cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A Case Study Analysis of the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet’s Design/Build Pilot Projects
Creators: name: Goodrum, Paul M.
name: Uddin, Mohammad Moin
name: Faulkenberg, Bradley J.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: The current economic climate has forced transportation agencies to evaluate opportunities to save money. One possible opportunity lies in Design/Build (DB) delivery. In 2006, with the approval of the Kentucky General Assembly, The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet selected ten projects to be developed through the Design/Build method. DB delivery offers many attainable advantages, the most notable being expedited delivery. The research described herein presents a case study of these DB pilot projects in order to capture lessons learned on the use of the DB delivery method on future projects. In order to determine which projects are suitable for DB delivery, a scorecard was developed based upon factors observed over the course of the DB pilot projects. Another important aspect of the DB pilot projects was their cost, it was believed their costs were much higher than a comparable design/bid/build (DBB) projects. However, after a thorough cost analysis, it was determined that the DB projects cost the Cabinet only an estimated three percent more than comparable DBB projects. The DB pilot projects have had mixed results. Several recommendations are provided that will assist agencies with DB project selection and successful management of DB projects.
Sparse component separation for accurate CMB map estimation
Creators: name: Bobin, J.
name: Starck, J. -L.
name: Sureau, F.
name: Basak, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The Cosmological Microwave Background (CMB) is of premier importance for the cosmologists to study the birth of our universe. Unfortunately, most CMB experiments such as COBE, WMAP or Planck do not provide a direct measure of the cosmological signal; CMB is mixed up with galactic foregrounds and point sources. For the sake of scientific exploitation, measuring the CMB requires extracting several different astrophysical components (CMB, Sunyaev-Zel'dovich clusters, galactic dust) form multi-wavelength observations. Mathematically speaking, the problem of disentangling the CMB map from the galactic foregrounds amounts to a component or source separation problem. In the field of CMB studies, a very large range of source separation methods have been applied which all differ from each other in the way they model the data and the criteria they rely on to separate components. Two main difficulties are i) the instrument's beam varies across frequencies and ii) the emission laws of most astrophysical components vary across pixels. This paper aims at introducing a very accurate modeling of CMB data, based on sparsity, accounting for beams variability across frequencies as well as spatial variations of the components' spectral characteristics. Based on this new sparse modeling of the data, a sparsity-based component separation method coined Local-Generalized Morphological Component Analysis (L-GMCA) is described. Extensive numerical experiments have been carried out with simulated Planck data. These experiments show the high efficiency of the proposed component separation methods to estimate a clean CMB map with a very low foreground contamination, which makes L-GMCA of prime interest for CMB studies.
description: submitted to A&A
Serious injury determinations for small cetaceans and pinnipeds caught in commercial fisheries off the Northeast U.S. coast, 2007 - 2011.
Creators: name: Waring, Gordon T.
name: Wenzel, Frederick W.
name: Josephson, Elizabeth
name: Lyssikatos, Marjorie
Publisher: name: U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service, Northeast Fisheries Science Center
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Marine mammals--Wounds and injuries--Northeastern States--Observations.

description: The Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) requires the National Marine Fisheries Service NMFS to estimate annual levels of human-caused mortality and serious injury to marine mammal stocks (section 117) and to categorize commercial fisheries based on their level of incidental mortality and serious injury of marine mammals (section 118). Serious injury (SI) determinations were addressed at NMFS - convened workshops in 1997 and 2007 (Angliss and DeMaster 1998; Andersen et al. 2008), and in January 2012 the agency published new national guidelines for distinguishing serious from nonserious injuries of marine mammals (http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/pdfs/serious_injury_procedure.pdf ). A major goal of the new guidelines was to establish national consistency and transparency in SI determinations. To implement the new guidelines, Science Center SI determination staff (SID) were required to review the 5-year (2007 - 2011) observer (OBS) and at sea monitor (ASM) records on all incidentally caught marine mammals that were released alive. Observer comments on the condition of released animals were compared by taxonomic group (e.g., large whales, small cetaceans, and pinnipeds) to specific injury categories described in the procedure manual. Based on these reviews, each animal was assigned an injury determination. Once completed, the SI determination table was independently reviewed by another center's SID (e.g., Northeast Fisheries Science Center [NEFSC] determinations were sent to Southwest Fisheries Science Center [SWFSC]), and differences are subsequently revisited. The revised determinations were subsequently reviewed by regional Scientific Review Groups (SRG) at their annual meeting, and final determinations are published.
