cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Aiding and Abetting: The Influence of Foreign Assistance on Incumbent Advantage in Africa
Creators: name: Briggs, Ryan C.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Can changes in foreign aid influence incumbent advantage in aid-recipient countries? This dissertation suggests that in post-Cold War Africa, the answer is yes. The argument rests on a cross-national analysis of all African elections between 1990 and 2006 and three case studies of African elections. The cross-national analysis demonstrates a durable correlation between changes in aid and incumbent advantage. Case studies of elections in Ghana in 2000, Malawi in 1999, and Kenya in 1992 present subnational confirmation of the main findings and flush out the mechanisms that link aid changes to incumbent advantage. The dissertation thus demonstrates that foreign aid volatility influences election results in Africa, that aid recipients often are able to use an electoral logic to strategically target aid, and that African voters are influenced by the provision of goods and services.
Maximal violation of Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt inequality for four-level systems
Creators: name: Fu, Li-Bin
name: Chen, Jing-Ling
name: Chen, Shi-Gang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt inequality for bipartite systems of 4-dimension is studied in detail by employing the unbiased eight-port beam splitters measurements. The uniform formulae for the maximum and minimum values of this inequality for such measurements are obtained. Based on these formulae, we show that an optimal non-maximally entangled state is about 6% more resistant to noise than the maximally entangled one. We also give the optimal state and the optimal angles which are important for experimental realization.
description: 7 pages, three tables
Convex plumbings in closed hyperbolic 4-manifolds
Creators: name: Martelli, Bruno
name: Riolo, Stefano
name: Slavich, Leone
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We show that every plumbing of disc bundles over surfaces whose genera satisfy a simple inequality may be embedded as a convex submanifold in some closed hyperbolic four-manifold. In particular its interior has a geometrically finite hyperbolic structure that covers a closed hyperbolic four-manifold.
description: 18 pages, 11 figures
title: 03_0967
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
Observations from the 8-tetrahedron non-orientable census
Creators: name: Burton, Benjamin A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Through computer enumeration with the aid of topological results, we catalogue all 18 closed non-orientable P^2-irreducible 3-manifolds that can be formed from at most eight tetrahedra. In addition we give an overview as to how the 100 resulting minimal triangulations are constructed. Observations and conjectures are drawn from the census data, and future potential for the non-orientable census is discussed. Some preliminary nine-tetrahedron results are also included.
description: 18 pages, 18 figures
COMPARATIVE RESPONSE TO LIMING OF VARIOUS NON-TRADITIONAL EXPORT CROPS GROWN IN ULTISOLS AND OXISOLS OF THE CARIBBEAN
Creators: name: Lugo-López, M.A.
name: Abruña, F.
name: Vicente-Chandler, J.
name: Irizarry, H.
name: Badillo, J.
name: Rodríguez, J.
name: Rivera, E.
name: Lugo-López, M.A.
name: Abruña, F.
name: Vicente-Chandler, J.
name: Irizarry, H.
name: Badillo, J.
name: Rodríguez, J.
name: Rivera, E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1986
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Non-traditional export crops were grown following a sequence in Ultisols and Oxisols which occur extensively throughout the Caribbean Region. The soils were limed to pH values ranging from less than 5.0 to more tharl 6.5. Green beans, cabbage, taniers and yams appeared to be quite sensitive to soil acidity factors. Tomato yields were not markedly affected until pH dropped to 4.6 with 45% Al saturation. Pigeonpeas barely responded to liming in Oxisols, but responded strongly in Ultisols. Soil acidity factors have no effect on yields of plantains on either groups of soils. Lime requirements should be based on exchangeable Al rather than on pH. Any program geared to increase crop production levels on acid soils of the Caribbean must be based on the use of complete technological packages of practices of which lime is an essential component.
Explosion and Evolution: The Sunni-Shi'a Conflict in Iraq 1991-2013
Creators: name: Clements, Peter Daniel
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The 1991 uprisings in Iraq's southern governorates following Operation: Desert Storm - and the decade of trauma that followed them - were the "Big Bang" that begat the modern era of Iraqi sectarianism and the Sunni-Shi'a divide. The memory of the 1991 intifada created new Iraqi Sunni and Shi'a identities alike, and set the stage for the period of open confrontation and civil war following the US-led invasion in 2003. The new, Shi'a-led Iraqi government now faces a retrenching Sunni opposition, and strives to get its own internal problems resolved, as the two sides find themselves locked in an increasingly non-violent (but also increasingly tense) stand-off. At stake are the future of Iraq and the safety of Iraq's Sunni and Shi'a alike.
Two nitrogenous sesquiterpenoids from the nudibranch Phyllidiella pustulosa
Creators: name: Kurnianda, Viqqi
name: Hirade, Hiromi
name: Jansen, Roel
name: Tanaka, Junichi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Our ongoing interest in the relationships between chemical contents and genetic diversity of the nudibranch Phyllidiella pustulosa and related species found in Okinawa led to identification of a series of nitrogenous sesquiterpenoids. Among them, two new compounds 1 and 2 were elucidated after spectroscopic analysis. Their structures and cytotoxicity against three cell lines are described here.
title: 01_1953
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
Explosion and Evolution: The Sunni-Shi'a Conflict in Iraq 1991-2013
Creators: name: Clements, Peter Daniel
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4303
subject: Historical studies
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science
classificationCode: 5004
subject: Religious studies

