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New Versions Of Halanay's Inequality With Multiple Gain Terms, Frederic Mazenc, Michael Malisoff Jan 2022

New Versions Of Halanay's Inequality With Multiple Gain Terms, Frederic Mazenc, Michael Malisoff

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Halanay's inequality in its standard form is a widely used tool for the analysis of systems with delays and uncertainties, but the assumptions needed to use it are sometimes too restrictive to cover applications of interest. This letter provides new generalizations of Halanay's inequality where, instead of the usual supremum in the gain term in standard versions of Halanay's inequality, we use a weighted sum of suprema over different intervals. This allows us to derive sufficient conditions for asymptotic and input-to-state stability. We apply our results to linear systems with switched delays and other examples that illustrate how our results …

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Almost Finite-Time Observers For A Family Of Nonlinear Continuous-Time Systems, Frederic Mazenc, Michael Malisoff Jan 2022

Almost Finite-Time Observers For A Family Of Nonlinear Continuous-Time Systems, Frederic Mazenc, Michael Malisoff

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We provide a new class of observers for a class of nonlinear systems which are not required to be affine in the unmeasured states. The observers ensure exponential convergence of the observation errors to zero, under linear output measurements. The rate of exponential convergence converges to infinity, as the growth rate of the nonlinear state-dependent part of the dynamics converges to zero, so we call the observers almost finite-time. Under global Lipschitz conditions on the state-dependent part of the dynamics, our global result ensures convergence of the observers, for all initial states. For cases where the nonlinearity is of order …

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New Finite-Time And Fast Converging Observers With A Single Delay, Frédéric Mazenc, Michael Malisoff Jan 2022

New Finite-Time And Fast Converging Observers With A Single Delay, Frédéric Mazenc, Michael Malisoff

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We provide new reduced order observer designs for a key class of nonlinear dynamics. When continuous output measurements are available, we prove that our observers converge in a fixed finite time in the absence of perturbations, and we prove a robustness result under uncertainties in the output measurements and in the dynamics, which bounds the observation error in terms of bounds on the uncertainties. The observers contain a dynamic extension with only one pointwise delay, and they use the observability Gramian to eliminate an invertibility condition that was present in earlier finite time observer designs. We also provide analogs for …

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Finite-Time Observers For Parameters And State Variables Of Nonlinear Systems, Frédéric Mazenc, Michael Malisoff Jan 2022

Finite-Time Observers For Parameters And State Variables Of Nonlinear Systems, Frédéric Mazenc, Michael Malisoff

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We provide a new class of finite-time observers for continuous-time nonlinear systems that are affine in the unmeasured state variable and that also contain unknown constant parameters. Our method provides exact values of the state variables and of the constant parameters, in a fixed finite time that is independent of the initial values. We also provide analogs where there is a known delay in the measurements, and for discrete-time systems. Our approach does not rely on an adaptive controller, and is suitable for computing exact values of constant weights in artificial neural network representations of additive uncertainties in the dynamics. …

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On A Capacitary Strong Type Inequality And Related Capacitary Estimates, Keng Hao Ooi, Nguyen Cong Phuc Jan 2022

On A Capacitary Strong Type Inequality And Related Capacitary Estimates, Keng Hao Ooi, Nguyen Cong Phuc

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We establish a Maz'ya type capacitary inequality which resolves a special case of a conjecture by David R. Adams. As a consequence, we obtain several equivalent norms for Choquet integrals associated to Bessel or Riesz capacities. This enables us to obtain bounds for the Hardy-Littlewood maximal function in a sublinear setting.

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2-Modular Matrices, James Oxley, Zach Walsh Jan 2022

2-Modular Matrices, James Oxley, Zach Walsh

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An integer matrix A is Δ -modular if the determinant of each rank(A) × rank(A) submatrix has absolute value at most Δ. The class of 1-modular, or unimodular, matrices is of fundamental significance in both integer programming theory and matroid theory. A 1957 result of Heller shows that the maximum number of nonzero, pairwise non-parallel columns of a rank-r unimodular matrix is (r+1/2). We prove that, for each sufficiently large integer r, the maximum number of nonzero, pairwise non-parallel columns of a rank-r 2-modular matrix is (r+2/2) - 2.

