cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Introduction
Creators: name: Kennedy, David
name: Stiglitz, Joseph E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Economics
Law and economic development
Rule of law
Right of property

description: As the link between law and economic development has been increasingly recognized, it has become commonplace to assert that development is not possible without a “rule of law” and good property rights. Today, these ideas are promoted in the academy, in the development policy community, and by leading international financial institutions, intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations. There is even a special unit within the UNDP devoted to the promotion of these ideas. Law is certainly crucial for economic development. But what kind of “rule of law” is desirable? What constitutes “good” property rights? These questions are of particular importance to China as it continues the march toward a market economy “with Chinese characteristics” that it began in 1979, a little more than thirty years ago. China’s Eleventh Five-Year Plan recognized that one of the key challenges going forward is to create the institutional infrastructure to facilitate the development of such a market, including an appropriate legal framework of institutions, rules, and regulations. The papers collected here illuminate today’s debates about just what legal arrangements are, in fact, appropriate for a market “with Chinese characteristics.” We focus on two broad questions. How might one define and regulate property and other legal rights in a market economy “with Chinese characteristics?” And how should we understand China’s experience with significant questions of constitutional design, particularly with respect to centralization and decentralization, and the role of the judiciary? We hope to make visible the range of experimentation and the diversity of experience with legal and institutional design in China, while also offering a range of perspectives on the relevance of Western experience and Western ideas about the links between legal arrangements and economic performance.
Review of AdS/CFT Integrability, Chapter IV.2: Deformations, Orbifolds and Open Boundaries
Creators: name: Zoubos, Konstantinos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81R50, 81T30, 81T60, 82B23

description: We review the role of integrability in the planar spectral problem of four-dimensional superconformal gauge theories besides N=4 SYM. The cases considered include the Leigh-Strassler marginal deformations of N=4 SYM, quiver theories which arise as orbifolds of AdS5xS5 on the dual gravity side, as well as various theories involving open spin chains.
description: 24 pages, see also overview article arXiv:1012.3982, v2: references to other chapters updated, v3: references added, minor clarifications, v4: minor typos fixed, a reference added. Journal version
Factors affecting executive function in children with autism spectrum disorder
Creators: name: Siroski, Shelby Lynn
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: In typically developing children, better performance on tasks of executive function (EF) is associated with bilingualism as well as participation in activities that engage EF, such as playing video games, attending music lessons, and getting regular exercise. Furthermore, activities found to improve EF abilities tend to be most effective in participants with lower EF at baseline. Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) often have deficits in EF. With the prevalence of ASD on the rise, research on the factors contributing to EF development in children with ASD is crucial for the advancement of evidence-based practice for professionals working with these children. This study aims to address whether children with ASD experience EF benefits from dual language exposure and participation in EF supporting activities. This study’s sample was comprised of ten children with ASD, aged six to ten years. Participants were divided into groups based on whether they were primarily exposed to one or two languages, and based on whether they played video games, attended music lessons, or engaged in fitness activities. Each participant was tested on two tasks of inhibition (Simon and flanker tasks) and two tasks of visuospatial working memory (forward- and backward span). Language exposure group differences were found, but not in conditions that target EF abilities. The only group difference specific to conditions with EF involvement was in favour of children who engage in regular physical fitness. While these results do not support dual language exposure, video game playing or musicianship as EF supporting experiences, the results of this study are limited by the small sample size. In addition to group comparisons, data from three participants is discussed within the context of development of EF in children with ASD.
Approximating the dynamical evolution of systems of strongly-interacting overdamped particles
Creators: name: Whitelam, Stephen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe collective-move Monte Carlo algorithms designed to approximate the overdamped dynamics of self-assembling nanoscale components equipped with strong, short-ranged and anisotropic interactions. Conventional Monte Carlo simulations comprise sequential moves of single particles, proposed and accepted so as to satisfy detailed balance. Under certain circumstances such simulations provide an approximation of overdamped dynamics, but the accuracy of this approximation can be poor if e.g. particle-particle interactions vary strongly with distance or angle. The twin requirements of simulation efficiency (trial moves of appreciable scale are needed to ensure reasonable sampling) and dynamical fidelity (true in the limit of vanishingly small trial moves) then become irreconcilable. As a result, single-particle moves can underrepresent important collective modes of relaxation, such as self-diffusion of particle clusters. However, one way of using Monte Carlo simulation to mimic real collective modes of motion, retaining the ability to make trial moves of reasonable scale, is to make explicit moves of collections of particles. We will outline ways of doing so by iteratively linking particles to their environment. Linking criteria can be static, conditioned upon properties of the current state of a system, or dynamic, conditioned upon energy changes resulting from trial virtual moves of particles. We argue that the latter protocol is better-suited to approximating real dynamics.
description: Molecular Simulation, in press
“I Don’t Know What My Mummy Does”
Creators: name: Wagner, Santoi
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Motherhood
Universities and colleges--Graduate work
Applied linguistics
Degrees, Academic

