cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: A Rapid Assessment Function to Estimate Common Raven Population Densities: Implications for Targeted Management
Creators: name: Brussee, Brianne E.
name: Coates, Peter S.
name: O'Neil, Shawn T.
name: Dettenmaier, Seth J.
name: Jackson, Pat J.
name: Howe, Kristy B.
name: Delehanty, David
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2021

description: Common raven (Corvus corax; raven) populations have increased over the past 5 decades within the western United States. Raven population increases have been largely attributed to growing resource subsidies from expansion of human enterprise. Concomitantly, managers are becoming increasingly concerned about elevated adverse effects on multiple sensitive prey species, damage to livestock and agriculture, and human safety. Managers could benefit from a rapid but reliable method to estimate raven densities across spatiotemporal scales to monitor raven populations more efficiently and inform targeted and adaptive management frameworks. However, obtaining estimates of raven density is data- and resource-intensive, which renders monitoring within an adaptive framework unrealistic. To address this need, we developed a rapid survey protocol for resource managers to estimate site-level density based on the average number of ravens per survey. Specifically, we first estimated raven densities at numerous field sites with robust distance sampling procedures and then used regression to investigate the relationship between those density estimates and the number of ravens per survey, which revealed a strong correlation (R2 = 0.86). For management application, we provide access to R function software through a web-based interface to estimate density using number of ravens per survey, which we refer to as a Rapid Assessment Function (RAF). Then, using a simulation analysis of data from sites with abundant surveys and the RAF, we estimated raven density based on different numbers of surveys to help inform how many surveys are needed to achieve reliable estimates within this rapid assessment. While more robust procedures of distance sampling are the preferred methods for estimating raven densities from count surveys, the RAF tool presented herein provides a reliable approximation for informing management decisions when managers are faced with resource and small sample size constraints.
The review and investigation of sustainable 13-level multilevel inverter control strategies
Creators: name: T, Jarin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Communications engineering not elsewhere classified

description: This artefact deals with review and the comparative assessment of three different closed loop control approaches for cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverter (CHBMLI) fed 3 Φ induction motor. The sustainable solar energy has been efficiently used as input of the proposed MLI. The 12 IGBT switches have been used to achieve 13 levels for 1 Φ so 36 IGBT switches are utilised for 3 Φ inverter. The ANFIS, PID and fuzzy intelligent controllers are employed with feedback signals to get the optimum solution. The analysis of 13-level CHBMLI with ANFIS, fuzzy and PID controllers are designed. The performances are measured by using an open loop and closed loop environment with two compassionate speeds. The performances are % of THD, steady state error, settling time and peak time is measured and compared by using MATLAB-Simulink.
Supplementary Material Guide from Not your private tête-à-tête: leveraging the power of higher-order networks to study animal communication
Creators: name: Iacopini, Iacopo
name: Foote, Jennifer
name: Fefferman, Nina
name: Derryberry, Elizabeth
name: Silk, Matthew
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 310901
subject: Animal behaviour

