cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Color Gradients in Early-Type Galaxies in ABELL 2199
Creators: name: Tamura, Naoyuki
name: Ohta, Kouji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We performed B and R band surface photometry for E/S0 galaxies in a nearby rich cluster ABELL 2199 to investigate their B-R color gradients (d(B-R)/dlogr). Our aims are to study statistical properties of the color gradients and, by comparing them with those in less dense environments, to examine environmental dependence of color gradients in elliptical galaxies. We studied the distribution of the B-R color gradients in the cluster ellipticals and found that the mean value of the color gradients is -0.09 +- 0.04 mag/dex, which can be converted to a metallicity gradient (dlogZ/dlogr) of ~ -0.3 +- 0.1 assuming an old stellar population. We further studied the relations between the B-R color gradients and global properties of the galaxies. Our data suggest that for the galaxies brighter than L*, more luminous and larger galaxies tend to have steeper color gradients. The typical value of the color gradients seems to be consistent with a recent monolithic collapse model and the correlation could also appear if elliptical galaxies formed through the monolithic collapse. On the contrary, it is found based on data from the literature that any such trend is clearly weaker for ellipticals in less dense environments, while the distribution of the color gradients is quite similar to that found in the rich cluster. Based on the results from our data and the published data, we discuss formation process of elliptical galaxy and its environmental dependence.
description: 26 pages, 32 figures in jpeg format, accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal. A version with all figures with higher quality in the gzipped postscript file is available from http://star-www.dur.ac.uk/~naoyuki/a2199.ps.gz
An assessment of applying adult learning theories and practices in faculty professional development programs
Creators: name: Liss, Ronald
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This study examines the effect of using strategies appealing to adults when delivering faculty professional development for instructional improvement. Two areas of literature were examined, then brought together to inform the research. Adult learning theories and faculty development programs were individually reviewed. The few writings that bring these topics together were explored, and the concepts uncovered were compared to the individual reviews. Several instances where the topics come together implicitly are highlighted in the literature review. This review provided the basis for this study. The Center for Teaching and Learning at Montgomery College (CTL) was identified and used as the study sight. (The researcher is employed at this College) The presenters of and participants in instructional improvement activities delivered over several months were the subjects. The presenters were categorized using two separate instruments to determine whether or not they used an adult-focused delivery. One instrument was a self-evaluation by the presenter, and the other was from the participants' perspective. Once that was determined, each session of the instructional improvement activities was categorized as either Adult-Focused or Not-Adult-Focused. A third survey instrument was administered about six weeks later to determine if the participants used or planned to use ideas from the session they attended in their classrooms. They were also asked if their teaching practices were changed based on the CTL session. The first two surveys were analyzed to determine if they categorized the sessions the same way from the each of the perspectives. That turned out not to be the case and in itself calls for further research. When each of these categorizations were used independently, statistically significant correlation between adult-focused delivery of the CTL session and the use of the ideas and/or materials in the participant's classes was not found. While this is an indication that adult-focused delivery methodology does not affect the use of the ideas presented, this single study should not be considered definitive in this conclusion, and further research is needed.
A light neural network for modulation detection under impairments
Creators: name: Courtat, Thomas
name: Bourboux, Hélion du Mas des
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: We present a neural network architecture able to efficiently detect modulation scheme in a portion of I/Q signals. This network is lighter by up to two orders of magnitude than other state-of-the-art architectures working on the same or similar tasks. Moreover, the number of parameters does not depend on the signal duration, which allows processing stream of data, and results in a signal-length invariant network. In addition, we have generated a dataset based on the simulation of impairments that the propagation channel and the demodulator can bring to recorded I/Q signals: random phase shifts, delays, roll-off, sampling rates, and frequency offsets. We benefit from this dataset to train our neural network to be invariant to impairments and quantify its accuracy at disentangling between modulations under realistic real-life conditions. Data and code to reproduce the results are made publicly available.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures, presented at the 2021 International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC)
An assessment of applying adult learning theories and practices in faculty professional development programs
Creators: name: Liss, Ronald
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3903
subject: Education systems
classificationCode: 3904
subject: Specialist studies in education

description: This study examines the effect of using strategies appealing to adults when delivering faculty professional development for instructional improvement. Two areas of literature were examined, then brought together to inform the research. Adult learning theories and faculty development programs were individually reviewed. The few writings that bring these topics together were explored, and the concepts uncovered were compared to the individual reviews. Several instances where the topics come together implicitly are highlighted in the literature review. This review provided the basis for this study. The Center for Teaching and Learning at Montgomery College (CTL) was identified and used as the study sight. (The researcher is employed at this College) The presenters of and participants in instructional improvement activities delivered over several months were the subjects. The presenters were categorized using two separate instruments to determine whether or not they used an adult-focused delivery. One instrument was a self-evaluation by the presenter, and the other was from the participants' perspective. Once that was determined, each session of the instructional improvement activities was categorized as either Adult-Focused or Not-Adult-Focused. A third survey instrument was administered about six weeks later to determine if the participants used or planned to use ideas from the session they attended in their classrooms. They were also asked if their teaching practices were changed based on the CTL session. The first two surveys were analyzed to determine if they categorized the sessions the same way from the each of the perspectives. That turned out not to be the case and in itself calls for further research. When each of these categorizations were used independently, statistically significant correlation between adult-focused delivery of the CTL session and the use of the ideas and/or materials in the participant's classes was not found. While this is an indication that adult-focused delivery methodology does not affect the use of the ideas presented, this single study should not be considered definitive in this conclusion, and further research is needed.
