cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Investigating the Optimal Locations for Outdoor Drinking Water Fountains in UBC
Creators: name: Cameron, Sean
name: Chung, Eric
name: Mun, Namho
name: Pillai, Isana
name: Tan, Brian
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: The University of British Columbia (UBC) strives to become as sustainable a campus as possible. UBC, in collaboration with the SEEDS Sustainability program, has put forth initiatives and conducted research into more ways the campus can be a leader in the sustainability industry. There have been several SEEDS reports completed since 2010 regarding creating a more sustainable campus, specifically revolving around water usage across UBC. This report, published by us, students of Geography 371 alongside the SEEDS program aims to further that goal by reducing the amount of plastic water bottles sold on the UBC campus. To do this, the scope of the study centered around finding the most ideal locations to install new outdoor drinking water fountains around campus so that fresh, clean, and plastic-free water could be more readily available to students, faculty, staff, and members of the public. Furthermore, the report aimed to grasp the social, psychological, or physical reasons why those who primarily hydrate using single-use plastic water bottles do so. As part of our research, we created and distributed a questionnaire for students, faculty, and staff to anonymously fill out, as well as conducted interviews with relevant professionals working for different sectors of UBC. By using the Geographic Information System (GIS) statistics found in UBC’s public database, we were able to overlay various pieces of data indicating where outdoor water fountains can theoretically be installed. This would correlate with the feedback given by the questionnaire and interviews giving us more detailed information on where to recommend installation points. With the conclusion of our research, UBC and the SEEDS program would have a solid grasp on the specific locations that would be best fitted for the installation of outdoor drinking fountains across the Vancouver campus while taking into account cost and usability. Additionally, we aimed to provide further insight as to where more work needs to be done to demonstrate how tap water from outdoor fountains is a viable drinking source. 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.”
On the Nature of Spin Currents
Creators: name: Bernevig, B. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Full expressions for finite frequency spin and charge conductivity in Rashba and Luttinger type systems are given. Whereas in the Rashba Hamiltonian the spin conductivity has the same frequency dependence as the dielectric polarizability, the Luttinger case is different. Moreover, for a generalized Rashba-type coupling the two quantities also exhibit different frequency dependencies.
description: 4 pages, extra discussion on spin susceptibility and references added
Eleodes wenzeli Blaisdell 1925
Creators: name: Triplehorn, Charles A.
name: Thomas, Donald B.
name: Rile, Edward G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Tenebrionidae
Eleodes
Eleodes wenzeli

description: Eleodes wenzeli Blaisdell, 1925
(Fig. 6, Map 3)
 Diagnosis. This species may be recognized by its smooth, finely sculptured integument and deep black, alutaceous luster. It is similar to E. pedinoides in having the elytral disc flattened. Length: 17–21 mm.
 Distribution. Known only from high elevations in west Texas (Chisos, Davis, and Guadalupe Mountains). The type specimens were collected by H.A. Wenzel in the Chisos Mountains of Big Bend National Park. Eleodes speculicollis Blaisdell, 1925, described from the Davis Mountains, is a synonym.
description: Published as part of Triplehorn, Charles A., Thomas, Donald B. & Rile, Edward G., 2009, The Genus Eleodes Eschscholtz (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) In Texas, pp. 413-437 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 63 (4) on page 420, DOI: 10.1649/1177.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4924379
Probing the CP nature of the Higgs boson at linear colliders with tau spin correlations; the case of mixed scalar--pseudoscalar couplings
Creators: name: Desch, K.
name: Imhof, A.
name: Was, Z.
name: Worek, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The prospects for the measurement of the pseudoscalar admixture in the h-tau-tau coupling to a Standard Model Higgs boson of 120 GeV mass are discussed in a quantitative manner e+ e- collisions of 350 GeV centre-of-mass energy. Specific angular distributions in the h --> tau tau; tau --> rho nu decay chain can be used to probe mixing angles of scalar--pseudoscalar h-tau-tau couplings. In the discussion of the feasibility of the method, assumptions on the properties of a future detector for an e+ e- linear collider such as TESLA are used. The Standard Model Higgsstrahlung production process is taken as an example. For the expected performance of a typical Linear Collider set-up, the sensitivity of a measurement of the scalar--pseudoscalar mixing angle turned out to be 6 degree. It will be straightforward to apply our results to estimate the sensitivity of a measurement, in cases another scenario of the Higgs boson sector (Standard Model or not) is chosen by nature. The experimental error of the method is expected to be limited by the statistics.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures, LaTeX. Corrections of published version included
Integrable deformation of $\mathbb{CP}^n$ and generalised Kaehler geometry
Creators: name: Demulder, Saskia
name: Hassler, Falk
name: Piccinini, Giacomo
name: Thompson, Daniel C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We build on the results of arXiv:1912.11036 for generalised frame fields on generalised quotient spaces and study integrable deformations for $\mathbb{CP}^n$. In particular we show how, when the target space of the Principal Chiral Model is a complex projective space, a two-parameter deformation can be introduced in principle. The second parameter can however be removed via a diffeomorphism, which we construct explicitly, in accordance with the results stemming from a thorough integrability analysis we carry out. We also elucidate how the deformed target space can be seen as an instance of generalised Kaehler, or equivalently bi-Hermitian, geometry. In this respect, we find the generic form of the pure spinors for $\mathbb{CP}^n$ and the explicit expression for the generalised Kaehler potential for $n=1,2$.
description: 25 pages
title: Post-Amadori Reactions of Serum Proteins
Creators: name: Cochrane, Sheila
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1995

