cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Non-Gaussian halo abundances in the excursion set approach with correlated steps
Creators: name: Musso, Marcello
name: Paranjape, Aseem
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effects of primordial non-Gaussianity on the large scale structure in the excursion set approach, accounting for correlations between steps of the random walks in the smoothed initial density field. These correlations are induced by realistic smoothing filters (as opposed to a filter that is sharp in k-space), but have been ignored by many analyses to date. We present analytical arguments -- building on existing results for Gaussian initial conditions -- which suggest that the effect of the filter at large smoothing scales is remarkably simple, and is in fact identical to what happens in the Gaussian case: the non-Gaussian walks behave as if they were smooth and deterministic, or "completely correlated". As a result, the first crossing distribution (which determines, e.g., halo abundances) follows from the single-scale statistics of the non-Gaussian density field -- the so-called "cloud-in-cloud" problem does not exist for completely correlated walks. Also, the answer from single-scale statistics is simply one half that for sharp-k walks. We explicitly test these arguments using Monte Carlo simulations of non-Gaussian walks, showing that the resulting first crossing distributions, and in particular the factor 1/2 argument, are remarkably insensitive to variations in the power spectrum and the defining non-Gaussian process. We also use our Monte Carlo walks to test some of the existing prescriptions for the non-Gaussian first crossing distribution. Since the factor 1/2 holds for both Gaussian and non-Gaussian initial conditions, it provides a theoretical motivation (the first, to our knowledge) for the common practice of analytically prescribing a ratio of non-Gaussian to Gaussian halo abundances.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures; v2 -- fixed a formatting problem + typos; v3 -- minor changes, accepted in MNRAS
Additional file 2 of Genome-wide identification and analysis of bZIP gene family reveal their roles during development and drought stress in Wheel Wingnut (Cyclocarya paliurus)
Creators: name: Tao, Yu-Tian
name: Chen, Lu-Xi
name: Jin, Jie
name: Du, Zhao-Kui
name: Li, Jun-Min
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Fig. S2. Distribution of CpbZIPs in different groups in the phylogenetic tree.
Piloting a Savings-Led Microfinance Intervention with Women Engaging in Sex Work in Mongolia: Further Innovation for HIV Risk Reduction
Creators: name: Tsai, Laura Cordisco
name: Witte, Susan S.
name: Aira, Toivgoo
name: Altantsetseg, Batsukh
name: Riedel, Marion
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Microfinance
HIV infections—Prevention
Public health
Women in economic development
Prostitutes

description: This paper describes a pilot study testing the feasibility of an innovative savings-led microfinance intervention in increasing the economic empowerment and reducing the sexual risk behavior of women engaging in sex work in Mongolia. Women’s economic vulnerability may increase their risk for HIV by compromising their ability to negotiate safer sex with partners and heightening the likelihood they will exchange sex for survival. Microfinance has been considered a potentially powerful structural HIV prevention strategy with women conducting sex work, as diversification of income sources may increase women’s capacity to negotiate safer transactional sex. With 50% of all reported female HIV cases in Mongolia detected among women engaging in sex work, direct prevention intervention with women conducting sex work represents an opportunity to prevent a potentially rapid increase in HIV infection in urban Mongolia. The piloted intervention consisted of a matched savings program in which matched savings could be used for business development or vocational education, combined with financial literacy and business development training for women engaging in sex work. Results of the pilot demonstrate participants’ increased confidence in their ability to manage finances, greater hope for pursuing vocational goals, moderate knowledge gains regarding financial literacy, and an initial transition from sex work to alternative income generation for five out of nine participants. The pilot findings highlight the potential for such an intervention and the need for a clinical trial testing the efficacy of savings-led microfinance programs in reducing HIV risk for women engaging in sex work in Mongolia.
Programmheft der DHd 2019 "Digital Humanities: multimedial und multimodal"
Creators: name: Bruhn, Kai-Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Digital Humanities
subject: DHd 2019
subject: Programm
subject: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1026962

description: PDF des Programmhefts zur 6. Jahrestagung des Verbandes Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum (DHd) vom 25.-29. März 2019 in Frankfurt a. M. und Mainz.

Das Programmheft wird fortlaufend bis Mitte März 2019 ergänzt und entsprechend versioniert. Die Version 1.0 umfasst ausschließlich die Informationen zu angebotenen Workshops, Panels und Sessions.

