cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
COMPLIANCE OF POSTSECONDARY INSTITUTIONS WITH PROVISIONS FOR DISABLED STUDENTS MANDATED BY THE ARCHITECTURAL BARRIERS ACT OF 1968 AND THE REHABILITATION ACT OF 1973
Creators: name: Williams, Joan Marian
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3903
subject: Education systems

description: The purpose of this study was: (1) to determine the extent of compliance of two-year and four-year postsecondary institutions, as perceived by their student services officers, with provisions for disabled students mandated by the Architectural Barriers Act of 1968 and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973; (2) to identify provisions of the legislation for which steps need to be taken to achieve greater compliance; and (3) to suggest actions needed by federal and educational institutions to secure fuller compliance. A four-page self-administered questionnaire was mailed to a randomly selected study population of 644 student services officers at two-year and four-year accredited postsecondary institutions in the continental United States to elicit their perceptions of the extent to which institutions employing them were complying with selected provisions of the Architectural Barriers Act of 1968 and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Four hundred eighty (74.53 percent) individuals completed and returned usable questionnaires. When considered altogether, the 480 institutions, as perceived by their student services officers, were not in full compliance with any one provision of the Architectural Barriers Act of 1968 or the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Collectively, the sample of student services officers perceived compliance by their employing institutions to be within the range of "noncompliance" to "full compliance" with the Architectural Barriers Act of 1968 and "partial compliance" to "full compliance" with the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Significant differences in the extent of compliance with selected provisions of the Architectural Barriers Act of 1968 were found for institutions categorized by institutional type (two-year or four-year), ownership (private or public), and enrollment size. Significant differences regarding the extent of compliance with the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 were found for institutions categorized by institutional type and ownership. Governmental action in the form of monetary assistance would appear necessary for institutions characterized as four-year, private, and/or having small student populations to achieve fuller compliance to the Acts of reference.
Mathematical treatment of PDE model describing chemotactic E. coli colonies
Creators: name: Celiński, Rafał
name: Hilhorst, Danielle
name: Karch, Grzegorz
name: Mimura, Masayasu
name: Roux, Pierre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35B36, 35B40, 35K20, 35K55, 35K57

description: We consider an initial-boundary value problem describing the formation of colony patterns of bacteria Escherichia coli. This model consists of reaction-diffusion equations coupled with the Keller-Segel system from the chemotaxis theory in a bounded domain, supplemented with zero-flux boundary conditions and with non-negative initial data. We answer questions on the global in time existence of solutions as well as on their large time behaviour. Moreover, we show that solutions of a related model may blow up in a finite time.
description: 24 pages, with figures
Landau-Lifshitz hierarchy and infinite dimensional Grassmann variety
Creators: name: Takasaki, Kanehisa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Landau-Lifshitz equation is an example of soliton equations with a zero-curvature representation defined on an elliptic curve. This equation can be embedded into an integrable hierarchy of evolution equations called the Landau-Lifshitz hierarchy. This paper elucidates its status in Sato, Segal and Wilson's universal description of soliton equations in the language of an infinite dimensional Grassmann variety. To this end, a Grassmann variety is constructed from a vector space of $2 \times 2$ matrices of Laurent series of the spectral parameter $z$. A special base point $W_0$, called ``vacuum,'' of this Grassmann variety is chosen. This vacuum is ``dressed'' by a Laurent series $ϕ(z)$ to become a point of the Grassmann variety that corresponds to a general solution of the Landau-Lifshitz hierarchy. The Landau-Lifshitz hierarchy is thereby mapped to a simple dynamical system on the set of these dressed vacua. A higher dimensional analogue of this hierarchy (an elliptic analogue of the Bogomolny hierarchy) is also presented.
description: latex2e (usepackage:amssyb), 15 pages, no figure; (v2) minor changes; (v3) typos corrected; (v4) errors pp. 11 - 12 are corrected
Mechanization in African Agriculture: A Continental Overview on Patterns and Dynamics
Creators: name: Kirui, Oliver K.
name: Von Braun, Joachim
name: Kirui, Oliver K.
name: Von Braun, Joachim
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Production Economics
subject: Agricultural mechanization
subject: machinery
subject: patterns
subject: agri-food system
subject: value chains
subject: agricultural growth
subject: Africa

description: This study provides an overview on the patterns and dynamics of mechanization in African agriculture over the 10 year period (2005-2014). Farm level and value chain related mechanization are considered. This study looks in to pattern of agricultural mechanization along the entire value chain (production, post-harvest, processing, transport and storage) and compares it with the annual average agricultural output over the same time period. Clusters of countries are identified by grouping countries into those that have simultaneously experienced high growth rate in agricultural machinery and also in agricultural output, including; Angola, Botswana, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mali, Morocco, Niger, Rwanda, Tanzania, Togo, and Zambia. On the opposite side of the spectrum are countries with low growth in machinery and in agricultural output, and include for instance Madagascar, Zimbabwe, Uganda, and Egypt. In general, there is a positive correlation (of 0.52) between agricultural machinery growth and agricultural output growth in Africa, which is a classical two – way relationship, not to be interpreted as a causal one.