description: The 1991 uprisings in Iraq's southern governorates following Operation: Desert Storm - and the decade of trauma that followed them - were the "Big Bang" that begat the modern era of Iraqi sectarianism and the Sunni-Shi'a divide. The memory of the 1991 intifada created new Iraqi Sunni and Shi'a identities alike, and set the stage for the period of open confrontation and civil war following the US-led invasion in 2003. The new, Shi'a-led Iraqi government now faces a retrenching Sunni opposition, and strives to get its own internal problems resolved, as the two sides find themselves locked in an increasingly non-violent (but also increasingly tense) stand-off. At stake are the future of Iraq and the safety of Iraq's Sunni and Shi'a alike.
title: Lebend- und Totengemeinschaften von Süßwassermollusken des Tegeler Sees
title: ein Beitrag zur Beurteilung seines ökologischen Zustandes
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Werner, Ute
name: Reitner, Joachim
Publisher: name: Fachbereich Geowiss., FU Berlin
Year: 1989

description: research
Coupling of shape and pairing vibrations in a collective Hamiltonian based on nuclear energy density functionals
Creators: name: Xiang, J.
name: Li, Z. P.
name: Niksic, T.
name: Vretenar, D.
name: Long, W. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The quadrupole collective Hamiltonian, based on relativistic energy density functionals, is extended to include a pairing collective coordinate. In addition to quadrupole shape vibrations and rotations, the model describes pairing vibrations and the coupling between shape and pairing degrees of freedom. The parameters of the collective Hamiltonian are determined by constrained self-consistent relativistic mean-field plus Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (RMF+BCS) calculations in the space of intrinsic shape and pairing deformations. The effect of coupling between shape and pairing degrees of freedom is analyzed in a study of low-energy spectra and transition rates of four axially symmetric $N=92$ rare-earth isotones. When compared to results obtained with the standard quadrupole collective Hamiltonian, the inclusion of dynamical pairing increases the moment of inertia, lowers the energies of excited $0^+$ states and reduces the E0-transition strengths, in better agreement with data.
description: 10 pages, 13 figures, submitted to Physical Review C
A Critical Content Analysis of the Child and Family Services Reviews for the States of New Jersey, Maryland, and Virginia in 2004 and 2009
Creators: name: DaCunha, Francisco Manuel
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education

description: The study will begin by identifying various types of maltreatment that are committed against some of our Nation's youth while simultaneously assessing the physical, psychosocial and emotional symptoms associated with exposure to these horrible acts. Despite the incremental increase in government funding for the creation of various social service programs and services, this problem has stretched over time and its negative impact continues to drastically change the fragile lives of these at-risk youth. The bulk of this study is dedicated to analyzing what our government is currently doing to help prevent the occurrence and recurrence of abuse and neglect among these very valuable but inherently vulnerable young members of our society. In order to gain a better understanding of how effective current practices, programs, and services are in addressing this issue, it is necessary to evaluate what the state and federal government is doing to prevent and hopefully eradicate these crimes perpetrated against children. Although this problem(s) had already been identified for decades, it wasn't until 2004 that a comprehensive evaluation of these social service agencies tasked to perform these preventive measures and restoration services was conducted. This evaluation known as the Child and Family Services Reviews and the instrument used to drive this process are scrutinized for their usefulness, practicality, validity, and reliability while focusing on ways to improve current practices. In the end, this study should serve as a recipe for implementing changes that will help to improve current evaluation practices, not only in states like New Jersey, Maryland, and Virginia that were included in this study, but every county in all fifty states as well as Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C.
Geometric phase in optics and angular momentum of light
Creators: name: Tiwari, S C
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Physical mechanism for the geometric phase in terms of angular momentum exchange is elucidated. It is argued that the geometric phase arising out of the cyclic changes in the tranverse mode space of the Gaussian light beams is a manifestation of the cycles in the momentum space of the light. Nonconservation of angular momentum in the spontaneous parametric down-conversion for the classical light beams is proposed to be related with the geometric phase.
description: Revised in the light of referee's comments;references added;abstract changed;submitted to J Modern Optics
title: Style in the Music of Arthur Sullivan: An Investigation
Creators: name: Strachan, Martyn Paul Lambert
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2018

