cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Testing Second Language Listening Ability
Creators: name: Wagner, Elvis
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2003

description: In order to test second language listening ability, it is necessary to first define what second language listening ability actually is. Unfortunately, researchers have as yet been unable to formulate an agreed-upon and workable definition of L2 listening ability. This is partly because the processes involved in L2 listening comprehension are so dependent on the context of the listening situation that the establishment of a global, comprehensive definition is probably impossible. However, Buck (2001) has created what he calls a “default listening construct” that seems to be useful, because it is flexible and broad enough to be applied in most listening situations. Buck defines L2 listening ability as the ability: 1) To process extended samples of realistic spoken language, automatically and in real time; 2) To understand the linguistic information that is unequivocally included in the text; 3) To make whatever inferences are unambiguously implicated by the content of the passage (Buck, 2001, p. 114). Using this definition of L2 listening ability allows teachers and testers to create valid and useful listening tests.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 3 No. 1 (2003)
Additional file 1 of Effects of metabolic parameters’ variability on cardiovascular outcomes in diabetic patients
Creators: name: Lim, Subin
name: Chung, Se Hwa
name: Kim, Ju Hyeon
name: Kim, Yong Hyun
name: Kim, Eung Ju
name: Joo, Hyung Joon
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Supplementary Material 1
The Use of Self-assessment in Second Language Assessment
Creators: name: Saito, Yoko
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2003

description: The current trends in learner-centered language teaching approaches, and a growing interest in “authenticity and interactiveness” (Bachman & Palmer, 1996) have led to a greater interest in expanding the use of second language self-assessment (Bachman, 2000; Calfee & Hiebert, 1991; Hamayan, 1995). Many language testers have been inspired to investigate whether students are able to make a meaningful contribution to their own evaluation. It would be ideal if the findings of all the empirical studies on the effectiveness of self-assessment were consistent; however, they have produced varying results which have made test administrators and teachers skeptical about implementing self-assessment in the assessment of second language ability.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 3 No. 1 (2003)
title: A Theorem on Homeomorphic Convergence and Some Applications
Creators: name: Wang, Frank J.S.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1968

description: Borsuk [ 3 ] has given interesting conditions under which a certain function space is separable (see Theorem 3. 1 ). We give a proof for Borsuk's Theorem here and we show how it can be used to establish a useful theorem on homeomorphic convergence. We illustrate the utility of the theorem on homeomorphic convergence by stating and proving several of its consequences.
For example we show that the plane (E2) does not contain uncount­ably many pairwise disjoint contina each of which contains a simple triod (Corollary 4. 1 ). We prove that in an uncountable collection G of pairwise disjoint simple closed curves in E2 "almost all" elements of G must be converged to homeomorphically "from both sides" by sequences of elements of G (see Theorem 4. 3 ). The same technique allows us to prove the nonexistence of uncountably many pairwise dis -joint wild 2 -spheres in E3.
Another interesting consequence of Borsuk's Theorem is Theorem 3. 4 which shows that in each set G consisting of uncountably many com­pact subsets of a metric space, some element of G is an element of convergence. Proofs for this theorem do not often appear in the literature, and, as far as the author knows, the proof given here does not appear in the literature.
We wish to emphasize that all the proofs given in this report were constructed by the author without reference to the literature, in fact the author was unaware of the references until after the proofs were given. We given reference at the end of the paper where proofs in the literature can be compared with the proofs given here.
We wish to emphasize that all the proofs given in this report were constructed by the author without reference to the literature, in fact the author was unaware of the references until after the proofs were given. We given reference at the end of the paper where proofs in the literature can be compared with the proofs given here.
title: Numerical Approximation to the Inverse Function of the Cumulative Chi-Square, t, and F Distribution
Creators: name: Liang, Kuo-Chee
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1968

description: In the past, tables have been published for the chi­-square, t and F distributions. These tables have their own limitations with respect to the number of percentage points and degrees of freedom that are applicable. For instance, most tables for the chi-square distribution list tabular chi-square value for probabilities, .995, .99, .975, .95, .75, .5, .25, .1, .05, .025, .01, .005, .001, .0005, .0001 with degrees of freedom (1, 30, 1) and (40, 120, 10). How­ever, suppose we want to know the chi-square value for probability .96 with degrees of freedom 10, or probability .95 with degrees of freedom 35; we would find other tables incomplete at this point. Besides, as the computer is get­ting widely used in research, it is worthwhile to have computer programs written to generate some of statistical functions rather than strictly to be limited by the tables.
Consequently, there have been methods developed to approximate chi-square, t and F value, when degrees of freedom and probability are known. It is the purpose of this study to present the methods of each individual dis­tribution and evaluate its accuracy. Thus, the scope of this paper includes the following:
1. The definition and inverse function of each dis­tribution.
2. The numerical approximate methods and examples.
3. A computer Fortran IV program to maximize the accuracy of calculation.
4. A comparison of the results obtained by numerical approximation with the known tabular value.
5. An evaluation of the capacity of these numerical methods.
title: Multiplicative Number - Theoretic Functions
Creators: name: Erickson, Barney Lee
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1968

