cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The banking sector in sub -Saharan Africa: Privatization, moral hazard, and government regulation
Creators: name: Diakhate, Medou
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation addresses the issue of privatization, moral hazard, and government regulation for banking in Sub-Saharan Africa. It investigates the implications of state divestiture from real sectors and banking sectors for lending activities in the countries under review. Then panel-data technique is used to test econometrically the effects of state divestiture and other variables on bank profitability in six countries of the sample. The main findings are that bank profitability is not significantly affected by state divesture, but is sensitive to variables such as volatility in the local economies, market concentration, and financial reforms. However, further research based on an expanded sample is needed to corroborate these results. Within the financial reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa, regulatory innovations have been designed in line with best international practice to address the moral-hazard problem in local banking sectors. At the same time, banks are expected to contribute significantly to finance the development of local private sectors. Initiatives have also been undertaken to foster regional or continental integration. The dissertation examines the consistency of these regulatory innovations and the development-financing concern within a context of regional integration. From a theoretical standpoint, a synthesis model on government regulation for banking remains to be designed. Consensus has not yet been reached among scholars about which imperfection(s) in financial markets primarily justify, government regulation. My approach is rather heuristic. From theoretical and empirical literature on moral hazard in banking, I will critically examine current regulatory practices in Sub-Saharan Africa. Then I suggest bank regulatory and supervisory proposals. Policymaking concerns will prevail rather than optimality.
St. Petersburg paradox and failure probability
Creators: name: Fontana, Jake
name: Palffy-Muhoray, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The St. Petersburg paradox provides a simple paradigm for systems that show sensitivity to rare events. Here, we demonstrate a physical realization of this paradox using tensile fracture, experimentally verifying for six decades of spatial and temporal data and two different materials that the fracture force depends logarithmically on the length of the fiber. The St. Petersburg model may be useful in a variety fields where failure and reliability are critical.
Analysis of moist Processes using TRMM satellite data and NASA's global climate model
Creators: name: Walford Thompson, Segayle
name: Sud, Yogesh
name: Lau, William
name: Goldstein, Janine
Publisher: name: University Corporation For Atmospheric Research (UCAR)
Year: 2002
Subjects: Moist processes
Rain rates
Cloud water
Parameterization

Atmospheric scientists have used the global climate models for the past 35 years to obtain a better understanding of the earth’s climate. However, due to the spatial and temporal resolution or moist processes such as rain rates, clouds and cloud water, these processes have not been accurately resolved in climate models. Goddard’s Erath Observing System (GEOS) II global climate model (GCM) has a new parameterization, Microphysics of Clouds with Relaxed Arakawa-Schubert Scheme (McRAS), which better accounts for these moist processes. Rain rates and cloud water observed over the Pacific Ocean (100° to 300°) by the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite were compared with output from the GEOS II GCM. The Pacific Ocean was broken up into two regions East Pacific, (200°- 300°) and West Pacific (100°- 200°) during this analysis. Using GrADS display package, cloud water versus rain rate plots were created for July 1998 TRMM data and July 1987 GEOS II GCM output. Preliminary results show similarities in relative frequencies between the TRMM data and the GEOS model output. Both the model and the TRMM data show an inverse relationship between cloud water, rain rates, and frequency: as the cloud water and rain rates in the East Pacific compared to the other two regions. This feature may indicate that the model is no accurately capturing some process in the East Pacific. This research will ultimately yield a greater understanding of cloud microphysics within models.
Morfologia del getto elicoidale dal cuore di M87
Creators: Marco Malaspina
Publisher: name: Media Inaf
Year: 2021

Con quei suoi filamenti doppi ricorda un cavatappi. O meglio, la struttura elicoidale del Dna. E si estende alla distanza record di 3300 anni luce dal buco nero centrale. È il getto di materia emesso dal cuore della galassia Messier 87, quella della prima “fotografia” di un buco nero. A ricostruirne il campo magnetico, grazie alle osservazioni con il Very Large Array, un team guidato da Alice Pasetto, astronoma mantovana oggi all’Università autonoma del Messico
Designing better measuring networks to study the global carbon cycle
Creators: name: Webb, Christina
name: Schimel, David
name: Henson, Robert
name: Hansen, Josephine
name: Dollen, Kate
Publisher: name: University Corporation For Atmospheric Research (UCAR)
Year: 2002
Subjects: Atmospheric carbon dioxide
Carbon-data assimilation system
Concentrations
Zonal bands
Carbon fluxes