description: This thesis examines Sullivan’s output of music in all genres and assesses the place of musical style within them. Of interest is the case of the comic operas where the composer uses parody and allusion to create a persuasive counterpart to the libretto. The thesis attempts to place Sullivan in the context of his time, the conditions under which he worked and to give due weight to the fact that economic necessity often required him to meet the demands of the market. The influence of his early training is examined as well as the impact of the early Romantic German school of composers such as Mendelssohn, Schubert and Schumann. In the second half of the thesis, selected features of Sullivan’s style are analysed in detail as is the influence of prominent European composers such as Berlioz and Liszt. The final section is a close examination of Sullivan’s most successful choral work, The Golden Legend. One of the principal aims is to address the dearth of scholarship on the technical aspects of this composer’s music. Where a great deal of information is available about his biography, not least from the diary he kept from 1876 until his death, the sharply defined contrasts in Sullivan’s use of musical style seem to have deterred commentators from enquiring too closely into his compositional techniques and this has led to certain false assumptions and misunderstandings. A close examination of these techniques may encourage a greater recognition of Sullivan’s considerable achievements and foster a more open-minded attitude to his music and that of other nineteenth-century British composers.
PRESENCE OF THE YAM NEMATODE Scutellonema bradys IN GUADELOUPE AND MARTINIQUE
Creators: name: Kermarreck, Alain
name: Anais, G.
name: Degras, Lucien
name: Kermarreck, Alain
name: Anais, G.
name: Degras, Lucien
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1986
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: The "root-lesion nematode" (Pratylenchus coffeae) has been, until 1985, the major soil-borne pest of yam crops in the French West Indies. Since early this year, the actual "yam-nematode" has been found regularly in tubers sampled in Guadeloupe and Martinique. Research strategies for an integrated control of nematode pests of yams are presented. ----- Le nematode des lesions racinaires (Pratylenchus coffeae) etait,jusqu'a cette annee, Ie principal parasite racinaire des ignames aux Antilles Francaises. En 1986, Scutellonema bradys, grave parasite des Dioscorees dans l'ensemble des tropiques est retrouve regulierement dans les tubercules de Guadeloupe et de Martinique. Les principes d'une strategie de recherche pour un controle integre de ces helminthes sont presentes.
Selbstreguliertes Lernen trainieren - Effekte auf das Lernverhalten bei Schülerinnen und Schülern mit mathematischen Lernschwierigkeiten Videoanalyse im Rahmen des Forschungsprojekts "Motivation und Selbstregulation bei Lernschwierigkeiten" (MOSEL)
Creators: name: Fuchs, Denise
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Sonderpädagogik
Lernstörung
Selbstregulation
Masterarbeit

