cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Does dissociation of emotional and physiological reactivity predict blood pressure change over 10 years?
Creators: name: Levin, Anna Yudit
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: One of the major theories of psychosomatic medicine is that pervasive dissociations between physiological reactivity and simultaneous emotion awareness may be an important marker for the long term development of cardiac problems. For example, a defensive coping style is characterized by high physiological reactivity to a stressor, paired with simultaneous low subjective emotional awareness of that stressor. The numerous different factors that have been identified as predictive of later cardiac states have lead to conceptual confusion in the field. Subjective Autonomic Discrepancy (SAD) scores computed by subtracting standardized subjective stress response scores from standardized reactivity scores, are proposed as a simplified method of capturing the dissociation between physiological and emotional reactivity, and thus increasing the explanatory power of predictive models of cardiac health outcomes. Data from a ten-year longitudinal study were used to evaluate the reliability and predictive validity of this phenomenon. It was found that discrepancy scores for blood pressure indices show trait-like stability over a period of 3 years (r= .53, p<.001 for SBP and r= .69, p<.001 for DBP, n=117). However SADS for heart rate showed only moderate 3 year stability (r= .16, p= .06). Encouraged by these results, two different predictor models for blood pressure change were tested. Although linear prediction of systolic blood pressure did come close to traditional definitions of significance, neither a linear nor a quadratic model was found to show significant prospective validity in predicting ambulatory blood pressure change over a 3 or 10 year period. All regression analyses controlled for initial ambulatory blood pressure means and other relevant control variables. Dissociation between physiological arousal and emotional awareness does not appear to be an important variable in the identification of individuals at risk for later cardiovascular health problems.
Ages and Metallicities of Hickson Compact Group Galaxies
Creators: name: Proctor, Robert N.
name: Forbes, Duncan A.
name: Hau, George K. T.
name: Beasley, Michael A.
name: De Silva, G. M.
name: Contreras, R.
name: Terlevich, A. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hickson Compact Groups (HCGs) constitute an interesting extreme in the range of environments in which galaxies are located, as the space density of galaxies in these small groups are otherwise only found in the centres of much larger clusters. The work presented here uses Lick indices to make a comparison of ages and chemical compositions of galaxies in HCGs with those in other environments (clusters, loose groups and the field). The metallicity and relative abundance of `$α$-elements' show strong correlations with galaxy age and central velocity dispersion, with similar trends found in all environments. However, we show that the previously reported correlation between $α$-element abundance ratios and velocity dispersion disappears when a full account is taken of the the abundance ratio pattern in the calibration stars. This correlation is thus found to be an artifact of incomplete calibration to the Lick system. Variations are seen in the ranges and average values of age, metallicity and $α$-element abundance ratios for galaxies in different environments. Age distributions support the hierarchical formation prediction that field galaxies are on average younger than their cluster counterparts. However, the ages of HCG galaxies are shown to be more similar to those of cluster galaxies than those in the field, contrary to the expectations of current hierarchical models. A trend for lower velocity dispersion galaxies to be younger was also seen. This is again inconsistent with hierarchical collapse models, but is qualitatively consistent with the latest N-body-SPH models based on monolithic collapse in which star formation continues for many Gyr in low mass halos.
description: 18 pages. Submitted for publication in MNRAS
QCD matter within a quasi-particle model and the critical end point
Creators: name: Kampfer, B.
name: Bluhm, M.
name: Schulze, R.
name: Seipt, D.
name: Heinz, U.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compare our quasi-particle model with recent lattice QCD results for the equation of state at finite temperature and baryo-chemical potential. The inclusion of the QCD critical end point into models is discussed. We propose a family of equations of state to be employed in hydrodynamical calculations of particle spectra at RHIC energies and compare with the differential azimuthal anisotropy of strange and charm hadrons.
description: talk at Quark Matter 2005, August 4 - 9, 2005, Budapest, Hungary
Bodengeographische Beobachtungen zur pleistozänen und holozänen Vergletscherung des Westlichen Tienshan (Usbekistan)
Creators: name: Zech, Wolfgang
name: Bäumler, Rupert
name: Savoskul, Oksana
name: Ni, Anatoli
name: Petrov, Maxim
Publisher: name: Geozon Science Media
Year: 1996

