cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Clustered Geometries Exploiting Quantum Coherence Effects for Efficient Energy Transfer in Light Harvesting
Creators: name: Ai, Qing
name: Yen, Tzu-Chi
name: Jin, Bih-Yaw
name: Cheng, Yuan-Chung
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Elucidating quantum coherence effects and geometrical factors for efficient energy transfer in photosynthesis has the potential to uncover non-classical design principles for advanced organic materials. We study energy transfer in a linear light-harvesting model to reveal that dimerized geometries with strong electronic coherences within donor and acceptor pairs exhibit significantly improved efficiency, which is in marked contrast to predictions of the classical Förster theory. We reveal that energy tuning due to coherent delocalization of photoexcitations is mainly responsible for the efficiency optimization. This coherence-assisted energy-tuning mechanism also explains the energetics and chlorophyll arrangements in the widely-studied Fenna-Matthews-Olson complex. We argue that a clustered network with rapid energy relaxation among donors and resonant energy transfer from donor to acceptor states provides a basic formula for constructing efficient light-harvesting systems, and the general principles revealed here can be generalized to larger systems and benefit future innovation of efficient molecular light-harvesting materials.
description: 26 pages, 5 figures
Estimation of indices of health service readiness with a principal component analysis of the Tanzania Service Provision Assessment Survey
Creators: name: Jackson, Elizabeth F.
name: Siddiqui, Ayesha
name: Gutierrez, Hialy
name: Kanté, Almamy Malick
name: Austin, Judy
name: Phillips, James F.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Information storage and retrieval systems--Public health
Hospitals--Ratings and rankings
Health planning
Health services administration
Medical care
Public health

description: Background: Service Provision Assessment (SPA) surveys have been conducted to gauge primary health care and family planning clinical readiness throughout East and South Asia as well as sub-Saharan Africa. Intended to provide useful descriptive information on health system functioning to supplement the Demographic and Health Survey data, each SPA produces a plethora of discrete indicators that are so numerous as to be impossible to analyze in conjunction with population and health survey data or to rate the relative readiness of individual health facilities. Moreover, sequential SPA surveys have yet to be analyzed in ways that provide systematic evidence that service readiness is improving or deteriorating over time.
Methods: This paper presents an illustrative analysis of the 2006 Tanzania SPA with the goal of demonstrating a practical solution to SPA data utilization challenges using a subset of variables selected to represent the six building blocks of health system strength identified by the World Health Organization (WHO) with a focus on system readiness to provide service. Principal Components Analytical (PCA) models extract indices representing common variance of readiness indicators. Possible uses of results include the application of PCA loadings to checklist data, either for the comparison of current circumstances in a locality with a national standard, for the ranking of the relative strength of operation of clinics, or for the estimation of trends in clinic service quality improvement or deterioration over time.
Results: Among hospitals and health centers in Tanzania, indices representing two components explain 32 % of the common variance of 141 SPA indicators. For dispensaries, a single principal component explains 26 % of the common variance of 86 SPA indicators. For hospitals/HCs, the principal component is characterized by preventive measures and indicators of basic primary health care capabilities. For dispensaries, the principal component is characterized by very basic newborn care as well as preparedness for delivery.
Conclusions: PCA of complex facility survey data generates composite scale coefficients that can be used to reduce indicators to indices for application in comparative analyses of clinical readiness, or for multi-level analysis of the impact of clinical capability on health outcomes or on survival.
New chiral lattice actions of the Borici-Creutz type
Creators: name: Capitani, Stefano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We generalize the Borici-Creutz action in such a way that the position of the second zero and the direction which breaks the hypercubic symmetry can be arbitrarily chosen, and the action has still the correct continuum limit. Minimal doubling is guaranteed if the distance between the two zeros does not become too large. Special values of this distance could turn out to be particularly convenient for efficient numerical simulations of minimally doubled fermions.
description: 19 pages
title: Accelerometer-Determined Physical Behavior Metrics and their Associations with Sarcopenia among Oldest-Old Adults
Creators: name: Eberl, Eric M
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2021

