cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Derancistrus OF
Creators: name: Devesa, Sergio
name: Fonseca, Elier
name: Barro, Alejandro
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Derancistrus

description: KEY TO ADULTS OF THE SPECIES OF DERANCISTRUS OF CUBA
 1. General color mostly reddish brown. Ventral areas with long setae, quite abundant on thorax and sides of abdomen. Lateral spines of pronotum with apices at same level. Prosternal process coarsely punctate and with long setae.......................  D. pilosus, new species
1′. General color black with variable metallic greenish blue reflections. Ventral areas almost glabrous except for some scattered and small setae on thorax. Mediolateral spine of pronotum distinctly longer than anterolateral and their apices not at the same level. Prosternal process not coarsely punctate and without long setae.......................................... 2
 2. Blue-green iridescence evident. Legs black, sometimes with reddish tinge.......................................................................... D. coeruleus
 2′. Feeble blue-green iridescence feeble. Femora and apical part of tibiae red................................................................... D. anthracinus
description: Published as part of Devesa, Sergio, Fonseca, Elier & Barro, Alejandro, 2017, The GenusDerancistrusAudinet-Serville, 1832 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Prioninae: Solenopterini) in Cuba, with Description of a New Species, pp. 191-199 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 71 (1) on page 198, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-71.1.191, http://zenodo.org/record/4836553
AN AWAKENING OF CONSCIENCE: THE CHANGING RESPONSE OF AMERICAN EVANGELICALS TOWARD WORLD POVERTY (CHRISTIAN, RELIEF, THEOLOGY, MISSIONS)
Creators: name: Smith, Linda Diane
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: For most of this century, American evangelical Protestants have retreated from their traditional involvement in social issues, reforms, and humanitarian assistance. However, in the seventies, Third World poverty assistance from evangelicals appeared to surge upward at an unprecedented rate. Their central focus also appeared to be shifting from relief to development assistance. Was a major shift in fact occurring? If so, why?; Time-series budget and sector involvement data spanning 1969/70 to 1981/82 for eighty-five evangelical agencies were examined to determine whether a significant increase and shift in type of aid had occurred. A budget survey was also sent out to these agencies. Qualitative assessments were gained through interviews with key evangelical leaders and agencies. Data analysis showed that evangelical Third World assistance had quadrupled from $62 million in 1969/70 to $238 million by 1981/82. A major shift from relief to development assistance also occurred, with significant movement shown into central development sectors such as agriculture, enterprise development, construction, cooperatives, and community development. This shift can be explained by numerous inter-related factors. External factors include the impact of Vietnam on American attitudes, national media coverage of famine and refugee problems, pressure from the Third World, and the availability of U.S. Government funds for relief and development programs. Within Evangelicalism, increased agency publicity, the example of pioneering agencies, conferences, key books, a change in educational content for young evangelicals, and the general broadening of Evangelicalism itself all had an impact on attention toward poverty issues. Yet, behind these factors were some even more significant value changes. The re-acknowledgement of the humanity of Christ, the rejoining of Word and deed, the re-emphasis on the Kingdom of God, and a theological-cultural paradigm shift toward seeing Christ's relationship to culture as a transforming role all had important implications for social concern. These changes served to create and legitimize values of aiding the poor. An "awakening of conscience" toward social responsibility has occurred for evangelicals. Since important theological values have changed, the renewed emphasis on social concern and Third World poverty assistance will likely endure.