Anomalous Electron Transport in Field-Effect Transistors with Titanium Ditelluride Semimetal Thin-Film Channels
Creators: name: Khan, J.
name: Nolen, C. M.
name: Teweldebrhan, D.
name: Wickramaratne, D.
name: Lake, R. K.
name: Balandin, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on "graphene-like" mechanical exfoliation of thin films of titanium ditelluride and investigation of their electronic properties. The exfoliated crystalline TiTe2 films were used as the channel layers in the back-gated field-effect transistors fabricated with Ti/Al/Au metal contacts on SiO2/Si substrates. The room-temperature current-voltage characteristics revealed strongly non-linear behavior with signatures of the source-drain threshold voltage similar to those observed in the charge-density-wave devices. The drain-current showed an unusual non-monotonic dependence on the gate bias characterized by the presence of multiple peaks. The obtained results can be potentially used for implementation of the non-Boolean logic gates.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures
Kinetic theory of two-dimensional point vortices with collective effects
Creators: name: Chavanis, Pierre-Henri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a kinetic theory of point vortices in two-dimensional hydrodynamics taking collective effects into account. We first recall the approach of Dubin & O'Neil [Phys. Rev. Lett. 60, 1286 (1988)] that leads to a Lenard-Balescu-type kinetic equation for axisymmetric flows. When collective effects are neglected, it reduces to the Landau-type kinetic equation obtained independently in our previous papers [P.H. Chavanis, Phys. Rev. E 64, 026309 (2001); Physica A 387, 1123 (2008)]. We also consider the relaxation of a test vortex in a "sea" (bath) of field vortices. Its stochastic motion is described in terms of a Fokker-Planck equation. We determine the diffusion coefficient and the drift term by explicitly calculating the first and second order moments of the radial displacement of the test vortex from its equations of motion, taking collective effects into account. This generalizes the expressions obtained in our previous works. We discuss the scaling with N of the relaxation time for the system as a whole and for a test vortex in a bath.
A Search for Hydroxylamine (NH2OH) toward Select Astronomical Sources
Creators: name: Pulliam, Robin L.
name: McGuire, Brett A.
name: Remijan, Anthony J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Observations of 14 rotational transitions of hydroxylamine (NH2OH) using the NRAO 12 m Telescope on Kitt Peak are reported towards IRC+10216, Orion KL, Orion S, Sgr B2(N), Sgr B2(OH), W3IRS5, and W51M. Although recent models suggest the presence of NH2OH in high abundance, these observations resulted in non-detection. Upper limits are calculated to be as much as six orders of magnitude lower than predicted by models. Possible explanations for the lower than expected abundance are explored.
description: 18 pages, 3 figures, 3 tables
2011 Safety Belt Usage Survey in Kentucky
Creators: name: Green, Eric R.
name: Agent, Kenneth R.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: The objective of this study was to establish 2011 safety belt and child safety seat usage rates in Kentucky . The 2011 survey continues to document the results after enactment of the original “secondary enforcement” statewide mandatory safety belt law in 1994 and the subsequent change to “primary enforcement” which was enacted in 2 006. Data were collected at 160 randomly selected sites in 18 counties across Kentucky. Data from the individual sites were combined into a statewide percentage considering roadway functional classification, county, and vehicle miles traveled.  The data show that the usage rate in 2011 (82.2 percent) showed an increase of about two percent from that in 2010 (80.3 percent) and 2009 (79.7 percent) and an increase of several percentage points compared to 2008 (73.3 percent). The usage rate had increased from 67 percent in 2006 to 72 percent in 2007 after the enactment of “primary enforcement ” legislation. The rate had increased from 42 percent in 1993 to 58 percent in 1994 after enactment of the original mandatory safety belt law.  The 2011 statewide usage rate for children under the age of four was determined to be 97 percent. This continues the very high rate for this age category.  Usage rates varied as a function of the highway functional classification. The highest rate of 88.0 percent was on interstates and parkways, with the lowest rate of 74.4 percent on collector roads. The rate by county varied from a high of 87.2 percent in Fayette County to a low of 65.1 in Pike County. The usage rate by vehicle type varied from a high of 86.8 percent for vans to a low of 71.7 percent for pickup trucks.  The statewide usage rate for motorcycle helmets was 5 2 percent. This was similar to the 50 percent found in 2010 and was a reduction from 64 percent in 2009 and 58 percent in 2008.  Observations showed that about 8.6 percent of the drivers were either talking on their cell phone or keying on their phone.
