cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
GUT with Anomalous U(1) Suggests Heterotic M-Theory?
Creators: name: Maekawa, Nobuhiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that a new GUT scenario we proposed indicates that heterotic M-theory is one of the most interesting possibility to describe our world because of the two features in the scenario. The first feature is that E_6 unified group plays an essential role not only in understanding larger mixing angles in lepton sector than in quark sector but also in solving the SUSY flavor Problem by introducing non-abelian horizontal symmetry SU(2)_H or SU(3)_H. The second feature is that the cutoff scale must be taken as the usual GUT scale Λ_G\sim 2\times 10^{16} GeV to realize natural gauge coupling unification. Because this cutoff scale is smaller than the Planck scale or string scale, it may suggest the existence of extra dimension in which only gravity modes can propagate. This talk is based on a dozen papars, some of which are collaborated with T. Yamashita, M. Bando and Q. Shafi.
description: 10 pages, Talk at String Phenomenology 2003, Durham in England, 29th of July - 4th of August
Finding structures in photometric redshift galaxy surveys: An extended friends-of-friends algorithm
Creators: name: Botzler, C. S.
name: Snigula, J.
name: Bender, R.
name: Hopp, U.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a modified version of the friends-of-friends (FOF) structure finding algorithm, designed specifically to locate groups or clusters of galaxies in photometric redshift datasets. The main objective of this paper is to show that this extended friends-of-friends (hereafter EXT-FOF) algorithm yields results almost identical to the original FOF, if applied to a spectroscopic redshift dataset, and a rather conservative catalogue of structures, in case of a dataset with simulated photometric redshifts. Therefore, we create group catalogues for the first Center for Astrophysics Redshift Survey (CFA1), as well as for the Las Campanas Redshift Survey (LCRS), both of which being spectroscopic surveys, using FOF-algorithms. We then apply our new algorithm to said surveys and compare the resulting structure catalogue. Furthermore, we bestow simulated photometric redshifts on the LCRS galaxies, and use the EXT-FOF to detect structures, that we compare in size and composition to the ones found in the original, spectroscopic dataset. We will show that the properties of this modified algorithm are well understood and that it is suited for finding structures in photometric datasets. This is the first paper in a series of papers, dealing with the application of our new cluster finding algorithm to various photometric redshift galaxy surveys.
description: 15 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
1909-01-29 G.V. Black to McKay
Creators: name: Black, G. V. (Greene Vardiman), 1836-1915.
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 1909
Subjects: Dental Fluorosis
Tooth Abnormalities
Fluoridation
Colorado

description: Title: G.V. Black to McKay Container: c02 id: level:
Internal kinematics of spiral galaxies in distant clusters. Part II. Observations and data analysis
Creators: name: Jaeger, K.
name: Ziegler, B. L.
name: Boehm, A.
name: Heidt, J.
name: Moellenhoff, C.
name: Hopp, U.
name: Mendez, R. H.
name: Wagner, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have conducted an observing campaign with FORS at the ESO-VLT to explore the kinematical properties of spiral galaxies in distant galaxy clusters. Our main goal is to analyse transformation- and interaction processes of disk galaxies within the special environment of clusters as compared to the hierarchical evolution of galaxies in the field. Spatially resolved MOS-spectra have been obtained for seven galaxy clusters at 0.32 hours we reach an S/N>5 in the emission lines appropriate for the deduction of the galaxies' internal rotation velocities from [OII], Hbeta, or [OIII] profiles. Preselection of targets was done on the basis of available redshifts as well as from photometric and morphological information gathered from own observations, archive data, and from the literature. Emphasis was laid on the definition of suitable setups to avoid the typical restrictions of the standard MOS unit for this kind of observations. In total we assembled spectra of 116 objects of which 50 turned out to be cluster members. Position velocity diagrams, finding charts as well as tables with photometric, spectral, and structural parameters of individual galaxies are presented.
description: 18 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics. A version with full resolution figures can be downloaded from http://www.uni-sw.gwdg.de/~vwgroup/publications.html
Snake Graphs from Triangulated Orbifolds
Creators: name: Banaian, Esther
name: Kelley, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 13F60, 05E15, 05C70

description: We give an explicit combinatorial formula for the Laurent expansion of any arc or closed curve on an unpunctured triangulated orbifold. We do this by extending the snake graph construction of Musiker, Schiffler, and Williams to unpunctured orbifolds. In the case of an ordinary arc, this gives a combinatorial proof of positivity to the generalized cluster algebra from this orbifold.
A COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS OF THE MARYLAND STATE RESTITUTION PROGRAM (VICTIMS, RECIDIVISM)
Creators: name: Duffy, Barbara Poitras
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Although the concept of cost effectiveness analysis is currently in vogue, it is interesting to note the absence of such analysis in the criminal justice field. An examination of the available research and literature in the area of restitution programming indicates an abundance of descriptive and attitude studies. There is, however, a lack of rigorous quantitative or analytical studies addressing the cost effectiveness of restitution programs. The few studies which have attempted to evaluate the effects of restitution have been flawed, failing to yield useful results. In an effort to determine the cost effectiveness of alternative criminal sentences, recidivism rates are compared for offenders sentenced to restitution, incarceration, or probation in the state of Maryland. In this thesis, data on relevant variables were collected from two hundred and ten offender files. A non-experimental design using logit and multiple regression analysis was employed. While the data confirmed the importance of several independent variables in the occurrence of recidivism, some of the relationships traditionally associated with recidivism such as sentence and drug use could not be supported. Efforts to explain these findings included difference of means tests between the study sample and offenders located across the United States during the same time period. This analysis yielded no difference between groups for many key variables. Next, judges responsible for sentencing offenders included in this study were interviewed to determine which variables, if any, were important determinants of sentence and recidivism. These consultations suggested that factors not lending themselves to quantitative analyses significantly impact judicial sentencing decisions. It is proposed that for this sample, variables such as offender demeanor may play an important role in the sentencing decision. As a result, variables traditionally associated with post sentence success or failure (recidivism) may have been neglected, thus yielding results such as those observed here.
Additional file 2 of Assessment of Maya women’s knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs on sexually transmitted infections in Guatemala: a qualitative pilot study
Creators: name: Tasnim, Noor
name: Heneine, Emma M.
name: MacDermod, Casey M.
name: Perez, Maria L.
name: Boyd, David L.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Interview Questions in Spanish
2MASS J15460752-6258042: a mid-M dwarf hosting a prolonged accretion disc
Creators: name: Lee, Jinhee
name: Song, Inseok
name: Murphy, Simon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the discovery of the oldest (~55 Myr) mid-M type star known to host on-going accretion. 2MASS J15460752-6258042 (2M1546, spectral type M5, 59.2 pc) shows spectroscopic signs of accretion such as strong Ha, He I, and [O I] emission lines, from which we estimate an accretion rate of ~10^-10 Msun/yr. Considering the clearly detected infrared excess in all WISE bands, the shape of its spectral energy distribution and its age, we believe the star is surrounded by a transitional disc, clearly with some gas still present at inner radii. The position and kinematics of the star from Gaia DR2 and our own radial velocity measurements suggest membership in the nearby ~55 Myr-old Argus moving group. At only 59pc from Earth, 2M1546 is one of the nearest accreting mid-M dwarfs, making it an ideal target for studying the upper limit on the lifetimes of gas-rich discs around low mass stars.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures, Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Geometric phases for non-degenerate and degenerate mixed states
Creators: name: Singh, K.
name: Tong, D. M.
name: Basu, K.
name: Chen, J. L.
name: Du, J. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper focuses on the geometric phase of general mixed states under unitary evolution. Here we analyze both non-degenerate as well as degenerate states. Starting with the non-degenerate case, we show that the usual procedure of subtracting the dynamical phase from the total phase to yield the geometric phase for pure states, does not hold for mixed states. To this end, we furnish an expression for the geometric phase that is gauge invariant. The parallelity conditions are shown to be easily derivable from this expression. We also extend our formalism to states that exhibit degeneracies. Here with the holonomy taking on a non-abelian character, we provide an expression for the geometric phase that is manifestly gauge invariant. As in the case of the non-degenerate case, the form also displays the parallelity conditions clearly. Finally, we furnish explicit examples of the geometric phases for both the non-degenerate as well as degenerate mixed states.
