cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Effect of Exposure to Political Rhetoric on Public Opinion About Criminal Justice
Creators: name: Wozniak, Kevin H.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Over the past 40 years in the United States, politicians supported harsh criminal justice policies that created an era of "mass incarceration." Politicians justified their actions by saying that the public demanded punitive punishments for criminals. However, according to theories of issue framing, public opinion about political issues can be altered by the manner in which political elites discuss those issues. Framing theories imply that public support for harsh penal policies may be caused by politicians' "tough on crime" rhetoric. If there is, indeed, a causal link between punitive elite rhetoric and punitive public opinion, then politicians' justification of their support for harsh policies becomes tautological.In order to test this "elite manipulation hypothesis," I used an experiment embedded within a public opinion survey to expose respondents to statements about criminal justice made by members of the House of Representatives. These statements exemplify the "tough on crime" frame traditionally used to support harsher punishment, and a new, "smart on crime" frame that is presently being used by political elites across the country to criticize the high cost of mass incarceration.Contrary to the elite manipulation hypothesis, I found that exposure to the smart on crime frame did not significantly affect the opinions of respondents, while exposure to the tough on crime frame caused respondents to express less punitive responses than respondents in the control group. Further tests revealed moderated results that are more consistent with framing theory. Some findings indicate that higher levels of political awareness inoculate people against the influence of elite frames, while a person's political ideology moderates the manner in which she is affected by a frame. Compared to respondents in the control group who share the same political ideology, evidence indicates that political liberals reject the tough on crime frame and voice less punitive opinions, while political conservatives reject the smart on crime frame and voice more punitive opinions. This finding suggests that elites cannot push people to hold opinions that conflict with their personal values.
Renaturierung von bewaldeten Mooren im Oberbayerischen Staatswald
Renaturalization of wooded peatbogs in the state forest of Upper Bavaria, FRG
Creators: name: Zollner, Alois
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 1993

description: Am Beispiel des rund 500 ha großen "Schönramer Filzes" im Forstamt Traunstein (Oberbayern) wird der Pflege- und Renaturierungsplan der Oberforstdirektion München für ein bewaldetes Moor vorgestellt. Es wird aufgezeigt, daß sich die Einstellung des Menschen zu den Mooren während der letzten Jahrzehnte stark gewandelt hat. Anhand der Unterschiede zu den bisherigen Renaturierungsplanungen wird der Pilotcharakter dieses Konzeptes verdeutlicht. Das Planungsgebiet wird kurz beschrieben. Darüber hinaus wird über die Entstehung des Moores sowie die ursprünglichen und gegenwärtigen Bestockungsverhältnisse informiert. Neben der Bedeutung der Wiedervernässung als der zentralen Maßnahme zur Renaturierung eines Moores wird schließlich die Notwendigkeit waldbaulicher Pflegeeingriffe zur Unterstützung und Förderung einer naturnahen Moorrückführung dargelegt. Zum Schluß wird am Beispiel einer Renaturierungsvariante auf einer bewaldeten ehemaligen Torfabbaufläche das Konzept genauer dargestellt.
description: The tending- and renaturalization plan for wooded peatbogs of the regional forestry office of Munich is represented by the example of the approximately 500 ha large "Schönramer Filz". The"Schönramer Filz" is managed by the district office of Traunstein (Upper Bavaria). The change of public attitude towards peatbogs treatment during the last decades becomes obvious. The experimental character of this concept is shown by the differences to all former renaturalization plans. Information about the formation of this bog and about former and present vegetation is given. Besides the importance of rewetting the area again as a main treatment, the necessity of thinnings to support regeneration in a natural way is emplasised. Finally the concept is demonstrated in great detail with an example of a wooded former peat cutting plot.
description: DFG, SUB Göttingen, DGMT
description: research
Molecular Hydrogen Emission Lines in Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer Observations of Mira B
Creators: name: Wood, Brian E.
name: Karovska, Margarita
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present new Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) observations of Mira A's wind-accreting companion star, Mira B. We find that the strongest lines in the FUSE spectrum are H2 lines fluoresced by H I Lyman-alpha. A previously analyzed Hubble Space Telescope (HST) spectrum also shows numerous Lyman-alpha fluoresced H2 lines. The HST lines are all Lyman band lines, while the FUSE H2 lines are mostly Werner band lines, many of them never before identified in an astrophysical spectrum. We combine the FUSE and HST data to refine estimates of the physical properties of the emitting H2 gas. We find that the emission can be reproduced by an H2 layer with a temperature and column density of T=3900 K and log N(H2)=17.1, respectively. Another similarity between the HST and FUSE data, besides the prevalence of H2 emission, is the surprising weakness of the continuum and high temperature emission lines, suggesting that accretion onto Mira B has weakened dramatically. The UV fluxes observed by HST on 1999 August 2 were previously reported to be over an order of magnitude lower than those observed by HST and the International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) from 1979--1995. Analysis of the FUSE data reveals that Mira B was still in a similarly low state on 2001 November 22.
description: 23 pages, 6 figures; AASTEX v5.0 plus EPSF extensions in mkfig.sty; accepted by ApJ
Additional file 1 of Combination of Biodata Mining and Computational Modelling in Identification and Characterization of ORF1ab Polyprotein of SARS-CoV-2 Isolated from Oronasopharynx of an Iranian Patient
Creators: name: Emameh, Reza Zolfaghari
name: Nosrati, Hassan
name: Ramezan Ali Taheri
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1.
Integrated optically pumped magnetometer for measurements within Earth's magnetic field
Creators: name: Oelsner, G.
name: IJsselsteijn, R.
name: Scholtes, T.
name: Krüger, A.
name: Schultze, V.
name: Seyffert, G.
name: Werner, G.
name: Jäger, M.
name: Chwala, A.
name: Stolz, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a portable optically pumped magnetometer instrument for ultra-sensitive measurements within the Earth's magnetic field. The central part of the system is a sensor head operating a MEMS-based Cs vapor cell in the light-shift dispersed Mz mode. It is connected to a compact, battery-driven electronics module by a flexible cable. We briefly review the working principles of the device and detail on the realization of both, sensor head and electronics. We show shielded and unshielded measurements within a static magnetic field amplitude of 50 uT demonstrating a noise level of the sensor system down to 140 fT/\sqrt{Hz} and a sensor bandwidth of several 100 Hz. In a detailed analysis of sensor noise we reveal the system to be limited by technical sources with straightforward strategies for further improvement towards its fundamental noise limit of 12 fT/\sqrt{Hz}. We assess the parameters defining the sensor bandwidth by theoretical modeling based on the Bloch equations. Finally, we compare our sensors' performance to a commercial SQUID system in a measurement environment typical for geomagnetic observatory practice and geomagnetic prospection.
description: 12 pages, 10 figures, 1 table
The Effect of Exposure to Political Rhetoric on Public Opinion About Criminal Justice
Creators: name: Wozniak, Kevin H.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4402
subject: Criminology
subject: FOS: Law