Global levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide have been monitored for over 40 years, yet the regional carbon dioxide emissions are still poorly analyzed. In order to effectively study the global carbon cycle one must have sufficient data collected from measuring networks. In May 2002, NCAR held a workshop inviting participants to build a simulated network to effectively sample carbon dioxide measurements. At the culmination of this workshop two networks were simulated using the Carbon-Data Assimilation System (C-DAS). This project analyzed measurements resulting from the simulated networks and compared them to measurements produced by the C-DAS model to determine which method of building networks seems to produce the most accurate concentrations. This task was conducted by plotting: (1) the actual concentrations from the C-DAS model for the entire world against concentrations from each network, (2) zonal bands for both actual concentrations and the networksâ concentrations. Unexpected trends appeared in the C-DAS modelâs concentrations, which prompted a comparison of a prior hypothesis of carbon fluxes to the true fluxes as mapped by the C-DAS model. Comparing the strategies of the red and blue teams, it was determined that within the scope of this project there was no way to conclude which network had the best strategy. Each team was able to capture certain features of the carbon cycle but missed other aspects.
Modeling turbulent wave-front phase as a fractional Brownian motion: a new approach
Creators: name: Perez, Dario G.
name: Zunino, Luciano
name: Garavaglia, Mario
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper introduces a general and new formalism to model the turbulent wave-front phase using fractional Brownian motion processes. Moreover, it extends results to non-Kolmogorov turbulence. In particular, generalized expressions for the Strehl ratio and the angle-of-arrival variance are obtained. These are dependent on the dynamic state of the turbulence.
description: 27 pages, 1 figure. Minor corrections, to appear in JOSA A
The banking sector in sub -Saharan Africa: Privatization, moral hazard, and government regulation
Creators: name: Diakhate, Medou
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4407
subject: Policy and administration

description: This dissertation addresses the issue of privatization, moral hazard, and government regulation for banking in Sub-Saharan Africa. It investigates the implications of state divestiture from real sectors and banking sectors for lending activities in the countries under review. Then panel-data technique is used to test econometrically the effects of state divestiture and other variables on bank profitability in six countries of the sample. The main findings are that bank profitability is not significantly affected by state divesture, but is sensitive to variables such as volatility in the local economies, market concentration, and financial reforms. However, further research based on an expanded sample is needed to corroborate these results. Within the financial reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa, regulatory innovations have been designed in line with best international practice to address the moral-hazard problem in local banking sectors. At the same time, banks are expected to contribute significantly to finance the development of local private sectors. Initiatives have also been undertaken to foster regional or continental integration. The dissertation examines the consistency of these regulatory innovations and the development-financing concern within a context of regional integration. From a theoretical standpoint, a synthesis model on government regulation for banking remains to be designed. Consensus has not yet been reached among scholars about which imperfection(s) in financial markets primarily justify, government regulation. My approach is rather heuristic. From theoretical and empirical literature on moral hazard in banking, I will critically examine current regulatory practices in Sub-Saharan Africa. Then I suggest bank regulatory and supervisory proposals. Policymaking concerns will prevail rather than optimality.
Habropoda Smith 1854
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Genus Habropoda Smith, 1854
There has been no formal revision of the North American species of Habropoda. It is possible that some of the current species may represent cryptic complexes composed of more than one species. Species identifications in this genus were made with reference to original descriptions, and series of specimens of H. depressa, H. pallida, and H. tristissima determined by R.W. Brooks vouchered at BBSL, EMEC, and CASC. Additionally, we reviewed the holotype of Habropoda excellens at CASC.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 140, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Intermittent Inverse-Square Lévy Walks are Optimal for Finding Targets of All Sizes
Creators: name: Guinard, Brieuc
name: Korman, Amos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: G.3; G.2.1; J.2; F.2.0

description: Lévy walks are random walk processes whose step-lengths follow a long-tailed power-law distribution. Due to their abundance as movement patterns of biological organisms, significant theoretical efforts have been devoted to identifying the foraging circumstances that would make such patterns advantageous. However, despite extensive research, there is currently no mathematical proof indicating that Lévy walks are, in any manner, preferable strategies in higher dimensions than one. Here we prove that in finite two-dimensional terrains, the inverse-square Lévy walk strategy is extremely efficient at finding sparse targets of arbitrary size and shape. Moreover, this holds even under the weak model of intermittent detection. Conversely, any other intermittent Lévy walk fails to efficiently find either large targets or small ones. Our results shed new light on the \emph{Lévy foraging hypothesis}, and are thus expected to impact future experiments on animals performing Lévy walks.
Promoting family involvement: An analysis of the role and strategies of Educational Services Teams
Creators: name: Dillon, Helen N.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3903
subject: Education systems
classificationCode: 3904
subject: Specialist studies in education

