cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Relevant gluonic energy scale of spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking from lattice QCD
Creators: name: Yamamoto, Arata
name: Suganuma, Hideo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze which momentum component of the gluon field induces spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking in lattice QCD. After removing the high-momentum or low-momentum component of the gluon field, we calculate the chiral condensate and observe the roles of these momentum components. The chiral condensate is found to be drastically reduced by removing the zero-momentum gluon. The reduction is about 40% of the total in our calculation condition. The nonzero-momentum infrared gluon also has a sizable contribution to the chiral condensate. From the Banks-Casher relation, this result reflects the nontrivial relation between the infrared gluon and the zero-mode quark.
The Bovine Genome Study and Its Goals
Creators: name: Womack, James E.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1992

description: The consensus conclusion of several recent major international livestock genetics conferences is that genomic localization of economic trait loci and subsequent marker-assisted selection for these traits will rapidly facilitate genetic improvement of livestock. Genetic improvement of cattle, specifically for efficiency of food utilization, reproductive performance, resistance to disease, and higher quality of beef and dairy products ranks high among the world's agricultural research needs. The necessary tool for large scale improvement of such a diverse array of phenotypes by marker-assisted selection is a 20 centiMorgan map of the bovine genome, consisting of highly polymorphic loci that can be easily scored by teams of investigators studying the segregation of desirable traits. This same map can subsequently be developed to a high level of resolution in regions around genes of particular interest and used to isolate and clone genes involved in the expression of economically important traits. Experiments in our laboratory (1, 2, 3) and others (4, 5) demonstrate that the methods that have revolutionized human genetics in the last decade can do the same for cattle genetics. Bovine cells readily hybridize with mouse L cells or hamster E36 cells and segregate cattle chromosomes (1). Genetic analysis of these segregating hybrid cells has produced the current syntenic map of the cow which consists of more than 270 genes including markers of every bovine chromosome. Fifteen of the autosomal syntenic groups have been assigned to chromosomes. Our laboratory has participated in these assignments (6, 7). We have selected genes for physical mapping based on their potential role in key physiological processes and their value in defining the limits of chromosomal conservation with the human and mouse maps. We have used Southern blotting of more than 200 bovine and heterologous probes and more recently, the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) with published primer sequences to generate these maps.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1992: Volume 1
Kant, cognitive synthesis, and causality
Creators: name: Green, JM
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: By marshalling Kant in new ways, this thesis explores the relationship between cognitive synthesis and causality. It is argued that the causal connections constitutive of cognitive experience are of a character that is radically different from that of causal connections that are not constitutive of cognitive experience. Whereas the latter are satisfactorily covered by Kant's conception of causality as rule-governed succession this is not true, it is argued, of the causality that is constitutive of cognitive experience. The idea, introduced by Hume and endorsed by Kant, that causality is nothing but a kind of rule-governed succession is one that cannot be maintained, it is argued, in the face of considerations regarding the nature of cognitive synthesis. The thesis examines Kant's arguments in the Analytic of Principles, for the Axioms of Intuition, the Anticipations of Perception, and the First and Second Analogies. The aim is to show that even where these arguments fail, their respective failures help towards the explication of a conception of synthesis that is constitutive of understanding as such. It is argued that the syntheses that are constitutive of understanding are unspecifiable in character ‚Äö- that is, they cannot be unambiguously described and defined ‚Äö- and that accordingly the causal connections through which these syntheses are effected could not be instantiations of any kind of rule-governed succession. The thesis thus has implications for what our conception of free will ought to involve. It implies both that free will is incompatible with determinism and that free will should not be thought of as requiring any disengagement from the causal concatenations of nature or of human life.
What Do We Mean By "Good Food Quality"
Creators: name: Forslund, B. Kristina
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1992

description: This paper deals with three of the major topics of this conference: "Food Animal Products-- Human Food Safety and Nutritional Concepts, Handling and Housing Cattle-- Welfare Considerations and The Environment and Food Animal Production". The discussion centers on recent developments in Sweden, where a consumers' movement has led farmers to reconsider the definition of "good food quality" and how it may relate to the welfare of animals.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1992: Volume 1
Development and Implementation of the Ontario Dairy Monitoring and Analysis Program
Creators: name: Kelton, David F.
name: Martin, S. Wayne
name: Hansen, Donna S.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1992

