cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: A Longitudinal Evaluation of the Ogden City Head Start Program
Creators: name: Eyestone, Robert D.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1970

description: This study attempted to investigate the differences in the Head Start population of the Ogden City Schools and to determine if the differences had a significant influence on ability comparisons. An attempt was also made to evaluate the longitudinal benefits of Head Start training. The original data was collected in the 1966-67 evaluation of the Head Start program. Additional data was collected as this original group of Head Start children progressed through kindergarten, first, and second grades.
Variables considered in this study were, residence, age, sex, socio-economic deprivation, family constellation, and ethnic group. In addition, a comparison was made of children in kindergarten, first, and second grades, who had Head Start, to peers who had no Head Start experience.
The variables were tested by analysis of variance and chi-square.
Results of the analyses of data revealed that significant differences existed in the following categories: residence, socio-economic deprivation, ethnic groups, kindergarten, and first grade. The difference in residence support the Ogden City Schools labeling the target area as a impoverished part of the district that needs additional services, The criteria of family income or socio-economic deprivation is a justifiable measure to use in determining who should be admitted to the Head Start program. It was also determined that the minority ethnic groups made the most gain s in the Head Start program with the order of gain being Negro, Spanish American and Caucasian.
It was also concluded that the children who had received the Head Start experience were able to maintain their gains through the first grade. School apparently has a gradual ameliorating influence however as the differences between second graders who had Head Start and matched peers who did not have Head Start were no longer significant.
Reading as Wandering, Wandering as Theology: Textual Landscapes, Flaneury, and the Social History of Contemporary [Theological] Reading
Creators: name: Elia, Anthony J.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Library science
Theology

description: The title of this paper might seem a bit confusing at first: “Reading as Wandering, Wandering as Theology.” But it embodies the main points I want to make today. First, “How do we understand and define reading?” And second, “What is the relationship to theology/-ies?” I will argue that the nexus here is the act of “wandering” (which embodies not just the act of “wending” or “going,” but “action” itself). There is the connotation that “wandering” is a motion of aimlessness. But I will suggest that it is partially directed by our experiences, and that wandering is both an act and lifestyle that is culturally and socially coded: coded in some societies to emote laziness (a negative attribute); coded in other societies as leisure (a more positive attribute). And it is with terms like “laziness” and “leisure” that we will discuss, in order to elucidate the real meaning behind “wandering” and whether there is something more well-defined or thought-out behind our actions as wanderers—either wanderers in life, which brings us to theological understanding, or wanderers in the text, which also brings us to theological understanding
Additional file 3 of Quantifying differences in packaged food and drink purchases among households with diet-related cardiometabolic multi-morbidity: a cross-sectional analysis
Creators: name: Ricket, Iben M.
name: Brown, Jeremiah R.
name: MacKenzie, Todd A.
name: Ma, Yu
name: Grewal, Dhruv
name: Ailawadi, Kusum L.
name: Emond, Jennifer A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3. Average Nutrient Content Per Serving* with Standard Deviations from 13 Food and Drink Categories. Supplemental analysis on average nutrient content per serving from 13 food and drink categories used in this study analysis.
High-Throughput Hydrostatic Pressure Waveform Control
Creators: name: Venturini, Giulia
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Hydrostatic pressure (HP) regulates the functioning of a significant number of organs and tissues in the human body. At a cellular level, it is involved in the regulation of proliferation, di↵erentiation, migration and apoptosis. Non-physiological values of hydrostatic pressure can compromise these processes, leading to the development of severe diseases, like heart pathologies due to hypertension. Due to its impact on cell behavior, over the past two decades, many microfluidic devices have been developed to study HP and its e↵ects on cells. However, most of the devices show a significant drawback: they are low-throughput systems. Our project aims to solve this issue by proposing a device that incorporates the 96 well plate, commonly used in biological applications, with a high-throughput pressure delivery system. Our setup permits to simultaneously stimulate cells with twelve completely unique pressure conditions. Moreover, it is able to mimic real pressure waveforms, in terms of pressure range, morphology and frequency, through a PID-controlled, proportional solenoid valve control system.
