cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Education for sexual morality : moral reform and the regulation of American sexual behaviour in the nineteenth century
Creators: name: Vertinsky, Patricia Anne
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The introduction of sex education into the schools in the early years of the twentieth century represented a curious culmination of the hopes and aspirations of nineteenth century moral reformers. Though, for almost a century, they had repeatedly warned that ignorance and silence would not facilitate sexual purity, they had succeeded in developing measures for the dissemination of sexual knowledge which were, in many cases, as stringently circumscribed in content as had been the policy of silence. Under the assumption that the sex education movement can be better understood by giving more attention to the 'old regime', this study surveys the continuing endeavors of nineteenth century moral reformers to preserve a traditional morality in the face of rapidly changing social conditions. The investigation shows that sexual immorality emerged as a social problem after the 1830's in response to changing perceptions of deviant behavior. Changing attitudes toward sexual deviancy were fostered by a perceived increase in prostitution and by a group of moral physiologists who asserted that sexual misbehavior was widespread and harmful to society. According to the moral physiology viewpoint, sexual hygiene was sexual morality, and education for one would result in education for the other. This view became popular and was disseminated by diverse groups of moral reformers, child nurture experts and women's rights advocates through a number of reform activities which are explored in this study. Their efforts, which generally included conditioning techniques and sex instruction, were almost always directed at the family. Only when reformers agreed that parents had shown themselves inadequate to perform their duties of sex education did they attempt to extend their arena of operations to the school. The sex education movement, therefore, represented an exchange of the home for the school as the principal agency of sexual instruction. Despite the change of educational vehicle, the assumptions underlying the objectives of the movement reflected long seasoned and conservative sexual attitudes.
title: Structural Geology of the Northern Part of Elkhorn Mountain, Bannock Range, Idaho
Creators: name: Crook, Stephen R.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1985

description: Northern Elkhorn Mountain was unmapped previous to this investigation. The mapped area is located north of Malad City, Idaho, in the Bannock Range. It is within the Basin and Range Province. The mapped area measures 5.4 mi. in the north-south direction and 8.9 mi. in the east-west direction.
The oldest exposed stratigraphic unit, within the mapped area, consists of orthoquartzite and is of Early Cambrian age. Cambrian formations of the mapped area, in ascending order, are as follows: Camelback Mountain Quartzite, Gibson Jack Formation, Elkhead Formation, Bloomington Formation, Nounan Formation, and St. Charles Formation. Units of Ordovician age are the Garden City and Swan Peak Formations. The youngest unit of Paleozoic age, found within the mapped area, is the Fish Haven-Laketown Formation of Ordovician-­Silurian age. Rock types comprising the Paleozoic units are orthoquartzite, limestone, dolostone, and shale. Tertiary units present, within the area, are the Salt Lake Formation and volcanic rocks with the composition of andesite. These units occur only in isolated parts of the mapped area. Colluvial and alluvial deposits of Quaternary age are present in the valley west of Elkhorn Mountain and in the southeastern and northeastern parts of the mapped area.
Numerous high-angle normal faults dominate the structure of the area. They trend generally north and northwest. A major high-angle normal fault extends along the western side of Elkhorn Mountain and is responsible for the present topographic relief. Several small asymmetrical anticlines and a low-angle thrust fault are also present.
The structural features, within the area, resulted from two major periods of crustal deformation. The first event was the Laramide orogeny. Compressional forces, generated during this event, produced the anticlines and the thrust fault. Movement was eastward. The second event was Basin and Range faulting. It produced the high­-angle normal faults. Basin and Range faultinq has been active from Oligocene to Holocene. The marginal normal fault, west of Elkhorn· Mountain, is probably active at the present time.
Participation by nurses in independent and dependent continuing learning activities
Creators: name: Clark, Kathleen M.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The purposes of this study were to describe and analyze the participation of nurses in continuing learning activities, their reasons for engaging in continuous learning, their attitudes toward continuing nursing education, and their socio-economic characteristics. The study was designed to investigate not only nurses' involvement in conventional forms of planned systematic educational programs such as courses, workshops, and conferences (dependent learning activities), but also their active participation in individual, self-directed learning situations such as reading, and learning packages (independent learning activities). A questionnaire was administered in group sessions and by mail to 220 randomly selected female registered nurses who were employed full or part-time by five general hospitals in the Greater Vancouver area of the province of British Columbia. The hospitals were of medium size (300 - 700 beds) and each had a director or coordinator of inservice education. Each of the respondents participated in at least one of the continuing learning activities accessible to nurses during the year, September 1, 1972 to September 30, 1973, but on the average, the group participation rate was less than half the total possible score. Nonetheless, it was established that the respondents engaged in significantly more independent than dependent learning activities. A factor analysis of S.B. Sheffield's Learning Orientation Index determined that this particular group of nurses did possess the three basic learning orientations described by C. O. Houle but that their reasons for participating in continuous learning could be more precisely defined as being learning, occupational, professional, societal, sociability, interactive, and relief from boredom and frustration-oriented. In addition, the respondents were found to have a favourable attitude to continuing nursing education which related significantly to their participation scores. Other factors related to the nurses' participation in continuing learning activities included the psychological variables - Learning, Sociability, Professional, and Interactive Orientation, as well as the following socio-economic characteristics: number of preschool children, university educational experience, position, employment status, and length of current employment. As a result of multiple regression analyses, three of the learning orientations and the attitude of nurses toward continuing nursing education were found to be better predictors of the respondents participation scores than were certain socio-economic factors. The favourability of nurses' attitudes toward continuing nursing education emerged as the most efficient single predictor.
Relativistic Mean-Field Theory Equation of State of Neutron Star Matter and a Maxwellian Phase Transition to Strange Quark Matter
Creators: name: Alaverdyan, G. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The equation of state of neutron star matter is examined in terms of the relativistic mean-field theory, including a scalar-isovector $δ$-meson effective field. The constants of the theory are determined numerically so that the empirically known characteristics of symmetric nuclear matter are reproduced at the saturation density. The thermodynamic characteristics of both asymmetric nucleonic matter and $β$-equilibrium hadron-electron $npe$-plasmas are studied. Assuming that the transition to strange quark matter is an ordinary first-order phase transition described by Maxwell's rule, a detailed study is made of the variations in the parameters of the phase transition owing to the presence of a $δ$-meson field. The quark phase is described using an improved version of the bag model, in which interactions between quarks are accounted for in a one-gluon exchange approximation. The characteristics of the phase transition are determined for various values of the bag parameter within the range $B\in[60,120]$ $MeV/fm^{3}$ and it is shown that including a $δ$-meson field leads to a reduction in the phase transition pressure $P_{0}$ and in the concentrations $n_{N}$ and $n_{Q}$ at the phase transition point.
description: 17 pages, 8 figures
Impotent Masculinities in Frank Wedekind’s «Erdgeist»
Creators: name: Libbon, Stephanie E.
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2013

