cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
ADMINISTRATIVE STYLES OF ENGLISH - AS - A - SECOND-LANGUAGE ADMINISTRATORS
Creators: name: Reasor, Alfred Wendell
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The objective of this study was to identify and evaluate the administrative styles of English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) administrators in the colleges and universities of the United States. A second purpose of the study was to collect data that described the population of the collegiate ESL administrators. The instrument used to measure administrative styles was the Educational Administrative Style Diagnosis Test (EASDT), which is based upon the 3-D theory of William J. Reddin. This theory of leadership analysis posits a four-style model of administrative behavior, and it rejects the concept that any one of these four styles is ideal. Rather, the 3-D theory says that the situation in which the style is used determines the effectiveness of the style. The three variables in this model are Task Orientation, Relationships Orientation, and Effectiveness. The study hypothesized that administrative style would be related to certain pre-selected situational variables in ESL administration. Further, the study hypothesized that ESL administrators would have a high relationships orientation in their administrative behavior. A survey instrument was constructed and administered simultaneously with the EASDT in order to collect data about situational variables in ESL administration. The data were collected during August and September of 1980. They were tabulated and analyzed using Chi-square tests to test for independence among sub-groups of the sample. Hypotheses were tested at the .05 level. The study concluded that 69 percent of these ESL administrators perceive themselves to have a Separated style, which in Reddin's paradigm is characterized as rule-oriented behavior--it is low in both task orientation and relationships orientation. Only 22 percent of these administrators had a Related style, which is high in relationships orientation. Further, the study found that 62 percent of these ESL administrators were using an ineffective style in their present positions. This study found that ESL administrators differed significantly in their administrative styles from other educational administrators who have taken the EASDT. Hypotheses about the relationship of administrative style to the pre-selected situational variables were rejected. Further research is recommended to determine why 69 percent of these ESL administrators have a Separated style.
ADMINISTRATIVE STYLES OF ENGLISH - AS - A - SECOND-LANGUAGE ADMINISTRATORS
Creators: name: Reasor, Alfred Wendell
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3904
subject: Specialist studies in education

description: The objective of this study was to identify and evaluate the administrative styles of English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) administrators in the colleges and universities of the United States. A second purpose of the study was to collect data that described the population of the collegiate ESL administrators. The instrument used to measure administrative styles was the Educational Administrative Style Diagnosis Test (EASDT), which is based upon the 3-D theory of William J. Reddin. This theory of leadership analysis posits a four-style model of administrative behavior, and it rejects the concept that any one of these four styles is ideal. Rather, the 3-D theory says that the situation in which the style is used determines the effectiveness of the style. The three variables in this model are Task Orientation, Relationships Orientation, and Effectiveness. The study hypothesized that administrative style would be related to certain pre-selected situational variables in ESL administration. Further, the study hypothesized that ESL administrators would have a high relationships orientation in their administrative behavior. A survey instrument was constructed and administered simultaneously with the EASDT in order to collect data about situational variables in ESL administration. The data were collected during August and September of 1980. They were tabulated and analyzed using Chi-square tests to test for independence among sub-groups of the sample. Hypotheses were tested at the .05 level. The study concluded that 69 percent of these ESL administrators perceive themselves to have a Separated style, which in Reddin's paradigm is characterized as rule-oriented behavior--it is low in both task orientation and relationships orientation. Only 22 percent of these administrators had a Related style, which is high in relationships orientation. Further, the study found that 62 percent of these ESL administrators were using an ineffective style in their present positions. This study found that ESL administrators differed significantly in their administrative styles from other educational administrators who have taken the EASDT. Hypotheses about the relationship of administrative style to the pre-selected situational variables were rejected. Further research is recommended to determine why 69 percent of these ESL administrators have a Separated style.
Cosmic Reionisation by Stellar Sources: Population III Stars
Creators: name: Sokasian, Aaron
name: Yoshida, Naoki
name: Abel, Tom
name: Hernquist, Lars
name: Springel, Volker
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We combine fast radiative transfer calculations with high resolution hydrodynamical simulations to study an epoch of early hydrogen reionisation by primordial stellar sources at redshifts 1510^4K at redshifts 5~0.13 would bolster the claim for the existence of population III stars similar to the ones studied here.
description: 40 pages, 9 figures
Carientothrips horni Eow 2014, sp. n.
Creators: name: Eow, Li-Xin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Thysanoptera
Phlaeothripidae
Carientothrips
Carientothrips horni

