cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Brief History of the Northwestern University Dental School
Creators: name: Sims, Ronald H
Publisher: name: Northwestern University Medical School
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Dental Schools
subject: Schools, Dental
subject: History of Dentistry
subject: History of Medicine
subject: University Dental College (Chicago, Ill.)

description: This article is part of an occasional series prepared by Galter librarians on the history of and highlights about various Northwestern University health education programs and their alumni. Earlier articles were about Northwestern University's medical, woman's medical, and nursing schools, and later- pharmacy school. (This article was original published in the Northwestern Medicine magazine's history blog, August 2014.)
The Beam Single Spin Asymmetry in Semi-inclusive Deep Inelastic Scattering
Creators: name: Yuan, Feng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the beam single spin asymmetry in semi-inclusive hadron production in deep inelastic scattering in at order 1/Q. There are two competing contributions: the leading order transverse momentum dependent parton distribution $h_1^\perp(x,k_\perp)$ convoluted with chiral-odd fragmentation function $\hat e(z)$, and the chiral-odd distribution function $e(x)$ convoluted with Collins fragmentation function $H_1^\perp(z,k'_\perp)$. We estimate this asymmetry and compare with the experimental measurements from CLAS and HERMES collaborations.
description: 8 pages, 2 PS figures
Cryptacarus promecus Grandjean 1950
Creators: name: Norton, Roy A.
name: Ermilov, Sergey G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Lohmanniidae
Cryptacarus
Cryptacarus promecus

description: Cryptacarus promecus Grandjean, 1950
 Larva: Ermilov et al. 2012c (Ds, FB, FLg, FGn, LSA)
 Protonymph: Ermilov et al. 2012c (Ds, FB, FLg, LSA)
 Deutonymph: Ermilov et al. 2012c (Ds, FB, LSA)
 Tritonymph: Ermilov et al. 2012c (Ds, FB, FGn, LSA)
description: Published as part of Norton, Roy A. & Ermilov, Sergey G., 2014, Catalogue and historical overview of juvenile instars of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida), pp. 1-132 in Zootaxa 3833 (1) on page 15, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3833.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5122134
Finite State Dynamic Games with Asymmetric Information: A Framework for Applied Work
Creators: name: Fershtman, Chaim
name: Pakes, Ariel
name: Fershtman, Chaim
name: Pakes, Ariel
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: Financial Economics

description: With applied work in mind, we define an equilibrium notion for dynamic games with assymetric information which does not require a specification for players’ beliefs about their opponents types. This enables us to define equilibrium conditions which, at least in principal, are testable and can be computed using a simple reinforcement learning algorithm. We conclude with an example that endogenizes the maintenance decisions for electricity generators in a dynamic game among electric utilities in which the costs states of the generators are private information.
Gaussian Process States: A data-driven representation of quantum many-body physics
Creators: name: Glielmo, Aldo
name: Rath, Yannic
name: Csanyi, Gabor
name: De Vita, Alessandro
name: Booth, George H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a novel, non-parametric form for compactly representing entangled many-body quantum states, which we call a `Gaussian Process State'. In contrast to other approaches, we define this state explicitly in terms of a configurational data set, with the probability amplitudes statistically inferred from this data according to Bayesian statistics. In this way the non-local physical correlated features of the state can be analytically resummed, allowing for exponential complexity to underpin the ansatz, but efficiently represented in a small data set. The state is found to be highly compact, systematically improvable and efficient to sample, representing a large number of known variational states within its span. It is also proven to be a `universal approximator' for quantum states, able to capture any entangled many-body state with increasing data set size. We develop two numerical approaches which can learn this form directly: a fragmentation approach, and direct variational optimization, and apply these schemes to the Fermionic Hubbard model. We find competitive or superior descriptions of correlated quantum problems compared to existing state-of-the-art variational ansatzes, as well as other numerical methods.
A group dance intervention engaging breast cancer survivors in physical activity in a middle-income country
Creators: name: Rubio, Maria
name: Mejía-Arbeláez, Carlos
name: Wilches-Mongollon, Maria
name: Finck, Carolyn
name: Cabas, Santiago
name: Rubiano, Oscar
name: Flórez, Alberto
name: León, José
name: Rosas, Lisa
name: Haile, Robert
name: Sarmiento, Olga
name: King, Abby
Publisher: name: The Health & Fitness Journal of Canada
Year: 2022

