cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Commercial Freezing of Six Vegetable Crops in the South: Factors Affecting Economic Feasibility of Single-Product Operations
Creators: name: Brooker, John R.
name: Pearson, James L.
name: Brooker, John R.
name: Pearson, James L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1971
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Production Economics
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Vegetables
subject: processing
subject: efficiency
subject: freezing plants
subject: frozen vegetables

description: Input-output coefficients for processing green beans, lima beans, leafy greens, okra, southern peas, and squash were used to derive five plant models for each vegetable (except okra, for which three models were derived). Finished product processing rates of 1,500, 6,000, 12,000, 18,000 and 22,500 pounds per hour were examined. Three season lengths, two raw product prices, and three finished product prices were included to analyze their effects on costs and returns. The objective of this study was to determine whether initial investment in vegetable freezing plants could be recovered in 10 years. Results indicated that investment in single-product freezing operations could be recovered with at least one combination of raw and finished product prices, season length, and processing rate for all of the vegetables except squash. Okra was the only vegetable indicating profitability with an hourly processing rate as low as 6,000 pounds.
Physical activity in early care and education settings
Creators: name: Stephens, Samuel A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Child care
Early childhood education--Research
Child development
Obesity in children--Prevention

description: In March 2012, Research Connections published its resource list on child care and obesity prevention.  Since then there has been more research on promoting physical activity for young children in early care and education programs. Two major strategies for increasing opportunities for physical activity are through the adoption and implementation of specific practices in early care and education settings and through child care regulations and requirements. This Topic of Interest focuses on research summaries in these two areas--interventions to increase opportunities and caregiver practices promoting physical activity, and regulations for specific facility arrangements, schedules, staff behaviors, and policies to ensure these opportunities and practices in licensed child care settings.
Mimosa foetida Jacq. 1969
Creators: name: Miller, Joseph T.
name: Seigler, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Fabales
Fabaceae
Mimosa
Mimosa foetida

description: Mimosa foetida Jacq. , CANB 615630, EU439994, EU811845, EU811962 EU811916
description: Published as part of Miller, Joseph T. & Seigler, David, 2012, Evolutionary and taxonomic relationships of Acacia s. l. (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae), pp. 217-224 in Australian Systematic Botany 25 (3) on page 224, DOI: 10.1071/sb11042, http://zenodo.org/record/4278146
A Sanctions Approach to "Plan B" for the Iran Nuclear Problem
Creators: name: Nephew, Richard M.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Economic sanctions
Nuclear weapons--Political aspects
Nuclear arms control
Economic sanctions, American
Economics
International relations
International law

description: This issue brief, authored by Richard Nephew, Program Director for Economic Statecraft, Sanctions and Energy Markets at the Center on Global Energy Policy, examines the possible application of new sanctions against Iran if a deal is not achievable between Iran and the P5+1. Nephew concludes that new sanctions would be a far riskier strategy to pursue than a successful negotiation and outlines the best way to design a sanctions regime if, unfortunately, it is needed. The brief reviews the logic of sanctions and how they can be best calibrated to achieve desired effects, drawing on lessons from past sanctions experience. Nephew is a former director for Iran at the U.S. National Security Council and was a member of the U.S. nuclear negotiating team with Iran from August 2013 to December 2014. The views expressed here are his own.
Non-parental caregiver depression: A Key Topic Resource List
Creators: name: Child Care & Early Education Research Connections
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Caregivers--Mental health
Depression, Mental
Child care

description: A compilation of selected Research Connections resources focused on non-parental caregiver depression, including a summary of issues addressed in the literature, and a listing of resources in the areas of depression in and supports for non-parental caregivers
Neptunia monosperma F. Muell. ex Benth.
Creators: name: Miller, Joseph T.
name: Seigler, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Fabales
Fabaceae
Neptunia
Neptunia monosperma

description: Neptunia monosperma F.Muell. ex Benth., CANB 9102794, EU439979, EU811830, EU811947, EU812005, EU811902
description: Published as part of Miller, Joseph T. & Seigler, David, 2012, Evolutionary and taxonomic relationships of Acacia s. l. (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae), pp. 217-224 in Australian Systematic Botany 25 (3) on page 224, DOI: 10.1071/sb11042, http://zenodo.org/record/4278146
Diagnosing Expertise: Human Capital, Decision Making and Performance Among Physicians
Creators: name: Currie, Janet
name: MacLeod, William Bentley
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Performance
Childbirth
Decision making
Organizational behavior

description: Expert performance is often evaluated assuming that good experts have good outcomes. We examine expertise in medicine and develop a model that allows for two dimensions of physician performance: Decision making and procedural skill. Better procedural skill increases the use of intensive procedures for everyone, while better decision making results in a reallocation of procedures from fewer low risk to high risk cases. We show that poor diagnosticians can be identified using administrative data and that improving decision making improve birth outcomes by reducing C-section rates at the bottom of the risk distribution and increasing them at the top of the distribution.
Notícia sobre a IV Reunião de Arqueologia Cristã Hispânica, Lisboa, 28-29-30 Setembro/1-2 Outubro de 1992
Creators: name: Jorge, Ana Maria
name: Nunes, Elisabeth Évora
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 1993