description: Explaining to non-academics what being a doctoral student entails can be difficult. What is it that we do all day? What is “research” anyway? And, why does it take such a long time? Explaining this to one’s children is undoubtedly an even more difficult task. So, my approach was to ignore going over the details and simply gloss my disappearing upstairs and sitting at the computer as “Mummy doing some work.” Of course, such a lack of explanation has to be dealt with eventually.
Statistical regularities in the rank-citation profile of scientists
Creators: name: Petersen, Alexander M.
name: Stanley, H. Eugene
name: Succi, Sauro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Popular Physics (physics.pop-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recent "science of science" research shows that scientific impact measures for journals and individual articles have quantifiable regularities across both time and discipline. However, little is known about the scientific impact distribution at the scale of an individual scientist. We analyze the aggregate scientific production and impact of individual careers using the rank-citation profile c_{i}(r) of 200 distinguished professors and 100 assistant professors. For the entire range of paper rank r, we fit each c_{i}(r) to a common distribution function that is parameterized by two scaling exponents. Since two scientists with equivalent Hirsch h-index can have significantly different c_{i}(r) profiles, our results demonstrate the utility of the β_{i} scaling parameter in conjunction with h_{i} for quantifying individual publication impact. We show that the total number of citations C_{i} tallied from a scientist's N_{i} papers scales as C_{i} \sim h_{i}^{1+β_{i}}. Such statistical regularities in the input-output patterns of scientists can be used as benchmarks for theoretical models of career progress.
description: 29 pages, 17 figures, 6 tables, Submitted; Modifications in V2 in response to referee comments
Similarity solutions of Fokker-Planck equation with time-dependent coefficients
Creators: name: Lin, Wen-Tsan
name: Ho, Choon-Lin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we consider the solvability of the Fokker-Planck equation with both time-dependent drift and diffusion coefficients by means of the similarity method. By the introduction of the similarity variable, the Fokker-Planck equation is reduced to an ordinary differential equation. Adopting the natural requirement that the probability current density vanishes at the boundary, the resulted ordinary differential equation turns out to be integrable, and the probability density function can be given in closed form. New examples of exactly solvable Fokker-Planck equations are presented, and their properties analyzed.
description: 13 pages, 8 figures. Version to appear in Ann. Phys. Presentation improved. Discussions and figures of easy examples removed
High-dimensional Bell test for a continuous variable state in phase space and its robustness to detection inefficiency
Creators: name: Lee, Seung-Woo
name: Jeong, Hyunseok
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a scheme for testing high-dimensional Bell inequalities in phase space. High-dimensional Bell inequalities can be recast into the forms of a phase-space version using quasiprobability functions with the complex-valued order parameter. We investigate their violations for two-mode squeezed states while increasing the dimension of measurement outcomes, and finally show the robustness of high-dimensional tests to detection inefficiency.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures; title and abstract changed, published version
Numerical Estimation of the Current Large Deviation Function in the Asymmetric Simple Exclusion Process with Open Boundary Conditions
Creators: name: Mitsudo, Tetsuya
name: Takesue, Shinji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We numerically study the large deviation function of the total current, which is the sum of local currents over all bonds, for the symmetric and asymmetric simple exclusion processes with open boundary conditions. We estimate the generating function by calculating the largest eigenvalue of the modified transition matrix and by population Monte Carlo simulation. As a result, we find a number of interesting behaviors not observed in the exactly solvable cases studied previously as follows. The even and odd parts of the generating function show different system-size dependences. Different definitions of the current lead to the same generating function in small systems. The use of the total current is important in the Monte Carlo estimation. Moreover, a cusp appears in the large deviation function for the asymmetric simple exclusion process. We also discuss the convergence property of the population Monte Carlo simulation and find that in a certain parameter region, the convergence is very slow and the gap between the largest and second largest eigenvalues of the modified transition matrix rapidly tends to vanish with the system size.
description: 31 pages, 30 figures, to be published in JPSJ
Metaseiulus ferlai Moraes, McMurtry & Lopes 2006
Creators: name: Argolo, Poliane Sá
name: Vital Santos, Renata M.
name: Leão Bittencourt, Maria A.
name: Da Silva Noronha, Aloyséia C.
name: De Moraes, Gilberto J.
name: Oliveira, Anibal Ramadan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Mesostigmata
Phytoseiidae
Metaseiulus
Metaseiulus ferlai