description: Many studies, national and local, document negative disparities in student performance among ethnic and gender groups. Many more studies document that family involvement can be a predictor of student achievement. However, little research examines how schools involve families of students who experience difficulties in the classroom. This study examined action-item assignments from Educational Services Team (EST) meetings for five schools in the Montgomery County, Maryland school district to determine how frequently and in what ways they encouraged family involvement. Family members received significantly fewer assignments than other EST members. The likelihood of family assignments varied significantly by ethnicity, but not by gender. When assignments were grouped into categories, the distribution of assignments by category was not uniform across EST members. The likelihood of assignments in each category did not vary by ethnicity (with the possible exception of the Home Instruction category) nor by gender (with the exception of the Communication category). There was evidence of rote assignment of strategies, varying by school and by ethnic group, but not by gender.
Non c’è traccia di materia oscura, in Agc 114905
Creators: Valentina Guglielmo
Publisher: name: Media Inaf
Year: 2021

Una galassia nana ultra-diffusa estesa quanto la Via Lattea ma molto meno massiccia. E non solo perché è meno luminosa: non mostra alcuna traccia di materia oscura. Stando ai dati raccolti al Vla, la curva di rotazione del gas può essere completamente spiegata dalla sola materia barionica. È il secondo caso, per una galassia di questo tipo, a esibire prove dell’assenza di materia oscura
Promoting family involvement: An analysis of the role and strategies of Educational Services Teams
Creators: name: Dillon, Helen N.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Many studies, national and local, document negative disparities in student performance among ethnic and gender groups. Many more studies document that family involvement can be a predictor of student achievement. However, little research examines how schools involve families of students who experience difficulties in the classroom. This study examined action-item assignments from Educational Services Team (EST) meetings for five schools in the Montgomery County, Maryland school district to determine how frequently and in what ways they encouraged family involvement. Family members received significantly fewer assignments than other EST members. The likelihood of family assignments varied significantly by ethnicity, but not by gender. When assignments were grouped into categories, the distribution of assignments by category was not uniform across EST members. The likelihood of assignments in each category did not vary by ethnicity (with the possible exception of the Home Instruction category) nor by gender (with the exception of the Communication category). There was evidence of rote assignment of strategies, varying by school and by ethnic group, but not by gender.
Stella di neutroni anomala in fuga dalla Via Lattea
Creators: Ufficio stampa Inaf
Publisher: name: Media Inaf
Year: 2021

Si trova a diecimila anni luce da noi, molto più lontano di quanto stimato in precedenza, l’anomala stella di neutroni Calvera, il cui soprannome fa eco al film “I magnifici sette”. Tale distanza indica che questo resto stellare appartiene all’alone della Via Lattea, aprendo interessanti scenari sulla sua formazione. Sono i risultati di uno studio effettuato da ricercatori e ricercatrici dell’Inaf e dell’Università di Padova, basato su nuove osservazioni effettuate dallo strumento Nicer a bordo della Stazione spaziale internazionale
Additional file 3 of Self-rated joint hypermobility: the five-part questionnaire evaluated in a Swedish non-clinical adult population
Creators: name: Glans, Martin
name: Humble, Mats B.
name: Elwin, Marie
name: Bejerot, Susanne
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3: Contains The Swedish 5PQ Screen print-out version with instructions to the clinician.
Evolution of ozone and peroxyacetyl nitrate along air parcel trajectories sampled during TOPSE in Spring 2000
Creators: name: Zauscher, Melanie
name: Flocke, Frank
name: Stroud, Craig
name: Weinheimer, Andrew
name: Cantrell, Terri
name: Worster, Cindy
name: Munoz, Ernesto
Publisher: name: University Corporation For Atmospheric Research (UCAR)
Year: 2002
Subjects: Troposphere
Stratosphere
Photochemical production
Air mass trajectories
Master mechanism
Photochemistry

