cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Search for Technicolor with DELPHI
Creators: name: The DELPHI Collaboration
name: Abdallah, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Technicolor represents a viable alternative to the Higgs mechanism for generating gauge boson masses. Searches for technicolor particles rho_T and pi_T have been performed in the data collected by the DELPHI experiment at LEP at centre-of-mass energies between 192 and 208 GeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 452 pb^{-1}. Good agreement is observed with the SM expectation in all channels studied. This is translated into an excluded region in the (M_{pi_T},M_{rho_T}) plane. The rho_T production is excluded for all 90 < M_{rho_T} < 206.7 GeV/c^2. Assuming a point-like interaction of the pi_T with gauge bosons, an absolute lower limit on the charged pi_T mass at 95% CL is set at 79.8 GeV/c^2, independently of other parameters of the technicolor model.
description: 28 pages, 13 figures, Accepted by Eur. Phys. J. C
QUANTIFYING CONSUMERS’ PERCEPTIONS OF LEAN FINELY TEXTURED BEEF
Creators: name: McKendree, Melissa G.S.
name: Widmar, David
name: Widmar, Nicole
name: McKendree, Melissa G.S.
name: Widmar, David
name: Widmar, Nicole
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: beef
subject: consumer perceptions
subject: lean finely textured beef
subject: meat
subject: media
subject: pink slime

description: Consumers today are increasingly interested in how their food is produced, especially meat and livestock products. The media sources consumers use for information on food production and safety are changing, as evidenced by the lean finely textured beef (LFTB) event in the spring of 2012. Social media and online availability of information are changing not only the mode of communication, but rapidly increasing the speed of information and knowledge exchange. The objectives of this analysis are to quantify the media stories surrounding LFTB and to characterize consumers’ concern, knowledge and purchasing behavior about LFTB. Media counts were constructed using the LexisNexis Academic Database using “All News English” and “Major World Publications” sources. The main peaks in the number of media stories occurred the week of March 25th, two weeks after the airing of an ABC News story that was widely viewed to have been at the forefront of the LFTB debate in 2012. However, LFTB stories continued beyond March 2012 and were still being published throughout the entire period analyzed. Of the eight topics investigated, consumer and government were the most discussed topics in conjunction with LFTB. LFTB producers and meat processors topics lagged behind other topics, potentially indicating a reactive approach by these groups. In order to better understand consumers’ concerns, knowledge and perceptions of LFTB a survey was conducted; most participants had heard of “pink slime” (the name used in the media for LFTB) while only about one-third had heard of LFTB. Only 11% of participants indicated they had purchased LFTB in the past six months, however, 80% reported purchasing ground beef in the past six months, leading to questions surrounding consumers linking LFTB to ground beef. Most participants were not willing to purchase LFTB in the future.
Research Title: Impact of Covid-19 on the Somalian Remittances and the Economy of Somalia
Creators: name: Iidle, Abdikhadar Alimire
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Covid-19
Somalia Remittances
Economy of Somalia

description: Abstract

The Somalian economy was developing before the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic, having recovered from the 2016–2017 famines. In line with population growth, the economy increased at an estimated rate of 2.9% in 2019 and was expected to grow by 3.2% in 2020. The economic recovery of Somalia has been stopped by the Covid-19 pandemic. The economy would be impacted by a combination of supply and demand shortages as a result of the crisis, which would have a major negative impact on real GDP growth of Somalia in 2020. Lockdowns have affected imports of capital and food items from Somalia's business partners (mostly China, the UAE, India, Turkey and Oman), while Saudi Arabia's export bans and cancellation of the 2020 Hajj have reduced demand for exports (mostly livestock animals); and the global recession, travel restrictions and flight suspensions have decreased the remittance flows into Somalia. Their economy, which is mostly determined by the private sector, is at threat to increasing business risks, disturbances in supply chains, a decline in project capital inflows, decrease in access to financing and shortages of important raw materials. According to predictions, the epidemic will cause the economy to decline in 2020, increase financial pressures and make poverty worsen. In 2020, it is anticipated that the economy would reduce by 2.5%. Household income is being affected by a strike in economic activity, a decline in remittances, a fall in exports, and the government-ordered closing of airports and companies to stop the rapid spread of coronavirus. With supply shortages, household consumption will fall significantly and quickly. In an economy that depends on imports even for food supplies, panic buying at the start of pandemic has reduced. After the first confirmed case of Covid-19 in mid-March 2020, Somalian government took unexpected action of closing down the borders, closing schools, restricting travel and flights and banning the majority of group gatherings. The pandemic's consequent effects in Somalia, though, remained indefinite. In order to examine how some of the most weak and internally displaced host populations were affected by Covid-19, what determined their responses and how this has influenced their health and socio-economic vulnerability, this research will use a new remote qualitative research method in a conflict-affected situation.
An integrated approach for modelling the impacts of land and water resource use in the Dak Lak plateau, Viet Nam
Creators: name: Cheesman, Jeremy
name: Bennett, Jeffrey W.
name: Cheesman, Jeremy
name: Bennett, Jeffrey W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Hydro-economic modelling
subject: environmental-economic modelling
subject: land use
subject: crop water production functions
subject: choice modelling
subject: contingent valuation