description: Overview of the different parts of the supplementary materials of the paper
An overview of security issues in Internet of Things based smart environments
Creators: name: T, Jarin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Communications engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) and Internet of Things (IoT) together have the potential to change the whole world into a smart planet. IoT technology has been a huge boon for a clean, green, and sustainable environment. This technology benefits numerous industries by improving connectivity and reducing energy wastage. IoT has the potential to make our environment more sustainable and help us to reduce pollution all across the globe. But due to limited resources in both these networks, it is very challenging to form a complete secure system. This survey paper examines the various security requirements and attacks possible in WSN and IoT. The paper surveys existing approaches like blockchain, fog/edge computing and machine learning to ensure security of IoT systems. The paper also evaluates the performance of common machine learning algorithms using IoT datasets.
Neogoniolithon (Corallinales, Rhodophyta) on the Atlantic coast of Mexico, including N. siankanensis sp. nov.
Creators: name: Gabrielson, Paul W.
name: Mateo-Cid, Luz Elena
name: Mendoza González, A. Catalina
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: This is the first revision of Neogoniolithon species on the east coast of Mexico based on both DNA sequences (psbA) and morpho-anatomical characters. Nine species names are provisionally applied based on morpho-anatomical comparisons with type specimens or with species descriptions: N. accretum, N. acropetum, N. erosum, N. mamillare, N. propinquum, N. rhizophorae, N. solubile, N. spectabile and N. strictum. For none of these species was type or topotype material sequenced, but all have their type localities in the subtropical or tropical western Atlantic Ocean. Neogoniolithon siankanensis is described on the basis of a distinctive branched thallus, apical tetrasporangial conceptacles and DNA sequence. Another four species are present, each characterized by DNA sequence, but insufficient reproductive material was available to adequately describe these species. A suite of vegetative and reproductive characters can adequately segregate the currently named Mexican east coast Neogoniolithon species, including 1) branched versus unbranched thalli, 2) monomerous versus dimerous construction, 3) disposition of trichocytes, 4) interior dimensions of mature tetrasporangial conceptacles, 5) number of cell layers comprising tetrasporangial conceptacle roof and 6) shape of cells that line tetrasporangial pore canal. Morpho-anatomical descriptions and distributions are provided for all named species.
(103539) Robert Lewis
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Controllability to the origin implies state-feedback stabilizability for discrete-time nonlinear systems
Creators: name: Hanba, Shigeru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 93D15 (Primary), 93B05 (Secondary)

description: The problem of state-feedback stabilizability of discrete-time nonlinear systems has been considered in this note. Two assertions have been proved. First, if the system is $N$-step controllable to the origin, then there is a state feedback control law for which the trajectory of the closed-loop system converges to the origin in $N$ steps. Second, if the system is asymptotically controllable to the origin and satisfies the controllability rank condition at the origin, then there is a state feedback control law for which the trajectory of the closed-loop system converges to the origin in finite steps.
description: This work was supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science under Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) 23560535. This document is the accepted version of the manuscript published in Automatica. Copyright 2018. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Supplementary material from Calling to the collective: contact calling rates within groups of disc-winged bats do not vary by kinship or association
Creators: name: Chaverri, Gloriana
name: Sagot, Maria
name: Stynoski, Jennifer L
name: Araya-Salas, Marcelo
name: Araya-Ajoy, Yimen
name: Nagy, Martina
name: Knörnschild, Mirjam
name: Chaves-Ramírez, Silvia
name: Rose, Nicole
name: Sánchez-Chavarría, Mariela
name: Jiménez-Torres, Yelananie
name: Ulloa-Sanabria, Deilyn
name: Solís-Hernández, Hellen
name: Carter, Gerald G.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 310901
subject: Animal behaviour

description: Vocal interactions_v2_supplementary material.docx
Helical Disruptions in Small Loops of DNA
Creators: name: Zoli, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The thermodynamical stability of DNA minicircles is investigated by means of path integral techniques. Hydrogen bonds between base pairs on complementary strands can be broken by thermal fluctuations and temporary fluctuational openings along the double helix are essential to biological functions such as transcription and replication of the genetic information. Helix unwinding and bubble formation patterns are computed in circular sequences with variable radius in order to analyze the interplay between molecule size and appearance of helical disruptions. The latter are found in minicircles with $< 100$ base pairs and appear as a strategy to soften the stress due to the bending and torsion of the helix.
description: International Conference on Mathematical Modeling in Physical Sciences, August 28-31, 2014, Madrid, Spain
A problem in non-linear Diophantine approximation
Creators: name: Harrap, Stephen
name: Hussain, Mumtaz
name: Kristensen, Simon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11K60, 11J83, 11J86, 37A45

