cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
ESM from Risk of herbivory negatively correlates with the diversity of volatile emissions involved in plant communication
Creators: name: Grof-Tisza, Patrick
name: Karban, Richard
name: Rasheed, Muhammad Usman
name: Saunier, Amélie
name: Blande, James D.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Supplementary material referred to in main document
Data from: Redefining possible: Combining phylogenomic and supersparse data in frogs
Creators: name: Portik, Dan
name: Streicher, Jeffrey
name: Blackburn, David
name: Moen, Daniel
name: Hutter, Carl
name: Wiens, John
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The data available for reconstructing molecular phylogenies have become wildly disparate. Phylogenomic studies can generate data for thousands of genetic markers for dozens of species, but for hundreds of other taxa, data may be available from only a few genes. Can these two types of data be integrated to combine the advantages of both, addressing the relationships of hundreds of species with thousands of genes? Here we show that this is possible, using data from frogs. We generated a phylogenomic dataset for 138 ingroup species and 3,784 nuclear markers (ultraconserved elements, UCEs), including new UCE data from 70 species. We also assembled a supermatrix dataset, including data from 97% of frog genera (441 total), with 1–307 genes per taxon. We then produced a combined phylogenomic-supermatrix dataset (a "gigamatrix") containing 441 ingroup taxa and 4,091 markers, but with 86% missing data overall. Likelihood analysis of the gigamatrix yielded a generally well-supported tree among families, largely consistent with trees from the phylogenomic data alone. All terminal taxa were placed in the expected families, even though 42.5% of these taxa each had >99.5% missing data, and 70.2% had >90% missing data. Our results show that missing data need not be an impediment to successfully combining very large phylogenomic and supermatrix datasets, and they open the door to new studies that simultaneously maximize sampling of genes and taxa.
description: Funding provided by: National Science Foundation
Crossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100008982
Award Number: DEB-1655690
Infinite statistics, symmetry breaking and combinatorial hierarchy
Creators: name: Shevchenko, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The physics of symmetry breaking in theories with strongly interacting quanta obeying infinite (quantum Boltzmann) statistics known as quons is discussed. The picture of Bose/Fermi particles as low energy excitations over nontrivial quon condensate is advocated. Using induced gravity arguments it is demonstrated that the Planck mass in such low energy effective theory can be factorially (in number of degrees of freedom) larger than its true ultraviolet cutoff. Thus, the assumption that statistics of relevant high energy excitations is neither Bose nor Fermi but infinite can remove the hierarchy problem without necessity to introduce any artificially large numbers. Quantum mechanical model illustrating this scenario is presented.
description: LaTeX, 11 pages
Virtual reality's effect on prospective time estimation is inconsistent and sensitive to environment size
Creators: name: Mullen, Grayson
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Despite anecdotal reports that time flies in virtual reality (VR), evidence for this effect has been scarce. Only one prior study (Mullen and Davidenko, 2021) reported that people prospectively underestimated time in VR relative to a matched non-VR condition. Participants were instructed to play a video game either in VR or on a conventional monitor (CM) for 5 minutes without access to a clock. The VR group produced significantly longer intervals, suggesting that they underestimated time. The present study attempts to replicate this finding and identify factors within VR that might mediate its effect on time estimation. VR was found to be associated with overestimation of time in Experiment 1 and had no significant effect on time estimation in Experiment 2, contrary to the VR-induced underestimation effect reported by Mullen and Davidenko (2021). VR appears not to have a general and reliable impact on time estimation. However, the VR group in Experiment 2 produced significantly longer intervals than the VR group in Experiment 1, while there was no corresponding difference in CM intervals. This difference may be related to changes in virtual camera size, which inversely determines the apparent scale of the VR environment. Experiment 3 tested this interpretation by assigning participants to perform an interval production task in a VR environment with a small, medium, or large virtual camera. Participants tended to underestimate time when the virtual environment appeared bigger (in smaller camera size conditions), and overestimate time when it appeared smaller (in larger camera size conditions). This points to a potential mechanism by which people may tend to underestimate time in more expansive VR environments, even though the effect has not been reliably observed in controlled experiments. The kind of VR experience that can be easily matched for content with a non-VR display (that is, a confined environment that does not encourage 360° exploration) may not be the kind that can elicit a strong time underestimation effect.
High-speed Opto-electronic Pre-processing of Polar Mellin Transform for Shift, Scale and Rotation Invariant Image Recognition at Record-Breaking Speeds
Creators: name: Gamboa, Julian
name: Shen, Xi
name: Hamidfar, Tabassom
name: Shahriar, Selim M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Space situational awareness demands efficient monitoring of terrestrial sites and celestial bodies, necessitating advanced target recognition systems. Current target recognition systems exhibit limited operational speed due to challenges in handling substantial image data. While machine learning has improved this scenario, highresolution images remain a concern. Optical correlators, relying on analog processes, provide a potential alternative but are hindered by material limitations. Recent advancements in hybrid opto-electronic correlators (HOC) have addressed such limitations, additionally achieving shift, scale, and rotation invariant (SSRI) target recognition through use of the polar Mellin transform (PMT). However, there are currently no techniques for obtaining the PMT at speeds fast enough to take advantage of the inherent speed of the HOC. To that end, we demonstrate an optoelectronic PMT pre-processor that can operate at record-breaking millisecond frame rates using commercially available components for use in an automated SSRI HOC image recognition system for space situational awareness.
description: Conference
Great Britain Ministry of Information - Daily Press Notices and Bulletins (1944-04-08)
Creators: name: Great Britain. Ministry Of Information.
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1944
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 – Social aspects
World War, 1939-1945 -- History
World War II
Second World War
World War Two
Great Britain