description: Quite frequently in the study of number theory we become acquainted with special functions which are defined on the set of positive integers. These functions are known as Number-theoretic functions or Arithmetical functions. This report will give some of the general ideas of the multipli­cative number-theoretic functions.
The first part of this report will be devoted to the general develop­ment of such functions by means of definitions and theorems. The second part will consist of generalizations of a particular function, the -r-function.
Throughout this paper, lower case Greek letters will represent real numbers and lower case English letters will represent integers. Also the basic ideas of summation and product will be assumed as already familiar to the reader.
title: Measure Theory and Lebesgue Integration
Creators: name: Brossard, Evan S.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1968

description: The Lebesgue integral is a generalization of the Riemann integral which extends the collection of functions which are integrable.
Lebesgue integration differs from Riemann integration in the way the approximations to the integral are taken. Riemann approximations use step functions which have a constant value on any given interval of the domain corres­ponding to some partition. Lebesgue approximations use what are called simple functions which, like the step functions, take on only a finite number of values. However, these values are not necessarily taken on by the function on intervals of the domain, but rather on arbitrary subsets of the domain. The integration of simple functions under the most general circumstances possible necessitates a generalization of our notion of length of a set when the set is more complicated than a simple interval. We define the Iebesgue measure "m" of a set E Є M, where M is some collection of sets of real numbers, to be a certain set function which assigns to Ea nonnegative extended real number 'mE '.
This report consists of the solutions of exercises found in 'Real Analysis", by H. L. Hoyden. Quotations from the book are all accompanied by the title "Definition" or "Theorem". The exercises are all entitled "Proposition" and all proofs in this report are my own. All theorems are quoted without proof The theorems and definitions occur as they are needed throughout the paper1 but some of the most basic definitions and theorems are lumped together in section II.
It is assumed in this paper that the reader is familiar with the basic concepts of advanced calculus and set theory,
Scoring Procedures for Assessing Writing
Creators: name: Park, Taejoon
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2003

description: The evaluation of writing ability of L2 students has become increasingly important in recent years, because the results of such evaluations are used for a variety of administrative, instructional, and research purposes. One of the first decisions to be made in determining a system for directly assessing writing quality is what type of scoring procedure will be used: Should a single score be given to each text, or should the different features of a text be scored separately? This issue has been the subject of a great deal of research and discussion in the composition literature. Among others, two types of scoring procedures have mainly been discussed: analytic and holistic scoring.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 3 No. 1 (2003)
Climatology and Trends of Tornado-Favorable Atmospheric Ingredients in the United States
Creators: name: Moore, Todd W.
name: Clair, Jennifer M. St.
name: McGuire, Michael P.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 20199 Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Tornadoes cause numerous fatalities and injuries each year in the United States. Understanding the geographic distribution of tornado risk and how it changes over time is critical to our ability to communicate risk and heighten public awareness and preparation—all part of our attempt to reduce the number of tornado-related fatalities and injuries. Tornadoes are most common when certain atmospheric conditions are met, namely, in a humid, unstable atmosphere with vertical wind shear. In this study, we generate seasonal climatologies and track seasonal changes of these atmospheric conditions. Each of these atmospheric conditions is found to change in different ways, creating unique spatiotemporal combinations. For example, wind shear and moisture increased in winter in the Midwest and Mid-South along with tornado counts. In spring, instability, wind shear, and moisture increased by various amounts through the Midwest and Mid-South. In addition to changes in the mean state of atmospheric conditions, trends herein show that variability is also changing. Notable changes include increases in the variability of convective available potential energy in the western portions of the north and south Great Plains in spring and summer and an increase in the variability of wind shear in the Midwest and Mid-South in fall. This study illustrates that atmospheric ingredients interact in complex ways. When considered with other studies, this study also shows that changing atmospheric conditions could be contributing to changes in tornado activity in the United States.
Classroom Achievement Tests: An Essential Part of the Second Language Learning and Teaching Processes
Creators: name: Perrone, Michael
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2003