description: Background: Interventions to promote physical activity (PA) among women breast cancer survivors (BCS) tailored to real-world contexts within low to middle-income countries are limited. Purpose: The aim of this study was to assess the uptake and effect of “My Body”, a theory-driven intervention co-created through cross-sectoral cooperation to promote PA among BCS in Bogotá, Colombia. Methods: We conducted a quasi-experimental pilot study employing a mixed-methods approach to assess the 8-week, 3 times/week group dance PA intervention. The effect on participants’ PA levels (measured by accelerometry), motivation to engage in PA, and quality of life was evaluated using a difference-in-difference analysis. The qualitative method included semi-structured interviews thematically analyzed to evaluate the uptake. Results: Based on real-world setting conditions, 64 BCS were allocated on the intervention (N=31) and the control groups (N=33). In the PA arm, 84% attended ≥60% of PA sessions, and percent of women meeting ≥500 metabolic equivalents/week (METs) (≥150 mins/week) increased from 43.7% to 75% (increase in controls=0%). PA participants significantly increased ratings of motivation (change score=0.45, vs. control -0.05; P=0.03), and reported improvements in perceived behavioral capabilities to be active. Conclusions: The dancing intervention showed promise for improving PA and should be tested in a larger crossover trial. The high attendance, behavioral changes, and successful cross-sectoral delivery indicate the potential effectivity, feasibility, and scalability of the intervention for BCS in Colombia. Culturally appropriate PA programs tailored to real-context community settings have the potential of generating behavioral changes among BCS in middle-income countries. Funding: National Institutes of Health [Award 5P20CA217199-02], the CRDF Global [Agreement OISE-19-66198-1].
description: The Health & Fitness Journal of Canada, Vol. 14 No. 3 (2021): Proceedings from the 8th International Society for Physical Activity and Health Congress
Haplacarus davisi Xavier, Haq & Ramani 2005
Creators: name: Norton, Roy A.
name: Ermilov, Sergey G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Lohmanniidae
Haplacarus
Haplacarus davisi

description: Haplacarus davisi Xavier, Haq & Ramani, 2005
 Larva: Xavier & Haq 2006 (Ds, FB, DT, Cul)
 Protonymph: Xavier & Haq 2006 (Ds, FB, DT, Cul)
 Deutonymph: Xavier & Haq 2006 (Ds, FB, DT, Cul)
 Tritonymph: Xavier & Haq 2006 (Ds, FB, DT, Cul)
description: Published as part of Norton, Roy A. & Ermilov, Sergey G., 2014, Catalogue and historical overview of juvenile instars of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida), pp. 1-132 in Zootaxa 3833 (1) on page 15, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3833.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5122134
Lower bounds on the complexity of simulating quantum gates
Creators: name: Childs, Andrew M.
name: Haselgrove, Henry L.
name: Nielsen, Michael A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We give a simple proof of a formula for the minimal time required to simulate a two-qubit unitary operation using a fixed two-qubit Hamiltonian together with fast local unitaries. We also note that a related lower bound holds for arbitrary n-qubit gates.
description: 6 pages
The Impact of Liquidity, Leverage, and Total Size on Banks’ Profitability: Evidence from Nepalese Commercial Banks
Creators: name: Budhathoki, Prem Bahadur
name: Rai, Chandra Kumar
name: Kul Prasad Lamichhane
name: Bhattarai, Ganesh
name: Rai, Arjun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Economics

description: This paper examined the impact of liquidity, leverage, and total assets size of the bank on profitability. This study employed bank scope data of all 28 commercial banks operating in Nepal during the period of 2010/11 – 2016/17. Altogether, the168 observations were used in the study. Three ordinary-least-squares models were applied to analyze the impact of liquidity, leverage, and the total size on the bank’s profitability. The first regression model reveals that the higher loan to deposit ratio (low level of liquidity) was observed to have the negative effect on the bank’s ROA, ROE, and NIM; however, ROE and NIM were statistically insignificant. The result of the second regression model shows that higher equity to assets ratio (lower leverage) positively affected two profitability measures, ROA and NIM, and was statistically significant—but was negatively related to ROE and statistically insignificant. The result of the final regression model reveals that the higher bank size appeared favorable to the Nepalese commercial banks and was found to have positive effects on all three profitability measures: ROA, ROE, and NIM. The results of the study could help bankers and policymakers to take an effective action in order to improve banks’ profitability.
Transient helix formation in semiflexible polymers without confinement effects
Creators: name: Mitra, Debarshi
name: Chatterji, Apratim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Generic interactions e.g. the Coulomb or other long ranged radially symmetric repulsive interactions between monomers of bead-spring model of a semi-flexible polymer induce instabilities in a initially straight polymer chain to form long lived helical structures. This mechanism can explain the spontaneous emergence of helices in stiff (bio-)polymers as effective charge of the chain increases. The helix formation is independent of the chemistry and torsional potentials are not used. So this method can be used to synthesize helical springs at length scales of nm-10$μ$.
Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth Of Nigeria (1980-2018)
Creators: name: F. O. Chinyere Osunkwo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Economics