description: Metaseiulus ferlai Moraes, McMurtry & Lopes, 2006
 Metaseiulus (Metaseiulus) ferlai Moraes et al., 2006: 352. Metaseiulus ferlai.–– Chant & McMurtry, 2007: 174.
 Records in Bahia: Metaseiulus (Metaseiulus) ferlai.–– Nuvoloni et al., 2015: 261; Metaseiulus ferlai.–– Souza et al., 2015: 104.
description: Published as part of Argolo, Poliane Sá, Vital Santos, Renata M., Leão Bittencourt, Maria A., Da Silva Noronha, Aloyséia C., De Moraes, Gilberto J. & Oliveira, Anibal Ramadan, 2017, Phytoseiid mites (Acari: Phytoseiidae) associated with tropical ornamental plants, with a checklist and a key to the species of Bahia, Brazil, pp. 345-364 in Zootaxa 4258 (4) on page 356, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4258.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/570106
Trade-off coding for universal qudit cloners motivated by the Unruh effect
Creators: name: Jochym-O'Connor, Tomas
name: Bradler, Kamil
name: Wilde, Mark M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A "triple trade-off" capacity region of a noisy quantum channel provides a more complete description of its capabilities than does a single capacity formula. However, few full descriptions of a channel's ability have been given due to the difficult nature of the calculation of such regions---it may demand an optimization of information-theoretic quantities over an infinite number of channel uses. This work analyzes the d-dimensional Unruh channel, a noisy quantum channel which emerges in relativistic quantum information theory. We show that this channel belongs to the class of quantum channels whose capacity region requires an optimization over a single channel use, and as such is tractable. We determine two triple-trade off regions, the quantum dynamic capacity region and the private dynamic capacity region, of the d-dimensional Unruh channel. Our results show that the set of achievable rate triples using this coding strategy is larger than the set achieved using a time-sharing strategy. Furthermore, we prove that the Unruh channel has a distinct structure made up of universal qudit cloning channels, thus providing a clear relationship between this relativistic channel and the process of stimulated emission present in quantum optical amplifiers.
description: 26 pages, 4 figures; v2 has minor corrections to Definition 2. Definition 4 and Remark 5 have been added
How Motherhood Might Be Like a Volcano
Creators: name: Tatton-Harris, Heather
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Applied linguistics
Motherhood
Universities and colleges--Graduate work
Degrees, Academic

description: Life before baby. I remember what that was like: leaving the house at will; running errands whenever the timing seemed right; taking long showers; casually perusing the internet and answering emails; making dinner and having the time to eat with my husband while we discussed the day’s events; reading an entire journal article while taking notes and having time for contemplation; going to work and whimsically deciding to stop for a shopping trip on the way home. Ah the freedom!

Life after baby? I’m completely in love with her.
Dark matter halos around isolated ellipticals
Creators: name: Memola, Elisabetta
name: Salucci, Paolo
name: Babic, Ana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the distribution of the luminous and the dark matter components in the isolated ellipticals NGC 7052 and NGC 7785, embedded in an emitting hot gas halo, by means of relevant X-ray and photometric data. In order to calculate the dark matter distribution in these rare objects, we performed an improved X-ray analysis of the XMM-Newton data of NGC 7785, and we used former results based on Chandra data of NGC 7052. For each object we also derived the stellar spheroid length scale from the surface photometry and the spheroid stellar mass from an analysis of the galaxy spectral energy distribution. We find that a dark matter component is present in these objects. It is subdominant and mixed with the luminous matter inside the optical region half-light radius wide, while it dominates the gravitational potential at outer radii. On the whole, the dark halo structure is very similar to that found around spirals of comparable luminosity and it is well reproduced by a Burkert halo, while a Sersic spheroid accounts well for the baryonic component.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures, matching the version published by Astronomy & Astrophysics
Possibility of Electron Pairing in Small Metallic Nanoparticles
Creators: name: Lindenfeld, Ze'ev
name: Eisenberg, Eli
name: Lifshitz, Ron
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the possibility of electron pairing in small metallic nanoparticles at zero temperature. In these particles both electrons and phonons are mesoscopic, i.e. modified by the nanoparticle's finite size. The electrons, the phonons, and their interaction are described within the framework of a simplified model. The effective electron-electron interaction is derived from the underlying electron-phonon interaction. The effect of both effective interaction and Coulomb interaction on the electronic spectrum is evaluated. Results are presented for aluminum, zinc and potassium nanoparticles containing a few hundred atoms. We find that a large portion of the aluminum and zinc particles exhibit modifications in their electronic spectrum due to pairing correlations, while pairing correlations are not present in the potassium particles.
“A New Language Tester is Born”
Creators: name: Di Gennaro, Kristen
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Motherhood
Applied linguistics
Universities and colleges--Graduate work
Degrees, Academic

