cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
AGE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN SPOUSES AND THE STATUS OF WOMEN
Creators: name: Green, Cynthia P.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society

description: This research study was designed to determine whether spousal age difference affects the status of American women, relative to their husbands and to each other. Several researchers have suggested that the practice of women marrying men several years older than themselves undermines women's status by causing an imbalance in spousal power and limiting the women's nonfamilial roles through curtailment of her education and absorption in childrearing and housework. Conversely, women married to younger men are thought to be advantaged in status. Previous studies have found an association between age-discrepant marriages and lower female educational attainment and socio-economic status but did not separate causal factors from effects. A causal model was developed to test the hypothesis that this association is mainly due to other factors directly and indirectly linked to spousal age difference, including race, socio-economic background, educational attainment at marriage, age at marriage and number of children. Other variables analyzed include Hispanic origin, timing of first birth, and fertility intentions. The four dependent variables measuring women's status were: educational attainment, occupational status, current labor force participation, and income. The analysis was based on data from the 1982 National Survey of Family Growth, a national probability survey of American women aged 15-44, using a subsample of 2,645 currently married women who are in intact first marriages. Path analysis, regression, cross-tabulation, and correlation were used in the analysis. No evidence was found that marrying a man five or more years older is deleterious to a woman's status, nor was spousal age difference associated with status differentials between spouses. Women older than their husbands are more likely to be better educated and to have higher-status occupations and higher incomes, compared with other women. The husband's age at marriage is the best single predictor of spousal age difference. Among white women, education is also a factor: women who have not completed high school are more likely than other women to marry men three or more years older, while college graduates are more likely to marry men less than one year older or younger by 0-4 years.
Sounama (Stenaulophrys) asiatica Liang & Webb 2002, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Liang, A. - P.
name: Webb, M. D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2002
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Aphrophoridae
Sounama
Sounama asiatica

description: Sounama (Stenaulophrys) asiatica sp. nov.
(®gures 80±84, 108)
Length: 5.0±5.6 mm, 5.0±5.8 mm.
 External characters as in S. (Sounama) acuta but vertex without medial longitudinal carina.
Male genitalia with subgenital plates (®gure 81) with expanded basal region elongate, somewhat triangular in ventral view, constricted subapically to form a dorsally directed, moderately long spinous process which is shorter than the basal expanded region; style (®gures 80, 84) with distal dorsally directed ®nger-like process hook-like apically; aedeagal shaft in lateral view (®gure 82) narrow throughout length, slightly expanded from base to near apex, there after tapered to apex.
 Etymology. Named for its occurrence throughout Asia.
 Material examined. HOLOTYPE, Malaysia: Malaya Peninsular,`N.W. of Mt Ophir’ (Malacca) now Gunung Ledang in Johor State,`Lubok Kedendong’,`Lalang and Belukar’ [grass and secondary scrub], 200 ft, November 1920 (H. C. Abraham) (BMNH). PARATYPES: Thailand, 22, 8, Chiangma Province, Doi Suthep, 1± 5 April 1958 (T. C. Maa), 8, 6, same data as holotype except, 1± 8 April 1958; 28± 31 March 1958; 4 April 1958, collected in water margin, 1278 m, 29 March to 4 May 1958; 1, Chiangdao, 5± 11 April 1958 (T. C. Maa); 1, Chiengmai, 1200 m, 11 April 1966 (J. Sedlacek); 1, 50 km W of Tak, 900 m, 7± 8 April 1966 (J. and J. H. Sedlacek); 1, N. Pangmakampon (Pankampawng), nr Fang, 450 m, 15 November 1957 (J. L. Gressitt) (BPBM; 2, 2 IZCAS, 2 BMNH). North Burma: 1, 2, Nam Tamai Valley, 3000 ft, 27ss42¾N, 97ss54¾E, 5 August 1938 (R. Kaulback, B.M. 1938-74 1) (BMNH). Malaysia: 1, Malaya Peninsular, Pahang, F. M.S., Cameron’s Highlands [underside] Ex Coll. F.M.S., 4800 ft, 26 June 1935 (H.M. Pendlebury), [pink label]`Type’, Lallemand Coll., B.M. 1955-832; 1, same data except 4500 ±5000 ft, 14 June 1935, [brick red label]`Paratype ’; 1, same data except 4800 ft, 29 May 1931, [brick red label]`Paratype’ (all in BMNH).
 Distribution. North Thailand, north Burma and Malay Peninsula.