description: Carientothrips horni sp. n.   (Figs 10, 24, 37)
 Female microptera. Body, head and femora uniformly brown, tibiae and tarsi paler, tube paler apically; antennal segments III–VIII progressively darker (Fig. 24).
Head longer than wide, weakly projecting in front of eyes, weakly reticulate (Fig. 10); posterior ocelli small; postocellar and postocular setae weakly capitate; compound eyes smaller ventrally than dorsally; maxillary stylets more than 0.3 of head width apart, retracted up to almost posterior margin of eyes (Fig. 10); maxillary palp segment I slightly longer than wide, segment II twice as long as I, without transverse lines, terminal sensorium stout. Antennal segment VIII not narrowed to base (Fig. 24).
Pronotum transverse, reticulate only near margins, notopleural sutures incomplete (Fig. 10); all 5 pairs of major setae well-developed, capitate; mesopresternum transverse; metathoracic sternopleural sutures long and curved. Metanotum with about 3–5 minor setae anteromedially, median setae wide apart, slender and acute (Fig. 37). Fore femora not enlarged, fore tarsal tooth absent. Fore wing represented by small lobe, with 2 capitate subbasal setae.
Pelta extending across 90% of tergite II anterior margin, rounded median lobe with broad lateral lobes (Fig. 37), campaniform sensilla absent; tergal wing-retaining setae small and straight; tergite IX setae S1 blunt, S2 capitate, S3 acute. Tube shorter than head. Sternites with median transverse row about 10 small discal setae, posteromarginal setae small and arising in front of margin.
 Measurements (holotype female in microns). Body length 2500. Head, length 300; width 230; postocellar setae 60; po setae 75. Pronotum, length 170; width 290; major setae am 45, aa 55, ml 60, epim 65, pa 75. Fore wing, length 50; sub-basal setae 30, 40. Tergite IX setae S1 130, S2 125. Tube length 155. Antennal segments III–VIII length 85, 95, 85, 70, 60, 25.
 Male: not known.
 Specimens studied. Holotype female. Australia, Queensland, Horn Island, from dead Dianella, 20.xi.2009 (LAM5334).
Paratypes all from Queensland: one female taken with holotype; Townsville, Harvey Range, 1 female from grass, 14.vii.1995.
 Comments. This species shares with three others two unusual character states: presence of several small setae anteromedially on the metanotum, and incomplete notopleural sutures. In the other members of the genus considered here, the notopleural sutures are fully complete although in the holotype of magnetis these sutures are only just complete, and in one of the available specimens of pictilis one of the sutures is not quite complete.
description: Published as part of Eow, Li-Xin, 2014, Australian species of spore-feeding Thysanoptera in the genera Carientothrips and Nesothrips (Thysanoptera: Idolothripinae), pp. 193-221 in Zootaxa 3821 (2) on pages 201-205, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3821.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/4919972
Additional file 1 of Promoting rational antibiotic prescribing for non-complicated infections: understanding social influence in primary care networks in Germany
Creators: name: Poss-Doering, Regina
name: Kamradt, Martina
name: Glassen, Katharina
name: Andres, Edith
name: Kaufmann-Kolle, Petra
name: Wensing, Michel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1: Additional quotes (translated from German).
Detecting and Characterizing Young Quasars I: Systemic Redshifts and Proximity Zones Measurements
Creators: name: Eilers, Anna-Christina
name: Hennawi, Joseph F.
name: Decarli, Roberto
name: Davies, Frederick B.
name: Venemans, Bram
name: Walter, Fabian
name: Bañados, Eduardo
name: Fan, Xiaohui
name: Farina, Emanuele P.
name: Mazzucchelli, Chiara
name: Novak, Mladen
name: Schindler, Jan-Torge
name: Simcoe, Robert A.
name: Wang, Feige