description: 23 pages
An investigation into UBC sustainable swag
Creators: name: Wu, Simon
name: Liu, Michael
name: Kung, Anson
name: Naghavi, Pirouz
name: Lee, Jonathan
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: In previous years, the UBC Sustainability Initiative (USI) has participated in various campus-wide events such as Imagine Day, wherein various campus organizations promote themselves to students. One of the typical marketing strategies at these events is the act of handing out swag, a practice the USI participated in. However, concern was raised as to whether the swag being used by the USI was appropriate for the message of the organization, as previously used swag items were either overly expensive or lacking clarity with respect to the environmental impact of their fabrication. In light of this issue, the USI requested student groups of the APSC 262 course to perform an investigative analysis of sustainable swag. It was requested that this analysis remain primarily focused on literature, as the USI was conducting its own conversation with various swag providers and wished to avoid possible misunderstandings should the student groups contact the same companies by mistake. The desired end result of this analysis was to produce a method to quickly evaluate potential swag items with respect to Triple Bottom Line (TBL) accounting and a recommendation for potential swag items or marketing techniques the USI could use in the future. To address these issues and arrive at potential solutions, the team performed a literature review on the separate topics of the effectiveness of swag as marketing, the sustainability practices of suppliers, and various decision making processes. From this research, the team was able to develop a framework for swag TBL assessment, which evaluates items based on the labour practices in the country of manufacture, the carbon impact of the materials used, and the per-unit cost of the item. The team also came up with three potential swag item recommendations for the USI, and would recommend the USI to consider alternative marketing methods in addition to the use of swag. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
A COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS OF THE MARYLAND STATE RESTITUTION PROGRAM (VICTIMS, RECIDIVISM)
Creators: name: Duffy, Barbara Poitras
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4402
subject: Criminology
subject: FOS: Law

description: Although the concept of cost effectiveness analysis is currently in vogue, it is interesting to note the absence of such analysis in the criminal justice field. An examination of the available research and literature in the area of restitution programming indicates an abundance of descriptive and attitude studies. There is, however, a lack of rigorous quantitative or analytical studies addressing the cost effectiveness of restitution programs. The few studies which have attempted to evaluate the effects of restitution have been flawed, failing to yield useful results. In an effort to determine the cost effectiveness of alternative criminal sentences, recidivism rates are compared for offenders sentenced to restitution, incarceration, or probation in the state of Maryland. In this thesis, data on relevant variables were collected from two hundred and ten offender files. A non-experimental design using logit and multiple regression analysis was employed. While the data confirmed the importance of several independent variables in the occurrence of recidivism, some of the relationships traditionally associated with recidivism such as sentence and drug use could not be supported. Efforts to explain these findings included difference of means tests between the study sample and offenders located across the United States during the same time period. This analysis yielded no difference between groups for many key variables. Next, judges responsible for sentencing offenders included in this study were interviewed to determine which variables, if any, were important determinants of sentence and recidivism. These consultations suggested that factors not lending themselves to quantitative analyses significantly impact judicial sentencing decisions. It is proposed that for this sample, variables such as offender demeanor may play an important role in the sentencing decision. As a result, variables traditionally associated with post sentence success or failure (recidivism) may have been neglected, thus yielding results such as those observed here.
IRAN AND ITS NATIONALITIES: THE CASE OF BALUCH NATIONALISM
Creators: name: Hosseinbor, Mohammad Hassan
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The question of ethnic nationalities divided by international boundaries poses one of the potentially most explosive problems facing the multi-national developing states. It involves two political forces moving in opposing directions. On the one hand, each multi-ethnic state is driven to integrate its diverse nationalities into its state structure. On the other hand, there is the nationalist drive of divided nationalities seeking self-rule in their national homelands. In Iran, all non-Persian nationalities--Baluchis, Kurds, Turks, Turkmens, and Arabs--belong to the category of nationalities divided across state lines. Baluchis, whose homeland, Baluchistan, covers 240,000 square miles, are divided among Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. This study examines the Baluch national movement toward political, economic, and cultural self-rule in Western Baluchistan since its incorporation into Iran in 1928. Drawing on historical materials in English, Persian, Baluchi, Arabic, and Urdu, the study analyzes three sets of interrelated factors. The first set relates to the evolution and dynamics of Baluch nationalism, its cohesive bases, its socio-economic and class structure, its politics and political organizations, and its personalities. The second set deals with the pattern of relationships between the Baluch nationality and the Persian-dominated state of Iran. The third set pertains to the regional and international implications of Baluch nationalism. This study's findings suggest that the nationalism of the Baluch and other subordinate nationalities in Iran is the antithesis to the politically and economically dominant and exploitative nationalism of the dominant nationality, a pattern similar to the rise of the early nationalism of Third World peoples as a response to European colonialism. This general thesis, however, is based primarily on the cases of the Middle-Eastern nationalities discussed in connection with our case of study. Any broader application of this conclusion, however, should await the results of additional case studies of ethnic nationalities in other geographic areas of the Third World as well.
