cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Background Rejection in KamLAND-ZEN 800 with KamNet and Systematics
Creators: name: Hasung Song
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: KamLAND-Zen is a liquid scintillator detector searching for neutrinoless double beta decay in Xenon-136. Recently, KamLAND-Zen 800 set the first limit of this process in the inverted mass ordering region. One of the primary challenges of this search is the rejection of backgrounds from radioactive isotopes introduced by cosmic-ray spallation. We developed a state-of-the-art neural network classifier, called KamNet, to reject background events and improve detection sensitivity. However, as we rely more heavily on deep neural networks to play key roles in data analysis, it becomes increasingly important to understand exactly how they work. Here, we take a look at KamNet through the lens of network interpretability. Using Monte Carlo (MC) simulations and experimental data, we present the results of recent studies of the origin of KamNet's rejection power. We find that KamNet has the ability to discern multi-vertex events (one or more gammas in addition to a beta) from single-vertex beta events (only betas). This beta vs beta+gamma discrimination is used to help us ascertain spallation background levels. KamNet's rejection performance for key spallation backgrounds will be presented and we discuss how KamNet can inform us about the types of backgrounds it's rejecting. We also describe sources of systematic uncertainty in KamNet such as, Data-MC disagreement, and how we used real data to determine these uncertainties.
Pselaphodes antennarius Huang, Li & Yin 2018, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Huang, Meng-Chi
name: Li, Li-Zhen
name: Yin, Zi-Wei
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Pselaphodes
Pselaphodes antennarius

description: 5. Pselaphodes antennarius Huang, Li & Yin, sp. nov.
China: Guizhou.
description: Published as part of Huang, Meng-Chi, Li, Li-Zhen & Yin, Zi-Wei, 2018, Eleven new species and a new country record of Pselaphodes (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) from China, with a revised checklist of world species, pp. 457-478 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 58 (2) on page 475, DOI: 10.2478/aemnp-2018-0035, http://zenodo.org/record/4488739
Pselaphodes bakeri Raffray 1918
Creators: name: Huang, Meng-Chi
name: Li, Li-Zhen
name: Yin, Zi-Wei
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Pselaphodes
Pselaphodes bakeri

description: 6. Pselaphodes bakeri Raffray, 1918: 501.
Philippines: Luzon.
description: Published as part of Huang, Meng-Chi, Li, Li-Zhen & Yin, Zi-Wei, 2018, Eleven new species and a new country record of Pselaphodes (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) from China, with a revised checklist of world species, pp. 457-478 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 58 (2) on page 475, DOI: 10.2478/aemnp-2018-0035, http://zenodo.org/record/4488739
A Step in Understanding the Hubble Tension
Creators: name: Aloni, Daniel
name: Berlin, Asher
name: Joseph, Melissa
name: Schmaltz, Martin
name: Weiner, Neal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As cosmological data have improved, tensions have arisen. One such tension is the difference between the locally measured Hubble constant $H_0$ and the value inferred from the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Interacting radiation has been suggested as a solution, but studies show that conventional models are precluded by high-$\ell$ CMB polarization data. It seems at least plausible that a solution may be provided by related models that distinguish between high- and low-$\ell$ multipoles. When interactions of strongly-coupled radiation are mediated by a force-carrier that becomes non-relativistic, the dark radiation undergoes a "step" in which its relative energy density increases as the mediator deposits its entropy into the lighter species. If this transition occurs while CMB-observable modes are inside the horizon, high- and low-$\ell$ peaks are impacted differently, corresponding to modes that enter the horizon before or after the step. These dynamics are naturally packaged into the simplest supersymmetric theory, the Wess-Zumino model, with the mass of the scalar mediator near the eV-scale. We investigate the cosmological signatures of such "Wess-Zumino Dark Radiation" (WZDR) and find that it provides an improved fit to the CMB alone, favoring larger values of $H_0$. If supernovae measurements from the SH0ES collaboration are also included in the analysis, the inferred value of $H_0$ is yet larger, but the preference for dark radiation and the location of the transition is left nearly unchanged. Utilizing a standardized set of measures, we compare to other models and find that WZDR is among the most successful at addressing the $H_0$ tension and the best of those with a Lagrangian formulation.
description: 17 pages, 6 figures, 8 tables. Bug in WZDR MCMC runs fixed, plots and tables updated, conclusions unchanged
Study materials to the article "Using Theory-Informed Learning Analytics to Understand How Homework Behavior Predicts Achievement"
Creators: name: Deininger, Hannah
name: Pieronczyk, Ines
name: Parrisius, Cora
name: Plumley, Robert D.
name: Meurers, Detmar
name: Kasneci, Gjergji
name: Nagengast, Benjamin
name: Trautwein, Ulrich
name: Greene, Jeffrey A.
name: Bernacki, Matthew L.
Publisher: name: PsychArchives
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 150