description: INTRODUCTION: Sarcopenia is a loss of muscle function and muscle mass which frequently occurs among the oldest-old adult population (aged 85+ years). The analysis of accelerometer-determined physical behavior volumes and patterns of oldest-old adults might provide novel insights into the associations with sarcopenia and its components. METHODS: A total of 145 participants in the primary sample and 87 participants in the subsample with a mean age of 88.2 (2.5) years from the Health, Aging, and Body Composition study cohort provided cross-sectional data of handgrip strength, appendicular lean mass, gait speed, and accelerometry. Probable, confirmed, and severe sarcopenia were assessed based on the revised definition of the European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People 2. Binomial logistic and multivariate linear regression models as well as dose-response analyses were applied and adjusted for demographics, accelerometer wear time, lifestyle factors, and chronic health conditions. RESULTS: Oldest-old adults with higher total volumes of moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) (OR=0.74, 95% CI 0.62 to 0.89) showed a lower likelihood for a probable sarcopenic condition in the primary sample. Likewise, patterns of higher accumulated time spent in MVPA bouts of less than 10 minutes (OR=0.78, 95% CI 0.64 to 0.95) and MVPA bouts of at least 10 minutes (OR=0.78, 95% CI 0.63 to 0.98) were also related with lower odds of probable sarcopenia. A 2.1 times (95% CI 1.01 to 4.35) higher likelihood for confirmed sarcopenia was observed among participants who spent 60 minutes more per day in sedentary behavior (SB). Furthermore, 2.9 times (95% CI 1.05 to 8.02) greater odds of severe sarcopenia were identified following each 0.1 higher active-to-sedentary transition probability (ASTP). Focusing on individual sarcopenic components, higher total activity counts, higher MVPA, higher light intensity physical activity (LIPA), lower SB, and lower ASTP were related with better gait speed. CONCLUSION: The total volume of MVPA, whether accumulated in short sporadic bouts or prolonged bouts, was associated with lower odds of probable sarcopenia. Higher LIPA, lower SB, and a less fragmented activity pattern might also be related with a lower likelihood of sarcopenia status and better physical performance among oldest-old adults.
title: Ultrasound-Responsive Crosslinking with Temporal Control and Rheological Tunability
Creators: name: Liu, Yinghong
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2021

description: Fibers in biological scaffolds like fibronectin stiffen when they experience forces between cells. It will expose binding sites under contractile forces and then form disulfide bonds. This on-demand strain-stiffening is a desirable property in synthetic materials. Tran et.al. (2017) mimicked the “cryptic” design of fibronectin by copolymerizing thiol crosslinking sites with monomers containing poly (ethylene glycol) chains. When the PEG chain increased from 350 to 950 g/mol, the strains-stiffening became on-demand while the curing process extended from 3 hours to 15 hours. Extra steric hindrance brought by longer PEG chains caused decreasing mass transfer rates of cryptic sites while the same level of strain rate was introduced. I proposed to use stronger ultrasound mechanical perturbation so that higher strain rate can be induced, and the shielding effect brought by the PEG chain can be overcome more easily. Utilizing ultrasound as a stimuli has the potential to improve the gelation speed or achieve high mechanical performance while retain the long shelf life of the “cryptic” materials.
To test this hypothesis, I synthesized “cryptic” polymer with aceto-acetoxy and primary amine as crosslinking sites such that, the only time limiting step is brought by the long PEG chain. This is because the bond formation reaction between these two reactive groups is rapid and spontaneous. When switching from weak to strong mechanical perturbation, the change in gelation speed owing to accelerated mass transfer between crosslinking sites can be easily compared. When the PEG chain is 300 Mw and 30 mol % crosslinking sites density, this “cryptic” polymer only showed strain-stiffening under ultrasound while strain under a rheometer was not able to overcome steric hindrance. Signs of chain scission appeared when the ultrasound amplitude was set at 75 %, but was counteracted by reducing amplitude mode over the time. The crosslinking was optimized by varying the ultrasound amplitude and intensity and a final mode of 1 hour 75 % amplitude, 0.5 hour 50 % amplitude and 3.5 hours 25% amplitude provided greatly improved on demand crosslinking. The estimated kinetic constant using this mode was two times higher than that of under simple shear strain. Through this study, I found that ultrasound can improve the curing time of this “cryptic” polymer system since it induces higher strain rate and expedite the mass transfer rate between crosslinking sites and optimizing the ultrasonic amplitude profile to limit chain scission provides improved crosslinking performance.
An Economic Analysis of Virginia from 2001 to 2018
Creators: name: Valle, Joseph
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: As globalization and interstate commerce continue to permeate the US economy, the opportunities for growth and development for businesses among a variety of sectors have likewise expanded notably over the last two decades. One state that has especially drawn attention as of late for its economic potence is Virginia, partly on account of its proximity to Washington, DC, as well as the nationwide shift toward technologically-oriented jobs. Our data can be found at the Bureau of Economic Analysis, and downloaded and converted as CSV files with the help of Pandas. After cleaning up our data to focus on the years 2001 through 2018, we will first look at trends in personal and per capita income in both absolute and relative figures. Similarly, we will pivot toward population, and isolate the areas with the most significant absolute and relative shifts in this regard. Finally, we will expand our inquiry toward identifying which areas contributed the most in terms of GDP and share of GDP for a given industry. As an extension to this last point, we will also determine the most significant sectors for a given area, and based on their share values evaluate whether or not that area reported a diversified economy, or relied disproportionately on one particular sector. With this in mind, we can deduce if there are any industries drawing more people toward certain areas. The ind_gdp and pop_inc data sets used for this project are available for you to view and save for later.
Reconstruction of novel transcription factor regulons through inference of their binding sites
Creators: name: Elmas, Abdulkadir
name: Wang, Xiaodong
name: Samoilov, Michael S.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Comparative genomics
subject: Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Genomics--Data processing
subject: Computational biology
subject: Transcription factors
subject: Electrical engineering
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular biology
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Background
In most sequenced organisms the number of known regulatory genes (e.g., transcription factors (TFs)) vastly exceeds the number of experimentally-verified regulons that could be associated with them. At present, identification of TF regulons is mostly done through comparative genomics approaches. Such methods could miss organism-specific regulatory interactions and often require expensive and time-consuming experimental techniques to generate the underlying data.
Results
In this work, we present an efficient algorithm that aims to identify a given transcription factor’s regulon through inference of its unknown binding sites, based on the discovery of its binding motif. The proposed approach relies on computational methods that utilize gene expression data sets and knockout fitness data sets which are available or may be straightforwardly obtained for many organisms. We computationally constructed the profiles of putative regulons for the TFs LexA, PurR and Fur in E. coli K12 and identified their binding motifs. Comparisons with an experimentally-verified database showed high recovery rates of the known regulon members, and indicated good predictions for the newly found genes with high biological significance. The proposed approach is also applicable to novel organisms for predicting unknown regulons of the transcriptional regulators. Results for the hypothetical protein D d e0289 in D. alaskensis include the discovery of a Fis-type TF binding motif.
Conclusions
The proposed motif-based regulon inference approach can discover the organism-specific regulatory interactions on a single genome, which may be missed by current comparative genomics techniques due to their limitations.
Urocyon littoralis
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Canidae
Urocyon
Urocyon littoralis