description: This work examined the impact of foreign direct investment on the economic growth of Nigeria from 1980-2018, secondary data from CBN statistical bulletin of various issues were used. Regression analyses was carried out using the OLS method, it was found out that R2 was found to be 81.4%, which shows that the model was highly fitted, while Adjusted R2 was 80.9%, which shows that the model was highly correlated, because the 80% change in RGDP, is explained by Foreign direct investment and employment level in the economy during the period under review, the other19.1% may be explained by other variables not included in the model.
Haplacarus foliatus Wallwork 1962
Creators: name: Norton, Roy A.
name: Ermilov, Sergey G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Lohmanniidae
Haplacarus
Haplacarus foliatus

description: Haplacarus foliatus Wallwork, 1962
 Tritonymph: Wallwork 1962c (Ds, FB)
description: Published as part of Norton, Roy A. & Ermilov, Sergey G., 2014, Catalogue and historical overview of juvenile instars of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida), pp. 1-132 in Zootaxa 3833 (1) on page 15, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3833.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5122134
In the Beautiful Waters
Creators: name: Scanlan, Margaret
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3602
subject: Creative and professional writing

description: In the Beautiful Waters is about a journey. The journey begins, as journeys do, with a leaving and ends with a coming home; it encompasses new places and experiences, but primarily involves putting old places and experiences into a new perspective. The poems are about love and hate, the ties that bind; life, pain, death, and memory, which is the stuff of poetry; and about art and old stories. The dominant images throughout the collection are water and night, and the poems show a combination, which some call Celtic, of dark wit and lyric sensibility in tension with one another. The poems often have a formal structure, but most are in free verse.
An I-Band-Selected Sample of Radio-Emitting Quasars: Evidence for a Large Population of Red Quasars
Creators: name: White, Richard L.
name: Helfand, David J.
name: Becker, Robert H.
name: Gregg, Michael D.
name: Postman, Marc
name: Lauer, Tod R.
name: Oegerle, William
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new sample of 35 quasars selected from the FIRST radio survey and the Deeprange I-band survey (Postman et al. 1998, 2002). A comparison with the FIRST Bright Quasar survey samples reveals that this I-band selected sample is redder by 0.25-0.5 mag in B-R, and that the color difference is not explained by the higher mean redshift of this sample but must be intrinsic. Our small sample contains five quasars with unusually red colors, including three that appear very heavily reddened. Our data are fitted well with normal blue quasar spectra attenuated by more than 2.5 magnitudes of extinction in the I-band. The red quasars are only seen at low redshifts (z<1.3). Even with a magnitude limit I<20.5, our survey is deep enough to detect only the most luminous of these red quasars at z~1; similar objects at higher redshifts would fall below our in I-band limit. Indeed, the five most luminous objects (using dereddened magnitudes) with z<1.3 are all red. Our data strongly support the hypothesis that radio quasars are dominated by a previously undetected population of red, heavily obscured objects. Unless highly reddened quasars are preferentially also highly luminous, there must be an even larger, as yet undiscovered, population of red quasars at lower luminosity. We are likely to be finding only the most luminous tip of the red quasar iceberg. Five of our six z<1 quasars are associated with Deeprange cluster candidates of similar estimated redshifts. This association is very unlikely to be the result of chance. It has some surprising implications, including the possibility that up to half of the Deeprange clusters at z~1 have associated quasars.
description: 19 pages, 12 figures; submitted to the Astronomical Journal
Coherent Gravitational Waveforms and Memory from Cosmic String Loops
Creators: name: Aurrekoetxea, Josu C.
name: Helfer, Thomas
name: Lim, Eugene A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct, for the first time, the time-domain gravitational wave strain waveform from the collapse of a strongly gravitating Abelian Higgs cosmic string loop in full general relativity. We show that the strain exhibits a large memory effect during merger, ending with a burst and the characteristic ringdown as a black hole is formed. Furthermore, we investigate the waveform and energy emitted as a function of string width, loop radius and string tension $Gμ$. We find that the mass normalized gravitational wave energy displays a strong dependence on the inverse of the string tension $E_{\mathrm{GW}}/M_0\propto 1/Gμ$, with $E_{\mathrm{GW}}/M_0 \sim {\cal O}(1)\%$ at the percent level, for the regime where $Gμ\gtrsim10^{-3}$. Conversely, we show that the efficiency is only weakly dependent on the initial string width and initial loop radii. Using these results, we argue that gravitational wave production is dominated by kinematical instead of geometrical considerations.
description: 15 pages, 16 figures, 2 YouTube movies: https://youtu.be/-dhYA2788LA https://youtu.be/0sSH54gXu4U
The Influence of Demographic Attributes in the Implementation of Accrual-Based International Public Sector Accounting Standards
Creators: name: Matekele, Charles K.
name: Komba, Gabriel V.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Economics