description: Over the past 40 years in the United States, politicians supported harsh criminal justice policies that created an era of "mass incarceration." Politicians justified their actions by saying that the public demanded punitive punishments for criminals. However, according to theories of issue framing, public opinion about political issues can be altered by the manner in which political elites discuss those issues. Framing theories imply that public support for harsh penal policies may be caused by politicians' "tough on crime" rhetoric. If there is, indeed, a causal link between punitive elite rhetoric and punitive public opinion, then politicians' justification of their support for harsh policies becomes tautological.In order to test this "elite manipulation hypothesis," I used an experiment embedded within a public opinion survey to expose respondents to statements about criminal justice made by members of the House of Representatives. These statements exemplify the "tough on crime" frame traditionally used to support harsher punishment, and a new, "smart on crime" frame that is presently being used by political elites across the country to criticize the high cost of mass incarceration.Contrary to the elite manipulation hypothesis, I found that exposure to the smart on crime frame did not significantly affect the opinions of respondents, while exposure to the tough on crime frame caused respondents to express less punitive responses than respondents in the control group. Further tests revealed moderated results that are more consistent with framing theory. Some findings indicate that higher levels of political awareness inoculate people against the influence of elite frames, while a person's political ideology moderates the manner in which she is affected by a frame. Compared to respondents in the control group who share the same political ideology, evidence indicates that political liberals reject the tough on crime frame and voice less punitive opinions, while political conservatives reject the smart on crime frame and voice more punitive opinions. This finding suggests that elites cannot push people to hold opinions that conflict with their personal values.
SCHOOL HEALTH POLICY: SCHOOL LUNCH CONSUMPTION PATTERNS OF MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS
Creators: name: Young, Kathleen Dykes
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education