description: Urocyon littoralis (Baird, 1858). Mammals, in Repts. Expl. Surv., 8(1):143. TYPE LOCALITY: U.S.A., California, San Miguel Isl. DISTRIBUTION: Islands off the Pacific coast of S. California (U.S.A.). COMMENT: Placed in genus Canis, subgenus Vulpes which includes Urocyon; may be a subspecies of cinereoargenteus; see Van Gelder, 1978:8. Clutton-Brock et al., 1976, 29(3):117-199, retained Vulpes, including Urocyon. ISIS NUMBER: 5301412001014002001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, pp. 244-289 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 248, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980
description: {"references": ["Van Gelder, R. G. 1978. A review of canid classification. American Museum Novitates, 2646: 1 - 10.", "Clutton-Brock, J., G. B. Corbet, and M. Hills. 1976. A review of the family Canidae, with classification by numerical methods. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), 29 (3): 119 - 199."]}
El Niño in the 1990s
Creators: name: Goddard, Lisa M.
name: Graham, Nicholas E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1997
Subjects: Ocean-atmosphere interaction
Climatic changes
Ocean temperature
Atmosphere

description: The evolution of the unusual warming events of the first half of the 1990s is discussed based on the National Center for Environmental Prediction ocean re-analysis data, covering 1980–1995. The warmings occurring in 1991–1992, 1993, and 1994 are viewed as individual episodes, rather than as one long El Niño. It is shown that the warm episodes of the 1990s differ from previous El Niños in two important ways. First, subsurface anomalies are more strongly coupled to the mixed layer across the equatorial Pacific in the 1990s than in earlier years. Second, a persistent warm SST anomaly in the central Pacific has been instrumental in initiating warm events. Both of these factors interfere with the dominant mode of variability in the tropical Pacific air-sea system, namely the delayed oscillator mechanism. We postulate that the low skill of dynamical atmosphere-ocean models in predicting the recent warmings is related to a weakened delayed oscillator mechanism.
British Columbia Legislative Assembly sessional clipping book (1962-03)
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Law
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/993678
subject: FOS: Law
subject: British Columbia. Legislative Assembly
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/600765
subject: Politics and government
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919741