description: Die vorliegende Masterarbeit ist im Rahmen der Teilnahme am Forschungsprojekt „Motivation und Selbstregulation bei Lernschwierigkeiten“ (MOSEL) der Hochschule für Heilpädagogik in Zürich (HfH) entstanden. Sie beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, inwiefern sich Merkmale des selbstregulierten Lernverhaltens bei Schülerinnen und Schülern mit Lernschwierigkeiten im Fachbereich Mathematik verändern, nachdem 18 Förderlektionen durchgeführt wurden, welche eine Steigerung des selbstregulierten Lernens bezwecken. Um Vergleiche ziehen zu können, nutzt das Forschungsprojekt ein Kontrollgruppendesign, in welchem Daten sowohl direkt vor und nach erfolgter Intervention, als auch zwölf Wochen im Anschluss daran, erhoben werden. Mittels qualitativer Inhaltsanalyse werden Videografien, in welchen die Lernenden zu den drei verschiedenen Messzeitpunkten aufgezeichnet wurden, mit dem Programm MAXQDA 2018 und einem erstellten Codierleitfaden auf Aspekte des selbstregulierten Lernens analysiert. Insgesamt wurde das Videomaterial von 16 Kindern aus der Interventions- und sechs Kindern aus der Kontrollgruppe anhand Häufigkeiten der relevanten Codes miteinander verglichen. Die Ergebnisauswertung konnte aufzeigen, dass sich im Nachtest insgesamt eine Steigerung des selbstre-gulierten Lernens abgezeichnet hat, wobei sich bei der Interventionsgruppe das Merkmal Verbildlichung der Aufgabe, im Vergleich zur Kontrollgruppe, signifikant verbessern konnte. Indes blieben Verbesserungen metakognitiver bzw. kognitiver Strategien wie Ziele setzen oder Aufgaben ableiten aus.
EVALUATION OF PERENNIAL VIGNA SPECIES IN BAHIAGRASS PASTURES IN PENINSULAR FLORIDA
Creators: name: Pitman, W.D.
name: Pitman, W.D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1986
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Plantings of the perennial Vigna species, V. adenanrha and V. parkeri, are being evaluated for potential value as pasture plants on a Spodosol site in peninsular Florida. The V. parkeri accession being evaluated was recently released in Australia as Shaw creeping vigna. A low seeding rate of 1.4 kg ha- l resulted in sparse stands of this legume. Two 0.5-ha pastures have been grazed for two years with good survival of individual V. parkeri plants, but plant spread has been limited. Vigna adenantha was seeded at 2.0 kg ha-1. Initial plant populations were sparse, but vigorous viney growth provided Vigna dominant pastures when deferred from grazing for the establishment year. Subsequent grazing has produced average daily gains of 0.4, 0.6, and 0.7 kg at stocking rates of 6, 4, and 2 head of yearling steers ha-l, respectively, during grazing periods of approximately 75 days each in mid Summer of 1985 and 1986.
RESEARCH ON IMPROVED PASTURES IN ST. CROIX, U. S. VIRGIN ISLANDS
Creators: name: Michaud, Michael
name: Michaud, Michael
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1986
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Livestock Production/Industries
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Seeding with improved forages is necessary if land dominated by hurricane grass (Bothriochloa pertusa) is to become productive. Varieties of grasses and legumes adapted to St. Croix have been identified and are being recommended for planting. Though use of equipment designed specifically for sowing pastures would be ideal, their scarcity in St. Croix and high purchase price make their consideration impractical. Consequently, alternative low cost methods for planting have been devised. In addition, the concept of Pure Live Seed is being promoted to ensure adequate seeding rates while planting strategies designed to reduce losses from water shortages are being recommended.
Low-temperature structural phase transitions: Phonon-like and relaxation order-parameter dynamics
Creators: name: Cano, A.
name: Levanyuk, A. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A theoretical study on low-temperature structural phase transitions is presented, in which both phonon-like and relaxation order-parameter dynamics are contemplated. While the first limiting case has been considered previously, the second one is studied here for the first time. Attention is put on the low-temperature asymptotics of the temperature dependence of the generalized susceptibility. In the relaxation case, it is found $\sim (T^2 - T_c^2)^{-1}$ for temperature-independent relaxation times in a broad region of the temperature-pressure phase diagram. In contrast to the obtained in the phonon-like case, this asymptotics is not modified by long-range interactions (dipolar forces, piezoelectric effect, etc.).
description: 9 pages
A Critical Content Analysis of the Child and Family Services Reviews for the States of New Jersey, Maryland, and Virginia in 2004 and 2009
Creators: name: DaCunha, Francisco Manuel
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The study will begin by identifying various types of maltreatment that are committed against some of our Nation's youth while simultaneously assessing the physical, psychosocial and emotional symptoms associated with exposure to these horrible acts. Despite the incremental increase in government funding for the creation of various social service programs and services, this problem has stretched over time and its negative impact continues to drastically change the fragile lives of these at-risk youth. The bulk of this study is dedicated to analyzing what our government is currently doing to help prevent the occurrence and recurrence of abuse and neglect among these very valuable but inherently vulnerable young members of our society. In order to gain a better understanding of how effective current practices, programs, and services are in addressing this issue, it is necessary to evaluate what the state and federal government is doing to prevent and hopefully eradicate these crimes perpetrated against children. Although this problem(s) had already been identified for decades, it wasn't until 2004 that a comprehensive evaluation of these social service agencies tasked to perform these preventive measures and restoration services was conducted. This evaluation known as the Child and Family Services Reviews and the instrument used to drive this process are scrutinized for their usefulness, practicality, validity, and reliability while focusing on ways to improve current practices. In the end, this study should serve as a recipe for implementing changes that will help to improve current evaluation practices, not only in states like New Jersey, Maryland, and Virginia that were included in this study, but every county in all fifty states as well as Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C.
FOOD ASSISTANCE LANDSCAPE, MARCH 2003
Creators: name: Oliveira, Victor
name: Oliveira, Victor
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Public Economics
subject: Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Program
subject: Food Stamp Program
subject: food stamps
subject: National School Lunch Program
subject: School Breakfast Program
subject: Summer Feeding Program
subject: Child and Adult Care Food Program
subject: WIC