description: The Healthy Schools Act (HSA) was passed in May of 2010 with the purpose of encouraging Public Schools and Public Charter Schools of the District of Columbia (DC) to address the issue of childhood obesity in DC. One provision of the HSA is to improve school nutrition by specifically increasing servings of fresh fruits and vegetables in school lunches. The purpose of this study is to measure consumption patterns of fruits and vegetables of middle school students in two middle schools in D.C. following the implementation of the new school lunch standards. An intervention was implemented to determine if serving whole versus cut fruit would significantly influence consumption patterns of the students. Of the 4, 464 lunch trays observed during a two-week period, it was determined that a significantly higher percentage of servings of fruits (66%) were consumed than servings of raw (54%) and cooked (46%) vegetables. Students also consumed a significantly higher percentage of servings of a whole apple (41%) when served with lunch than a sliced apple (29%). Although the HSA mandates that schools provide healthy lunches, low consumption rates indicate that students may not be benefiting from the new nutrient standards. Health disparities, parental and familial eating behaviors, participation in the National School Lunch Program, and behavior economic strategies related to eating habits need to be explored to fully understand and impact eating behaviors in children.
SCHOOL HEALTH POLICY: SCHOOL LUNCH CONSUMPTION PATTERNS OF MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS
Creators: name: Young, Kathleen Dykes
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The Healthy Schools Act (HSA) was passed in May of 2010 with the purpose of encouraging Public Schools and Public Charter Schools of the District of Columbia (DC) to address the issue of childhood obesity in DC. One provision of the HSA is to improve school nutrition by specifically increasing servings of fresh fruits and vegetables in school lunches. The purpose of this study is to measure consumption patterns of fruits and vegetables of middle school students in two middle schools in D.C. following the implementation of the new school lunch standards. An intervention was implemented to determine if serving whole versus cut fruit would significantly influence consumption patterns of the students. Of the 4, 464 lunch trays observed during a two-week period, it was determined that a significantly higher percentage of servings of fruits (66%) were consumed than servings of raw (54%) and cooked (46%) vegetables. Students also consumed a significantly higher percentage of servings of a whole apple (41%) when served with lunch than a sliced apple (29%). Although the HSA mandates that schools provide healthy lunches, low consumption rates indicate that students may not be benefiting from the new nutrient standards. Health disparities, parental and familial eating behaviors, participation in the National School Lunch Program, and behavior economic strategies related to eating habits need to be explored to fully understand and impact eating behaviors in children.
title: Parents as consumer-citizens: an investigation into parent governors
Creators: name: Woods, Philip Arthur
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1995

description: The study takes as its problematic that parents are increasingly being viewed as consumers and that this conception of parents is too limiting. It goes on to argue that the notion of the consumer should, however, not be discarded altogether, and that the alternative notion of citizenship is in itself insufficient. Based on an appreciation of developments in consumer studies and consumerism, four models of consumer empowerment are outlined. Each model is associated with different types of consumer activity (see below). Building on this, an alternative concept of the consumer-citizen and its constituent dimensions is proposed as an ideal type. The thesis then explores how far a particular group of parents - parent governors - appears to resemble the ideal type: ie how far their views and actions accord with the expectations of the concept. Data from questionnaires completed by parent governors in 1988 and 1992 are used to do this. The study concludes that the consumer-citizen concept is a more accurate and useful analytical tool than the 'consumer' or the 'citizen'. Its empirical findings are generative, rather than firm conclusions. Attention is drawn to limitations in the data collected and to challenges that may be made to the validity of this data, including issues relating to the aggregation of data which was undertaken for the purposes of statistical analysis. The main findings are that the parent governors surveyed are more - likely to resemble a specific variant of the ideal type, le the Incorporated consumer-citizen. In terms of the consumer-citizen dimensions, they are most likely to approve of acting as a member of a political community (representing the school's interests to the local education authority) and checking (evaluating the school's performance), and less likely to see their role as making decisions (doing), though approval of this increased significantly since 1988. Avenues for further work are suggested.
Hyperglomeris lamellosa Silvestri 1917
Creators: name: Nguyen, Anh D.
name: Sierwald, Petra
name: Marek, Paul E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Diplopoda
Glomerida
Glomeridae
Hyperglomeris
Hyperglomeris lamellosa