description: The importance of monitoring dairy cattle health and productivity at the herd level has become evident during the last decade (1). To monitor all aspects of the herd's performance, dairy producers and veterinarians need a variety of herd level information based on daily cow and farm events. These data are stored either on the farm or in central databases maintained by agencies serving the dairy industry. Unfortunately, in many cases the information useful for monitoring herd performance has not been gleaned from the existing cow level data, or has not been presented in a fashion that facilitates the monitoring process. The Ontario Dairy Monitoring and Analysis Program (ODMAP) evolved out of a perceived need for a herd level monitoring system that utilized the available herd data and was tailored to the characteristics of the Ontario dairy industry. The objectives of the ODMAP project included the establishment of a herd level database that could be used 1) to produce periodic summary reports useful to producers and veterinarians for monitoring herd performance, and 2) to investigate the herd level associations among measures of herd management, milk production, reproductive performance, animal health, and profitability. This manuscript outlines the development and implementation of the ODMAP and summarizes some of the data collected during the first year of the project. Spanish and French summaries in PDF.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1992: Volume 1
Created motion in Maximus the Confessor : a dynamicist reading
Creators: name: Joyce, CN
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: This thesis explores how Maximus the Confessor understands created motion. It describes how he utilises not just one description of motion, but several. Recent literature has struggled to articulate the diversity of ways for describing motion available to Maximus. Sometimes these works have over-simplified Maximus' views. At other times the works gesture toward some important areas, but fail to go into sufficient technical detail. This study explores how Maximus' descriptions of motion play important but specific roles in his work. Accordingly, the thesis employs a strategy of closely reading texts containing key descriptions of motion, clarifying their meaning, and setting out some implications. The work begins by describing Maximus' cosmological context, and shows the importance of relating different senses of motion together. This suggests the need for more specific analyses. Chapters two and three describe a form of self-continuous motion, showing how it permeates Maximus' thought. Chapters four and five evaluate two approaches in the secondary literature. Chapter four focuses on motion as a general principle in the cosmos. Accordingly, it explores how the general account of motion emerges from a theology of creation. Chapter five analyses how personhood has been used, with some success, for describing specific instances of motion in Maximus. The sixth and final chapter examines how motion is comprised of several different processes working cooperatively. The thesis does not explicitly investigate how Maximus' views on motion might be reconstructed in contemporary contexts. Nor does it discuss the broader implications of created motion for his theology. It offers an alternative reading of this important but notoriously difficult figure of antiquity, suggesting new avenues of interpretation, as well as opening a range of topics for further research.
The measurement of vortex induced effects in flow past stationary and oscillating circular and D-section cylinders
Creators: name: Feng, C.C.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Experiments were performed in a wind tunnel on 3-inch diameter circular and D-section cylinders. A detailed investigation of the vortex shedding frequency, displacement amplitude, and the phase angle between the fluctuating pressure and the displacement signals of both circular and D-section cylinders was made in the "capture" region. These phenomena were investigated under various damping levels using magnetic dampers. Fluctuating surface pressures on a circular cylinder were measured along one half of the circumference at 11 sections selected along the span. The resulting sectional fluctuating lift coefficients as well as the total lift coefficients were obtained by integration for several wind speeds for both stationary and oscillating cylinders. Interesting to note are the vortex line inclination angles obtained from fluctuating surface pressure correlation. Using linearized hot wire anemometers, spanwise wake velocity correlation functions were measured and correlation lengths computed.
Recent Attempts to Measure the General Relativistic Lense-Thirring Effect with Natural and Artificial Bodies in the Solar System
Creators: name: Iorio, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: According to general relativity, a spinning body of mass M and angular momentum S, like a star or a planet, generates a gravitomagnetic field which induces, among other phenomena, also the Lense-Thirring effect, i.e. secular precessions of the path of a test particle orbiting it. Direct and indisputable tests of such a relativistic prediction are still missing. We discuss some performed attempts to measure it in the gravitational fields of several bodies in the Solar System with natural and artificial objects. The focus is on the realistic evaluation of the impact of some competing classical forces regarded as sources of systematic uncertainties degrading the total accuracy obtainable.
description: LaTex2e, 31 pages, 1 figure, 14 tables, 115 references. Invited contribution to the Fifth International School on Field Theory and Gravitation, Cuiaba', Mato Grosso, MT, Brasil, April 20-24 2009
Role of Thana training and development centre in rural development in Bangladesh : the case of Savar TTDC
Creators: name: Asaduzzaman, MD
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Rural Development is participation of people in a mutual learning experience involving themselves, their local resources, external change agents and outside resources for their better living. This participation could be organized only through creating and strengthening rural institutions, because through rural institutions the scattered and uneducated rural people could be organized into a cohesive, disciplined and trained productive force. They could be mobilised and motivated for innovation and for increasing their productivity. Thus it is essentially true that \successful rural development in Bangladesh critically hinges on appropriate and effective rural institution\". Bangladesh is an agricultural country. Ninety percent of her population live in rural areas and are dependent on agriculture. Its agriculture has been characterised as one of the most outmoded cultivation low productivity and small holdings. The farmers are mostly illiterate passive and victims of exploitation by the influential classes in the society. But there was no effective formal organization which could organise them for the dissemination of knowledge and skill to increase their productivity. The concept of Thana Training and Development Centre (TTDC) was evolved out of this pragmatic necessity. TTDC was an innovation of Camilla Model of Rural Development. It is a model of rural administration."
The Veterinarian's Role in Wholesome Beef Production
Creators: name: Cowman, Gary L.
name: Bennett, Bill
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1992