description: This paper describes an integrated approach developed to model the physical and related social welfare impacts of alternative water allocations in the Dak Lak plateau, Viet Nam. A physically based, distributed and integrated model of the plateau’s surface and groundwater resources has been developed. This model distributively links hydrodynamics and water use decisions, in particular how the plateau’s hydrology responds to different spatial configurations of cropping patterns, crop water allocations and urban water use. The outputs of this model will be compartmentally linked to economic modelling work in order to simulate distributive welfare outcomes resulting from different water allocation decisions over the short to medium term. The welfare impacts of alternative water allocations are being assessed for three “goods” – agricultural production, urban and environmental – using both revealed and stated preference approaches. This paper is a progress report on this modelling effort, detailing the objectives, approach and integration methodology and including discussion of some results to date.
To Defend or not to Defend--the Low Glorifier's Question: the Relationship between Low Glorifiers' Defensiveness of Ingroup-Perpetrated Harm and the Tangibility of Intergroup Conflict
Creators: name: McLamore, Quinnehtukqut
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2019

description: Members of groups in conflict are often defensive of ingroup-perpetrated violence, especially if they glorify their ingroup. While past literature has established that high glorifiers are unconditionally defensive of their ingroup, findings regarding low glorifiers are mixed, with some studies finding low glorifiers to be similarly defensive as high glorifiers and others finding low glorifiers to not be defensive or even critical of the ingroup. Across six studies, I investigated whether perceiving a conflict to be tangible (rather than intangible) drives defensiveness among low glorifiers. I tested this hypothesis across two national contexts that were naturally closer (Israel) or farther (the U.S.) from the same conflict (the Syrian conflict). I found that Israeli low glorifiers were defensive of their ingroup, whereas American low glorifiers were not (Studies 1a/1b) and that Israelis found the conflict tangible, whereas Americans found the conflict relatively intangible (Studies 2a/2b). Across Study 3 and Study 4, I found experimental evidence that low glorifiers in Serbia (study 3) and the U.S. (study 4) are more defensive of ingroup-perpetrated violence when the conflict context is tangible than when it is relatively intangible.
Interpreting Access: A History of Accessibility and Disability Representations in the National Park Service
Creators: name: Meldon, Perri
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2019

description: This thesis illustrates the accomplishments and challenges of enhancing accessibility across the national parks, at the same time that great need to diversify the parks and their interpretation of American disability history remains. Chapters describe the administrative history of the NPS Accessibility Program (1979-present), exploring the decisions from both within and outside the federal agency, to break physical and programmatic barriers to make parks more inclusive for people with sensory, physical, and cognitive disabilities; and provide a case study of the Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site (HOFR) in New York. The case study describes the creation of HOFR as a house museum and national historic site, with a particular focus on the history of the site’s accessibility features; considers existing barriers; and makes recommendations for programmatic changes to improve the experience for disabled and nondisabled visitors. By collaborating with and learning from nearby organizations by and for people with disabilities, HOFR can serve as a model for other historic house museums in how to effectively interpret “disability stories.” Contemplating how the National Park Service has interpreted the histories and heritage of other historically marginalized communities through theme studies, on-site interpretation, and public history scholarship yields lessons for how best to interpret disability history and depict nuanced representations of the varied disability communities living in the U.S. The inclusion of “disability stories” and representation of people with disabilities in the past will help foster deeper connections with and welcome diverse visitors to the parks.
"Das Bewusstsein, dass eine Seelsorgerin im Haus präsent ist, verändert etwas": Entwicklungsperspektiven für die Seelsorge im Pflegeheim, aufgezeigt am Beispiel des Pflegeheims Steinhof, Luzern
Creators: name: Birbaumer, Edith
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015

description: Keine Beschreibung.
description: + Code Diss LU: hslusa mas aug + Fussnote: Master-Arbeit MAS of Advanced Studies in Alter und Gesellschaft, Hochschule Luzern - Soziale Arbeit und Wirtschaft, 2015
The Use of Social Media in Diplomacy: An Exploration of its Efficacy and Challenges.
Creators: name: Mohamed, Mustaf Mohamed
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: social media in Diplomacy
subject: social media
subject: Social Media

