cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Staff experience of bank robbery events : a phenomenological study
Creators: name: Stone, Daniel Joseph
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The purpose of this study was to examine bank robbery events, based on first hand descriptions from robbed staff, through elaboration of in-depth, rich and detailed respondent narratives. Additional goals were to contribute to counselling theory by detailed exploration and development of the essential structure of the respondents' robbery experience at the foreshadowing/onset of the event, during the event, and after the event and to contribute to counselling practice by providing detailed exemplifications of what meaning these traumatic events had for the respondents. Phenomenological methodology was utilized for this study. The goal was to record in detail the robbery experiences, discover the respondent's most essential meanings of the robbery experience, and generate detailed specific and general findings that revealed the core structure of their experience. Eight respondents were selected, 6 women and 2 men, ranging in age from 25 to 51. Respondent length of time in banking ranged from Vh to 26 years. Nine categories were developed from the narratives which reflected key features of the robbery experience. The study results validated, qualified, and departed from existing research in five important ways. First, the results indicated that bank robbery was experienced by robbed staff as a meaningful whole process rather than as one or more isolated symptoms or symptom clusters. Second, the findings indicated the effects, the experience of robbery, had a robust durational character rather than fitting the prevalent picture which portrays robbed staff as having symptoms which disappear, or are greatly reduced after several weeks or months. Third, the role of corporate empathic responding
Stateless Detection of Malicious Traffic: Emphasis on User Privacy
Creators: name: Halvorsen, Paul
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2013

description: In order to allow flexibility in deployment location and to preserve user privacy we have performed research into stateless classification of network traffic. Stateless detection allows for feasibility in deployment location because traffic on a network does not necessarily follow the same path to and from the end points. By only requiring a single direction of traffic, we have the ability to deploy this classifier anywhere on a network. We also do not require the data from a packet which preserves user privacy and allows for the classification of encrypted traffic. Our research shows that it is possible to determine if traffic is malicious by using packets traveling in a single direction and without the data contained in the packet. Our research shows that with the use of the timing of the packets, time to live value, and source and destination IP addresses and ports, it is possible to determine if the traffic is malicious. In this way we are able to deploy the classifier anywhere on a network, preserve user privacy, and classify encrypted traffic.
Measurement of Ω_m, Ω_Λ from a blind analysis of Type Ia supernovae with CMAGIC: Using color information to verify the acceleration of the Universe
Creators: name: Conley, A.
name: Goldhaber, G.
name: Wang, L.
name: Aldering, G.
name: Amanullah, R.
name: Commins, E. D.
name: Fadeyev, V.
name: Folatelli, G.
name: Garavini, G.
name: Gibbons, R.
name: Goobar, A.
name: Groom, D. E.
name: Hook, I.
name: Howell, D. A.
name: Kim, A. G.
name: Knop, R. A.
name: Kowalski, M.
name: Kuznetsova, N.
name: Lidman, C.
name: Nobili, S.
name: Nugent, P. E.
name: Pain, R.
name: Perlmutter, S.
name: Smith, E.
name: Spadafora, A. L.
name: Stanishev, V.
name: Strovink, M.
name: Thomas, R. C.
name: Wood-Vasey, W. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present measurements of Ω_m and Ω_Λ from a blind analysis of 21 high-redshift supernovae using a new technique (CMAGIC) for fitting the multi-color lightcurves of Type Ia supernovae, first introduced in Wang et al. (2003). CMAGIC takes advantage of the remarkably simple behavior of Type Ia supernovae on color-magnitude diagrams, and has several advantages over current techniques based on maximum magnitudes. Among these are a reduced sensitivity to host galaxy dust extinction, a shallower luminosity-width relation, and the relative simplicity of the fitting procedure. This allows us to provide a cross check of previous supernova cosmology results, despite the fact that current data sets were not observed in a manner optimized for CMAGIC. We describe the details of our novel blindness procedure, which is designed to prevent experimenter bias. The data are broadly consistent with the picture of an accelerating Universe, and agree with a flat Universe within 1.7σ, including systematics. We also compare the CMAGIC results directly with those of a maximum magnitude fit to the same SNe, finding that CMAGIC favors more acceleration at the 1.6σlevel, including systematics and the correlation between the two measurements. A fit for w assuming a flat Universe yields a value which is consistent with a cosmological constant within 1.2σ.
description: 53 pages, 15 figures, published in the Astrophysical Journal. Minor (spelling and grammatical) changes to bring in line with published version
On the phase structure of a chiral invariant Higgs-Yukawa model
Creators: name: Gerhold, Philipp
name: Jansen, Karl
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the past the construction of Higgs-Yukawa models on the lattice was blocked by the lack of a consistent definition of a chiral invariant Yukawa coupling term. Here, we consider a chiral invariant Higgs-Yukawa model based on the overlap operator, realized by the Neuberger-Dirac operator. As a first step towards a numerical examination of this model we study its phase diagram by means of an analytic 1/N-expansion, which is possible for small and for large values of the Yukawa coupling constant. In the case of strong Yukawa couplings the model effectively becomes an O(4)-symmetric non-linear sigma-model.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures, Lattice conference 2006, corrected typos
Predicting the Activities of Mobile Phone Users with Hidden Markov Models
Creators: name: Sane, Amey Prakash
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2012
Subjects: Activity Recognition
Hidden Markov Models
Machine Learning
Mobile Context-awareness

