cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Impact of regulation after the financial crisis
Creators: name: Adamu, Muhammed Shamsuddeen
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2021

description: This thesis comprises five Chapters on the impact of regulation after the crisis of 2007 in the UK and US. The analysis considered different aspects of the crisis as reflected in the three main chapters of this thesis that includes the impact of regulation on the probability of a financial crisis, The impact of regulation on systemic risk, and contagion, interdependence, and the impact of regulation. Chapter 1 introduces the main themes within the thesis. It provides an outline, scope, and brief discussion of thesis contributions. Chapter 2 starts by providing the thesis’s theoretical background after setting out key themes (e.g. early warning models, theories of regulation and banking regulation) that form the research basis. The chapter analysed the impact of regulation on the probability of a crisis, i.e. it assessed the extent that recent regulation has reduced the chances of another crisis occurring. We employ an early warning signal method – Logit model and Bayesian model average to establish this impact. Our results have shown recent regulation has reduced the probability of financial crisis both in the UK and the US and concluded with the proposal of adding Basel III liquidity thresholds variables to the ‘early warning signal’ literature. Chapter 3 examines the interaction between systemic risk and bank¬level variables that were the target of regulation after the crisis. The analysis shows the level of impact that some of the Basel III (an international regulation) and other national regulations (e.g. Ring Fencing in the UK) are having on systemic risk. We employed ∆CoVaR as the proxy for systemic risk and estimated CoVaR using quantile regression and the Garch model before applying Kupiec (1995), Christoffersen and Pelletier (2004), and Lopez (1999) tests to establish the accuracy of our results. Our result shows that the variables that capture Basel III regulation have a significant impact in reducing systemic risk. In contrast, UK¬specific regulation indicates little to no impact in reducing systemic risk. Chapter 4 investigate the impact regulation has had on CDS indexes. In so doing, we established the existence of contagion before the implementation of regulation and Interdependence after that. We then employed Regime dependent Impulse Response Functions to show the indexes that react most to shocks from the system. Finally, chapter 5 concludes and summarises the thesis and provides a discussion of policy implications.
Non-Hermitian oscillator Hamiltonians and multiple Charlier polynomials
Creators: name: Miki, Hiroshi
name: Vinet, Luc
name: Zhedanov, Alexei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 20C35, 42C05, 33C80, 81R05, 81R30

description: A set of r non-Hermitian oscillator Hamiltonians in r dimensions is shown to be simultaneously diagonalizable. Their spectra is real and the common eigenstates are expressed in terms of multiple Charlier polynomials. An algebraic interpretation of these polynomials is thus achieved and the model is used to derive some of their properties.
description: 15 pages
title: Muhlenbergia filiculmis
title: Slimstem muhly
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Dorn, Robert
name: Dorn, Jane
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming
Year: 2006
Subjects: Poaceae
Muhlenbergia
filiculmis

description: Family: Poaceae
description: Genus: Muhlenbergia
description: Species: filiculmis
title: Thelypodiopsis elegans
title: Westwater tumblemustard
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Dorn, Robert
name: Dorn, Jane
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming
Year: 2006
Subjects: Brassicaceae
Thelypodiopsis
elegans

description: Family: Brassicaceae
description: Genus: Thelypodiopsis
description: Species: elegans
Compressing Atmosphere: Ceramic Encounters With Clay, Body and Site
Creators: name: Phelan, Robyn
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 360602
subject: Fine arts
classificationCode: 360601
subject: Crafts

description: Compressing Atmosphere: Ceramic Encounters With Clay, Body and Site identifies compression, the decisive touch and resulting mark of the artist’s body on clay, as a potent starting point to consider practice-led research.

The sense of being in and attuning to the world is through encounters with atmosphere and with the assemblage of material bodies. Linking material and site enquiry, the research reveal how compression is both a method of making and a conceptual lens through which to investigate affective interpretations in ceramic sculpture and exhibition practice.

Compressive potential is understood through the concepts and language of autotheory and theories of affect, feminism, and new materialism. It is established that affect and autotheory is a theoretical framework from which to consider a creative condition of lived compression as experienced by the inhabitation of different sites of research.