description: Assessment plays a critical role in the field of linguistics, allowing teachers as well as administrators to make important decisions regarding the proficiency, placement, and achievement of second language learners. In addition, assessment can be an invaluable tool in making diagnostic decisions regarding the strengths and weaknesses of particular students. While these types of performance decisions play distinct and crucial roles within language programs, the focus of this article will be on the tests that may be of particular interest to many L2 classroom teachers, i.e., achievement tests.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 3 No. 1 (2003)
Sentence Processing within the Competition Model
Creators: name: Year, JungEun
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2003

description: The Competition Model was developed to account for sentence processing as well as language acquisition (MacWhinney & Bates, 1989). Based on lexical functionalism, the model assumes that language processing is an interactive process of form-function mappings mediated by competition and cooperation among lexical items. It also draws on connectionist modeling, and thus stresses the importance of frequency and the information value of linguistic input. The purpose of this paper is to review the Competition Model through a brief discussion of its main principles and empirical studies. The first part of the paper briefly reviews two major theoretical approaches in sentence processing research. In the next section, the Competition Model is presented with its theoretical background, principles, and predictions. Then, empirical studies investigating sentence processing within the model will be discussed. Finally, the paper will conclude with a discussion of methodological issues.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 3 No. 1 (2003)
First results of the EDELWEISS-II WIMP search using Ge cryogenic detectors with interleaved electrodes
Creators: name: Armengaud, E.
name: Augier, C.
name: Benoit, A.
name: Berge, L.
name: Besida, O.
name: Blumer, J.
name: Broniatowski, A.
name: Chantelauze, A.
name: Chapellier, M.
name: Chardin, G.
name: Charlieux, F.
name: Collin, S.
name: Defay, X.
name: De Jesus, M.
name: Di Stefano, P.
name: Dolgorouki, Y.
name: Domange, J.
name: Dumoulin, L.
name: Eitel, K.
name: Gascon, J.
name: Gerbier, G.
name: Gros, M.
name: Hannawald, M.
name: Herve, S.
name: Juillard, A.
name: Kluck, H.
name: Kozlov, V.
name: Lemrani, R.
name: Loaiza, P.
name: Lubashevskiy, A.
name: Marnieros, S.
name: Navick, X-F.
name: Olivieri, E.
name: Pari, P.
name: Paul, B.
name: Rozov, S.
name: Sanglard, V.
name: Scorza, S.
name: Semikh, S.
name: Torrento-Coello, A. S.
name: Vagneron, L.
name: Verdier, M-A.
name: Yakushev, E.
name: Collaboration, the EDELWEISS
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The EDELWEISS-II collaboration has performed a direct search for WIMP dark matter with an array of ten 400 g heat-and-ionization cryogenic detectors equipped with interleaved electrodes for the rejection of near-surface events. Six months of continuous operation at the Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane have been achieved. The observation of one nuclear recoil candidate above 20 keV in an effective exposure of 144 kgd is interpreted in terms of limits on the cross-section of spin-independent interactions of WIMPs and nucleons. A cross-section of 1.0x10^-7 pb is excluded at 90%CL for a WIMP mass of 80 GeV/c2. This result demonstrates for the first time the very high background rejection capabilities of these simple and robust detectors in an actual WIMP search experiment.
description: 14 pages, 3 figures. Submitted to Phys Lett. B
Second Language Transfer During Third Language Acquisition
Creators: name: Murphy, Shirin
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2003