description: This was the subject heading in the e-mail my advisor, Jim Purpura, sent out to the doctoral seminar group after I announced the arrival of my baby girl. While I clearly shared others’ enthusiasm in my happy news, I was also more than a little apprehensive about how a baby was going to affect my lifestyle and career goals. Panic quickly set in as many questions raced through my mind: How was I going to continue working full time? When would I be able to finish my doctorate? When will I find time to continue my research in writing assessment? What will happen to the person(s) I used to be?
Numerical thermodynamic studies of classical gravitational collapse in 3+1 and 4+1 dimensions
Creators: name: Constantineau, Benjamin
name: Edery, Ariel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a thermodynamic potential during the classical gravitational collapse of a 4D (3+1) massless scalar field to a Schwarzschild black hole in isotropic coordinates. We track numerically the function $F(t)=-dI/dt=-L$, where $I$ is the total action of matter plus gravitation, $L$ the total Lagrangian and $t$ is the time measured by a stationary clock at infinity. At late stages in the collapse, this function can be identified with the free energy $F=E-TS$ of the black hole where $E$ is the ADM mass, $T$ the Hawking temperature and $S$ the entropy. From standard black hole thermodynamics, the free energy of a 4D Schwarzschild black hole is equal to $E/2$. Our numerical simulations show that at late stages of the collapse the function $-L$ approaches a constant to within 5% of the value of $E/2$. We also present numerical results for the thermodynamics of 5D collapse where the free energy in this case is $E/3$. In both 4D and 5D, our numerical simulations show that at late stages of the collapse, the metric fields are nonstationary in a thin region just behind the event horizon (and are basically static everywhere else). The entropy stems mostly from the nonstationary interior region where there is a significant dip (negative contribution) to the free energy.
description: 35 pages, 14 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. D
Partition and composition matrices
Creators: name: Claesson, Anders
name: Dukes, Mark
name: Kubitzke, Martina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper introduces two matrix analogues for set partitions. A composition matrix on a finite set X is an upper triangular matrix whose entries partition X, and for which there are no rows or columns containing only empty sets. A partition matrix is a composition matrix in which an order is placed on where entries may appear relative to one-another. We show that partition matrices are in one-to-one correspondence with inversion tables. Non-decreasing inversion tables are shown to correspond to partition matrices with a row ordering relation. Partition matrices which are s-diagonal are classified in terms of inversion tables. Bidiagonal partition matrices are enumerated using the transfer-matrix method and are equinumerous with permutations which are sortable by two pop-stacks in parallel. We show that composition matrices on X are in one-to-one correspondence with (2+2)-free posets on X. Also, composition matrices whose rows satisfy a column-ordering relation are shown to be in one-to-one correspondence with parking functions. Finally, we show that pairs of ascent sequences and permutations are in one-to-one correspondence with (2+2)-free posets whose elements are the cycles of a permutation, and use this relation to give an expression for the number of (2+2)-free posets on {1,...,n}.
description: 14 pages
The CO2 –broadened H2O continuum in the 100–1500 cm -1 region: Measurements, predictions and empirical model
Creators: name: Tran, Ha
name: Turbet, Martin
name: Hanoufa, Simon
name: Landsheere, Xavier
name: Chelin, Pascale
name: Ma, Qiancheng
name: Hartmann, Jean-Michel
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Carbon dioxide
Water vapor, Atmospheric--Spectra
Spectrum analysis
Radiative transfer
Planets--Spectra
Planetary science