description: Im Oigaing-Tal zwischen Ugamsky- und Pskemsky-Gebirge nordöstlich von Taschkent (West-Tienshan, Usbekistan) wurden bodengeographische Untersuchungen zur pleistozänen und holozänen Vergletscherung durchgefühlt. Eindeutige Endmoränen der letzten Hauptvergletscherung konnten im Bereich des Zusammenflusses von Maidan und Oigaing in 1500 - 1600 m ü. M. nachgewiesen werden mit mächtigen, bis in 80 cm Tiefe tiefgründig verwitterten Bodenbildungen. Vergleichbare Ablagerungen vermutlich hochglazialer bzw. spätglazialer Genese finden sieh auch talaufwärts im Mündungsbereich zahlreicher Seitentäler (Beschtor-, Tekesch-, Aütor-Tal) in das Oigaing-Haupttal. Die Seitentäler weisen in 2500 bis 2700 m spätglaziale Stirn- und Grundmoränen auf. Die Böden dieser Ablagerungen sind ebenfalls bis in 40 - 60 cm Tiefe stark verwittert und verbraunt. Den rezenten Gletschern, die bis auf ca. 3000 - 3200 m herabreichen, sind weitere Moränen holozänen bzw. neuzeitlichen Ursprungs vorgelagert mit flachgründigen, z. T. initialen Bodenbildungcn, die vermutlich mit Gletschervorstößen während der sogenannten „Kleinen Eiszeit" mit einem Maximum in den Alpen um 1850 und im mittleren Holozän um 2000 bzw. 4000 a BP übereinstimmen. Im unteren Seitental des Barkrak sind oberhalb von hochglazialen Eisrandlagen O2850 m) interglaziale, sehr stark verwitterte und rubefizierte Bodenbildungen aus altquartären Schottern erhalten, die von einer spätpleistozänen Solifluktionsdecke überfahren wurden. Der obere Talverlauf ist dagegen oberhalb dieser hochglazialen Eisrandleisten durch mächtige Geschiebe gekennzeichnet. Sie sind Zeugen älterer, im Vergleich zur jüngsten Hauptvergletscherung wesentlich mächtigerer Vereisungen. Die dazugehörigen Moränen konnten jedoch nicht gefunden werden.
description: research
Persian Huck: On the Reception of Huckleberry Finn in Iran
Creators: name: Fomeshi, Behnam
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 200524 Comparative Literature Studies
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: 200204 Cultural Theory
subject: FOS: Other humanities
subject: 200299 Cultural Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: 200205 Culture, Gender, Sexuality
subject: 200206 Globalisation and Culture
subject: 200525 Literary Theory
subject: 200523 Middle Eastern Literature
subject: 200318 Middle Eastern Languages
subject: 200506 North American Literature

description: First translated into Persian in 1949, Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is among the most popular works of American fiction in Iran. Although the anti-US policy of the post-1979 political system has tried to erase the manifestations of the previous period’s American influence, Iranian interest in Huckleberry Finn has been increasing. There are more than twenty Persian translations of the novel, most of which belong to the post-1979 period. After a short survey of Twain’s early reception in Iran, the present paper focuses on two major translations of Huckleberry Finn as well as a stage adaptation of the novel. It also elaborates on the role that Huckleberry Finn no Boken (1976), the Japanese anime based on the novel broadcast on the Iranian state TV, has played in the Iranian reception of the novel, as indicated by the Iranian play’s capitalizing on the Japanese anime’s widespread popularity. The paper concludes with a note on questions of censorship, Afro-Iranians, and the nation’s dire need of its own novel on the Iranian Jim.
The Limiting Power of Point Optimal Autocorrelation Tests
Creators: name: Small, John P.
name: Small, John P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1991
Subjects: Agricultural Finance
Financial Economics

description: This paper considers the point optimal tests for AR(l) errors in the linear regression model. It is shown that these tests have the same limiting power characteristics as the Durbin-Watson test. The limiting power is zero or one when the regression has no intercept, but lies strictly between these values when an intercept is included.
The Role of Mutually Attractive Interaction Between Netural Atoms : A Split-Operator Method Analysis
Creators: name: Menasche, David B.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: An optical lattice is a crystal of light formed from counter-propagating laser beams in which one can hold and control a nearly perfect array of atoms floating in a vacuum chamber. By changing the shape of the optical lattice, it is possible to split the wavefunctions of individual atoms so that they are put into a quantum superposition of two different locations within the optical lattice at the same time. When there are two atoms at the same location in the optical lattice, their mutual interaction will influence the wave function splitting process. This physics has been studied for pairs of repelling atoms, but I have shown it is possible to create new types of quantum states of matter from atoms that attract each other, a possibility not previously explored. I have designed a computer simulation based on the split-operator method to model the splitting of such pairs of atoms and have demonstrated that this interaction can result in two atom NOON-state superpositions.
Factorization, reduction and embedding in integrable cellular automata
Creators: name: Kuniba, A.
name: Takagi, T.
name: Takenouchi, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases (nlin.CG)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Factorized dynamics in soliton cellular automata with quantum group symmetry is identified with a motion of particles and anti-particles exhibiting pair creation and annihilation. An embedding scheme is presented showing that the D^{(1)}_n-automaton contains, as certain subsectors, the box-ball systems and all the other automata associated with the crystal bases of non-exceptional affine Lie algebras. The results extend the earlier ones to higher representations by a certain reduction and to a wider class of boundary conditions.
description: LaTeX2e, 20 pages
title: Acoustic interference fields in the ocean
Creators: name: Hurdle, Burton G.
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1988