Construction Training for the Current and Next Generation of Technicians
Creators: name: Goodrum, Paul M.
name: Zhai, Dong
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: Technicians are a vital component to the success of any roadway projects. Unfortunately, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) is experiencing significant shortages of technicians among all aspects of construction and maintenance. Training and developing the adequate numbers of qualified technicians is a substantial endeavor that requires a comprehensive examination of the adequacy of current training program versus the anticipated skill needs of technicians on future projects. Two questionnaires were developed to identify this gap. One is to investigate the skills and trainings that the Cabinet’s technicians possesses and received, and the second is to investigate the skills and/or knowledge which section engineers believe are required among their technicians. Through the analysis of the two surveys, this research found current training programs in Kentucky could cover most of the necessary knowledge and skills for transportation technicians, although more wide cooperation and reciprocity with outside training agencies should be built. However, current training programs are not sufficient enough to satisfy the future technician training needs, especially in the area of grading, structure, soil and maintenance and environment. The research also found technician’s most favorite training methods are on-the-job and classroom hands-on, but on-the-job training has not become one of the major sources where the Cabinet’s technicians received their training. Inability to help promotion and increase salary, schedule conflict and certificate’s short validness are the major barriers which prevented technician’s training participation.
Evaluation of Long-Term Pavement Marking Performance
Creators: name: Green, Eric R.
name: Agent, Kenneth R.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: The objective of the investigation was to evaluate the useful life of pavement markings. The Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) provides general guidelines for the application and installation of pavement markings. However, performance requirements for various types of pavement markings are not included. Retroreflectivity data were collected throughout Kentucky on various longitudinal pavement markings using mobile and manual techniques. Data were collected on one-year, two-year and three-year-old lines. The retroreflectivity levels were analyzed and the several recommendations were made. Minimum levels of retroreflectivity should be set for determining what roads to restripe annually. These values should be lower than the passing/bonus thresholds used in the Quality Control/Quality Assurance (QA/QC) program. It is recommended that yellow lines should be above 100 mcd/m2/lux and white lines should be above 150 mcd/m2/lux. Retroreflectivity measurements should be collected and used to determine which roads should be painted each year. The current Maintenance Rating Program (MRP) can be used to facilitate this process. An inventory of striped roads should be maintained to allow a determination of when specific roadway sections were last restriped.
Observation of out-of-plane vibrations in few-layer graphene
Creators: name: Lui, Chun Hung
name: Malard, Leandro M.
name: Kim, SukHyun
name: Lantz, Gabriel
name: Laverge, François E.
name: Saito, Riichiro
name: Heinz, Tony F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the observation of layer breathing mode (LBM) vibrations in few-layer graphene (FLG) samples of thickness from 2 to 6 layers, exhibiting both Bernal (AB) and rhombohedral (ABC) stacking order. The LBM vibrations are identified using a Raman combination band lying around 1720 cm-1. From double resonance theory, we identify the feature as the LOZO' combination mode of the out-of-plane LBM (ZO') and the in-plane longitudinal optical mode (LO). The LOZO' Raman band is found to exhibit multiple peaks, with a unique line shape for each layer thickness and stacking order. These complex line shapes of the LOZO'-mode arise both from the material-dependent selection of different phonons in the double-resonance Raman process and from the detailed structure of the different branches of LBM in FLG.
description: 17 pages, 7 figures, supplemental material included
Northeast Fisheries Science Center publications, reports, and abstracts for calendar year 2013.
Creators: name: Garner, Laura
name: O'Brien, Anne Marie
Publisher: name: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service, Northeast Fisheries Science Center
Year: 2014
Subjects: Northeast Fisheries Science Center (U.S.)--Bibliography.

