cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Mark my words
Creators: name: Salthouse, Julie Ann
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: In this master’s thesis, I examine the High School Leadership Program, a semester-long leadership development program for young women at the Institute for Women’s Leadership at Rutgers University, as a site of voice development and thus empowerment for girls. As I argue throughout this thesis, by providing young women with the opportunity to explore, develop, and use their voices, and nurturing an understanding of how voice can be used for action and social change, the HSLP provided girls with a space in which they could take emotional risk, thereby learning more about who they are and their personal and professional goals. Following a literature review and description of my data, I build my argument by investigating what I believe to be the three program components key to nurturing girls’ voice development and agency: a feminist community with a network of role models, advocates, and supportive feedback; the exploration and articulation of inner voice, informed by an oppositional consciousness as well as alternative definitions of leadership; and the embodiment, enactment, and expression of girls’ personal values and goals. In these investigations, it is my intention to show that through the exploration and expression of personal voice, girls better define their sense of personal agency and better envision themselves as leaders in the community. Through and as a result of this work, girls also begin to affirm their position as a force to be heard and taken seriously; posit themselves as agents of change within their communities; act as role models to other individuals within their communities; create networks of female leadership for support and strength; and better envision, plan for, and take steps toward reaching their professional and personal goals.
Simulation of Turbocharged gasoline engine to improve combustion efficiency by designing nonlinear proportional integral derivate and super twist second order slide mode controllers
Creators: name: Ashenafi Sebsibe
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2021

description: Due to the continuous work in the automobile industry to reduce the environmental impact, in order to increase engine efficiency new technologies need to be developed and implemented in vehicle. The model and simulation of engine dynamic system is a very powerful method for developing and analyzing engine performance and engine controller. One of the advantages of modern control system is to regulate internal combustion engines under preferred operation. The main target of this thesis is to model and simulate a turbocharged spark ignition engine for investigation of engine performance. The controller were designed for regulation of compressor pressure (Pcomp), Intake manifold pressure (Pim), exhaust manifold pressure (Pem) and turbine pressure (Pturb). The mathematical modelling includes the effect of turbocharger dynamics. In control design, the spark engine is represented by Multi-Output Multi-Input (MIMO) nonlinear model with partially unknown dynamics. To regulate the compressor pressure, intake manifold pressure, the exhaust manifold pressure and turbine pressure nonlinear proportional integral derivate (NPID) control are firstly developed. Secondly to reduce the chattering phenomenon without deteriorating the tracking performance, super twisting Second Order Sliding Mode Controller (SOSMC) controller is developed. These Controllers implemented on the Gasoline engine separately through simulations using MATLAB/Simulink. The two controllers are compared using five performance indexes (ISE, IAE, ITSE, ITAE and MSE) on the four control variables. From simulation result Second order SMC has better performance on compressor pressure tracking and the Non-linear PID has better performance on intake manifold pressures, exhaust manifold and turbine pressure. With minimum error values controller, the combustion engine efficiency increase when maximum values of airflow mass are relevant under transient engine operation, while engine power output depend on the engine speed. Overall, the two controllers have achieved efficient performance on spark ignition turbocharged engine pressure tracking.
Feminist scholarship
Creators: name: Coogan, Kelly Renee
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: My dissertation addresses the question of how feminist scholars define their field of inquiry. Most feminist scholars rely on a stock narrative of the history of feminist scholarship, which purportedly defines its processes and outcomes by decades—the white liberal feminist 1970s; the women-of-color, postmodern 1980s; and the poststructuralist, difference-focused 1990s, which they assume is adequate. My contention is that this stock narrative fails to adequately grapple with the complicated mix of forces that came together, and continuously collaborate, to create the event of feminist scholarship’s emergence. This emergence is the object of investigation for this dissertation. The study of emergence includes not only that which is visible and tangible about feminist scholarship in terms of its central ideas, concepts, theories, epistemologies, and methodologies, but also that which is not immediately or readily visible, such as the field’s animating intellectual and philosophical presuppositions and their relationships to time, space, temporality, and geography. Identifying and demonstrating the deficiencies of the stock narrative of feminist scholarship, my dissertation develops several alternative accounts of feminist scholarship in its formation, contrasting the explanatory possibilities of approaches drawn from the history of ideas, the sociology of knowledge, and the Foucauldian archaeology. These three alternate accounts illuminate intricate and unexpected connections between academic feminism and geopolitical forces such as the Cold War, increased federal funding for higher education, changing priorities within philanthropic foundations, the emergence of development studies, area studies, and subfields such as Women in Development and Gender and Development. By complicating the narrative history of interdisciplinary feminist studies, the dissertation is able to offer a fresh interpretation of the centrality to academic feminism, particularly in postcolonial and transnational feminist scholarship, of key concepts advanced by U.S. scholars of color.
Development of Market Potentials for Income-Producing Recreation
Creators: name: Tharp, Max M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1964
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Excerpts: The title of my paper begins with the word "development." This term implies that the market for income-producing recreation must be created. With regard to most farmers and rural landowners entering this new business, the implication is true. Selling recreation is likely to be a new experience for farmers and most other rural landowners. Unlike wheat or corn, the "product" is not standardized and there is no established market in the true sense of the term as applied to other more tangible commodities. Farmers or rural landowners going into the income-producing recreation business are selling the use of a facility or a service. This will be a new way of operation for most of them. It will require a new set of skills and abilities. For those used to marketing a commodity--an impersonal product--selling recreation will be different. The operator will now have to meet people, his customers, and cater to their desires. The marketing becomes highly personalized and requires skillful insights as to what people want in the way of recreation services and facilities
description: Prepared for delivery before Recreation and Wildlife Committee of The National Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts, Kansas City, Missouri, February 4, 1964
Replacement of Fiberglass by Bamboo Fiber I n Agro stone Panel Production
Creators: name: Simachew Birile
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2021
Subjects: Agro Stone Panel, Bamboo Fiber, Eco-friendly Material and Fiberglass