name: Yang, Jinyi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a multi-wavelength survey of $13$ quasars at $5.8\lesssim z\lesssim6.5$, that were pre-selected to be potentially young, we find five objects with extremely small proximity zone sizes that may imply UV-luminous quasar lifetimes of $\lesssim 100,000$ years. Proximity zones are regions of enhanced transmitted flux in the vicinity of the quasars that are sensitive to the quasars' lifetimes because the intergalactic gas has a finite response time to their radiation. We combine sub-mm observations from the Atacama Large Millimetre Array (ALMA) and the NOrthern Extended Millimeter Array (NOEMA), as well as deep optical and near-infrared spectra from medium-resolution spectrograph on the Very Large Telescope (VLT) and on the Keck telescopes, in order to identify and characterize these new young quasars, which provide valuable clues about the accretion behavior of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in the early universe, and pose challenges on current black hole formation models to explain the rapid formation of billion solar mass black holes. We measure the quasars' systemic redshifts, black hole masses, Eddington ratios, emission line luminosities, and star formation rates of their host galaxies. Combined with previous results we estimate the fraction of young objects within the high-redshift quasar population at large to be $5\%\lesssim f_{\rm young}\lesssim 10\%$. One of the young objects, PSO J158-14, shows a very bright dust continuum flux ($F_{\rm cont}=3.46\pm 0.02\,\rm mJy$), indicating a highly star-bursting host galaxy with a star formation rate of approximately $1420\,M_{\odot}\,\rm yr^{-1}$.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ
Employee Preference of Traits in a Supervisor
Creators: name: Harrod, Dennette A.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Much has been written on the subject of what makes a good supervisor, but little documented study has been made of populations of Federal Employees.The selection of supervisors in the Federal Government poses several interesting problems. Commonly accepted practice in many cases requires written examinations, personal interviews, and a critical analysis of the person's past performance of duties as reflected in his personnel jacket.
Quantum Quasi-Monte Carlo Technique for Many-Body Perturbative Expansions
Creators: name: Maček, Marjan
name: Dumitrescu, Philipp T.
name: Bertrand, Corentin
name: Triggs, Bill
name: Parcollet, Olivier
name: Waintal, Xavier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High order perturbation theory has seen an unexpected recent revival for controlled calculations of quantum many-body systems, even at strong coupling. We adapt integration methods using low-discrepancy sequences to this problem. They greatly outperform state-of-the-art diagrammatic Monte Carlo. In practical applications, we show speed-ups of several orders of magnitude with scaling as fast as $1/N$ in sample number $N$; parametrically faster than $1/\sqrt{N}$ in Monte Carlo. We illustrate our technique with a solution of the Kondo ridge in quantum dots, where it allows large parameter sweeps.
description: 16 pages; 12 figures; v2. updates title and text to reflect published version; expands discussion, adds additional appendices, corrects typos
More D-branes in plane wave spacetime
Creators: name: Nayak, Rashmi R.
name: Panigrahi, Kamal L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present classical solutions of Dp-branes $(p \ge 5)$ in plane wave spacetime with nonconstant R-R 3-form flux. We also show the existence of a system of D3-branes in this background. We further analyze the supersymmetric properties of these branes by solving type II Killing spinor equations explicitly.
description: 13 pages, references added, to appear in Phys. Letts. B
1909-09-04 G.V. Black to McKay
Creators: name: Black, G. V. (Greene Vardiman), 1836-1915.
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 1909
Subjects: Dental Fluorosis
Tooth Abnormalities
Fluoridation
Colorado

