cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
THE BLACK BOX BETWEEN CLIMATE CHANGE AND CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY
Creators: name: Weted, Carley
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Although scientific consensus on climate change and the threat of the potentially lifechanging effects it brings with have gotten stronger with time, the American public remains conflicted in its beliefs. The fiercely divisive, partisan issue is contested in many ways, even as the country endures more severe storms more frequently than in memorable history. Policy indices explore differences in risk and beliefs between states, counties, and cities, but the questions of why the differences exist and how the policies rose on the agenda have yet to be thoroughly examined or explained. This dissertation unpacks the idea that public policy in the environmental arena is shaped by things beyond the simple explanation of political partisanship and offers ideas for the development of an empirical framework to consistently study environmental policy within Public Administration. Specifically, three essays examine: the impact of disasters and perceptions on resilience within counties of the United States, the take-up of energy efficiency at the state level and the role of resource dependence within that variation, and the idea of adapting John Kingdon’s Multiple Streams Approach of policy agenda-setting into a more precise, falsifiable framework to better study climate change adaptation policy, both in its formation and implementation. By investigating the way in which policy is formed and changed, along with introducing a comprehensive method through which policy on climate change adaptation and related issues can become a focus of public administration as a field, the dissertation focuses on the overarching theme of environmental policy change at different levels of governance within the United States.
Mechanism of Ground State Selection in the Frustrated Molecular Spin Cluster V15
Creators: name: Chaboussant, G.
name: Ochsenbein, S. T.
name: Sieber, A.
name: Guedel, H. -U.
name: Mutka, H.
name: Mueller, A.
name: Barbara, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report an inelastic neutron scattering (INS) study under a magnetic field on the frustrated molecular spin cluster $V_{15}$. Several field-dependent transitions are observed and provide a comprehensive understanding of the low-energy quantum spin states. The energy gap $2 Δ_{0}\approx 27(3)μ$eV between the two lowest $S=1/2$ Kramers doublets is unambiguously attributed to a symmetry lowering of the cluster. The INS data are mapped onto an S=1/2 Antiferromagnetic Heisenberg triangle with scalene distortion. A quantitative description of the wavefunction mixing within the ground state is derived.
description: To be published in Europhysics Letters 7 pages, 3 figures
The 10.5 year rotation period of the strongly magnetic rapidly oscillating Ap star HD 166473
Creators: name: Mathys, Gautier
name: Khalack, Viktor
name: Landstreet, John D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: How magnetic fields contribute to the differentiation of the rotation rates of the Ap stars and affect the occurrence of non-radial pulsation in some of them are important open questions. Valuable insight can be gained into these questions by studying some of the most extreme examples of the processes at play. The super-slowly rotating rapidly oscillating Ap (roAp) star HD 166473 is such an example. We performed the first accurate determination of its rotation period, (3836 +/- 30)d, from the analysis of 56 measurements of the mean magnetic field modulus  based on high-resolution spectra acquired between 1992 and 2019 at various observatories and with various instrumental configurations. We complemented this analysis with the consideration of an inhomogeneous set of 21 determinations of the mean longitudinal magnetic field spanning the same time interval. This makes HD 166473 one of only four Ap stars with a period longer than 10 years for which magnetic field measurements have been obtained over more than a full cycle. The variation curves of  and of are well approximated by cosine waves. The magnetic field of HD 166473 only seems to deviate slightly from axisymmetry, but it definitely involves a considerable non-dipolar component. Among the stars with rotation periods longer than 1000 d for which magnetic field measurements with full phase coverage are available, HD 166473 has the strongest field. Its magnetic field is also one of the strongest known among roAp stars. Overall, the magnetic properties of HD 166473 do not seem fundamentally distinct from those of the faster-rotating Ap stars. However, considering as a group the eight Ap stars that have accuractely determined periods longer than 1000 d and whose magnetic variations have been characterised over a full cycle suggests that the angles between their magnetic and rotation axes tend to be systematically large.
description: 12 pages, 8 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A. In the journal, at the request of the editor, the abstract will appear in traditional form, as shown in this header. This arXiv preprint features a structured version of the abstract, so that the LaTeX source could be successfully processed by arXiv
Incentive Schemes for Local Government: Theory and Evidence from Comprehensive Performance Assessment in England
Creators: name: Lockwood, Ben
name: Porcelli, Francesco
name: Lockwood, Ben
name: Porcelli, Francesco
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: local government
subject: incentives
subject: efficiency
subject: difference in difference
subject: DEA