COMPLIANCE OF POSTSECONDARY INSTITUTIONS WITH PROVISIONS FOR DISABLED STUDENTS MANDATED BY THE ARCHITECTURAL BARRIERS ACT OF 1968 AND THE REHABILITATION ACT OF 1973
Creators: name: Williams, Joan Marian
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The purpose of this study was: (1) to determine the extent of compliance of two-year and four-year postsecondary institutions, as perceived by their student services officers, with provisions for disabled students mandated by the Architectural Barriers Act of 1968 and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973; (2) to identify provisions of the legislation for which steps need to be taken to achieve greater compliance; and (3) to suggest actions needed by federal and educational institutions to secure fuller compliance. A four-page self-administered questionnaire was mailed to a randomly selected study population of 644 student services officers at two-year and four-year accredited postsecondary institutions in the continental United States to elicit their perceptions of the extent to which institutions employing them were complying with selected provisions of the Architectural Barriers Act of 1968 and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Four hundred eighty (74.53 percent) individuals completed and returned usable questionnaires. When considered altogether, the 480 institutions, as perceived by their student services officers, were not in full compliance with any one provision of the Architectural Barriers Act of 1968 or the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Collectively, the sample of student services officers perceived compliance by their employing institutions to be within the range of "noncompliance" to "full compliance" with the Architectural Barriers Act of 1968 and "partial compliance" to "full compliance" with the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Significant differences in the extent of compliance with selected provisions of the Architectural Barriers Act of 1968 were found for institutions categorized by institutional type (two-year or four-year), ownership (private or public), and enrollment size. Significant differences regarding the extent of compliance with the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 were found for institutions categorized by institutional type and ownership. Governmental action in the form of monetary assistance would appear necessary for institutions characterized as four-year, private, and/or having small student populations to achieve fuller compliance to the Acts of reference.
PUBLIC INTEREST AND PSYCHOTHERAPIST-PATIENT PRIVILEGE: AN ANALYSIS OF COURT BEHAVIOR (CONFIDENTIALITY, INDIVIDUAL INTEREST, SOCIAL CONTROL, MALPRACTICE)
Creators: name: Zeichner, Christiane I.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This is a study of interrelationships between the courts and the mental health profession. Five appellate court opinions dealing with the legal and ethical problems of testimonial privilege in the psychotherapist-patient relationship are content-analyzed. These are Lifschutz (1970), Tarasoff (1974), Tarasoff (1976), Caesar v. Mountanos (1976), and Shaw v. Glickman (1980). Public fear of mental patient violence and of disclosure of confidential records affects the selected indicators of legal liability and social conflict, namely, testimonial privilege, confidentiality, predictability, duty to warn, professional image, and individual versus public interest. Value-antagonism between judges, therapists, and victims occurs over two issues: therapist-client privilege and therapist duty to warn. The former issue addresses the question of whether public or private interests are served by absolute privilege. Courts regard absolute privilege as a vested interest of therapists, who claim that it serves the public interest. The duty to warn is another area of dispute. The landmark case Tarasoff (1974 and 1976) established new duties to warn and protect third parties despite therapists' courtroom testimony of the inability of their science to accurately predict dangerousness. Judges, while consciously attempting to resolve disputes between public and psychiatric value systems, are found to base some of their decisions upon unconscious biases, resulting in inconsistent judicial rulings in similar cases. It is concluded that value-antagonism between courts and psychiatrists over confidentiality is inevitable and will remain a challenging problem in the future.
