cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The foundations of Husserl and Merleau-Ponty and the phenomenological critique of science
Creators: name: Backhaus, Gary Mark
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 50
subject: Philosophy and religious studies
classificationCode: 5003
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: This dissertation concerns the possibility of a viable foundational philosophy in the phenomenologies of Husserl and Merleau-Ponty. Since a phenomenological foundation is an irruption out of, and a reaction against, the inability of modern science and the philosophy which supplies its presuppositions, to provide an adequate foundation, a critical examination of science is a necessary moment in the formulation of the sense, and the justification for a phenomenological foundation. We characterize the rigorous science of phenomenology as the attempt to grasp an apriori science which is neither a construction nor an abstraction. In the return "to the things themselves," Husserl identifies and dispels the theoretical biases of modernity. Of equal importance, is the necessity of grounding the primacy of phenomena over the theoretical abstraction called science. We also examine Husserl's analysis and critique of the historical western telos and its aberrational form in the modern interpretation. We argue that a foundational quest is necessary from a meta-ethical point of view. In order to amplify and corroborate the Husserlian thesis, the historical thesis of Hugh Kearney concerning the metaphysical genesis of science and the structural thesis of Thomas Kuhn concerning the paradigmatic style of science are promoted. The presuppositions of Cartesianism are then elaborated and their subsequent influence, especially manifest in the problems of experimental psychology, is highlighted. A second criticism is developed concerning the problematics in the Husserlian foundation itself. Through our own investigations and the criticisms of Merleau-Ponty, we demonstrate that the essential weakness involves the unwarranted bifurcation of Form and Matter within the doctrine of intentionality. This erroneous separation of these moments assumes the dualistic subject/object dichotomy as manifest in the foundation. This ontological partitioning is overcome by Merleau-Ponty through uncovering the pre-conscious constitution of bodily intentionality. The lived-body is neither consciousness nor thing, but is the transcendental foundation prior to the consciousness versus thing conceptual abstraction. Finally, we demonstrate the importance of Merleau-Ponty's gestural theory of language in order to promote the most viable foundational philosophy of our time, the phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty.
Numerical relativity in spherical coordinates: A new dynamical spacetime and general relativistic MHD evolution framework for the Einstein Toolkit
Creators: name: Mewes, Vassilios
name: Zlochower, Yosef
name: Campanelli, Manuela
name: Baumgarte, Thomas W.
name: Etienne, Zachariah B.
name: Armengol, Federico G. Lopez
name: Cipolletta, Federico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present SphericalNR, a new framework for the publicly available Einstein Toolkit that numerically solves the Einstein field equations coupled to the equations of general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) in a 3+1 split of spacetime in spherical coordinates without symmetry assumptions. The spacetime evolution is performed using reference-metric versions of either the Baumgarte-Shapiro-Shibata-Nakamura equations or the fully covariant and conformal Z4 system with constraint damping. We have developed a reference-metric version of the Valencia formulation of GRMHD with a vector potential method, guaranteeing the absence of magnetic monopoles during the evolution. In our framework, every dynamical field (both spacetime and matter) is evolved using its components in an orthonormal basis with respect to the spherical reference-metric. Furthermore, all geometric information about the spherical coordinate system is encoded in source terms appearing in the evolution equations. This allows for the straightforward extension of Cartesian high-resolution shock-capturing finite volume codes to use spherical coordinates with our framework. To this end, we have adapted GRHydro, a Cartesian finite volume GRMHD code already available in the Einstein Toolkit, to use spherical coordinates. We present the full evolution equations of the framework, as well as details of its implementation in the Einstein Toolkit. We validate SphericalNR by demonstrating it passes a variety of challenging code tests in static and dynamical spacetimes.
description: 29 pages, 13 figures, published in Physical Review D
Comparison of Nuclear Suppression Effects on Meson Production at High p_T and p_L
Creators: name: Hwa, Rudolph C.
name: Yang, C. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The medium effect on the pion distribution at high $p_T$ in $AA$ collisions is compared to that of the pion distribution at high $p_L$ in $pA$ collisions. Both the suppression of the spectra and the energy losses of the measured pions are studied. Although the medium effect on $p_T$ is larger than on $p_L$, the difference is found surprisingly to be not as big as one would naively expect.