description: For most of recorded history, the study of impotence fell under the purview of healers. This changed in the late nineteenth century, however, as the works of avant garde artists like the German dramatist and social critic Frank Wedekind ushered analyses of this malady into public discourse. In looking first at conditions in Europe during Wedekind’s time and then tracing the history of impotence from the Ancient Chinese up to Wedekind’s day, this article investigates how Wedekind’s representations of impotence emblematized not only his own personal afflictions but a greater cultural malaise.
description: Studia theodisca, Vol 20 (2013)
Antibiotic Resistance of Bacterial Soil Isolates and Biofilm Production
Creators: name: Mathews, Stephanie
name: Graham, Danielle
Publisher: name: QUBES Educational Resources
Year: 2023

description: In this lesson, learners will hear about research that focuses on bacterial antibiotic resistance and biofilm production. Students will see how antibiotic resistance is measured and interpret a graph measuring biofilm production of these bacterial soil isolates. Then, learners view and reflect on an interview with microbiology researcher Dr. Danielle Graham, who collected the data that they interpreted.
Practice of Antibiotic Prophylaxis in Abdominal Hysterectomy at King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital
Creators: name: Prawai, Gunta
Publisher: name: PIMDEE Co., Ltd.
Year: 2023
Subjects: antibiotic prophylaxis
hysterectomy
practice

description: Thai Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 31, 3, 208-214
Easy, Scalable Subsetting of GEDI Point Clouds
Creators: name: Daniels, Charles
name: Mandel, Alex
name: French, Jamison
name: Barciauskas, Aimee
name: Freitag, Brian
Publisher: name: NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: GEDI
Software
Data Science
Earth Science
NASA
Open Science
Data Exploration
Subsetter
AGU 2023
Python
Biomass
NASA CMR

description: Presentation Abstract

The GEDI Subsetter, a Python tool developed for NASA’s Multi-mission Algorithm and Analysis Platform (MAAP), optimizes the accessibility and visualization of GEDI point clouds by enabling users to efficiently subset data in a convenient, scalable manner.

Complex science data often requires users to learn new software skills and handle many large files. Handling and cleaning large datasets is tedious and error-prone, and can significantly impede analysis. Thus, one of the MAAP's goals is to provide a platform that lowers the barrier to conducting research and analysis at scale.

When a group of MAAP users wanted to conduct above-ground biomass estimation using GEDI data, we found that their existing workflow for leveraging GEDI data suffered from the impediments mentioned above. Furthermore, their workflow did not scale easily beyond a small number of granules. In search of existing tools that could help, what we found for GEDI data retrieval and subsetting were too limiting, so the GEDI Subsetter was written to support MAAP users’ needs. Being able to run many subsetting jobs simultaneously in the MAAP, and parallelizing the code itself, has led to significant speed improvements in obtaining relevant data, reducing subsetting time from hours to minutes.