description: A recent focus in the study of cross-linguistic influence is the role of transfer during third language acquisition. How do the learner’s first and second languages influence the acquisition of a third language? Current research suggests that the multilingual dynamic differs from L1 effects during second language acquisition. This literature review will examine L2 transfer during third language acquisition within the general context of cross-linguistic influence. An overview of the study of language transfer will be presented, followed by a discussion of the variables that operate and interact when two or more languages come into contact. The variables are categorized as learner-based or language-based, and each is discussed in the contexts of L2 and L3 acquisition. A particular area of focus will be hybrid lexical forms and the unintentional intrusion of L2 items during L3 production.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 3 No. 1 (2003)
Additional file 1 of Effectiveness of betadine-coating gastrostomy tube to reduce peristomal infection after percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy: a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Chen, Yu-Jen
name: Hou, Ming-Chih
name: Yang, Tsung-Chieh
name: Lee, Pei-Chang
name: Wang, Yen-Po
name: Huang, Yi-Hsiang
name: Lee, Fa-Yauh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Supplementary table 1: Bacterial culture results in infected patients
Enhancing Human Motion Prediction via Multi-range Decoupling Decoding with Gating-adjusting Aggregation
Creators: name: Wang, Jiexin
name: Qiang, Wenwen
name: Yang, Zhao
name: Su, Bing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Expressive representation of pose sequences is crucial for accurate motion modeling in human motion prediction (HMP). While recent deep learning-based methods have shown promise in learning motion representations, these methods tend to overlook the varying relevance and dependencies between historical information and future moments, with a stronger correlation for short-term predictions and weaker for distant future predictions. This limits the learning of motion representation and then hampers prediction performance. In this paper, we propose a novel approach called multi-range decoupling decoding with gating-adjusting aggregation ($MD2GA$), which leverages the temporal correlations to refine motion representation learning. This approach employs a two-stage strategy for HMP. In the first stage, a multi-range decoupling decoding adeptly adjusts feature learning by decoding the shared features into distinct future lengths, where different decoders offer diverse insights into motion patterns. In the second stage, a gating-adjusting aggregation dynamically combines the diverse insights guided by input motion data. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed method can be easily integrated into other motion prediction methods and enhance their prediction performance.
Conflict Talk: A Discourse Analytical Perspective
Creators: name: Leung, Santoi
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2002

description: This paper surveys research in the area of conflict talk, focusing on discourse analytical studies of actual, naturally occurring conflict talk. The paper begins with a brief discussion on how conflict talk has been conceptualized. Then the scope of the paper is defined as focusing on discourse analytical studies that examine actual instances of conflict talk within a framework of argument as a situated, local interactional accomplishment. Next, some of the mechanisms and important factors by which conflict talk can be initiated, maintained or escalated, and terminated are reviewed. Finally, the methodological issue of missing data is considered, and a call is made for more detailed analyses of conflict talk in a variety of contexts.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 2 No. 3 (2002)
Electromagnetic radiation in a time-varying background medium
Creators: name: Budko, Neil V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Analytical solutions are presented for the electromagnetic radiation by an arbitrary pulsed source into a homogeneous time-varying background medium. In the constant-impedance case an explicit radiation formula is obtained for the synchronous permittivity and permeability described by any positive function of time. As might be expected, such a medium introduces significant spectral shifts and spatio-temporal modulation, which are analized here for the linear and exponential time-variations of the medium parameters. In the varying-impedance case the solution is obtained for the fourth-order polynomial time-dependence of the permittivity. In addition to the spectral shifts and modulation this spatially homogeneous medium scatters the field introducing causal echoes at the receiver location.
description: 17 pages, no figures
Issues in Acquisitional Pragmatics
Creators: name: Jung, Ji-Young
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2002

description: This paper aims at a comprehensive review of the growing body of research in L2 pragmatic acquisition, including both theoretical discussions and empirical studies to date. To this end, the paper deals with a number of issues which are grouped into four broad categories: the essential constituents of pragmatic competence, models of pragmatic development, major processes of pragmatic competence, and various factors affecting pragmatic development. Throughout the paper, it is shown that cultural knowledge has central importance in pragmatic competence and that such knowledge can be acquired through language-mediated social interactions. Furthermore, a learner’s unconditional adoption of a new set of cultural beliefs and values is unrealistic due to the unresolved conflict between L2 norms of speaking and the learner’s needs and beliefs about the ways of being in the world. Given these perspectives, this paper points to the need for a holistic approach to L2 pragmatic development, taking into account both the intralearner, psychological and the inter-learner, sociocultural aspects of learning. The paper concludes with the suggestion that L2 pragmatic competence be discussed in terms of intercultural competence involving the learner’s continuous, identity and attitude formation, rather than the acquisition of prescribed behavioral rules of speaking.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 2 No. 3 (2002)
title: Axiomatic Set Theory
Creators: name: Smit, Ronald P.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1965

