cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Self-Focussing Dynamics in Monopolarly Charged Suspensions
Creators: name: Dammer, Stephan M.
name: Wolf, Dietrich E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Smoluchowski equation for irreversible aggregation in suspensions of equally charged particles is studied. Accumulation of charges during the aggregation process leads to a crossover from power law to sub-logarithmic cluster growth at a characteristic time and cluster size. For larger times the suspension is usually called stable, although aggregation still proceeds slowly. In this regime the size distribution evolves towards a {\em universal} scaling form, independent of {\em any} parameter included in the theory. The relative width falls off to a universal value $σ_{\rm r}^{\infty}{\approx}0.2017$ that is much smaller than in the uncharged case. We conjecture that $σ_{\rm r}^{\infty}$ is a lower bound for the asymptotic relative width for all physical systems with irreversible aggregation.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, minor changes
VALUES, PUBLIC CHOICE, AND THE DESIGN OF PERMIT BASED AGRICULTURAL WATER INSTITUTIONS
Creators: name: Lynne, Gary D.
name: Lynne, Gary D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1988
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Public Economics
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Agricultural water institutions have evolved in a public choice process toward permit based systems in both Australia and the U. S. Long term (prior appropriation) and short term (temporal, non-priority) systems reflect quite different. philosophies about what values (objectives) rank the highest. Water markets will be constrained by these ranks.
Sustainable stormwater management at UBC : an exploration of the south campus catchment
Creators: name: Arnett, John
name: Hignell, Brad
name: Hlynka, Alexandra
name: Sadowski, Rosalind
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: 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.”
Single decay-lepton angular distributions in polarized e+e- --> t tbar and simple angular asymmetries as a measure of CP-violating top dipole couplings
Creators: name: Rindani, Saurabh D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the presence of an electric dipole coupling of t-tbar to a photon, and an analogous "weak" dipole coupling to the Z, CP violation in the process e+e- --> t tbar results in modified polarization of the top and anti-top. This polarization can be analyzed by studying the angular distributions of decay charged leptons when the top or anti-top decays leptonically. Analytic expressions are presented for these distributions when either t or tbar decays leptonically, including O(alpha_s) QCD corrections in the soft-gluon approximation. The angular distributions are insensitive to anomalous interactions in top decay. Two types of simple CP-violating polar-angle asymmetries and two azimuthal asymmetries, which do not need the full reconstruction of the t or tbar, are studied. Independent 90% CL limits that may be obtained on the real and imaginary parts of the electric and weak dipole couplings at a linear collider operating at sqrt{s}=500 GeV with integrated luminosity 500 fb^{-1} and also at sqrt{s}=1000 GeV with integrated luminosity 1000 fb^{-1} have been evaluated. The effect of longitudinal electron and/or positron beam polarizations has been included.
description: 26 pages, latex, figures included as latex files, version appearing in Pramana - Journal of Physics, minor corrections and note added in proof
An Analysis of Brazil's Agricultural Investment Policies
Creators: name: Teixeira, Erly
name: Martin, Marshall A.
name: Teixeira, Erly
name: Martin, Marshall A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1988
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Agricultural Finance
International Development

description: Trans log, factor share production functions, including state variables, were estimated econometrically to evaluate Brazil's investment policies. The empirical results indicate that labor productivity was higher in the export crops sector compared to the domestic food crops sector as a consequence of Brazil's capital accumulation and investment behavior.
Plasmonic Quantum Yield Enhancement of a Single Molecule Near a Nanoegg
Creators: name: Ugwuoke, Luke C.
name: Mančal, Tomáš
name: Krüger, Tjaart P. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the impact of the dipole-active modes formed via the mode-mixing of the dipole mode with higher-order surface plasmon modes of a nanoegg on the radiative decay rate and quantum yield of an excited molecule near the nanoegg. The Purcell factor, rate of power dissipation by the emitter, antenna efficiency of the nanoegg, as well as quantum yield enhancement of the emitter, were studied using the quasistatic approximation and the semiclassical theory of radiation, following the Gersten-Nitzan and Ford-Weber approaches. Compared to the concentric nanoshell, we show that the dielectric core-metallic shell nanoegg is a more efficient plasmonic nanoantenna for radiative decay rate enhancement of single emitters. The quantum yield of the emitter was found to be more enhanced near the nanoshell, while its emission rate was found to be more enhanced near the nanoegg.