description: This work presents an eco-friendly building material called an agro stone panel, which is getting popular in the field of construction materials. Previously, an agro stone panel was used in housing projects in Ethiopia, especially for partition walls. It uses pumice and bagasse as filler, magnesium oxide (MgO), and magnesium chloride (Mgcl2) as a binder, and fiberglass as reinforcement. However, the fiberglass transportation and production process is costly and causes environmental pollution. Bamboo fiber can be an alternative substitution for fiberglass because of its low cost, lightweight, sustainability, and other property. Therefore, in this study, the agro stone panel was designed with the use of bamboo fiber as a partial replacement of fiberglass that provided an advantage of reducing cost and environmental impact. About 44 specimens were preparedbased on the 0%, 4%, 8%, and 12% percentage replacement of the substituted material. To determine the physicaland mechanical strength of the specimen, tests were conducted at the age of7 and 28 days. The result shows that the specimen attained good strength at the age of 28 days.Bulk andoven-dry density of all the specimens were analyzed and the result wasbetween (1-1.3) g/cm3 , the value decreases with the percent of fiber increases, which indicates its light weightedness. Moisture content and water absorption of fiber,water absorption of specimen, specific gravity of specimen tests were also conducted and the value was (6.38%), (9%), (18-20%), and (0.76) respectively. Compressive and flexural strength attained maximum value at 8% of fiber content replacement and declined beyond this percentage; this is due to water absorption of bamboo fiber was increased.
Process Based Unification for Multi-Model Software Process Improvement
Creators: name: Kelemen, Zádor Dániel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A number of differences among quality approaches exist and there can be various situations in which the usage of multiple approaches is required, e.g. to strengthen a particular process with multiple quality approaches or to reach certification of the compliance to a number of standards. First of all it has to be decided which approaches have potential for the organization. In many cases one approach does not contain enough information for process implementation. Consequently, the organization may need to use several approaches and the decision has to be made how the chosen approaches can be used simultaneously. This area is called Multi-model Software Process Improvement (MSPI). The simultaneous usage of multiple quality approaches is called the multi-model problem. In this dissertation we propose a solution for the multi-model problem which we call the Process Based Unification (PBU) framework. The PBU framework consists of the PBU concept, a PBU process and the PBU result. We call PBU concept the mapping of quality approaches to a unified process. The PBU concept is operationalized by a PBU process. The PBU result includes the resulting unified process and the mapping of quality approaches to the unified process.
description: PhD Thesis
Unified Field Equation v2: The Final Proof — μ Embedded and Fully Closed By Eric Franz
Creators: name: Franz, Eric
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Unified Field, Time-Frequency Equation, Eric Franz, General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Strong Force, Weak Force, Gravity, Electromagnetism, Nuclear Binding, Time Distortion, Resonance, Mass-Energy Equivalence, Field Theory, Theoretical Physics
– Physics – Theoretical Physics – Unified Field Theory – Quantum Field Theory – General Relativity – Nuclear Physics – Time and Space

description: This is Version 2 of the Unified Field Equation by Eric Franz, marking the final form of the theory with the frequency modulation factor μ fully defined and embedded.

