cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Streamlining the National Environmental Policy Act reporting requirements: A hard look at the healthy forests initiative
Creators: name: Geller, Jeffrey Alan
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2005

description: The U.S. Forest Service (USFS) has implemented the Healthy Forests Initiative (HFI)
(2002), which streamlines the NEPA process for proposed forest fuel reduction projects.
A key question is whether the USFSs streamlined NEPA process produces an adequate
environmental document and fulfills regulatory requirements. This thesis evaluates
whether the streamlined approach practiced by the USFS under the HFI satisfies the
NEPA requirements. A review of four streamlined documents assesses whether these
requirements are met. The following NEPA requirements in particular are explored for
each project to determine whether the NEPA requirements are met: consideration of a
reasonable range of alternatives to the project, cumulative environmental impacts that
may result from the project, and use of the best available data in the environmental
analysis. The conclusions indicate that each streamlined document meets regulatory
requirements. Failure to comply with the NEPA process under the HFI is not anticipated
for future projects.
Transport Theory of Monolayer Transition-Metal Dichalcogenides through Symmetry
Creators: name: Song, Yang
name: Dery, Hanan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a theory that elucidates the major momentum and spin relaxation processes for electrons, holes and hot excitons in monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides. We expand on spin flips induced by flexural phonons and show that the spin relaxation is ultrafast for electrons in free-standing membranes while being mitigated in supported membranes. This behavior due to interaction with flexural phonons is universal in two-dimensional membranes that respect mirror symmetry and it leads to a counterintuitive inverse relation between mobility and spin relaxation.
description: The published version. 5 pages main text is followed by 5 pages supplemental materials
MAP3D: An explorative approach for automatic mapping of real-world eye-tracking data on a virtual 3D model
Creators: name: Stein, Isabell
name: Jossberger, Helen
name: Gruber, Hans
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 3D stimuli, automatic fixation mapping, eye movement, eye tracking, photogrammetry, virtual 3D model
subject: 370 Erziehung, Schul- und Bildungswesen

description: Mobile eye tracking helps to investigate real-world settings, in which participants can move freely. This enhances the studies’ ecological validity but poses challenges for the analysis. Often, the 3D stimulus is reduced to a 2D image (reference view) and the fixations are manually mapped to this 2D image. This leads to a loss of information about the three-dimensionality of the stimulus. Using several reference images, from different perspectives, poses new problems, in particular concerning the mapping of fixations in the transition areas between two reference views. A newly developed approach (MAP3D) is presented that enables generating a 3D model and automatic mapping of fixations to this virtual 3D model of the stimulus. This avoids problems with the reduction to a 2D reference image and with transitions between images. The x, y and z coordinates of the fixations are available as a point cloud and as .csv output. First exploratory application and evaluation tests are promising: MAP3D offers innovative ways of post-hoc mapping fixation data on 3D stimuli with open-source software and thus provides cost-efficient new avenues for research.
О ПОНЯТИЯХ ОРОНИМИЧЕСКОГО ТЕРМИНА И ОРОНИМИЧЕСКОГО ИНДИКАТОРА
Creators: name: Бегимов, Одил
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Индикаторы играют важную роль в топонимике. Эти же индикаторы служат источником для создания оронимов и других видов наименований объектов, вместе с  другими лексическими единицами, выражающих орографические понятия. Они не только выражают объект, но и обладают способностью передавать определенную информацию о нем. В статье рассматривается понятие индикатора и его применение в оронимии.
Chinchillula sahamae Thomas 1898
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Cricetidae
Chinchillula
Chinchillula sahamae

description: Chinchillula sahamae Thomas, 1898. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 1, 7:280. TYPE LOCALITY: Bolivia, S.W. La Paz Esperanza, 50 km north of Mt. Sajama, Pacajes, 4200 m. DISTRIBUTION: S. Peru; N. Chile; W. Bolivia; N.W. Argentina. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008009001001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 3), pp. 392-476 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 405, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353031
Crime prevention through environmental design: An analysis of the Boulevard Mall
Creators: name: Mac Leod, Kenneth
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 1998

description: Many case studies have been published that report a decrease in crime as a result of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED). Although methodologies and results of some studies have been questioned, there is agreement that the designed environment can influence human behavior.

