cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Carbon in the mountains: Using wavelet analysis to understand carbon interactions
Creators: name: Drevon, Atzel
name: Schimel, Dave
name: Kleypas, Joanie
Publisher: name: University Corporation For Atmospheric Research (UCAR)
Year: 2004

The study of carbon interaction in alpine forests has, for the most part, been neglected by the science community. Studies have shown that carbon sinks are located in the northern hemisphere, and a recent satellite study has shown that possible carbon sinks are located in alpine forests throughout the U.S. This work attempts to identify possible carbon sources and sinks in the Airborne Carbon in the Mountains Experiment (ACME) study area of the Rocky Mountain Front Range in Colorado. For this study, CO₂ and vertical velocity (WIC= vector sum of the vertical speed and wind speed) were studied using wavelet analysis, and the variances of the CO₂ and WIC wavelets were used to determine the behavior of the time series. The results show that sinks and sources of CO₂ are present along the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. Analysis is ongoing to verify the location of the CO₂ sources and sinks. These results show that once the sinks are identified, more research is required to better understand them and to better understand the alpine carbon cycle. This
Evaluating the convective atmospheric boundary layer by using surface station data
Creators: name: Edwards, Braxton
name: Lemone, Margaret
name: Knievel, Jason
name: Butcher, Kirsten
Publisher: name: University Corporation For Atmospheric Research (UCAR)
Year: 2004

The boundary layer contains a significant amount of the atmosphereâs water vapor, which is important for storm development. However, operational meteorologists have difficulty determining representative specific humidity values through this layer because the tools that they use do not give enough information on vertical and horizontal moisture variation. Data from the International HâO Project (IHOP) was used to determine relationships between the boundary layer specific humidity and potential temperature profiles as well as surface wind speed, wind direction, moisture fluxes, and sensible heat fluxes. Soundings of the boundary layer were created by combining Wyoming King Air aircraft data with data from surface stations located under the flight tracks. The idealized daytime fair-weather convective boundary layer has constant profiles of temperature and specific humidity throughout the mixed layer. Observed profiles often did not fit this idealized model, even when it was expected. The author found that the vertical variation of specific humidity matches this idealized model most closely during conditions of strong winds, strong sensible heat fluxes, and weak latent heat fluxes. If surface data are used to refine estimates of lapse rates, operational meteorologists should be able to increase the accuracy in convective storm forecasting.
Extended URDF: Accounting for parallel mechanism in robot description
Creators: name: Batto, Virgile
name: de Matteis, Ludovic
name: Mansard, Nicolas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Robotic designs played an important role in recent advances by providing powerful robots with complex mechanics. Many recent systems rely on parallel actuation to provide lighter limbs and allow more complex motion. However, these emerging architectures fall outside the scope of most used description formats, leading to difficulties when designing, storing, and sharing the models of these systems. This paper introduces an extension to the widely used Unified Robot Description Format (URDF) to support closed-loop kinematic structures. Our approach relies on augmenting URDF with minimal additional information to allow more efficient modeling of complex robotic systems while maintaining compatibility with existing design and simulation frameworks. This method sets the basic requirement for a description format to handle parallel mechanisms efficiently. We demonstrate the applicability of our approach by providing an open-source collection of parallel robots, along with tools for generating and parsing this extended description format. The proposed extension simplifies robot modeling, reduces redundancy, and improves usability for advanced robotic applications.