description: The formation of glycofluorophores and the fragmentation of proteins is only seen if glucose (or another reducing sugar) is included in the incubation. Although similar changes have been reported in the absence of sugars, it has been shown here that these changes are glucose dependent. Contrary to previous work, I have shown that the presence of bound lipid on HSA does not alter the formation of Amadori product. Fragmentation of HSA is also unaffected by the presence ofbound lipid, but the formation of fluorescence by native HSA is 2.5 times greater than that of delipidated HSA. This shows that (i) tire enhanced fluorophore formation seen in native HSA is independent of the amount of Amadori product, (ii) that at least two con^onents of fluorescence on native HSA exist and (iii) that the mechanisms of fragmentation and lipid-dependent fluorescence formation are not the same. Both fragmentation and fluorescence formation were inhibited by the transition-metal chelator DTPA, low ing that both these reactions are transition-metal catalysed. The formation of glycofluorophores appears to be partially dependent on the high affnity binding of transition metals to the protein, but the glucose-induced fragmentation of both albumin and human transferrin occurs only when the transition metal species present is copper. No fragmentation of the iron binding protein transferrin is seen when iron is included in the incubations in the place of copper. Both these reactions were also inhibited by the use of HEPES buffer in the place of phosphate buffer. HEPES buffer, unlike phosphate buffer, has free radical scavenging properties so therefore it would appear that in addition to being transition-metal catalysed, these reactions are free radical mediated processes. The carbonyl scavenger, aminoguanidine, inhibited the production of glycofluorophores implicating a carbonyl intermediate in this reaction. Pre-incubation of glucose with copper caused an increase in the amount of fluorescence initially observed indicating that autoxidation of glucose plays a role in fluorophore formation, although it is not possible to say whether this is a major reaction pathway or not.
Eleodes arcuatus Casey 1890
Creators: name: Triplehorn, Charles A.
name: Thomas, Donald B.
name: Rile, Edward G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Tenebrionidae
Eleodes
Eleodes arcuatus

description: Eleodes arcuatus Casey, 1890
(Figs. 43–44, Map 14)
 Diagnosis. A small, oblong-ovate species with the integument finely punctate and dull in luster. Pronotum subquadrate, slightly wider than long, widest near the middle; anterior angles prominent; surface of disc sparsely, minutely punctulate. Prosternal process horizontal and acute apically. Base of abdomen about equal in width to base of thorax; elytral surface with small punctures arranged in series on disc, becoming confused laterally. Femora are clavate, feebly arcuate preapically in both genders; protarsal groove without pads of golden setae. Length: 12–16 mm.
 Distribution. Texas specimens were collected in the Davis Mountains. The species ranges west to Arizona where it is more common; also known from Sonora and Chihuahua in Mexico.
description: Published as part of Triplehorn, Charles A., Thomas, Donald B. & Rile, Edward G., 2009, The Genus Eleodes Eschscholtz (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) In Texas, pp. 413-437 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 63 (4) on pages 421-422, DOI: 10.1649/1177.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4924379
Additional file 1 of Diffuse optical spectroscopic imaging reveals distinct early breast tumor hemodynamic responses to metronomic and maximum tolerated dose regimens
Creators: name: Anup Tank
name: Peterson, Hannah M.
name: Pera, Vivian
name: Tabassum, Syeda
name: Anais Leproux
name: O’Sullivan, Thomas
name: Jones, Eric
name: Cabral, Howard
name: Ko, Naomi
name: Mehta, Rita S.
name: Tromberg, Bruce J.
name: Roblyer, Darren
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Post-hoc GEE Analysis. A) Post-hoc GEE Estimates of Oxyhemoglobin differences across Response of MTD patients on days 1-7. B) Post-hoc GEE Estimates of Oxyhemoglobin differences across Treatment of Responding patients on days 1-7. Significance is determined at Bonferroni corrected level of p<0.0036.
The Forces Shaping French-Algerian Relations
Creators: name: McLellan, Robert S.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society