The major goal of the Tropospheric Ozone Production about the Spring Equinox (TOPSE) field campaign (2000) was to study the cause of the spring Arctic ozone maximum in the free troposphere. Sources for tropospheric ozone (O₃) are transport of O₃ from the stratosphere and in-situ photochemical production. Peroxyacetyl Nitrate (PAN) can be used as a tropospheric indicator, since it is formed photochemically along with ozone and there are no sources of PAN in the stratosphere. This study focused on examining the evolution of O₃ and PAN along air mass trajectories, calculated using the HYSPLIT© model, from the source region of the air mass to the point of observation in the Arctic on board the C-130 aircraft. By step-wise “backwards” modeling along sections of the air mass trajectory, NCAR’s Master Mechanism could be utilized to estimate initial conditions in the source area, which were within the expectations for a typical urban air mass. The Master Mechanism was then used to model the photochemistry along the trajectory forward to the point of observation. The observed O₃ to PAN ratio and the modeled ratio were within 5%. Thus, it was concluded that the modeling approach was successful. Based on the evolution of the O₃ to PAN ratio from a city mix at the source to a value very close to that observed, it was also concluded that no stratospheric O₃ input was needed for the trajectory case studied. The comparison of more trajectories and source regions will help to further constrain the Arctic ozone budget.
What does strong gravitational lensing? The mass and redshift distribution of high-magnification lenses
Creators: name: Robertson, Andrew
name: Smith, Graham P.
name: Massey, Richard
name: Eke, Vincent
name: Jauzac, Mathilde
name: Bianconi, Matteo
name: Ryczanowski, Dan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Many distant objects can only be detected, or become more scientifically valuable, if they have been highly magnified by strong gravitational lensing. We use EAGLE and BAHAMAS, two recent cosmological hydrodynamical simulations, to predict the probability distribution for both the lens mass and lens redshift when point sources are highly magnified by gravitational lensing. For sources at a redshift of two, we find the distribution of lens redshifts to be broad, peaking at z=0.6. The contribution of different lens masses is also fairly broad, with most high-magnification lensing due to lenses with halo masses between 10^12 and 10^14 solar masses. Lower mass haloes are inefficient lenses, while more massive haloes are rare. We find that a simple model in which all haloes have singular isothermal sphere density profiles can approximately reproduce the simulation predictions, although such a model over-predicts the importance of haloes with mass <10^12 solar masses for lensing. We also calculate the probability that point sources at different redshifts are strongly lensed. At low redshift, high magnifications are extremely unlikely. Each z=0.5 source produces, on average, 5x10^-7 images with magnification greater than ten; for z =2 this increases to about 2x10^-5. Our results imply that searches for strongly lensed optical transients, including the optical counterparts to strongly lensed gravitational waves, can be optimized by monitoring massive galaxies, groups and clusters rather than concentrating on an individual population of lenses.
description: 15 pages, 5 figures, updated to match MNRAS version
New results from CERES
Creators: name: Marin, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: During the year 2000 the CERES experiment, upgraded with a radial drift TPC, took a large data sample of Pb on Au collisions at 158 AGeV triggered on the 8% most central collisions. A very detailed calibration of the radial drift TPC was since completed. Preliminary results on $e^+e^-$ pairs and $ϕ$ mesons reconstructed in the $K^+K^-$ channel are presented.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures, proceedings of the Quark Matter 2004, in Oakland, USA
Additional file 3 of Protocol for a mixed methods process evaluation of a hybrid implementation-effectiveness trial of a scaled-up whole-school physical activity program for adolescents: Physical Activity 4 Everyone (PA4E1)
Creators: name: Mclaughlin, Matthew
name: Duff, Jed
name: Sutherland, Rachel
name: Campbell, Elizabeth
name: Wolfenden, Luke
name: Wiggers, John
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3. StaRI checklist.
1/m_Q order contributions to B \to πl νdecay in HQEFT
Creators: name: Wang, W. Y.
name: Wu, Y. L.
name: Zhong, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Contributions to B\to πl νdecay from 1/m_Q order corrections are analyzed in the heavy quark effective field theory (HQEFT) of QCD. Transition wave functions of 1/m_Q order are calculated through light cone sum rule (LCSR) within the HQEFT framework. The results are compared with those from other approaches.
description: 12 pages, revtex, 5 figures
Habropoda cineraria
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Habropoda cineraria (Smith, 1879)
[Syntypes: NHMUK; ♀ ♂ Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada]
This species has a broad distribution across western North America. Within Mexico, it has only been documented in the Chaparral ecosystem near Sierra San Pedro Mártir in May and June 1958 from a single specimen vouchered in the SEMC (GBIF 2023), and two females vouchered in the EMEC. See fig. 81.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 141, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Africans in the diaspora: Contrasting international immigration. A study of West African immigrants in the Baltimore /Washington area
Creators: name: Eze, Evans Ugboji
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This study examines West African immigrants in the Baltimore/Washington metropolitan area. Specifically, the study investigates the relationships among selected demographic factors, such as education, marital status, and income, of West African immigrants in the Baltimore/Washington metropolitan area. In addition, the preferred attitudes and beliefs of the respondents are investigated. To my knowledge, no epidemiological study of the West African immigrant in the United States has been published. Most studies have been limited to examining the African immigrant in the United States in general. An instrument developed by the researcher was utilized for the West African immigrants participating in the investigation. A questionnaire inventory was used to assess West African immigrants' attitudes and beliefs. The questionnaire was administered to 82 respondents from West African countries residing in the Baltimore/Washington metropolitan area. Data analysis employed descriptive statistics to examine the relationships among attitude, behavior, and belief. Pearson Product-Moment Correlation was used to determine the relationships between attitude, behavior, and belief among the West African immigrants in the Baltimore/Washington metropolitan area. Based on the results of this study, the following conclusions seemed justified: (1) The West African immigrant is expected to experience prejudice in the Baltimore/Washington metropolitan area; (2) The West African immigrant residing in the Baltimore/Washington metropolitan area has experienced discrimination that seems to be expressed through different behaviors and attitudes; (3) Most West African immigrants seem to express their desire to return to their home country; (4) The West African immigrants seem to have assimilated into the American culture, yet continue to hold on to their various West African cultural backgrounds; (5) The West African immigrants' experiences in the United States suggest that there are unique factors that help explain the immigrants' experiencing of discrimination and prejudice in the Baltimore/Washington communities; and (6) The present dissertation indicates that certain social, economic, and political trends over the past four decades have resulted in a growing differential in achievement of the so-called economic immigrants of the 1990s and the earlier immigrants of the 60s, 70s and 80s. The economic immigrant has achieved greater socioeconomic status and has attempted to assimilate into mainstream America.
Additional file 1 of A deep learning-based method for drug-target interaction prediction based on long short-term memory neural network
Creators: name: Wang, Yan-Bin
name: You, Zhu-Hong
name: Yang, Shan
name: Hai-Cheng Yi
name: Zhan-Heng Chen
name: Zheng, Kai
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Prediction performance of SVM-based for the enzymes datasets in term of ACC, TPR, SPC, PPV, MCC, and AUC. Table S2. Prediction performance of SVM-based for the ion channels datasets in term of ACC, TPR, SPC, PPV, MCC, and AUC. Table S3. Prediction performance of SVM-based for the GPCRs datasets in term of ACC, TPR, SPC, PPV, MCC, and AUC. Table S4. Prediction performance of SVM-based for the nuclear receptors datasets in term of ACC, TPR, SPC, PPV, MCC, and AUC.
Understanding the large inferred Einstein radii of observed low-mass galaxy clusters
Creators: name: Robertson, Andrew
name: Massey, Richard
name: Eke, Vincent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We assess a claim that observed galaxy clusters with mass ~10^14 Msun are more centrally concentrated than predicted in LCDM. We generate mock strong gravitational lensing observations, taking the lenses from a cosmological hydrodynamical simulation, and analyse them in the same way as the real Universe. The observed and simulated lensing arcs are consistent with one another, with three main effects responsible for the previously claimed inconsistency. First, galaxy clusters containing baryonic matter have higher central densities than their counterparts simulated with only dark matter. Second, a sample of clusters selected because of the presence of pronounced gravitational lensing arcs preferentially finds centrally concentrated clusters with large Einstein radii. Third, lensed arcs are usually straighter than critical curves, and the chosen image analysis method (fitting circles through the arcs) overestimates the Einstein radii. After accounting for these three effects, LCDM predicts that galaxy clusters should produce giant lensing arcs that match those in the observed Universe.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures, updated to match MNRAS version
High-resolution near-infrared speckle interferometry and radiative transfer modeling of the OH/IR star OH 104.9+2.4
Creators: name: Riechers, D.
name: Balega, Y.
name: Driebe, T.
name: Hofmann, K. -H.
name: Men'shchikov, A. B.
name: Weigelt, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present near-infrared speckle interferometry of the OH/IR star OH 104.9+2.4 in the K' band obtained with the 6m telescope of the Special Astrophysical Observatory (SAO). At a wavelength of lambda = 2.12 micron the diffraction-limited resolution of 74 mas was attained. The reconstructed visibility reveals a spherically symmetric, circumstellar dust shell (CDS) surrounding the central star. The visibility function shows that the stellar contribution to the total flux at lambda = 2.12 micron is less than ~50%, indicating a rather large optical depth of the CDS. The azimuthally averaged 1-dimensional Gaussian visibility fit yields a diameter of 47 +/- 3mas (FHWM), which corresponds to 112 +/- 13 AU for an adopted distance of D = 2.38 +/- 0.24 kpc. To determine the structure and the properties of the CDS of OH 104.9+2.4, radiative transfer calculations using the code DUSTY were performed to simultaneously model its visibility and the spectral energy distribution (SED). We found that both the ISO spectrum and the visibility of OH 104.9+2.4 can be well reproduced by a radiative transfer model with an effective temperature T_eff = 2500 +/- 500 K of the central source, a dust temperature T_in = 1000 +/- 200 K at the inner shell boundary R_in = 9.1 R_star = 25.4 AU, an optical depth tau = 6.5 +/- 0.3 at 2.2 micron, and dust grain radii ranging from a_min = 0.005 +/- 0.003 micron to a_max = 0.2 +/- 0.02 micron with a power law with index -3.5. It was found that even minor changes in a_max have a major impact on both the slope and the curvature of the visibility function, while the SED shows only minor changes. Our detailed analysis demonstrates the potential of dust shell modeling constrained by both the SED and visibilities.
description: 14 pages, 8 postscript figures, accepted for publication in A&A. (v2: published version, minor grammatical changes, one updated reference)
Leo I, un leoncino dal cuore grande
Creators: Marco Malaspina
Publisher: name: Media Inaf
Year: 2021