description: This paper studies Comprehensive Performance Assessment, an explicit incentive scheme for local government in England. Motivated by a simple theoretical political agency model, we predict that CPA should increase service quality and local taxation, but have an ambiguous e§ect on the e¢ ciency of service provision. We test these predictions using a di§erence in di§erence approach, using Welsh local authorities as a control group, exploiting the fact that local authorities in Wales were not subject to the same CPA regime. To do this, we construct original indices of service quality and e¢ ciency, using Best Value Performance Indicators. We estimate that CPA increased the e§ective band D council tax rate in England relative to Wales by 4%, and increased our index of service quality output also by about 4%, but had no signiÖcant e§ect on our e¢ ciency indices. There is evidence of heterogenous e§ects of CPA on e¢ ciency, with some evidence that CPA impacted more on less e¢ cient councils, and the "harder test" from 2005-8 having a much bigger effect.
Evolution of genetic variability for growth-out survival rate in a selected population of Pacific white shrimp Penaeus (Litopenaeus) vannamei
Creators: name: Moreno, Nelson Cala
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 70201 Animal Breeding
subject: FOS: Animal and dairy science
subject: 70401 Aquaculture
subject: FOS: Agriculture, forestry and fisheries
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Estimates of trends for additivegenetic variance, heritability and additive geneticcoefficient of variation across years showed significantdepartures from linearity, suggesting the absence of adecline in the genetic variability.
A lambda calculus for quantum computation with classical control
Creators: name: Selinger, Peter
name: Valiron, Benoit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: F.4.1

description: The objective of this paper is to develop a functional programming language for quantum computers. We develop a lambda calculus for the classical control model, following the first author's work on quantum flow-charts. We define a call-by-value operational semantics, and we give a type system using affine intuitionistic linear logic. The main results of this paper are the safety properties of the language and the development of a type inference algorithm.
description: 15 pages, submitted to TLCA'05. Note: this is basically the work done during the first author master, his thesis can be found on his webpage. Modifications: almost everything reformulated; recursion removed since the way it was stated didn't satisfy lemma 11; type inference algorithm added; example of an implementation of quantum teleportation added
Intrusive interests: when subversion fear triggers military intervention
Creators: name: Timmerman, Matthew N.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Why do governments initiate foreign military interventions to shape the internal political composition of other states? Foreign military intervention, defined as the mobilization of troops to affect the internal politics of another state, is often costly and unsuccessful. Answering this question, much of the International Relations (IR) scholarship focuses on how governments carry out interventions to address perceived strategic threats to their states. This logic is useful for understanding many cases of intervention yet glosses over an alternative reason why government leaders intervene. Because leaders often view their authority as vulnerable to political outcomes inside surrounding states, they may use foreign military intervention to create conditions abroad perceived as advantageous to their authority at home. Interventions to shape the internal conditions of other states serve to reduce the risk of foreign-inspired subversion at home. This dissertation develops and tests hypotheses to predict when fear of internal political threats from abroad triggers foreign intervention. Utilizing archival material from Jordan, online archives, and expert interviews, the project compares cases of intervention and non-intervention in the context of the North Yemen Civil War (1962-1970). This analysis is complemented by shadow case research into third-party interventions in the Angolan Civil War (mid-1970s) and the Tajikistani Civil War (early 1990s). The project finds that fear of foreign-inspired domestic subversion is a recurring driver of foreign military intervention.
Intrusive interests: when subversion fear triggers military intervention
Creators: name: Timmerman, Matthew N.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Why do governments initiate foreign military interventions to shape the internal political composition of other states? Foreign military intervention, defined as the mobilization of troops to affect the internal politics of another state, is often costly and unsuccessful. Answering this question, much of the International Relations (IR) scholarship focuses on how governments carry out interventions to address perceived strategic threats to their states. This logic is useful for understanding many cases of intervention yet glosses over an alternative reason why government leaders intervene. Because leaders often view their authority as vulnerable to political outcomes inside surrounding states, they may use foreign military intervention to create conditions abroad perceived as advantageous to their authority at home. Interventions to shape the internal conditions of other states serve to reduce the risk of foreign-inspired subversion at home. This dissertation develops and tests hypotheses to predict when fear of internal political threats from abroad triggers foreign intervention. Utilizing archival material from Jordan, online archives, and expert interviews, the project compares cases of intervention and non-intervention in the context of the North Yemen Civil War (1962-1970). This analysis is complemented by shadow case research into third-party interventions in the Angolan Civil War (mid-1970s) and the Tajikistani Civil War (early 1990s). The project finds that fear of foreign-inspired domestic subversion is a recurring driver of foreign military intervention.
Understanding the macroeconomic effects of working capital in the United Kingdom
Creators: name: Fernandez-Corugedo, Emilio
name: McMahon, Michael
name: Millard, Stephen
name: Rachel, Lukasz
name: Fernandez-Corugedo, Emilio
name: McMahon, Michael
name: Millard, Stephen
name: Rachel, Lukasz
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Working capital
subject: business cycle model
subject: spreads
subject: financial crisis