description: Prior to 1830, Algeria was nominally a part of the Ottoman Empire. In point of fact, however, the actual control exercised 3 by Constantinople over Algeria was nominal. The Dey, the representative of Ottoman power in Algeria, had little influence beyond the confines of the metropolis of Algiers. The Arab-Berber population of the area numbering some two million lived largely a semi-nomadic existence. Their allegiance was first to family and tribe. Broader allegiances were minimal and the concept of national solidarity non-existent. On the eve of French penetration, therefore, there existed two authorities. On the me hand, the decadent authority of the Ottoman Empire which had long ceased to exercise any effective control over the life of the country. On the other, a conglomeration of autonomous families and tribes knowing no other law than that of arms. During the past century and a quarter of French control, these two forms of authority were replaced; initially by French military and administrative control and now by a organized indigenous nationalist movement attempting to dislodge the French.
Leveraging social networks to increase physical activity
Creators: name: Barnett, Tracie
name: Van Hulst, Andraea
name: Belanger-Gravel, Ariane
name: Saint-Charles, Johanne
name: Tresierra-Farbridge, Elena
Publisher: name: The Health & Fitness Journal of Canada
Year: 2022

description: Background: The structure and composition of social networks (SN) are emerging determinants of physical activity and sedentary behaviour. Greater understanding of these dynamics could inform innovative interventions designed to engage youth in more physical activity and to reduce their sedentary time. Purpose: In this symposium, we provide an overview of social network analysis, we review the evidence linking social network characteristics to physical activity and sedentary behaviour, and we describe promising strategies that leverage social networks in order to increase physical activity and decrease sedentary behaviour in youth. Description: Dr. Johanne Saint-Charles, Universite du Quebec a Montreal. Title: Introduction to Social Networks: The What and the Why Elena Tresierra-Farbridge, Concordia University. Title: Social Networks and Cardiometabolic Health: Scoping Review Methods Dr. Tracie Barnett, McGill University. Title: Linking social networks to physical activity/sedentary behaviour in youth: evidence from observational studies Dr. Ariane Bélanger- Gravel, Université Laval. Title: Linking social networks to physical activity/sedentary behaviour in youth: evidence from intervention studies Methods: The nature of social networks, their assessment, and key social network indicators are described in an introductory session. A narrative literature review on the relationship between social networks, physical activity and sedentary behaviour is presented, and a systematic review of social network interventions designed to promote greater physical activity and/or to reduce sedentary behaviour is discussed. Discussion: Speakers will engage attendees and discuss potential applications in clinical and public health settings, current gaps in knowledge, and research priorities moving forward, notably with respect to vulnerable populations.
description: The Health & Fitness Journal of Canada, Vol. 14 No. 3 (2021): Proceedings from the 8th International Society for Physical Activity and Health Congress
HST Astrometry of M4 and the Galactic Constant V_0/R_0
Creators: name: Bedin, L. R.
name: Piotto, G.
name: King, I. R.
name: Anderson, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: From multi-epoch WFPC2/HST observations we present astrometric measurements of stars in the Galactic globular cluster M4 (NGC 6121) and in the foreground/background. The presence of an extragalactic point source allows us to determine the absolute proper motion of the cluster, and, through use of the field stars in this region only 18 degree from the Galactic center, to measure the difference between the Oort constants, A-B. We find: (mu_alpha cos dec, mu_dec)_J2000 = (-13.21 +/- 0.35, -19.28 +/- 0.35) mas/yr, and A-B = V_0/R_0 = 27.6 +/- 1.7 km / s / kpc.
description: 20 pages, 6 figures, A.J.__ACCEPTED__, 1 April, 2003, (...!)
Prenatal Sex Selection and Girls’ Well‐Being: Evidence from India
Creators: name: Hu, Luojia
name: Schlosser, Analia
name: Hu, Luojia
name: Schlosser, Analia
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: International Development
subject: Son preference
subject: prenatal sex selection
subject: ultrasound
subject: sex ratio at birth
subject: gender discrimination
subject: child health