Un team di astronomi della University of Texas, a Austin (Usa), ha scoperto un buco nero stranamente massiccio nel nucleo della galassia nana Leo I, un satellite della Via Lattea: ben 3.3 milioni di masse solari – valore difficile da spiegare per il buco nero di una galassia trenta volte più piccola della nostra
Africans in the diaspora: Contrasting international immigration. A study of West African immigrants in the Baltimore /Washington area
Creators: name: Eze, Evans Ugboji
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4403
subject: Demography
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: This study examines West African immigrants in the Baltimore/Washington metropolitan area. Specifically, the study investigates the relationships among selected demographic factors, such as education, marital status, and income, of West African immigrants in the Baltimore/Washington metropolitan area. In addition, the preferred attitudes and beliefs of the respondents are investigated. To my knowledge, no epidemiological study of the West African immigrant in the United States has been published. Most studies have been limited to examining the African immigrant in the United States in general. An instrument developed by the researcher was utilized for the West African immigrants participating in the investigation. A questionnaire inventory was used to assess West African immigrants' attitudes and beliefs. The questionnaire was administered to 82 respondents from West African countries residing in the Baltimore/Washington metropolitan area. Data analysis employed descriptive statistics to examine the relationships among attitude, behavior, and belief. Pearson Product-Moment Correlation was used to determine the relationships between attitude, behavior, and belief among the West African immigrants in the Baltimore/Washington metropolitan area. Based on the results of this study, the following conclusions seemed justified: (1) The West African immigrant is expected to experience prejudice in the Baltimore/Washington metropolitan area; (2) The West African immigrant residing in the Baltimore/Washington metropolitan area has experienced discrimination that seems to be expressed through different behaviors and attitudes; (3) Most West African immigrants seem to express their desire to return to their home country; (4) The West African immigrants seem to have assimilated into the American culture, yet continue to hold on to their various West African cultural backgrounds; (5) The West African immigrants' experiences in the United States suggest that there are unique factors that help explain the immigrants' experiencing of discrimination and prejudice in the Baltimore/Washington communities; and (6) The present dissertation indicates that certain social, economic, and political trends over the past four decades have resulted in a growing differential in achievement of the so-called economic immigrants of the 1990s and the earlier immigrants of the 60s, 70s and 80s. The economic immigrant has achieved greater socioeconomic status and has attempted to assimilate into mainstream America.
Identifying potential precursors to anomalous precipitation over Inter-America
Creators: name: Church, Andrew
name: Hurrell, James
name: Gettelman, Andrew
Publisher: name: University Corporation For Atmospheric Research (UCAR)
Year: 2001
Subjects: Sea surface temperature
Seasonal mean data
Increased rainfall
Nordeste
Decreased precipitation
Subtropical plains