description: This research examined the influence of demographic attributes in the implementation of accrual-based IPSAS in the Local Government Authorities (LGAs) in Tanzania. The survey technique was employed to collect data from 150 accountants and auditors from seven LGAs. To explore the relationship between demographic attributes and implementation of accrual based IPSAS, multiple regression analysis was used. Gender, professional qualification and education level were found to have a positive significant influence while age and number of years of service in the LGAs had negative impact in the implementation of accrual based IPSAS. It is suggested that, decision and policy makers as well as accounting standards setters, should place much emphasize on individual accountants and auditors’ capacity building and training. To improve accounting education, accrual based IPSAS should be part of the curricullum in universities and colleges. Employers must encourage accounting and auditing staff to attend professional seminars while improving their accounting knoweldge. Also, individual accountants and auditors should place much effort to attain professional certification like CPA or ACCA. Our study is limited by considering only 7 LGAs out 185 in United Republic of Tanzania. Other researches should be extended to the remaining LGAs
Creating New Menu Development Guidelines for UBC Food Services
Creators: name: Tucker, Alexa
name: Sun, Gloria
name: Zargaran, Farivar
name: Yu, Seraph
name: Chau, Shannon
name: Trevillion, Una
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2018

description: This report summarizes the menu development guidelines project; a collaborative initiative aimed at promoting healthy eating on UBC campus. The project was led by a group of 4th year public health nutrition students under the guidance of the dietitian from UBC Health and Wellbeing, within the framework of a SEEDs sustainability program. The introduction discusses the project aim, which was to establish nutrition-related guidelines to inform UBC food services chefs in their recipe development process. This section also identifies the target audience and overall approach to the program. The situational assessment of the project identified two issues of relevance: (1) there are currently no guidelines in place to inform menu development, and (2) student demographics have implications for food choices. The program was predicated on three health behavior theories that were incorporated into the framework of the project: the Health Belief Model, Stages of Change model, and Diffusion of Innovation theory. The project identified a main goal of promoting healthy eating among students that live at UBC residence, as well as supporting short, medium, and long-term objectives. The report summarizes the project outputs, which consist of the “Recipe Development Guidelines” and supporting document. The report also illustrates the program’s evaluation plan; both the process evaluation that we conducted as well as the hypothetical outcome evaluation that would be completed once all outcomes have been met. The conclusion considers the significance of the project, reflects on lessons learned, and makes recommendations for future programs. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Chicago Area Medical Archivists Medical History Symposium (2010)
Creators: name: Chicago Area Medical Archivists
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: CAMA
subject: Program
subject: Symposium
subject: Libraries, Medical
subject: Archives
subject: History of Medicine
subject: Chicago Metropolitan Area (Ill.)

description: Program of the CAMA Medical History Symposium held October 27, 2010 at Pritzker Auditorium, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL.
description: presentation_location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Coherent Electron Optics with Ballistically Coupled Quantum Point Contacts
Creators: name: Freudenfeld, Jaan
name: Geier, Max
name: Umansky, Vladimir
name: Brouwer, Piet W.
name: Ludwig, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The realization of integrated quantum circuits requires precise on-chip control of charge carriers. Aiming at the coherent coupling of distant nanostructures at zero magnetic field, here we study the ballistic electron transport through two quantum point contacts (QPCs) in series in a three terminal configuration. We enhance the coupling between the QPCs by electrostatic focusing using a field effect lens. To study the emission and collection properties of QPCs in detail we combine the electrostatic focusing with magnetic deflection. Comparing our measurements with quantum mechanical and classical calculations we demonstrate how the coherent and ballistic dynamics depend on the details of the QPC confinement potentials.
description: Uploaded final version published on PRL
DO FINANCIAL INCENTIVES AFFECT FERTILITY?
Creators: name: Cohen, Alma
name: Dehejia, Rajeev
name: Romanov, Dmitri
name: Cohen, Alma
name: Dehejia, Rajeev
name: Romanov, Dmitri
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Fertility
subject: child subsidies
subject: child allowances

description: This paper investigates whether financial incentives, and in particular government child subsidies, affect fertility. We take advantage of a comprehensive, non-public, individuallevel panel data set that includes fertility histories and detailed individual controls for married Israeli women from 1999-2005, a period with substantial changes in the level of government child subsidies, but no changes in eligibility and coverage. We find a significant positive effect on fertility; the mean level of child subsidies produces a 6.9 percent increase in fertility, and we estimate the benefit elasticity to be in the range of 0.12- 0.18 and the price elasticity to be in the range of 0.088-0.13. The positive effect of child subsidies on fertility is absent from the upper part of the income distribution, but it is present across all religious groups. Using a differences-in-differences specification, we find that a large, unanticipated reduction in child subsidies that occurred in 2003 had a substantial negative impact on fertility. Overall, our results are consistent with the view that fertility responds to financial incentives and they indicate that the child subsidy policies used in many countries can have a significant influence on incremental fertility decisions.
Does Pecking Order Theory Hold Among Kenyan Firms?
Creators: name: Wanja, Douglas M.
name: Muriu, Peter W.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Economics