Contribution of Flares from Tidal Disruption of Stars to high-redshift AGN
Creators: name: Padmanabhan, Hamsa
name: Loeb, Abraham
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the contributions of Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) to the flares in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) at high redshifts. Using the latest data available from X-ray and optical observations of high-redshift galaxies, in combination with the evolution of their central supermassive black holes, we calculate the contribution of TDE to AGNs as a function of their luminosities. We find that at low redshifts ($z < 1$), a few percent of all AGN with bolometric luminosities $L_{\rm Bol} \lesssim 10^{44}$ erg s$^{-1}$ may be attributable to possible TDEs. However, this fraction can significantly increase at earlier cosmic times, including up to several tens of percent of the population of AGN at $z \gtrsim 3$. TDEs may comprise a significant fraction of the Compton-Thick (CT) AGN population at $z \gtrsim 3$. The above findings motivate further calibration with upcoming X-ray missions and spectroscopic surveys targeting TDE-AGN.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures; accepted for publication in A&A
Who shall decide when doctors disagree? Hoaxes and American men of science in the nineteenth century
Creators: name: Stewart, Elizabeth Pritchard
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 43
subject: History, heritage and archaeology
classificationCode: 4303
subject: Historical studies

description: Self-proclaimed men of science perpetrated an extraordinary series of hoaxes in the U.S. in the 1830s through the 1880s, a period of intense popularization and professionalization of American science. This dissertation identifies the emergence of a pattern testing science's authority: hoaxers' orchestration of tricks actively engaged debunkers and spectators in parodies of the scientific method, forcing professionalizing scientists to confront what I have termed a "democracy of knowledge" among laypeople. Hoaxes injected humor into the tension between two as yet inchoate visions: the democracy of knowledge---a protean discourse rooted in mid-nineteenth-century values celebrating the wisdom of the common man---and rule by expert-scientists' conception of a modern future. Fascinated by the promise of science and technology, the public venerated charlatans and dabblers at science's fringes, whose spectacular attractions were most enjoyable for the layperson. Whether confronting the Moon Hoax, the Feejee Mermaid, spiritualism, or the Cardiff Giant in the proliferating venues of popular amusement, audiences eagerly participated in the working-out of the controversy provoked by each novel "discovery." While exercising their powers of detection, they expressed an expectation that they had as much right as anyone to determine the role of science in American life. For their part, nascent scientists debated among themselves whether to challenge the hoaxers at a time when any hint of fraud threatened to devalue their still fragile professional status. These men improvised a variety of responses across the nineteenth century: they met their adversaries head-on, with mixed results, or waged behind-the-scenes campaigns against the perpetrator of the day. This dissertation argues that in mid-nineteenth-century hoaxes men of science and average people negotiated the limits and benefits of scientific knowledge in American society, science's prestige to be enhanced or undercut in particular by elites' responses to deception. Scientists' lack of unanimity in meeting these popular challenges allowed the persistence of the belief that when "doctors" disagreed, the people ought to decide. This democracy of knowledge symbolically preserved laypeople's right to "do" science, and put scientists on notice that they could not expect complete freedom of action in the exercise of their expertise.
Is GPT-4 a reliable rater? Evaluating Consistency in GPT-4 Text Ratings
Creators: name: Hackl, Veronika
name: Müller, Alexandra Elena
name: Granitzer, Michael
name: Sailer, Maximilian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This study investigates the consistency of feedback ratings generated by OpenAI's GPT-4, a state-of-the-art artificial intelligence language model, across multiple iterations, time spans and stylistic variations. The model rated responses to tasks within the Higher Education (HE) subject domain of macroeconomics in terms of their content and style. Statistical analysis was conducted in order to learn more about the interrater reliability, consistency of the ratings across iterations and the correlation between ratings in terms of content and style. The results revealed a high interrater reliability with ICC scores ranging between 0.94 and 0.99 for different timespans, suggesting that GPT-4 is capable of generating consistent ratings across repetitions with a clear prompt. Style and content ratings show a high correlation of 0.87. When applying a non-adequate style the average content ratings remained constant, while style ratings decreased, which indicates that the large language model (LLM) effectively distinguishes between these two criteria during evaluation. The prompt used in this study is furthermore presented and explained. Further research is necessary to assess the robustness and reliability of AI models in various use cases.
description: 14 pages, 7 tables, 1 figure
Developing a procedure for software testing using synthetic data
Creators: name: Forbes, Shanna-Shaye
name: Rogers, David
name: Webster, Christopher
name: Daniels, Michael
name: Abshire, Wendy
name: Cross, Susan
name: Burt, Melissa
Publisher: name: University Corporation For Atmospheric Research (UCAR)
Year: 2004

The Nimbus data processor was developed for the National Center for Atmospheric Research's Research Aviation Facility to process the raw data collected during research flights and to compute derived variables dependent on these measured parameters. Over its years of use scientists accepted on faith that the derived variables produced by Nimbus were accurate, however, they lacked an automated tool to test consistency and accuracy. This project's aim was to create a synthetic data injector (SDI) to test the consistency and accuracy of Nimbus' derived variables. This project resulted in the development of a SDI that allows scientists to use synthetic data. They can observe how Nimbus handles raw data anomalies, and evaluate the sensitivity of derived variables. Synthetic data injection was accomplished when newly written code modified Nimbusâs existing code which opens an existing raw data file, decodes the information and stores the decoded information in memory before processing it. The newly written code replaced data memory with synthetic data before processing, and scientists were then able to view the modified data. Modifications were made to a raw variable, and the changes in the raw variable became evident in the derived variables. The synthetic data injector demonstrated the consistency of Nimbus' derived variables and allows scientist to modify aircraft data.