description: 8 RevTex pages with 5 figures
Interest group influence on regulatory policy
Creators: name: Furlong, Scott Remington
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Congress has chosen to delegate a large amount of policy development authority to regulatory agencies, and the agencies have responded by developing a large percentage of the actual law in the United States. Many scholars have examined the influence of interest groups on Congress and legislation, but few have concentrated exclusively on the interest group relationship with the regulatory agencies. The amount of policy being developed by these unelected agents demands further study in the area. This study uses surveys of interest groups and agency officials to explore the interactions that occur between these two actors in the policy development process. The survey data is used to develop a model of interest group influence on regulatory policy employing many of the same variables others have used in their research on interest groups and Congress. Specifically, a regression analysis is used to test the hypothesis that influence is a function of the group's ability to participate in regulatory policy, the geographic distribution of the group's membership, its ability to form coalitions, the organizational type, the policy type, the legitimacy of the group, its access to the agency, and the size of its membership. While the results of the study do not provide strong support for the model, they indicate that under, certain circumstances, many of these variables may impact a group's perception of its influence. There are possible theoretical implications of this research in the further study of major theories in political science. Practically, the question of unbiased policy development by regulatory agencies, in the face of interest group pressures, is raised as a possible concern.
Interest group influence on regulatory policy
Creators: name: Furlong, Scott Remington
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Congress has chosen to delegate a large amount of policy development authority to regulatory agencies, and the agencies have responded by developing a large percentage of the actual law in the United States. Many scholars have examined the influence of interest groups on Congress and legislation, but few have concentrated exclusively on the interest group relationship with the regulatory agencies. The amount of policy being developed by these unelected agents demands further study in the area. This study uses surveys of interest groups and agency officials to explore the interactions that occur between these two actors in the policy development process. The survey data is used to develop a model of interest group influence on regulatory policy employing many of the same variables others have used in their research on interest groups and Congress. Specifically, a regression analysis is used to test the hypothesis that influence is a function of the group's ability to participate in regulatory policy, the geographic distribution of the group's membership, its ability to form coalitions, the organizational type, the policy type, the legitimacy of the group, its access to the agency, and the size of its membership. While the results of the study do not provide strong support for the model, they indicate that under, certain circumstances, many of these variables may impact a group's perception of its influence. There are possible theoretical implications of this research in the further study of major theories in political science. Practically, the question of unbiased policy development by regulatory agencies, in the face of interest group pressures, is raised as a possible concern.
Additional file 1 of Dental home care in dogs - a questionnaire study among Swedish dog owners, veterinarians and veterinary nurses
Creators: name: Enlund, Karolina Brunius
name: Brunius, Carl
name: Hanson, Jeanette
name: Ragnvi Hagman
name: Höglund, Odd Viking
name: Gustås, Pia
name: Pettersson, Ann
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. File containing supplementary tables with complete results. A. Results from the dog owner survey. B. Results from the veterinarian and veterinary nurse survey. C. Questions related to the construct “Veterinary health practitioners’ attitudes towards dental chews and dental feed” (ChewFeed). D. Background characteristics of dogs. E. Background characteristics of dog owners. F. Background characteristics of veterinarians and veterinary nurses.
Direct observation of non-classical photon statistics in parametric downconversion
Creators: name: Waks, Edo
name: Diamanti, Eleni
name: Sanders, Barry C.
name: Bartlett, Stephen D.
name: Yamamoto, Yoshihisa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We employ a high quantum efficiency photon number counter to determine the photon number distribution of the output field from a parametric downconverter. The raw photocount data directly demonstrates that the source is nonclassical by forty standard deviations, and correcting for the quantum efficiency yields a direct observation of oscillations in the photon number distribution.
Brigantiaea sorediata Kashiw., Mas. Inoue & K. H. Moon
Creators: name: Kalb, Klaus
name: Buaruang, Kawinnat
name: Mongkolsuk, Pachara
name: Boonpragob, Kansri
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Ascomycota
Lecanoromycetes
Teloschistales
Brigantiaeaceae
Brigantiaea
Brigantiaea sorediata

description: Brigantiaea sorediata Kashiw., Mas. Inoue & K.H. Moon (Fig. 1C)
 This peculiar species was previously known only from the type locality in Japan (Kashiwadani et al. 2002). We have compared our sample with type material and they are identical in every respect. However, we do not believe that the thallus is totally covered by soredia as mentioned by Kashiwadani et al. (2002) because the granular outgrowths on the thallus do not originate from soralia. The granules start as warts on the otherwise smooth thallus and with age, the warts themselves become warty so that the whole thallus is covered by a compact rather than a loose layer of granules, similar to some forms of Dirinaria aegialita (Afzel. ex Ach.) B.J. Moore. The collection cited above is a new addition to the African lichen biota.