Current status and muon $g-2$ explanation of lepton portal dark matter
Creators: name: Kawamura, Junichiro
name: Okawa, Shohei
name: Omura, Yuji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we summarize phenomenology in lepton portal dark matter (DM) models, where DM couples to leptons and extra leptons/sleptons. There are several possible setups: complex/real scalar DM and Dirac/Majorana fermion DM. In addition, there are choices for the lepton chirality that couples to DM. We discuss the prediction of each model and compare it with the latest experimental constraints from the DM, the LHC, and the flavor experiments. We also propose a simple setup to achieve the discrepancy in the anomalous magnetic moment of muon.
description: 34+21 pages, 12 figures, 3 tables; v2, references added, typos corrected
PUBLIC INTEREST AND PSYCHOTHERAPIST-PATIENT PRIVILEGE: AN ANALYSIS OF COURT BEHAVIOR (CONFIDENTIALITY, INDIVIDUAL INTEREST, SOCIAL CONTROL, MALPRACTICE)
Creators: name: Zeichner, Christiane I.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4410
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: This is a study of interrelationships between the courts and the mental health profession. Five appellate court opinions dealing with the legal and ethical problems of testimonial privilege in the psychotherapist-patient relationship are content-analyzed. These are Lifschutz (1970), Tarasoff (1974), Tarasoff (1976), Caesar v. Mountanos (1976), and Shaw v. Glickman (1980). Public fear of mental patient violence and of disclosure of confidential records affects the selected indicators of legal liability and social conflict, namely, testimonial privilege, confidentiality, predictability, duty to warn, professional image, and individual versus public interest. Value-antagonism between judges, therapists, and victims occurs over two issues: therapist-client privilege and therapist duty to warn. The former issue addresses the question of whether public or private interests are served by absolute privilege. Courts regard absolute privilege as a vested interest of therapists, who claim that it serves the public interest. The duty to warn is another area of dispute. The landmark case Tarasoff (1974 and 1976) established new duties to warn and protect third parties despite therapists' courtroom testimony of the inability of their science to accurately predict dangerousness. Judges, while consciously attempting to resolve disputes between public and psychiatric value systems, are found to base some of their decisions upon unconscious biases, resulting in inconsistent judicial rulings in similar cases. It is concluded that value-antagonism between courts and psychiatrists over confidentiality is inevitable and will remain a challenging problem in the future.
Centennial Lunar New Year Festival Planning Project
Creators: name: Marshall, Elaine
name: Johnson, Deanna
name: Lu, Leon
name: Kallas, Nadine
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Purpose: The purpose of this project was to work with the UBC Equity & Inclusion Office and UBC Recreation to plan a physical activity program, which fosters interculturalism, for the UBC Centennial Lunar New Year Festival in February 2016. Objective: Create and administer an inclusive survey, targeted at Asian women. The survey should identify barriers, marketing strategies, and interests regarding physical activity and UBC’s Centennial Lunar New Year Festival. Methods: After initial meetings with Alden Habacon (Director of Intercultural Understanding Strategy Development for UBC) and Liska Richer (SEEDS Manager), an initial survey was created. This draft survey was given to Suzanne Jolly for review (Physical Activity Manager at UBC Athletics and Recreation). After being revised the survey was sent to Alden, Liska, and Suzanne for final feedback. The survey was administered through both an online and paper version. Three main methods were used to collection response: personal networks, campus groups and asking people face to face in the AMS Student Nest. Out of our total 177 responses, about 20% came from personal connections, 20% came from campus groups, and 60% came from face to face interactions. Findings: 135 Asian women responded to the survey. As this was the target demographic, the findings come from these responses. 62% of respondents were interested in yoga. At UBC’s Lunar New Year Festival, about 66% of respondents expected to see traditional Lunar New Year elements. When respondents were questioned about barriers to participation, lack of previous experience was identified as the number one barrier (54% of Asian females). Even though time was not listed as an option, 28% of participants wrote time as a reason they do not participate in the “other” open ended box. Students revealed that friends and social media (such as Facebook), are the two top ways they find out about events around campus. Recommendations: The proposed physical activity program is a beginner’s yoga class that fosters meaningful relationships between participants and promotes physical and mental wellbeing. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Inequivalent classes of closed three-level systems
Creators: name: Klimov, Andre B.
name: de Guise, Hubert
name: Sanchez-Soto, Luis L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show here that the $Λ$ and V configurations of three-level atomic systems, while they have recently been shown to be equivalent for many important physical quantities when driven with classical fields [M. B. Plenio, Phys. Rev. A \textbf{62}, 015802 (2000)], are no longer equivalent when coupled via a quantum field. We analyze the physical origin of such behavior and show how the equivalence between these two configurations emerges in the semiclassical limit.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure. To appear as Brief Report in Physical Review A
The Divergence of Proactive and Reactive Aggression in Daily Life
Creators: name: Lynam, Donald
name: Phillips, Nathaniel
name: Miller, Josh
name: Du, Tianwei V.