AN AWAKENING OF CONSCIENCE: THE CHANGING RESPONSE OF AMERICAN EVANGELICALS TOWARD WORLD POVERTY (CHRISTIAN, RELIEF, THEOLOGY, MISSIONS)
Creators: name: Smith, Linda Diane
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 50
subject: Philosophy and religious studies
classificationCode: 5005
subject: Theology
classificationCode: 500501
subject: Theology

description: For most of this century, American evangelical Protestants have retreated from their traditional involvement in social issues, reforms, and humanitarian assistance. However, in the seventies, Third World poverty assistance from evangelicals appeared to surge upward at an unprecedented rate. Their central focus also appeared to be shifting from relief to development assistance. Was a major shift in fact occurring? If so, why?; Time-series budget and sector involvement data spanning 1969/70 to 1981/82 for eighty-five evangelical agencies were examined to determine whether a significant increase and shift in type of aid had occurred. A budget survey was also sent out to these agencies. Qualitative assessments were gained through interviews with key evangelical leaders and agencies. Data analysis showed that evangelical Third World assistance had quadrupled from $62 million in 1969/70 to $238 million by 1981/82. A major shift from relief to development assistance also occurred, with significant movement shown into central development sectors such as agriculture, enterprise development, construction, cooperatives, and community development. This shift can be explained by numerous inter-related factors. External factors include the impact of Vietnam on American attitudes, national media coverage of famine and refugee problems, pressure from the Third World, and the availability of U.S. Government funds for relief and development programs. Within Evangelicalism, increased agency publicity, the example of pioneering agencies, conferences, key books, a change in educational content for young evangelicals, and the general broadening of Evangelicalism itself all had an impact on attention toward poverty issues. Yet, behind these factors were some even more significant value changes. The re-acknowledgement of the humanity of Christ, the rejoining of Word and deed, the re-emphasis on the Kingdom of God, and a theological-cultural paradigm shift toward seeing Christ's relationship to culture as a transforming role all had important implications for social concern. These changes served to create and legitimize values of aiding the poor. An "awakening of conscience" toward social responsibility has occurred for evangelicals. Since important theological values have changed, the renewed emphasis on social concern and Third World poverty assistance will likely endure.
Many faces of nonequilibrium: anomalous transport phenomena in driven periodic systems
Creators: name: Hänggi, P.
name: Łuczka, J.
name: Spiechowicz, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a generic system operating under non-equilibrium conditions. Explicitly, we consider an inertial classical Brownian particle dwelling a periodic structure with a spatially broken reflection symmetry. The particle is coupled to a bath at the temperature $T$ and is driven by an unbiased time-periodic force. In the asymptotic long time regime the particle operates as a Brownian motor exhibiting finite directed transport although no net biasing force acts on the system. Here we review and interpret in further detail recent own research on the peculiar transport behaviour for this setup. The main focus is put on those different emerging Brownian diffusion anomalies. Particularly, within the transient, time-dependent domain the particle is able to exhibit anomalous diffusive motion which eventually crosses over into normal diffusion only in the asymptotic long-time limit. In the latter limit this normal diffusion coefficient may even show a non-monotonic temperature dependence, meaning that it is not monotonically increasing with increasing temperature, but may exhibit instead an extended, intermediate minimum before growing again with increasing temperature.
description: in press in the special issue of Acta Physica Polonica B
A MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING APPROACH TO GENDER AND AGE STEREOTYPING IN OCCUPATIONS
Creators: name: Steinberg, Alma G.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: A multidimensional scaling (MDS) approach was used to study occupational stereotypes with respect to age and sex. Female undergraduates were asked to assume the role of a career counselor and rate the similarity in suitability of 11 occupations for one of the following four hypothetical clients: a 24 year-old female, a 24 year-old male, a 46 year-old female, or a 46 year-old male. There were 10 specified occupations and one other referred to as "the most suitable occupation for the client". Four dimensions were found using the MLSCALE program for multidimensional scaling. One dimension, identified as prestige, was found to be used in all four client conditions. Another dimension was identified as person-orientedness. In the two female-client conditions, it was a unitary dimension whereas in the two male-client conditions, it was represented by two dimensions. A direct approach also was used to verify the dimensions identified with the MDS approach. Subjects were given the list of 10 occupations and then asked to assume the role of a career counselor and select from the list the one they considered to be the most suitable occupation for one of the aforementioned hypothetical clients. Subjects also were asked to rate the prestige of the 10 occupations and how person- or thing-oriented these occupations were. The scales on these two dimensions were similar for both the MDS and direct-approach conditions. The MDS and the direct approach (once the dimensions were identified) provided information about age and sex stereotypes. More prestigious occupations were recommended for the younger client and more person-oriented (as opposed to thing-oriented) occupations were recommended for both young and older females.
title: The Effects of Eccentric and Plyometric Training Programs and Their Combination on Stability and the Functional Performance in the Post-ACL-Surgical Rehabilitation Period of Elite Female Athletes
Creators: name: Kasmi, Sofien
name: Zouhal, Hassane
name: Hammami, Raouf
name: Clark, Cain Craig Truman
name: Hackney, Anthony C.