description: These Sessional Clippings books cover the period 1891 to 1972, and include newspaper accounts written by various legislative reporters who covered debates occurring in the British Columbia Legislative Assembly. Transcripts of debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard) were not published in B.C. until 1970; hence these "Sessional Clipping Books" augment the "Journals", the record of daily proceedings of the Legislative Assembly. Selected clippings from various newspapers including the Vancouver Sun, the Vancouver Province, the Colonist, and the Times newspapers, relating to the newspaper reports concerning activities of the Legislature. The original sessional clippings books comprise 351 ledger size print volumes, held at the Legislative Library in Victoria BC. The print volumes were microfilmed onto 26 reels in 1977 under a Tri University Libraries (TRIUL) project by Precision Micrographic Services (Vancouver, B.C.), with the permission of the Legislative Library, Victoria, British Columbia. This digital collection was created by scanning the 26 microfilm reels.
Final report on thin film technology
Creators: name: ARIES WP15 Members
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: The ARIES WP15 program was focused on the development of superconducting thin films (TF) for superconducting radio-frequency (SRF) cavities. This final WP15 report is highlighting the main results achieved within the four-year programme. The TF quality is defined by their substrate, thus Task 15.2 was focused on the copper sample preparation and surface polishing. The procedures initially developed on small samples were applied to a larger area of Quadrupole Resonator (QPR) samples. Task 15.3 on thin film deposition and characterisation is at the core of the WP15 programme, the expertise available at partner institutes allows to progress from Nb films to the successful development of superconducting thin films different from Nb, such as NbN, Nb3Sn and NbTiN thin films. Evaluation of thin films in Task 15.4 included an evaluation of superconductivity properties with DC magnetisation methods on small samples and the RF testing on QPR samples. Many new results have been obtained over the last year and are reported below. Four technologies, which have not been used in the past for the R&D related to the SRF cavities, have been explored. Two of them were found to be practical for the SRF applications: a laser treatment of Nb films and a magnetic field penetration measurements. WP15 team achieved all its goals, the Milestones and Deliverable have been successfully completed.
description: {"references": ["ARIES Del15.4"]}
Building meromorphic solutions of $q$-difference equations using a Borel-Laplace summation
Creators: name: Dreyfus, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 39A13

description: After introducing q-analogues of the Borel and Laplace transformations, we prove that to every formal power series solution of a linear q-difference equation with rational coefficients, we may apply several q-Borel and Laplace transformations of convenient orders and convenient direction in order to construct a solution of the same equation that is meromorphic on $\mathbb{C}^{*}$. We use this theorem to construct explicitly an invertible matrix solution of a linear q-difference system with rational coefficients, of which entries are meromorphic on $\mathbb{C}^{*}$. Moreover, when the system is put in the Birkhoff-Guenther normal form, we prove that the solutions we compute are exactly the same as the one constructed by Ramis, Sauloy and Zhang.
description: To appear in International Mathematics Research Notices. IMRN
title: Self-representation in Selected Poems of Gu Taiqing (1799-1877)
Creators: name: Chang, Li-Ting
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2021