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Small Cocircuits In Minimally Vertically 4-Connected Matroids, James Oxley, Zach Walsh Jan 2022

Small Cocircuits In Minimally Vertically 4-Connected Matroids, James Oxley, Zach Walsh

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Halin proved that every minimally k-connected graph has a vertex of degree k. More generally, does every minimally vertically k-connected matroid have a k-element cocircuit? Results of Murty and Wong give an affirmative answer when k \leq 3. We show that every minimally vertically 4-connected matroid with at least six elements has a 4-element cocircuit, or a 5-element cocircuit that contains a triangle, with the exception of a specific nonbinary 9-element matroid. Consequently, every minimally vertically 4-connected binary matroid with at least six elements has a 4-element cocircuit.

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The Grandma Network In Preparation For The Fourth Gravitational-Wave Observing Run, S. Agayeva, V. Aivazyan, S. Alishov, M. Almualla, C. Andrade, Sarah Antier, J. M. Bai, A. Baransky, S. Basa, P. Bendjoya, Z. Benkhaldoun, S. Beradze, D. Berezin, U. Bhardwaj, M. Blazek, O. Burkhonov, E. Burns, S. Caudill, N. Christensen, F. Colas, A. Coleiro, W. Corradi, M. W. Coughlin, T. Culino, D. Darson, D. Datashvili, G. De Wasseige, T. Dietrich, F. Dolon, D. Dornic, J. Dubouil, J. G. Ducoin, P. A. Duverne Jan 2022

The Grandma Network In Preparation For The Fourth Gravitational-Wave Observing Run, S. Agayeva, V. Aivazyan, S. Alishov, M. Almualla, C. Andrade, Sarah Antier, J. M. Bai, A. Baransky, S. Basa, P. Bendjoya, Z. Benkhaldoun, S. Beradze, D. Berezin, U. Bhardwaj, M. Blazek, O. Burkhonov, E. Burns, S. Caudill, N. Christensen, F. Colas, A. Coleiro, W. Corradi, M. W. Coughlin, T. Culino, D. Darson, D. Datashvili, G. De Wasseige, T. Dietrich, F. Dolon, D. Dornic, J. Dubouil, J. G. Ducoin, P. A. Duverne

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GRANDMA is a world-wide collaboration with the primary scientific goal of studying gravitational-wave sources, discovering their electromagnetic counterparts and characterizing their emission. GRANDMA involves astronomers, astrophysicists, gravitational-wave physicists, and theorists. GRANDMA is now a truly global network of telescopes, with (so far) 30 telescopes in both hemispheres. It incorporates a citizen science programme (Kilonova-Catcher) which constitutes an opportunity to spread the interest in time-domain astronomy. The telescope network is an heterogeneous set of already-existing observing facilities that operate coordinated as a single observatory. Within the network there are wide-field imagers that can observe large areas of the sky to search …

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Phylogenetics Of Archerfishes (Toxotidae) And Evolution Of The Toxotid Shooting Apparatus, M. G. Girard, M. P. Davis, Tan H.H., D. J. Wedd, P. Chakrabarty, W. B. Ludt, A. P. Summers, W. L. Smith Jan 2022

Phylogenetics Of Archerfishes (Toxotidae) And Evolution Of The Toxotid Shooting Apparatus, M. G. Girard, M. P. Davis, Tan H.H., D. J. Wedd, P. Chakrabarty, W. B. Ludt, A. P. Summers, W. L. Smith

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Synopsis: Archerfishes (Toxotidae) are variously found in the fresh- and brackish-water environments of Asia Pacific and are well known for their ability to shoot water at terrestrial prey. These shots of water are intended to strike their prey and cause it to fall into the water for capture and consumption. While this behavior is well known, there are competing hypotheses (blowpipe vs. pressure tank hypothesis) of how archerfishes shoot and which oral structures are involved. Current understanding of archerfish shooting structures is largely based on two species, Toxotes chatareus and T. jaculatrix. We do not know if all archerfishes possess …

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Strengthened Chain Theorems For Different Versions Of 4-Connectivity, Guoli Ding, Chengfu Qin Jan 2022

Strengthened Chain Theorems For Different Versions Of 4-Connectivity, Guoli Ding, Chengfu Qin

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The chain theorem of Tutte states that every 3-connected graph can be constructed from a wheel Wn by repeatedly adding edges and splitting vertices. It is not difficult to prove the following strengthening of this theorem: every non-wheel 3-connected graph can be constructed from W4 by repeatedly adding edges and splitting vertices. In this paper, we similarly strengthen several chain theorems for various versions of 4-connectivity.