name: Hammami, Amri
name: Chtara, Moktar
name: Chortane, Sabri Gaied
name: Ben Salah, Fatma Zohra
name: Granacher, Urs
name: Ben Ounis, Omar
Publisher: name: Universitätsverlag Potsdam
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background: The standard method to treat physically active patients with anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) rupture is ligament reconstruction surgery. The rehabilitation training program is very important to improve functional performance in recreational athletes following ACL reconstruction. Objectives: The aims of this study were to compare the effects of three different training programs, eccentric training (ECC), plyometric training (PLYO), or combined eccentric and plyometric training (COMB), on dynamic balance (Y-BAL), the Lysholm Knee Scale (LKS), the return to sport index (RSI), and the leg symmetry index (LSI) for the single leg hop test for distance in elite female athletes after ACL surgery. Materials and Methods: Fourteen weeks after rehabilitation from surgery, 40 elite female athletes (20.3 ± 3.2 years), who had undergone an ACL reconstruction, participated in a short-term (6 weeks; two times a week) training study. All participants received the same rehabilitation protocol prior to the training study. Athletes were randomly assigned to three experimental groups, ECC (n = 10), PLYO (n = 10), and COMB (n = 10), and to a control group (CON: n = 10). Testing was conducted before and after the 6-week training programs and included the Y-BAL, LKS, and RSI. LSI was assessed after the 6-week training programs only. Results: Adherence rate was 100% across all groups and no training or test-related injuries were reported. No significant between-group baseline differences (pre-6-week training) were observed for any of the parameters. Significant group-by-time interactions were found for Y-BAL (p < 0.001, ES = 1.73), LKS (p < 0.001, ES = 0.76), and RSI (p < 0.001, ES = 1.39). Contrast analysis demonstrated that COMB yielded significantly greater improvements in Y-BAL, LKS, and RSI (all p < 0.001), in addition to significantly better performances in LSI (all p < 0.001), than CON, PLYO, and ECC, respectively. Conclusion: In conclusion, combined (eccentric/plyometric) training seems to represent the most effective training method as it exerts positive effects on both stability and functional performance in the post-ACL-surgical rehabilitation period of elite female athletes.
description: Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe; 751
Crosita clementzae subsp. atasica Medvedev 1976
Creators: name: Guskova, Elena V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Crosita
Crosita clementzae
Crosita clementzae atasica medvedev, 1976

description: Crosita clementzae atasica Medvedev, 1976
 References. Medvedev 1976: 908, 1982: 247; Medvedev and Voronova 1977a: 331; Kippenberg 2010: 420.
 Material Examined. Dzegijn-Ama 7.viii.1968, leg. Emelyanov (ABC); Atas-Ula, 17.ix.1976, leg. L. Medvedev and N. Voronova (LMC).
 Distribution. Mongolia (Gobi-Altai).
 Notes. An endemic species of Mongolia, described by Medvedev (1976) from the Atas-Ula Mountains.
description: Published as part of Guskova, Elena V., 2017, The Chrysomelinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) of the Mongolian Altai, pp. 120-130 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 71 (1) on page 123, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-71.1.120, http://zenodo.org/record/4836543
Phase transitions in periodically driven macroscopic systems
Creators: name: Dutta, Sreedhar B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the large-time behavior of a class of periodically driven macroscopic systems. We find, for a certain range of the parameters of either the system or the driving fields, the time-averaged asymptotic behavior effectively is that of certain other equilibrium systems. We then illustrate with a few examples how the conventional knowledge of the equilibrium systems can be made use in choosing the driving fields to engineer new phases and to induce new phase transitions.
description: LaTex, 8 pages
Hypertension in premature infants in the pediatric office follow up study
Creators: name: Bolotnikov, Jannie
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: public health
subject: Hypertension in Premature Infants in the Pediatric Office
subject: Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. Pediatric Practice Research Group
subject: Hypertension
subject: Infant, Premature
subject: Blood Pressure
subject: Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
subject: Illinois Territory

description: A Northwestern University Capstone Project
How incomputable is Kolmogorov complexity?
Creators: name: Vitanyi, Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Kolmogorov complexity is the length of the ultimately compressed version of a file (that is, anything which can be put in a computer). Formally, it is the length of a shortest program from which the file can be reconstructed. We discuss the incomputabilty of Kolmogorov complexity, which formal loopholes this leaves us, recent approaches to compute or approximate Kolmogorov complexity, which approaches are problematic and which approaches are viable.