Data in this study were accumulated by the investigation of a local mall. Mall management and head of security reported a decrease in all types of crime after improving and adding security measures for customers and store employees. My hypothesis was the mall provided a high number of CPTED features which would result in a low number of police calls for service. Police calls for service from 1995 through 1997 and CPTED elements were analyzed. Results indicated a decrease in the number of police calls for service at the mall. The conclusions was that customers and store employees at the mall feel safer due to added and improved CPTED-like features.
Dynamical tunneling of a Bose-Einstein condensate in periodically driven systems
Creators: name: Shrestha, R. K.
name: Ni, J.
name: Lam, W. K.
name: Summy, G. S.
name: Wimberger, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report measurements of dynamical tunneling rates of a Bose-Einstein condensate across a barrier in classical phase space. The atoms are initially prepared in quantum states that extend over a classically regular island region. We focus on the specific system of quantum accelerator modes of the kicked rotor in the presence of gravity. Our experimental data is supported by numerical simulations taking into account imperfections mainly from spontaneous emission. Furthermore, we predict experimentally accessible parameter ranges over which direct tunneling could be readily observed if spontaneous emission was further suppressed. Altogether, we provide a proof-of-principle for the experimental accessibility of dynamical tunneling rates in periodically driven systems.
description: Improved version
A Comparative assessment of the status, structure and process utilized by Nevada's family support and preservation consortia to achieve collaboration
Creators: name: Morton, Marlys A.
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 1999

description: This paper presents a framework for understanding inter-organizational collaboration and describes and analyzes how collaboration was used as a method to build new service networks, the characteristics of the consortia, and the status of the collaborative processes.
Although the literature on inter-organizational collaboration in the human services is increasing, little is known about how regional consortia view the process of working together towards a common purpose. The results reported in this paper are intended to help fill that gap.
The findings reported in this study are based on a survey process using a standardized questionnaire to study the collaborative status. This external, independent, student based study examined the process of inter-organizational collaboration in within Nevada's child and family service system.
Detailed abundance analysis from integrated high-dispersion spectroscopy: Globular clusters in the Fornax Dwarf Spheroidal
Creators: name: Larsen, S. S.
name: Brodie, J. P.
name: Strader, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Aims: We describe our newly developed approach to detailed abundance analysis from integrated-light high-dispersion spectra of star clusters. As a pilot project, we measure abundances of several elements for three globular clusters (GCs) in the Fornax dSph, using VLT/UVES spectra. Methods: We divide the cluster colour-magnitude diagrams into about 100 bins and compute synthetic spectra for each bin. The individual model spectra are co-added and the abundances are iteratively adjusted until the best match to the observed spectra is achieved. Results: We find [Fe/H] = -2.3, -1.4 and -2.1 for Fornax 3, 4 and 5, with +/-0.1 dex uncertainties. Fornax 3 and 5 are thus similar in metallicity to the most metal-poor Milky Way GCs and fall near the extreme metal-poor end of the field star metallicity distribution in Fornax. The [alpha/Fe] ratios, as traced by Ca and Ti, are enhanced with respect to the Solar composition at the level of about +0.25 dex for Fornax 3 and 5, and possibly slightly less (about +0.12 dex) for Fornax 4. For all three clusters the [Mg/Fe] ratio is significantly less elevated than [Ca/Fe] and [Ti/Fe], possibly an effect of the abundance anomalies that are well-known in Galactic GCs. We thus confirm that Mg may be a poor proxy for the overall alpha-element abundances for GCs. The abundance patterns of heavy elements (Y, Ba and Eu) indicate a dominant contribution to nucleosynthesis from the r-process in all three clusters, with a mean [Ba/Eu]=-0.7, suggesting rapid formation of the GCs. Conclusions: Combining our results with literature data for Fornax 1 and 2, four of the five Fornax GCs fall in the range -2.5
description: 18 pages, accepted for publication in A&A
Proposing measures for assessing systems thinking interventions
Creators: name: Hopper, Megan Aline
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2007

description: This paper presents an analysis of systems thinking interventions in educational settings. Although these interventions have been implemented in K-12 classrooms since the mid 1980s, there is still no clear definition of systems thinking or identification of the best method to test the effectiveness of interventions or methods for teaching systems thinking The goal of this paper is to answer the question: how do we assess the effectiveness of systems thinking interventions in education? In order to answer this question, I had to address the following sub questions: (1) what is systems thinking, (2) what systems thinking interventions are being used in education, and (3) how have the effect of interventions been measured? The purpose of answering these questions was to propose methods for assessing systems thinking interventions. Through analysis of systems thinking interventions in the classroom, I derived guidelines for measuring and raising a persons level of systems thinking.
SQM studied in the Field Correlator Method
Creators: name: Pereira, F. I. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By using the recent nonperturbative equation of state of the quark gluon plasma derived in the formalism of the Field Correlator Method, we investigate the bulk properties of the strange quark matter in beta-equilibrium and with charge neutrality at T=p=0. The results show that the stability of strange quark matter with respect to $^{56}Fe$ is strongly dependent on the model parameters, namely, the gluon condensate $G_2$ and the q$\bar{\rm q}$ interaction potential $V_1$. A remarkable result is that the width of the stability window decreases as $V_1$ increases, being maximum at $V_1=0$ and nearly zero at $V_1=0.5$ GeV. For $V_1$ in the range $0\leq V_1\leq0.5$ GeV, all values of $G_2$ are lower than $0.006-0.007\;{\rm GeV}^4$ obtained from comparison with lattice results at $T_c\;(μ=0)\sim170$ MeV. These results do not favor the possibilities for the existence of (either nonnegative or negative) absolutely stable strange quark matter.
The 100th Meridian Initiative in Nevada: Assessing the westward movement of the Zebra mussel to the Lake Mead National Recreation Area
Creators: name: McCoy, Megan
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2003