description: Gu Taiqing 顧太清 (1799-1877) is one of the most famous and prolific female writers in the late Qing. In this thesis, I focus on her poems and lyrics on three important subjects, self-portrayals, plum blossoms, and Qingfengge 清風閣 (Clear Breeze Pavilion), in her two poetry collections, Tianyou geji 天遊閣集 (Collected Poems of Heavenly Travels Studio) and Donghai yuge 東海漁歌 (Songs of the Fisherman of the Eastern Sea), in order to advance the current scholarship on this female author and Ming-Qing women’s writings and reveal the uniqueness of Gu’s poetry. My study addresses how she represents herself, recounts her life experiences, and engages in the poetic tradition established by men. By examining her voices and images embedded in her poems, I argue that she creates her own expressions of female voices as an elite woman, a mother, and a female companion for her friends and her husband through the incorporation of her life experiences, both inside and outside her inner quarters. Most female figures portrayed by male poets are desired, static, subordinate, and longing for their absent lovers in their boudoir. Differentiating from the common women’s image, Gu shows her literary creation and women’s subjectivity by taking an active role, as opposed to a passive one. She describes a self-contented life and creates a delightful atmosphere in the spatial setting of her inner quarters. She also writes about her activities outside her boudoir and narrates her travel experiences as a female poet in her poems, in which she constructs her image as a subject that appreciates nature and is emotionally attached to her family. Moreover, my study discovers the approaches that she takes to negotiate between her reputation as a talented poet and her image as a learned lady, given the high moral standard expected from the late Qing elite women. Constructing her image associated with Confucian morality, she highlights her dedication to womanly learning and suggests that women’s literary talent and virtue are reconcilable.
A Novel Equation based Classifier for Detecting Human in Images
Creators: name: Mukherjee, Subra
name: Das, Karen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Shape based classification is one of the most challenging tasks in the field of computer vision. Shapes play a vital role in object recognition. The basic shapes in an image can occur in varying scale, position and orientation. And specially when detecting human, the task becomes more challenging owing to the largely varying size, shape, posture and clothing of human. So, in our work we detect human, based on the head-shoulder shape as it is the most unvarying part of human body. Here, firstly a new and a novel equation named as the Omega Equation that describes the shape of human head-shoulder is developed and based on this equation, a classifier is designed particularly for detecting human presence in a scene. The classifier detects human by analyzing some of the discriminative features of the values of the parameters obtained from the Omega equation. The proposed method has been tested on a variety of shape dataset taking into consideration the complexities of human head-shoulder shape. In all the experiments the proposed method demonstrated satisfactory results.
description: published with international journal of Computer Applications (IJCA)
User association for energy harvesting relay stations in cellular networks
Creators: name: Wang, Zhe
name: Wang, Xiaodong
name: Aldiab, Motasem
name: Jaber, Tareq
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Wireless communication systems
subject: Energy harvesting
subject: Mobile radio stations
subject: Radio relay systems
subject: Electrical engineering
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider a cellular wireless network enhanced by relay stations that are powered by renewable energy sources. Such a network consists of the macro base stations (BS), relay stations (RSs), and many mobile stations (MSs). In addition to the traditional data/voice transmission between the BS and the MSs, a higher service tier may be provided by using the energy harvesting RSs for some MSs. We propose a network scenario utilizing the energy harvesting relay stations to improve the service quality without taking the additional licensed frequency band and transmission power, and design a user association algorithm for the energy harvesting RSs in such a network. The goal is to assign each MS an RS for relaying its signal to minimize the probability of the relay service outage, i.e, the probability that an MS’s relay service request is rejected. First, we propose a network scenario and develop a mathematical model to estimate the rejection probability for a given user association. We then propose a low-complexity local search algorithm, which balances the computational complexity and the performance, to obtain a locally optimal user association. Simulation results are provided to demonstrate the superior performance of the proposed techniques over the traditional methods.
Quantum probabilities of composite events in quantum measurements with multimode states
Creators: name: Yukalov, V. I.
name: Sornette, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The problem of defining quantum probabilities of composite events is considered. This problem is of high importance for the theory of quantum measurements and for quantum decision theory that is a part of measurement theory. We show that the Luders probability of consecutive measurements is a transition probability between two quantum states and that this probability cannot be treated as a quantum extension of the classical conditional probability. The Wigner distribution is shown to be a weighted transition probability that cannot be accepted as a quantum extension of the classical joint probability. We suggest the definition of quantum joint probabilities by introducing composite events in multichannel measurements. The notion of measurements under uncertainty is defined. We demonstrate that the necessary condition for the mode interference is the entanglement of the composite prospect together with the entanglement of the composite statistical state. As an illustration, we consider an example of a quantum game. A special attention is payed to the application of the approach to systems with multimode states, such as atoms, molecules, quantum dots, or trapped Bose-condensed atoms with several coherent modes.
description: Latex file, 28 pages, no figures
“Deference” is too Confusing – Let’s Call Them “Chevron Space” and “Skidmore Weight”
Creators: name: Strauss, Peter
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Administrative agencies
subject: Resource allocation
subject: Organizational behavior
subject: Balance of power
subject: Administrative law
subject: Courts
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: This Essay suggests an underappreciated, appropriate, and conceptually coherent structure to the Chevron relationship of courts to agencies, grounded in the concept of "allocation. " Because the term "deference" muddles rather than clarifies the structure's operation, this Essay avoids speaking of "Chevron deference" and "Skidmore deference. " Rather, it argues, one could more profitably think in terms of "Chevron space" and "Skidmore weight. " "Chevron space" denotes the area within which an administrative agency has been statutorily empowered to act in a manner that creates legal obligations or constraints—that is, its allocated authority. "Skidmore weight" addresses the possibility that an agency's view on a given statutory question may in itself warrant the respect of judges who are themselves unmistakably responsible for deciding the question of statutory meaning. "Skidmore weight" has an underappreciated pedigree. For almost two centuries, American courts have given agency views of statutory meaning considerable weight in deciding for themselves issues of statutory meaning. "Chevron space" reflects our more recent understanding and acceptance that Congress may validly confer on executive agencies the authority to act with the force of law, so long as the legality of their action within the boundaries of their authority can be judicially assured. Within its congressionally authorized space, the agency is the prime actor. From a court's independent conclusion that Congress has delegated authority to an agency—a conclusion that may even be informed by Skidmore weight given to the agency's own understandings of its authority—it follows ineluctably that the reviewing court is to act, not as decider, but as overseer.
Mapa Tierra tradicional de la Gente de Hacha (Andoque)
Creators: name: Pueblo Andoque
name: Echeverri, Juan Alvaro
name: Platarrueda, Andrés
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1997
Subjects: Andoque, territorio