Ancestor ideals of vector spaces of forms, and level algebras
Creators: name: Iarrobino, Anthony
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 13D40, 14C05

description: Let R be the polynomial ring in r variables over a field k, with maximal ideal M and let V denote a vector subspace of the space of degree-j homogeneous elements of R. We study three related algebras determined by V. The first is the ``ancestor algebra'' whose defining ideal is the largest graded ideal whose intersection with M^j is the ideal (V). The second is the ``level algebra'', whose defining ideal L(V) is the largest graded ideal of R such that the degree-j component is V; and third is the algebra R/(V). When r=2, we determine the possible Hilbert functions H for each of these algebras, and as well the dimension of each Hilbert function stratum. We characterize the graded Betti numbers of these algebras in terms of certain partitions depending only on H, and give the codimension of each stratum in terms of invariants of the partitions. When r=2 and k is algebraically closed the Hilbert function strata for each of the three algebras satisfy a frontier property that the closure of a stratum is the union of more special strata. The family G(H) of all graded quotients of R having the given Hilbert function is a natural desingularization of this closure.
description: 41 pages, LateX file, to appear Journal of Algebra
The H2CO abundance in the inner warm regions of low mass protostellar envelopes
Creators: name: Maret, Sebastien
name: Ceccarelli, Cecilia
name: Caux, Emmanuel
name: Tielens, Alexander G. G. M.
name: Jorgensen, Jes K.
name: Van Dishoeck, Ewine F.
name: Bacmann, Aurore
name: Castets, Alain
name: Lefloch, Bertrand
name: Loinard, Laurent
name: Parise, Berengere
name: Schoeier, Fredrik L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a survey of the formaldehyde emission in a sample of eight Class 0 protostars obtained with the IRAM and JCMT telescopes. The data have been analyzed with three different methods with increasing level of sophistication. We first analyze the observed emission in the LTE approximation, and derive rotational temperatures between 11 and 40 K, and column densities between 1 and 20 x 10^13 cm^-2. Second, we use a LVG code and derive larger kinetic temperatures, between 30 and 90 K, consistent with subthermally populated levels and densities from 1 to 6 x 10^5 cm^-3. The column densities from the LVG modeling are within a factor of 10 with respect to those derived in the LTE approximation. Finally, we analyze the observations based upon detailed models for the envelopes surrounding the protostars, using temperature and density profiles previously derived from continuum observations. We approximate the formaldehyde abundance across the envelope with a jump function, the jump occurring when the dust temperature reaches 100 K, the evaporation temperature of the grain mantles. The observed formaldehyde emission is well reproduced only if there is a jump, more than two orders of magnitude, in four sources. In the remaining four sources the data are consistent with a formaldehyde abundance jump, but the evidence is more marginal (~2 sigma). The inferred inner H2CO abundance varies between 1 x 10^-8 and 6 x 10^-6. We discuss the implications of these jumps for our understanding of the origin and evolution of ices in low mass star forming regions. Finally, we give predictions for the submillimeter H2CO lines, which are particularly sensitive to the abundance jumps.
description: Accepted at A&A
ESTILOS DE LIDERAZGO EN EXPORTADORAS DE UVAS DE MESA SONORENSE
Leadership styles in sonorian table grape exporters
Creators: name: Islas, Marco Alberto A La Torre
name: Parra, Jesús Martín Robles
name: Rodríguez, Juan Martín Preciado
name: Gómez, Beatriz Olivia Camarena
name: Flores2, Noemí Bañuelos
name: Islas, Marco Alberto A La Torre
name: Parra, Jesús Martín Robles
name: Rodríguez, Juan Martín Preciado
name: Gómez, Beatriz Olivia Camarena
name: Flores2, Noemí Bañuelos
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Leadership Styles
subject: Transformational Leadership
subject: Corporate Social Responsibility
subject: Grape Production Organization

description: The objective is to identify the leadership styles that have allowed corporate social responsibility (CSR) to be incorporated into Sonoran table grape producing organizations. The research was developed through a descriptive transversal design, through the application of a questionnaire to managers of grape producing organizations. The results show that it is the transformational and transactional leaderships that allow higher levels of CSR, coinciding with the literature review, in that these styles contribute to comply with these environmental and social principles imposed as new market demands.