description: From the UK National Archives: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/theartofwar/inf3.htm “Formed on September 4th 1939, the day after Britain’s declaration of war, the Ministry of Information (MOI) was the central government department responsible for publicity and propaganda in the Second World War. The initial functions of the MOI were threefold: news and press censorship; home publicity; and oversees publicity in Allied and neutral countries”. This collection contains Press Notices and Bulletins published by the MOI between 1939-1945. The Press Notices and Bulletins are among many publications and films issued by the agency during the war.
To Catch A Sex Thief: The Burden of Performance in Rape and Sexual Assault Trials
Creators: name: Rayburn, Corey
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2006

description: Jacques’ observation in Shakespeare’s As You Like It describes the typical rape and sexual assault trial in the United States. The complainant plays many different characters throughout the course of the trial. Pre-written cultural scripts dictate her lines. The setting is both the courtroom and the scene of the alleged rape as imagined by the jury. Unique to a rape “play,” however, an accuser cannot be sure which role the jury will assign to her by the time it begins its deliberations. Is she to be cast as a whore? A vengeful liar? A tease? Mentally unstable? If she has the “proper” background and the defendant is a stranger, can she play the role of an innocent Madonna whose perceived purity may result in the rarest of events: a guilty verdict? While every trial has elements of theater, rape and sexual assault cases are unique because they emphasize the gender performances of the accuser and the accused. Complainants who testify are not just recounting the events of the alleged rape. They are also defining the essential parts of their gender roles for the jury. Every statement, mannerism, action, and emotion of the accuser on the witness stand relays information about her gender to the jury. If the jurors deem a performance too emotional, they may assume the accuser is stereotypically hysterical and unreliable. If, however, she appears cold and calculating, the jury may believe she is a “gold-digger” using the criminal trial as a prequel to a lucrative civil suit. If she shows too much anger (as though it were possible for someone who has been raped to be “too angry”), the jury may see vengeance as her motive for “crying rape.” Which predefined gender roles the jury assigns the accuser and accused during the trial are important in determining whose story the jury will ultimately believe.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 15 No. 2 (2006)
Beyond Romer and Lawrence: The Right to Privacy Comes Out of the Closet
Creators: name: Marcus, Nancy C.
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2006

description: On Independence Day weekend, 2005, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor took much of the legal world by surprise by announcing her retirement from the Supreme Court. Two months later, Chief Justice Rehnquist’s death left another vacancy on the Supreme Court. O’Connor’s presumed replacement, John Roberts, was immediately named as Rehnquist’s replacement and the new Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. With the dramatic changes on its bench, the Supreme Court is at a historic crossroads, warranting a retrospective examination of the paths the Court has taken previous to and during the Rehnquist Court era, and the bridges it may cross in the time to come. In particular, this Article examines the significant developments in the Court’s privacy rights jurisprudence with a look ahead toward the future of privacy rights and liberty interests under a new Supreme Court. As the Rehnquist era comes to a close, it promises to leave a legacy which includes surprisingly strong protections for liberty and equality. The Rehnquist Court has issued a series of forceful opinions affirming substantial Fourteenth Amendment protections for individual autonomy in recent years, culminating with the gay rights decisions Romer v. Evans4 and Lawrence v. Texas.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 15 No. 2 (2006)
Pathology Full Circle: A History of Anti-Vibrator Legislation in the United States
Creators: name: Lindemann, Danielle J.
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2006