MAAP users can now more quickly and easily obtain only the data relevant to their research, by choosing which GEDI collection they want to work with (L1B, L2A, L2B, or L4A), and how they want to subset it, by specifying an area of interest, a temporal range, and relevant attributes. This has significantly reduced the feedback loop for users, allowing them to much more quickly subset GEDI data and begin their analysis.

Although the GEDI Subsetter originally targeted users of the MAAP, it is generalized such that it can also be used outside of the MAAP, and includes a command-line interface for convenience. Because the GEDI Subsetter leverages the NASA CMR API, with some modifications, it may be used for any NASA Earth Science dataset.
title: Understanding the Biology of Clover Root Curculio and Improving Their Management Using Biofumigation in Alfalfa
Creators: name: Price, Steven J.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2017

description: Clover root curculio (CRC) is a pest of alfalfa where larvae feed belowground damaging alfalfa roots. Regional knowledge of CRC activity and biology is limited making the development of pest management strategies difficult. One potential management technique for soil-dwelling pests is the use of biofumigant containing cover crops. Biofumigation can affect the survival and behavior of pest insects. However, biofumigant crops have not been evaluated against CRC or as a rotational crop compatible with alfalfa. The goals of this research were to determine 1) phenology, population sizes, and root damage severity of CRC occurring in the Intermountain region and 2) the direct and indirect suppressive effects of biofumigant cover crop incorporations on CRC and its agronomic compatibility in rotation with alfalfa. First, I observed that larval activity occurred from mid-spring to mid-summer and local larval densities were generally lower than those reported in the eastern U.S. Adult CRC began emerging from the soil in mid-summer having two population peaks. After the second fall peak of adults was when most eggs were deposited which continued through early winter. CRC damage to taproots was cumulative, increasing as stands age, with most damage occurring in the first few years of stand life and mostly occurring in the top 20 cm of roots. While the incorporation of biofumigant crops appeared to be compatible with alfalfa and did not negatively affect yield, in field trials, biofumigation did not suppress CRC, disrupt egg laying, or decrease feeding damage. In one greenhouse trial, biofumigants significantly suppressed adult feeding rates more than non-biofumigant plants but the effect was not consistent. Biofumigant incorporation timing, for field trials in particular, may have contributed to the lack of CRC suppression. Overall, my research provides a better understanding of CRC phenology and activity in northern Utah and will assist in improving the timing of management approaches in alfalfa.
Taxonomy of Virtual and Augmented Reality Applications in Education
Creators: name: Motejlek, Jiri
name: Alpay, Esat
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents and analyses existing taxonomies of virtual and augmented reality and demonstrates knowledge gaps and mixed terminology which may cause confusion among educators, researchers, and developers. Several such occasions of confusion are presented. A methodology is then presented to construct a taxonomy of virtual reality and augmented reality applications based on a combination of: a faceted analysis approach for the overall design of the taxonomy; an existing taxonomy of educational objectives to derive the educational purpose; an information systems analysis to establish important facets of the taxonomy; and two systematic mapping studies to identify categories within each facet. Based onUsing thisthe methodology a new taxonomy is proposed and the implications of its facets (and their combinations of facets)are demonstrated. The taxonomy focuses on technology used to provide the virtual or augmented reality as well as the content presented to the user, including the type of gamification and how it is operated. It also takes into accountaccommodates a large number of devices and approaches developed throughout the years and for multiple industries, and proposes and developsprovides a way to categorize them in order to clarify communication between researchers, developers and as well as educators. Use of the taxonomy and implications of choices made during their development is then demonstrated ion two case studies:, a virtual reality chemical plant for use in chemical engineering education and an augmented reality dog for veterinary education.
Role of Magnon-Magnon Scattering in Magnon Polaron Spin Seebeck Effect
Creators: name: Shi, Zhong
name: Xi, Qing
name: Li, Junxue
name: Li, Yufei
name: Aldosary, Mohammed
name: Xu, Yadong
name: Zhou, Jun
name: Zhou, Shi-Ming
name: Shi, Jing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The spin Seebeck effect (SSE) signal of magnon polarons in bulk-Y3Fe5O12 (YIG)/Pt heterostructures is found to drastically change as a function of temperature. It appears as a dip in the total SSE signal at low temperatures, but as the temperature increases, the dip gradually decreases before turning to a peak. We attribute the observed dip-to-peak transition to the rapid rise of the four-magnon scattering rate. Our analysis provides important insights into the microscopic origin of the hybridized excitations and the overall temperature dependence of the SSE anomalies.
Umbilical Endometriosis in the Absence of Previous Surgery: A case report
Creators: name: Omar, Ahmad Akram
Publisher: name: PIMDEE Co., Ltd.
Year: 2023
Subjects: endometriosis;umbilical endometriosis;cyclical pain;surgical excision