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 5 (1993): Jesuítas na Cultura e Sociedade Portuguesa
Leadership development for center-based child care and early education program directors: Research-to-policy resources
Creators: name: Ferguson, Daniel
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Development leadership
Child care--Research
Early childhood education--Research
Early childhood educators

description: Of the nearly 3,000 early childhood undergraduate degree programs in the United States, only 2.9 percent focus on early childhood administration, management, or leadership. To address this gap and to support those already serving in leadership roles, institutions of higher education, state agencies, school districts, and other human services organizations have created early childhood-specific professional development programs to strengthen leadership development in the field. This Research-to-Policy Resource List identifies research in the Research Connections collection published since 2000 on the outcomes of early childhood leadership development programs. The resources on the list are organized by program name and, where indicated, identify the program's sponsor.
The radiating part of circular sources
Creators: name: Carley, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 78A40, 76Q05, 35L05

description: An analysis is developed linking the form of the sound field from a circular source to the radial structure of the source, without recourse to far-field or other approximations. It is found that the information radiated into the field is limited, with the limit fixed by the wavenumber of source multiplied by the source radius (Helmholtz number). The acoustic field is found in terms of the elementary fields generated by a set of line sources whose form is given by Chebyshev polynomials of the second kind, and whose amplitude is found to be given by weighted integrals of the radial source term. The analysis is developed for tonal sources, such as rotors, and, for Helmholtz number less than two, for random disk sources. In this case, the analysis yields the cross-spectrum between two points in the acoustic field. The analysis is applied to the problems of tonal radiation, random source radiation as a model problem for jet noise, and to noise cancellation, as in active control of noise from rotors. It is found that the approach gives an accurate model for the radiation problem and explicitly identifies those parts of a source which radiate.
description: Submitted to Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Pararchidendron pruinosum I. C. Nielsen 1992
Creators: name: Miller, Joseph T.
name: Seigler, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Fabales
Fabaceae
Pararchidendron
Pararchidendron pruinosum

description: Pararchidendron pruinosum (Benth.) I.C.Nielsen , ANBG 8200992, EU439985, EU811836, EU811953, EU812011, EU811908
description: Published as part of Miller, Joseph T. & Seigler, David, 2012, Evolutionary and taxonomic relationships of Acacia s. l. (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae), pp. 217-224 in Australian Systematic Botany 25 (3) on page 224, DOI: 10.1071/sb11042, http://zenodo.org/record/4278146
The Future of Economic Sanctions in a Global Economy
Creators: name: Nephew, Richard M.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Economic sanctions
Sanctions (International law)--Economic aspects
Economic sanctions, American
Economics
International relations
International law

description: The United States currently maintains an asymmetric advantage in the application of economic pressure on partners and adversaries to achieve its national goals, based on its immense economy and position in the middle of the world’s economic activity. But, it is not certain that this advantage will persist in the future or that it will be as strong, as other countries expand and develop economically. This issue brief, authored by Richard Nephew, Program Director for Economic Statecraft, Sanctions and Energy Markets at the Center on Global Energy Policy, argues that the United States should consider the possibility and implications of such a global environment and adjust its sanctions policies accordingly. Nephew is a former director for Iran at the U.S. National Security Council and was a member of the U.S. nuclear negotiating team with Iran from August 2013 to December 2014. The views expressed here are his own.
Paraserthianthes lophantha I. C. Nielsen
Creators: name: Miller, Joseph T.
name: Seigler, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Fabales
Fabaceae
Paraserthianthes
Paraserthianthes lophantha

description: Paraserthianthes lophantha (Willd.) I.C.Nielsen , ANBG 7901474, EU440016, EU811869 EU812040
description: Published as part of Miller, Joseph T. & Seigler, David, 2012, Evolutionary and taxonomic relationships of Acacia s. l. (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae), pp. 217-224 in Australian Systematic Botany 25 (3) on page 224, DOI: 10.1071/sb11042, http://zenodo.org/record/4278146
Off-site coaching in early childhood center-based settings
Creators: name: Ferguson, Daniel
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Employees--Coaching of
Early childhood educators--Training of
Career development
Early childhood educators