description: The following bibliography consists of three sections: (1) anonymously peer-reviewed publications ('publications'); (2) transparently peer-reviewed and non-peer reviewed publications ('reports'); and (3) abstracts for oral presentations and poster displays. The bibliography covers works with a 2013 publication or presentation date, prepared by Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC) employees. (Publications appearing 'online first' in 2013 but with a 2014 publication date are not included in this list.) Bibliographies of publications, reports, and abstracts for earlier years are available online at: http://nefsc.noaa.gov/publications/lists/.
Trust in AI advice over time: how the timing of an error influences trust in AI.
Creators: name: Kahr, Patricia
name: Rooks, Gerrit
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Physical Sciences and Mathematics
subject: Science and Technology Studies
subject: Computer Sciences
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Other Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
subject: human-AI interaction
subject: trust in AI

description: Despite the large body and advancements of research in the context of trust in Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems, there is still a lack of knowledge on how human trust is built in human-AI interactions or what factors influence it. For many (future) applications, there is a real need to find ways to ensure a well-calibrated trust relationship as trust often is either lacking (technophobia) or overly granted (blind trust). Trust is a complex and fragile concept, which is assumed to change over time in human-AI-interactions (HAII(: trust might be unstable at the beginning of an AI interaction but stabilized after users had time to familiarize themselves with the workings of an AI. Trust, however, is lost when errors occur - especially when a usually high-performing AI system established the first trust with its user. Research already found that trust breaches in the early stage of an interaction affect (long-term) trust more severe than trust breaches in later stages - analogue to the concept of loss aversion. Based on those studies, our first research question is: How is trust in AI advice affected by different timings of an error? In addition to our main research question, we assume that AI advice errors have a different outcome depending on the perception of the AI: we argue that the perception of an AI system having some kind of agency is moderating user trust. Therefore, our second research question is: To what extent is perceived agency in an AI system affecting trust (over time), especially in the context of errors at different moments in time? We want to gain answers to these two questions by conducting an experiment that applies legal decision-making where individuals are asked to estimate the jail time of several criminal law cases with the support of an AI system. In the experiment, participants will receive jail time recommendations with high accuracy, however, in two of our conditions, the AI advice will have one obvious recommendation failure - either in the first or the second half of the task sequence.
On the supercritically diffusive magneto-geostrophic equations
Creators: name: Friedlander, Susan
name: Rusin, Walter
name: Vicol, Vlad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We address the well-posedness theory for the magento-geostrophic equation, namely an active scalar equation in which the divergence-free drift velocity is one derivative more singular than the active scalar. In the presence of supercritical fractional diffusion given by (-Δ)^γ, where 01/2 the equations are locally well-posed, while for γ<1/2 they are ill-posed, in the sense that there is no Lipschitz solution map. The main reason for the striking loss of regularity when γgoes below 1/2 is that the constitutive law used to obtain the velocity from the active scalar is given by an unbounded Fourier multiplier which is both even and anisotropic. Lastly, we note that the anisotropy of the constitutive law for the velocity may be explored in order to obtain an improvement in the regularity of the solutions when the initial data and the force have thin Fourier support, i.e. they are supported on a plane in frequency space. In particular, for such well-prepared data one may prove the local existence and uniqueness of solutions for all values of γ\in (0,1).
description: 24 pages
LHC signatures of vector boson emission from brane to bulk
Creators: name: Kirpichnikov, D. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the framework of the RSII-n model with n compact and one infinite extra dimensions, we study the production of Z-bosons and photons, which escape into the bulk, in association with a jet in pp collisions at the LHC energies. This would show up as the process pp -> jet+bulk. We calculate the distributions in the jet transverse momentum and rapidity and compare them with the Standard Model background pp->jet +ν\barν.We find that the models with n>3 can be probed at the collision energy 14 TeV, while searches at 7 TeV are sensitive to models with n>5 only.