description: Thai Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 31, 3, 215-219
Spectrum of Perturbations in Anisotropic Inflationary Universe with Vector Hair
Creators: name: Himmetoglu, Burak
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study both the background evolution and cosmological perturbations of anisotropic inflationary models supported by coupled scalar and vector fields. The models we study preserve the U(1) gauge symmetry associated with the vector field, and therefore do not possess instabilities associated with longitudinal modes (which instead plague some recently proposed models of vector inflation and curvaton). We first intoduce a model in which the background anisotropy slowly decreases during inflation; we then confirm the stability of the background solution by studying the quadratic action for all the perturbations of the model. We then compute the spectrum of the $h_{\times}$ gravitational wave polarization. The spectrum we find breaks statistical isotropy at the largest scales and reduces to the standard nearly scale invariant form at small scales. We finally discuss the possible relevance of our results to the large scale CMB anomalies.
description: 25 pages, 8 figures, typos corrected
FAST Drift Scan Survey for HI Intensity Mapping. II. Stacking-based Beam Construction of the 19-feed Array at $1.4$ GHz
Creators: name: Zhao, Xinyang
name: Li, Yichao
name: Yang, Wenxiu
name: Deng, Furen
name: Wang, Yougang
name: Wu, Fengquan
name: Wang, Xin
name: Sun, Xiaohui
name: Zhang, Xin
name: Chen, Xuelei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Neutral hydrogen (HI) intensity mapping (IM) presents great promise for future cosmological large-scale structure surveys. However, a major challenge for HIIM cosmological studies is to accurately subtract the foreground contamination. An accurate beam model is crucial for improving the quality of foreground subtraction. In this work, we develop a stacking-based beam reconstruction method utilizing the radio continuum point sources within the drift-scan field. Based on the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), we employ two sets of drift-scan survey data and merge the measurements to construct the beam patterns of the 19 FAST L-band feeds. To model the beams, we utilize the Zernike polynomial (ZP), which effectively captures asymmetric features of the main beam and the different side lobes. Due to the symmetric location of the beams, the main features of the beams are closely related to the distance from the center of the feed array, e.g., as the distance increases, side lobes become more pronounced. This modeling pipeline leverages the stable drift-scan data to extract beam patterns while accounting for and excluding the reflector's changing effects. It provides a more accurate measurement beam and a more precise model beam for FAST HIIM cosmology surveys.
description: 16 pages, 12 figures, Accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal
title: Petrology of the Late Proterozoic(?)-Early Cambrian Arumbera Sandstone, Western MacDonnell Ranges, North-Central Amadeus Basin, Central Australia
Creators: name: Hamp, Lonn P.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1985

description: The Arumbera Sandstone consists of mappable informal units which are repeated in a vertical, cyclic succession. Sandstones of fluvial origin form resistant strike ridges separated by strike valleys, which consist of recessive sandstones and mudrocks of marine origin.
Lithofacies 1a, 2b, and 3a are probably of marine origin in intertidal environments. Trace fossil assemblages in lithofacies 3a suggest Skolithos and Cruziana inchnofacies were present. Lithofacies 1e, 2a, 2c, 3b, and 4a are probably of fluvial origin, as the result of coalescing braided stream deposits. The Arumbera Sandstone probably was deposited in a deltaic environment characterized by low wave energy, a micro tidal range, and high input of sand-sized sediment br braided streams.
In the western MacDonnell Ranges, the Arumbera overlies the Julie or Pertatataka formations along a sharp but conformable contact. The present upper contact is a low-angle regional unconformity which contains paleotopographic elements that resemble pediments, stripped structural plains, and steep erosional scarps. These paleotopographic surfaces are overlain from east to west by the Chandler, hugh River, and Cleland formations in an onlap relationship.
The Arumbera Sandstone is considered part of a molasse sequence associated with the Late Proterozoic and Early Cambrian Petermann Ranges orogeny, which occurred along the present southern and southwestern margin of the Amadeus Basin. The uplifted Petermann Ranges shed detritus from metamorphic, sedimentary, and minor amounts of plutonic rocks. Paleocurrents suggest most terrigenous material was derived from the southwestern margin of the basin. The composition of detrital grains and lack of weathering features in labile detrital grains suggest a hot, semiarid to arid climate in the source area and in the basin of deposition.
Sandstone samples examined petrographically primarily are subphyllarenites, subarkoses, arkoses, feldspathic litharenites, and lithic arkoses.
The inferred paragenetic sequence is: Eogenetic: (1) mechanical compaction, (2) "dust rims" of hematite, illite, and chlorite, and (3) hematite cement; Mesogenetic: (4) syntaxial feldspar overgrowths, (5) syntaxial quartz overgrowths, (6) hematite cement, (7) carbonate cement, (8) kaolinite replacement, (9) formation of secondary porosity; Telogenetic: (10) chert cement and (11) gibbsite or hematite cement.
On the S-stars' Zone of Avoidance in the Galactic Center
Creators: name: Generozov, Aleksey
name: Perets, Hagai B.
name: Bordoni, Matteo S.
name: Bourdarot, Guillaume
name: Drescher, Antonia
name: Eisenhauer, Frank
name: Genzel, Reinhard
name: Gillessen, Stefan
name: Mang, Felix
name: Ott, Thomas
name: Ribeiro, Diogo C.
name: Schödel, Rainer
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper investigates the origin and orbital evolution of S-stars in the Galactic Center using models of binary disruption and relaxation processes. We focus on explaining the recently discovered "zone of avoidance" in S-star orbital parameters, defined as a region where no S-stars are observed with pericenters $\log(r_p / {\rm AU}) \leq 1.57 + 2.6(1 - e)$ pc. We demonstrate that the observed S-star orbital distributions, including this zone of avoidance and their thermal eccentricity distribution, can be largely explained by continuous disruption of binaries near the central supermassive black hole, followed by orbital relaxation. Our models consider binaries originating from large scales (5--100 pc) and incorporate empirical distributions of binary properties. We simulate close encounters between binaries and the black hole, tracking the remnant stars' orbits. The initially highly eccentric orbits of disrupted binary remnants evolve due to non-resonant and resonant relaxation in the Galactic Center potential. While our results provide insights into the formation mechanism of S-stars, there are limitations, such as uncertainties in the initial binary population and mass-function and simplifications in our relaxation models. Despite these caveats, our study demonstrates the power of using S-star distributions to probe the dynamical history and environment of the central parsec of our Galaxy.
description: 12 pages, 9 figures + appendices. Submitted to A&A
title: Structural Geology of Eastern Part of Dairy Ridge Quadrangle and Western Part of Meachum Ridge Quadrangle, Utah
Creators: name: Kienast, Val A.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1985

