cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Long Secondary Periods in Variable Red Giants
Creators: name: Nicholls, C. P.
name: Wood, P. R.
name: Cioni, M. -R. L.
name: Soszyński, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a study of a sample of LMC red giants exhibiting Long Secondary Periods (LSPs). We use radial velocities obtained from VLT spectral observations and MACHO and OGLE light curves to examine properties of the stars and to evaluate models for the cause of LSPs. This sample is much larger than the combined previous studies of Hinkle et al. (2002) and Wood, Olivier & Kawaler (2004). Binary and pulsation models have enjoyed much support in recent years. Assuming stellar pulsation, we calculate from the velocity curves that the typical fractional radius change over an LSP cycle is greater than 30 per cent. This should lead to large changes in Teff that are not observed. Also, the small light amplitude of these stars seems inconsistent with the radius amplitude. We conclude that pulsation is not a likely explanation for the LSPs. The main alternative, physical movement of the star -- binary motion -- also has severe problems. If the velocity variations are due to binary motion, the distribution of the angle of periastron in our large sample of stars has a probability of 1.4e-3 that it comes from randomly aligned binary orbits. In addition, we calculate a typical companion mass of 0.09 Msun. Less than 1 per cent of low mass main sequence stars have companions near this mass (0.06 to 0.12 Msun) whereas ~25 to 50 per cent of low mass red giants end up with LSPs. We are unable to find a suitable model for the LSPs and conclude by listing their known properties.
description: 18 pages, 19 figures. Accepted to MNRAS 2009 July 15
Chi tsang
Creators: name: Binkley, Taylor Francis
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The Hsü Kao Seng Chuan [Chinese characters omitted] biography of Chi Tsang [Chinese characters omitted] (Taishō 2060, T.50.513c-5l5a) is translated. It is preceded by a discussion of Chi Tsang's place in the history of Chinese Buddhism - he was a prominent exegete of the San Lun school, the Chinese counterpart to the Indian Mādhyamika School. The place of the Mādhyamika school in Indian Buddhism is discussed, as well as the history of its introduction into China. This is followed by a discussion of the nature of the sources for Chi Tsang's life - principally the Hsü Kao Seng Chuan notice - and the general unreliability and lack of depth of such accounts is discussed. The outstanding features of Chi Tsang's life are then discussed. He studied with Pa Lang, great re-vivifier of San Lun. He wrote abundantly and was renowned as a great lecturer. His interest encompassed the numerous Buddhist activities of his time, and his writings on the San Lun are the best we possess; on the Lotus sūtra, among the very best. He wrote commentaries to at least fifteen sutras. He disciples transmitted his teaching into the T'ang and to Japan, and he is reckoned the founder of the San Lun school. He was born in 549 and died in 623, and enjoyed the patronage of the Ch'en, Sui and T'ang ruling houses.̈̈
Supplementary Results from The goal-relevance of affective stimuli is dynamically represented in affective experience
Creators: name: Asutay, Erkin
name: Västfjäll, Daniel
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 179999 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Affect is a continuous and temporally dependent process that represents an individual's ongoing relationship with its environment. However, there is a lack of evidence on how factors defining the dynamic sensory environment modulate changes in momentary affective experience. Here, we show that goal-dependent relevance of stimuli is a key factor shaping momentary affect in a dynamic context. Participants (N = 83) viewed sequentially presented images and reported their momentary affective experience after every fourth stimulus. Relevance was manipulated through an attentional task that rendered each image either task-relevant or task-irrelevant. Computational models were fitted to trial-by-trial affective responses to capture the key dynamic parameters explaining momentary affective experience. The findings from statistical analyses and computational models showed that momentary affective experience was shaped by the temporal integration of the affective impact of recently encountered stimuli, and that task-relevant stimuli, independent of stimulus affect, prompted larger changes in experienced pleasantness compared to task-irrelevant stimuli. These findings clearly show that dynamics of affective experience reflect goal-relevance of stimuli in our surroundings.
Circle homeomorphisms and shears
Creators: name: Saric, Dragomir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 32G15

description: We give parameterizations of homeomorphisms, quasisymmetric maps and symmetric maps of the unit circle in terms of shear coordinates for the Farey tesselation.