Canonical models on strongly convex domains via the squeezing function
Creators: name: Altavilla, Amedeo
name: Arosio, Leandro
name: Guerini, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 32H50

description: We prove that if a holomorphic self-map $f\colon Ω\to Ω$ of a bounded strongly convex domain $Ω\subset \mathbb C^q$ with smooth boundary is hyperbolic then it admits a natural semi-conjugacy with a hyperbolic automorphism of a possibly lower dimensional ball $\mathbb B^k$. We also obtain the dual result for a holomorphic self-map $f\colon Ω\to Ω$ with a boundary repelling fixed point. Both results are obtained by rescaling the dynamics of $f$ via the squeezing function.
Hyperfine Structure in H^{13}CO^{+} and ^{13}CO: measurement, analysis, and consequences for the study of dark clouds
Creators: name: Schmid-Burgk, Johannes
name: Muders, Dirk
name: Mueller, Holger S. P.
name: Brupbacher-Gatehouse, Bethany
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The magnetic moment of the ^{13}C nucleus is shown to provide a potentially useful tool for analysing quiescent cold molecular clouds. We report discovery of hyperfine structure in the H^{13}CO^{+}(1-0) transition. The doublet splitting is observed to be 38.5 +/- 5.2 kHz, and is confirmed by calculations which give 39.8 kHz and a line strength ratio of 3:1. We improve the spectroscopic constants of H^{13}CO^{+} and determine the frequencies of its low-J spectrum to better precision by analysing the dark cloud L1512. Potentially high optical depths (3 to 5 in L1512) in quiescent clouds require to consider the line's doublet nature when comparing to other molecular species, possibly reversing previous conclusions from single-component interpretations. We further confirm the hyperfine splitting in the ^{13}CO(1-0) transition that had been predicted, and measured in the laboratory, to be about 46 kHz. By applying hyperfine analysis to the data set of the first IRAM key-project we show that ^{13}CO optical depths can be estimated in narrow linewidth regions without recourse to other transitions nor to assumptions on beam filling factors, and linewidth and velocity determinations can be improved. For the core of L1512 we find an inverse proportionality between linewidth and column density resp. square root of optical depth, and a systematic inside-out increase of excitation temperature and of the ^{13}CO:C^{18}O abundance ratio. Overall motion toward the innermost region is suggested.