description: Zebra mussels, Dreissena polymorpha, are a concern for all bodies of water in North America. East of the 100th Meridian, zebra mussels have infested the waters and dramatically changed the natural ecosystems. The US Fish and Wildlife Services set up the 100th Meridian Initiative project to monitor the boat traffic to and from infested and non-infested waters of the United States and Canada. Surveys were conducted from October 19, 2002 through March 31, 2003, focusing specifically on the Lake Mead National Recreation Area (LMNRA) for the scope of this thesis. This study addresses the movement of trailers, boats, and other watercraft that enter the LMNRA. Specifically, we addressed three items 1) the origin of trailers that come to the LMNRA, 2) the three previous boat launch sites (ex. Michigan, Idaho, and California) of boats launching at the LMNRA, and 3) the boat cleaning strategies of anglers, pleasure, jet skis, canoes, and other boaters. A total of 4739 trailers were surveyed with a total of 4152 (at 88%) from Nevada, California, and Arizona with a total of 587 (at 12%) from other recorded states; while a total of 177 contact interviews were performed. Descriptive statistics and Chi Square analysis were completed to test the differences from our expected results. A vast majority of the boats surveyed at LMNRA came from local states and non-infested waters; and pleasure boaters were identified as the subgroup of boaters who clean their boats more regularly. Based on the launch locations records of infested states, personal interviews, and cleaning practices the risk of zebra mussel transport to the LMNRA is low.
title: Osterweiterung und Arbeitnehmerfreizügigkeit
title: Otwarcie na wschód a swoboda przepływu pracowników
Creators: name: Kocher, Eva
Publisher: name: Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Polenstudien, Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)
Year: 2015

description: Interdisciplinary Polish Studies, 1: Arbeitnehmerfreizügigkeit zwischen Deutschland und Polen - eine Zwischenbilanz aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven / Swobodny przepływ pracowników między Polską a Niemcami, p. 45-60 | 189-204
DNA-Programmed Mesoscopic Architecture
Creators: name: Halverson, Jonathan D.
name: Tkachenko, Alexei V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the problem of the self-assembly of nanoparticles (NPs) into finite mesoscopic structures with a programmed local morphology and complex overall shape. Our proposed building blocks are NPs directionally-functionalized with DNA. The combination of directionality and selectivity of interactions allows one to avoid unwanted metastable configurations which have been shown to lead to slow self-assembly kinetics even in much simpler systems. With numerical simulations, we show that a variety of target mesoscopic objects can be designed and self-assembled in near perfect yield. They include cubes, pyramids, boxes and even an Empire State Building model. We summarize our findings with a set of design strategies that lead to the successful self-assembly of a wide range of mesostructures.
description: 5 pages, 7 figures, published version
Cricetomys Waterhouse 1840
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Cricetidae
Cricetomys

description: Cricetomys Waterhouse, 1840. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1840:2. REVIEWED BY: C. J. Terry (CJT). COMMENT: Subfamily Cricetomyinae; see comment under Cricetidae. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008101000000.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 3), pp. 392-476 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 405, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353031
ANALYSIS OF THE INFLUENCE OF INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL FACTORS ON THE PROFIT GROWTH OF ISLAMIC BANKS IN INDONESIA
Creators: name: PUSPITA
name: ALVIEN NUR AMALIA
name: DIKDIK SALEH SADIKIN
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Profit Growth, Third Party Funds, Financing Growth, Fee Based Income, BI-Rate Changes, Inflation Changes.