The Point of Origin of the Radio Radiation from the Unresolved Cores of Radio-Loud Quasars
Creators: name: Bell, M. B.
name: Comeau, S. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Locating the exact point of origin of the core radiation in active galactic nuclei (AGN) would represent important progress in our understanding of physical processes in the central engine of these objects. However, due to our inability to resolve the region containing both the central compact object and the jet base, this has so far been difficult. Here, using an analysis in which the lack of resolution does not play a significant role, we demonstrate that it may be impossible even in most radio loud sources for more than a small percentage of the core radiation at radio wavelengths to come from the jet base. We find for 3C279 that $\sim85$ percent of the core flux at 15 GHz must come from a separate, reasonably stable, region that is not part of the jet base, and that then likely radiates at least quasi-isotropically and is centered on the black hole. The long-term stability of this component also suggests that it may originate in a region that extends over many Schwarzschild radii.
description: 7 pages with 3 figures, accepted for publication in Astrophysics and Space Science
Chronic effects of adverse water quality on the greenlip abalone, Haliotis laevigata Donovan
Creators: name: Harris, JO
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Bioassays were undertaken to assess the effects of ammonia, nitrite, dissolved oxygen and pH on greenlip abalone, Haliotis laevigata. At the end of each chronic bioassay, oxygen consumption, haemolymph ionic concentration and tissue microstructure were documented, relative to toxicant concentration. EC\\(_5\\) data (concentration causing a 5% growth reduction; whole wet body weight unless stated) indicated that these abalone were very sensitive to elevated levels of ammonia (0.041 mg FAN.I\\(^{-1}\\)), low dissolved oxygen (7.36 mg DO.l\\(^{-1}\\)) and low (7.78) and high (8.77) pH. Most of these variables affected shell growth relative to whole body growth, indicating some independence of nett shell and soft tissue growth rates. Greenlip abalone were also sensitive to nitrite on a growth basis. Modeling of the whole weight data indicated relatively uniform growth depression regardless of concentration in the range 0.56-7.80 mg NO\\(_2\\)-N.I\\(^{-1}\\). The influence of nutritional history on the susceptibility of abalone to ammonia was determined in an acute bioassay. The abalone had been maintained on either a mixture of three commercial diets, or the same mixture treated at 110¬¨‚àûC for two days. No significant difference in mortality occurred between the two diet groups (p>0.05). At 1.025 mg FAN.I\\(^{-1}\\), an LT50 value of 125.3 h was estimated by probit analysis. Oxygen consumption patterns were similar to growth trends (depressed consumption per unit whole weight per unit time in slow growing groups) for nitrite, dissolved oxygen and pH. However, oxygen consumption was elevated at higher ammonia concentrations. In general, tissue histology was a relatively insensitive indicator of growth rate inhibition as structural changes were usually only pronounced at extreme concentrations. Gill structure was affected by exposure to high nitrite and low dissolved oxygen levels, with ciliates occurring between the gill lamellae of abalone exposed to low dissolved oxygen. Kidney tissue exhibited changes from exposure to ammonia and nitrite. Haemolymph ionic patterns did not provide any apparent stress specific indicators of growth depression. However, reduced haemolymph sodium and chloride concentrations were found in abalone exposed to ammonia, and nitrite respectively. In most chronic bioassays, control groups exposed to saturated seawater survived well (>95%). Growth rates were progressively improved throughout the series of bioassays by adding heaters and later, submersible pumps to increase current flow. However, growth rates were depressed in the absence of within-tank aeration in the dissolved oxygen bioassay.
North Tropical Atlantic influence on western Amazon fire season variability
Creators: name: Fernandes, Katia
name: Baethgen, Walter E.
name: Bernardes, Sergio
name: DeFries, Ruth S.
name: DeWitt, David G.
name: Goddard, Lisa M.
name: Lavado, Waldo
name: Lee, Dong Eun
name: Padoch, Christine
name: Pinedo-Vasquez, Miguel Angel
name: Uriarte, Maria
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Wildfire forecasting
Forest fire forecasting
Rain and rainfall--Forecasting
Meteorology

description: The prevailing wet climate in the western Amazon is not favorable to the natural occurrence of fires. Nevertheless, the current process of clearing of humid forests for agriculture and cattle ranching has increased the vulnerability of the region to the spread of fires. Using meteorological stations precipitation and the Moderate Resolution Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Active-Fires (AF) during 2000-2009, we show that fire anomalies vary closely with July-August-September (JAS) precipitation variability as measured by the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI). The precipitation variability is, in turn, greatly determined by sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies in the North Tropical Atlantic (NTA). We develop a linear regression model to relate local fire activity to an index of the NTA-SST. By using seasonal forecasts of SST from a coupled model, we are able to predict anomalous JAS fire activity as early as April. We applied the method to predict the severe 2010 JAS season, which indicated strongly positive seasonal fire anomalies within the 95% prediction confidence intervals in most western Amazon. The spatial distribution of predicted SPI was also in accordance with observed precipitation anomalies. This three months lead time precipitation and fire prediction product in the western Amazon could help local decision makers to establish an early warning systems or other appropriate course of action before the fire season begins.