description: In this paper we first document the behaviour of working capital over the business cycle stressing the large negative effect of the recent credit contraction on UK firms working capital positions. In order to understand the effects of working capital on macroeconomic variables, we solve and calibrate an otherwise standard flexibleprice DSGE model that introduces an explicit role for the components of working capital as well as a banking sector which intermediates credit. We find that financial intermediation shocks, similar to those experienced post-2007, have persistent negative effects on economic activity; these effects are reinforced by reductions in trade credit. Our model admits a crucial role for monetary policy to offset such shocks.
Additional file 3 of Development and validation of patients’ surgical safety checklist
Creators: name: Harris, Kristin
name: Søfteland, Eirik
name: Moi, Asgjerd Litleré
name: Harthug, Stig
name: Ravnøy, Mette
name: Storesund, Anette
name: Jurmy, Elaheh
name: Thakkar, Bhaumik
name: Haaverstad, Rune
name: Skeie, Eli
name: Valen, Hilde Wæhle
name: Sevdalis, Nick
name: Haugen, Arvid Steinar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3.
The rostral medial frontal cortex is crucial for engagement in consummatory behavior
Creators: name: White, Samantha R.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 32
subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences
classificationCode: 3209
subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: The medial frontal cortex (MFC) in rodents emits rhythmic activity that is entrained to the animal’s licking cycle during consumption and encodes the value of consumed fluids (Horst and Laubach, 2013; Amarante et al., 2017; Amarante and Laubach, 2021). These signals are especially prominent in the rostral half of the MFC. This region is located above an orbitofrontal region where mu opioid receptors regulate intake (Mena et al., 2011; Castro and Berridge, 2017) and reversible inactivation reduces behavioral measures associated with the incentive value and palatability of liquid sucrose (Parent et al., 2015a, 2015b). Here, we examined the effects of reversible inactivation and stimulation of mu opioid receptors in rostral MFC on behavior in an incentive contrast licking task. Adult male rats licked to receive access to liquid sucrose, which alternated between high (16%) and low (4%) values over 30 sec periods. Bilateral infusion of muscimol reduced the total number of licks emitted over the 30 min test sessions, the time spent engaged in the task, and the ratio of licks for the higher and lower value fluids. Inactivation did not alter licking frequency or variability or microstructural measures such as the duration of licking bouts that are classically associated with the palatability of a liquid reward. Infusions of DAMGO (1μg/μL) at the same sites had no effects on any measures of task performance. Our findings suggest that the rostral MFC has a distinct role in the control of consummatory behavior and contributes to task engagement and not to the expression of palatability.
Quantile estimates of counterfactual distribution shifts and the impact of minimum wage increases on the wage distribution
Creators: name: Stewart, Mark B.
name: Stewart, Mark B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Policy change effects
subject: Distributional effects
subject: Counterfactual distributions
subject: Quantile variances
subject: Minimum wages
subject: spillover effects

description: This paper presents a method for estimating the effects of a policy change on an outcome distribution that uses a comparator quantile rather than a control group and provides methods for estimating the variances of the estimators. The empirical analysis presents estimates of “spillover” effects of increases in the UK minimum wage, i.e. effects on the wages of those already above the minimum, under different counterfactual distribution shift assumptions. Evidence is presented against a simple scaled counterfactual. On the basis of the proposed counterfactual estimated spillover effects are small and in most cases do not reach above the 5th. percentile.
Individual Welfare and Subjective Well-Being: Commentary Inspired by Sacks, Stevenson and Wolfers
Creators: name: Hammond, Peter J.
name: Liberini, Federica
name: Proto, Eugenio
name: Hammond, Peter J.
name: Liberini, Federica
name: Proto, Eugenio
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Financial Economics

description: Sacks, Stevenson and Wolfers (2010) question earlier results like Easterlin’s showing that long-run economic growth often fails to improve individuals’ average reports of their own subjective well-being (SWB). We use World Values Survey data to establish that the proportion of individuals reporting happiness level h, and whose income falls below any fixed threshold, always diminishes as h increases. The implied positive association between income and reported happiness suggests that it is possible in principle to construct multi-dimensional summary statistics based on reported SWB that could be used to evaluate economic policy.
Do Professional Forecasters Pay Attention to Data Releases?
Creators: name: Clements, Michael P.
name: Clements, Michael P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Professional forecasters
subject: data revisions
subject: inattenetion

description: We present a novel approach to assessing the attentiveness of professional forecasters to news about the macroeconomy. We Önd evidence that professional forecasters, taken as a group, do not always update their estimates of the current state of the economy to reáect the latest releases of revised estimates of key data.
Communication Equilibria and Bounded Rationality
Creators: name: Vellodi, Nikhil
name: Vellodi, Nikhil
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Financial Economics