description: Abstract
This study aims to determine the influence of internal and external factors on the profit growth of banks and sharia business units for the period January 2014-July 2020 in Indonesia. Internal factors used are the growth of third party funds (DPK), financing and fee-based income. Meanwhile, external factors include changes in the BI-Rate and Inflation. The data used is secondary data, which is processed using SPSS software through multiple regression analysis. The results of data processing show, partially, only internal factors of financing growth and fee-based income have an influence on profit growth. However, if simultaneously examined, all internal and external factors affect the profit growth of banks and sharia business units for the period January 2014-July 2020 in Indonesia.
Heavy neutrinos, Z' and Higgs bosons at the LHC: new particles from an old symmetry
Creators: name: Khalil, S.
name: Moretti, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new era in particle physics is being spurred on by new data from the Large Hadron Collider. Non-vanishing neutrino masses represent firm observational evidence of new physics beyond the Standard Model. An extension of the latter, based on a SU(3)_C x SU(2)_L x U(1)_Y x U(1)_{B-L} symmetry, incorporating an established Baryon minus Lepton number invariance, is proposed as a viable and testable solution to the neutrino mass problem. We argue that LHC data will probe all the new content of this model: heavy neutrinos, an extra gauge boson emerging from spontaneous breaking of the additional gauge group at the TeV scale, onset by a new heavier Higgs boson, also visible at the CERN proton-proton collider. An even more exciting version of this model is the one exploiting Supersymmetry: firstly, it incorporates all its well known benefits; secondly, it alleviates the flaws of its more minimal realisations. Finally, this model provides a credible cold Dark Matter candidate, the lightest sneutrino, detectable in both underground and collider experiments.
Additional file 24 of The hibernation-derived compound SUL-138 shifts the mitochondrial proteome towards fatty acid metabolism and prevents cognitive decline and amyloid plaque formation in an Alzheimer’s disease mouse model
Creators: name: de Veij Mestdagh, Christina F.
name: Koopmans, Frank
name: Breiter, Jonathan C.
name: Timmerman, Jaap A.
name: Vogelaar, Pieter C.
name: Krenning, Guido
name: Mansvelder, Huibert D.
name: Smit, August B.
name: Henning, Robert H.
name: van Kesteren, Ronald E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 24: Supplementary dataset 13. MS-DAP report.
Heuristic based task scheduling in multiprocessor systems with genetic algorithm by choosing the eligible processor
Creators: name: Roy, Probir
name: Alam, Md. Mejbah Ul
name: Das, Nishita
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In multiprocessor systems, one of the main factors of systems' performance is task scheduling. The well the task be distributed among the processors the well be the performance. Again finding the optimal solution of scheduling the tasks into the processors is NP-complete, that is, it will take a lot of time to find the optimal solution. Many evolutionary algorithms (e.g. Genetic Algorithm, Simulated annealing) are used to reach the near optimal solution in linear time. In this paper we propose a heuristic for genetic algorithm based task scheduling in multiprocessor systems by choosing the eligible processor on educated guess. From comparison it is found that this new heuristic based GA takes less computation time to reach the suboptimal solution.
Mercury concentrations in the muscles of the North American Bullfrogs (Rana catesbeiana)
Creators: name: Connell, Jarrod
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2006

description: Many studies have be done on mercury in the environment. The studies though have focused on sport fish and migratory waterfowl. North American Bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana) has been one species neglected from studies. One study has shown that bullfrogs due accumulate significant amounts of mercury (Gerstenberger S., and Pearson R. 2002). Though, no study has been done to find out if hind limbs have more concentrations that front limbs. Also to see if there is a difference between skin-off and skin-on, to find out if skin accumulates mercury. This study found that there was no significant difference between front and hind limbs at low levels. From this study, skin-off to skin-on had no significant difference in mercury concentrations. Females have been found, in this study, to have significantly less mercury concentrations than males. These finding show that front limbs can be used to predict hind limb mercury concentrations.
Cricetomys emini Wroughton 1910
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Cricetidae
Cricetomys
Cricetomys emini

description: Cricetomys emini Wroughton, 1910. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 5: 106. TYPE LOCALITY: Zaire (=N.E. Congo), Monbuttu, Gadda. DISTRIBUTION: Sierra Leone to Gabon, Uganda, and Zaire; Bioko. COMMENT: Separated from gambianus by Genest-Villard, 1967, Mammalia, 31:390-455, and Rosevear, 1969, The Rodents of West Africa, Br. Mus. Lond., 677:221.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 3), pp. 392-476 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 405, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353031
description: {"references": ["Genest-Villard, H. 1967. Revision du genre Cricetomys (Rongeurs, Cricetidae). Mammalia, 31: 390 - 455.", "Rosevear, D. R. 1969. The rodents of West Africa. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 677: 1 - 604."]}
Deposition and uptake availability of lead shot for waterfowl at Honeybee Pond within the Overton Wildlife Management Area, Nevada, USA
Creators: name: Eckberg, Jason
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2000