description: Bovine practitioners have long been an essential part of the cattle industry. In today's consumer-driven environment, however, the nature of the cattle business -- and the veterinarian's role in that business -- have shifted. What has always been thought of as the "cattle industry" is now more accurately described as the "food industry." And no matter what aspect of cattle practice you've chosen as your focus, you're really in the business of producing meat for the retail counter.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1992: Volume 1
Color-octet scalars at the LHC
Creators: name: Choi, S. Y.
name: Drees, M.
name: Kalinowski, J.
name: Kim, J. M.
name: Popenda, E.
name: Zerwas, P. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Elements of the phenomenology of color-octet scalars (sgluons), as predicted in the hybrid N=1/N=2 supersymmetric model, are discussed in the light of forthcoming experiments at the CERN Large Hadron Collider.
description: LaTeX, 10 pages, 4 figures. Talk at the Epiphany Conference on Hadron Interactions at the Dawn of the LHC, 5-7 January 2009, Cracow, Poland
Investigations into the relationships of stress and leaf health of the grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) on grape and wine qualities
Creators: name: Wells, RB
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Trials were established to investigate links between late season leaf health and wine quality in Pinot Noir and Sauvignon Blanc, on a vineyard in Northern Tasmania. One series of trials located areas within Pinot Noir and Sauvignon Blanc vineyards with regions of pre-existing shoot vigour variation. Ground-based measurements of vine canopy along with aerial imaging of near infrared and red light reflectance were used to characterise the canopies, and compare vigour assessment systems compared. Leaf health was assessed by chlorophyll concentration and late season retention. Yield and fruit chemistry attributes were assessed, and small-scale winemaking was used to investigate fermentation rate and wine quality. Four nitrogen application trials were established: a nitrogen by irrigation trial (2005-06); a nitrogen rate (0, 20, 35 and 50 g N/vine in 2006-07 and 0, 20 and 50 g N/vine in 2007- 08) by timing (pre-bloom, post bloom, pre-veraison and post veraison) trial; a nitrogen by exposure trial (nil or 100 g N/vine, shaded or exposed clusters) and a comparison of wine from must nitrogen increase by field fertiliser application or winery supplementation. Changes to shoot growth, leaf chlorophyll and retention, fruit yield and chemical attributes, and wine fermentation and composition were assessed. Shoot vigour was correlated with leaf chlorophyll concentration and late season leaf retention in vigour trials, however leaf health measures could be influenced by nitrogen application timing independent of shoot vigour. Shoot growth responded to nitrogen availability prior to fruit set, while leaf chlorophyll was altered by nitrogen availability at any stage. Pre-bloom additions increase shoot growth in year 1 but in year 2 there was no impact from nitrogen timing. Leaf retention was improved by nitrogen applications after fruit set, but not before, and was independent of preceding season applications. Pinot Noir fruit did not vary in total soluble solids (TSS) as a result of vine vigour. Sauvignon Blanc juice TSS from high vigour vines decreased, while titratable acidity increased in high vigour vines in all trials. Nitrogen application increased TSS in one season, while TA was higher after high rates of nitrogen, particularly when applied post bloom. Yeast assimilable nitrogen (YAN) influenced fermentation rates, and increased with vigour, and could also be increased by nitrogen addition. Wine tannins decreased with vigour and high rates of nitrogen, with changing sunlight exposure being the major influence. DAP additions produced wines that were distinct from field applied nitrogen, and when applied prior to inoculation led to an increase in wine colour density.
The Influence of a Health Program on Dairy Heifer Productivity in Minnesota
Creators: name: Williamson, Norman B.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1992