description: In this paper, we study the impact of prenatal sex selection on the well‐being of girls by analyzing changes in children’s nutritional status and mortality during the years since the diffusion of prenatal sex determination technologies in India. We further examine various channels through which prenatal sex selection might affect girls’ outcomes. Using repeated cross‐sections from a comprehensive dataset, we show that high sex ratios at birth reflect the practice of sex selective abortion. We then exploit the large regional and time variations in the incidence of prenatal sex selection to analyze whether changes in girls’ outcomes relative to boys within states and over time are associated with changes in sex ratios at birth. We find that an increase in the practice of prenatal sex selection appears to be associated with a reduction in the incidence of malnutrition among girls. The negative association appears to be stronger for girls born in rural households and at higher birth parities. An examination of the various mechanisms linking between prenatal sex selection and children outcomes shows that prenatal sex selection does not lead to a selection of girls into better endowed families. However, we find that girls are more likely to be born in families with weaker son preferences and we find a larger reduction in family size for girls relative to boys. We also find an increase in girls’ breastfeeding duration suggesting an improvement in parental care and treatment. On the other we do not find a decline in excess female child mortality or a reduction in son preference as reported by mothers in states with increasing incidence of prenatal sex selection.
Neurophotonics applications to motor cortex research: a review
Creators: name: Suter, Benjamin
name: Shepherd, Gordon M G
name: Yamawaki, Naoki
name: Borges, Katharine Ellen Munckton
name: Li, Xiaojian
name: Kiritani, Taro
Publisher: name: SPIE
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Neocortex
subject: Optics and Photonics
subject: Optogenetics
subject: Motor Cortex
subject: Pyramidal Cells
subject: Mice
subject: Neural Pathways

description: Neurophotonics methods offer powerful ways to access neuronal signals and circuits. We highlight recent advances and current themes in this area, emphasizing tools for mapping, monitoring, and manipulating excitatory projection neurons and their synaptic circuits in mouse motor cortex.
description: original_citation: Suter BA, Yamawaki N, Borges K, Li X, Kiritani T, Hooks BM, Shepherd GM. (2014) Neurophotonics applications to motor cortex research: a review. Neurophotonics 1(1)
The Forces Shaping French-Algerian Relations
Creators: name: McLellan, Robert S.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Prior to 1830, Algeria was nominally a part of the Ottoman Empire. In point of fact, however, the actual control exercised 3 by Constantinople over Algeria was nominal. The Dey, the representative of Ottoman power in Algeria, had little influence beyond the confines of the metropolis of Algiers. The Arab-Berber population of the area numbering some two million lived largely a semi-nomadic existence. Their allegiance was first to family and tribe. Broader allegiances were minimal and the concept of national solidarity non-existent. On the eve of French penetration, therefore, there existed two authorities. On the me hand, the decadent authority of the Ottoman Empire which had long ceased to exercise any effective control over the life of the country. On the other, a conglomeration of autonomous families and tribes knowing no other law than that of arms. During the past century and a quarter of French control, these two forms of authority were replaced; initially by French military and administrative control and now by a organized indigenous nationalist movement attempting to dislodge the French.
Collinear Electroweak Radiation in Antenna Parton Showers
Creators: name: Kleiss, Ronald
name: Verheyen, Rob
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a first implementation of collinear electroweak radiation in the Vincia parton shower. Due to the chiral nature of the electroweak theory, explicit spin dependence in the shower algorithm is required. We thus use the spinor-helicity formalism to compute helicity-dependent branching kernels, taking special care to deal with the gauge relics that may appear in computation that involve longitudinal polarizations of the massive electroweak vector bosons. These kernels are used to construct a shower algorithm that includes all possible collinear final-state electroweak branchings, including those induced by the Yang-Mills triple vector boson coupling and all Higgs couplings, as well as vector boson emissions from the initial state. We incorporate a treatment of features particular to the electroweak theory, such as the effects of bosonic interference and recoiler effects, as well as a preliminary description of the overlap between electroweak branchings and resonance decays. Some qualifying results on electroweak branching spectra at high energies, as well as effects on LHC physics are presented. Possible future improvements are discussed, including treatment of soft and spin effects, as well as issues unique to the electroweak sector.
description: 23 pages, 7 figures
Additional file 1 of Comparison of Instrumental Activities of Daily Living assessment by face-to-face or telephone interviews: a randomized, crossover study
Creators: name: Dauphinot, Virginie
name: Nawèle Boublay
name: Moutet, Claire
name: Achi, Sarah
name: Bathsavanis, Anthony
name: Krolak-Salmon, Pierre
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Comparison of the characteristics of the patients included to those not included in the study. Table S2. Description of agreement between the 2 modes of administration of the IADL questionnaire by branch. Figure S1. Bland-Altman plot to describe the agreement between the 2 modes of administration of the IADL questionnaire (by telephone and face-to-face) in branch 1. Figure S2. Bland-Altman plot to describe the agreement between the 2 modes of administration of the IADL questionnaire (by telephone and face-to-face) in branch 2.
Eleodes extricatus
Creators: name: Triplehorn, Charles A.
name: Thomas, Donald B.
name: Rile, Edward G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Tenebrionidae
Eleodes
Eleodes extricatus