Das vollständige Programm wird veröffentlich unter https://dhd2019.org/programm/mo und ist als csv unter https://github.com/mainzed/DHd2019 zur freien Verwendung abzurufen.
title: Institutionelle Gestaltung von energieraumplanerischen Politiken: Das Fallbeispiel der niederländischen Windkraftzonierung
Creators: name: Nabielek, Pia Christa
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2021
Subjects: Raumordnung
Energiewende
Institutionelle Gestaltung
Institutionalisierungsprozesse
Niederländische Windkraftpolitik

description: Aktiv gestaltete Innovation im institutionellen Bereich gilt als eine wesentliche Voraussetzung für eine erfolgreiche Energiewende. Heutige gesellschaftliche Routinen sollen aufgebrochen und durch Prakti-ken ersetzt werden, die nachhaltiger sind und deshalb wert sind nachgeahmt und institutionalisiert zu werden. Dieser Beitrag geht der Frage nach, inwiefern Energieraumplanung zielgerichtet und bewusst neue Institutionen einführen kann und ob damit tatsächlich langfristig nachhaltigere Rahmenbedin-gungen geschaffen werden. In planungstheoretischer Literatur wird institutionelle Gestaltung als ein wichtiger Bereich der Raumplanung hervorgehoben. Damit gemeint ist das Verändern und Einführen von allgemeinen Werten und Normen – Regelungen, Praktiken und Sichtweisen –, die die Interaktion eines breiten Spektrums von Akteurinnen und Akteuren strukturieren. In diesem Beitrag wird institu-tionelle Gestaltung am Beispiel der Windkraftzonierung untersucht. Anhand des Praxisbeispiels des niederländischen Strukturplans für Onshore-Windkraftanlagen wird aufgezeigt, inwiefern die räumlich-geografische Abgrenzung von Gebieten für nachhaltige Energiegewinnung zur Entwicklung von neuen Institutionen geführt hat und welche Pfad-Abhängigkeiten dies mit sich bringt.
A Mathematical Theory of Quantum Sheaf Cohomology
Creators: name: Donagi, Ron
name: Guffin, Josh
name: Katz, Sheldon
name: Sharpe, Eric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The purpose of this paper is to present a mathematical theory of the half-twisted $(0,2)$ gauged linear sigma model and its correlation functions that agrees with and extends results from physics. The theory is associated to a smooth projective toric variety $X$ and a deformation $\sheaf E$ of its tangent bundle $T_X$. It gives a quantum deformation of the cohomology ring of the exterior algebra of $\sheaf E^*$. We prove that in the general case, the correlation functions are independent of `nonlinear' deformations. We derive quantum sheaf cohomology relations that correctly specialize to the ordinary quantum cohomology relations described by Batyrev in the special case $\sheaf E = T_X$.
Vanishing publications: we hear from the experts working on the preservation of online scholarship
Creators: name: Deborah, Thorpe
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: digital preservation
open access
open scholarship
open research
preservation
born digital
research
archiving
CLOCKSS
digital scholarship

description: Over the last twenty years or so, important scholarly publications have been vanishing from the internet. With that in mind, Dr Deborah Thorpe speaks to a wide range of experts who are working on the preservation of online scholarly content. This is part one of a three-part series.
In this first part, Dr Thorpe explains the issue of 'vanishing' open access publications and speaks with Alicia Wise, Executive Director of CLOCKSS about why this research is disappearing and what can be done to mitigate this.
Intimate Partner Violence and HIV Among Drug-Involved Women: Contexts Linking These Two Epidemics—Challenges and Implications for Prevention and Treatment
Creators: name: El-Bassel, Nabila
name: Gilbert, Louisa
name: Witte, Susan S.
name: Wu, Elwin
name: Chang, Mingway P.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Intimate partner violence
HIV-positive women
Women--Drug use
HIV infections--Risk factors

description: Intimate partner violence (IPV) and HIV are two serious overlapping public health epidemics that disproportionately affect drug-involved women. This article reviews research that has identified a number of contexts that may explain the links between IPV and HIV transmission risks. These contexts include sexual coercion, fear of violence, negotiation of condom use, extra dyadic relationships, disclosure of sexually transmitted infections or HIV seropositivity to intimate partners, drug involvement of women and their male partners, low social status of drug-involved women, relationship dependencies, and sex ratio imbalances. The article focuses on how the bidirectional relationship between IPV and HIV risks may be mediated by a history of childhood sexual abuse and post-traumatic stress disorder. Also addressed are the challenges that substance user treatment programs face in dealing with female clients who experience IPV and the implications for HIV prevention.
Zeta-regularisation for exact-WKB resolution of a general 1D Schrödinger equation
Creators: name: Voros, André
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 34B24, 34L05, 34M37, 34M60, 37N20, 81Q05, 81Q20

