cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
British Columbia Legislative Assembly sessional clipping book (1970-03)
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: British Columbia. Legislative Assembly
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/600765
subject: Law
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/993678
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Politics and government
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919741

description: These Sessional Clippings books cover the period 1891 to 1972, and include newspaper accounts written by various legislative reporters who covered debates occurring in the British Columbia Legislative Assembly. Transcripts of debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard) were not published in B.C. until 1970; hence these "Sessional Clipping Books" augment the "Journals", the record of daily proceedings of the Legislative Assembly. Selected clippings from various newspapers including the Vancouver Sun, the Vancouver Province, the Colonist, and the Times newspapers, relating to the newspaper reports concerning activities of the Legislature. The original sessional clippings books comprise 351 ledger size print volumes, held at the Legislative Library in Victoria BC. The print volumes were microfilmed onto 26 reels in 1977 under a Tri University Libraries (TRIUL) project by Precision Micrographic Services (Vancouver, B.C.), with the permission of the Legislative Library, Victoria, British Columbia. This digital collection was created by scanning the 26 microfilm reels.
Exploring the isopycnal mixing and helium–heat paradoxes in a suite of Earth system models
Creators: name: Gnanadesikan, A.
name: Pradal, M.-A.
name: Abernathey, Ryan Patrick
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Baroclinicity
subject: Ocean circulation
subject: Oceanic mixing
subject: Oceanography
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: This paper uses a suite of Earth system models which simulate the distribution of He isotopes and radiocarbon to examine two paradoxes in Earth science, each of which results from an inconsistency between theoretically motivated global energy balances and direct observations. The helium–heat paradox refers to the fact that helium emissions to the deep ocean are far lower than would be expected given the rate of geothermal heating, since both are thought to be the result of radioactive decay in Earth's interior. The isopycnal mixing paradox comes from the fact that many theoretical parameterizations of the isopycnal mixing coefficient ARedi that link it to baroclinic instability project it to be small (of order a few hundred m² s⁻¹) in the ocean interior away from boundary currents. However, direct observations using tracers and floats (largely in the upper ocean) suggest that values of this coefficient are an order of magnitude higher. Helium isotopes equilibrate rapidly with the atmosphere and thus exhibit large gradients along isopycnals while radiocarbon equilibrates slowly and thus exhibits smaller gradients along isopycnals. Thus it might be thought that resolving the isopycnal mixing paradox in favor of the higher observational estimates of ARedi might also solve the helium paradox, by increasing the transport of mantle helium to the surface more than it would radiocarbon. In this paper we show that this is not the case. In a suite of models with different spatially constant and spatially varying values of ARedi the distribution of radiocarbon and helium isotopes is sensitive to the value of ARedi. However, away from strong helium sources in the southeastern Pacific, the relationship between the two is not sensitive, indicating that large-scale advection is the limiting process for removing helium and radiocarbon from the deep ocean. The helium isotopes, in turn, suggest a higher value of ARedi below the thermocline than is seen in theoretical parameterizations based on baroclinic growth rates. We argue that a key part of resolving the isopycnal mixing paradox is to abandon the idea that ARedi has a direct relationship to local baroclinic instability and to the so-called "thickness" mixing coefficient AGM.
Separation of neutral and charge modes in one dimensional chiral edge channels
Creators: name: Bocquillon, E.
name: Freulon, V.
name: Berroir, J. -M.
name: Degiovanni, P.
name: Plaçais, B.
name: Cavanna, A.
name: Jin, Y.
name: Fève, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Coulomb interactions have a major role in one-dimensional electronic transport. They modify the nature of the elementary excitations from Landau quasiparticles in higher dimensions to collective excitations in one dimension. Here we report the direct observation of the collective neutral and charge modes of the two chiral co-propagating edge channels of opposite spins of the quantum Hall effect at filling factor 2. Generating a charge density wave at frequency f in the outer channel, we measure the current induced by inter-channel Coulomb interaction in the inner channel after a 3-mm propagation length. Varying the driving frequency from 0.7 to 11 GHz, we observe damped oscillations in the induced current that result from the phase shift between the fast charge and slow neutral eigenmodes. We measure the dispersion relation and dissipation of the neutral mode from which we deduce quantitative information on the interaction range and parameters.
description: 23 pages, 6 figures
Arsenis T., Chatzopoulou E .(2020) The impact of Instagram Influencers on purchase intention and behavior , 8th International Conference on Contemporary Marketing Issues (ICCMI), double blind peer review , p235-242, 11-13 Sept. 2020
Creators: name: Arsenis, Thomas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150599 Marketing not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150502 Marketing Communications
subject: 150503 Marketing Management (incl. Strategy and Customer Relations)
subject: 150505 Marketing Research Methodology
subject: 150504 Marketing Measurement
subject: 150506 Marketing Theory