description: In this paper we obtain the Lebesgue and Hausdorff measure results for the set of vectors satisfying infinitely many fully non-linear Diophantine inequalities. The set is associated with a class of linear inhomogeneous partial differential equations whose solubility depends on a certain Diophantine condition. The failure of the Diophantine condition guarantees the existence of a smooth solution.
description: 22 pages, introduction is edited to give concrete applications of our results. An error has been rectified in the proof of the main theorem
Critical Investigation and Prototype Study on Deep Brain Simulations: An Application of Biomedical Engineering in Healthcare
Creators: name: T, Jarin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biomedical engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Electrical stimulation of the brain is a vital tool for the examination of brain activities on a neural basis. It is a fruitful method for exploring the brain-behavior relationships. Studies show that there is a considerable response when triggering pulses are applied in specified regions. Neurons that can be triggered successively can be connected. Multineuron stimulation is a unique method that stimulates the brain in different areas. For this, introduce 104a product called “Brain Stitcher” that helps to broaden the capability of the brain. Brain stitcher can make the connection between the desired parts of the brain. Depending upon the neurologists’ recommendation, the proper amount of voltage for the proper amount of time could be applied to a series of locations in the brain repetitively by this brain stitcher, which in turn will wire the required parts of the brain. This will be a promising product that can be considered a cure for various diseases that are closely about brain activity. It includes conditions like mental retardation, epilepsy, Parkinson’s disease, cognitive disabilities, neural disorders, brain stroke, and even for normal people.
(103541) John Morgan Owen
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
New Insights into the Genus Lithophyllum (Lithophylloideae, Corallinaceae, Corallinales) from Deepwater Rhodolith Beds Offshore the NW Gulf of Mexico
Creators: name: Fredericq, Suzanne
name: Gabrielson, Paul W.
name: Richards, Joseph L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Hard bank rhodolith beds at 45–80 m depth offshore Louisiana in the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico harbor a diverse community of non-geniculate coralline algae spanning multiple lineages including both rhodolith-forming (biogenic) taxa and others encrusting autogenic rhodoliths. Identifying these members of the Corallinales to the correct genus and species is an ongoing process because many available names need to be validated by comparison to historical type specimens. A phylogenetic analysis of concatenated plastid (psbA), nuclear (LSU rDNA), and mitochondrial (COI) DNA sequences of non-geniculate corallines belonging to the subfamily Lithophylloideae (Corallinaceae), including newly generated sequences from recently collected specimens dredged at Ewing and Sackett Banks following the April 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, reveals at least two distinct species of Lithophyllum sensu lato for the region. Scanning Electron Microscopy confirmed the presence of vegetative characters congruent with those for both Lithophyllum and Titanoderma. Lithophyllum is a newly reported genus for the northern Gulf of Mexico. The generic boundaries within the Lithophylloideae are addressed in light of possible evolutionary progenetic heterochrony that may have occurred within this subfamily
Quantum rigidity of negatively curved manifolds
Creators: name: Chirvasitu, Alexandru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20G42, 32Q05, 53C21, 54E45

description: We show that an isometric action of a compact quantum group on the underlying geodesic metric space of a compact connected Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ with strictly negative curvature is automatically classical, in the sense that it factors through the action of the isometry group of $(M,g)$. This partially answers a question by D. Goswami.
description: 23 pages + references
DISTRIBUTED FAIR CHANNEL UTILIZATION IN DYNAMIC SPECTRUM ACCESS NETWORKS
Creators: name: Duong, Truc
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2022

description: With the exponential growth of wireless devices, dynamic spectrum access (DSA) has been considered a promising solution to alleviate spectrum scarcity. The FCC static assignment of frequency channels often results in underutilized bands as the licensed user remain idle for a significant amount of time. Dynamic Spectrum Access allows unlicensed secondary users to opportunistically transmit in licensed channels when the primary user is absent. The un-coordinated competition over resources among secondary users poses various challenges in dynamic spectrum access networks. In this work, we consider a distributed dynamic spectrum access network scheme to address coexistence challenges. We begin by extending a previously defined bio-social inspired behavioral model where SUs have the ability to avoid overcrowded channels by sensing the band occupancy levels. Our extension of the contention-sensing model allows SUs to dynamically determine their probability to switch bands as they become overcrowded. We show that as the systems scales, our proposed behavioral model outperforms the previously defined contention-sensing model with respect to utility. Furthermore, we show that as the system scale, our scheme achieves a fair and robust system where unilateral deviation from the scheme is not beneficial.
(103535) Reverend Morgan Griffiths
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Using dexmedetomidne to facilitate opioid sparing anesthesia
Creators: name: Tillman, Casey
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2022