description: An analysis of the well known paradoxes found in intuitive set theory has led to the reconstruction of set theory by axiomatic means. This exposition is devoted to Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory with some changes made by Suppes.
The first order predicate calculus is presupposed. In addition to the usual quantifiers admitted, a unique existential quantifier is used. The primitive notions of the set theory are the empty set and the two place membership predicate.
Marijuana induced Reversible Cerebral Vasoconstriction Syndrome
Creators: name: Zeenat Qureshi Stroke Institutes
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome (RCVS) is a transient multifocal arterial vasoconstriction and dilatation. The term was proposed by a panel of experts1 as a unifying term for a variety of a syndromes characterized by cerebral vasospasms and resultant clinical manifestations of cerebral ischemia. These syndromes include Call–Fleming syndrome, drug-induced cerebral angiopathy, benign angiopathy of the CNS, postpartum cerebral angiopathy, and migrainous vasospasm. Drug abuse, especially cannabis, is an important etiologic factor for RCVS. It is one of the most widely used recreational substances in the world, considered by many consumers as a relatively safe drug with few significant side-effects.2 Cannabis contains 9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), which is rapidly absorbed when smoked, reaching a peak plasma concentration at 10–30 min, and is lipid soluble with a large volume of distribution.3 Cannabinoids bind to cannabinoid receptors, CB1 in the central nervous system and CB2 in the immune system.
Brane Bremsstrahlung in DBI Inflation
Creators: name: Brax, Philippe
name: Cluzel, Emeline
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the effect of trapped branes on the evolution of a test brane whose motion generates DBI inflation along a warped throat. The coupling between the inflationary brane and a trapped brane leads to the radiation of non-thermal particles on the trapped brane. We calculate the Gaussian spectrum of the radiated particles and their backreaction on the DBI motion of the inflationary brane. Radiation occurs for momenta lower than the speed of the test brane when crossing the trapped brane. The slowing down effect is either due to a parametric resonance when the interaction time is small compared to the Hubble time or a tachyonic resonance when the interaction time is large. In both cases the motion of the inflationary brane after the interaction is governed by a chameleonic potential,which tends to slow it down. We find that a single trapped brane can hardly slow down a DBI inflaton whose fluctuations lead to the Cosmic Microwave Background spectrum. A more drastic effect is obtained when the DBI brane encounters a tightly spaced stack of trapped branes.
description: 20 pages, 1 figure
title: Computer Analysis of Consumer Attitude and Consumption Data for Fluid Milk Products
Creators: name: Fisher, James Reed
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1968

description: The American public, with a per capita disposable income currently at an all time high, has become a source of vital concern to dairy market researchers. The unique socio-economic structure of the present generation causes the dairy industry to be concerned with how the consumer view its products. Effective education and advertising programs must be developed to attract the taste and meet the demands of the consumer.
Two factors which greatly influence market research and advertising programs are the attitude of the consumer toward a given product and the relationship of attitude to the degree of actual milk consumption. To avoid unnecessary waste and decreased profits resulting from production in excess of consumer demands, a method of measuring consumer preference and consumption could conceivably affect the dairy producer, processor, and marketer.
Combined approach of density functional theory and quantum Monte Carlo method to electron correlation in dilute magnetic semiconductors
Creators: name: Ohe, Jun-ichiro
name: Tomoda, Yoshihiro
name: Bulut, Nejat
name: Arita, Ryotaro
name: Nakamura, Kazuma
name: Maekawa, Sadamichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a realistic study for electronic and magnetic properties in dilute magnetic semiconductor (Ga,Mn)As. A multi-orbital Haldane-Anderson model parameterized by density-functional calculations is presented and solved with the Hirsch-Fye quantum Monte Carlo algorithm. Results well reproduce experimental results in the dilute limit. When the chemical potential is located between the top of the valence band and an impurity bound state, a long-range ferromagnetic correlations between the impurities, mediated by antiferromagnetic impurity-host couplings, are drastically developed. We observe an anisotropic character in local density of states at the impurity-bound-state energy, which is consistent with the STM measurements. The presented combined approach thus offers a firm starting point for realistic calculations of the various family of dilute magnetic semiconductors.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
title: Clusters in Separated Tubes of Tilted Dipoles
Creators: name: Armstrong, Jeremy R.
name: Jensen, Aksel S.
name: Volosniev, Artem G.
name: Zinner, Nikolaj T.
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2022

description: A few-body cluster is a building block of a many-body system in a gas phase provided the temperature at most is of the order of the binding energy of this cluster. Here we illustrate this statement by considering a system of tubes filled with dipolar distinguishable particles. We calculate the partition function, which determines the probability to find a few-body cluster at a given temperature. The input for our calculations — the energies of few-body clusters — is estimated using the harmonic approximation. We first describe and demonstrate the validity of our numerical procedure. Then we discuss the results featuring melting of the zero-temperature many-body state into a gas of free particles and few-body clusters. For temperature higher than its binding energy threshold, the dimers overwhelmingly dominate the ensemble, where the remaining probability is in free particles. At very high temperatures free (harmonic oscillator trap-bound) particle dominance is eventually reached. This structure evolution appears both for one and two particles in each layer providing crucial information about the behavior of ultracold dipolar gases. The investigation addresses the transition region between few- and many-body physics as a function of temperature using a system of ten dipoles in five tubes.
On Three Potential Sources of Comprehensible Input for Second Language Acquisition
Creators: name: Park, Eun Sung
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2002