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Clinical Psychology
subject: Personality and Social Contexts
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: ESM
subject: aggression

description: The current study seeks to build upon previous work by Du and colleagues (2023). In their manuscript, the authors tested the relation between narcissistic personality traits, momentary affect, and interpersonal aggression in daily life. Across a series of cross-level interaction tests, they found that interpersonal antagonism was a significant moderator of the relation between negative affect and interpersonal aggression. Specifically, among individuals with higher levels of interpersonal antagonism, negative affect during a social interaction was more strongly related to interpersonal aggression. The current study seeks to extend these results by analyzing the same dataset’s trait reactive and proactive aggression measures to assess whether these subtypes (a) diverge in their assessment of daily interpersonal outcomes and (b) moderate the relation between momentary affect and occasion-specific interpersonal aggression.
A STUDY OF THE RELATIONSHIP OF SELF-PERCEIVED LEADERSHIP EFFECTIVENESS AND STYLE TO JOB SATISFACTION OF DATA PROCESSING AND OPERATIONAL MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL
Creators: name: Umstott, Martha Louise
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Leadership and job satisfaction are generally recognized as possessing importance to an organization because of their relationship to the organization's functioning. These elements may carry additional importance within the data processing industry because of the industry's current and projected expansion and the concern expressed about the improvement of productivity in this field. The purpose of this study was to assess the relationship of leadership effectiveness and leadership style to job satisfaction, as well as the relationship of leadership effectiveness to job satisfaction while controlling the variable leadership style, of a sample of data processing and operational management personnel in data processing service bureaus. Style was measured with the Least Preferred Co-worker (LPC) Scale. Effectiveness was assessed using the LPC Scale, in addition to the Leader Match Scales. And satisfaction was measured with the Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (Short Form). Data were obtained through a mailing of questionnaires to the Data Processing Management Association's members categorized as data processing and operational management personnel in data processing service bureaus, with a follow-up mailing to initial nonrespondents being conducted. The mailing groups returning usable questionnaires were treated as one group following chi-square test and t-test analyses determining no significant differences between the two groups. The sample group represented 393 management personnel. Data were analyzed using the point biserial correlation and t-ratio formulas, with the two-tailed significance level established at .05 in each hypothesis. The results indicated that the null hypotheses stating that there is no significant relationship between effectiveness and satisfaction and between style and satisfaction of the entire sample could not be rejected. The null hypotheses stating that there is no significant relationship between the effectiveness and satisfaction of the relationship-oriented leaders and of the task-oriented leaders were rejected, with a negative correlation and a positive correlation determined in these testings, respectively. Based upon these findings, it was concluded that the relationship between effectiveness and satisfaction of data processing and operational management personnel is leadership style-specific. Implications of the findings for these management personnel, their supervisors and personnel managers are presented in the study.
The effect of annealing on the behavior of polyetheretherketone
Creators: name: Oleiwi, Jawad K.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 90301 Biomaterials
subject: FOS: Medical engineering
subject: 110501 Dental Materials and Equipment
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 100708 Nanomaterials
subject: FOS: Nanotechnology

description: Polyetheretherketone (PEEK) has become increasingly popular in biomedical applications due to its favorable biocompatibility, biostability, mechanical strength, and elastic modulus, all of which are similar to those of natural bones. This paper investigates the effects of annealing on the behavior of PEEK ternary composites. PEEK samples were annealed and characterized by mechanical tests, Attenuated Total Reflection Fourier Transform Infrared (ATR-FTIR), Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Energy Dispersive x-ray Spectroscopy (EDS) and physical property testing. Results showed that annealing has an appositive effect on the properties of PEEK. The properties of the ternary composites were also compared with those of pure PEEK and Ti as a control.
Probabilistic Scores for the verification of ensemble prediction systems - Brier, DRPS, CRPS underlying mathematics
Creators: name: Lemieux-Dudon Bénédicte
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Probabilistic scores
Brier
DRPS
CRPS
Verification of Ensemble Prediction System
Ensemble-based system
SCRUM2

description: In the framework of the CMEMS Service Evolution SCRUM2 project (Task 2.3) presentation of the underlying mathematics of the Brier, DRPS and CRPS Probability Scores.