description: Two areas of underwater acoustics are investigated: ocean-bottom scattering and acoustic fields in geometrically dispersive sound channels. The purpose is to describe and provide an understanding of the physical mechanisms in these two areas by comparing analyzed results from ocean experiments with theoretical computations. Experiments using directive 19.5-kHz transducers illustrate temporal and spacial behavior of signals scattered from the ocean bottom. The signals fluctuate, as a function of acoustic geometry, in linear relation to source and receiver motion and to signal frequency. Spacial structure of the acoustic field depends on frequency and acoustic geometry and is independent of motion and bottom roughness. Data supporting these observations are included as well as data showing the effects of bottom type on the scattered returns, that is, the existence of subbottom returns in some data. Volume-scattering-strength profiles are also provided from data obtained in these experiments. Continuous-wave (CW) and impulsive sources covering frequencies 5 to 260 Hz were towed and deployed respectively over ranges up to 3000 km, with reception on fixed hydrophones. Analyses of measured propagation losses of these low-frequency acoustic signals in the dispersive channel provide insights into the nature of the propagation and the acoustic channel. Both the CW signals and the arrivals of the impulsive signals are analyzed in terms of transmission loss, convergence-zone structure, source-motion effects, interference structure, and channel characteristics. The systematic variation (internal tides) of the medium and its influence on the interference field are discussed. The state of modeling, both simple and complicated, is reviewed and compared with results of the ocean experiments. Relationships are provided between this work and the broader field of underwater acoustics. Suggested areas for future research are made.
Offender Placement into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy : Proposed Assessment Mechanism for use by the United States Probation Office for DC
Creators: name: O'Donnell, Melissa
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is currently one of the most commonly implemented programs for the American correctional system, though many professionals in the system lack the appropriate knowledge to determine which offenders should be placed into CBT. As such, this research seeks to examine academic literature regarding the applicability of CBT to certain populations and utilize findings to develop a hypothetical assessment mechanism for use by the United States Probation Office of DC (USPO) in determining which offenders to place into CBT. The resulting research paper and assessment mechanism discuss the need for an informed screening process that captures those offenders most likely to benefit from CBT. Specifically, this research paper and assessment mechanism suggest that the aforementioned need is best met including offenders who are of moderate risk/need as the most likely to benefit from CBT, and excluding those who are both high risk and high need as well as low risk/need, and conversely least likely to benefit from CBT programs.
Cronin Effect and High-p_T Suppression in pA Collisions
Creators: name: Kharzeev, Dmitri
name: Kovchegov, Yuri V.
name: Tuchin, Kirill
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review the predictions of the theory of Color Glass Condensate for gluon production cross section in p(d)A collisions. We demonstrate that at moderate energies, when the gluon production cross section can be calculated in the framework of McLerran-Venugopalan model, it has only partonic level Cronin effect in it. At higher energies/rapidities corresponding to smaller values of Bjorken x quantum evolution becomes important. The effect of quantum evolution at higher energies/rapidities is to introduce suppression of high-p_T gluons slightly decreasing the Cronin enhancement. At still higher energies/rapidities quantum evolution leads to suppression of produced gluons at all values of p_T.
description: 32 pages, 8 figures, v2: extended and improved discussion, references added
Offender Placement into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy : Proposed Assessment Mechanism for use by the United States Probation Office for DC
Creators: name: O'Donnell, Melissa
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 5204
subject: Cognitive and computational psychology

description: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is currently one of the most commonly implemented programs for the American correctional system, though many professionals in the system lack the appropriate knowledge to determine which offenders should be placed into CBT. As such, this research seeks to examine academic literature regarding the applicability of CBT to certain populations and utilize findings to develop a hypothetical assessment mechanism for use by the United States Probation Office of DC (USPO) in determining which offenders to place into CBT. The resulting research paper and assessment mechanism discuss the need for an informed screening process that captures those offenders most likely to benefit from CBT. Specifically, this research paper and assessment mechanism suggest that the aforementioned need is best met including offenders who are of moderate risk/need as the most likely to benefit from CBT, and excluding those who are both high risk and high need as well as low risk/need, and conversely least likely to benefit from CBT programs.
The Exact Powers of Some Autocorrelation Tests when the Disturbances are Heteroscedastic
Creators: name: Small, John P.
name: Small, John P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1991
Subjects: Agricultural Finance
Financial Economics