 Specimen examined:—AFRICA. Tanzania: Kilimanjaro region; Moshi, Mweka route. Corticolous in a light Podocarpus- mountain forest with dominating Erica arborea, on the trunk of an old Podocarpus spec. 2700 –2900 m, 03°09’50’’ S, 37°21’50’’ E, 30 September 1999, A. Frisch (hb. Frisch 99/Tz185, dupl. hb. Kalb).
description: Published as part of Kalb, Klaus, Buaruang, Kawinnat, Mongkolsuk, Pachara & Boonpragob, Kansri, 2012, New or otherwise interesting Lichens. VI, including a lichenicolous fungus, pp. 35-47 in Phytotaxa 42 on page 38, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.42.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/4894823
Financial Inclusion of Arable Crop Farmers in Nigeria
Creators: name: Obisesan, A.
name: Adeyonu, A.
name: Obisesan, A.
name: Adeyonu, A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: This study investigates financial inclusion of smallholder arable crop farmers in Nigeria. Primary data were collected for the purpose of the study. Descriptive statistics and Logit regression model were employed in the analysis. The average age of the respondents was 43.67years and male actively participated in food crop production more than female. Though 64.16% of the respondents had access to banks within their community, only 27.65% are banked. Fear of insolvency (90.57%), lack of required form of identification (31.13%), lengthy process (29.72%) and distance to the nearest bank (50.94% ) are the main barriers to opening a bank account. Co-operative is the major means of savings as well as source of credit. Farmers awareness of agricultural insurance scheme is low, however, more than half of the farmers are willing to participate. Age, labour cost and cultivation of improved varieties had negative and significant effect on willingness to participate while awareness, years of formal education, credit access and membership of association had significant positive effect on willingness to participate. Hence, financial institutions should consider boosting their services to arable crop farmers and create enabling environment that will facilitate financial inclusion of farmers in Nigeria. Keywords: Financial services, Arable crops, Farmers, Nigeria Acknowledgement :
Framework of goals for writing in physics lab classes
Creators: name: Hoehn, Jessica R.
name: Lewandowski, H. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Writing is an integral part of the process of science. In the undergraduate physics curriculum, the most common place that students engage with scientific writing is in lab classes, typically through lab notebooks, reports, and proposals. There has not been much research on why and how we include writing in physics lab classes, and instructors may incorporate writing for a variety of reasons. Through a broader study of multiweek projects in advanced lab classes, we have developed a framework for thinking about and understanding the role of writing in lab classes. This framework defines and describes the breadth of goals for incorporating writing in lab classes, and is a tool we can use to begin to understand why, and subsequently how, we teach scientific writing in physics.
description: 21 pages, 1 figure, accepted by Physical Review Physics Education Research
On the Maximum Luminosity of Galaxies and Their Central Black Holes: Feedback From Momentum-Driven Winds
Creators: name: Murray, Norman
name: Quataert, Eliot
name: Thompson, Todd A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate large-scale galactic winds driven by momentum deposition. Momentum injection is provided by (1) radiation pressure produced by the continuum absorption and scattering of UV photons on dust grains and (2) supernovae. UV radiation can be produced by a starburst or AGN activity. We argue that momentum-driven winds are an efficient mechanism for feedback during the formation of galaxies. We show that above a limiting luminosity, momentum deposition from star formation can expel a significant fraction of the gas in a galaxy. The limiting, Eddington-like luminosity is $L_{\rm M}\simeq(4f_g c/G) σ^4$, where $σ$ is the galaxy velocity dispersion and $f_g$ is the gas fraction. A starburst that attains $L_{\rm M}$ moderates its star formation rate and its luminosity does not increase significantly further. We argue that ellipticals attain this limit during their growth at $z \gtrsim 1$ and that this is the origin of the Faber-Jackson relation. We show that Lyman break galaxies and ultra-luminous infrared galaxies have luminosities near $L_{\rm M}$. Star formation is unlikely to efficiently remove gas from very small scales in galactic nuclei, i.e., scales much smaller than that of a nuclear starburst. This gas is available to fuel a central black hole (BH). We argue that a BH clears gas out of its galactic nucleus when the luminosity of the BH itself reaches $\approx L_{\rm M}$. This shuts off the fuel supply to the BH and may also terminate star formation in the surrounding galaxy. As a result, the BH mass is fixed to be $M_{\rm BH}\simeq (f_g κ_{\rm es}/πG^2)σ^4$, where $κ_{\rm es}$ is the electron scattering opacity. This limit is in accord with the observed $M_{\rm BH}-σ$ relation. (Abridged)
description: 21 pages, emulateapj, accepted to ApJ, minor changes to discussion
Additional file 2 of Assessment of the ptxD gene as a growth and selective marker in Trichoderma atroviride using Pccg6, a novel constitutive promoter
Creators: name: Nohemí Carreras-Villaseñor
name: Rico-Ruiz, José Guillermo
name: Montes, Ricardo A. Chávez
name: Lenin Yong-Villalobos
name: López-Hernández, José Fabricio
name: Martínez-Hernández, Pedro
name: Herrera-Estrella, Luis
name: Herrera-Estrella, Alfredo
name: López-Arredondo, Damar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2. Additional tables and legends supporting the results described in the text.