The effect of cellulose nanocrystal coatings on the glass fiber-epoxy interphase
Creators: name: Goswami, Joyanta
name: Haque, Ejaz
name: Fox, Douglas
name: Gilman, Jeffrey W.
name: Holmes, Gale A.
name: Moon, Robert J.
name: Kalaitzidou, Kyriaki
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This study focuses on understanding the effect of cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) on glass fiber/epoxy interfacial interactions. The glass fibers (GF) were coated with solutions containing cellulose nanomaterial. The parameters that were investigated were the CNC surface chemistry, concentration, and dispersing medium, i.e., aqueous solution only versus emulsions. To determine the effect of the CNC coatings on the interfacial adhesion, specimens of a single GF in an epoxy matrix were prepared for GF coating by varying the coating formulations. The interfacial shear stress (IFSS) was determined by the single fiber fragmentation test (SFFT). Following the SFFT, the samples were investigated by cross-polarized microscopy in order to understand the fracture modes which are related to the nature of the interphase. According to the SFFT data and photoelastic fracture patterns, both the emulsion and aqueous coatings containing cellulose nanocrystals functionalized with methyl(triphenyl) phosphonium (CNCPh) improve the IFSS in comparison to coated GFs without CNCs.
The effect of cellulose nanocrystal coatings on the glass fiber-epoxy interphase
Creators: name: Goswami, Joyanta
name: Haque, Ejaz
name: Fox, Douglas
name: Gilman, Jeffrey W.
name: Holmes, Gale A.
name: Moon, Robert J.
name: Kalaitzidou, Kyriaki
Publisher: name: Materials
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 40
subject: Engineering
classificationCode: 4016
subject: Materials engineering
subject: FOS: Materials engineering

description: This study focuses on understanding the effect of cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) on glass fiber/epoxy interfacial interactions. The glass fibers (GF) were coated with solutions containing cellulose nanomaterial. The parameters that were investigated were the CNC surface chemistry, concentration, and dispersing medium, i.e., aqueous solution only versus emulsions. To determine the effect of the CNC coatings on the interfacial adhesion, specimens of a single GF in an epoxy matrix were prepared for GF coating by varying the coating formulations. The interfacial shear stress (IFSS) was determined by the single fiber fragmentation test (SFFT). Following the SFFT, the samples were investigated by cross-polarized microscopy in order to understand the fracture modes which are related to the nature of the interphase. According to the SFFT data and photoelastic fracture patterns, both the emulsion and aqueous coatings containing cellulose nanocrystals functionalized with methyl(triphenyl) phosphonium (CNCPh) improve the IFSS in comparison to coated GFs without CNCs.
Reduce but Do Not Eliminate America’s Trade and Budget Deficits
Creators: name: Ward, William A.
name: Ward, William A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Exorbitant Privilege
subject: Trade Deficits
subject: Budget Deficits

description: Since the 1970s, the U.S. has had the privilege of not having to pay for all imports nor repay all foreign loans. From 2000–2016, $199 billion in imports annually were “free,” as were an equal number of annual federal expenditures. Rather than eliminate the trade and budget deficits, they should be reduced to their warranted levels. This article estimates the potential “warranted” deficits.
Inequalities between mixed volumes of convex bodies: volume bounds for the Minkowski sum
Creators: name: Averkov, Gennadiy
name: Borger, Christopher
name: Soprunov, Ivan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14M25, 52A39, 52A40, 52B20

description: In the course of classifying generic sparse polynomial systems which are solvable in radicals, Esterov recently showed that the volume of the Minkowski sum $P_1+\dots+P_d$ of $d$-dimensional lattice polytopes is bounded from above by a function of order $O(m^{2^d})$, where $m$ is the mixed volume of the tuple $(P_1,\dots,P_d)$. This is a consequence of the well-known Aleksandrov-Fenchel inequality. Esterov also posed the problem of determining a sharper bound. We show how additional relations between mixed volumes can be employed to improve the bound to $O(m^d)$, which is asymptotically sharp. We furthermore prove a sharp exact upper bound in dimensions 2 and 3. Our results generalize to tuples of arbitrary convex bodies with volume at least one.
description: 21 pages, 5 figures; error in the statement of Theorem 3.3 corrected
MODELING YIELD WITH STOCHASTIC TREND AND NONNORMAL ERRORS
Creators: name: Moss, Charles B.
name: Shonkwiler, J. S.
name: Moss, Charles B.
name: Shonkwiler, J. S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: random trend
subject: transformation of random variables
subject: inverse hyperbolic sine

description: Recent interest in modeling randomness in crop yields has typically focused on two distinct areas: stochastic trend and non-normality. However, the estimated errors from the stochastic trend model fail a test for normality. Thus, a transformation is used to model the non-normality of errors within the stochastic trend model.