Core Structure of Global Vortices in Brane World Models
Creators: name: Perivolaropoulos, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study analytically and numerically the core structure of global vortices forming on topologically deformed brane-worlds with a single toroidally compact extra dimension. It is shown that for an extra dimension size larger than the scale of symmetry breaking the magnitude of the complex scalar field at the vortex center can dynamically remain non-zero. Singlevaluedness and regularity are not violated. Instead, the winding escapes to the extra dimension at the vortex center. As the extra dimension size decreases the field magnitude at the core dynamically decreases also and in the limit of zero extra dimension size we reobtain the familiar global vortex solution. Extensions to other types of defects and gauged symmetries are also discussed.
description: 6 two column pages, 3 figures
Valuing aggregated ecosystem services at a national and regional scale for Vanuatu using a remotely operable, rapid assessment methodology
Creators: name: Buckwell, Andrew
name: Fleming, Christopher
name: Smart, James
name: Mackey, Brendan
name: Ware, Daniel
name: Hallgren, Willow
name: Sahin, Oz
name: Nalau, Johanna
name: Buckwell, Andrew
name: Fleming, Christopher
name: Smart, James
name: Mackey, Brendan
name: Ware, Daniel
name: Hallgren, Willow
name: Sahin, Oz
name: Nalau, Johanna
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
Land Economics/Use

description: There is now an established interest and a clear case for using economic valuation of ecosystem services to inform a range of policy issues and questions. However, access to both habitat data and economic valuation for less developed countries is limited, despite these communities relying acutely and directly on ecosystem services. Here we set out an ecosystem assessment methodology that employs GIS data and benefit transfer studies, which can be carried out remotely and rapidly and at multiple scales. We use two case studies: Vanuatu, in the south west Pacific Ocean and one of its less developed islands, Tanna. These case studies reveal the value of ecosystem services to communities is considerably larger than income reported through traditional national accounts, suggesting that policies that support sustainable exploitation of these services and conservation of natural capital are paramount in securing human and community well-being.
Aiming For The Stars
Creators: name: Wooff, David
name: O'Brien, Charles
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: 130103 Higher Education
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: 130108 Technical, Further and Workplace Education
subject: 130106 Secondary Education

description: Over the summer of 2010 fifty-five students from across the North West of England descended on Edge Hill University to participate in a four-day residential summer school. The event was organised under the auspices of the ‘Aimhigher’ initiative, which has been well established at Edge Hill for a number of years. For those unfamiliar with ‘Aimhigher’, it seeks to raise aspirations and motivation to enter Higher Education amongst young people from underrepresented groups. It is also intended to raise attainment of potential higher education students, strengthen progression routes via vocational courses and improve the aspirations and self-esteem of talented young people. This article highlights the achievements of those taking part and seeks to celebrate their successes.
INTERACTION PATTERNS WITHIN THE BLACK MARRIED DYAD FROM WIVES' PERSPECTIVES
Creators: name: Addison, Donald P.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This study is an effort to provide more knowledge about intact black married couples as seen from the black wife's perspective. There are two basic foci--communication and behavior. In this exploratory study, using an inductive approach, we were interested in discovering relationships and understanding what may be happening between members of a dyad. Descriptive statistics (percentages) were used to investigate the nature of the wife/husband relationships. Inductive analysis (using the Pearson Correlation Coefficient and Chi-square) was used in an attempt to find out the variables having the greatest effect on the communication and behavior scales. We have found that behaviors are better predictors of communication or visa versa, some types of communication are better predictors of behavior than the typical sociological variables such as income, education, and length of marriage. We further found that religious participation is consistently related to most of the communication and behavior scales.
A STUDY OF THE RELATIONSHIP OF SELF-PERCEIVED LEADERSHIP EFFECTIVENESS AND STYLE TO JOB SATISFACTION OF DATA PROCESSING AND OPERATIONAL MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL
Creators: name: Umstott, Martha Louise
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 35
subject: Commerce, management, tourism and services
classificationCode: 3507
subject: Strategy, management and organisational behaviour

description: Leadership and job satisfaction are generally recognized as possessing importance to an organization because of their relationship to the organization's functioning. These elements may carry additional importance within the data processing industry because of the industry's current and projected expansion and the concern expressed about the improvement of productivity in this field. The purpose of this study was to assess the relationship of leadership effectiveness and leadership style to job satisfaction, as well as the relationship of leadership effectiveness to job satisfaction while controlling the variable leadership style, of a sample of data processing and operational management personnel in data processing service bureaus. Style was measured with the Least Preferred Co-worker (LPC) Scale. Effectiveness was assessed using the LPC Scale, in addition to the Leader Match Scales. And satisfaction was measured with the Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (Short Form). Data were obtained through a mailing of questionnaires to the Data Processing Management Association's members categorized as data processing and operational management personnel in data processing service bureaus, with a follow-up mailing to initial nonrespondents being conducted. The mailing groups returning usable questionnaires were treated as one group following chi-square test and t-test analyses determining no significant differences between the two groups. The sample group represented 393 management personnel. Data were analyzed using the point biserial correlation and t-ratio formulas, with the two-tailed significance level established at .05 in each hypothesis. The results indicated that the null hypotheses stating that there is no significant relationship between effectiveness and satisfaction and between style and satisfaction of the entire sample could not be rejected. The null hypotheses stating that there is no significant relationship between the effectiveness and satisfaction of the relationship-oriented leaders and of the task-oriented leaders were rejected, with a negative correlation and a positive correlation determined in these testings, respectively. Based upon these findings, it was concluded that the relationship between effectiveness and satisfaction of data processing and operational management personnel is leadership style-specific. Implications of the findings for these management personnel, their supervisors and personnel managers are presented in the study.