description: Mobile phones are ubiquitous and increasingly capable, with sophisticated sensors, network access, significant storage and processing power and access to a wide range of application data. They can improve the range and quality of their services by acquiring and using models of their context, including the activities in which their users are engaged. This thesis explores the use of supervised machine learning techniques for predicting a Smartphone user's activities from available sensor data. We have specifically concentrated on applying classifiers and ensembles using hidden markov models for activity recognition. Our classifiers predict a user's current activity from among a set of conceptual activity classes such as sleeping, traveling, playing, working, and chatting/watching TV. We have experimented with and evaluated the effectiveness of different approaches on data collected on Android Smartphone by university faculty and students.
Owning Farmland in the United States: Agricultural Economics and Land Ownership Survey
Creators: name: Wunderlich, Gene
name: Wunderlich, Gene
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Landownership
subject: land tenure
subject: concentration
subject: absenteeism

description: U.S. farmland is held by fewer owners now than at any other time in this century. Nearly half of all U.S. farmland is held by about 4 percent of all farmland owners. Over 40 percent of the 833 million acres of private farmland is held by owners or organizations who do not themselves operate farms. Increases in the ratio of owners to operators, currently about three to two, imply a larger percentage of landowners who are less involved in farm operating and marketing decisions, a spreading of risk between farmers and landlords, and greater concentration of agricultural production in fewer farm managers.
Letter from Anson Campbell of Fidelity and Casualty Co. to James Goldie, May 8, 1909
Creators: name: Campbell, Anson H.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Letter to James Goldie from Anson Campbell, dated May 8, 1909, regarding insurance policy and reference to Goldie's concern about his investment in the Cambridge society.
Near-barrier Fusion and Breakup/Transfer induced by Weakly Bound and Exotic Halo Nuclei
Creators: name: Beck, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The influence on the fusion process of coupling to collective degrees of freedom has been explored. The significant enhancement of the fusion cross section at sub-barrier energies was compared to predictions of one-dimensional barrier penetration models. This was understood in terms of the dynamical processes arising from strong couplings to collective inelastic excitations of the target and projectile. However, in the case of reactions where at least one of the colliding nuclei has a sufficiently low binding energy, for breakup to become an important process, conflicting model predictions and experimental results have been reported in the literature. Excitation functions for sub- and near-barrier total (complete + incomplete) fusion cross sections have been measured for the $^{6,7}$Li+$^{59}$Co reactions. Elastic scattering as well as breakup/transfer yields have also been measured at several incident energies. Results of Continuum-Discretized Coupled-Channel ({\sc Cdcc}) calculations describe reasonably well the experimental data for both reactions at and above the barrier. A systematic study of $^{4,6}$He induced fusion reactions with a three-body {\sc Cdcc} method is presented. The relative importance of breakup and bound-state structure effects on total fusion (excitation functions) is particularly investigated. The four-body {\sc Cdcc} model is being currently developed.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures; espcrc1 style; Invited Talk given at IX Int.Conf. on Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions, Rio de Janeiro Aug.2006; submitted to Nucl.Phys.A
Brachytrupes Serville 1838
Creators: name: Simeu-Noutchom, Alain
name: Heller, Klaus-Gerhard
name: Nyobe, Philene Corinne Aude Um
name: Kekeunou, Sevilor
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Gryllidae
Brachytrupes

description: Bioacoustics of Brachytrupes
The calling song of Brachytrupes bapaensis sp. nov. consisted of a loud continuous trill, which was heard and recorded several minutes without interruption (Fig. 6). The carrier frequency band of the song has its peak near 4.3 kHz, and the syllable period is about 8.6 ms corresponding to a SRR of 115 Hz. In both parameters the song is thus similar to that known from other Brachytrupes species (Table 3). The asiatic counterpart Tarbinskiellus portentosus, has also a similar song, but a lower SRR (Table 3). The stridulatory file of this species carries much more teeth (81–85) (Ahmad & Khan 2013) which are more densely packed (20 teeth/mm) (Ahmad & Khan 2013; but density 9.4 teeth/mm in the middle of the file [Godthi et al. 2022]) than in B. bapanensis sp. nov.. The calling song of Brachytrupes tropicus consisted of a loud, low-pitched continuous trill, which is emitted during several minutes without interruption. Pulse and interpulse durations are quite constant. The frequency band of the song ranged from 4.8 to 6.4 kHz with the peak near 5.7 kHz and a SRR of 118 Hz (Table 3, Desutter-Grandcolas 1998).
description: Published as part of Simeu-Noutchom, Alain, Heller, Klaus-Gerhard, Nyobe, Philene Corinne Aude Um & Kekeunou, Sevilor, 2023, Taxonomy review of the genus Brachytrupes (Orthoptera: Gryllidae) with the description of a new species and key to the species, pp. 373-388 in Zootaxa 5336 (3) on page 383, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5336.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/8281577
Artículo 7 - Solución de sobrevivencia y crecimiento productivo y económico en épocas de los microorganismos patógenos, iniciada por el covid 19 y cuarta revolución industrial.pdf
Creators: name: Pérez, Pedro
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Economics