Plutzar, Friedrich. Die Ornamentik der Runensteine
Creators: name: Jacob-Friesen, Karl Hermann
Publisher: name: Nachrichten aus Niedersachsens Urgeschichte
Year: 2020

description: Rezension zu: Plutzar, Friedrich. Die Ornamentik der Runensteine. Kungl. vitterhets historie och antikvitets akademiens handlingar I, 6. 8°. 105 S. 23 Abb. Stockholm 1924
description: Nachrichten aus Niedersachsens Urgeschichte, Bd. 2 (1928): Nachrichten aus Niedersachsens Urgeschichte
Implementation of Remote Sensing Technology on the I-64 Bridge over US60
Creators: name: Harik, Issam E.
name: Choo, Ching Chiaw
name: Peiris, Abheetha
name: Eaton, Dan
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: Remote sensing devices have been implemented on the I-64 Bridges over US60 in Franklin County, KY. One of the girders in the westbound bridge has been previously repaired due to unexpected fatigue cracking. The exterior girder in the eastbound bridge has shown signs of impacts due to the traversing trucks on US60. Sensing and recording devices such as strain and temperature gauges, infrared sensors, ultrasonic height detectors, and an accelerometer have been installed. Specifically, eleven strain gauges are used on the repaired girder, impacted girders, and girders adjacent to them. Two sets of infrared sensors, ultrasonic detectors, and video cameras are placed to capture the impacting truck(s). Overall structural responses will be studied through data collected from the strain and temperature gauges, and accelerometer.  Data are stored on-site, but the investigator has the flexibility of transmitting or viewing the data, live or stored, via an internet connection.
Planck's Other Quanta: Corpuscular Electrodiffusion
Creators: name: Bass, L.
name: Bracken, A. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: When Bäcklund transformations are applied repeatedly to any solution of the nonlinear equations describing electrodiffusion through a liquid junction separating two infinite well-stirred layers, they give rise to quantized ionic fluxes across the junction. A particular exact solution is shown to imply that these fluxes consist of quanta of electric charge.
description: 7 pages
Kentucky Bridges with High-Strength Quenched And Tempered Steel
Creators: name: Hopwood, Theodore
name: Fairchild, Jared
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) has several bridges employing high-strength quenched and tempered (QT) steels. In the past several decades, weld and corrosion cracking problems have occurred with QT steel in three KYTC bridges. This material has typically been employed on large bridges in fracture-critical members which increases the concern about these steels. This study was performed to review the KYTC steel bridge inventory and identify bridges/structural member containing QT steels. The list consisted of any KYTC maintained bridge with an individual span greater than 150 feet. KTC used this list to identify each bridge and members containing QT steel. This was done to enable KYTC inspectors to focus on those members when performing annual fracture-critical inspections. In addition to QT steels, another type of steel, ASTM A441 (a high-strength low alloy steel) has proved problematic on bridges in other states. The need exists to identify and characterize Kentucky bridges containing those steels so they can be subjected to greater attention in future inspections.
Evaluation of the SAFE Patrol Program in Kentucky
Creators: name: Li, Pengfei
name: Walton, Jennifer R.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: Members within the SAFE Patrol program have expressed concern that there is a lack of a clear understanding of the value or benefits of the SAFE Patrol program, both among various officials and the general public. The basis of this project is to explain the services provided by the program, and determine the value and benefit of those services. This evaluation report also serves to identify areas of improvement for the program. The result of investigation shows that the other stakeholders are basically satisfied with the SAFE Patrol service whereas some issues should also be addressed to improve the service level.
On the mod $p^7$ determination of ${2p-1\choose p-1}$
Creators: name: Mestrovic, Romeo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 11B75, Secondary 11A07, 11B65, 11B68, 05A10

description: In this paper we prove that for any prime $p\ge 11$ holds $$ {2p-1\choose p-1}\equiv 1 -2p \sum_{k=1}^{p-1}\frac{1}{k} +4p^2\sum_{1\le i
title: Evaluation of Pilot Project
title: Emergency Traffic Control for Responders
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: McCormack, Sarah M.
name: Walton, Jennifer R.
name: Agent, Kenneth R.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: Traffic control is an essential component of incident response in order to move road users safely and expeditiously past or around a traffic incident, and to reduce the likelihood of secondary crashes. Emergency responders, with the exception of law enforcement, are provided limited or no training in traffic control, but by nature of their job often have to perform such duties. There is a need to provide basic knowledge and equipment to on-scene responders in order to reduce traffic delays, secondary crashes, and injuries to those involved in response activities. This report summarizes the results of a pilot project where local fire departments were provided with emergency traffic control equipment and training. The objective was to determine if the equipment would be sufficiently utilized and to summarize the benefits of the use of the equipment by responders.