description: We review an exact analytical resolution method for general one-dimensional (1D) quantal anharmonic oscillators: stationary Schrödinger equations with polynomial potentials. It is an exact form of WKB treatment involving spectral (usual) vs "classical" (newer) zeta-regularisations in parallel. The central results are a set of Bohr--Sommerfeld-like but exact quantisation conditions, directly drawn from Wronskian identities, and appearing to extend Bethe-Ansatz formulae of integrable systems. Such exact quantisation conditions do not just select the eigenvalues; some evaluate the spectral determinants, and others the wavefunctions, for the spectral parameter in general position.
description: 17 pages, 2 figures. V2: minor amendments throughout, with one typo corrected in eq.(19)
Reducing Intimate and Paying Partner Violence Against Women Who Exchange Sex in Mongolia
Creators: name: Carlson, Catherine E.
name: Chen, Jiehua
name: Chang, Mingway P.
name: Batsukh, Altantsetseg
name: Aira, Toivgoo
name: Riedel, Marion
name: Witte, Susan S.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Prostitutes--Violence against
Women--Social networks
Clinical trials
Intimate partner violence

description: Women who exchange sex for money or other goods, that is, female sex workers, are at increased risk of experiencing physical and sexual violence from both paying and intimate partners. Exposure to violence can be exacerbated by alcohol use and HIV/STI risk. The purpose of this study is to examine the efficacy of a HIV/STI risk reduction and enhanced HIV/STI risk reduction intervention at decreasing paying and intimate partner violence against Mongolian women who exchange sex and engage in harmful alcohol use. Women are recruited and randomized to either (a) four sessions of a relationship-based HIV/STI risk reduction intervention (n = 49), (b) the same HIV/STI risk reduction intervention plus two additional motivational interviewing sessions (n = 58), or (c) a four session control condition focused on wellness promotion (n = 59). All the respondents complete assessments at baseline (preintervention) as well as at immediate posttest, 3 and 6 months postintervention. A multilevel logistic model finds that women who participated in the HIV/STI risk reduction group (OR = 0.14, p < .00), HIV/STI risk reduction and motivational interview group (OR = 0.46, p = .02), and wellness (OR = 0.20, p < .00) group reduced their exposure to physical and sexual violence in the past 90 days. No significant differences in effects are observed between conditions. This study demonstrates the efficacy of a relationship-based HIV/STI risk reduction intervention, a relationship-based HIV/STI risk reduction intervention combined with motivational interviewing, and a wellness promotion intervention in reducing intimate and paying partner violence against women who exchange sex in Mongolia. The findings have significant implications for the impact of minimal intervention and the potential role of peer networks and social support in reducing women’s experiences of violence in resource poor settings.
Prospects of charm mixing and indirect CPV at Belle II
Creators: name: Kumar, Jitendra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: Charm mixing and CP violation are unique probe to study the flavour dynamics of up-type quarks sector, the only sector, where CP violation remains to be discovered. The CP violation in the charm sector is expected to be small, and contribution from New Physics could significantly affect the measured value. The Belle II experiment at the SuperKEKB, asymmetric-energy e^{+}e^{−} collider at KEK, Japan, is an upgrade of Belle experiment for better performance and to handle the higher instantaneous luminosity. The Belle II detector will be collecting a total integrated luminosity of 50 ab-1 of data by 2025, which is a large increase than that of its predecessor Belle/KEKB as well as the BaBar experiment. The improved vertex resolution and particle identification of the Belle II detector will provide a larger and better quality data sample of charm meson decays. In this contribution, we discussed the prospects of charm mixing and indirect CPV measurements at Belle II.
Acoustic radiation force and torque on a sphere or spheroid near a boundary
Creators: name: Simon, Blake Elliott
name: 0000-0003-4692-0593
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2023
Subjects: Radiation force
Scattering
Acoustics
Finite element method
Boundary

description: This dissertation is a study of the acoustic radiation force and torque on a sphere or spheroid in an inviscid fluid near a planar boundary. First, a linear analytical solution for the acoustic scattering by the object and boundary is derived. The solution is based on expansion of the pressure field in spherical or spheroidal wave functions. The condition at the boundary is satisfied using the method of images, which is exact for rigid and pressure release boundaries. The analytical solution imposes no restriction on the structure of the incident field or size of the object. An approximation is introduced that extends the analytical solution to other types of boundaries, including a fluid-fluid interface. Next, the expansion coefficients in the linear solution are substituted into a known analytical expression for the acoustic radiation force and torque on the sphere or spheroid that follows from integration of the radiation stress tensor. The radiation force and torque are also modeled numerically using the finite element method, which is used to validate results from the analytical model. The finite element model is less computationally efficient than the analytical model, but it can be used for objects of any shape. Calculations based on both models illustrate the influence of multiple scattering effects between the object and the boundary on the radiation force and torque acting on the object. Radiation force on a polypropylene sphere in water was measured as a function of distance from a reflecting surface in the presence of an incident sound beam. The force was measured by forming a pendulum with the sphere and tracking its displacement. Measurements of the radiation force on the sphere are compared with the analytical model.
Additional file 2 of Determination of adrenal hypersecretion in primary Aldosteronism without aldosterone-production adenomas
Creators: name: Sun, Fang
name: Hong, Yangning
name: Zhang, Hexuan
name: Liu, Xiaoli
name: Zhao, Zhigang
name: He, Hongbo
name: Yan, Zhencheng
name: Zhu, Zhiming
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Table S2.Comparison of target organ damage in PA patients with and without ARR greater than 10 after confirmatory test (ng/dL)/(mU/L).
Spontaneous Symmetry Breakdown in non-relativistic Quantum Mechanics
Creators: name: Munoz-Vega, R.
name: Garcia-Quiroz, A.
name: Lopez-Chavez, Ernesto
name: Salinas-Hernandez, Encarnacion
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The advantages and disadvantages of some pedagogical non-relativistic quantum-mechanical models, used to illustrate spontaneous symmetry breakdown, are discussed. A simple quantum-mechanical toy model (a spinor on the line, subject to a magnetostatic interaction) is presented, that exhibits the spontaneous breakdown of an internal symmetry.
description: 19 pages, 5 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1111.1213. Equations (30) and (31) have been corrected. Other minor corrections
Computationally efficient algorithms for spacecraft relative navigation and rendezvous
Creators: name: Kaki, Siddarth Bhargava
name: 0000-0001-8643-1028
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2023
Subjects: Autonomous
Navigation
Guidance
Control
Cubesat
Spacecraft
Orbits
Dynamics
Rendezvous