description: This paper considers the exact finite sample powers of five popular tests for AR(1) disturbances when one of several types of heteroscedasticity is also preseut. Severe reductions in power are found, particularly under strong positive autocorrelation. Factors influencing these power reductions are identified analytically and the limiting powers are also considered.
Toward precision measurements in solar neutrinos
Creators: name: de Holanda, P. C.
name: Liao, Wei
name: Smirnov, A. Yu.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Solar neutrino physics enters a stage of precision measurements. In this connection we present a precise analytic description of the neutrino conversion in the context of LMA MSW solution of the solar neutrino problem. Using the adiabatic perturbation theory we derive an analytic formula for the $ν_e$ survival probability which takes into account the non-adiabatic corrections and the regeneration effect inside the Earth. The probability is averaged over the neutrino production region. We find that the non-adiabatic corrections are of the order $10^{-9}-10^{-7}$. Using the formula for the Earth regeneration effect we discuss features of the zenith angle dependence of the $ν_e$ flux. In particular, we show that effects of small structures at the surface of the Earth can be important.
description: 26 pages, 6 figures. Version to appear in Nucl. Phys. B
Predicted rates of merging neutron stars in galaxies
Creators: name: Molero, Marta
name: Simonetti, Paolo
name: Matteucci, Francesca
name: della Valle, Massimo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we compute rates of merging neutron stars (MNS) in galaxies of different morphological type, as well as the cosmic MNS rate in a unitary volume of the Universe adopting different cosmological scenarios. Our aim is to provide predictions of kilonova rates for future observations both at low and high redshift. In the adopted galaxy models, we take into account the production of r-process elements either by MNS or core-collapse supernovae. In computing the MNS rates we adopt either a constant total time delay for merging (10 Myr) or a distribution function of such delays. Our main conclusions are: i) the observed present time MNS rate in our Galaxy is well reproduced either with a constant time delay or a distribution function $\propto t^{-1}$. The [Eu/Fe] vs. [Fe/H] relation in the Milky Way can be well reproduced with only MNS, if the time delay is short and constant. If the distribution function of delays is adopted, core-collapse supernovae as are also required. ii) The present time cosmic MNS rate can be well reproduced in any cosmological scenario, either pure luminosity evolution or a typical hierarchical one, and spirals are the main contributors to it. iii) The spirals are the major contributors to the cosmic MNS at all redshifts in hierarchical scenarios. In the pure luminosity evolution scenario, the spirals are the major contributors locally, whereas at high redshift ellipticals dominate. iv) The predicted cosmic MNS rate well agrees with the cosmic rate of short Gamma Ray Bursts if the distribution function of delays is adopted, in a cosmological hierarchical scenario observationally derived. v) Future observations of Kilonovae in ellipticals will allow to disentangle among constant or a distribution of time delays as well as among different cosmological scenarios.
Prisons of Terror : Inside Communication Management Units
Creators: name: Phelps, Jordyn
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Ever since the “War on Terror” began nearly a decade ago, the US government has been navigating complex legal terrain in its efforts to detain and prosecute terrorists and suspected terrorists. While facilities like Guantanamo Bay have received attention from the general public, there are two facilities within the US that house and strictly control the communications of inmates the Bureau of Prisons believe pose potential terrorist or communication threats. The facilities, first beginning in 2006, are called Communication Management Units, or CMUs.
Some Consequences of Using the Chow Test in the Context of Autocorrelated Disturbances
Creators: name: Giles, David
name: Scott, Murray
name: Giles, David
name: Scott, Murray
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1991
Subjects: Agribusiness
Financial Economics

description: We consider the true size of the Chow Test for the structural stability of a regression model when the disturbances are autocorrelated. We show that there may be considerable size distortion in the case of either AR(1) or MA(1) errors.
Evaluation of the effects of shaking intensity on the process of methylene blue discoloration by metallic iron.
Creators: name: Noubactep, C.
name: Kurth, A.-M. F.
name: Sauter, M.
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 2009

description: The term mixing (shaking, stirring, agitating) is confusing because it is used to describe mass transfer in systems involving species dissolution, species dispersion and particle suspension. Each of these mechanisms requires different flow characteristics in order to take place with maximum efficiency. This work was performed to characterize the effects of shaking intensity on the process of aqueous discoloration of methylene blue (MB) by metallic iron (Fe(0)). The extent of MB discoloration by three different materials in five different systems and under shaking intensities varying from 0 to 300 min(-1) was directly compared. Investigated materials were scrap iron (Fe(0)), granular activated carbon (GAC), and deep sea manganese nodules (MnO(2)). The experiments were performed in essay tubes containing 22 mL of the MB solution (12 mg/L or 0.037 mM). The essay tubes contained either: (i) no reactive material (blank), (ii) 0-9.0 g/L of each reactive material (systems I, II and III), or (iii) 5g/L Fe(0) and 0 to 9.0g/L GAC or MnO(2) (systems IV and V). The essay tubes were immobilized on a support frame and shaken for 0.8-5 days. Non-shaken experiments lasted for duration up to 50 days. Results show increased MB discoloration with increasing shaking intensities below 50 min(-1), a plateau between 50 and 150 min(-1), and a sharp increase of MB discoloration at shaking intensities >or=200 min(-1). At 300 min(-1), increased MB discoloration was visibly accompanied by suspension of dissolution products of Fe(0)/MnO(2) and suspension of GAC fines. The results suggest that, shaking intensities aiming at facilitating contaminant mass transfer to the Fe(0) surface should not exceed 50 min(-1).
The Exact Distribution of R2 when the Regression Disturbances are Autocorrelated
Creators: name: Carrodus, Mark L.
name: Giles, David E. A.
name: Carrodus, Mark L.
name: Giles, David E. A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1991
Subjects: Agribusiness
Financial Economics