description: In this paper, we generalize the notion of a communication equilibrium (Forges 1986, Myerson 1986) of a game with incomplete information by introducing two new types of correlation device, namely extended and Bayesian devices. These new devices explicitly model the ‘thinking process’ of the device, i.e. the manner in which it generates outputs conditional on inputs. We proceed to endow these devices with both information processing errors, in the form of non-partitional information, and multiple transition and prior distributions, and prove that these two properties are equivalent in this context, thereby generalizing the result of Brandenburger, Dekel and Geanakoplos (1988). We proceed to discuss the Revelation Principle for each device, and conclude by nesting a certain class of ‘cheap-talk’ equilibria of the underlying game within Bayesian communication equilibria. These so-called fallible talk equilibria cannot be generated by standard communication equilibria.
Additional file 1 of Development and validation of patients’ surgical safety checklist
Creators: name: Harris, Kristin
name: Søfteland, Eirik
name: Moi, Asgjerd Litleré
name: Harthug, Stig
name: Ravnøy, Mette
name: Storesund, Anette
name: Jurmy, Elaheh
name: Thakkar, Bhaumik
name: Haaverstad, Rune
name: Skeie, Eli
name: Valen, Hilde Wæhle
name: Sevdalis, Nick
name: Haugen, Arvid Steinar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1.
Why are survey forecasts superior to model forecasts?
Creators: name: Clements, Michael P.
name: Clements, Michael P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: consensus forecast
subject: model-based forecasts
subject: long-run expectations

description: We investigate two characteristics of survey forecasts that are shown to contribute to their superiority over purely model-based forecasts. These are that the consensus forecasts incorporate the e§ects of perceived changes in the long-run outlook, as well as embodying departures from the path toward the long-run expectation. Both characteristics on average tend to enhance forecast accuracy. At the level of the individual forecasts, there is scant evidence that the second characteristic enhances forecast accuracy, and the average accuracy of the individual forecasts can be improved by applying a mechanical correction.
The rostral medial frontal cortex is crucial for engagement in consummatory behavior
Creators: name: White, Samantha R.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The medial frontal cortex (MFC) in rodents emits rhythmic activity that is entrained to the animal’s licking cycle during consumption and encodes the value of consumed fluids (Horst and Laubach, 2013; Amarante et al., 2017; Amarante and Laubach, 2021). These signals are especially prominent in the rostral half of the MFC. This region is located above an orbitofrontal region where mu opioid receptors regulate intake (Mena et al., 2011; Castro and Berridge, 2017) and reversible inactivation reduces behavioral measures associated with the incentive value and palatability of liquid sucrose (Parent et al., 2015a, 2015b). Here, we examined the effects of reversible inactivation and stimulation of mu opioid receptors in rostral MFC on behavior in an incentive contrast licking task. Adult male rats licked to receive access to liquid sucrose, which alternated between high (16%) and low (4%) values over 30 sec periods. Bilateral infusion of muscimol reduced the total number of licks emitted over the 30 min test sessions, the time spent engaged in the task, and the ratio of licks for the higher and lower value fluids. Inactivation did not alter licking frequency or variability or microstructural measures such as the duration of licking bouts that are classically associated with the palatability of a liquid reward. Infusions of DAMGO (1μg/μL) at the same sites had no effects on any measures of task performance. Our findings suggest that the rostral MFC has a distinct role in the control of consummatory behavior and contributes to task engagement and not to the expression of palatability.
Study of Thermal Characteristics of a Composite Specimen Experimentally and by Using Finite Element Method
Creators: name: Oleiwi, Jawad K.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 91202 Composite and Hybrid Materials
subject: FOS: Materials engineering
subject: 91299 Materials Engineering not elsewhere classified

description: This research deals with the study of the effect of fibers volume fraction and fibers orientation on the thermal conductivity and wall surface temperatures for composite specimen in form of Lee’s disk by using experimental work and finite element technique. The results show thatthe thermal conductivity increases with increasing fiber volume fraction of the composite specimen, and in the longitudinal direction is larger than in the lateral fiber direction.The experimental results indicated that the largestvalue of the thermal conductivity for the composite specimen was (0.611 W/m.°c) at (Vf = 40 %) in the longitudinal direction, while the lowest value was (0.195 W/m.°c) at (Vf = 10 %) in the lateral direction. Also the results show that the maximum difference for the thermal conductivity between the experimental work and finite element method was ( 7 % ) at ( Vf = 10 % ) in the lateral direction while the minimum value was ( 3.5 % ) at ( Vf = 40 % ) in the longitudinal direction.
Apalonia (Alopania) complicata Pace 2015, spec. nov.
Creators: name: Pace, Roberto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Apalonia
Apalonia complicata