description: There is tremendous interest in the development of spacecraft guidance, navigation, and control technologies that enable on-orbit servicing, assembly, and manufacturing missions with limited human supervisory support. These applications provide strong motivations for the design of computationally lightweight algorithms that enable autonomous operations, especially for missions constrained by size, weight, power, and cost (SWaP-C) such as cubesats. However, the more democratic access to space has also further contributed to the space debris problem, with worryingly many defunct and derelict spacecraft crowding up precious space. Dealing with such noncooperative objects poses significant challenges, with large uncertainties in mass properties and applied forces by the environment. This dissertation addresses such problems related to SWaP-C constraints and also noncooperative targets within the fields of relative spacecraft navigation and rendezvous. The first topic addresses relative angular velocity and associated uncertainty estimation from a geometrical perspective via batch processes. The second topic addresses real-time relative pose estimation and tracking using monocular imagery for cubesat applications. The third topic addresses analytical guidance solutions for radial-thrust-based far-field rendezvous and orbit rotations. Finally, the fourth topic addresses semi-analytical techniques to achieve circular orbit changes with radial and velocity-normal thrust.
Celebration and erasure : heritage in nation-building processes in the Americas
Creators: name: Cortizo De Aguiar, Barbara
name: 0000-0003-0286-0250
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2023
Subjects: Erasure
Identity
Heritage
Buildings
Landscape

description: In this dissertation, I discuss the role of architecture and cultural landscape in our continent’s national identity creation and nation-building processes. More specifically, I examine the creation of national heritage institutes in the United States and Brazil in the early 1900s to show how these countries imagined their national identity through preservation endeavors and the built environment. As these processes might be understood through the countries’ spatial occupation, I argue that their national heritages were defined as landscapes and buildings, respectively. I analyze how the National Park Service and the Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico Artístico Nacional were partially responsible for crafting the countries’ national identities by preserving the mostly white aspects of their histories. This comparative study explores the geopolitics of heritage in the Americas, discussing how heritage was thought and practiced hemispherically under social and racial backgrounds. Governments and national institutions decide what aspects will be excluded from their narrative by acclaiming certain events and celebrating them as heritage. With this premise in mind, I seek to understand how two different countries created two different foundation myths that have since been used to define national identity and values. I look at national heritage studies by discussing celebration and erasure in national heritage narratives.
“There is no other option; we have to feed our families…who else would do it?”: The Financial Lives of Women Engaging in Sex Work in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Creators: name: Tsai, Laura Cordisco
name: Witte, Susan S.
name: Aira, Toivgoo
name: Riedel, Marion
name: Hwang, Hyesung Grace
name: Ssewamala, Fred M.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Prostitutes
Women--Finance, Personal
Prostitution--Economic aspects

description: Introduction: This article provides an overview of the financial lives of women (n = 204) engaging in sex work in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

Methods: This paper presents findings from a computer-based, interviewer-administered baseline assessment administered with women recruited for participation in a randomized controlled trial testing the feasibility of a combined HIV risk reduction and savings-led microfinance intervention for women engaging in sex work in Mongolia.

Findings: Findings demonstrate that most women are the primary financial providers for their households, using an array of earning strategies to provide for themselves and other dependents, with sex work often constituting the primary household income source. Financial instability in the lives of people engaging in sex work may increase their risk for HIV and STIs due to a compromised ability to negotiate safer sex with partners in times of economic crisis or need. High levels of financial responsibility for household welfare, when combined with low reported savings, the presence of debt, higher premiums offered for sex without a condom, and high levels of harmful alcohol use, may heighten women’s risk for HIV and other STIs.