description: Social media emerged users who are characterized as opinion leaders due to their popularity. They cooperated with companies in order to promote products and services, in the context of companies’ marketing strategy. “Influencers” define the way of how possible is to reach audience or new customers in social media. This research investigates the impact of Instagram Influencers endorsements on user–consumers purchase intentions of Instagram social platform. More specifically,how the impact of Instagram Influencer endorsements and promotions on digital consumer behavior affects the way people trust,buy and imitize idols and how the social commerce shopping model rises up through the cooperation of Instagram Influencers with the Brands. This new marketing strategy seems to affect the way how companies understand their consumers needs. The survey is based on 250 Greek Instagram users who were from 18 to above 40 years old. The findings confirm the hypotheses that Influencers do affect the consumers in social media as long as the other variables that were measured. Finally, managerial implications are discussed, along with the interesting research opportunities arising from this work.
Global surface eddy diffusivities derived from satellite altimetry
Creators: name: Abernathey, Ryan Patrick
name: Marshall, J.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Eddies
subject: Oceanic mixing
subject: Diffusion
subject: Oceanography
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: [1] Velocities derived from AVISO sea-surface height observations, adjusted to be nondivergent, are used to simulate the evolution of passive tracers at the ocean surface. Eddy mixing rates are derived from the tracer fields in two ways. First, the method of Nakamura is applied to a sector in the East Pacific. Second, the Osborn-Cox diffusivity is calculated globally to yield estimates of diffusivity in two dimensions. The results from the East Pacific show weak meridional mixing at the surface in the Southern Ocean (&1000 m2 s−1, consistent with previous results) but higher mixing rates (~3000–5000 m2 s−1) in the tropical ocean. The Osborn-Cox diagnostic provides a global picture of mixing rates and agrees reasonably well with the results from the East Pacific. It also shows extremely high mixing rates (~104 m2 s−1) in western boundary current regions. The Osborn-Cox diffusivity is sensitive to the tracer initialization, which we attribute to the presence of anisotropic mixing processes. The mixing rates are strongly influenced by the presence of a mean flow nearly everywhere, as shown by comparison with an eddy-only calculation, with the mean flow absent. Finally, results are compared with other recent estimates of mixing rates using Lagrangian and inverse methods.
The impact of Instagram Influencers on purchase intention and behavior , 8th International Conference on Contemporary Marketing issues (ICCMI)
Creators: name: Arsenis, Thomas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150599 Marketing not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150502 Marketing Communications
subject: 150503 Marketing Management (incl. Strategy and Customer Relations)
subject: 150505 Marketing Research Methodology
subject: 150504 Marketing Measurement
subject: 150506 Marketing Theory

description: Social media emerged users who are characterized as opinion leaders due to their popularity. They cooperated with companies in order to promote products and services, in the context of companies’ marketing strategy. “Influencers” define the way of how possible is to reach audience or new customers in social media. This research investigates the impact of Instagram Influencers endorsements on user–consumers purchase intentions of Instagram social platform. More specifically,how the impact of Instagram Influencer endorsements and promotions on digital consumer behavior affects the way people trust,buy and imitize idols and how the social commerce shopping model rises up through the cooperation of Instagram Influencers with the Brands. This new marketing strategy seems to affect the way how companies understand their consumers needs. The survey is based on 250 Greek Instagram users who were from 18 to above 40 years old. The findings confirm the hypotheses that Influencers do affect the consumers in social media as long as the other variables that were measured. Finally, managerial implications are discussed, along with the interesting research opportunities arising from this work.
Quantization of systems with temporally varying discretization I: Evolving Hilbert spaces
Creators: name: Hoehn, Philipp A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A temporally varying discretization often features in discrete gravitational systems and appears in lattice field theory models subject to a coarse graining or refining dynamics. To better understand such discretization changing dynamics in the quantum theory, an according formalism for constrained variational discrete systems is constructed. While the present manuscript focuses on global evolution moves and, for simplicity, restricts to Euclidean configuration spaces, a companion article discusses local evolution moves. In order to link the covariant and canonical picture, the dynamics of the quantum states is generated by propagators which satisfy the canonical constraints and are constructed using the action and group averaging projectors. This projector formalism offers a systematic method for tracing and regularizing divergences in the resulting state sums. Non-trivial coarse graining evolution moves lead to non-unitary, and thus irreversible, projections of physical Hilbert spaces and Dirac observables such that these concepts become evolution move dependent on temporally varying discretizations. The formalism is illustrated in a toy model mimicking a `creation from nothing'. Subtleties arising when applying such a formalism to quantum gravity models are discussed.
description: 45 pages, 1 appendix, 6 figures (additional explanations, now matches published version)
Marketing with Influencers on Instagram -The case of Gymshark , International Journal of Academic Management Science Research (IJAMSR), Vol. 4 Issue 11, November - 2020,p86-89.
Creators: name: Arsenis, Thomas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150502 Marketing Communications
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150503 Marketing Management (incl. Strategy and Customer Relations)
subject: 150599 Marketing not elsewhere classified
subject: 150505 Marketing Research Methodology
subject: 150504 Marketing Measurement
subject: 150506 Marketing Theory