Group averaging in the (p,q) oscillator representation of SL(2,R)
Creators: name: Louko, Jorma
name: Molgado, Alberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate refined algebraic quantisation with group averaging in a finite-dimensional constrained Hamiltonian system that provides a simplified model of general relativity. The classical theory has gauge group SL(2,R) and a distinguished o(p,q) observable algebra. The gauge group of the quantum theory is the double cover of SL(2,R), and its representation on the auxiliary Hilbert space is isomorphic to the (p,q) oscillator representation. When p>1, q>1 and p+q == 0 (mod 2), we obtain a physical Hilbert space with a nontrivial representation of the o(p,q) quantum observable algebra. For p=q=1, the system provides the first example known to us where group averaging converges to an indefinite sesquilinear form.
description: 34 pages. LaTeX with amsfonts, amsmath, amssymb. (References added; minor typos corrected.)
The effect of rural extension on farm technical efficiency in Brazil
Creators: name: Freitas, C.O.D.
name: Silva, F.F.
name: Braga, M.J.
name: Freitas, C.O.D.
name: Silva, F.F.
name: Braga, M.J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Farm Management

description: The objective of the present research was to identify the effect of rural extension on the productive performance of Brazilian agricultural establishments, using as a measure of performance the technical efficiency of farms. The data used refers to the microdata of the 2006 Agricultural Census, accessed directly from the IBGE secrecy room. For this, an approach that combines the stochastic production frontier structure, taking into account the selection bias in the adoption of the rural extension (Heckman's approach), with the entropy balancing method was used. The results show that the rural extension contributes, in fact, to increase the efficiency in the use of the productive factors, with the producers adopting, more technically efficient than the non-adopters. When considering the differences according to the size of the establishment, an even greater effect was observed for the group of large producers. In addition, in general, public rural extension generated higher technical efficiency scores than those obtained by establishments attended by the private service. Acknowledgement :
Additional file 1 of 29Si solid state NMR and Ti K-edge XAFS pre-edge spectroscopy reveal complex behavior of Ti in silicate melts
Creators: name: Ackerson, Michael R.
name: Cody, George D.
name: Mysen, Bjorn O.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Figure S1. Ti XANES spectrum of an NS8 glass with 15 mol. % TiO2, compared with a spectrum from [6]Ti-bearing crystalline titanite (CaTiSiO5). The sharp white line peak in the titanite spectrum above the absorption edge is an indicator of the crystalline nature of the titanite. The broad edge feature in the Ti15NS8 spectrum suggests the material is amorphous. Supplementary Figure S2. Ti XANES spectrum of NS8 glasses with 10 mol % TiO2 synthesized from 1186, 1250, and 1580 °C. All glasses produced near-identical spectra, suggesting that there is no effect of dwell temperature on the solubility mechanism of Ti in NS8 glasses.
Combinatorial interpretation of the recurrence relation for fibonomial coefficients
Creators: name: Kwasniewski, A. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 11Bxx: 11B39

description: Combinatorial interpretation of the fibonomial coefficients recently proposed by the present author results here in combinatorial interpretation of the recurrence relation for fibonomial coefficients . The presentation is provided with quite an exhaustive context where apart from plane grid coordinate system used several figures illustrate the exposition of statements and the derivation of the recurrence itself.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures
Coenogonium pineti Lucking & Lumbsch 2004
Creators: name: Kalb, Klaus
name: Buaruang, Kawinnat
name: Mongkolsuk, Pachara
name: Boonpragob, Kansri
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Ascomycota
Lecanoromycetes
Ostropales
Coenogoniaceae
Coenogonium
Coenogonium pineti

description: Coenogonium pineti (Schrad. ex Ach.) Lücking & Lumbsch
 A careful comparison of the specimen cited below and European material of this cosmopolitan species revealed them to be identical. It is probably not rare in Thailand, but due to its very small, pale apothecia it is easily overlooked. Coenogonium pineti is a new addition to the Thai lichen biota.