VALUATION OF OPEN SPACE AS A COMPOSITE ENVIRONMENTAL GOOD VIA CONJOINT ANALYSIS
Creators: name: Mackenzie, John
name: Mackenzie, John
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1991
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Environmental Economics and Policy

description: This paper analyzes individuals' preferences for protection of open space parcels, described by their constituent environmental amenities, within the public choice framework of a statewide open space preservation initiative. An indirect utility index estimated from these preferences yields marginal valuations of individual amenities with acceptably narrow confidence intervals.
EFFECTS OF INCOME SOURCES ON HOUSEHOLD FOOD EXPENDITURES
Creators: name: Yen, Steven T.
name: Chern, Wen S.
name: Lee, Hwang-Jaw
name: Yen, Steven T.
name: Chern, Wen S.
name: Lee, Hwang-Jaw
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1991
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics
Financial Economics
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: A purchase infrequency model and a Tobit model are used to examine impacts of different income sources on food expenditures using BLS's Consumer Expenditure Diary Survey data. Results show that four income components have significantly different effects on the expenditures of food, food at home, and food away from home.
Social Determinants of Health and Incident Apparent Treatment‐Resistant Hypertension Among White and Black US Adults: The REGARDS Study
Creators: name: Hannon, Lonnie
name: Carson, April P.
name: Hardy, Shakia T.
name: Muntner, Paul
name: Jaeger, Byron C.
name: Akinyelure, Oluwasegun P.
name: Oparil, Suzanne
name: Safford, Monika M.
name: Howard, George
name: Sims, Andrew
Publisher: name: Wolters Kluwer
Year: 2024

description:
BACKGROUND: We examined the association of multilevel social determinants of health with incident apparent treatment-resistant hypertension (aTRH). METHODS AND RESULTS: We analyzed data from 2774 White and 2257 Black US adults from the REGARDS (Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke) study taking antihypertensive medication without aTRH at baseline to estimate the association of social determinants of health with incident aTRH. Selection of social determinants of health was guided by the Healthy People 2030 domains of education, economic stability, social context, neighborhood environment, and health care access. Blood pressure (BP) was measured during study visits, and antihypertensive medication classes were identified through a pill bottle review. Incident aTRH was defined as (1) systolic BP ≥140 mm Hg or diastolic BP ≥90 mm Hg, or systolic BP ≥130 mm Hg or diastolic BP ≥80 mm Hg for those with diabetes or chronic kidney disease while taking ≥3 classes of antihypertensive medication or (2) taking ≥4 classes of antihypertensive medication regardless of BP level, at the follow-up visit. Over a median 9.5 years of follow-up, 15.9% of White and 24.0% of Black adults developed aTRH. A percent of the excess aTRH risk among Black versus White adults was mediated by low education (14.2%), low income (16.0%), not seeing a friend or relative in the past month (8.1%), not having someone to care for them if ill or disabled (7.6%), lack of health insurance (10.6%), living in a disadvantaged neighborhood (18.0%), and living in states with poor public health infrastructure (6.0%). CONCLUSIONS: Part of the association between race and incident aTRH risk was mediated by social determinants of health.
Optimal Lobbying Behavior and Government Response: Implications for Agriculture
Creators: name: Fafchamps, Marcel
name: Sadoulet, Elisabeth
name: De Janvry, Alain
name: Fafchamps, Marcel
name: Sadoulet, Elisabeth
name: De Janvry, Alain
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1991
Subjects: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
Political Economy

description: A general equilibrium model with optimal lobbying behavior and endogenous government behavior is solved numerically. It predicts that sectors which are more flexible, larger, and produce commodities with lower income elasticities and higher budget shares tend to be disprotected, explaining the price bias against agriculture in developing countries. Optimal
Universal relationship between the energy scales of the pseudogap phase, the superconducting state and the charge density wave order in copper oxide superconductors
Creators: name: Loret, B.
name: Auvray, N.
name: Gu, G. D.
name: Forget, A.
name: Colson, D.
name: Cazayous, M.
name: Gallais, Y.
name: Paul, I.
name: Civelli, M.