description: A large part of the retail industry focuses on sports. The sports community and the retail companies constitute a market that in the last years has attracted interest from marketing professionals and investors. It owns products and services created for the needs of sports. The purpose of this study is to explore the sports marketing strategy of a sportswear company, Gymshark.The presentation of the strategy implemented through the Instagram platform and the collaboration with the opinion makers of the sports field helped an individual retail startup to develop into a widely recognizable brand in less than a decade. This phenomenon is of great interest as it is directly related to the adoption of sports ideals in the context of corporate identity and social corporate responsibility in the field of the sports products industry. The conclusion of the case study shows that the strategy of promotion through the influence of sports Influencers had positive results for the successful course of the company
British Columbia Legislative Assembly sessional clipping book (1970-04)
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: British Columbia. Legislative Assembly
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/600765
subject: Politics and government
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919741
subject: Law
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/993678
subject: FOS: Law

description: These Sessional Clippings books cover the period 1891 to 1972, and include newspaper accounts written by various legislative reporters who covered debates occurring in the British Columbia Legislative Assembly. Transcripts of debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard) were not published in B.C. until 1970; hence these "Sessional Clipping Books" augment the "Journals", the record of daily proceedings of the Legislative Assembly. Selected clippings from various newspapers including the Vancouver Sun, the Vancouver Province, the Colonist, and the Times newspapers, relating to the newspaper reports concerning activities of the Legislature. The original sessional clippings books comprise 351 ledger size print volumes, held at the Legislative Library in Victoria BC. The print volumes were microfilmed onto 26 reels in 1977 under a Tri University Libraries (TRIUL) project by Precision Micrographic Services (Vancouver, B.C.), with the permission of the Legislative Library, Victoria, British Columbia. This digital collection was created by scanning the 26 microfilm reels.
How many is different? Answer from ideal Bose gas
Creators: name: Park, Jeong-Hyuck
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: How many $\mathrm{H_{2}O}$ molecules are needed to form water? While the precise answer is not known, it is clear that the answer should be a finite number rather than infinity. We revisit with care the ideal Bose gas confined in a cubic box which is discussed in most statistical physics textbooks. We show that the isobar of the ideal gas zigzags on the temperature-volume plane featuring a `boiling-like' discrete phase transition, provided the number of particles is equal to or greater than a particular value: 7616. This demonstrates for the first time how a finite system can feature a mathematical singularity and realize the notion of `Emergence', without resorting to the thermodynamic limit.
description: 4 pages and 2 figures. Prepared for a conference proceeding, IC-MSQUARE, Prague, Czech Republic, September 1-5, 2013
Enhancement of Mesoscale Eddy Stirring at Steering Levels in the Southern Ocean
Creators: name: Abernathey, Ryan Patrick
name: Marshall, John
name: Mazloff, Matt
name: Shuckburgh, Emily
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Diffusion
subject: Ocean currents
subject: Eddies
subject: Oceanography
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Meridional cross sections of effective diffusivity in the Southern Ocean are presented and discussed. The effective diffusivity, Keff, characterizes the rate at which mesoscale eddies stir properties on interior isopycnal surfaces and laterally at the sea surface. The distributions are obtained by monitoring the rate at which eddies stir an idealized tracer whose initial distribution varies monotonically across the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC). In the absence of observed maps of eddying currents in the interior ocean, the advecting velocity field is taken from an eddy-permitting state estimate of the Southern Ocean (SOSE). A three-dimensional advection–diffusion equation is solved and the diffusivity diagnosed by applying the Nakamura technique on both horizontal and isopycnal surfaces. The resulting meridional sections of Keff reveal intensified isopycnal eddy stirring (reaching values of ∼2000 m2 s−1) in a layer deep beneath the ACC but rising toward the surface on the equatorward flank. Lower effective diffusivity values (∼500 m2 s−1) are found near the surface where the mean flow of the ACC is strongest. It is argued that Keff is enhanced in the vicinity of the steering level of baroclinic waves, which is deep along the axis of the ACC but shallows on the equatorial flank. Values of Keff are also found to be spatially correlated with gradients of potential vorticity on isopycnal surfaces and are large where those gradients are weak and vice versa, as expected from simple dynamical arguments. Finally, implications of the spatial distributions of Keff for the dynamics of the ACC and its overturning circulation are discussed.
Superconductivity in Ba1-xKxTi2Sb2O (0 < x < 1) controlled by charge doping
Creators: name: Pachmayr, Ursula
name: Johrendt, Dirk
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The solid solution of antimonide-oxides Ba1-xKxTi2Sb2O (0 < x < 1) has been synthesized by solid-state reactions and characterized by X-ray powder diffraction (CeCr2Si2C-type structure; P4/mmm, Z = 1). The crystal structure consists of Ti2Sb2O-layers that are stacked with layers of barium atoms along the c-axis. BaTi2Sb2O is a known superconductor with a critical temperature (Tc) of 1.2 K. Substitution of barium through potassium raises Tc up to 6.1 K at 12 % potassium, while no superconductivity emerges with concentrations higher than 20 %. Anomalies in electrical transport and magnetic susceptibility indicate charge density wave (CDW) instabilities. The CDW transition temperatures (Ta) decrease from 50 K in the parent compound to 28 K at 10 % potassium substitution. No CDW transition was detected at higher concentrations, and no evidence for a reduction of the lattice symmetry below Ta was found. The lattice parameters vary linearly while the unit cell volume increases with higher potassium concentrations. The phase diagrams Tc(x) and Ta(x) of Ba1-xKxTi2Sb2O are remarkably similar to the known series Ba1-xNaxTi2Sb2O (0 < x < 0.33) in spite of the reverse volume effect. From this we conclude that the charge and not the volume determines the phase diagrams of these superconducting antimony oxides.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures
title: Report of the Technical Expert Workshop: Developing Recommendations for Field Response, Captive Management, and Rehabilitation of Sea Turtles with Fibropapillomatosis
Creators: name: Stacy, Brian A.
name: Foley, Allen M.
name: Work, Thierry M.
name: Lauritsen, Ann Marie
name: Schroeder, Barbara A.
name: Hargrove, Stacy K.
name: Keene, Jennifer L.
Publisher: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. Office of Protected Resources
Year: 2019