description: ABSTRACT

 The purpose of this study is to explore The Use of social media in Diplomacy: An Exploration of its Efficacy and Challenges in Mogadishu Somalia. The overall aim of this study is guided by the very important objectives: To find out the efficiency of the use of Social Media on Somalia diplomat in Mogadishu Somalia. To identify the challenge of disinformation in Social Media on Somalia’s diplomatic stability in Mogadishu, Somalia. To investigate the challenge of maintaining diplomatic protocols on Somalia’s strong Diplomatic ties with the world, in Mogadishu Somalia. The study was conducted from June 2023 to December 2023. This research was used descriptive design, through questionnaire design to describe the characteristics and correlation to measure central tendency of matters of the questionnaire. The total number of population in the study was employed 100 intellectual in the Mogadishu City as a case study since the time and cost could not allow accessing all the media sectors in the City of Mogadishu. 80 participants of sample size of different gender who have been selected from the population departments within the sectors of this scope in Mogadishu. These participants have been chosen according to the possibility of getting accurate and reliable information. The sampling procedure of this study was non-probability sampling especially purposive sampling to conduct the research, and also to consider the significance of research reality. This research study was collected primarily data using questionnaires. In this study quantitative data analysis was used. The analysis was carried out with the use of help Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS version 20), that was measured the use of in Mogadishu, Benadir, Somalia. The major findings that supported the argument include the objectives and even the dependent variable of the study. For instance the questions of the first objective generally result a common concept of that the Exploring the Effectiveness and Obstacles of Social Media in Diplomacy in Mogadishu, Somalia. The study also recommends to the social networks management providers to control their account users in order to promote the diplomatic secure and satisfaction and political relations’ performance. Networks management should also research the regulations needed and make best possible of diplomatic professionalism.
Holographic Complexity: Stretching the Horizon of an Evaporating Black Hole
Creators: name: Schneiderbauer, Lukas
name: Sybesma, Watse
name: Thorlacius, Lárus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We obtain the holographic complexity of an evaporating black hole in the semi-classical RST model of two-dimensional dilaton gravity, using a volume prescription that takes into account the higher-dimensional origin of the model. For classical black holes, we recover the expected late time behaviour of the complexity, but new features arise at the semi-classical level. By considering the volume inside the stretched horizon of the evolving black hole, we obtain sensible results for the rate of growth of the complexity, with an early onset of order the black hole scrambling time followed by an extended period where the rate of growth tracks the shrinking area of the stretched horizon as the black hole evaporates.
description: 14 pages including 10 figures
A new species of Hemitriccus tody-tyrant from the state of Acre, Brazil. In: Handbook of the Birds of the World. Special volume: new species and global index [J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott e D. Christie, eds.]. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona, Spain, pp. 292–296
Creators: name: Zimmer, Kevin J.
name: Whittaker, Andrew
name: Sardelli, Carla Haisler
name: Guilherme, Edson
name: Aleixo, Alexandre
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Hemitriccus, new species, taxonomy

description: Description of Hemitriccus cohnhafti.
Integrating Motivational Interviewing with CBT for Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Direct and Indirect Effects on Interpersonal Outcomes
Creators: name: Muir, Heather
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2019

description: Aim: A randomized clinical trial demonstrated that responsively adding motivational interviewing (MI) to cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) outperformed CBT alone on long-term worry reduction (Westra et al., 2016). Consistent with MI’s additive aim, this effect was mediated by less patient midtreatment resistance in the integrative treatment (Constantino et al., 2019). Insofar as GAD is marked by interpersonal styles of excessive nonassertiveness and over accommodation, I tested here whether MI-CBT also outperformed CBT, across acute treatment and long-term follow up, on reducing these characteristic interpersonal problems. Moreover, as patient resistance is an interpersonal event for which person-centered MI should, according to theory, be more helpful than directive CBT, I tested if resistance also mediated the expected effect of treatment on the long-term interpersonal outcomes. Method: Eighty-five patients with severe GAD were randomly assigned to 15 sessions of MI-CBT or CBT. Patients completed a measure of interpersonal problems repeatedly through treatment and 12 months of follow up. Independent observers rated patient resistance at a midtreatment session. Results: As expected, structural equation models revealed comparable reductions in nonassertiveness and over accommodation across acute MI-CBT and CBT. Also as predicted, MI-CBT vs. CBT promoted significantly greater reduction in over accommodation problems over long-term follow up; however, this differential effect was only marginally significant for nonassertiveness problems. Finally, as predicted, the treatment effect on the level of both interpersonal problems at 12-month follow up was mediated by less midtreatment resistance in MI-CBT vs. CBT. Discussion: Results support that the benefit of adding MI to CBT for GAD extends to long-term interpersonal change, and they implicate resistance management as a candidate mechanism of this additive effect.
SUSY contributions to the charge asymmetry in K^+- -> pi^+- l^+ l^- decays
Creators: name: Messina, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyse the contributions to the charge asymmetry in $K^\pm\toπ^\pm\ell^+\ell^-$ decays induced by gluino-exchange diagrams in the context of supersymmetric models with generic flavour couplings. We show that sizeable deviations with respect to the Standard Model are possible only under special circumstances. Within this scenario we set an upper limit of about $10^{-3}$ for the relative charge asymmetry -- integrated for $M_{\ell^+\ell^-} > 2 M_π$ -- of both muon and electron channels. We also show that this limit is close to saturating a model-independent upper bound on the charge asymmetry derived from the present constraints on $Γ(K_L \toπ^0 \ell^+ \ell^-)$.
description: 9 pages, 1 figure
Design and Control of a Two-Wheeled Robotic Walker
Creators: name: da Silva, Airton R.
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2014