description: Purpose of the study: The purpose of this project was to increase the use of Dexmedetomidine for its opioid sparing properties. Methodology: This project used a prospective, descriptive, design. First a Gap Analysis Survey was used to assess a need for more provider education. Next, a point of care Dexmedetomidine Workshop was implemented and dosage badge buddy made available to help increase the use of Dexmedetomidine in practice. Results: A total of 100 participants responded to the Gap Analysis survey. Eighty-six percent of participants either “agree” or “strongly agree” that a Dexmedetomidine workshop and badge buddy would be helpful in increasing their knowledge and comfortability with the drug. Eight weeks following the point of care Dexmedetomidine workshop, there were 31 downloads of the dosage badge buddy and 18 downloads of the PowerPoint Presentation for a total of 49 downloads from the professional state organization of nurse anesthetists’ website. Implications in Practice: The Dexmedetomidine dosage badge buddy is an educational tool for not only anesthesia clinical providers but can be used for resident registered nurse anesthetists in their studies and clinical practicums as well. Further, the basis of the badge buddy, providing dosages, route, timing, and common side effects can also be used by various medical professionals and nursing students in their education and training.
Matrix coefficient realization theory of noncommutative rational functions
Creators: name: Volčič, Jurij
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Noncommutative rational functions, i.e., elements of the universal skew field of fractions of a free algebra, can be defined through evaluations of noncommutative rational expressions on tuples of matrices. This interpretation extends their traditional important role in the theory of division rings and gives rise to their applications in other areas, from free real algebraic geometry to systems and control theory. If a noncommutative rational function is analytic at the origin, it can be described by a linear object, called a {\em realization}. In this article we present a realization theory that is applicable to {\em arbitrary} noncommutative rationals function and is well-adapted for studying matrix evaluations. Of special interest are the minimal realizations, which compensate the absence of a canonical form for noncommutative rational functions. The non-minimality of a realization is assessed by obstruction modules associated with it, they enable us to devise an efficient method for obtaining minimal realizations. With them we describe the extended domain of a noncommutative rational function and define a numerical invariant that measures its complexity. Using these results we determine concrete size bounds for rational identity testing, construct minimal symmetric realizations and prove an effective local-global principle of linear dependence for noncommutative rational functions.
All News is Bad News: Newspaper Coverage of Political Parties in Spain
Creators: name: Chaqués Bonafont, Laura
name: Baumgartner, Frank
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Spain has a highly partisan media system, with newspapers reaching self-selected partisan audiences and espousing explicitly partisan editorial preferences. Do the newspapers of the left and right differ in how they cover politics in ways that can be predicted by their partisan leanings? We review theories of issue-ownership, journalistic standards, and information scarcity and test hypotheses derived from each. We find that the parties converge substantially in virtually every aspect of their coverage. Few differences emerge when we look at what topics are covered or in the dynamics of which topics gain attention over time. However, we confirm important differences across the papers when they make explicit reference to individual political parties. Journalistic norms result in a surprising focus on the faults of one’s enemies, however, rather than the virtues of one’s allies. Our assessment is based on a comprehensive database of all front-page stories in El País and El Mundo, Spain’s largest daily newspapers, from 1996 through 2011.
Using dexmedetomidine to facilitate opioid sparing anesthesia
Creators: name: Latourette, Claire
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2022