description: Title: G.V. Black to McKay Container: c02 id: level:
A Fock Model and the Segal-Bargmann Transform for the Minimal Representation of the Orthosymplectic Lie Superalgebra $\mathfrak{osp}(m,2|2n)$
Creators: name: Barbier, Sigiswald
name: Claerebout, Sam
name: De Bie, Hendrik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 17B10, 17B60, 22E46, 58C50

description: The minimal representation of a semisimple Lie group is a 'small' infinite-dimensional irreducible unitary representation. It is thought to correspond to the minimal nilpotent coadjoint orbit in Kirillov's orbit philosophy. The Segal-Bargmann transform is an intertwining integral transformation between two different models of the minimal representation for Hermitian Lie groups of tube type. In this paper we construct a Fock model for the minimal representation of the orthosymplectic Lie superalgebra $\mathfrak{osp}(m,2|2n)$. We also construct an integral transform which intertwines the Schrödinger model for the minimal representation of the orthosymplectic Lie superalgebra $\mathfrak{osp}(m,2|2n)$ with this new Fock model.
Employee Preference of Traits in a Supervisor
Creators: name: Harrod, Dennette A.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4407
subject: Policy and administration

description: Much has been written on the subject of what makes a good supervisor, but little documented study has been made of populations of Federal Employees.The selection of supervisors in the Federal Government poses several interesting problems. Commonly accepted practice in many cases requires written examinations, personal interviews, and a critical analysis of the person's past performance of duties as reflected in his personnel jacket.
Thermalization in parametrically driven coupled oscillators
Creators: name: Biswas, Sayak
name: Sinha, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a system of two coupled oscillators one of which is driven parametrically and investigate both classical and quantum dynamics within Floquet description. Characteristic changes in the time evolution of the quantum fluctuations are observed for dynamically stable and unstable regions. Dynamical instability generated by the parametrically driven oscillator leads to infinite temperature thermalization of the undriven oscillator which is evident from the equi-partitioning of energy, reduced density matrix and saturation of entanglement entropy. We also confirm that the classical Lyapunov exponent is correctly captured from the growth rate of `unequal time commutator' of dynamical variables which indicates thermalization stems from the instability in quantum system.
Additional file 1 of Pain-related fear in adolescents with chronic musculoskeletal pain: process evaluation of an interdisciplinary graded exposure program
Creators: name: C. Dekker
name: J. C. M. Van Haastregt
name: J. A. M. C. F. Verbunt
name: J. R. De Jong
name: T. Van Meulenbroek
name: H. F. M. Pernot
name: A. D. Van Velzen
name: C. H. G. Bastiaenen
name: M. E. J. B. Goossens
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Additional file 1 Figure S1 Adolescent flow through the RCT.
Multiloop Amplitudes and Vanishing Theorems using the Pure Spinor Formalism for the Superstring
Creators: name: Berkovits, Nathan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A ten-dimensional super-Poincare covariant formalism for the superstring was recently developed which involves a BRST operator constructed from superspace matter variables and a pure spinor ghost variable. A super-Poincare covariant prescription was defined for computing tree amplitudes and was shown to coincide with the standard RNS prescription. In this paper, picture-changing operators are used to define functional integration over the pure spinor ghosts and to construct a suitable $b$ ghost. A super-Poincare covariant prescription is then given for the computation of N-point multiloop amplitudes. One can easily prove that massless N-point multiloop amplitudes vanish for N<4, confirming the perturbative finiteness of superstring theory. One can also prove the Type IIB S-duality conjecture that $R^4$ terms in the effective action receive no perturbative contributions above one loop.
description: 45 pages harvmac tex, added minor clarifications
A Class of Interstellar OH Masers Associated with Protostellar Outflows
Creators: name: Argon, A. L.
name: Reid, M. J.
name: Menten, K. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the Very Large Array, we have detected weak OH maser emission near the Turner-Welch protostellar source in the W3 OH region. Unlike typical interstellar OH masers, which are associated with ultra-compact HII regions, our measured positions and proper motions (from Very Long Baseline Interferometry) indicate that these OH masers are associated with a bipolar outflow traced by strong H2O masers. These OH masers may be part of a class of interstellar OH masers that are associated with very young stars which have yet to, or may never, create ultra-compact HII regions. This class of OH masers appears to form near the edges of very dense material (within which H2O masers form), where total densities drop precipitously and interstellar UV radiation is sufficient to dissociate the H2O molecules. Observations of this class of OH masers may be an important way to probe the distribution of this important molecule in interstellar shocks at arcsecond resolution or better.
Spatial Concept-Based Navigation with Human Speech Instructions via Probabilistic Inference on Bayesian Generative Model
Creators: name: Taniguchi, Akira
name: Hagiwara, Yoshinobu
name: Taniguchi, Tadahiro
name: Inamura, Tetsunari
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Robots are required to not only learn spatial concepts autonomously but also utilize such knowledge for various tasks in a domestic environment. Spatial concept represents a multimodal place category acquired from the robot's spatial experience including vision, speech-language, and self-position. The aim of this study is to enable a mobile robot to perform navigational tasks with human speech instructions, such as `Go to the kitchen', via probabilistic inference on a Bayesian generative model using spatial concepts. Specifically, path planning was formalized as the maximization of probabilistic distribution on the path-trajectory under speech instruction, based on a control-as-inference framework. Furthermore, we described the relationship between probabilistic inference based on the Bayesian generative model and control problem including reinforcement learning. We demonstrated path planning based on human instruction using acquired spatial concepts to verify the usefulness of the proposed approach in the simulator and in real environments. Experimentally, places instructed by the user's speech commands showed high probability values, and the trajectory toward the target place was correctly estimated. Our approach, based on probabilistic inference concerning decision-making, can lead to further improvement in robot autonomy.
description: Accepted to Advanced Robotics
Distributing Memory Effects in an Open Two-Qubit System
Creators: name: Siltanen, O.
name: Kuusela, T.
name: Piilo, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a method to distribute memory effects among different subspaces of an open two-qubit system's state space. Within the linear optical framework, our system of interest is the polarization of two photons, while the environment consists of their frequency degree of freedom. By exploiting initially correlated frequency distributions and initial frequency-dependent phase factors, we are able to control all the four decoherence functions for polarization -- corresponding to different open system subspace divisions -- almost independently of each other. Hence, our results demonstrate how, in a multipartite dephasing system, Markovian and non-Markovian dynamics can be arbitrarily divided between the subsystems, and giving rise to a novel concept of memory partitions. We also discuss further implications the results have, e.g., on the dynamics of purity and entropy within the two-qubit system.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures
title: A molecular genetic characterisation of glutathione synthetase in Drosophila melanogaster
Creators: name: Daniels, Joanne C
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2007

description: Glutathione synthetase (GS) catalyses the final step of glutathione (GSH) synthesis. GSH is an important antioxidant, involved in detoxifying free radicals and maintaining the cellular redox balance. Oxidative stress is thought to be one of the causes of cellular senescence and organismal aging. The broad scope of this work is the analysis of oxidative stress resistance in Drosophila melanogaster, in relation to ageing, and specifically, this project aims to characterise GS in D. melanogaster.