name: Sacuto, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the hole doping dependencies of the pseudogap phase energy scale, $2Δ_{\rm PG}$, the anti-nodal (nodal) superconducting energy scales $2Δ^{AN}_{\rm SC}$ ($2Δ^{N}_{\rm SC}$) and the charge density wave energy scale, $2Δ_{\rm CDW}$. They have been extracted from the electronic Raman responses of distinct copper oxide families. For all the cuprates studied, we reveal universal doping dependencies which suggest that $2Δ_{\rm PG}$, $2Δ^{AN}_{\rm SC}$ and $2Δ_{\rm CDW}$ are governed by common microscopic interactions and that these interactions become relevant well above the superconducting transition at $T_c$. In sharp contrast, $2Δ^N_{\rm SC}$ tracks the doping dependence of $T_c$, appearing to be controlled by a different kind of interactions than the energy scales above.
description: 11 pages and 9 figures
Distant Emission from Mrk 1239: Origin Revealed
Creators: name: Buhariwalla, M.Z.
name: Gallo, L.C.
name: Mao, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: X-rays
Active Galaxies
Seyfert Galaxies

description: New X-ray observations of a hybrid Narrow Line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) galaxy Mrk 1239 with joint NuSTAR and XMM-Newton in the 0.3-40.0 keV band are presented. Below 2 keV, direct AGN emission is obscured revealing a complex RGS spectrum rich in emission lines originating from a two-component plasma (collisionally and photoionized) at large distances from the black hole. The spectral variability below 3 keV is remarkably consistent over 20 years of observations. Above 3 keV the AGN dominates the emission and the NLS1 nature is revealed. A flaring event was captured with NuSTAR where the 4-30 keV count rate increased by a factor of 5 in a few kiloseconds before returning to near pre-flare levels just as quickly. Ionized partial covering and relativistic blurred reflection have previously been considered for the central region emission. Questions remain about the nature of the NuSTAR flare, and the continuum model for Mrk 1239.
description: Preliminary work was presented at the 2022 XMM-Newton workshop.
The queen without a throne
Creators: name: Aung, Sam Felix
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Since Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Laureate, became the head of the government (she was barred from becoming a President because of the Myanmar constitution, she became a State Counselor), she has been trying to bring peace within the country. However, the Myanmar military leaders are in her way.
Lattice modulation spectroscopy of one-dimensional quantum gases:Universal scaling of the absorbed energy
Creators: name: Citro, Roberta
name: Demler, Eugene
name: Giamarchi, Thierry
name: Knap, Michael
name: Orignac, Edmond
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Lattice modulation spectroscopy is a powerful tool for probing low-energy excitations of interacting many-body systems. By means of bosonization we analyze the absorbed power in a one dimensional interacting quantum gas of bosons or fermions, subjected to a periodic drive of the optical lattice. For these Tomonaga Luttinger liquids we find a universal $ω^3$ scaling of the absorbed power, that at very low-frequency turns into an $ω^2$ scaling when scattering processes at the boundary of the system are taken into account. We confirm this behavior numerically by simulations based on time-dependent matrix product states. Furthermore, in the presence of impurities, the theory predicts an $ω^2$ bulk scaling. While typical response functions of Tomonaga Luttinger liquids are characterized by exponents that depend on the interaction strength, modulation spectroscopy of cold atoms leads to a universal power-law exponent of the absorbed power. Our findings can be readily demonstrated in ultracold atoms in optical lattices with current experimental technology.
description: RevTeX 4-1, 17 pages, 4 PDF figures (v2) Plots of Luttinger liquid parameter and prefactor in absorbed power
The queen without a throne
Creators: name: Aung, Sam Felix
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3605
subject: Screen and digital media

description: Since Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Laureate, became the head of the government (she was barred from becoming a President because of the Myanmar constitution, she became a State Counselor), she has been trying to bring peace within the country. However, the Myanmar military leaders are in her way.
SUSTAINABILITY: THE PARADIGMATIC CHALLENGE TO AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
Creators: name: Norgaard, Richard B.
name: Norgaard, Richard B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1991
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Environmental Economics and Policy

description: The agricultural economics profession needs a broader and more robust philosophical basis to meet the challenge of sustainable development. First, sustainability can easily be understood as an issue of intergenerational equity, as a redistribution of rights or a transfer of assets to future generations which redefines the efficient allocation of resources. Economists have distorted the sustainability discourse with efficiency arguments which implicitly assume current generations hold all rights to resources. Second, economists have assumed that the patterns of thinking of ecology and the values they complement and economic thinking and the values it complements will merge into a coherent, logical argument. Different patterns of thinking really are different and inherently shed light on different aspects of the complex world in which we live. Conceptual monism within economics impedes the participatory resolutions between economic thinking and ecological and other ways of understanding that are sorely needed. Third, how development unfolded, including its presumed unsustainability, reflects how people understood the possibilities for economic development and acted upon their understandings. Economists need a supplementary model for the past and the future in which patterns of thinking thems~lves _are endogenous. }hus the paradigmatic expansion I propose for the profession broadens neoclassical thinking to its own full conceptual base once again, is more receptive to other patterns of thinking, and furthermore strategically incorporates at least one additional pattern.