description: 9 pages LaTeX
A MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING APPROACH TO GENDER AND AGE STEREOTYPING IN OCCUPATIONS
Creators: name: Steinberg, Alma G.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 5205
subject: Social and personality psychology

description: A multidimensional scaling (MDS) approach was used to study occupational stereotypes with respect to age and sex. Female undergraduates were asked to assume the role of a career counselor and rate the similarity in suitability of 11 occupations for one of the following four hypothetical clients: a 24 year-old female, a 24 year-old male, a 46 year-old female, or a 46 year-old male. There were 10 specified occupations and one other referred to as "the most suitable occupation for the client". Four dimensions were found using the MLSCALE program for multidimensional scaling. One dimension, identified as prestige, was found to be used in all four client conditions. Another dimension was identified as person-orientedness. In the two female-client conditions, it was a unitary dimension whereas in the two male-client conditions, it was represented by two dimensions. A direct approach also was used to verify the dimensions identified with the MDS approach. Subjects were given the list of 10 occupations and then asked to assume the role of a career counselor and select from the list the one they considered to be the most suitable occupation for one of the aforementioned hypothetical clients. Subjects also were asked to rate the prestige of the 10 occupations and how person- or thing-oriented these occupations were. The scales on these two dimensions were similar for both the MDS and direct-approach conditions. The MDS and the direct approach (once the dimensions were identified) provided information about age and sex stereotypes. More prestigious occupations were recommended for the younger client and more person-oriented (as opposed to thing-oriented) occupations were recommended for both young and older females.
title: 01_1311
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
title: A history of Vauxhall Motors to 1950: industry, development and local impact on the Luton economy.
Creators: name: Holden, L.T.
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1984

description: This study is primarily concerned with tracing the development of Vauxhall Motors Limited until 1950* It involves an analysis of the reasons for the success of the company in the years "before 1920, and the factors which led to its financial troubles in the 1920's and its eventual acquisition by General Motors in 1925. An attempt is made to examine the relationship of Vauxhall to its American parent company in terms of the degree of autonomy which General Motors afforded Vauxhall. The 1930's and 1940's were decades of prosperity and considerable expansion for Vauxhall when the company was able to enter into the ranks of the 'Big Six' ie. the six largest car producers. However, as the chapter on finance, marketing and export performance reveals it was the production of light trucks that was the major factor in the Vauxhall success story. In tracing the development of Vauxhall an examination is made of the firm 's industrial relations. A marked contrast is shown between the pre and post 1929 era. The earlier period was marked by bitter struggles between management and unions, whilst the later period witnessed a time of relatively good industrial relations which lasted until the 1960's. The final chapters attempt to put Vauxhall in the context of the local economy, showing how Luton developed from a town reliant predominantly on the hat trade and female labour, to one where engineering and vehicle manufacturing became particularly important and employed mainly male labour. It is also shown that Vauxhall's predominance in the local economy was to be influential in improving wages and conditions of the Luton workers.
A Search-Based Testing Framework for Deep Neural Networks of Source Code Embedding
Creators: name: Hemmati, Hadi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Source Code Processing
Deep Neural Network
Testing

description: Over the past few years, deep neural networks (DNNs) have been continuously expanding their real-world ap- plications for source code processing tasks across the software engineering domain, e.g., clone detection, code search, comment generation. Although quite a few recent works have been per- formed on testing of DNNs in the context of image and speech processing, limited progress has been achieved so far on DNN testing in the context of source code processing, that exhibits rather unique characteristics and challenges. In this paper, we propose a search-based testing framework for DNNs of source code embedding and its downstream processing tasks. To generate new test inputs, we adopt popular source code refractors to generate the semantically equivalent variants. For more effective testing, we leverage the DNN mutation testing to guide the testing direction. To demonstrate the usefulness of our technique, we perform a large-scale evaluation on popular DNNs of source code processing based on multiple state-of-the-art code embedding methods (i.e., Code2Vec, Code2Seq and CodeBert). The testing results show that our generated adversarial samples can on average reduce the performance of these DNNs from 5.41% to 9.58%. Through retraining the DNNs with our gener- ated adversarial samples, the robustness of DNN can improve by 23.05% on average. The evaluation results also show that our adversarial test generation strategy has the least negative impact (median of 3.56%), on the performance of the DNNs for regular test data, compared to the other methods.
On 3-dimensional lattice walks confined to the positive octant
Creators: name: Bostan, Alin
name: Bousquet-Mélou, Mireille
name: Kauers, Manuel
name: Melczer, Stephen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Many recent papers deal with the enumeration of 2-dimensional walks with prescribed steps confined to the positive quadrant. The classification is now complete for walks with steps in $\{0, \pm 1\}^2$: the generating function is D-finite if and only if a certain group associated with the step set is finite.
 We explore in this paper the analogous problem for 3-dimensional walks confined to the positive octant. The first difficulty is their number: there are 11074225 non-trivial and non-equivalent step sets in $\{0, \pm 1\}^3$ (instead of 79 in the quadrant case). We focus on the 35548 that have at most six steps.