The gene encoding GS in D. melanogaster (DmGS) is 8Kb long, and consists of up to 10 exons. Nine distinct potential transcripts, which differ due to alternative splicing, have been identified. In this study, cDNAs obtained from adult flies and S2 cells were sequenced, and confirmed the presence of six transcripts in vivo. Functional complementation in yeast corroborated the bioinformatic approach used to identify the two transcripts which are likely to produce an active GS protein.

A tandem duplication of GS in certain strains of D. melanogaster was identified using PCR techniques and southern blotting. Analysis of a small subset of sibling species indicated the duplication was not present in these closely related sibling species, or in any wild type D. melanogaster strains tested.

The effect of GS overexpression on oxidative stress resistance in adult flies was investigated, and the overall contribution of the protein to GSH production in relation to GCLC was also analysed. Increased levels of transcription of both genes raised GSH levels in adult flies, and also increased oxidative stress resistance.

After attempting to create a GS null mutant fly, GS knockdown in Drosophila S2 cells was studied using RNAi. GS RNAi was not found to have an effect on GSH levels, although in combination with GCLC knockdown, it did have a cumulative effect on lowering cellular GSH concentrations. Knockdown of either GSH synthesis genes did not have an effect on cellular viability, although upon exposure to DEM, GS and GCLC RNAi both significantly decreased cellular survival.
Agriculture in the economy of Bolivia, 1825-1953
Creators: name: Cullen, Alice K.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3002
subject: Agriculture, land and farm management
classificationCode: 4303
subject: Historical studies

description: Diverse conditions of topography, climate, and soil have given the Republic of Bolivia an extensive variety of agricultural, pastoral, and forest resources. Traditionally agriculture has provided a livelihood for a larger segment of the Bolivian population than any other occupation. In 1950, the last year an official census was conducted, almost two-thirds of the population was classified as rural. Despite its importance to the Bolivian people, agriculture has not been a dynamic institution. The pattern of development in recent years has been virtually the same as that which emerged during the Spanish colonial era in South America. The volume of production as a while has been deficient. It has provided a low level of consumption for the farm population and has failed to keep pace with the growing demands of the urban population. For years the widening gap between production and consumption has been filled by increasing imports even though this process has diverted foreign exchange from other more productive and necessary purposes. At the same time antiquated methods of production have persisted, and rich agricultural lands have remained undeveloped and isolated from national markets because of inadequate transportation systems. The history of Bolivia's agriculture is an explanation of adverse factors which have caused these conditions and the resultant tendencies they have developed. It is the purpose of this study to discuss: (1) what was the background of agricultural development in the new Republic?; (2) what were the structural changes in the agricultural economy?; and (3) what is the present position of Bolivia's agriculture?
Statistical transition to turbulence in plane channel flow
Creators: name: Gomé, Sébastien
name: Tuckerman, Laurette S.
name: Barkley, Dwight
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Intermittent turbulent-laminar patterns characterize the transition to turbulence in pipe, plane Couette and plane channel flows. The time evolution of turbulent-laminar bands in plane channel flow is studied via direct numerical simulations using the parallel pseudospectral code ChannelFlow in a narrow computational domain tilted by $24^{\circ}$ with respect to the streamwise direction. Mutual interactions between bands are studied through their propagation velocities. Energy profiles show that the flow surrounding isolated turbulent bands returns to the laminar base flow over large distances. Depending on the Reynolds number, a turbulent band can either decay to laminar flow or split into two bands. As with past studies of other wall-bounded shear flows, in most cases survival probabilities are found to be consistent with exponential distributions for both decay and splitting, indicating that the processes are memoryless. Statistically estimated mean lifetimes for decay and splitting are plotted as a function of the Reynolds number and lead to the estimation of a critical Reynolds number $Re_{\text{cross}}\simeq 965$, where decay and splitting lifetimes cross at greater than $10^6$ advective time units. The processes of splitting and decay are also examined through analysis of their Fourier spectra. The dynamics of large-scale spectral components seem to statistically follow the same pathway during the splitting of a turbulent band and may be considered as precursors of splitting.
description: 17 pages, 16 figures
Additional file 2 of Association between HEXACO personality traits and medical specialty preferences in Mexican medical students: a cross-sectional survey
Creators: name: Barbosa-Camacho, Francisco José
name: Miranda-Ackerman, Roberto Carlos
name: Vázquez-Reyna, Itzel
name: Jimenez-Ley, Vania Brickelia
name: Barrera-López, Francisco Javier
name: Vianca Seleste Contreras-Cordero
name: Sánchez-López, Veronica Alexandra
name: Castillo-Valverde, Tom Jilmer
name: Lamas-Abbadie, Claudina Del Carmen
name: González-Adán, Brenda Alicia
name: Cortes-Flores, Ana Olivia
name: Morgan-Villela, Gilberto
name: Cervantes-Cardona, Guillermo Alonso
name: Cervantes-Guevara, Gabino
name: Fuentes-Orozco, Clotilde
name: González-Ojeda, Alejandro
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. HEXACO-PI-R factorial analyses (facet scores). Factor analysis comparing a of the 6-Factor model and the one-factor model of the HEXACO-PI-R domains and the underlying facets, including all only the mean scores for each facet. The analysis compares the models’ AVE, CR indexes, KMO tests and variance percentage scores.
Carientothrips loisthus Mound 1974
Creators: name: Eow, Li-Xin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Thysanoptera
Phlaeothripidae
Carientothrips
Carientothrips loisthus