description: It has been previously noteds that heifers, although they represent the future production potential of herds, were commonly the most neglected group of animals on Minnesota dairy farms. Many calved at ages far beyond the recommended 24 months and 28 months was the average calving age of heifers entering the Minnesota Dairy Herd Improvement Association (DHIA) record system1. On the other hand it was not unusual for the author to observe large and well grown heifers that had not been bred on farm visits. Heifer raising costs in Minnesota were estimated at $1353 to 24 months of age while beyond this the cost increased to $1.92 per day. 7 A partial farm budgets for an average Minnesota dairy herd estimated a potential gross benefit of $5,548 from all heifers achieving first calving at 24 months. Yet when this study started few preventive medicine and monitoring techniques for heifers were used in Minnesota, so there appeared to be a potential to profitably influence heifer raising programs. A clinical trials to evaluate a co-ordinated delivery of preventive medicine procedures to heifers was designed. The project's major aim was to determine the influence of several intervention procedures delivered as a heifer health program on growth, survival and productivity. A second aim was to document the growth and survival of heifers on some Minnesota dairy farms, since little or no documented information was available. German and Spanish Summaries in PDF.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1992: Volume 1
Genetic Evaluations of Dairy Bulls and Cows For Production
Creators: name: McDaniel, Ben T.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1992

description: The innovative and most important features of the animal model are twofold. First, equations are developed for each animal that include all of the environmental and genetic influences that affect the trait being evaluated. Second, the genetic relationships of each animal being evaluated to every other related one that is identified - sire, dam, offspring, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc. - are included simultaneously by adding the inverse of the genetic relationship matrix (A1 in genetic jargon) to the genetic equations for cows. The net result is that everything that affects a cow's performance for a trait - genetics, location (herd), year and season of calving, weather, nutrition, exposure to disease - can be included inone of the many equations and the cow's record will be adjusted for it. Effects of nutrition, weather and exposure to disease are generally accounted for by the herd-year-season equations. Equations for environmental affects and those for cows, which may together number in the millions, are then solved simultaneously to get the most accurate measure of the animal's genetic value possible.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1992: Volume 1
Production of 26Al, 44Ti, and 60Fe in Core-Collapse Supernovae: Sensitivity to the Rates of the Triple Alpha and 12C(a,g)16O Reactions
Creators: name: Tur, Clarisse
name: Heger, Alexander
name: Austin, Sam M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have studied the sensitivity to variations in the the triple alpha and 12C(a,g)16O reaction rates of the production of 26Al, 44Ti, and 60Fe in core-collapse supernovae. We used the KEPLER code to model the evolution of 15, 20, and 25 solar mass stars to the onset of core collapse and simulated the ensuing supernova explosion using a piston model for the explosion. Calculations were performed for the Anders and Grevesse (1989) and Lodders (2003) abundances. Over a range of twice the experimental uncertainty, sigma, for each helium-burning rate, the production of 26Al, 60Fe, and their ratio vary by factors of five or more. For some species, similar variations were observed for much smaller rate changes, 0.5 sigma or less. The production of 44Ti was less sensitive to changes in the helium-burning rates. Production of all three isotopes depended on the solar abundance set used for the initial stellar composition.
description: Submitted to the Astrophysical Journal
Use cases and benefits of persistent identifiers for dataset elements
Creators: name: Saldanha Bach, Janete
name: Klas, Claus-Peter
name: Mutschke, Peter
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: FAIR Principles
Persistent Identifiers – PIDs
Research data citation
Research data services - technical infrastructure
Social Sciences survey variables

description: In many scientific disciplines, Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) are commonly available only at the study or dataset level but not at the level of the inline data objects that are usually used by researchers, making it difficult to track and cite them. This paper focuses on registering PIDs also for finer-grained elements of a dataset representing the primary entities of research, such as survey variables in the Social Sciences, beyond the traditional approach of assigning PIDs to entire datasets. The paper highlights the benefits of this approach for researchers and research data centers and discusses four use cases from the consortium KonsortSWD of the German National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI), addressing how project partners adopt the idea of having PIDs for dataset elements below study level according to their needs, data types and available services. The use cases address requirements from the perspective of empirical Social Sciences, targeting different types of dataset elements that should have a PID, such as individual survey variables, information bundles (variable groups), and qualitative data contained in observation recordings, interviews, and transcriptions. The paper concludes with functionalities that require persistent identifiers to be implemented, such as automated access mechanisms to access elements in the dataset directly.