Simultaneous and precursory signals in sea surface temperature (SST) associated with anomalous precipitation over North, Central and South America are examined with seasonal mean data. The relationships are documented for SST variations in three regions: the equatorial Pacific (NIĂO3), the tropical North Atlantic (NATL), and the tropical South Atlantic (SATL). These area definitions are based on the distributions of variance explained by the leading modes of SST variability in each ocean basin. The analyses reveal that when SSTs are warmer than average in the NIĂO3 region, increased rainfall in the Caribbean Islands and southern Central America occurs. Precipitation also increases over the central US while it decreases over portions of Columbia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana as well as the Nordeste region of South America. When NATL SSTs are warmer than average, large areas of the north central US as well as northeast Brazil experience decreased precipitation. When changes in SATL SSTs are considered, positive correlations with precipitation over the Nordeste and subtropical plains regions of South America are highly significant. Several long-lead relationships between SST and anomalous precipitation are identified. Changes in NINO3 SST during boreal summer are significantly correlated with rainfall anomalies over northern South America and southern North America six months later. Similarly, changes in both NATL and SATL SSTs are found to precede inter-American precipitation anomalies by six to nine months.
Additional file 2 of Protocol for a mixed methods process evaluation of a hybrid implementation-effectiveness trial of a scaled-up whole-school physical activity program for adolescents: Physical Activity 4 Everyone (PA4E1)
Creators: name: Mclaughlin, Matthew
name: Duff, Jed
name: Sutherland, Rachel
name: Campbell, Elizabeth
name: Wolfenden, Luke
name: Wiggers, John
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Table 1. Overview of the evidence based PA4E1 program (physical activity practices) including standards (essential and desirable) required of program schools [1].
Animations of turbulent eddies and particle dispersion in a numerically generated turbulent flow field
Creators: name: Datulayta, Pauline
name: Moeng, Chin-hoh
name: Dunnebecke, Joanne
name: Baltuch, Susan
name: Hudman, Rynda
Publisher: name: University Corporation For Atmospheric Research (UCAR)
Year: 2001
Subjects: Pollution concentration
Turbulent conditions
Planetary boundary layer
Wind shear
Animated particle trajectory