This updated version transforms the original time-frequency-energy model into a closed, measurable structure. The modulation factor μ, which bridges quantum energy behavior and time distortion, is now defined as:

μ = (E / h) × (τ / Δt)

This equation fully integrates gravity, electromagnetism, strong and weak nuclear forces using time distortion as the unifying thread.

The final closed form of the equation is:

Δt² = (E × τ × r) / (m × c²) × √(1 - 2GM / rc²)

This version resolves the last undefined term and completes the Unified Field framework initially proposed in the original 2025 publish. It represents a continuation of Einstein’s dream — now realized through time modulation, energy resonance, and gravitational geometry.

All variables are now fully expressed and testable.
Do the Differences between Resilience Account for the Association between Parenting Styles and Depressive Symptoms in Chinese Undergraduate Students?: An Examination of a Mediation Model
Creators: name: Wu, Zezhou
Publisher: name: University of Chicago
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: College Students; parenting styles; resilience; depressive symptoms

description: In their first separation from home and preparing for professional careers, undergraduate students face the challenging psychological and psychosocial transition from careless puberty to independent adulthood. The pressure of simultaneously achieving social development and educational attainment might unconsciously generate poor mental health and even depressive symptoms. Apart from genetic factors, parenting styles also have been widely identified as a risk factor for depressive symptoms in emerging adults. Although greater parental authoritarianism has previously been associated with higher levels of depressive symptoms, not everyone with high-demand and low responsive parenting styles would be diagnosed with major depression. Instead, resilience might mediate the correlation between parenting styles and depression. This research examined whether resilience could serve as a meditator between parenting styles and depressive symptoms in Chinese undergraduate students and adopted three self-rating questionnaires - Parents as Social Contest Questionnaire(PASCQ), Beck Depression Inventory(BDI), Connor-Davidson Resilience(CD-RISC). PASCQ is a parenting style questionnaire scores on three bipolar dimensions: warmth vs. rejection, structure vs. chaos, autonomy support vs. coercion. As a result, there is no significant negative correlation between structure, warmth, and depression, while chaotic parenting could not be significantly negatively associated with resilience. Besides, only rejection, autonomy support, and coercion could meditate by resilience, which emphasizes the importance of practicing independence and autonomy.
Pion photo- and electroproduction in relativistic baryon ChPT
Creators: name: Tiator, Lothar
name: Scherer, Stefan
name: Hilt, Marius
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a calculation of pion photo- and electroproduction in manifestly Lorentz-invariant baryon chiral perturbation theory up to and including order q^4. We fix the low-energy constants by fitting experimental data in all available reaction channels. Our results can be accessed via a web interface, the so-called chiral MAID.
description: 4 pages with 3 figures. Contribution to the 13th International Conference on Meson-Nucleon Physics and the Structure of the Nucleon (MENU 2013), Rome, Sep 30 - Oct 4, 2013
Random local attraction driven metal-superconductor transitions
Creators: name: Kamar, Naushad Ahmad
name: Vidhyadhiraja, N. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we investigate the disordered attractive Hubbard model by combining dynamical mean field theory, coherent potential approximation and iterated perturbation theory for superconductivity as an impurity solver. Disorder is introduced in the local attraction $U$. We assume that $U$ is distributed according to a bimodal probability distribution, wherein an $x$ fraction of sites are pairing centers ($U\neq0$) and $(1-x)$ fraction of sites are non-interacting ($U=0$). It is found that beyond a critical $x=x_c$, a first order metal-superconductor phase transition leads to superconductivity being induced in the interacting as well as non-interacting.
description: 5 pages, 12 figures
Supplementary information from A self-purifying microfluidic system for identifying drugs acting against adult schistosomes
Creators: name: Girod, Vincent
name: Houssier, Robin
name: Sahmer, Karin
name: Ghoris, Marie-José
name: Caby, Stéphanie
name: Melnyk, Oleg
name: Dissous, Colette
name: Senez, Vincent
name: Vicogne, Jérôme
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Health Care
subject: Diseases
subject: 111706 Epidemiology
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 91306 Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS)
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering

description: Supplementary figure S1 to S8 with legends, Supplementary tables S1 to S3, Supplementary Data S1 (details of IC50, IC90 and IC95 calculation tables).
On the next-to-leading holographic entanglement entropy in $AdS_{3}/CFT_{2}$
Creators: name: Beccaria, Matteo
name: Macorini, Guido
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We reconsider the one-loop correction to the holographic entanglement entropy in $AdS_{3}/CFT_{2}$ by analysing the contributions due to a bulk higher spin $s$ current or a scalar field with scaling dimension $Δ$. We consider the two-interval case and work perturbatively in their small cross ratio $x$. We provide various results for the entanglement entropy due to the so-called CDW elements of the associated Schottky uniformization group. In particular, in the higher spin current case, we obtain a closed formula for all the contributions of the form $\mathcal O(x^{2s+p})$ up to $\mathcal O(x^{4s})$, where 2-CDW elements are relevant. In the scalar field case, we calculate the similar contributions for generic values of $Δ$. The terms up to $\mathcal O(x^{2Δ+5})$ are compared with an explicit CFT calculation with full agreement. The analysis exploits various simplifications which are valid in the strict entanglement limit of the Rényi entropy. This allows to identify in a clean way the relevant operators that provide the gravity result. The 2-CDW contributions are also analysed and a closed formula for the leading $\mathcal O(x^{4s})$ coefficient is presented as a function of the generic spin $s$. As a specific application, we combine the CDW and 2-CDW calculations and present the complete $\mathcal O(x^{4s+2})$ entanglement entropy for a spin $s=2,3,4$ higher spin current.
description: 24 pages
Epistemic gratitude — Experiment 6
Creators: name: Boyer, Pascal
name: Karabegovic, Mia
name: Guley, Olha
name: Mercier, Hugo
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: In this experiment, we investigate: 1) Whether participants are more likely to strategically divulge information without asking for immediate reciprocity. 2) Whether people will predict that others will be more likely to disclose information without waiting for confirmation under time pressure conditions compared to a control condition, in order to be first and elicit more gratitude.
The Discrete Logarithm problem in the ElGamal cryptosystem over the abelian group U(n) Where n= p^m,or 2p^m
Creators: name: Hashim, Hayder Raheem
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This study is mainly about the discrete logarithm problem in the ElGamal cryptosystem over the abelian group U(n) where n is one of the following forms p^m, or 2p^m where p is an odd large prime and m is a positive integer. It is another good way to deal with the ElGamal Cryptosystem using that abelian group U(n)={x: x is a positive integer such that x
description: This paper has 6 pages with one figure and three tables. Also, it has been Published with "International Journal of Mathematics Trends and Technology (IJMTT)"Published by Seventh Sense Research Group
Nucleation of a new phase on a surface that is changing irreversibly with time
Creators: name: Sear, Richard P.
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: Nucleation of a new phase almost always starts at a surface. This surface is almost always assumed not to change with time. However, surfaces can roughen, partially dissolve and change chemically with time. Each of these irreversible changes will change the nucleation rate at the surface, resulting in a time-dependent nucleation rate. Here we use a simple model to show that partial surface dissolution can qualitatively change the nucleation process, in a way that is testable in experiment. The changing surface means that the nucleation rate is increasing with time. There is an initial period during which no nucleation occurs, followed by relatively rapid nucleation.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures. Supplementary Movie 1 at http://personal.ph.surrey.ac.uk/~phs1rs/papers/supp_movie1_pre.mp4, description at http://personal.ph.surrey.ac.uk/~phs1rs/papers/supp_mat_pre14.pdf
The AllWISE Motion Survey and The Quest for Cold Subdwarfs
Creators: name: Kirkpatrick, J. Davy
name: Schneider, Adam
name: Fajardo-Acosta, Sergio
name: Gelino, Christopher R.
name: Mace, Gregory N.
name: Wright, Edward L.
name: Logsdon, Sarah E.
name: McLean, Ian S.
name: Cushing, Michael C.
name: Skrutskie, Michael F.
name: Eisenhardt, Peter R.
name: Stern, Daniel
name: Balokovic, Mislav
name: Burgasser, Adam J.
name: Faherty, Jacqueline K.
name: Lansbury, George B.
name: Rich, J. A.
name: Skrzypek, Nathalie
name: Fowler, John W.
name: Cutri, Roc M.
name: Masci, Frank J.
name: Conrow, Tim
name: Grillmair, Carl J.
name: McCallon, Howard L.
name: Beichman, Charles A.
name: Marsh, Kenneth A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The AllWISE processing pipeline has measured motions for all objects detected on WISE images taken between 2010 January and 2011 February. In this paper, we discuss new capabilities made to the software pipeline in order to make motion measurements possible, and we characterize the resulting data products for use by future researchers. Using a stringent set of selection criteria, we find 22,445 objects that have significant AllWISE motions, of which 3,525 have motions that can be independently confirmed from earlier 2MASS images yet lack any published motions in SIMBAD. Another 58 sources lack 2MASS counterparts and are presented as motion candidates only. Limited spectroscopic follow-up of this list has already revealed eight new L subdwarfs. These may provide the first hints of a "subdwarf gap" at mid-L types that would indicate the break between the stellar and substellar populations at low metallicities (i.e., old ages). Another object in the motion list -- WISEA J154045.67-510139.3 -- is a bright (J ~ 9 mag) object of type M6; both the spectrophotometric distance and a crude preliminary parallax place it ~6 pc from the Sun. We also compare our list of motion objects to the recently published list of 762 WISE motion objects from Luhman (2014). While these first large motion studies with WISE data have been very successful in revealing previously overlooked nearby dwarfs, both studies missed objects that the other found, demonstrating that many other nearby objects likely await discovery in the AllWISE data products.