Conclusion: Further research that documents the financial lives of people working in sex work is needed in order to understand the complex relationship between financial stability and engagement in sex work, and to inform the development and testing of structural HIV prevention interventions which target the economic determinants of risk. These findings highlight the importance of economic support programming for women engaged in sex work in Mongolia at a time of rapid economic change in Mongolia.
The effects of baryons on the halo mass function
Creators: name: Cui, Weiguang
name: Borgani, Stefano
name: Dolag, Klaus
name: Murante, Giuseppe
name: Tornatore, Luca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an analysis of the effects of baryon physics on the halo mass function. The analysis is based on simulations of a cosmological volume. Besides a Dark Matter (DM) only simulation, we also carry out two other hydrodynamical simulations. We identified halos using a spherical overdensity algorithm and their masses are computed at three different overdensities (with respect to the critical one), $Δ_c=200$, 500 and 1500. We find the fractional difference between halo masses in the hydrodynamical and in the DM simulations to be almost constant, at least for halos more massive than $\log (M_{Δ_c} / \hMsun)\geq 13.5$. In this range, mass increase in the hydrodynamical simulations is of about 4-5 per cent at $Δ_c=500$ and $\sim 1$ - 2 per cent at $Δ_c=200$. Quite interestingly, these differences are nearly the same for both radiative and non-radiative simulations. Such variations of halo masses induce corresponding variations of the halo mass function (HMF). At $z=0$, the HMFs for GH and CSF simulations are close to the DM one, with differences of $\mincir 3$ per cent at $Δ_c = 200$, and $\simeq 7$ per cent at $Δ_c=500$, with $\sim 10$ - 20 per cent differences reached at $Δ_c = 1500$. At this higher overdensity, the increase of the HMF for the radiative case is larger by about a factor 2 with respect to the non--radiative case. Assuming a constant mass shift to rescale the HMF from the hydrodynamic to the DM simulations, brings the HMF difference with respect to the DM case to be consistent with zero. Our results have interesting implications to bracket uncertainties in the mass function calibration associated to the uncertain baryon physics, in view of cosmological applications of future large surveys of galaxy clusters. (Abridged)
description: 11 pages, 7 figures, minor changes, version accepted by MNRAS
Vanishing publications: we hear from the experts working on the preservation of online scholarship (part two)
Creators: name: Deborah, Thorpe
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Over the last twenty years or so, important scholarly publications have been vanishing from the internet. With that in mind, Dr Deborah Thorpe speaks to a wide range of experts who are working on the preservation of online scholarly content. This is part two of a three-part series.
In this second part, Dr Thorpe speaks with Dr Rebekka Kieswetter and Dr Miranda Barnes about the long-term availability of digital books and the issue of preserving 'experimental' monographs. 
Dr Kieswetter is part of the 'Experimental Publishing and Reuse' Work Package of the Open Book Futures (OBF) project, the successor to the Community-led Open Publishing Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) project for open access book publishing. Dr Barnes works on the 'Archiving and Digital Preservation' Work Package.
The importance of ethnic and race matching between Black and Latinx students and teachers
Creators: name: Aquino Garza, Priscilla
name: 0009-0008-0276-9813
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2023
Subjects: Student matching
Race
Social network
Latinx teachers
Latinx students
Black students