description: Del 82,5 al 93% de las organizaciones se mantienen en una crisis de rentabilidad social y económica, causada por cierres de los siste-mas laborales y productivos, caídas de la de-manda y del PIB (Producto Interno Bruto) en Latinoamérica (promedio 6,3%-10%). Estas se ven transparentadas en la emergencia am-biental, humana, y económica, iniciadas con el COVID 19, que ha sorprendido a las organiza-ciones con estructuras débiles y sistemas fun-cionales de control de la variabilidad de riesgos, improvisación, y bajo rendimiento de recursos existentes en sus procesos. Bajo esta difícil rea-lidad, en este artículo se propone una solución científica: Sacrificar financieramente la grasa o recursos innecesarios; mientras que el capital humano de las partes interesadas en superar la crisis da valor al diseño, ejecución y monitoreo de estrategias, y potencializan en el tiempo el recurso existente. Un equipo de expertos con aptitudes académicas, emocionales, mentales y sociales, estructura y fortalecen sistemas de alto rendimiento de recursos e inversiones con herramientas estadísticas y de análisis, trabajo colaborativo, transferencia de conocimiento y tecnologías desconcentradas de Internet. Estas herramientas permitirán hacer frente, con ali-neamiento de objetivos, al control integral de riesgos y su variabilidad en el tiempo, mientras se fortalece con salud, seguridad ocupacional, control riesgos y cultura organizacional la ca-lidad lean six-sigma de la investigación, plani-ficación, desarrollo e innovación. Estas elevan el rendimiento de la rentabilidad social y eco-nómica y, por consiguiente, de la productividad y competitividad que fortalecen la micro y ma-croeconomía de sus inversionistas y equipos de trabajo.
Room-temperature colossal magnetoresistance in terraced single-layer graphene
Creators: name: Hu, J. X.
name: Gou, J.
name: Yang, M.
name: Omar, G. J.
name: Tan, J. Y.
name: Zeng, S. W.
name: Liu, Y. P.
name: Han, K.
name: Lim, Z. S.
name: Huang, Z.
name: Wee, A. T. S.
name: Ariando, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Disorder-induced magnetoresistance (MR) effect is quadratic at low perpendicular magnetic fields and linear at high fields. This effect is technologically appealing, especially in the two-dimensional (2D) materials such as graphene, since it offers potential applications in magnetic sensors with nanoscale spatial resolution. However, it is a great challenge to realize a graphene magnetic sensor based on this effect because of the difficulty in controlling the spatial distribution of disorder and enhancing the MR sensitivity in the single-layer regime. Here, we report a room-temperature colossal MR of up to 5,000% at 9 T in terraced single-layer graphene. By laminating single-layer graphene on a terraced substrate, such as TiO2 terminated SrTiO3, we demonstrate a universal one order of magnitude enhancement in the MR compared to conventional single-layer graphene devices. Strikingly, a colossal MR of >1,000% was also achieved in the terraced graphene even at a high carrier density of ~1012 cm-2. Systematic studies of the MR of single-layer graphene on various oxide- and non-oxide-based terraced surfaces demonstrate that the terraced structure is the dominant factor driving the MR enhancement. Our results open a new route for tailoring the physical property of 2D materials by engineering the strain through a terraced substrate.
description: 64 pages; Main 31 pages, 4 figures; Supplementary 33 pages, 18 figures
From Cooper-pairs to resonating bipolarons
Creators: name: Ranninger, Julius
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: After a short review of the different physics in the weak and strong coupling regime, resulting in amplitude fluctuation controlled Cooper pair superconductivity and phase fluctuation controlled superfluidity of tightly bound local polaron pairs, we suggest a scenario for the cross-over regime between those two. It is based on the idea of resonating Bipolarons inside a Fermi sea of uncorrelated electrons, similar to the Feshbach resonance in Fermionic gases in optical traps. Due to the competition between amplitude and phase correlations such systems in the cross-over regime can exhibit a superconductor to insulator transition upon varying the strength of that resonance.
description: 21 pages, 8 figures
Development of Computational Image Processing Algorithms for Detecting Morphological Features of Melanoma
Creators: name: Chamani, Alireza
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2014
Subjects: cancer
detection
image processing
melanoma
morphological