Melting holographic mesons by cooling a magnetized quark gluon plasma
Creators: name: Ávila, Daniel
name: Patiño, Leonardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend our analysis of holographic meson dissociation in the presence of an intense magnetic field. In addition to the previously known critical temperature above which the mesons melt, we found that for certain magnetic field intensities there exists a second lower critical temperature, below which stable mesons cease to exist. While we showed before that there is a range of high temperatures for which mesons can be melted by changing the magnetic field intensity, here we show that, as a consequence of the second critical point, there is also a range of low temperatures for which this phenomenom, which we term Magnetic Meson Melting (MMM), can be triggered. Additionaly, we also show that the magnetic field decreases the mass gap of the meson spectrum along with their masses. We are able to observe this by constructing a configuration that makes it possible to apply gauge/gravity methods to study fundamental degrees of freedom in a quark-gluon plasma subject to a magnetic field as intense as that expected in high energy collisions. This is achieved by the confection of a ten-dimensional background that is dual to the magnetized plasma and nonetheless permits the embedding of D7-branes in it. The main difference with previous approaches, which in consequence gives the novel results, is that the magnetic field retroacts in the geometry itself, as opposed to be confined to the world volume of the probe D7-branes.
description: 37 pages, 15 figures
Press release: A tool for public relations
Creators: name: Ling, Mayyer
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Press releases are amongst the most popular form of communication utilised by corporate institutions such as banking establishments as a tool for the maintenance of sound public relations. The current study compared press releases from two different levels of organisations; local and international in the attempt to decipher patterns in the use of proper nouns and pronouns. The method used was both qualitative and quantitative. The results revealed that there are social meanings implied in press releases with the proper noun choices made. International banks repeatedly use them to (re)introduce, and promote, themselves to the world market with the use of full forms singly, or accompanied by abbreviated forms. The local banks have the inclination to downplay their introductory, and promotional, function by using abbreviated forms of their proper nouns. In terms of proper nouns, there was an extension of the advertising device function proposed by Fairclough (1989), whereby they are also found to be used as a marker for collectivistic society (Hofstede, 2001). It is apparent from the study that careful consideration has to be taken in order to reap the best of the communication tool to maintain sound public relations in such corporations.
Some Relations between Twisted K-theory and E8 Gauge Theory
Creators: name: Mathai, Varghese
name: Sati, Hisham
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, Diaconescu, Moore and Witten provided a nontrivial link between K-theory and M-theory, by deriving the partition function of the Ramond-Ramond fields of Type IIA string theory from an E8 gauge theory in eleven dimensions. We give some relations between twisted K-theory and M-theory by adapting the method of Diaconescu-Moore-Witten and Moore-Saulina. In particular, we construct the twisted K-theory torus which defines the partition function, and also discuss the problem from the E8 loop group picture, in which the Dixmier-Douady class is the Neveu-Schwarz field. In the process of doing this, we encounter some mathematics that is new to the physics literature. In particular, the eta differential form, which is the generalization of the eta invariant, arises naturally in this context. We conclude with several open problems in mathematics and string theory.
description: 23 pages, latex2e, corrected minor errors and typos in published version
Spectral Irradiance Calibration in the Infrared. XIII. "Supertemplates" and On-Orbit Calibrators for SIRTF's Infrared Array Camera (IRAC)
Creators: name: Cohen, Martin
name: Megeath, S. T.
name: Hammersley, Peter L.