description: Schools in the United States continue to struggle to meet the needs of Black and Latinx students. Decades of research confirm that teachers are the most critical school-based factor impacting student performance and that teachers of color have a positive impact on Black and Latinx students. Researchers have examined the relationships between student outcomes and having teachers of the same race or ethnicity, but these studies have rarely disaggregated the data by teacher race or ethnicity to examine the relationship between Latinx teachers and Black and Latinx students’ outcomes. Furthermore, studies have rarely explored the contexts in which teachers of color can have greater impacts on student outcomes, such as how the relationship between student¬-teacher racial or ethnic match varies with the concentration of students or teachers of color in a school. This study examines Black and Latinx students’ outcomes when they are matched with Latinx teachers. The study explored how student outcomes differ based on student and teacher effects in a hierarchical linear model, and how school context, such as the student and staff demographics, moderate the impact of having a Latinx teacher on student outcomes. The study drew on data from Texas fourth grade students and teachers from 2016-2019 school years to observe variations in reading achievement. Overall, I found that reading scores for Latinx students were lower than White students but having a Latinx and Black teacher mitigated that disparity for Latinx students. Reading scores for Black students when they were paired with Latinx teachers as compared to White teachers were not statistically significant. Additionally, the campus context also ameliorated the disparity for Latinx students paired with Latinx teachers on campuses with higher percentages of Latinx staff and student percentages. The implications of the findings indicate the importance of Latinx and Black teachers leading classrooms in Texas, especially for Latinx students. In addition to increasing the number of Latinx and Black teachers, schools should also consider the school context in which Latinx and Black teachers are hired into, so they have fellow Latinx and Black colleagues to work with in supporting Latinx students in particular.
Vanishing publications: we hear from the experts working on the preservation of online scholarship (part three)
Creators: name: Thorpe, Deborah
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Over the last twenty years or so, important scholarly publications have been vanishing from the internet. With that in mind, Dr Deborah Thorpe speaks to a wide range of experts who are working on the preservation of online scholarly content. This is part two of a three-part series.
In this third part Dr Thorpe speaks with Dr James O'Sullivan, University College Cork (UCC) Lecturer in the Department of Digital Humanities, about this issue in relation to a specialist area of his: digital scholarly editions. James is Co-PI of the C-21 Editions project, which seeks to investigate and advance the practices of scholarly digital editing. The post closes with information and advice from the team at UCC Library on proactively ensuring the long-term preservation of digital scholarly content.
Additional file 3 of Genome-wide identification and analysis of bZIP gene family reveal their roles during development and drought stress in Wheel Wingnut (Cyclocarya paliurus)
Creators: name: Tao, Yu-Tian
name: Chen, Lu-Xi
name: Jin, Jie
name: Du, Zhao-Kui
name: Li, Jun-Min
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3: Fig. S3. Phylogenetic analysis of CpbZIP genes. The phylogenetic tree was constructed using IQ-tree with the maximum likelihood (ML) method and 1000 bootstrap replications. Black asterisks indicate putative duplicated genes.
Data Justice
Creators: name: Datapraxis
Publisher: name: HDI - Data, Praxis and Politics
Year: 2021
Subjects: Open Data;
Data justice
Critical data literacy
Data literacy
Critical data studies

description: In this unit, we explore the concept of data justice and the different interpretations of the idea. That is, we consider the different approaches to data justice, looking at their benefits and pitfalls. We then focus on Taylor’s (2017) framework for data technologies’ design and governance. The framework is a capability (Sen, 2009) and freedom-based approach that examines how data technologies influence the kind of lives that people deem valuable to live. As a complement to the notion of data
justice, which is mainly a conceptual one, data feminism, the data ethics canvas, and the seven inequities held in power are going to be described as actionable analytical tools to address issues of data justice when working with research in the
classroom.

We believe that with this module the mechanisms of negotiability and agency so much needed to be able to interact in data-driven systems can be improved.
Measurement of the top quark mass in $\boldsymbol{\ppbar}$ collisions using events with two leptons
Creators: name: D0 Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a measurement of the top quark mass ($m_t$) in $p\bar{p}$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96$ TeV using $t\bar{t}$ events with two leptons ($ee$, $eμ$, or $μμ$) and accompanying jets in $4.3 fb^{-1}$ of data collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. We analyze the kinematically underconstrained dilepton events by integrating over their neutrino rapidity distributions. We reduce the dominant systematic uncertainties from the calibration of jet energy using a correction obtained from $t\bar{t}$ events with a final state of a single lepton plus jets. We also correct jets in simulated events to replicate the quark flavor dependence of the jet response in data. We measure $m_t = 173.7 \pm 2.8\thinspace(\rm stat) \pm 1.5\thinspace(\rm syst)$ GeV and combining with our analysis in 1 fb$^{-1}$ of preceding data we measure $m_t = 174.0 \pm 2.4\thinspace(\rm stat) \pm 1.4\thinspace(\rm syst)$ GeV. Taking into account statistical and systematic correlations, a combination with the D0 matrix element result from both data sets yields $m_t = 173.9 \pm 1.9\thinspace(\rm stat) \pm 1.6\thinspace(\rm syst)$ GeV.
description: 5 pages, 1 figure, submitted to Phys. Rev. Letters
Some results on the well-posedness of quadratic BSDE systems
Creators: name: Jackson, Joseph S.
name: 0000-0002-6227-2808
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2023
Subjects: Stochastic analysis
Backward stochastic differential equations

