cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Thirteen on a Match
Creators: name: Green, Karen L.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Library science

description: I've spent so much time trying to make inroads for comics and graphic novels in traditional academic departments at Columbia, that I completely forgot another natural constituency: our School of the Arts. So it was a pleasant surprise indeed to get an unexpected email this past summer from Tomas Vu-Daniel, Columbia's LeRoy Neiman Professor of Visual Arts and artistic director of the university's LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies. The big news: he was teaching a class on the production of a graphic novel, and wanted to know if he could bring his students to the library for a tour of my exhibition and a discussion of the history of the medium.
On an Asymptotic Series of Ramanujan
Creators: name: Yu, Yaming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 34E05; 60E05.

description: An asymptotic series in Ramanujan's second notebook (Entry 10, Chapter 3) is concerned with the behavior of the expected value of $ϕ(X)$ for large $λ$ where $X$ is a Poisson random variable with mean $λ$ and $ϕ$ is a function satisfying certain growth conditions. We generalize this by studying the asymptotics of the expected value of $ϕ(X)$ when the distribution of $X$ belongs to a suitable family indexed by a convolution parameter. Examples include the problem of inverse moments for distribution families such as the binomial or the negative binomial.
description: To appear, Ramanujan J
title: Religious Commitment and Meaning in Life
Creators: name: Barfield, Merrill L.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1976

description: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between meaning or purpose in life as measured by Crumbaugh's Purpose in Life Test, and the degree of religious commitment of college students, with particular interest in the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). Religious commitment was measured by Hoge's Intrinsic Religious Motivation Scale (IRM).
Two hundred and fifty-five undergraduates, 122 males and 132 females, enrolled in introductory psychology and sociology classes at Utah State University during spring quarter, 1975, served as subjects.
A two-way analysis of variance calculated separately for the LDS and non-LDS groups was used to test three hypotheses: (1) there will be a significant difference among the mean PIL scores for the high, moderate, and low religious commitment groups (in that order); (2) females will be significantly higher in their sense of purpose in life than males; (3) females will be significantly higher in their sense of purpose in life in all religious commitment groups.
Hypothesis 1 was significant beyond the .05 level for the LDS group. A Sheffe test indicated the difference was between the high and the low religious commitment groups only. Hypotheses 2 and 3 were not supported. None of the three hypotheses were supported for the nonLDS group. T-ratios computed between the three corresponding levels of religious commitment for the LDS and non-LDS groups were significant beyond the .05 level.
A significant positive relationship for males beyond the .05 level was found between sex and religious commitment. No relationship was found between sex and purpose in life. A significant positive relationship beyond the .05 level was found between religious commitment and purpose in life. No significant differences were found between year in school, marital status, and socioeconomic status on either purpose in life or religious commitment. Significant differences beyond the .05 level were found between religious commitment and church attendance, and between religious commitment and activity in church organizations.
It was concluded that the results support the premise that religion can have a significant impact on an individual's sense of purpose in life as defined by Frankl (1963), particularly if the individual's religion encourages active involvement on the part of the individual. The effect is especially strong if high religious belief, high religious participation, and social activity outside of church occur together.
Additional file 4 of CT radiomics-based long-term survival prediction for locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer patients treated with concurrent chemoradiotherapy using features from tumor and tumor organismal environment
Creators: name: Chen, Nai-Bin
name: Xiong, Mai
name: Zhou, Rui
name: Zhou, Yin
name: Qiu, Bo
name: Luo, Yi-Feng
name: Zhou, Su
name: Chu, Chu
name: Li, Qi-Wen
name: Wang, Bin
name: Jiang, Hai-Hang
name: Guo, Jin-Yu
name: Peng, Kang-Qiang
name: Xie, Chuan-Miao
name: Liu, Hui
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional File 4. Tumor response after CCRT in the low-risk and high-risk group
Of Awards and Artworks
Creators: name: Green, Karen L.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Library science

description: I had the incredible privilege of being asked to be an Eisner Awards judge for 2011. This was a long-held dream come true, and an opportunity both to immerse myself in all of 2010's comics and graphic novels, and also to hang out with five or six like-minded folks for five days of even more reading mixed with endless discussion. The Eisners work similarly to the Oscars: a panel of judges identifies a list of nominees, in close to thirty categories, and then the professional community votes on the nominations, with the winners announced at a gala ceremony in July at Comic-Con International in San Diego.
title: Sex Role Preference, Sibling Status, and Bonding Behavior in Children
Creators: name: Biaggio, Mary Kay
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1976