name: Martin-Luis, Fabiola
name: Stauffer, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe the technique used to develop on-orbit calibrators for IRAC and validate the method for either K0-M0III or A0-A5V stars. For SIRTF, the approach uses all available optical, NIR, and MIR photometry, and yields absolute spectra from UV to MIR. One set of stars is from Landolt's network of optical standards, the other from Carter-Meadows IR standards. Traceability to the Cohen-Walker- Witteborn framework of absolute photometry and spectra is assured. The method is based on using either "supertemplates" to represent the intrinsic shapes of the spectra of K0-M0IIIs from 1150A to 35 um, or Kurucz synthetic spectra for A0-5V stars. Each supertemplate/model is reddened according to a star's extinction and normalized by characterized optical photometry. This paper tests our ability to predict NIR (JHK) magnitudes from supertemplates or models constrained by Hippa- rcos/Tycho or precision ground-based optical data. We offer absolute calibrated spectra of 33 optical standards to demonstrate the viability of this technique for a set of IR calibrators 100-1000 times fainter than we have previously publ- ished. We calculate the absolute uncertainties associated with predicting IRAC mags for the faintest cool giant and hot dwarf in this new set of calibrators.
description: 53 pages, Latex, AASTEX5 macros
Additional file 10 of Conserved associations between G-quadruplex-forming DNA motifs and virulence gene families in malaria parasites
Creators: name: Gage, Hunter L.
name: Merrick, Catherine J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 10 Fig. S5. Analysis of G4-folding capacity in motifs found by G4 Hunter and QGRS Mapper. Bar plots (A, B) show fluorescent emission of the G4-specific dye thioflavin T in the presence of PQS oligonucleotides, scrambled-sequence controls, and a duplex of A/T sequence that does not form a G4 (representing background emission in the presence of DNA). ‘Relative fluorescence’ is relative to that of thioflavin T alone (no DNA). (A) shows two canonical PQSs from P. falciparum that were previously characterised as G4-folding via several biophysical assays [31, 37]. (B) shows three new PQSs predicted bv G4 Hunter in several Laveranian genomes. Data are the mean of n = 4 experiments conducted in technical triplicate; error bars are SD; ****, P
*Education and job -to -job mobility: An empirical analysis of Bulgaria and the Czech Republic
Creators: name: Strohl, Jeff
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics

description: In this dissertation the relationship between job-to-job mobility and education is examined to help understand differences in economic performance between Bulgaria and the Czech Republic during transition as of 1993. A focus on how higher levels of educational attainment might have enhanced worker reaction to the transition suggests that the behavior of more educated workers, as observed in the Czech Republic, was of benefit to economic performance there. This was less so the case in Bulgaria where economic conditions limited opportunities in the labor market and more educated workers left the labor force at high rates. A focus on how education type affects job-to-job mobility reveals that specific education locks workers into a narrow array of jobs defined by their formal qualifications. Gradualist employment policies in the Czech Republic gave these workers time to adjust to economic restructuring and led to less human capital depreciation. This did not happen in Bulgaria where ineffective labor market policies and long-term unemployment resulted in much more human capital depreciation.
title: The relationship of metalinguistic awareness with motivation and proficiency in bi- and multilingual learners of Hungarian as an additional foreign language
Creators: name: Ghanmi, Rabeb
name: Navracsics, Judit
Publisher: name: Pannon Egyetem
Year: 2021

description: Alkalmazott nyelvtudomány, vol. 21. issue 2. ISSN 1587-1061, eISSN 2498-4442
Using the TIEGCM to estimate the equatorial verticle E x B drift velocity with ground magnetic perturbation
Creators: name: Harper, Bret
name: Maute, Astrid
name: Richmond, Arthur
name: Hansen, Jo
name: Davis, Ethan
name: Chan, Rebecca
Publisher: name: University Corporation For Atmospheric Research (UCAR)
Year: 2004

Located at a distance of approximately 90-km above the Earth's surface, the ionosphere is distinguished by a relatively high density of positively charged ions and negatively charged electrons distributed in several distinct regions. In part to facilitate the study of the ionosphere, the Thermosphere-Ionosphere-Electrodynamics General Circulation Model (TIEGCM) was developed. The TIEGCM is a self-consistent, three-dimensional time-dependent model of the Earthâs atmosphere. TIEGCM predicts winds, temperature, major and minor composition of the air, and electrodynamic quantities such as currents in the ionosphere, for the entire globe from 97 to approximately 500-km in altitude. Past observational studies suggested that the strength of the drift velocity could be inferred from ground magnetic perturbation. This method involved situating one magnetometer on the magnetic equator and another magnetometer placed six to nine degrees north or south of the magnetic equator. Such studies also quantified the relationship between equatorial ion drift velocity and magnetic perturbation. This research project assessed the TIEGCM's performance by comparing the quantified relationship from previous studies to TIEGCM outputs. Equatorial ion drift velocity and magnetic perturbation (dH) were analyzed to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the TIEGCM in comparison with the observation data set. The results revealed that the TIEGCM represents the observations quite well, however, there are still some unexplained variations. The results of this study are most significant because they have showed us that we still do not fully understand the mechanisms that produce upward E x B drift velocity and magnetic perturbation.