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Molecular Data From The Holotype Of The Enigmatic Bornean Black Shrew, Suncus Ater Medway, 1965 (Soricidae, Crocidurinae), Place It In The Genus Palawanosorex, Jonathan A. Nations, Thomas C. Giarla, Muhd Amsyari Morni, Julius William Dee, Mark T. Swanson, Anna E. Hiller, Faisal Ali Anwarali Khan, Jacob A. Esselstyn Jan 2022

Molecular Data From The Holotype Of The Enigmatic Bornean Black Shrew, Suncus Ater Medway, 1965 (Soricidae, Crocidurinae), Place It In The Genus Palawanosorex, Jonathan A. Nations, Thomas C. Giarla, Muhd Amsyari Morni, Julius William Dee, Mark T. Swanson, Anna E. Hiller, Faisal Ali Anwarali Khan, Jacob A. Esselstyn

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Although Borneo has received more attention from biologists than most other islands in the Malay Ar-chipelago, many questions regarding the systematic relationships of Bornean mammals remain. Using next-generation sequencing technology, we obtained mitochondrial DNA sequences from the holotype of Suncus ater, the only known specimen of this shrew. Several shrews collected recently in Sarawak are closely aligned, both morphologically and mitochondrially, with the holotype of S. ater. Phylogenetic analyses of mitochondrial sequences indicate that the S. ater holotype and new Sarawak specimens do not belong to the genus Suncus, but instead are most closely related to Palawanosorex muscorum. Until now …

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New Species Of Virola (Myristicaceae) From South America, Daniel Santamaría-Aguilar, Laura P. Lagomarsino Jan 2022

New Species Of Virola (Myristicaceae) From South America, Daniel Santamaría-Aguilar, Laura P. Lagomarsino

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With about 70 species Virola, is the largest genus of Myristicaceae in the Neotropics, the genus ranked in the top ten genera of abundance across Amazonia. Ten new species are proposed in this striking genus, which are described based on morphology, and are illustrated. The new species were discovered thanks to herbarium specimens collected mainly in the 1980s and 1990s when field documentations were more active. The new species come from Colombia (V. calimensis sp. nov., V. cogolloi sp. nov., V. excisa sp. nov., V. tuckerae sp. nov.), Ecuador (V. alvaroperezii sp. nov., V. bombuscaroensis sp. nov., V. calimensis, V. …

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No Guts About It: Captivity, But Not Neophobia Phenotype, Influences The Cloacal Microbiome Of House Sparrows (Passer Domesticus), T. R. Kelly, A. E. Vinson, G. M. King, C. R. Lattin Jan 2022

No Guts About It: Captivity, But Not Neophobia Phenotype, Influences The Cloacal Microbiome Of House Sparrows (Passer Domesticus), T. R. Kelly, A. E. Vinson, G. M. King, C. R. Lattin

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Behavioral traits such as anxiety and depression have been linked to diversity of the gut microbiome in humans, domesticated animals, and lab-bred model species, but the extent to which this link exists in wild animals, and thus its eco- logical relevance, is poorly understood. We examined the relationship between a behavioral trait (neophobia) and the cloacal microbiome in wild house sparrows ( Passer domesticus, n = 22) to determine whether gut microbial diversity is related to per- sonality in a wild animal. We swabbed the cloaca immediately upon capture, assessed neophobia phenotypes in the lab, and then swabbed the cloaca …

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Morphology Of Migration: Associations Between Wing Shape, Bill Morphology And Migration In Kingbirds (Tyrannus), Maggie P. Macpherson, Alex E. Jahn, Nicholas A. Mason Jan 2022

Morphology Of Migration: Associations Between Wing Shape, Bill Morphology And Migration In Kingbirds (Tyrannus), Maggie P. Macpherson, Alex E. Jahn, Nicholas A. Mason