description: This thesis presents the design, construction, and control of a two-wheeled inverted pendulum (TWIP) robotic walker prototype for assisting mobility-impaired users with balance and fall prevention. A conceptual model of the robotic walker is developed and used to illustrate the purpose of this study. A linearized mathematical model of the two-wheeled system is derived using Newtonian mechanics. A control strategy consisting of a decoupled LQR controller and three state variable controllers is developed to stabilize the platform and regulate its behavior with robust disturbance rejection performance. Simulation results reveal that the LQR controller is capable of stabilizing the platform and rejecting external disturbances while the state variable controllers simultaneously regulate the system’s position with smooth and minimum jerk control.
A prototype for the two-wheeled system is fabricated and assembled followed by the implementation and tuning of the control algorithms responsible for stabilizing the prototype and regulating its position with optimal performance. Several experiments are conducted, confirming the ability of the decoupled LQR controller to robustly balance the platform while the state variable controllers regulate the platform’s position with smooth and minimum jerk control.
Anaphothrips dalbyi Mound & Masumoto 2009, sp. n.
Creators: name: Mound, Laurence A.
name: Masumoto, Masami
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Thysanoptera
Thripidae
Anaphothrips
Anaphothrips dalbyi

description: Anaphothrips dalbyi sp. n.
(Figs 61–64)
 Female macroptera. Body, legs and antennal segments I–IV yellow, but II and apex of IV weakly shaded, V–VI brown with basal third yellow; fore wings weakly shaded along veins; tergite IX major setae pale. Head about as long as wide, projecting slightly in front of eyes, with faint anastomosing sculpture lines behind eyes and around ocelli; eyes with 6 pigmented facets; ocellar setae I wide apart, II relatively long, III just within triangle. Antennae 9-segmented; segments III–IV with small forked sensorium; II with a few weak, short microtrichia; suture oblique between VI–VII; VI weakly pedicellate (Fig. 64). Pronotum with weak transverse sculpture lines; posteromarginal setae S2 at least 1.5 times as long as S1 (Fig. 61). Metascutum irregularly reticulate (Fig. 63), median setae not close to anterior margin, MCS present. Fore wing first vein with about 8 setae basally, 2 medially and 2 distally; second vein with 10 setae; clavus with 4–5 veinal setae. Abdominal tergites II–VII with no sculpture medially, lines extend just mesad of setae S2, median setal pair minute to small; posterolateral margins of tergites with broadly dentate microtrichia; VIII with long regular comb of microtrichia (Fig. 62); IX elongate.
 Measurements (holotype, in microns). Body length 1380. Head, length 120; width across eyes 130. Pronotum, length 115; maximum width 150. Fore wing, length 620; median width 40; first vein longest seta in basal row 25. Tergite IV S1 setae 5. Tergite IX, MD setae 20; PM S1 setae 90. Tergite X PM S1 setae 90. Antennal segments III–IX, 45, 35, 30, 35, 10, 7, 12.
 Male macroptera. Similar to female; tergite IX with 2 pairs of short stout setae medially; sternites with no pore plates.
 Specimens examined. Holotype female, Queensland, 30km west of Dalby, from grass along Condamyne River, 19.vii.1995 (LAM 2782).
Paratypes: 7 females 1 male taken with holotype.
 Comments. Apart from the slightly elongate pair of setae on the pronotum, this species shares most character states with the other Australian Anaphothrips species, and in body form it is a typical grass-living species.
description: Published as part of Mound, Laurence A. & Masumoto, Masami, 2009, Australian Thripinae of the Anaphothrips genus-group (Thysanoptera), with three new genera and thirty-three new species, pp. 1-76 in Zootaxa 2042 (1) on page 29, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2042.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5313983
A Critique of Conventional Non-market Valuation: Attitudes and Action
Creators: name: Choi, Andy Sungnok
name: Bennett, Jeffrey W.
name: Choi, Andy Sungnok
name: Bennett, Jeffrey W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Non-market valuation
subject: willingness to pay
subject: attitude-behaviour
subject: new ecological paradigm
subject: planned behaviour
subject: discrete choice models