description: 26 pages, 3 figures
The design and evaluation of a land use simulation game
Creators: name: Barkley, William Donald
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: This study was concerned with the design and evaluation of a land use simulation game for rural residents of the East Kootenay region of British Columbia. The rationale behind the study was that gaming was a technique worthy of investigation for use in the environmental education of adults. Two hypotheses were proposed to guide the research on the land use simulation game designed. The first proposed that the game would produce a significant increase in knowledge and change in attitude, and the second stated that significant relationships would be shown between player characteristics, game play data and test results. A simulation game was designed using a modified version of a procedure set out by Glazier (41) for designing educational games. Two preliminary versions were tested and a final version set up. The game was a board game using an enlarged piece of a land capability map. Players bought and planned pieces of land through the four seasons of the year. The objective of the game was to maximize economic returns without severely damaging the environment. Instruments for evaluating the game were simultaneously designed and tested. The simulation game was played with 40 East Kootenay residents in school district number 2, Cranbrook on properties of 50 acres or more. Family groups played the game and completed both a pre and post-test. The people playing the simulation game came mostly from productive farms (82.5%). Thirty-five percent of the sample were husbands and wives, 45 percent children, and 20 percent were others which included farm hands and neighbours. The mean educational level of the group was 10.7 years. The mean land holding size was 537.1 acres and the mean number of players per each of the nine gaming sessions was 4.7 persons. Years of schooling correlated positively with the total score a person received on the game. Objective 6 on the ability to identify good and poor land uses correlated significantly with a number of other variables. This objective appears to be an important one to consider in future game modification. Knowledge and attitude correlated significantly and positively with years of schooling, money scores, total scores, playing time, number of players, attitude towards the game, and rank within a group; and negative significant correlations were found with property size and environmental unit scores. T-test results showed that there had been a general increase in knowledge and in particular an increase in the knowledge about the competitive relationships that exist between wild and domestic populations. A change in attitude about the effects of land use on neighbouring lands was also found to be significant. It was concluded that the simulation game had been a limited success with some learning statistically demonstrable. Correlation data and subjective data provided sufficient information for the further modification of this learning device to enhance its effectiveness.
Additional file 1 of Impact of a postpartum care rehabilitation program to prevent postpartum depression at a secondary municipal hospital in Qingdao China: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Zhang, Xiaoqian
name: Zuo, Xiaoli
name: Matheï, Catharina
name: Aertgeerts, Bert
name: Afnan, Masoud
name: Li, Tang
name: Buntinx, Frank
name: Vermandere, Mieke
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Mental Health

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary File 1. Services for postpartum women during ‘doing the month’ period in different settings in Qingdao
Collider Inclusive Jet Data and the Gluon Distribution
Creators: name: Pumplin, Jon
name: Huston, J.
name: Lai, H. L.
name: Nadolsky, P. M.
name: Tung, Wu-Ki
name: Yuan, C. -P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Inclusive jet production data are important for constraining the gluon distribution in the global QCD analysis of parton distribution functions. With the addition of recent CDF and D0 Run II jet data, we study a number of issues that play a role in determining the up-to-date gluon distribution and its uncertainty, and produce a new set of parton distributions that make use of that data. We present in detail the general procedures used to study the compatibility between new data sets and the previous body of data used in a global fit. We introduce a new method in which the Hessian matrix for uncertainties is ``rediagonalized'' to obtain eigenvector sets that conveniently characterize the uncertainty of a particular observable.
description: Published version
Performances of linseed oil-free bakelite RPC prototypes with cosmic ray muons
Creators: name: Biswas, S.
name: Bhattacharya, S.
name: Bose, S.
name: Chattopadhyay, S.
name: Saha, S.
name: Sharan, M. K.
name: Viyogi, Y. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A comparative study has been performed on Resistive Plate Chambers (RPC) made of two different grades of bakelite paper laminates, produced and commercially available in India. The chambers, operated in the streamer mode using argon, tetrafluroethane and isobutane in 34:59:7 mixing ratio, are tested for the efficiency and the stability with cosmic rays. A particular grade of bakelite (P-120, NEMA LI-1989 Grade XXX), used for high voltage insulation in humid conditions, was found to give satisfactory performance with stable efficiency of > 96% continuously for more than 130 days. A thin coating of silicone fluid on the inner surfaces of the bakelite RPC is found to be necessary for operation of the detector.