description: Eleodes extricatus (Say, 1823)
(Figs. 7–8, Map 5)
 Diagnosis. A small, convex, somewhat fusiform (especially the male), glabrous species. The elytra have approximate rows of moderately coarse punctures. The pronotum is subquadrate and finely punctate. The profemora are dentate in the male, sinuate in the female. A pencil of golden setae interrupts the basal protarsomere in the male. Length: 11–15 mm.
 Distribution. In Texas, this species occurs in the far west and panhandle. It ranges from Alberta, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan in Canada, south to Sonora and Chihuahua in Mexico. Parmenter et al. (1989) reported on diel periodicity in activity of this species in the Wyoming rangelands.
description: Published as part of Triplehorn, Charles A., Thomas, Donald B. & Rile, Edward G., 2009, The Genus Eleodes Eschscholtz (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) In Texas, pp. 413-437 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 63 (4) on page 422, DOI: 10.1649/1177.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4924379
Multipole Photon Radiation in the Vincia Parton Shower
Creators: name: Skands, Peter
name: Verheyen, Rob
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present algorithms that interleave photon radiation from the final state and the initial state with the QCD evolution in the antenna-based Vincia parton shower. One of the algorithms incorporates the complete soft and collinear structure associated with photon emission, but may be computationally expensive, while the other approximates the soft structure at a lower cost. Radiation from fermions and W bosons is included, and a strategy for photon radiation off leptons below the hadronization scale is set up. We show results of the application of the shower algorithms to Drell-Yan and WW production at the LHC, showing the impact of the inclusion of the full soft structure and treatment of radiation off W bosons.
description: 12 pages, 3 figures
Charge fluctuation induced superconducting state in two-dimensional quarter-filled electron systems
Creators: name: Kobayashi, Akito
name: Tanaka, Yasuhiro
name: Ogata, Masao
name: Suzumura, Yoshikazu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the superconducting (SC) state in two-dimensional extended Hubbard model at a quarter-filling with the on-site repulsive interaction ($U$) and the nearest-neighbor one ($V$), which lead to the spin fluctuation and the charge fluctuation, respectively. The effect of the charge fluctuation on the onset of the SC state is calculated by estimating the pairing interaction within the random phase approximation. Solving the linearized Eliashberg equation with the anomalous self-energy as the function of both momentum and frequency, we examined the singlet SC state on the plane of $U$ and $V$ with the fixed temperature. We found a novel result that the SC state with the $d_{xy}$ symmetry retains for most parameters of $U$ and $V$, although the pairing interaction changes the sign from repulsive one into attractive one with increasing $V$. The reentrant transition as the function of temperature occurs close to the onset of the SC state.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Journal of the Phys. Soc. of Japan
Mechanisms and Impacts of Gender Peer Effects at School
Creators: name: Lavy, Victor
name: Schlosser, Analia
name: Lavy, Victor
name: Schlosser, Analia
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Financial Economics

description: We present in this paper evidence about the effects and mechanisms of gender peer effects in elementary, middle, and high schools. For identification, we rely on idiosyncratic variations in gender composition across adjacent cohorts within the same schools. We find that an increase in the proportion of girls improves boys and girls’ cognitive outcomes. These academic gains are mediated through lower levels of classroom disruption and violence, improved inter-student and student-teacher relationships, and lessened teachers’ fatigue. We find no effect on individual behavior, which suggests that the positive effects of girls on classroom environment are mostly due to compositional change.
Charge-density Waves Survive the Pauli Paramagnetic Limit
Creators: name: McDonald, R.
name: Harrison, N.
name: Balicas, L.
name: Kim, K. H.
name: Singleton, J.
name: Chi, X.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Measurements of the resistance of single crystals of (Per)$_2$Au(mnt)$_2$ have been made at magnetic fields $B$ of up to 45 T, exceeding the Pauli paramagnetic limit of $B_{\rm P}\approx 37$ T. The continued presence of non-linear charge-density wave electrodynamics at $B \geq 37$ T unambiguously establishes the survival of the charge-density wave state above the Pauli paramagnetic limit, and the likely emergence of an inhomogeneous phase analogous to that anticipated to occur in superconductors.
description: 4 pages, three figures
Talent Utilization and Search for the Appropriate Technology
Creators: name: Regev, Tali
name: Zoabi, Hosny
name: Regev, Tali
name: Zoabi, Hosny
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: income level
subject: total factor productivity
subject: technological density
subject: appropriate technology
subject: talent utilization
subject: search

description: This paper analyzes a model of economic development which is propagated by matching between technologies and the talents they require. Differences in productivity across countries are amplified by three dimensions of talent utilization. First, the range of different talents utilized. Second, the density of a specific talent utilized. Third, the average match quality in the economy. In our setup, the equilibrium variety of technologies increases with productivity. A larger number of technologies enables higher match quality between individuals’ talents and requirements of technologies and thus increases the returns to search. More intensive search further contributes to talent utilization.
Optimal unemployment insurance with monitoring
Creators: name: Setty, Ofer
name: Setty, Ofer
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Recursive Contracts
subject: Unemployment Insurance
subject: Job Search Monitoring