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Morphology is closely linked to locomotion and diet in animals. In animals that undertake long-distance migrations, limb morphology is under selection to maximize mobility and minimize energy expenditure. Migratory behaviours also interact with diet, such that migratory animals tend to be dietary generalists, whereas sedentary taxa tend to be dietary specialists. Despite a hypothesized link between migration status and morphology, phylogenetic comparative studies have yielded conflicting findings. We tested for evolutionary associations between migratory status and limb and bill morphology across kingbirds, a pan-American genus of birds with migratory, partially migratory and sedentary taxa. Migratory kingbirds had longer wings, in …

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Compressible Spaces And Ξz-Structures, Craig Guilbault, Kevin Schreve, Molly Moran Jan 2022

Compressible Spaces And Ξz-Structures, Craig Guilbault, Kevin Schreve, Molly Moran

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Bestvina introduced a Z-structure for a group G to generalize the boundary of a CAT(0) or hyperbolic group. A refinement of this notion, introduced by Farrell and Lafont, includes a G-equivariance requirement, and is known as an ξZ-structure. A recent result of the first two authors with Tirel put ξZ-structures on Baumslag–Solitar groups and Z-structures on generalized Baumslag–Solitar groups. We generalize this to higher dimensions by showing that fundamental groups of graphs of closed nonpositively curved Riemannian n-manifolds (each vertex and edge manifold is of dimension n) admit Z-structures, and graphs of negatively curved or flat Riemannian n-manifolds admit ξZ-structures.

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A Low-Cost Greenhouse-Based High-Throughput Phenotyping Platform For Genetic Studies: A Case Study In Maize Under Inoculation With Plant Growth-Promoting Bacteria, Rafael Massahiro Yassue, Giovanni Galli, Ronaldo Borsato, Hao Cheng, Gota Morota, Roberto Fritsche-Neto Jan 2022

A Low-Cost Greenhouse-Based High-Throughput Phenotyping Platform For Genetic Studies: A Case Study In Maize Under Inoculation With Plant Growth-Promoting Bacteria, Rafael Massahiro Yassue, Giovanni Galli, Ronaldo Borsato, Hao Cheng, Gota Morota, Roberto Fritsche-Neto

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Greenhouse-based high-throughput phenotyping (HTP) presents a useful approach for studying novel plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB). Despite the potential of this approach to leverage genetic variability for breeding new maize (Zea Mays L.) cultivars exhibiting highly stable symbiosis with PGPB, greenhouse-based HTP platforms are not yet widely used because they are highly expensive; hence, it is challenging to perform HTP studies under a limited budget. In this study, we built a low-cost greenhouse-based HTP platform to collect growth-related image-derived phenotypes. We assessed 360 inbred maize lines with or without PGPB inoculation under nitrogen-limited conditions. Plant height, canopy coverage, and canopy volume …

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Genome And Environment Based Prediction Models And Methods Of Complex Traits Incorporating Genotype × Environment Interaction, José Crossa, Osval Antonio Montesinos-López, Paulino Pérez-Rodríguez, Germano Costa-Neto, Roberto Fritsche-Neto, Rodomiro Ortiz, Johannes W.R. Martini, Morten Lillemo, Abelardo Montesinos-López, Diego Jarquin, Flavio Breseghello, Jaime Cuevas, Renaud Rincent Jan 2022

Genome And Environment Based Prediction Models And Methods Of Complex Traits Incorporating Genotype × Environment Interaction, José Crossa, Osval Antonio Montesinos-López, Paulino Pérez-Rodríguez, Germano Costa-Neto, Roberto Fritsche-Neto, Rodomiro Ortiz, Johannes W.R. Martini, Morten Lillemo, Abelardo Montesinos-López, Diego Jarquin, Flavio Breseghello, Jaime Cuevas, Renaud Rincent

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Genomic-enabled prediction models are of paramount importance for the successful implementation of genomic selection (GS) based on breeding values. As opposed to animal breeding, plant breeding includes extensive multienvironment and multiyear field trial data. Hence, genomic-enabled prediction models should include genotype × environment (G × E) interaction, which most of the time increases the prediction performance when the response of lines are different from environment to environment. In this chapter, we describe a historical timeline since 2012 related to advances of the GS models that take into account G × E interaction. We describe theoretical and practical aspects of those …

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On The Synthesis And Characterization Of Two Different Titanium-Based Supramolecular Structures Of Identical Stoichiometry, Ryan J. Bujol, Frank R. Fronczek, Noémie Elgrishi Jan 2022