description: Of the elements in a strong professional development system, one promising approach is coaching, which typically involves on-site, ongoing individualized expert technical assistance. Literature reviews on the sizable body of research on early childhood coaching conducted by Mathematica and Child Trends, both published in 2011, show it can have positive outcomes for teachers and children. Because in-person professional development approaches such as coaching can be costly and logistically complicated to deliver, interest is growing in the use of technology to deliver off-site support. A recent project funded by the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE) examined the role of technology in early childhood practice. The final report provides in-depth descriptions of evidence-based professional development approaches that incorporate technology to support off-site delivery, including two coaching programs: Classroom Links to Early Literacy and My Teaching Partner. This resource list expands on the OPRE project by identifying research in the Research Connections collection on additional approaches to using technology for off-site delivery of coaching in early childhood center-based settings.
Current-carrying string loops in black-hole spacetimes with a repulsive cosmological constant
Creators: name: Kološ, Martin
name: Stuchlík, Zdeněk
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Current-carrying string loop dynamics in Schwarzschild-de Sitter spacetimes characterized by the cosmological parameter λ=1/3ΛM^2 is investigated. With attention concentrated to the axisymmetric motion of string loops it is shown that the resulting motion is governed by the presence of an outer tension barrier and an inner angular momentum barrier that are influenced by the black hole gravitational field given by the mass M and the cosmic repulsion given by the cosmological constant Λ. The gravitational attraction could cause capturing of the string having low energy by the black hole or trapping in its vicinity; with high enough energy, the string can escape (scatter) to infinity. The role of the cosmic repulsion becomes important in vicinity of the so-called static radius where the gravitational attraction is balanced by the cosmic repulsion-it is demonstrated both in terms of the effective potential of the string motion and the basin boundary method reflecting its chaotic character, that a potential barrier exists along the static radius behind which no trapped oscillations may exist. The trapped states of the string loops, governed by the interplay of the gravitating mass M and the cosmic repulsion, are allowed only in Schwarzschild-de Sitter spacetimes with the cosmological parameter λ
description: 21 pages, 22 figures
Hiding in plain sight : lighting and projection design for Peter Chu's Smile Masking
Creators: name: Chad, Eric
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Smile Masking and Face Her is a new solo suite by ‘Chuthis.’, the company of dancer and choreographer Peter Chu. This document will examine the methodologies and influences behind the design and integration of lighting and projection within the second half of this program, Smile Masking. This show presents a new approach to the use of infrared cameras to produce live generating imagery. Smile Masking was Choreographed by Peter Chu and performed by Peter Chu and Jenni Berthelot. The design team included Djeff Houle (Sound Design and Composition), Linda Chow (Costume Design), and myself (Lighting and Projection Design). Additonal music by Fred Hamm, Dave Bennett, Bert Lown, Chauncey Grey, Jerry Jeff Walker, Ern Westmore, and Ólafur Arnalds.
Submission to the SEC on Addressing Land Tenure Risks Through Regulation S-K
Creators: name: Cordes, Kaitlin Y.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Land use--Planning
subject: Land use--Government policy
subject: Land tenure
subject: Sustainable development
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Sustainability

description: In July 2016, CCSI sent a submission to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to provide input into how land tenure risks could be addressed through disclosure requirements for public companies. The SEC was seeking input into modernizing business and financial disclosure requirements in Regulation S-K, including whether Regulation S-K should be amended to require disclosure of public policy and sustainability information. CCSI argued that, due to the significant financial risk created by land tenure disputes in countries with weak or transitioning land governance systems, companies should be required to report on land tenure risks. Disclosure should be required for land tenure risks that emerge through direct land acquisitions, as well as land tenure risks tied to supply chains.
Charged Rotating BTZ Black Hole and Thermodynamic Behavior of Field Equations at its Horizon
Creators: name: Akbar, M.
name: Siddiqui, Azad A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we study different cases of the charged rotating BTZ black hole with reference to their horizons. For the existence of these cases conditions on mass, charge and angular momentum of the black hole are obtained. It is also shown that the Einstein field equations for the charged rotating BTZ black hole at the horizon can be expressed as first law of thermodynamics, $dE=TdS+ΩdJ+Φdq+P_{r}dA$.
description: 12 pages, 3 figures
Integrated early childhood data systems
Creators: name: Ferguson, Daniel
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Child care--Research
Early childhood education--Research
Databases
Information storage and retrieval systems