description: NOAA technical memorandum NMFS OPR	; 60
title: Barriers to Place-Related Actions in a Post-Communist Town. A Case Study of Targoviste, Romania
Creators: name: Georgescu, Anamaria
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2022

description: Our future is more uncertain than ever as a result of myriad environmental problems that require communal responses. In order to build resilient communities and to increase the effectiveness of planned changes to built environments, it is crucial to involve local communities throughout the decision-making processes. However, in Romania, the traditions of top-down governance from its communist period still hold sway among elected leaders - and, in some cases, its citizens. This is problematic because scholars have argued that top-down approaches to environment-related projects are more likely to fail than bottom-up initiatives that are more inclusive of community interests. This begs the question: How can we more meaningfully involve and empower the citizens in Romania? In order to help address that question, I examined four factors that might affect the place-related actions that individuals are willing to take in the post-communist state of Romania: the amount of social capital a place has (Predescu 2020; Lewicka 2005), the quality of participation infrastructure available to the place (Nabatchi and Leighninger 2015), the levels of trust in local authorities at that place (Badescu and Uslaner 2004), and the perceived levels of political efficacy they have (Manzo and Perkins 2006).
Using Photovoice methodology, I heard from 22 individuals who feel a connection with the town of Targoviste, Romania about their experience with place-related actions in Targoviste and how historical traditions and legacies from communist times have constrained their ability to be involved in place-related decision-making actions. The results illustrate that the lack of participation infrastructure, the low quality of social capital, the lack of trust in the local authorities, and the feelings of low political efficacy were identified by highly-attached study participants as major barriers to taking place-related actions in the town of Targoviste, Romania. Participants expressed a desire to have a more meaningful role in decision-making processes related to the town’s-built environment, and contended that involving the community in such processes would benefit the overall quality of life in the community.
Melursus Meyer 1793
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Ursidae
Melursus