The Kinetic Equation for Electroweak Baryogenesis
Creators: name: Bhatt, Jitesh
name: Rangarajan, Raghavan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive the kinetic equation for fermions and antifermions interacting with a planar Higgs bubble wall during the electroweak phase transition using the `evenisation' procedure. Equations of motion in a relativistic quantum theory do not mirror classical relations unless one uses evenised operators. We give a brief introduction to evenisation and then use the evenised Heisenberg equations of motion to obtain the velocity and force for the particles in the presence of the Higgs bubble wall. Keeping quantum contributions to $O(\hbar)$ in the equations of motion we obtain the semi-classical force obtained earlier by other techniques.
description: 12pages
Economic and financial risks in under-vine management alternatives to herbicide in four South Australian wine-grape districts, 2016 & 2017
Creators: name: Nordblom, Tom
name: Penfold, Chris
name: Weckert, Melanie
name: Norton, Mark
name: Howie, Jake
name: Hutchings, Tim
name: Nordblom, Tom
name: Penfold, Chris
name: Weckert, Melanie
name: Norton, Mark
name: Howie, Jake
name: Hutchings, Tim
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Production Economics
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Farm financial risk
subject: Risk profile
subject: Decadal cash margin
subject: Simulation
subject: Under-vine treatments
subject: Wine-grape production
subject: South Australia

description: We calculate financial risk profiles for representative vineyards of 50-ha in four wine grape regions of South Australia using straw or living mulches as alternatives to herbicides for under-vine management. Calculations are based on replicated experiments in a commercial vineyard in each district with the most widely grown vine variety of each; the grape yields were measured in 2016 and 2017. Published district grape prices and yields for the years 2006 through 2017 form the basis for novel stochastic analysis. The herbicide (Control) treatment in Barossa Shiraz (BS) and Riverland Merlot (RM) showed greater median Gross Revenues (prices x yields) than the other two districts: Eden Valley Shiraz and Langhorne Creek Cab-Sav. After subtraction of operating costs, and assuming alternative treatments produce grapes of equal quality and price as the Control in a district, the alternatives gave median Gross Margins ($/ha) greater than the Control in BS but lower than the Control in RM. Gross Margin results were mixed in the other two districts. The Gross Margin results above are magnified in financial Risk Profiles based on variations in Gross Margins times 50 ha across multiple ten-year periods after subtracting taxes, drawings, recurrent capital costs and interest on accumulating debt, for decadal cash margins. The Risk Profile of a treatment in a district is its cumulative distribution of decadal cash margins ($M). We show that choice of under-vine treatment can significantly affect a vineyard’s financial viability.
PHENOTYPING FOR SALINITY STRESS OF RICE USING HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING
Creators: name: Bappa Das
name: Manohara KK
name: Mahajan, Gopal R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 70104 Agricultural Spatial Analysis and Modelling
subject: FOS: Other agricultural sciences

description: In the present investigation, spectral signature of leaf samples from 56 different rice genotypes covering both salinity stress tolerant and sensitive were collected at maximum tillering and flowering stage in visible, near-infrared (VNIR) domain for development of non-invasive high-throughput phenotyping techniques for salinity stress monitoring. The spectral reflectance data and K, Na, Ca, Mg, Fe, Mn, Zn and Cu content in leaf samples were analyzed for optimum index identification and partial least square regression (PLSR) model development. The performance of PLSR model was found good for K, Ca, Na, Zn and Cu with r value > 0.70 and d-index more than 0.80 while it was moderate for Mg (r = 0.60 and d-index = 0.72) during calibration. During validation the performance of the developed models was slightly reduced with r value and d-index of > 0.60 and > 0.70, respectively for K, Ca, Na, Zn and Cu. The correlation coefficient (r) and d-index of PLSR model developed for Mg during validation were 0.52 and 0.66, respectively. The results obtained in the present study showed potential of hyperspectral remote sensing for nondestructive phenotyping of salinity stress.