Scattering of low Reynolds number swimmers
Creators: name: Alexander, G. P.
name: Pooley, C. M.
name: Yeomans, J. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe the consequences of time reversal invariance of the Stokes' equations for the hydrodynamic scattering of two low Reynolds number swimmers. For swimmers that are related to each other by a time reversal transformation this leads to the striking result that the angle between the two swimmers is preserved by the scattering. The result is illustrated for the particular case of a linked-sphere model swimmer. For more general pairs of swimmers, not related to each other by time reversal, we find hydrodynamic scattering can alter the angle between their trajectories by several tens of degrees. For two identical contractile swimmers this can lead to the formation of a bound state.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Distribution and activity of diazotrophs in the Eastern Equatorial Atlantic
Creators: name: Foster, Rachel A.
name: Subramaniam, Ajit
name: Zehr, Jonathan P.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Oceanography
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Nitrogen--Fixation
subject: Nitrogen-fixing microorganisms

description: The gene abundance and gene expression of six diazotroph populations from the Eastern Equatorial Atlantic in June 2007 were examined using nifH gene quantitative polymerase chain reaction (q PCR) methods. Of all the diazotrophs, Trichodesmium spp. was the most abundant with the highest number of gene copies in the Gulf of Guinea. Trichodesmium also had the highest nitrogenase gene transcript abundance overall with the maximum in samples collected at the equator and in waters influenced by the Congo River plume (> 105 cDNA nifH copies l−1). Both cyanobacterial unicellular groups (A and B) were detected, where group A was the second most abundant in surface samples, in particular at the stations along the equator. Transcript abundance for group A, however, was at the detection limit and suggests that it was not actively fixing N2. Trichodesmium and group B nifH gene abundances co-varied (P < 0.0001). Richelia associated with Hemiaulus hauckii diatoms were detected in 9 of 10 surface samples and the highest abundances (> 104nifH copies l−1) were found north-west of the Congo River plume. In contrast, the Calothrix symbionts (het-3) of Chaetoceros had low abundances at the surface, but were present at 3.7 × 104nifH copies l−1 at 40 m depth in the equatorial upwelling. This is the first report of the Calothrix symbiont in the Atlantic Ocean. This is also the first report of nifH gene copy and transcript abundance in an Equatorial upwelling zone. Although the number of gene copies for Richelia associated with Rhizosolenia were the lowest, the transcript abundance were high (9.4 × 101−1.8 × 104 cDNA nifH copies l−1) and similar to that of Trichodesmium. The distribution of the diazotroph groups, especially the three strains of symbiotic cyanobacteria, was different, and appeared largely controlled by riverine inputs and upwelling.
Asymptotic boundary layer method for unstable trajectories: Semiclassics for individual scar wavefunctions
Creators: name: Vagov, A.
name: Schomerus, H.
name: Zalipaev, V. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend the asymptotic boundary layer (ABL) method, originally developed for stable resonator modes, to the description of individual wavefunctions localized around unstable periodic orbits. The formalism applies to the description of scar states in fully or partially chaotic quantum systems, and also allows for the presence of smooth and sharp potentials, as well as magnetic fields. We argue that the separatrix wave function provides the largest contribution to the scars on a single wave function. This agrees with earlier results on the wave-function asymptotics and on the quantization condition of the scar states. Predictions of the ABL formalism are compared with the exact numerical solution for a strip resonator with a parabolic confinement potential and a magnetic field.
description: 9 pages, 2 figures
title: The Effect of Short-Term Counseling and Tutoring on Reading Achievement, Study Skills, and Personal Adjustment
Creators: name: Maughan, Michael Lynn
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1970

description: This study was designed to investigate more completely the effects of counseling and tutoring on reading achievement, study skills, and personal adjustment within the context of a college reading and study skills program. The study consisted of three phases which corresponded with the three regular school quarters.
The subjects used in Phase I of this study were 12 college students who voluntarily registered for a reading and study skills class at Utah State University during the 1969 fall quarter plus 40 students who transferred into the class from a remedial study class. In Phase II, there were 45 students who registered for the class plus 6 transfer students from a remedial study class. In Phase III, 34 students registered for the class and there were no transfer students.
All students, each of the three quarters, attended the regular reading and study skill class periods besides either participating in counseling or tutoring sessions. Students in Phases I and II were alternately placed in either a counseling or tutoring group according to their ranked reading scores. They participated in either five one hour tutoring sessions or five one hour counseling sessions depending on their group placement. However, in Phase III, tutoring was statistically significant in increasing the speed of reading and outlining as well as increasing the quality of outline.