description: This study examined the pecking order theory of capital structure through annual data of 37 firms listed at the Nairobi Securities Exchange for the period 2011-2016. Estimation results established a positive relationship between changes in debt and investments and a negative relationship between changes in debt and cash flows. Overall, the findings suggest that financial deficits determine net debt issues and hence a strong case for pecking order theory in Kenya in explaining capital structure decisions.
Fairness Motivations and Procedures of Choice between Lotteries as Revealed through Eye Movements
Creators: name: Arieli, Amos
name: Ben-Ami, Yaniv
name: Rubinstein, Ariel
name: Arieli, Amos
name: Ben-Ami, Yaniv
name: Rubinstein, Ariel
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Neuroeconomics
subject: Eye-tracking
subject: Decision Making
subject: Similarity

description: Eye tracking is used to investigate decision makers’ motivations and procedures in choice problems. Patterns of eye movements in problems where the deliberation process is easily discernable are used to understand the deliberation in other problems. We find that in problems which involve the distribution of income between the participant and another individual, participants who behave selfishly nevertheless take into consideration the size of the payment to the other person. In problems that involve choice between two simple lotteries, eye movements indicate that many participants based their decision on a comparison of prizes and probabilities rather than making an expected utility calculation.
Objective and Subjective Rationality in a Multiple Prior Model
Creators: name: Gilboa, Itzhak
name: Maccheroni, Fabio
name: Marinacciand, Massimo
name: Schmeidler, David
name: Gilboa, Itzhak
name: Maccheroni, Fabio
name: Marinacciand, Massimo
name: Schmeidler, David
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Financial Economics

description: A decision maker is characterized by two binary relations. The first reflects decisions that are rational in an “objective” sense: the decision maker can convince others that she is right in making them. The second relation models decisions that are rational in a “subjective” sense: the decision maker cannot be convinced that she is wrong in making them. We impose axioms on these relations that allow a joint representation by a single set of prior probabilities. It is “objectively rational” to choose f in the presence of g if and only if the expected utility of f is at least as high as that of g given each and every prior in the set. It is “subjectively rational” to choose f rather than g if and only if the minimal expected utility of f (relative to all priors in the set) is at least as high as that of g.
The In-Service Training in Mathematics of Montgomery County, Maryland, Elementary School Teachers
Creators: name: Bucher, Abbott G.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: One hundred years ago arithmetic in the common schools was to a large extent mental gymnastics. Even as late as 1874, at a convention of the National Education Association, a Boston principal spoke on the "melancholy fact" that "the study of arithmetic now means the committing to memory of a succession of rules for performing arbitrary processes, unconnected with each other, or with any rational principles."In recent times, and even in many cases today, pupils are still taught meaningless arithmetic.
Haplacarus javensis Hammer 1979
Creators: name: Norton, Roy A.
name: Ermilov, Sergey G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Lohmanniidae
Haplacarus
Haplacarus javensis

description: Haplacarus javensis Hammer, 1979
 Larva: Schatz 1994b (Ds)
 Tritonymph: Schatz 1994b (Ds)
description: Published as part of Norton, Roy A. & Ermilov, Sergey G., 2014, Catalogue and historical overview of juvenile instars of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida), pp. 1-132 in Zootaxa 3833 (1) on page 15, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3833.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5122134
Birthweight and all-cause mortality after childhood and adolescent leukemia: a cohort of children with leukemia from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Washington State
Creators: name: Ording, Anne Gulbech
name: Christensen, Lotte Brix
name: Bjørge, Tone
name: Doody, David R.
name: Ekbom, Anders
name: Glimelius, Ingrid
name: Grotmol, Tom
name: Larfors, Gunnar
name: Mueller, Beth A.
name: Smedby, Karin E.
name: Tretli, Steinar
name: Troisi, Rebecca
name: Sørensen, Henrik Toft
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Background: High birthweight may predispose children to acute lymphoid leukemia, whereas low birthweight is associated with childhood morbidity and mortality. Low and high birthweight have been inconsistently associated with mortality in children with leukemia. Material and methods: In a cohort of childhood and adolescent leukemia (0–19 years) patients from registries in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Washington State in the United States (1967–2015), five-year all-cause mortality was assessed by birthweight and other measures of fetal growth using the cumulative incidence function and Cox regression with adjustment for sex, diagnosis year, country, the presence of Down’s syndrome or other malformations, and type of leukemia. Results: Among 7148 children and adolescents with leukemia (55% male), 4.6% were low (<2500 g) and 19% were high (≥4000 g) birthweight. Compared with average weight, hazard ratios (HRs) of death associated with low birthweight varied by age at leukemia diagnosis: 1.5 (95% confidence interval (CI): 0.7, 3.2) for patients 0–1 year old, 1.6 (95% CI: 1.0, 2.6) for >1–2 years old; 1.0 (95% CI: 0.6, 1.5) for 3–8 years old; 1.0 (95% CI: 0.6, 1.8) for 9–13 years old; and 1.2 (95% CI: 0.7, 2.1) for 14–19 years old, and were similar for size for gestational age and Ponderal index. In analyses restricted to children born full term (37–41 weeks of gestation), results were only slightly attenuated but risk was markedly increased for infants aged ≤1 year (HR for low birthweight = 3.2, 95% CI: 1.2, 8.8). Conclusion: This cohort study does not suggest that low birthweight or SGA is associated with increased five-year all-cause mortality risk among children with any type of childhood leukemia or acute lymphoblastic leukemia, specifically, beyond infancy.
Tax Incentives and Investment Growth: The Nigerian Perspective
Creators: name: Chukwuma C. Ugwu
name: Okwa, Iyana E.
name: Inyang, Ernest E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Economics