description: Mapa elaborado entre 1994 y 1997 por ancianos y jóvenes del pueblo andoque con asesoría del Programa COAMA de la Fundación Gaia Amazonas Kádann̶sió̶ho̶ (Gente de gavilán): Hernando Andoque Andoque, Rodolfo Andoque, Ignacio Andoke, Hernando Andoque M., Néstor Andoque, Lisímaco Andoque, Gabriel Andoque, Robert Andoque, Nestor Andoque Tobeo̧sió̶ho̶ (Gente de venado): Mario Andoque, Raquel Andoque, Elías Campo, Arcadio Andoque I̧x̧ó̶ho̶ (Gente de sol): Delio Andoque, Milcíades Andoque, Mindo Andoque, Levi Andoque, Wilson Andoke, Orlando Andoke, Xitasió̶ho̶ (Gente de cucarrón): Henry Andoque Soió̶ho̶ (Gente de pava): Roberto Andoque Asesoria y edición: Juan Alvaro Echeverri Dibujo: Andrés Platarrueda
title: The Efficacy of Habitat Conservation Assistance Programs for Family Forest Owners in Vermont
Creators: name: Harrington, Margaret E
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2021

description: The future of Vermont’s 1.8 million hectares (4.5 million acres) of forest habitat will be largely determined by the decisions of family forest owners, who collectively own 60% of the state’s forested land. To promote management for wildlife habitat, government agencies and non-governmental partnerships provide technical and financial support to family forest owners in the form of conservation assistance programs. In Chapter 1, I qualitatively compared the efficacy of two types of conservation assistance programs available in Vermont: traditional programs offered through the Natural Resources Conservation Service, and a simplified, accelerated program offered through a non-governmental partnership called Woods, Wildlife, and Warblers. By conducting interviews with 20 Vermont family forest owners, I identified common motivation and barrier themes and compared these themes across programs using the Transtheoretical Model’s Stages of Change. Most motivations and barriers were described by landowners across all Stages of Change, but two motivations (professional recommendations and straightforward applications) and one barrier (independent forest management values) varied by either Stage of Change, program type, or both. I used the findings from the interviews to develop a mail survey, which was used to quantify patterns regarding motivations and barriers towards three habitat conservation actions: 1) arranging for a forestry professional to walk the land, 2) applying for cost-share funds, and 3) making a patch cut. The results from this survey, which was sent to 2,122 randomly selected Vermont family forest owners and had a cooperation rate of 38%, are presented in Chapter 2. Using logistic regression models, I identified multiple significant motivations or barriers for each of the three actions. Additionally, I used contingency tables to compare respondents’ levels of agreement for these motivations and barriers – as well as their level of trust for various information sources – with their Stage of Change. Overall, levels of agreement varied significantly across one or more Stages of Change for all motivations and barriers, and trustworthiness varied for 13 out of 14 information sources. Across both chapters, I provide recommendations to increase program efficacy with an emphasis on program attributes and tailored messaging.
Branching Fractions and Direct CP Asymmetries of $\bar B_s ^0 \to K^0 h^+h^{\prime -}(h^{(\prime)}=K,π)$ Decays
Creators: name: Li, Ying
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by the recent LHCb collaboration measurements of charmless three-body decays of $\bar B_s^0$ meson, we calculate the branching fractions of $\bar B_s ^0 \to K^0 π^+π^-$, $\bar B_s ^0 \to K^0 K^+K^-$, $\bar B_s ^0 \to K^0 π^+K^-$ and $\bar B_s ^0 \to \bar K^0 K^+π^-$ decay modes using the factorization approach. Both the resonant and nonresonant contributions are studied in detail. For the decays $\bar B_s ^0 \to K^0 π^+π^-$ and $\bar B_s ^0 \to K^0 K^+K^-$, our results agree well with experimental data, and the former is dominated by the $K^*$, while the latter one is dominated by the nonresonant contribution. Considering the flavor SU(3) symmetry violation, the sum of branching fractions of $\bar B_s ^0 \to K^0 π^+K^-$ and $\bar B_s ^0 \to \bar K^0 K^+π^-$ could accommodate the data well too. It should be noted that both branching fractions are sensitive to the scalar density $< Kπ| \bar s q|0>$. Furthermore, the resonant contributions are dominated by the scalar $K_0^*(1430)$. We hope that these branching fractions could be measured individually in the experiments so as to test the factorization approach and the flavor SU(3) asymmetry. Moreover, the direct CP asymmetries of these decays are also investigated, which could be measured in the running LHCb experiment and Super-b factory in the future.
description: 16 pages. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1308.5139, arXiv:0704.1049 by other authors
Additional file 1 of How standardised are antibiotic regimens in otologic surgery?
Creators: name: Lui, Justin T.
name: Dahm, Valerie
name: Arnoldner, Christoph
name: Lam, Philip W.
name: Le, Trung N.
name: Chen, Joseph M.
name: Lin, Vincent Y.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Space Science
Medicine
Pharmacology
Cancer
Virology