By challenging foundational principles of ceramic hand building, this research has revealed ways of producing artwork that manifests a condition of maternal longing, call attention to climate crisis, and presents artefacts of Melbourne’s Covid-19 lockdown period. Atmosphere under compression is a creative condition for a ceramic art practice to perceive, synthesis and critique cultural, social and environmental events as embodied material experiences.
THz and infrared studies of multiferroic hexagonal Y_(1-x)Eu_xMnO_3 (x=0 - 0.2) ceramics
Creators: name: Goian, V.
name: Kamba, S.
name: Kadlec, C.
name: Nuzhnyy, D.
name: Kuzel, P.
name: Moreira, J. Agostinho
name: Almeida, A.
name: Tavares, P. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report an investigation of hexagonal Y_(1-x)Eu_xMnO_3 ceramics with x=0, 0.1 and 0.2 using infrared and THz spectroscopies in the temperature range between 5 and 900 K. The temperature dependence of the THz permittivity reveals a kink near the antiferromagnetic phase transition temperature T_N ~ 70 K giving evidence of a strong spin-lattice coupling. Below T_N two absorption peaks were revealed in the THz spectra close to 43 and 73 cm-1. While the first peak corresponds to a sharp antiferromagnetic resonance exhibiting softening on heating towards TN, the second one may be attributed to an impurity mode or a multiphonon absorption peak. High-temperature THz spectra measured up to 900 K reveal only small gradual increase of the permittivity in agreement with a weak phonon softening observed in the infrared reflectance spectra upon heating. This corresponds to an improper ferroelectric character of the phase transition proposed from first principle calculations by Fennie and Rabe [Phys. Rev. B 72 (2005), pp. 100103(R)].
description: Phase Transitions, accepted
title: Mertensia ciliata
title: Tall fringed bluebells
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Dorn, Robert
name: Dorn, Jane
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming
Year: 2006
Subjects: Boraginaceae
Mertensia
ciliata

description: Family: Boraginaceae
description: Genus: Mertensia
description: Species: ciliata
The Blue Tip of the Stellar Locus: Measuring Reddening with the SDSS
Creators: name: Schlafly, Edward F.
name: Finkbeiner, Douglas P.
name: Schlegel, David J.
name: Jurić, Mario
name: Ivezić, Željko
name: Gibson, Robert R.
name: Knapp, Gillian R.
name: Weaver, Benjamin A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present measurements of reddening due to dust using the colors of stars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We measure the color of main sequence turn-off stars by finding the "blue tip" of the stellar locus: the prominent blue edge in the distribution of stellar colors. The method is sensitive to color changes of order 18, 12, 7, and 8 mmag of reddening in the colors u-g, g-r, r-i, and i-z, respectively, in regions measuring 90' by 14'. We present maps of the blue tip colors in each of these bands over the entire SDSS footprint, including the new dusty southern Galactic cap data provided by the SDSS-III. The results disfavor the best fit O'Donnell (1994) and Cardelli et al. (1989) reddening laws, but are well described by a Fitzpatrick (1999) reddening law with R_V = 3.1. The SFD dust map is found to trace the dust well, but overestimates reddening by factors of 1.4, 1.0, 1.2, and 1.4 in u-g, g-r, r-i, and i-z, largely due to the adopted reddening law. In select dusty regions of the sky, we find evidence for problems in the SFD temperature correction. A dust map normalization difference of 15% between the Galactic north and south sky may be due to these dust temperature errors.
description: 18 pages, 22 figures
Nielsen-Olesen vortices for large Ginzburg-Landau parameter
Creators: name: Burzlaff, Jurgen
name: Navarro-Lerida, Francisco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using analytic and numerical techniques Nielsen-Olesen vortices, which in the context of Ginzburg-Landau theory are known as Abrikosov vortices of type-II superconductors, are studied for large Ginzburg-Landau parameter $λ$. We show that their energy is equal to $(πn^2 /2)\logλ$ to leading order, where $n$ is the winding number of the vortex, and find that the limit of the gauge field can be expressed in terms of the modified Bessel function $K_1$. The leading terms of the asymptotic expansion of the solution are given, and the different contributions to the energy are analyzed.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in PRD
title: Employee Engagement in the Goal Setting Process: Can employee engagement theory improve the goal setting process?
Creators: name: Robertson, MB
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2019

description: This thesis explores how applying elements from the literature on employee engagement can improve the goal setting process within an automotive membership company. The employee engagement literature has a great deal of research that suggests that employees who report high engagement also have a high level of performance. The purpose of this research was to explore whether incorporating variables of engagement within goal setting conversations could create a better experience for the employee. Using an Action Research approach, I expanded my understanding of a workplace problem beyond my experience and use an evidenced-based level of knowledge. I followed the Action Research Cycle to identify themes in the literature, change my organization's goal setting process using variables for engagement from the literature, inquired about the employee experience of the goal setting conversation in pre and post interviews, and To analyze the results, I organized participant interview responses and goal setting document contents into themes, considered how they supported or deviated from the literature, and discussed how I reviewed the goal setting documentation. The findings suggested that using engagement principles, such as employee feedback, work environment, and development can improve the goal setting process for employees, as well as increase the parity between individual and organizational goals. Possible improvements to the redesigned process are to capture and understand participants’ feelings during the process, improve supervisor buy-in before the process introducing to employees, and to simplify the goals setting process further to a minimally viable process with the most significant impact. I recommend future research to measure the impact of an engagement-based goal setting process on performance and to explore how to use employee engagement theory to improve other business processes.
title: Enhancing performance in manufacturing networks: Organizational learning as a means to increase performance.
Creators: name: Arnoldsen, L
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2019