description: Melursus Meyer, 1793. Zool. Entdeck., p. 155. COMMENT: See comment under Helarctos. Melursus was considered a subgenus of Ursus by Hall, 1981:947, and a distinct genus by Corbet and Hill, 1980:94. ISIS NUMBER: 5301412002003000000.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, pp. 244-289 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 251, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980
description: {"references": ["Hall, E. R. 1981. The mammals of North America. Second ed. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1: 1 - 600 + 90, 2: 601 - 1181 + 90.", "Corbet, G. B., and J. E. Hill. 1980. A world list of mammalian species. British Museum (Natural History), London, 226 pp."]}
Mass of the $b$ Quark from QCD Sum Rules for $f_{B_{(s)}}$
Creators: name: Lucha, Wolfgang
name: Melikhov, Dmitri
name: Simula, Silvano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate that Borel QCD sum rules for heavy-light currents entail a very strong correlation between the $b$-quark mass $m_b$ and the $B$-meson decay constant $f_B,$ that is, $δf_B/f_B\approx-8δm_b/m_b.$ By starting from $f_B$ as input, this observation allows for an accurate sum-rule determination of $m_b.$ Employing precise lattice QCD results for $f_B$ in our sum-rule study based on the three-loop $O(α_s^2)$ heavy-light correlation function implies $\bar{m}_b(\bar{m}_b)=(4.247\pm0.034)$ GeV for the $b$-quark $\bar{\rm MS}$ mass.
description: 7 pages, 1 figure, talk presented at the European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics - EPS-HEP2013, 18-24 July 2013, Stockholm, Sweden
Wind Tunnel Tests on the Effect of Power on the Stability of a Low Wing Monoplane with Three Vertical Positions of Horizontal Tail Surfaces
Creators: name: Bolster, Calvin Mathews
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1936
Subjects: Aeronautical Engineering
Aeronautics

description: A great majority of present day airplanes are of the low wing cantilever type.  An investigation into the effect of power and vertical location of the horizontal tail surfaces on the longitudinal static stability of such airplanes is therefore of interest.

The present investigation was carried out on a one-sixth scale model of a low wing single engine tractor monoplane.  The results are probably most directly applicable to airplanes of this type.  However, the tendencies and general effects should also be fairly indicative of what may be expected in multiple engine low wing monoplanes of conventional design.
Reconsidering the Measurement of Pragmatic Knowledge Using a Reciprocal Written Task Format
Creators: name: Cook Grabowski, Kirby
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2007
Subjects: Language and languages--Ability testing
Applied linguistics--Research
Pragmatics
Education
English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers

description: Current influential models of communicative language ability (Bachman & Palmer, 1996; Purpura, 2004) represent language knowledge as a set of separate yet related components, including grammatical and pragmatic dimensions, which interact with background knowledge, metacognitive strategies, and contextual features (Chapelle, 1998) in language use. Although some researchers have attempted to measure aspects of pragmatic knowledge, the vast majority have not incorporated a clearly articulated pragmatic component into the test construct. The purpose of the current study is to investigate the extent to which scores from a test designed for the current study can be interpreted as indicators of test-takers’ grammatical and pragmatic ability. This study attempts to address some of the limitations of prior pragmatics assessment research, namely, the issues of construct underrepresentation, the lack of highly contextually constrained reciprocal tasks, and the use of less sophisticated statistical tools to support claims of validity. This paper examines the construct validity of a test based on Purpura’s (2004) theoretical model, which specifies the grammatical and pragmatic (sociolinguistic, sociocultural, and psychological) components of language knowledge. This model accounts for the way in which grammatical resources are used to convey a range of pragmatic meanings in language use. The analysis explored a broader range of features of pragmatic knowledge than had previously been investigated.
Face Saving and Conflicting Frames: An Analysis of Interaction between Native and Nonnative ESL Teachers
Creators: name: Turnbull, Antonieta
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2006
Subjects: Conversation analysis
Miscommunication
English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers
Education

description: This study presents the analysis of a workplace interaction between two nonnative English as a second language teachers and one native-English as a second language teacher. The aim of the study is to investigate how frames, alignment and footing are signaled in this work related conversation and to analyze the role of face saving in the appearance of conflicting frames. In addition, this study aims to contribute to the research that has been conducted in both institutional and noninstitutional settings where professionals of different language and cultural backgrounds happen to interact. Analysis of conversation between native and nonnative speakers of English seems to provide evidence that different use of contextualization cues can lead to misunderstanding (Gumperz, 1982; Gumperz, Jupps & Roberts, 1979; Roberts, Davies & Jupp, 1992). However, when conversation takes place between native and nonnative teachers of English as a second language (NES teachers and NNES teachers) other issues besides misunderstanding may arise. One of these issues can be the active involvement of the participants to save one’s or the other’s face, which can create conflicting frames during the interaction.
title: Pre-agricultural Soil Erosion Rates in the Midwestern U.S.
Creators: name: Lauth Quarrier, Caroline
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2022