description: Overview of used self-report items (expectancies, values, conscientiousness, homework behavior) and English performance tests (prior knowledge test and post-test).
First-order like phase transition induced by quenched coupling disorder
Creators: name: Hong, Hyunsuk
name: Martens, Erik Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the collective dynamics of a population of XY model-type oscillators, globally coupled via non-separable interactions that are randomly chosen from a positive or negative value, and subject to thermal noise controlled by temperature $T$ . For a finite ratio of positive versus negative coupling, we find that the system at $T = 0$ exhibits a discontinuous, first-order like phase transition from the incoherent to the fully coherent state. We determine the critical threshold for this synchronization transition using a linear stability analysis for the fully coherent state and a heuristic stability argument for the incoherent state. Our theoretical results are supported by extensive numerical simulations which clearly display a first order like transition. Remarkably, the synchronization threshold induced by the type of random coupling considered here is identical to the one found in studies which consider uniform input or output strengths for each oscillator node [Hong and Strogatz, Phys. Rev. E 84, 046202 (2011); H. Hong and S. H. Strogatz, Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 054102 (2011)]. When thermal noise is present, $T > 0$, the transition from incoherence to the partial coherence is continuous and the critical threshold is now larger compared to the deterministic case, T = 0. We formulate an exact mean-field theory applicable to heterogeneous network structures, based on recent work for the stochastic Kuramoto model using graphon objects representing graphs in the mean-field limit. Applying stability results for the incoherent solution, we derive an exact formula for the synchronization threshold for $T > 0$. In the limit $T \rightarrow 0$ we retrieve the result for the deterministic case with $T = 0$.
Celestial operator products from the worldsheet
Creators: name: Adamo, Tim
name: Bu, Wei
name: Casali, Eduardo
name: Sharma, Atul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the operator product expansions of gluons and gravitons in celestial CFT from the worldsheet OPE of vertex operators of four-dimensional ambitwistor string theories. Remarkably, the worldsheet OPE localizes on the short-distance singularity between vertex operator insertions which in turn coincides with the OPE limit of operator insertions on the celestial sphere. The worldsheet CFT dynamically produces known celestial OPE coefficients -- as well as infinite towers of SL$(2,\mathbb{R})$ descendant contributions to the celestial OPE -- without any truncations or approximations. We obtain these results for all helicities and incoming/outgoing configurations. Furthermore, the worldsheet OPE encodes the infinite-dimensional symmetry algebras associated with the conformally soft sectors of gauge theory and gravity. We provide explicit operator realizations of the currents generating these symmetries on ambitwistor space in terms of vertex operators for soft gluons and gravitons, also computing their actions on hard particles of all helicities. Lastly, we show that the worldsheet OPE for momentum eigenstates produces the collinear splitting functions of gluons and gravitons.
description: 36 pages, no figures. v2: references added; v3: published version
Gallup Poll # 981
Creators: name: Gallup
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2013

description: Jimmy Carter job performance (2); Congress job performance (1); drive car (1); "no fault" auto insurance (3); energy situation in United States (1); Plan A vs Plan B for energy control (1); reduce use of energy (16); congressmen dealing with Tongsun Park (5); President's plan taking too much out of public (1).
Improved statistic to identify strongly lensed gravitational wave events
Creators: name: More, Anupreeta
name: More, Surhud
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As the number of detected gravitational wave sources increase with increasing sensitivity of the gravitational wave observatories, observing strongly lensed pair of events will become a real possibility. Lensed GW events will have very accurately measured time delays, as well as magnification ratios. If the corresponding lens system can be identified electromagnetically and the redshifts of the lens and the host galaxy can be measured, such events can be used to constrain important astrophysical parameters of the lens system. As most lensing events will have image separations that will be significantly smaller than the GW event localization uncertainties, it is important that we develop diagnostics that will aid in the robust identification of such lensed events. We define a new statistic based on the joint probability of lensing observables that can be used to discriminate lensed pair of events from the unlensed ones. To this end, we carry out simulations of lensed GW events to infer the distribution of the relative time delays, relative magnifications sub-divided by the type of lensed images. We compare this distribution to a similar one obtained for random unlensed event pairs. Our improved statistic can be used to improve the existing ranking approach adopted by the search pipelines in order to down-select event pairs for joint parameter estimates. The distributions we obtain can further be used to define more informative priors in joint parameter estimation analyses for candidate lensed events.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures
American press opinion concerning the sinking of the Lusitania - May and June, 1915
Creators: name: Swanton, Lily Edith
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The purpose of this thesis is to show the attitude toward the sinking of the Lusitania by Germany as expressed by the American press. The newspapers used represent a typical cross-section of the more important newspapers of the country, and have been selected, more or less, with geographical and editorial considerations in mind. Opinions are also given when they refer to matters relating to the Lusitania, such as the effect of the incident upon American neutrality, the attitude toward Great Britain and her violations of America's neutral rights, and the attitude toward President Wilson in his handling of the situations thus created. The period covered by this thesis is the first two months, May and June, after the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915. The last chapter contains a short summary of the trend of events from June until the following April of 1916, when the last Lusitania note was dispatched. It also includes a few concluding remarks. Whether the opinions thus expressed by the American newspapers were indicative of the general feeling among the people or whether the attitude of the people was formulated by the press is a debatable question; but it readily will be acknowledged that the press is a potent factor in developing or hindering any tendencies which may arise.
Pselaphodes baoxingensis Huang, Li & Yin 2018, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Huang, Meng-Chi
name: Li, Li-Zhen
name: Yin, Zi-Wei
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Pselaphodes
Pselaphodes baoxingensis