description: This research thesis offers an analysis of organizational learning as it unfolds in the context of performance management and a facilitator of strategic renewal within the LMIOP organization of Novo Nordisk. Organizational learning is, in the current context, recognized to consist of both exploitative and explorative activities for the organization to achieve a continued learning trajectory as suggested in Crossan et al’s (1999) 4I model of organizational learning. Three action research cycles demonstrate how the organization balances the use of known knowledge from the legacy systems and the new knowledge created from learning inspired by external sources. Furthermore, the research cycles illustrate how the organization benefits from the temporary event-structures to create the social context for learning to occur. The research also shows the importance of artefacts and metaphors to help integrating individual’s intuition in organizational learning. The action research cycles have practical implications for the participating members of the organization and me as leader of the LMIOP organization. The work adds to academic knowledge via the empirical evidence of the linkage between organizational learning and increased organizational performance. The work also adds to practice as the knowledge from academia is applied in practice in a real-time change organization. The research has taken place in the Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk during 2017 and 2018.
title: Populus angustifolia
title: Narrowleaf cottonwood
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Dorn, Robert
name: Dorn, Jane
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming
Year: 2006
Subjects: Salicaceae
Populus
angustifolia

description: Family: Salicaceae
description: Genus: Populus
description: Species: angustifolia
Cardiovascular disease prevention in rheumatoid arthritis : three population-based studies in British Columbia
Creators: name: Schmidt, Timothy Joseph
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Background: Previous research suggest that individuals with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) may have an increased risk of Diabetes Mellitus (DM). Furthermore, RA individuals may receive sub-optimal care for their non-RA health related complications. Aims: 1) evaluate the risk of DM in RA compared to the general population; 2) evaluate quality of care for cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention in RA by measuring compliance with general population screening guidelines. Methods: We conducted three studies using a population-based cohort of RA patients from 1996 to 2006, with follow-up until 2010, in British Columbia, identified using previously described criteria (N=36,438). Controls were selected from the general population and matched 1:1 to RA individuals on age, sex, and calendar year. Different inclusion and exclusion criteria were used in each study. Chapter 2 describes the risk of DM during follow-up in an incident RA cohort, and the risk associated with RA medications, using a Cox proportional hazard model. Chapter 3 and 4 describe the compliance with general population screening guidelines for DM and hyperlipidemia in RA compared to the general population, using predefined eligible periods. A generalized estimating equation model was used to compare RA compliance to controls. Results: Incidence of DM was 8.37 and 7.41 per 1,000P/Y in RA and controls, respectively. RA individuals had a 9% increase in the risk of developing DM compared to controls (aHR [95%CI]:1.09[1.02,1.18]). Glucocorticosteroid use was associated with a doubling in the risk of DM, while hydroxychloroquine and methotrexate use were associated with a reduction in the risk of DM. Compliance with the DM screening guideline was 71.4% and 70.6% in RA and controls, respectively. Compliance with the lipid screening guideline was 56% and 59% in RA and controls, respectively. RA individuals had a 5% greater odds of receiving a plasma glucose test and no difference in receiving a lipid test compared to controls. Conclusion: Risk of DM was higher in RA compared to controls, and screening for DM and hyperlipidemia in RA was similar to controls, but are still considered sub-optimal.
Naming Games in Two-Dimensional and Small-World-Connected Random Geometric Networks
Creators: name: Lu, Qiming
name: Korniss, G.
name: Szymanski, B. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We investigate a prototypical agent-based model, the Naming Game, on two-dimensional random geometric networks. The Naming Game [A. Baronchelli et al., J. Stat. Mech.: Theory Exp. (2006) P06014.] is a minimal model, employing local communications that captures the emergence of shared communication schemes (languages) in a population of autonomous semiotic agents. Implementing the Naming Games with local broadcasts on random geometric graphs, serves as a model for agreement dynamics in large-scale, autonomously operating wireless sensor networks. Further, it captures essential features of the scaling properties of the agreement process for spatially-embedded autonomous agents. Among the relevant observables capturing the temporal properties of the agreement process, we investigate the cluster-size distribution and the distribution of the agreement times, both exhibiting dynamic scaling. We also present results for the case when a small density of long-range communication links are added on top of the random geometric graph, resulting in a "small-world"-like network and yielding a significantly reduced time to reach global agreement. We construct a finite-size scaling analysis for the agreement times in this case.
Fiscal Rules and Public Spending: Evidence from Italian Municipalities
Creators: name: Gregori, Wildmer Daniel
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2014
Subjects: SECS-P/01 Economia politica