description: This paper provides exact evaluations of the distribution of the usual coefficient of determination when the regression model's errors follow an AR(1) or MA(1) process. This provides insights into the extent to which this measure of goodness of fit is distorted by such model mis-specification.
Prisons of Terror : Inside Communication Management Units
Creators: name: Phelps, Jordyn
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4402
subject: Criminology
subject: FOS: Law
classificationCode: 4701
subject: Communication and media studies

description: Ever since the “War on Terror” began nearly a decade ago, the US government has been navigating complex legal terrain in its efforts to detain and prosecute terrorists and suspected terrorists. While facilities like Guantanamo Bay have received attention from the general public, there are two facilities within the US that house and strictly control the communications of inmates the Bureau of Prisons believe pose potential terrorist or communication threats. The facilities, first beginning in 2006, are called Communication Management Units, or CMUs.
Psammophis sibilans
Creators: name: Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoude
name: Trape, Jean François
name: David, Patrick
name: Ohler, Annemarie
name: Dubois, Alain
name: Glitho, Isabelle Adolé
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Lamprophiidae
Psammophis
Psammophis sibilans

description: Psammophis sibilans (Linnaeus, 1758)
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — 15 specimens (MNHN 2006.2189, MNHN 2006.2196, MNHN 2006.2284, Lomé; MNHN 1989.0185, “ Togo ou Benin ”; MRAC 29642, Lomé; MRAC 29507, Niamtougou; GHS-W 0210, GHS-W 0212, GHS-W 0267, GHS-W 0269, Nangbeto; GHS-W 0201, Atakpame; T 173, Alédjo; T 229, T 232, T 235.
MORPHOLOGY. — TL from 325 to 1170 mm; 17 MSR, smooth and oblique; 155-178 Ven, smooth; 88-120 Sc, paired; anal divided; 8 supralabials; 9-11 infralabials; 1 preocular; 2 postoculars; temporal scale formula 1 or 2 + 2 + 3.
 DISTRIBUTION. — This species occurs throughout the country but is more abundant in ER III and V.Previously,it had been mentioned from Togo by Matschie (1893), Werner (1898, 1902), Sternfeld (1908b, 1909: 20) and Loveridge (1940) from Bismarkburg (now Adele), Kete-Kratchi, and Kantindi, as well as by Hulselmans & Verheyen (1970), Hulselmans et al. (1970, 1971) and Roman (1984).
description: Published as part of Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoude, Trape, Jean François, David, Patrick, Ohler, Annemarie, Dubois, Alain & Glitho, Isabelle Adolé, 2011, The snake fauna of Togo: systematics, distribution and biogeography, with remarks on selected taxonomic problems, pp. 325-360 in Zoosystema 33 (3) on pages 346-347, DOI: 10.5252/z2011n3a4, http://zenodo.org/record/4547017
On the nature of the soft gamma-ray emission in the hard state of the black hole transient GRS 1716-249
Creators: name: Bassi, T.
name: Malzac, J.
name: Del Santo, M.
name: Jourdain, E.
name: Roques, J. -P.
name: D'Aì, A.
name: Miller-Jones, J. C. A.
name: Belmont, R.
name: Motta, S. E.
name: Segreto, A.
name: Testa, V.
name: Casella, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The black hole transient GRS 1716-249 was monitored from the radio to the gamma-ray band during its 2016-2017 outburst. This paper focuses on the Spectral Energy Distribution (SED) obtained in 2017 February-March, when GRS 1716-249 was in a bright hard spectral state. The soft gamma-ray data collected with the INTEGRAL/SPI telescope show the presence of a spectral component which is in excess of the thermal Comptonisation emission. This component is usually interpreted as inverse Compton emission from a tiny fraction of non-thermal electrons in the X-ray corona. We find that hybrid thermal/non-thermal Comptonisation models provide a good fit to the X/gamma-ray spectrum of GRS 1716-249. The best-fit parameters are typical of the bright hard state spectra observed in other black hole X-ray binaries. Moreover, the magnetised hybrid Comptonisation model BELM provides an upper limit on the intensity of the coronal magnetic field of about 1E+06 G. Alternatively, this soft gamma-ray emission could originate from synchrotron emission in the radio jet. In order to test this hypothesis, we fit the SED with the irradiated disc plus Comptonisation model combined with the jet internal shock emission model ISHEM. We found that a jet with an electron distribution of p~2.1 can reproduce the soft gamma-ray emission of GRS 1716-249. However, if we introduce the expected cooling break around 10 keV, the jet model can no longer explain the observed soft gamma-ray emission, unless the index of the electron energy distribution is significantly harder (p<2).
description: 14 pages, 8 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
EN QUOI L'ETUDE DE L'EPIDEMIOLOGIE DES MALADIES A BEGOMOVIRUS DE LA TOMATE PEUT-ELLE AIDER A LA CONCEPTION DE SYSTEMES DE CULTURE INNOVANTS ?
Creators: name: Pavis, C.
name: Urbino, C.
name: Rousseau, L.
name: Lange, D.
name: Robin, N.
name: Huc, A.
name: Gotin, R.
name: Boissot, N.
name: Pavis, C.
name: Urbino, C.
name: Rousseau, L.
name: Lange, D.
name: Robin, N.
name: Huc, A.
name: Gotin, R.
name: Boissot, N.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Agribusiness
Crop Production/Industries
International Relations/Trade