description: About half of USDA's budget supports 15 domestic food assistance programs that serve an estimated 1 in 5 Americans at some point during the year. The goals of these programs are to provide needy persons with access to a more nutritious diet, to improve the eating habits of the Nation's children, and to help America's farmers by providing an outlet for the distribution of food purchased under farmer assistance authorities. The Economic Research Service (ERS) is responsible for conducting studies and evaluations of USDA's food assistance programs, focusing on diet and nutritional outcomes, food program targeting and delivery, and program dynamics and administration. This report uses data from the Food and Nutrition Service to examine trends in the food assistance programs through fiscal 2002. It also discusses a recent ERS study on one of the smaller, highly targeted food assistance programs-the Summer Food Service Program.
Korali: Efficient and Scalable Software Framework for Bayesian Uncertainty Quantification and Stochastic Optimization
Creators: name: Martin, Sergio M.
name: Wälchli, Daniel
name: Arampatzis, Georgios
name: Economides, Athena E.
name: Karnakov, Petr
name: Koumoutsakos, Petros
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: G.3
subject: 60-08

description: We present Korali, an open-source framework for large-scale Bayesian uncertainty quantification and stochastic optimization. The framework relies on non-intrusive sampling of complex multiphysics models and enables their exploitation for optimization and decision-making. In addition, its distributed sampling engine makes efficient use of massively-parallel architectures while introducing novel fault tolerance and load balancing mechanisms. We demonstrate these features by interfacing Korali with existing high-performance software such as Aphros, Lammps (CPU-based), and Mirheo (GPU-based) and show efficient scaling for up to 512 nodes of the CSCS Piz Daint supercomputer. Finally, we present benchmarks demonstrating that Korali outperforms related state-of-the-art software frameworks.
description: 12 pages, 12 figures
ISSUES IN FOOD ASSISTANCE - HOW DO FOOD ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS IMPROVE THE WELL-BEING OF LOW-INCOME FAMILIES?
Creators: name: Winicki, Joshua
name: Gundersen, Craig
name: Jolliffe, Dean
name: Winicki, Joshua
name: Gundersen, Craig
name: Jolliffe, Dean
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Public Economics
subject: Food assistance
subject: nutritional intake
subject: food stamps
subject: WIC
subject: food security
subject: poverty

description: The costs of USDA's three largest food assistance programs-food stamps, school means and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)-are easier to measure than the benefits of those programs. In 2000, the three programs' direct costs were $28 billion. As shown in this issues brief, the well-being of low-income families who participate in food assistance programs is enhanced by the alleviation of the severity of poverty, an increase in food security, satisfactory nutrient intake, and increases in household food expenditures.
Orchard Park
Creators: name: Fitzgerald, Lowell George
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Orchard Park is an original novel that explores definitions of family and community in a post-nuclear country. Orchard Park borrows from different genres including science fiction, alternate history (itself a sub-genre of science fiction), and fantasy to create an alternate 1983 in which the Cuban Missile Crisis had a much darker outcome. The story follows characters who have lost much to the two-decade long nuclear war, characters who have lost family to a radical new plague, and ultimately explores how these characters behave when placed in extraordinary circumstances. The fictional and eponymous city Orchard Park lies in a post-apocalypse state in which Gerry and Polly are challenged by the harsh natural word, betrayal and deception, and a fundamental inability and unwillingness to trust strangers in a country on the brink of total war.
ASSESSING THE SELF-SUFFICIENCY OF FOOD STAMP LEAVERS
Creators: name: Dagata, Elizabeth
name: Dagata, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Welfare reform
subject: the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996
subject: PRWORA
subject: able-bodied adults without dependents
subject: ABAWD
subject: food stamps