description: This manuscript contains a collection of related results about the well-posedness of quadratic systems of backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs). In particular, existence and uniqueness results are obtained for quadratic BSDE systems whose drivers admit a triangular structure. In addition, similar techniques are used to extend some existing results on Markovian quadratic BSDEs to Markovian quadratic forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs). Along the way, a number of new results concerning linear BSDEs with unbounded coefficients are established.
The influence of adiposity on bone quality in children, adolescents and young adults
Creators: name: Hoy, Christa Leigh
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: Introduction: Overweight children have greater bone mass than their healthy weight peers; however, they sustain more fractures. Thus, there is a need to better understand the relation between body fat and bone strength and aspects of bone quality such as bone microstructure that contribute to bone strength. Methods: I aimed to determine the cross-sectional relationship between fat mass (FM) and aspects of bone quality (strength, geometry, density and microstructure) at the distal radius and distal tibia in boys (n = 137, 15.6 ± 3.3 yrs on average) and girls (n = 157, 14.5 ± 3.9 yrs) in the context of the functional model of bone development (after adjusting for lean mass (LM)). FM and LM were measured using dual energy X-ray absorptiometry and bone quality was measured using high resolution-peripheral quantitative computed tomography. Results: In boys, FM negatively predicted bone strength at the radius but not at the tibia. Conversely, FM did not significantly predict bone strength in girls. In both boys and girls, FM negatively predicted total area at the radius but not the tibia. In girls but not boys, FM positively predicted cortical bone mineral density at the tibia but not the radius. For bone microstructure, FM did not significantly predict many variables; however, FM negatively predicted cortical thickness at the tibia in boys, trabecular thickness at the tibia in girls, and cortical porosity at both the radius and tibia in girls. In nearly all cases, LM mediated the relationship between FM and bone quality, whereby prior to adding LM to regression models FM positively predicted bone quality; however, after adjusting for LM the positive associations became non-significant or negative. Conclusions: The relation between fat and bone is complex and appears to be sex- and site-specific. My results also highlight the important influence of lean mass on bone strength. Longitudinal studies with larger cohorts and more overweight and obese participants would clarify the sex-specific muscle-fat-bone relationships during growth and into adulthood. The potentially hazardous influence of high levels of fat mass on child and youth bone health must be considered among the adverse consequences of overweight and obesity.
On two utility maximization problems
Creators: name: Tanana, Anastasiya
name: 0000-0002-8932-935X
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2023
Subjects: Expected utility maximization
Convex duality
Semimartingale markets

description: This dissertation studies two expected utility maximization problems from mathematical finance. The first project (Chapter 2) deals with a single-agent utility maximization under constraints on intertemporal consumption; the second project (Chapter 3) studies Nash equilibria in an N-player game of utility maximization under relative performance criteria. The main and unifying approach to the two problems is convex duality in a semimartingale market model. Utility maximization under ratchet and drawdown constraints on consumption in incomplete semimartingale markets. We consider the value function associated with this concave optimization problem as having two parameters: the initial wealth and the essential lower bound on consumption rate process. In order to rigorously formulate the constraints and define the primal domains for optimization in the general setting of semimartingale markets and optional consumption plans, we introduce a natural extension of the notion of running maximum to arbitrary non-negative optional processes. The dual domains for optimization are characterized in terms of solidity of the set of equivalent martingale deflators with respect to an ordering that is introduced on the set of non-negative optional processes. The abstract duality result obtained in the general incomplete market case is used in order to derive a more detailed characterization of solutions in the complete market case. Utility maximization under relative performance criteria of multiplicative form. In the first part of this project we consider the case of a complete semimartingale market. For a large class of players’ utility functions, a general characterization of Nash equilibria for a given initial wealth vector is provided in terms of invertibility of a map from ℝᴺ to ℝᴺ. As a consequence of the general theorem, we derive existence and uniqueness of Nash equilibria for an arbitrary initial wealth vector, as well as their convergence, in two special cases. The second part studies the case of CRRA utility functions in an incomplete Itô-process market model. We establish a one-to-one correspondence between Nash equilibria satisfying a certain integrability condition and solutions of a BSDE when relative risk aversions of players are small (less than 1) and linear constraints on trading strategies are allowed.
Freed Leptogenesis
Creators: name: Zhuridov, Dmitry V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Economical extensions of the Standard Model (SM), in which the famous Davidson-Ibarra bound on the CP asymmetry relevant for leptogenesis may be significantly relaxed by the loop effects, comparing to predictions of the SM extended only by right-handed neutrinos with hierarchical masses, are discussed. This leads to decreasing of the lower bound on the heavy neutrino masses and increasing of the upper bound on the light neutrino masses. In addition, the considered theory may help to solve the dark matter problem.
description: 15 pages, 3 figures. Minor corrections, Ref. [46] added
A randomized controlled investigation of a compassion-based intervention for shame
Creators: name: Foulser, Anna Alban
name: 0000-0001-5858-6831
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2023
Subjects: Shame
Self-compassion
Randomized controlled trial