description: Transmission spectra of H2O + CO2 mixtures have been recorded, at 296, 325 and 366 K, for various pres- sures and mixture compositions using two experimental setups. Their analysis enables to retrieve values of the “continuum”absorption by the CO2 -broadened H2O line wings between 100 and 1500 cm-1 . The results are in good agreement with those, around 1300 cm-1 , of the single previous experimental study available. Comparisons are also made with direct predictions based on line-shape correction factors χ calculated, almost thirty years ago, using a quasistatic approach and an input H2O –CO2 intermolecular potential. They show that this model quite nicely predicts, with slightly overestimated values, the con- tinuum over a spectral range where it varies by more than three orders of magnitude. An empirical cor- rection is proposed, based on the experimental data, which should be useful for radiative transfer and climate studies in CO2 rich planetary atmospheres.
Deformation of Codimension-2 Surface and Horizon Thermodynamics
Creators: name: Cao, Li-Ming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The deformation equation of a spacelike submanifold with an arbitrary codimension is given by a general construction without using local frames. In the case of codimension-1, this equation reduces to the evolution equation of the extrinsic curvature of a spacelike hypersurface. In the more interesting case of codimension-2, after selecting a local null frame, this deformation equation reduces to the well known (cross) focusing equations. We show how the thermodynamics of trapping horizons is related to these deformation equations in two different formalisms: with and without introducing quasilocal energy. In the formalism with the quasilocal energy, the Hawking mass in four dimension is generalized to higher dimension, and it is found that the deformation of this energy inside a marginal surface can be also decomposed into the contributions from matter fields and gravitational radiation as in the four dimension. In the formalism without the quasilocal energy, we generalize the definition of slowly evolving future outer trapping horizons proposed by Booth to past trapping horizons. The dynamics of the trapping horizons in FLRW universe is given as an example. Especially, the slowly evolving past trapping horizon in the FLRW universe has close relation to the scenario of slow-roll inflation. Up to the second order of the slowly evolving parameter in this generalization, the temperature (surface gravity) associated with the slowly evolving trapping horizon in the FLRW universe is essentially the same as the one defined by using the quasilocal energy.
description: Latex, 61 pages, no figures; v2, type errors corrected; v3, references and comments are added, English is improved, to appear in JHEP
EMGEN: The Embodied Meaning Generator for Emergent Navigation
Creators: name: Hockenhull, Oliver
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: AI interface, semantic topology, human-computer interaction, embodied cognition, reasoning, haptics, logic-poetic systems

description: This white paper introduces EMGEN, a tactile-semantic interface for navigating meaning through topological form. It outlines the philosophical, technical, and interaction-design foundations of the system and proposes an open architecture for collaborative development.
Sheet profile estimation and machine direction adaptive control
Creators: name: Rippon, Lee
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Sheet and film process control is often structured such that separate controllers and actuators are dedicated to either the temporal (i.e, machine direction) variations or the spatial (i.e., cross direction) variations. The dedicated machine direction (MD) and cross direction (CD) controllers require separate measurements of the MD and CD sheet property profiles, respectively. The current industrial standard involves a traversing sensor that acquires a signal containing both MD and CD property variations. The challenge then becomes how does one extract separate MD and CD profiles from the mixed signal. Numerous techniques have been proposed, but ultimately the traditional exponential filtering method continues to be the industrial standard. A more recent technique, compressive sensing, appears promising but previous developments do not address the industrial constraints. In the first part of this thesis the compressive sensing technique is developed further, specifically with regards to feasibility of implementation. A comparative analysis is performed to determine the benefits and drawbacks of the proposed method. Model-based control has gained widespread acceptance in a variety of industrial processes. To ensure adequate performance, these model-based controllers require a model that accurately represents the true process. However, the true process is changing over time as a result of the various operating conditions and physical characteristics of the process. In part two of this thesis an integrated adaptive control strategy is introduced for the multi-input multi-output MD process of a paper machine. This integrated framework consists of process monitoring, input design and system identification techniques developed in collaboration with multiple colleagues. The goal of this work is to unify these efforts and exhibit the integrated functionality on an industrial paper machine simulator.
Academic Life and Motherhood: A Skillful Balancing Act
Creators: name: Delprete, Donna
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Applied linguistics
Motherhood
Universities and colleges--Graduate work
Degrees, Academic

description: When I began my doctoral studies in the fall of 2002, I found myself engaged in a difficult balancing act. If two children under the age of six, a husband, a part-time job, and aging parents were not enough to manage, adding serious graduate work to this already heavy load seemed impossible to handle. Initially, I was unsteady – losing my footing and balance on the thin beam upon which I walked each day. Around the same time, I also came across an aphorism that encouraged slow but steady work towards the realization of a goal. It read something like this: Plant one flower a year and in ten years you shall have a beautiful garden. I decided to make this one of my mantras. And so, I began to work slowly but consistently towards my doctorate, taking two or three courses per academic year (or planting a couple of flowers at a time). Over the years, my decision to limit my course load has kept me from falling off the balance beam of life and has thus enabled me to juggle my family and academic demands with a good degree of dexterity. In retrospect, any other route to my doctorate may have yielded either sloppy work or neglect in many aspects of my life.
title: Digital Crime Prevention Is Possible
Creators: name: Kennedy, Michael
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: Purpose & Objective of paper:

My objective of this research paper is to inform others about the importance of Cybercrime prevention. I shed light on the harsh reality of the internet. This allowed me to showcase efficient methods to protect them from trending digital crimes if they were to occur. Protecting individuals, businesses, and importantly financial losses from phishing, cyberbullying, and non-payment is my ultimate purpose of this paper.