description: Lead shot has been banned for hunting waterfowl since 1974, but lead poisoning
continues to be a major problem in many waterfowl habitats. In December of 1999, soil
samples were collected from the Honeybee pond at the Overton Wildlife Management
area to determine the lead pellet concentration and the availability of lead shot to
waterfowl. There were no shot pellets recovered from the thirty-one samples taken from
the pond. Based on this information waterfowl do not appear to be exposed to lead in the
pond areas at OWMA.
The orbits of subdwarf B + main-sequence binaries. I: The sdB+G0 system PG 1104+243
Creators: name: Vos, J.
name: Östensen, R. H.
name: Degroote, P.
name: De Smedt, K.
name: Green, E. M.
name: Heber, U.
name: Van Winckel, H.
name: Acke, B.
name: Bloemen, S.
name: De Cat, P.
name: Exter, K.
name: Lampens, P.
name: Lombaert, R.
name: Masseron, T.
name: Menu, J.
name: Neyskens, P.
name: Raskin, G.
name: Smolders, K.
name: Tkachenko, A.
name: Ringat, E.
name: Rauch, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The predicted orbital period histogram of an sdB population is bimodal with a peak at short (< 10 days) and long (> 250 days) periods. Observationally, there are many short-period sdB systems known, but only very few long-period sdB binaries are identified. As these predictions are based on poorly understood binary interaction processes, it is of prime importance to confront the predictions to observational data. In this contribution we aim to determine the absolute dimensions of the long-period sdB+MS binary system PG1104+243. High-resolution spectroscopy time-series were obtained with HERMES at the Mercator telescope at La Palma, and analyzed to obtain radial velocities of both components. Photometry from the literature was used to construct the spectral energy distribution (SED) of the binary. Atmosphere models were used to fit this SED and determine the surface gravity and temperature of both components. The gravitational redshift provided an independent confirmation of the surface gravity of the sdB component. An orbital period of 753 +- 3 d and a mass ratio of q = 0.637 +- 0.015 were found from the RV-curves. The sdB component has an effective temperature of Teff = 33500 +- 1200 K and a surface gravity of logg = 5.84 +- 0.08 dex, while the cool companion is found to be a G-type star with Teff = 5930 +- 160 K and logg = 4.29 +- 0.05 dex. Assuming a canonical mass of Msdb = 0.47 Msun, the MS component has a mass of 0.74 +- 0.07 Msun, and its Teff corresponds to what is expected for a terminal age main-sequence star with sub-solar metalicity. PG1104+243 is the first long-period sdB binary in which accurate physical parameters of both components could be determined, and the first sdB binary in which the gravitational redshift is measured. Furthermore, PG1104+243 is the first sdB+MS system that shows consistent evidence for being formed through stable Roche-lobe overflow.
description: Accepted by A&A on 05-10-2012
Consumptive water use at the Mirage Hotel and the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada
Creators: name: Feller, Johann A.
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2003

description: The Las Vegas Valley is one of the driest regions in the southwest United States. Due to limited water supplies from the Colorado River, rainfall, and groundwater sources, the water requirements of the valleys growing population is slated to surpass the current available water supply. The purpose of this comparative study is to quantify the amount of consumptive water used at a major Las Vegas resort/casino in one year. This, being of importance, because of the resort/casino industrys role as one of the largest, most visible, and most resource intensive industries in the Las Vegas valley. The goal of this project is to study the impact of this industrys consumptive water usage on the overall water availability in the Las Vegas valley. This project was completed by researching case studies and reports of water use in related industries, water consumption and sewer outflow records, and water conservation literature. The results of the study show that consumptive water use at the Mirage Hotel and the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino is much less than previously estimated, concluding that the impact this industry makes on the available water supply for the Las Vegas valley is also much smaller than previously estimated.
Habitat preferences of four species of lizards found at the Las Vegas Springs Preserve
Creators: name: Garncarz, Scott
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2004