description: Carientothrips loisthus Mound, 1974 a: 29
(Figs 5, 19, 40, 45)
 Described originally from a single apterous female taken at Adelaide, South Australia, this species has subsequently been found widespread in eastern Australia as far north as Cape Tribulation in northern Queensland. Moreover it is common on Lord Howe Island, and has been taken widely in New Zealand (Mound & Walker 1986). The major setae of this species are long and acute, as in the related species snowi, and the median pair of tergal discal setae are commonly longer than the more lateral pairs. These two species are similar to semirufus, although the tergal chaetotaxy is different as indicated in the key above.
 Diagnosis. Apterous (macropterae rare), body brown to weakly bicoloured with head and thorax paler than brown abdomen, tube paler distally; legs variable in colour, tibiae usually yellowish; head longer than wide, projecting in front of eyes, postocellar and postocular setae long and finely pointed (Fig. 5); stylets about 0.5 of head width apart and retracted to postocular setae; maxillary palp segment I twice as long as wide, segment II slightly shorter than I; eyes variable, small or very small, with few ommatidia ventrally. Pronotal am and aa setae shorter than the other 3 pairs, notopleural sutures complete. Female without fore tarsal tooth. Metanotum with little or no sculpture. Pelta with broad median lobe broadly joined to lateral areas (Fig. 40); tergites with less than 10 discal setae, wing-retaining setae usually long and straight (Fig. 45); tergite IX setae acute, almost as long as tube. Males smaller than females, fore tarsal tooth present, large in large males.
description: Published as part of Eow, Li-Xin, 2014, Australian species of spore-feeding Thysanoptera in the genera Carientothrips and Nesothrips (Thysanoptera: Idolothripinae), pp. 193-221 in Zootaxa 3821 (2) on page 206, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3821.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/4919972
Development of a Cultural Adaptation Model of the South Asian Healthy Lifestyle Intervention (SAHELI): A Qualitative Approach
Creators: name: Palma, Melissa
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 2020
Subjects: atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease
South Asian immigrant
lifestyle intervention