description: To improve data-driven decision making, states and localities are beginning to integrate administrative data systems that have historically been developed and maintained independently by the programs that serve young children. A number of federal initiatives, such as State Advisory Councils on Early Childhood Education and Care, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems Grants and State Fiscal Stabilization Funds, and Race to the Top, provide funding to states to support these early childhood data system efforts. A paper from the Early Childhood Data Collaborative (ECDC), a consortium of seven national research and policy organizations, presents a framework for approaching early care and education data system coordination and integration, and identifies key elements of an integrated early childhood data system. Recently INQUIRE (Quality Initiatives Research and Evaluation Consortium), funded by the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE) in the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), has developed a tool and guides focusing on the components of a high-quality early childhood data system that are relevant to state quality rating and improvement systems. Through its Interoperability Initiative, ACF has released a confidentiality toolkit to aid human services agencies in data systems integration while ensuring the privacy and security of the children and families they serve. This Topic of Interest highlights the ECDC paper, the INQUIRE tool and guides, and the ACF Interoperability Initiative toolkit, as well as other resources, including reports, projects, and bibliographies from the Research Connections collection, that explore the state of state early childhood data systems and state efforts to develop high-quality integrated early childhood data systems.
Elastic building blocks for confined sheets
Creators: name: Schroll, Robert D.
name: Katifori, Eleni
name: Davidovitch, Benny
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the behavior of thin elastic sheets that are bent and strained under the influence of weak, smooth confinement. We show that the emerging shapes exhibit the coexistence of two types of domains that differ in their characteristic stress distributions and energies, and reflect different constraints. A focused-stress patch is subject to a geometric, piecewise-inextensibility constraint, whereas a diffuse-stress region is characterized by a mechanical constraint - the dominance of a single component of the stress tensor. We discuss the implications of our findings for the analysis of elastic sheets that are subject to various types of forcing.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, submitted to PRL
Spin-orbit coupling in $d^{2}$ ordered double perovskites
Creators: name: Chen, Gang
name: Balents, Leon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct and analyze a microscopic model for insulating rock salt ordered double perovskites, with the chemical formula A$_2$BB'O$_6$, where the magnetic ion B' has a 4d$^2$ or 5d$^2$ electronic configuration and forms a face centered cubic (fcc) lattice. For these B' ions, the combination of the triply-degenerate antisymmetric two-electron orbital states and strong spin-orbit coupling forms local quintuplets with an effective spin moment $j=2$. Moreover, due to strongly orbital-dependent exchange, the effective spins have substantial biquadratic and bicubic interactions (fourth and sixth order in the spins, respectively). This leads, at the mean field level, to a rich ground state phase diagram which includes seven different phases: a uniform ferromagnetic phase with an ordering wavevector ${\bf p} = {\bf 0}$ and uniform magnetization along $[111]$ direction, four two-sublattice phases with an ordering wavevector ${\bf p} = 2π(001)$ and two four-sublattice antiferromagnetic phases. Amongst the two-sublattice phases there is a quadrupolar ordered phase which preserves time reversal symmetry. Extending the mean field theory to finite temperatures, we find ten different magnetization processes with different magnetic thermal transitions. In particular, we find that thermal fluctuations stabilize the two-sublattice quadrupolar ordered phase in a large portion of phase diagram. Existing and possible future experiments are discussed in light of these theoretical predictions.
description: 13 pages, 16 figures
Labor Utilization and Operating Practices in Table Service Restaurants
Creators: name: Freshwater, John F.
name: Freshwater, John F.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1971
Subjects: Labor and Human Capital
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: Excerpts from the report: The restaurant industry is suffering from a shortage of qualified personnel. This initial research was designed to evaluate the utilization of manpower in the production subsystem; to obtain related data on operating characteristics, facility layout, and operating methods; and to determine which components of the system require additional research. A meaningful productivity index had to be established to express the labor utilization in a restaurant. In this study the productivity index used was the number of man-hours by department to serve 100 customers. This index was used because it eliminated fluctuations in wage rates and menu prices. The data obtained in this study were obtained from the analysis of 13 restaurant operations. The participating restaurants were selected from varied geographic locations in the 48 contiguous States of the United States to assure wide representation.
The IACOB spectroscopic database of Galactic OB stars
Creators: name: Simón-Díaz, S.
name: Garcia, M.
name: Castro, N.
name: Herrero, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the IACOB spectroscopic database, the largest homogeneous database of high-resolution, high signal-to-noise ratio spectra of Northern Galactic OB-type stars compiled up to date. The spectra were obtained with the FIES spectrograph attached to the Nordic Optical Telescope. We briefly summarize the main characeristics and present status of the IACOB, first scientific results, and some future plans for its extension and scientific exploitation.
description: 2 pages. Poster contribution to the proceedings of the IAU272 "Active OB stars: structure, evolution, mass loss and critical limits"
Redescending M-estimators and Deterministic Annealing, with Applications to Robust Regression and Tail Index Estimation
Creators: name: Frühwirth, Rudolf
name: Waltenberger, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A new type of redescending M-estimators is constructed, based on data augmentation with an unspecified outlier model. Necessary and sufficient conditions for the convergence of the resulting estimators to the Hubertype skipped mean are derived. By introducing a temperature parameter the concept of deterministic annealing can be applied, making the estimator insensitive to the starting point of the iteration. The properties of the annealing M-estimator as a function of the temperature are explored. Finally, two applications are presented. The first one is the robust estimation of interaction vertices in experimental particle physics, including outlier detection. The second one is the estimation of the tail index of a distribution from a sample using robust regression diagnostics.
Implications of Sustained Low Oil Prices on Iran
Creators: name: Nephew, Richard M.
name: Salehi-Isfahani, Djavad
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Petroleum as fuel--Economic aspects
Fuel--Prices
Petroleum industry and trade--Economic aspects
Petroleum products--Prices
Mineral industries--Law and legislation
Petroleum as fuel--Prices
Commerce
International relations