Ivory Coast microtektite strewn field: description and relation to the Jaramillo geomagnetic event
Creators: name: Gass, Billy P.
name: Kent, Dennis V.
name: Scheider, David A.
name: Tauxe, Lisa
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Geophysics
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: During the present study the Ivory Coast microtektite layer was found in cores from five equatorial Atlantic sites, bringing the total number of Ivory Coast microtektite-bearing cores to eleven. The strewn field appears to be restricted to between 9°N and 12°S latitude. There is a general increase in the concentration of microtektites towards the Bosumtwi crater, which is generally thought to be the source of the Ivory Coast tektites. The relationship between the onset of the Jaramillo subchron and the Ivory Coast microtektite layer has been investigated in six cores. A plot of the difference in depth between the base of the Jaramillo subchron and the microtektite layer versus sediment accumulation rate was used to determine the average post-depositional remanent magnetization (PDRM) acquisition depth and the age difference between the onset of the Jaramillo subchron and the deposition of the microtektites. Assuming that the PDRM acquisition depth does not vary with sediment accumulation rate, we find that the average PDRM acquisition depth is 7 cm and that the microtektites were deposited approximately 8 ky after the onset of the Jaramillo subchron. This indicates that the impact responsible for the Ivory Coast tektites and microtektites could not be causally related to the geomagnetic reversal at the base of the Jaramillo subchron.
Mapping Geomagnetic Field Variations with Unmanned Airborne Vehicles
Creators: name: Gee, Jeffrey S.
name: Cande, Steven C.
name: Kent, Dennis V.
name: Partner, Richard
name: Heckman, Kate
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Geophysics
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Unmanned airborne vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly being used for a variety of commercial and research applications. The small (wingspan ~3 meters), fully autonomous aircraft are well suited for use in remote areas or dangerous settings. UAVs that are launched and recovered on land are being used for atmospheric chemistry and surface imaging studies and for aeromagnetic surveys [Curry et al., 2004; Ramanathan et al., 2007; Funaki et al., 2007]. We report here on the first deployment of UAVs launched from a marine research vessel. The UAVs mapped fluctuations in the magnetic field in a remote area of the southwestern Pacific Ocean.
title: Measurement of the Perceptual Rotation of Visual Stimuli
Creators: name: Stettler, Floyd W.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1970

description: Apparatus for study of the phenomenon of rotation consisted of two rotating turntables constructed to receive disks for presenting varied visual stimuli. Turntables were graduated into 360 degrees for measurement of angular discrepancy in the task of visually matching rotational positions. Subjects from ages four through eleven attempted to match six compass positions for each of three designs--a boxlike house, a straight line, and Bender-Gestalt Figure No. 3.
Errors of rotation were classed as either transpositional or nontranspositional, Transpositional error, involving reversal or mirroring of the directional aspect of the designs, largely disappeared by age six. Non-transpositional error declined rapidly between ages four and six, leveled off, then showed another significant decline at age nine. The three designs were readily conceptualized as to direction, showing no differences for inducing rotation. The error scores were minimally related to IQ and achievement. No correlation was found with rotation as measured by the Minnesota Percepto-Diagnostic Test.
Groups at ages four, six, and eight were retested after one week, disclosing low reliabilities for non-transpositional error, though mean rotation error and standard deviation for the groups remained stable. Sixty-seven percent of four year olds showed instances of transposition, and as this source of error was scored as limited to fifty degrees and included in the composite score, the reliability for age four was raised from .52 to .96.
A second study of children at ages four and five was conducted to verify the possibility of obtaining high reliability by combining both types of error. Utilizing some variations in methodology and designs, test-retest correlations over a two-week interval yielded a reliability of .82 for age four and .93 for age five.
It was concluded that the method was applicable in assessing rotational error occurring on a perceptual-intuitive level, and that personal characteristics associated with perceptual-intuitive operations could be reliably measured at ages four and five.
The shear capacity of reinforced concrete beam - column connections
Creators: name: Peter, Bruce Gregor William
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: This thesis is to determine the shear capacity of a reinforced concrete beam column connection at zero moment. The joint under study is formed by casting the beam against a smooth column face with the top and bottom reinforcing bars projecting through the joint and no key or surface roughening provided. The variables considered are the size of reinforcing bars and the distance to the first beam stirrup. The strength of the joint is broken down into components of a) top dowels b) bottom dowels and c) interface bond and friction. The components and the entire joint strength are investigated theoretically and experimentally. Comparisons of both theoretical and experimental results are compared and show that the strength of the joint can be predicted from the sum of the top and bottom dowel strengths. The strength of this beam column connection is shown to provide adequate strength and a method is suggested for calculating the shear capacity of the joint.