description: Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal. Table 3 is a machine-readable ASCII file
Tax competition among governments and the effects on government performance
Creators: name: Lee, Sock Hwan
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: This thesis addresses two fundamental issues highlighted in the literature on competition among governments: 1) Do local governments engage in tax competition? and 2) What are the effects of competition on government performance? In a multi-level government system, we can observe two types of competition: inter-jurisdictional competition between the same level of governments and intra-jurisdictional competition between governments sharing the same tax base. To examine the presence of competition and the effects on government performance, we estimate several equations using data on New Jersey local governments. New Jersey is an optimal location to examine both types of competition simultaneously given its diversity in political institutions, its highly fragmented local governmental structure, and the property tax base sharing between municipalities, school districts, and counties. This study contributes to the literature on government competition by examining the presence of both types of competition within a comprehensive framework and the effect of competition in terms of government efficiency. To investigate the presence of both inter- and intra-jurisdictional competition, we estimate property tax rate models which relate municipal tax rates to those of competing jurisdictions, school districts, and counties, using spatial econometric techniques. The spatial regression results provide strong evidence for the existence of both types of competition, showing that municipalities react negatively to the changes in county tax rates and positively to the changes in tax rates of school districts and competing municipalities.We also examine the effects of competition among governments on government performance. More specifically, we estimate the effect of competition on the combined tax rates of municipalities and school districts, on property values, and on DEA technical efficiency scores. We find that inter-jurisdictional competition leads to lower tax rates and enhances both allocative and technical efficiency. This confirms the beneficial effect espoused by Tiebout, the Leviathan hypothesis, and yardstick competition, but not the harmful effect of the tax competition theory. We also find that school district consolidation reduces tax rates but does not have any significant effect on allocative and technical efficiency. In addition, we find that school budget referendums lower tax rates and lead to allocative efficiency.
The role of structure and entropy in determining differences in dynamics for glass formers with different interaction potentials
Creators: name: Banerjee, Atreyee
name: Sengupta, Shiladitya
name: Sastry, Srikanth
name: Bhattacharyya, Sarika Maitra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a study of two model liquids with different interaction potentials, exhibiting similar structure but significantly different dynamics at low temperatures. By evaluating the configurational entropy, we show that the differences in the dynamics of these systems can be understood in terms of their thermodynamic differences. Analyzing their structure, we demonstrate that differences in pair correlation functions between the two systems, through their contribution to the entropy, dominate the differences in their dynamics, and indeed overestimate the differences. Including the contribution of higher order structural correlations to the entropy leads to smaller estimates for the relaxation times, as well as smaller differences between the two studied systems.
Upstream open loop control of the recirculation area downstream of a backward-facing step
Creators: name: Gautier, Nicolas
name: Aider, Jean-Luc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The flow downstream a backward-facing step is controlled using a pulsed jet placed upstream of the step edge. Experimental velocity fields are computed and used to the recirculation area quantify. The effects of jet amplitude, frequency and duty cycle on this recirculation area are investigated for two Reynolds numbers (Re=2070 and Re=2900). The results of this experimental study demonstrate that upstream actuation can be as efficient as actuation at the step edge when exciting the shear layer at its natural frequency. Moreover it is shown that it is possible to minimize both jet amplitude and duty cycle and still achieve optimal efficiency. With minimal amplitude and a duty-cycle as low as 10\% the recirculation area is nearly canceled.
Action-angle map and duality for the open Toda lattice in the perspective of Hamiltonian reduction
Creators: name: Feher, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: An alternative derivation of the known action-angle map of the standard open Toda lattice is presented based on its identification as the natural map between two gauge slices in the relevant symplectic reduction of the cotangent bundle of $GL(n,{\mathbb R})$. This then permits to interpret Ruijsenaars' action-angle duality for the Toda system in the same group-theoretic framework which was established previously for Calogero type systems.
description: 11 pages