description: This thesis research is focused on advancing image processing techniques and algorithms used for detecting skin melanoma. We have modified previous image processing approaches and developed computational algorithms for quantifying morphological features of a mole image. Applying the algorithms to 20 mole images downloaded from educational websites, we have identified three cut-off ratios to distinguish melanoma images from benign mole images. More specifically, the higher the boundary irregularity ratio, and/or the asymmetry ratio, and/or the color variation ratio, the high chance the mole is melanoma leading. The irregularity ratio cutoff is identified as 1.96, suggesting 96% more circumference length than that of a circle with the same area. One finds that the cut-off ratio for assessing asymmetry of the mole image is 0.109, representing the degree of asymmetry as approximately 11% to place a mole image into the melanoma group. Evaluation of the color variation of the moles leads to a cut-off ratio of the color variation as 0.334. Statistical analyses have been performed to determine the confidence of cut-off ratios, varying from 63% to 81%, for placing a mole image into its correct groups. The algorithms have also been implemented to assess changes of mole images over time observed by a dermatologist. Using a ?14% as the definition of changes, the algorithm identifies 9 of the 10 mole images as changed over time. Among the irregularity, asymmetry, color variation, and size ratios, 5 out of the 9 moles have shown changes in one ratio, 2 out the 9 moles have experience changes in two ratios, 1 mole has shown changes in three ratios, and only 1 mole shows changes in all four ratios. The computational results are consistent with the general observations that human eyes are sensitive to size changes and color variation changes, and may not be very good to distinguish changes in border irregularity and asymmetry. The developed algorithms can be helpful to assist a physician in evaluating subtle changes of mole images that may not be very sensitive to the eyes.
SEMANTICALLY RICH, POLICY BASED FRAMEWORK TO AUTOMATE LIFECYCLE OF CLOUD BASED SERVICES
Creators: name: Joshi, Karuna Pande
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2012
Subjects: Automated Service Negotiation
Cloud Broker
Cloud Computing
Cloud Services
Cloud SLA
Services Lifecycle

description: Managing virtualized services efficiently over the cloud is an open challenge.  Traditional models of software development are very time consuming and labor intensive for the cloud computing domain, where software (and other) services are acquired on demand. Virtualized services are often composed of pre-existing components that are assembled on an as-needed basis. We have developed a new framework to automate the acquisition, composition and consumption/monitoring of virtualized services delivered on the cloud.  We have divided the service lifecycle into five phases of requirements, discovery, negotiation, composition, and consumption and have developed ontologies to represent the concepts and relationships for each phase. These are represented in Semantic Web languages. We have developed a protocol to automate the negotiation process when acquiring virtualized services. This protocol allows complex relaxation of constraints being negotiated based on user defined policies. We have also developed detailed ontologies to define service level agreements for cloud services. To illustrate and validate how this framework can automate the acquisition of cloud services, we have built two applications from real world scenarios. The Smart cloud services application enables users to determine and procure the cloud storage service that matches most of their constraints and policies. We have also built a VCL broker application that allows users to automatically reserve the VCL Image that will best meet their requirements. We have developed a framework to measure and semi-automatically track quality of a virtualized service delivery system. The framework provides a mechanism to relate hard metrics typically measured at the backstage of the delivery process to quality related hard and soft metrics tracked at the front stage where the consumer interacts with the service. While this framework is general enough to be applied to any type of IT service, in this dissertation we have primarily concentrated on the Helpdesk service and include the performance rules we have created by mining Helpdesk data.
Algebro-Geometric Constraints on Solitons with Respect to Quasi-Periodic Backgrounds
Creators: name: Teschl, Gerald
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the algebraic conditions the scattering data of short-range perturbations of quasi-periodic finite-gap Jacobi operators have to satisfy. As our main result we provide the Poisson-Jensen-type formula for the transmission coefficient in terms of Abelian integrals on the underlying hyperelliptic Riemann surface and give an explicit condition for its single-valuedness. In addition, we establish trace formulas which relate the scattering data to the conserved quantities in this case.
description: 9 pages. Bull. London Math. Soc. (to appear)
PADMINI: A Peer-to-Peer Distributed Data Mining System for Astronomy Researchers
Creators: name: Mahule, Tushar Pradeep
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2010
Subjects: data mining
distributed
p2p