 We apply to them a combined approach, first experimental and then rigorous. On the experimental side, we try to guess differential equations. We also try to determine if the associated group is finite. The largest finite groups that we find have order 48 -- the larger ones have order at least 200 and we believe them to be infinite. No differential equation has been detected in those cases.
 On the rigorous side, we apply three main techniques to prove D-finiteness. The algebraic kernel method, applied earlier to quadrant walks, works in many cases. Certain, more challenging, cases turn out to have a special Hadamard structure, which allows us to solve them via a reduction to problems of smaller dimension. Finally, for two special cases, we had to resort to computer algebra proofs. We prove with these techniques all the guessed differential equations.
 This leaves us with exactly 19 very intriguing step sets for which the group is finite, but the nature of the generating function still unclear.
description: Final version, to appear in Annals of Combinatorics. 36 pages
MODELING THE U.S. GRAINS PROGRAMS: A MICROECONOMIC APPROACH
Creators: name: Tsigas, Marinos E.
name: Hertel, Thomas W.
name: Preckel, Paul V.
name: Tsigas, Marinos E.
name: Hertel, Thomas W.
name: Preckel, Paul V.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Land Economics/Use

description: A framework is presented for analyzing the impact of U.S. grains programs. The model's advantages are its endogenous treatment of the participation decision, the recognition of producer heterogeneity, and consistency with microeconomic theory. The estimated model predicts that the 1986 freeze on program yields for wheat increased returns to land.
Chrysolina (Allohypericia) perforata subsp. simillima Mohr 1966
Creators: name: Guskova, Elena V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Chrysolina
Chrysolina perforata
Chrysolina (allohypericia) perforata simillima mohr, 1966

description: Chrysolina (Allohypericia) perforata simillima Mohr, 1966
 Material Examined. Tal-Nuur, 10.vii.2015, leg. R.V. Yakovlev (EGC).
 Distribution. Mongolia (Bayan-Ulegei (new aimak record), Selenge).
 Notes. This species is recorded here from the Mongolian Altai for the first time; it is previously reported only from Selenge aimak.
description: Published as part of Guskova, Elena V., 2017, The Chrysomelinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) of the Mongolian Altai, pp. 120-130 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 71 (1) on page 125, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-71.1.120, http://zenodo.org/record/4836543
Will the Latin American Countries ever Pay their Debt?
Creators: name: Baffes, John
name: Chambers, Robert G.
name: Baffes, John
name: Chambers, Robert G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Borrowing Constraint
subject: Debt
subject: Latin America

description: The 1980s have been characterized by major borrowing levels of the Latin American countries. A common question asked by the creditors is whether these countries will be able to pay their debt back. This paper gives an answer to this question by utilizing the theory of cointegration. The results show that some of the countries have indeed violated their borrowing limits and thus the probability of paying the debt becomes small.
An elementary solution of Gessel's walks in the quadrant
Creators: name: Bousquet-Mélou, Mireille
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Around 2000, Ira Gessel conjectured that the number of lattice walks in the quadrant N^2, starting and ending at the origin (0,0) and taking their steps in {E,NE,W,SW} had a simple hypergeometric form. In the following decade, this problem was recast in the systematic study of walks with small steps (that is,steps in {-1,0,1}^2) confined to the quadrant. The generating functions of such walks are archetypal solutions of partial discrete differential equations.A complete classification of quadrant walks according to the nature of their generating function(algebraic, D-finite or not) is now available, but Gessel'swalks remained mysterious because they were the only model among the 23D-finite ones that had not been given an elementarysolution. Instead, Gessel's conjecture was first proved usingan inventive computer algebra approach in 2008. A year later, the associated three-variate generating function was proved to be algebraic by a computer algebra tour de force. This was re-proved recently using elaborate complex analysis machinery. We give here an elementary and constructive proof. Our approach also solves other quadrant models (with multiple steps) recently proved to be algebraic via computer algebra.
description: in Advances in Mathematics, Elsevier, 2017
Fingerprints of the cosmological constant: Folds in the profiles of the axionic dark matter distribution in a dyon exterior
Creators: name: Balakin, Alexander B.