Triangle-Net: Towards Robustness in Point Cloud Learning
Creators: name: Xiao, Chenxi
name: Wachs, Juan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Three dimensional (3D) object recognition is becoming a key desired capability for many computer vision systems such as autonomous vehicles, service robots and surveillance drones to operate more effectively in unstructured environments. These real-time systems require effective classification methods that are robust to various sampling resolutions, noisy measurements, and unconstrained pose configurations. Previous research has shown that points' sparsity, rotation and positional inherent variance can lead to a significant drop in the performance of point cloud based classification techniques. However, neither of them is sufficiently robust to multifactorial variance and significant sparsity. In this regard, we propose a novel approach for 3D classification that can simultaneously achieve invariance towards rotation, positional shift, scaling, and is robust to point sparsity. To this end, we introduce a new feature that utilizes graph structure of point clouds, which can be learned end-to-end with our proposed neural network to acquire a robust latent representation of the 3D object. We show that such latent representations can significantly improve the performance of object classification and retrieval tasks when points are sparse. Further, we show that our approach outperforms PointNet and 3DmFV by 35.0% and 28.1% respectively in ModelNet 40 classification tasks using sparse point clouds of only 16 points under arbitrary SO(3) rotation.
description: WACV 2021
*Education and job -to -job mobility: An empirical analysis of Bulgaria and the Czech Republic
Creators: name: Strohl, Jeff
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: In this dissertation the relationship between job-to-job mobility and education is examined to help understand differences in economic performance between Bulgaria and the Czech Republic during transition as of 1993. A focus on how higher levels of educational attainment might have enhanced worker reaction to the transition suggests that the behavior of more educated workers, as observed in the Czech Republic, was of benefit to economic performance there. This was less so the case in Bulgaria where economic conditions limited opportunities in the labor market and more educated workers left the labor force at high rates. A focus on how education type affects job-to-job mobility reveals that specific education locks workers into a narrow array of jobs defined by their formal qualifications. Gradualist employment policies in the Czech Republic gave these workers time to adjust to economic restructuring and led to less human capital depreciation. This did not happen in Bulgaria where ineffective labor market policies and long-term unemployment resulted in much more human capital depreciation.
Advances in Deep Space Exploration via Simulators & Deep Learning
Creators: name: Bird, James
name: Petzold, Linda
name: Lubin, Philip
name: Deacon, Julia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The StarLight program conceptualizes fast interstellar travel via small wafer satellites (wafersats) that are propelled by directed energy. This process is wildly different from traditional space travel and trades large and slow spacecraft for small, fast, inexpensive, and fragile ones. The main goal of these wafer satellites is to gather useful images during their deep space journey. We introduce and solve some of the main problems that accompany this concept. First, we need an object detection system that can detect planets that we have never seen before, some containing features that we may not even know exist in the universe. Second, once we have images of exoplanets, we need a way to take these images and rank them by importance. Equipment fails and data rates are slow, thus we need a method to ensure that the most important images to humankind are the ones that are prioritized for data transfer. Finally, the energy on board is minimal and must be conserved and used sparingly. No exoplanet images should be missed, but using energy erroneously would be detrimental. We introduce simulator-based methods that leverage artificial intelligence, mostly in the form of computer vision, in order to solve all three of these issues. Our results confirm that simulators provide an extremely rich training environment that surpasses that of real images, and can be used to train models on features that have yet to be observed by humans. We also show that the immersive and adaptable environment provided by the simulator, combined with deep learning, lets us navigate and save energy in an otherwise implausible way.
description: 16 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables, currently under review
Additional file 1 of What matters to me – a web-based preference elicitation tool for clients in long-term care: a user-centred design
Creators: name: Leersum, Catharina M. Van
name: Moser, Albine
name: Steenkiste, Ben Van
name: Reinartz, Marion
name: Stoffers, Esther
name: Wolf, Judith R. L. M.
name: Weijden, Trudy Van Der
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Information Systems

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Homepage of the tool used during the Look and feel phase of the usability study. Figure S2. Category-page of the tool used during the Look and feel phase of the usability study. Figure S3. Proposition-page of the tool used during the Look and feel phase of the usability study. Figure S4. Pop-up of the tool used during the Look and feel phase of the usability study. Figure S5. Overview of the tool used during the look and feel phase of the usability study.