Assessing reproducibility in chemosensory research
Creators: name: Zakrzewska, Marta
name: Olofsson, Jonas
name: Liuzza, Marco Tullio
name: Dreber, Anna
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: chemosensation
subject: olfaction
subject: reproducibility

description: In the last decade, reproducibility has emerged as a much discussed topic in psychology and other research fields. Chemosensory research has not been included in major reproducibility initiatives. The state of the field in terms of key reproducibility issues, has not been assessed. This preregistration outlines a study where published articles in the journal Chemical Senses are assessed based on variables associated with reproducibility. The results will provide information related to the reproducibility of chemosensory research.
Chain transitive sets for smooth strongly monotone dynamical systems
Creators: name: Hirsch, Morris W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37C65, 34C12

description: Let K denote a compact invariant set for a strongly monotone semiflow in an ordered Banach space E, satisfying standard smoothness and compactness assumptions. Suppose the semiflow restricted to K is chain transitive. The main result is that either K is unordered, or else K is contained in totally ordered, compact arc of stationary points; and the latter cannot occur if the semiflow is real analytic and dissipative. As an application, entropy is 0 when E = R^3 . Analogous results are proved for maps. The main tools are results of Mierczynski [27 ] and Terescak [37 ]
description: Published in Dynamics of Continuous, Discrete and Impulsive Systems, Vol. 5, 1999, 529-543
Automated Chemical Stabilizing of Leaded Paint Residue from Bridge Maintenance Painting Operations
Creators: name: Meade, Bobby W.
name: Hopwood, Theodore
name: Palle, Sudhir
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: This study addressed the use of automated equipment to dose and mix lead stabilizing compounds to allow leaded paint residue/debris to be disposed at in-state contained landfills. The stabilizing would be conducted in situ at bridges being subjected to maintenance painting operations involving total coating removal and replacement. Many Kentucky bridges have existing painting that contains lead compounds at levels which may constitute hazardous wastes upon removal. The KYTC practice of recycling lead containing residue is working well at this time but the issue of a single recycler available continues to place KYTC in a position of returning to hazardous waste disposal should the recycling option be removed. Limited field sampling and testing of removed paint residue indicates high total lead content but, typically below the 5 mg/L, TCLP action level. A previous KTC report indicated that TCLP test results of paint removal residue will often be less than 5 mg/L, however some samples will exceed the hazardous waste threshold. KYTC should pursue the chemical stabilization of paint removal residue to provide an additional option to hazardous waste handling and disposal.
Is Executive Function a Protective Factor for Academic Achievement in the Context of Early Homelessness?
Creators: name: Distefano, Rebecca
name: Palmer, Alyssa
name: Francis, Kathleen
name: Kalstabakken, Amanda
name: Masten, Ann
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Developmental Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: academic achievement
subject: early childhood
subject: executive function
subject: homelessness
subject: resilience

description: Previous research on executive function (EF) as a protective factor has been limited by a focus on uniformly low- or high-risk (e.g., homelessness) contexts. Differentiating the role of EF as a main effect (i.e., promotive factor) from an interaction effect (i.e., protective factor) requires variation on the risk indicator (Brumley & Jaffee, 2016). The present study examines whether EF skills buffer the impact of early homelessness on later academic achievement using a representative sample of children who participated in routine early childhood screening in a diverse urban population, including a high proportion of children at risk for academic difficulties for reasons other than homelessness, such as poverty or racial-ethnic discrimination.
title: Photonic gas sensors exploiting directly the optical properties of hybrid carbon nanotube localized surface plasmon structures
Creators: name: Allsop, Thomas
name: Arif, Raz
name: Neal, Ron
name: Kundrát, Vojtech
name: Culverhouse, Phil
Publisher: name: Aston University
Year: 2015

description: This is the Data presented in the paper published in Light: Science and Applications
Embeddings for Schwarzschild metric: classification and new results
Creators: name: Paston, S. A.