Methods of research:

My methods of research ultimately relied on public resources and books. A major reason why I decided to take that path. None of my peers would have access to the platform if they have restricted access. They would not be able to fact check the information I shared. Also, I could have utilized more exclusive information but, that may not inspire one to explore if they believe vital data is not easily accessible. Lastly, I used credible sources and platforms to lead by example of reviewing who is behind each link.

Results:

I learned a ton from the research I conducted. This was an eye opener for me realizing that each user online may be a target at all times. Learning that nearly 60% of teenagers have experience cyberbullying is disheartening. Each attack method that I shared all occur at a high rate which we all have a chance of being a victim of unfortunately.

Conclusions:

I am confident that anyone who reads my research paper will gain a deeper understanding than they had before reading it. If not, they most likely will appreciate the reminder of protecting their data and online identity. The reader will learn: what to look out for, how to prevent the incident, who to contact if help is needed, and more.
A nonequilibrium Green's function study of thermoelectric properties in single-walled carbon nanotubes
Creators: name: Jiang, Jin-Wu
name: Wang, Jian-Sheng
name: Li, Baowen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The phonon and electron transport in single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNT) are investigated using the nonequilibrium Green's function approach. In zigzag SWCNT ($n$, 0) with $mod(n,3)\not=0$, the thermal conductance is mainly attributed to the phonon transport, while the electron only has few percentage contribution. The maximum value of the figure of merit ($ZT$) is about 0.2 in this type of SWCNT. The $ZT$ is considerably larger in narrower SWCNT because of enhanced Seebeck coefficient. $ZT$ is smaller in the armchair SWCNT, where Seebeck coefficient is small due to zero band gap. It is found that the cluster isotopic doping can reduce the phonon thermal conductance obviously and enhance the value of $ZT$. The uniaxial elongation and compress strain depresses phonons in whole frequency region, leading to the reduction of the phonon thermal conductance in whole temperature range. Interestingly, the elongation strain can affect the phonon transport more seriously than the compress strain, because the high frequency $G$ mode is completely filtered out under elongation strain $ε>0.05$. The strain also has important effect on the subband edges of the electron band structure by smoothing the steps in the electron transmission function. The $ZT$ is decreased by strain as the reduction in the electronic conductance overcomes the reduction in the thermal conductance.
description: 30 pages, 15 figs, accepted by J. Appli. Phys
East Is West
Creators: name: Dakin, Jee Wha
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Motherhood
Applied linguistics
Universities and colleges--Graduate work
Degrees, Academic

description: It’s pretty amazing, when you become a mom. You automatically become connected to other women who are moms, and you become more deeply connected to your own. It’s like a huge global club of members who are experiencing their kids’ (and their own) milestones, regardless of their time zone, culture, or language. Some ultimately graduate to become part of the grandmother club, and even fewer are lucky enough to become part of the great-grandmother club. When you are a mom and a doctoral student, to boot, you become part of a coterie of women who never surrender learning and growing. Balancing a personal life, making an adequate income, and maintaining a focus on studies has been a great challenge for me.

As I complete the first draft of my dissertation, and as I was asked to reflect on motherhood, one thought kept coming back to me again and again: Writing a dissertation is all about momentum; having a kid is all about interruptions.
Typhlodromina subtropica Muma 1969
Creators: name: Argolo, Poliane Sá
name: Vital Santos, Renata M.
name: Leão Bittencourt, Maria A.
name: Da Silva Noronha, Aloyséia C.
name: De Moraes, Gilberto J.
name: Oliveira, Anibal Ramadan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Mesostigmata
Phytoseiidae
Typhlodromina
Typhlodromina subtropica

description: Typhlodromina subtropica Muma & Denmark, 1969
 Typhlodromina subtropica Muma & Denmark, 1969: 412.
 Typhlodromina subtropica.––Moraes et al., 2004: 305; Chant & McMurtry, 2007: 169. Typhlodromina subtropicus.–– Moraes & McMurtry, 1983: 142.
 Records in Bahia: Typhlodromina subtropica.–– Fiaboe et al., 2007: 7; Lawson-Balagbo et al., 2008: 88; Nuvoloni et al., 2015: 261; Souza et al., 2015: 104; Typhlodromina subtropicus.–– Moraes & McMurtry, 1983: 142.
description: Published as part of Argolo, Poliane Sá, Vital Santos, Renata M., Leão Bittencourt, Maria A., Da Silva Noronha, Aloyséia C., De Moraes, Gilberto J. & Oliveira, Anibal Ramadan, 2017, Phytoseiid mites (Acari: Phytoseiidae) associated with tropical ornamental plants, with a checklist and a key to the species of Bahia, Brazil, pp. 345-364 in Zootaxa 4258 (4) on page 356, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4258.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/570106
Converse Lyapunov Theorems for Switched Systems in Banach and Hilbert Spaces
Creators: name: Hante, Falk
name: Sigalotti, Mario
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: We consider switched systems on Banach and Hilbert spaces governed by strongly continuous one-parameter semigroups of linear evolution operators. We provide necessary and sufficient conditions for their global exponential stability, uniform with respect to the switching signal, in terms of the existence of a Lyapunov function common to all modes.
Theirs, Mine, and Ours: On Being a Doctoral Student and a Mother
Creators: name: Box, Catherine DiFelice
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Applied linguistics
Motherhood
Degrees, Academic
Universities and colleges--Graduate work