description: Purpose of the study:The purpose of this project was to increase the use of Dexmedetomidine for its opioid sparing properties.Methodology:This project used a prospective, descriptive, design. First a Gap Analysis Survey was used to assess a need for more provider education. Next, a point of care Dexmedetomidine Workshop was implemented and dosage badge buddy made available to help increase the use of Dexmedetomidine in practice. Results: A total of 100 participants responded to the Gap Analysis survey. Eighty-six percent of participants either “agree” or “strongly agree” that a Dexmedetomidine workshop and badge buddy would be helpful in increasing their knowledge and comfortability with the drug. Eight weeks following the point of care Dexmedetomidine workshop, there were 31 downloads of the dosage badge buddy and 18 downloads of the PowerPoint Presentation for a total of 49 downloads from the professional state organization of nurse anesthetists’ website. Implications in Practice: The Dexmedetomidine dosage badge buddy is an educational tool for not only anesthesia clinical providers but can be used for resident registered nurse anesthetists in their studies and clinical practicums as well. Further, the basis of the badge buddy, providing dosages, route, timing, and common side effects can also be used by various medical professionals and nursing students in their education and training.
Neutral Pion Photoproduction in a Regge Model
Creators: name: Mathieu, V.
name: Fox, G.
name: Szczepaniak, A. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The reaction $γp \to π^0 p$ is investigated in the energy range above the resonance region. The amplitudes include the leading Regge singularities in the cross-channel and correctly describe the differential cross section for beam energies above 4 GeV and for the $s-$channel scattering angle $\cosθ_s\ge 0.6$. The energy dependence of the beam asymmetry and the reaction $γn \to π^0 n$ seem is quantitative consistent with the Regge-pole dominance.
description: 13 pages, 6 figures. Material (codes, simulation, ...) available at http://www.indiana.edu/~jpac/index.html
(103538) Reverend Evan Williams
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Extracting gluon condensate from the average plaquette
Creators: name: Lee, Taekoon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The perturbative contribution in the average plaquette is subtracted using Borel summation and the remnant of the plaquette is shown to scale as a dim-4 condensate. A critical review is presented of the renormalon subtraction scheme that claimed a dim-2 condensate. The extracted gluon condensate is compared with the latest result employing high order (35-loop) calculation in the stochastic perturbation theory.
description: 4 pages, Talk given at QCD14, the 17th International QCD Conference, 30 June--4 July 2014, Montpellier (France), to appear in the Proceedings
An Empirical Verification of the Proposed Distributor Marketing Intelligence System (DMiS) Model
Creators: name: T, Jarin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Economic theory not elsewhere classified

description: Distributors are close to the customers and vital in understanding them; thus act as a serious link in any organisations marketing intelligence system. Distributors are also critical in local adaptation of the companys marketing activities based on the prevalent local conditions, which is essential for market success. The distributor choice-making pattern deals with their selling and marketing parameters everyday choice based on their appraisal of data about competitors, clients, and other local factors (the local market intelligence) helping them adapt to local customer requirements. This study uses a descriptive cross-sectional design to ascertain the reliability and validity of the proposed distributor marketing intelligence system (DMiS) model and to ascertain the degree of responsiveness exhibited by the distributors based on their market intelligence and marketing involvement, among packaged goods distributors. The resultant scale can find application in recruitment and evaluation of channel partners and in designing suitable training programs for them.
Religion and Latino Partisanship in the United States
Creators: name: Kelly, Jana Morgan
name: Kelly, Nathan J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2005

description: This paper examines the interplay between religion, ethnicity, and the partisanship of Latinos in the United States. Using pooled data from the 1990-2000 National Election Studies, we assess denominational affiliation and religious commitment as explanations of partisanship. We show that there is more religious diversity among Latinos than is usually acknowledged in studies of Latino politics and that the political importance of religion among Latinos has not been adequately assessed because variation beyond a Catholic/non-Catholic dichotomy has been ignored. We demonstrate that variation in Latino religious affiliation has important political implications.
(103536) Reverend John Owen Evans
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Federal Policy Activity and the Mobilization of State Lobbying Organizations
Creators: name: Lowery, David
name: Gray, Virginia
name: Baumgartner, Frank
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: The mobilization of organized interests is affected not only by social and economic “supply” factors but also by government-related “demand” factors as well. We add to a growing literature noting the impact of government activity on the mobilization of interests by examining how federal policy activity stimulates subsequent lobbying activity at the state level. Empirically, we do this by introducing the federal hearings data used by Leech et al. (2005) into the model of state lobbying registrations used by Gray et al. (2005). We find that Congressional hearings in a particular issue-area have significant effects on the mobilization of state interest organizations in that same area. The effects appear to be stronger in those issue-areas with greater federal involvement and in those states with more professionalized legislatures. Our paper adds to a large literature on how policies can create their own politics, and to a growing literature on the coevolution of groups and the state. We emphasize the intergovernmental aspects of these dynamics here
description: federal level activities affect the mobilization of interest groups not only at the federal level, but in the states as well.
Synthesis and characterization of a neutral six-coordinate tris-adduct of an indium(III) trihalide. X-ray crystal structure of InCl3(THF)3
Creators: name: White, Peter
name: Baldwin, Ryan
name: Kher, Shreyas
name: Wells, Richard
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1994

