for the California almond industry has grown steadily and now equals a substantial share of the U.S. population of honey bee colonies. Most U.S. beekeeping operations have not been willing to expand colony capacity without signif- icant increases in almond pollination fees. Thus, as almond acreage in California has increased, the marginal supplier of colonies for almond pollination has likely moved further away from California, increasing interstate colony shipments. To explore this concept, we analyze temporal and spatial characteristics of the supply of colonies for almond pollination using colony shipment data from 2008 through 2016 provided by the California Department of Food and Agriculture. The largest increases in shipments since 2008 have come from the states of Florida and Texas, where beekeepers have relatively high transportation costs and historically have observed opportunity costs of participating in almond pollination due to the potential for honey production at the time of almond bloom. We estimate that Florida and Texas had the largest number of colonies which did not participate in almond pollination in 2016, so further increases in supply are likely to come from these states.
Dual structures in PZN-xPT ferroelectric relaxors
Creators: name: Xu, Guangyong
name: Hiraka, H.
name: Ohwada, K.
name: Shirane, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We performed x-ray diffraction studies on a series of (1-$x$)Pb(Zn$_{1/3}$Nb$_{2/3}$)O$_3$-$x$PbTiO$_3$ (PZN-$x$PT) single crystals with different incident photon energies, and therefore different penetration depths. Our results show that outer-layers of $\sim 10$ to 50 $μ$m thick are present in all samples. The structure of those outer-layers is different from that of the inside of the crystals, by having much greater (rhombohedral) distortions. With increasing $x$, rhombohedral-type lattice distortions develop, both in the outer-layer and the inside.
description: submitted to Appl. Phys. Lett
Chloride ions as integral parts of hydrogen bonded networks in aqueous salt solutions: the appearance of solvent separated anion pairs
Creators: name: Pethes, Ildikó
name: Bakó, Imre
name: Pusztai, László
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hydrogen bonding to chloride ions has been frequently discussed over the past 5 decades. Still, the possible role of such secondary intermolecular bonding interactions in hydrogen bonded networks has not been investigated in any detail. Here we consider computer models of concentrated aqueous LiCl solutions and compute usual hydrogen bond network characteristics, such as distributions of cluster sizes and of cyclic entities, both for models that take and do not take chloride ions into account. During the analysis of hydrogen bonded rings, a significant amount of 'solvent separated anion pairs' have been detected at high LiCl concentrations. It is demonstrated that taking halide anions into account as organic constituents of the hydrogen bonded network does make the interpretation of structural details significantly more meaningful than when considering water molecules only. Finally, we compare simulated structures generated by 'good' and 'bad' potential sets on the basis of the tools developed here, and show that this novel concept is, indeed, also helpful for distinguishing between reasonable and meaningless structural models.
description: 45 pages, together with Supporting Information