pinecone/core-2020-05-10-deduplication huggingface dataset:
Congenital prosopagnosia: multistage anatomical and functional deficits in face processing circuitry

Face recognition is a primary social skill which depends on a distributed neural network. A pronounced face recognition deficit in the absence of any lesion is seen in congenital prosopagnosia. This study investigating 24 congenital prosopagnosic subjects and 25 control subjects aims at elucidating its neural basis with fMRI and voxel-based morphometry. We found a comprehensive behavioral pattern, an impairment in visual recognition for faces and buildings that spared long-term memory for faces with negative valence. Anatomical analysis revealed diminished gray matter density in the bilateral lingual gyrus, the right middle temporal gyrus, and the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. In most of these areas, gray matter density correlated with memory success. Decreased functional activation was found in the left fusiform gyrus, a crucial area for face processing, and in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, whereas activation of the medial prefrontal cortex was enhanced. Hence, our data lend strength to the hypothesis that congenital prosopagnosia is explained by network dysfunction and suggest that anatomic curtailing of visual processing in the lingual gyrus plays a substantial role. The dysfunctional circuitry further encompasses the fusiform gyrus and the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, which may contribute to their difficulties in long-term memory for complex visual information. Despite their deficits in face identity recognition, processing of emotion related information is preserved and possibly mediated by the medial prefrontal cortex. Congenital prosopagnosia may, therefore, be a blueprint of differential curtailing in networks of visual cognition
Structural and elastic characterization of Cu-implanted SiO2 films on Si(100) substrates

Cu-implanted SiO2 films on Si(100) have been studied and compared to unimplanted SiO2 on\ud
Si(100) using x-ray methods, transmission electron microscopy, Rutherford backscattering, and\ud
Brillouin spectroscopy. The x-ray results indicate the preferred orientation of Cu {111} planes\ud
parallel to the Si substrate surface without any directional orientation for Cu-implanted\ud
SiO2/Si(100) and for Cu-implanted and annealed SiO2/Si(100). In the latter case, transmission\ud
electron microscopy reveals the presence of spherical nanocrystallites with an average size of\ud
~2.5 nm. Rutherford backscattering shows that these crystallites (and the Cu in the as-implanted\ud
film) are largely confined to depths of 0.4−1.2 µm below the film surface. Brillouin spectra contain\ud
peaks due to surface, film-guided and bulk acoustic modes. Surface (longitudinal) acoustic wave\ud
velocities for the implanted films were ~7% lower (~2% higher) than for unimplanted\ud
SiO2/Si(100). Elastic constants were estimated from the acoustic wave velocities and film densities.\ud
C11 (C44) for the implanted films was ~10% higher (lower) than that for the unimplanted film. The\ud
differences in acoustic velocities and elastic moduli are ascribed to implantation-induced\ud
compaction and/or the presence of Cu in the SiO2 film
Unemployment insurance and home production

In this paper, we incorporate home production into a quantitative model of unemployment and show that realistic levels of home production have a significant impact on the optimal unemployment insurance rate. Motivated by recently
documented empirical facts, we augment an incomplete markets model of unemployment with a home production technology, which allows unemployed workers to use their extra non-market time as partial insurance against the drop in income
due to unemployment. In the benchmark model, we find that the optimal replacement rate in the presence of home production is roughly 40% of wages, which is 40% lower than the no home production model’s optimal replacement rate of 65%. The 40% optimal rate is also close to the estimated rate in practice. The fact that home production makes a significant difference in the optimal unemployment insurance rate is robust to a variety of parameterizations and alternative model environments.
Social recovery and the move beyond deficit models of depression: A feminist analysis of mid-life women's self-care practices