description: The aim of this paper is to investigate the extent to which local budget spending composition reacts to fiscal rules variations. I consider the budget of Italian municipalities and exploit specific changes in the Domestic Stability Pact’s rules, to perform a difference-in-discontinuities analysis. The results show that not all rules are equally effective: imposing a cap on the total amount of consumption and investment is not as binding as two caps, one specific for consumption and a different one for investment spending. More specifically, the consumption variation is triggered by changes in the level of wages and services spending, while investment relies on infrastructure movements. In addition, there is evidence that when an increase in investment is achieved, there is also a higher budget deficit level.
Suppression factors in diffractive photoproduction of dijets
Creators: name: Klasen, M.
name: Kramer, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: After new publications of H1 data for the diffractive photoproduction of dijets, which overlap with the earlier published H1 data and the recently published data of the ZEUS collaboration, have appeared, we have recalculated the cross sections for this process in next-to-leading order (NLO) of perturbative QCD to see whether they can be interpreted consistently. The results of these calculations are compared to the data of both collaborations. We find that the NLO cross sections disagree with the data, showing that factorization breaking occurs at that order. If direct and resolved contributions are both suppressed by the same amount, the global suppression factor depends on the transverse-energy cut. However, by suppressing only the resolved contribution, also reasonably good agreement with all the data is found with a suppression factor independent of the transverse-energy cut.
description: 28 pages, 11 figures, 3 tables
title: Leadership of Transformational Change: The Assessment and Development of Change Practice in a UN Agency
Creators: name: Fundukova, L
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2018

description: The study is focused on Leadership of transformational change. It was undertaken in 2016-2018 in the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), a specialized UN agency. It aimed at producing actionable knowledge for improvement of management practices in the organization. The study was grounded in Action Research framework (AR) with two parallel processes, research and action, taking place at every step of study implementation. Using organizational ethnography as a research methodology, the study reconstructed the context of leadership of changes from the views and reflections of people working in the organization. Through face-to-face interviews with IFAD managers and focus group discussions with staff, the study identified 4 priority areas for improvement of management of changes in IFAD: strengthening Leadership of changes at collective and individual levels; developing a thorough corporate Change Strategy and building trust in management.
title: Epilobium canum var garrettii
title: Garrett's firechalice
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Dorn, Robert
name: Dorn, Jane
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming
Year: 2006
Subjects: Onagraceae
Epilobium
canum

description: Family: Onagraceae
description: Genus: Epilobium
description: Species: canum
title: Salix brachycarpa var. brachycarpa
title: Shortfruit willow
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Dorn, Robert
name: Dorn, Jane
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming
Year: 2006
Subjects: Salicaceae
Salix
brachycarpa

description: Family: Salicaceae
description: Genus: Salix
description: Species: brachycarpa
The kinematics of ionized gas in Lyman-Break Analogs at z ~ 0.2
Creators: name: Gonçalves, Thiago S.
name: Basu-Zych, Antara
name: Overzier, Roderik
name: Martin, D. Christopher
name: Law, David R.
name: Schiminovich, David
name: Wyder, Ted K.
name: Mallery, Ryan
name: Rich, R. Michael
name: Heckman, Timothy H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results for 19 "Lyman Break Analogs" (LBAs) observed with Keck/OSIRIS with an AO-assisted spatial resolution of less than 200 pc. We detect satellites/companions, diffuse emission and velocity shear, all with high signal-to-noise ratios. These galaxies present remarkably high velocity dispersion along the line of sight(- 70 km s-1), much higher than standard star-forming spirals in the low-redshift universe. We artificially redshift our data to z - 2.2 to allow for a direct comparison with observations of high-z LBGs and find striking similarities between both samples. This suggests that either similar physical processes are responsible for their observed properties, or, alternatively, that it is very difficult to distinguish between different mechanisms operating in the low versus high redshift starburst galaxies based on the available data. The comparison between morphologies in the UV/optical continuum and our kinemetry analysis often shows that neither is by itself sufficient to confirm or completely rule out the contribution from recent merger events. We find a correlation between the kinematic properties and stellar mass, in that more massive galaxies show stronger evidence for a disk-like structure. This suggests a co-evolutionary process between the stellar mass build-up and the formation of morphological and dynamical sub-structure within the galaxy.
description: 18 pages; accepted for publication in ApJ
title: Chimaphila umbellata
title: Pipsissewa
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Dorn, Robert
name: Dorn, Jane
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming
Year: 2006
Subjects: Pyrolaceae
Chimaphila
umbellata