description: In The Technology of Orgasm, Rachel Maines traces the electromechanical vibrator back to its inception in the late 1800s, when it was employed solely by medical professionals who sought to relieve symptoms of hysteria and various other ailments in their female patients. For several decades, the vibrator remained largely uncontroversial, even when it began appearing outside the confines of the doctor’s office and in private homes, because it was consistently marketed as a medical-and not overtly sexual–device. After it began appearing as an instrument of sexual pleasure in pornographic films of the 1920s, the vibrator’s primary function became impossible to deny, and it essentially disappeared from public (though not private) life until the 1960s, when it emerged in advertisements as an explicitly sexual commodity. Maines, however, fails to explore extensively either contemporary attitudes towards the vibrator or its current status as a medical or pleasurable instrument. This Article picks up where Maines leaves off, arguing that a modem-day legal emphasis on the vibrator’s use as a treatment for female sexual dysfunction and the contemporary courts’ repeated attestations that the device’s worth lies in its therapeutic value bring us full-circle to an era when the device was legitimated only as a treatment. Part I describes the historical background of the vibrator up until the 1960s. Part H summarizes anti-vibrator legislation that has emerged in recent years in several states. Part In examines contemporary medical and therapeutic arguments advanced by plaintiffs who have been prosecuted for the sale of sex toys. Legislation to prohibit the distribution of the device in several states has been combated by arguments that have overwhelmingly emphasized the vibrator’s efficacy as a therapeutic tool for anorgasmic women and women with other sexual “dysfunctions.” This section posits that these defense
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 15 No. 1 (2006)
Sex As A Form of Gender and Expression After Lawrence v. Texas
Creators: name: Garland, James Allon
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2006

description: The Supreme Court’s decision in Lawrence v. Texas has been touted in many circles as a significant gay rights opinion, but it is much more than that. While it is certainly the first decision of the Court to recognize a constitutionally protected interest in same-sex intimacy, it is even more significant as the first opinion from the Court to speak positively about sex without reference to procreation, recognizing that sex can be a valuable form of “expression” that “can be but one element in a personal bond that is more enduring.”‘ The reference is brief and unexplained, but has greater constitutional resonance when compared to the Court’s prior relegation of sex to “myster[y]” and a “sensitive, key relation to human existence.” The Court’s willingness to characterize sex as a possible form of expression is particularly remarkable, considering how little judicial and scholarly support the argument has found. For some, it may be difficult to accept that sex could be communicative without a public audience, even though the Court has held that private communication, such as a conversation, is protected by the First Amendment. For others, only traditional coital sex expresses appropriate values, even though it is precisely this attempt to monopolize conduct for a particular point of view that triggers strict scrutiny of conduct alleged to express ideas.” Or perhaps it is all that sex entails-the physical exertion, the concentration on technique, the sweat, the noises and curious silences, the pursuit of orgasm, the hope or fear of procreation, and frankly sometimes simply too much or too little going on wherever it all takes place-that just seems so unusual for “speech,” making a mess of the idea of expression in the midst of sex, or at least sex as some know it.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 15 No. 1 (2006)
The New Politics of Adultery
Creators: name: Cossman, Brenda
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2006

description: Adultery is nothing new. Nor are social sanctions against it. But there is something new in the contemporary cultural politics of adultery, which begins with an ever-expanding definition of infidelity. Once restricted to “natural heterosexual intercourse,” infidelity now extends to a variety of sexual practices. Indeed, these days, infidelity can occur without sexual contact at all. Computer sex, telephone sex, and email flirtations are all included within the ambit of adulterous relationships that violate the marital relationship. As the definition of infidelity expands, so do its practitioners. In several recent exposes of “the new infidelity,” women have increasingly been shown to be equal opportunity cheaters. This expansion of infidelity and infidels has produced a new crisis of adultery; a virtual adultery epidemic has swept the nation. Crises, in turn, require intervention. The “epidemic” has produced a new emphasis on both prevention and treatment. The first line of protection against adultery is a prevention strategy, based on identifying and minimizing risks. This approach involves a politics of self-discipline, of individuals recognizing and taking responsibility for managing the risks to their relationships.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 15 No. 1 (2006)
A Historical Guide to the Future of Marriage for Same-Sex Couples
Creators: name: Goldberg, Suzanne B.
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2006