description: Monitoring the job-search activities of unemployed workers is a common government intervention. Typically, a caseworker reviews the unemployed worker's employment contacts at some frequency, and applies sanctions if certain requirements are not met. I model monitoring in the optimal unemployment insurance framework of Hopenhayn and Nicolini (1997), where job-search effort is private information for the unemployed worker. In the model, monitoring provides costly information upon which the government conditions the unemployment benefits. In the optimal monitoring scheme, endogenous sanctions and rewards, together with random monitoring, create effective job-search incentives for the unemployed worker. I calibrate the model to the US economy and find that the addition of optimal monitoring to the optimal unemployment insurance scheme decreases the variance of consumption by about two thirds and eliminates roughly half of the government's cost. I also find that compared with the optimal monitoring scheme, US states monitor too much and impose the sanctions over too short a time span. For the US on average, shifting to the optimal monitoring policy would generate savings of about $500 per unemployment spell.
The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Physical Activity Behaviours and The Implications for Health and Wellness
Creators: name: Bredin, Shannon
name: Taunton, Jack
name: Oh, Paul
name: Edwards, Jodi
name: Bacon, Simon
name: Bourque, Anthony
Publisher: name: The Health & Fitness Journal of Canada
Year: 2022

description: Description: This symposium chaired by Dr. Shannon Bredin, University of British Columbia, will explore the current evidence regarding the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on physical activity behaviours and the implications for health and well-being in diverse populations. Dr. Jack Taunton, Professor Emeritus, UBC and Allan McGavin Sports Medicine Centre, will discuss the treatment of persons exposed to COVID-19 with particular emphasis on those with the Long Hauler Syndrome. Dr. Paul Oh, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, will highlight the important role cardiac rehabilitation approaches will play in the treatment of those living with the long-term effects of COVID-19 infection. Dr. Jodi Edwards, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, will provide a patient's perspective living with and recovering from COVID-19. Dr. Simon Bacon, Concordia University, will discuss the lessons learned from global initiatives, such as the International Assessment of COVID-19-related Attitudes, Concerns, Responses and Impacts in Relation to Public Health Policies (iCARE) study. The session will end with a discussion of Public Health Agency of Canada funded projects and the changes that were made to deal with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on physical activity programming at the community level.
description: The Health & Fitness Journal of Canada, Vol. 14 No. 3 (2021): Proceedings from the 8th International Society for Physical Activity and Health Congress
Unemployment Accounts
Creators: name: Setty, Ofer
name: Setty, Ofer
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Disutility from work
subject: Job-search
subject: Mechanism Design
subject: Moral hazard
subject: Optimal Policy
subject: Unemployment Accounts
subject: Unemployment Insurance

description: Unemployment Accounts (UA) are mandatory individual saving accounts that can be used by governments as an alternative to the Unemployment Insurance (UI) system. The goal of this paper is to study the welfare implications of a shift from the current UI system to a new UA system in the United States. The UA system works as follows. During employment, the worker is mandated to make deposits into the individual saving account. The worker is entitled to withdraw payments from this account only during unemployment. In contrast, UI is funded by a payroll tax and provides benefits for a limited duration. I build an heterogeneous agents, incomplete-markets life-cycle model, in which workers face income fluctuations and unemployment shocks. UI is modeled as a choice of a replacement rate, and a time limit of unemployment benefits. UA is modeled as a choice of a deposit rate into the account during employment and a withdrawal rate during unemployment. Qualitatively, a shift from UI to UA can lead to either a welfare gain or a welfare loss depending on the role of frictions and incentives in the model. This observation puts the paper at the nexus of the macroeconomic debate on the level of disutility from work. Quantitatively, for a plausible parameterization the shift from UI to UA leads to an average welfare gain of 0.9% of lifetime consumption.
A Neural Approach to Ordinal Regression for the Preventive Assessment of Developmental Dyslexia
Creators: name: Martinez-Murcia, F. J.
name: Ortiz, A.
name: Formoso, Marco A.
name: Lopez-Zamora, M.
name: Luque, J. L.
name: Giménez, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Developmental Dyslexia (DD) is a learning disability related to the acquisition of reading skills that affects about 5% of the population. DD can have an enormous impact on the intellectual and personal development of affected children, so early detection is key to implementing preventive strategies for teaching language. Research has shown that there may be biological underpinnings to DD that affect phoneme processing, and hence these symptoms may be identifiable before reading ability is acquired, allowing for early intervention. In this paper we propose a new methodology to assess the risk of DD before students learn to read. For this purpose, we propose a mixed neural model that calculates risk levels of dyslexia from tests that can be completed at the age of 5 years. Our method first trains an auto-encoder, and then combines the trained encoder with an optimized ordinal regression neural network devised to ensure consistency of predictions. Our experiments show that the system is able to detect unaffected subjects two years before it can assess the risk of DD based mainly on phonological processing, giving a specificity of 0.969 and a correct rate of more than 0.92. In addition, the trained encoder can be used to transform test results into an interpretable subject spatial distribution that facilitates risk assessment and validates methodology.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures
Search and Work in Optimal Welfare Programs
Creators: name: Pavoni, Nicola
name: Setty, Ofer
name: Violante, Giovanni L.
name: Pavoni, Nicola
name: Setty, Ofer
name: Violante, Giovanni L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Human Capital
subject: Moral Hazard
subject: Recursive Contracts
subject: Welfare-to-Work