description: 17 pages, 9 figures, accepted by A&A
PEAChY-O Statistical Analysis Plan
Creators: name: Selman, Christopher
name: Lee, Katherine
name: Bourke, Elyssia
name: Klein, Kate
name: Babl, Franz
Publisher: name: Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
Year: 2023
Subjects: Health Sciences

description:  
Statistical Analysis Plan for Pharmacological Emergency Management of Agitation in Children and Young People (PEAChY-O)  

Signed version only available upon reasonable request
Track Finding at Belle II
Creators: name: Bertacchi, Valerio
name: Bilka, Tadeas
name: Braun, Nils
name: Casarosa, Giulia
name: Corona, Luigi
name: Cunliffe, Sam
name: Dattola, Filippo
name: De Marino, Gaetano
name: De Nuccio, Michael
name: De Pietro, Giacomo
name: Van Dong, Thanh
name: Dujany, Giulio
name: Ecker, Patrick
name: Eliachevitch, Michael
name: Fillinger, Tristan
name: Frost, Oliver
name: Fruehwirth, Rudolf
name: Gebauer, Uwe
name: Glazov, Alexander
name: Gosling, Nicolas
name: Guo, Aiqiang
name: Hauth, Thomas
name: Heck, Martin
name: Kaleta, Mateusz
name: Kandra, Jakub
name: Kleinwort, Claus
name: Kuhr, Thomas
name: Kurz, Simon
name: Kvasnicka, Peter
name: Lettenbichler, Jakob
name: Lueck, Thomas
name: Martini, Alberto
name: Metzner, Felix
name: Neverov, Dmitrii
name: Niebuhr, Carsten
name: Paoloni, Eugenio
name: Patra, Sourav
name: Piilonen, Leo
name: Praz, Cyrille
name: Prim, Markus Tobias
name: Pulvermacher, Christian
name: Racs, Sebastian
name: Rad, Navid
name: Rados, Petar
name: Ritter, Martin
name: Rizzo, Giuliana
name: Rostomyan, Armine
name: Scavino, Bianca
name: Schlueter, Tobias
name: Schwenker, Benjamin
name: Spataro, Stefano
name: Spruck, Bjoern
name: Svidras, Henrikas
name: Tenchini, Francesco
name: Uematsu, Yuma
name: Webb, James
name: Wessel, Christian
name: Zani, Laura
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper describes the track-finding algorithm that is used for event reconstruction in the Belle II experiment operating at the SuperKEKB B-factory in Tsukuba, Japan. The algorithm is designed to balance the requirements of a high efficiency to find charged particles with a good track parameter resolution, a low rate of spurious tracks, and a reasonable demand on CPU resources. The software is implemented in a flexible, modular manner and employs a diverse selection of global and local track-finding algorithms to achieve an optimal performance.
Active Plasmonics: Controlling Signals in Au/Ga Waveguide using Nanoscale Structural Transformations
Creators: name: Krasavin, A. V.
name: Zheludev, N. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a new concept for active plasmonics exploiting nanoscale structural transformations which is supported by rigorous numerical analysis. We show that surface plasmon-polariton signals in a metal-on-dielectric waveguide containing a gallium section a few microns long can be effectively controlled by switching the structural phase of gallium. The switching may be achieved by either changing the waveguide temperature or by external optical excitation. The signal modulation depth could exceed 80 percent and switching times are expected to be in the picosecond-microsecond time scale.
description: RevTeX 4, 3 pages
Towards an amplitude analysis of the decay $Λ_b^0\to pK^-γ$
Creators: name: Albrecht, Johannes
name: Amhis, Yasmine
name: Beck, Anja
name: Benito, Carla Marin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The helicity formalism applied to the radiative decay $Λ_b^0\to pK^-γ$ is presented for the first time in this paper. The aim is to provide the necessary formalism to be able to resolve the resonant $pK^-$ structures at the photon pole by means of an amplitude analysis. Experimental effects, such as resolution, are also discussed.
The utilization of assistive technology in support of college students with attention deficit disorder: An exploratory study
Creators: name: Wilson, Katherine Nixdorff
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3904
subject: Specialist studies in education

description: Attention-deficit-disorder or ADD in young adults is a relatively new area of study, especially as it relates to college students. This dissertation reviewed the literature on this disorder, in order to create a backdrop to study ADD college students. It further investigated the role that colleges and universities play in providing support for ADD students. The primary purpose of this dissertation was to explore the utilization of assistive technology in support of college students with ADD. The study examined institutions by size, type, degee granted, and availability of both traditional accommodations and assistive technology, with hope of finding possible patterns and trends. Cross-tabulations enabled differences to appear. The study also looked at institutions where students with learning disabilities, including ADD, had been accepted, to see if there was a difference between these types of institutions and other institutions in servicing students with ADD. While the results of this study are primarily exploratory in nature, ADD high school students, and anyone responsible for helping ADD students transition from high school to college, may need to pay attention to the results. It appears that certain assistive technology devices are available to students no matter where they might want to go. Students need to become more aware of the benefits associated with using these devices, and postsecondary institutions need to become more aware of the needs of students to have assistive technology available and encourage its use.