 Remarks. The aedeagal shaft of the holotype is unnaturally slightly upturned distally, occurring whilst transferring it from KOH to water.
description: Published as part of Liang, A. - P. & Webb, M. D., 2002, New taxa and revisionary notes in Rhinaulacini spittlebugs from southern Asia (Homoptera: Cercopidae), pp. 729-756 in Journal of Natural History 36 (6) on pages 750-751, DOI: 10.1080/00222930110062336, http://zenodo.org/record/4757353
AGE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN SPOUSES AND THE STATUS OF WOMEN
Creators: name: Green, Cynthia P.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This research study was designed to determine whether spousal age difference affects the status of American women, relative to their husbands and to each other. Several researchers have suggested that the practice of women marrying men several years older than themselves undermines women's status by causing an imbalance in spousal power and limiting the women's nonfamilial roles through curtailment of her education and absorption in childrearing and housework. Conversely, women married to younger men are thought to be advantaged in status. Previous studies have found an association between age-discrepant marriages and lower female educational attainment and socio-economic status but did not separate causal factors from effects. A causal model was developed to test the hypothesis that this association is mainly due to other factors directly and indirectly linked to spousal age difference, including race, socio-economic background, educational attainment at marriage, age at marriage and number of children. Other variables analyzed include Hispanic origin, timing of first birth, and fertility intentions. The four dependent variables measuring women's status were: educational attainment, occupational status, current labor force participation, and income. The analysis was based on data from the 1982 National Survey of Family Growth, a national probability survey of American women aged 15-44, using a subsample of 2,645 currently married women who are in intact first marriages. Path analysis, regression, cross-tabulation, and correlation were used in the analysis. No evidence was found that marrying a man five or more years older is deleterious to a woman's status, nor was spousal age difference associated with status differentials between spouses. Women older than their husbands are more likely to be better educated and to have higher-status occupations and higher incomes, compared with other women. The husband's age at marriage is the best single predictor of spousal age difference. Among white women, education is also a factor: women who have not completed high school are more likely than other women to marry men three or more years older, while college graduates are more likely to marry men less than one year older or younger by 0-4 years.
RETHINKING NOUN AND VERB: AN INVESTIGATION OF 'AUX' IN A SOUTHERN WAKASHAN LANGUAGE
Creators: name: Renker, Ann M.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The tenuous boundaries of form classes in Northwest Coast languages has been a subject of historical and contemporary linguistic investigation; the subject is especially important in relation to the universal quality of established grammatical categories such as noun and verb. This dissertation asserts that noun and verb are not present in Makah grammar, and the use of these entities in a description of Makah obscures the nature of the language. Instead, the analysis proposes the use of the category AUX as the means to disambiguate form class assignations for Makah. Because AUX is a subject of debate in its own right, the dissertation first confirms the existence of the category in Makah, a Southern Wakashan language, describes the morphology of the category, and then applies the stability of the category to the description of Makah sentences. AUX provides a means to systematically describe Makah sentence variation, discourse topic and the rudiments of clausal formation. Additional consequences relate to the universal nature of AUX as a sentential constituent, as well as the universality of the form classes noun and verb.
An investigation into campus water conservation : low flow shower heads
Creators: name: Khanna, Keshav
name: Sen, Bedank
name: Yu, Leon Lixing
name: Gao, Alvin
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Water is a very valuable resource that is depleting in a rapid pace. Shortage of water all over the earth is shown from time to time to create awareness of this issue. Therefore, to ensure future sustainability, the entire world is in the process of conserving water usage and rationing it. This report highlights the use of low flow shower heads for the same purpose. It presents a comparison of the performance of current shower heads in the UBC housing and their water consumption to the new low-flow shower heads available in the market. It contains research conducted on how much water is being used currently in the different housing units and proposes solutions to reduce this usage over time while keeping in mind the triple bottom line. It contains research on different low-flow shower heads that are available in the market, their properties and some of their technical data. Based on the most acceptable features and also keeping in mind the economic, environmental and social sustainability aspects of the triple bottom line, there a few recommendations for selecting a new low-flow showerhead. There is also survey that shows the social acceptance of the low-flow showerhead. The survey shows the different requirements of the society based on gender and demographic. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
RETHINKING NOUN AND VERB: AN INVESTIGATION OF 'AUX' IN A SOUTHERN WAKASHAN LANGUAGE
Creators: name: Renker, Ann M.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 47
subject: Language, communication and culture
classificationCode: 4704
subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: The tenuous boundaries of form classes in Northwest Coast languages has been a subject of historical and contemporary linguistic investigation; the subject is especially important in relation to the universal quality of established grammatical categories such as noun and verb. This dissertation asserts that noun and verb are not present in Makah grammar, and the use of these entities in a description of Makah obscures the nature of the language. Instead, the analysis proposes the use of the category AUX as the means to disambiguate form class assignations for Makah. Because AUX is a subject of debate in its own right, the dissertation first confirms the existence of the category in Makah, a Southern Wakashan language, describes the morphology of the category, and then applies the stability of the category to the description of Makah sentences. AUX provides a means to systematically describe Makah sentence variation, discourse topic and the rudiments of clausal formation. Additional consequences relate to the universal nature of AUX as a sentential constituent, as well as the universality of the form classes noun and verb.