name: Sheykin, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We suggest a method to search the embeddings of Riemannian spaces with a high enough symmetry in a flat ambient space. It is based on a procedure of construction surfaces with a given symmetry. The method is used to classify the embeddings of the Schwarzschild metric which have the symmetry of this solution, and all such embeddings in a six-dimensional ambient space (i.e. a space with a minimal possible dimension) are constructed. Four of the six possible embeddings are already known, while the two others are new. One of the new embeddings is asymptotically flat, while the other embeddings in a six-dimensional ambient space do not have this property. The asymptotically flat embedding can be of use in the analysis of the many-body problem, as well as for the development of gravity description as a theory of a surface in a flat ambient space.
description: LaTeX, 19 pages
Herrschaft und Konsens in der ›Lex Baiuvariorum‹ und den ›Decreta Tassilonis‹
Creators: name: Siems, Harald
Publisher: name: Vorträge und Forschungen
Year: 2020

description: Vorträge und Forschungen, Bd. 82 (2017): Vorträge und Forschungen: Recht und Konsens im frühen Mittelalter
Exponential Time Complexity of the Permanent and the Tutte Polynomial
Creators: name: Dell, Holger
name: Husfeldt, Thore
name: Marx, Dániel
name: Taslaman, Nina
name: Wáhlen, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: F.2.1; G.2.1

description: We show conditional lower bounds for well-studied #P-hard problems: (a) The number of satisfying assignments of a 2-CNF formula with n variables cannot be counted in time exp(o(n)), and the same is true for computing the number of all independent sets in an n-vertex graph. (b) The permanent of an n x n matrix with entries 0 and 1 cannot be computed in time exp(o(n)). (c) The Tutte polynomial of an n-vertex multigraph cannot be computed in time exp(o(n)) at most evaluation points (x,y) in the case of multigraphs, and it cannot be computed in time exp(o(n/polylog n)) in the case of simple graphs. Our lower bounds are relative to (variants of) the Exponential Time Hypothesis (ETH), which says that the satisfiability of n-variable 3-CNF formulas cannot be decided in time exp(o(n)). We relax this hypothesis by introducing its counting version #ETH, namely that the satisfying assignments cannot be counted in time exp(o(n)). In order to use #ETH for our lower bounds, we transfer the sparsification lemma for d-CNF formulas to the counting setting.
Fretting-Korrosion modularer Hüftendoprothesen
Creators: name: Bünte, Dennis
Publisher: name: TUHH Universitätsbibliothek
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Konusverbindung
subject: Verschleißanalyse
subject: Versagensmechanismus
subject: Reibkorrosion
classificationCode: 610
subject: Medizin

description: Fretting-Korrosion in modularen Hüftendoprothesen generiert Verschleißprodukte, die ein frühzeitiges Versagen der Prothesen auslösen können. Ziel der Arbeit war die Identifikation von Designmerkmalen, die zur Verschleißanfälligkeit von Konusverbindungen führen. Die Arbeit basiert auf Analysen von Explanteten runder und flacher Konusdesigns einer metallischen Werkstoff-Paarung (CoCr-TMZF). Anhand individueller Konusgeometrien werden Verklemmeigenschaften bestimmt, aus denen die Kontaktsituation der Konusverbindung in-vivo abgeschätzt wird. Anhand dieser mechanischen Perspektive konnte die Anordnung lokaler Verschleißphänomene an der Konusoberfläche erklärt werden.
description: Early failure of total hip replacements can be caused by the release of wear products from modular junctions due to fretting-corrosion. The aim was to identify design factors that make the analyzed tapers susceptible to wear and corrosion. A quantitative analysis of wear from circular and flat taper designs for a mixed metal coupling (CoCr-TMZF) was performed. Based on the reconstruction of explanted taper geometries, individual engagement properties are determined, providing an estimate of the contact situation at the taper interface in-vivo. This mechanical approach gave explanations of the arrangement of local wear phenomena at the taper interface.
Experimental Coating on Interstate 264 in Jefferson County
Creators: name: Meade, Bobby W.
name: Palle, Sidhir
name: Hopwood, Theodore
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: A waterborne acrylic coating was applied over a washed and tool cleaned zinc/vinyl system as a maintenance overcoat. The coating has several positive characteristics in that it is “user friendly”, substrate tolerant, develops good adhesion quickly, and is environmentally friendly. There were some issues concerning quality of work in surface preparation and application and in the fact that on two locations bubbles developed in the newly applied coating. The cause of the bubbling has not been determined.