description: 7. Pselaphodes baoxingensis Huang, Li & Yin, sp. nov.
China: Sichuan.
description: Published as part of Huang, Meng-Chi, Li, Li-Zhen & Yin, Zi-Wei, 2018, Eleven new species and a new country record of Pselaphodes (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) from China, with a revised checklist of world species, pp. 457-478 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 58 (2) on page 475, DOI: 10.2478/aemnp-2018-0035, http://zenodo.org/record/4488739
CBS News/New York Times Poll: 2008 Presidential Election/Economy
Creators: name: CBS News
name: New York Times
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2010

description: Voter registration (1); voter interest/involvement (7); Barack Obama (8); John McCain (8); Barack Obama/Joe Biden vs. John McCain/Sarah Palin (3); candidate support (1); economic conditions (2); Joe Biden (1); Sarah Palin (1); vice presidential selections (1); federal financial support (1); personal finances (1); residence (1); employed (1); service in military (1).
CBS News/New York Times Poll: 2008 Presidential Election/Economy/Bailout
Creators: name: CBS News
name: New York Times
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2010

description: Voter registration (1); voter interest/involvement (6); Barack Obama (16); John McCain (15); Barack Obama/Joe Biden vs. John McCain/Sarah Palin (4); opinion of candidates (1); expected winner (1); party for House of Representatives (1); issues effecting vote (1); George W. Bush job performance (1); direction of country (1); Congressional job performance (2); economic conditions (2); government handling economy (1); party opinions (2); taxes (2); Colin Powell (1); Joe Biden (1); Sarah Palin (1); party and congressional partisanship (1); Michelle Obama (1); Cindy McCain (1); candidates campaigning (2); candidates favoring race (2); economic bailout (3); employment (1); personal income (2); residence (1).
Resonant Shattering Flares in Black Hole-Neutron Star and Binary Neutron Star Mergers
Creators: name: Neill, Duncan
name: Tsang, David
name: van Eerten, Hendrik
name: Ryan, Geoffrey
name: Newton, William G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Resonant Shattering flares (RSFs) are bursts of gamma-rays expected to be triggered by tidal resonance of a neutron star (NS) during binary inspiral. They are strongly dependent on the magnetic field strength at the surface of the NS. By modelling these flares as being the result of multiple colliding relativistic shells launched during the resonance window, we find that the prompt non-thermal gamma-ray emission may have luminosity up to a few $\times10^{48}\text{ erg/s}$, and that a broad-band afterglow could be produced. We compute the expected rates of detectable RSFs using the BPASS population synthesis code, with different assumptions about the evolution of surface magnetic field strengths before merger. We find the rate of detectable RSFs to be $\sim 0.0001-5$ per year for BHNS mergers and $\sim 0.0005-25$ per year for NSNS mergers, with the lower bound corresponding to surface-field decay consistent with magneto-thermal evolution in purely crustal fields, while the upper bounds are for systems which have longer-lived surface magnetic fields supported by flux frozen into the superconducting core. If some of the observed SGRB precursor flares are indeed RSFs, this suggests the presence of a longer-lived surface field for some fraction of the neutron star population, and that we could expect RSFs to be the most common detectable EM counterpart to GW detections of BHNS mergers. The non-detection of a RSF prior to GRB170817A provides an upper bound on the magnetic fields of the progenitor NSs of $B_{\rm surf}\sim 10^{13.5} \text{ G}$.
description: 19 pages, 12 figures, final version accepted by MNRAS
Time Magazine/CNN Poll # 2003-09: 2004 Presidential Election/George W. Bush Job Performance/Iraq
Creators: name: CNN
name: Time
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2013

description: Direction of country (1); George W. Bush job performance (15); re-elect George W. Bush (1); 2004 presidential election (14); vote along party lines (2); George W. Bush (18); Bill Clinton (1); economy (2); political parties (2); same sex marriages (2); John Muhammad should be sentenced to death/life without parole (1); Iraq (7); gun owner (1).
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 112.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 12.05.1966, erstellt von Sergio Cortesi, Sonnenobservatorium Specola Solare Ticinese in Locarno
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1966