Tuning the interactions of spin-polarized fermions using quasi-one-dimensional confinement
Creators: name: Granger, Brian E.
name: Blume, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The behavior of ultracold atomic gases depends crucially on the two-body scattering properties of these systems. We develop a multichannel scattering theory for atom-atom collisions in quasi-one-dimensional (quasi-1D) geometries such as atomic waveguides or highly elongated traps. We apply our general framework to the low energy scattering of two spin-polarized fermions and show that tightly-confined fermions have infinitely strong interactions at a particular value of the 3D, free-space p-wave scattering volume. Moreover, we describe a mapping of this strongly interacting system of two quasi-1D fermions to a weakly interacting system of two 1D bosons.
description: Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett
The future is open : open-source tools for behavioral neuroscience research
Creators: name: White, Samantha R.
name: Amarante, Linda M.
name: Kravitz, Alexxai V.
name: Laubach, M.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Published in: eNeuro 29 July 2019, 6 (4) ENEURO.0223-19.2019.
Five-dimensional Chern-Simons terms and Nekrasov's instanton counting
Creators: name: Tachikawa, Yuji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend the graviphoton-corrected prepotential of five-dimensional pure U(N) super Yang-Mills, which was originally proposed by Nekrasov, by incorporating the effect of the five-dimensional Chern-Simons term. This extension allows us to reproduce by a gauge theory calculation the partition functions of corresponding topological A-model on local toric Calabi-Yau manifolds X^m_N for all m=0,1,...,N. The original proposal corresponds to the case m=0.
description: 12 pages
Additional file 1 of Metabolic regulation of calcium pumps in pancreatic cancer: role of phosphofructokinase-fructose-bisphosphatase-3 (PFKFB3)
Creators: name: D. A. Richardson
name: P. Sritangos
name: A. D. James
name: A. Sultan
name: J. I. E. Bruce
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. PFK15 reduces cell proliferation and induces cell death in PDAC cells but not human pancreatic stellate cells.
Covariant canonical quantization
Creators: name: von Hippel, Georg M.
name: Wohlfarth, Mattias N. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a manifestly covariant quantization procedure based on the de Donder--Weyl Hamiltonian formulation of classical field theory. This procedure agrees with conventional canonical quantization only if the parameter space is $d=1$ dimensional time. In $d>1$ dimensions, covariant canonical quantization requires a fundamental length scale, and any bosonic field generates a spinorial wave function, leading to the emergence of spinors as a byproduct of quantization. We provide a probabilistic interpretation of the wave functions for the fields, and apply the formalism to a number of simple examples. These show that covariant canonical quantization produces both the Klein-Gordon and the Dirac equation, while also predicting the existence of discrete towers of identically charged fermions with different masses. Covariant canonical quantization can thus be understood as a `first' or pre-quantization within the framework of conventional QFT.
description: 27 pages, REVTeX4, revised version
Communication modes in collaboration : An empirical assessment of metaphors, visualization, and narratives in multidisciplinary design student teams
Creators: name: Graff, Daniel
name: Clark, Mark
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Universities increasingly incorporate multidisciplinary design projects into their curriculum to better prepare their students for the labor market. In these projects, student team members of various disciplinary backgrounds develop new product or service concepts for organizational partners. This structure enables students to learn not only from the interaction with the content and lecturer, but also from communication with other team members. Little is known, however, about the relative effectiveness of specific communication modes on improving student learning outcomes in these interactions. This study examines the effect of three important communication modes—metaphors, visualizations, and narratives—on reported learning from other members. A total of 64 students working on two large multidisciplinary design student teams participated in this study. Survey results indicate that perceived learning increases through awareness and use of metaphorical communication, beyond previously supported effects for narratives and visualization. We conclude with implications for the way information is represented and structured within multidisciplinary design student teams, and future research directions.