description: Shame is a painful negative emotion involving negative evaluation of the self. There has been significant debate as to whether shame is private or public in nature. Shame consists of both internally-sourced shame, which involves negative evaluation of oneself as inadequate or flawed, and externally-sourced shame, which involves the perception of negative evaluation by others. Self-compassion, which includes self-kindness, common humanity, and mindfulness, has emerged as a promising intervention for reducing shame. Given that shame has an internally sourced component, it is unsurprising that one of the most effective interventions for shame is to change patients’ self-view by increasing self-compassion. However, externally-sourced shame, which results from one’s perception of negative evaluation of the self by others, may not be alleviated by self-compassion, which focuses on one’s self-view. In this dissertation, we examined the impact of a novel intervention for internally-sourced and externally-sourced shame using self-compassion and compassion from others, singularly and in combination. While internally-sourced shame decreased from pre-intervention to follow-up, there was no difference in change in trait shame across the four conditions. We also tested the impact of our intervention on real-time state shame. While self-compassion led to decreased levels of shame at post-intervention, this effect did not persist at follow-up, and compassion from others had no impact on changes in state shame at either time point. Taken together, our findings suggest that repeated shame induction leads to decreases in shame over time, and also provides support for self-compassion as an intervention for shame.
Computation of Neutrino Masses in R-parity Violating Supersymmetry: SOFTSUSY3.2
Creators: name: Allanach, B. C.
name: Kom, C. H.
name: Hanussek, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The program SOFTSUSY can calculate tree-level neutrino masses in the R-parity violating minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) with real couplings. At tree-level, only one neutrino acquires a mass, in contradiction with neutrino oscillation data. Here, we describe an extension to the SOFTSUSY program which includes one-loop R-parity violating effects' contributions to neutrino masses and mixing. Including the one-loop effects refines the radiative electroweak symmetry breaking calculation, and may result in up to three massive, mixed neutrinos. This paper serves as a manual to the neutrino mass prediction mode of the program, detailing the approximations and conventions used.
description: Updated for SOFTSUSY3.3. Further updated versions of the manual will be available by replacements to the electronic arXiv
NETWORK ANALYSIS AND DATA MINING APPLIED TO THE STUDY OF BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES FOR THE SEARCH OF RELEVANT GENES RELEVANT IN THE FIELD OF PRECISION MEDICINE
Creators: name: Zúñiga, Sheila
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 310299
subject: Bioinformatics and computational biology not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 460501
subject: Data engineering and data science

description: Master's thesis. Business analytics and Big Data. University of Camilo José Cela. Spain. 2020The current impact of omics platforms on the development of knowledge of certain diseases and their treatment has led to an exponential increase in the of certain diseases and their treatment has led to an exponential increase in the number of bibliographic references that include the results of all these findings.Collaborative research is a common occurrence in the scientific field, generating a network of co-authors, who in turn generate a large number of linked research articles. To determine the relevance of a gene or set of genes in a particular pathology, it is essential to carry out an exhaustive reading of the literature published in scientific journals with the highest impact factor or those with the highest number of citations. This process of searching and reading the most relevant scientific articles, as well as identifying the most influential authors or research groups, is a slow process that requires many hours of dedication, and through which important bibliographic references are frequently overlooked given the large number of specialized scientific journals that exist today.This work proposes the application of network analysis methodologies to the study of scientific bibliographic references to identify sets of articles with a greater impact on the research of a given pathology. Once the most relevant bibliographic communities have been identified, this project proposes the implementation of data mining techniques to select the genes that appear in these articles and thus contribute to the design of new gene panels for molecular screening of patients in the context of Precision Medicine.
Pingsdorf-Type Ware: An Introduction
Creators: name: Keller, Christopher
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Medieval Ceramics: Journal of the Medieval Ceramics Research Group, 19, 19-28
description: Pingsdorf-type ware was produced at different sites in the Rhineland from the 10th to the 12th centuries. It was one of the first Rhenish wares to be exported in large quantities, not only to northern parts of Germany and the Netherlands, but also to England and Scandinavia. research has concentrated on the dating of Pingsdorf-type ware in general, without providing a general view of the typology. This paper, based on published material only, attempts to describe the different forms produced in Pingsdorf-type ware.
Reducing Risk Behaviors Linked to Noncommunicable Diseases in Mongolia: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Creators: name: Aira, Toivgoo
name: Wang, Wei
name: Riedel, Marion
name: Witte, Susan S.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Public health
Chronic diseases--Prevention
Health behavior
Epidemiology

description: Objectives. We tested the efficacy of a 6-session, evidence-based health promotion intervention aimed at reducing noncommunicable disease (NCD) risk behaviors.

Methods. Two hundred male and female factory workers in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia were randomly assigned to groups receiving either the health promotion intervention or a time-matched financial literacy control intervention.

Results. The health promotion intervention increased daily fruit and vegetable intake and physical activity, increased readiness for NCD risk behavior reduction and health promotion knowledge, and reduced the number of daily alcoholic drinks and diabetes symptoms 3 months after the intervention.

Conclusions. The findings support the efficacy of the intervention to reduce risk behaviors associated with NCDs. Dissemination of the intervention may improve productivity, reduce costs of health services, and better the quality of life for Mongolians.