IRAN AND ITS NATIONALITIES: THE CASE OF BALUCH NATIONALISM
Creators: name: Hosseinbor, Mohammad Hassan
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: The question of ethnic nationalities divided by international boundaries poses one of the potentially most explosive problems facing the multi-national developing states. It involves two political forces moving in opposing directions. On the one hand, each multi-ethnic state is driven to integrate its diverse nationalities into its state structure. On the other hand, there is the nationalist drive of divided nationalities seeking self-rule in their national homelands. In Iran, all non-Persian nationalities--Baluchis, Kurds, Turks, Turkmens, and Arabs--belong to the category of nationalities divided across state lines. Baluchis, whose homeland, Baluchistan, covers 240,000 square miles, are divided among Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. This study examines the Baluch national movement toward political, economic, and cultural self-rule in Western Baluchistan since its incorporation into Iran in 1928. Drawing on historical materials in English, Persian, Baluchi, Arabic, and Urdu, the study analyzes three sets of interrelated factors. The first set relates to the evolution and dynamics of Baluch nationalism, its cohesive bases, its socio-economic and class structure, its politics and political organizations, and its personalities. The second set deals with the pattern of relationships between the Baluch nationality and the Persian-dominated state of Iran. The third set pertains to the regional and international implications of Baluch nationalism. This study's findings suggest that the nationalism of the Baluch and other subordinate nationalities in Iran is the antithesis to the politically and economically dominant and exploitative nationalism of the dominant nationality, a pattern similar to the rise of the early nationalism of Third World peoples as a response to European colonialism. This general thesis, however, is based primarily on the cases of the Middle-Eastern nationalities discussed in connection with our case of study. Any broader application of this conclusion, however, should await the results of additional case studies of ethnic nationalities in other geographic areas of the Third World as well.
Additional file 1 of Assessment of Maya women’s knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs on sexually transmitted infections in Guatemala: a qualitative pilot study
Creators: name: Tasnim, Noor
name: Heneine, Emma M.
name: MacDermod, Casey M.
name: Perez, Maria L.
name: Boyd, David L.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Demographic Information of Participants
Non-linear supersymmetry and intersecting D-branes
Creators: name: Antoniadis, I.
name: Tuckmantel, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the non-linear realization of supersymmetry. We classify all lower dimensional operators, describing effective interactions of the Goldstino with Standard Model fields. Besides a universal coupling to the energy momentum tensor of dimension eight, there are additional model dependent operators whose strength is not determined by non-linear supersymmetry, within the effective field theory. Their dimensionality can be lower than eight, starting with dimension six, leading in general to dominant effects at low energies. We compute their coefficients in string models with D-branes at angles. We find that the Goldstino decay constant is given by the total brane tension, while the various dimensionless couplings are independent from the values of the intersection angles.
description: 53 pages, no figures. v2: redundant operator removed, references added, minor typos corrected
The GlueX DIRC Program
Creators: name: Ali, A.
name: Barbosa, F.
name: Bessuille, J.
name: Chudakov, E.
name: Dzhygadlo, R.
name: Fanelli, C.
name: Frye, J.
name: Hardin, J.
name: Hurley, A.
name: Kalicy, G.
name: Kelsey, J.
name: Li, W.
name: Patsyuk, M.
name: Schwarz, C.
name: Schwiening, J.
name: Shepherd, M.
name: Stevens, J. R.
name: Whitlatch, T.
name: Williams, M.
name: Yang, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The GlueX experiment is located in experimental Hall D at Jefferson Lab (JLab) and provides a unique capability to search for hybrid mesons in high-energy photoproduction, utilizing a ~9 GeV linearly polarized photon beam. The initial, low-intensity phase of GlueX was recently completed and a high-intensity phase has begun in 2020 which includes an upgraded kaon identification system, known as the DIRC (Detection of Internally Reflected Cherenkov light), utilizing components from the decommissioned BaBar DIRC. The identification of kaon final states will significantly enhance the GlueX physics program, to aid in inferring the quark flavor content of conventional (and potentially hybrid) mesons. In these proceedings we describe the installation of the GlueX DIRC and the analysis of initial commissioning data
A simplification of entanglement purification
Creators: name: Hsieh, Jin-Yuan
name: Li, Che-Ming
name: Chuu, Der-San
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An idea of hybrid maps is proposed to establish standard entanglement purification protocols which guarantee to purify any distillable state to a desired maximally entangled pure state all by the standard purification local operations and classical communications. The protocols proposed in this work, in which two state transformations are used, perform better than the IBM and Oxford protocols in the sense that they require fewer operation times in yielding a same amount of the desired pure state. One of the proposed protocol in this work can even lead to a higher improved output yield when it is combined with the hashing protocol, as compared with the combined algorithm consisting of the Oxford and the hashing protocol.