A homotopy-theoretic view of Bott-Taubes integrals and knot spaces
Creators: name: Koytcheff, Robin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M27; 55R12; 55R80

description: We construct cohomology classes in the space of knots by considering a bundle over this space and "integrating along the fiber" classes coming from the cohomology of configuration spaces using a Pontrjagin-Thom construction. The bundle we consider is essentially the one considered by Bott and Taubes, who integrated differential forms along the fiber to get knot invariants. By doing this "integration" homotopy-theoretically, we are able to produce integral cohomology classes. We then show how this integration is compatible with the homology operations on the space of long knots, as studied by Budney and Cohen. In particular we derive a product formula for evaluations of cohomology classes on homology classes, with respect to connect-sum of knots.
description: 32 pages
Finite element method - a Galerkin approach
Creators: name: Hutton, Stanley George
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: This study is concerned with defining the mathematical framework in which the finite element procedure can most advantageously be considered. It is established that the finite element method generates an approximate solution to a given equation which is defined in terms of assumed co-ordinate functions and unknown parameters. The advantages of determining the parameters by Galerkin's method are discussed and the convergence characteristics of this method are reviewed using functional analysis principles. Comparisons are made between the Galerkin and Rayleigh-Ritz procedures and the connection between virtual work and Galerkin's method is illustrated. The convergence results presented for the Galerkin procedure are used to provide sufficient conditions that ensure the convergence of a finite element solution of a general system of time independent linear differential equations. Application of the principles developed is illustrated with a convergence proof for a finite element solution of a non-symmetric eigenvalue problem and by developing a computer program for the finite element analysis of the two-dimensional steady state flow of an incompressible viscous fluid.
title: The Effects of Response Sets on the Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale
Creators: name: Andersen, Brent L.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1971

description: Modified versions of the Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale (CMAS) and Marlow·-Crowne Social Desirability Scale (MCSDS) were administered to 40 normal and 29 retarded elementary school children to determine the effects of response sets upon CMAS scores. The results of the research indicated that CMAS scores obtained from retarded subjects reflect the use of acquiescence and denial response sets. Acquiescence response set did not affect the CMAS scores of normal children although there was a negative relationship between their CMAS scores and social desirability. The higher anxiety scores obtained by normal girls was felt to reflect their lower use of social desirability as compared to boys. Normal boys obtained higher social desirability scores which seemed to account for their lower anxiety scores.
Additional file 8 of Quantifying differences in packaged food and drink purchases among households with diet-related cardiometabolic multi-morbidity: a cross-sectional analysis
Creators: name: Ricket, Iben M.
name: Brown, Jeremiah R.
name: MacKenzie, Todd A.
name: Ma, Yu
name: Grewal, Dhruv
name: Ailawadi, Kusum L.
name: Emond, Jennifer A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 8. Regression coefficients and adjusteda odds ratios of diet-related cardiometabolic multi-morbid households relative to 100 kcal per capita, per month, estimated by various residual modelsb, for purchases from 3 calorie sources, fiber, sodium, and calories from all food & drinksc and when grouped into perceived healthyd & unhealthye when including baked goods/desserts and candy/confectionary items. Supplemental analysis re-running multiple variable logistic regression substitution models using residuals with the inclusion of baked goods/desserts and candy/confectionary food items.
title: A Validation of Koppitz's Scoring Method for Children's Human Figure Drawings
Creators: name: Evans, William Gary
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1971

description: The purpose of this study was to see if the Koppitz objective scoring method for interpreting children's human figure drawings could be used as a valid assessment instrument with elementary school children. Human figure drawings were obtained from two matched groups of elementary school students, a normal and an emotionally disturbed group. The results of the comparison of human figure drawings of the two groups did not support Koppitz's findings. The Koppitz objective scoring method was found to be invalid as an assessment instrument with elementary school children and of doubtful use in diagnosing emotionally disturbed children. Possible explanations for the differences in results and areas for further research were discussed.
Magnetic hysteresis in young mid“ocean ridge basalts: Dominant cubic anisotropy?
Creators: name: Gee, Jeffrey S.
name: Kent, Dennis V.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Geophysics
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Magnetic hysteresis data from young mid“ocean ridge basalts include samples with saturation remanence to saturation magnetization (Mrs/Ms) ratios greater than 0.5, the theoretical limit for an assemblage of single domain grains with uniaxial anisotropy. Under the usual assumption of dominant uniaxial anisotropy, the narrow single domain grain size distribution implied by these high Mrs/Ms values is difficult to reconcile with petrographic and remanence data that suggest the presence of larger multidomain grains. Dominant cubic anisotropy provides a plausible explanation for the high Mrs/Ms ratios, and if generally valid, requires reinterpretation of granulometric and domain state inferences made from hysteresis data.