description: Apalonia (Alopania) complicata spec. nov.
(Figg. 27, 112–114)
 Materiale tipico: Holotypus , Guyane Fr., Caussade, 7.XI.2011, leg. T. Struyve (IRSNB).
Paratypi: 4 es., stessa provenienza; 1 , Guyane Fr., Barrage Petit Saut, 10.XI.2011, leg. T. Struyve (SDEI, IRSNB).
 Descrizione: Lunghezza 2,7 mm. Corpo lucido e giallo-rossiccio, con capo e quarto urotergo libero neri; elitre giallo-brune; antenne rossicce con i due antennomeri basali e l’undicesimo giallo-rossicci; zampe giallo-rossicce. Occhi, in visione dorsale, più lunghi della regione postoculare. Secondo antennomero più breve del primo, terzo più lungo del secondo, dal quarto al decimo trasversi. Reticolazione dell’avancorpo e dei due uroterghi liberi basali non visibile, quella degli uroterghi liberi dal terzo al quinto molto trasversa e molto superficiale. Punteggiatura di capo ed elitre quasi invisibile, quella del pronoto fitta. Granulosità dell’addome visibile solo al margine posteriore di ciascun urotergo libero. Edeago come in Figg. 112–113, spermateca come in Fig. 114.
 Etimologia: Il nome della nuova specie vuole ricordare la complessità morfologica della parte prossimale della spermateca.
description: Published as part of Pace, Roberto, 2015, Introduzione alla conoscenza della sottofamiglia Aleocharinae nella Guyana Francese: Parte V (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae), pp. 131-156 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 65 (1) on page 141, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.65.1.75-84, http://zenodo.org/record/4753790
Equivalence of quotient Hilbert modules
Creators: name: Douglas, Ronald G.
name: Misra, Gadadhar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $\cl{M}$ be a Hilbert module of holomorphic functions over a natural function algebra $\mathcal{A}(Ω)$, where $Ω\subseteq \bb{C}^m$ is a bounded domain. Let $\cl{M}_0\subseteq \cl{M}$ be the submodule of functions vanishing to order $k$ on a hypersurface $\cl{Z} \subseteq Ω$. We describe a method, which in principle may be used, to construct a set of complete unitary invariants for quotient modules $\cl{Q}=\cl{M} \ominus \cl{M}_0$. The invariants are given explicitly in the particular case of $k = 2$.
description: 11 pages
Real-time Forecasting of Inflation and Output Growth in the Presence of Data Revisions
Creators: name: Clements, Michael P.
name: Beatriz Galvao, Ana
name: Clements, Michael P.
name: Beatriz Galvao, Ana
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: real-time data
subject: news and noise revisions
subject: optimal forecasts
subject: multi-vintage models

description: We show how to improve the accuracy of real-time forecasts from models that include autoregressive terms by estimating the models on ëlightly-revisedídata instead of using data from the latest-available vintage. Forecast accuracy is improved by reorganizing the data vintages employed in the estimation of the model in such a way that the vintages used in estimation are of a similar maturity to the data in the forecast loss function. The size of the expected reductions in mean squared error depend on the characteristics of the data revision process. Empirically, we Önd RMSFE gains of 2-4% when forecasting output growth and ináation with AR models, and gains of the order of 8% with ADL models.
P-STABLE EQUILIBRIUM: DEFINITION AND SOME PROPERTIES
Creators: name: Desgranges, Gabriel
name: Ghosal, Sayantan
name: Desgranges, Gabriel
name: Ghosal, Sayantan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: common knowledge
subject: strategic uncertainty and rationalizability

description: We deÖne a continuous index of strategic stability, pstability, which requires equilibrium to be the unique outcome compatible with common knowledge of rationality and common knowledge of pbeliefs (beliefs that put probability at least p on the equilibrium proÖle). We show that every equilibrium (within a large class) is p-stable for some p < 1 and justify, in smooth settings, the intuition that the slope of the best response map is related to the stability of equilibrium. We show that adding incomplete information on fundamentals could decrease the degree of strategic stability. In two applications to large markets we (i) show that a unique equilibrium globally unstable (under t‚tonnement dynamics) has, nevertheless, a measure of strategic stability, (ii) characterize the conditions under which enhanced equilibrium e¢ ciency results in decreased strategic stability.
Cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness of restrictive and hybrid bariatric surgery in Bahrain
Creators: name: Alkhalifa, Salman
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Bariatric surgery is effective in treating severe obesity, which has a multitude of negative physiological and psychological health consequences for obese individuals. Choosing the type of bariatric surgery is challenging for both patients and health care providers, because both parties aim to increase a patient’s overall quality of life and life years while reducing costs both at present and over time. This study compared the reduction in patient obesity related physiological outcomes, cost and benefits to both patient and provider, quality-adjusted life years gained (QALYG), and cost per QALYG of a restrictive and hybrid type of bariatric surgery, Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy (LSG) and Laparoscopic Mini-Gastric Bypass (LMGB) surgery, respectively. Seventy-eight Bahraini patients underwent one of the two treatments based on the severity of their obesity, in a single Bahraini hospital. Physiological and psychological measures were taken both before surgery and up to one-year post-surgery. Results indicated that both types of surgery were cost-beneficial, but only LSG was found to be cost-effective.
Apalonia (Alopania) guysimilis Pace 2015, spec. nov.
Creators: name: Pace, Roberto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Apalonia
Apalonia guysimilis