description: In light of pending negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 we thought you would be interested in the latest issue brief from the Center on Global Energy Policy on the relative impact of low oil prices compared to sanctions on Iran's economy. In it, co-authors Richard Nephew, the Center's Program Director for Economic Statecraft, Sanctions and Energy Markets, and Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and a Professor of Economics at Virginia Tech, find that sanctions relief is essential to Iranian economic recovery, even more so than a rebound in the price of oil.
Business solutions to the formalization of artisanal gold mining
Creators: name: Tucker, Christopher L.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Artisanal and Small-scale Mining (ASM) exists in virtually every developing country with accessible mineral deposits. Typically ASM is an informal or in some cases illegal activity with numerous problems associated with it including mercury pollution, non-existent health and safety standards and abusive child labour practices. Furthermore ASM is often regulated to a “subsistence” activity that, along with poor financial management among the miners, keeps participants trapped in a cycle of poverty. Nonetheless, ASM is remarkably productive and has the potential to be extremely profitable as well as environmentally and socially responsible given guidance and formalization. Efforts to formalize ASM activity thus far have been government-led, top-down, heavy-handed attempts to police an activity that employs an estimated 20-30 million people world-wide, often in remote places and often in situations where they believe they have no economic alternative for survival. Not surprisingly, these efforts have met with limited success. The productive and potentially very profitable nature of this activity, where there is no shortage of demand for their extremely fungible product, lends itself readily to a business approach. Franchise businesses are effective in markets where consistency in operations and production are required, especially where such operations are attractive to capable local operators. The franchise model offers access to finance, improved technical capacity for increased recovery, business management expertise, access to banking and personal financial guidance, and a mechanism to reduce environmental and social risk. Furthermore, investors are increasingly wary of investing in junior mining companies as country-risk, resource nationalism, and social license to operate act as impediments to a project’s timely entry to production. ASM offers high social license with local operators and well-diversified country risk. Thus, a small-scale gold mining franchise offers an appealing opportunity to manage, as well as diversify against, such risk factors, while remaining in an extremely profitable and hitherto unexplored market. The reality in many places in Latin America is that partnerships with community locals have a much higher success rate than businesses without. Even nationals from other localities experience difficulties such as additional or longer permitting and harassment. This dynamic provides additional advantages to franchise structures.
Infant and toddler child care quality measures bibliography
Creators: name: Ferguson, Daniel
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Bibliography
Child care services--Evaluation
Child care--Research
Early childhood education--Research

description: The Research Connections collection contains records for more than 1,300 instruments that have been used to conduct studies in the child care and early education field. This bibliography provides records for instruments in the collection that can be used to observe child care quality in center-based settings serving infants and toddlers. In addition to citations and descriptions for the various versions of instruments, this bibliography contains links to all of the studies in the Research Connections collection that have used that instrument.
A Probabilistic Framework Using Embeddings Distance Analysis for Hallucination Detection
Creators: name: Ricco, Emanuele
Publisher: name: KAUST Research Repository
Year: 2025