description: 14. Hyperglomeris lamellosa Silvestri, 1917
 Hyperglomeris lamellosa Silvestri, 1917. Records of the Indian Museum 13(3, 9): 146, figs. 32 (2 images), 33 (10 images), T male (museum deposition unknown), cited locality: Tonkin, Montes Mauson; from Lang Son Province, northern Vietnam.
 Hyperglomeris lamellosa: – Golovatch, 1983a: 180 (L); Enghoff, Golovatch & Nguyen, 2004: 31 (L); Golovatch, Geoffroy & VandenSpiegel, 2013: 201 (L); Golovatch, 2017: 197, in key.
description: Published as part of Nguyen, Anh D., Sierwald, Petra & Marek, Paul E., 2019, The pill millipedes of Vietnam: a key to genera and descriptions of five new species (Diplopoda: Glomerida: Glomeridae), pp. 260-297 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 67 on page 263, DOI: 10.26107/RBZ-2019-0020, http://zenodo.org/record/4575924
Renormalized Mutual Information for Artificial Scientific Discovery
Creators: name: Sarra, Leopoldo
name: Aiello, Andrea
name: Marquardt, Florian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive a well-defined renormalized version of mutual information that allows to estimate the dependence between continuous random variables in the important case when one is deterministically dependent on the other. This is the situation relevant for feature extraction, where the goal is to produce a low-dimensional effective description of a high-dimensional system. Our approach enables the discovery of collective variables in physical systems, thus adding to the toolbox of artificial scientific discovery, while also aiding the analysis of information flow in artificial neural networks.
description: Added a more detailed introduction and link to code repository. Physics-based examples and Feature Extraction section have been updated
Statistical modeling and application of gramicidin A ion channel
Creators: name: Luk, Kai Yiu
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Ion channels are aqueous pores in the cell membrane for selected ions to flow down their electrochemical gradient. These channels play a prominent role in a variety of biological processes in the human body. Determining the structure and function of ion channels is of fundamental importance in biology. Also, the selective conductivity and specific gating mechanism of ion channels have attracted much interest in the area of artificial molecular detectors. Ion channel based biosensors are developed to detect molecular species of interest in medical diagnostics, environmental monitoring and general bio-hazard detection. This thesis is concerned with statistical techniques used to describe ion channel permeation and to develop ion channel based biosensors. Brownian dynamics is a popular technique to simulate ion channel permeation but is too computationally expensive to run when ionic concentration is high. By fitting binding site statistics of BD simulation to a semi-Markov chain, we obtain a simpler model with conduction properties that are statistically the same as the simulations. This approach enables the use of extrapolation techniques to predict channel conduction when performing the actual simulation is computationally infeasible. Numerical studies on the simulation of gramicidin A channels are presented. In a separate study, we show the use of statistical modeling and detection techniques as part of a sensitive biosensing platform. A nano-scale biosensor is built by incorporating dimeric gramicidin A channels into bilayer membranes of giant unilamellar liposomes. The presence of specific target molecules changes the statistics of the biosensor's conduction. By capturing the change in real time, we devise a maximum likelihood detector to detect the presence of target molecules. The performance of the biosensor is tested with the addition of various target molecules known to inhibit conduction of gramicidin A channels. Experimental results show that the detection performed well even when the conductance change was difficult to visualize. The detection algorithm provides a sensitive detection system for ongoing development of membrane-based biosensors.
BUILDING A CULTURAL DISTRICT IN HONG KONG: FROM VISION TO REALITY
Creators: name: Chi Wei Yung, Vennesa
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The creation of a cultural district requires the synchronization of many moving parts and key players. This paper includes a literature review investigating published work on the incentives for cities to create cultural districts, the main elements that define a cultural district, as well as the key players and concepts its creation. Following the literature review is a research thesis on the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong, covering the origin, objectives, progress and more of this development. Cultural districts are on many cities' radars and development plans in recent years. The West Kowloon Cultural District is one of the biggest of its kind in recent history, and certainly in Asia. The Hong Kong case was chosen based on its unique combination of challenges, opportunities, and support from the government, and this is timely as it is currently gaining incredible momentum.
title: Das Große Göldenitzer Moor bei Rostock - Nutzungs- und Vegetationswandel der letzten 200 Jahre
title: Teil II: Die industrielle Phase intensiver Nutzung (1950 – 1992)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: The “Große Göldenitzer Moor” near Rostock (FRG) - Changes in use and vegetation in the last 200 years. Part II: The industrial period of intensive use (1950 – 1992)
Creators: name: Precker, Axel
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 1993