description: This paper revisits two conventional beliefs of environmental nonmarket valuation and examines their weaknesses and a new opportunity. The two beliefs are that willingness to pay (WTP) is an appropriate measure of non-market behaviour and that exogenous variables are relevant predictors of WTP whilst endogenous variables are not. The contemporary literature in psychology and economics is reviewed to demonstrate departures from these two beliefs.
Effects of Task Load on Situational Awareness During Rear-End Crash Scenarios - A Simulator Study
Creators: name: Nair, Rajiv
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2019

description: The current driving simulator study investigates the effect of 2 distinct levels of distraction on a drivers’ situational awareness and latent and inherent hazard anticipation. In this study, rear-end crashes were used as the primary crash configuration to target a specific category of crashes due to distraction. The two types of task load used in the experiment was a cognitive distraction (mock cell-phone task) & visual distraction (I-pad task). Forty-eight young participants aged 18-25 years navigated 8 scenarios each in a mixed subject design with task load (cognitive or visual distraction) as a between-subject variable and the presence/absence of distraction representing the within-subject variable. All participants drove 4 scenarios with a distraction and 4 scenarios without any distraction. Physiological variables in the form of Heart rate and heart rate variability was collected for each participant during the practice drives and after each of the 8 experimental drives. After the completion of each experimental drive, participants were asked to fill up a NASA TLX questionnaire which quantifies the overall task load experienced by giving it a score between 1 and 100, where higher scores translate to higher perceived task load. Eye-movements were also recorded for the proportion of latent and inherent hazards anticipated and mitigated for all participants. Standard vehicle data (velocity, acceleration & lane offset) were also collected from the simulator for each participants’ each drive. Analysis of data showed that there was a significant difference in velocity, lane offset and task load index scores across the 2 groups (between-subject factors). The vehicle data, heart rate data and TLX data was analyzed using Mixed subject ANOVA. There was also a logistic regression model devised which showed significant effects of velocity, lane offset, TLX scores and age on a participants’ hazard anticipation abilities. The findings have a major practical implication in reducing drivers’ risk of fatal, serious or near crashes.
Collaborating to compete: the imperative for the South Australian citrus industry
Creators: name: Coelho, Bruno
name: Chapman, Paul
name: Coelho, Bruno
name: Chapman, Paul
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Citrus
subject: Collaboration

description: This paper arises from a series of economic reports into the South Australian citrus industry undertaken by the Department of Primary Industries and Resources South Australia (PIRSA). The citrus industry faces a number of significant challenges. Future prosperity depends on the response. Principles of Transaction Cost Economics are drawn upon to understand the nature of the investments involved in citrus growing, permitting the identified problems to be viewed in light of inefficiencies and opportunism and the solutions to focus upon collaboration. Collaboration, in both the vertical and horizontal dimensions, through both formal and informal mechanisms, is presented as the key imperative for the industry. The themes emerging from our analysis present a significant departure from the competition-focussed policies that have dominated government involvement in industry development.
The Role of Inference in Second Language Reading Comprehension: Developing Inferencing Skill Through Extensive Reading
Creators: name: Niwa, Sayako
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2019

description: The purpose of this study is to determine whether extensive reading has positive effects on developing inferencing skills. Extensive reading is a language learning method of reading large amounts of comprehensible texts. This method limits the use of dictionaries while reading; therefore, extensive readers have greater practice in dealing with unfamiliar words than non-extensive readers. One of the ways to deal with unfamiliar words is to infer the meaning of the word using contextual clues. Knowing how to infer the meaning of unknown words is a helpful skill for language learners. Due to the fact that extensive readers have a greater practice in dealing with unknown words, this study examines whether there are any differences in the precision of inferencing skills between extensive readers and non-extensive readers. There were 39 participants analyzed in this study, 28 non-extensive readers and 11 extensive readers. The results showed that extensive reading has positive effects on language learners’ inferencing skills. In terms of accuracy, we could not see a statistical difference; however, the extensive readers had a higher percentage in accurately inferring the word meaning. In terms of the use of knowledge sources, extensive readers were able to choose the appropriate knowledge source when inferring the target word. These results indicate that extensive reading can enhance language learners’ inferencing skills.
Scintillation Arc Brightness and Electron Density for an Analytical Noodle Model
Creators: name: Gwinn, Carl R.
name: Sosenko, Evan B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that narrow filaments or sheets of over- or under-dense plasma, or "noodles," with fluctuations of scattering phase of less than a radian, can form the scintillation arcs seen for many pulsars. The required local fluctuations of electron density are indefinitely small. We assume a cosine profile for the electron column and find the scattered field by analytic Kirchhoff integration. For a large electron column, corresponding to large amplitude of phase variation, the stationary-phase approximation is accurate; we call this regime "ray optics". For smaller-amplitude phase variation, the stationary-phase approximation is inaccurate or inapplicable; we call this regime "wave optics". We show that scattering is most efficient when the width of the strip equals that of one pair of Fresnel zones, and in the wave-optics regime. We show that the resolution of present observations is about 100 Fresnel zones on the scattering screen. Incoherent superposition of strips within a resolution element tends to increase the scattered field. We find that observations match a single noodle per resolution element with phase of up to 12 radians; or many noodles per resolution element with arbitrarily small phase variation each, for net phase of less than a radian. Observations suggest a minimum radius for noodles of about 650 km, comparable to the ion inertial scale or the ion cyclotron radius in the scattering plasma.
Cross-Species Architecture: Developing an Architecture for Rehabilitative Learning Through the Human-Canine Relationship
Creators: name: Porter, Jake
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2019