description: The reaction of InCl3 with excess THF afforded the adduct InCl 3(THF)3 in a good yield (77.1% based on InCl3), and the X-ray crystal structure shows it to be a hexacoordinated tris-adduct of indium(lII) chloride. The crystal structure consists of discrete monomeric units with no abnormally short intermolecular separations. The geometry about the indium atom approximates to octahedral with the three chlorine atoms (mean In-Cl = 2.422 Ȧ) and the oxygen atoms of each THF molecule (mean In-O = 2.254 Ȧ) residing in the meridional conformation. Crystals of InCI3(THF)3 belong to the monoclinic space group P 21/c with unit cell parameters a = 8.1863(2)Ȧ, b = 12.5141(2) Ȧ, c =16.815(4) Ȧ, β = 93.84(4)˙, V = 1718.8(7) Ȧ3 for Z = 4. Full-matrix least-squares refinement based on 1603 reflections with I > 2.5σ (I) converged at R = 0.062 (Rw = 0.084). IR spectroscopic measurements gave absorption bands near 1027 and 857 cm-1, which are consistent with coordinated THF molecules. Variable temperature NMR studies showed that the tris-adduct was stable to disproportionation in solution between 20-60 °C.
(103531) Vernon Rowland Lewis
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Synthesis and characterization of aluminium-phosphorus adducts: X-ray crystal structures of Cl3Al·P(SiMe3)3·C7H8 and Br3Al·P(SiMe3)3·C7H8
Creators: name: Wells, Richard
name: White, Peter
name: Laske, Janeen A.
name: McPhail, Andrew T.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1994

description: The anempted dehalosilylatio reactions between AIX3 (X = C1. Br) and P(SiMe3)3 in toluene in 1:1 mole ratios afforded only the adducts C13Al-P(SiMe3)3 (I) and BrAl-P(SiMe)3 (II). respectively. Compounds I and II were characterized by 1H, 13C, 27Al. and 31P solution NMR spectroscopy, as well as partial elemental analysis In addition, the solid state structures of the toluene solvates of I and U weve determined by single-crystal X-ray analysis. Chanacterization revealed that the solid solvated adducts I and 1i are isostructural and their crystals are isomorphous. In each compound. the Al and the P atoms reside in tetrahedral environments, with each X3 P(SiMe3)3 (X = CL Br) molecule associated with one interstitial toluene molecule in the crystals. These adducts are noteworthy in that they possess exremely short, essentially equal Al-P bond lengths [For 1: AI-P = 2.392(4) A and for H: AI-P = 2.391(6) Ȧ], which are the shortest found to date in aluminum-phosphorus molecular species.
The Schwartz space of a smooth semi-algebraic stack
Creators: name: Sakellaridis, Yiannis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 58H05

description: Schwartz functions, or measures, are defined on any smooth semi-algebraic ("Nash") manifold, and are known to form a cosheaf for the semi-algebraic restricted topology. We extend this definition to smooth semi-algebraic stacks, which are defined as geometric stacks in the category of Nash manifolds. Moreover, when those are obtained from algebraic quotient stacks of the form X/G, with X a smooth affine variety and G a reductive group defined over a global field k, we define, whenever possible, an "evaluation map" at each semisimple k-point of the stack, without using truncation methods. This corresponds to a regularization of the sum of those orbital integrals whose semisimple part corresponds to the chosen k-point. These evaluation maps produce, in principle, a distribution which generalizes the Arthur-Selberg trace formula and Jacquet's relative trace formula, although the former, and many instances of the latter, cannot actually be defined by the purely geometric methods of this paper. In any case, the stack-theoretic point of view provides an explanation for the pure inner forms that appear in many versions of the Langlands, and relative Langlands, conjectures.
description: 96pp. Erratum added at the end to fix two gaps and strengthen some statements from quasi-isomorphism to homotopy equivalence
(103532) David Robert Lewis
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Reactions of phenylaluminium compounds with E (SiMe 3) 3 (E= P or AS): X-ray crystal structures of Ph 3 Al· E (SiMe 3) 3 (E= P or As) and Ph 2 (Cl) Al· P (SiMe 3) 3
Creators: name: Laske, Janeen A.
name: Rambarnoohi, Hamid
name: Wells, Richard L.
name: McPhail, Andrew T.
name: White, Peter
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1996