description: History and tradition have emerged, together, as contemporary flagship arguments for limiting marriage to different-sex couples. According to advocates of “traditional marriage,” same-sex couples can be excluded from marriage today because marriage always has been reserved to male-female couples. Further, some contend, the restriction of marriage to different-sex couples has long been understood as necessary to provide channels to control naturally procreative (i.e., male-female) relationships. However popular these claims might be in op-ed pieces and on talk radio, when they are made in the litigation context, the question is not whether they have rhetorical appeal but rather whether they can explain the State’s different marriage rules for gay and non-gay couples. For this purpose, broad-brush invocations of marriage’s history will not suffice.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 15 No. 1 (2006)
Attenuation and damping of electromagnetic fields: Influence of inertia and displacement current
Creators: name: Silveira, F. E. M.
name: Lima, J. A. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: New results for attenuation and damping of electromagnetic fields in rigid conducting media are derived under the conjugate influence of inertia due to charge carriers and displacement current. Inertial effects are described by a relaxation time for the current density in the realm of an extended Ohm's law. The classical notions of poor and good conductors are rediscussed on the basis of an effective electric conductivity, depending on both wave frequency and relaxation time. It is found that the attenuation for good conductors at high frequencies depends solely on the relaxation time. This means that the penetration depth saturates to a minimum value at sufficiently high frequencies. It is also shown that the actions of inertia and displacement current on damping of magnetic fields are opposite to each other. That could explain why the classical decay time of magnetic fields scales approximately as the diffusion time. At very small length scales, the decay time could be given either by the relaxation time or by a fraction of the diffusion time, depending whether inertia or displacement current, respectively, would prevail on magnetic diffusion.
description: 21 pages, 1 figure
The Politics of Same-Sex Marriage Politics
Creators: name: Franke, Katherine M.
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2006

description: In this Essay I would like to share some reflections on the politics of same-sex marriage politics. In a very short period of time, this issue has moved to the center of the gay and lesbian rights movement as well as larger mainstream political and legal debates. Some have even argued that this issue affected, if not determined, the outcome of the 2004 presidential election. This, I believe, is rather an overstatement, but I must concede that the issue has gained traction in ways that most of us would not have predicted five years ago. The states of Vermont and Connecticut have enacted Civil Union laws for same-sex couples, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts now allows both same and different sex couples to marry, and, in the last year, trial courts have found unconstitutional the exclusion of same-sex couples from the institution of marriage in New York and California. Spain has now joined some of its fellow EU members in the Rhine Delta by allowing same-sex couples to marry, and the Constitutional Court of South Africa found that the South African Constitution requires that same-sex couples be permitted to marry on terms equal to those made available to different sex couples. At the same time, Governor Schwarzenegger vetoed the same-sex marriage law in California, courts in Arizona and Indiana rejected constitutional challenges to their marriage laws, an intermediate appellate court in New York reversed a trial court finding that same-sex couples should be permitted to marry, and referenda barring same-sex marriage swept the country in 2004 and 2005 and will, no doubt, continue to do so in 2006. Forty-two states have enacted “little DOMAs,” limiting the institution of marriage to one man and one woman. This issue, like so many others in American politics at the present moment, is highly polarized-rarely garnering moderate positions.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 15 No. 1 (2006)
Transient response under ultrafast interband excitation of an intrinsic graphene
Creators: name: Romanets, P. N.
name: Vasko, F. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The transient evolution of carriers in an intrinsic graphene under ultrafast excitation, which is caused by the collisionless interband transitions, is studied theoretically. The energy relaxation due to the quasielastic acoustic phonon scattering and the interband generation-recombination transitions due to thermal radiation are analyzed. The distributions of carriers are obtained for the limiting cases when carrier-carrier scattering is negligible and when the intercarrier scattering imposes the quasiequilibrium distribution. The transient optical response (differential reflectivity and transmissivity) on a probe radiation and transient photoconductivity (response on a weak dc field) appears to be strongly dependent on the relaxation and recombination dynamics of carriers.
description: 9 pages, 8 figures
Dynamic density functional theory versus Kinetic theory of simple fluids
Creators: name: Marconi, Umberto Marini Bettolo
name: Melchionna, Simone
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By combining methods of kinetic and density functional theory, we present a description of molecular fluids which accounts for their microscopic structure and thermodynamic properties as well as for the hydrodynamic behavior. We focus on the evolution of the one particle phase space distribution, rather than on the evolution of the average particle density, which features in dynamic density functional theory. The resulting equation can be studied in two different physical limits: diffusive dynamics, typical of colloidal fluids without hydrodynamic interaction, where particles are subject to overdamped motion resulting from the coupling with a solvent at rest, and inertial dynamics, typical of molecular fluids. Finally, we propose an algorithm to solve numerically and efficiently the resulting kinetic equation by employing a discretization procedure analogous to the one used in the Lattice Boltzmann method.
description: 15 pages
Great Britain Ministry of Information - Daily Press Notices and Bulletins (1944-04-09)
Creators: name: Great Britain. Ministry Of Information.
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1944
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 – Social aspects
World War, 1939-1945 -- History
World War II
Second World War
World War Two
Great Britain