description: Additional file 1. 30 question survey.
Origin of W UMa-type contact binaries - age and orbital evolution
Creators: name: Yildiz, Mutlu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, our understanding of the origin of W UMa-type contact binaries has become clearer. Initial masses of their components were successfully estimated by Yıldız and Doğan using a new method mainly based on observational properties of overluminous secondary components. In this paper, we continue to discuss the results and make computations for age and orbital evolution of these binaries. It is shown that the secondary mass, according to its luminosity, also successfully predicts the observed radius. While the current mass of the primary component is determined by initial masses, the current secondary mass is also a function of initial angular momentum. We develop methods to compute the age of A- and W-subtype W UMa-type contact binaries {in terms of} initial masses and mass according to the luminosity of the secondaries. Comparisons of our results with the mean ages from kinematic properties of these binaries and data pertaining to contact binaries in open and globular clusters, have increased our confidence on this method. The mean ages of both A- and W-subtype contact binaries are found as 4.4 and 4.6 Gyr, respectively. From kinematic studies, these ages are given as 4.5 and 4.4 Gyr, respectively. We also compute orbital properties of A-subtype contact binaries at the time of the first overflow. Initial angular momentum of these binaries is computed by comparing them with the well-known detached binaries. The angular momentum loss rate derived in the present study for the detached phase is in very good agreement with the semi-empirical rates available in the literature. In addition to the limitations on the initial masses of W UMa-type contact binaries, it is shown that the initial period of these binaries is less than about 4.45 d.
description: 11 pages and 10 figures. MNRAS 2013
Importance of the Indian Ocean for simulating rainfall anomalies over eastern and southern Africa
Creators: name: Goddard, Lisa M.
name: Graham, Nicholas E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1999
Subjects: Ocean-atmosphere interaction
Precipitation (Meteorology)--Simulation methods
Atmosphere

description: The relative contributions of the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean sea surface temperatures (SSTs) to the rainfall variability over eastern central, and southern Africa during the austral spring-summer are examined. The variability of African rainfall is statistically related to both oceans, but the variability in the two oceans is also related. To separate the effects of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, a suite of numerical model simulations is presented: GOGA, the atmosphere is forced by observed SSTs globally; IOGA, the atmosphere is forced by observed SSTs only in the Indian Ocean basin; and POGA, the atmosphere is forced by observed SSTs only in the tropical Pacific basin. While the SST variability of the tropical Pacific exerts some influence over the African region, it is the atmospheric response to the Indian Ocean variability that is essential for simulating the correct rainfall response over eastern, central, and southern Africa. Analyses of the dynamical response(s) seen in the numerical experiments and in the observations indicate that the Pacific and Indian Oceans have a competing influence over the Indian Ocean/African region. This competition is related to the influence of the two oceans on the Walker circulation and the consequences of that variability on low-level fluxes of moisture over central and southern Africa. Finally, given the high correlation found between SST variability in the Indian and Pacific Oceans with the Pacific leading by ∼3 months, we speculate on an approach to long-lead dynamical climate prediction over central-east and southern Africa.
Nonergodic Subdiffusion from Brownian Motion in an Inhomogeneous Medium
Creators: name: Massignan, P.
name: Manzo, C.
name: Torreno-Pina, J. A.
name: García-Parajo, M. F.
name: Lewenstein, M.
name: Lapeyre, G. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nonergodicity observed in single-particle tracking experiments is usually modeled by transient trapping rather than spatial disorder. We introduce models of a particle diffusing in a medium consisting of regions with random sizes and random diffusivities. The particle is never trapped, but rather performs continuous Brownian motion with the local diffusion constant. Under simple assumptions on the distribution of the sizes and diffusivities, we find that the mean squared displacement displays subdiffusion due to non-ergodicity for both annealed and quenched disorder. The model is formulated as a walk continuous in both time and space, similar to the Lévy walk.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures; removed spurious pi from (13), and k from inline eqn preceding (11). Fixed other typos
Acupuncture point injection treatment of primary dysmenorrhoea: a randomised, double blind, controlled study
Creators: name: Wade, Christine
name: Wang, L.
name: Zhao, W. J.
name: Cardini, F.
name: Kronenberg, Fredi
name: Gui, S. Q.
name: Ying, Zhu
name: Zhao, N. Q.
name: Chao, M. T.
name: Yu, J.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Acupuncture points
Dysmenorrhea
Clinical trials
Vitamin K--Therapeutic use
Pathology
Alternative medicine
Obstetrics
Gynecology
Public health