description: Actual welfare programs often feature work requirements in exchange for benefits and job-search assistance. We study the optimal design of welfare programs for the unemployed when the principal/ government can solicit either job-search effort or work effort from the agent or, alternatively, can relieve the agent from supplying effort and search on her behalf. Our main result is that when the generosity of the welfare program (i.e., its initial promised utility) is low, then the optimal program should be based on work activities. In contrast, when the initial generosity, or available budget, is high the optimal program should be based on search —and search assistance— activities.
Price Competition under Limited Comparability
Creators: name: Piccione, Michele
name: Spiegler, Ran
name: Piccione, Michele
name: Spiegler, Ran
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis
Financial Economics

description: This paper studies market competition when firms can influence consumers’ ability to compare market alternatives, through their choice of price “formats”. In our model, the ability of a consumer to make a comparison depends on the firms’ format choices. Our main results concern the interaction between firms’ equilibrium price and format decisions and its implications for industry profits and consumer switching rates. In particular, market forces drive down the firms’ profits to a “constrained competitive” benchmark if and only if the comparability structure satisfies a property which we interpret as a form of “frame neutrality”. The same property is necessary for equilibrium behavior to display statistical independence between price and format decisions. We also show that narrow regulatory interventions that aim to facilitate comparisons may have an anticompetitive effect.
The Cost of Capital as an Element of Fair Rate of Return for Natural Gas Utilities in the United States of America
Creators: name: Blanchard, Cadwallader Ford
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The problem of finding the fair return for private capital invested in regulated public utility enterprises, more particularly the problem of how much that return should be, is a matter which has long engaged the attention and interest of those who follow the fortunes of the public utility industry.The public utility business in the United States, or that portion of it which is devoted to the furnishing of gas, electric and telephone service is essentially a private affair.
Universality of massive scalar field late-time tails in black-hole spacetimes
Creators: name: Burko, Lior M.
name: Khanna, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The late-time tails of a massive scalar field in the spacetime of black holes are studied numerically. Previous analytical results for a Schwarzschild black hole are confirmed: The late-time behavior of the field as recorded by a static observer is given by $ψ(t)\sim t^{-5/6}\sin [ω(t)\times t]$, where $ω(t)$ depends weakly on time. This result is carried over to the case of a Kerr black hole. In particular, it is found that the power-law index of -5/6 depends on neither the multipole mode $\ell$ nor on the spin rate of the black hole $a/M$. In all black hole spacetimes, massive scalar fields have the same late-time behavior irrespective of their initial data (i.e., angular distribution). Their late-time behavior is universal.
description: 11 pages, 14 figures, published version
Discriminating neutrino mass models using Type II seesaw formula
Creators: name: Singh, N. Nimai
name: Patgiri, Mahadev
name: Das, Mrinal Kumar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we propose a kind of natural selection which can discriminate the three possible neutrino mass models, namely the degenerate, inverted hierarchical and normal hierarchical models, using the framework of Type II seesaw formula. We arrive at a conclusion that the inverted hierarchical model appears to be most favourable whereas the normal hierarchical model follows next to it. The degenerate model is found to be most unfavourable. We use the hypothesis that those neutrino mass models in which Type I seesaw term dominates over the Type II left-handed Higgs triplet term are favoured to survive in nature.
description: No change in the results, a few references added, some changes in Type[IIB] calculations
Do Highly Educated Women Choose Smaller Families?
Creators: name: Hazan, Moshe
name: Zoabi, Hosny
name: Hazan, Moshe
name: Zoabi, Hosny
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics
Financial Economics