description: From the UK National Archives: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/theartofwar/inf3.htm “Formed on September 4th 1939, the day after Britain’s declaration of war, the Ministry of Information (MOI) was the central government department responsible for publicity and propaganda in the Second World War. The initial functions of the MOI were threefold: news and press censorship; home publicity; and oversees publicity in Allied and neutral countries”. This collection contains Press Notices and Bulletins published by the MOI between 1939-1945. The Press Notices and Bulletins are among many publications and films issued by the agency during the war.
Rethinking Prison Sex: Self-Expression and Safety
Creators: name: Smith, Brenda V.
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2006

description: At the risk of buying into popular stereotypes about sex behind bars and the archetypes of the dyke prison matron providing better treatment to women in prison in exchange for sex, or torrid sex between women in prison, or the burly male prison rapist who creates prison wives, or the young man “turned out” in prison, I plan to explore the complexity of prison sex and the challenges that it raises in the context of recently enacted federal legislation, the Prison Rape Elimination Act (“PREA”). The primary focus of this Article is to begin to frame the discussion of prison sexuality and to chart an analytical framework for examining it. This Article is by no means exhaustive and seeks primarily to mark the terrain-leaving unexplored many areas that might prove fruitful for further research. This is the beginning of a project that will hopefully result in greater scholarship and analysis of prison sexuality from a multidisciplinary perspective.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 15 No. 1 (2006)
Web Visualization
Creators: name: McCormick, Matthew
name: Jourdain, Sebastien
name: Li, Forrest
name: Fillion-Robin, Jean-Christophe
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: In this panel presentation, four developers with exhaustive experience developing and maintaining visualization solutions will describe four frameworks. These include (1) itkwidgets, interactive web widgets to visualize images, point sets, and meshes in 2D and 3D, (2) trame, a web framework that weaves together open source components into customized visual analytics easily using Python language, (3) VolView, a web-based open source radiological viewer to interactively visualize DICOM data in 3D and (4) SlicerJupyter, an extension for 3D Slicer that allows the desktop application to be interactively used from a Jupyter notebook. The emphasis will be on describing each framework and the type of visualization challenges they best address.
Sexual Punishments
Creators: name: Ristroph, Alice
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2006

description: The claim that incarceration is a sexual punishment-the central claim of this Article-may be disputed with respect to both the adjective and the noun. The challenge to the choice of noun is this: any sex, including sexual assaults, that may occur in prison is “not part of the penalty.”‘ Only officially sanctioned deprivations of rights and liberties are properly called “punishment,” and since no prisons officially sanction inmate sex and most officially condemn it, sex in prison is not penal. In other words, the prison rapist is not an arm of the state. The challenge to the adjective is this: “sex” in prison is not really “sexual.” The word “sexual” should be reserved to describe a realm of erotic desire and physical gratification, and there is much evidence that the physical interactions and threatened assaults that occur in prison, even the ones that involve genitals, are expressions of dominance and power that have little to do with desire. In short, coerced intercourse in prison is violent, inhumane, and illegal-it is not sexual, and it is not punishment.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 15 No. 1 (2006)
The Cepheid Period-Luminosity Relation (The Leavitt Law) at Mid-Infrared Wavelengths: III. Cepheids in NGC 6822
Creators: name: Madore, Barry F.
name: Rigby, Jane
name: Freedman, Wendy L.
name: Persson, S. E.
name: Sturch, Laura
name: Mager, Violet
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first application of mid-infrared Period-Luminosity relations to the determination of a Cepheid distance beyond the Magellanic Clouds. Using archival IRAC imaging data on NGC 6822 from Spitzer we were able to measure single-epoch magnitudes for sixteen long-period (10 to 100-day) Cepheids at 3.6um, fourteen at 4.5um, ten at 5.8um and four at 8.0um. The measured slopes and the observed scatter both conform to the relations previously measured for the Large Magellanic Cloud Cepheids, and fitting to those relations gives apparent distance moduli of mod{3.6} = 23.57 +/- 0.06, mod{4.5} = 23.55 +/- 0.07, mod{5.8} = 23.60 +/- 0.09 and mod{8.0} = 23.51 +/-0.08 mag. A multi-wavelength fit to the new IRAC moduli, and previously published BVRIJHK moduli, allows for a final correction for interstellar reddening and gives a true distance modulus of 23.49 +/- 0.03 mag with E(B-V) = 0.26 mag, corresponding to a metric distance of 500 +/-8 kpc.
description: Accepted to ApJ, 2 figures
Calamaria pavimentata DB.
Creators: name: Müller, F
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1885
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Squamata
Ophidia
Colubridae
Calamaria