description: The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 dramatically altered the welfare system. Among the changes: work-related requirements for able-bodied adults without dependents (ABAWDs) and tighter limitations on their participation in the Food Stamp Program. The Economic Research Service, USDA, and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, HHS, jointly funded and commissioned four State studies to determine the well-being of ABAWDs who had left food stamps in the post-reform era. Results of those studies are discussed in this issues brief.
Bisabolanoic acid A, a new polychiral sesquiterpene with AChE inhibitory activity from a mangrove-derived fungus Colletotrichum sp.
Creators: name: Li, Kun-Long
name: Dai, Yu
name: She, Jiang-Lian
name: Zeng, Yan-Bo
name: Dai, Hao-Fu
name: Ou, Shun-Ling
name: Zhou, Xue-Feng
name: Liu, Yong-Hong
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: A new polychiral bisabolane sesquiterpene, bisabolanoic acid A (1), was isolated from the mangrove-derived fungus Colletotrichum sp. SCSIO KcB3-2. Its planar structure was identified on the basis of spectroscopic data analysis (HRESIMS, 1D, and 2D NMR), and the absolute configurations of three chiral carbons were determined by experimental and calculated electronic circular dichroism (ECD) and optical rotatory dispersion (ORD), together with Mo2(OAc)4-induced ECD methods. Bisabolanoic acid A (1) showed moderate inhibitory activity against acetylcholinesterase (AChE) with IC50 value of 2.2 μM, and the in silico molecular docking was also performed.
Phonological awareness in Chinese monolingual and Chinese-English bilingual children
Creators: name: Zhao, Jing
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: This thesis reports on two studies that examined the development of phonological awareness in Mandarin monolingual children and the bilingual advantages in phonological awareness in Mandarin-English bilingual children. The first study was conducted in Shanghai, China to examine the development of three levels of phonological awareness in Mandarin speaking children (i.e., syllable awareness, onset-rime awareness, and tone awareness) from the ages of 4 to 6. The results showed that like English-speaking children, the development of phonological awareness in Mandarin progressed from an awareness of relatively large segments (e.g. syllables) to smaller ones (e.g., onset-rime). Tone awareness, as a specific phonological awareness of Chinese, was developed earlier than other levels of phonological awareness in Mandarin-speaking children, whereas onset-rime awareness was last acquired. The second study compared Mandarin-English bilingual children's performance on phonological awareness with Mandarin monolingual children and English monolingual children. The results showed that Mandarin-English bilinguals performed better than English monolinguals on the Elision and Blending subtests of the CTOPP. Mandarin-English bilinguals also performed better than their Mandarin monolingual counterparts on all Mandarin phonological awareness tasks except for a syllable deletion task. The results from the two studies are discussed in terms of language-general vs. language-specific developmental profiles of phonological awareness as well as the effects of bilingualism on phonological awareness of both languages in bilingual children. Further clinical and educational implications of these results are also discussed.
title: 'Real Liberals' and Conservatives in the City of London, 1848-1886
Creators: name: Claus, Peter Mark
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1998

description: This is not an economic history. Neither is it a post-modernist tract. Rather this thesis is a knowledge based history that examines the political and cultural life of the City of London between 1848 and 1886 alongside its financial and commercial institutions. In attempting this task it has not been assumed that the City's signifying character was necessarily to be found in the financial and commercial institutions of its dominant middle: the streets leading off the Bank of England. Instead the City's vital hub and essential nature have been sought in its places of religious worship, municipal politics, Livery Companies, and in its clubs and associations. All of these elements over the period under review became the domain of a reinvigorated Conservative party. For this study, it is the view from the boundaries of the City that provide the best mirror back to its centre. By adopting a range of sources and approaches outside those usually employed by economic historians, the City's movement from Liberalism to Liberal Unionism and then to Conservatism is traced from its citizens defence of the City as a community during the Chartist threat of 1848, to its more general defence of property and the constitution in the years to 1886. The results suggest that the civic life of the City participated in a profound mutual interpenetration with the City's institutions of finance. This is important, not least because it helps re-locate finance and commerce in contexts other than those of economics. Accordingly, although the City has been represented as a locality of unrivalled wealth, it might from this perspective become a contested space: at once modern and conservative; modem in its promotion of finance, conservative in its wish to preserve monuments to an older City. It was at the centre where capitalism conducted its business, but it was at the periphery where its civic life emanated. The emphasis then is not on economic interests, nor on the survival of the City Corporation as a unit of local government, but on the City's sense of shared community, belonging, or identity. Disputed representations of the City, either from the financial centre or the civic periphery, were politically contested and influenced the City's development as a whole.
Orchard Park
Creators: name: Fitzgerald, Lowell George
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3602
subject: Creative and professional writing