description: Family: Pyrolaceae
description: Genus: Chimaphila
description: Species: umbellata
Designing an Automated Barking Drone to Detect and Repulse Cattle
Creators: name: Sew, Khai Sheng
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 461104
subject: Neural networks
classificationCode: 460205
subject: Intelligent robotics
classificationCode: 400103
subject: Aircraft performance and flight control systems

description: The growth and expansion of the Australian livestock industry have given rise to several challenges associated with the age-old mustering method. Specifically, the direct and indirect costs of mustering livestock have escalated due to increased fatalities associated with quadbikes use, soaring prices of quality sheepdogs, and concerns related to livestock welfare. In response, this research proposes an innovative approach using quadcopters equipped with image recognition technology, specifically the YOLOv4-tiny Object Detection Model (ODM), to assist livestock farmers in conducting these activities more efficiently. The primary objective of this study is to investigate the overall efficiency of such a system, with a focus on the real-time application of an Object Detection Algorithm, Animal-Machine Interaction (AMI), and a machine-vision-based drone positioning architecture for cattle mustering in a real-world environment. There are three main stages to this study: the construction of a quadcopter, the training and evaluation of an object detection model, and the testing of employing such a system to assist farmers in mustering activities. The larger goal of this study is to contribute to modernising livestock management practices and address the challenges posed by traditional mustering methods. Our results showed that the onboard ODM achieved a real-time average precision of 85.35% in detecting cattle on the farm. Additionally, cattle responded predictably to the drone, moving away as it approached. When strategically positioned, the drone effectively guided the cattle toward the desired location. On the other hand, short-term habituation to the presence of barking drones was observed, where the cattle’s escape distance decreased from an initial 85m to 12m after three consecutive trials within the same day. It is important to note that this habituation effect was not long-lasting, as similar behaviour was observed in a preliminary test conducted three months before the experiments. In conclusion, this study demonstrates the feasibility of using a quadcopter to assist with herding activities. Through real-world trials, it has established a foundation for further development and refinement of such systems, paving the way for advancements in livestock management.
Short-term hydro-meteorological forecasting with extreme learning machines
Creators: name: Lima, Aranildo R.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: In machine learning (ML), the extreme learning machine (ELM), a feedforward neural network model which assigns random weights in the single hidden layer and optimizes only the weights in the output layer, has the fully nonlinear modelling capability of the traditional artificial neural network (ANN) model but is solved via linear least squares, as in multiple linear regression (MLR). Chapter 2 evaluated ELM against MLR and three nonlinear ML methods (ANN, support vector regression and random forest) on nine environmental regression problems. ELM was then developed for short-term forecasting of hydro-meteorological variables. In situations where new data arrive continually, the need to make frequent model updates often renders ANN impractical. An online learning algorithm – the online sequential extreme learning machine (OSELM) – is automatically updated inexpensively as new data arrive. In Chapter 3, OSELM was applied to forecast daily streamflow at two small watersheds in British Columbia, Canada, at lead times of 1–3 days. Predictors used were weather forecast data generated by the NOAA Global Ensemble Forecasting System (GEFS), and local hydro-meteorological observations. OSELM forecasts were tested with daily, monthly or yearly model updates, with the nonlinear OSELM easily outperforming the benchmark, the online sequential MLR (OSMLR). A major limitation of OSELM is that the number of hidden nodes (HN), which controls the model complexity, remains the same as in the initial model, even when the arrival of new data renders the fixed number of HN sub-optimal. A new variable complexity online sequential extreme learning machine (VC-OSELM), proposed in Chapter 4, automatically adds or removes HN as online learning proceeds, so the model complexity self-adapts to the new data. For streamflow predictions at lead time of one day, VC-OSELM outperformed OSELM when the initial number of HN turned out to be smaller or larger than optimal. In summary, by using linear least squares instead of nonlinear optimization, ELM offers a major advantage over a traditional method like ANN. In situations where new data arrive continually, OSELM and VC-OSELM were shown in this thesis to be more useful than ANN and OSMLR.
Semi-classical theory for quantum quenches in finite transverse Ising chains
Creators: name: Rieger, Heiko
name: Iglói, Ferenc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a quantitative semi-classical theory for the non-equilibrium dynamics of transverse Ising chains after quantum quenches, in particular sudden changes of the transverse field strength. We obtain accurate predictions for the quench dependent relaxation times and correlation lengths, and also about the recurrence times and quasiperiodicity of time dependent correlations in finite systems with open or periodic boundary conditions. We compare the quantiative predictions of our semi-classical theory (local magnetization, equal time bulk-bulk and surface-to-bulk correlations, and bulk autocorrelations) with the results from exact free fermion calculations and discuss the range of applicability of the semi-classical theory and possible generaliztaions and extensions.
description: 11 pages, 10 figures
title: Clematis hirsutissima
title: Hairy clematis
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Dorn, Robert
name: Dorn, Jane
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming
Year: 2006
Subjects: Ranunculaceae
Clematis
hirsutissima