description: This is a perfect moment to reflect on my life as a doctoral student and a mother, for never have these two roles dominated the many others I assume as they do now. In the two weeks since I was approached about writing on my experience as a parent and student, I have accomplished many tasks, for lack of a better term: laid out my plan for future doctoral classes and research, finished a book review, began the daunting search for kindergarten programs for my 4-year-old daughter, Océane, and gave birth to my second child, Samuel.At first glance, it seems that one could demarcate my professional work from my personal life— doctoral coursework, professors, research papers, and exams on one side, husband, children and preschool conferences on the other. If that were true, it would have been impossible for me to have survived the past two weeks. Instead, my doctoral work and my personal life intertwine so closely that one informs the other; indeed, one inspires the other. Balancing the two roles, in fact, makes me a better student and mother.
Nonlocal metric formulations of MOND with sufficient lensing
Creators: name: Deffayet, Cedric
name: Esposito-Farese, Gilles
name: Woodard, Richard P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate how to construct purely metric modifications of gravity which agree with general relativity in the weak field regime appropriate to the solar system, but which possess an ultra-weak field regime when the gravitational acceleration becomes comparable to $a_0 \sim 10^{-10} {\rm m/s}^2$. In this ultra-weak field regime, the models reproduce the MOND force without dark matter and also give enough gravitational lensing to be consistent with existing data. Our models are nonlocal and might conceivably derive from quantum corrections to the effective field equations.
description: 18 pages, uses Revtex4, revised for publication
High--frequency predictions for number counts and spectral properties of extragalactic radio sources. New evidences of a break at mm wavelengths in spectra of bright blazar sources
Creators: name: Tucci, M.
name: Toffolatti, L.
name: De Zotti, G.
name: Martinez-Gonzalez, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present models to predict high frequency counts of extragalactic radio sources using physically grounded recipes to describe the complex spectral behaviour of blazars, that dominate the mm-wave counts at bright flux densities. We show that simple power-law spectra are ruled out by high-frequency (nu>100 GHz) data. These data also strongly constrain models featuring the spectral breaks predicted by classical physical models for the synchrotron emission produced in jets of blazars (Blandford & Konigl 1979; Konigl 1981). A model dealing with blazars as a single population is, at best, only marginally consistent with data coming from current surveys at high radio frequencies. Our most successful model assumes different distributions of break frequencies, nu_M, for BL Lacs and Flat-Spectrum Radio Quasars (FSRQs). The former objects have substantially higher values of nu_M, implying that the synchrotron emission comes from more compact regions; therefore, a substantial increase of the BL Lac fraction at high radio frequencies and at bright flux densities is predicted. Remarkably, our best model is able to give a very good fit to all the observed data on number counts and on distributions of spectral indices of extragalactic radio sources at frequencies above 5 and up to 220 GHz. Predictions for the forthcoming sub-mm blazar counts from Planck, at the highest HFI frequencies, and from Herschel surveys are also presented.
description: 21 pages, 16 figures; Eq.B.2 and labels in few Figures corrected
Joule heating in nanowires
Creators: name: Fangohr, Hans
name: Chernyshenko, Dmitri S.
name: Franchin, Matteo
name: Fischbacher, Thomas
name: Meier, Guido
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effect of Joule heating from electric currents flowing through ferromagnetic nanowires on the temperature of the nanowires and on the temperature of the substrate on which the nanowires are grown. The spatial current density distribution, the associated heat generation, and diffusion of heat is simulated within the nanowire and the substrate. We study several different nanowire and constriction geometries as well as different substrates: (thin) silicon nitride membranes, (thick) silicon wafers, and (thick) diamond wafers. The spatially resolved increase in temperature as a function of time is computed. For effectively three-dimensional substrates (where the substrate thickness greatly exceeds the nanowire length), we identify three different regimes of heat propagation through the substrate: regime (i), where the nanowire temperature increases approximately logarithmically as a function of time. In this regime, the nanowire temperature is well-described analytically by You et al. [APL 89, 222513 (2006)]. We provide an analytical expression for the time t_c that marks the upper applicability limit of the You model. After t_c, the heat flow enters regime (ii), where the nanowire temperature stays constant while a hemispherical heat front carries the heat away from the wire and into the substrate. As the heat front reaches the boundary of the substrate, regime (iii) is entered where the nanowire and substrate temperature start to increase rapidly. For effectively two-dimensional substrates (where the nanowire length greatly exceeds the substrate thickness), there is only one regime in which the temperature increases logarithmically with time for large times, before the heat front reaches the substrate boundary. We provide an analytical expression, valid for all pulse durations, that allows one to accurately compute this temperature increase in the nanowire on thin substrates.
description: 14 pages, 7 figures
MIMO Gaussian State-Dependent Channels with a State-Cognitive Helper
Creators: name: Dikshtein, Michael
name: Duan, Ruchen
name: Liang, Yingbin
name: Shamai (Shitz), Shlomo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: Michael Dikshtein, Ruchen Duan, Yingbin Liang, Shlomo Shamai (Shitz) " MIMO Gaussian State-Dependent Channels with a State-Cognitive Helper, Entropy MDPI, (12 March 2019), The Special Issue Multiuser Information Theory II
A comparative assessment of access to healthcare between homeless bisexual young adult men and homeless gay young adult men in New York City
Creators: name: Gunness, Harlem J.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2019