description: Tax Incentives and Investment Growth: the Nigeria perspective is aimed at determining the effect of tax incentives represented by corporate income tax rate and investment allowance on investment growth in Nigeria from 1985-2018. The study adopted Ex Post Facto Research Design and time-series data was used. Relevant secondary data for this study were collected from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Statistical Bulletin, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) and the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS). The study employed ordinary least square estimation and used regression analysis to test the relationship between Tax Incentives and investment growth in Nigeria. The study shows that tax incentive policy is positively and significantly related to gross fixed capital formation. The findings showed that tax incentives have positive impact on gross fixed capital formation. The findings showed that there is a degree of relationship between corporate income tax and gross fixed capital formation; and that there is degree of co-variability between investment allowance and gross fixed capital formation in Nigeria. The result also indicates that a higher company income tax rate is associated with lower private investment and slower gross fixed capital formation. The implication of this finding is that since tax incentives represented by company income tax allowance and investment allowance have positive and significant impact on gross fixed capital formation, policy reform in other factors that affect investment growth is needed also to complement these incentives so that a better result can be achieved.
The In-Service Training in Mathematics of Montgomery County, Maryland, Elementary School Teachers
Creators: name: Bucher, Abbott G.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education

description: One hundred years ago arithmetic in the common schools was to a large extent mental gymnastics. Even as late as 1874, at a convention of the National Education Association, a Boston principal spoke on the "melancholy fact" that "the study of arithmetic now means the committing to memory of a succession of rules for performing arbitrary processes, unconnected with each other, or with any rational principles."In recent times, and even in many cases today, pupils are still taught meaningless arithmetic.
Anatomy of a Bounce
Creators: name: Medved, A. J. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Holographic considerations are used in the scrutiny of a special class of brane-world cosmologies. Inherently to this class, the brane typically bounces, at a finite size, as a consequence of a charged black hole in the bulk. Whereas a prior treatment [hep-th/0301010] emphasized a brane that is void of standard-model matter, the analysis is now extended to include an intrinsic (radiation-dominated) matter source. An interesting feature of this generalized model is that a bounce is no longer guaranteed but, rather, depends on the initial conditions. Ultimately, we demonstrate that compliance with an appropriate holographic bound is a sufficient prerequisite for a bounce to occur.
description: 14 pages, Revtex; (v2) minor revisions; (v3) reference added
A millimeter-wave Bell Test using a ferrite parametric amplifier and a homodyne interferometer
Creators: name: Salmon, Neil A.
name: Hoon, Stephen R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A combined ferrite parametric amplifier and millimeter-wave homodyne interferometer are proposed as an ambient temperature Bell Test. It is shown that the non-linear magnetic susceptibility of the yttrium iron garnet (YIG) ferrite, on account of its narrow line-width Larmor precessional resonance, make it an ideal material for the creation of entangled photons. These can be measured using a homodyne interferometer, as the much larger number of thermally generated photons associated with ambient temperature emission can be screened out. The proposed architecture may enable YIG quantum technology-based sensors to be developed, mimicking in the millimeter-wave band the large number of quantum optical experiments in the near-infrared and visible regions which had been made possible by use of the nonlinear beta barium borate ferroelectric, an analogue of YIG. It is illustrated here how the YIG parametric amplifier can reproduce quantum optical Type I and Type II wave interactions, which can be used to create entangled photons in the millimeter-wave band. It is estimated that when half a cubic centimeter of YIG crystal is placed in a magnetic field of a few Tesla and pumped with 5 Watts of millimeter-wave radiation, approximately 0.5x10^12 entangled millimeter-wave photon pairs per second are generated by the spin-wave interaction. This means an integration time of only a few tens of seconds is needed for a successful Bell Test. A successful demonstration of this will lead to novel architectures of entanglement-based quantum technology room temperature sensors, re-envisioning YIG as a modern quantum material.
description: 9 pages, 8 figures
Physical activity, sedentary time and cardiorespiratory fitness in patients with heart failure: Isotemporal substitution analysis
Creators: name: Kenyon, Jonathan
name: Billingsley, Hayley
name: Bohmke, Natalie
name: Kirkman, Danielle
name: Abbate, Antonio
name: Markley, Roshanak
name: Carbone, Salvatore
name: Kim, Youngdeok
Publisher: name: The Health & Fitness Journal of Canada
Year: 2022