In Australia, like other advanced liberal democracies, the adoption of a recovery orientation was hailed as a major leap forward in mental health policy and service provision. We argue that this shift in thinking about the meaning of recovery requires further analysis of the gendered dimension of self-identity and relationships with the social world. In this article we focus on how mid-life women constructed meaning about recovery through their everyday practices of self-care within the gendered context of depression. Findings from our qualitative research with 31 mid-life women identified how the recovery process was complicated by relapses into depression, with many women critically questioning the limitations of biomedical treatment options for a more relational understanding of recovery. Participant stories revealed important tacit knowledge about recovery that emphasised the process of realising and recognising capacities and self-knowledge. We identify two central themes through which women's tacit knowledge of this changing relation to self in recovery is made explicit: the disciplined self of normalised recovery, redefining recovery and depression. The findings point to the need to reconsider how both recovery discourses and gendered expectations can complicate women's experiences of moving through depression. We argue for a different conceptualisation of recovery as a social practice through which women realise opportunities to embody different 'beings and doings'. A gendered understanding of what women themselves identify is important to their well-being, can contribute to more effective recovery oriented policies based on capability rather than deficit.Full Tex
Search for new phenomena with the monojet and missing transverse momentum signature using the ATLAS detector in root s=7 TeV proton-proton collisions

A search for new phenomena in events featuring a high energy jet and large missing transverse momentum in proton–proton collisions at View the MathML sources=7TeV is presented using a dataset corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 33 pb−1 recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The number of observed events is consistent with the Standard Model prediction. This result is interpreted in terms of limits on a model of Large Extra Dimensions.We acknowledge the support of ANPCyT, Argentina; YerPhI, Armenia; ARC, Australia; BMWF, Austria; ANAS, Azerbaijan; SSTC, Belarus; CNPq and FAPESP, Brazil; NSERC, NRC and CFI, Canada; CERN; CONICYT, Chile; CAS, MOST and NSFC, China; COLCIENCIAS, Colombia; MSMT CR, MPO CR and VSC CR, Czech Republic; DNRF, DNSRC and Lundbeck Foundation, Denmark; ARTEMIS, European Union; IN2P3-CNRS, CEA-DSM/IRFU, France; GNAS, Georgia; BMBF, DFG, HGF, MPG and AvH Foundation, Germany; GSRT, Greece; ISF, MINERVA, GIF, DIP and Benoziyo Center, Israel; INFN, Italy; MEXT and JSPS, Japan; CNRST, Morocco; FOM and NWO, Netherlands; RCN, Norway; MNiSW, Poland; GRICES and FCT, Portugal; MERYS (MECTS), Romania; MES of Russia and ROSATOM, Russian Federation; JINR; MSTD, Serbia; MSSR, Slovakia; ARRS and MVZT, Slovenia; DST/NRF, South Africa; MICINN, Spain; SRC and Wallenberg Foundation, Sweden; SER, SNSF and Cantons of Bern and Geneva, Switzerland; NSC, Taiwan; TAEK, Turkey; STFC, The Royal Society and Leverhulme Trust, United Kingdom; DOE and NSF, United States of America.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS) : full spectroscopic data and auxiliary information release (PDR-2)

We present the full public data release (PDR-2) of the VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS), performed at the ESO VLT. We release redshifts, spectra, CFHTLS magnitudes and ancillary information (as masks and weights) for a complete sample of 86 775 galaxies (plus 4732 other objects, including stars and serendipitous galaxies); we also include their full photometrically-selected parent catalogue. The sample is magnitude limited to iAB ≤ 22.5, with an additional colour-colour pre-selection devised as to exclude galaxies at z <0.5. This practically doubles the effective sampling of the VIMOS spectrograph over the range 0.5 <z <1.2 (reaching 47% onaverage), yielding a final median local galaxy density close to 5× 10-3h3 Mpc-3. The total area spanned by the final data set is ≃ 23.5 deg2, corresponding to 288 VIMOS fields with marginal overlaps, split over two regions within the CFHTLS-Wide W1 and W4 equatorial fields (at RA ≃2 and ≃ 22 h, respectively). Spectra were observed at a resolution R = 220, covering a wavelength range 5500-9500 Å. Data reduction and redshift measurements were performed through a fully automated pipeline; all redshift determinations were then visually validated and assigned a quality flag. Measurements with a quality flag ≥ 2 are shown to have a confidence level of 96% or larger and make up 88% of all measured galaxy redshifts (76 552 out of 86 775), constituting the VIPERS prime catalogue for statistical investigations. For this sample the rms redshift error, estimated using repeated measurements of about3 000 galaxies, is found to be σz = 0.00054(1 + z). All data are available at http://vipers.inaf.itand on the ESO Archive.Publisher PDFPeer reviewe
Labour market dynamics in Spanish regions: Evaluating asymmetries in troublesome times