description: Hallucinations are one of the major issues affecting LLMs. While current research solutions for detecting hallucinations are mainly based on heuristics, here we introduce a mathematically sound methodology to explain hallucination and leverage it to build a tool to detect hallucinations. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to show that hallucinated content has structural differences with respect to correct content. We use the Minkowski distances in the embedding space to prove this result. Our findings demonstrate statistically significant differences in the embedding distance distributions, which are also scale-free -- they qualitatively hold regardless of the distance norm used and the number of keywords, questions, or responses. We leverage these structural differences to develop a tool to detect hallucinated responses, achieving an accuracy of 66% for a specific configuration of system parameters -- comparable with the best results in the field. In conclusion, the suggested methodology is promising and novel, possibly paving the way for further research in the domain.
Piptadenia viridiflora Benth. 1987
Creators: name: Miller, Joseph T.
name: Seigler, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Fabales
Fabaceae
Piptadenia
Piptadenia viridiflora

description: Piptadenia viridiflora Benth. , C. Hughes 1681 OFI, EU439980, EU811831, EU811948, EU812006, EU811903
description: Published as part of Miller, Joseph T. & Seigler, David, 2012, Evolutionary and taxonomic relationships of Acacia s. l. (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae), pp. 217-224 in Australian Systematic Botany 25 (3) on page 224, DOI: 10.1071/sb11042, http://zenodo.org/record/4278146
O governo português e a Companhia de Jesus no quadro da aliança com a Inglaterra: desarranjos e acomodações (1755-1757)
Creators: name: Miranda, Tiago Costa Pinto Dos Reis
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 1993

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 5 (1993): Jesuítas na Cultura e Sociedade Portuguesa
title: Traumatic rupture arachnoid cyst leading to subdural hygroma: Rare presentation of a common pathology
Creators: name: Tiwari, Sarbesh
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Trauma
subject: Clinical Cases

description: Clinical History: A 13-year-old boy presented with a history of headache and nausea. His neurological examination revealed papilledema and features of raised intracranial pressure. He reported a trauma of being hit by a ball on the head about two weeks back.

description: 13 years, male
A New Formula for the BER of Binary Modulations with Dual-Branch Selection over Generalized-K Composite Fading Channels
Creators: name: Ansari, Imran Shafique
name: Al-Ahmadi, Saad
name: Yilmaz, Ferkan
name: Alouini, Mohamed-Slim
name: Yanikomeroglu, Halim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Error performance is one of the main performance measures and derivation of its closed-form expression has proved to be quite involved for certain systems. In this letter, a unified closed-form expression, applicable to different binary modulation schemes, for the bit error rate of dual-branch selection diversity based systems undergoing independent but not necessarily identically distributed generalized-K fading is derived in terms of the extended generalized bivariate Meijer G-function.
description: Diversity schemes, selection combining, dual-branch selection diversity, binary modulation schemes, generalized-K (GK) model, composite fading, bit error rate (BER), and Meijer G-function distribution
How studies of QRIS measure quality improvement activities: An analysis of measures of training and technical assistance
Creators: name: Smith, Sheila
name: Dong, Xiaobei
name: Stephens, Samuel A.
name: Tout, Kathryn
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Career development
Teachers' assistants--Training of
Early childhood educators--Training of
Teachers--Training of--Evaluation

description: This brief reports on the results of an analysis that addressed two questions concerning a large set of QRIS studies conducted between 2006 and 2016: 1. How are two types of professional development activities, group training for early childhood staff (TR) and technical assistance (TA), measured in QRIS research? 2. What specific features of TR and TA are measured in this research? The remaining sections of this brief discuss: Methods: The scope of QRIS studies and coding scheme used in the analysis; Results: The percent and type of studies that measure specific features of QRIS TR and TA; Discussion and recommendations for state QRIS administrators, researchers, and other stakeholders engaged in building QRIS capacity.
National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE) bibliography
Creators: name: Ferguson, Daniel
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Bibliography
Early childhood education
Child care
Social surveys

description: This bibliography lists resources in the Research Connections collection related to the National Survey of Early Care and Education and is intended as a reference tool for researchers and policymakers. It is divided into sections: data sets; user guides, training webinars, and methodological reports; official research findings; studies using NSECE data; and instruments. Within each section resources are listed alphabetically by author and then by year and title. (author abstract)
Effective Elements of School-Based Provision for the Promotion of Healthy Lifestyles
Creators: name: Bailey, Richard
name: Glibo, Iva
name: Scheuer, Claude
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: adoelscent health
child health
Delphi study
health education
physical activity
school health