Efficient Clustering for Stretched Mixtures: Landscape and Optimality
Creators: name: Wang, Kaizheng
name: Yan, Yuling
name: Díaz, Mateo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 62H30

description: This paper considers a canonical clustering problem where one receives unlabeled samples drawn from a balanced mixture of two elliptical distributions and aims for a classifier to estimate the labels. Many popular methods including PCA and k-means require individual components of the mixture to be somewhat spherical, and perform poorly when they are stretched. To overcome this issue, we propose a non-convex program seeking for an affine transform to turn the data into a one-dimensional point cloud concentrating around $-1$ and $1$, after which clustering becomes easy. Our theoretical contributions are two-fold: (1) we show that the non-convex loss function exhibits desirable geometric properties when the sample size exceeds some constant multiple of the dimension, and (2) we leverage this to prove that an efficient first-order algorithm achieves near-optimal statistical precision without good initialization. We also propose a general methodology for clustering with flexible choices of feature transforms and loss objectives.
description: 36 pages
Absence of magnetic order for the spin-half Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the star lattice
Creators: name: Richter, J.
name: Schulenburg, J.
name: Honecker, A.
name: Schmalfuß, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the ground-state properties of the spin-half Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the two-dimensional star lattice by spin-wave theory, exact diagonalization and a variational mean-field approach. We find evidence that the star lattice is (besides the \kagome lattice) a second candidate among the 11 uniform Archimedean lattices where quantum fluctuations in combination with frustration lead to a quantum paramagnetic ground state. Although the classical ground state of the Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the star exhibits a huge non-trivial degeneracy like on the \kagome lattice, its quantum ground state is most likely dimerized with a gap to all excitations. Finally, we find several candidates for plateaux in the magnetization curve as well as a macroscopic magnetization jump to saturation due to independent localized magnon states.
description: new extended version (6 pages, 6 figures) as published in Physical Review B
Nomada scita Cresson 1878
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Nomada scita Cresson, 1878 **
[ANSP: ♂ Colorado; USA]
Nomada scita is a new species record for the BCP and Mexico. The BBPT collected one male in the Central Desert in Chapala in March 2021 (MABC). See fig. 147.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 222, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
The Optical Emission from Gamma-ray Quasars
Creators: name: Whiting, Matthew
name: Majewski, Petra
name: Webster, Rachel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present photometric observations of six radio-loud quasars that were detected by the COMPTEL gamma-ray telescope. The data encompasses seven wavebands in the optical and near-infrared. After correction for Galactic extinction, we find a wide range in optical slopes. Two sources are as blue as optically-selected quasars, and are likely to be dominated by the accretion disc emission, while three others show colours consistent with a red synchrotron component. We discuss the properties of the COMPTEL sample of quasars, as well as the implications our observations have for multi-wavelength modelling of gamma-ray quasars.
description: 12 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in P.A.S.A; minor typos corrected
CHARYBDIS: A Black Hole Event Generator
Creators: name: Harris, C. M.
name: Richardson, P.
name: Webber, B. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: CHARYBDIS is an event generator which simulates the production and decay of miniature black holes at hadronic colliders as might be possible in certain extra dimension models. It interfaces via the Les Houches accord to general purpose Monte Carlo programs like HERWIG and PYTHIA which then perform the parton evolution and hadronization. The event generator includes the extra-dimensional `grey-body' effects as well as the change in the temperature of the black hole as the decay progresses. Various options for modelling the Planck-scale terminal decay are provided.