description: 6 figures, Presented in IX International Workshop on Resistive Plate Chamber and related Detectors-2007, TIFR, Mumbai, India, February 13-16, 2008
Diagram of the experimental design and micrographs of healthy-looking diapausing egg of Brachionus from Dormant plasticity of rotifer diapausing eggs in response to predator kairomones
Creators: name: Yin, Xuwang
name: Zhao, Yuecen
name: Tian, Shuang
name: Li, Xiaochun
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: In freshwater ecosystems, hatching strategy of diapausing eggs (DEs) under predation risk has important ecological implication for zooplankters. Although kairomones released by predators can induce phenotypic responses of prey, hatching patterns of DEs in response to kairomones have received contradictory conclusions in zooplankters. Maternal environment may also affect hatching strategy of DEs during predator–prey interactions. We used classical Brachionus calyciflorus–Asplanchna models to determine the timing and proportion of diapausing-egg hatching in association with parental and embryonic exposure to kairomones. Results obtained from two Brachionus clones supported the hypothesis that DEs could detect Asplanchna kairomones and adjust hatching patterns. DEs showed early and synchronous hatching patterns in the environment with kairomones. Data also supported the prediction that DEs could gain information about predators from maternal environments and adjusted their hatching pattern in response to the presence of kairomones. Compared with DEs from Brachionus mothers not exposed to kairomones, DEs produced by mothers experienced kairomones attained a higher hatching rate when both of them hatched in the environment either with kairomones or not. Our results suggest that DEs of B. calyciflorus possess dormant plasticity to defend against predation from Asplanchna, which may be regulated by maternal environmental effects during sexual life cycles.
Analysing and controlling the tax evasion dynamics via majority-vote model
Creators: name: Lima, F. W. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Within the context of agent-based Monte-Carlo simulations, we study the well-known majority-vote model (MVM) with noise applied to tax evasion on simple square lattices, Voronoi-Delaunay random lattices, Barabasi-Albert networks, and Erdös-Rényi random graphs. In the order to analyse and to control the fluctuations for tax evasion in the economics model proposed by Zaklan, MVM is applied in the neighborhod of the noise critical $q_{c}$. The Zaklan model had been studied recently using the equilibrium Ising model. Here we show that the Zaklan model is robust and can be reproduced also through the nonequilibrium MVM on various topologies.
description: 18 pages, 7 figures, LAWNP'09, 2009
Static deformation of heavy spring due to gravity and centrifugal force
Creators: name: Essen, Hanno
name: Nordmark, Arne
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: Popular Physics (physics.pop-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The static equilibrium deformation of a heavy spring due to its own weight is calculated for two cases. First for a spring hanging in a constant gravitational field, then for a spring which is at rest in a rotating system where it is stretched by the centrifugal force. Two different models are considered. First a discrete model assuming a finite number of point masses connected by springs of negligible weight. Then the continuum limit of this model. In the second case the differential equation for the deformation is obtained by demanding that the potential energy is minimized. In this way a simple application of the variational calculus is obtained.
description: 11 pages, 2 figures
Feedback and Rate Asymmetry of the Josephson Junction Noise Detector
Creators: name: Urban, D. F.
name: Grabert, Hermann
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Josephson junction noise detector measures the skewness of non-Gaussian noise via the asymmetry of the rate of escape from the zero-voltage state upon reversal of the bias current. The feedback of this detector on the noise generating device is investigated in detail. Concise predictions are made for a second Josephson junction as noise generating device. The strong nonlinearity of this component implies particularly strong feedback effects, including a change of sign of the rate asymmetry as the applied voltage approaches twice the superconducting gap.
Isoperla umpqua Szczytko & Stewart 2013
Creators: name: Sandberg, John B.
name: Kondratieff, Boris C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Plecoptera
Perlodidae
Isoperla
Isoperla umpqua

description: Isoperla umpqua Szczytko & Stewart (Figs. 18 a-d) Isoperla muir Szczytko & Stewart 2004. Nomen nudum. Isoperla umpquaSzczytko & Stewart 2013. Holotype ♂, Oregon, Douglas County, Muir Creek, Hwy 230, downstream from bridge. Male. Aedeagus: sclerotized posterior process present; body with one large dorsoanterior lobe (Fig. 18a); sclerotized process length approximately 0.5 mm, recurved and rod-like, with parallel lateral margins, apex clavate, and distal margin rounded in lateral and posterior views (Figs. 18 a-c). Mesoposterior area of eighth and ninth terga with bipartite patches of short stout spinulae and long fine scattered setae (Fig. 18c). Posterolateral margins of at least abdominal segment 8 with scale-like setae clustered in brushes of several setae. Paraprocts: curved dorsally, length if straightened subequal to combined first and second cercal segments, tapering gradually to long blunt apices (Fig. 18c). Vesicle: pedunculate, length subequal to width, constricted near base with curved lateral margins, wider and rounded at apex (Fig. 18d). Based upon the presence of a sclerotized posterior process, absence of distinct aedeagal spinule patches, and pedunculate vesicle shape, I. umpqua is placed within the I. sordida complex (Table 1). It differs from all other I. sordida complex species by possessing short stout spinulae arranged in bipartite patches along mesoposterior margins of terga 8-9. The clavate sclerotized posterior process is most similar to I. adunca; however its length is approximately twice as long as I. umpqua. Isoperla umpqua is known only from Oregon, and similar to I. baumanni, is from a single location.