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf dem Vordruck der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert
description: ETH-Bibliothek
Public Agenda Foundation Poll: Confidence in Foreign Policy Index--Volume 1
Creators: name: Public Agenda Foundation
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2009

description: Most important problem (1); world view of United States (1); understanding events in Middle East (1); understanding events in Europe (1); understanding events in developing countries (1); rating news media (1); American leadership (1); personal understanding of current events (1); government attention to international issues (1); American relations with other countries (1); fighting terrorism (1); grading America on achieving goals (20); worry about certain things (15); poverty contributing to terrorism (1); communication with Muslim world (1); increased democracy (1); fighting terrorism (1); American company standards (1); outsourcing (1); cooperation with other countries to fight terrorism (1); aiding the spread of democracy (1); aiding other countries (1); strengthening national security (10); criticisms of American foreign policy (5).
Vacuum Polarization of Generalized Quantum Electrodynamics in the Heisenberg Picture
Creators: name: Montenegro, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we consider the generalized quantum electrodynamics proposed by Podolsky in Heisenberg picture via Kallen methodology. We investigate the effects of higher-order derivatives to understand the qualitative and quantitative aspects of vacuum polarization. In addition, the most general structure of induced current and polarization tensor that emerge naturally by a perturbative scheme "a la" Kallen is also obtained. Afterward, we discuss the physical implication of charge renormalization in the perspective of unitary and stable Podolsky theory.
American press opinion concerning the sinking of the Lusitania - May and June, 1915
Creators: name: Swanton, Lily Edith
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4303
subject: Historical studies
classificationCode: 4701
subject: Communication and media studies

description: The purpose of this thesis is to show the attitude toward the sinking of the Lusitania by Germany as expressed by the American press. The newspapers used represent a typical cross-section of the more important newspapers of the country, and have been selected, more or less, with geographical and editorial considerations in mind. Opinions are also given when they refer to matters relating to the Lusitania, such as the effect of the incident upon American neutrality, the attitude toward Great Britain and her violations of America's neutral rights, and the attitude toward President Wilson in his handling of the situations thus created. The period covered by this thesis is the first two months, May and June, after the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915. The last chapter contains a short summary of the trend of events from June until the following April of 1916, when the last Lusitania note was dispatched. It also includes a few concluding remarks. Whether the opinions thus expressed by the American newspapers were indicative of the general feeling among the people or whether the attitude of the people was formulated by the press is a debatable question; but it readily will be acknowledged that the press is a potent factor in developing or hindering any tendencies which may arise.
Public Agenda Foundation Poll: Confidence in Foreign Policy Index--Volume 3
Creators: name: Public Agenda Foundation
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2009

description: Important problems (1); world view of United States (1); respect influencing national security (1); qualities of United States (10); international/internal affairs (1); direction of foreign relations (1); danger for United States/Americans (1); military vs. diplomatic/economic methods to fight terrorism (1); role of United States (1); United States job performance (1); rating American goal fulfillment (24); worries (16); thoughts and beliefs (5); realistic actions (4); government doing a lot about certain things (9); aiding spread of democracy (1); amount of aid given (1); factors in foreign policy (11); government telling truth (6); Islam (1); Muslims (1); national security (13); criticisms of American foreign policy (6).
Pselaphodes biwenxuani Yin, Li & Zhao 2011
Creators: name: Huang, Meng-Chi
name: Li, Li-Zhen
name: Yin, Zi-Wei
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Pselaphodes
Pselaphodes biwenxuani

description: 8. Pselaphodes biwenxuani Yin, Li & Zhao, 2011: 464.
China: Xizang.
description: Published as part of Huang, Meng-Chi, Li, Li-Zhen & Yin, Zi-Wei, 2018, Eleven new species and a new country record of Pselaphodes (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) from China, with a revised checklist of world species, pp. 457-478 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 58 (2) on page 475, DOI: 10.2478/aemnp-2018-0035, http://zenodo.org/record/4488739
State school revenue legislation, 1929-1933
Creators: name: Waldron, Frances Willard
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 390201
subject: Education policy