description: Apalonia (Alopania) guysimilis spec. nov.
(Figg. 28, 115–117)
 Materiale tipico: Holotypus , Guyane Fr., Caussade, 6.XI.2011, leg. T. Struyve (SDEI).
Paratype:1 , stessa provenienza; 1 , Guyane Fr., Barrage Petit Saut, 10.XI.2011, leg. T. Struyve (IRSNB).
 Descrizione: Lunghezza 2,8 mm. Corpo lucido e bruno; capo nero con fronte rossiccia,; base delle elitre e base dell’addome giallo-rossicci; antenne giallo-rossicce con antennomeri dal quarto al settimo giallo-bruni; zampe giallo-rossicce. Occhi, in visione dorsale, più lunghi della regione postoculare. Secondo antennomero più breve del primo, terzo più lungo del secondo, quarto più lungo che largo, quinto lungo quanto largo, dal sesto al decimo trasversi. Reticolazione di capo e pronoto evidente, ma assente sulla fronte, quella di elitre e addome non visibile. Punteggiatura di capo e pronoto non visibile, quella delle elitre molto fine, fitta e poco evidente. Granulosità dell’addome visibile solo al margine posteriore di ciascun urotergo libero. Edeago come in Figg. 115–113, spermateca come in Fig. 117.
 Etimologia: Il nome della nuova specie indica la sua somiglianza con Apalonia fuscofemoralis PACE, 1997 della Colombia.
description: Published as part of Pace, Roberto, 2015, Introduzione alla conoscenza della sottofamiglia Aleocharinae nella Guyana Francese: Parte V (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae), pp. 131-156 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 65 (1) on pages 141-142, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.65.1.75-84, http://zenodo.org/record/4753790
The Hidden Burden of Liver-Related Mortality in Patients with Cirrhosis and Low MELD score
Creators: name: Mazumder, Nikhilesh
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: MELD-Na Score
subject: AASLD
subject: Liver Cirrhosis
subject: End Stage Liver Disease
subject: Liver Transplantation
subject: Models, Biological
subject: Liver Cirrhosis/mortality

description: A poster presented at the 2018 meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases.The MELD score has provided the basis for organ allocation in liver transplantation for nearly two decades and is reliable in predicting 90 day mortality in patients with higher scores.  However, it is unclear which patients with low MELD-Na (<15) have a higher than expected liver-related mortality and thus would benefit from liver transplantation. We sought to quantify the burden of liver-related mortality in the overall low MELD population as most studies have utilized national transplant databases which only include patients referred for transplantation,. Methods: We utilized HealthLNK, a Chicago-wide database, which incorporates the de-identified electronic medical records from six health care institutions: five large academic medical centers (Northwestern Medicine, University of Chicago Hospitals and Clinic, Rush University Medical Center, University of Illinois at Chicago Medical Center, and Loyola University Medical Center) and one large academic safety net health care system (Cook County Health and Hospitals System). We included adult patients with icd-9 codes of cirrhosis whose MELD-Na scores were never higher than 15 and who died during the study period between January 1, 2006, and December 31, 2012. Records were linked with the state wide death registry and causes of death based on death certificate were attributed to liver related, non-liver related, and non-descript adjudicated by a transplant surgeon and two hepatologists. Results: A total of 20,122 patients with cirrhosis were captured during the above time period. Of these patients, 7,834 had a usable MELD-Na score with 3,717 under 15 for the entire time period. Of this low-MELD-Na subgroup there were 494 deaths (13.3% mortality). Causes of death in this group were 163 (32.9%) Liver related, 144 (29.0%) Non-Liver related, 85 (17.1%) Non-Descript and 104 (21%) missing.  Within the Liver related group, 42 died of infection, 17 died of hepatocellular carcinoma, 15 died of portal hypertensive complications, 10 patients died of bleeding and the remaining 79 patients did not have enough detail to attribute to a sub-category. Conclusion: Despite persistently low MELD during a six year time period, 1/3 of patients deaths were attributable to liver disease.  Future research should aim at predicting those with a high risk of liver-related mortality in the low MELD population, such that they might benefit from referral and early liver transplantation to reduce this risk.
Cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness of restrictive and hybrid bariatric surgery in Bahrain
Creators: name: Alkhalifa, Salman
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Bariatric surgery is effective in treating severe obesity, which has a multitude of negative physiological and psychological health consequences for obese individuals. Choosing the type of bariatric surgery is challenging for both patients and health care providers, because both parties aim to increase a patient’s overall quality of life and life years while reducing costs both at present and over time. This study compared the reduction in patient obesity related physiological outcomes, cost and benefits to both patient and provider, quality-adjusted life years gained (QALYG), and cost per QALYG of a restrictive and hybrid type of bariatric surgery, Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy (LSG) and Laparoscopic Mini-Gastric Bypass (LMGB) surgery, respectively. Seventy-eight Bahraini patients underwent one of the two treatments based on the severity of their obesity, in a single Bahraini hospital. Physiological and psychological measures were taken both before surgery and up to one-year post-surgery. Results indicated that both types of surgery were cost-beneficial, but only LSG was found to be cost-effective.
WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT DECISION MAKING UNDER UNCERTAINTY AND WHY WE DO NOT USE WHAT WE KNOW
Creators: name: Zilberman, David
name: Buschena, David E.
name: Zilberman, David
name: Buschena, David E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Expected utility
subject: multiattribute utility
subject: safety rules