Distribution of pollution concentration is dependent on turbulent conditions of the atmosphere. Turbulence found in the Planetary Boundary Layer (PBL) is both thermally generated and wind shear driven; it can be viewed as random motion consisting of different size eddies. The purpose of this research was to develop an animated particle trajectory from a numerically generated turbulent flow field of the PBL in order to gain insight into the dispersion process. This study thus provides a simulation of a conceptual âsmokestackâ in the atmosphere. Variables u (East-West), v (North-South), w (Up-Down), and temperature, as a function of time (4000 seconds) and space (x, y, z) were generated from a Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) model. Two flow visualization tools were used. The first was the NCAR Command Language (NCL), which animated particle trajectories. We continuously released one particle at a time, from a point source, at every 8 seconds for the first 80 seconds. Ten particles were generated and the paths of particles were analyzed for the duration of the animation. In highly convective turbulence, a looping type of dispersion was seen. However, when turbulence was wind shear driven, plumes were seen to linger at the chimney height. The second visualization software was Vis5D, which animated thermals and updrafts caused by convection seen in the PBL. Temperature and velocity fields were generated to animate warm air parcels rising due to buoyancy; a positive correlation between the two variables was seen, this demonstrated that the net heat flux is upward.
Using ensemble forecasting to estimate the background error covariance for data assimilation
Creators: name: Dollen-Musgrave, Kate
name: Zhang, Fuqing
name: Epifano, Craig
name: Wade, Nancy
name: Martinez, Maribel
Publisher: name: University Corporation For Atmospheric Research (UCAR)
Year: 2001
Subjects: Numerical weather prediction
Forecasts
Initial state
Supercell thunderstorm

Numerical weather prediction – currently the most widely-used tool for weather forecasting – relies on observations and computer models to produce forecasts. To produce accurate forecasts, computer models require an accurate initial state. The initial state is comprised of the previous model run’s outcome, or the background information, and the observations. The most challenging aspect of the initial state to calculate is the background error covariance matrix, which is a measure of the uncertainty associated with the background information. The matrix can be calculated directly from the model, but that is computationally impractical. Current operational methods involve a less expensive broad estimation. This project examines the use of ensemble forecasting to produce an estimate for the background error covariance matrix, using an idealized supercell thunderstorm as a test case. This estimate is a more accurate representation than what is currently used in operational weather forecasting, which should produce a better estimate of the initial state and improve the model forecast. Knowing the uncertainty associated with the model forecast can help forecasters determine the likelihood of severe weather that is currently not well predicted. This paper studies portions of the background error covariance matrix for implications regarding the predictability of the modeled supercell thunderstorm, as well as examining the interdependencies between variables that are missed by simpler operational matrices. This project found that the areas of highest uncertainty were associated with the strongest part of the storm, and that improving the areas of highest uncertainty would improve estimates throughout the storm.
A lexicographically optimal completion for pairwise comparison matrices with missing entries
Creators: name: Ágoston, Kolos Csaba
name: Csató, László
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 90-10, 90B50, 91B08