description: This publication reviews school revenue legislation for the years 1929 to 1933. During this five-year period the problem of state school finance has received increasing attention from educators, legislators, and the public in general. During this period the gross expenditures for public education climbed to the highest point they have yet reached. During this period also the nation suffered a serious economic depression which taxed alike the ingenuity of school officers in devising programs of maximum economy and the wisdom of legislatures in providing funds for the support of the schools. State tax commissions and state school survey commissions were created in many states. Their reports stimulated study and action by the various legislatures looking toward more adequate methods of providing and distributing state school revenues. During this period also, under the auspices of the federal government, an important national survey of the financing of education was instituted.
Adaptive area-preserving parameterization of open and closed anatomical surfaces
Creators: name: Choi, Gary P. T.
name: Giri, Amita
name: Kumar, Lalan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computational Geometry (cs.CG)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The parameterization of open and closed anatomical surfaces is of fundamental importance in many biomedical applications. Spherical harmonics, a set of basis functions defined on the unit sphere, are widely used for anatomical shape description. However, establishing a one-to-one correspondence between the object surface and the entire unit sphere may induce a large geometric distortion in case the shape of the surface is too different from a perfect sphere. In this work, we propose adaptive area-preserving parameterization methods for simply-connected open and closed surfaces with the target of the parameterization being a spherical cap. Our methods optimize the shape of the parameter domain along with the mapping from the object surface to the parameter domain. The object surface will be globally mapped to an optimal spherical cap region of the unit sphere in an area-preserving manner while also exhibiting low conformal distortion. We further develop a set of spherical harmonics-like basis functions defined over the adaptive spherical cap domain, which we call the adaptive harmonics. Experimental results show that the proposed parameterization methods outperform the existing methods for both open and closed anatomical surfaces in terms of area and angle distortion. Surface description of the object surfaces can be effectively achieved using a novel combination of the adaptive parameterization and the adaptive harmonics. Our work provides a novel way of mapping anatomical surfaces with improved accuracy and greater flexibility. More broadly, the idea of using an adaptive parameter domain allows easy handling of a wide range of biomedical shapes.
State school revenue legislation, 1929-1933
Creators: name: Waldron, Frances Willard
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This publication reviews school revenue legislation for the years 1929 to 1933. During this five-year period the problem of state school finance has received increasing attention from educators, legislators, and the public in general. During this period the gross expenditures for public education climbed to the highest point they have yet reached. During this period also the nation suffered a serious economic depression which taxed alike the ingenuity of school officers in devising programs of maximum economy and the wisdom of legislatures in providing funds for the support of the schools. State tax commissions and state school survey commissions were created in many states. Their reports stimulated study and action by the various legislatures looking toward more adequate methods of providing and distributing state school revenues. During this period also, under the auspices of the federal government, an important national survey of the financing of education was instituted.
Pew Research Center Poll: June News Interest Index--News Coverage/Politics/Internet Use/War on Terrorism
Creators: name: Pew Research Center
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2006

description: George W. Bush job performance (1); how closely followed certain news stories this past month (8); ideology of political parties/self (7); sources of news about national and international issues (14); reading the newspaper (3); opinion of some groups and organizations in the news (9); next appointment to Supreme Court (2); criticisms by news media (3); news organizations get facts straight/their stories and reports are often inaccurate (1); news organizations deal fairly with all sides/tend to favor one side when dealing with political and social issues (1); news organizations are pretty independent/often influenced by powerful people and organizations (1); news organizations pay too much attention to good/bad news/reports kinds of stories they should be covering (1); general descriptions of news organizations (10); news media revealing sources (2); deciding what stories to report (2); news coverage of war on terrorism should be pro-American/neutral (1); certain organizations report facts about recent news developments/give their opinions about the news (8); Iraq (6); political parties' approaches to foreign policy and national security issues (2); computer use (2); reported mistreatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay (3); Roe vs. Wade (1); 2004 presidential election (2).
Pew Research Center Poll: July News Interest Index--Politics/Religion
Creators: name: Pew Research Center
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2006

description: George W. Bush job performance (5); impression of George W. Bush (9); how closely followed certain news stories this past month (5); George W. Bush listening more to conservative/moderate members of his party when it comes to national policy (1); Karl Rove (3); Sandra Day O'Connor (1); next Supreme Court appointment (9); issues Supreme Court may rule on over the coming years (6); Roe vs. Wade (1); Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez (2); Iraq (16); gay marriage (3); favor/oppose certain things (4); Terri Schiavo (1); abortion (4); stem cell research (4); terrorism (4); importance of religion in own life (1); feelings about the Bible (1); churches/houses of worship should keep out of/express views on day-to-day social and political questions (1); computer use (2); 2004 presidential election (2).
Pew Research Center Poll: Presidential Approval/Gasoline Prices/Press Coverage/Hurricane Katrina/Supreme Court
Creators: name: Pew Research Center
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2006