description: 4 figures, 10 pages
Additional file 4 of Variation in disease phenotype is marked in equine trypanosomiasis
Creators: name: Raftery, Alexandra G.
name: Saloum Jallow
name: Coultous, Robert M.
name: Rodgers, Jean
name: Sutton, David G. M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 4: Table S2. Summary of the species-specific reference ranges used for description and analysis of clinical and clinicopathological parameters.
A DIALECTICAL DEVELOPMENT OF KIERKEGAARD'S STAGES OF EXISTENCE AND BUBER'S DIALOGICAL WAY OF LIFE (ZEN BUDDHISM)
Creators: name: Morris, Thomas Fred
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Existence, according to Kierkegaard, consists of a series of processes in which we accept or reject various teloi. His stages of existence pertain to the different ways in which we can accept or reject teloi: we can do so according to aesthetic, ethical, or religious criteria. An explanation of these stages is first presented, and then they are illustrated with examples from Kierkegaard's work (Don Juan, the unhappiest man, the married man of Stages on Life's Way, Socrates, an outing in the Deer Park, and Abraham). It is then argued that Buber knows of another way of existing, that of saying 'Thou'. Instead of appropriating something as a means to some future telos, one can turn toward that thing simply for the sake of being related to it in the present, without ulterior motive. This allows for two additional ways of accepting teloi on the basis of religious criteria, which, together with saying 'Thou', constitute the dialogical way of life. In this way the exposition of Kierkegaard's thought provides a structure through which to appreciate the significance of Buber's.
Characteristics of School Districts Offering Free School Meals to All Students Through the Community Eligibility Provision of the National School Lunch Program
Creators: name: Rogus, Stephanie
name: Guthrie, Joanne
name: Ralston, Katherine
name: Rogus, Stephanie
name: Guthrie, Joanne
name: Ralston, Katherine
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: National School Lunch Program
subject: Community Eligibility Provision
subject: child nutrition,
subject: school meals
subject: children
subject: food assistance programs

description: The Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) of the National School Lunch Program allows high-poverty schools to provide USDA school meals at no charge to all of their students. USDA reimbursement for meals is simplified by making use of routinely collected administrative data, such as participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly food stamps) or Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), rather than collecting school meal applications. Schools and districts with at least 40 percent of enrolled students identified as participating in these assistance programs through the administrative data—also known as the Identified Student Percentage, or ISP—are eligible to participate in the CEP. This report examines the characteristics of school districts that participated in the CEP in school year 2015-16—with participation defined as CEP being implemented in at least one eligible school in the district—using administrative data from USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service, the National Center for Education Statistics, and State education agencies, where available. The highest school-level ISP in the district was found to be significantly associated with CEP participation, holding other factors constant, although the association varied for different sized districts. Participation also varied significantly by region and length of time since CEP became available.
Detecting Solar Neutrino Flares and Flavors
Creators: name: Fargion, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Intense solar flares originated in sun spots produce high energy particles (protons, $α$) well observable by satellites and ground-based detectors. The flare onset produces signals in different energy bands (radio, X, gamma and neutrons). The most powerful solar flares as the ones occurred on 23 February 1956, 29 September 1989 and the more recent on October 28th, and the 2nd, 4th, 13th of November 2003 released in sharp times the largest flare energies (${E}_{FL} \simeq {10}^{31}÷{10}^{32} erg). The high energy solar flare protons scatter within the solar corona and they must be source of a prompt neutrino burst through the production of charged pions. Later on, solar flare particles hitting the atmosphere may marginally increase the atmospheric neutrino flux. The prompt solar neutrino flare may be detected in the largest underground $ν$ detectors. Our estimate for the October - November 2003 solar flares gives a number of events above the unity. The electron/muon $ν$ signals and spectra may reflect the neutrino flavour mixing. A surprising tau appearance may occur for a hard {E}_nu_mu}} \to {E}_{ν_τ}\simeq> 4 GeV$) flare spectra.