description: Family: Ranunculaceae
description: Genus: Clematis
description: Species: hirsutissima
title: Eriogonum pauciflorum
title: Fewflower buckwheat
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Dorn, Robert
name: Dorn, Jane
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming
Year: 2006
Subjects: Polygonaceae
Eriogonum
pauciflorum

description: Family: Polygonaceae
description: Genus: Eriogonum
description: Species: pauciflorum
Gay Harkness, Smiling
Creators: name: Kelsey, Carleton
name: Amagansett Historical Association
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1959
Subjects: Amagansett
People
Photographs
Portraits
Women

description: This photograph was either taken or collected by Amagansett historian and librarian Carleton Kelsey. Notation on reverse provides the date and indicates this was a reprint. Other images of Gay exist in this collection.
description: This photograph is part of the collection of the Carleton Kelsey Collection of the Amagansett Historical Association. Kelsey was a local historian and librarian who collected photographs from others to add to the many photographs he took of the community himself.
Shape changes and large-amplitude collective dynamics in neutron-rich Cr isotopes
Creators: name: Yoshida, Kenichi
name: Hinohara, Nobuo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Shape-phase transition in neutron-rich Cr isotopes around N=40 is investigated by employing the collective Hamiltonian approach. The inertial functions for large-amplitude vibration and rotation are evaluated by the local normal modes along the axial quadrupole collective coordinate using the Skyrme and pairing energy density functionals. The time-odd components of the mean fields are fully included in the derived masses. The low-lying spectra obtained by requantizing the collective Hamiltonian show an excellent agreement with the recent experimental data. Gradual change from spherical to axially deformed shapes in between N=34 and 38 is well described.
description: 5 pages including 4 figures, submitted to PRC
The Sun's meridional circulation and interior magnetic field
Creators: name: Wood, Toby S.
name: McCaslin, Jeremy O.
name: Garaud, Pascale
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: To date, no self-consistent numerical simulation of the solar interior has succeeded in reproducing the observed thinness of the solar tachocline, and the persistence of uniform rotation beneath it. Although it is known that the uniform rotation can be explained by the presence of a global-scale confined magnetic field, numerical simulations have thus far failed to produce any solution where such a field remains confined against outward diffusion. We argue that the problem lies in the choice of parameters for which these numerical simulations have been performed. We construct a simple analytical magneto-hydrodynamic model of the solar interior and identify several distinct parameter regimes. For realistic solar parameter values, our results are in broad agreement with the tachocline model of Gough & McIntyre. In this regime, meridional flows driven at the base of the convection zone are of sufficient amplitude to hold back the interior magnetic field against diffusion. For the parameter values used in existing numerical simulations, on the other hand, we find that meridional flows are significantly weaker and, we argue, unable to confine the interior field. We propose a method for selecting parameter values in future numerical models.
description: 49 pages, 11 figures, in press in the Astrophysical Journal
title: Cerastium arvense
title: Field chickweed
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Dorn, Robert
name: Dorn, Jane
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming
Year: 2006
Subjects: Caryophyllaceae
Cerastium
arvense

description: Family: Caryophyllaceae
description: Genus: Cerastium
description: Species: arvense
Polarized superfluid state in a three-dimensional fermionic optical lattice
Creators: name: Koga, A.
name: Bauer, J.
name: Werner, P.
name: Pruschke, Th.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study ultracold fermionic atoms trapped in a three dimensional optical lattice by combining the real-space dynamical mean-field approach with continuous-time quantum Monte Carlo simulations. For a spin-unpolarized system we show results the density and pair potential profile in the trap for a range of temperatures. We discuss how a polarized superfluid state is spatially realized in the spin-polarized system with harmonic confinement at low temperatures and present the local particle density, local magnetization, and pair potential.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures
A Boolean algebra and a Banach space obtained by push-out iteration
Creators: name: Avilés, Antonio
name: Brech, Christina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 06E05, 03E35, 03G05, 46B26, 54G05, 18A30