description: George W. Bush job performance (5); more important for President Bush to focus on domestic policy/war on terrorism (1); how closely followed certain news stories this past month (4); rising price of gasoline (1); Hurricane Katrina (30); Supreme Court nominee John Roberts (2).
Testing the Standard Model with CP-asymmetries in flavour-specific non-leptonic decays
Creators: name: Gershon, Tim
name: Lenz, Alexander
name: Rusov, Aleksey V.
name: Skidmore, Nicola
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by recent indications that the rates of colour-allowed non-leptonic channels are not in agreement with their Standard Model expectations based on QCD factorisation, we investigate the potential to study CP asymmetries with these decays. In the Standard Model, these flavour-specific decays are sensitive to CP violation in $B^0_{(s)}$--$\bar{B}^0_{(s)}$ mixing, which is predicted with low uncertainties and can be measured precisely with semileptonic decays. If there are beyond Standard Model contributions to the non-leptonic decay amplitudes, there could be significant enhancements to the CP asymmetries. Measurements of these quantities therefore have potential to identify BSM effects without relying on Standard Model predictions that might be affected by hadronic effects. We discuss the experimental prospects, and note the excellent potential for a precise determination of the CP asymmetry in $\bar{B}_s \to D_s^+ π^-$ decays by the LHCb experiment.
description: 13 pages
Pew Internet & American Life Project Poll: January 2005 Daily Tracking Survey
Creators: name: Pew Research Center
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2010

description: Direction of country (1); use of computer/Internet (2); frequency of Internet use (6); point of accessing Internet (5); ever stopped using Internet (1); recent online activity (5); time spent online (2); how long been an Internet user (4); online activities (57); relations using Internet (1); problems for Internet users (4); awareness of spam/junk email (1); effects of spam/junk email (3); types of email accounts (2); frequency of receiving spam (2); attempts to reduce spam/junk email (6); identifying spam/junk email (3); unsolicited email (5); pornographic spam/junk email (1); spam instant messages (1); privacy violation (1); capabilities with Internet activities (4); helping others with online activities (2); illegal file sharing (20); number of computers in house (3); laptop with wireless modem (1); computer network (1); game consoles (2); music players (1); Internet connection type (2); number of telephone lines (1); cell phones (2); text messaging via cell phone (2).
Divulgação Internacional do Estudo sobre N. meningitidis do INSA-IRJ
Creators: name: Virella, Daniel
Publisher: name: Portuguese Journal of Pediatrics
Year: 2014

description: O estudo sobre "Serogrupos circulantes de Neisseria meningitidis em Portugal", realizado de 2000 a 2001 com a coordenação da Unidade de Resistência aos Antibióticos do Centro de Bacteriologia do Instituto Nacional de Saúde Dr. Ricardo Jorge, de Lisboa, no qual colaboraram tantos Serviços de Pediatria e Pediatras, foi já divulgado em 2004 por duas publicações internacionais de prestígio; Journal of Medicai Miavbiology ( http://jmm.sgmjoumals.org ) e Emerging Infectious Diseases ( www.cdc.gov/eid ).

É de assinalar que todos os coordenadores locais do estudo são referidos como coautores no artigo publicado na Emeiging Infectious Diseases,
description: Portuguese Journal of Pediatrics, vol. 36 n.º 4 (2005)
Critically Evaluated Spectral Data for Singly Ionized Carbon (C II)
Creators: name: Kramida, A.
name: Haris, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: All available experimental data on the spectrum of singly ionized carbon have been critically analyzed. Measurement uncertainties of all published studies have been re-assessed. The scope of observational data includes laboratory emission spectra of arcs, sparks, electrodeless discharges, and hollow cathode lamps recorded with grating and Fourier transform spectrometers, laboratory photoabsorption spectra, and emission spectra of planetary nebulae. The total number of observed spectral lines included in this compilation is 597. These lines participate in 972 transitions. From this list of identified transitions, we have derived a set of 414 energy levels, which are optimized using a least-squares fitting procedure. The identifications are supported by parametric calculations with Cowan's codes. The existing tables of critically evaluated transition probabilities have been extended with our newly calculated data. The ionization energy has been derived from the newly optimized energy levels with improved precision. Data on isotope shifts and hyperfine structure have also been compiled.
description: 46 pages, 2 figures
SUCCESS PREDICTION IN BEHAVIORAL VERSUS SELF-HELP WEIGHT CONTROL GROUPS
Creators: name: Carroll, Lawrence John
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 5203
subject: Clinical and health psychology
classificationCode: 520302
subject: Clinical psychology