description: As the amount of data available at geographically distributed sources increases rapidly, the need for efficient distributed data mining is  ecoming increasingly important. Increasing computation powers (change this) at lower hardware costs and reliable communication mechanisms have also led to the proliferation of Peer-to-Peer networks. These factors have lead to the development of dedicated distributed solutions that can run on Peer-to-Peer networks. Many domains such as finance, astronomy, bioinformatics etc. face varied challenges where such solutions can prove instrumental. This thesis presents PADMINI-- a Peer-to-Peer Astronomy Data Mining system. Unlike centralized data mining systems, PADMINI is a Web based system powered by Google Sky and distributed data mining algorithms that run on a collection of computing nodes. PADMINI supports two disparate frameworks, namely Hadoop and Distributed Data Mining Toolkit. These frameworks enable PADMINI to support a wide range of data mining algorithms. This work presents solutions implemented on PADMINI for specific data mining problems like Outlier Detection and Classifier Learning. The PADMINI system can also be used to learn (classifiers) classification models from any source of data over the internet, without requiring any kind of support from the host servers. Experimental results to establish the correctness of the solutions and the scalable nature of the PADMINI system are also provided.
Grain alignment and disruption by radiative torques in dense molecular clouds and implication for polarization holes
Creators: name: Hoang, Thiem
name: Tram, Le Ngoc
name: Lee, Hyeseung
name: Diep, Pham Ngoc
name: Ngoc, Nguyen Bich
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dust polarization induced by aligned grains is widely used to study magnetic fields in various environments, including star-forming regions. However, the question of to what optical depth grain alignment still exists in a dense molecular cloud (MC) is unclear. In this paper, we aim to achieve analytical formulae for the minimum size of aligned grains ($a_{\rm align}$) and rotational disruption ($a_{\rm disr}$) by RAdiative Torques (RATs) as a function of the local physical parameters within dense MCs. We first find the analytical approximations for the radiation strength and the mean wavelength of the attenuated radiation field in a dense MC without and with embedded stars and then derive analytical formulae for $a_{\rm align}$ and $a_{\rm disr}$ as functions of the visual extinction $A_{V}$ and the gas density. We find that within a starless core of density $n_{\rm H}\sim 10^{5}\rm cm^{-3}$, grains of size $a<0.25μm$ can be aligned up to $A_{V}\sim 5$ by RATs, whereas micron-sized grains can still be aligned at $A_{V}\sim 50$. The increase in the alignment size with $A_{V}$ can explain the presence of polarization holes observed toward starless cores. For MCs with an embedded protostar, we find that the efficiency of both alignment and rotational disruption increases toward the protostar due to the increasing radiation strength. Such a disruption effect results in the decrease of the polarization degree with $A_{V}$ or emission intensity, which reproduces the popular polarization holes observed toward the location of protostars. Finally, we derive the formula for the maximum $A_{V}$ where grain alignment still exists in a starless core and discuss its potential for constraining grain growth.
description: 18 pages, 12 figures, submitted to ApJ
Static quark free energies at finite temperature with two flavors of improved Wilson quarks
Creators: name: Maezawa, Y.
name: Ejiri, S.
name: Hatsuda, T.
name: Ishii, N.
name: Ukita, N.
name: Aoki, S.
name: Kanaya, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Polyakov loop correlations at finite temperature in two-flavor QCD are studied in lattice simulations with the RG-improved gluon action and the clover-improved Wilson quark action. From the simulations on a $16^3 \times 4$ lattice, we extract the free energies, the effective running coupling $g_{\rm eff}(T)$ and the Debye screening mass $m_D(T)$ for various color channels of heavy quark--quark and quark--anti-quark pairs above the critical temperature. The free energies are well approximated by the screened Coulomb form with the appropriate Casimir factors. The magnitude and the temperature dependence of the Debye mass are compared to those of the next-to-leading order thermal perturbation theory and to a phenomenological formula given in terms of $g_{\rm eff}(T)$. Also we made a comparison between our results with the Wilson quark and those with the staggered quark previously reported.
description: 7 pages, 9 figures, talk given at Lattice 2006 (high temperature and density)
Agricultural Irrigation and Water Use
Creators: name: Bajwa, Rajinder S.
name: Crosswhite, William M.
name: Hosteller, John E.
name: Wright, Olivia W.
name: Bajwa, Rajinder S.
name: Crosswhite, William M.
name: Hosteller, John E.
name: Wright, Olivia W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Irrigation,
subject: irrigated farms
subject: land values
subject: land rent
subject: precipitation
subject: water use
subject: water supply
subject: irrigated crops
subject: irrigation systems