description: Under the assumption that the continuum c is a regular cardinal, we prove the existence and uniqueness of a Boolean algebra B of size c defined by sharing the main structural properties that P(N)/fin has under CH and in the aleph2-Cohen model. We prove a similar result in the category of Banach spaces.
Beryllium Abundances of Solar-Analog Stars
Creators: name: Takeda, Yoichi
name: Tajitsu, Akito
name: Honda, Satoshi
name: Kawanomoto, Satoshi
name: Ando, Hiroyasu
name: Sakurai, Takashi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An extensive beryllium abundance analysis was conducted for 118 solar analogs (along with 87 FGK standard stars) by applying the spectrum synthesis technique to the near-UV region comprising the Be II line at 3131.066 A, in an attempt to investigate whether Be suffers any depletion such as the case of Li showing a large diversity. We found that, while most of these Sun-like stars are superficially similar in terms of their A(Be) (Be abundances) around the solar value within ~ +/- 0.2dex, 4 out of 118 samples turned out strikingly Be-deficient (by more than ~2 dex) and these 4 stars belong to the group of lowest v_e sin i (projected rotation velocity). Moreover, even for the other majority showing an apparent similarity in Be, we can recognize a tendency that A(Be) gradually increases with an increase in v_e sin i. These observational facts suggest that any solar analog star (including the Sun) generally suffers some kind of Be depletion during their lives, where the rotational velocity (or the angular momentum) plays an important role in the sense that depletion tends to be enhanced by slower rotation. Hence, our findings require that the occasionally stated view "G-type dwarfs with T_eff ~< 6000 K are essentially homogeneous in Be with their original composition retained" should be revised. Also, our analysis indicates that the difference of ~0.2 dex in A(Be) between the solar photosphere and the meteorite really exists, implying that "UV missing opacity" is irrelevant at least for this Be II line.
description: 18 pages, 12 figures, 3 tables and 3 electronic tables (included as ancillary files), accepted for publication in Publ. Astron. Soc. Japan (2011, Vol. 63, No. 4)
title: Tradescantia occidentalis
title: Prairie spiderwort
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Dorn, Robert
name: Dorn, Jane
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming
Year: 2006
Subjects: Commelinaceae
Tradescantia
occidentalis

description: Family: Commelinaceae
description: Genus: Tradescantia
description: Species: occidentalis
title: Celastrus scandens
title: American bittersweet
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Dorn, Robert
name: Dorn, Jane
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming
Year: 2006
Subjects: Celastraceae
Celastrus
scandens

description: Family: Celastraceae
description: Genus: Celastrus
description: Species: scandens
DEP Bulletin: Volume 40 Issue 21
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: The DEP bulletin is a semi-monthly publication of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. It contains a list of construction permit applications recently filed or acted upon by the Department along with a calendar of events of interest, a schedule of public hearings, and Environmental Impact Statements acted upon during the period.
title: Symphoricarpos oreophilus
title: Mountain snowberry
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Dorn, Robert
name: Dorn, Jane
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming
Year: 2006
Subjects: Caprifolaceae
Symphoricarpos
oreophilus

description: Family: Caprifolaceae
description: Genus: Symphoricarpos
description: Species: oreophilus
title: Orthocarpus tenuifolius
title: Thinleaved owl's-clover
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Dorn, Robert
name: Dorn, Jane
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming
Year: 2006
Subjects: Scrophulariaceae
Orthocarpus
tenuifolius

description: Family: Scrophulariaceae
description: Genus: Orthocarpus
description: Species: tenuifolius
Unconventional Superconductivity near Inhomogeneities
Creators: name: Poenicke, Andreas
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2008

description: In der Arbeit wurde der Einfluss von Inhomogenitaeten in verschiedenen Systeme unkonventioneller Supraleiter untersucht. Mit der quasiklassischen Theorie der Supraleitung wird die spezifische Waerme in Sr2RuO4 fuer verschiedene Modelle betrachtet. Im weiteren werden Transporteigenschaften von Kontakten zwischen Hochtemperatur-Supraleitern und der Einfluss von Verunreinigungen untersucht. Im letzten Teil wird eine S-Matrix zur Beschreibung von Supraleiter-Ferromagnet-Heterostrukturen hergeleitet.
title: Lonicera ciliosa
title: Orange honeysuckle
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Dorn, Robert
name: Dorn, Jane
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming
Year: 2006
Subjects: Caprifolaceae
Lonicera
ciliosa