The Spanish labour market disproportionately booms in expansions and bursts in recessions; meanwhile, its regions' relative position persists: those with the highest unemployment rates in 1996 were also in the worse position in 2012. To examine this twofold feature, we apply Blanchard and Katz's (Brookings Pap Econ Act 1:1-75, 1992) methodology and evaluate how the Spanish labour market reacts to regional employment shocks in a variety of cases. Shock responses are channelled via changes in unemployment, labour market participation, and spatial mobility. Our results provide evidence of asymmetric responses across business cycle phases (1996-2007 and 2008-2012). While changes in participation rates are the main adjustment mechanism in expansion, unemployment and spatial mobility become the central ones in recession. We also provide evidence of real wage rigidities in both periods, due to rigidities in both nominal wages and consumer prices. We conclude with a cluster analysis showing that high and low unemployment regions have similar responses in the short-run while, in the long-run, the former are more reactive in terms of spatial mobility. Overall, we provide evidence that people in a region are more willing to migrate (relative to the national average) when a regional shock occurs in relatively worse economic context
The sea urchin metallothionein system : Comparative evaluation of the SpMTA and SpMTB metal-binding preferences

Metallothioneins (MTs) constitute a superfamily of ubiquitous metal-binding proteins of low molecular weight and high Cys content. They are involved in metal homeostasis and detoxification, amongst other proposed biological functions. Two MT isoforms (SpMTA and SpMTB) have been reported in the echinoderm Strongylocentrotus purpuratus (sea urchin), both containing 20 Cys residues and presenting extremely similar sequences, although showing distinct tissular and ontogenic expression patterns. Although exhaustive information is available for the Cd(II)-SpMTA complex, this including the full resolution of its 3D structure, no data has been reported concerning either SpMTA Zn(II) and Cu(I) binding properties, or the characterization of SpMTB at protein level. In this work, both the SpMTA and SpMTB isoforms, as well as their separate α and β domains, have been recombinantly synthesized in the presence of Zn(II), Cd(II) or Cu(II), and the corresponding metal complexes have been analyzed using electrospray mass spectrometry, and CD, ICP-AES and UV–vis spectroscopies. The results clearly show a better performance of isoform A when binding Zn(II) and Cd(II), and of isoform B when coordinating Cu(I). Thus, our results confirm the differential metal binding preference of SpMTA and SpMTB, which, together with the reported induction pattern of the respective genes, highlights how also in Echinodermata the MT polymorphism may be linked to the evolution of different physiological roles. ▸ SpMTA shows a better performance when binding Zn(II) and Cd(II). ▸ SpMTB shows a better performance when binding Cu(I). ▸ The β domain is responsible for the lower divalent metal binding capacity of SpMTB. ▸ The α and β domains contribute to the enhanced capacity of SpMTB for Cu(I) binding
Going south : latitudinal change in mammalian biodiversity in Miocene Eurasia

For palaeontologists, the challenge is to reconstruct biodiversity patterns of the past. Mammal richness in grids is used to assess the stability of biodiversity hotspots and document changes over time in Europe for Mammal Neogene units 3 to 11 (19.5 to 7.6 Ma), early to late Miocene. The maps clearly show the patchiness of the fossil record. As the Miocene was an eventful epoch with severe environmental changes, Europe slowly became drier, and more seasonal, both in temperature and precipitation. From the early to middle Miocene an area of high biodiversity moved from higher to lower latitudes, culminating in one of the most remarkable hotspots in the history of mammals: the early late Miocene (Vallesian mammal stage) faunas from the Vallès-Penedès (Catalonia, Spain). Remarkably, the surrounding areas did not exhibit similar richness. During the subsequent Vallesian turnover event (~ 9.7 Ma), the large and small mammal distribution became more equitable and the hotspots less prominent. The richest area was found in the periphery of the humid Miocene ecosystem, which experienced species influx from the drier south. The southward shift was a result of the expansion of the humid area with subsequent closed environments and related mixing of ecosystems, coming to a halt in the late Miocene, when all of Europe became equally open
Determinants of contractor satisfaction