On The Synthesis And Characterization Of Two Different Titanium-Based Supramolecular Structures Of Identical Stoichiometry, Ryan J. Bujol, Frank R. Fronczek, Noémie Elgrishi

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Self-assembled supramolecular coordination complexes can take on a wide range of three-dimensional architectures with varying ratios of metal-to-ligand. Control over which architecture will be adopted can be difficult to maintain, as many may form from the starting materials and conditions present. Characterizing the resulting architectures formed can be challenging, in particular when discerning between lower or higher ordered structures of identical stoichiometry. Here we report the synthesis and characterization of a Ti2L3 football-like or pill-shaped capsule, unexpectedly formed from attempts to synthesize variations on a Ti4L6 tetrahedron. The two anionic cores are formed from identical stoichiometric ratios of organic linkers …

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On The Asymptotic Convergence And Acceleration Of Gradient Methods, Yakui Huang, Yu Hong Dai, Xin Wei Liu, Hongchao Zhang Jan 2022

On The Asymptotic Convergence And Acceleration Of Gradient Methods, Yakui Huang, Yu Hong Dai, Xin Wei Liu, Hongchao Zhang

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We consider the asymptotic behavior of a family of gradient methods, which include the steepest descent and minimal gradient methods as special instances. It is proved that each method in the family will asymptotically zigzag between two directions. Asymptotic convergence results of the objective value, gradient norm, and stepsize are presented as well. To accelerate the family of gradient methods, we further exploit spectral properties of stepsizes to break the zigzagging pattern. In particular, a new stepsize is derived by imposing finite termination on minimizing two-dimensional strictly convex quadratic function. It is shown that, for the general quadratic function, the …

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Adapting Ripple Effect Mapping To A Virtual Survey Format, Matthew D. Greene, Jessica Stroope, Denise Holston Jan 2022

Adapting Ripple Effect Mapping To A Virtual Survey Format, Matthew D. Greene, Jessica Stroope, Denise Holston

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Community development projects continue despite the COVID-19 pandemic. Participatory evaluation of these projects is crucial. Ripple effect mapping (REM) is a participatory approach to evaluation that captures coalition and community member perspectives on program outcomes and impacts. In response to COVID-19, the Louisiana State University AgCenter Healthy Communities Initiative adapted REM for online delivery. The REM evaluation was found to be an effective way for community coalitions to reflect on outcomes and impacts and to motivate continued engagement

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A New Species Of New Guinea Worm-Eating Snake (Serpentes, Elapidae, Toxicocalamus Boulenger, 1896) From Western Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea, Jackson R. Roberts, Bulisa Iova, Christopher C. Austin Jan 2022

A New Species Of New Guinea Worm-Eating Snake (Serpentes, Elapidae, Toxicocalamus Boulenger, 1896) From Western Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea, Jackson R. Roberts, Bulisa Iova, Christopher C. Austin

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We describe a new species of New Guinea Worm-Eating Snake (Elapidae: Toxicocalamus) from a specimen in the reptile collection of the Papua New Guinea National Museum and Art Gallery. Toxicocalamus longhagen sp. nov. can be easily distinguished from other species of this genus by the presence of paired subcaudals, a preocular scale unfused from the prefrontal scale, a prefrontal distinct from the internasal scale that contacts the supralabials, a single large posterior temporal and two postocular scales. The new taxon is currently known only from one specimen, which was collected from Mt. Hagen Town in Western Highlands Province, Papua New …

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Louisiana Survey 2022, Lsu Reilly Center For Media & Public Affairs Jan 2022

Louisiana Survey 2022, Lsu Reilly Center For Media & Public Affairs

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Gis-Automated Delineation Of Hospital Service Areas In Florida: From Dartmouth Method To Network Community Detection Methods, Changzhen Wang, Fahui Wang Jan 2022

Gis-Automated Delineation Of Hospital Service Areas In Florida: From Dartmouth Method To Network Community Detection Methods, Changzhen Wang, Fahui Wang

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Since the Dartmouth Hospital Service Areas (HSAs) were proposed three decades ago, there has been a large body of work using the unit in examining the geographic variation in health care in the U.S. for evaluating health care system performance and informing health policy. However, many studies question the replicability and reliability of the Dartmouth HSAs in meeting the challenges of an ever-changing and a diverse set of health care services. This research develops a reproducible, automated, and efficient GIS tool to implement Dartmouth method for defining HSAs. Moreover, the research adapts two popular network community detection methods to account …