The relationship between organizational structure and procedural fairness perceptions
Creators: name: Williams, Charlie M.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: This study examines the effects of organizational structure on perceptions of procedural fairness; replicating and extending the findings of Schminke, Ambrose, and Cropanzano (2000). This analysis uses their dimensions of organizational structure: centralization (participation in decision making and hierarchy of authority), size, and formalization to assess whether the placement of the Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) compliance function influences employees’ perceptions of fairness. I predict that organizational placement will influence employee perceptions of procedural fairness. The following questions were explored in this study: 1) Does the EEO reporting structure within organizations affect employees’ perceptions of procedural fairness? 2) Does organizational structure influence employees’ perceptions of procedural fairness? 3) Does the EEO reporting structure within organizations affect the procedural fairness perceptions of EEO personnel? 4) Does organizational structure influence the procedural fairness perceptions of EEO personnel? Employees in New Jersey governmental departments, agencies, and state entities were surveyed to provide the data for this analysis. Seventeen (17) State of New Jersey departments and agencies were identified for participation in this study. Of the 17 organizations that were contacted, 5 were unable to participate, 12 expressed an interest/willingness to participate, and 7 organizations actually completed surveys for a participation rate of 41%. The total number of completed surveys from EEO employees and employees within their respective organizations was 108. There were 25 respondents who were employed by their organization’s EEO unit or office, and 83 respondents were not employed in their organization’s EEO unit or office.Utilizing a one-factor model, Likert-type items were used to examine employee perceptions of procedural fairness. Based on consistent correlations between procedural justice and distributive justice in the organizational justice research, the use of procedural fairness was the sole justice measure. I used Colquitt’s (2001) and Tyler and Schuller’s (1990) procedural justice measures for two respondent groups 1) EEO employees, and 2) organization employees. I hypothesize that the closer or more direct the EEO compliance function is positioned to the organization’s CEO the more positive the employees’ perceptions of fairness. The data indicate that both the EEO personnel and organization employees perceive higher levels of procedural fairness when the EEO office is placed higher in the hierarchy. Further, the results indicate that organizational structure reflected by the dimensions of centralization, size, and formalization influences fairness perceptions for EEO personnel and organization employees.
A study of institutional, contextual and socioeconomic factors affecting county e-government
Creators: name: Manoharan, Aroon P.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Governments at all levels in the United States are rapidly transforming to Internet to provide public services and public administrators are increasingly implementing various strategies to enable this transformation. Scholars and academicians have researched the growth of this phenomenon in recent decades, including the factors associated with the adoption of e-government at the state and municipals levels. E-Government literature however provides little information related specifically to counties' adoption of e-government in the United States. Research on county e-government has tended to focus primarily on socioeconomic factors. Although some researchers have studied the effect of institutional and contextual factors on county e-government in particular states, none have studied their influence on counties across the United States.Based on a survey of county administrators who are primarily responsible for e-government services, this research attempts to capture the role played by institutional, contextual and socioeconomic factors on e-government adoption at the county level all over the United States. The institutional variables consist of size and structure of the county government, budget resources, technical capacity, stakeholder support, contracting and presence of an IT champion. The contextual variables consist of the measure of the county's professional networking, external collaboration, regional pressure and business demand in the county. Additionally, certain socio-economic variables are considered, such as population, education and income level of the county residents. These factors are tested based on an evaluation of county websites using a conceptual framework consisting of three e-government dimensions: e-information, e-transaction and e-participation. These dimensions are operationalized based on the Rutgers E-Governance Index and validated by an expert review process. Literature also suggests an evolutionary approach to e-government growth - in terms of stages ranging from webpage development to full service integration and the involvement of all sections of society. Accordingly, the research also tests the stages of development of e-government among counties by assessing their status in each dimension and determining if the proposed dimensions follow a staged pattern.
Towards Quantitative Wall Shear Stress Measurements: Considering the Flow Behavior of Liquid Crystals
Creators: name: Melekidis, Stefanos
name: Ebert, Marcus
name: Schmid, Jonas
name: Bauer, Hans-Jörg
Publisher: name: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Year: 2022
Subjects: liquid crystals
wall shear stress
flow behavior
thixotropy
temperature dependence
calibration
experimental data
consumer camera