 Specimens examined:— THAILAND. Trat Province: Laem Ngob District; Black sand beach near Tumbol Laem Ngob, in an old ± disturbed mangrove forest with dominant Rhizophora apiculata, Rh. mucronata, Lumnitzera racemosa and Avicennia marina, ± 3 m, 12°10’11’’ N, 102°24’27’’ E, 25 February 2011, K. Kalb & P. Mongkolsuk (hb. Kalb 38905).
description: Published as part of Kalb, Klaus, Buaruang, Kawinnat, Mongkolsuk, Pachara & Boonpragob, Kansri, 2012, New or otherwise interesting Lichens. VI, including a lichenicolous fungus, pp. 35-47 in Phytotaxa 42 on page 38, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.42.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/4894823
A novel approach to building micromegas detectors enabled by precision manufacturing
Creators: name: Holmes, J.
name: Galyaev, E.
name: Alarcon, R.
name: Acuna, R.
name: Blyth, D.
name: Fox, B.
name: Mullins, N.
name: Scheuer, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Micromegas detectors are a relatively modern design concept for micropattern gas detectors, designed to handle high particle flux while providing high gain, high spatial resolution, and fast response times for a variety of radiation detection applications. Due to the advancement of industry, building a micromegas detector without advanced in-house capabilities is now possible. In this work, we present an innovative method to build micromegas detectors utilizing precision manufacturers to fabricate the core components. Two detectors were built using the newly described method and are experimentally validated.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures
Sensitive VLBI Continuum and H I Absorption Observations of NGC 7674: First Scientific Observations with the Combined Array VLBA, VLA & Arecibo
Creators: name: Momjian, E.
name: Romney, J. D.
name: Carilli, C. L.
name: Troland, T. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present phase-referenced VLBI observations of the radio continuum emission from, and the H I 21 cm absorption toward, the Luminous Infrared Galaxy NGC 7674. The observations were carried out at 1380 MHz using the VLBA, the phased VLA, and theArecibo radio telescope. These observations constitute the first scientific use of the Arecibo telescope in a VLBI observation with the VLBA. The high- and low-resolution radio continuum images reveal several new continuum structures in the nuclear region of this galaxy. At ~100 mas resolution, we distinguish six continuum structures extending over 1.4 arcsec, with a total flux density of 138 mJy. Only three of these structures were known previously. All these structures seem to be related to AGN activity. At the full resolution of the array, we only detect two of the six continuum structures. Both are composed of several compact components with brightness temperatures on the order of $10^{7}$ K. While it is possible that one of these compact structures could host an AGN, they could also be shock-like features formed by the interaction of the jet with compact interstellar clouds in the nuclear region of this galaxy. Complex H I absorption is detected with our VLBI array at both high and low angular resolution. Assuming that the widest H I feature is associated with a rotating H I disk or torus feeding a central AGN, we estimate an enclosed dynamical mass of ~7 x 10^7 M_sun, comparable to the value derived from the hidden broad H$β$ emission in this galaxy. The narrower H I lines could represent clumpy neutral hydrogen structures in the H I torus. The detection of H I absorption toward some of the continuum components, and its absence toward others, suggest an inclined H I disk or torus in the central region of NGC 7674.
description: 37 pages, 11 figures. ApJ accepted. To appear in the Nov. 10, 2003 issue of ApJ. Please use the PDF version if the postscript doesn't show the figures
Cuprates as doped U(1) spin liquids
Creators: name: Senthil, T.
name: Lee, Patrick A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore theoretically the notion that the underdoped cuprates may be viewed as doped U(1) spin liquid Mott insulators. We pursue a conceptually clear version of this idea that naturally incorporates several aspects of the phenomenology of the cuprates. We argue that the low doping region may be fruitfully discussed in terms of the universal physics associated with a chemical potential tuned Mott transition between a U(1) spin liquid insulator and a d-wave superconductor. A precise characterization of the deconfinement in the U(1) spin liquid is provided by the emergence of a conserved gauge flux. This extra conservation law should hold at least approximately in the underdoped materials. Experiments that could possibly detect this conserved gauge flux are proposed.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures
Quality control in education
Creators: name: Pierre, Charles Bernard
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Quality control in education is part of a national mandate proposed by the Department of Education and the American Society for Quality Control: "The Quality Initiative In American Education." The focus of that initiative is to teach quality control as a concept; our focus is to use quality control. In this research, we attempt to apply quality control tools to classroom situations. We show the limitations of some tools and we show how it is possible to implement and use some quality control tools effectively in special situations. We give definitions of quality control due to Deming, Juran, Crosby, Feigenbaum, and Harrington. We outline a brief history of quality control and the national quality initiative, and we briefly discuss statistical process control (SPC) and its importance in education. We show how quality control is applicable in the field of education. Moreover, there are analogies between quality control, teaching pedagogies, and classroom management. The use of sampling schemes should save teachers time when assessing students' work. In conclusion, we create, in our handbook, stations and charts that will help us identify, monitor and correct (or improve) problems areas in the product we call the student.