description: 14 pages, 3 postscript figures. Program available from http://www.ippp.dur.ac.uk/montecarlo/leshouches/generators/charybdis/ . Footnote and two references added
Ferromagnetic EuS films: Magnetic stability, electronic structure and magnetic surface states
Creators: name: Müller, Wolf
name: Nolting, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the temperature and layer dependent electronic structure of a 20-layer EuS(100)-film using a combination of first-principles and model calculation, the latter based on the ferromagnetic Kondo-lattice. The calculated thickness-dependent Curie temperature agrees very well with experimental data. The projected 5d-bandstructure is at finite temperatures strongly influenced by damping effects due to spin exchange processes. Spin-split unoccupied 5d-surfaces states are found with a Stoner-like collapsing for increasing temperature towards the Curie point and with an exponential decay of spectral weight with increasing distance from the surface.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
The utilization of assistive technology in support of college students with attention deficit disorder: An exploratory study
Creators: name: Wilson, Katherine Nixdorff
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Attention-deficit-disorder or ADD in young adults is a relatively new area of study, especially as it relates to college students. This dissertation reviewed the literature on this disorder, in order to create a backdrop to study ADD college students. It further investigated the role that colleges and universities play in providing support for ADD students. The primary purpose of this dissertation was to explore the utilization of assistive technology in support of college students with ADD. The study examined institutions by size, type, degee granted, and availability of both traditional accommodations and assistive technology, with hope of finding possible patterns and trends. Cross-tabulations enabled differences to appear. The study also looked at institutions where students with learning disabilities, including ADD, had been accepted, to see if there was a difference between these types of institutions and other institutions in servicing students with ADD. While the results of this study are primarily exploratory in nature, ADD high school students, and anyone responsible for helping ADD students transition from high school to college, may need to pay attention to the results. It appears that certain assistive technology devices are available to students no matter where they might want to go. Students need to become more aware of the benefits associated with using these devices, and postsecondary institutions need to become more aware of the needs of students to have assistive technology available and encourage its use.
The impact of federalism over the formation of personal jurisdiction rules in two different legal traditions: Limited comparison to the civil law model of the United Arab Emirates and the common law model of the United States
Creators: name: Al-Mutairi, Abaid
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: In the last decade, a massive growth of international trade and cross-border commercial and civil transactions occur among individuals and entities of different jurisdictions and legal backgrounds, this international trend results in corresponding conflicts. This fact makes it critical to identify the nature of process involving the dispute resolution mechanisms under the various legal systems especially those rules addressing the instances in which a person is held subject to certain foreign adjudicative authority because of the contact. In general, there is always a need in some circumstances to analyze the frameworks under one system to explore the nature of the standards adopted by the system to determine their efficiency, effectiveness or in some instances suggest reform. The study will undertake the task of identifying the nature of the rules employed in the United Arab Emirates and the United States federal system, to assert personal jurisdiction over the person of the defendant in both national and international levels. It also addresses the main differences and grounds of similarities as well as how far courts in the two studied systems can go in exercising its adjudicative authorities over litigants whom are not subject to the territorial adjudicative power of the system. The study will also explore the nature of one-system foundations of adjudicating actions that have originated outside, and the nature of effect or contact considered as a sufficient base for granting jurisdiction therein. Their structures and implementations are examined in three parts. The first is a survey of the legislative framework of ekhtesas shakhsy (personal jurisdiction) in the federal system of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and the second is the law of personal jurisdiction in the United States. The third part is personal conclusion drawn based on the study of the two models in an attempt to choose the correct mix of rules and procedures, as well as assisting whether international standards are needed and the potential of success of such global procedural standards.
The impact of federalism over the formation of personal jurisdiction rules in two different legal traditions: Limited comparison to the civil law model of the United Arab Emirates and the common law model of the United States
Creators: name: Al-Mutairi, Abaid
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 48
subject: Law and legal studies

description: In the last decade, a massive growth of international trade and cross-border commercial and civil transactions occur among individuals and entities of different jurisdictions and legal backgrounds, this international trend results in corresponding conflicts. This fact makes it critical to identify the nature of process involving the dispute resolution mechanisms under the various legal systems especially those rules addressing the instances in which a person is held subject to certain foreign adjudicative authority because of the contact. In general, there is always a need in some circumstances to analyze the frameworks under one system to explore the nature of the standards adopted by the system to determine their efficiency, effectiveness or in some instances suggest reform. The study will undertake the task of identifying the nature of the rules employed in the United Arab Emirates and the United States federal system, to assert personal jurisdiction over the person of the defendant in both national and international levels. It also addresses the main differences and grounds of similarities as well as how far courts in the two studied systems can go in exercising its adjudicative authorities over litigants whom are not subject to the territorial adjudicative power of the system. The study will also explore the nature of one-system foundations of adjudicating actions that have originated outside, and the nature of effect or contact considered as a sufficient base for granting jurisdiction therein. Their structures and implementations are examined in three parts. The first is a survey of the legislative framework of ekhtesas shakhsy (personal jurisdiction) in the federal system of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and the second is the law of personal jurisdiction in the United States. The third part is personal conclusion drawn based on the study of the two models in an attempt to choose the correct mix of rules and procedures, as well as assisting whether international standards are needed and the potential of success of such global procedural standards.