name: Groshev, Dmitry E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the magnetic monopole in the axionic dark matter environment (axionic dyon) in the framework of the Reissner - Nordström - de Sitter model. Our aim is to study the distribution of the pseudoscalar (axion) and electric fields near the so-called folds, which are characterized by the profiles with the central minimum, the barrier on the left, and the maximum on the right of this minimum. The electric field in the fold-like zones is shown to change the sign twice, i.e., the electric structure of the near zone of the axionic dyon contains the domain similar to a double electric layer. We have shown that the described fold-like structures in the profile of the gravitational potential, and in the profiles of the electric and axion fields can exist, when the value of the dyon mass belongs to the interval enclosed between two critical masses, which depend on the cosmological constant.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures, revised version published in the Special Issue of the Journal Symmetry
Relativistic entanglement of Bell states with general momentum
Creators: name: Moon, Young Hoon
name: Ahn, Doyeol
name: Hwang, Sung Woo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, the Lorentz transformation of the entangled Bell states with momentum, not necessarily orthogonal to the boost direction, and spin, is studied. We extended quantum correlations and Bell's inequality to the relativistic regime by considering normalized relativistic observables. It is shown that quantum information, along the perpendicular direction to the boost, is eventually lost and Bell's inequality is not always violated for entangled states in special relativity. This could impose restrictions to certain quantum information processing such as quantum cryptography using massive particles.
Counting coloured planar maps: differential equations
Creators: name: Bernardi, Olivier
name: Bousquet-Mélou, Mireille
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We address the enumeration of q-coloured planar maps counted bythe number of edges and the number of monochromatic edges. We prove that the associated generating function is differentially algebraic,that is, satisfies a non-trivial polynomial differential equation withrespect to the edge variable. We give explicitly a differential systemthat characterizes this series. We then prove a similar result for planar triangulations, thus generalizing a result of Tutte dealing with their proper q-colourings. Instatistical physics terms, we solvethe q-state Potts model on random planar lattices. This work follows a first paper by the same authors, where the generating functionwas proved to be algebraic for certain values of q,including q=1, 2 and 3. It isknown to be transcendental in general. In contrast, our differential system holds for an indeterminate q.For certain special cases of combinatorial interest (four colours; properq-colourings; maps equipped with a spanning forest), we derive from this system, in the case of triangulations, an explicit differential equation of order 2 defining the generating function. For general planar maps, we also obtain a differential equation of order 3 for the four-colour case and for the self-dual Potts model.
description: 43 pp
THE WELFARE STATE IN SAUDI ARABIA: STRUCTURE, DYNAMICS, AND FUNCTION
Creators: name: Uthaimeen, Yousef A.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4407
subject: Policy and administration

description: Probably one of the most salient phenomena in the modern history of Saudi Arabia is the emergence and dramatic expansion of its welfare state. In the course of a half century, it has become an integral part of the institutional framework of that nation. It accounts for more than 50 percent of the state public expenditures, and its programs touch a large section of the Saudi citizens. Yet contemporary Middle Eastern scholars seem to ignore it, make a passing reference to it, or at best subsume it under their discussions of economic development, not treating it as a distinct area of research. This dissertation, therefore, is an attempt to systematically analyze, interpret, and explain the emergence and expansion of the welfare state phenomenon in Saudi Arabia. It explores in some detail its origin, structure, dynamics, organization, finance, function, and transformation over a period of time. This analysis is informed by the theoretical insights put forth by the Political Budget Model. For the most part, the wide range of quantitative data made available by the government, the historical works done by native and foreign social historians who lived through the various historical periods of Saudi Arabia, and the scholarly statements, comments, and works of contemporary Middle Eastern scholars are drawn upon. This study concluded that the ideas expounded by the conventional approaches to the welfare state are of little value as a means of analyzing and understanding the welfare state phenomenon in Saudi Arabia. Their emphasis on the "logic of industrialism" and the "notion of citizenship", as well as their conception of the role of the state runs contrary to all the evidence presented here. A more dynamic and useful approach to the welfare state in Saudi Arabia is to analyze and interpret it in terms of three pressing issues which faced the state in the last fifty years: integration, legitimation, and maintenance of social stability. These issues have shaped the various stages through which the welfare state in Saudi Arabia has passed.
PRODUCTION FUNCTIONS OF WESTERN IRRIGATED CROPS
Creators: name: Gollehon, Noel R.
name: Moore, Michael R.
name: Negri, Donald H.
name: Gollehon, Noel R.
name: Moore, Michael R.
name: Negri, Donald H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Production Economics
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: For two functional forms, this paper reports econometric estimates of product1on functions for thirteen major irrigated crops using a common dataset and a consistent specification of the variables across crops. Estimates of the output elasticity of irrigation water are uniformly highly inelastic for each crop.