description: Background: Previous work has demonstrated that patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) have low physical activity (PA) and high sedentary time (ST), which are associated with cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF). Purpose: To examine the effects of replacing 30 min of ST with light intensity PA (LPA) and moderate- to vigorous- intensity PA (MVPA) on CRF in patients with HFpEF. Methods: Ten patients with HFpEF (mean age 59.1 y, mean BMI 41.4 kg/m2, 40% Black, 100% Women) underwent symptom-limited cardiopulmonary exercise testing on a treadmill. Free-living PA was objectively measured using a waist-worn ActiGraph GT9X accelerometer. Effects of replacing 30 min ST with 30 min LPA or 30 min MVPA on V2O2peak (L/min) were assessed via isotemporal substitution analysis before and after adjusting for age and race. Results: Substituting 30 min ST with 30 min of MVPA resulted in a positive trend for increased V̇O2peak but did not reach statistical significance (unadjusted model: 1.57 L/min, p = 0.085; adjusted model: 1.22 L/min, p = 0.074). The magnitude of change in V2O2peak was higher when MVPA was substituted for ST rather than LPA. Conclusions: Results of this preliminary analysis suggest that replacing ST with MVPA has a greater effect on V̇O2peak compared to substitution with LPA. Randomized controlled trials and studies with larger samples are needed to elucidate the effects of replacing ST with PA on CRF in this population. Funding: Career Development Award (19CDA34660318) from the AHA (Salvatore Carbone); NIH CTSAP (UL1TR002649) at VCU.
description: The Health & Fitness Journal of Canada, Vol. 14 No. 3 (2021): Proceedings from the 8th International Society for Physical Activity and Health Congress
Dried blood spots to measure the association between psychosocial factors and cardiovascular disease biomarkers: a scoping review
Creators: name: Jacobson, Tyler Andrew
name: Schwartz, William Alexander
name: Zhang, Runze
name: Wafford, Q. Eileen
name: Nunes, Denise A
name: Hirschhorn, Lisa Ruth
name: Khan, Sadiya Sana
name: Miller, Greg
name: McDade, Thomas
name: Funk, William E
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: dried blood spots
subject: biomarkers
subject: cardiovascular disease
subject: psychosocial factors
subject: population health
subject: Dried Blood Spot Testing
subject: Cardiovascular Diseases
subject: Psychosocial Functioning

description: Scoping Review Question: What studies have used dried blood spots (DBS) to quantify cardiovascular disease (CVD) biomarkers in association with psychosocial factors? Psychosocial factors will include depression, anxiety, low socioeconomic status/poverty, incarceration, perceived discrimination, and other factors identified by this review.
Electrostatic potential shape of gate defined quantum point contacts
Creators: name: Geier, Max
name: Freudenfeld, Jaan
name: Silva, Jorge T.
name: Umansky, Vladimir
name: Reuter, Dirk
name: Wieck, Andreas D.
name: Brouwer, Piet W.
name: Ludwig, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum point contacts (QPC) are fundamental building blocks of nanoelectronic circuits. For their emission dynamics as well as for interaction effects such as the 0.7-anomaly the details of the electrostatic potential are important, but the precise potential shapes are usually unknown. Here, we measure the one-dimensional subband spacings of various QPCs as a function of their conductance and compare our findings with models of lateral parabolic versus hard wall confinement. We find that a gate-defined QPC near pinch-off is compatible with the parabolic saddle point scenario. However, as the number of populated subbands is increased Coulomb screening flattens the potential bottom and a description in terms of a finite hard wall potential becomes more realistic.
description: 7+2 pager, 7 figures, v2: published version (minor changes)
Heptacarus encantadae Schatz 1994
Creators: name: Norton, Roy A.
name: Ermilov, Sergey G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Lohmanniidae
Heptacarus
Heptacarus encantadae