Performance in the construction industry is increasingly scrutinized as a result of the delays, cost overruns and poor quality of the industry’s products and services. Increasingly, disputes, conflicts and mismatches of objectives among participants are contributory factors. Performance measurement approaches have been developed to overcome these problems. However, these approaches focus primarily on objective measures to the exclusion of subjective measures, particularly those concerning contractor satisfaction (Co-S). The contractor satisfaction model (CoSMo) developed here is intended to rectify the situation. Data derived from a questionnaire survey of 75 large contractors in Malaysia in respect of a key project are analysed to identify participant factors and their strength of relationship with Co-S dimensions. The results are presented in the form of eight regression equations. The outcome is a tool for use by project participants to provide a better understanding of how they, and the project, affect contractor satisfaction. The developed model sheds some light on a hitherto unknown aspect of construction management in providing an increased awareness of the importance of major Malaysian construction contractors’ needs in the execution of successful projects
Global bifurcations to subcritical magnetorotational dynamo action in Keplerian shear flow\ud

Magnetorotational dynamo action in Keplerian shear flow is a three-dimensional, non-linear magnetohydrodynamic process whose study is relevant to the understanding of accretion processes and magnetic field generation in astrophysics. Transition to this form of dynamo action is subcritical and shares many characteristics of transition to turbulence in non-rotating hydrodynamic shear flows. This suggests that these different fluid systems become active through similar generic bifurcation mechanisms, which in both cases have eluded detailed understanding so far. In this paper, we build on recent work on the two problems to investigate numerically the bifurcation mechanisms at work in the incompressible Keplerian magnetorotational dynamo problem in the shearing box framework. Using numerical techniques imported from dynamical systems research, we show that the onset of chaotic dynamo action at magnetic Prandtl numbers larger than unity is primarily associated with global homoclinic and heteroclinic bifurcations of nonlinear magnetorotational dynamo cycles. These global bifurcations are found to be supplemented by local bifurcations of cycles marking the beginning of period-doubling cascades. The results suggest that nonlinear magnetorotational dynamo cycles provide the pathway to turbulent injection of both kinetic and magnetic energy in incompressible magnetohydrodynamic Keplerian shear flow in the absence of an externally imposed magnetic field. Studying the nonlinear physics and bifurcations of these cycles in different regimes and configurations may subsequently help to better understand the physical conditions of excitation of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence and instability-driven dynamos in a variety of astrophysical systems and laboratory experiments. The detailed characterization of global bifurcations provided for this three-dimensional subcritical fluid dynamics problem may also prove useful for the problem of transition to turbulence in hydrodynamic shear flows
Ca impurity in small mixed $^4$He-$^3$He clusters

The structure of small mixed helium clusters doped with one calcium atom has
been determined within the diffusion Monte Carlo framework. The results show
that the calcium atom sits at the $^4$He-$^3$He interface. This is in agreement
with previous studies, both experimental and theoretical, performed for large
clusters. A comparison between the results obtained for the largest cluster we
have considered for each isotope shows a clear tendency of the Ca atom to
reside in a deep dimple at the surface of the cluster for $^4$He clusters, and
to become fully solvated for $^3$He clusters. We have calculated the absorption
spectrum of Ca around the $4s4p \leftarrow 4s^2$ transition and have found that
it is blue-shifted from that of the free-atom transition by an amount that
depends on the size and composition of the cluster.Comment: 24 pages, 11 figures. Accepted on Journal of Chemical Physic
On generalized Frame-Stewart numbers