description: * Calamaria pavimentata DB.
Deli (Sum.) v. H. Lüthy [1]
description: Published as part of Müller, F, 1885, Vierter Nachtrag zum Katalogder herpetologischen Sammlung des Basler Museums, pp. 668-717 in Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel. 7 (3) on page 678, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.part.2388, http://zenodo.org/record/15183591
Network Loop Oscillations with EIS/Hinode
Creators: name: Srivastava, A. K.
name: Kuridze, D.
name: Zaqarashvili, T. V.
name: Dwivedi, B. N.
name: Rani, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze a time sequence of He II 256.32 angstrom images obtained with EIS/Hinode, sampling a small magnetic loop in magnetic network. Wavelet analysis indicates 11-min periodicity close to the loop apex. We interprete this oscillation as forcing through upward leakage by the fundamental acoustic eigenmode of the underlying field-free cavity. The observed loop length corresponds to the value predicted from this mechanism.
description: 3 pages, 3 figures; To appear in "Magnetic Coupling between the Interior and the Atmosphere of the Sun", eds. S.S. Hasan and R.J. Rutten, Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Berlin, 2009
Legal Cross-Dressing: Sexuality and the Americans with Disabilities Act
Creators: name: Malti-Douglas, Fedwa
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2006

description: The United States government wants its citizens to know that the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (“ADA”) is about more than eliminating physical barriers and creating opportunities for employment. It is part of a larger project of breaking down stereotypes, dispelling myths, and quieting fears. Ironically, the ADA, in its application and jurisprudence, has probably done more to perpetuate stereotypes, myths, and fears than it has to eliminate them. The fears and stereotypes fostered by the ADA are not primarily about disabilities and their effects. Instead, these fears revolve around sexuality. How do handicaps connect to sexualities? They are linked through an anxiety of shifting marginalities. In addition to their attempts to order behavior or to balance interests and rights, legal texts and statutes reflect our obsessions and fascinations. Even when a legal text is associated with an individual, a specific court, or a legislative or regulatory body, it is the product of collective processes and reflects collective values. A piece of complex legislation like the ADA is a mine of hidden subtexts. These are most visible when the legal areas touch the areas of gender and sexuality. Michel Foucault and others have amply shown us that mental structures or mentalités can lead us down unexpected paths. Literary and cultural critics have made us aware that this is the case with artistic and cultural production. The law is no exception, as both legal specialists and literary critics have amply demonstrated: Robert Ferguson, Richard Posner, Stanley Fish, or Peter Brooks, to name but four. The imaginary is as critical in the law as it is elsewhere in our intellectual universe. It seems impossible to make sense of the Americans with Disabilities Act without examining the mentalities it embodies and the place of both the statute and its jurisprudence in the contemporary American imaginary.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 15 No. 1 (2006)
Ground State Energy for Fermions in a 1D Harmonic Trap with Delta Function Interaction
Creators: name: Ma, Zhong-Qi
name: Yang, C. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Conjectures are made for the ground state energy of a large spin 1/2 Fermion system trapped in a 1D harmonic trap with delta function interaction. States with different spin J are separately studied. The Thomas-Fermi method is used as an effective test for the conjecture.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Interdependent solidarity : a comparative case study of participatory communities in southwest Mexico
Creators: name: Massicotte, Tania
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: In a collective, the unconstrained will of the rational individual may seek to maximize self-interested ventures at the group's expense, making collective governance an unsustainable option. This dilemma refers to the free rider problem, which may be solved in some ways, including by the state or through a market-based control system of monitoring and sanctioning. Two significant issues arise from this vision: 1) both the state and agents controlling private property-based institutions, unchecked by higher constraints, will also seek to maximize self-interest at the cost of the collective, and 2) individuals are constitutive of collectives and collectives are constitutive of individuals, dynamically informing interests, preferences and decisions. I argue that interdependent solidarity, an underappreciated relational factor, can act as a social "control" mechanism in a participatory community, ensuring sustainability. Using descriptive cases of participatory communities of Oaxaca, Chiapas and Michoacán/Guerrero, all subnational units within Southwest Mexico, this essay aims to demonstrate the existence of mechanisms fostering perceived and acknowledged interdependence supervening over individualistic market logics.
Clothes Don’t Make the Man (or Woman), but Gender Identity Might
Creators: name: Levi, Jennifer L.
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2006