Computing Yukawa Couplings from Magnetized Extra Dimensions
Creators: name: Cremades, D.
name: Ibanez, L. E.
name: Marchesano, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute Yukawa couplings involving chiral matter fields in toroidal compactifications of higher dimensional super-Yang-Mills theory with magnetic fluxes. Specifically we focus on toroidal compactifications of D=10 super-Yang-Mills theory, which may be obtained as the low-energy limit of Type I, Type II or Heterotic strings. Chirality is obtained by turning on constant magnetic fluxes in each of the 2-tori. Our results are general and may as well be applied to lower D=6,8 dimensional field theories. We solve Dirac and Laplace equations to find out the explicit form of wavefunctions in extra dimensions. The Yukawa couplings are computed as overlap integrals of two Weyl fermions and one complex scalar over the compact dimensions. In the case of Type IIB (or Type I) string theories, the models are T-dual to (orientifolded) Type IIA with D6-branes intersecting at angles. These theories may have phenomenological relevance since particular models with SM group and three quark-lepton generations have been recently constructed. We find that the Yukawa couplings so obtained are described by Riemann theta-functions, which depend on the complex structure and Wilson line backgrounds. Different patterns of Yukawa textures are possible depending on the values of these backgrounds. We discuss the matching of these results with the analogous computation in models with intersecting D6-branes. Whereas in the latter case a string computation is required, in our case only field theory is needed.
description: 73 pages, 9 figures. Using JHEP3.cls. Typos and other minor corrections fixed. References added
Sounama (Stenaulophrys) borneensis Liang & Webb 2002, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Liang, A. - P.
name: Webb, M. D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2002
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Aphrophoridae
Sounama
Sounama borneensis

description: Sounama (Stenaulophrys) borneensis sp. nov.
(®gures 85, 86, 95 ±99)
Length: 4.8±5.4 mm, 5.0±5.6 mm.
 External characters as in S. (Sounama) acuta but with medial longitudinal carina on vertex faint.
 Male genitalia similar to asiatica but apical process of subgenital plate slightly longer, similar in length to expanded basal region (®gure 86) and aedeagal shaft in lateral aspect (®gure 85) more broadly arched basally.
 Etymology. Named for its occurrence in Borneo.
 Material examined. HOLOTYPE, Malaysia: Brunei, Bukit Retak, 1440 m, no date (S. L. Sutton (BMNH). PARATYPES: Malaysia: Sabah, 2, Mt Kinabalu, Mesilau Camp, 5000 ft, 20±27 and 28± 30 March 1964 (S. Kueh) (BMNH); 17, 10, 1 km S. Kundasang, 1530 m, 6 August 1983 (G. F. Hevel and W. E. Steiner) (USNM, IZCAS, BMNH); 1, 2, Ranau, 22± 25 February 1959 (T. C. Maa); 3, Sandakan, 20 November 1958 (T. C. Maa); 1, Tenompok, Jesselton, 48 km E, 1460 m, 10± 19 February 1959 (T. C. Maa) (all in BPBM).
 Distribution. Malaysia (northern Borneo).
description: Published as part of Liang, A. - P. & Webb, M. D., 2002, New taxa and revisionary notes in Rhinaulacini spittlebugs from southern Asia (Homoptera: Cercopidae), pp. 729-756 in Journal of Natural History 36 (6) on page 752, DOI: 10.1080/00222930110062336, http://zenodo.org/record/4757353
Friday essay: kangaroos and kindred spirits – D.H. Lawrence, Garry Shead and catching the flame of creativity
Creators: name: Johnson, Luke
Publisher: name: University of Wollongong
Year: 2025

description: In 1922, self-exiled English novelist D.H. Lawrence arrived on Australian shores with his German wife Frieda. Travelling by steamboat from Italy to New Mexico via Sri Lanka, the pair disembarked in Sydney to spend a bit of time rediscovering their land legs. Lawrence was already a well-known writer by this point, with works such as Sons and Lovers and The Rainbow having been published in the decade before. However, this is to say little of his and Frieda’s financial situation.Passing through Sydney’s famed headlands, the pair held in their possession a modest sum of 50 pounds, and after handing over four of those pounds for two nights’ accommodation in the harbour city, it became evident they’d be needing to find cheaper lodging if they were to spend any significant time in “the continent of the kangaroo”.Boarding the 2pm train from Central Station and heading south, they arrived in the seaside township of Thirroul (now a northern suburb of Wollongong) and took up residence at “Wyewurk”, a Californian-style bungalow overlooking McCauley’s Beach previously leased by a family of 11 children. It was here, writing at the breakneck pace of some 3,000 words a day, that the child-free Lawrence penned his eighth novel, Kangaroo, in a mere six weeks.I’m ambivalent about Kangaroo. It contains passages as technically and poetically brilliant as any to have been jotted down in English prose before or since, its psychological insights are convincing and artfully understated, while its representation of the Australian landscape remains as evocative today as it was at the time of publication when it helped free a cohort of Australian writers from the anxiety of European influence under which they’d been toiling.As far as storytelling goes though, Kangaroo, with its clandestine right-wing army forever marking time and making plans, does less to excite my imagination. If I’m being completely honest, for all its virtuosity it probably would have ended up in the great pile of perennially bookmarked classics I was determined to enjoy but never quite got around to finishing were it not for the special place it holds in the oeuvre, and heart, of legendary Australian artist Garry Shead.