description: Three potential sources of comprehensible input for second language acquisition are examined: Modified Input, Interactionally Modified Input and Modified Output. To this end, an attempt is made to closely investigate how each type of linguistic environment facilitates learner comprehension, and subsequently, acquisition. Different theoretical claims as well as a number of empirical studies are discussed in order to explore the link between different sources of input and language development. The paper concludes with a critical discussion of how the perceived comprehension actually leads to the acquisition of the features of the target language, and with suggestions for future research in this area.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 2 No. 3 (2002)
title: Propositions Equivalent to the Continuum Hypothesis
Creators: name: Bohl, Bernard L.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1968

description: Two sets A and B are said to have the same power if there exists a one-to-one correspondence between them. All sets which have the same power as the natural numbers are called countable and have power N0. All sets which have the same power as the real numbers are said to have the power of the continuum will be denoted by 2N0, since 2N0 can be shown to be equal to c as will be indicated in the preliminary results.
Given an element a of a well-ordered set B, the set of all elements of B which procede a is called a segment of B. Every uncountable well-ordered set, all of whose segments are either finite or countable, is said to have power N1. The Continuum Hypothesis is the hypothesis that the power of the continuum is N1 that is 2N0 = N1. In the sequel, this equality will be called hypothesis H.
Thomson scattering in dense plasmas with density and temperature gradients
Creators: name: Fortmann, C.
name: Thiele, R.
name: Fäustlin, R. R.
name: Bornath, Th.
name: Holst, B.
name: Kraeft, W. -D.
name: Schwarz, V.
name: Toleikis, S.
name: Tschentscher, Th.
name: Redmer, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Collective X-ray Thomson scattering has become a versatile tool for the diagnostics of dense plasmas. Assuming homogeneous density and temperature throughout the target sample, these parameters can be determined directly from the plasmon dispersion and the ratio of plasmon amplitudes via detailed balance. In inhomogeneous media, the scattering signal is an average of the density and temperature dependent scattering cross-section weighted with the density and temperature profiles. We analyse Thomson scattering spectra in the XUV range from near solid density hydrogen targets generated by free electron laser radiation.The influence of plasma inhomogeneities on the scattering spectrum is investigated by comparing density and temperature averaged scattering signals to calculations assuming homogeneous targets. We found discrepancies larger than 10% between the mean electron density and the effective density as well as between the mean temperature and the effective temperature.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures
Content-Based Instruction, Cooperative Learning, and CALP Instruction: Addressing the Whole Education of 7-12 ESL Students
Creators: name: Troncale, Nicole
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2002

description: Much more than content-based instruction (CBI) is necessary to meet the needs of 7-12 ESL students. Cooperative learning and cognitive academic language instruction (CALP) instruction should be incorporated into CBI in order for middle and high school students to become selfdirected learners capable of advancing to higher education. All teachers who work with language-minority students, not just ESL teachers, must play a part in helping their students to gain the linguistic ability, content knowledge and academic skills necessary to succeed in their classes and beyond high school.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 2 No. 3 (2002)
Managing Disagreement to Avoid Confrontation in Sports Talk Radio
Creators: name: O'Connell, Stephen
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2002

description: In this paper the nature of disagreement in sports talk radio is examined. It is a widely held notion that talk radio in general is an argumentative and disputatious, if not hostile, forum in which people exchange ideas. Using the research methods of conversation analysis, an initial study of disagreement in sports talk radio appears to support that idea—meaning that disagreements are made without the mollifying techniques ordinarily used in face-to-face talk. However, looking at those disagreements more closely reveals that they tend not to devolve into confrontation on sports talk radio programs. This paper focuses on the methods employed by both callers and hosts to achieve this feat and thus demonstrates that the stereotype of talk radio being confrontational and hostile does not apply to the specific genre of sports talk radio.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 2 No. 3 (2002)
Additional file 1 of Structure and integration of specialty palliative care in three NCI-designated cancer centers: a mixed methods case study
Creators: name: Schifferdecker, Karen E.
name: Butcher, Rebecca L.
name: Murray, Genevra F.
name: Knutzen, Kristin E.
name: Kapadia, Nirav S.
name: Brooks, Gabriel A.
name: Wasp, Garrett T.
name: Eggly, Susan
name: Hanson, Laura C.
name: Rocque, Gabrielle B.
name: Perry, Amanda N.
name: Barnato, Amber E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1
title: ExerTrack - Towards Smart Surfaces to Track Exercises
Creators: name: Fu, Biying
name: Jarms, Lennart
name: Kirchbuchner, Florian
name: Kuijper, Arjan
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2022