description: The Ninth Circuit’s recent decision in Jespersen v. Harrah’s Operating Co., Inc.’ reflects the blinders on many contemporary courts regarding the impact of sex-differentiated dress requirements on female employees. Although some courts have acknowledged the impermissibility of imposing sexually exploitive dress requirements,3 they have done so only at the extreme outer limits, ignoring the concrete harms experienced by women (and men) who are forced to conform to externally imposed gender norms. On the other hand, some transgender litigants have recently succeeded in challenging sex-differentiated dress requirements. This success is due in part to their incorporation of disability claims based on the health condition associated with each litigant’s transgender identity. Such an approach has allowed transgender litigants to introduce evidence of the essentialism of gender identity and its inelasticity for a specific individual. In combining disability claims with sex discrimination claims, transgender litigants have advanced a broader agenda of challenging normative beliefs about gender for all persons, transgender and non-transgender alike.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 15 No. 1 (2006)
Wilson loop in 2d noncommutative gauge theories
Creators: name: Valtancoli, Paolo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We reconsider the perturbative expansion of the Wilson loop in 2d noncommutative gauge theories, using an improved integration method. For the class of maximally crossed diagrams in the $θ\to \infty$ limit we find an intriguing formula, easily generalizable to all orders in perturbation theory.
description: 14 pages. no figures, LaTeX
Some Abcs of Feminist Sex Education (in Light of the Sexuality Critique of Legal Feminism)
Creators: name: McClain, Linda C.
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2006

description: This Essay has two aims. First, it offers some guiding principles, or “ABCs,” for a feminist vision of sex education. Second, in keeping with this symposium’s topic, “Sexuality and the Law,” the Essay evaluates that feminist project in light of what the I call “the sexuality critique” of legal feminism-a line of criticism leveled by feminist and post-feminist scholars against feminist legal theorists’ work on sexuality. The ABCs advanced here reflect a liberal feminist approach to sex education, which stresses the three themes of fostering capacity, equality, and responsibility. Such an approach, the Essay maintains, is better suited for facilitating the development of young women’s and men’s capacities for responsible sexual self-government than the abstinence-until-marriage model of sex education (“abstinence-only”) embraced in the federal welfare law codified as the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. “Abstinence-only” sex education reflects a conservative sexual economy. As put into practice in various curricula funded by the federal government, such sex education is laden with gender role stereotypes about “his” and “her” sexuality that reinforce women’s role as sexual gatekeepers.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 15 No. 1 (2006)
title: Promotion of Fruit and Vegetable Intake Through Recipe Card Distribution and Sampling at Farmer's Markets Throughout Kentucky
Creators: name: Syeda, Umaima Sidra Afsheen
Publisher: name: University of Kentucky Libraries
Year: 2019

description: The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports indicate that 8% and 6.3% of Kentuckians consume enough fruits and vegetables, respectively. The Plate It Up! Kentucky Proud (PIUKP) project is a recipe-development project that aims to boost produce consumption by incorporating local fruits and vegetables. The purpose of this study was to implement promotional strategies using PIUKP recipes at farmers’ markets and determine their effects on consumers’ intent of purchasing and preparing the produce. The study was conducted at nine farmers’ markets across Kentucky (n=300) in collaboration with Cooperative Extension agents/assistants.

The consumers’ impression of the sample was positively associated with their intent to purchase fruits and vegetables the same day (t = 0.36; p < 0.0001), in future (t=0.43; p < 0.0001), and prepare the respective recipes (t=0.51; p < 0.0001). Distribution of recipe cards was also positively correlated with consumers’ intent to prepare recipes (t=0.35; p < 0.0001). However, no significant association was found between the self-reported fruit and vegetable intake and their respective dermal carotenoid score.