description: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 40-10, Section: B, page: 4993.
Cerium ruthenium low-energy antineutrino measurements for safeguarding military naval reactors
Creators: name: Cogswell, Bernadette K.
name: Huber, Patrick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recent agreement to transfer nuclear submarine reactors and technology from two nuclear-weapon states to a non-nuclear-weapon state (AUKUS deal) highlights an unsolved problem in international safeguards: how to safeguard naval reactor fuel while it is on-board an operational nuclear submarine. Proposals to extend existing safeguards technologies and practices are complicated by the need for civilian international inspectors to gain access to the interior of the submarine and the reactor compartment, which raises national security concerns. In this paper we show that implementing safeguards on submarine propulsion reactors using a low-energy antineutrino reactor-off method, between submarine patrols, can by-pass the need for on-board access all together. We find that, using inverse beta decay (IBD), detectors can achieve a timely and high level of assurance that a submarine's nuclear core has not been diverted (mass of around 100 kg) nor its enrichment level changed (mass of around 10 tons).
description: 10 pages, 5 figures
Coherent and incoherent tunneling into YSR states revealed by atomic scale shot-noise spectroscopy
Creators: name: Thupakula, Umamahesh
name: Perrin, Vivien
name: Palacio-Morales, Alexandra
name: Cario, Laurent
name: Aprili, Marco
name: Simon, Pascal
name: Massee, Freek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The pair breaking potential of individual magnetic impurities in s-wave superconductors generates localized states inside the superconducting gap commonly referred to as Yu- Shiba-Rusinov (YSR) states whose isolated nature makes them ideal building blocks for artificial structures that may host Majorana fermions. One of the challenges in this endeavor is to understand their intrinsic lifetime, $\hbar/Λ$, which is expected to be limited by the inelastic coupling with the continuum thus leading to decoherence. Here we use shot-noise scanning tunneling microscopy to reveal that electron tunnelling into superconducting 2H-NbSe$_2$ mediated by YSR states is ordered as function of time, as evidenced by a reduction of the noise. Moreover, our data show the concomitant transfer of charges e and 2e, indicating that incoherent single particle and coherent Andreev processes operate simultaneously. From the quantitative agreement between experiment and theory we obtain $Λ$ = 1 $μ$eV $\ll$ $k_BT$ demonstrating that shot-noise can probe energy- and time scales inaccessible by conventional spectroscopy whose resolution is thermally limited.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, Supplementary Information included as ancillary file
Pew Research Center: April 2016 Political Survey
Creators: name: Pew Research Center
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2017

description: President Barack Obama job performance (2); direction of country (1); 2016 presidential election (1); Republican and Democratic Party policies (2); Republican and Democratic candidates for president (2); political party preference (2); U.S. foreign policy (3); leadership role the United States play in the world (3); U.S. policies to keep America the only military superpower (1); international concerns for the U.S. (2); government’s anti-terrorism policies (2); spending on national defense (1); U.S. military campaign against Islamic militants in Iraq and Syria (4); dispute between Israel and the Palestinians (2); North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO alliance (2); U.S. involvement in the global economy (2); 2010 health care law (5).
title: Proteste 2.0 – Die Rolle sozialer Medien bei Occupy Wallstreet, dem Arabischen Frühling und PEGIDA Wien
Creators: name: Hönigmayer, Helmut
Year: 2017

description: Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Rolle sozialer Medien im Zuge der Proteste am Tahrir-Platz in Ägypten, Occupy Wallstreet und PEGIDA Wien. Der Fokus liegt auf der Entstehungsgeschichte der jeweiligen Bewegung, ihren Versuchen, über soziale Medien für Protestevents zu mobilisieren, und ihrer Rolle bei der Organisation und der Kommunikation für diese. Um die Beziehungen zwischen den Protestevents und den Vorgängen in den sozialen Netzwerken zu erheben, wurde mittels digitaler Methoden die Aktivität auf den jeweiligen Facebook-Seiten erhoben. Diese Ergebnisse wurden mit den Ansätzen der Resource Mobilization Theory nach McCarthy und Zald (1977) sowie der Theorie Dieter Ruchts (2014) zur Online- und Offline-Mobilisierung in Kontext gesetzt. Das ermöglichte eine konkrete Beschreibung der Rolle sozialer Medien in den drei Protestbewegungen.
Faking Gauge Coupling Unification in String Theory
Creators: name: Halverson, James
name: Sung, Benjamin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Gauge coupling unification misleads infrared observers if new gauge bosons do not simultaneously come into the spectrum. Though easy to engineer in gauge theory, the situation in string theory is nuanced, due to moduli dependence. We study the possibility of faking gauge coupling unification in the context of $4$d F-theory compactifications. Specifically, we formulate a sufficient condition that we call a strong calibration, under which seven-brane gauge couplings on homologically distinct divisors become equal at codimension one in Kähler moduli space. We prove that a strong calibration is preserved under appropriate topological transitions and that a pair of non-intersecting divisors each admitting a contraction can always be strongly calibrated. Within the Tree ensemble, we find that $\approx 77.12\%$ of pairs of intersecting toric divisors can be strongly calibrated and $\approx 3.22\%$ can never be calibrated. Physically, this means that gauge coupling unification can be faked in most cases that we study, but in others it cannot, which is surprising from a gauge theoretic perspective.
title: "Noch ein weiter Weg?"
Creators: name: Pfeffer, Rita
Year: 2017