Additional file 4 of Hypoxia-preconditioned mesenchymal stem cells prevent renal fibrosis and inflammation in ischemia-reperfusion rats
Creators: name: Ishiuchi, Naoki
name: Nakashima, Ayumu
name: Doi, Shigehiro
name: Yoshida, Ken
name: Maeda, Satoshi
name: Kanai, Ryo
name: Yamada, Yumi
name: Ike, Takeshi
name: Doi, Toshiki
name: Kato, Yukio
name: Masaki, Takao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 4. 1%O2 hMSCs increase the expression of VEGF mRNA, but not HGF mRNA. a Graph showing the number of alive MSCs cultured in medium containing 10% FBS under normoxic conditions or 1% O2 conditions. VEGF (b) and HGF (d) mRNA expression levels of MSCs were measured by PCR analysis. Data are means ± S.D. #P < 0.01, *P < 0.05 (one-way ANOVA followed by Bonferroni’s post-hoc test or Student’s t-test).
Chrysolina (Chalcoidea) brunnicornis
Creators: name: Guskova, Elena V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Chrysolina
Chrysolina brunnicornis

description: Chrysolina (Chalcoidea) brunnicornis (Weise, 1887)
 References. Weise 1887: 175; Medvedev and Voronova 1979: 112; Medvedev 1982: 244; Kippenberg 2010: 402.
 Material Examined. Tsengel, 26-30.vii.2009, leg. E.V. Guskova and R.V. Yakovlev (EGC); Tsengel, 14.vii.2015, leg. R. Yakovlev (EGC).
 Distribution. Mongolia (Bayan-Ulegei). Russia (SE Altai, Tuva).
description: Published as part of Guskova, Elena V., 2017, The Chrysomelinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) of the Mongolian Altai, pp. 120-130 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 71 (1) on page 125, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-71.1.120, http://zenodo.org/record/4836543
Phi meson production in Au+Au and p+p collisions at sqrt (s)=200 GeV
Creators: name: al, J. Adams et
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the STAR measurement of Phi meson production in Au+Au and p+p collisions at sqrt (s)=200 GeV. Using the event mixing technique, the Phi spectra and yields are obtained at mid-rapidity for five centrality bins in Au+Au collisions and for non-singly-diffractive p+p collisions. It is found that the Phi transverse momentum distributions from Au+Au collisions are better fitted with a single-exponential while the p+p spectrum is better described by a double-exponential distribution. The measured nuclear modification factors indicate that Phi production in central Au+Au collisions is suppressed relative to peripheral collisions when scaled by the number of binary collisions. The systematics of versus centrality and the constant Phi/K- ratio versus beam species, centrality, and collision energy rule out kaon coalescence as the dominant mechanism for Phi production.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett
The Evolution of Local Foods: A Retrospective and Prospective Consideration
Creators: name: Boys, Kathryn A.
name: Blank, Steven
name: Boys, Kathryn A.
name: Blank, Steven
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Local Food
subject: Economics
subject: Consumer demand
subject: State marketing programs

description: This chapter provides an overview of the development of the market for local foods, with particular emphasis on the U.S. market. Roots of the current consumer interest in locally sourced and produced foods stem from several public policy, food production, and consumer trends. The origins of interest in producing and consuming products which would now be characterized as local foods are explored. Following this, the current state of the local foods market is examined. Government and non-government organization programs designed to foster local food marketing highlighted. Economic considerations which will constrain the wider adoption of local foods products, are presented. Finally, a (likely) future for the market of locally sourced and produced food products is presented.
THE WELFARE STATE IN SAUDI ARABIA: STRUCTURE, DYNAMICS, AND FUNCTION
Creators: name: Uthaimeen, Yousef A.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Probably one of the most salient phenomena in the modern history of Saudi Arabia is the emergence and dramatic expansion of its welfare state. In the course of a half century, it has become an integral part of the institutional framework of that nation. It accounts for more than 50 percent of the state public expenditures, and its programs touch a large section of the Saudi citizens. Yet contemporary Middle Eastern scholars seem to ignore it, make a passing reference to it, or at best subsume it under their discussions of economic development, not treating it as a distinct area of research. This dissertation, therefore, is an attempt to systematically analyze, interpret, and explain the emergence and expansion of the welfare state phenomenon in Saudi Arabia. It explores in some detail its origin, structure, dynamics, organization, finance, function, and transformation over a period of time. This analysis is informed by the theoretical insights put forth by the Political Budget Model. For the most part, the wide range of quantitative data made available by the government, the historical works done by native and foreign social historians who lived through the various historical periods of Saudi Arabia, and the scholarly statements, comments, and works of contemporary Middle Eastern scholars are drawn upon. This study concluded that the ideas expounded by the conventional approaches to the welfare state are of little value as a means of analyzing and understanding the welfare state phenomenon in Saudi Arabia. Their emphasis on the "logic of industrialism" and the "notion of citizenship", as well as their conception of the role of the state runs contrary to all the evidence presented here. A more dynamic and useful approach to the welfare state in Saudi Arabia is to analyze and interpret it in terms of three pressing issues which faced the state in the last fifty years: integration, legitimation, and maintenance of social stability. These issues have shaped the various stages through which the welfare state in Saudi Arabia has passed.