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Moral Emotions And Unnamed Wrongs: Revisiting Epistemic Injustice, Usha Nathan Jan 2022

Moral Emotions And Unnamed Wrongs: Revisiting Epistemic Injustice, Usha Nathan

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Current discussions of hermeneutical injustice, I argue, poorly characterise the cognitive state of victims by failing to account for the communicative success that victims have when they describe their experience to other similarly situated persons. I argue that victims, especially when they suffer moral wrongs that are yet unnamed, are able (1) to grasp certain salient aspects of the wrong they experience and (2) to cultivate the ability to identify instances of the wrong in virtue of moral emotions. By moral emotions I mean emotions like indignation that reflect an agent’s ethical commitments and bear on her ethical assessments. Further, …

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Transformed Estimation For Panel Interactive Effects Models, Cheng Hsiao, Zhentao Shi, Qiankun Zhou Jan 2022

Transformed Estimation For Panel Interactive Effects Models, Cheng Hsiao, Zhentao Shi, Qiankun Zhou

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We propose a transformed estimator for the slope coefficients of panel models with interactive effects. The transformed estimation method does not require the prior knowledge of the dimension of factor structure. It is consistent and asymptotically normally distributed under fairly general conditions when N is fixed and (Formula presented.) or T is fixed and (Formula presented.) or when both N and T are large and (Formula presented.) Moreover, because the transformation is equivalent to aggregating cross-sectional units or time units before implementing the least-square method over time or across cross-sectional units, it can bypass the issues arising from heteroscedasticity across …

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Forecasting Equity Index Volatility By Measuring The Linkage Among Component Stocks∗, Yue Qiu, Tian Xie, Jun Yu, Qiankun Zhou Jan 2022

Forecasting Equity Index Volatility By Measuring The Linkage Among Component Stocks∗, Yue Qiu, Tian Xie, Jun Yu, Qiankun Zhou

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The linkage among the realized volatilities of component stocks is important when modeling and forecasting the relevant index volatility. In this article, the linkage is measured via an extended Common Correlated Effects (CCEs) approach under a panel heterogeneous autoregression model where unobserved common factors in errors are assumed. Consistency of the CCE estimator is obtained. The common factors are extracted using the principal component analysis. Empirical studies show that realized volatility models exploiting the linkage effects lead to significantly better out-of-sample forecast performance, for example, an up to 32% increase in the pseudo R2. We also conduct various forecasting exercises …

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Understanding Transatlantic Cultural Mobility: For A Cross-Reading Of Fitón In Calderón De La Barca’S El Laurel De Apolo And Alonso De Ercilla’S La Araucana, Carmela Mattza Jan 2022

Understanding Transatlantic Cultural Mobility: For A Cross-Reading Of Fitón In Calderón De La Barca’S El Laurel De Apolo And Alonso De Ercilla’S La Araucana, Carmela Mattza

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This essay focuses on the intertextual origins and depiction of Fitón in Calderón de la Barca’s play El laurel de Apolo. After contrasting Calderón’s depiction of Fitón with those in Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Alonso de Ercilla’s La Araucana, I demonstrate the special signif icance Calderón’s variations on the classical myth of Fitón acquires when considered within the context of the intersection of Early Modern Spanish literature, history, arts, and politics. Here, I argue that Calderón’s recasting of Fitón serves as propaganda, the origins of which can be found in the four Titian paintings commissioned by María de Hungría in 1548. …

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An Inquiry Into Gradable Zero-Waste Apparel Design, Melanie Carrico, Sheri L. Dragoo, Ellen Mckinney, Casey Stannard, Colleen Moretz, Ashley Rougeaux-Burnes Jan 2022

An Inquiry Into Gradable Zero-Waste Apparel Design, Melanie Carrico, Sheri L. Dragoo, Ellen Mckinney, Casey Stannard, Colleen Moretz, Ashley Rougeaux-Burnes

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The implementation of standardized grading production practices within the mass market has been challenging for scholars experimenting with zero-waste apparel design. The purpose of this research was to test the efficacy of the Carrico Zero-waste Banded Grading (CZWBG) technique, which utilizes bands inserted in strategic locations as a method of grading zero-waste patterns across various consumer categories. An additional purpose was to evaluate the ways in which this grading approach affected the aesthetic outcomes of garments across a size run, and to determine whether this method affected the overall design process of the designers involved. Through experimental research design, six …