description: Auf der Grundlage von Luftbildern sowie Kartierungen der Vegetation, der Oberﬂächenformen, der anstehenden Resttorfe und der Hydrologie werden die Auswirkungen der intensiven bergbaulichen Nutzung des Göldenitzer Moores dargestellt und diskutiert. Dabei erweisen sich die Auswirkungen des Frästorfverfahrens beim Schwarztorfabbau als besonders problematisch für eine Folgenutzung. Der landschaftsökologische Wert des Moores liegt in seiner standörtlichen Vielfalt sowie in einem hohen Anteil gefährdeter Arten in Fauna und Flora, die jedoch überwiegend eingewandert sind. Für Maßnahmen, die zu einer sinnvollen Folgenutzung des Moores durch den Naturschutz führen können, werden Hinweise gegeben.
description: Using aerial photography and mapping of the vegetation, landforms, remnant peats and hydrology, the effects of intensive peat cutting in the Göldenitzer Moor are shown and discussed. Especially the effects of black peat cutting by milling-machines create difficulties for subsequent usage. The ecological value of the bog lies in its ecologic niche diversity and the high percentage of endangered species in the fauna and ﬂora. However, most of the species are not endemic. Suggestions are made for envrronmentally acceptable useage of the bog.
description: DFG, SUB Göttingen, DGMT
description: research
Spatial wave intensity correlations in quasi-one-dimensional wires
Creators: name: Cwilich, Gabriel
name: Froufe-Perez, Luis S.
name: Saenz, Juan Jose
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spatial intensity correlations between waves transmitted through random media are analyzed within the framework of the random matrix theory of transport. Assuming that the statistical distribution of transfer matrices is isotropic, we found that the spatial correlation function can be expressed as the sum of three terms, with distinctive spatial dependences. This result coincides with the one obtained in the diffusive regime from perturbative calculations, but holds all the way from quasi-ballistic transport to localization. While correlations are positive in the diffusive regime, we predict a transition to negative correlations as the length of the system decreases.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures. Submitted to Physical Review Letters
Single-cycle, MHz-repetition rate THz source with 66 mW of average power
Creators: name: Meyer, Frank
name: Vogel, Tim
name: Ahmed, Shahwar
name: Saraceno, Clara J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate THz generation using the tilted pulse front method in Lithium Niobate, driven at unprecedented high average power of more than 100 W and at 13.3 MHz repetition rate, provided by a compact amplifier-free modelocked thin-disk oscillator. The conversion efficiency was optimized with respect to pump spot size and pump pulse duration, enabling us to generate a maximum THz average power of 66 mW, which is the highest reported to date from a laser-driven, few-cycle THz source. Furthermore, we identify beam walk-off as the main obstacle that currently limits the conversion efficiency in this excitation regime (with moderate pulse energies and small spot sizes). Further upscaling to the watt level and beyond is within reach, paving the way for linear and nonlinear high-average power THz spectroscopy experiments with exceptional signal-to-noise ratio at MHz repetition rates.
description: Submitted to Optics Letters
Loop corrections to the power spectrum for massive neutrino cosmologies with full time- and scale-dependence
Creators: name: Garny, Mathias
name: Taule, Petter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Loop corrections to the power spectrum are frequently computed using approximate non-linear kernels adopted from an Einstein de-Sitter (EdS) cosmology. We present an algorithm that allows us to take the full time- and scale-dependence of the underlying fluid dynamics into account, and apply it to assess the impact of neutrino free-streaming on the 1- and 2-loop matter power spectrum. Neutrino perturbations are described by a hybrid Boltzmann/two-fluid model, that we show to agree with the CLASS Boltzmann solution at the linear level when using an appropriate effective neutrino sound velocity. We then use this scheme at 1- and 2-loop to perform a precision comparison of the matter power spectrum with simplified treatments of massive neutrinos. For a commonly adopted scheme using cold dark matter+baryon perturbations and EdS kernels to compute non-linear corrections, we find deviations above 1% for k > 0.15 h/Mpc at z=0, and sub-percent agreement on weakly non-linear scales at z=0.5. We also demonstrate the impact of the EdS approximation on the 2-loop power spectrum for massless neutrinos.
description: 31 pages, 14 figures; matches published version; bibliography updated
Hyperglomeris nigra Golovatch 2017
Creators: name: Nguyen, Anh D.
name: Sierwald, Petra
name: Marek, Paul E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Diplopoda
Glomerida
Glomeridae
Hyperglomeris
Hyperglomeris nigra

description: 16. Hyperglomeris nigra Golovatch, 2017
 Hyperglomeris nigra Golovatch, 2017. Russian Entomological Journal 26(2): 195, figs. 1–9; HT male (ZMUM), from Xuan Son National Park, Phu Tho Province, northern Vietnam.
description: Published as part of Nguyen, Anh D., Sierwald, Petra & Marek, Paul E., 2019, The pill millipedes of Vietnam: a key to genera and descriptions of five new species (Diplopoda: Glomerida: Glomeridae), pp. 260-297 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 67 on page 263, DOI: 10.26107/RBZ-2019-0020, http://zenodo.org/record/4575924
HAADF-STEM block-scanning strategy for local measurement of strain at the nanoscale
Creators: name: Prabhakara, Viveksharma
name: Jannis, Daen
name: Guzzinati, Giulio
name: Béché, Armand
name: Bender, Hugo
name: Verbeeck, Johan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Lattice strain measurement of nanoscale semiconductor devices is crucial for the semiconductor industry as strain substantially improves the electrical performance of transistors. High resolution scanning transmission electron microscopy (HR-STEM) imaging is an excellent tool that provides spatial resolution at the atomic scale and strain information by applying Geometric Phase Analysis or image fitting procedures. However, HR-STEM images regularly suffer from scanning distortions and sample drift during image acquisition. In this paper, we propose a new scanning strategy that drastically reduces artefacts due to drift and scanning distortion, along with extending the field of view. The method allows flexible tuning of the spatial resolution and decouples the choice of field of view from the need for local atomic resolution. It consists of the acquisition of a series of independent small subimages containing an atomic resolution image of the local lattice. All subimages are then analysed individually for strain by fitting a nonlinear model to the lattice images. The obtained experimental strain maps are quantitatively benchmarked against the Bessel diffraction technique. We demonstrate that the proposed scanning strategy approaches the performance of the diffraction technique while having the advantage that it does not require specialized diffraction cameras.
BUILDING A CULTURAL DISTRICT IN HONG KONG: FROM VISION TO REALITY
Creators: name: Chi Wei Yung, Vennesa
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4702
subject: Cultural studies