Variations in layer 2A thickness and the origin of the central anomaly magnetic high
Creators: name: Gee, Jeffrey S.
name: Kent, Dennis V.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Geophysics
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: The seismically determined off-axis thickening of the extrusive layer is apparently at odds with the magnetic anomaly high typically associated with the ridge crest. The positive magnetization contrast at the ridge crest is most likely caused by rapid alteration of the extrusive source layer which occurs over spatial scales (2-3 km) comparable to that of the proposed Layer 2A thickening. We present magnetic remanence data from basalts dredged on and near the East Pacific Rise axis at 12°N which are compatible with a rapid magnetization reduction (~20 k.y. to decay to 1/e). Together with near bottom magnetic profiles from the ultra-fast-spreading East Pacific Rise at 19.5°S, these data suggest that previous estimates of the time constant of alteration inferred from slow-spreading ridges (0.5 m.y.) may be more than an order of magnitude too high.
Marine magnetic anomalies as recorders of geomagnetic intensity variations
Creators: name: Gee, Jeffrey S.
name: Schneider, David A.
name: Kent, Dennis V.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Geophysics
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: In addition to providing a robust record of past geomagnetic polarity reversals, marine magnetic anomalies often show shorter wavelength variations, which may provide information on geomagnetic intensity variations within intervals of constant polarity. To evaluate this possible geomagnetic signal, we compare sea surface profiles of the Central Anomaly with synthetic profiles based on Brunhes age (0-0.78 Ma) paleointensity records derived from deep sea sediments. The similarity of the synthetic profiles and observed profiles from the ultra-fast spreading southern East Pacific Rise suggests that geomagnetic intensity variations play an important role in the magnetization of the oceanic crust. This interpretation is further supported by systematic variations in the pattern of the Central Anomaly at slower spreading ridges, which are entirely consistent with a progressively smoother record of the sediment-derived paleointensity. If the sedimentary records, as calibrated to available absolute paleointensity data, accurately record variations in dipole intensity over the Brunhes, it follows that much of the Brunhes was characterized by geomagnetic intensities lower than either the mean dipole moment for the past 10 ka or the average for the period from 0.05 to 5.0 Ma. Furthermore, the sediment paleointensity records reflect the significant increase in geomagnetic intensity, from a low of ∼ 2 × 1022 Am2 near 40 ka to a peak value (11 × 1022 Am2) at ∼ 3 ka, that has been well documented from absolute paleointensity determinations. We suggest that geomagnetic intensity variations may be the most important cause of the rapid changes in the source layer magnetization near the ridge crest and the resultant Central Anomaly Magnetic High.
title: Programmed Interpersonal Relations Training for Small Groups
Creators: name: Fredricks, John
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1971

description: The objective of this study was to determine the effect of the Human Development Institute's (HDI) new group relationship improvement program on the interpersonal functioning of those individuals who undergo the program. The "California Personality Inventory" (CPI), the "Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation-Behavior" (FIRO-B), and a semantic differential were used to measure changes.
The two hypotheses of this study are:

There will be a significant change towards improved interpersonal relationship skills for all groups, as measured from pre- to post testings.

There will be no significant difference in the change in interpersonal relations as measured by the pre-and post tests, between the groups using the RTF manual, and the groups having a leader and using an eclectic approach.

An analysis of variance was run to test whether there was a significant difference pre to post on all three tests that were administered, or if there was a significant difference between post test scores of the leader and non-leader groups. Variable 5 on the CPI post testing was significant for the leader group. No other significance was obtained.
Dual overflows into the deep Sulu Sea
Creators: name: Gordon, Arnold L.
name: Tessler, Zachary David
name: Villanoy, Cesar
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Oceanography
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: The Sulu Sea, isolated from the neighboring ocean below 570 m, is nearly isothermal below 1250 m but with a marked salinity increase with depth. The source of the deep Sulu Sea water has been attributed to South China Sea water overflowing the 570 m topographic sill of Panay Strait. However, the Panay overflow (estimated as 0.32 × 106 m3/sec) is an unlikely source for the saltier water Sulu Sea deep water. We propose that deep Sulu Sea ventilation is derived from the south, from the Sulawesi Sea through Sibutu Passage. Sulawesi Sea water between 245 to 527 m, is mixed and heaved over the Sibutu Passage 234 m sill by the energetic tidal environment. Oxygen concentrations within the deep Sulu Sea suggest that the Sulawesi overflow is 0.15 × 106 m3/sec, with a residence time of Sulu Sea deep water of 60 years. The deep tropical Sulu Sea has the unique distinction of being ventilated from two separate sources, whose ratio may fluctuate across a range of temporal scales, associated with regional thermocline depth changes.
title: Investigation of One Aspect of Initiative That Is Subsumed Under Self-concept and Its Relationship to Performance
Creators: name: Genasci, John Edmund
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1971

description: Many children fail to achieve academic success despite an average or above average intellectual capacity, unimpaired motor ability, intact sensory functions, and an absence of major emotional disturbance. These same children have been assigned such descriptive terms as "underachievers" and "children with psycho-neurological disabilities."