description: Published as part of Sandberg, John B. & Kondratieff, Boris C., 2013, The Isoperla Of California (Plecoptera: Perlodidae); Updated Male Descriptions And Adult Keys For 18 Western Nearctic Species, pp. 34-64 in Illiesia 9 (5) on pages 57-59, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4760870
description: {"references": ["Szczytko, S. W. & K. W. Stewart. 2004. Isoperla muir, a new species of western Nearctic Isoperla and a new larval description of Isoperla tilasqua Szczytko and Stewart, (Plecoptera: Perlodidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 130: 233 - 243.", "Szczytko, S. W. & K. W. Stewart. 2013. Isoperla umpqua a new species of western Nearctic stonefly. Illiesia, 9: 28 - 33."]}
Data set diagonalization in a global fit
Creators: name: Pumplin, Jon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The analysis of data sometimes requires fitting many free parameters in a theory to a large number of data points. Questions naturally arise about the compatibility of specific subsets of the data, such as those from a particular experiment or those based on a particular technique, with the rest of the data. Questions also arise about which theory parameters are determined by specific subsets of the data. I present a method to answer both of these kinds of questions. The method is illustrated by applications to recent work on measuring parton distribution functions.
description: Published version
Development of linseed oil-free bakelite resistive plate chambers
Creators: name: Biswas, S.
name: Bhattacharya, S.
name: Bose, S.
name: Chattopadhyay, S.
name: Saha, S.
name: Viyogi, Y. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we would like to present a few characteristics of the Resistive Plate Chambers (RPC) made of a particular grade of bakelite paper laminates (P-120, NEMA LI-1989 Grade XXX), produced and commercially available in India. This particular grade is used for high voltage insulation in humid conditions. The chambers are tested with cosmic rays in the streamer mode using argon, tetrafluroethane and isobutane in 34:59:7 mixing ratio. In the first set of detectors made with such grade, a thin coating of silicone fluid on the inner surfaces of the bakelite was found to be necessary for operation of the detector. Those silicone coated RPCs were found to give satisfactory performance with stable efficiency of >90% continuously for a long period as reported earlier. Results of the crosstalk measurement of these silicone coated RPC will be presented in this paper. Very recently RPCs made with the same grade of bakelite but having better surface finish, are found to give equivalent performance even without any coating inside. Preliminary results of this type of RPCs are also being presented.
description: 9 figures, Presented in The 8th International Conference on Position Sensitive Detectors (PSD 2008)
The properties of a large sample of low surface brightness galaxies from SDSS
Creators: name: Liang, Y. C.
name: Zhong, G. H.
name: Chen, X. Y.
name: Gao, D.
name: Hammer, F.
name: Liu, F. S.
name: Hu, J. Y.
name: Deng, L. C.
name: Zhang, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A large sample of low surface brightness (LSB) disk galaxies is selected from SDSS with B-band central surface brightness mu_0(B) from 22 to 24.5 mag arcsec^(-2). Some of their properties are studied, such as magnitudes, surface brightness, scalelengths, colors, metallicities, stellar populations, stellar masses and multiwavelength SEDs from UV to IR etc. These properties of LSB galaxies have been compared with those of the galaxies with higher surface brightnesses. Then we check the variations of these properties following surface brightness.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, to appear in proceedings of IAU symposium 262, Stellar Populations: Planning for the Next Decade, eds. G. Bruzual & S. Charlot
Darstellung von Cyclodextrin-basierten N-Heterocyclischen Carben-Gold(I)-Komplexen und ihre Anwendung
Creators: name: Versinskaite, Indre
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cyclodextrine
subject: NHC
subject: Goldkomplexe
subject: Goldkatalyse
subject: Mizellare Katalyse
subject: 540
subject: Cyclodextrine
subject: Gold
subject: Katalyse