description: 13 pages, 4 figures ; minor editorial corrections
Improving sampling and calibration of GRBs as distance indicators
Creators: name: Montiel, Ariadna
name: Cabrera, J. I.
name: Hidalgo, Juan Carlos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a sample of 74 Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) from the Fermi-GBM catalogue for which we compute the distance moduli and use them to constrain effective dark energy models. To overcome the circularity problem affecting GRBs as distance indicators, we calibrate the Amati relation of our sample with a cosmology-independent technique. Specifically, we use the latest observational Hubble parameter data, including associated systematics, to approximate the cosmic expansion through a Bezier parametric curve. We subsequently obtain the distance moduli of the GRBs and include the data in a suite of recent cosmological observations of the expansion history (Planck Compressed 2018, 2012 BOSS release of BAO data and Pantheon SNIa), to compute Bayesian posterior constraints for the standard cosmological model $Λ$CDM, as well as $ω$CDM, and the CPL parametrization. Throughout the analysis we strive to keep under control the error propagation and limit our GRBs sample to avoid observational bias. As a result, we find no evidence in favour of the alternatives to $Λ$CDM model. The latter agrees very well with our calibrated sample of GRBs and presently available luminosity distance probes.
description: 13 pages, 6 tables, 7 figures. V2: Accepted version for publication in MNRAS. GRBs sample refined, systematic errors of Hubble parameter data included for the calibration. BIC analysis included
A DIALECTICAL DEVELOPMENT OF KIERKEGAARD'S STAGES OF EXISTENCE AND BUBER'S DIALOGICAL WAY OF LIFE (ZEN BUDDHISM)
Creators: name: Morris, Thomas Fred
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 50
subject: Philosophy and religious studies
classificationCode: 5003
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: Existence, according to Kierkegaard, consists of a series of processes in which we accept or reject various teloi. His stages of existence pertain to the different ways in which we can accept or reject teloi: we can do so according to aesthetic, ethical, or religious criteria. An explanation of these stages is first presented, and then they are illustrated with examples from Kierkegaard's work (Don Juan, the unhappiest man, the married man of Stages on Life's Way, Socrates, an outing in the Deer Park, and Abraham). It is then argued that Buber knows of another way of existing, that of saying 'Thou'. Instead of appropriating something as a means to some future telos, one can turn toward that thing simply for the sake of being related to it in the present, without ulterior motive. This allows for two additional ways of accepting teloi on the basis of religious criteria, which, together with saying 'Thou', constitute the dialogical way of life. In this way the exposition of Kierkegaard's thought provides a structure through which to appreciate the significance of Buber's.
Estimated Costs for Fruit and Vegetable Producers To Comply With the Food Safety Modernization Act’s Produce Rule
Creators: name: Bovay, John
name: Ferrier, Peyton
name: Zhen, Chen
name: Bovay, John
name: Ferrier, Peyton
name: Zhen, Chen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: food policy
subject: food safety
subject: Food Safety Modernization Act
subject: FSMA
subject: produce
subject: markets
subject: regulation

description: Under the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2011, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration started to implement its Produce Rule in phases beginning in 2018. Implementation of the rule will increase costs for farms supplying almost all fresh produce sold in the United States. This study estimates farm-level costs to comply with the rule by commodity, State, and farm size. Across commodities and States, differences in costs are driven by differences in farm size and range from 0.3 percent of annual produce sales for the largest farms to 6.8 percent for the smallest.
Dynamics of a Rigid Rod in a Glassy Medium
Creators: name: Moreno, Angel J.
name: Kob, Walter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present simulations of the motion of a single rigid rod in a disordered static 2d-array of disk-like obstacles. The rotational, $D_{\rm R}$, and center-of-mass translational, $D_{\rm CM}$, diffusion constants are calculated for a wide range of rod length $L$ and density of obstacles $ρ$. It is found that $D_{\rm CM}$ follows the behavior predicted by kinetic theory for a hard disk with an effective radius $R(L)$. A dynamic crossover is observed in $D_{\rm R}$ for $L$ comparable to the typical distance between neighboring obstacles $d_{\rm nn}$. Using arguments from kinetic theory and reptation, we rationalize the scaling laws, dynamic exponents, and prefactors observed for $D_{\rm R}$. In analogy with the enhanced translational diffusion observed in deeply supercooled liquids, the Stokes-Einstein-Debye relation is violated for $L > 0.6d_{\rm nn}$.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures. Major changes. To be published in Europhysics Letters
PushNet: Efficient and Adaptive Neural Message Passing
Creators: name: Busch, Julian
name: Pi, Jiaxing
name: Seidl, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Message passing neural networks have recently evolved into a state-of-the-art approach to representation learning on graphs. Existing methods perform synchronous message passing along all edges in multiple subsequent rounds and consequently suffer from various shortcomings: Propagation schemes are inflexible since they are restricted to $k$-hop neighborhoods and insensitive to actual demands of information propagation. Further, long-range dependencies cannot be modeled adequately and learned representations are based on correlations of fixed locality. These issues prevent existing methods from reaching their full potential in terms of prediction performance. Instead, we consider a novel asynchronous message passing approach where information is pushed only along the most relevant edges until convergence. Our proposed algorithm can equivalently be formulated as a single synchronous message passing iteration using a suitable neighborhood function, thus sharing the advantages of existing methods while addressing their central issues. The resulting neural network utilizes a node-adaptive receptive field derived from meaningful sparse node neighborhoods. In addition, by learning and combining node representations over differently sized neighborhoods, our model is able to capture correlations on multiple scales. We further propose variants of our base model with different inductive bias. Empirical results are provided for semi-supervised node classification on five real-world datasets following a rigorous evaluation protocol. We find that our models outperform competitors on all datasets in terms of accuracy with statistical significance. In some cases, our models additionally provide faster runtime.
Before Implementation of the Food Safety Modernization Act's Produce Rule: A Survey of U.S. Produce Growers
Creators: name: Astill, Gregory
name: Minor, Travis
name: Calvin, Linda
name: Thornsbury, Suzanne
name: Astill, Gregory
name: Minor, Travis
name: Calvin, Linda
name: Thornsbury, Suzanne
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: food safety practices
subject: microbial contamination
subject: produce; produce growers
subject: Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA)
subject: Produce Rule (PR)
subject: Standards for the Growing
subject: Harvesting
subject: Packing
subject: Holding of Produce for Human Consumption
subject: Produce Grower
subject: Food Safety Practices Surveys

description: The 2011 Food Safety Modernization Act’s (FSMA) Produce Rule (PR)—formally known as the “Standards for the Growing, Harvesting, Packing, and Holding of Produce for Human Consumption”—was the first on farm food safety regulation for produce to be consumed in the United States. It set specific disease-preventive requirements for produce that is sold and consumed raw. Teaming with U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) to conduct a two-part survey in 2015 and 2016, USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) asked U.S. produce growers about microbial food safety practices already in place before the PR’s implementation. This report presents survey descriptive statistics covering various food safety practices and measured costs.
UBC sustainability : assessing student perceptions and knowledge levels across faculties
Creators: name: Cowell, Brett
name: Tsang, Audrey
name: Walker, Christopher
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: There is much academic debate surrounding the myriad definitions of sustainability, and this debate is compounded by sometime competing perspectives inherent in a diversity of academic fields of inquiry. We used a two-part questionnaire to gauge whether student faculties predicted student perceptions of sustainability, as well as exploring participants’ objective knowledge levels on sustainability. Without proving causation, our results show significantly different definitions of sustainability across faculties of Arts, Science and Business at University of British Columbia, while also illustrating a disproportionate representation of environmentally aspected definitions compared to the economic and social aspect in popular perception. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Calculating Renyi Entropies with Neural Autoregressive Quantum States
Creators: name: Wang, Zhaoyou
name: Davis, Emily J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Entanglement entropy is an essential metric for characterizing quantum many-body systems, but its numerical evaluation for neural network representations of quantum states has so far been inefficient and demonstrated only for the restricted Boltzmann machine architecture. Here, we estimate generalized Renyi entropies of autoregressive neural quantum states with up to N=256 spins using quantum Monte Carlo methods. A naive "direct sampling" approach performs well for low-order Renyi entropies but fails for larger orders when benchmarked on a 1D Heisenberg model. We therefore propose an improved "conditional sampling" method exploiting the autoregressive structure of the network ansatz, which outperforms direct sampling and facilitates calculations of higher-order Renyi entropies in both 1D and 2D Heisenberg models. Access to higher-order Renyi entropies allows for an approximation of the von Neumann entropy as well as extraction of the single copy entanglement. Both methods elucidate the potential of neural network quantum states in quantum Monte Carlo studies of entanglement entropy for many-body systems.