description: The focus of this study was to explores some of the important variables in sex role development in children. The major hypotheses were concerned with differences between the independent variables child's grade level, sex, and sibling status (ordinal position and sex of sibling)on the dependent variables sex role preference and bonding behavior. Bonding, a concept which has not been examined in conjunction with sex role preference, was here defined as (1)the degree to which a child affiliates with members of his own sex and (2)the degree to which a child excludes opposite sex play-mates from his affiliative realm.
Subjects were fifty-six kindergarten and thirty fourth grade boys and girls from two-child families in which the spacing between siblings was four years or less.
A pilot study was conducted to gather reliability and validity data on the measures of the bonding behavior.
Subjects were orally administered the It Scale for Children (which measures sex role preference) and the Bonding Behavior Questionnaire, which was one of four measures of bonding behavior. Each child was also observed for one hour while he was in free play. The Observation Checklist was employed to monitor bonding behavoir during this time. Teachers also filled out a Teacher Rating for each child and ranked the children on the extent to which they exhibited bonding behavior. Data relating to the main hypotheses was subjected to analyses of variance.
The single significant finding was kindergarten children with older siblings bonded to a greater extent than fourth graders with older siblings or subjects with younger siblings. A modelling explanation was posited: Children learn by observing older siblings that boys play with boys and girls play with girls. No significant correlations were obtained between the It Scale for Children and the measures of bonding behavior, suggesting that bonding behavior is not simply an artifact of sex role preference but an entity of its own.
Attempted suicide and social support
Creators: name: Hart, E
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Investigation of the role of social support in the development and maintenance of attempted suicide has rarely gone beyond the relatively uncontrolled clinical study. The present series of control group studies of suicidal and non-suicidal individuals investigated the role of social support deficits in the occurrence of attempted suicide, and documented changes in social support after the act using well-defined measures of this variable. An initial study comparing suicide attempters interviewed at the time of their attempt and again six weeks later with non-suicidal controls, revealed a range of social support deficits. However the suicidal group recorded significant improvement on several indices of social support and a lessening of the wish to die over the period of study. Two further sets of analyses were performed upon this data set in order to identify relatively homogeneous subtypes within the sample, and to study the quality and changing status of social support for each of the subtypes. Application of cluster analyses to demographic and background data produced three clusters within the suicidal group, which when compared with the non-suicidal control group, demonstrated few readily interpretable subtype differences in social support. In a second control group study, two suicidal subtypes formed on the basis of the existence of psychiatric disorder, revealed different patterns of change over a follow-up period. The results of attempts to replicate these findings with a new sample which included a non-suicidal psychiatric control group suggested that the reported social support deficits were not unique to suicide attempters. The occurrence of a suicide attempt rendered change in social support much more likely, but such changes were also influenced by the presence and nature of psychiatric disorder within the suicidal groups. The results of this study, which found a relationship between other symptomatology, personality measures such as self competence, and social support variables, also raised questions regarding the nature of reported deficits. The findings of this thesis support two directions for future research. The first is a further investigation of the social support of the suicidal individual and the second is study of the cognition and emotion of such individuals. Despite the evident difficulties with a discrete, relatively uncommon behaviour like attempted suicide, it is proposed that future design strategies might encompass the single case experimental design or post hoc cross-sectional study of larger samples.
Implications of Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays for Transient Sources in the Auger Era
Creators: name: Murase, Kohta
name: Takami, Hajime
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study about ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) from transient sources, propagating in the Galactic and intergalactic space. Based on the recent observational results, we also estimate upper and lower bounds on the rate of transient UHECR sources and required isotropic cosmic-ray energy input per burst as 0.1 Gpc^-3 yr^-1 < rho_0 < 10^3.5 Gpc^-3 yr^-1 and 10^49.5 ergs < E_HECR^iso < 10^54 ergs, through constraining the apparent burst duration, i.e., dispersion in arrival times of UHECRs. Based on these bounds, we discuss implications for proposed candidates such as gamma-ray bursts and active galactic nuclei.
description: 4 pages, accepted for publication in APJL
title: Εδαφικές μετατοπίσεις βαθιών εκσκαφών σε αστικό περιβάλλον - Εφαρμογή στην πράξη
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: Ground movements induced by deep excavations in urban environment - A case study
Creators: name: Panteliadou, Margarita
Publisher: name: National Technological University of Athens
Year: 2025
Subjects: Geomechanical monitoring
Surface settlement
Wall deflection
Καθίζηση επιφανείας
2D F.E.
Βαθιές εκσκαφές
Γεωμηχανική παρακολούθηση
Deep excavation
Πλευρική μετακίνηση πασσάλου
Μέθοδος πεπερασμένων στοιχείων