description: A detailed geologic investigation was made of the eastern part of the Dairy Ridge Quadrangle and the western part of the Meachum Ridge Quadrangle, Utah. The area is located in north-central Utah in Rich County. It lies between lat. 41°22'30" N. and lat. 41° 28'50" N. and between long. 111° 21'40" W. and long. 111°25'15" W. The area measures 13.8 km in the north-south direction and 5.5 km in the east-west direction. It is on the eastern side of the Wasatch Range about 20 km west-southwest of Randolph, Utah.
Stratigraphic units of Precambrian to Cambrian age crop out in the western part of the area, above the Woodruff thrust fault, and dip west. These include the Precambrian Mutual Formation and the Cambrian Geertsen Canyon Quartzite. Units of Pennsylvanian to Jurassic age crop out in the eastern part of the area below the Woodruff thrust fault. They dip west and are overturned to the east. These units include the following: Pennsylvanian Weber Formation, Permian Grandeur Member of the Park City Formation, Permian Phosphoria Formation, Triassic Thaynes Limestone, Triassic Ankareh Formation, Jurassic Nugget Sandstone, and Jurassic Twin Creek Limestone. The Tertiary Wasatch Formation unconformably overlies all older units in places.
The Woodruff thrust fault is the major structural feature of the area. Quartzite of the Precambrian Mutual Formation is thrust eastward over the Pennsylvanian Weber Formation as well as over formations of Permian and Triassic ages. The Woodruff thrust fault strikes about N. 20° E. and dips 18° W. to 33° W. Stratigraphic throw is at least 5,800 m. Probable horizontal displacement is tens of kilometers. The stratigraphic units, under the thrust fault, dip west and are overturned to the east. They form the western limb of a large asymmetrical syncline. The overturned units are cut by a west-dipping high-angle thrust fault. The syncline and the thrust faults were produced by the Sevier orogeny which began in latest Jurassic or earliest Cretaceous time. Deformation may have continued into Paleocene time.
An analysis of renewable tax incentives and electricity pricing in Texas
Creators: name: Rudolph, Mary (Mary Allison)
name: 0000-0002-9819-9067
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2023
Subjects: Renewable energy
Electricity
Tax incentives

description: Texas has abundant natural resources, making it a good place for renewable energy facilities to build. Unfortunately, property taxes are the highest tax an incoming renewable energy facility have in the state (Texas Taxpayers and Research Association, 2021). To increase renewable energy in the state, Texas tax code Chapter 313 was introduced. Chapter 313 allows school districts the opportunity to offer a 10-year limit, ranging from 10 million dollars to 100 million dollars, on the taxable value of a new, green energy project (Texas Taxpayers and Research Association, 2021). With Chapter 313 ending in 2022, the question is: how tax incentives that increase the number of applications for producing renewable energy in ERCOT relates to wholesale, real-time pricing of electricity in the state? Skew-t regression models were implemented on a large dataset, focusing on the North, Houston, and West regions of the Electricity Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), since these regions account for 80% of the state's energy consumption. Analysis focused on the hours ending at 3am, 11am, and 4pm, due to ERCOT's time-of-day pricing. Energy demand is generally low at 3am, while it increases during the day, peaking around 4pm to 6pm. The regressions in this analysis are association models, meaning no causality is implied in any of the results. When tax incentives increase the number of active wind and solar facilities there is a reduction in wholesale electricity price ($/MWh), ranging between 2.31% and 6.6% across ERCOT during different hours of the day, this is statistically significant (p<0.0001). And electricity price reductions from solar are much lower than those from wind generation.
Mandela
Creators: name: Annalisa Oboe, (A Cura Di)
name: Nicoletta Vallorani, (A Cura Di)
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2013