Search for CME in U+U and Au+Au collisions in STAR with different approaches of handling backgrounds
Creators: name: Zhao, Jie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The chiral magnetic effect (CME) refers to charge separation along a strong magnetic field between left- and right-handed quarks, caused by interactions with topological gluon fields from QCD vacuum fluctuations. We present two approaches to handle the dominant elliptic flow ($v_2$) background in the three-particle correlator ($Δγ_{112}$), sensitive to CME. In the first approach, we present the $Δγ_{112}$ and $Δγ_{123}$ measurements in U+U and Au+Au collisions. While hydrodynamic simulations including resonance decays and local charge conservation predict that $Δγ_{112}$ scaled by $N_{\rm part}/v_2$ will be similar in U+U and Au+Au collisions, the projected B-field exhibits a distinct difference between the two systems and with varying $N_{\rm part}$. Therefore, U+U and Au+Au collisions provide configurations with different expectations for both CME signal and background. Moreover, the three-particle observable $Δγ_{123}$ scaled by $N_{\rm part}/v_3$ provide baseline measurement for only the background. In the second approach, we handle the $v_2$ background by measuring $Δγ_{112}$ with respect to the planes of spectators measured by Zero Degree Calorimeters and participants measured by Time Projection Chamber. These measurements contain different amounts of contributions from CME signal (along B-field, due to spectators) and $v_2$ background (determined by the participant geometry). With the two $Δγ_{112}$ measurements, the possible CME signal and the background contribution can be determined. We report such a measurement in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=$ 27 GeV with the newly installed event plane detector, and report the new findings in U+U system where the spectator-participant plane correlations are expected to differ from those in Au+Au collisions.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, Quark Matter 2019
Mind the first step : The intrapersonal effects of affet on the decision to initiate negotiations under bargaining power asymmetry
Creators: name: Kapoutsis, Ilias
name: Volkema, Roger
name: Lampaki, Antonia
Publisher: name: Frontiers in Psychology
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: We undertook two vignette studies to examine the role of affect (trait and state) and bargaining power on initiating negotiations, an often overlooked stage of the negotiation process. Using a job negotiation opportunity, we examine three distinct phases of the initiation process—engaging a counterpart, making a request, and optimizing a request. Study 1 examines the effects of two affect dispositions (happiness and sadness), under power asymmetry (low vs. high bargaining power), on the three initiation behaviors. We found that power is pivotal to the decision to engage, request, and optimize. Also, sadness reduces the likelihood of initiation when power is high but is immaterial when power is low. In contrast, individuals who tend to be happy can reverse the adverse effect of powerlessness on requesting, but not on engaging and optimizing. However, happiness does not carry over a positive effect on negotiation initiation, over and above that of power. Study 2 investigated the role of trait affect when individuals are in power asymmetry and when they are induced with sadness or happiness. We found that those with a happy disposition initiate more (engage, request, and optimize) when power is high and experience incidental sadness. Overall, these findings qualify previous research on negotiation initiation and highlight the importance of trait affect and its interaction with state affect as additional driving forces and of power as a boundary condition.
Additional file 2 of Gut microbiota from persons with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder affects the brain in mice
Creators: name: Tengeler, Anouk C.
name: Dam, Sarita A.
name: Wiesmann, Maximilian
name: Naaijen, Jilly
name: Bodegom, Miranda Van
name: Belzer, Clara
name: Dederen, Pieter J.
name: Verweij, Vivienne
name: Franke, Barbara
name: Kozicz, Tamas
name: Vasquez, Alejandro Arias
name: Kiliaan, Amanda J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2: Title of data: Supplemental methods and results. Description: Additional methods and results are available in the supplementary text, including methods of (1) experimental design, (2) preparation of human fecal samples, (3) microbiota analysis, (4) behavioral tests, (5) MRI protocols, (6) immunohistochemistry, and (6) statistical analysis. Additional results are also available including cerebral blood flow, total correlation analyses, and immunohistochemical stainings.
EU single market(s) after Brexit
Creators: name: Egan, Michelle
Publisher: name: Politics and Governance
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: This article focuses on the European single market, which has been one of the central issues in terms of the impacts of Britain’s withdrawal from the EU. As the aim of the single market project is to open the internal borders of the EU to the free movement of goods, services, capital, and labor to create cross-jurisdictional markets, the economic and political effects of Brexit will be widespread, if not yet fully understood, outside the British polity. The article looks at the current state of the single market, then highlights the impact of British withdrawal on economic governance, focusing on different market freedoms, given the degree of trade interdependence and integrated supply chains that have evolved in response to changes in goods and services. One of the lessons from Brexit negotiations is the importance of distinguishing between different single market(s) when assessing the impact of British ‘exit’ on member states. The concluding section focuses on the political safeguards of market integration to manage the relationship between the UK and EU, to illustrate how judicial, market, and institutional safeguards create options and constraints in mitigating the effects of ‘exit’.