description: The objective of this study was to develop a Europe-based, authoritative list of the most effective components or elements of learning and health support systems influencing school students’ healthy lifestyles education. It was a part of the broader project, ‘Healthy and Physically Active Schools in Europe’ (HEPAS). The basic approach in this study involved the gathering of the opinions of a group of context experts, and then submitting those opinions to structured rounds of analysis and reorganisation. So, the experts were invited to engage with shared statements of the group’s decision-making to reach a group consensus.
description: Project: Healthy and Physically Active Schools in Europe Project Coordinator: Claude Scheuer Funder: European Commission Programme: Erasmus+ Key Action 2: Strategic Partnerships for School Education – 2019 Reference: 2019-1-LU01-KA201-050112 Timeline: December 2019 – November 2021 Project Sheet: https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/projects/eplus-project-details/#project/ 2019-1-LU01-KA201-050112 For further information on the HEPAS Project please follow the link: Website: https://www.movingschoolsaward.com/hepas/
Head Start Impact Study (HSIS) bibliography
Creators: name: Child Care & Early Education Research Connections
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Bibliography
Child care--Research
Early childhood education--Research

description: This bibliography lists resources in the Research Connections collection related to the Head Start Impact Study and is intended as a reference tool for researchers and policymakers. It is divided into sections for data sets; official reports; studies using HSIS data; summaries, analyses, and commentaries; and instruments. Within each section resources are listed alphabetically by author and then by year and title.
Robustness of Optimal Synchronization in Real Networks
Creators: name: Ravoori, Bhargava
name: Cohen, Adam B.
name: Sun, Jie
name: Motter, Adilson E.
name: Murphy, Thomas E.
name: Roy, Rajarshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Experimental studies of synchronization properties on networks with controlled connection topology can provide powerful insights into the physics of complex networks. Here, we report experimental results on the influence of connection topology on synchronization in fiber-optic networks of chaotic optoelectronic oscillators. We find that the recently predicted non-monotonic, cusp-like synchronization landscape manifests itself in the rate of convergence to the synchronous state. We also observe that networks with the same number of nodes, same number of links, and identical eigenvalues of the coupling matrix can exhibit fundamentally different approaches to synchronization. This previously unnoticed difference is determined by the degeneracy of associated eigenvectors in the presence of noise and mismatches encountered in real-world conditions.
Is macroturbulence in OB Sgs related to pulsations?
Creators: name: Simón-Díaz, S.
name: Herrero, A.
name: Uytterhoeven, K.
name: Castro, N.
name: Aerts, C.
name: Puls, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As part of a long term observational project, we are investigating the macroturbulent broadening in O and B supergiants (Sgs) and its possible connection with spectroscopic variability phenomena and stellar oscillations. We present the first results of our project, namely firm observational evidence for a strong correlation between the extra broadening and photospheric line-profile variations in a sample of 13 Sgs with spectral types ranging from O9.5 to B8.
description: 2 pages, 1 figure. Poster contribution to the proceedings of the IAU272 "Active OB stars: structure, evolution, mass loss and critical limits"
Head Start Impact Study (HSIS) bibliography
Creators: name: Ferguson, Daniel
name: Craig, Donna
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Bibliography
Child care--Research
Early childhood education--Research

description: This bibliography lists resources in the Research Connections collection related to the Head Start Impact Study and is intended as a reference tool for researchers and policymakers. It is divided into sections for data sets and guides; official reports; studies using HSIS data; summaries, analyses, and commentaries; and instruments. Within each section resources are listed alphabetically by author and then by year and title.
Pithecellobium unguis-cati Benth.
Creators: name: Miller, Joseph T.
name: Seigler, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Fabales
Fabaceae
Pithecellobium
Pithecellobium unguis-Cati