description: Orchard Park is an original novel that explores definitions of family and community in a post-nuclear country. Orchard Park borrows from different genres including science fiction, alternate history (itself a sub-genre of science fiction), and fantasy to create an alternate 1983 in which the Cuban Missile Crisis had a much darker outcome. The story follows characters who have lost much to the two-decade long nuclear war, characters who have lost family to a radical new plague, and ultimately explores how these characters behave when placed in extraordinary circumstances. The fictional and eponymous city Orchard Park lies in a post-apocalypse state in which Gerry and Polly are challenged by the harsh natural word, betrayal and deception, and a fundamental inability and unwillingness to trust strangers in a country on the brink of total war.
ISSUES IN FOOD ASSISTANCE - HOW UNEMPLOYMENT AFFECTS THE FOOD STAMP PROGRAM
Creators: name: Hanson, Kenneth
name: Gundersen, Craig
name: Hanson, Kenneth
name: Gundersen, Craig
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Public Economics
subject: Food Stamp Program
subject: unemployment rate
subject: food assistance
subject: recession

description: This issues brief examines the link between unemployment and food stamps, with an emphasis on the potential magnitude of economic and policy changes on food stamp caseloads. We find that a 1-percentage-point increase in the unemployment rate leads to about 700,000 more food stamp recipients in the first year and in the longer run, this increase leads to 1.3 million more food stamp recipients.
FOOD ASSISTANCE LANDSCAPE, SEPTEMBER 2002
Creators: name: Oliveira, Victor
name: Oliveira, Victor
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Public Economics
subject: food assistance
subject: Food Stamp Program
subject: WIC
subject: National School Lunch Program
subject: School Breakfast Program
subject: Child and Adult Care Food Program

description: Nearly 1 in 6 Americans is served by 1 or more of the 15 domestic food assistance programs administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) at some point during the year. These programs provide needy persons with access to a more nutritious diet, provide opportunities to improve the eating habits of the Nation's children, and help America's farmers by creating an outlet for the distribution of food purchased under farmer assistance authorities. The Food Assistance Landscape, September 2002 provides a concise summary of USDA's food assistance programs at the midpoint of fiscal 2002, including trends and economic conditions affecting the programs.
ISSUES IN FOOD ASSISTANCE - PRIVATE PROVISION OF FOOD AID: THE EMERGENCY FOOD ASSISTANCE SYSTEM
Creators: name: Tiehen, Laura
name: Tiehen, Laura
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Program
subject: Emergency Food Assistance System
subject: food pantries
subject: emergency kitchens
subject: EFAS
subject: food consumption

description: Although Federal programs provide most food assistance in the U.S., many households rely on private, nonprofit, charitable organizations that provide emergency food in their communities. This issue brief reports findings from the first comprehensive government study of these organizations.
Schistoloma Kobelt 1902
Creators: name: Páll-Gergely, Barna
name: Nguyen, Phi Khanh
name: Chen, Yansen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Architaenioglossa
Pupinidae
Schistoloma