It may be more apt to assume that these children who are underachieving and obtaining poor grades do so from lack of feeling of personal initiative and personal control over events in their lives.
This study attempts to investigate initiative as clinically observed and its effect upon tasks requiring an active analytical approach to problem solving. One hypothesized objective was to determine if students matched for I.Q. and sex, who also reported that they assume more responsibility and had greater control and responsibility for their actions, did better on tasks requiring high motivation and elaboration of the structure imposed upon ambiguous stimulus. Also investigated was the degree to which the personality variable of initiative affected a person's performance on figure ground tasks. Further, the study examined the relationship of the personality variable cited above to subscales on the WAIS, and performance on an achievement test.
Results were statistically supportive of the hypothesis that subjects feeling greater initiative and responsibility for their lives were able to impose structure and greater constructive elaborations to an ambiguous stimulus (Rorschach Cards), versus those subjects with less self initiative-responsibility. Also, the hypothesized relationship of initiative to performance on the Witkins Embedded Figures Test and academic achievement tests were in the hypothesized direction, but not significantly at the .05 level. Other hypotheses were not supported.
Further research is necessary to determine those common denominators that aid individuals to be productive, positive, and successful in solving life's tasks.
Fault Masking By Probabilistic Voting
Creators: name: Alagoz, B. Baykant
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Other Computer Science (cs.OH)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this study, we introduced a probabilistic voter, regarding symbol probabilities in decision process besides majority consensus. Conventional majority voter is independent of functionality of redundant modules. In our study, proposed probabilistic voter is designed corresponding to functionality of the redundant module. We tested probabilistic voter for 3 and 5 redundant modules with random transient errors inserted the wires and it was seen from simulation results that Multi-Modular Redundancy (M-MR) with Probabilistic Voting (PV) had been shown better availability performance than conventional majority voter.
Listening strategies with television texts : a study of Thai university students of English as a foreign language
Creators: name: Boonkit, K
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The aim of the study was to investigate English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learner listening strategies. The study was conducted in two phases. Phase I was a survey of the difficulties encountered and the strategies used by Thai university EFL learners in listening to the main points of three types of TV texts (news, lifestyle programs, and commercials). This was conducted with two groups of the students in class, using assessment‚Äö-practice‚Äö-assessment procedures. Open-ended questions were used to gain the data, and quantitative data analysis was employed for the findings. Speed and vocabulary were the key difficulties, and inferencing was the main strategy category reported in the two assessment sessions. After the practice sessions, the final assessment indicated that students improved their listening performance with TV lifestyle programs and commercials. However, there was no statistically significant difference between the first and the final assessments of the main points listening performance for TV news. In Phase II, a listening program for developing more effective strategies with TV news was presented and evaluated. The Structured Listening Program (SLP) was undertaken with a group of six upper-intermediate/advanced Thai university EFL students. The main purpose of using the SLP was to retain the characteristics of authentic English texts and assist the learners to make the input comprehensible. The focus was on the explicit teaching of listening strategies targeted at English language TV news. The learners were trained to use listening strategies, moving from directed listening, to facilitated listening and eventually to independent listening. The findings from Phase II demonstrated that the learners became more aware of listening strategies. The SLP encouraged the students to seek more opportunities to listen to a variety of 'real' English outside the classroom Use, Reflection, and Control were three levels of strategy awareness applied in listening to TV news. Students' motivation and confidence in listening to authentic English in natural contexts increased. Students' confidence‚ÄövÑvÆnot only in listening but also in speaking‚ÄövÑvÆwas gradually built up during the SLP. The findings are discussed, and the implications and limitations of the study are documented in the dissertation.