description: In the late 1980's, a new biotype of the whitefly Bemisia tabaci and associated begomoviruses appeared in the Caribbean particularly on tomato crops. The propagation of these diseases was supported by the intensification in vegetable cropping systems. The use of insecticides is not efficient, and no resistant varieties are available for these regions. The challenge is to develop integrated pest management packages, adapted to the different contexts. In order to identify the key-factors of the epidemics, we carried out surveys in tomato producing areas. On the other hand, we monitored the begomovirus inoculum pressure and vector populations, we prospected among weeds as virus reservoirs and we evaluated the effect of cultural practices on the disease progress. The survey underlined the great diversity of cultural practices, and revealed some factors linked with low disease incidences : presence of physical barriers, and presence of plants non-hosts of the vectors close to the plots. Tomato is the only reservoir of tomato begomoviruses and the vectors feed mainly on vegetable crops. The epidemic risk is high from March to September and the proximity with an infected plot as well as a high inoculum pressure during the first 3 weeks of culture can cause severe epidemics. Barriers around a plot may delay the epidemic process and reduce the incidence only when vector population level is low. Actually, the control of the disease must be laid on the spatial and temporal management of plots and the elimination of begomovirus sources. The acceptability of these practices needs the demonstration of their impact and a certain level of organisation of the growers for their application.
Models of the Gaze and the Development of Subjectivity in Frances Burney's Evelina
Creators: name: Poor, Emily
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 47
subject: Language, communication and culture
classificationCode: 4705
subject: Literary studies

description: The “self” is one of the most discussed topics within the Humanities. Try as we may to abstract the concept of identity into theoretical terms, I contend that the self cannot exist without some interaction with the physical world and with other “selves.” This interaction requires that we subject ourselves to becoming part of the sensory experience of others, and we often incorporate our own observations of how they experience us into our sense of self. In her essay “Site/Sight and Sensibility: The Socializing Function of the Gaze in Sarah Fielding’s The History of Ophelia,” Susan McNeill-Bindon observes, Ophelia’s pain at being observed as ‘different’ reinforces the importance of the body as a publicly visible site of social identification. Since, according to Barbara Duden, ‘the body is a mirror of reality as well as the source of the mirror,’ a body not reflecting the social ‘reality’ is denied a subject position by those failing to see themselves reflected in the object of their gaze.
Electromagnetic tests of horizonless rotating black hole mimickers
Creators: name: Zulianello, Anna
name: Carballo-Rubio, Raúl
name: Liberati, Stefano
name: Ansoldi, Stefano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The interest in the implications that astrophysical observations have for the understanding of the structure of black holes has grown since the first detection of gravitational waves. Many arguments that are put forward in order to constraint alternative black hole models rely on substantial assumptions such as perfect spherical symmetry, which implies absence of rotation. However, given that astrophysical black holes will generally exhibit nonzero angular momentum, realistic constraints must take into account the effects of rotation. In this work we analyze the gravitational effect that rotation has on the emission from the surface of ultracompact objects, by studying how angular momentum affects the propagation of light rays. This allows us to evaluate the reliability of the constraints derived for supermassive black holes (more specifically, Sagittarius A* and M87*) assuming lack of rotation, as presented in [Astrophys. J. 701, 1357 (2009); Astrophys. J. 805, 179 (2015)]. We find that for rapidly spinning objects rotation can significantly affect the escaping probability of photon emitted from the surface of the object, with a significant increase at the equatorial regions and a decrease at the poles with respect to the non-rotating case. For not so rapidly spinning black hole candidates like Sagittarius A*, such modifications do not affect significantly the present constraints, which are nevertheless weaker than originally supposed due to the relativistic lensing here considered and additional phenomenological parameters that describe basic processes such as absorption. However, taking into account the angular dependence of the superficial emission of rapidly spinning black hole mimickers will be necessary for future studies of objects like e.g. M87*.
description: V2: 25 pages, 14 figures, 8 tables. Additional discussions included following suggestions by referees, no physics changes. This version accepted for publication. V1: 23 pages, 13 figures, 8 tables
Supersymmetric AdS5 black holes
Creators: name: Gutowski, Jan B.
name: Reall, Harvey S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The first examples of supersymmetric, asymptotically AdS5, black hole solutions are presented. They form a 1-parameter family of solutions of minimal five-dimensional gauged supergravity. Their angular momentum can never vanish. The solutions are obtained by a systematic analysis of supersymmetric solutions with Killing horizons. Other new examples of such solutions are obtained. These include solutions for which the horizon is a homogeneous Nil or SL(2,R) manifold.
description: 31 pages. v2: References and calculation of holographic stress tensor added. v3: Solutions preserve 2 supersymmetries. Our original claim that they preserve 4 supersymmetries was based on Ref. [30], which contains a mistake (the general timelike solution preserves 2, not 4, supersymmetries). Nothing else affected
Ein Beitrag zur Deutung des „Gefleckten Horizontes"
Creators: name: Rohdenburg, Heinrich
Publisher: name: Geozon Science Media
Year: 1964