Additional file 3 of Sexual-biased gene expression of olfactory-related genes in the antennae of Conogethes pinicolalis (Lepidoptera: Crambidae)
Creators: name: Dapeng Jing
name: Zhang, Tiantao
name: Shuxiong Bai
name: Kanglai He
name: Sivaprasath Prabu
name: Junbo Luan
name: Zhenying Wang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3: Table S2. Candidate reference genes in Conogethes pinicolalis antennae. Table S3. Primers for candidate genes by qRT-PCR.
Bio-Inspired Modality Fusion for Active Speaker Detection
Creators: name: Assunção, Gustavo
name: Gonçalves, Nuno
name: Menezes, Paulo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Human beings have developed fantastic abilities to integrate information from various sensory sources exploring their inherent complementarity. Perceptual capabilities are therefore heightened, enabling, for instance, the well-known "cocktail party" and McGurk effects, i.e., speech disambiguation from a panoply of sound signals. This fusion ability is also key in refining the perception of sound source location, as in distinguishing whose voice is being heard in a group conversation. Furthermore, neuroscience has successfully identified the superior colliculus region in the brain as the one responsible for this modality fusion, with a handful of biological models having been proposed to approach its underlying neurophysiological process. Deriving inspiration from one of these models, this paper presents a methodology for effectively fusing correlated auditory and visual information for active speaker detection. Such an ability can have a wide range of applications, from teleconferencing systems to social robotics. The detection approach initially routes auditory and visual information through two specialized neural network structures. The resulting embeddings are fused via a novel layer based on the superior colliculus, whose topological structure emulates spatial neuron cross-mapping of unimodal perceptual fields. The validation process employed two publicly available datasets, with achieved results confirming and greatly surpassing initial expectations.
Starting Out With Dissemination: 5 Steps For Departments, Centers, and Institutes
Creators: name: Gutzman, Karen E
name: Smith, Patty
name: Holmes, Kristi
name: O'Dwyer, Linda
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: dissemination plan
subject: research dissemination
subject: marketing
subject: promotion
subject: Information Dissemination
subject: Social Media

description: This infographic was designed to assist departments, centers, and institutes in creating a reasonable dissemination plan for their scholars' works.
description: Research shows that scholarly outputs with social media engagement are more likely to be cited when compared to similar works. Departments, centers, and institutes can use their online presence to promote their scholars work by providing a larger platform for that work to be discovered, discussed, and used by many different audiences. By developing a reasonable workflow, departments can easily enhance the dissemination of their scholars work across several online platforms.
Quality control in education
Creators: name: Pierre, Charles Bernard
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3901
subject: Curriculum and pedagogy

description: Quality control in education is part of a national mandate proposed by the Department of Education and the American Society for Quality Control: "The Quality Initiative In American Education." The focus of that initiative is to teach quality control as a concept; our focus is to use quality control. In this research, we attempt to apply quality control tools to classroom situations. We show the limitations of some tools and we show how it is possible to implement and use some quality control tools effectively in special situations. We give definitions of quality control due to Deming, Juran, Crosby, Feigenbaum, and Harrington. We outline a brief history of quality control and the national quality initiative, and we briefly discuss statistical process control (SPC) and its importance in education. We show how quality control is applicable in the field of education. Moreover, there are analogies between quality control, teaching pedagogies, and classroom management. The use of sampling schemes should save teachers time when assessing students' work. In conclusion, we create, in our handbook, stations and charts that will help us identify, monitor and correct (or improve) problems areas in the product we call the student.
The dichotomy between state- and market-oriented agricultural development narratives: Beyond the rational choice explanation?