description: This paper reviews two major approaches used in the past for risk analysis-the expected utility approach and the use of safety rules-and endeavors to reconcile their applicability and use in light of the recent nonexpected utility risk literature. This leads to the identification of several "reduced form" hypotheses that hold under a variety of theoretical structures and to a discussion of some empirical evidence that we have in view of these hypothesis. We conclude that, in spite of the conceptual confusion, we have identified several "down to earth" relationships that allow prediction of outcome and choices under uncertain conditions. Economic studies of choices under uncertainty also established that the expected utility approach is an appropriate normative tool for risk management, especially in cases· where variability associated with risk affects income but may not lead to disastrous situations such as bankruptcy. The major lesson of recent research of individual behavior under uncertainty is that it is not always consistent with the expected utility approach; in short, there is not a generic model for evaluating behavior under uncertainty.
Some Mechanical Properties of Polymer Matrix Composites Reinforced by Nano Silica Particles and Glass Fibers
Creators: name: Oleiwi, Jawad K.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 91202 Composite and Hybrid Materials
subject: FOS: Materials engineering
subject: 91299 Materials Engineering not elsewhere classified

description: This research studied the effect of nano silica particles on wear behavior test , ultimate tensile strength ,impact strength, fracture toughness and hardness shore D of specimens composite material. The hand-lay-up method is used to preparation of specimens established from unsaturated polyester resin matrix reinforcement with 4% weight fraction glass fiber (chopped / woven) mat and 1%, 3%, 5% weight fraction of nano silica particle. The nano silica particles used in this study has an average size of (less than 45nm). The results showed that the specimen (up+4% woven glass fiber+5% nano SiO2) gives better mechanical properties include ultimate tensile strength, impact strength, fracture toughness and hardness shore D (110 MPa, 13.7 K.J/m2, 18.92 MPa.m1/2, 85 shore D) respectively,when compare other specimens. The wear rate decreased from (22.5×10-4 cm3/N.m) for specimen (pure unsaturated polyester resin) to (0.18×10-4 cm3/N.m) for specimen (UP+4% woven glass fiber +5% nano SiO2) under parameter 7N (load), 15 minutes (sliding time), 2m/s (sliding speed) and (7 cm) sliding distance.
Statistical Indicators of Collective Behavior and Functional Clusters in Gene Networks of Yeast
Creators: name: Zivkovic, Jelena
name: Tadic, Bosiljka
name: Wick, Nikolaus
name: Thurner, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Genomics (q-bio.GN)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We analyze gene expression time-series data of yeast S. cerevisiae measured along two full cell-cycles. We quantify these data by using q-exponentials, gene expression ranking and a temporal mean-variance analysis. We construct gene interaction networks based on correlation coefficients and study the formation of the corresponding giant components and minimum spanning trees. By coloring genes according to their cell function we find functional clusters in the correlation networks and functional branches in the associated trees. Our results suggest that a percolation point of functional clusters can be identified on these gene expression correlation networks.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures
HMMs of lipase-like and EP domains and code from Lapin et al 2019 (Plant Cell) to perform ANOVA and parametric posthoc test
Creators: name: Lapin, Dmitry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: DOI version of the GitHub repository https://github.com/ParkerLabMPIPZ/Lapin_Kovacova_Sun_et_al Subdirectories EP_domain_HMM pipeline and scripts to derive EP domain HMM high_confidence_OG pipeline and scripts used to filter OrthoMCL EDS1-family OG and obtain high-confidence sequences R_code_stat_analysis R code to assess normality of residuals, homogeneity of variance, ANOVA and Tukey's HSD test if the criteria are met (parametric tests) or Nemenyi test if the criterium/a are not met (non-parametric test).
The Cardy-Verlinde formula and entropy of Topological Kerr-Newman black holes in de Sitter spaces
Creators: name: Setare, M. R.
name: Altaie, M. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we show that the entropy of cosmological horizon in 4-dimensional Topological Kerr-Newman-de Sitter spaces can be described by the Cardy-Verlinde formula, which is supposed to be an entropy formula of conformal field theory in any dimension. Furthermore, we find that the entropy of black hole horizon can also be rewritten in terms of the Cardy-Verlinde formula for these black holes in de Sitter spaces, if we use the definition due to Abbott and Deser for conserved charges in asymptotically de Sitter spaces. Such result presume a well-defined dS/CFT correspondence, which has not yet attained the credibility of its AdS analogue.
description: 10 pages, no figure,references added, typos corrected, discussion added, has been accepted for the publication in Eur.Phys.J.C
ISSUES IN FARM LEVEL MODELING
Creators: name: Barry, Peter J.
name: Barry, Peter J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: firm models
subject: risk
subject: policy analysis