description: Developing an understanding of the habitat usage of reptiles is important when trying to develop a management or restoration plan that is compatible with what is known of the reptile species that are being investigated. There are many lizard species found in the Mojave Desert, but there are only four known to inhabit the Las Vegas Springs Preserve (LVSP) in Las Vegas, Nevada. In the LVSP, sites are going to be restored with native Mojave Desert vegetation. Since there are many habitat types in the Mojave Desert, we must determine which types would be best suited for the four species of lizards at the LVSP. Therefore this study will determine habitat usage by the four species of lizards at the LVSP.
One issue that arises in determining the true habitat found at the LVSP is whether the lizards are using the habitat around the array or are they moving from a nearby habitat. Research is limited on home range and foraging dealing with the four lizard species, and the area of study is small and isolated, so determining where exactly the lizards are coming from is not possible for this study.
Owing to the isolation of the population of lizard species, they may in some way become specialized to certain habitat types. If the area is restored to a habitat type that is not used by the four species of lizards, then this could cause populations to move or be less viable and hence disrupt the current ecological balance.
The four species of lizards that are found at the LVSP are: Cnemidophorus tigris (C. tigris), Uta stansburiana (U. stansburiana), Sceloporus magister (S. magister), and Xantusia vigilis (X. vigilis). These are all common species that are found in the Mojave Desert region of the United States (Behler and King, 2002). Although these species are found in the same region, they have different habitat preferences, and activity patterns (Table 1 and Table 2).
On sampling and modeling complex systems
Creators: name: Marsili, Matteo
name: Mastromatteo, Iacopo
name: Roudi, Yasser
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The study of complex systems is limited by the fact that only few variables are accessible for modeling and sampling, which are not necessarily the most relevant ones to explain the systems behavior. In addition, empirical data typically under sample the space of possible states. We study a generic framework where a complex system is seen as a system of many interacting degrees of freedom, which are known only in part, that optimize a given function. We show that the underlying distribution with respect to the known variables has the Boltzmann form, with a temperature that depends on the number of unknown variables. In particular, when the unknown part of the objective function decays faster than exponential, the temperature decreases as the number of variables increases. We show in the representative case of the Gaussian distribution, that models are predictable only when the number of relevant variables is less than a critical threshold. As a further consequence, we show that the information that a sample contains on the behavior of the system is quantified by the entropy of the frequency with which different states occur. This allows us to characterize the properties of maximally informative samples: in the under-sampling regime, the most informative frequency size distributions have power law behavior and Zipf's law emerges at the crossover between the under sampled regime and the regime where the sample contains enough statistics to make inference on the behavior of the system. These ideas are illustrated in some applications, showing that they can be used to identify relevant variables or to select most informative representations of data, e.g. in data clustering.
description: 28 pages, 7 figures, version accepted for publication
Electroconductive poly(3,4‑ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT) nanoparticle‑loaded silk fibroin biocomposite conduits for peripheral nerve regeneration
Creators: name: Escobar, Ane
name: Serafin, Aleksandra
name: Carvalho, Mariana R.
name: Culebras, Mario
name: Cantarero, Andres
name: Beaucamp, Anne
name: Reis, Rui L
name: Oliveira, J. Miguel
name: COLLINS, MAURICE
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: Engineering

description: Peripheral nerve injury (PNI) often clinically relies on the use of nerve grafts taken from the patient to establish a therapeutic efect, though secondary site of injury and morbidity have prompted the medical community to fnd alternative solutions. A new trend in the development of biomaterials arises in the form of electro-conductive biomaterials, especially for electrically active tissues such as the peripheral nerves. In this work, novel poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) PEDOT nanoparticles (PEDOT NPs) were synthetized via the mini-emulsion method and were combined with silk fbroin (SF) to create conduits for PNI repair. The synthesized PEDOT NPs-loaded SF conduits showed optimal properties for peripheral nerve substitution from the physico-chemical and biological point of view. They displayed excellent mechanical and conductivity performance with the tensile moduli reaching 6.61±0.55 MPa and the conduits reaching 5.4 · 10–4 S cm−1, respectively. The conduits did not possess apatite-forming capacity, which were resistant to bending occlusions for angles up to 50° and to suturing. The developed conduits are promising as a novel biomaterial for applications in peripheral nerve regeneration; in vitro experiments showed that they did not allow BJ fbroblast infltration, avoiding scar tissue formation in the lumen, and they did not show any toxic effect for Schwann cells.
Degenerate Monge-Type Hypersurfaces
Creators: name: Pham, David N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this note, we extend the notion of a Monge hypersurface from its roots in semi-Euclidean space to more general spaces. For the degenerate case, the geometry of these structures is studied using the Bejancu-Duggal method of screen distributions.
description: 14 pages, some typos corrected, to appear in Acta Math. Univ. Comenianae
Cricetomys gambianus Waterhouse 1840
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Cricetidae
Cricetomys
Cricetomys gambianus