THE LANGUAGE OF THE MOTIF: AN ANALYSIS OF THE WALKER VILLAGE LATE WOODLAND CERAMICS
Creators: name: McDaniel, Roland Edward
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The Walker Indian Village (18MO20) is a prehistoric Late Woodland archeological site on a 700-acre island in the Potomac River Piedmont. When placed upon the National Register of Historic Places in 1975, it became the first prehistoric culture site in Maryland. It is currently marked by a scatter of cultural debris in a modern corn field. The owner granted limited access for survey activities, but will not allow excavations. Concentrations of surface debris have made the site a favored target of avocationalists and relic collectors since the late 1920s. Recently, deep plowing has exposed even more material, including a significant amount of freshly broken human bone and pottery. The pottery sherds vary widely in surface finish and pattern design as well as in tempering material. This variety is unknown on other Piedmont sites and cannot be classified using the traditional classification schemes used in the Virginia and Maryland areas. There are no published accounts of the many visits and investigations of this site. This dissertation relates a study of the Village ceramics under the dictates of an hypothesis stating that designs on rim sherd collars and lips are coded messages of social membership. As such, these designs will covary in time and space as iconic symbols that continue in application over significant periods. A corollary statement claims that tools used to create the iconic messages display even longer traditions. Studied as motifs that fall into a limited number of sets based upon tool markings and basic schemata of arrangements, the Walker Village ceramic motifs are compared with those seen in more thoroughly documented sites in other areas. It is demonstrated in terms of motif congruence that this Potomac Piedmont site was occupied on four different occasions by people with ceramic traditions closely akin first, to the Shenks Ferry/Owasco ceramic cultures of Pennsylvania-New York, then the Eastern Ohio-West Virginia-Pennsylvania Fort Ancient traditions (with minimal Mississippian influence), later the Monongahela ceramic traditions of Western Maryland and Pennsylvania, and finally with an Appalachian cotradition from the south.
Axion oscillations in binary systems: angle-action surgery
Creators: name: Desjacques, Vincent
name: Grishin, Evgeni
name: Ginat, Yonadav Barry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Scalar, tensor waves induce oscillatory perturbations in Keplerian systems that can be probed with measurements of pulsar timing residuals. In this paper, we consider the imprint of coherent oscillations produced by ultralight axion dark matter on the Roemer time delay. We use the angle-action formalism to calculate the time evolution of the observed signal and its dependence on the orbital parameters and the axion phase. We derive exact analytical expressions for arbitrary binary pulsar mass ratio and eccentricity, alleviating the need for long numerical integrations. We emphasize the similarity of the expected signal-to-noise ratio with the response of a harmonic oscillator to an external oscillatory driving. We validate our theoretical predictions with numerical simulations. Our results furnish a useful benchmark for numerical codes and analysis procedures and, hopefully, will motivate the search for such imprints in real data.
description: 15 pages, 5 figures (v2): moderate revision. matches the published manuscript (v3): references added
Internal Geometric Friction in a Kitaev Chain Heat Engine
Creators: name: Yunt, Elif
name: Fadaie, Mojde
name: Müstecaplıoğlu, Özgür E.
name: Smith, Cristiane Morais
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate a heat engine with a finite-length Kitaev chain in an ideal Otto cycle. It is found that the critical point of the topological phase transition coincides with the maxima of the efficiency and work output of the total Otto engine. Finite-size effects are taken into account using the method of Hill's nanothermodynamics, as well as using the method of temperature-dependent energy levels. We identify the bulk and boundary thermal cycles of the Kitaev chain engine and find that they are non-ideal Otto cycles. The physics of deviation from ideal Otto cycle is identified as a finite size effect, which we dub as "internal geometric friction", leading to heat transfer from the bulk to the boundary during adiabatic transformation of the whole system. Besides, we determine the regimes allowing for independently running an ideal Otto refrigerator at the boundary and an ideal Otto engines in the bulk and in the whole system. Furthermore, we show that the first-order phase transition in the boundary and the second-order phase transition in the bulk can be identified through their respective contributions to the engine work output.
description: 17 pages. Accepted in PRB. New Title. Methods section and the text improved. 2 new figures and new references added
Machine Learning Methods for Monitoring of Quasi-Periodic Traffic in Massive IoT Networks
Creators: name: Sørensen, René Brandborg
name: Nielsen, Jimmy Jessen
name: Popovski, Petar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: One of the central problems in massive Internet of Things (IoT) deployments is the monitoring of the status of a massive number of links. The problem is aggravated by the irregularity of the traffic transmitted over the link, as the traffic intermittency can be disguised as a link failure and vice versa. In this work we present a traffic model for IoT devices running quasi-periodic applications and we present both supervised and unsupervised machine learning methods for monitoring the network performance of IoT deployments with quasi-periodic reporting, such as smart-metering, environmental monitoring and agricultural monitoring. The unsupervised methods are based on the Lomb-Scargle periodogram, an approach developed by astronomers for estimating the spectral density of unevenly sampled time series.