description: The creation of a cultural district requires the synchronization of many moving parts and key players. This paper includes a literature review investigating published work on the incentives for cities to create cultural districts, the main elements that define a cultural district, as well as the key players and concepts its creation. Following the literature review is a research thesis on the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong, covering the origin, objectives, progress and more of this development. Cultural districts are on many cities' radars and development plans in recent years. The West Kowloon Cultural District is one of the biggest of its kind in recent history, and certainly in Asia. The Hong Kong case was chosen based on its unique combination of challenges, opportunities, and support from the government, and this is timely as it is currently gaining incredible momentum.
Counting Flux Vacua
Creators: name: Ashok, Sujay
name: Douglas, Michael R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a technique for computing expected numbers of vacua in Gaussian ensembles of supergravity theories, and apply it to derive an asymptotic formula for the index counting all flux supersymmetric vacua with signs in Calabi-Yau compactification of type IIb string theory, which becomes exact in the limit of a large number of fluxes. This should give a reasonable estimate for actual numbers of vacua in string theory, for CY's with small b_3.
description: 48 pages, harvmac
T-STAR INITIATIVES IN SUPPORT OF INVASIVE SPECIES EFFORTS IN THE GREATER CARIBBEAN REGION
Creators: name: Roberts, Martha R.
name: Roberts, Martha R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: Food Security and Poverty
International Relations/Trade
Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession

description: The T-STAR program supports basic and applied research on invasive species with respect to (i) their biology, ecology, (ii) methods of diagnosis/identification, detection, surveillance, exclusion, eradication and control and (iii) development of comprehensive safeguarding strategies, including international policy development and coordination among all countries and territories, and the use of internet-based communications to facilitate all aspects of a coordinated Regional system to prevent and mitigate invasive species impacts. Currently significant emphasis is on building technical and institutional policy support platforms for an effective US/Caribbean Basin Invasive Species Safeguarding System. A brief history of the T-STAR program is presented including the actions taken by various scientists and administrators to arrive at the invasive species program in the Greater Caribbean Region. A list of invasive species research projects currently funded by T-STAR is included.
Die Torfveredlung heute
Creators: name: Günther, Jürgen
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 1973

description: Die Torfveredlung im weiteren Sinn beginnt mit der Entwässerung und dem Herauslösen des Torfes aus dem Moor. Im engeren Sinn versteht man darunter die Aufbereitung des gewonnenen und getrockneten Torfes zu Torfprodukten. Werden Torfprodukte für ganz bestimmte Anwendungszwecke hergestellt, so sind gewisse Grenzwerte für das jeweilige Produkt einzuhalten. Die Überwachung und Kontrolle der Produktion gehört zur Torfveredlung, denn nur dann kann eine Garantie für das erzeugte Produkt übernommen werden und dem Kunden ein Qualitätsprodukt von gleichbleibender Zusammensetzung zur Verfügung gestellt werden.
description: DFG, SUB Göttingen
description: research
Fending for Oneself by Connecting with Others: Francophone African Pentecostal-Charismatic Christians in Washington, DC
Creators: name: Ediger, Rose
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Most of the research done on new immigrant religion has concentrated on religious structures, the systematized relationships between people and between groups within which religious practices are embedded. While this work is important, it has tended not to foreground religious meaning, the ideas that people hold about the world that include concerns about non-empirical forces and that make their experiences logical and understandable. In this dissertation, I address this limitation by taking a holistic approach to studying immigrant religious participation. I address both structure and meaning, domains that can be conceptually separated but in practice are integrated. This dissertation looks at religious structure and meaning through a qualitative study of a Catholic congregation made up of French-speaking Africans and Haitians in Washington, DC conducted from 2003-2007. My primary methods were participant-observation and interviews. Congregation participants created a community with significance for them. People adjusted to some of the expectations of their new context while also bringing to bear continuities such as a familiar mode of interpersonal interaction, ideas about Catholicism, and French language. These immigrants organized religiously by negotiating space for themselves within the Catholic Church, and they created and used social capital in various ways. Through their organizing, they created voice in the Church hierarchy and increased participants' access to practical resources. By looking at religious meaning, I also discovered that participants brought in Pentecostal-Charismatic Catholic specialists from around the world to guide them in understanding their experiences and to heal them spiritually. By emphasizing African causes and the maintenance of participants' connections to the people of Africa--through family ties, practical support of organizations, and prayer--the congregation valorized people who were devalued in the broader social setting. I argue that through their participation in Pentecostal-Charismatic Catholicism, immigrants took up and acted on their desire to change their limited positioning in the wider opportunity structure.
Vielfalt im Verborgenen erkennen: Steckbriefe Moorsubstrate
Creators: name: Meier-Uhlherr, Ron
name: Schulz, Corinna
name: Luthardt, Vera
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 2011