For the multi-peg Tower of Hanoi problem with $k \geqslant 4$ pegs, so far
the best solution is obtained by the Stewart's algorithm based on the the
following recurrence relation: $\mathrm{S}\_k(n)=\min\_{1 \leqslant t \leqslant
n} \left\{2 \cdot \mathrm{S}\_k(n-t) + \mathrm{S}\_{k-1}(t)\right\}$,
$\mathrm{S}\_3(n) = 2^n -- 1$. In this paper, we generalize this recurrence
relation to $\mathrm{G}\_k(n) = \min\_{1\leqslant t\leqslant n}\left\{
p\_k\cdot \mathrm{G}\_k(n-t) + q\_k\cdot \mathrm{G}\_{k-1}(t) \right\}$,
$\mathrm{G}\_3(n) = p\_3\cdot \mathrm{G}\_3(n-1) + q\_3$, for two sequences of
arbitrary positive integers $\left(p\_i\right)\_{i \geqslant 3}$ and
$\left(q\_i\right)\_{i \geqslant 3}$ and we show that the sequence of
differences $\left(\mathrm{G}\_k(n)- \mathrm{G}\_k(n-1)\right)\_{n \geqslant
1}$ consists of numbers of the form $\left(\prod\_{i=3}^{k}q\_i\right) \cdot
\left(\prod\_{i=3}^{k}{p\_i}^{\alpha\_i}\right)$, with $\alpha\_i\geqslant 0$
for all $i$, arranged in nondecreasing order. We also apply this result to
analyze recurrence relations for the Tower of Hanoi problems on several graphs.Comment: 13 pages ; 3 figure
The Role of Non-Equilibrium Carriers in Formation of Thermo-E.M.F. in
  Bipolar Semiconductors

A new approach to thermoelectric phenomena, as a linear transport process of
non-equilibrium charge carriers, is presented. The role of non-equilibrium
carriers, as well as surface and bulk recombination, is demonstrated to be
crucial even within a linear approximation. Electron and hole Fermi
quasi-levels appeared in a thermal field are calculated in the case of
thermoelectric current flow through a circuit. It is shown, for the first time,
that the Fermi quasi-level of one of subsystem of quasi-particles can be a
non-monotonic function of the coordinates. General expressions for the
thermoelectric current, thermo-e.m.f., and electrical resistance of bipolar
semiconductors have been obtained. For the first time the surface recombination
and surface resistance were taken into account.Comment: 13 pages, 11 figures, revtex
Complex flavour couplings in supersymmetry and unexpected CP-violation
  in the decay B -> phi K

Complex flavour couplings (off-diagonal mass terms) in the squark sector of
supersymmetric theories may drastically alter both the rate and the
CP-violating asymmetry of certain B-meson decays. We consider the effects of
couplings that induce b -> s transitions and lead to final state with
strangeness one. We investigate the bounds that must be satisfied by the new
terms and explore the possible implications on direct and mixing induced
asymmetries in the charged and neutral B -> J/Psi K and B -> phi K decays.Comment: 14 pages, 3 figure
Search for a doubly-charged boson in four lepton final states in type II
  seesaw

CMS and ATLAS have searched for a doubly-charged boson $H^{\pm\pm}$ which may
arise from type II seesaw in the 7 TeV run at the LHC by considering pair or
associated production of doubly-charged bosons under the assumption of
degenerate triplet scalars. In this work, we consider non-degenerate triplet
components with the mass gap $\Delta M \sim 1 - 40$ GeV which leads to enhanced
pair-production cross-sections of $H^{\pm\pm}$ added by the gauge decays of the
heavier neutral and singly-charged bosons. We reevaluate the constraints in the
$\Delta M-M_{H^{++}}$ plane depending on the triplet vacuum expectation value
$v_\Delta$ in the type II seesaw model which are much more stringent than the
current search limits. We further study the possibility of observing same-sign
tetra-lepton signals in the allowed parameter space which can be probed in the
future runs of the LHC.Comment: 15 pages, 13 figure
Modular Transformations and Verlinde Formulae for Logarithmic
  $(p_+,p_-)$-Models

The $(p_+,p_-)$ singlet algebra is a vertex operator algebra that is strongly
generated by a Virasoro field of central charge $1-6(p_+-p_-)^2/p_+p_-$ and a
single Virasoro primary field of conformal weight $(2p_+-1)(2p_--1)$. Here, the
modular properties of the characters of the uncountably many simple modules of
each singlet algebra are investigated and the results used as the input to a
continuous analogue of the Verlinde formula to obtain the "fusion rules" of the
singlet modules. The effect of the failure of fusion to be exact in general is
studied at the level of Verlinde products and the rules derived are lifted to
the $(p_+,p_-)$ triplet algebras by regarding these algebras as simple current
extensions of their singlet cousins. The result is a relatively effortless
derivation of the triplet "fusion rules" that agrees with those previously
proposed in the literature.Comment: 22 pages, v2 minor changes; added ref