description: The concept of the quantified self has gained popularity in recent years with the hype of miniaturized gadgets to monitor vital fitness levels. Smartwatches or smartphone apps and other fitness trackers are overwhelming the market. Most aerobic exercises such as walking, running, or cycling can be accurately recognized using wearable devices. However whole-body exercises such as push-ups, bridges, and sit-ups are performed on the ground and thus cannot be precisely recognized by wearing only one accelerometer. Thus, a floor-based approach is preferred for recognizing whole-body activities. Computer vision techniques on image data also report high recognition accuracy; however, the presence of a camera tends to raise privacy issues in public areas. Therefore, we focus on combining the advantages of ubiquitous proximity-sensing with non-optical sensors to preserve privacy in public areas and maintain low computation cost with a sparse sensor implementation. Our solution is the ExerTrack, an off-the-shelf sports mat equipped with eight sparsely distributed capacitive proximity sensors to recognize eight whole-body fitness exercises with a user-independent recognition accuracy of 93.5 % and a user-dependent recognition accuracy of 95.1 % based on a test study with 9 participants each performing 2 full sessions. We adopt a template-based approach to count repetitions and reach a user-independent counting accuracy of 93.6 %. The final model can run on a Raspberry Pi 3 in real time. This work includes data-processing of our proposed system and model selection to improve the recognition accuracy and data augmentation technique to regularize the network.
Commentaries on Current Issues in Second Language Assessment
Creators: name: Board, Editorial
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2002

description: The web journal occasionally publishes brief commentaries on issues that are of interest to the TESOL/AL community. In this issue, we asked contributors to comment on current issues in second language assessment.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 3 No. 1 (2003)
R-parity preserving super-WIMP decays
Creators: name: Pospelov, Maxim
name: Trott, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We point out that when the decay of one electroweak scale super-WIMP state to another occurs at second order in a super-weak coupling constant, this can naturally lead to decay lifetimes that are much larger than the age of the Universe, and create observable consequences for the indirect detection of dark matter. We demonstrate this in a supersymmetric model with Dirac neutrinos, where the right-handed scalar neutrinos are the lightest and next-to-lightest supersymmetric partners. We show that this model produces a super-WIMP decay rate scaling as m_nu^4/(weak scale)^3, and may significantly enhance the fraction of energetic electrons and positrons over anti-protons in the decay products. Such a signature is consistent with the observations recently reported by the PAMELA experiment.
description: 14 pages, v3 JHEP version
Practical Algorithmic Techniques for Several String Processing Problems
Creators: name: Andreica, Mugurel Ionut
name: Tapus, Nicolae
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Formal Languages and Automata Theory (cs.FL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: F.2.2; F.1.1

description: The domains of data mining and knowledge discovery make use of large amounts of textual data, which need to be handled efficiently. Specific problems, like finding the maximum weight ordered common subset of a set of ordered sets or searching for specific patterns within texts, occur frequently in this context. In this paper we present several novel and practical algorithmic techniques for processing textual data (strings) in order to efficiently solve multiple problems. Our techniques make use of efficient string algorithms and data structures, like KMP, suffix arrays, tries and deterministic finite automata.
Investigations in Jones matrix polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography for dermatological imaging and characterization
Creators: name: Maloufi, Sina
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a non-invasive imaging modality that provides high-resolution, three-dimensional images of biological tissue. Since its introduction in the 1990s, it has gained widespread adoption in ophthalmology, and it has also garnered interest in other clinical applications, such as dentistry, endoscopy, and dermatology. More recently, functional extensions of OCT have been developed that allow not only for traditional structural imaging, but also for imaging with functional contrasts in polarization. Skin cancer is a prevalent health burden in the western world, and it is currently diagnosed primarily through an invasive biopsy. As a non-invasive imaging modality, OCT can potentially result in faster skin disease diagnosis and improve quality of care. Studies have shown that OCT can be successful in diagnosing skin cancers such as basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma, but traditional OCT has had difficulties in diagnosing melanoma. The further study of OCT’s functional extensions could solve this potential gap. This thesis focuses on Jones matrix polarization-sensitive OCT (PS-OCT), which allows for the simultaneous acquisition of multiple contrasts in intensity, phase retardation, local birefringence, and degree of polarization uniformity (DOPU). Algorithms and methods developed for PS-OCT are explored and show that advanced quantification of skin properties is possible using polarization measurements. We were able to demonstrate that polarization-based measurements are more sensitive to roughness than traditional OCT, and that specific skin layers exhibit unique polarization properties. Finally, A clinical pilot study with 18 healthy volunteers is presented in this thesis. Different skin locations in the body can be differentiated based on their polarization properties, and it is shown that PS-OCT is sensitive to changes related to aging. Additionally, case studies of eczema and vitiligo are examined with PS-OCT, and it is demonstrated that PS-OCT can differentiate features associated with both skin diseases. Our study shows that PS-OCT has high potential for applications in skin disease diagnosis.
Foundations of Language
Creators: name: Purdy, J.D.
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2002