ULTRACAM photometry of the eclipsing cataclysmic variable OU Vir
Creators: name: Feline, W. J.
name: Dhillon, V. S.
name: Marsh, T. R.
name: Stevenson, M. J.
name: Watson, C. A.
name: Brinkworth, C. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present high-speed, three-colour photometry of the faint eclipsing cataclysmic variable OU Vir. For the first time in OU Vir, separate eclipses of the white dwarf and bright spot have been observed. We use timings of these eclipses to derive a purely photometric model of the system, obtaining a mass ratio of q = 0.175 +/- 0.025, an inclination of i = 79.2 +/- 0.7 degrees and a disc radius of Rd/a = 0.2315 +/- 0.0150. We separate the white dwarf eclipse from the lightcurve and, by fitting a blackbody spectrum to its flux in each passband, obtain a white dwarf temperature of T = 21700 +/- 1200 K and a distance of D = 650 +/- 210 pc. Assuming that the primary obeys the Nauenberg (1972) mass-radius relation for white dwarfs and allowing for temperature effects, we also find a primary mass Mw/Msun = 0.90 +/- 0.19, primary radius Rw/Rsun = 0.0097 +/- 0.0031 and orbital separation a/Rsun = 0.75 +/- 0.05.
description: 8 pages LaTeX, 6 figures. Accepted by MNRAS; erratum added at end. Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 347 (2004) 1173, erratum in press
Extensor Retinaculum of the Foot and Ankle: Anatomy and Function
Creators: name: Putnam, Matthew
name: Fu, Freddie H.
name: Sawaguchi, Takeshi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 110314 Orthopaedics
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: The extensor retinaculum performs a specific guiding and Technical function. Potentially, it could be used to augment ligament reconstruction
THE LANGUAGE OF THE MOTIF: AN ANALYSIS OF THE WALKER VILLAGE LATE WOODLAND CERAMICS
Creators: name: McDaniel, Roland Edward
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 43
subject: History, heritage and archaeology
classificationCode: 4301
subject: Archaeology
classificationCode: 45
subject: Indigenous studies

description: The Walker Indian Village (18MO20) is a prehistoric Late Woodland archeological site on a 700-acre island in the Potomac River Piedmont. When placed upon the National Register of Historic Places in 1975, it became the first prehistoric culture site in Maryland. It is currently marked by a scatter of cultural debris in a modern corn field. The owner granted limited access for survey activities, but will not allow excavations. Concentrations of surface debris have made the site a favored target of avocationalists and relic collectors since the late 1920s. Recently, deep plowing has exposed even more material, including a significant amount of freshly broken human bone and pottery. The pottery sherds vary widely in surface finish and pattern design as well as in tempering material. This variety is unknown on other Piedmont sites and cannot be classified using the traditional classification schemes used in the Virginia and Maryland areas. There are no published accounts of the many visits and investigations of this site. This dissertation relates a study of the Village ceramics under the dictates of an hypothesis stating that designs on rim sherd collars and lips are coded messages of social membership. As such, these designs will covary in time and space as iconic symbols that continue in application over significant periods. A corollary statement claims that tools used to create the iconic messages display even longer traditions. Studied as motifs that fall into a limited number of sets based upon tool markings and basic schemata of arrangements, the Walker Village ceramic motifs are compared with those seen in more thoroughly documented sites in other areas. It is demonstrated in terms of motif congruence that this Potomac Piedmont site was occupied on four different occasions by people with ceramic traditions closely akin first, to the Shenks Ferry/Owasco ceramic cultures of Pennsylvania-New York, then the Eastern Ohio-West Virginia-Pennsylvania Fort Ancient traditions (with minimal Mississippian influence), later the Monongahela ceramic traditions of Western Maryland and Pennsylvania, and finally with an Appalachian cotradition from the south.
On the Frame Fixing in Quantum Gravity
Creators: name: Mercuri, Simone
name: Montani, Giovanni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide a discussion about the necessity to fix the reference frame before quantizing the gravitational field. Our presentation is based on stressing how the 3+1-slicing of the space time becomes an ambiguous procedure as referred to a quantum 4-metric.
description: 3 pages, no figures, proceeding of the X Marcel Grossmann meeting, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 20-26, 2003
Multiple births occur more commonly in the northern USA.