Analysis of energy- and time-dependence of supernova shock effects on neutrino crossing probabilities
Creators: name: Fogli, G. L.
name: Lisi, E.
name: Mirizzi, A.
name: Montanino, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has recently been realized that supernova neutrino signals may be affected by shock propagation over a time interval of a few seconds after bounce. In the standard three-neutrino oscillation scenario, such effects crucially depend on the neutrino level crossing probability P_H in the 1-3 sector. By using a simplified parametrization of the time-dependent supernova radial density profile, we explicitly show that simple analytical expressions for P_H accurately reproduce the phase-averaged results of numerical calculations in the relevant parameter space. Such expressions are then used to study the structure of P_H as a function of energy and time, with particular attention to cases involving multiple crossing along the shock profile. Illustrative applications are given in terms of positron spectra generated by supernova electron antineutrinos through inverse beta decay.
description: Major changes both in the text and in the figures in order to include the effect of a step-like shock front density profile; final version to appear in Physical Review D
Single-step exfoliation and functionalization of few-layers black phosphorus and its application for polymer composites
Creators: name: Castillo, Antonio Esau Del Rio
name: Reyes, Christian Daniel
name: Rojas, Laura Edith
name: Thorat, Sanjay B.
name: Serri, Michele
name: Martinez, Ana Laura
name: Velasco, Carlos
name: Pellegrini, Vittorio
name: Bonaccorso, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate the large scale exfoliation of bulk black phosphorus into few-layers black phosphorus. We use wet-jet mill (WJM) as an industrially scalable exfoliation technique. In order to avoid the degradation by oxidation of the exfoliated flakes, the few-layers black phosphorus is protected by functionalisation (with 4-bromobenzene-diazonium tetrafluoroborate) during the exfoliation process. We used the exfoliated and functionalised flakes as fillers in a polymethyl methacrylate matrix to test the mechanical endurance, obtaining an improvement in the Young modulus of 106% compared to the bare polymer. These data support the development of black phosphorus materials as 2D-polymer fillers and performance-enhancers.
Bidirectional propagation of cold atoms in a "stadium" shaped magnetic guide
Creators: name: Wu, Saijun
name: Rooijakkers, Wilbert
name: Striehl, Pierre
name: Prentiss, Mara
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate the bi-directional propagation of more than 10 7 atoms (87 Rb) around a "stadium" shaped magnetic ring that encloses an area of 10.9 cm 2, with a flux density exceeding 10 11 atoms sec -1 cm -2 . Atoms are loaded into the guide from a 2D + MOT at one side of the "stadium". An optical standing wave pulse is applied to increase the propagation velocity of atoms along the waveguide. The atom sample fills the entire ring in 200 ms when counterpropagating atom sections of the original atom cloud recombine at their initial positions after a full revolution. We discuss a possible extension of this result to a guided atom ring interferometer.
description: 19 pages, 5 figures
Women's parties : A new party family
Creators: name: Cowell-Meyers, Kimberly
name: Evans, Elizabeth
name: Shin, Ki-Young
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Women's parties have a unique and important role to play in the representation of women and women's issues and interests. They are neither a new nor a rare phenomenon and have emerged in a variety of contexts across time and space. And yet we know relatively little about them. This article argues that women's parties matter and that the study of women's parties matters. We contend that women's parties constitute a discrete party family; while there is a diverse range of women's parties, they can be viewed as a coherent group with similar origins, ideology, and naming patterns. This article offers the first research framework for the comparative study of women's parties. Building our knowledge of women's parties, we argue, is important for those interested in gender and politics, particularly those concerned with the representation of women's issues and interests.
Stormwater management options
Creators: name: Chang, Anita
name: Keating, Jeremy
name: Kwekkeboom, Sibren
name: Volikhovska, Nataliya
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: 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.”
Directed Acyclic Graphs and causal thinking in clinical risk prediction modeling
Creators: name: Piccininni, Marco
name: Konigorski, Stefan
name: Rohmann, Jessica L
name: Kurth, Tobias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Background: In epidemiology, causal inference and prediction modeling methodologies have been historically distinct. Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) are used to model a priori causal assumptions and inform variable selection strategies for causal questions. Although tools originally designed for prediction are finding applications in causal inference, the counterpart has remained largely unexplored. The aim of this theoretical and simulation-based study is to assess the potential benefit of using DAGs in clinical risk prediction modeling. Methods and Findings: We explore how incorporating knowledge about the underlying causal structure can provide insights about the transportability of diagnostic clinical risk prediction models to different settings. A single-predictor model in the causal direction is likely to have better transportability than one in the anticausal direction. We further probe whether causal knowledge can be used to improve predictor selection. We empirically show that the Markov Blanket, the set of variables including the parents, children, and parents of the children of the outcome node in a DAG, is the optimal set of predictors for that outcome. Conclusions: Our findings challenge the generally accepted notion that a change in the distribution of the predictors does not affect diagnostic clinical risk prediction model calibration if the predictors are properly included in the model. Furthermore, using DAGs to identify Markov Blanket variables may be a useful, efficient strategy to select predictors in clinical risk prediction models if strong knowledge of the underlying causal structure exists or can be learned.
description: 22 pages, 3 figures, 1 table
The future is open : open-source tools for behavioral neuroscience research
Creators: name: White, Samantha R.
name: Amarante, Linda M.
name: Kravitz, Alexxai V.
name: Laubach, M.