Eucerini
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae

description: Tribe Eucerini
Long horned bees exhibit high diversity in the BCP, comprising 7 genera and 56 described species. In this study, we adhere to the most recent classification outlined by Freitas et al. (2023), which is based on modern molecular phylogenomic techniques.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 163, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Additional file 2 of What matters to me – a web-based preference elicitation tool for clients in long-term care: a user-centred design
Creators: name: Leersum, Catharina M. Van
name: Moser, Albine
name: Steenkiste, Ben Van
name: Reinartz, Marion
name: Stoffers, Esther
name: Wolf, Judith R. L. M.
name: Weijden, Trudy Van Der
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Information Systems

description: Additional file 2: Figure S6. Deductive and inductive content analysis of the data obtained by the usability study. The analysis started with a deductive approach based on the three phases of the usability study. The categories within each phase were defined by an inductive approach.
CMB anisotropies from primordial inhomogeneous magnetic fields
Creators: name: Lewis, Antony
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Primordial inhomogeneous magnetic fields of the right strength can leave a signature on the CMB temperature anisotropy and polarization. Potentially observable contributions to polarization B-modes are generated by vorticity and gravitational waves sourced by the magnetic anisotropic stress. We compute the corresponding CMB transfer functions in detail including the effect of neutrinos. The shear rapidly causes the neutrino anisotropic stress to cancel the stress from the magnetic field, suppressing the production of gravitational waves and vorticity on super-horizon scales after neutrino decoupling. A significant large scale signal from tensor modes can only be produced before neutrino decoupling, and the actual amplitude is somewhat uncertain. Plausible values suggest primordial nearly scale invariant fields of ~ 10^(-10)G today may be observable from their large scale tensor anisotropy. They can be distinguished from primordial gravitational waves by their non-Gaussianity. Vector mode vorticity sources B-mode power on much smaller scales with a power spectrum somewhat similar to that expected from weak lensing, suggesting amplitudes ~ 10^(-9)G may be observable on small scales for a spectral index of n ~ -2.9. In the appendix we review the covariant equations for computing the vector and tensor CMB power spectra that we implement numerically.
description: Minor changes to match PRD accepted version. Numerical code for vector mode power spectra available at http://camb.info
Exchange-Rate Discounting
Creators: name: Smith, Gregor W.
name: Smith, Gregor W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: floating exchange rates
subject: regime switching

description: Economists often describe nominal exchange rates as forward-looking, so that they reflect discounted, expected, future fundamentals. This study applies a method for identifying the discount rate involved, without knowing or measuring fundamentals. Identification arises from assumptions on the stochastic process followed by fundamentals, combined with nonlinearity arising from expected future regime changes. Two applications yield evidence against the present-value model in the form of discount rates which are negative and statistically significant.
Nonperturbative Dyson-Schwinger equation approach to strongly interacting Dirac fermion systems
Creators: name: Pan, Xiao-Yin
name: Yang, Zhao-Kun
name: Li, Xin
name: Liu, Guo-Zhu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Studying the strong correlation effects in interacting Dirac fermion systems is one of the most challenging problems in modern condensed matter physics. The long-range Coulomb interaction and the fermion-phonon interaction can lead to a variety of intriguing properties. In the strong-coupling regime, weak-coupling perturbation theory breaks down. The validity of $1/N$ expansion with $N$ being the fermion flavor is also in doubt since $N$ equals to $2$ or $4$ in realistic systems. Here, we investigate the interaction between (1+2)- and (1+3)-dimensional massless Dirac fermions and a generic scalar boson, and develop an efficient non-perturbative approach to access the strong-coupling regime. We first derive a number of self-consistently coupled Ward-Takahashi identities based on a careful symmetry analysis and then use these identities to show that the full fermion-boson vertex function is solely determined by the full fermion propagator. Making use of this result, we rigorously prove that the full fermion propagator satisfies an exact and self-closed Dyson-Schwinger integral equation, which can be solved by employing numerical methods. A major advantage of our non-perturbative approach is that there is no need to employ any small expansion parameter. Our approach provides a unified theoretical framework for studying strong Coulomb and fermion-phonon interactions. It may also be used to approximately handle the Yukawa coupling between fermions and order-parameter fluctuations around continuous quantum critical points. Our approach is applied to treat the Coulomb interaction in undoped graphene. We find that the renormalized fermion velocity exhibits a logarithmic momentum-dependence but is nearly energy independent, and that no excitonic gap is generated by the Coulomb interaction. These theoretical results are consistent with experiments in graphene.