description: With so little known about how language is perceived and produced, the field of linguistics could use a fresh perspective on the current state of affairs. Ray Jackendoff’s book draws together current thought from mainstream generative grammar and from more recent thinking on the function of the mind. In integrating these areas, Jackendoff illuminates the interfaces between language and other functions of the mind, and at the same time helps define the scope of contemporary linguistic inquiry.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 2 No. 2 (2002)
title: Principal Component Factor Analysis
Creators: name: Jolliff, Herbert H.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1968

description: Factor analysis came into being around 1900 in the field f psychology to explain theories of human ability. Several methods of factor analysis exist; but according to Harman (1967) principal component factor analysis is unique in the mathematical sense, therefore, quite often the preferred method. The centroid method is computationally easier, and it gives close approximations to the principal component method on some data sets. An example of this is shown in Appendixes B and F by comparison.
Factor analysis is being used in many fields. A few of the fields are sociology, meteorology, political science, medicine, geography, business, economics, ecology, soil science, and geology. The following are three specific examples.
In meteorology, White (1958) found that factor analysis could reduce considerably the number of variables in his study of sea-level pressure forecasting. In this study, there were 42 original variables. With 5, 10, and 20 underlying variables, White was able to account for 75.51, 90.70, and 97.37 per cent of the original variance, respectively.
In ecology, Orloci (1966) found that factor analysis could be used to reduce the number of variables in his study of vegetation on Newborough Warren, Anglesey. In this study, there were 101 original variables. With three underlying variables, Orloci was able to account for 43.98 per cent of the original variance.
In the study by White names were not given for the new variables that were found; whereas in the study by Orloci, meaningful names were obtained for the first three factors. Just because a factor accounts for a large portion of the variance does not imply that meaningful names may be readily applied to these factors.
In soil science, Lombard (1965) found that factor analysis could be used in his study of citrus irrigations to reduce the number of variables from 12 to 3. These three underlying variables accounted for 99.5 per cent of the variance. Meaningful names were obtained for the three underlying variables. If meaningful names cannot be obtained for the roots or new variables, then factor analysis is not of much value as a statistical tool.
Many different programs have been written to perform factor analysis. A few of the existing programs are those by Cooley and Lohnes (1962), Horst (1965), Hurst (n.d., d), in the System/360 Scientific Subroutine Package (1968), and Veldman (1967).
This report contains program write-ups and listings for three computer programs, one for principal component factor analysis, one for factor analysis transformation, and another for the centroid method factor analysis.
The Principal Component Factor Analysis program will handle up to 50 variables. The Factor Analysis Transformation program will handle up to 50 variables and 15 factors. The Centroid Method Factor Analysis program will handle up to 60 variables. These programs will all run on a 65K byte IBM 360/44 with FORTRAN IV. A card reader, card punch, printer, and one disk or tape are needed.
Effect of annealing on the magnetic and superconducting properties of single-crystalline UCoGe
Creators: name: Huy, N. T.
name: Huang, Y. K.
name: de Visser, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Single-crystals of the new ferromagnetic superconductor UCoGe have been grown. The quality of as-grown samples can be significantly improved by a heat-treatment procedure, which increases the residual resistance ratio (RRR) from ~5 to ~30. Magnetization and resistivity measurements show the annealed samples have a sharp ferromagnetic transition with a Curie temperature T_C is 2.8 K. The ordered moment of 0.06 mu_B is directed along the orthorhombic c-axis. Superconductivity is found below a resistive transition temperature T_s = 0.65 K.