 
description: The service is part of KonsortSWD project deliverable, NFDI funding number 442494171.
An (inverse) Pieri formula for Macdonald polynomials of type C
Creators: name: Lassalle, Michel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We give an explicit Pieri formula for Macdonald polynomials attached to the root system C_n (with equal multiplicities). By inversion we obtain an explicit expansion for two-row Macdonald polynomials of type C.
description: 31 pages, LaTeX, to appear in Transformation Groups
A modified index for the description of the ionospheric short- and long-term activity
Creators: name: Mielich, J.
name: Bremer, J.
Publisher: name: Göttingen : Copernicus
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Radio science (Ionospheric physics)
subject: atmospheric electricity
subject: diurnal variation
subject: geomagnetic field
subject: geomagnetic storm
subject: ionosphere
subject: seasonal variation
subject: solar activity
subject: temporal variation
subject: 550

description: A modified ionospheric activity index AI has been developed on the basis of ionospheric foF2 observations. Such index can be helpful for an interested user to get information about the current state of the ionosphere. Using ionosonde data of the station Juliusruh (54.6° N; 13.4°E) this index has been tested for the time interval from January 1996 until December 2008. This index has no diurnal and seasonal variations, only a small positive dependence on the solar activity could be found. The variability of this index has, however, a marked seasonal variability with maxima during the equinoxes, a clear minimum in summer, and enhanced values in winter. The observed variability of AI is strongly correlated with the geomagnetic activity, most markedly during the equinoxes, whereas the influence of the solar activity is markedly smaller and mostly insignificant. Strong geomagnetic disturbances cause in middle latitudes in general negative disturbances in AI, mostly pronounced during equinoxes and summer and only partly during winter, thus in agreement with the current physical knowledge about ionospheric storms. © 2010 Author(s).
Successful Eradication of BLV from Dairy and Beef Herds in New York
Creators: name: Brunner, Michael A.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1992