description: 59 pages, 3 figures
Information-Theoretic Estimation of Preference Parameters: Macroeconomic Applications and Simulation Evidence
Creators: name: Gregory, Allan W.
name: Lamarche, Jean-Francois
name: Smith, Gregor W.
name: Gregory, Allan W.
name: Lamarche, Jean-Francois
name: Smith, Gregor W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: KLIC estimation
subject: generalized method of moments
subject: Monte Carlo

description: This paper investigates the behaviour of estimators based on the Kullback-Leibler information criterion (KLIC), as an alternative to the generalized method of moments (GMM). We first study the estimators in a Monte Carlo simulation model of consumption growth with power utility. Then we compare KLIC and GMM estimators in macroeconomic applications, in which preference parameters are estimated with aggregate data. KLIC probability measures serve as useful diagnostics. In dependent data, tests of overidentifying restrictions in the KLIC framework have size properties comparable to those of the J-test in iterated GMM, but superior size-adjusted power.
Signs and signifiers: Flexible categorizations of autism
Creators: name: Taub, Deborah Anne
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation explores how autism is a culturally constructed experience. This argument does not preclude biological symptoms and causes, but rather illustrates that autism is a flexible category that people interpret and use differently. I examine these experiences through two primary areas of focus: the categorization process and text making. The categorization process and the language of autism have connections to larger political and educational frameworks. They are tied to the proclivities of Western Biomedicine, education, Standard English and law. These systems privilege the mind/body dualism of Western Biomedicine as well as the class, race, and language biases of standardized testing. These privileges introduce institutional barriers, which each family and set of educators negotiated, based on criteria such as education, socio-economic status, ideas of success and normal, and attitudes toward medical and educational professionals. One site of this privileging occurs through professionals often considering the language of autism "dysfunctional." I am taking one of the first steps toward a hitherto unrealized egalitarian goal: to show that children with autism have a desire to communicate and that this desire drives text making. Thus, we need to stop classifying their text making as dysfunctional, and start examining what they are trying to communicate. I found that text making was connected to their worldview and used to help add control and order their experiences. The categorization process and how these children's text making is devalued in the classroom are based on hegemonic institutions and social processes that had the result of devaluing the child categorized as autistic. There are certainly exceptional teachers who are able to individualize education and help to maintain these children's voices regardless of their categorization. However, there are also barriers that ensure a difference in type and quality of service based on factors such as parental education and socio-economic level. Thus, while the most recent education Act, Leave No Child Behind, focuses on a top down model of reform, my work illustrates the need for a model of reform that begins with the child.
The CCAPM Meets Euro-Interest Rate Persistence, 1960-2000
Creators: name: Head, Allen C.
name: Smith, Gregor W.
name: Head, Allen C.
name: Smith, Gregor W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Euro-interest rates
subject: CCAPM

description: Euro-interest rates are well-known to be persistent, as are their differentials across countries for a given maturity. The international CCAPM implies that the rates are persistent because forecasts of national consumption growth or inflation are persistent too. We examine this prediction for a panel of countries. The standard CCAPM with power utility is augmented to allow for external habit, government consumption, and adaptive learning. In all cases, we find little evidence that the persistence in Euro-rates is consistent with the CCAPM.