description: Successful architecture is an engagement of space that fosters learning and growth. It is the space in which we are drawn away from the distractions around us, allowing us to focus on the present. It offers the opportunity to not only learn and grow relationships, but also to rehabilitate broken and fractured ones. Through this learning and growth, we become better understanding and loving toward each other. Thus, architecture stands as a true mediator of the relationships that exist around the world. Architecture is not exclusive toward human to human engagement. Architecture can extend beyond the understanding of human and engage many species such as canines. This thesis proposes to investigate a cross-species architecture serving to rehabilitate broken and fractured interspecies relationships. Focusing on one of the strongest human-interspecies relationships to exist, this thesis will conduct research-based design on the human and dog relationship. Although the human and dog relationship are one of the stronger cross-species relationships, there remains complex and fractured components. For example, in many aspects across homeless and stray dogs, the human and dog relationship has vii become one that is extremely broken and fractured. This thesis proposes to take an in depth look at the historical context and the present human-canine relationship and understanding how architecture can be used to grow the relationship. In allowing cross-species architecture to act the mediator in rehabilitating the fractured components of the human and dog relationship, the level of learning and growth within the human and dog relationship can reach new heights.
The scalar sector of the Randall-Sundrum model
Creators: name: Dominici, D.
name: Grzadkowski, B.
name: Gunion, J. F.
name: Toharia, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive the effective potential for the Standard Model Higgs-boson sector interacting with Kaluza-Klein excitations of the graviton ($h_μ^{νn}$) and the radion ($ϕ$) and show that {\it only} the Standard Model vacuum solution of $\partial V(h)/\partial h =0$ (h is the Higgs field) is allowed. We then consider the consequences of the curvature-scalar mixing xi R \Hhat^\dagger \Hhat$ (where $\Hhat$ is a Higgs doublet field on the visible brane), which causes the physical mass eigenstates h and $ϕ$ to be mixtures of the original Higgs and radion fields. First, we discuss the theoretical constraints on the allowed parameter space. Next, we give precise procedures for computing the h and $ϕ$ couplings given the {\it physical} eigenstate masses, mh and $\mphi$, xi and the new physics scales of the model. We show that LEP/LEP2 data implies that not both the h and $ϕ$ can be light. In the allowed region of parameter space, we examine numerically the couplings and branching ratios of the h and $ϕ$ for several cases with $\mh=120\gev$ and $\mphi\leq 300\gev$. The resulting prospects for detection of the h and $ϕ$ at the LHC, a future LC and a $\gam\gam$ collider are reviewed. For moderate $|ξ|$, both the anomalous $h\to gg$ coupling and (when $\mh>2\mphi$) the non-standard decay channel $h \to ϕϕ$ can substantially impact h discovery. Presence of the latter is a direct signature for non-zero xi. We find that $BR(h \to ϕϕ)$ as large as $30 ÷40 %$ is possible when $|ξ|$ is large. Conversely, if $\mphi>2\mh$ then $BR(ϕ\to hh)$ is generally large. The feasibility of experimentally measuring the anomalous gg and $\gam\gam$ couplings of the h and $ϕ$ is examined.
description: 62 page, 30 figures. Because some figures had to be reduced in resolution, they will only accurately appear in magnified ghostview. For full abstract see paper
Constraining Quark-Hadron Duality at Large-Nc
Creators: name: Beane, S. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quark-meson duality for two-point functions of vector and axial-vector QCD currents is investigated in the large-Nc approximation. We find that the joint constraints of duality and chiral symmetry imply degeneracy of excited vector and axial-vector mesons in the large-Nc limit. We compare model-independent constraints with expectations based on the Veneziano-Lovelace-Shapiro string model. Several models of duality are constructed, and phenomenological implications are discussed.
description: 16 pages TeX, uses mtexsis.tex
Discourse, Meaning-Making, and Emotion: The Pressure to have a “Feminist Abortion Experience”
Creators: name: Siegel, Derek
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2019