description: Mandela
description: Altre Modernità, No 10 (2013): Trasmigrazioni e trasferimenti: vicende naturali e vicende umane nella storia delle piante
Hypotheses for Triton's Plumes: New Analyses and Future Remote Sensing Tests
Creators: name: Hofgartner, Jason D.
name: Birch, Samuel P. D.
name: Castillo, Julie
name: Grundy, Will M.
name: Hansen, Candice J.
name: Hayes, Alexander G.
name: Howett, Carly J. A.
name: Hurford, Terry A.
name: Martin, Emily S.
name: Mitchell, Karl L.
name: Nordheim, Tom A.
name: Poston, Michael J.
name: Prockter, Louise M.
name: Quick, Lynnae C.
name: Schenk, Paul
name: Schindhelm, Rebecca N.
name: Umurhan, Orkan M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: At least two active plumes were observed on Neptune's moon Triton during the Voyager 2 flyby in 1989. Models for Triton's plumes have previously been grouped into five hypotheses, two of which are primarily atmospheric phenomena and are generally considered unlikely, and three of which include eruptive processes and are plausible. These hypotheses are compared, including new arguments, such as comparisons based on current understanding of Mars, Enceladus, and Pluto. An eruption model based on a solar-powered, solid-state greenhouse effect was previously considered the leading hypothesis for Triton's plumes, in part due to the proximity of the plumes to the subsolar latitude during the Voyager 2 flyby and the distribution of Triton's fans that are putatively deposits from former plumes. The other two eruption hypotheses are powered by internal heat, not solar insolation. Based on new analyses of the ostensible relation between the latitude of the subsolar point on Triton and the geographic locations of the plumes and fans, we argue that neither the locations of the plumes nor fans are strong evidence in favor of the solar-powered hypothesis. We conclude that all three eruption hypotheses should be considered further. Five tests are presented that could be implemented with remote sensing observations from future spacecraft to confidently distinguish among the eruption hypotheses for Triton's plumes. The five tests are based on the: (1) composition and thickness of Triton's southern hemisphere terrains, (2) composition of fan deposits, (3) distribution of active plumes, (4) distribution of fans, and (5) surface temperature at the locations of plumes and/or fans. The tests are independent, but complementary, and implementable with a single flyby mission such as the Trident mission concept. We note that, in the case of the solar-driven hypothesis, the 2030s and 2040s may be the last ...
description: Accepted for publication in Icarus
Additional file 1 of Habitat-related plastome evolution in the mycoheterotrophic Neottia listeroides complex (Orchidaceae, Neottieae)
Creators: name: Shao, Bing-Yi
name: Wang, Mo-Zhu
name: Chen, Si-Si
name: Ya, Ji-Dong
name: Jin, Xiao-Hua
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Taxon sampling and GenBank accession numbers. Table S2. Synonymous (dS) and non-synonymous (dN) substitution rates of N. listeroides complex members, relative to the reference N.fugongensis. Table S3. Selection pressure on 26 “housekeeping genes” of each sample relative to the reference N.fugongensis. Table S4. Positively selected sites detected by the branch-sitesmodel. Table S5. Relative synonymous codon usage of N. listeroides complex plastomes. Table S6. Mitochondrial protein-coding genes in N.listeroides complex. Fig. S1. Phylogenetic relationships based on maximum likelihood (ML) analysis of protein-coding sequences of plastid genome (ptCDS). Numbers above branches represent bootstrap support. N. listeroides complex members were divided into three clades: Pine Clade (blue branch) including samples from pine-broadleaf mixed forests; Fir Clade (green branch) including samples from alpine fir forests and For Clade (yellow branch) including sample from alpine fir--broadleaf mixed forest. Fig. S2. Mutation hotspots in plastomes of the N. listreoides complex. Fig. S3. Sequence identity of plastomes of N. listeroides complex members (LCY-1 as the reference). The vertical scale represents the percentage of identity between 50% and 100%. The horizonal axis indicates the coordinates within the plastomes. Fig. S4. Colinear analysis of plastomes of the N. listeroides complex. Color bands are locally-collinear blocks, representing homologous gene clusters. Within each block, similarity profiles of sequences corresponding to the average conservative level was shown. Fig. S5. Comparison of LSC, SSC, and IR border regions among 15 N. listeroides complex plastomes. Colored boxes for genes represent the gene position. Gene and region lengths are not to scale. Fig. S6. Branch length of non-synonymous (dN) and synonymous (dS) substitution rates of N. listeroides complex members.
Chemically Triggered Synthesis, Remodeling, and Degradation of Soft Materials
Creators: name: Sun, Xiaolong
name: Chwatko, Malgorzata
name: Lee, Doo-Hee
name: Bachman, James L.
name: Reuther, James F.
name: Lynd, Nathaniel A.
name: Anslyn, Eric V.
Publisher: name: PMC
Year: 2021
Subjects: Polymer