description: Conventional wisdom suggests that in developed countries income and fertility are negatively correlated. We present new evidence that between 2001 and 2009 the cross-sectional relationship between fertility and women’s education in the U.S. is U-shaped. At the same time, average hours worked increase monotonically with women’s education. This pattern is true for all women and mothers to newborns regardless of marital status. In this paper, we advance the marketization hypothesis for explaining the positive correlation between fertility and female labor supply along the educational gradient. In our model, raising children and home-making require parents’ time, which could be substituted by services bought in the market such as babysitting and housekeeping. Highly educated women substitute a significant part of their own time for market services to raise children and run their households, which enables them to have more children and work longer hours.
A numerical damped oscillator approach to constrained Schrödinger equations
Creators: name: Ogren, M.
name: Gulliksson, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This article explains and illustrates the use of a set of coupled dynamical equations, second order in a fictitious time, which converges to solutions of stationary Schrödinger equations with additional constraints. We include three qualitative different numerical examples: the radial Schrödinger equation for the hydrogen atom; the two-dimensional harmonic oscillator with degenerate excited states; and finally a non-linear Schrödinger equation for rotating states. The presented method is intuitive, with analogies in classical mechanics for damped oscillators, and easy to implement, either in own coding, or with software for dynamical systems. Hence, we find it suitable to introduce it in a continuation course in quantum mechanics or generally in applied mathematics courses which contain computational parts.
description: Final published (Open Access) version, including codes for Matlab or Octave as ancillary files
Prevalence and pathology of haemoprotozoan infection in chickens
Creators: name: Dey, A. R.
name: Begum, N.
name: Anisuzzaman
name: Chakraborty, D.
name: Dey, A. R.
name: Begum, N.
name: Anisuzzaman
name: Chakraborty, D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Plasmodium sp
subject: Leucocytozoon caulleryi
subject: Leucocytozoon sabrazesi
subject: Pathology
subject: Chickens

description: Preva!ence and pathology of haemoprotozoan parasites in chickens were studied by collecting samples from randomly selected seventy five chickens from different areas of Mymensingh district, during July to December, 2007. In this study, 38 (50.66%) chickens were infected with haemoprotozoa of which 33.33% with Plasmodium sp., 12% with Leucocytozoon caulleryi and 5.33% with Leucocytozoan sabrazesi. The prevalence of haemoprotozoa was relatively higher in female birds (52%) than in male (48%), which was not statistically significant (P>0.05). The calculated odds ratio showed that females were only 1.17 times more susceptible to haemoprotozoan infection than male. However, age of the chickens influenced significantly (P<0.05) the prevalence of haemoprotozoa. Prevalence of haemoprotozoa was relatively higher in adult (>1 year) chickens (59.52%) than the young (<1year) chickens 39.39%. Adults birds were 2.26 times more susceptible to haemoprotozoan infection than young birds. Grossly the affected organs were apparently normal. However, in case of Leucocytozoon sp. Infection, infiltration of reactive cells and edematous fluid were found in interstitial space along with haemorrhages were detected in the alveoli of lung. Few muscle fibers showed large body similar to the schizont of Leucocytozoan sp. Comma shaped gamate of haemoprotozoa were seen in between the cord of hepatocytes in liver.
Collective modes and quasiparticle interference on the local density of states of cuprate superconductors
Creators: name: Chen, C. -T.
name: Yeh, N. -C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The energy, momentum and temperature dependence of the quasiparticle local density of states (LDOS) of a two-dimensional $d_{x^2-y^2}$-wave superconductor with random disorder is investigated using the first-order T-matrix approximation. The results suggest that collective modes such as spin/charge density waves are relevant low-energy excitations of the cuprates that contribute to the observed LDOS modulations in recent scanning tunneling microscopy studies of $\rm Bi_2Sr_2CaCu_2O_x$.
description: 5 figures, accepted for publication in Physical Review B, Rapid Communications. Contact author: Nai-Chang Yeh (e-mail address: ncyeh@caltech.edu)
Eleodes fusiformis LeConte 1858
Creators: name: Triplehorn, Charles A.
name: Thomas, Donald B.
name: Rile, Edward G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Tenebrionidae
Eleodes
Eleodes fusiformis

description: Eleodes fusiformis LeConte, 1858
(Figs. 13–14, Map 6)
 Diagnosis. Fusiform, body narrowing equally from base to apex, smooth and shining. The pronotum transverse, narrowing anteriorly, with the basal angles rounded, the anterior angles acute, the disc finely punctate. The elytra with humeral angles prolonged, embracing the pronotal base. The profemora are mutic in both sexes. The basal two segments of the male protarsi are densely clothed beneath with a flattened pad of spongy, golden pubescence; the female protarsi are unmodified. Length: 13–18 mm.
 Distribution. Most abundant in central and western Texas though it ranges north through Colorado, Kansas, and Wyoming. Wise (1981) found it to be the most abundant tenebrionid in the high grasslands of central New Mexico.
description: Published as part of Triplehorn, Charles A., Thomas, Donald B. & Rile, Edward G., 2009, The Genus Eleodes Eschscholtz (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) In Texas, pp. 413-437 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 63 (4) on pages 423-424, DOI: 10.1649/1177.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4924379