description: Estimating missing judgements is a key component in many multi-criteria decision making techniques, especially in the Analytic Hierarchy Process. Inspired by the Koczkodaj inconsistency index and a widely used solution concept of cooperative game theory called the nucleolus, the current study proposes a new algorithm for this purpose. In particular, the missing values are substituted by variables, and the inconsistency of the most inconsistent triad is reduced first, followed by the inconsistency of the second most inconsistent triad, and so on. The necessary and sufficient condition for the uniqueness of the suggested lexicographically optimal completion is proved to be a simple graph-theoretic notion: the undirected graph associated with the pairwise comparisons, where the edges represent the known elements, should be connected. Crucially, our method does not depend on an arbitrarily chosen measure of inconsistency as there exists essentially one reasonable triad inconsistency index.
description: 20 pages, 3 figures, 1 table
Differences in nonmethane hydrocarbon schemes situated over NE Colorado
Creators: name: Hudman, Rynda
name: Barth, Mary
name: Curtis, Laura
Publisher: name: University Corporation For Atmospheric Research (UCAR)
Year: 2001
Subjects: Thunderstorm models
Cloud chemistry
Troposphere
Convective cloud model

Thunderstorm models can assimilate data to include the evolution and structure and more recently, the cloud chemistry of storms. To further understand the effect of thunderstorm processing on the chemical composition of the middle and upper troposphere, nonmethane hydrocarbon (NMHC) chemistry was added to an existing three-dimensional convective cloud model that simulates the July 10, 1996 storm from the Stratospheric-Tropospheric Experiment: Radiation, Aerosols, and Ozone/Deep Convection field project. These results were compared to a simulation which did not include NMHCs. The results from these simulations showed close agreement in Oâ, which was 0.2% higher, but a larger difference in CHâO, which was ~120% higher, in the anvil (~10.5 km AGL) with inclusion of NMHC. Surface chemistry showed larger differences upon inclusion of NMHCs. In addition, several box model studies were done to determine the sensitivity of the chemical scheme chosen. Because solving for the concentrations of chemically reactive species is computationally intensive, the number of species that can currently be included into the cloud model is ~18. Box model results from the 18 species cloud model mechanism, which grouped all NMHCs as one species and all radicals by their structure were compared to two larger mechanisms, which represented more complex chemistry. The box model simulations showed little difference between the two complex chemistry mechanisms, but exhibited larger differences between the complex mechanism and the simplified, 18 species mechanism, especially in HO which was 15% and NOx which was 10 fold higher with the simplified mechanism at 10 km AGL.
Exploring juror stress in one -day /one -trial jurisdictions
Creators: name: Michkowski, Steven G.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4402
subject: Criminology
subject: FOS: Law

description: The groundwork for this study is based on an examination of juror stress that was performed by the National Center for State Courts (NCSC) entitled, "Through the Eyes of the Juror: A Manual for Addressing Juror Stress." The major objective of the NCSC analysis was to identify sources of juror stress. The purpose of my thesis is to build upon the research performed by the NCSC. Specifically, this study will distill the scope of data analysis to determine whether, overall, juror stress (as measured by the combining of the variables demonstrating the major relationships between jury service and stress) is less prevalent with jurors serving in one-day/one-trial jurisdictions contrasted with jurors who served in non-one-day/one-day-trial jurisdictions. In testing the outcome of this hypothesis, I will also incorporate demographic characteristics with the intent to explore further what juror stress profiles can be formulated. In constructing models (groups) of key jury stress factors, I hope to further refine an understanding of the concept of juror stress, especially as it would help to identify juror stress profiles that can be understood within the broader scope of the one-day/one-trial question. By enriching our understanding of the concept of juror stress as potentially related to certainty of service (one-day/one-trial), it is my expectation that an important and relevant breadth of knowledge can be injected to the field of justice administration. I would anticipate that the prospective implications of this study would be of considerable interest and importance to judicial policymakers and especially to those jurisdictions that are weighing the benefits and ramifications of the one-day/one-trial concept. In identifying supplementary relationships between stress and jury service, it is logical to anticipate that this study would stimulate judicial policymakers to explore reasonable techniques aimed at reducing stress of jurors in those areas the courts effectively direct or manage.