description: Die Entwicklung von reaktiven, selektiven und recyclebaren Katalysatoren ist ein wichtiger Teil der modernen Forschung, wobei die Nachhaltigkeit der katalytischen Systeme wie auch von Übergangsmetall-katalysierten Reaktionen von großer Bedeutung ist. Eine interessante Kombination bieten NHC-funktionalisierte Cyclodextrine mit einem Goldzentrum, welche als chirale, wasserlösliche Katalysatoren für die enantioselektive Katalyse in wässrigem Medium verwendet werden können. Cyclodextrine (CD) sind leicht zugängliche, wasserlösliche und ungiftige Verbindungen. Aufgrund ihrer einzigartigen Struktur können Cyclodextrine Wirt-Gast-Komplexe mit hydrophoben Substraten bilden. N-Heterocyclische Carbene (NHC) mit ihrer starken σ-Donor- und schwachen π-Akzeptor-Kapazität sind hervorragende Liganden in der Übergangsmetallkatalyse. Durch einfache und effiziente Synthese können unterschiedlich substituierte NHC-Vorstufen in NHC-Goldkomplexe umgewandelt werden, welche dann durch ihre Fähigkeit, π-Systeme für inter- oder intramolekulare nukleophile Angriffe aktivieren, in der homogene Goldkatalyse Anwendung finden. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit werden die Synthesen von neuartigen Gold(I)-Komplexen auf Basis von Cyclodextrinen präsentiert. Die modifizierten Cyclodextrine wurden mit NHC-Vorläufer mittels „Click-Reaktion“ verknüpft. Als eine effiziente Methode zur Verknüpfung der beiden Strukturelemente stellte sich die Ruthenium-katalysierte Azid-Alkin-Cycloaddition heraus, wobei benzylierte und wasserlösliche CD-NHC-Goldkomplexe synthetisiert wurden. Außerdem wurde die „strain-promoted“ Azid-Alkin-Cycloaddition untersucht, wobei zwei Synthesestrategien zur Darstellung von Cyclodextrin-basierten NHC-Goldkomplexen vorgestellt werden konnten. Die katalytische Aktivität und die Wiederverwendbarkeit der Katalysatoren wurde bei der Gold-katalysierten Cycloisomerisierung in organischen Lösungsmitteln sowie im wässrigen Medium demonstriert.
title: Corporate Governance Ratings: Got the grade… What was the test?
Creators: name: Larcker, David F.
name: Tayan, Brian
Publisher: name: Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Year: 2007

description: In 2007, there were three prominent corporate governance ratings firms—The Corporate Library (TCL), Governance Metrics International (GMI), and Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). These firms assessed the effectiveness and deficiency of the governance systems of thousands of publicly traded companies. Although members of the investing public agreed that sound policies were important to protect the interest of shareholders from potentially self-interested managers, there were many questions around the usefulness of published governance ratings themselves. Questions ranged from whether a system of governance could be adequately summarized in a single, numerical score to what a high or low rating was supposed to indicate. Furthermore, allegations that ISS engaged in a conflict of interest by selling consulting services to companies on how to improve their ratings led some to question the objectivity of the ratings process.
Power laws in elementary and heavy-ion collisions - A story of fluctuations and nonextensivity?
Creators: name: Wilk, Grzegorz
name: Wlodarczyk, Zbigniew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review from the point of view of nonextensive statistics the ubiquitous presence in elementary and heavy-ion collisions of power-law distributions. Special emphasis is placed on the conjecture that this is just a reflection of some intrinsic fluctuations existing in the hadronic systems considered. These systems summarily described by a single parameter q playing the role of a nonextensivity measure in the nonextensive statistical models based on Tsallis entropy.
description: 14 pages, a minireview for EPJA topical issue
Field Walking in Binbrook, Ontario, Canada.
Creators: name: Fiddes, Jennie
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2011

description: This resource is a single blog post created as part of the Day of Archaeology initiative. The Day of Archaeology project aimed to provide a window into the daily lives of archaeologists from all over the world. The project asked people working, studying or volunteering in the archaeological world to participate in a 'Day of Archaeology' each year by recording their day and sharing it through text, images or video on the Day of Archaeology blog.
The project asked anyone with a personal, professional or voluntary interest in archaeology to get involved, and help highlight the reasons why archaeology is vital to protect the past and inform our futures. The resulting Day of Archaeology project archive demonstrates the wide variety of work the archaeological profession undertakes day-to-day across the globe, and helps to raise public awareness of the relevance and importance of archaeology to the modern world.
The first ever Day of Archaeology was held in 2011 and, since then, the project had thousands of archaeologists take part in the event, from those working in the field through to specialists working in laboratories and behind computers. The last Day of Archaeology was on Friday 28th July 2017.