description: During interviews with self-identified feminists (n=27), respondents express discomfort when their abortion experiences fail to match perceived expectations from the pro-choice movement. They describe a “feminist abortion experience” as eliciting a sense of relief, empowerment, and detachment. An “anti-feminist abortion,” on the other hand, involves sadness, ambivalence, and a high attachment to the pregnancy. Respondents not only self-police this boundary but also perform emotion work to change an undesirable emotional state. First, I ask how pro-choice norms and constructed and perpetuated? I find that people learn what is expected of them from the contents of pro-choice discourse and learn about undesirable emotions from their absence in pro-choice discourse. Second, I ask how feminists manage discrepancies between these perceived expectations (how they believe they “should” feel) and their actual experiences. In particular, what motivates them to change their feeling states in the event of such a discrepancy? Extending Arlie Hochschild’s feeling rules framework (1979), I argue that because of respondents’ personal and collective identities as feminists, they feel obligated to other people in the movement to have the “right kind of abortion.” Whereas the feeling rules framework suggests that people perform emotion work to achieve an ideal feeling state, I argue that they also work to avoid stigmatized emotions. Lastly, I hypothesize that personal and collective identities might also explain emotion work in other social movement contexts. When a movement politicizes and promotes certain emotions, members will feel obligated to match these norms.
Stratification of the orbit space in gauge theories. The role of nongeneric strata
Creators: name: Mendes, R. Vilela
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gauge theory is a theory with constraints and, for that reason, the space of physical states is not a manifold but a stratified space (orbifold) with singularities. The classification of strata for smooth (and generalized) connections is reviewed as well as the formulation of the physical space as the zero set of a momentum map. Several important features of nongeneric strata are discussed and new results are presented suggesting an important role for these strata as concentrators of the measure in ground state functionals and as a source of multiple structures in low-lying excitations.
description: 22 pages Latex, 1 figure
Simplified Transfer Matrix Approach in the Two-Dimensional Ising Model with Various Boundary Conditions
Creators: name: Kastening, Boris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A recent simplified transfer matrix solution of the two-dimensional Ising model on a square lattice with periodic boundary conditions is generalized to periodic-antiperiodic, antiperiodic-periodic and antiperiodic-antiperiodic boundary conditions. It is suggested to employ linear combinations of the resulting partition functions to investigate finite-size scaling. An exact relation of such a combination to the partition function corresponding to Brascamp-Kunz boundary conditions is found.
description: Phys.Rev.E, to be published
Estimating the Effective Number of Breeders of Brook Trout, Salvelinus fontinalis, Over Multiple Generations in Two Stream Systems
Creators: name: Cembrola, Matthew R.
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2014

description: The use of genetic markers in monitoring populations has become increasingly important for conservation purposes, and can take many forms. While effective population size (Ne) is of great interest to conservation genetics, it may be much easier and more practical to estimate the effective number of breeders (Nb) per cohort as a tool for genetic monitoring of populations. Few studies have estimated Nb for the same species over long periods of time in comparison with demographic or environmental variables. I estimated Nb of the eastern brook trout, Salvelinus fontinalis, as part of long-term studies of two stream systems: West Brook (WB) in Massachusetts and Stanley Brook (SB) in Maine. I used eight microsatellite loci for all available young of the year (YOY) from each cohort in WB and a random subset of YOY distributed evenly throughout SB to obtain genetic-based estimates. I estimated adult abundance (NC) from mark-recapture data, and used seasonal stream flow as an environmental variable. I performed linear models with Nb as the response variable and family structure (number of families and variance in family size), NC, and seasonal stream flow as predictor variables. I found that both the number of families and variance in family size had a strong influence on Nb. Compared to abundance of adults and YOY, Nb was relatively stable over time.Stream flow in both autumn and spring showed a quadratic relationship with Nb in WB, suggesting that intermediate flows are optimal for maintaining a higher Nb. SB, with fewer years of data, did not show these relationships. If incorporated into monitoring programs, Nb can be a useful tool for detecting changes in population status and for informing management decisions.
Modelling the Cost of Irrigator Response to Lower River Murray Salinity
Creators: name: Chambers, Adam
name: Connor, Jeff
name: King, Darran
name: Chambers, Adam
name: Connor, Jeff
name: King, Darran
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Salinity
subject: Modelling
subject: Policy
subject: Economic
subject: River Murray