description: Cricetomys gambianus Waterhouse, 1840. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1840:2. TYPE LOCALITY: Gambia, River Gambia. DISTRIBUTION: Senegal to Sudan to Angola and South Africa. COMMENT: Formerly included emini; see Genest-Villard, 1967, Mammalia, 31:390-455; Rosevear, 1969, The Rodents of West Africa, Br. Mus. Lond., 677:221. Reviewed by Misonne, 1974, Part 6: 12; Ansell, 1978:75. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008101001001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 3), pp. 392-476 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 405, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353031
description: {"references": ["Genest-Villard, H. 1967. Revision du genre Cricetomys (Rongeurs, Cricetidae). Mammalia, 31: 390 - 455.", "Rosevear, D. R. 1969. The rodents of West Africa. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 677: 1 - 604.", "Misonne, X. 1974. Order Rodentia. Part 6. Pp. 1 - 39, in The mammals of Africa: An identification manual (J. Meester and H. W. Setzer, eds.). [issued 10 Sep 1974]. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., not continuously paginated.", "Ansell, W. F. H. 1978. The mammals of Zambia. National Parks and Wildlife Service, Chilanga, 126 pp."]}
Casimir Effect in the Presence of External Fields
Creators: name: Beauregard, Matthew
name: Fucci, Guglielmo
name: Kirsten, Klaus
name: Morales, Pedro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work the Casimir effect is studied for scalar fields in the presence of boundaries and under the influence of arbitrary smooth potentials of compact support. In this setting, piston configurations are analyzed in which the piston is modeled by a potential. For these configurations, analytic results for the Casimir energy and force are obtained by employing the zeta function regularization method. Also, explicit numerical results for the Casimir force are provided for pistons modeled by a class of compactly supported potentials that are realizable as delta-sequences. These results are then generalized to higher dimensional pistons by considering additional Kaluza-Klein dimensions.
description: 21 Pages, 5 Figures
Constraining Inert Dark Matter by R_{γγ} and WMAP data
Creators: name: Krawczyk, Maria
name: Sokolowska, Dorota
name: Swaczyna, Pawel
name: Swiezewska, Bogumila
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the constraints on the Dark Matter coming from the LHC Higgs data and WMAP relic density measurements for the Inert Doublet Model (IDM), which is one of the simplest extensions of the Standard Model providing a Dark Matter (DM) candidate. We found that combining the diphoton rate R_{γγ} and the Ω_{DM}h^2 data one can set strong limits on the parameter space of the IDM, stronger or comparable to the constraints provided by XENON100 experiment for low and medium DM mass.
description: v2: published version, JHEP style, 20 pages, 10 figures, references updated, comparison with indirect detection limits and comments about vacuum stability added
Patterns in Platform Video Production in ten Countries
Creators: name: Boshnakova, Dessislava
name: Christova, Evelina
name: Petkov, Stoyko
name: Toms, Justine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The deliverable offers data and analysis of the video content production on platforms in the ten EUMEPLAT countries (Italy, Germany, Bulgaria, Spain, Belgium, Turkey, Greece, Portugal, Sweden, Czech Republic) collecting also the national reports realized by each partner university.
Additional file 1 of The impact of depression at preconception on pregnancy planning and unmet need for contraception in the first postpartum year: a cohort study from rural Malawi
Creators: name: Catalao, Raquel
name: Chapota, Hilda
name: Chorwe-Sungani, Genesis
name: Hall, Jennifer
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Socio-demographic characteristics of women completing the antenatal interview.
Aspects of Warped AdS$_3$/CFT$_2$ Correspondence
Creators: name: Chen, Bin
name: Zhang, Jia-ju
name: Zhang, Jian-dong
name: Zhong, De-liang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we apply the thermodynamics method to investigate the holographic pictures for the BTZ black hole, the spacelike and the null warped black holes in three-dimensional topologically massive gravity (TMG) and new massive gravity (NMG). Even though there are higher derivative terms in these theories, the thermodynamics method is still effective. It gives consistent results with the ones obtained by using asymptotical symmetry group (ASG) analysis. In doing the ASG analysis we develop a brute-force realization of the Barnich-Brandt-Compere formalism with Mathematica code, which also allows us to calculate the masses and the angular momenta of the black holes. In particular, we propose the warped AdS$_3$/CFT$_2$ correspondence in the new massive gravity, which states that quantum gravity in the warped spacetime could holographically dual to a two-dimensional CFT with $c_R=c_L=\f{24}{Gm\b^2\sr{2(21-4\b^2)}}$.
description: 22 pages, references added, published version, link of Mathematica code changed to https://s.yunio.com/Mtus0z or http://pan.baidu.com/s/1mToFv
Do user fees violate nonmember rights?
Creators: name: Hartman, Jerry
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 1999