description: The New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets, together with the Diagnostic Laboratory at Cornell University offer a bovine leukemia virus (BLV) eradication/certification program to New York dairy and beef producers. This is the only official BLV certification program currently available in the United States. The program, which began in 1985, provides State supported testing and management services through the Diagnostic Laboratory to farmers who wish to eradicate BLV and establish a "Certified BLV-Free" herd. To achieve this status a herd must complete three consecutive negative BLV herd tests. The certificate is valid for one year and an annual negative BLV herd test is required to maintain the certificate.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1992: Volume 1
The existence of time
Creators: name: Spencer, Joseph Andrew
name: Wheeler, James T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Of those gauge theories of gravity known to be equivalent to general relativity, only the biconformal gauging introduces new structures - the quotient of the conformal group of any pseudo-Euclidean space by its Weyl subgroup always has natural symplectic and metric structures. Using this metric and symplectic form, we show that there exist canonically conjugate, orthogonal, metric submanifolds if and only if the original gauged space is Euclidean or signature 0. In the Euclidean cases, the resultant configuration space must be Lorentzian. Therefore, in this context, time may be viewed as a derived property of general relativity.
description: 21 pages (Reduced to clarify and focus on central argument; some calculations condensed; typos corrected)
On-site correlations in optical lattices: band mixing to coupled quantum Hall puddles
Creators: name: Hazzard, Kaden R. A.
name: Mueller, Erich J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend the standard Bose-Hubbard model to capture arbitrarily strong on-site correlations. In addition to being important for quantitatively modeling experiments, for example, with Rubidium atoms, these correlations must be included to describe more exotic situations. Two such examples are when the interactions are made large via a Feshbach resonance, or when each site rotates rapidly, making a coupled array of quantum Hall puddles. Remarkably, even the mean field approximation to our model includes all on-site correlations. We describe how these on-site correlations manifest themselves in the system's global properties: modifying the phase diagram and depleting the condensate.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Design of a simple reading machine for the blind
Creators: name: Ramsay, William Desmond
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: A compact reading machine ("Lexiphone") has been designed and constructed to convert printed letters into a pattern of sounds. The machine reads by direct translation of vertical sections of the letters, according to a recently developed code. In this code, the "melody" produced is independent of the vertical position of the reading head ; however the user is given an indication (mean pitch) of the vertical position to-facilitate tracking along a line of print. The discrete nature of the direct translation process limits the theoretically possible reading rates. Tests with artificially generated codes were performed to investigate this limit, and it is expected that the limit will be above that for Morse Code-- 60 to 70 words per minute. This would be adequate for practical use. Tests performed at Haskins Laboratories predicted similar performance for other machines, such as the optophone⁽⁴⁾. However, practical users of the "Battelle Optophone", the most refined version of the optophone, attained only 25 words per minute (on Grade I reading material) after an extensive course⁽⁸⁾ . It is suggested that this was due to the difficulty in the earlier machines of producing repeatable versions of the code. Code sounds from the present Lexiphone prototype were found to be very consistent and repeatable, and should allow the predicted reading rates to be approached. Practical reading results with the machine are presented. At the time of writing, a subject training with the machine is reading two-page passages of Grade III material at 30 words per minute, and her performance is still improving.
Generalized harmonic formulation in spherical symmetry
Creators: name: Sorkin, Evgeny
name: Choptuik, Matthew W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this pedagogically structured article, we describe a generalized harmonic formulation of the Einstein equations in spherical symmetry which is regular at the origin. The generalized harmonic approach has attracted significant attention in numerical relativity over the past few years, especially as applied to the problem of binary inspiral and merger. A key issue when using the technique is the choice of the gauge source functions, and recent work has provided several prescriptions for gauge drivers designed to evolve these functions in a controlled way. We numerically investigate the parameter spaces of some of these drivers in the context of fully non-linear collapse of a real, massless scalar field, and determine nearly optimal parameter settings for specific situations. Surprisingly, we find that many of the drivers that perform well in 3+1 calculations that use Cartesian coordinates, are considerably less effective in spherical symmetry, where some of them are, in fact, unstable.
description: 47 pages, 15 figures. v2: Minor corrections, including 2 added references; journal version.
Global isomorphism between the Lenard-Jones fluids and the Ising model
Creators: name: Kulinskii, V. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The interpretation of the linear character of the observable classic rectilinear diameter law and the linear character of the Zeno-line (unit compressibility line Z=1) on the basis of global isomorphism between Ising model (Lattice Gas) and simple fluid is proposed. The correct definition of the limiting nontrivial Zeno state is given and its relation with the locus of the critical point is derived within this approach. We show that the liquid-vapor part of the phase diagram of the molecular fluids can be described as the isomorphic image of the phase diagram of the Lattice Gas. It is shown how the the position of the critical points of the fluids of the Lenard-Jones type can be determined basing on the scaling symmetry. As a sequence the explanation of the well known fact about "global" cubic character of the coexistence curve of the molecular fluids is proposed.
description: 15 pages, 3 figures (2 figures added and the references)
title: No. 114 (2017): Discoordination and Miscoordination Caused by Sunspots in the Laboratory
Creators: name: Siebert, Jan
name: Yang, Guanzhong
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications Online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2019
Subjects: Sunspot
Coordination

description: This paper combines two strands of the experimental sunspot literature. It extends the rare literature

that focuses experimentally on the coordination problems caused by sunspot variables. It also extends

the literature that focuses on coordination games that have a payoff-dominant and a divergent

risk-dominant equilibrium. To achieve this, we use a repeated three-player stag hunt game with fixed

groups. In our experiment, a sunspot variable points randomly at the risk-dominant or the payoff-dominant

choice. We find out-of-equilibrium behavior (discoordination) caused by the sunspot variable in

the short run. In the long run, the sunspot variable can lead to coordination of the payoff-dominated

equilibrium (miscoordination). If the sunspot-generating process points more frequently to the

risk-dominant choice, some groups converge to the sunspot equilibrium.
Petrogenesis of the Tasmanian granitoids
Creators: name: Cocker, JD
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: This study of Tasman Orogenic Zone granitoid rocks in Tasmania is mainly concerned with the petrogenesis of a suited of garnet and cordierite-bearing, aluminous granites. These granites and the associated hornblende-biotite granodiorites are contact aureole plutons of Devonian age, emplaced in paratectonically deformed Palaeozoic rocks.
Repeated Occurence of Akabane and CNS Defects in Calves
Creators: name: Hamana, K.
name: Kamimura, S.
name: Taura, Y.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1992