description: Polymer topology dictates dynamic and mechanical properties of materials. For most polymers, topology is a static characteristic. In this article, we present a strategy to chemically trigger dynamic topology changes in polymers in response to a specific chemical stimulus. Starting with a dimerized PEG and hydrophobic linear materials, a lightly cross-linked polymer, and a cross-linked hydrogel, transformations into an amphiphilic linear polymer, lightly cross-linked and linear random copolymers, a cross-linked polymer, and three different hydrogel matrices were achieved via two controllable cross-linking reactions: reversible conjugate additions and thiol–disulfide exchange. Significantly, all the polymers, before or after topological changes, can be triggered to degrade into thiol- or amine-terminated small molecules. The controllable transformations of polymeric morphologies and their degradation herald a new generation of smart materials.
Inert Doublet Model and LEP II Limits
Creators: name: Lundstrom, Erik
name: Gustafsson, Michael
name: Edsjo, Joakim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The inert doublet model is a minimal extension of the standard model introducing an additional SU(2) doublet with new scalar particles that could be produced at accelerators. While there exists no LEP II analysis dedicated for these inert scalars, the absence of a signal within searches for supersymmetric neutralinos can be used to constrain the inert doublet model. This translation however requires some care because of the different properties of the inert scalars and the neutralinos. We investigate what restrictions an existing DELPHI collaboration study of neutralino pair production can put on the inert scalars and discuss the result in connection with dark matter. We find that although an important part of the inert doublet model parameter space can be excluded by the LEP II data, the lightest inert particle still constitutes a valid dark matter candidate.
description: 12 pages, 9 figures; v2: published version
title: Structural Geology of the Central Part of Clarkston Mountain, Malad Range, Utah
Creators: name: Green, Douglas A
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1986

description: The central part of Clarkston Mountain is located in northcentral Utah in the southern part of the Malad Range. It is northwest of Clarkston, Utah. The mapped area measures 2.5 mi. in the north-south direction and 6.5 mi. in the east-west direction. It is within the Basin and Range Province.
The Ute Formation of Middle Cambrian age is the oldest exposed stratigraphic unit. Other Cambrian units, in ascending order, are: Blacksmith Formation, Bloomington Formation, Nounan Formation, and St. Charles Formation. These units consist predominantly of limestone, dolostone, and shale. Units of Ordovician age include the Garden City Formation and the Swan Peak Formation. They consist of limestone and orthoquartzite, respectively. The youngest Paleozoic unit is the Fish Haven-Laketown Formation of Ordovician-Silurian age. It is dolostone. Units of Quaternary age include colluvial deposits, Lake Bonneville Group, and alluvial deposits.
West-dipping, low-angle normal faults generally trend north and northwest. They were originally thrust faults formed during regional compression. A bedding-plane thrust fault separates the Bloomington and Nounan Formations.
Later reversed movement on the west-dipping, low-angle thrust faults changed the stratigraphic relationships across these faults to those characteristic of normal faults. High-angle normal faults trend northwest, north, and northeast. Major normal faults extend along the western and eastern sides of Clarkston Mountain and are responsible for the present topographic relief.
The structural features of the mapped area are the result of two major tectonic events. The Sevier orogeny produced eastward directed thrust faults. It began in Late Jurassic and ended in early Eocene. Basin and Range normal faulting caused reversed movement on west-dipping thrust faults, formed by the Sevier orogeny, and also produced many high-angle normal faults. It began in early Eocene and has continued into historic time in the region.
Nota a «Paradosso 2012/2. Forme della vita e statuti del vivente», AA.VV. (25/07/2013). Due parole su evoluzione sincronica, diacronica, flussi di energia e big crunch epistemologico
Creators: name: Rebuffo, Franco
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2014

description: Nota di Franco Rebuffo del 25/07/13 in risposta alla nota di Giorgio Forti del 09/07/2013 riguardante il numero di «Paradosso 2012/2. Forme della vita e statuti del vivente» a cura di Florinda Cambria.
description: Nóema, No 4-2 (2013): Ricerche
Precise probing spin wave mode frequencies in the vortex state of circular magnetic dots
Creators: name: Awad, A. A.
name: Guslienko, K. Y.
name: Sierra, J. F.
name: Kakazei, G. N.
name: Metlushko, V.
name: Aliev, F. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on detailed broadband ferromagnetic resonance measurements of azimuthal and radial spin wave excitations in circular Permalloy dots in the vortex ground state. Dots with aspect ratio (Beta =height over radius) varied from 0.03 to 0.1 were explored. We found that for Beta exceeding approximately 0.05, variation of the spin wave eigenfrequencies with Beta deviates from the predicted dependence. The frequency splitting of two lowest azimuthal modes was observed. The experimentally observed dependence of the frequency splitting on beta was reasonably well described by dynamic splitting model accounting the spin-waves and, vortex gyrotropic mode interaction.
title: Petrology of the Late Proterozoic(?) - Early Cambrian Arumbera Sandstone and the Late Proterozoic Quandong Conglomerate, East-central Amadeus Basin, Central Australia
Creators: name: Phillips, Johnnie O.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1986