description: www.mire-substrates.com
description: DFG, SUB Göttingen, DGMT
description: research
Nonperturbative localization
Creators: name: Jitomirskaya, Svetlana Ya.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 35, 37, 60, 81

description: Study of fine spectral properties of quasiperiodic and similar discrete Schrödinger operators involves dealing with problems caused by small denominators, and until recently was only possible using perturbative methods, requiring certain small parameters and complicated KAM-type schemes. We review the recently developed nonperturbative methods for such study which lead to stronger results and are significantly simpler. Numerous applications mainly due to J. Bourgain, M. Goldstein, W. Schlag, and the author are also discussed.
RED PALM MITE SITUATION IN THE CARIBBEAN AND FLORIDA
Creators: name: Roda, Amy
name: Dowling, Ashley
name: Welbourn, Cal
name: Pena, Jorge
name: Rodrigues, Jose Carlos V.
name: Hoy, Marjorie A.
name: Ochoa, Ronald
name: Duncan, Russell A.
name: De Chi, Wayne
name: Roda, Amy
name: Dowling, Ashley
name: Welbourn, Cal
name: Pena, Jorge
name: Rodrigues, Jose Carlos V.
name: Hoy, Marjorie A.
name: Ochoa, Ronald
name: Duncan, Russell A.
name: De Chi, Wayne
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: acaricides
subject: biological control
subject: predatory mite
subject: foreign exploration

description: The red palm mite (Raoiella indica Hirst Tenuipalpidae), a pest of coconuts and ornamental palms in Asia and Africa, was reported in the Caribbean in 2004. By 2008, it spread to at least twelve islands, to two counties in Florida and to Venezuela. Red palm mite causes yellowing and leaf necrosis with severe reduction of leaf stomatal conductance. Growers are reporting > 70% reduction in coconut yield. Genetic studies of red palm mite collected from multiple regions in Asia, Africa and the Caribbean revealed several distinct haplotypes. All Caribbean samples have the same haplotype, which matches samples from coconut in Réunion and areca palms in India. The populations from coconut in India exhibited a different haplotype. Biological control and pesticide options are being studied to manage the pest. The efficacy of acaricides against red palm mite was tested to provide palm, banana and ornamental nursery growers with an updated list of acaricides with good control potential. Natural enemy studies in the Caribbean have shown that thrips, phytoseiid, lacewing, and coccinelid predators attack red palm mites. Fungal infections have been reported in Puerto Rico, Dominica and Trinidad. Predatory mite numbers, especially in the Phytoseiidae, increase in response to higher numbers of red palm mites. However, these local predators are apparently not controlling red palm mite outbreaks. Foreign exploration for natural enemies is being conducted in Mauritius and India. A phytoseiid predator is currently being evaluated in quarantine in Gainesville, Florida.
Peplomeris demangei Silvestri 1917
Creators: name: Nguyen, Anh D.
name: Sierwald, Petra
name: Marek, Paul E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Diplopoda
Glomerida
Glomeridae
Peplomeris
Peplomeris demangei