description: Akabane virus was first confirmed in 1975 (2) as a causative agent of the big outbreak of abortion, arthrogryposis and hydranencephaly in 1972-73 in Japan. Akabane vaccine was developed soon after the- virus discovery. However, Akabane disease has occurred several times thereafter at the interval of two to five years. No vaccination and early change of cattle generation will be the main reason. In this report, the recent outbreak of calves with central nervous system (CNS) defects was investigated in comparison with the past Akabane and Chuzan (7) disease.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1992: Volume 1
Multi-messenger constraints on the annihilating dark matter interpretation of the positron excess
Creators: name: Pato, Miguel
name: Pieri, Lidia
name: Bertone, Gianfranco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The rise in the energy spectrum of the positron ratio, observed by the PAMELA satellite above 10 GeV, and other cosmic ray measurements, have been interpreted as a possible signature of Dark Matter annihilation in the Galaxy. However, the large number of free parameters, and the large astrophysical uncertainties, make it difficult to do conclusive statements about the viability of this scenario. Here, we perform a multi-wavelength, multi-messenger analysis, that combines in a consistent way the constraints arising from different astrophysical observations. We show that if standard assumptions are made for the distribution of Dark Matter (we build models on the recent Via Lactea II and Aquarius simulations) and the propagation of cosmic rays, current DM models cannot explain the observed positron flux without exceeding the observed fluxes of antiprotons or gamma-ray and radio photons. To visualize the multi-messenger constraints, we introduce "star plots", a graphical method that allows to show in the same plot theoretical predictions and observational constraints for different messengers and wavelengths.
description: 15 pages, 8 figures, matches published version
Lithostratigraphy and Lithochemistry of Ordovician volcano-plutonic rocks in the Blayney area, central Molong Belt, NSW
Creators: name: Duerden, PB
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The Late Ordovician Cabonne Group lies in the southern portion of the Molong Volcanic Belt in central western NSW. It broadly comprises an extensive lava-dominated package of high-K calc alkaline mafic volcanics (Blayney Volcanics) overlain by a package of shoshonitic lavas and intrusives (Forest Reefs Volcanics). Regional aeromagnetic and structural data suggest that thrust style faulting may have caused the extensive lithological repetition observed within the Cabonne Group. Volcanic facies mapping, combined with geochemical sampling, has provided a basis for re-interpretation of areas within the Cabonne Group. Facies mapping has demonstrated a number of possible stratigraphic correlations, including a possible link between limestones present at and surrounding Browns Creek with limestones within the Weemalla Formation at the base of the Forest Reefs Volcanics. Geochemical and petrological data define a temporal change in magmatic affinities within the Ordovician volcanics of the Molong Volcanic Belt. This change in magmatism from high Kin the Blayney Volcanics to shoshonitic in the Forest Reefs Volcanics is broadly coincident with the late Middle Ordovician limestone interval at the base of the Forest Reefs Volcanics. This broad lithochemical stratigraphy provides a framework for comparisons with the Ordovician Junee-Narromine volcanic belt located 100 km to the west, where a similar temporal transition exists from high-Kin the Nelungaloo Volcanics to shoshonitic in the overlying Goonumbla Volcanics. The Ordovician volcanics from the Molong belt are also similar to the early to midMiocene calc-alkaline to shoshonitic suites from Fiji. On the basis of these similarities, the transition from high-K to shoshonitic volcanism is likely to be the result of fragmentation of a mature oceanic island arc as a result of a major tectonic disturbance as marked by the late Middle Ordovician limestones.
Commissioning and Performance of the CMS Pixel Tracker with Cosmic Ray Muons
Creators: name: CMS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The pixel detector of the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment consists of three barrel layers and two disks for each endcap. The detector was installed in summer 2008, commissioned with charge injections, and operated in the 3.8 T magnetic field during cosmic ray data taking. This paper reports on the first running experience and presents results on the pixel tracker performance, which are found to be in line with the design specifications of this detector. The transverse impact parameter resolution measured in a sample of high momentum muons is 18 microns.
Considerations for Developing Regulatory Policy to Prevent Importation of Arthropod-Borne Animal Diseases
Creators: name: Tabachnick, W. J.
name: Walton, T. E.
name: Chase, C. C. L.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1992