description: Pithecellobium unguis-cati Benth. , D. Seigler, 14477, EU439988, EU811839
description: Published as part of Miller, Joseph T. & Seigler, David, 2012, Evolutionary and taxonomic relationships of Acacia s. l. (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae), pp. 217-224 in Australian Systematic Botany 25 (3) on page 224, DOI: 10.1071/sb11042, http://zenodo.org/record/4278146
Drying Farmers' Stock Peanuts with Intermittent Exposures to Heated Air
Creators: name: Woodward, John D.
name: Hutchinson, Reed S.
name: Woodward, John D.
name: Hutchinson, Reed S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1972
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Report Summary: Three types of farmers' stock peanuts (Runner, Spanish, and Virginia) were dried during three seasons on an experimental belt-type dryer to investigate the effects of temperature, airflow rate, length of exposure to heat, and length of aeration between heat treatments on various quality factors of the peanuts. Short exposures to heat, combined with mixing, tempering, and aerating the peanuts between exposures, allowed the use of higher temperatures and resulted in a much shorter total time exposure to heated air than conventional methods. Air temperatures to 145° F. were used on Starr Spanish- and Early Runner-type peanuts without undue reduction of quality. Drying newer varieties of Virginia-type peanuts with air temperatures at 115°, 130°, and 145° F. resulted in excessive split kernels.
The luminosity function of field galaxies
Creators: name: Mahtessian, A. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Schmidt's method for construction of luminosity function of galaxies is generalized by taking into account the dependence of density of galaxies from the distance in the near Universe. The logarithmical luminosity function (LLF) of field galaxies depending on morphological type is constructed. We show that the LLF for all galaxies, and also separately for elliptical and lenticular galaxies can be presented by Schechter function in narrow area of absolute magnitudes. The LLF of spiral galaxies was presented by Schechter function for enough wide area of absolute magnitudes: . Spiral galaxies differ slightly by parameter . At transition from early spirals to the late spirals parameter in Schechter function is reduced. The reduction of mean luminosity of galaxies is observed at transition from elliptical galaxies to lenticular galaxies, to early spiral galaxies, and further, to late spiral galaxies, in a bright end, . The completeness and the average density of samples of galaxies of different morphological types are estimated. In the range the mean number density of all galaxies is equal 0.127 Mpc-3.
description: 14 page, 8 figures, to appear in Astrophysics
Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES) bibliography
Creators: name: Stephens, Samuel A.
name: Craig, Donna
name: Ferguson, Daniel
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Bibliography
Child care--Research
Early childhood education--Research

description: This bibliography lists resources in the Research Connections collection related to the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES), which has fielded cohorts in 1997, 2000, 2003, 2006, and 2009. It is intended as a reference tool for researchers and policymakers. It is divided into sections for data sets; official reports (data tables, methods, and findings); studies using FACES data; and instruments and documentation. Within each section resources are listed alphabetically by author and then by year and title. The FACES cohort(s) used by each resource follows its citation in brackets.
Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES) bibliography
Creators: name: Stephens, Samuel A.
name: Craig, Donna
name: Ferguson, Daniel
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Bibliography
Child care--Research
Early childhood education--Research

description: This bibliography lists resources in the Research Connections collection related to the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES), which has fielded cohorts in 1997, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2009, and 2014. It is intended as a reference tool for researchers and policymakers. It is divided into sections for data sets; official reports (data tables, methods, and findings); studies using FACES data; and instruments and documentation. Within each section resources are listed alphabetically by author and then by year and title. The FACES cohort(s) used by each resource follows its citation in brackets.
Radially Extended, Stratified, Local Models of Isothermal Disks
Creators: name: Guan, Xiaoyue
name: Gammie, Charles F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider local, stratified, numerical models of isothermal accretion disks. The novel feature of our treatment is that radial extent L_x and azimuthal extent L_y satisfy H << L_x, L_y << R, where H is the scale height and R is the local radius. This enables us to probe mesoscale structure in stratified thin disks. We evolve the model at several resolutions, sizes, and initial magnetic field strengths. Consistent with earlier work, we find that the saturated, turbulent state consists of a weakly magnetized disk midplane coupled to a strongly magnetized corona, with a transition at |z| ~ 2H. The saturated α~ 0.01 - 0.02. A two-point correlation function analysis reveals that the central 4H of the disk is dominated by small scale turbulence that is statistically similar to unstratified disk models, while the coronal magnetic fields are correlated on scales ~ 10 H. Nevertheless angular momentum transport through the corona is small. A study of magnetic field loops in the corona reveals few open field lines and predominantly toroidal loops with a characteristic distance between footpoints that is ~ H. Finally we find quasi-periodic oscillations with characteristic timescale ~ 30 Ω^{-1} in the magnetic field energy density. These oscillations are correlated with oscillations in the mean azimuthal field; we present a phenomenological, alpha-dynamo model that captures most aspects of the oscillations.
description: 36 pages, 12 figures; accepted for publication in ApJ
Franquelim Neiva SOARES, D. João Crisóstomo de Amorim Pessoa, Arcebispo de Braga — Documentos para a sua biografia no I Centenário da sua morte, vol. de 240x170 e 304 pp.. Ed. da Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Cantanhede, Cantanhede 1990
Creators: name: Araújo, António De Sousa
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 1992

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 4 (1992): Estudos de História Medieval