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Calorie Restriction Improves Lipid-Related Emerging Cardiometabolic Risk Factors In Healthy Adults Without Obesity: Distinct Influences Of Bmi And Sex From Calerie™ A Multicentre, Phase 2, Randomised Controlled Trial, Kim M. Huffman, Daniel C. Parker, Manjushri Bhapkar, Susan B. Racette, Corby K. Martin, Leanne M. Redman, Sai Krupa Das, Margery A. Connelly, Carl F. Pieper, Melissa Orenduff, Leanna M. Ross, Megan E. Ramaker, James L. Dorling, Clifford J. Rosen, Irina Shalaurova, James D. Otvos, Virginia B. Kraus, William E. Kraus Jan 2022

Calorie Restriction Improves Lipid-Related Emerging Cardiometabolic Risk Factors In Healthy Adults Without Obesity: Distinct Influences Of Bmi And Sex From Calerie™ A Multicentre, Phase 2, Randomised Controlled Trial, Kim M. Huffman, Daniel C. Parker, Manjushri Bhapkar, Susan B. Racette, Corby K. Martin, Leanne M. Redman, Sai Krupa Das, Margery A. Connelly, Carl F. Pieper, Melissa Orenduff, Leanna M. Ross, Megan E. Ramaker, James L. Dorling, Clifford J. Rosen, Irina Shalaurova, James D. Otvos, Virginia B. Kraus, William E. Kraus

Clinical Research Faculty Publications

Background: For many cardiovascular risk factors there is no lower limit to which further reduction will result in decreased disease risk; this includes values within ranges considered normal for healthy adults. This seems to be true for new emerging metabolic risk factors identified by innovative technological advances. Further, there seems to be ever evolving evidence of differential responses to lifestyle interventions by sex and body compositions in the normal range. In this secondary analysis, we had the opportunity to test these principles for newly identified molecular biomarkers of cardiometabolic risk in a young (21–50 years), normal weight healthy population undergoing …

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Early And Middle Miocene Ice Sheet Dynamics In The Ross Sea: Results From Integrated Core-Log-Seismic Interpretation, Lara F. Pérez, Laura De Santis, Robert M. Mckay, Robert D. Larter, Jeanine Ash, Phil J. Bart, Gualtiero Böhm, Giuseppe Brancatelli, Imogen Browne, Florence Colleoni, Justin P. Dodd, Riccardo Geletti, David M. Harwood, Gerhard Kuhn, Jan Sverre Laberg, R. Mark Leckie, Richard H. Levy, James Marschalek, Zenon Mateo, Timothy R. Naish, Francesca Sangiorgi, Amelia E. Shevenell, Christopher C. Sorlien, Tina Van De Flierdt Jan 2022

Early And Middle Miocene Ice Sheet Dynamics In The Ross Sea: Results From Integrated Core-Log-Seismic Interpretation, Lara F. Pérez, Laura De Santis, Robert M. Mckay, Robert D. Larter, Jeanine Ash, Phil J. Bart, Gualtiero Böhm, Giuseppe Brancatelli, Imogen Browne, Florence Colleoni, Justin P. Dodd, Riccardo Geletti, David M. Harwood, Gerhard Kuhn, Jan Sverre Laberg, R. Mark Leckie, Richard H. Levy, James Marschalek, Zenon Mateo, Timothy R. Naish, Francesca Sangiorgi, Amelia E. Shevenell, Christopher C. Sorlien, Tina Van De Flierdt

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Oscillations in ice sheet extent during early and middle Miocene are intermittently preserved in the sedimentary record from the Antarctic continental shelf, with widespread erosion occurring during major ice sheet advances, and open marine deposition during times of ice sheet retreat. Data from seismic reflection surveys and drill sites from Deep Sea Drilling Project Leg 28 and International Ocean Discovery Program Expedition 374, located across the present-day middle continental shelf of the central Ross Sea (Antarctica), indicate the presence of expanded early to middle Miocene sedimentary sections. These include the Miocene climate optimum (MCO ca. 17-14.6 Ma) and the middle …

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