My Guide for Latina Breast Cancer Survivors in Community Settings: Protocol and Rationale for a Study Evaluating a Community-Engaged Approach to Increase Demand and Satisfaction of an Evidence-Based Health Program for Latina Breast Cancer Survivors
Creators: name: Buitrago, Diana C
name: Guitelman, Judith
name: Buscemi, Joanna
name: Perez-Tamayo, Alejandra
name: Iacobelli, Francisco
name: Yanez, Betina R
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Latina
subject: Ehealth
subject: breast cancer survivors
subject: supportive care
subject: Breast Neoplasms
subject: Hispanic or Latino
subject: Culturally Competent Care
subject: Telemedicine
subject: Feasibility Studies

description: BACKGROUND:  Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among Latina women. Nonetheless, few evidence-based, culturally and community-informed interventions are easily accessible for this underserved group. eHealth interventions offer scalable approaches for delivering supportive care.Evaluation of such interventions using community engaged (CE) approaches can increase diffusion and uptake of interventions in minority populations through their meaningful participation in all phases of the project. This study aims to enhance existing community academic partnerships to evaluate the feasibility of a community-informed eHealth program among Latina breast cancer survivors (BCS) engaged through CE procedures compared to nonCE, academically driven approaches.METHODS:  Using a CE approach, 1 academic institution and 2 community-based organizations finalized the study protocol and guidelines of study involvement. The resulting design was an 8week study evaluating two markers of feasibility (demand and user satisfaction) among participants engaged through a CE approach with community partners versus participants interacting with the academic partner only. This study has a recruitment goal of 80 participants evenly distributed across both groups. Demand or uptake is defined as study enrollment, retention rates, and program use in minutes across the two conditions. User satisfaction or acceptability is measured with a questionnaire administered at the end of the study. Recruitment began in January 2020 and is expected to be completed by December 2021. We expect to submit study results for publication by Spring 2022.DISCUSSION:  CE may be a viable approach to increase user satisfaction and demand of eHealth interventions among Latina BCS, with the potential to address the limited supportive services for this population at a systemic level. CE initiatives can have a potential positive impact on the cost and scalability of such interventions and highlight the importance of academic community partnerships in building resource capacity and addressing health disparities in vulnerable communities.
Plasmon-assisted two-photon absorption in a semiconductor quantum dot -- metallic nanoshell composite
Creators: name: Nugroho, Bintoro S.
name: Iskandar, Alexander A.
name: Malyshev, Victor A.
name: Knoester, Jasper
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Tho-photon absorption holds potential for many practical applications. We theoretically investigate the onset of this phenomenon in a semiconductor quantum dot -- metallic nanoshell composite subjected to a resonant CW excitation. Two-photon absorption in this system may occur in two ways: incoherent -- due to a consecutive ground-to-one-exciton-to-biexciton transition and coherent -- due to a coherent two-photon process, involving the direct ground-to-biexciton transition in the quantum dot. The presence of the nanoshell nearby the quantum dot gives rise to two principal effects: (i) -- renormalization of the applied field amplitude and (ii) -- renormalization of the resonance frequencies and radiation relaxation rates of the quantum dot, both depending on the the quantum dot level populations. We show that in the perturbation regime, when the excitonic levels are only slightly populated, each of these factors may give rise to either suppression or enhancement of the two-photon absorption. The complicated interplay of the two determines the final effect. Beyond the perturbation regime, it is found that the two-photon absorption experiences a drastic enhancement, which occurs independently of the type of excitation, either into the one-exciton resonance or into the two-photon resonance. Other characteristic features of the two-photon absorption of the composite, emerging from the coupling between both nanoparticles, are bistability and self-oscillations.
description: 10 two-column pages, 7 figures
Additional file 2 of Neuromuscular exercise and pain neuroscience education compared with pain neuroscience education alone in patients with chronic pain after primary total knee arthroplasty: study protocol for the NEPNEP randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Larsen, Jesper Bie
name: Skou, Søren T.
name: Arendt-Nielsen, Lars
name: Simonsen, Ole
name: Madeleine, Pascal
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. The TIDieR (Template for Intervention Description and Replication) Checklist for the NEPNEP trial.