Creators: name: Teji, Jagjit Singh
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Multiple Births
subject: Medical Geography
subject: Temperature
subject: Multiple Birth Offspring
subject: Geography, Medical
subject: Climate

description: Incidence of multiple births is increasing in the USA. There are reports from animal studies that multiple births may occur more commonly in the colder climate because of survivability in of multiple ovulations in the colder ambient temperature. The purpose of this study is to determine the distribution of multiple births in the USA with relation to latitude.
Measurement of Throughput Variation Across A Large Format Volume-Phase Holographic Grating
Creators: name: Tamura, Naoyuki
name: Murray, Graham J.
name: Sharples, Ray M.
name: Robertson, David J.
name: Allington-Smith, Jeremy R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we report measurements of diffraction efficiency and angular dispersion for a large format (~ 25 cm diameter) Volume-Phase Holographic (VPH) grating optimized for near-infrared wavelengths (0.9 -- 1.8 micron). The aim of this experiment is to see whether optical characteristics vary significantly across the grating. We sampled three positions in the grating aperture with a separation of 5 cm between each. A 2 cm diameter beam is used to illuminate the grating. At each position, throughput and diffraction angle were measured at several wavelengths. It is found that whilst the relationship between diffraction angle and wavelength is nearly the same at the three positions, the throughputs vary by up to ~ 10% from position to position. We explore the origin of the throughput variation by comparing the data with predictions from coupled-wave analysis. We find that it can be explained by a combination of small variations over the grating aperture in gelatin depth and/or refractive index modulation amplitude, and amount of energy loss by internal absorption and/or surface reflection.
description: 12 pages
Sounama (Stenaulophrys) comes Liang & Webb 2002, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Liang, A. - P.
name: Webb, M. D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2002
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Aphrophoridae
Sounama
Sounama comes

description: Sounama (Stenaulophrys) comes (Jacobi), comb. nov.
(®gure 105)
 Thoodzata comes Jacobi, 1921: 23. Holotype, SIKKIM (SMTD) [examined].
 Male. Unknown.
 Material examined. HOLOTYPE (without abdomen), India: Sikkim, Coll. A. Jacobi 1912 ±3 (SMTD).
 Distribution. N.E. India (Sikkim).
 Remarks. Based on its general appearance and distribution we are tentatively placing this species in S. (Stenaulophrys). It lacks a medial longitudinal carina on the vertex.
description: Published as part of Liang, A. - P. & Webb, M. D., 2002, New taxa and revisionary notes in Rhinaulacini spittlebugs from southern Asia (Homoptera: Cercopidae), pp. 729-756 in Journal of Natural History 36 (6) on page 752, DOI: 10.1080/00222930110062336, http://zenodo.org/record/4757353
Non-local space-time supersymmetry on the lattice
Creators: name: Yang, Xiao
name: Fendley, Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that several well-known one-dimensional quantum systems possess a hidden nonlocal supersymmetry. The simplest example is the open XXZ spin chain with Δ=-1/2. We use the supersymmetry to place lower bounds on the ground state energy with various boundary conditions. For an odd number of sites in the periodic chain, and with a particular boundary magnetic field in the open chain, we can derive the ground state energy exactly. The supersymmetry thus explains why it is possible to solve the Bethe equations for the ground state in these cases. We also show that a similar space-time supersymmetry holds for the t-J model at its integrable ferromagnetic point, where the space-time supersymmetry and the Hamiltonian it yields coexist with a global u(1|2) graded Lie algebra symmetry. Possible generalizations to other algebras are discussed.
description: 12 pages
MAGNET SCHOOLS: THE ROLE OF THE PRINCIPAL
Creators: name: Morgan, Elizabeth Molina
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3904
subject: Specialist studies in education

description: The purpose of this study was to learn more about the attitudes of elementary and middle school principals toward magnet programs they administer. Using a qualitative study methodology, in which fifteen magnet school principals were interviewed face-to-face through the use of a structured questionnaire, the following major areas of interest were explored: (a) the principals' perceptions of their roles as administrators of magnet schools, (b) the external and internal factors that enhance or impede their roles, (c) the positive and negative aspects of being associated with a magnet school, and (d) the relationship of demographic data about principals to other factors. The findings revealed that principals held similar attitudes toward magnet programs. While most respondents indicated positive attitudes toward magnet programs and believed theirs to be successful, a majority also raised similar issues, problems, and needs particular to the administration of them. Major concerns voiced by principals surveyed were the high rate of stress and burnout on the job, changes in their relationships to other principals in nonmagnet schools, and changes in the traditional role played by the principal. One major finding of the study was that more experienced principals held more negative attitudes than less experienced ones, with principals administering school-within-a-school magnet program models expressing the most dissatisfaction. Another major finding was that principals universally felt their roles to be altered by increased parental intervention, as well as by duties pertaining specifically to the magnet program that caused them to be more of a salesperson and public relations specialist than an instructional leader. An important implication of this study is that special characteristics beyond those normally sought in principals of elementary and middle schools could be considered when selecting an administrator for a magnet, namely an ability to work under sustained stress, sell the program, go beyond the limits of the school to solve its problems, and to seek and maintain resources to support the program.