description: Soil erosion undermines agricultural productivity, limiting the lifespan of civilizations. For agriculture to be sustainable, soil erosion rates must be low enough to maintain fertile soil, as was present in many agricultural landscapes prior to the initiation of farming. However, there have been few measurements of long-term pre-agricultural erosion rates in major agricultural landscapes. We quantified geological erosion rates in the Midwestern U.S., one of the world’s most productive agricultural areas. We sampled soil profiles from 14 native prairies and measured concentrations of the cosmogenic nuclide 10Be and chemically immobile elements to calculate physical erosion rates. We used the erosion rates and measurements of topographic curvature to estimate a pre- agricultural topographic diffusion coefficient. We find pre-agricultural erosion rates of 0.0001–0.1 mm yr-1 and a site-averaged diffusion coefficient of 0.005 m2 yr-1. The pre- agricultural erosion rates and diffusion coefficient we measured are both orders of magnitude lower than anthropogenic values previously measured in adjacent agricultural fields. The pre-agricultural erosion rates are one to four orders of magnitude lower than the 1 mm yr-1 soil loss tolerance value assigned to these locations by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Hence, as currently defined, tolerable soil loss will lead to unsustainable erosion of Midwestern soils. However, quantifying natural erosion rates via cosmogenic nuclides provides a means for more robustly defining rates of tolerable soil loss and developing management guidelines that promote soil sustainability.
Entwurf aller Gegenstände, welche Milo Kriegseis, Prämonstratenser Chorherrn aus dem Stifte Schäftlarn den Schülern der ersten Grammatik in dem churfürstl. Schulhause zu Landshut bisher erkläret, und zur öffentlichen Prüfung vorgeleget hat den Brachmonat 1783; [1783]
Creators: name: Kriegseis, Milo
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2011

description: In Fraktur
title: Measuring Accessibility to Food Services to Improve Public Health
Creators: name: Kostopoulou, Efthymia
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2022

description: Food accessibility has lately been of primary interest given its impact on public health outcomes. This thesis illustrates the gaps in food access by applying spatial analysis in Massachusetts accounting for a variety of demographic and socioeconomic factors. The number of grocery stores, farmers markets, and convenience stores within 1/4 and 1 mile of the Census tracts’ centroids are the two accessibility metrics used in the spatial analysis. In addition, a regression model is developed using the Gradient Boosting machine learning method to show the relationship between the socioeconomic factors and the number of grocery stores within 1 mile of the Census tracts’ centroids. Percent of minority population, population in poverty, vehicle ownership, and population density are the factors used as explanatory variables. The results include histograms and maps for the spatial analysis, which show that access to food services is higher in urban high-density areas regardless of high poverty and minority percent values. The regression model results include partial dependence plots, variable importance plot as well as a map that illustrates the standard deviation of the residual values. This research can inform that when the vehicle ownership, the minority and poverty percent increase, the number of grocery stores increases, as these values are high in big cities where there is high availability of food retailers.
The Acquisition of Grammatical Marking of Indefiniteness with the Indefinite Article a in L2 English
Creators: name: Ekiert, Monika
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2007
Subjects: Interlanguage (Language learning)
English language--Article
English language--Grammar--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers
Education
English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers

description: The article system is a notorious source of difficulty for second language (L2) learners of English, largely because it is based on a complex set of abstract distinctions which are, to some extent, arbitrarily mapped onto surface forms (a, the, and zero). This difficulty is only compounded when learners’ first languages (L1s) do not share the same surface features and/or the same semantic conceptualizations with the target language (TL). This study is about the acquisition of grammatical marking of indefiniteness in L2 English as exemplified by a learner’s use of the indefinite article a. The ways in which L2 acquirers manage to make sense of English articles and even the cases when they do not offer fascinating insights into learners’ cognition (Young, 1996). The specific focus of this study is on whether differences in the grammatical treatment of indefiniteness in L1 and L2 correspond with detectable and systematic differences in interlanguage (Selinker, 1972).
Arsenis Thomas. (2020) Marketing with Influencers on Instagram -The case of Gymshark , International Journal of Academic Management Science Research (IJAMSR), Vol. 4 Issue 11, November - 2020,p86-89.
Creators: name: Arsenis, Thomas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150502 Marketing Communications
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150503 Marketing Management (incl. Strategy and Customer Relations)
subject: 150599 Marketing not elsewhere classified
subject: 150505 Marketing Research Methodology
subject: 150504 Marketing Measurement
subject: 150506 Marketing Theory