description: I would like to thank all members of the SAHELI research study team for their invaluable support including Fatima Safi, MPH; Swapna Dave, MBBS; Himali Bharucha, Zohrab Mirza, MPH, Waqas Khan, Sarah Aziz Hussain, and Catherine Counard, MD, MPH. Without your welcoming kindness and translation skills, this project would not be possible.
description: Background: South Asians have increased risk for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) compared to other Asian groups and non-Hispanic whites. Cultural adaptations of evidence-based health education have been shown to improve health outcomes immigrant and minority populations when compared to usual care. Few studies have identified core elements to culturally adapt lifestyle interventions for South Asian immigrant populations in the US.  Purpose: This study aims to describe how the SAHELI intervention culturally adapts the evidence-based Diabetes Prevention Program for a US-based South Asian immigrant population.Methods: Qualitative analysis of SAHELI health education audio recording transcripts from 5 cohorts across three community sites (health department, community center, school district). Following generation of thematic constructs from written transcript analysis, coding was applied to 32 English-speaking and 8 Urdu-speaking group education sessions.Results: SAHELI culturally adapts evidenced-based lifestyle interventions by applying both surface-level cultural knowledge (South Asian language, food, festivals, religion); deep-structure cultural knowledge (South Asian values, gender roles, health beliefs); and activation of cultural identity (shared ethnic background, SAHELI group identity).Conclusions: SAHELI utilizes both surface-level and deep-structural cultural knowledge and activation of cultural identity within a group motivational interviewing framework to promote health behavior change via lifestyle interventions grounded by South Asian sociocultural contexts.
Monopole core instability and Alice rings in spinor Bose-Einstein condensates
Creators: name: Ruostekoski, J.
name: Anglin, J. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show how the length scale hierarchy, resulting from different interaction strengths in an optically-trapped spin-1 sodium-23 Bose-Einstein condensate, can lead to intriguing core deformations in singular topological defects. In particular, a point defect can be unstable with respect to the formation of a stable half-quantum vortex ring (an Alice ring), providing a realistic scheme to use dissipation as a sophisticated state engineering tool. We compute the threshold for stability of the point monopole, which is beyond the current experimental regime.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Agriculture in the economy of Bolivia, 1825-1953
Creators: name: Cullen, Alice K.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Diverse conditions of topography, climate, and soil have given the Republic of Bolivia an extensive variety of agricultural, pastoral, and forest resources. Traditionally agriculture has provided a livelihood for a larger segment of the Bolivian population than any other occupation. In 1950, the last year an official census was conducted, almost two-thirds of the population was classified as rural. Despite its importance to the Bolivian people, agriculture has not been a dynamic institution. The pattern of development in recent years has been virtually the same as that which emerged during the Spanish colonial era in South America. The volume of production as a while has been deficient. It has provided a low level of consumption for the farm population and has failed to keep pace with the growing demands of the urban population. For years the widening gap between production and consumption has been filled by increasing imports even though this process has diverted foreign exchange from other more productive and necessary purposes. At the same time antiquated methods of production have persisted, and rich agricultural lands have remained undeveloped and isolated from national markets because of inadequate transportation systems. The history of Bolivia's agriculture is an explanation of adverse factors which have caused these conditions and the resultant tendencies they have developed. It is the purpose of this study to discuss: (1) what was the background of agricultural development in the new Republic?; (2) what were the structural changes in the agricultural economy?; and (3) what is the present position of Bolivia's agriculture?
Baryon Oscillations as a Cosmological Probe
Creators: name: Linder, Eric V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Mapping the expansion of the universe gives clues to the underlying physics causing the recently discovered acceleration of the expansion, and enables discrimination among cosmological models. We examine the utility of measuring the rate of expansion, H(z), at various epochs, both alone and in combination with distance measurements. Due to parameter degeneracies, it proves most useful as a complement to precision distance-redshift data. Using the baryon oscillations in the matter power spectrum as a standard rod allows determination of H(z)/\sqrt{Ω_mh^2} free of most major systematics, and thus provides a window on dark energy properties. We discuss the addition of this data from a next generation galaxy redshift survey such as KAOS to precision distance information from a next generation supernova survey such as SNAP. This can provide useful crosschecks as well as lead to improvement on estimation of a time variation in the dark energy equation of state by factors ranging from 15-50%.
description: 18 pages
Attitude of American Labor Unions toward the Guaranteed Annual Wage Plan
Creators: name: Burke, Dewitt O.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: A guaranteed annual wage has been defined as "any plan in which an employer guarantees to all, or to a definite unit or group of his employees, a wage or employment for a specified period of time." However, the famous Latimer Report limits guaranteed wage plans to those which guarantee to employees work or wages for at least three months in a year. In the vast majority of guaranteed wage plans now in existence, employment is guaranteed for a specific number of weeks per year and hours per week, usually less than fifty-two weeks per year and forty hours per week.
Moving Beyond a Simple Model of Luminescence Rings in Quantum Well Structures
Creators: name: Snoke, D.
name: Denev, S.
name: Liu, Y.
name: Simon, S.
name: Rapaport, R.
name: Chen, G.
name: Pfeiffer, L.
name: West, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dramatic appearance of luminescence rings with radius of several hundred microns in quantum well structures can be understood through a fairly simple nonlinear model of the diffusion and recombination of electrons and holes in a driven nonequilibrium system. The ring corresponds to the boundary between a positive hole gas and a negative electron gas in steady state. While this basic effect is now well understood, we discuss several other experimental results which can not be explained by this simple model.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures
Submodules of Specht Modules for Weyl Groups
Creators: name: Halicioğlu, Sait
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20C33, 20C30