MAGNET SCHOOLS: THE ROLE OF THE PRINCIPAL
Creators: name: Morgan, Elizabeth Molina
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The purpose of this study was to learn more about the attitudes of elementary and middle school principals toward magnet programs they administer. Using a qualitative study methodology, in which fifteen magnet school principals were interviewed face-to-face through the use of a structured questionnaire, the following major areas of interest were explored: (a) the principals' perceptions of their roles as administrators of magnet schools, (b) the external and internal factors that enhance or impede their roles, (c) the positive and negative aspects of being associated with a magnet school, and (d) the relationship of demographic data about principals to other factors. The findings revealed that principals held similar attitudes toward magnet programs. While most respondents indicated positive attitudes toward magnet programs and believed theirs to be successful, a majority also raised similar issues, problems, and needs particular to the administration of them. Major concerns voiced by principals surveyed were the high rate of stress and burnout on the job, changes in their relationships to other principals in nonmagnet schools, and changes in the traditional role played by the principal. One major finding of the study was that more experienced principals held more negative attitudes than less experienced ones, with principals administering school-within-a-school magnet program models expressing the most dissatisfaction. Another major finding was that principals universally felt their roles to be altered by increased parental intervention, as well as by duties pertaining specifically to the magnet program that caused them to be more of a salesperson and public relations specialist than an instructional leader. An important implication of this study is that special characteristics beyond those normally sought in principals of elementary and middle schools could be considered when selecting an administrator for a magnet, namely an ability to work under sustained stress, sell the program, go beyond the limits of the school to solve its problems, and to seek and maintain resources to support the program.
Slavnov-Taylor1.0: A Mathematica package for computation in BRST formalism
Creators: name: Picariello, Marco
name: Torrente-Lujan, Emilio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Slavnov-Taylor 1.0 is a Mathematica package which allows us to perform automatic symbolic computation in BRST formalism. This article serves as a self-contained guide to prospective users, and indicates the conventions and approximations used.
description: 1+11 pages, 2 figures, LaTeX graphicx package used; accepted for publication in Computer Physics Communications
SELECTIVE NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL DYSFUNCTION IN ADOLESCENT SONS OF ALCOHOLIC FATHERS
Creators: name: Rebeta, James Lawrence
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Current research indicates that family history of alcoholism defines a population at risk, and that offspring of alcoholics may be at high risk for a number of social, behavioral, and cognitive abnormalities. Genetic hypotheses of alcoholism have suggested that the neuro-psychological deficits associated with chronic alcohol abuse might predate the onset of alcoholism. Studies with prealcoholic children or adolescent offspring, however, have been few in number and inconclusive. Research has been unable to clarify the extent to which deficits found among chronic alcoholics in abstract problem-solving, learning and memory, and perceptuomotor skills were consequences of the alcohol abuse and its attendant problems (e.g., head injury, malnutrition, etc.) or, rather, predated the adult alcoholism. This study, therefore, compared the neuropsychological performance of two groups of adolescent males: 30 sons of alcoholic fathers (FHP) and 30 adolescent males without first-degree familial alcoholism (FHN). It was hypothesized that, although groups were equivalent in age, grade level, socioeconomic status (SES), and estimated IQ, the nonalcoholic FHP adolescents would perform differently on tests of nonverbal reasoning, abstract problem-solving, and set persistence; verbal and visual learning and memory; and perceptuomotor coordination, organization, and motor speed. It was further hypothesized that depression and anxiety would be related to neuropsychological test performance. Nonparametric methods of group comparison found tendencies for FHP adolescents to perform less well on a delayed recall task of visual memory and to make more errors on a test of visual tracking and cognitive flexibility. Exploratory stepwise discriminant analyses found that eight variables contributed to overall group differences, but statistical limitations required that such findings of FHP-FHN group differences be considered suggestive. In general, FHP and FHN adolescents performed similarly on all neuropsychological measures. Test performance was unrelated to measures of depression and anxiety in both groups. Performance comparisons with earlier studies and normative samples, and the implications for this failure to replicate previously reported group differences between offspring at risk for alcohol-related life problems and normal controls are discussed.