Exchange rate pass-through to domestic prices: An empirical study on China
Creators: name: Yu, Xuxin
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics

description: This dissertation examines the linkage between currency-value fluctuations and domestic producer prices and its determinants by using annual data from 14 broad industry sectors in China for the years 1980--2002. Incomplete exchange rate pass-through to domestic prices is estimated and is found to vary across industries and over time. The variation of pass-through elasticity across industries is explained by a set of variables that characterize market competitiveness, while the change of the pass-through elasticity over time is interpreted by infrastructure development and the increasing proportion of non-state-owned enterprises in the economy. Moreover, the effects of price liberalization and state-owned enterprises reform on pass-through are examined. Recently, the U.S. government is urging the Chinese government to let the Chinese Yuan appreciate in order to eliminate the large trade deficit with China, while the Chinese government worries that the appreciation of Chinese Yuan would introduce too much international pressure on its domestic market. This study sheds light on this issue for the governments and private firms.
Additional file 1 of Cytokine measurements add value to clinical variables in predicting outcomes for Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia
Creators: name: Tan, Karen
name: Minejima, Emi
name: Lou, Mimi
name: Mack, Wendy J.
name: Nieberg, Paul
name: Wong-Beringer, Annie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. MSSA Bacteremia Multivariable Predictive Model for Persistence: Clinical Variables Alone and Added Predictive Value of Day 1 Cytokines. Table S2. MSSA Bacteremia Multivariable Predictive Model for 30-day Mortality: Clinical Variables Alone and Added Predictive Value of Day 4 Cytokines. Table S3. MRSA Bacteremia Multivariable Predictive Model for 30-day Mortality: Clinical Variables Alone and Added Predictive Value of Day 4 Cytokines.
Exchange rate pass-through to domestic prices: An empirical study on China
Creators: name: Yu, Xuxin
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation examines the linkage between currency-value fluctuations and domestic producer prices and its determinants by using annual data from 14 broad industry sectors in China for the years 1980--2002. Incomplete exchange rate pass-through to domestic prices is estimated and is found to vary across industries and over time. The variation of pass-through elasticity across industries is explained by a set of variables that characterize market competitiveness, while the change of the pass-through elasticity over time is interpreted by infrastructure development and the increasing proportion of non-state-owned enterprises in the economy. Moreover, the effects of price liberalization and state-owned enterprises reform on pass-through are examined. Recently, the U.S. government is urging the Chinese government to let the Chinese Yuan appreciate in order to eliminate the large trade deficit with China, while the Chinese government worries that the appreciation of Chinese Yuan would introduce too much international pressure on its domestic market. This study sheds light on this issue for the governments and private firms.
A review of the biology and biogeography of Mantispidae (Neuroptera)
Creators: name: Snyman, Louwrens Pieter
name: Ohl, Michael
name: Pirk, Christian Walter Werner
name: Sole, Catherine Lynne
Publisher: name: Brill Online
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 60399 Evolutionary Biology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Adult Mantispidae are general predators of arthropods equipped with raptorial forelegs. The three larval instars display varying degrees of hypermetamorphic ontogeny. The larval stages exhibit a remarkable life history ranging from specialised predators of nest-building hymenopteran larvae and pupa, to specialised predators of spider-eggs, to possible generalist predators of immature insects. Noteworthy advances in our understanding of the biology of Mantispidae has come to light over the past two decades which are compiled and addressed in this review. All interactions of mantispids with other arthropods are tabled and their biology critically discussed and compared to the current classification of the taxon. Additionally, the ambigous systematics within Mantispidae and between Mantispidae and its sister groups, Rhachiberothidae and Berotidae, is reviewed. Considering the biology, systematics, distribution of higher taxonomic levels and the fossil record, the historical biogeography of the group is critically discussed with Gondwana as the epicenter of Mantispidae radiation.