description: This paper identifies major issues in the development of firm level models for use by multiple participants in a regional research project. Included among the issues are the choice of equilibrium analysis framework, measures of risk, modeling scope, optimization versus nonoptimization; status versus dynamics, risk attitudes, farm structure specifications, economic scenarios, and performance measures.
Maxwell-Juttner distributions in relativistic molecular dynamics
Creators: name: Aliano, A.
name: Rondoni, L.
name: Morriss, G. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In relativistic kinetic theory, which underlies relativistic hydrodynamics, the molecular chaos hypothesis stands at the basis of the equilibrium Maxwell-Juttner probability distribution for the four-momentum $p^α$. We investigate the possibility of validating this hypothesis by means of microscopic relativistic dynamics. We do this by introducing a model of relativistic colliding particles, and studying its dynamics. We verify the validity of the molecular chaos hypothesis, and of the Maxwell-Juttner distributions for our model. Two linear relations between temperature and average kinetic energy are obtained in classical and ultrarelativistic regimes.
description: 9 pages, RevTex4, 8 figures .ps;contribution to the international conference "Next Sigma Phi" on News, EXpectations, and Trends in statistical physics, Crete 2005
Additional file 2 of Development and validation of patients’ surgical safety checklist
Creators: name: Harris, Kristin
name: Søfteland, Eirik
name: Moi, Asgjerd Litleré
name: Harthug, Stig
name: Ravnøy, Mette
name: Storesund, Anette
name: Jurmy, Elaheh
name: Thakkar, Bhaumik
name: Haaverstad, Rune
name: Skeie, Eli
name: Valen, Hilde Wæhle
name: Sevdalis, Nick
name: Haugen, Arvid Steinar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2.
A STUDY OF WEAR RATE BEHAVIOR OF POLYESTER REINFORCED BY SILICA (Sio2) Particles
Creators: name: Oleiwi, Jawad K.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 91202 Composite and Hybrid Materials
subject: FOS: Materials engineering
subject: 91299 Materials Engineering not elsewhere classified

description: In this research the wear rate of one type of the thermosetting polymer (polyester) reinforced by ceramic particles (silica) has been investigated. A Pin -on- Disc wear testing machine of variable speed has been used. Flat against flat sliding surfaces under variable working parameters conditions have been tested. Statistical and mathematical analyses were used to the processing of theexperimental data. A mathematical model was done which shows the wear rate of composite materials as a function of grain size and weight fraction. The results of flat sliding surfaces show that the wear rate of the specimensdepends heavily on the working condition. It increases with the increase of the load and sliding speed.The results also show that the wear rate decreases with the increase of the weight fraction and the decrease of the grain size of the reinforcing particles. The optimum wear resistance of the reinforced polyester was at weight fraction of ( 20 % ) and grain size of ( 25 m).
Buckling Analysis of Unidirectional Polymer Matrix Composite Plates
Creators: name: Oleiwi, Jawad K.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 91202 Composite and Hybrid Materials
subject: FOS: Materials engineering
subject: 91299 Materials Engineering not elsewhere classified

description: This study deals with the estimation of critical load of unidirectional polymer matrix composite plates by using experimental and finite element techniques at different fiber angles and fiber volume fraction of the composite plate. Buckling analysis illustrated that the critical load decreases in nonlinear relationship with the increase of the fiber angle and that it increases with the increase of the fiber volume fraction. The results show that the maximum value of the critical load is (629.54 N/m) at ( = 0) and (Vf = 40 %) for the finite element method, while the minimum value of the critical load is (49 N/m) at ( = 90) and (Vf = 10 %) for the experimental results. The results also indicated that the maximum difference between the finite element analysis and experimental work is about (11 % ) at (  = 0) and (Vf = 40 %).
Aggregation, Heterogeneity and Risk: Adding Apples and Oranges, or Apples and Apples
Creators: name: Pope, Rulon
name: Pope, Rulon
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Risk
subject: Aggregation

description: Approaches to aggregation are reviewed. These consist of random parameters, random right hand side variables (Stoker's approach}. and exact aggregation. Each approach utilizes different assumptions and has weaknesses. In a sense, exact aggregation is the nonparametric approach. The penultimate section of the paper shows that these concepts may be very important for risk analysis. A simulation model gives substantially biased estimates of regression parameters when exact aggregation procedures are not followed.
Buckling Analysis of The Composite Column by using finite element method and experimental method
Creators: name: Oleiwi, Jawad K.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 91202 Composite and Hybrid Materials
subject: FOS: Materials engineering
subject: 91299 Materials Engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Buckling Analysis of The Composite Column by using finite element method and experimental method