description: Schistoloma sumatranum (Dohrn, 1881)
 Coptocheilus Sumatranus Dohrn, 1881: 65.
 Schistoloma sumatranum — Kobelt, 1902: 281.
 Type locality. “in insula Sumatra, Singalang ”.
description: Published as part of Páll-Gergely, Barna, Nguyen, Phi Khanh & Chen, Yansen, 2019, A review of Vietnamese Schistoloma Kobelt, 1902 with a list of all known species of the genus (Caenogastropoda: Cyclophoroidea: Pupinidae), pp. 322-327 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 67 on page 327, DOI: 10.26107/RBZ-2019-0023, http://zenodo.org/record/4577058
Molecular analysis of combined mTOR/HDAC inhibition in multiple myeloma
Creators: name: Gamache, Ben
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The molecular pathogenesis of many cancer types, including multiple myeloma (MM), involves alterations in the PI3K/AKT/mTOR (mTOR) and cyclin/CDK/Rb (CDK/Rb) pathways, often through activation of the mTOR pathway and epigenetic silencing of tumor suppressors in the CDK/Rb pathway. Previous studies have identified HDAC and mTOR inhibitors as effective in combating these molecular alterations in the CDK/mTOR pathways, respectively. Evaluating molecular synergy of combinations is challenging, yet identification of cooperatively responding, biologically-relevant targets is potentially useful for defining patient subsets for which the combination would be active. Previous work took an integrated, systems-level approach to distill the core synergistic consequence of combining MS-275 (Class I HDACi) with rapamycin (mTORi). Transcriptional co-expression analysis of multiple myeloma (MM) cells treated individually and in combination was used to define the contribution of each drug to an overall response network. Five highly connected transcriptional modules were identified, of which one distinct module of 126 genes was cooperatively affected by both drugs. Of the cooperatively affected genes, 37 were found to be differentially expressed in MM and predictive of survival (p<0.01). The pharmacodynamic response of the signature to the drug combination was examined by Western Blot and NanoString in a large number of MM cell lines before and after treatment. Ingenuity transcription factor enrichment testing identified MYC as one of the regulators of the synergistic transcriptional response. Inducible MYC cell lines have shown diminished protein, but not mRNA, expression in response to the drug combination. Likewise, MYC is required for combination sensitivity and for the synergistic response of the gene signature to combined mTOR/HDAC inhibition. This analysis identified an alternative route to MYC inhibition and a systems-level approach for defining the molecular underpinnings of drug combinations which can be applied to many disease states.
Nonreciprocal metamaterial obeying time-reversal symmetry
Creators: name: Buddhiraju, Siddharth
name: Song, Alex
name: Papadakis, Georgia T.
name: Fan, Shanhui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a class of non-Hermitian systems that break electromagnetic reciprocity while preserving time-reversal symmetry, and describe its novel polarization dynamics. We show that this class of systems can be realized using van der Waals heterostructures involving transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). Our work provides a path towards achieving strong optical nonreciprocity and polarization-dependent directional amplification using compact, large-area and magnet-free structures.
title: A molecular genetic investigation of rhabdomyosarcoma
Creators: name: Chalk, Jeremy
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1998

description: Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma IS characterised by a t(2;13)(q35;qI4) chromosome trartslocation, which leads to the fusion of the P AX3 artd the FKHR genes. The resulting fusion gene encodes a chimeric protein which has aberrant transcriptional activity. The data here describes the molecular definition of the genomic breakpoints on both derivative chromosomes in one case and the derivative chromosome 13 breakpoints in two other cases. The DNA sequences adjacent to the breakpoints on the derivative chromosome 13 are remarkable for their resemblartce to recognition sequences for the protein trartslin. Electrophoretic mobility shift studies (EMSA) confirm that these sequences bind translin. These findings suggest that translin may not only be important in the genesis of chromosomal trartslocations in lymphoid malignancy, but also in translocations found in solid tumours. Mutation analysis of tumour samples and cell lines from patients with embryonal and alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma suggests that there are no subtle disease associated mutations within the P AX3 gene that could contribute towards the neoplastic state.
ISSUES IN FOOD ASSISTANCE - EFFECTS OF CHANGES IN FOOD STAMP EXPENDITURES ACROSS THE U.S. ECONOMY
Creators: name: Hanson, Kenneth
name: Golan, Elise
name: Hanson, Kenneth
name: Golan, Elise
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Public Economics
subject: Food Stamp Program expenditures
subject: Food Stamp Program linkages to the farm sector
subject: input-output multiplier
subject: countercyclical government programs
subject: automatic stabilizer
subject: Budget Enforcement Act

description: The Food Stamp Program (FSP) provides assistance to more households during recessions and to fewer households during times of economic expansion. These changes in FSP expenditures can have stabilizing effects on the economy, stimulating economic activity during recessions and slowing demand during expansions. This issues brief shows that the FSP provides an economic stimulus during recessions only if the Government funds the increase in program expenditures through emergency financing, rather than through increased taxes or other budget-neutral means.