description: The construction of all irreducible modules of the symmetric groups over an arbitrary field which reduce to Specht modules in the case of fields of characteristic zero is given by G.D.James. Halıcıoğlu and Morris describe a possible extension of James' work for Weyl groups in general, where Young tableaux are interpreted in terms of root systems. In this paper we show how to construct submodules of Specht modules for Weyl groups.
Arousal and Willingness to Contribute to Sustainable Efforts
Creators: name: Pu, Guan-Ji
name: Jawanda, Jivin
name: Sital, Manmeet
name: Kryschuk, Tamara
name: Liang, Vanessa
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2018

description: Arousal is experienced frequently throughout the day and can influence attitudes and emotions. This experiment was mostly conducted on University students and examines whether arousal will influence people’s willingness to contribute to a sustainable cause. This study had an experimental condition in which participants watched an arousing video and a control condition, in which participants watched a non-arousing video. After viewing the video, participants were asked to complete a questionnaire which measured their level of concern for the environmental issue, willingness to sign an environmental petition, and willingness to make a monetary donation. The results demonstrate a significant difference in the levels of arousal between the two conditions, which reveals that our manipulation worked. Arousal was found to significantly increase concern for the environmental issue at hand and willingness to sign an environmental petition. However, these effects were not found for willingness to donate. Our results may be explained by Schachter and Singer’s (1962) study which found that people could misattribute their arousal depending on context. Our findings can be used to raise concern for environmental efforts by pairing an arousing stimulus with information about an environmental effort. 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.”
title: On Natural Suffering.
Creators: name: Taylor, Richard
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1996

description: Part 1 surveys writing by previous philosophers on natural suffering. Part 2 is in three sections. The first two sections investigate two fairly predictable answers to the question, "why wouldn't it be a good thing to try to relieve at least some natural suffering?" The two answers are, first, "because that would be to go against nature", and, second, "because that would be to risk harm to the ecosystem". There is a third fairly predictable answer to the question "why wouldn't it be a good thing to try to relieve at least some natural suffering?" Some people would probably say "because the time would be better spent trying to relieve suffering in the human realm". For reasons explained in the third section of Part 2, I evade this answer by positing a situation in which human realm suffering no longer exists. In this situation, where there is more scope for natural suffering relief, I put a new question: "why wouldn't it be a good thing to try to relieve as much natural suffering as possible?" The third section of Part 2 investigates several answers to this further question. Part 3 considers various "accidental" human effects on levels of natural suffering. I investigate whether these various effects, considered separately, can be thought of as good things, leaving aside the question of whether better things might replace them. For example, what if levels of natural suffering fall by reason of a fall in the number of natural lives? In nature lion cubs, for example, die mostly from starvation (mortality is 80%). If human effect on nature endangers species in which extreme suffering is routine, mightn't such human effect on nature be a good thing?
Block-Approximated Exponential Random Graphs
Creators: name: Adriaens, Florian
name: Mara, Alexandru
name: Lijffijt, Jefrey
name: De Bie, Tijl
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: An important challenge in the field of exponential random graphs (ERGs) is the fitting of non-trivial ERGs on large graphs. By utilizing fast matrix block-approximation techniques, we propose an approximative framework to such non-trivial ERGs that result in dyadic independence (i.e., edge independent) distributions, while being able to meaningfully model both local information of the graph (e.g., degrees) as well as global information (e.g., clustering coefficient, assortativity, etc.) if desired. This allows one to efficiently generate random networks with similar properties as an observed network, and the models can be used for several downstream tasks such as link prediction. Our methods are scalable to sparse graphs consisting of millions of nodes. Empirical evaluation demonstrates competitiveness in terms of both speed and accuracy with state-of-the-art methods -- which are typically based on embedding the graph into some low-dimensional space -- for link prediction, showcasing the potential of a more direct and interpretable probabalistic model for this task.
description: Accepted for DSAA 2020 conference
Electric and magnetic form factors of strange baryons
Creators: name: Van Cauteren, T.
name: Merten, D.
name: Corthals, T.
name: Janssen, S.
name: Metsch, B.
name: Petry, H. -R.
name: Ryckebusch, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Predictions for the electromagnetic form factors of the Lambda$, Sigma and Xi hyperons are presented. The numerical calculations are performed within the framework of the fully relativistic constituent-quark model developed by the Bonn group. The computed magnetic moments compare favorably with the experimentally known values. Most magnetic form factors G_M(Q^2) can be parametrized in terms of a dipole with cutoff masses ranging from 0.79 to 1.14 GeV.
description: 15 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables, submitted to Eur. Phys. J. A