New Paleomagnetic Data From Thurston Island: Implications for the Tectonics of West Antarctica and Weddell Sea Opening
Creators: name: Grunow, A. M.
name: Kent, Dennis V.
name: Dalziel, I. W. D.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Geophysics
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Paleomagnetic data from three West Antarctic crustal blocks (Antarctic Peninsula (AP), Thurston Island-Eights Coast (TI), and the Ellsworth-Whitmore Mountains (EWM) indicate that there has been motion between the individual blocks and motion relative to East Antarctica during the Mesozoic. A Triassic paleomagnetic pole from the TI block (116°E, 61°S, A_95 = 19.4°, N = 3 VGPs) appears to indicate that the block has rotated ~90° relative to East Antarctica between 230 Ma and 110 Ma. Our previously reported Middle Jurassic paleomagnetic pole from the EWM block indicates that a 90° rotation relative to East Antarctica occurred sometime between the Cambrian and 175 Ma. We believe that the 90° counterclockwise EWM rotation occurred between ~220 Ma and 175 Ma related to the development of post-Gondwanide Orogeny shear zones. The motion of the AP, TI, and EWM blocks appears to be linked during the mid- to late Mesozoic to three major events in the evolution of the southern ocean basins. Opening in the Mozambique-Somali-Weddell Sea basins may have produced major counterclockwise rotation of the TI block with respect to East Antarctica between the Jurassic and Early Cretaceous based on new Late Jurassic (145°E, 64.5°S, A_95 = 7°,N = 5 VGPs) poles. We believe that the TI rotation, as well as deformation in the southern AP block, was caused by collision and shearing of the EWM block against the other two as the EWM block moved southward with East Antarctica. An Early Cretaceous paleomagnetic pole (232°E, 49°S, A_95 = 7.9°, N = 5 VGPs) from the TI block requires that between the Early and mid- Cretaceous there was clockwise rotation, with respect to East Antarctica, of the AP-TI-EWM blocks (an entity we call Weddellia). A change in the opening history of the Weddell Sea basin caused by initiation of spreading in the South Atlantic ocean basin at ~130 Ma probably started Weddellia's clockwise rotation. Two new ~110 and ~90 Ma poles from the TI block (210°E, 73°S, A_95 = 7.6°,N = 7 VGPs and 161°E, 81°S, A_95= 3.9°,N = 18 VGPs, respectively) are similar to equivalent age poles from the AP block and East Antarctica and indicate that Weddellia was at or near its present-day position with respect to East Antarctica by ~110 Ma. This corresponds to a time of major plate reorganization in the South Atlantic and southeast Indian Oceans. Based on both the new TI paleomagnetic data and previously reported data from Marie Byrd Land (MBL), dextral shearing would be expected to have occurred between MBL and Weddellia since the mid-Cretaceous. Pine Island Bay, the area between the TI and MBL blocks, marks a fundamental and complex tectonic boundary in West Antarctica that we propose has largely been a zone of transcurrent shearing.
\Zwischen dem Meer und dem Nichtmehr \" : anxiety repression and hope in the works of Erich Fried"
Creators: name: Badger, B
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The poetry of Austrian exile writer, Erich Fried (1921-1988), addresses both political and personal themes. At the simplest level, a distinction can be identified between works which adopt an openly critical stance against more than half a century of world injustice and others which represent more personal expressions of love and anxiety. Yet such a superficial categorisation fails to recognise deeper interactive links between the personal and political spheres. Both thematic groups exist in a dialectic where the synthesis is at once a concurrence as well as a convergence. Each provides a refuge from, and creates a resonance in, the other, so that both contents operate as mutual distractors and reminders. The intent of Fried's oeuvre forms a conduit which channels motivation from common antecedents. At the core of Fried's poetry are latent anxieties, stemming from early events and relationships. This thesis examines Fried's varying experiences of, and responses to, these anxieties. An initial discussion identifies the prominence of existential anxieties which inhabit the gulf in and beyond the extremities of being; the Meer and the Nichtmehr. Linked to Fried's principal themes, death is discussed in the causative groupings, natural and nuclear. Further representations of the ultimate 'not-being' are identified in the themes of loss, loneliness and the threat of war. These are shown to arouse situation anxieties which evoke and intensify their latent antecedents. An examination of the myriad psychological responses to representations of death formally introduces a remembering-forgetting dialectic as viewed in, and through, Fried's published and unpublished works. In the personal sphere, particular emphasis is placed on Fried's defensive care-compulsion, which leads to an aetiology of his political engagement, while, in the political sphere, factors are identified which facilitate man's repression of the threat of war. While conscious of man's tendency to respond to anxiety with psychological defences, Fried recommends an awareness which allows the anxiety to be combated at its source. He seeks to replace a laminganxiety with a fearless, loving and stimulating variant. The ensuing discussion explores the complex strait between anxiety and hope in the presence of despair. A hope is identified which, stripped of its stationary wishful component, reveals active, concrete, utopian characteristics. Finally, elements of Fried's utopian programme are found mirrored in the tenets of the Sermon on the Mount.