Publisher: name: Society for Neuroscience
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3209
subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Published in: eNeuro 29 July 2019, 6 (4) ENEURO.0223-19.2019.
Additional file 1 of Gut microbiota from persons with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder affects the brain in mice
Creators: name: Tengeler, Anouk C.
name: Dam, Sarita A.
name: Wiesmann, Maximilian
name: Naaijen, Jilly
name: Bodegom, Miranda Van
name: Belzer, Clara
name: Dederen, Pieter J.
name: Verweij, Vivienne
name: Franke, Barbara
name: Kozicz, Tamas
name: Vasquez, Alejandro Arias
name: Kiliaan, Amanda J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Title of data: Supplementary figures. Figure S1. Home-cage activity during night and day. Figure S2. Novel object recognition test with 1 h interval between the familiarization and test phase. Figure S3. Number of marbles buried during the marble burying test. Figure S4. Representative photo images of the gnotobiotic isolators that were used in this study. Figure S5. Beta-diversity analyses including the human donors.
Origin of Superconductivity in Boron-doped Diamond
Creators: name: Lee, K. -W.
name: Pickett, W. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Superconductivity of boron-doped diamond, reported recently at T_c=4 K, is investigated exploiting its electronic and vibrational analogies to MgB2. The deformation potential of the hole states arising from the C-C bond stretch mode is 60% larger than the corresponding quantity in MgB2 that drives its high Tc, leading to very large electron-phonon matrix elements. The calculated coupling strength λ~ 0.5 leads to T_c in the 5-10 K range and makes phonon coupling the likely mechanism. Higher doping should increase T_c somewhat, but effects of three dimensionality primarily on the density of states keep doped diamond from having a T_c closer to that of MgB2.
description: Four pages with two embedded figures, corrected fig1. (To appear in Physical Review Letters(2004))
Acoustic Scene Classification with Squeeze-Excitation Residual Networks
Creators: name: Naranjo-Alcazar, Javier
name: Perez-Castanos, Sergi
name: Zuccarello, Pedro
name: Cobos, Maximo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Acoustic scene classification (ASC) is a problem related to the field of machine listening whose objective is to classify/tag an audio clip in a predefined label describing a scene location (e. g. park, airport, etc.). Many state-of-the-art solutions to ASC incorporate data augmentation techniques and model ensembles. However, considerable improvements can also be achieved only by modifying the architecture of convolutional neural networks (CNNs). In this work we propose two novel squeeze-excitation blocks to improve the accuracy of a CNN-based ASC framework based on residual learning. The main idea of squeeze-excitation blocks is to learn spatial and channel-wise feature maps independently instead of jointly as standard CNNs do. This is usually achieved by some global grouping operators, linear operators and a final calibration between the input of the block and its obtained relationships. The behavior of the block that implements such operators and, therefore, the entire neural network, can be modified depending on the input to the block, the established residual configurations and the selected non-linear activations. The analysis has been carried out using the TAU Urban Acoustic Scenes 2019 dataset (https://zenodo.org/record/2589280) presented in the 2019 edition of the DCASE challenge. All configurations discussed in this document exceed the performance of the baseline proposed by the DCASE organization by 13\% percentage points. In turn, the novel configurations proposed in this paper outperform the residual configurations proposed in previous works.
CMBR distortion concerned with recombination of the primordial hydrogen plasma
Creators: name: Kholupenko, E. E.
name: Ivanchik, A. V.
name: Varshalovich, D. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: CMBR distortion concerned with recombination of the primordial plasma is calculated in frequency band from 1 GHz to 100 GHz in the frame of the standard cosmological model for different values of cosmological density parameters: nonrelativistic matter density $Ω_m$ and baryonic matter density $Ω_b$. Comparison of these results with observational data which will be obtained from planned experiments may be used for independent determination of the cosmological parameters $Ω_m$ and $Ω_b$.
description: 6 pages, 7 figures