description: The independent reactions of Ph3Al with E(SiMe3)3 (E = P or As) in 1:1 mole ratios afforded the adducts Ph3Al'E(SiMe3)3 [E = P (I) and As (II), respectively]. The attempted dehalosilylation reactions between PI12AICI and E(SiMe3)3 (E = P or As) in 1:1 mole ratios yielded only the adducts Ph2(Cl)Al.E(SiMe3)3 [E = P (III) and As (IV)]. The adduct Ph(Cl)2Al«P(SiMe3)3 (V) was isolated from the reaction of equimolar amounts of PhAlCl2 and P(SiMe3)3. Compounds I-V were characterized by NMR spectroscopy and partial elemental analysis. In addition, the solid-state structures of I-III were determined by single-crystal X-ray analysis. Compound I crystallizes in the monoclinic space group P2\ln (C2A5), while H crystallizes in the triclinic space group P UQ1), each with two discrete molecules per asymmetric unit. Crystals of compound III belong to the orthorhombic space group P2i2i2i(D24)- Compounds I-III are the first structurally-characterized compounds to contain phenyl-substituted Al centres bonded to heavier pnicogen atoms.
Backreaction in Growing Neutrino Quintessence
Creators: name: Führer, Florian
name: Wetterich, Christof
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the cosmological effects of neutrino lumps in Growing Neutrino Quintessence. The strongly non-linear effects are resolved by means of numerical N-body simulations which include relativistic particles, non-linear scalar field equations and backreaction effects. For the investigated models with a constant coupling between the scalar field and the neutrinos the backreaction effects are so strong that a realistic cosmology is hard to realize. This points towards the necessity of a field dependent coupling in Growing Neutrino Quintessence. In this case realistic models of dynamical Dark Energy exist which are testable by the observation or non-observation of large neutrino lumps.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures
ANCHORAGE OF HEADED AND HOOKED STEEL REINFORCEMENT IN CONCRETE MASONRY
Creators: name: Jarrah, Majid
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Anchorage
Concrete Masonry
Headed Steel Reinforcement
Hooked Steel Reinforcement

description: The anchorage behavior of headed, 90° and 180° hooked, and straight reinforcement in concrete masonry was characterized through testing and analysis. An experimental study consisted of 132 reinforcement pull-out tests on beam ends, 12 transverse reinforcement pull-out tests, and eight direct tension lap splice tests. In the transverse reinforcement tests, longitudinal reinforcement crossed perpendicular to the test reinforcement and was loaded in tension. Test variables included bar size, bond length, cover dimension, reinforcement crossing perpendicular to test bar(s), and, for transverse reinforcement tests, strain demand on longitudinal reinforcement. Splitting of cover was the most common failure mode. Splitting did not always propagate through masonry block due to delamination between block and grout, making masonry block cover less effective in providing anchorage strength. Test results from this study were used in combination with results from previous studies to assess anchorage strength. Beam end tests had higher anchorage strength than equivalent splice tests by 1.7 on average. For #4 hooked and headed transverse reinforcement, bond length was not needed to reach rupture with longitudinal strain less than yield.The minimum required development length for straight and hooked reinforcement in the masonry building code, TMS 402-16, was determined to be overly conservative, and TMS 402-16 does not include provisions for headed bars. Results were used to develop proposed equations, which are proposed as changes to TMS 402-16, to determine the required development length for straight, hooked, and headed bars. The proposed equations for headed and hooked bars were modifications of the ACI 318-19 equations. The changes included modification of factors for bar location and confinement for hooked reinforcement and bar location and parallel ties for headed reinforcement. New factors were introduced for lap splices and shear lag for straight reinforcement and casting position for straight, headed, and hooked reinforcement. For development of #4 and smaller transverse reinforcement in elastic regions, it is recommended to discontinue use of the TMS 402-16 provision for required development length. At regions in structural members where longitudinal reinforcement is expected to reach plastic deformation, use of the TMS 402-16 provision was deemed adequate but not overly conservative.
(103534) Margaret James
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
BERPIKIR KOMBINATORIS DALAM MENYELESAIKAN MASALAH KOMBINATORIK
Creators: name: Hidayati, Yulia Maftuhah
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: berpikir kombinatoris
masalah kombinatorik