description: Die beschriebene und abgebildete Fleckung entsteht durch postsedimentäre Humusentfernung in der Rhizosphäre. Sie kann in humosen Substraten jeglicher stratigraphischer Position innerhalb des Jungpleistozäns und Holozäns beobachtet werden und ist nicht auf bestimmte Bodentypen beschränkt.
description: research
Rhamphiophis oxyrhynchus
Creators: name: Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoude
name: Trape, Jean François
name: David, Patrick
name: Ohler, Annemarie
name: Dubois, Alain
name: Glitho, Isabelle Adolé
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Lamprophiidae
Rhamphiophis
Rhamphiophis oxyrhynchus

description: Rhamphiophis oxyrhynchus (Reinhardt, 1843)
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — 9 specimens (MNHN 1982.0449, MNHN 1989.0254, MNHN 1989.0265, “ Togo ”; MRAC 29495, Aledjo; MRAC 29559, Lomé; GHS-W 0262, Nangbeto, T 185, T 194, Alédjo; T 212, Huilehui).
MORPHOLOGY. — TL from 450 to 1220 mm; rostral scale very prominent and clearly visible from above; 17 MSR, smooth; 170-197 Ven, smooth; 84-105 Sc, paired; anal divided; 8 supralabials; 10-11 infralabials; 1 or 2 preoculars; 2 postoculars; temporal scale formula 1 or 2 + 3 or 4.
 DISTRIBUTION. — Ramphiophis oxyrhynchus had previously been mentioned from Togo by Sternfeld (1908b), Hulselmans & Verheyen (1970), Hulselmans et al. (1970, 1971), and Roman (1984). This species is present in all ecological regions of the country but, on the basis of recently collected specimens, it seems to be more common in ER II along the Aledjo Mountain range.
description: Published as part of Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoude, Trape, Jean François, David, Patrick, Ohler, Annemarie, Dubois, Alain & Glitho, Isabelle Adolé, 2011, The snake fauna of Togo: systematics, distribution and biogeography, with remarks on selected taxonomic problems, pp. 325-360 in Zoosystema 33 (3) on pages 347-348, DOI: 10.5252/z2011n3a4, http://zenodo.org/record/4547017
British Columbian dietitians' perspectives on their experiences with weight loss counselling for children and adolescents
Creators: name: Bouttell, Shelagh Ann
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The prevalence of childhood and adolescent obesity has been increasing rapidly over the past decade, yet at this time, there is a lack of evidence regarding effective treatment approaches on which to base practice. At the same time, confusion seems to exist among dietitians as to the meaning and integration of different treatment philosophies, approaches and appropriate outcome measurements, raising questions about how dietitians are managing cases involving pediatric obesity in their practice. This study was undertaken to develop an understanding of dietitians' experiences of providing services to obese youth in British Columbia's Lower Mainland. Between 2004 and 2006, 13 practicing dietitians participated in individual interviews where they discussed their experiences of weight loss counselling with obese children and adolescents. A qualitative research design informed by grounded theory methodology was used to analyze these interviews. Experiences shared by dietitian informants reflected their frustration, doubt and conflict regarding what they should and could be doing with their clients when it came to weight management. They attributed this distress to four primary issues: inadequate time and resources to do their work effectively, client's lack of readiness to make behavioural change, the lack of appropriate counselling skills to be helpful to their clients and finally, uncertainty about how to best deal with the complex problem of obesity. These experiences impacted informants in different ways, and each found ways of addressing these challenges while continuing to work in the area of childhood obesity. Informant dietitians felt unsupported in their work, inadequately trained to support their clients, and uncertain how their profession should proceed in the management of childhood and adolescent obesity. The findings have important practice, education and research implications for the dietetics profession.
Additional file 4 of Distribution and pyrethroid resistance status of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus populations and possible phylogenetic reasons for the recent invasion of Aedes aegypti in Nepal
Creators: name: Kawada, Hitoshi
name: Futami, Kyoko
name: Higa, Yukiko
name: Rai, Ganesh
name: Suzuki, Takashi
name: Shiba Kumar Rai
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 4: Figure S1. Haplotype network drawn by TCS using 81 haplotypes 472 bp in length. Letters in ovals are haplotype numbers. Small open circles indicate mutation steps. Oval colors indicate areas where the haplotypes were reported: orange, Asia; green, Africa; blue, America; white, mixed. Ovals with red edges indicate haplotypes collected in Nepal. Countries in which haplotypes are reported are shown.
Mass Function of Low Mass Dark Halos
Creators: name: Yahagi, Hideki
name: Nagashima, Masahiro
name: Yoshii, Yuzuru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The mass function of dark halos in a Lambda-dominated cold dark matter (LambdaCDM) universe is investigated. 529 output files from five runs of N-body simulations are analyzed using the friends-of-friends cluster finding algorithm. All the runs use 512^3 particles in the box size of 35 h^{-1}Mpc to 140 h^{-1}Mpc. Mass of particles for 35 h^{-1} Mpc runs is 2.67 times 10^7 h^{-1} M_{solar}. Because of the high mass resolution of our simulations, the multiplicity function in the low-mass range, where the mass is well below the characteristic mass and $ν= δ_c / σ\lesssim 1.0$, is evaluated in the present work, and is well fitted by the functional form proposed by Sheth & Tormen (ST). However, the maximum value of the multiplicity function from our simulations at $ν\sim 1$ is smaller, and its low mass tail is shallower when compared with the ST multiplicity function.
description: to be published in ApJ
Models of the Gaze and the Development of Subjectivity in Frances Burney's Evelina
Creators: name: Poor, Emily
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The “self” is one of the most discussed topics within the Humanities. Try as we may to abstract the concept of identity into theoretical terms, I contend that the self cannot exist without some interaction with the physical world and with other “selves.” This interaction requires that we subject ourselves to becoming part of the sensory experience of others, and we often incorporate our own observations of how they experience us into our sense of self. In her essay “Site/Sight and Sensibility: The Socializing Function of the Gaze in Sarah Fielding’s The History of Ophelia,” Susan McNeill-Bindon observes, Ophelia’s pain at being observed as ‘different’ reinforces the importance of the body as a publicly visible site of social identification. Since, according to Barbara Duden, ‘the body is a mirror of reality as well as the source of the mirror,’ a body not reflecting the social ‘reality’ is denied a subject position by those failing to see themselves reflected in the object of their gaze.
Scalar meson exchange in phi->P0P0gamma decays
Creators: name: Escribano, Rafel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The scalar meson exchange in $ϕ\to P^0 P^0γ$ decays is discussed in a chiral invariant framework where the scalar meson poles are incorporated explicitly. $ϕ\toπ^0π^0γ$ and $ϕ\toπ^0ηγ$ are in agreement with recent experimental data and can be used to extract valuable information on the properties of $f_{0}(980)$ and $a_{0}(980)$ respectively. $ϕ\to K^0\bar K^0γ$ is shown not to pose a background problem for testing CP violation at Da$Φ$ne. The ratio $ϕ\to f_{0}γ/a_{0}γ$ is also predicted.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, LaTeX, uses espcrc2.sty. Talk presented at the International Conference on the Structure and Interactions of the Photon (Photon 2003), Frascati, Italy, 7-11 April 2003
Additional file 5 of A systematic review of the overlap of fluid biomarkers in delirium and advanced cancer-related syndromes
Creators: name: Amgarth-Duff, Ingrid
name: Annmarie Hosie
name: Caplan, Gideon
name: Agar, Meera
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 5:. Quality assessment of included cancer studies using the REMARK checklist The quality assessment for all included cancer studies.
Historical Readings of Ambition and Kingship in Beowulf and Macbeth
Creators: name: Pope, Leah
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 47
subject: Language, communication and culture
classificationCode: 4705
subject: Literary studies