description: 17. Peplomeris demangei Silvestri, 1917
 Rhopalomeris (Peplomeris) demangei Silvestri, 1917. Records of the Indian Museum 13(3, 9): 145, fig. 31 (10 images), T male (museum deposition unknown), cited locality: Tonkin; from Hanoi, northern Vietnam.
 Peplomeris demangei: – Golovatch, 1983a: 180 (L); Enghoff, Golovatch & Nguyen, 2004: 31 (L); Golovatch, Geoffroy & VandenSpiegel, 2013: 201 (L).
description: Published as part of Nguyen, Anh D., Sierwald, Petra & Marek, Paul E., 2019, The pill millipedes of Vietnam: a key to genera and descriptions of five new species (Diplopoda: Glomerida: Glomeridae), pp. 260-297 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 67 on page 263, DOI: 10.26107/RBZ-2019-0020, http://zenodo.org/record/4575924
Diffuse gamma-ray emission: lessons and perspectives
Creators: name: Moskalenko, I. V.
name: Strong, A. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Galactic diffuse emission is potentially able to reveal much about the sources and propagation of cosmic rays (CR), their spectra and intensities in distant locations. It can possibly unveil WIMP dark matter (DM) through its annihilation signatures. The extragalactic background may provide vital information about the early stages of the universe, neutralino annihilation, and unresolved sources (blazars?) and their cosmological evolution. The gamma-ray instrument EGRET on the CGRO contributed much to the exploration of the Galactic diffuse emission. The new NASA Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) is scheduled for launch in 2007; study of the diffuse gamma-ray emission is one of the priority goals. We describe current understanding of the diffuse emission and its potential for future discoveries.
description: 6 pages, aip style. Solicited talk at the Int. Conf. on Astrophysical Sources of High Energy Particles and Radiation (Torun, Poland, June 20-24, 2005). To be published in AIP Conf. Proc., eds. T. Bulik et al. (NY: AIP)
Fending for Oneself by Connecting with Others: Francophone African Pentecostal-Charismatic Christians in Washington, DC
Creators: name: Ediger, Rose
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4401
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Most of the research done on new immigrant religion has concentrated on religious structures, the systematized relationships between people and between groups within which religious practices are embedded. While this work is important, it has tended not to foreground religious meaning, the ideas that people hold about the world that include concerns about non-empirical forces and that make their experiences logical and understandable. In this dissertation, I address this limitation by taking a holistic approach to studying immigrant religious participation. I address both structure and meaning, domains that can be conceptually separated but in practice are integrated. This dissertation looks at religious structure and meaning through a qualitative study of a Catholic congregation made up of French-speaking Africans and Haitians in Washington, DC conducted from 2003-2007. My primary methods were participant-observation and interviews. Congregation participants created a community with significance for them. People adjusted to some of the expectations of their new context while also bringing to bear continuities such as a familiar mode of interpersonal interaction, ideas about Catholicism, and French language. These immigrants organized religiously by negotiating space for themselves within the Catholic Church, and they created and used social capital in various ways. Through their organizing, they created voice in the Church hierarchy and increased participants' access to practical resources. By looking at religious meaning, I also discovered that participants brought in Pentecostal-Charismatic Catholic specialists from around the world to guide them in understanding their experiences and to heal them spiritually. By emphasizing African causes and the maintenance of participants' connections to the people of Africa--through family ties, practical support of organizations, and prayer--the congregation valorized people who were devalued in the broader social setting. I argue that through their participation in Pentecostal-Charismatic Catholicism, immigrants took up and acted on their desire to change their limited positioning in the wider opportunity structure.
Effects of the Neutrino B-term on Slepton Mixing and Electric Dipole Moments
Creators: name: Farzan, Yasaman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The supersymmetric standard model with right-handed neutrino supermultiplets generically contains a soft supersymmetry breaking mass term: $δL ={1 \over 2} B_νM\tildeν_R \tilde ν_R$. We call this operator the "neutrino $B$-term". We show that the neutrino $B$-term can give the dominant effects from the neutrino sector to lepton flavor violating processes and to lepton electric dipole moments.
description: 14 pages, 4 figures; v3: typos corrected
Stratigraphie und Genese Berliner Kleinmoore
Stratigraphy and Genesis of Small Mires in West-Berlin
Creators: name: Brande, Arthur
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 1986

description: Kleinmoore bis ca. 300 m Durchmesser sind in den letztglazialen Hohlformen des Berliner Raumes sowohl in den Tal- und Kamessandgebieten als auch auf den Grundmoränenplatten häufig. Gegenüber den größeren Kesselmooren und einem Teil der Talmoore zeichnen sie sich durch einen abgewandelten und verkürzten Entwicklungsverlauf aus, dessen Beziehung zum Wasserhaushalt der Landschaft im Spät- und Postglazial an mehreren Stellen sediment- und pollenstratigraphisch untersuchten worden ist.
description: DFG, SUB Göttingen
description: research
Additional file 2 of Qualitative research to inform hypothesis testing for fidelity-based sub-group analysis in clinical trials: lessons learnt from the process evaluation of a multifaceted podiatry intervention for falls prevention
Creators: name: Scantlebury, Arabella
name: Cockayne, Sarah
name: Fairhurst, Caroline
name: Rodgers, Sara
name: Torgerson, David
name: Hewitt, Catherine
name: Adamson, Joy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. Topic guide for use with trial participants. Topic guide used for semi-structured interviews with trial participants.
Peplomeris magna Golovatch 1983
Creators: name: Nguyen, Anh D.
name: Sierwald, Petra
name: Marek, Paul E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Diplopoda
Glomerida
Glomeridae
Peplomeris
Peplomeris magna

description: 18. Peplomeris magna Golovatch, 1983
 Peplomeris magna Golovatch, 1983. Annales Historico–Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 75: 107, figs. 1–5; HT male (HMNH), from Cuc Phuong National Park, northern Vietnam.
 Peplomeris magna: – Korsos & Golovatch, 1989. Acta Zoologica Hungarica, 35(3-4): 1 male, 1 female (HNHM), 1 male (ZMUM) 2 males, 1 female (IZW), Cuc Phuong National Park.
 Peplomeris magna: – Golovatch, 1983a: 180 (L); Enghoff, Golovatch & Nguyen, 2004: 31 (L); Golovatch, Geoffroy & VandenSpiegel, 2013: 202 (L).
description: Published as part of Nguyen, Anh D., Sierwald, Petra & Marek, Paul E., 2019, The pill millipedes of Vietnam: a key to genera and descriptions of five new species (Diplopoda: Glomerida: Glomeridae), pp. 260-297 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 67 on page 263, DOI: 10.26107/RBZ-2019-0020, http://zenodo.org/record/4575924