description: User fees are moneys charged non-union members by their representative union for the
purpose of processing grievances. The non-member has to request the union to represent
them in order for the union to do so. They may also hirer private representation at their
own cost. User fees violate the intent of right-to-work laws in Nevada. The Nevada
Local Government Employee-Management Board was wrong when they allowed
Union/Local 1107 to charge such fees. The "Executive Board Policy" posted by Local
1107 on union bulletin boards announcing the fees for representation was coercive and
discriminatory. According to survey, 40% of the respondents believe user fees would
affect their decision to join an union. If the fees affect decisions to join they must be
coercive in nature and thus not allowed in Nevada.
Using a systems dynamics approach to determine what can be done to minimize ozone production
Creators: name: McDonald, Jusdi
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2005

description: Ground level ozone is an air pollutant that affects people of all ages and origins in many urban areas including the Las Vegas Valley. The purpose of this study is to examine the best strategy to minimize tropospheric ozone generation through using a system dynamics approach via LUTAQ is used to formulate a solution to the reduction of ozone in the Clark County non-attainment area. By increasing housing density, decreasing average distance per trip, and decrease average number of trips per person per day is the most effective strategies to improving ozone levels in Las Vegas Valley.
State of Play: Public Sector Information in the United States
Creators: name: Vollmer, Timothy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: public sector information, United States, copyright, open data

description: This topic report examines the background of public sector information (PSI) policy and re­use in the United States, describing the federal, state and local government PSI environments. It explores the impact of these differences against the European framework, especially in relation to economic effects of open access to particular types of PSI, such as weather data. The report also discuss recent developments in the United States relating to PSI re­use, such as Data.gov, the NIH Public Access Policy, and new open licensing requirements for government funded educational resources.
Two different soil sampling techniques for assessing soil lead concentrations at the Overton Wildlife Management Area, Nevada
Creators: name: Falc, Kristen E.
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2000

description: During the summer of 1999, soil samples were taken from the Overton Wildlife
Management Area (OWMA), located in the Moapa Valley of Clark County, Nevada.
Although lead shot has been banned for the hunting of waterfowl since 1986, it is still legal
for upland game hunting. The field sampled serves primarily as a dove hunting area and is
cultivated. A large sample size was taken to indicate the short-term effects of the
deposition of lead shot in the area and a small sample size, the long-term. Lead shot was
recovered from 64% of the small samples and the estimated concentration was 499,521
pellets/ ha. Forty-eight percent lead shot was recovered from the large samples and the
estimated concentration was 64,593 pellets/ ha. The amount of lead shot found in the
small samples was 29 and 15 in the large. Comparison was made to fields of similar
circumstances around the country and the OWMA supersedes all. Although the OWMA*
is cultivating the field to reduce the availability of lead shot at the surface, the data from
this study indicates that lead shot is potentially available to wildlife. I recommend that
lead shot be banned at the Overton Wildlife Management Area.
Cricetulus Milne-Edwards 1867
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Cricetidae
Cricetulus

description: Cricetulus Milne-Edwards, 1867. Ann. Sci. Nat. Paris, 7:376. REVIEWED BY: R. S. Hoffmann (RSH); O. L. Rossolimo (OLR); C. J. Terry (CJT); S. Wang (SW)(China). COMMENT: Includes Allocricetulus and Tscherskia; see Corbet, 1978:90. Reviewed by Flint, 1966, Die Zwerghamster der Palaearktischen Fauna, Stuttgart. Gromov and Baranova, 1981:153- 154, retained Allocricetulus and Tscherskia as genera, without comment. Subfamily Cricetinae; see comment under Cricetidae. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008010000000.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 3), pp. 392-476 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 405, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353031
description: {"references": ["Gromov, I. M., and G. I. Baranova (eds.). 1981. Katalog mlekopitayushchikh SSSR [Catalog of mammals of the USSR]. Nauka, Leningrad, 456 pp. (in Russian)."]}
Additional file 1 of What is the impact of vitamin D supplementation on glycemic control in people with type-2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trails
Creators: name: Farahmand, Mohammad Ashraf
name: Daneshzad, Elnaz
name: Fung, Teresa T.
name: Zahidi, Fawzia
name: Muhammadi, Maryam
name: Bellissimo, Nick
name: Azadbakht, Leila
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Figure S1. Risk of bias assessment for included studies using the Cochrane Collaboration tool across six domains. Supplementary Table S1. Summary table of subgroup analyses; FPG changes. Supplementary Table S2. Summary table of subgroup analyses; HbA1c changes. Supplementary Table S3. Summary table of subgroup analyses; HOMA-IR changes. Supplementary Figure S2. Funnel plot for fasting plasma glucose. Supplementary Figure S3. Funnel plot for HbA1c. Supplementary Figure S4. Funnel plot for HOMA-IR.