description: Objective: To determine if injection of vitamin K3 in an acupuncture point is optimal for the treatment of primary dysmenorrhoea, when compared with 2 other injection treatments.
Setting: A Menstrual Disorder Centre at a public hospital in Shanghai, China. Participants: Chinese women aged 14–25 years with severe primary dysmenorrhoea for at least 6 months not relieved by any other treatment were recruited. Exclusion criteria were the use of oral contraceptives, intrauterine devices or anticoagulant drugs, pregnancy, history of abdominal surgery, participation in other therapies for pain and diagnosis of secondary dysmenorrhoea. Eighty patients with primary dysmenorrhoea, as defined on a 4-grade scale, completed the study. Two patients withdrew after randomisation. Interventions: A double-blind, double-dummy, randomised controlled trial compared vitamin K3 acupuncture point injection to saline acupuncture point injection and vitamin K3 deep muscle injection. Patients in each group received 3 injections at a single treatment visit.
Primary and secondary outcome measures: The primary outcome was the difference in subjective perception of pain as measured by an 11 unit Numeric Rating Scale (NRS). Secondary measurements were Cox Pain Intensity and Duration scales and the consumption of analgesic tablets before and after treatment and during 6 following cycles.
Results: Patients in all 3 groups experienced pain relief from the injection treatments. Differences in NRS measured mean pain scores between the 2 active control groups were less than 1 unit (−0.71, CI −1.37 to −0.05) and not significant, but the differences in average scores between the treatment hypothesised to be optimal and both active control groups (1.11, CI 0.45 to 1.78) and (1.82, CI 1.45 to 2.49) were statistically significant in adjusted mixed-effects models. Menstrual distress and use of analgesics were diminished for 6 months post-treatment. Conclusions: Acupuncture point injection of vitamin K3 relieves menstrual pain rapidly and is a useful treatment in an urban outpatient clinic.
title: Viewing Heinrich Schenker through the Lens of Disability
Creators: name: Hsueh, Charles
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2021

description: Many scholars have discussed Austrian music theorist Heinrich Schenker (1868-1935). While discourse has mainly focused on Schenkerian analysis, recent scholarship has started to examine the role of Schenker as a person (e.g., Schenker as a Jewish individual, Schenker as a racist, etc.), and how these identities influenced his views on music. Yet, within these new explorations and discussions, the aspect of disability and Schenker as an individual with a disability have not been as seriously examined. After examining his biography through the lens of disability in the introduction (Chapter 1), this thesis discusses disability's influence on Schenker through two additional chapters. The second chapter explores disability within the social context of fin-de-siècle Vienna and attempts to deduce, from the opinions of Schenker’s contemporaries, what Schenker's own views on disability might have been. The third chapter then demonstrates, through statistical analyses, that disability affected the everyday mechanics of writing for Schenker and how this in turn influenced his style of prose. The thesis concludes (Chapter 4) that there was a correlation between Schenker’s disability and the different writing styles observed in his earlier work and his later, post-disability work. By shedding light on Schenker’s disability, the thesis aims to provide a platform for future discussion on this subject, either in the field of musicology, music theory, or disability studies.
Star Formation in Nearby Isolated Galaxies
Creators: name: Karachentsev, I. D.
name: Karachentseva, V. E.
name: Melnyk, O. V.
name: Courtois, H. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use the FUV fluxes measured with the GALEX to study the star formation properties of galaxies collected in the "Local Orphan Galaxies" catalog (LOG). Among 517 LOG galaxies having radial velocities V(LG) < 3500 km/s and Galactic latitudes |b|> 15 degr, 428 objects have been detected in FUV. We briefly discuss some scaling relations between the specific star formation rate (SSFR) and stellar mass, HI-mass, morphology, and surface brightness of galaxies situated in extremely low density regions of the Local Supercluster. Our sample is populated with predominantly late-type, gas-rich objects with the median morphological type of Sdm. Only 5% of LOG galaxies are classified as early types: E, S0, S0/a, however, they systematically differ from normal E and S0 galaxies by lower luminosity and presence of gas and dust. We find that almost all galaxies in our sample have their SSFR below 0.4 [Gyr^{-1}]. This limit is also true even for a sample of 260 active star-burst Markarian galaxies situated in the same volume. The existence of such a quasi-Eddington limit for galaxies seems to be a key factor which characterizes the transformation of gas into stars at the current epoch.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables
British Columbia Legislative Assembly sessional clipping book (1963-01)
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Law
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/993678
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Politics and government
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919741
subject: British Columbia. Legislative Assembly
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/600765

description: These Sessional Clippings books cover the period 1891 to 1972, and include newspaper accounts written by various legislative reporters who covered debates occurring in the British Columbia Legislative Assembly. Transcripts of debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard) were not published in B.C. until 1970; hence these "Sessional Clipping Books" augment the "Journals", the record of daily proceedings of the Legislative Assembly. Selected clippings from various newspapers including the Vancouver Sun, the Vancouver Province, the Colonist, and the Times newspapers, relating to the newspaper reports concerning activities of the Legislature. The original sessional clippings books comprise 351 ledger size print volumes, held at the Legislative Library in Victoria BC. The print volumes were microfilmed onto 26 reels in 1977 under a Tri University Libraries (TRIUL) project by Precision Micrographic Services (Vancouver, B.C.), with the permission of the Legislative Library, Victoria, British Columbia. This digital collection was created by scanning the 26 microfilm reels.