Generalised Bose-Einstein phase transition in large-$m$ component spin glasses
Creators: name: Aspelmeier, T.
name: Moore, M. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is proposed to understand finite dimensional spin glasses using a $1/m$ expansion, where $m$ is the number of spin components. It is shown that this approach predicts a replica symmetric state in finite dimensions. The point about which the expansion is made, the infinite-$m$ limit, has been studied in the mean-field limit in detail and has a very unusual phase transition, rather similar to a Bose-Einstein phase transition but with $N^{2/5}$ macroscopically occupied low-lying states.
description: 4 pages (plus a few lines), 3 figures. v2: minor error corrected. v3: numerics supplemented by analytical arguments, references added, figure of density of states added
Heterogeneous surface charge confining an electrolyte solution
Creators: name: Mußotter, Maximilian
name: Bier, Markus
name: Dietrich, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The structure of dilute electrolyte solutions close to a surface carrying a spatially inhomogeneous surface charge distribution is investigated by means of classical density functional theory (DFT) within the approach of fundamental measure theory (FMT). For electrolyte solutions the influence of these inhomogeneities is particularly strong because the corresponding characteristic length scale is the Debye length, which is large compared to molecular sizes. Here a fully three-dimensional investigation is performed, which accounts explicitly for the solvent particles, and thus provides insight into effects caused by ion-solvent coupling. The present study introduces a versatile framework to analyze a broad range of types of surface charge heterogeneities even beyond the linear response regime. This reveals a sensitive dependence of the number density profiles of the fluid components and of the electrostatic potential on the magnitude of the charge as well as on details of the surface charge patterns at small scales.
Newcomer stories in the Washington Metropolitan Area: Toward the self -definitions of refugee
Creators: name: Amat, Marina A.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: There are many strands of meaning to the refugee concept: refugee as legal term, as produced in the public imaginary, as object of knowledge, and as narrated by refugees who have passed through resettlement processing. These and other meanings of the refugee concept are dynamically engaged, interrelated, intersecting, and interwoven to produce a multitonal fabric that hosts multiple interpretations as well as points of tension. In this study, I look closely at several threads of this fabric of meaning---across various public domains---to focus particular attention on the refugee concept as narrated by refugees who have passed through a meaning-producing, status-normalizing apparatus, what I call the U.S. refugee resettlement industry or 'refugee industry.' The refugee industry (1) includes the international refugee regime, nation-state governments, state and local governments, local communities, and refugees themselves; and (2) comprises the entire set of governing and normalizing practices, outside of and within U.S. borders, that are confronted by individuals who come to be called refugees in the U.S. Conducting research through participant-observation in the refugee industry and the collection of personal experience narratives, I use a subset of the life story, the refugee story, as the analytic frame to answer the research question of what are the self-definitions of refugee. The refugee story is a life story landmark. Whereas the life story relates life experiences generally, the refugee story relates refugee experiences specifically. Contextualized within a tapestry of meaning and investigated at particular sites of refugee meaning production, I consider the life story excerpts of a small, diverse set of refugees from Afghanistan, Bosnia, El Salvador, Iran, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Sudan, who live in the Washington Metropolitan Area. Located within their personal experience narratives, there are discernable 'refugee scripts' and 'refugee narratives,' important sites to the investigation of the self-definitions of refugee.
Newcomer stories in the Washington Metropolitan Area: Toward the self -definitions of refugee
Creators: name: Amat, Marina A.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4401
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: There are many strands of meaning to the refugee concept: refugee as legal term, as produced in the public imaginary, as object of knowledge, and as narrated by refugees who have passed through resettlement processing. These and other meanings of the refugee concept are dynamically engaged, interrelated, intersecting, and interwoven to produce a multitonal fabric that hosts multiple interpretations as well as points of tension. In this study, I look closely at several threads of this fabric of meaning---across various public domains---to focus particular attention on the refugee concept as narrated by refugees who have passed through a meaning-producing, status-normalizing apparatus, what I call the U.S. refugee resettlement industry or 'refugee industry.' The refugee industry (1) includes the international refugee regime, nation-state governments, state and local governments, local communities, and refugees themselves; and (2) comprises the entire set of governing and normalizing practices, outside of and within U.S. borders, that are confronted by individuals who come to be called refugees in the U.S. Conducting research through participant-observation in the refugee industry and the collection of personal experience narratives, I use a subset of the life story, the refugee story, as the analytic frame to answer the research question of what are the self-definitions of refugee. The refugee story is a life story landmark. Whereas the life story relates life experiences generally, the refugee story relates refugee experiences specifically. Contextualized within a tapestry of meaning and investigated at particular sites of refugee meaning production, I consider the life story excerpts of a small, diverse set of refugees from Afghanistan, Bosnia, El Salvador, Iran, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Sudan, who live in the Washington Metropolitan Area. Located within their personal experience narratives, there are discernable 'refugee scripts' and 'refugee narratives,' important sites to the investigation of the self-definitions of refugee.