description: Epidemiologic and entomologic investigations on bluetongue viruses have provided important information upon which to develop meaningful, less restrictive but safe regulatory policies for the international movement of ruminants and germplasm. The result of changes would be economic gain for all countries concerned with continued protection against the importation of foreign diseases. The goal of regulations should be to safely protect indigenous animals, but to do so without needlessly interfering with trade. It is apparent that research on bluetongue disease has been beneficial and new information on other arthropod-borne pathogens, their vectors, and their hosts will continue to be useful to protect ruminant livestock. Continued research along the lines reviewed here on culicoides spp. 19 and other vectors of arthropod-borne diseases and these pathogens must be supported. French and Spanish summaries on PDF.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1992: Volume 1
The rhetoric of partnerships involving people who use illicit drugs and the reality of 'partners' experience
Creators: name: Lucas, PV
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: This research examines the concept of partnerships as it applies to illicit drug policy development and service delivery planning processes in Australia. It poses the question: 'How does the rhetoric of partnerships involving people who use illicit drugs match the experience of partners?' The research concludes that, with a few exceptions, the concept of partnerships involving people who use illicit drugs is little more than a rhetorical tool used by neoliberal forms of government. The research adopts a theoretical framework of 'governmentality' initially developed by Michel Foucault. A governmentality approach identifies the rationalities behind strategies adopted to enhance the productivity of populations, as well as the various 'technologies' employed to achieve desired outcomes. Suggestions for augmenting a governmentality approach for better understanding partnerships involving people who use illicit drugs are proposed as part of this research. The methodology comprises two components. The first involves analysis of a range of policy documents relating to illicit drug use to trace the evolution of the concept of partnerships with people who use illicit drugs. The second component involves indepth interviews with members of the 'drug policy community', including policy makers, service providers and members of peer-based user advocacy organisations. The perception of those working in these 'partnerships' was that this neoliberal concept fell well short of aspirations and expectations. The key factors identified by 'partners' that limit the success of this approach are discussed in detail. These include: the impact of a morally conservative dominant discourse of prohibition; the political nature of what counts as 'evidence' in policy development and service delivery planning processes; and a lack of institutional support for genuine partnerships with people who use illicit drugs from governments, policy makers and service providers. The research also finds that the theoretical framework of governmentality is a useful analytical tool for understanding the concept of partnerships involving people who use illicit drugs. I argue that in order to better understand these partnerships, and the reasons why this enterprise has had only limited success, it is important to incorporate other theoretical perspectives alongside that of governmentality. These include: the 'political economy of drug user scapegoating' (Friedman, S. 1998); the medicalisation of substance use (Freund and McGuire 1991; Szasz 1974; White 2002); and the concept of 'authoritarian liberalism' (Dean 2002; Hindess 2001).
Asymptotic behavior of solutions of the fragmentation equation with shattering: An approach via self-similar Markov processes
Creators: name: Haas, Bénédicte
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The subject of this paper is a fragmentation equation with nonconservative solutions, some mass being lost to a dust of zero-mass particles as a consequence of an intensive splitting. Under some assumptions of regular variation on the fragmentation rate, we describe the large time behavior of solutions. Our approach is based on probabilistic tools: the solutions to the fragmentation equation are constructed via nonincreasing self-similar Markov processes that continuously reach 0 in finite time. Our main probabilistic result describes the asymptotic behavior of these processes conditioned on nonextinction and is then used for the solutions to the fragmentation equation. We note that two parameters significantly influence these large time behaviors: the rate of formation of "nearly-1 relative masses" (this rate is related to the behavior near 0 of the Lévy measure associated with the corresponding self-similar Markov process) and the distribution of large initial particles. Correctly rescaled, the solutions then converge to a nontrivial limit which is related to the quasi-stationary solutions of the equation. Besides, these quasi-stationary solutions, or, equivalently, the quasi-stationary distributions of the self-similar Markov processes, are fully described.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/09-AAP622 the Annals of Applied Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aap/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
A finitely generated, locally indicable group with no faithful action by C^1 diffeomorphisms of the interval
Creators: name: Navas, Andrés
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20B27, 37C85, 37E05

description: According to Thurston's stability theorem, every group of C^1 diffeomorphisms of the closed interval is locally indicable (.e., every finitely generated subgroup factors through Z). We show that, even for finitely generated groups, the converse of this statement is not true. More precisely, we show that the semi-direct product between F_2 an Z^2, although locally indicable, does not embed into Diff_+^1 (]0,1[). (Here F_2 is any free subgroup of SL(2,Z), and its action on Z^2 is the projective one.) Moreover, we show that for every non-solvable subgroup G of SL(2,Z), the semi-direct product between G and Z^2 does not embed into Diff^1_+(S^1).
description: 8 pages, no figure