Agapanthinus callophilus
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Agapanthinus callophilus (Cockerell, 1923)
[Holotype: CASC; Isla San José, Baja California Sur, México; May 28, 1921]
Agapanthinus callophilus is endemic to the SD province and it is a rare species known from a few specimens. It has been reported in La Giganta Ranges and Gulf Coast in BCS (LaBerge 1957). The BBPT collected eight specimens in the Lower Colorado Desert in May of 2022. Voucher specimens are in MABC, and ECOAB. See fig. 99.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 163, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
UBRI Photometry of Globular Clusters in the Leo Group Galaxy NGC 3379
Creators: name: Whitlock, Shannon
name: Forbes, Duncan A.
name: Beasley, Michael A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present wide area UBRI photometry for globular clusters around the Leo group galaxy NGC 3379. Globular cluster candidates are selected from their B-band magnitudes and their (U-B)o vs (B-I)o colours. A colour-colour selection region was defined from photometry of the Milky Way and M31 globular cluster systems. We detect 133 globular cluster candidates which, supports previous claims of a low specific frequency for NGC 3379. The Milky Way and M31 reveal blue and red subpopulations, with (U-B)o and (B-I)o colours indicating mean metallicities similar to those expected based on previous spectroscopic work. The stellar population models of Maraston (2003) and Brocato etal (2000) are consistent with both subpopulations being old, and with metallicities of [Fe/H] \~ -1.5 and -0.6 for the blue and red subpopulations respectively. The models of Worthey (1994) do not reproduce the (U-B)o colours of the red (metal-rich) subpopulation for any modelled age. For NGC 3379 we detect a blue subpopulation with similar colours and presumably age/metallicity, to that of the Milky Way and M31 globular cluster systems. The red subpopulation is less well defined, perhaps due to increased photometric errors, but indicates a mean metallicity of [Fe/H] ~ -0.6.
description: 12 pages, Latex, 10 figures, 1 table, submitted for publication in MNRAS, Fig. 11 available in source file or from dforbes@swin.edu.au
Bulk Anyons as Edge Symmetries: Boundary Phase Diagrams of Topologically Ordered States
Creators: name: Lichtman, Tsuf
name: Thorngren, Ryan
name: Lindner, Netanel H.
name: Stern, Ady
name: Berg, Erez
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study effectively one-dimensional systems that emerge at the edge of a two-dimensional topologically ordered state, or at the boundary between two topologically ordered states. We argue that anyons of the bulk are associated with emergent symmetries of the edge, which play a crucial role in the structure of its phase diagram. Using this symmetry principle, transitions between distinct gapped phases at the boundaries of Abelian states can be understood in terms of symmetry breaking transitions or transitions between symmetry protected topological phases. Yet more exotic phenomena occur when the bulk hosts non-Abelian anyons. To demonstrate these principles, we explore the phase diagrams of the edges of a single and a double layer of the toric code, as well as those of domain walls in a single and double-layer Kitaev spin liquid (KSL). In the case of the KSL, we find that the presence of a non-Abelian anyon in the bulk enforces Kramers-Wannier self-duality as a symmetry of the effective boundary theory. These examples illustrate a number of surprising phenomena, such as spontaneous duality-breaking, two-sector phase transitions, and unfreezing of marginal operators at a transition between different gapless phases.
description: 33 page, 13 figures; published version
Signs and signifiers: Flexible categorizations of autism
Creators: name: Taub, Deborah Anne
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3904
subject: Specialist studies in education

description: This dissertation explores how autism is a culturally constructed experience. This argument does not preclude biological symptoms and causes, but rather illustrates that autism is a flexible category that people interpret and use differently. I examine these experiences through two primary areas of focus: the categorization process and text making. The categorization process and the language of autism have connections to larger political and educational frameworks. They are tied to the proclivities of Western Biomedicine, education, Standard English and law. These systems privilege the mind/body dualism of Western Biomedicine as well as the class, race, and language biases of standardized testing. These privileges introduce institutional barriers, which each family and set of educators negotiated, based on criteria such as education, socio-economic status, ideas of success and normal, and attitudes toward medical and educational professionals. One site of this privileging occurs through professionals often considering the language of autism "dysfunctional." I am taking one of the first steps toward a hitherto unrealized egalitarian goal: to show that children with autism have a desire to communicate and that this desire drives text making. Thus, we need to stop classifying their text making as dysfunctional, and start examining what they are trying to communicate. I found that text making was connected to their worldview and used to help add control and order their experiences. The categorization process and how these children's text making is devalued in the classroom are based on hegemonic institutions and social processes that had the result of devaluing the child categorized as autistic. There are certainly exceptional teachers who are able to individualize education and help to maintain these children's voices regardless of their categorization. However, there are also barriers that ensure a difference in type and quality of service based on factors such as parental education and socio-economic level. Thus, while the most recent education Act, Leave No Child Behind, focuses on a top down model of reform, my work illustrates the need for a model of reform that begins with the child.