description: The 17 Western States, plus Arkansas, Florida, and Louisiana, account for 91 percent of all U.S. irrigated acreage, with the Western States alone contributing over 85 percent. This report integrates data on the distribution, characteristics, uses, and management of water resources from a wide variety of data sources. The report includes charts and tables on water use in irrigation; farm data comparing selected characteristics of irrigated and nonirrigated farms; and data on water application systems, sources of water, pump energy expenses by energy type, values of irrigated and nonirrigated land, and cash rents.
Cosmological constant caused by observer-induced boundary condition
Creators: name: Stenflo, Jan O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The evolution of the wave function in quantum mechanics is deterministic like that of classical waves. Only when we bring in observers the fundamentally different quantum reality emerges. Similarly the introduction of observers changes the nature of spacetime by causing a split between past and future, concepts that are not well defined in the observer-free world. The induced temporal boundary leads to a resonance condition for the oscillatory vacuum solutions of the metric in Euclidean time. It corresponds to an exponential de Sitter evolution in real time, which can be represented by a cosmological constant $Λ=2π^2/r_u^2$, where $r_u$ is the radius of the particle horizon at the epoch when the observer exists. For the present epoch we get a value of $Λ$ that agrees with the observed value within $2σ$ of the observational errors. This explanation resolves the cosmic coincidence problem. Our epoch in cosmic history does not herald the onset of an inflationary phase driven by some dark energy. We show that the observed accelerated expansion that is deduced from the redshifts is an "edge effect" due to the observer-induced boundary and not representative of the intrinsic evolution. The new theory satisfies the BBN (Big Bang nucleosynthesis) and CMB (cosmic microwave background) observational constraints equally well as the concordance model of standard cosmology. There is no link between the dark energy and dark matter problems. Previous conclusions that dark matter is mainly non-baryonic are not affected.
Hormaphis cornu bicycle genes characterization script
Creators: name: Aishwarya Korgaonkar
name: Han, Clair
name: Stern, David
Publisher: name: Janelia Research Campus
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 60408 Genomics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60808 Invertebrate Biology

description: Code used in analysis of Hormaphis cornu bicycle genes identification and characterization, associated with the publication "A novel family of secreted insect proteins linked to plant gall development" by Korgaonkar et al. (2021). This code generates figures 3A, 5A-E, 6A-D, S4A-H, and S5A-F.
Please contact Clair Han at hanc@janelia.hhmi.org with questions.
The Radius-Luminosity Relationship for Active Galactic Nuclei: The Effect of Host-Galaxy Starlight on Luminosity Measurements
Creators: name: Bentz, Misty C.
name: Peterson, Bradley M.
name: Pogge, Richard W.
name: Vestergaard, Marianne
name: Onken, Christopher A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have obtained high resolution images of the central regions of 14 reverberation-mapped active galactic nuclei (AGN) using the Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys High Resolution Camera to account for host-galaxy starlight contamination of measured AGN luminosities. We measure the host-galaxy starlight contribution to the continuum luminosity at 5100 A through the typical ground-based slit position and geometry used in the reverberation-mapping campaigns. We find that removing the starlight contribution results in a significant correction to the luminosity of each AGN, both for lower luminosity sources, as expected, but also for the higher luminosity sources such as the PG quasars. After accounting for the host galaxy starlight, we revisit the well-known broad-line region radius--luminosity relationship for nearby AGN. We find the power-law slope of the relationship for the H beta line to be 0.518 +/- 0.039, shallower than previously reported and consistent with the slope of 0.5 expected from the naive theoretical assumption that all AGN have, on average, the same ionizing spectrum and the same ionization parameter and gas density in the H beta line-emitting region.
description: 27 pages, 5 tables, 4 figures, accepted to ApJ; full resolution figures available at http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~bentz/astroph0602412.html
Translation and discussion of Text: Qa'wal (Our crop)
Creators: name: Carrillo Godínez, Silvia Lucrecia
name: Scott, Tessa
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: mam

description: This is a remote video interview held using Zoom.

In this session, the consultant translates the text of Qa'wal into Spanish and discusses the meaning of each line.