A study of agreements for sale as a source of residential finance
Creators: name: Babalos, Demetrios John
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The basic purpose of this paper was to gain a better understanding of agreements for sale as a source of residential finance. This meant discovering what terms were being charged and why purchasers of houses used agreements as a source of finance versus mortgages. To this end, three hypotheses were derived in order to arrive at these answers. The first problem was to discover the relationship that existed between the state of the economy and the usage of agreements for sale as a source of residential finance. In addition, the influence on the terms charged was measured. The second area of investigation was to discover the effect of a house buyer's socio-economic status on the probability that he would have to use an agreement for sale. The basic question concerned whether a person with a low socio-economic status would be more likely to use an agreement. The terms charged were similarly analyzed. The third and final problem compared the terms on agreements and on mortgages. Was there greater variation in the terms amongst agreements than mortgages? If there were any variation, could this be due to differences in the quality of the borrower's financial collateral? To answer the first problem, data was collected for the year 1970 and 1971 on agreements for sale because these two years coincide with a recessionary and expansionary economic period, respectively. For the second problem, data was collected on mortgages for the year 1971. Purchasers under agreements for sale and mortgages were then all assigned a socio-economic status. Thereupon, the analysis was undertaken on the basis of the data collected. For the third hypothesis, the collected data for 1971 on agreements for sale and on mortgages was statistically compared. In addition, regression equations were derived between certain variables to arrive at relationships between terms. In concluding, it was found, that in a recessionary state in the economy, agreements for sale were in greater prevalence than in an expansionary state. The terms charged at such a time were much harsher than in a time of economic expansion. Purchasers with low socio-economic status tended to use agreements for sale more often than did buyers with a high index. In general, it was found that agreements for sale tended to have less harsh terms than did mortgages.
A day in ceramics, glass and metals. Conservation at the British Museum
Creators: name: Pearce, Pippa
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2011

description: This resource is a single blog post created as part of the Day of Archaeology initiative. The Day of Archaeology project aimed to provide a window into the daily lives of archaeologists from all over the world. The project asked people working, studying or volunteering in the archaeological world to participate in a 'Day of Archaeology' each year by recording their day and sharing it through text, images or video on the Day of Archaeology blog.
The project asked anyone with a personal, professional or voluntary interest in archaeology to get involved, and help highlight the reasons why archaeology is vital to protect the past and inform our futures. The resulting Day of Archaeology project archive demonstrates the wide variety of work the archaeological profession undertakes day-to-day across the globe, and helps to raise public awareness of the relevance and importance of archaeology to the modern world.
The first ever Day of Archaeology was held in 2011 and, since then, the project had thousands of archaeologists take part in the event, from those working in the field through to specialists working in laboratories and behind computers. The last Day of Archaeology was on Friday 28th July 2017.
title: 10b5-1 Plans: Mortgaging a Defense Against Insider Trading
Creators: name: Larcker, David F.
name: Tayan, Brian
Publisher: name: Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Year: 2007

description: In 2006, David Zucker, chief executive officer of Midway Games, came under fire for selling a significant amount of Midway stock just weeks before a precipitous decline in the company’s share price. One year later, Angelo Mozilo, chairman and chief executive officer of Countrywide Financial, also increased the pace of his stock sales in the months before troubles in the U.S. mortgage lending market led to a similar drop off in Countrywide’s share price. Both executives placed their trades through prearranged programs known as 10b5-1 plans. 10b5-1 plans, named after the Securities and Exchange Commission rule which led to their creation, provided a systematic method for corporate executives who were routinely in the possession of material nonpublic information to engage in the sale of company stock. When implemented appropriately, 10b5-1 plans provided a safe haven that shielded these individuals from liability under insider trading laws by demonstrating that certain safeguard conditions were in place at the time the trades were executed. However, the circumstances under which both executives carried out their programs led to an outcry from shareholders that the programs were being abused. Regulators and shareholders were left to decide whether the two men executed their 10b5-1 plans in good faith as required or whether their actions amounted to a sophisticated form of illegal insider trading.
Behind the Wire: explosive archaeology at MOD Caerwent
Creators: name: Reynolds, Ffion
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2011

description: This resource is a single blog post created as part of the Day of Archaeology initiative. The Day of Archaeology project aimed to provide a window into the daily lives of archaeologists from all over the world. The project asked people working, studying or volunteering in the archaeological world to participate in a 'Day of Archaeology' each year by recording their day and sharing it through text, images or video on the Day of Archaeology blog.
The project asked anyone with a personal, professional or voluntary interest in archaeology to get involved, and help highlight the reasons why archaeology is vital to protect the past and inform our futures. The resulting Day of Archaeology project archive demonstrates the wide variety of work the archaeological profession undertakes day-to-day across the globe, and helps to raise public awareness of the relevance and importance of archaeology to the modern world.
The first ever Day of Archaeology was held in 2011 and, since then, the project had thousands of archaeologists take part in the event, from those working in the field through to specialists working in laboratories and behind computers. The last Day of Archaeology was on Friday 28th July 2017.