description: Tahapan berpikir kombinatoris dalam menyelesaikan masalah kombinatorik tipe seleksi, distribusi dan partisi beserta indikator perilaku
Thiophene-based poly(arylene ether ketone)s: 2. Thermal and mechanical properties of amorphous systems using bis(p-fluorobenzoyl)aryl monomers
Creators: name: Stompel, S.
name: Brennan, A.B.
name: Wang, Y.Q.
name: DeSimone, J.M.
name: Samulski, E.T.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1993

description: A series of high molar mass and controlled molar mass poly(aryl ether ketone)s were synthesized based on bis(p-fluoro-benzoyl)aryl monomers and 4,4'-isopropylidenediphenol. The central aromatic unit of the activated bishalide was varied to include 1,4 phenylene, 2,5 thiophene, and 1,3 phenylene to systematically change the exocyclic bond angle from 180˚ to 148˚ to 120˚, respectively. The thermal, dynamic mechanical and mechanical properties of the three polymers were determined for the controlled molar mass materials. The glass transition temperature of the controlled molar mass 2,5-thiophene based polymer was 147˚ C compared to 149˚ C for 1,3-phenylene based polymer and 162˚ C for the 1,4-phenylene based polymer. The thermal stability of poly(BFTh-BisA) was similar to that of poly(1,3-BFBBisA) and poly(1,4-BFB-BisA). Two sub T loss dispersions were measured for each of the three polymers. The pronounced y relaxation for poly(BFTh-BisA), poly(1,4- BFB-BisA), and poly(1,3-BFB-BisA), has an activation energy of 7.5, 9.0, and 10 kcal/mole, respectively. The activation energy of β dispersion for poly(BFTh-BisA) is 16 kcal/mole. The Young's modulus is 2.9 GPa, 3.1 GPa and 3.6 GPa for poly(1,4-BFB-BisA), poly(2,5-BFTh-BisA) and poly(1,3-BFB-BisA), respectively.
Maximum one-shot dissipated work from Renyi divergences
Creators: name: Halpern, Nicole Yunger
name: Garner, Andrew J. P.
name: Dahlsten, Oscar C. O.
name: Vedral, Vlatko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Thermodynamics describes large-scale, slowly evolving systems. Two modern approaches generalize thermodynamics: fluctuation theorems, which concern finite-time nonequilibrium processes, and one-shot statistical mechanics, which concerns small scales and finite numbers of trials. Combining these approaches, we calculate a one-shot analog of the average dissipated work defined in fluctuation contexts: the cost of performing a protocol in finite time instead of quasistatically. The average dissipated work has been shown to be proportional to a relative entropy between phase-space densities, to a relative entropy between quantum states, and to a relative entropy between probability distributions over possible values of work. We derive one-shot analogs of all three equations, demonstrating that the order-infinity Renyi divergence is proportional to the maximum possible dissipated work in each case. These one-shot analogs of fluctuation-theorem results contribute to the unification of these two toolkits for small-scale, nonequilibrium statistical physics.
description: 8 pages. Close to published version
COORDINATED INVENTORY PLANNING FOR NEW AND OLD PRODUCTS UNDER WARRANTY
Creators: name: Kulkarni, Vidhyadhar
name: Huang, Wei
name: Swaminathan, Jayashankar
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: This paper is motivated by the inventory planning issues faced by a manufacturer of a digital projector. The seller faces demand from two sources: new demand, and demand to replace failed items under warranty. We model this setting as a multi-period single product inventory problem where the new demand in different periods are independent and the demand for replacing failed items under warranty is proportional to the number of items under warranty. We assume linear procurement, penalty and holding costs. We consider backlogging and emergency supply cases, and study both discounted cost and average cost cases. We prove the optimality of the w-dependent base stock ordering policy where the base stock level is a function of w, the number of items currently under warranty. For the special case, where the demand for new products is stationary, we prove the optimality of a stationary w-dependent base stock policy for the fi nite horizon discounted and the in finite horizon discounted and average cost cases. In our computational study, we fi nd that such an integrated policy can lead to 31% average improvement in expected costs when compared to a policy that neglects warranty repairs.