description: Throughout the James Ranges and Gardiner Range the Arumbera Sandstone forms prominent strike ridges with distinctive dark reddish slopes and pale red to orange-white cliffs. Because of their lithologic and stratigraphic similarities, the names Eninta and ''Quandong" for these units should be suppressed in favor of the name of Arumbera Sandstone, which has precedence. The stratigraphic and lithologic differences observed between the Quandong Conglomerate in the type locality and the Arumbera Sandstone in the study area suggest that these units are not equivalent. Similarites with the Areyonga Formation suggest the Quandong Conglomerate could be part of the Areyonga Formation.
Lithofacies la, ld, and 2b, and Unit 3 of the Arumbera and its equivalents are typically recessive arkoses, subarkose, and mudrocks. They are interpreted as nearshore-marine to coastal deltaic deposits which include intertonguing tidal-flat, tidal-channel, and beach
sediments. Lithofacies 1b and 2a consist of cliff-forming arkoses, subarkoses, and lithic arkoses. Lithofacies 2c is also resistant, and consists of orthoconglomerates and conglomeratic sandstones. Lithofacies 1e is moderately resistant, and consists of paraconglomerates, conglomeratic sandstones, and mudrocks. It and lithofacies 2c contain pebbles and small cobbles of chert, quartzite, vein quartz, silicified ooids, and limestone, dolostone, shale, and sandstone. These four lithofacies are interpreted as braidplain and fluvial sheet sands.
In the east-central part of the Amadeus Basin the Arumbera Sandstone probably was deposited in a coastal environment as a sequence of deltaic sediments that was dominated by fluvial processes. The Arumbera Sandstone appears to be the molasse derived from the Late Proterozoic and Early Cambrian Petermann Ranges orogeny. Source rocks include sedimentary, low- to middle-rank metamorphic, and plutonic granites. Grain mineralogy and weathering characteristics suggest a hot, semiarid climate during deposition of the Arumbera.
The Arumbera Sandstone and Quandong Conglomerate contain fair to good porosity and permeability, and petrographic evidence shows mesogenetic generation of secondary porosity. Previous and present burial depths are adequate for the generation of petroleum. The presence of suitable underlying .source rocks, overlying salt of the Chandler for a seal, and stratigraphic and structural traps suggest a good potential for petroleum. Production of dry gas from the lower part of the Arumbera at Dingo field, north of Deep Well Homestead, confirms the petroleum potential of this formation.
Additional file 1 of Evaluation of an information booklet for adolescents on depression: evidence from a randomized controlled study
Creators: name: Primbs, Regine
name: Feldmann, Lisa
name: Iglhaut, Lucia
name: Allgaier, Antje-Kathrin
name: Schulte-Körne, Gerd
name: Greimel, Ellen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1
Learning Auxiliary Monocular Contexts Helps Monocular 3D Object Detection
Creators: name: Liu, Xianpeng
name: Xue, Nan
name: Wu, Tianfu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Monocular 3D object detection aims to localize 3D bounding boxes in an input single 2D image. It is a highly challenging problem and remains open, especially when no extra information (e.g., depth, lidar and/or multi-frames) can be leveraged in training and/or inference. This paper proposes a simple yet effective formulation for monocular 3D object detection without exploiting any extra information. It presents the MonoCon method which learns Monocular Contexts, as auxiliary tasks in training, to help monocular 3D object detection. The key idea is that with the annotated 3D bounding boxes of objects in an image, there is a rich set of well-posed projected 2D supervision signals available in training, such as the projected corner keypoints and their associated offset vectors with respect to the center of 2D bounding box, which should be exploited as auxiliary tasks in training. The proposed MonoCon is motivated by the Cramer-Wold theorem in measure theory at a high level. In implementation, it utilizes a very simple end-to-end design to justify the effectiveness of learning auxiliary monocular contexts, which consists of three components: a Deep Neural Network (DNN) based feature backbone, a number of regression head branches for learning the essential parameters used in the 3D bounding box prediction, and a number of regression head branches for learning auxiliary contexts. After training, the auxiliary context regression branches are discarded for better inference efficiency. In experiments, the proposed MonoCon is tested in the KITTI benchmark (car, pedestrain and cyclist). It outperforms all prior arts in the leaderboard on car category and obtains comparable performance on pedestrian and cyclist in terms of accuracy. Thanks to the simple design, the proposed MonoCon method obtains the fastest inference speed with 38.7 fps in comparisons