description: Background: In recent years, attention to homeless lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) youth has grown.  Studies show that they are disproportionately homeless when compared to non-LGBTQ youth.  As a result of homelessness, they face unprecedented health disparities.  However, few studies have examined access to and utilization of healthcare by the LGBTQ youth, particularly among subgroups like homeless bisexual and gay youth.Purpose: The purpose of the study was to conduct a comparative assessment of access to healthcare and to compare access between homeless bisexual and homeless gay young adult men in New York City. Methods: The purposive sample of 30 subjects aged 18 and older was asked to answer a brief survey questionnaire and undergo semi-structured interviews.  Subjects were recruited from a drop-in homeless youth center in New York City. Content analysis methods and Andersen’s Behavioral Model of Health Services (of vulnerable population) theory were employed to critically analyze and investigate access to healthcare in this community.  Verbal informed consent was obtained.  Findings: Of the 30 participants, 56.6 % (17) were bisexual and 43.3% (13) gay.  Homeless bisexual young adult men had more physical and mental health problems than homeless young adult gay men.  Additionally, bisexual young adult men were disproportionately affected by barriers to healthcare than gay men.  Bisexuals used hospital emergency departments more frequently than gays alongside using fewer LGBTQ-specific healthcare services than gays.  The underlying structural barriers to healthcare between the two groups included the fragmentation of healthcare, interruptions in government benefits, lack of access to transportation, geographic concentration of healthcare services, and limitation in LGBTQ-homeless shelters.  Facilitators of healthcare included comprehensive medical care, provision of incentives (like food and transportation fare), rapport with healthcare providers, and social support.Conclusion: Accessing hospital ERs were found to be more frequent among bisexual men than gay men.  Conversely, more gay men accessed LGBTQ-specific healthcare services than bisexual men.  Bisexual men described more physical and mental/behavioral health disease burdens than their counterparts.   More largescale research is needed to examine the behavioral characteristics between the two groups, especially to investigate why they access healthcare services differently.
Spin down during quiescence of the fastest known accretion-powered pulsar
Creators: name: Papitto, A.
name: Riggio, A.
name: Burderi, L.
name: Di Salvo, T.
name: D'Aí, A.
name: Iaria, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a timing solution for the 598.89 Hz accreting millisecond pulsar, IGR J00291+5934, using Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer data taken during the two outbursts exhibited by the source on 2008 August and September. We estimate the neutron star spin frequency and we refine the system orbital solution. To achieve the highest possible accuracy in the measurement of the spin frequency variation experienced by the source in-between the 2008 August outburst and the last outburst exhibited in 2004, we re-analysed the latter considering the whole data set available. We find that the source spins down during quiescence at an average rate of νdot_{sd}=(-4.1 +/- 1.2)E-15 Hz/s. We discuss possible scenarios that can account for the long-term neutron star spin-down in terms of either magneto-dipole emission, emission of gravitational waves, and a propeller effect. If interpreted in terms of magneto-dipole emission, the measured spin down translates into an upper limit to the neutron star magnetic field, B<=3E+08 G, while an upper limit to the average neutron star mass quadrupole moment of Q<=2E+36 g cm^2 is set if the spin down is interpreted in terms of the emission of gravitational waves.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, version accepted by A&A on 20.1.2011