Distances between matrix algebras that converge to coadjoint orbits
Creators: name: Rieffel, Marc A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 46L87, Secondary 53C23, 58B34, 81R15, 81R30

description: For any sequence of matrix algebras that converge to a coadjoint orbit we give explicit formulas that show that the distances between the matrix algebras (viewed as quantum metric spaces) converges to 0. In the process we develop a general point of view that is likely to be useful in other related settings.
description: 10 pages
Archaeology Summer Schools
Creators: name: Gahlin, Lucia
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2011

description: This resource is a single blog post created as part of the Day of Archaeology initiative. The Day of Archaeology project aimed to provide a window into the daily lives of archaeologists from all over the world. The project asked people working, studying or volunteering in the archaeological world to participate in a 'Day of Archaeology' each year by recording their day and sharing it through text, images or video on the Day of Archaeology blog.
The project asked anyone with a personal, professional or voluntary interest in archaeology to get involved, and help highlight the reasons why archaeology is vital to protect the past and inform our futures. The resulting Day of Archaeology project archive demonstrates the wide variety of work the archaeological profession undertakes day-to-day across the globe, and helps to raise public awareness of the relevance and importance of archaeology to the modern world.
The first ever Day of Archaeology was held in 2011 and, since then, the project had thousands of archaeologists take part in the event, from those working in the field through to specialists working in laboratories and behind computers. The last Day of Archaeology was on Friday 28th July 2017.
Attitudes of mobile home owners toward mobile home parks
Creators: name: Contractor, Roda
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Planning is concerned with understanding and relating to the needs of various segments of the population. Thus it is imperative that planners should comprehend the views of any group which falls within their administrative or regulatory jurisdiction. This study has undertaken to examine the attitudes of mobile home owners toward the park in which their mobile home is located. Responses to a questionnaire by 281 residents living in a total of 31 parks were used as the primary source of information. Utilizing multivariate analytical techniques, the study investigated, first, the dimensions involved in mobile home living and, second, the relationship between resident satisfaction and physical and social characteristics of the mobile home park. Physical park characteristics that were examined included: size and age of the mobile home park; services and facilities within the park; size of lots; location of the park. Social characteristics of the park included resident perception of: differences between conventional single family neighborhoods, and mobile home parks; degree of friendliness of park dwellers as compared to residents of other types of neighborhoods; constraints on social interaction outside the park because of distance from other residential neighborhoods and/or community facilities; constraints on social interaction outside the park due to negative attitudes of non-park dwellers. In addition, information concerning attitudes toward rules and regulations as well as the extent of resident interaction within the park was sought out. A number of conclusions emerged from the study which are considered to be useful to planners in making future decisions concerning mobile home parks. These conclusions indicated: the minimum size for development of a satisfactory park; those park features that account significantly for resident satisfaction; the role of the municipality in the development of mobile home parks; the appropriate location for mobile home parks. Finally, a number of questions were raised that were considered to require further research.
Thai transitivity : a functional grammar analysis
Creators: name: Yiemkuntitavorn, S
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: This research is a study on a functional analysis of an aspect of Thai grammar. It is based on the theoretical framework of Systemic Functional Theory developed by Halliday and other systemicists. Though Systemic Functional Theory has been widely used in the West for linguistic analysis, it has not captured the attention of research in Thai linguistics. Thus, this study attempts to make this research transition as its contribution to Thai linguistics. The focus is on the description of the experiential grammar of the clause or the system of TRANSITIVITY. In Functional Grammar, which is the core of Systemic Functional Theory, formal units in natural language display a variety of simultaneous grammatical structures, which are fused together in the process of realisation. These structures are the syntagmatic expressions of paradigmatic choices which are themselves realisationally related to the metafunctions of language. Both the paradigmatic and syntagmatic aspects of the experiential grammar of the Thai clause will be examined. This study consists of three components: (a) reviewing the linguistic analysis of Thai from different grammatical perspectives, (b) examining the reasons why Functional Grammar provides deep linguistic insights into the understanding of Thai linguistics, and (c) conducting a comprehensive analysis of the Thai system of transitivity.
The relationship between attention and achievement in reading and numeracy
Creators: name: Ta'eed, GL
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The well established link between behavioural problems and academic underachievement (Hinshaw, 1992) has resulted in research aimed at identifying which type of behavioural difficulties are correlates of underachievement. Inattention has consistently been shown to be a major factor in reading difficulties as well as being linked to poor performance in other academic areas. This suggests that investigations of children's achievement may benefit from including an assessment of their attentional abilities aimed at identifying the kinds of attentional problems that are associated with underachievement. This review considers some of the difficulties of defining attention and outlines some approaches to its measurement. The broad consensus among researchers is that attention is not a single cognitive function. Aspects of attention that have received the greatest research and clinical interest are selective attention, sustained attention, divided attention and attentional switching. The main approaches to assessing attention are rating scales, generally by teachers or parents, and cognitive tests, which raise different issues of validity. Studies are needed to compare these different assessment methods and to see which methods best assess different aspects of attention. Future research could also look at sex differences in attentional abilities and their relationship to different patterns of achievement in boys and girls across subject areas.
title: Models of Corporate Governance: Who's the Fairest of Them All?