Classical and Quantum Ensembles via Multiresolution. I. BBGKY Hierarchy
Creators: name: Fedorova, Antonina N.
name: Zeitlin, Michael G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A fast and efficient numerical-analytical approach is proposed for modeling complex behaviour in the BBGKY hierarchy of kinetic equations. We construct the multiscale representation for hierarchy of reduced distribution functions in the variational approach and multiresolution decomposition in polynomial tensor algebras of high-localized states. Numerical modeling shows the creation of various internal structures from localized modes, which are related to localized or chaotic type of behaviour and the corresponding patterns (waveletons) formation. The localized pattern is a model for energy confinement state (fusion) in plasma.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, espcrc2.sty, Presented at IX International Workshop on Advanced Computing and Analysis Techniques in Physics Research, Section III "Simulations and Computations in Theoretical Physics and Phenomenology", ACAT 2003, December, 2003, KEK, Tsukuba
Impact of chronic fetal hypoxia and inflammation on cardiac pacemaker cell development
Creators: name: Frasch, Martin G.
name: Giussani, Dino A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cell Behavior (q-bio.CB)
subject: Subcellular Processes (q-bio.SC)
subject: Tissues and Organs (q-bio.TO)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Chronic fetal hypoxia and infection are examples of adverse conditions during complicated pregnancy, which impact cardiac myogenesis and increase the lifetime risk of heart disease. However, the effects that chronic hypoxic or inflammatory environments exert on cardiac pacemaker cells are poorly understood. Here, we review the current evidence and novel avenues of bench-to-bed research in this field of perinatal cardiogenesis as well as its translational significance for early detection of future risk for cardiovascular disease.
Guess what: It’s the Settlements!
Creators: name: Koeppl, Thorsten
name: Monnet, Cyril
name: Koeppl, Thorsten
name: Monnet, Cyril
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Clearing and Settlement
subject: Cross-listing
subject: Horizontal and Vertical Integration
subject: Mechanism Design

description: Exchanges and other trading platforms are often vertically integrated to carry out trading and settlement as one operation. We show that these vertical silos can prevent the full realization of efficincy gains from horizontal consolidation of trading and settlement platforms. Independent of the gains from such consolidation, when costs of settlement are private information, a merger of vertical silos cannot be designed to always ensure efficient trading and settlement after the merger. Furthermore, we show that efficiency can nevertheless be guaranteed either by delegating the operation of settlement platforms to agents or by forcing competition across vertical silos through cross-listings.
INTERACTION PATTERNS WITHIN THE BLACK MARRIED DYAD FROM WIVES' PERSPECTIVES
Creators: name: Addison, Donald P.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4410
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: This study is an effort to provide more knowledge about intact black married couples as seen from the black wife's perspective. There are two basic foci--communication and behavior. In this exploratory study, using an inductive approach, we were interested in discovering relationships and understanding what may be happening between members of a dyad. Descriptive statistics (percentages) were used to investigate the nature of the wife/husband relationships. Inductive analysis (using the Pearson Correlation Coefficient and Chi-square) was used in an attempt to find out the variables having the greatest effect on the communication and behavior scales. We have found that behaviors are better predictors of communication or visa versa, some types of communication are better predictors of behavior than the typical sociological variables such as income, education, and length of marriage. We further found that religious participation is consistently related to most of the communication and behavior scales.
Impact of the transport supercurrent on the Josephson effect
Creators: name: Shevchenko, S. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the weak link between current-carrying superconductors, both conventional and d-wave. The state of the system is controlled by two parameters: the order parameter phase difference $ϕ$ and the superfluid velocity $v_{s}$, which parameterizes the parallel to the boundary transport supercurrent which is injected externally. The low-temperature current-phase relations are derived. We consider two models of weak links: a constriction between two conventional superconductors and a plane boundary between two differently orientated d-wave superconductors. We show that for some relation between $ϕ$ and $v_{s}$ quasiparticles create the current along the boundary which flows in the direction opposite to the transport supercurrent.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures; submitted for publication in Proceedings of MS+S2004 symposium (without Sec.V and the last part of Sec.III)
What Banks Do and Markets Don’t: Cross-subsidization
Creators: name: Koeppl, Thorsten
name: MacGee, James
name: Koeppl, Thorsten
name: MacGee, James
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Banking Restrictions
subject: Interbank Markets
subject: Universal Banking
subject: Endogenous Uncertainty

description: We show that interbank markets are a poor substitute for “broad” banks that operate across regions or sectors. In the presence of regional or sectoral asset and liquidity shocks, interbank markets can distribute liquidity efficiently, but fail to respond efficiently to asset shocks. Broad banks can condition on the joint distribution of both shocks and, hence, achieve an efficient internal allocation of capital. This allocation involves the cross-subsidization of loans across regions or sectors. Compared to regional banks that are linked through well-functioning interbank markets, broad banks lead to higher levels of aggregate investment, higher output, and less fluctuations within regions. However, broad banks generate endogenously aggregate uncertainty.