In this file bundle: 1 Zoom audio/video recording, 1 Zoom chat file
Accretion History of AGN III: Radiative Efficiency and AGN Contribution to Reionization
Creators: name: Ananna, Tonima Tasnim
name: Urry, C. Megan
name: Treister, Ezequiel
name: Hickox, Ryan C.
name: Shankar, Francesco
name: Ricci, Claudio
name: Cappelluti, Nico
name: Marchesi, Stefano
name: Turner, Tracey Jane
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The cosmic history of supermassive black hole (SMBH) growth is important for understanding galaxy evolution, reionization and the physics of accretion. Recent NuSTAR, Swift-BAT and \textit{Chandra} hard X-ray surveys have provided new constraints on the space density of heavily obscured Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). Using the new X-ray luminosity function derived from these data, we here estimate the accretion efficiency of SMBHs and their contribution to reionization. We calculate the total ionizing radiation from active galactic nuclei (AGN) as a function of redshift, based on the X radiation and distribution of obscuring column density, converted to UV wavelengths. Limiting the luminosity function to unobscured AGN only, our results agree with current UV luminosity functions of unobscured AGN. For realistic assumptions about the escape fraction, the contribution of all AGN to cosmic reionization is $\sim4$ times lower than the galaxy contribution (23% at $z\sim6$). Our results also offer an observationally constrained prescription that can be used in simulations or models of galaxy evolution. To estimate the average efficiency with which supermassive black holes convert mass to light, we compare the total radiated energy, converted from X-ray light using a bolometric correction, to the most recent local black hole mass density. The most likely value, $η\sim 0.3-0.34$, approaches the theoretical limit for a maximally rotating Kerr black hole, $η=0.42$, implying that on average growing supermassive black holes are spinning rapidly.
description: Accepted by ApJ, 13 pages, 5 figures
Overcoming depressed moods after an HIV+ diagnosis : a critical incident analysis
Creators: name: Alfonso, Victoria
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The experience of being diagnosed with HIV/AIDS is extremely stressful and often depressing. Presently there is a trend to study the psychological implications of HIV/AIDS. A majority of these investigations have consisted of quantitative studies that excluded people's "voice" from within. The present study attempts to bridge this gap. Flanagan's (1954) Critical Incident Analysis methodology was used in this study to investigate what facilitates the process of dealing with depressed moods after an HIV+ diagnosis. Resiliency was also analyzed. A total of 246 critical incidents were collected. Thirteen categories emerged from an inductive study of the incidents reported by the 11 co-researchers. The results indicate that the facilitative categories of personal strategies employed by the participants are the following: (a) physical exercise, (b) participation in activities, (c) commitment to life, (d) career/work, (e) alcohol/drugs, (f) connection with self, (g) looking for meaning, (h) helping others, (i) gaining understanding of the problem, (j) sharing the news, (k) learning from a role model, (I) spiritual connection, and (m) establishing social connection. A strong thematic similarity was found between the categories that emerged from this study and the self-reported resilient aspects of the co-researchers. The validity of the categories was confirmed by: independent rater, expert rater, co-researchers' crosschecking, exhaustiveness participation rate, and theoretical agreement. Resiliency emerged as a viable psychological construct in the analysis of the data. Counselling implications are discussed, and practical ways of applying a model of resiliency are suggested.
Three Dimensional Receiver Operating Characteristic Analysis in Predicting Trauma Patient Outcomes Using Vital Signs Signals
Creators: name: Hu, Fu Ming
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2013
Subjects: Blood Transfusion
Intensive Care Visualization Tra
Prediction
Receiver Operating Characteristic Analysis
Trauma Triage
Vital Signs