SDSS J0903+5028: A New Gravitational Lens
Creators: name: Johnston, David E.
name: Richards, Gordon T.
name: Frieman, Joshua A.
name: Keeton, Charles R.
name: Strauss, Michael A.
name: Becker, Robert H.
name: White, Richard L.
name: Johnson, Eric T.
name: Ma, Zhaoming
name: SubbaRao, Mark
name: Bahcall, Neta A.
name: Bernardi, Mariangela
name: Brinkmann, Jon
name: Eisenstein, Daniel J.
name: Fukugita, Masataka
name: Hall, Patrick B.
name: Inada, Naohisa
name: Knapp, Gillian R.
name: Pindor, Bartosz
name: Schlegel, David J.
name: Scranton, Ryan
name: Sheldon, Erin S.
name: Schneider, Donald P.
name: Szalay, Alexander S.
name: York, Donald G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the discovery of a new gravitationally lensed quasar from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, SDSS J090334.92+502819.2. This object was targeted for SDSS spectroscopy as a Luminous Red Galaxy (LRG), but manual examination of the spectrum showed the presence of a quasar at z= 3.6 in addition to a red galaxy at z=0.388, and the SDSS image showed a second possible quasar image nearby. Follow-up imaging and spectroscopy confirmed the lensing hypothesis. In images taken at the ARC 3.5-meter telescope, two quasars are separated by 2.8 arc-seconds; the lensing galaxy is clearly seen and is blended with one of the quasar images. Spectroscopy taken at the Keck II telescope shows that the quasars have identical redshifts of z=3.6 and both show the presence of the same broad absorption line-like troughs. We present simple lens models which account for the geometry and magnifications. The lens galaxy lies near two groups of galaxies and may be a part of them. The models suggest that the groups may contribute considerable shear and may have a strong effect on the lens configuration.
description: submitted to the Astronomical Journal. 27 pages, 7 figures
Perceived barriers to becoming physically active for students at UBC
Creators: name: Chu, Elynn
name: Liang, Jiaying
name: Lu, Tina
name: An, Xue
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Our study seeks to identify whether there are differences in perceived barriers to physical activity between active and inactive university students. We believed that the barriers “lack of energy”, “lack of time” and “lack of willpower” are the most influential barriers. We also hypothesize that physically inactive students will rate each of the 7 barriers to physical activity as more of a barrier compared to physically active students. The study we conducted tries to rectify this with a study of UBC students. Undergraduate UBC students (n = 100) were recruited to the study. Participant’s current exercise habits and perceived barriers to physical activity were assessed. Students were asked to participate in a survey found online from a previous research. Mean scores derived from the calculation method provided with the survey were computed. Statistically significant results were found between the physically active and inactive groups. “Lack of energy”, “Lack of willpower”, and “Lack of time” were the top three most significant barriers perceived students at UBC. No significant results between genders were found in this study. This study could be replicated with a larger sample size in future research to increase the validity and to accurately identify perceived barriers in order to enhance physical activity among students at UBC. 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 Ins and Outs of UK Unemployment
Creators: name: Smith, Jennifer C.
name: Smith, Jennifer C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Unemployment dynamics
subject: Job finding rate
subject: Separation rate

description: This paper shows that in the UK, increases in unemployment in a recession are driven by rises in the separation rate. A new decomposition of unemployment dynamics is devised that does not require unemployment to be in steady state at all times. This is important because low UK transition rates ñ one quarter the size of the US ñimply substantial deviation of unemployment from steady state near cyclical turning points. In periods of moderation, the job Önding rate is shown to have most ináuence on UK unemployment dynamics. Evidence comes from the Örst study of monthly data derived from individualsí labour market spells recorded in the British Household Panel Survey from 1988 to 2008.