description: Εθνικό Μετσόβιο Πολυτεχνείο--Μεταπτυχιακή Εργασία. Διεπιστημονικό-Διατμηματικό Πρόγραμμα Μεταπτυχιακών Σπουδών (Δ.Π.Μ.Σ.) “Σχεδιασμός και Κατασκευή Υπόγειων Έργων”
GRB 090426: The Environment of a Rest-Frame 0.35-second Gamma-Ray Burst at Redshift z=2.609
Creators: name: Levesque, Emily M.
name: Bloom, Joshua S.
name: Butler, Nathaniel R.
name: Perley, Daniel A.
name: Cenko, S. Bradley
name: Prochaska, J. Xavier
name: Kewley, Lisa J.
name: Bunker, Andrew
name: Chen, Hsiao-Wen
name: Chornock, Ryan
name: Filippenko, Alexei V.
name: Glazebrook, Karl
name: Lopez, Sebastian
name: Masiero, Joseph
name: Modjaz, Maryam
name: Morgan, Adam N.
name: Poznanski, Dovi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the discovery of an absorption-line redshift of z = 2.609 for GRB 090426, establishing the first firm lower limit to a redshift for a gamma-ray burst with an observed duration of <2 s. With a rest-frame burst duration of T_90z = 0.35 s and a detailed examination of the peak energy of the event, we suggest that this is likely (at >90% confidence) a member of the short/hard phenomenological class of GRBs. From analysis of the optical-afterglow spectrum we find that the burst originated along a very low HI column density sightline, with N_HI < 3.2 x 10^19 cm^-2. Our GRB 090426 afterglow spectrum also appears to have weaker low-ionisation absorption (Si II, C II) than ~95% of previous afterglow spectra. Finally, we also report the discovery of a blue, very luminous, star-forming putative host galaxy (~2 L*) at a small angular offset from the location of the optical afterglow. We consider the implications of this unique GRB in the context of burst duration classification and our understanding of GRB progenitor scenarios.
description: Submitted to MNRAS
Nonlocal Form of Quantum Off-Shell Kinetic Equation
Creators: name: Ivanov, Yu. B.
name: Voskresensky, D. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new nonlocal form of the off-shell kinetic equation is derived. While being equivalent to the Kadanoff--Baym and Botermans--Malfliet formulations in the range of formal applicability, it has certain advantages beyond this range. It possesses more accurate conservation laws for Noether quantities than those in the Botermans--Malfliet formulation. At the same time the nonlocal form, similarly to the Botermans--Malfliet one, allows application of the test-particle method for its numerical solution, which makes it practical for simulations of heavy-ion collisions. The physical meaning of the time-space nonlocality is clarified.
description: 23 pages, to be published in the issue of Phys. Atom. Nucl. dedicated to S.T. Belyaev on the occasion of his birthday
title: Interpersonal Relations and Drug Use and Abuse
Creators: name: Carlson, Larry J.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1976

description: The purpose of this study was to make comparisons among regular vi marijuana users, heroin addicts and nondrug users on interpersonal dimensions of personality. Two interpersonal oriented instruments, the Interpersonal Check List (ICL) and the Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation - Behavior (FIRO-B) were used to evaluate differences among these three groups.
The design of this study was a three group comparison. Each of these three groups contained between 28 and 30 subjects with age, education and socioeconomic level being controlled for in selection.
Three hypotheses were made directing investigation of/\the following three areas: One, discrepancy between the self and the ideal self on factors of love and dominance on the ICL. Two, differences on the wanted-inclusion scale of the FIRO-B. Three, discrepancy between expressed and wanted scores on the FIRO-B.
The results indicated that heroin addicts have greater discrepancy on love oriented interpersonal dimensions, that both the marijuana and heroin groups have significantly lower wanted-inclusion scores than nondrug users, and that there was no difference in the amount of discrepancy between the expressed and wanted FIRO-B factors.
Continuous gas chromatography
Creators: name: Wong, Ho Yew
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: A theoretical model of continuous gas chromatography using one disk rotating on top of a stationary plate is described. A disk chromatograph was designed and built. Experimental results obtained with this apparatus are reported. Both flexible disks and solid disks with springy -supports were used. The flexible disks were found to be unsuitable. Reproducible chromatographic peaks were obtained using the solid disks with air as the carrier gas and either helium or natural gas as the sample. The angular position of the peak was found to increase with the disk diameter and with the height of the hub to which the rotating disk was mounted. For a given disk diameter and a given hub position, the angular position of the peak (θ) could be fitted by the following equations: (1) θ = k₁ω a (2) θ = k3 [formula omitted] where ω is the speed of rotation, V is the volumetric flowrate of the carrier gas, a and k₁ are constants for a given V, and b and k₃ are constants for a given ω. Attempts to achieve chromatographic separations of hydrocarbon mixtures did not succeed.
Massive star formation and feedback in W49A: The source of our Galaxy's most luminous water maser outflow
Creators: name: Smith, Nathan
name: Whitney, Barbara A.
name: Conti, Peter S.
name: De Pree, Chris G.
name: Jackson, James M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present high spatial resolution mid-IR images of the ring of UCHII regions in W49A obtained at Gemini North, allowing us to identify the driving source of its powerful H2O maser outflow. These data also confirm our previous report that several radio sources in the ring are undetected in the mid-IR because they are embedded deep inside the cloud core. We locate the source of the water maser outflow at the position of the compact mid-IR peak of source G (source G:IRS1). This IR source is not coincident with any identified compact radio continuum source, but is coincident with a hot molecular core, so we propose that G:IRS1 is a hot core driving an outflow analogous to the wide-angle bipolar outflow in OMC-1. G:IRS1 is at the origin of a larger bipolar cavity and CO outflow. The water maser outflow is orthogonal to the bipolar CO cavity, so the masers probably reside near its waist in the cavity walls. Models of the IR emission require a massive protostar of 45Msun, 3e5Lsun, and an effective envelope accretion rate of 1e-3Msun/yr. Feedback from the central star could potentially drive the H2O maser outflow, but it has insufficient radiative momentum to have driven the large-scale CO outflow, requiring that this massive star had an active accretion disk over the past 10^4 yr. Combined with the spatialy resolved morphology in IR images, G:IRS1 in W49 provides compelling evidence for a massive protostar that formed by accreting from a disk, accompanied by a bipolar outflow.
description: 14 pages, MNRAS accepted
Stability of the Second Order Delay Differential Equations with a Damping Term
Creators: name: Berezansky, Leonid
name: Braverman, Elena
name: Domoshnitsky, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 34K20

description: For the delay differential equations $$ \ddot{x}(t) +a(t)\dot{x}(g(t))+b(t)x(h(t))=0, g(t)\leq t, h(t)\leq t, $$ and $$ \ddot{x}(t) +a(t)\dot{x}(t)+b(t)x(t)+a_1(t)\dot{x}(g(t))+b_1(t)x(h(t))=0 $$ explicit exponential stability conditions are obtained.
description: to appear in the journal "Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems"
title: The Development of an Inexpensive, Anonymous and Portable Classroom Feedback Device With Data Recording Capability
Creators: name: Dworetzky, John Peter
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1976

description: One way to approach the improvement of teacher behavior is through the application of feedback. An electronic device was developed to provide immediate anonymous feedback from students to teachers in the classroom situation. The newly developed system, unlike other systems available, has the advantages of being portable, inexpensive, easy to use, and able to provide continuous feedback. As the system relies on a sampling procedure, it may be used adequately with any size class. In addition, the system possesses full data recording capability.
Experiments were designed to utilize the device to investigate the effects of immediate anonymous feedback from students to teachers and to determine whether this feedback may be effective in altering teacher behavior, and improving lecture quality. Three volunteer instructors at Utah State University participated, each from a different subject area (sociology, history, and business administration). Students signaled continuously at each class meeting throughout an academic quarter. One signal indicated that the students understood and were interested in the lecture, and the other signal indicated that the students either did not understand or were not interested in what was being said. A time-series analysis showed that in all three classes teacher ratings significantly improved at the end of the quarter when compared with baseline scores. The results demonstrated the possibility that the system may be valuable and further refinements were incorporated into the feedback system.
title: An Analysis of Oral and Written Quizzes As Teaching Techniques
Creators: name: Edwards, K. Anthony
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1976

description: This study was conducted to determine whether any differences existed between the effectiveness of oral and written quizzes as teaching techniques. In the first of two experiments, 130 students enrolled in two sections of an introductory psychology class and two sections of a psychology of adjustment class served as subjects. The course was taught using Michael's method of instruction, a contingency managed technique. In the first half of the term, one section from each course was taught by written quizzes while the other section was taught by oral quizzes. Following four weeks, teaching assignments were reversed. The dependent variables were scores on a test following one week of lectures, scores on tests following each condition, and attitude and interest ratings at the end of the course. For the two introductory psychology sections, there was no significant difference between oral and written methods. For the psychology of adjustment sections, a significant difference was found favoring the oral method in one of two comparisons. From surveys, it was shown that students were interested in and reported favorable attitudes toward the class in both courses. However, a preference for the oral method was shown only in the introductory psychology course.
In a second experiment, 70 students enrolled in two sections of psychology of adjustment completed the requirements for the study. After each of 14 taped lectures, students were quizzed orally, wrote quiz answers, rated oral quizzes, rated written quizzes, or took no quiz. Inter-rater reliability checks were made by an item-by-item analysis of paired rater's scores of student's performances on quizzes. The raters' reports were judged reliable. Validity was examined by a correlational analysis of quiz ratings and unit test performances. Validity was poor. An analysis of rank sums for difference scores obtained from pre-course and post-course test performances showed no differences between any two of the variables studied. Respectively, ranked sums of scores for each variable from high to low was: oral quiz rating, oral quiz taking, written quiz taking, no quizzes, and written quiz rating. However, the differences were not significant. Students interests in, and attitudes toward, the course in psychology of adjustment were found to be on a par with other classes taken in the same term.
From Experiment I, it was concluded that test performances following oral quizzes were not significantly different from test performances following written quizzes. From Experiment II, rating and taking oral quizzes may result in higher test scores than rating and taking written quizzes, but in the present study the results leading to such a conclusion are only suggestive. Finally, judgments of untrained raters on student quiz performances should be viewed with caution since, in the examination of rater's validity, the raters failed to match quiz performance with test performance.
The operant speech training of a cri-du-chat adolescent : a single case study
Creators: name: Haines, AT
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The thesis examines the efficacy of using speech training procedures with a cri-du-chat adolescent. Research evidence suggests that neither the 'cat-like cry', laryngeal abnormality or level of severe mental retardation are sufficient to warrant precluding cases of the syndrome from speech training. One aim of the study is to determine whether operant training procedures are more effective than attention-control procedures with a case of the syndrome. The subject is trained in two situations, the individual room and ward, during daily training sessions. The statistical analysis in the individual room demonstrates that the subject's verbal imitation is significantly greater in the operant than in the control procedures. The results of the subject's verbal object labelling responses to criterion indicates no significant differences between conditions. However, the follow-up assessment shows that the subject retained significantly more verbal object labelling responses to criterion in the operant than in the control procedures. In the ward situation it is argued that operant speech training is significantly more effective than control procedures in increasing the subject's vocalisations to nurses. Social ratings show that both the subject's socialisation and violent and destructive behaviour increased from the control to operant procedures. The overall findings support the view that a cri-du-chat adolescent can benefit from a speech training programme. Furthermore that operant speech training conducted in two situations, an individual room and ward, during daily training sessions is significantly more effective than a combined control approach.
Stratospheric Polar Vortices
Creators: name: Waugh, Darryn W.
name: Polvani, Lorenzo M.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Atmosphere
Atmosphere, Upper
Meteorology

description: The intense cyclonic vortices that form over the winter pole are one of the most prominent features of the stratospheric circulation. The structure and dynamics of these “polar vortices” play a dominant role in the winter and spring stratospheric circulation and are key to determining distribution of trace gases, in particular ozone, and the couplings between the stratosphere and troposphere. In this chapter, we review the observed structure, dynamical theories, and modeling of these polar vortices.We consider both the zonal mean and three-dimensional potential vorticity perspective and examine the occurrence of extreme events and long-term trends.
Thermal fouling studies : Computations on roughness effects, modifications of a test loop and tests...
Creators: name: Mayo Abad, Orestes
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The thermal fouling data of Watkinson were recomputed on the assumption that increases in pressure drop were caused entirely by roughness of the fouling deposit and not at all by blockage. The results indicate that roughness played some role in the sand-water runs, but no role in the gas oil runs. The anomalous increases in overall heat transfer coefficient with degree of fouling in the first two sand-water runs were thus explained by the effect of roughness on liquid film heat transfer coefficient. The original loop was modified, the principal change being the replacement of the manual temperature recording system by a digital Data Logging System. Fluid and wall temperatures, as well as differential pressure, could thus be automatically recorded as a function of time. Better control of independent operating variables such as fluid velocity, inlet temperature and heat flux could therefore be achieved, and the effects of temporary fluctuations in these operating conditions could be observed and separated from fouling effects. Thermal fouling runs were made in the modified heat transfer loop on samples of Bayer Process spent liquor from the ALCAN aluminum refinery in Arvida, P.Q. The only discernible trends in the results were increases in rate and degree of fouling with increasing heat flux to a maximum value, followed by a sharp decrease, at liquor velocities less than 5 ft/sec, and the absence of thermally detectable fouling at higher velocities. The unreproducibi1ity of the results is believed to be attributable, at least in part, to changes in chemical composition of the liquor throughout the experiments.
Spin angular impulse due to spin-dependent reflection off a barrier
Creators: name: Teodorescu, V.
name: Winkler, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The spin-dependent elastic reflection of quasi two-dimensional electrons from a lateral impenetrable barrier in the presence of band-structure spin-orbit coupling results in a spin angular impulse exerted on the electrons which is proportional to the nontrivial difference between the electrons' momentum and velocity. Even for an unpolarized incoming beam we find that the spin angular impulse is nonzero when averaged over all components of the reflected beam. We present a detailed analysis of the kinematics of this process.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, final version
title: Does the "Draw-A-Male-And-A-Female" Test Show Male-Female Relationship?
Creators: name: Hatch, Paul Charles
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1976

description: The present study investigated the "Draw-A-Male-And-A-Female" test to find if this variation of the "Draw-A-Person" test was a valid measure of male -female relationship variables, i.e., compatibility, happiness, warmth, and interpersonal anxiety and conflict. Two groups varying with respect to relationship (married group vs divorced group) were tested. A high school group was also tested. Three psychologists rated the drawings into a positive or a negative relationship group. If the male and female figures in the drawing had the appearance of warmth or pleasantness between each other, seemed compatible, and looked free from interpersonal anxiety or conflict, the picture was placed in the positive relationship group. The pictures containing opposite characteristics were placed in the negative group. The average inter-rater agreement was 72.9% This was a significant departure from chance at the .001 level of confidence,
title: Error Patterning and Hypothesis Behavior of Children and Pigeons in Discrimination Learning
Creators: name: Jenson, William Robert
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1976

description: Characteristic distributions of errors across fixed ratio schedules of reinforcement were studied for two types of discrimination paradigms. Two experiments studied error patterns as a function of hypothesis behavior in two species of animals, children and pigeons.
Three key zero-delay matching-to-sample and two key simultaneous discrimination were reinforced for both species of animals on fixed ratio schedules of reinforcement. Experiment 1 involved children on matching-to-sample and simultaneous discrimination, and Experiment 2 involved pigeons on matching-to-sample and simultaneous discrimination. Both species of subjects experienced experimental conditions in which shift or stay response hypotheses were selectively reinforced using a high speed digital computer.
Data protocols were scored into four exhaustive error classes; winstay, lose - shift; win-shift, lose-stay; win - stay, lose-stay; and win-shift, lose-shift errors. These four error types were scored by frequency of occurrence and response latency for the ordinal positions of the fixed ratio. Two types of error patterns were defined for individual subjects. A standard error pattern was defined as having 15% more first half ratio errors than last half ratio errors. A reversed error pattern was defined as having 15% more last half ratio errors than first half ratio errors.
Experimental results indicated that selective reinforcement of particular response hypotheses produced only small effects for either species of animal on matching-to-sample or simultaneous discrimination. Response latencies for matching-to-sample and simultaneous discrimination were divided into two classes. The first class included long latency responses occurring immediately after reinforcement for children and pigeons. The second class included shorter latencies in the succeeding ordinal positions of the ratio for children and pigeons.
A majority of standard error patterns were produced when the total errors were separated into specific error types for low accuracy subjects of both species. The standard error pattern was lost for total errors due to a very high frequency of win-shift, lose-shift errors which were not distributed in any characteristic pattern. Higher accuracy subjects of both species tended to show a majority of reversed error patterns or no patterning when total errors were separated into error types. These subjects had very low frequencies of win-shift, lose-shift errors. The high frequency of win-shift, lose-shift errors in both species of animals across discrimination paradigms could be due to the complexity of the discrimination, a developmental age base for human subjects, or a 0-second intertrial interval.
Fourth-Order Perturbation Expansion for Hubbard Model on a Two-Dimensional Square Lattice
Creators: name: Ikeda, H.
name: Shinkai, S.
name: Yamada, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the Hubbard model on a two-dimensional square lattice by the perturbation expansion to the fourth order in the on-site Coulomb repulsion U. Numerically calculating all diagrams up to the fourth order in self-energy, we examine the convergence of perturbation series in the lattice system. We indicate that the coefficient of each order term rapidly decreases as in the impurity Anderson model for T > 0.1t in the half-filled case, but it holds in the doped case even at lower temperatures. Thus, we can expect that the convergence of perturbation expansion in U is very good in a wide parameter region also in the lattice system, except for T < 0.1t in the half-filled case. We next calculate the density of states in the fourth-order perturbation. In the half-filled case, the shape in a moderate correlation regime is quite different from the three peak structure in the second-order perturbation. Remarkable upper and lower Hubbard bands locate at w = +(-)U/2, and a pseudogap appears at the Fermi level w=0. This is considered as the precursor of the Mott-Hubbard antiferromagnetic structure. In the doped case, quasiparticles with very heavy mass are formed at the Fermi level. Thus, we conclude that the fourth-order perturbation theory overall well explain the asymptotic behaviors in a strong correlation regime.
description: 17 pages, 20 figures
THE TECHNOLOGY OF IMPROVING VOCABULARY OF B2 LEVEL STUDENTS IN ENGLISH CLASSES
Creators: name: Embergenova, Altinay
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This article discusses the use of technology in improving vocabulary of B2 level students in English classes. The author emphasizes the importance of vocabulary acquisition for language learners and suggests that technology can enhance this process. The article also presents various technological tools and resources, such as online dictionaries, flashcards, and vocabulary games, that can be used to engage students in learning vocabulary. The author also highlights the benefits of using technology, including increased motivation, personalized learning, and immediate feedback. According to the result of the research, the article provides practical advice for teachers who want to incorporate technology into their vocabulary instruction and help B2 level students improve their English language skills.
Foreword to "Planning and Implementing Discovery Tools in Academic Libraries"
Creators: name: Jaggars, Damon E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Information science
Library science

description: The time is ripe for a thorough discussion of resource discovery tools in the academic library environment; and not merely an offering of practical advice on selection and implementation, but also a critical analysis of why such tools have gained importance in the marketplace, their affordances, and their limitations. Framing this discussion are two critical shifts in how academic libraries view the information discovery landscape, both driven by recent trends in user behavior and design practice, as well as the continuing development of the discovery tool market itself. A move from the disjointed world of Online Public Access Catalogs (OPACs) and native database interfaces to the discovery layer represents a significant shift in focus from the primacy of content and its providers to that of the user and the needs of scholars. Changes in the expectations users bring to the discovery experience, brought on by faster, more satisfying interactions with mass market search engines (think Google) and the consumer Web (think Amazon), extend academic libraries' attention past content provision to ensuring that resources are easily discoverable and accessible within an increasingly networked scholarly life. This shift from content-centeredness to user-centeredness is abetted by the rise of user-centered design and usability assessment, which push academic libraries toward more flexible discovery environments featuring more agile architectures and continual cycles of innovation, testing, and improvement.
Emission from the D1D5 CFT: Higher Twists
Creators: name: Avery, Steven G.
name: Chowdhury, Borun D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a certain class of nonextremal D1D5 geometries and their ergoregion emission. Using a detailed CFT computation and the formalism developed in arXiv:0906.2015 [hep-th], we compute the full spectrum and rate of emission from the geometries and find exact agreement with the gravity answer. Previously, only part of the spectrum had been reproduced using a CFT description. We close with a discussion of the context and significance of the calculation.
description: 39 pages, 6 figures, latex
title: An Evaluation of Non-Directive Counseling in the Treatment of Delinquents
Creators: name: Watt, George D.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1947

description: It was the purpose of this study to make application of Carl H. Rogers' non-directive method of psychotherapy in the treatment of juvenile delinquents. The study was set up in an effort to determine the value of such a treatment procedure as one method of treating this type of individual.
The hypothesis to be tested was that non-directive psychotherapy would improve the personal and social adjustment of institutionalized delinquents. Supporting this general assumption the following three corollaries were assumed: (1) that improved personal adjustment would be reflected in adjustment inventories, (2) that improved social behavior would be reflected in social behavior rating scales, and (3) that the therapeutic objectives of interviews with each subject. The general hypothesis is supported to the extent that the results support each of the corollaries.
In proceding toward an experimental test of the hypotheses, testing devices were selected for the purpose of detecting and measuring imporvement that may occur in the individual during the counseling process. The means used and described in the study for this purpose are (1) expressions of the subjects, (2) the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, (3) the California Test of Personality, (4) the Haggerty-Olson-Wickman Behavior Rating Schedules. Statements made by each subject were presumed to be indicative of better adjustment when they were presumed to be indicative of better adjustment when they were of such a nature as to imply that the therapeutic objectives had been attained. The three other measuring instruments were administered to the eleven experimental subjects before, and after the counseling interviews. A comparison of the pre-test and end-test scores, was presumed to indicate the improved adjustment of the subject while the interviewing was in progress. Any improvement that might be measured by this procedure, however, may be thought of as having occurred, not only from the influence of non-directive counseling, but possibly from other sources.
Additional file 2 of CT radiomics-based long-term survival prediction for locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer patients treated with concurrent chemoradiotherapy using features from tumor and tumor organismal environment
Creators: name: Chen, Nai-Bin
name: Xiong, Mai
name: Zhou, Rui
name: Zhou, Yin
name: Qiu, Bo
name: Luo, Yi-Feng
name: Zhou, Su
name: Chu, Chu
name: Li, Qi-Wen
name: Wang, Bin
name: Jiang, Hai-Hang
name: Guo, Jin-Yu
name: Peng, Kang-Qiang
name: Xie, Chuan-Miao
name: Liu, Hui
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional File 2. Genetic algorithm
title: The Effects of Age and Socio-Economic Status on the Diagnosis and Educational Treatment of Mildly Handicapping Conditions of School Children
Creators: name: Kelsey, John W.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1976

description: Biasing effects in labeling and recommendations for educational services when factors of socio-economic status and age are manipulated were studied using 50 certified school psychologists in Utah. Subjects received case report information about IQ, behavior and achievement which described a school child in need of services within one of four conditions, Age 7 Socioeconomic status (SES) High, Age 7 SES Low, Age 13 SES High, and Age 13 SES Low. Other potentially biasing variables such as ethnic background, and sex were held constant. No evidence of bias could be found when dependent measures of labeling, recommendations for educational services, and perceived deficiency were used, although the school psychologists indicated they perceived that the child had a significant problem.
The implications of these results were discussed in terms of training factors, the relationship between recommendations and actual services school districts may provide, other true causative biasing variables, and experimental methodology.
Inventing India : a history of India in fiction
Creators: name: Crane, Ralph J.
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The title, Inventing India: A History of India in Fiction, has been chosen to suggest that whilst India may be found on any map, it has no single, 'true' identity; further, the title suggests the importance of the strange marriage between fiction and history, which leads to the invention of more than one India. The study follows, chronologically, the history of India from the Mutiny of 1857 to the Emergency of 1975, through the works of twentieth-century novelists who have written about particular periods of Indian history from within various periods of literary history. The earliest novel treated is Rudyard Kipling's Kim (1901), the latest Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children (1981). Although any such discussion must involve some consideration of the theories of history and literature, I have minimized theoretical discussion in order to concentrate on ideas of historicity revealed by the texts themselves. The introductory chapter considers the unique place India has held in the British imagination. It acknowledges that, as a genre, the historical novel is as loose and baggy as Henry James's monsters of fiction; nevertheless it discusses ways in which the notion of such a genre may prove useful critically. This leads to a consideration of those novels which lie on the periphery of the genre, yet still manifest a strong zeitgeist. The seven central chapters each deal with a specific period of Indian history. In some chapters the treatments of the same period of history by British and Indian novelists are compared, and it is also shown that seminal works like Rudyard Kipling's Kim and E.M. Forster's A Passage to India have powerfully directed later novelists' perceptions of India. In the chapters 'Bridges' and 'Swaraj,' the importance of Gandhi invites analysis of how the lives of well-documented historical figures can influence the blending of fact and fiction. Kushwant Singh's Mano Majra and Chaman Nahal's Azadi form the basis of a discussion of Partition, whilst Paul Scott's Staying On and Nayantara Sahgal's Rich Like Us focus the issues which face the Anglo-Indian, Eurasian, and Indian communities after Independence. A constant thread in the thesis is the exploration of the use of paintings as iconography and allegory, used in the novels to reveal aspects of British-Indian relationships. Throughout, the thesis works towards a demonstration of how the invention of India has moved from the fringes of world literature written in English, to hold a central place in the imagination of postmodemist writers.
Interracial Dating and Marriage
Creators: name: Jordan, Alysse D.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Families
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Ethnology

description: With few notable exceptions, critical explorations of interracial romantic relationships have emerged predominantly from the social and behavioral sciences. From the social structuralist theories of sociologists such as Robert K. Merton to examinations of identity and interpersonal development by psychologists like Maria P.P. Root, the contributions of social science researchers to the body of literature has far surpassed that of other fields. This chapter is therefore intended to provide a review of the literature on the legal and social history of intermarriage in the United States by focusing on research in the areas of cultural anthropology, law and policy, psychology, sociology, and social work. Research that involves couples outside the United States has been excluded, as have biographical, fictional, and sensationalized accounts of interracial relationships.