Nomada simplicicoxa Swenk 1915
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Nomada simplicicoxa Swenk, 1915
[Holotype: UNSM; ♀ Tucson, Arizona, USA]
Nomada simplicicoxa has been collected in various xeric regions of North America. Within the BCP, there is one preserved specimen record at BBSL from the Magdalena Plains collected in July 1938. We examined 22 specimens collected in: Succulent Coastal Sage in April 1965 (1 ♂), Gulf Coast in June 1919 (1 ♂), and May 1921 (9 ♂), Magdalena Plains in July 1938 (10 ♂), and Central Desert in September 1941 (1 ♂, 1 ♀; CASC). Additionally, the CARCIB team collected this species in Vizcaíno Desert in June 2017 (1 ♀); Gulf Coast in November 2015, October 2016, and May 2019 (2 ♀, 1 ♂); and Magdalena Plains in September 2016, and April and June 2017 (3 ♀, 1 ♂). See fig. 147.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 223, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Viscoelasticity induced onset of slip at the wall for polymer fluids
Creators: name: Grzelka, Marion
name: Antoniuk, Iurii
name: Drockenmuller, Eric
name: Chennevière, Alexis
name: Léger, Liliane
name: Restagno, Frédéric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The progressive onset of slip at the wall, which corresponds to a slip length increasing with the solicitation time before reaching a plateau, has been investigated for model viscoelastic polymer solutions, allowing one to vary the longest relaxation time while keeping constant solid - fluid interactions. A hydrodynamic model based on a Maxwell fluid and the classical Navier's hypothesis of a linear response for the friction stress at the interface fully accounts for the data, without any adjustable parameter. No viscoelastic response needs be postulated for the friction, reflecting the local character of solid-liquid friction mechanisms.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures. Published
Additional file 1 of Supporting deprescribing in hospitalised patients: formative usability testing of a computerised decision support tool
Creators: name: Baysari, Melissa T.
name: Duong, Mai H.
name: Hooper, Patrick
name: Stockey-Bridge, Michaela
name: Selvana Awad
name: Zheng, Wu Yi
name: Hilmer, Sarah N.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 1. Example usability testing scenarios for pharmacists, junior doctors, and registrars and senior doctors.
Historicism, Hinduism and modernity in colonial India
Creators: name: Devare, Aparna
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation examines the manner in which modern historicist ideas were negotiated in the lives and thought of three Hindu social and political figures from nineteenth and twentieth century, western colonial India, Jotiba Phule, M.G. Ranade and V.D. Savarkar. Using discourse analysis, I examine the writings and lives through the use of autobiographies and biographies of all three individuals. I argue that while Phule and Ranade both internalized as well as challenged historicist ideas, Savarkar's life and thought marks an uncritical acceptance of a modern historicist world-view. Savarkar viewed the past including ancient Hindu customs, myths and practices solely through a scientific and historicist lens and had little use for religious texts and practices, viewing them as part of an objectified and museumized past. As a believer in the idea of progress, he saw all forms of faith representing a backward and atavistic consciousness. He privileged modern identities such as the nation and state along with an instrumentalist reading of religion and upheld a religious identity while rejecting any form of religiosity. On the other hand, while Phule and Ranade both historicized past Hindu customs, legends and practices, they also used them to fashion a critical consciousness. In their world-views, faith as piety and morality provided alternative critical ways of organizing the past. Anticipating Gandhi, both rejected the history/faith dichotomy prevalent in modern Europeanist thought. Phule unlike Ranade and Savarkar, provided a lower caste critique that challenged the Hindu social order, including its heavy Brahmanical leanings by drawing on modern ideas of history and scientific rationality. Yet he was also deeply steeped in indigenous modes of story-telling, including rewriting myths and practices which challenged notions of historical 'objectivity' and veracity. This dissertation seeks to intervene in contemporary Indian debates about history, religion and nation-hood by positing Phule and Ranade's ideas as critical alternative Hindu and modern Indian visions to that of Savarkar. Both Phule and Ranade provide more pluralistic and humane visions comprising a limited historicism and modernity to that of Savarkar's violent and intolerant totalizing modern historicist world-view.