description: Liquid crystal diagnostics is a capable tool for determining quantitative wall shear stress distributions with high spatial resolution, which may be applied to almost any surface shape. To determine a wall shear stress vector field, the state-of-the-art calibration procedure requires taking multiple images of the liquid crystal-coated surface from different points of view. In the literature, it is reported that this data acquisition is usually performed using multiple, up to six, commercially available consumer cameras to synchronously record the liquid crystal signal. However, the need for multiple recording devices makes measurement diagnostics unsuitable even for laboratory measurements, as often only one (identical) camera is available. Using a single camera results in a different wall shear stress vector field due to the time-dependent liquid crystal signal, which results from the time offset between the individual exposures compared to the synchronous exposures under otherwise identical boundary conditions. This time dependence follows from the thixotropic behavior of the liquid crystals. On top of that, two other effects, one of which is not described in the literature, affect the liquid crystal color signal. In order to record physical and reliable data even with a single camera, it is essential to record images only when the liquid crystal signal is quasi-stationary. The main objective of this paper is to provide recommendations for the acquisition of liquid crystal data using a single camera. For this purpose, in a first step, a start time is defined from which quasi-stationary liquid crystal data can be experimentally acquired within a certain time interval. A flat plate wind tunnel is used for this purpose. The specified time constraints are valid for measurements, in which liquid crystal mixtures, with a viscosity ≤ 750...1 250 mPa s are used, e. g. BCN/192 from LCRHallcrest Ltd., at a maximum wall shear stress of ≤ 34 Pa. Using the derived time constraints, the error with respect to the wall shear stress magnitude and its direction can be reduced. The concluding discussion serves as a guide for reliable liquid crystal data acquisition to make the measurement technique applicable in practice even with a single camera.
Electrical switch to the resonant magneto-phonon effect in graphene
Creators: name: Leszczynski, P.
name: Han, Z.
name: Nicolet, A. A. L.
name: Piot, B. A.
name: Kossacki, P.
name: Orlita, M.
name: Bouchiat, V.
name: Basko, D. M.
name: Potemski, M.
name: Faugeras, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a comprehensive study of the tuning with electric fields of the resonant magneto-exciton optical phonon coupling in gated graphene. For magnetic fields around $B \sim 25$ T which correspond to the range of the fundamental magneto-phonon resonance, the electron-phonon coupling can be switched on and off by tuning the position of the Fermi level in order to Pauli block the two fundamental inter Landau level excitations. The effects of such a profound change in the electronic excitation spectrum are traced through investigations of the optical phonon response in polarization resolved magneto-Raman scattering experiments. We report on the observation of a splitting of the phonon feature with satellite peaks developing, at particular values of the Landau level filling factor, on the low or on the high energy side of the phonon, depending on the relative energy of the discrete electronic excitation and of the optical phonon. Shifts of the phonon energy as large as $\pm60$ cm$^{-1}$ are observed close to the resonance. The intraband electronic excitation, the cyclotron resonance, is shown to play a relevant role in the observed spectral evolution of the phonon response.
description: 5 Figures
Possibility of $Σ_{c}(2800)$ and $Λ_{c}(2940)^{+}$ as $S$-wave $D^{(*)}N$ molecular states
Creators: name: Zhang, Jian-Rong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this talk, we give a brief review of our work studying the possibility of $Σ_{c}(2800)$ and $Λ_{c}(2940)^{+}$ as $S$-wave $D^{(*)}N$ molecular states from QCD sum rules.
description: talk given at the workshop on Hadron Nuclear Physics held from July 18 to 22, 2013 at Zhangjiajie, China
Ramsey-comb spectroscopy with intense ultrashort laser pulses
Creators: name: Morgenweg, Jonas
name: Barmes, Itan
name: Eikema, Kjeld S. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Optical frequency combs based on mode-locked lasers have revolutionised the field of metrology and precision spectroscopy by providing precisely calibrated optical frequencies and coherent pulse trains. Amplification of the pulsed output from these lasers is very desirable, as nonlinear processes can then be employed to cover a much wider range of transitions and wavelengths for ultra-high precision, direct frequency comb spectroscopy. Therefore full repetition rate laser amplifiers and enhancement resonators have been employed to produce up to microjoule-level pulse energies. Here we show that the full frequency comb accuracy and resolution can be obtained by using only two frequency comb pulses amplified to the millijoule pulse energy level, orders of magnitude more energetic than what has previously been possible. The novel properties of this approach, such as cancellation of optical light-shift effects, is demonstrated on weak two-photon transitions in atomic rubidium and caesium, thereby improving the frequency accuracy up to thirty times.
description: 16 pages (including supporting material), 6 figures and 2 tables
Reality Check Insights: State of America II
Creators: name: Reality Check Insights
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2020