description: Innovative developments in the use of well -established analytic tools such as receiver operating characteristic (ROC) area under the curve (AUC) analysis can provide additional flexibility to support assessment and decision-making in the multidimensional and rapidly-changing information stream characteristic of physiologic systems. In this dissertation we derive a theory of a three-dimensional ROC methodology for clinical applications of vital signs signals in prediction of emergency blood transfusion upon arrival at an advanced trauma care center.  Such 3D ROC analysis provides useful and clinical-relevant physiological thresholds that can be demonstrated to be associated with actual trauma patient outcomes. We have further extended the 3D ROC methodology to address the situation where multiple vital signs thresholds are more representative of the true physiologic state of the patient and more clearly associated with outcomes. In order to substantiate our developed 3D ROC methodology three different clinical applications are investigated to demonstrate its power, flexibility and robustness. Most importantly, the experimental results are clearly and immediately clinically relevant. Specifically, we also develop a real-time 3D ROC methodology visual display as clinical evaluation tool software to be a part of our shock trauma resuscitation unit and the intensive care monitoring viewers current in place.  Finally, we also further develop a 3DROC analysis tool set which can be used by other researchers to address similar problem areas for other applications
An x-ray probe of laser-aligned molecules
Creators: name: Peterson, Emily R.
name: Buth, Christian
name: Arms, Dohn A.
name: Dunford, Robert W.
name: Kanter, Elliot P.
name: Krässig, Bertold
name: Landahl, Eric C.
name: Pratt, Stephen T.
name: Santra, Robin
name: Southworth, Stephen H.
name: Young, Linda
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate a hard x-ray probe of laser-aligned small molecules. To align small molecules with optical lasers, high intensities at nonresonant wavelengths are necessary. We use 95 ps pulses focused to 40 mum from an 800 nm Ti:sapphire laser at a peak intensity of 10^12 W/cm^2 to create an ensemble of aligned bromotrifluoromethane (CF3Br) molecules. Linearly polarized, 120 ps x-ray pulses, focused to 10 mum, tuned to the Br 1s --> sigma* pre-edge resonance at 13.476 keV, probe the ensemble of laser-aligned molecules. The demonstrated methodology has a variety of applications and can enable ultrafast imaging of laser-controlled molecular motions with Angstrom-level resolution.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, RevTeX4, corrected typos
Iso9000 Based Advanced Quality Approach for Continuous Improvement of Manufacturing Processes
Creators: name: Deeb, Salah
name: Iung, Benoît
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The continuous improvement in TQM is considered as the core value by which organisation could maintain a competitive edge. Several techniques and tools are known to support this core value but most of the time these techniques are informal and without modelling the interdependence between the core value and tools. Thus, technique formalisation is one of TQM challenges for increasing efficiency of quality process implementation. In that way, the paper proposes and experiments an advanced quality modelling approach based on meta-modelling the "process approach" as advocated by the standard ISO9000:2000. This meta-model allows formalising the interdependence between technique, tools and core value
Knowledge Graphs for Multilingual Language Translation and Generation
Creators: name: Moussallem, Diego
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The Natural Language Processing (NLP) community has recently seen outstanding progress, catalysed by the release of different Neural Network (NN) architectures. Neural-based approaches have proven effective by significantly increasing the output quality of a large number of automated solutions for NLP tasks (Belinkov and Glass, 2019). Despite these notable advancements, dealing with entities still poses a difficult challenge as they are rarely seen in training data. Entities can be classified into two groups, i.e., proper nouns and common nouns. Proper nouns are also known as Named Entities (NE) and correspond to the name of people, organizations, or locations, e.g., John, WHO, or Canada. Common nouns describe classes of objects, e.g., spoon or cancer. Both types of entities can be found in a Knowledge Graph (KG). Recent work has successfully exploited the contribution of KGs in NLP tasks, such as Natural Language Inference (NLI) (KM et al.,2018) and Question Answering (QA) (Sorokin and Gurevych, 2018). Only a few works had exploited the benefits of KGs in Neural Machine Translation (NMT) when the work presented herein began. Additionally, few works had studied the contribution of KGs to Natural Language Generation (NLG) tasks. Moreover, the multilinguality also remained an open research area in these respective tasks (Young et al., 2018). In this thesis, we focus on the use of KGs for machine translation and the generation of texts to deal with the problems caused by entities and consequently enhance the quality of automatically generated texts.
Indoor and Outdoor in Situ High-Resolution Gamma Radiation Measurements in Urban Areas of Cyprus
Creators: name: Svoukis, E.
name: Tsertos, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In situ, high-resolution, gamma-ray spectrometry of a total number of 70 outdoor and 20 indoor representative measurements were performed in preselected, common locations of the main urban areas of Cyprus. Specific activities and gamma absorbed dose rates in air due to the naturally occurring radionuclides of Th-232 and U-238 series, and K-40 are determined and discussed. Effective dose rate to the Cyprus population due to terrestrial gamma radiation is derived directly from this work. The results obtained outdoors match very well with those derived previously by high-resolution gamma spectrometry of soil samples, which were collected from the main island bedrock surface. This implies that the construction and building materials in urban areas do not affect the external gamma dose rate; thus they are mostly of local origin. Finally, the indoor/outdoor gamma dose ratio was found to be 1.4 +- 0.5.
description: 23 pages including 4 tables and 3 figures; Accepted by Radiation Protection Dosimetry
Anomalous Flux Pinning in ?-Pyrochlore Oxide Superconductor KOs2O6
Creators: name: Hiroi, Zenji
name: Yonezawa, Shigeki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The superconducting transition of the ?-pyrochlore oxide KOs2O6 with Tc = 9.60 K is studied by resistivity measurements under various magnetic fields using a high-quality single crystal. The reentrant behavior of superconductivity is observed near Tc in low magnetic fields below 2 T. The recovered resistance probably due to flux flow exhibits an anomalous angle dependence, indicating that flux pinning is enhanced in magnetic fields along certain crystallographic directions such as [110], [001] and [112]. It is suggested that there is an intrinsic pinning mechanism coming from the specific crystal structure of the ?-pyrochlore oxide.
description: 15 pages, 5 figures, J. Phys. Soc. Jpn., in press
The Haar Wavelet Motif Relating Decision Trees, Neural Networks, and Rule-Exception Sets
Creators: name: Mulvaney, Rory
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2013
Subjects: Decision tree rebalancing
Fault tolerance
Haar wavelet
multiclass
multilayer perceptron
rule generation

description: This work presents a three-fold adaptation of the Haar Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT), demonstrating its modification to efficiently transform a multiclass- (rather than numerical-) valued function over a multidimensional (rather than low dimensional) domain, or transform a multiclass-valued decision tree into another useful representation.  It is proven that this multidimensional, multiclass DWT uses dynamic programming to minimize (within its framework) the number of nontrivial wavelet coefficients needed to summarize a training set or decision tree. It is a spatially-localized algorithm that takes linear time in the number of training samples, after a sort. Convergence of the DWT to benchmark training sets seems to degrade with rising dimension in this test of high dimensional wavelets, which have been seen as difficult to implement. This multiclass multidimensional DWT has tightly coupled applications from learning dyadic decision trees directly from training data, rebalancing or converting pre-existing decision trees to fixed depth boolean or threshold neural networks (in effect parallelizing the evaluation of the trees), or learning rule-exception sets represented as a new form of tree called an E-tree, which could greatly help interpretation/visualization of a dataset.