SELECTIVE NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL DYSFUNCTION IN ADOLESCENT SONS OF ALCOHOLIC FATHERS
Creators: name: Rebeta, James Lawrence
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 5203
subject: Clinical and health psychology

description: Current research indicates that family history of alcoholism defines a population at risk, and that offspring of alcoholics may be at high risk for a number of social, behavioral, and cognitive abnormalities. Genetic hypotheses of alcoholism have suggested that the neuro-psychological deficits associated with chronic alcohol abuse might predate the onset of alcoholism. Studies with prealcoholic children or adolescent offspring, however, have been few in number and inconclusive. Research has been unable to clarify the extent to which deficits found among chronic alcoholics in abstract problem-solving, learning and memory, and perceptuomotor skills were consequences of the alcohol abuse and its attendant problems (e.g., head injury, malnutrition, etc.) or, rather, predated the adult alcoholism. This study, therefore, compared the neuropsychological performance of two groups of adolescent males: 30 sons of alcoholic fathers (FHP) and 30 adolescent males without first-degree familial alcoholism (FHN). It was hypothesized that, although groups were equivalent in age, grade level, socioeconomic status (SES), and estimated IQ, the nonalcoholic FHP adolescents would perform differently on tests of nonverbal reasoning, abstract problem-solving, and set persistence; verbal and visual learning and memory; and perceptuomotor coordination, organization, and motor speed. It was further hypothesized that depression and anxiety would be related to neuropsychological test performance. Nonparametric methods of group comparison found tendencies for FHP adolescents to perform less well on a delayed recall task of visual memory and to make more errors on a test of visual tracking and cognitive flexibility. Exploratory stepwise discriminant analyses found that eight variables contributed to overall group differences, but statistical limitations required that such findings of FHP-FHN group differences be considered suggestive. In general, FHP and FHN adolescents performed similarly on all neuropsychological measures. Test performance was unrelated to measures of depression and anxiety in both groups. Performance comparisons with earlier studies and normative samples, and the implications for this failure to replicate previously reported group differences between offspring at risk for alcohol-related life problems and normal controls are discussed.
Gravitational Radiation from Travelling Waves on D-Strings
Creators: name: Blum, Julie D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Boundary states that preserve supersymmetry are constructed for fractional D-strings with travelling waves on a ${\bf C}^3/ {{\bf Z}_2\times {\bf Z}_2}$ orbifold. The gravitational radiation emitted between two D-strings with antiparallel travelling waves is calculated.
description: improvements and corrections
$L_{\infty}$-Algebras of Einstein-Cartan-Palatini Gravity
Creators: name: Ćirić, Marija Dimitrijević
name: Giotopoulos, Grigorios
name: Radovanović, Voja
name: Szabo, Richard J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We give a detailed account of the cyclic $L_\infty$-algebra formulation of general relativity with cosmological constant in the Einstein-Cartan-Palatini formalism on spacetimes of arbitrary dimension and signature, which encompasses all symmetries, field equations and Noether identities of gravity without matter fields. We present a local formulation as well as a global covariant framework, and an explicit isomorphism between the two $L_\infty$-algebras in the case of parallelizable spacetimes. By duality, we show that our $L_\infty$-algebras describe the complete BV-BRST formulation of Einstein-Cartan-Palatini gravity. We give a general description of how to extend on-shell redundant symmetries in topological gauge theories to off-shell correspondences between symmetries in terms of quasi-isomorphisms of $L_\infty$-algebras. We use this to extend the on-shell equivalence between gravity and Chern-Simons theory in three dimensions to an explicit $L_\infty$-quasi-isomorphism between differential graded Lie algebras which applies off-shell and for degenerate dynamical metrics. In contrast, we show that there is no morphism between the $L_\infty$-algebra underlying gravity and the differential graded Lie algebra governing $BF$ theory in four dimensions.
description: 84 pages; v2: minor corrections and changes; v3: exposition improved and references added; Final version to be published in Journal of Mathematical Physics
Sounama (Stenaulophrys) coomani Liang & Webb 2002, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Liang, A. - P.
name: Webb, M. D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2002
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Aphrophoridae
Sounama
Sounama coomani

description: Sounama (Stenaulophrys) coomani sp. nov.
(®gures 66±69, 106)
Length: 4.6 mm, 4.7 mm.
 External characters as in S. (Sounama) acuta but sometimes dorsum more uniformly dark brown.
 Male genitalia similar to asiatica but subgenital plate (®gure 66) more evenly tapered to apex with stouter apical process, style apical process (®gure 67) foot-like in lateroventral view and aedeagal shaft (®gure 69) a little upturned apically with a ventral subapical projection.
 Etymology. Named after A. de Cooman, the collector of the species.
 Material examined. HOLOTYPE, Vietnam, Tonkin, Hoa ± Binh, February 1937 (A. de Cooman) (IZCAS). PARATYPES: 1, same data as holotype; 3, same data as holotype except, August 1940 (IZCAS, BMNH).
 Distribution. North Vietnam.
description: Published as part of Liang, A. - P. & Webb, M. D., 2002, New taxa and revisionary notes in Rhinaulacini spittlebugs from southern Asia (Homoptera: Cercopidae), pp. 729-756 in Journal of Natural History 36 (6) on page 752, DOI: 10.1080/00222930110062336, http://zenodo.org/record/4757353