description: President Donald Trump job approval (1); Trump vs. Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden (1); friends/family know who you're voting for (2); public education (2); defund/reduce police departments (2); non-violent protesters (1); favorability of Black Lives Matter movement (1); police officers (2); Black Lives Matter vs. All Lives Matter (1); National Basketball Association (1); cause of wildfires in western United States (1); Biden vs. Trump characteristics (2); blame for United States coronavirus (COVID-19) death toll (1); concern about coronavirus infection (1); registered to vote (1); voted in 2016 presidential election (1); voter likelihood (1).
Biotype modeling
Creators: name: Ishanu Chattopadhyay
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: DSM
Biotype

description: The B-SNIP consortium has identified and validated biological subgroups of psychosis (‘Biotypes’) based on an extensive battery of neurocognitive and psychophysiological measures that might facilitate specific treatment targets. These are curated models and post-process software using an adaptive algorithm that uses a set of routine clinical measures collected from the PANSS, MADRS, Birchwood Scale, and YMRS to estimate an individual’s Biotype with a degree of accuracy suitable for clinical adoption.
Flux-induced Soft Terms on Type IIB/F-theory Matter Curves and Hypercharge Dependent Scalar Masses
Creators: name: Camara, Pablo G.
name: Ibanez, Luis E.
name: Valenzuela, Irene
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Closed string fluxes induce generically SUSY-breaking soft terms on supersymmetric type IIB orientifold compactifications with D3/D7 branes. This was studied in the past by inserting those fluxes on the DBI+CS actions for adjoint D3/D7 fields, where D7-branes had no magnetic fluxes. In the present work we generalise those computations to the phenomenologically more relevant case of chiral bi-fundamental fields laying at 7-brane intersections and F-theory local matter curves. We also include the effect of 7-brane magnetic flux as well as more general closed string backgrounds, including the effect of distant (anti-)D3-branes. We discuss several applications of our results. We find that squark/slepton masses become in general flux-dependent in F-theory GUT's. Hypercharge-dependent non-universal scalar masses with a characteristic sfermion hierarchy m_E^2 < m_L^2 < m_Q^2 < m_D^2 < m_U^2 are obtained. There are also flavor-violating soft terms both for matter fields living at intersecting 7-branes or on D3-branes at singularities. They point at a very heavy sfermion spectrum to avoid FCNC constraints. We also discuss the possible microscopic description of the fine-tuning of the EW Higgs boson in compactifications with a MSSM spectrum.
description: 67 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables
The Giza "written" landscape and the double project of King Khufu
Creators: name: Magli, Giulio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In recent years, different scientific disciplines, from Physics to Egyptology, from Geology to Archaeoastronomy, evidenced a series of clues pointing to the possibility that the original project of the pyramid complex of Khufu at Giza included also the project of the second pyramid complex at the same site, that of Khafra. The aim of the present paper is to discuss this issue in a systematic fashion and to explore its consequences on the way the ancient Egyptians conceived and built monuments and entire landscapes during the Old Kingdom.
description: Archaeoastronomy/History of Astronomy
title: Systemic Analysis of the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) In Regulating Terrorist Content on Social Media Ecosystem Using Functional Dependency Network Analysis (FDNA)
Creators: name: Roman, Alaina
name: Pinto, C. Ariel
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: This research is a systemic analysis of emerging risks to the use Artificial Intelligence (AI) in regulating terrorist content on social media ecosystems using Functional Dependency Network Analysis (FDNA), a proven system-design-and-analysis tool). The research has three phases: 1) framing the problem by identifying and describing AI ecosystem elements as intended, implied and explicit objectives, discernible attributes, and performance indictors; 2) describing the idealized problem-solved scenario, which includes detailing ‘success’ states of the ecosystem; and 3) systemic risk analysis including identifying failure scenarios for each element and establishing causalities among elemental attributes leading to failure scenarios. This research contributes toward a sustainable and more robust solution to the issue of regulating one particular form of malicious content on social media platforms (i.e., terrorist content) based not on one perspective but on the entire ‘ecosystem’ using FDNA.