description: Heptacarus encantadae Schatz, 1994
 Protonymph: Schatz 1994b (Ds, FB)
 Deutonymph: Schatz 1994b (Ds, FB)
 Tritonymph: Schatz 1994b (Ds, FB)
description: Published as part of Norton, Roy A. & Ermilov, Sergey G., 2014, Catalogue and historical overview of juvenile instars of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida), pp. 1-132 in Zootaxa 3833 (1) on page 15, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3833.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5122134
Possible production of exotic baryonia in relativistic heavy-ion collisions
Creators: name: Mishustin, I. N.
name: Satarov, L. M.
name: Strottman, D.
name: Greiner, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Properties of a hypothetical baryonium with the quark content ($uds\ov{u}\ov{d}\ov{s}$) are discussed. The MIT bag model predicts its mass to be unexpectedly low, approximately 1210 MeV. Possible hadronic decay modes of this state are analyzed. Ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions provide favorable conditions for the formation of such particles from the baryon-free quark-gluon plasma. We estimate multiplicities of such exotic baryonia on the basis of a simple thermal model.
description: 8 pages, 1 figure
Entanglement entropy of two-species hard-core bosons in one dimension
Creators: name: Kim, Tae Yong
name: Cho, Hang Gon
name: Lee, Ji-Woo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the von Neumann entropy of a model for two-species hard-core bosons in one dimension. In this model, the same-species bosons satisfy hard-core conditions, while the different-species bosons are allowed to occupy the same site with a local interaction U . At half-filling, by Jordan-Wigner transformation, the model is exactly mapped to a fermionic Hubbard model. The phase transition from superfluid U = 0 to Mott insulator U > 0 can be explained by simple one-band theory at half-filling. We measure the von Neumann entanglement entropy of the ground states for the half-filled case and away from half-filling to understand quantum phase transitions. To achieve this goal, we use a time-evolution-block decimation method with infinite-size matrix product state and also use a density matrix renormalization group with matrix product operators with large bond dimensions up to 300. We found strong evidence that the local minimum point of the von Neumann entanglement entropy is the quantum critical point for finite-bond-dimension matrix product states.
description: 7 pages, 9 figures
PREFERRING SIMPLICITY
Creators: name: Gilboa, Itzhak
name: Samuelson, Larry
name: Gilboa, Itzhak
name: Samuelson, Larry
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Financial Economics

description: This paper examines circumstances under which a preference for simplicity enhances the eectiveness of inductive reasoning. We con- sider a game in which Fate chooses a data generating process and agents are characterized by inference rules that may or may not fa- vor simpler theories over more complex ones. The basic intuition is that agents who do not prefer simple theories to more complex ones are doomed to \overt" the data and therefore engage in ineective learning. The analysis places no computational or memory limitations on the agents|a preference for simplicity emerges in the presence of unlimited reasoning powers.
Dynamic Female Labor Supply
Creators: name: Eckstein, Zvi
name: Lifshitz, Osnat
name: Eckstein, Zvi
name: Lifshitz, Osnat
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Dynamic Discrete Choice
subject: Female Employment
subject: Accounting
subject: Household Game

description: The increase in female employment and participation rates is one of the most dramatic economic changes to have taken place during the last century. However, while the employment rate of married women more than doubled during the last fifty years, that of unmarried women remained almost constant. In order to empirically analyze these trends we divide the paper into two parts: In the first, we empirically estimate a traditional female dynamic labor supply model using an extended version of Eckstein and Wolpin (1989) in order to compare the various explanations in the literature for the observed trends. The main finding is that the rise in education levels accounts for about one-third of the increase in female employment while about 40 percent remains unexplained by observed household characteristics. We show that this unexplained portion can be empirically attributed to changes in preferences or the costs of childrearing and household maintenance. In the second part, we formulate and estimate a new framework for the couple intra-family game that is then used to analyze the household dynamic labor supply. We find that female labor supply may have increased significantly due to a change in the form of the household game.
Simultaneous determination of neutron-induced fission and radiative-capture cross sections from decay probabilities obtained with a surrogate reaction
Creators: name: Sanchez, R. Perez
name: Jurado, B.
name: Meot, V.
name: Roig, O.
name: Dupuis, M.
name: Bouland, O.
name: Denis-Petit, D.
name: Marini, P.
name: Mathieu, L.
name: Tsekhanovich, I.
name: Aiche, M.
name: Audouin, L.
name: Cannes, C.
name: Czajkowski, S.
name: Delpech, S.
name: Gorgen, A.
name: Guttormsen, M.
name: Henriques, A.
name: Kessedjian, G.
name: Nishio, K.
name: Ramos, D.
name: Siem, S.
name: Zeiser, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Reliable neutron-induced reaction cross sections of unstable nuclei are essential for nuclear astrophysics and applications but their direct measurement is often impossible. The surrogate-reaction method is one of the most promising alternatives to access these cross sections. In this work, we successfully applied the surrogate-reaction method to infer for the first time both the neutron-induced fission and radiative-capture cross sections of 239Pu in a consistent manner from a single measurement. This was achieved by combining simultaneously-measured fission and gamma-emission probabilities for the 240Pu(4He,4He') surrogate reaction with a calculation of the angular-momentum and parity distributions populated in this reaction. While other experiments measure the probabilities for some selected gamma-ray transitions, we measure the gamma-emission probability. This enlarges the applicability of the surrogate-reaction method.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures