cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Success in U.S. Army schools of practical nursing: The predictive validity of selected admissions criteria and the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery
Creators: name: Thompson, Charles Richard
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3904
subject: Specialist studies in education

description: The purpose of this study was to determine if variables could be identified which would enable educators to predict more accurately student performance in the U.S. Army's practical nursing program. The independent variables included: age, sex, marital status, years of education completed, and the Skilled Technical (ST) and General Technical (GT) composite test scores of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB). The dependent variables were: success or failure; the final course grade, the academic and clinical phase grade point averages; and the Skill Qualification Test score. The sample consisted of 182 successful and 151 unsuccessful students who were randomly selected using the 1982, 1983, and 1984 academic records maintained at the Academy of Health Sciences, Fort Sam Houston, Texas. A logistic regression analysis was used to predict the probability of group membership in the success or failure group. The Skilled Technical (ST) composite test score was the only independent variable which made a significant contribution to the efficacy of the regression model. A multiple regression analysis was used to determine the relationship between the independent variables and the dependent variables. Significant positive relationships were found between the ST and GT composite scores and all dependent variables. The remaining independent variables were found to have slight or no correlation with the criterion measures. Contingency tables were constructed to determine how accurately selection decisions could be made using Skilled Technical (ST) scores of 100 and 110. The model using the ST score of 100 was found to be the more accurate of the two, more accurately predicting actual successes. Based on the findings of this study, the following recommendations for further research were made: exploration of high school rank as a predictor of student performance; the validity of current selection criteria and the use of different aggregates of the ASVAB subtests; the use of the Mathematics Knowledge subtest as a screening criterion; other factors, such as motivation and military life style characteristics, which could influence success or failure; and the use of civilian aptitude batteries to predict performance in practical nursing.
Success in U.S. Army schools of practical nursing: The predictive validity of selected admissions criteria and the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery
Creators: name: Thompson, Charles Richard
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The purpose of this study was to determine if variables could be identified which would enable educators to predict more accurately student performance in the U.S. Army's practical nursing program. The independent variables included: age, sex, marital status, years of education completed, and the Skilled Technical (ST) and General Technical (GT) composite test scores of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB). The dependent variables were: success or failure; the final course grade, the academic and clinical phase grade point averages; and the Skill Qualification Test score. The sample consisted of 182 successful and 151 unsuccessful students who were randomly selected using the 1982, 1983, and 1984 academic records maintained at the Academy of Health Sciences, Fort Sam Houston, Texas. A logistic regression analysis was used to predict the probability of group membership in the success or failure group. The Skilled Technical (ST) composite test score was the only independent variable which made a significant contribution to the efficacy of the regression model. A multiple regression analysis was used to determine the relationship between the independent variables and the dependent variables. Significant positive relationships were found between the ST and GT composite scores and all dependent variables. The remaining independent variables were found to have slight or no correlation with the criterion measures. Contingency tables were constructed to determine how accurately selection decisions could be made using Skilled Technical (ST) scores of 100 and 110. The model using the ST score of 100 was found to be the more accurate of the two, more accurately predicting actual successes. Based on the findings of this study, the following recommendations for further research were made: exploration of high school rank as a predictor of student performance; the validity of current selection criteria and the use of different aggregates of the ASVAB subtests; the use of the Mathematics Knowledge subtest as a screening criterion; other factors, such as motivation and military life style characteristics, which could influence success or failure; and the use of civilian aptitude batteries to predict performance in practical nursing.
Cross-tier web programming for curated databases: A case study
Creators: name: Fowler, Simon
name: Harding, Simon D.
name: Sharman, Joanna
name: Cheney, James
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Curated databases have become important sources of information across scientific disciplines, and due to the manual work of experts, often become important reference works. Features such as provenance tracking, archiving, and data citation are widely regarded as important features for curated databases, but implementing such features is challenging, and small database projects often lack the resources to do so. A scientific database application is not just the database itself, but also an ecosystem of web applications to display the data, and applications supporting data curation. Supporting advanced curation features requires changing all of these components, and there is currently no way to provide such capabilities in a reusable way. Cross-tier programming languages have been proposed to simplify the creation of web applications, where developers write an application in a single, uniform language. Consequently, database queries and updates can be written in the same language as the rest of the program, and at least in principle, it should be possible to provide curation features reusably via program transformations. As a first step, it is important to establish that realistic curated databases can be implemented in a cross-tier programming language. In this paper, we describe such a case study: reimplementing the web frontend of a real-world scientific database, the IUPHAR/BPS Guide to Pharmacology (GtoPdb), in the Links programming language. We show how features such as language-integrated query simplify the development process, and rule out common errors. We show that the Links implementation performs fewer database queries, while the time needed to handle the queries is comparable to the Java version. While there is some overhead to using Links because of its comparative immaturity compared to Java, the Links version is viable as a proof-of-concept case study.
description: Accepted to International Journal of Digital Curation
Variétés abéliennes et invariants arithmétiques
Creators: name: Gillibert, Jean
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14Kxx; 11Gxx

description: We define here an analogue, for the Néron model of a semi-stable abelian variety defined over a number field, of M. J. Taylor's class-invariant homomorphism (defined for abelian schemes). Then we extend an annulation result (in the case of an elliptic curve), and an injectivity result regarding an arakelovian version of this homomorphism. This is the sequel to the paper "Invariants de classes : le cas semi-stable".
description: 16 pages, LaTeX. Remark 1.5 added. Accepted for publication in the Annales de l'Institut Fourier
The recurring author: William Shakespeare, a case study through content analysis
Creators: name: Harrison, Jr., Robert Lee
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The recurring author is one whose works appear many times at different levels in instructional units found in literature textbook series. This study described the treatment of a recurring author, Shakespeare, using units in a sample of six literature textbook series student editions and teacher manuals for grades nine, ten, and twelve. The descriptive case study determined the content of the Shakespeare unit for each grade level in the sample and determined whether the content of the Shakespeare unit differed across grade levels in the sample. The William Shakespeare Unit Content Analysis Instrument was developed for this study to describe, to code, and to analyze the content of the Shakespeare units. The William Shakespeare Unit Content Analysis Instrument had a rated content validity of 91 percent and an inter-rater reliability of 92 percent. The study used percentages to describe the occurrence of items appearing in the Shakespeare units for grades nine, ten, and twelve in the six literature textbook series examined. The content of the Shakespeare unit was described based on these percentages. The study also determined that the content of the Shakespeare units across grades nine, ten, and twelve differed statistically but not substantially in the degree of emphasis placed on four areas of content: biographical information, Shakespeare's works, Shakespeare's theater, and issues related to instruction as measured by the William Shakespeare Unit Content Analysis Instrument. Recommendations for further study in the areas of recurring authors, teaching Shakespeare, and textbook evaluation criteria were given.
Emergent photon pair propagation in circuit QED with superconducting processors
Creators: name: Lahiri, Sayan
name: Mondal, Suman
name: Pandey, Kanhaiya
name: Mishra, Tapan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a method to achieve photon pair propagation in an array of three-level superconducting circuits. Assuming experimentally accessible three-level artificial atoms with strong anharmonicity coupled via microwave transmission lines in both one and two dimensions we analyze the circuit Quantum Electrodynamics(QED) of the system. We explicitly show that for a suitable choice of the coupling ratio between different levels, the single photon propagation is suppressed and the propagation of photon pairs emerges. This propagation of photon pairs leads to the pair superfluid of polaritons associated to the system. We compute the complete phase diagram of the polariton quantum matter revealing the pair superfluid phase which is sandwiched between the vacuum and the Mott insulator state corresponding to the polariton density equal to two in the strong coupling regime.
The recurring author: William Shakespeare, a case study through content analysis
Creators: name: Harrison, Jr., Robert Lee
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3901
subject: Curriculum and pedagogy

description: The recurring author is one whose works appear many times at different levels in instructional units found in literature textbook series. This study described the treatment of a recurring author, Shakespeare, using units in a sample of six literature textbook series student editions and teacher manuals for grades nine, ten, and twelve. The descriptive case study determined the content of the Shakespeare unit for each grade level in the sample and determined whether the content of the Shakespeare unit differed across grade levels in the sample. The William Shakespeare Unit Content Analysis Instrument was developed for this study to describe, to code, and to analyze the content of the Shakespeare units. The William Shakespeare Unit Content Analysis Instrument had a rated content validity of 91 percent and an inter-rater reliability of 92 percent. The study used percentages to describe the occurrence of items appearing in the Shakespeare units for grades nine, ten, and twelve in the six literature textbook series examined. The content of the Shakespeare unit was described based on these percentages. The study also determined that the content of the Shakespeare units across grades nine, ten, and twelve differed statistically but not substantially in the degree of emphasis placed on four areas of content: biographical information, Shakespeare's works, Shakespeare's theater, and issues related to instruction as measured by the William Shakespeare Unit Content Analysis Instrument. Recommendations for further study in the areas of recurring authors, teaching Shakespeare, and textbook evaluation criteria were given.
UV line driven disc wind as the origin of ultrafast outflows in AGN
Creators: name: Mizumoto, Misaki
name: Nomura, Mariko
name: Done, Chris
name: Ohsuga, Ken
name: Odaka, Hirokazu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: UltraFast Outflows (UFO) are observed in some active galactic nuclei (AGN), with blueshifted and highly ionised Fe-K absorption features. AGN typically have a UV bright accretion flow, so UV line driving is an obvious candidate for launching these winds. However this mechanism requires material with UV opacity, in apparent conflict with the observed high ionisation state of the wind. In this paper we synthesise the X-ray energy spectra resulting from different lines of sight through a state of the art radiation hydrodynamics UV line driven disc wind simulation. We demonstrate that there are some lines of sight which only intercept highly ionised and fast outflowing material. The cooler material required for the UV line driving acceleration is out of the line of sight, close to the disc, shielded from the X-rays by a failed wind. We fit these simulated wind spectra to data from the archetypal UFO source PG 1211+143 and show that they broadly reproduce the depth and velocity of the iron absorption lines seen. This directly demonstrates that UV line driving is a viable mechanism to launch even the fastest UFOs. We simulate microcalorimeter observations of this wind and show that their high energy resolution can resolve the detailed structure in the wind and recover the wind energetics when combined with models which correctly estimate the line formation radius of the wind. New data from microcalorimeters will pave the way for physical predictions of AGN wind feedback in cosmological simulations.
description: 17 pages, 19 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS. Please ignore the figure in the last page (I tried to remove it but cannot. Please let me know how if you know...)
Parental bonding, pathological development, and fear of losing control among agoraphobics and normals
Creators: name: Bibb, James Lyle
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: With its often crippling fears, Agoraphobia has been identified for more than a century, and has become the most commonly treated phobic disorder. An yet, despite extensive research and theoretical attention, it remains largely a tragic, if fascinating, enigma. Traditional theories have proven inadequate to account for it, or to unravel its complex etiology. The most useful models have taken a developmental perspective, integrated diverse theoretical positions, and sought empirical verification. Bowlby has suggested that adult-onset agoraphobia may begin during childhood, in pathological parent-child attachments that undermine development and engender pervasive insecurity and separation anxiety. Rigorously testing a developmental model poses daunting methodological constraints. Still, there is considerable clinical lore and provocative, if limited, empirical support suggesting that attachment theory may be a promising framework for an integrated understanding of agoraphobia. The present investigation was designed to explore this perspective by examining the relationship between parental bonding and subsequent psychopathology, including chronic fears of losing control. Study 1 involved 88 Agoraphobics and 88 matched Normals. Bonding, assessed as care and overprotection for each parent, was compared to dependent measures tapping fears of losing control, impaired trust, phobic avoidance, dysphoric mood, histories of major depression and childhood separation anxiety, and selected aspects of developmental and family history. Study 2 involved 31 Agoraphobics and 36 Normals in an experimental test of relaxation-induced anxiety (RIA), as one of several measures of fear of losing control. Approval motives and socioeconomic status were controlled statistically in both studies. Agoraphobics perceived their parents as more uncaring and overprotective than Normals, were more likely to have been physically abused, experienced more fear of losing control, and were more untrusting of their intimate partners. For both Normals and Agoraphobics, unfavorable parental bonding was linked with pervasive fears of losing control, impaired trust/rapport, and more phobic avoidance and dysphoria. As predictors of pathology, parental overprotection was as important as lack of care, and fathering played as central a role as mothering. These findings lend modest, though not unequivocal, support to Bowlby's view that agoraphobia is linked with pathogenic parent-child attachments. Anomalous findings are considered, including implications for a diathesis model. Treatment and research suggestions are discussed.
title:  Conjunctive Decisions in a Paper-and-Pencil Task
Creators: name: Bean, Tracy A.
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04zjtrb98
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 1995

description: Many situations can have a significant effect on response time. Some situations affecting response time require union decisions - decisions based on the 'or' rule. The Hick-Hyman law, as well as Sternberg's linear relationship, are based on union decisions. Most situations in the real world, however, are based on intersection or 'conjunctive' decisions - decisions based on the 'and' rule. The relationship between conjunctive decisions and reaction time is examined in the present research. One question this study attempted to answer is whether there is a functional relationship between mean response time and display size.

The study consisted of 139 students. A factorial between-subjects design was incorporated to compare response time with varying positive set sizes and display sizes based on conjunctive decisions.

Each student was assigned a positive set of characters ( 1, 2, 3, or 4 letters) and a display set of characters ( 6, 8, or 10 letters) that remained constant throughout the experiment. The subjects were presented with a total of 120 different displays (10 pages of 12 displays each). With each presentation of the display set, the subject made a decision as to whether or not the display set contained all items from the positive set regardless of order.

The response data were analyzed using a 4 X 3 (Positive Set Size by Display Size) factorial design. Three main effects and one two-way interaction were statistically significant at the p < .05 level. These three main effects and one two-way interaction were display set size, positive set size, page number, and positive set size by page number, respectively. The results support Sternberg's research on serial and parallel processing, as well as the hypotheses posed on conjunctive decisions and response time. The results are discussed in terms of the role the independent variables play on the subject's conjunctive decision processing and response time.
CP violation in associated charged Higgs boson production with a single top at the LHC
Creators: name: Lee, Kang Young
name: Jung, Dong-Won
name: Song, H. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the CP violation in the charged Higgs production associated with a top quark at the LHC in the MSSM. The supersymmetric phases of gaugino masses and trilinear $A$ terms lead to a CP violating asymmetry of the cross section in the $ p p \to g b \to t H^\pm$ process through loop corrections to the $tbH^\pm$ vertex. We find that a CP violation more than 10 % is possible if the charged Higgs boson is heavy enough.
description: 8 pages including 5 eps figures, JHEP, corrections made
Parental bonding, pathological development, and fear of losing control among agoraphobics and normals
Creators: name: Bibb, James Lyle
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 5201
subject: Applied and developmental psychology
classificationCode: 5203
subject: Clinical and health psychology

description: With its often crippling fears, Agoraphobia has been identified for more than a century, and has become the most commonly treated phobic disorder. An yet, despite extensive research and theoretical attention, it remains largely a tragic, if fascinating, enigma. Traditional theories have proven inadequate to account for it, or to unravel its complex etiology. The most useful models have taken a developmental perspective, integrated diverse theoretical positions, and sought empirical verification. Bowlby has suggested that adult-onset agoraphobia may begin during childhood, in pathological parent-child attachments that undermine development and engender pervasive insecurity and separation anxiety. Rigorously testing a developmental model poses daunting methodological constraints. Still, there is considerable clinical lore and provocative, if limited, empirical support suggesting that attachment theory may be a promising framework for an integrated understanding of agoraphobia. The present investigation was designed to explore this perspective by examining the relationship between parental bonding and subsequent psychopathology, including chronic fears of losing control. Study 1 involved 88 Agoraphobics and 88 matched Normals. Bonding, assessed as care and overprotection for each parent, was compared to dependent measures tapping fears of losing control, impaired trust, phobic avoidance, dysphoric mood, histories of major depression and childhood separation anxiety, and selected aspects of developmental and family history. Study 2 involved 31 Agoraphobics and 36 Normals in an experimental test of relaxation-induced anxiety (RIA), as one of several measures of fear of losing control. Approval motives and socioeconomic status were controlled statistically in both studies. Agoraphobics perceived their parents as more uncaring and overprotective than Normals, were more likely to have been physically abused, experienced more fear of losing control, and were more untrusting of their intimate partners. For both Normals and Agoraphobics, unfavorable parental bonding was linked with pervasive fears of losing control, impaired trust/rapport, and more phobic avoidance and dysphoria. As predictors of pathology, parental overprotection was as important as lack of care, and fathering played as central a role as mothering. These findings lend modest, though not unequivocal, support to Bowlby's view that agoraphobia is linked with pathogenic parent-child attachments. Anomalous findings are considered, including implications for a diathesis model. Treatment and research suggestions are discussed.
High Precision In-Pipe Robot Localization with Reciprocal Sensor Fusion
Creators: name: Zhao, Dapeng
name: Whittaker, William
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: The huge advantage of in-pipe robots is that they are able to measure from inside the pipes, and to sense the geometry, appearance and radiometry directly. The downside is the inability to know precise, absolute position of the measurements in very long pipe runs. This paper develops the unprecedented localization required for this purpose.
description: 12 pages, "Superior Paper Award" on WM Symposia 2019
Social-Emotional Learning as a Strategy for High School-Based Mental Health Promotion
Creators: name: Barber, Isabella Sarah
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: mental health
subject: adolescents
subject: public school
subject: Chicago
subject: health risk
subject: social emotional learning
subject: students
subject: School Mental Health Services
subject: Social Learning
subject: Data Analysis
subject: Adolescent
subject: Chicago Public Schools. Department of Instruction and Guidance
subject: Illinois--Chicago

description: Adolescence is a critical time for public health promotion efforts. Adolescents experience great physical, social, and emotional changes, which places them at an increased mental and behavioral health risk (Heyes and Hiu, 2015). There has been a growing focus on universal mental health supports in schools. School-based mental health promotion efforts vary greatly across the United States due to differences in policy, funding, and support for programs, and there is only fragmentary evidence about the success of different approaches. Social emotional learning (SEL) has become an increasingly popular universal school-based mental health promotion approach that builds cognitive, affective, and behavioral competencies to support student mental health and well-being (Durlak et. al., 2011, p. 406). The promotion of social and emotional learning supports aspects of mental health through the provision of related skills and the enhancement of environmental contexts that promote the health, academic, social, and emotional success of learners (CASEL, 2008, p.1). School districts play an important role in social emotional learning, as they often set the policies and guidelines for the design and implementation of SEL programming.  This paper will use Chicago Public Schools (CPS) as a case study of how school districts can support social emotional learning. Using a qualitative analysis method based on thetriangulation of multiple information sources, CPS policies and programs will be described and evaluated. This study examines whether a coordinated, integrated approach like the one CPS employs can be a successful model for other school districts. This case study will highlight best practices and demonstrate how social-emotional learning can be strengthened through policy and program changes at the district level.
Set-Up Costs and Theory of Exhaustible Resources, and A Note on Set-Up Costs Facing Consumers
Creators: name: Hartwick, John M.
name: Kemp, Murray C.
name: Van Long, Ngo
name: Hartwick, John M.
name: Kemp, Murray C.
name: Van Long, Ngo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1980
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis
Financial Economics

description: This paper discusses the traditional specification problem from a geometric viewpoint. While the traditional emphasis is on the properties of estimators, the geometric approach also allows an easy development of corresponding results for inference. Errors arising from artificial inclusion or exclusion of variables are considered in terms of augmentations or restrictions on a given maintained hypothesis, and this allows a corresponding interpretation of tests based upon the Wald and Lagrange Multiplier Principles. It is demonstrated that biases arising from incorrect exclusion of variables do not invalidate the traditional F-test.
Tariffs and the Extraction of Foreign Monopoly Rents Under Potential Entry
Creators: name: Brander, James A.
name: Spencer, Barbara
name: Brander, James A.
name: Spencer, Barbara
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1980
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis
Financial Economics

description: This paper examines the incentives for using tariffs to extract monopoly rents from imperfectly competitive foreign firms. Under imperfect competition price exceeds marginal cost so that a country which imports such a good pays a rent to the foreign firm (unless the firm happens to earn only normal profits). Tariffs can be used to extract some of this rent. On the basis of a simple Stackelberg entry deterrence model, the paper shows that the rent-extracting policy is particularly attractive if the foreign firm faces a threat of domestic entry. In the special case in which a domestic entrant would produce only for its home market some rent can be extracted without reducing the level of imports or domestic consumption of the good. Despite transportation costs, it is shown that the Stackelberg leader-follower model can lead to intra-industry trade in the same commodity. The rent-extracting tariff policy is then examined in the case that a potential domestic entrant may produce both for the home and export markets.
An analysis of computer usage among speech-language pathologists in public schools
Creators: name: Houle, Gail Ruppert
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3904
subject: Specialist studies in education

description: This study investigated if and why speech-language pathologists in public schools resist or accept computer technology as a tool of their profession. The researcher formulated hypotheses to identify variables that differentiated public school speech-language pathologists who are frequent users of computers from those who are infrequent/non-users of computers. The variables considered were: (1) attitudes toward computers and the "computerization" of society, (2) beliefs about computers, (3) gender, (4) number of years as a public school speech-language pathologist, (5) previous computer training, (6) number of schools served and (7) severity of handicapped student caseload. To implement the investigation the researcher designed a causal-comparative study. The sample chosen for this study consisted of 284 randomly selected public school speech-language pathologists holding membership in the American-Speech-Language-Hearing Association and employed in public schools nationally. The instrument used was a computer attitude and opinion survey developed by Zoltan and Chapanis and a supplemental questionnaire developed by the researcher. Respondents were categorized as frequent users or infrequent/non-users of computers according to the "extreme-group" method. Data analysis consisted of descriptive and inferential data treatments. The findings indicated that public school speech-language pathologists who are frequent users of computers in the workplace differ significantly from those who seldom or never use computers. Frequent users have more positive attitudes toward computers (t = +6.32 and p =.000 $<$.05) and more positive opinions about computers (t = +5.46 and p =.000 $<$.05) than infrequent/non-users. Frequent users were more likely than infrequent/non-users to hold degrees or certificates beyond the Master's level (chi-square = 7.35 and p =.077 $<$.05). Public school speech-language pathologists made better and more frequent use of computers if their school districts provided: (1) funding for hardware and software dedicated for use by speech-language pathologists (t = +2.97 and p =.003 $<$.05), (2) facilities for the secure storage of computer equipment (p = +2.24 and p =.026 $<$.05) and (3) effective human resource development programs such as in-service training programs to promote the formation of user-groups, "hands-on" experience and demonstration teaching (chi-square = 22.3 and p =.000 $<$.05).
Intertemporal Common Property Equilibria
Creators: name: Hartwick, John M.
name: Hartwick, John M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1980
Subjects: Financial Economics
Livestock Production/Industries

description: An agent adjusts its harvest in an intertemporal optimization problem taking other agents' harvests as fixed. With stock size affecting harvest costs, an intertemporal externality is present. Cooperative and competitive solutions are compared given an exogenously fixed number of agents. Then an entry-exit relation is introduced for each regime. Multiple equilbria obtain for each regime. One cannot say that the competitive solution has too many boats and too small a steady state stock of fish relative to the cooperative regime.
Stress energy correlator in de Sitter space-time : its conformal masking or growth in connected Friedmann universes
Creators: name: Dhanuka, Ankit
name: Lochan, Kinjalk
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Semiclassical Physics in gravitational scenario, in its first approximation (1st order) cares only for the expectation value of stress energy tensor and ignores the inherent quantum fluctuations thereof. In the approach of stochastic gravity, on the other hand, these matter fluctuations are supposed to work as the source of geometry fluctuations and have the potential to render the results from 1st order semiclassical physics irrelevant. We study the object of central significance in stochastic gravity, i.e. the noise kernel, for a wide class of Friedmann space-times. Through an equivalence of quantum fields on de Sitter space-time and those on generic Friedmann universes, we obtain the noise kernel through the correlators of Stress Energy Tensor (SET) for fixed co-moving but large physical distances. We show that in many Friedmann universes including the expanding universes, the initial quantum fluctuations, the universe is born with, may remain invariant and important even at late times. Further, we explore the cosmological space-times where even after long times the quantum fluctuations remain strong and become dominant over large physical distances, which the matter driven universe is an example of. The study is carried out in minimal as well as non-minimal interaction settings. Implications of such quantum fluctuations are discussed.
description: 29 pages, 1 figure
An analysis of computer usage among speech-language pathologists in public schools
Creators: name: Houle, Gail Ruppert
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This study investigated if and why speech-language pathologists in public schools resist or accept computer technology as a tool of their profession. The researcher formulated hypotheses to identify variables that differentiated public school speech-language pathologists who are frequent users of computers from those who are infrequent/non-users of computers. The variables considered were: (1) attitudes toward computers and the "computerization" of society, (2) beliefs about computers, (3) gender, (4) number of years as a public school speech-language pathologist, (5) previous computer training, (6) number of schools served and (7) severity of handicapped student caseload. To implement the investigation the researcher designed a causal-comparative study. The sample chosen for this study consisted of 284 randomly selected public school speech-language pathologists holding membership in the American-Speech-Language-Hearing Association and employed in public schools nationally. The instrument used was a computer attitude and opinion survey developed by Zoltan and Chapanis and a supplemental questionnaire developed by the researcher. Respondents were categorized as frequent users or infrequent/non-users of computers according to the "extreme-group" method. Data analysis consisted of descriptive and inferential data treatments. The findings indicated that public school speech-language pathologists who are frequent users of computers in the workplace differ significantly from those who seldom or never use computers. Frequent users have more positive attitudes toward computers (t = +6.32 and p =.000 $<$.05) and more positive opinions about computers (t = +5.46 and p =.000 $<$.05) than infrequent/non-users. Frequent users were more likely than infrequent/non-users to hold degrees or certificates beyond the Master's level (chi-square = 7.35 and p =.077 $<$.05). Public school speech-language pathologists made better and more frequent use of computers if their school districts provided: (1) funding for hardware and software dedicated for use by speech-language pathologists (t = +2.97 and p =.003 $<$.05), (2) facilities for the secure storage of computer equipment (p = +2.24 and p =.026 $<$.05) and (3) effective human resource development programs such as in-service training programs to promote the formation of user-groups, "hands-on" experience and demonstration teaching (chi-square = 22.3 and p =.000 $<$.05).
Additional file 2 of Long-term LVEF trajectories in patients with type 2 diabetes and heart failure: diabetic cardiomyopathy may underlie functional decline
Creators: name: Julián, María Teresa
name: Alonso, Núria
name: Lupón, Josep
name: Giovana Gavidia-Bovadilla
name: Ferrer, Elena
name: Antonio, Marta De
name: López-Ayerbe, Jorge
name: Domingo, Mar
name: Santiago-Vacas, Evelyn
name: Zamora, Elisabet
name: Codina, Pau
name: Moliner, Pedro
name: Núñez, Julio
name: Santesmases, Javier
name: Puig-Domingo, Manel
name: Bayes-Genis, Antoni
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2: Table S1. Demographic, clinical, and therapeutic characteristics at baseline and treatments during follow-up according to etiology of heart failure and presence of diabetes mellitus. Table S2. Paired wise means data analysis in diabetic patients. Table S3. Causes of death of the studied cohort during the 15-year follow-up, according the presence or absence of diabetes mellitus. Table S4. Multivariable Cox regression analysis for all-cause death and the composite end-point all-cause death or heart failure hospitalization.
The Holographic Dual of a SUSY Vector Model and Tensionless Open Strings
Creators: name: Suryanarayana, Nemani V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe a supersymmetric example of the holographic duality between 3 dimensional vector models and higher spin gauge theories in AdS_4, first proposed in a bosonic context by Klebanov and Polyakov. We argue that a particular Fradkin-Vasiliev type supersymmetric higher spin gauge theory in AdS_4 with 16 supersymmetries is dual to the singlet sector of bilinear operators of a free N = 4, SU(N) vector model defined on the boundary. Starting from the duality between type IIB on AdS_5 \times S^5 with a D5-brane as an AdS_4 \times S^2 subspace and the 4 dimensional SU(N) SYM with a defect, we recover the duality between our vector model and the higher spin gauge theory. In this case, we propose that the higher spin gauge theory is a truncation of the open string theory on the world volume of the D5-brane in its tensionless string limit. We also comment on a possible Higgs mechanism in our model.
description: 19 pages, harvmac
Two Papers on Model Testing and Discrimination
Creators: name: Fisher, Gordon
name: McAleer, Michael
name: Fisher, Gordon
name: McAleer, Michael
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1980
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Atkinson's procedure
subject: Consistency of tests
subject: Cox's test
subject: Non-orthogonal models
subject: Separate regression models

description: In this note it is demonstrated that Theil's (1961) minimum error variance criterion is asymptotically valid for choosing between non-nested nonlinear regression models, as long as one of the models being considered is 'true'. -- Pereira (1977) raised the issue of consistency of the tests , developed by Cox (1961, 1962) and Atkinson (1970) for separate families of hypotheses and showed that the Cox-test is always consistent whereas Atkinson's procedure is not always consistent. In this paper it is shown that when the null and alternative hypotheses are separate regression models, Atkinson's procedure will always provide a consistent test. It is also shown that, in addition to comparing the actual and expected performances of the alternative when the Coxtest is used, the actual performance of the null becomes relevant for interpreting the outcome of the test based on Atkinson's modification.
Carl G. Jung: A solution to the problem of the aesthetic experience
Creators: name: Mayo, Donald H.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Artistic inspiration and the effect of art on the audience or reader has been a philosophical problem since Plato. It became acute in the Romantic period. Kant in his Critique of Judgment gave an epistemological explanation of the aesthetic experience. Other Romantic writers as well as Kant's successors, Schiller, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche dealt further with the subject. The procedure of the study has involved a historical review of philosophical writings on aesthetics, including Plato, Plotinus, and the nineteenth century Germans mentioned above. Jung's general psychological theory has been explained. His analysis of the aesthetic experience and other aesthetic views and how they depend on his general system has been examined. Finally, Jung's artistic criticism is discussed and evaluated. Two broad claims are advanced: first, that Jung's explanation of the aesthetic experience is the best solution to this difficult psychological and epistemological problem; second, that Jung is as much Romantic philosopher as psychologist. The conclusions support these two theses. Jung's work seems also to support Kant's position that there is an artistic form of cognition separate from the conceptual thought governed by the categories. Finally, a schema is offered for a system of criticism based on Jung's writings.
Carl G. Jung: A solution to the problem of the aesthetic experience
Creators: name: Mayo, Donald H.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 50
subject: Philosophy and religious studies
classificationCode: 5003
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: Artistic inspiration and the effect of art on the audience or reader has been a philosophical problem since Plato. It became acute in the Romantic period. Kant in his Critique of Judgment gave an epistemological explanation of the aesthetic experience. Other Romantic writers as well as Kant's successors, Schiller, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche dealt further with the subject. The procedure of the study has involved a historical review of philosophical writings on aesthetics, including Plato, Plotinus, and the nineteenth century Germans mentioned above. Jung's general psychological theory has been explained. His analysis of the aesthetic experience and other aesthetic views and how they depend on his general system has been examined. Finally, Jung's artistic criticism is discussed and evaluated. Two broad claims are advanced: first, that Jung's explanation of the aesthetic experience is the best solution to this difficult psychological and epistemological problem; second, that Jung is as much Romantic philosopher as psychologist. The conclusions support these two theses. Jung's work seems also to support Kant's position that there is an artistic form of cognition separate from the conceptual thought governed by the categories. Finally, a schema is offered for a system of criticism based on Jung's writings.
Computational meshes of microchannel reactors for hydrogen production
Creators: name: Chen, Junjie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 90499 Chemical Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical engineering

description: The laws of physical chemistry and physics govern the practicability and efficiency of chemical engineering operations. Energy changes, deriving from thermodynamic considerations, are particularly important. Mathematics is a basic tool in optimization and modeling. Optimization means arranging materials, facilities, and energy to yield as productive and economical an operation as possible. Modeling is the construction of theoretical mathematical prototypes of complex process systems, commonly with the aid of computers. Contributor: Junjie Chen, ORCID: 0000-0001-5055-4309, E-mail address: komcjj@gmail.com, Department of Energy and Power Engineering, School of Mechanical and Power Engineering, Henan Polytechnic University, 2000 Century Avenue, Jiaozuo, Henan, 454000, P.R. China
Opaque or transparent? A link between neutrino optical depths and the characteristic duration of short gamma-ray bursts
Creators: name: Lee, William H.
name: Ramirez-Ruiz, Enrico
name: Page, Dany
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cosmological gamma ray bursts (GRBs) are thought to occur from violent hypercritical accretion onto stellar mass black holes, either following core collapse in massive stars or compact binary mergers. This dichotomy may be reflected in the two classes of bursts having different durations. Dynamical calculations of the evolution of these systems are essential if one is to establish characteristic, relevant timescales. We show here for the first time the result of dynamical simulations, lasting approximately one second, of post--merger accretion disks around black holes, using a realistic equation of state and considering neutrino emission processes. We find that the inclusion of neutrino optical depth effects produces important qualitative temporal and spatial transitions in the evolution and structure of the disk, which may directly reflect upon the duration and variability of short GRBs.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters
Predicting accreted satellite galaxy masses and accretion redshifts based on globular cluster orbits in the E-MOSAICS simulations
Creators: name: Pfeffer, Joel L.
name: Trujillo-Gomez, Sebastian
name: Kruijssen, J. M. Diederik
name: Crain, Robert A.
name: Hughes, Meghan E.
name: Reina-Campos, Marta
name: Bastian, Nate
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ages and metallicities of globular clusters (GCs) are known to be powerful tracers of the properties of their progenitor galaxies, enabling their use in determining the merger histories of galaxies. However, while useful in separating GCs into individual accretion events, the orbits of GC groups themselves have received less attention as probes of their progenitor galaxy properties. In this work, we use simulations of galaxies and their GC systems from the E-MOSAICS project to explore how the present-day orbital properties of GCs are related to the properties of their progenitor galaxies. We find that the orbits of GCs deposited by accretion events are sensitive to the mass and merger redshift of the satellite galaxy. Earlier mergers and larger galaxy masses deposit GCs at smaller median apocentres and lower total orbital energy. The orbital properties of accreted groups of GCs can therefore be used to infer the properties of their progenitor galaxy, though there exists a degeneracy between galaxy mass and accretion time. Combining GC orbits with other tracers (GC ages, metallicities) will help to break the galaxy mass/accretion time degeneracy, enabling stronger constraints on the properties of their progenitor galaxy. In situ GCs generally orbit at lower energies (small apocentres) than accreted GCs, however they exhibit a large tail to high energies and even retrograde orbits (relative to the present-day disc), showing significant overlap with accreted GCs. Applying the results to Milky Way GCs groups suggests a merger redshift $z \sim 1.5$ for the Gaia Sausage/Enceladus and $z>2$ for the `low-energy'/Kraken group, adding further evidence that the Milky Way had two significant mergers in its past.
description: 13 pages, 7 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS (21 September 2020)