description: This paper reports on an analysis of irrigator water demand and profit changes across varying annual water availability, crop water requirements, and river salinity conditions for irrigation along the South Australian portion of the Lower Murray. The paper also investigates the validity of the current relationship between salinity of irrigation water and irrigated crop yield underlying MDBC salinity offset investments. The assumption implicit in the current MDBC net benefits formula may be mis-specified in that the possibility to avoid yield loss with additional leaching is not accounted for. This paper reports how that mis-specification, that irrigators would simply accept yield losses, leads to overstatement of the benefits of actions to decrease salinity.
Deep SCNN-based Real-time Object Detection for Self-driving Vehicles Using LiDAR Temporal Data
Creators: name: Zhou, Shibo
name: Chen, Ying
name: Li, Xiaohua
name: Sanyal, Arindam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Real-time accurate detection of three-dimensional (3D) objects is a fundamental necessity for self-driving vehicles. Most existing computer vision approaches are based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Although the CNN-based approaches can achieve high detection accuracy, their high energy consumption is a severe drawback. To resolve this problem, novel energy efficient approaches should be explored. Spiking neural network (SNN) is a promising candidate because it has orders-of-magnitude lower energy consumption than CNN. Unfortunately, the studying of SNN has been limited in small networks only. The application of SNN for large 3D object detection networks has remain largely open. In this paper, we integrate spiking convolutional neural network (SCNN) with temporal coding into the YOLOv2 architecture for real-time object detection. To take the advantage of spiking signals, we develop a novel data preprocessing layer that translates 3D point-cloud data into spike time data. We propose an analog circuit to implement the non-leaky integrate and fire neuron used in our SCNN, from which the energy consumption of each spike is estimated. Moreover, we present a method to calculate the network sparsity and the energy consumption of the overall network. Extensive experiments have been conducted based on the KITTI dataset, which show that the proposed network can reach competitive detection accuracy as existing approaches, yet with much lower average energy consumption. If implemented in dedicated hardware, our network could have a mean sparsity of 56.24% and extremely low total energy consumption of 0.247mJ only. Implemented in NVIDIA GTX 1080i GPU, we can achieve 35.7 fps frame rate, high enough for real-time object detection.
Anaphothrips aptilotus Mound & Masumoto 2009, sp. n.
Creators: name: Mound, Laurence A.
name: Masumoto, Masami
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Thysanoptera
Thripidae
Anaphothrips
Anaphothrips aptilotus

description: Anaphothrips aptilotus sp. n.
(Figs 13–16)
 Female microptera. Body and legs yellow, prominent setae shaded; antennal segment I yellow, II–V yellow with distal half pale brown, VI–VIII brown. Head as long as wide, slightly overhanging antennal segment I; basal third with strong transverse reticulations; eyes with 6 pigmented facets; ocelli present or absent, ocellar setae III on anterior margins of triangle. Antennae 8-segmented, III with sensorium simple, IV with sensorium forked; I without microtrichia; VI without pedicel (Fig. 16). Pronotum with widely spaced anastomosing striae, irregular at middle. Mesonotum transverse, campaniform sensilla present. Metascutum with median setae posteromedially, MCS absent. Fore wing lobe about as long as metascutum (Fig. 13). Abdominal tergites with strong transverse reticulation (Fig. 14), VI–VIII median paired setae stout, extending to tergal posterior margin; VI–VII setae S3 as large as S4; VIII with no comb on posterior margin, spiracular area large but not occupying half of tergite lateral margin.
 Measurements (holotype, in microns). Body length 920. Head, length 75; width across eyes 115. Pronotum, length 105; maximum width 135. Tergite IV S1 setae 12. Tergite IX, MD setae 12; PM S1 setae 40. Tergite X PM S1 setae 35. Antennal segments III–VIII, 32, 30, 30, 35, 5, 10.
 Male microptera. Similar to female; sternites without pore plates; tergite IX median setae slightly stout (Fig. 15).
 Specimens examined. Holotype female microptera, Lord Howe Island, Intermediate Hill, from Cassinia tenuifolia leaves (Asteraceae), 22.xii.2001 (LAM 4072).
 Paratypes: 9 females 1 male taken with holotype; Lord Howe Island, Blinkey’s Beach, 2 females from Cassinia, 28.xii.2001; Clear Space, 4 females 1 male from Cassinia, 21.xii.2007. Australian Capital Territory, Tidbinbilla: 11 females from Cassinia arcuata, 14.ix.2007; 12 females from Cassinia flowers, 10 & 13.xi.2002; 5 females from Cassinia, 30.ix.2001; 11 females from Pultenaea flowers, 13.xi.2002; Canberra, Mt Majura, 1 female from Cassinia, 2.ix.1995.
 Comments. Specimens taken near Canberra are considerably more robustly sculptured than specimens from Lord Howe Island. This species is very similar to several wingless Anaphothrips species that have 9- segmented antennae, particularly A. cucurbiti that also lacks a comb on abdominal tergite VIII but has the major setae more slender. Amongst the species with 8-segmented antennae, this one is unique in lacking a comb.
description: Published as part of Mound, Laurence A. & Masumoto, Masami, 2009, Australian Thripinae of the Anaphothrips genus-group (Thysanoptera), with three new genera and thirty-three new species, pp. 1-76 in Zootaxa 2042 (1) on pages 15-18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2042.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5313983