description: A large part of the retail industry focuses on sports. The sports community and the retail companies constitute a market that in the last years has attracted interest from marketing professionals and investors. It owns products and services created for the needs of sports. The purpose of this study is to explore the sports marketing strategy of a sportswear company, Gymshark.The presentation of the strategy implemented through the Instagram platform and the collaboration with the opinion makers of the sports field helped an individual retail startup to develop into a widely recognizable brand in less than a decade. This phenomenon is of great interest as it is directly related to the adoption of sports ideals in the context of corporate identity and social corporate responsibility in the field of the sports products industry. The conclusion of the case study shows that the strategy of promotion through the influence of sports Influencers had positive results for the successful course of the company
title: The Influence of Cover Crop Termination Strategies and Supplemental Nitrogen on Sweet Corn Yield and Nitrogen Use Efficiency
Creators: name: Sunuwar, Sachina
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2022

description: Cover crops are instrumental in nutrient management and soil health. A field experiment was conducted from fall 2020 to summer 2021 to evaluate the efficiency of different cover crop termination techniques and supplemental nitrogen on sweet corn yield, ear quality and nitrogen use efficiency. The four termination types are herbicide and disk tillage (HDT), herbicide no-till (HNT), cultivation disk till (CDT), and roller crimped no-till (RCNT). These termination types were each divided into four different nitrogen treatment: 0%, 33%, 67% and 100% of the recommended doses (145 kg haˉ¹). Sweet corn yield was highest and % unfilled tip was lowest when cover crops terminated by CDT, followed by RCNT, HNT and HDT. The highest ear weight obtained when 100% of the recommended nitrogen rate was applied to the sweet corn. However, the highest nitrogen use efficiency was obtained when 67% of the recommended nitrogen application rate was used.
Cosmology of F(R) nonlinear massive gravity
Creators: name: Cai, Yi-Fu
name: Saridakis, Emmanuel N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The theory of nonlinear massive gravity can be extended into the F(R) form as developed in Phys.Rev.D90, 064051 (2014). Being free of the Boulware-Deser ghost, such a construction has the additional advantage of exhibiting no linear instabilities around a cosmological background. We investigate various cosmological evolutions of a universe governed by this generalized massive gravitational theory. Specifically, under the Starobinsky ansantz, this model provides a unified description of the cosmological history, from early-time inflation to late-time self-acceleration. Moreover, under viable F(R) forms, the scenario leads to a very interesting dark-energy phenomenology, including the realization of the quintom scenario without any pathology. Finally, we provide a detailed analysis of the cosmological perturbations at linear order, as well as the Hamiltonian constraint analysis, in order to examine the physical degrees of freedom.
description: 15 pages, 6 figures, version published in Phys. Rev. D
British Columbia Legislative Assembly sessional clipping book (1970-05)
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: British Columbia. Legislative Assembly
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/600765
subject: Politics and government
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919741
subject: Law
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/993678
subject: FOS: Law

description: These Sessional Clippings books cover the period 1891 to 1972, and include newspaper accounts written by various legislative reporters who covered debates occurring in the British Columbia Legislative Assembly. Transcripts of debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard) were not published in B.C. until 1970; hence these "Sessional Clipping Books" augment the "Journals", the record of daily proceedings of the Legislative Assembly. Selected clippings from various newspapers including the Vancouver Sun, the Vancouver Province, the Colonist, and the Times newspapers, relating to the newspaper reports concerning activities of the Legislature. The original sessional clippings books comprise 351 ledger size print volumes, held at the Legislative Library in Victoria BC. The print volumes were microfilmed onto 26 reels in 1977 under a Tri University Libraries (TRIUL) project by Precision Micrographic Services (Vancouver, B.C.), with the permission of the Legislative Library, Victoria, British Columbia. This digital collection was created by scanning the 26 microfilm reels.
An Emerging Area in Second Language Phonology: The Perception of English Vowels by Adult Second Language Learners
Creators: name: Matsubara, Juri
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2006
Subjects: English language--Phonology
English language--Vowels
Second language acquisition
Education
English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers

description: Although the field of second language acquisition (SLA) has largely advanced over the last few decades, the area of second language (L2) phonology has not been a focus of many studies. Major (1998) found that “of the nearly 200 articles published in Studies in SLA [from 1988 to 1998], only about a dozen focused on phonetics and phonology” (p. 131). Since then, the area has largely expanded, as discussed in Eckman (2004), evolving from studies that cited first language (L1) influence as a main explanation for L2 phonology to research that has turned to universal principles driven by Universal Grammar (UG). Several crosslinguistic speech perception models have been developed as well, and many empirical studies have been undertaken to yield support. One of the most fertile domains for the investigation of L2 phonology has been the syllable (Eckman, 2004, p. 527). However, most of the studies have concentrated on the onset or the coda, while there is much yet to be explored for the acquisition of the nucleus of the syllable – the vowel. This paper is a literature review of the emerging area of L2 phonology, focusing on the perception of English vowels by adult L2 learners. First, the background will be presented by describing several theoretical models for L2 speech perception. A detailed description of empirical studies that seek to support these models will follow. Next, this paper will explore whether or not these models are compatible with each other and if they could be consolidated into one. Finally, the future direction of L2 phonology will be discussed.
Detection of copy-move forgery in digital images based on DCT
Creators: name: Wandji, Nathalie Diane
name: Xingming, Sun
name: Kue, Moise Fah
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With rapid advances in digital information processing systems, and more specifically in digital image processing software, there is a widespread development of advanced tools and techniques for digital image forgery. One of the techniques most commonly used is the Copy-move forgery which proceeds by copying a part of an image and pasting it into the same image, in order to maliciously hide an object or a region. In this paper, we propose a method to detect this specific kind of counterfeit. Firstly, the color image is converted from RGB color space to YCbCr color space and then the R, G, B and Y-component are splitted into fixed-size overlapping blocks and, features are extracted from the R, G and B-components image blocks on one hand and on the other, from the DCT representation of the R, G, B and Ycomponent image block. The feature vectors obtained are then lexicographically sorted to make similar image blocks neighbors and duplicated image blocks are identified using Euclidean distance as similarity criterion. Experimental results showed that the proposed method can detect the duplicated regions when there is more than one copy move forged area in the image and even in case of slight rotations, JPEG compression, shift, scale, blur and noise addition.
description: Published in IJCSI (International Journal of Computer Science Issues), Volume 10, Issue 2, No 1, March 2013
title: Preterm Birth and Subsequent Risk of Type 2 Diabetes Among Postmenopausal Women in the Women’s Health Initiative
Creators: name: Holman-Vittone, Aaron
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2022

description: Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is increasing in the United States, currently affecting 11.3% of the nation. The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease Hypothesis suggests that environmental stresses in utero and in early stages of life, such as preterm birth (age), can lead to development of adulthood diseases, including T2D. However, research on the association between preterm birth and T2D is sparse and predominantly based on European ancestry populations. We examined this association in postmenopausal women (N = 85,356) from the Women’s Health Initiative, a nationwide prospective cohort. Logistic regression models were used to examine the association between self-reported preterm birth and T2D status, adjusting for demographic and lifestyle covariates. Preterm birth was significantly and positively associated with odds of T2D at baseline (unadjusted: OR=1.51, 95% CI 1.24, 1.83; P
Second Language Acquisition and Synchronous Computer Mediated Communication
Creators: name: Kawase, Ayako
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2006
Subjects: Telematics
Second language acquisition--Computer-assisted instruction
Education
Language and languages--Study and teaching

description: Before personal computers became popular, social scientists had discussed the potential effects of new forms of computer-mediated communication (CMC) on society. Hiltz and Turoff (1978) claimed that computerized conferencing would exert a dramatic psychological and sociological influence on various types of group communication in the future. They correctly predicted that computers and the Internet have become a necessity for daily life, and they have greatly changed our lives during just the last decade or so. Computers play a significant role in teaching and learning today. The use of computers in the classroom is becoming ever more popular in first language (L1) acquisition settings and in content-based classrooms. While computers are not seen as a substitute for the teacher, they are considered a new medium that has profoundly changed the ways in which we write, read, and in some cases, even the way we think (Selfe, 1989). Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) has received a great deal of attention in the field of second language acquisition (SLA), and every year an increasing number of teachers are using computers in their second language (L2) and foreign language classrooms.
Bad Language: Are Some Words Better than Others?
Creators: name: Glasgow, Gregory P.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Language and languages--Variation
subject: Sociolinguistics
subject: Education
subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Many individuals have experienced situations in which the way they spoke or wrote may have been subject to varying degrees of correction, scorn, disdain, or even ridicule. The exploration of what makes language “bad” – that is, deviant in the eyes of some – is Battistella’s main focus in Bad Language: Are Some Words Better than Others?, as he engages in a closely reasoned discussion about how some forms of language varieties have come to be characterized as ethnic, provincial, convoluted, or immoral. Battistella calls for a more relative and descriptive way of viewing so-called deviant language. Additionally, the author endeavors to alter language attitudes, calling instead for a culture of engagement with such varieties rather than, as he puts it, a standoff between traditionalism versus nihilism.