Creators: name: Mockshell, J.
name: Birner, R.
name: Mockshell, J.
name: Birner, R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: While there is renewed interest to promote agricultural development, there is a lively policy debate on the appropriate instruments to achieve this goal. While some actors argue that agricultural development requires strong government support and input subsidies, others criticize those state-focused instruments and favor market-oriented approaches. This paper aimed at contributing to a better understanding of the prevailing policy narratives in the agricultural policy making landscape, using Senegal as a case study example. Transcripts of in-depth interviews conducted with policy stakeholders in Senegal are the primary data source. The empirical analysis reveals that, there are two main coalitions with opposing policy narratives; agricultural support narrative coalition and agricultural support critique narrative coalition. The story-line of the agricultural support critique emphasizes that, the government provision of input subsidies is ineffective while story-line of the proponents of such policies consider support essential to promote agricultural development. The analysis of the narratives suggests that, the agricultural support coalition has a story-line with a beginning (low productivity caused by lack of inputs), middle (providing subsidized inputs) and end (increased productivity). In contrast, the agricultural support critique essentially presents non-stories and counter stories (focusing on alternative storyline of what should not be done). Acknowledgement : We thank the (BMZ) for funding this research through the collaborative project Promoting Participatory and Evidence-Based Agricultural Policy Processes in Africa. We thank all respondents who willingly provided information during the interviews conducted in Senegal.
Periodic Fast Radio Bursts with Neutron Star Free/Radiative Precession
Creators: name: Zanazzi, J. J.
name: Lai, Dong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The CHIME/FRB collaboration recently reported the detection of a 16 day periodicity in the arrival times of radio bursts from FRB 180916.J0158+65. We study the possibility that the observed periodicity arises from free precession of a magnetized neutron star, and put constraints on different components of the star's magnetic fields. Using a simple geometric model, where radio bursts are emitted from a rotating neutron star magnetosphere, we show that the emission pattern as a function of time can match that observed from FRB 180916.J0158+65.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures, accepted to ApJL
Brazilian agricultural exports: Quality matters?
Creators: name: Freitas, C.
name: Silva, F.
name: Freitas, C.
name: Silva, F.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: The general objective of this paper was to verify the relationship between the quality of the products and the Brazilian agricultural exports. In addition, we sought to identify the effects of the exporter's income, distance and SPS and TBT measures on the quality of exported products. For that, Brazilian agricultural export data (HS 4-digit) for the 97 main tradings partners in the period from 1997 to 2016 was used. Among the results obtained for the analyzes related to the trade with new markets, it was identified negative effects of quality both on the probability of accessing new markets and on the share of trade made with them. For the intensive margin, the value exported with existing partners, the estimated coefficients showed that the increase in quality is associated with a higher exported amount. In addition, this research identified a positive effect of income and distance on quality. Finally, the issuance of SPS and TBT measures by Brazilian importers also led to an improvement in the quality of agricultural products exported by the country. Acknowledgement :
Additional file 1 of Assessment of the ptxD gene as a growth and selective marker in Trichoderma atroviride using Pccg6, a novel constitutive promoter
Creators: name: Nohemí Carreras-Villaseñor
name: Rico-Ruiz, José Guillermo
name: Montes, Ricardo A. Chávez
name: Lenin Yong-Villalobos
name: López-Hernández, José Fabricio
name: Martínez-Hernández, Pedro
name: Herrera-Estrella, Luis
name: Herrera-Estrella, Alfredo
name: López-Arredondo, Damar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. Additional figure and legends supporting the results described in the text.
Images of the Soviet threat: Complexity and change in the beliefs of four American presidents
Creators: name: Mallet, Matthew Alan
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: In his first term, President Reagan publicly stated that the Soviet leadership was immoral; the Soviet empire, evil. Yet by 1988, Reagan dismissed these earlier comments as belonging to "another time, another era." What happened?; This work recognizes the dramatic events unfolding within the Soviet Union beginning in 1985 and explores the impact of these events on perceptions held by American foreign policy decision makers. This research focuses on the images held by Presidents Carter, Ford, and Nixon, in addition to those of Reagan, and investigates the degree of belief system change which occurred from the time each held office to the period 1985-1990. A comparison of the results for these four presidents provides an opportunity to assess the impact of cognitive complexity in belief system change. Researchers have highlighted examples of the seemingly dichotomous, hard-line rhetoric of Reagan's first term and the apparently accommodating, more complex rhetoric of his second term. This research investigates whether changes in complexity are related to changes in beliefs. The interplay of these two important cognitive variables is explored by testing the following hypothesis: given an "external shock" to an individual's belief system, the greater an individual's level of cognitive complexity, the greater the expected degree of belief system change. Belief systems are represented using operational code theory. Integrative complexity theory is used to depict cognitive complexity. There is some detectable change in the belief systems of all four presidents. Nixon and Ford display the most change; unexpectedly, Reagan posts the least. Carter falls in between. Not unexpectedly, this ranking order is similar to that found when comparing integrative complexity scores. Nixon has the highest scores, followed by Carter, Ford, and Reagan. The results also suggest a positive relationship between an individual's level of cognitive complexity and the degree of belief system change. Despite the indications of change, however, the image of the Soviet threat seems to have survived intact or enhanced in the beliefs of two former United States presidents (Reagan and Nixon), while the threat has lessened in the beliefs of two other presidents (Ford and Carter).