description: Shakespeare‟s Macbeth is a tyrant, traitor and murderer, but in Shakespeare‟s source material, he was a worthy and honorable king. Raphael Holinshed‟s 1587 Chronicles depicts Macbeth as a just and beneficent king, who rid Scotland of many “disordered persons” and restored young people to “vertuous maners” after the “féeble and slouthfull administration of Duncane” (Holinshed).
Bunches of cones in the divisor class group -- A new combinatorial language for toric varieties
Creators: name: Berchtold, Florian
name: Hausen, Juergen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14M25; 14C20; 52B35

description: As an alternative to the description of a toric variety by a fan in the lattice of one parameter subgroups, we present a new language in terms of what we call bunches -- these are certain collections of cones in the vector space of rational divisor classes. The correspondence between these bunches and fans is based on classical Gale duality. The new combinatorial language allows a much more natural description of geometric phenomena around divisors of toric varieties than the usual method by fans does. For example, the numerically effective cone and the ample cone of a toric variety can be read off immediately from its bunch. Moreover, the language of bunches appears to be useful for classification problems.
description: Minor changes, to appear in Int. Math. Res. Not
Characterizing As, Cu, Fe and U solubilization by natural waters
Creators: name: Noubactep, C.
name: Schöner, A.
name: Schubert, M.
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 2008

description: The effects of carbonate concentration and the presence of in-situ generated iron oxide and hydroxide phases (iron oxyhydroxides) on arsenic (As), copper (Cu), and uranium (U) release from natural rocks were investigated under oxic conditions and in the pH range from 6 to 9. For this purpose non-disturbed batch experiments were conducted with a constant amount of each contaminant bearing rock/mineral and different types of water (deionised, mineral, spring, and tap water). For comparison parallel experiments were conducted with 0.1 M Na2CO3 and 0.1 M H2SO4. The favourable role of carbonate bearing minerals for U and Cu transport could not be confirmed by using dolomite. The presence of elemental iron and pyrite retards As, Cu and U solubilization. This study shows that using natural materials in laboratory investigations is a practical tool to investigate natural processes.