Findings from this study support the use of promotional strategies as a means to influence produce intake among farmers market consumers. Future studies can apply these strategies and explore the extent of effect they have on dietary intake.
description: Copyright © Umaima Sidra Afsheen Syeda 2019
Nucleon and gamma N -> Delta lattice form factors in a constituent quark model
Creators: name: Ramalho, G.
name: Pena, M. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A covariant quark model, based both on the spectator formalism and on vector meson dominance, and previously calibrated by the physical data, is here extended to the unphysical region of the lattice data by means of one single extra adjustable parameter - the constituent quark mass in the chiral limit. We calculated the Nucleon (N) and the gamma N -> Delta form factors in the universe of values for that parameter described by quenched lattice QCD. A qualitative description of the Nucleon and gamma N -> Delta form factors lattice data is achieved for light pions.
description: To appear in J.Phys.G
Complete Integrability of a Nonlinear Elliptic System, Generating Bi-Umbilical Foliated Semi-Symmetric Hypersurfaces in $\R^4$
Creators: name: Kutev, N.
name: Milousheva, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35A07, 35J60, 53A07, 53A10

description: We find explicitly all bi-umbilical foliated semi-symmetric hypersurfaces in the four-dimensional Euclidean space.
description: 7 pages
The Failure of Abstinence-Only Education: Minors Have A Right to Honest Talk About Sex
Creators: name: Beh, Hazel Glenn
name: Diamond, Milton
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2006

description: The federal government spends over $170 million annually to subsidize states and community organizations that provide abstinence-only sex education to America’s youth. This type of sex education is limited to teaching that a monogamous, marital, heterosexual relationship is the “expected standard of human activity” and that sex outside such a relationship will be physically and psychologically harmful. Abstinence- only education also advocates only one method to prevent disease and pregnancy, abstinence, and it offers no information concerning contraception and disease prevention except that all methods other than abstinence fail. As a result of its singular focus, the curricula not only pose significant problems with respect to ensuring minors’ sexual health, but also ignore the needs of sexual minority youth altogether. The debate regarding what to teach minors about sex is a political battle over defining American values. While the nation engages in this debate, however, America’s youth are paying the price. Comprehensive reviews of abstinence-only curricula have consistently noted that they contain false or misleading public health information. Recently, United States Representative Henry A. Waxman released a report (“Waxman Report”) evaluating “the content of the most popular abstinence-only curricula used by grantees of the largest federal abstinence initiative.” It concluded that over eighty percent of federal grants go to providing abstinence-only curricula that “contain false, misleading, or distorted information about reproductive health,” including exaggerations about contraceptive failure rates, the physical and mental health risks of abortion, and the health susceptibilities of the gay population.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 15 No. 1 (2006)
The outcomes of the Mutual Learning Exercise on Citizen Science
Creators: name: Gold, Margaret
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The 2023 “Open Science – From Policy to Practice” conference in Stockholm will highlight different perspectives of shaping, implementing and embedding Open Science. The aim is to exchange knowledge, share best practices and to discuss how Open Science can contribute to strengthening sustainable futures and democracies in and beyond the European Union. The event will take place in Stockholm on 16–17 May 2023 and will be streamed to facilitate online participation. Access to, and sharing of research results and data. The understanding of, and engagement in research. Direct involvement of stakeholders and citizens in the research process. All these aspects are key to implementing Open Science. At the same time, a better understanding of the various dimensions and implications of Open Science is needed, among policy makers as well as practitioners. The importance of collaborations between researchers, and the involvement of other societal actors to improve research, understanding and trust, is increasingly being emphasised, at national, European and global level. The two-day conference consists of several sessions highlighting different aspects of Open Science and will be held on two consecutive days, 16–17 May. Join policy makers and other stakeholders from across Europe to discuss ways to embed and transfer Open Science policies into practice at different levels and sectors. 16 MAY: IMPLEMENTING OPEN SCIENCE – FROM POLICY TO NATIONAL LEVEL 15:15 Citizen science in policy and practice
 Join presentations and discussions on the final report from the European Commission’s Mutual Learning Exercise: “Citizen Science – Initiatives, Policy and Practice”, which highlights identified citizen science best practices and policies from across Europe.

 Speakers: Signe Ratso, Deputy Director-General, DG Research & Innovation, European Commission, Alan Irwin, Chair of MLE Citizen Science, Copenhagen Business School, Margaret Gold, Citizen Science Lead, Leiden University, Barbara Weitgruber, Director General, Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research, Austria, Adrian Curaj, General Director, Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding (UEFISCDI), Romania, Ioana Trif, Open Science Policy Expert, UEFISCDI.
 Moderator: Anna Maria Fleetwood, Senior Adviser, the Swedish Research Council