Dissemination in Action: Communicating Research in a Digital World
Creators: name: Gutzman, Karen E
name: Smith, Patty
Publisher: name: Galter Health Science Library & Learning Center
Year: 2018

description: This course was presented on Friday, May 18, 2018 at the Medical Library Association Annual Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. The course is available by request through the Medical Library Association Medlib-ed website: http://www.medlib-ed.org/.
Gaugino CP phases and EDMs in the extended gauge mediation SUSY breaking
Creators: name: Suematsu, D.
name: Tsuchida, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study phenomenological aspects of the soft supersymmetry breaking parameters in a model with the extended gauge mediation supersymmetry breaking. In this model gaugino masses can be non-universal and as its result physical CP-phases remain in the gaugino sector even after the R-transformation. These phases contribute to the electric dipole moment (EDM) of an electron and a neutron. We show that their experimental bounds can be satisfied even for the situation such that there exist the order one CP-phases and the masses of superpartners are of the order of 100 GeV.
description: LaTeX, 26 pages, 6 figures
Images of the Soviet threat: Complexity and change in the beliefs of four American presidents
Creators: name: Mallet, Matthew Alan
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: In his first term, President Reagan publicly stated that the Soviet leadership was immoral; the Soviet empire, evil. Yet by 1988, Reagan dismissed these earlier comments as belonging to "another time, another era." What happened?; This work recognizes the dramatic events unfolding within the Soviet Union beginning in 1985 and explores the impact of these events on perceptions held by American foreign policy decision makers. This research focuses on the images held by Presidents Carter, Ford, and Nixon, in addition to those of Reagan, and investigates the degree of belief system change which occurred from the time each held office to the period 1985-1990. A comparison of the results for these four presidents provides an opportunity to assess the impact of cognitive complexity in belief system change. Researchers have highlighted examples of the seemingly dichotomous, hard-line rhetoric of Reagan's first term and the apparently accommodating, more complex rhetoric of his second term. This research investigates whether changes in complexity are related to changes in beliefs. The interplay of these two important cognitive variables is explored by testing the following hypothesis: given an "external shock" to an individual's belief system, the greater an individual's level of cognitive complexity, the greater the expected degree of belief system change. Belief systems are represented using operational code theory. Integrative complexity theory is used to depict cognitive complexity. There is some detectable change in the belief systems of all four presidents. Nixon and Ford display the most change; unexpectedly, Reagan posts the least. Carter falls in between. Not unexpectedly, this ranking order is similar to that found when comparing integrative complexity scores. Nixon has the highest scores, followed by Carter, Ford, and Reagan. The results also suggest a positive relationship between an individual's level of cognitive complexity and the degree of belief system change. Despite the indications of change, however, the image of the Soviet threat seems to have survived intact or enhanced in the beliefs of two former United States presidents (Reagan and Nixon), while the threat has lessened in the beliefs of two other presidents (Ford and Carter).
Political debates and agricultural financing policies. Evaluating the crea-tion of Brazil s Pronaf through Discourse Network Analysis
Creators: name: Ghinoi, S.
name: Piras, S.
name: Wesz, V.J.J.
name: Ghinoi, S.
name: Piras, S.
name: Wesz, V.J.J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: The literature on rural development focuses on the socio-economic effects of agricultural financing, while the process of policy design is devoted less attention. Identifying policy coalitions may help understand the motivations behind a given financing system. Using Discourse Network Analysis, this paper studies the debates preceding the approval of the National Program for Strengthening Family Agriculture (Pronaf) in Brazil in the nineties. This represented a relevant overturn of the previous policy framework. Two coalitions were confronting each other: large farm business associations focused on productivity, and the movements of family farmers aimed at creating credit instruments for small producers. The strong pressure of social movements was paramount for promoting Pronaf. However, findings suggest that the Workers Party, which found itself in a less conflicting position, played a key role in negotiating the introduction of particular measures. Acknowledgement :