description: Der Kindergarten als elementarpädagogische Bildungseinrichtung ist für Kinder ein Raum in dem Bildungsprozesse gefördert werden, in dem aber auch Geschlecht und Geschlechterverhältnisse in vielfacher Weise präsent sind. Seit 2009 gibt es für ganz Österreich einen bundesländerübergreifenden BildungsRahmenPlan (BRP), welcher als gemeinsame Basis einen qualitätssichernden und verpflichtenden Rahmen für die Arbeit im Kindergarten bilden soll. Die Bundesbildungsanstalten für Elementarpädagogik (BAFEP) bieten mehrjährige Ausbildungen an um Pädagog_innen bestmöglich auf ihre Arbeit mit Kindern vorzubereiten. Um den Kindern ideale Bildungsprozesse zu ermöglichen sollen die von Pädagog_innen geplanten Bildungsangebote den im BRP festgehaltenen Prinzipien entsprechen. Gendersensibilität wird dabei als ein Prinzip im BRP festgeschrieben. Inwieweit dieses Prinzip bereits im pädagogischen Alltag und in der Ausbildung für Pädagog_innen Anwendung findet, soll im Zuge dieser Arbeit ermittelt werden. Durch einen qualitativen Zugang wird mittels zweier Gruppendiskussionen und einer qualitativen Inhaltsanalyse erörtert, wie gendersensible Pädagogik in der Ausbildung vermittelt wird, welches Verständnis zu gendersensibler Pädagogik besteht und welche Ziele sowie Methoden für die Praxis aus der Sicht zukünftiger Pädagog_innen und deren Lehrkräfte als relevant erscheinen. Die Forschungsbefunde ergeben, dass bei den Befragten Verunsicherungen in der Wahrnehmung und Einstellung in Bezug auf gendersensible Pädagogik bestehen. Ebenso wird die Notwendigkeit einer Einführung von gendersensibler Arbeit im Kindergarten von den befragten Student_innen sehr ambivalent betrachtet. Die Ergebnisse zeigen weiters, dass die Vermittlung gendersensibler Pädagogik gegenwärtig kein fixer Bestandteil in der Ausbildung, sondern abhängig von Interesse und Vorwissen der Lehrkräfte ist.
«O Meu Filho não Aprende»
Creators: name: Gomes-Pedro, João
name: Torgal-Garcia, Fernanda
name: Golgschmidt, Teresa
name: Sobral, Filipa
Publisher: name: Portuguese Journal of Pediatrics
Year: 2014

description: Portuguese Journal of Pediatrics, vol. 36 n.º 4 (2005)
Learning Effect of Lay People in Gesture-Based Locomotion in Virtual Reality
Creators: name: Schäfer, Alexander
name: Reis, Gerd
name: Stricker, Didier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Locomotion in Virtual Reality (VR) is an important part of VR applications. Many scientists are enriching the community with different variations that enable locomotion in VR. Some of the most promising methods are gesture-based and do not require additional handheld hardware. Recent work focused mostly on user preference and performance of the different locomotion techniques. This ignores the learning effect that users go through while new methods are being explored. In this work, it is investigated whether and how quickly users can adapt to a hand gesture-based locomotion system in VR. Four different locomotion techniques are implemented and tested by participants. The goal of this paper is twofold: First, it aims to encourage researchers to consider the learning effect in their studies. Second, this study aims to provide insight into the learning effect of users in gesture-based systems.
Roper Fortune # 4: Politics and Government/General/Buying
Creators: name: Fortune Magazine
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 1999

description: President Roosevelt (5); party to succeed Roosevelt (1); 1936 presidential election (1); Roosevelt Administration (1); bills in Congress (5); main thing holding back prosperity in US (1); WPA v.s. government (1); Harry Hopkins job performance (1); training for skilled jobs (1); hostility towards Jewish people (2); spending trends (2); radio (2); automobiles (5); religion (1).
Pselaphodes bomiensis Yin, Li & Zhao 2011
Creators: name: Huang, Meng-Chi
name: Li, Li-Zhen
name: Yin, Zi-Wei
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Pselaphodes
Pselaphodes bomiensis

description: 9. Pselaphodes bomiensis Yin, Li & Zhao, 2011: 465.
China: Xizang.
description: Published as part of Huang, Meng-Chi, Li, Li-Zhen & Yin, Zi-Wei, 2018, Eleven new species and a new country record of Pselaphodes (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) from China, with a revised checklist of world species, pp. 457-478 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 58 (2) on page 476, DOI: 10.2478/aemnp-2018-0035, http://zenodo.org/record/4488739