Creators: name: Larcker, David F.
name: Tayan, Brian
Publisher: name: Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Year: 2008

description: In 2007, corporate governance became a well-discussed topic in the business press. Newspapers produced detailed accounts of corporate fraud, accounting scandals, excessive compensation, and other perceived organizational failures—many of which culminated in lawsuits, resignations, and bankruptcy. Central to these stories was the assumption that somehow corporate governance was to blame. That is, there was a functional failure in the system of checks and balances established to prevent abuse by executives. This case explores the various corporate governance systems that have been adopted in the United States and in various countries in Europe and Asia. The issues of control, director independence, auditor independence, dual-board versus unitary-board structure, comply-or-explain, and legislative versus market-driven solutions are explored. Readers are asked to evaluate what governance systems or elements they consider to be most effective. Plentiful examples—including Johnson & Johnson, BMW Group, Michelin, Heineken, Toyota, Samsung, Posco, PetroChina, Infosys, and many others—are used throughout as illustration.
Towards a bran nue day : a discussion about the present and the past for the future
Creators: name: West, EG
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Since 1974 I have, as a result of various simultaneous pressures and opportunity, enjoyed occupying some very important roles in the arena of the politics of Aboriginal education. The roles I have played range from being an employee of the then Education Department, Victoria, Australia, as a member of the teaching staff of Bell Primary School (as an 'in excess' staff member) through to teaching at Alvie Primary/Consolidated School, and from there into Aboriginal Education Services (AES), Myer House, Melbourne, Victoria. There, in association with individuals like Glynn Beaton, the non-Aboriginal supervisor of the service, and Aborigines like Wendy Brabham, Minnie Read, Ambrose Golden-Brown, Alf Bamblett and numerous others, I faced situations which drew from me every emotional response possible regarding the plight of Aboriginal people in general, but certainly Aboriginal children and young adults and their 'relationship' with and access to education and educational opportunity. It was during this fervent period that my colleagues and I were the target of the Victorian Education system's semi-aimless meanderings in firstly, the development of curricula aimed at teaching any or all students some things about Australian Aboriginal cultures, Aboriginal people and an issue that was especially important to us, the degree of racism which was and still is entrenched in the resources available to teachers to undertake such curriculum development; and secondly, though of equal urgency and cardinal importance, were issues relating to the epistemology of education for Aboriginal children of pre-school through to at least year 12. We concentrated our efforts in addressing the issues with absolute confidence in our views of what we 'knew' the actual pedagogy required was, while at the same time developing personal and group expertise of a high order to consolidate our views and remain politically and educationally unchallengeable.
Finite Quantum Grand Canonical Ensemble and Temperature from Single Electron Statistics in a Mesoscopic Device
Creators: name: Prati, Enrico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I present a theoretical model of a quantum statistical ensemble for which, unlike in conventional physics, the total number of particles is extremely small. The thermodynamical quantities are calculated by taking a small $N$ by virtue of the orthodicity of canonical ensemble. The finite quantum grand partition function of a Fermi-Dirac system is calculated. The model is applied to a quantum dot coupled with a small two dimensional electron system. Such system consists of an alternatively single and double occupied electron system confined in a quantum dot, which exhanges one electron with a small $N$ two dimensional electron reservoir. The analytic determination of the temperature of a $(1\leftrightarrow 2)$ electron system and the role of ergodicity are discussed. The generalized temperature expression in the small $N$ regime recovers the usual temperature expression by taking the limit of $N\to\infty$ of the electron bath.
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Day of Archaeology as a Masters student
Creators: name: Sclements
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2011

description: This resource is a single blog post created as part of the Day of Archaeology initiative. The Day of Archaeology project aimed to provide a window into the daily lives of archaeologists from all over the world. The project asked people working, studying or volunteering in the archaeological world to participate in a 'Day of Archaeology' each year by recording their day and sharing it through text, images or video on the Day of Archaeology blog.
The project asked anyone with a personal, professional or voluntary interest in archaeology to get involved, and help highlight the reasons why archaeology is vital to protect the past and inform our futures. The resulting Day of Archaeology project archive demonstrates the wide variety of work the archaeological profession undertakes day-to-day across the globe, and helps to raise public awareness of the relevance and importance of archaeology to the modern world.
The first ever Day of Archaeology was held in 2011 and, since then, the project had thousands of archaeologists take part in the event, from those working in the field through to specialists working in laboratories and behind computers. The last Day of Archaeology was on Friday 28th July 2017.