description: Family: Caprifolaceae
description: Genus: Lonicera
description: Species: ciliosa
Link creation and profile alignment in the aNobii social network
Creators: name: Aiello, Luca Maria
name: Barrat, Alain
name: Cattuto, Ciro
name: Ruffo, Giancarlo
name: Schifanella, Rossano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The present work investigates the structural and dynamical properties of aNobii\footnote{http://www.anobii.com/}, a social bookmarking system designed for readers and book lovers. Users of aNobii provide information about their library, reading interests and geographical location, and they can establish typed social links to other users. Here, we perform an in-depth analysis of the system's social network and its interplay with users' profiles. We describe the relation of geographic and interest-based factors to social linking. Furthermore, we perform a longitudinal analysis to investigate the interplay of profile similarity and link creation in the social network, with a focus on triangle closure. We report a reciprocal causal connection: profile similarity of users drives the subsequent closure in the social network and, reciprocally, closure in the social network induces subsequent profile alignment. Access to the dynamics of the social network also allows us to measure quantitative indicators of preferential linking.
description: http://www.iisocialcom.org/conference/socialcom2010/
Design thinking mindset: a user-centred approach toward innovation in the Welsh creative industries
Creators: name: Suhaimi, Safia Najwa
name: Walters, Andrew
name: Ward, Jo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: The Design Thinking (DT) mindset, a fundamental aspect of User-Centred Design (UCD), is often presented as a powerful and accessible trigger for innovation. There is much discussion in the extant literature on the communication of the DT concept to non-design practitioners to encourage broader use of design-led innovation. The present study expands this discussion by exploring which DT mindset attributes are considered meaningful for non-design professionals in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It presents a UCD intervention that embeds the DT mindset attributes to introduce design-led innovation to SMEs of the Welsh creative industries. Semi-structured interviews, non-participatory observation, and reflective open-ended questioning are utilised to analyse the impact of the intervention in supporting creative industry practitioners’ understanding of the DT mindset and design-led innovation approaches. Our findings demonstrate that the intervention has prompted participants to (i) challenge the idea of ‘ideas,’ (ii) frame failure as an option, (iii) learn to trust the process, (iv) acquire innovation self-efficacy, (v) view collaboration = learning, and (vi) change their perception of innovation. We discuss how these identified ‘mindset shifts’ are valuable toward building individual innovation capacities in non-design industries.
title: Calylophus lavandulifolius
title: Lavenderleaf sundrops
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Dorn, Robert
name: Dorn, Jane
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming
Year: 2006
Subjects: Onagraceae
Calylophus
lavandulifolius

description: Family: Onagraceae
description: Genus: Calylophus
description: Species: lavandulifolius
To inspire social justice and school transformation : what is the lived curriculum we have co-created at the community school?
Creators: name: Ondrik, Kimberley
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: This study seeks to inspire innovative practice in teaching that can inform the design of 21st century learning environments, a need that prescriptive pedagogy and one size fits all methods do not address though they remain the dominant discourse and practice. This study takes a mindful stance, providing data with soul, to stimulate conversations among teachers, parents, the school system, and the community towards the goal of school transformation. The Community School (VCS) was the research site for this study. The life of VCS was documented over the period of its inaugural year using Practioner inquiry and Portraiture. This study of living utilized classroom artifacts, audio-recordings, field notes, open-ended responses and student journal writing, interviews, a research journal and photographs. The synthesis of all this data went through several inductive processes, for both teachers and students. This study intersects theory, research, and practice—an illustrative example of emergent, responsive, and co-created curriculum. It unpacks and connects notions such as reverence, mindfulness, social justice, student-centred learning, and living curriculum that embody both relational epistemology and social justice rooted in community. It recognizes the unpredictable complexity of authentic growth and the reality that knowledge is provisional, textual, multiple, and never finished or complete. The Community School is becoming an example to other educators in British Columbia of how really trusting in principles of learning like patience and time stimulates deep root, whole-person growth and fruitful thinking that sustains itself. Though the work of this study is nested in the particulars of VCS—one school of 56 students in grades 7-9— and therefore cannot be generalizable, it concludes that in order for 21st century practices to take root there is a need for an educational culture that is non-judgmental, reverential, and openly supportive of diverse ways of being and doing in the world. To this end, this study also concludes that the enthusiasm of this practitioner researcher for lived curriculum must be tempered in order for threatened yet curious colleagues to feel safe entering into conversations about the educational possibilities of VCS as one example that holds the potential for school transformation.
title: Eritrichium nanum
title: Arctic alpine forget-me-not
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Dorn, Robert
name: Dorn, Jane
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming
Year: 2006
Subjects: Boraginaceae
Eritrichium
nanum

description: Family: Boraginaceae
description: Genus: Eritrichium
description: Species: nanum