Die mittelalterliche Thronfolge im europäischen Vergleich
Creators: name: Becher, Matthias
Publisher: name: Vorträge und Forschungen
Year: 2020

description: Vorträge und Forschungen, Bd. 84 (2017): Vorträge und Forschungen: Die mittelalterliche Thronfolge im europäischen Vergleich
On distortion in groups of homeomorphisms
Creators: name: Gal, Światosław
name: Kędra, Jarek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let X be a path-connected topological space admitting a universal cover. Let Homeo(X,a) denote the group of homeomorphisms of X preserving degree one cohomology class a. We investigate the distortion in Homeo(X,a). Let g be an element of Homeo(X,a). We define a Nielsen-type equivalence relation on the space of g-invariant Borel probability measures on X and prove that if a homeomorphism g admits two nonequivalent invariant measures then it is undistorted. We also define a local rotation number of a homeomorphism generalising the notion of the rotation of a homeomorphism of the circle. Then we prove that a homeomorphism is undistorted if its rotation number is nonconstant.
description: This paper mostly overlaps with part of arXiv:math/1105.0825. It is the version that is going to appear in print
Positive versus Negative Awe: Connection and Self-Significance (Prolific)
Creators: name: Cole, Christopher
name: Quinn, Kimberly
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social Psychology
subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: The current study examines the influence of self-diminishment and connection on experiences of positive and negative awe, using an appraisal approach.
Identification of Secondary Crashes and Recommended Countermeasures
Creators: name: Pigman, Jerry G.
name: Green, Eric R.
name: Walton, Jennifer R.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: The objective of this study was to identify and analyze the occurrence of secondary crashes on roadways in Kentucky and recommend countermeasures to reduce their frequency and severity.  Results show a small percentage of crashes coded as a “Secondary Collision” were confirmed to be a secondary crash based on the definition and requirement of “a crash occurring as a result of a previous crash”. It appeared that many of those miscoded as a “Secondary Collision” were the result of misinterpretation of what constituted a secondary crash versus a secondary event. Adoption of the definition used in this analysis, along with more training and data input quality control was recommended.  A review of 9,330 crashes coded as a “Secondary Collision” confirmed 362 or 3.88 percent as secondary crashes, and matching collision reports for the previous crash were located for only 236 crashes. An alternative analysis involved a query of the CRASH database to determine the time and distance relationships between the primary and subsequent-related crashes. The algorithm was able to identify 87 percent of the secondary crashes that were previously identified with the extensive manual search and review of crash reports.  Based on analysis of the severity associated with secondary collisions (362) identified in the 18-month period of 2009-2010, the overall costs were estimated to be $11,228,100 when considering “Economic Cost” and $33,636,100 when considering “Comprehensive Cost.”
Improved Bridge Expansion Joints
Creators: name: Palle, Sudhir
name: Hopwood, Theodore
name: Meade, Bobby W.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) has both open and closed bridge expansion joints and associated details that are problematic. Several state highway agencies (SHA) have joints that they believe are superior performers to other types and have prepared guidance documents for their use. A literature search indicated that several previous research studies, including national surveys, addressing SHA joint practices have been conducted over the past 10 years. For up-to-date information, a new set of surveys were developed and distributed to all the SHAs by email through the AASHTO Subcommittee on Maintenance-Bridge Technical Working Group chairman in June 2010. There were two sets of surveys: 1)design and construction; and 2) maintenance that were submitted to two separate entities within each SHA.
Castles and Towns of the Crusader Period in the Eastern Mediterranean. Burgen und Städte der Kreuzzugszeit im Vorderen Orient
Creators: name: Die Redaktion
Publisher: name: Burgen und Schlösser - Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege
Year: 2020

description: -
description: Burgen und Schlösser - Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege, Bd. 46 Nr. 4 (2005): Burgen und Schlösser - Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege
Magnetic behavior of Ba_{3}Cu_{3}Sc_{4}O_{12}
Creators: name: Koteswararao, B.
name: Mahajan, A. V.
name: Bert, F.
name: Mendels, P.
name: Chakraborty, J.
name: Singh, V.
name: Dasgupta, I.
name: Rayaprol, S.
name: Siruguri, V.
name: Hoser, A.
name: Kaushik, S. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The chain-like system Ba_{3}Cu_{3}Sc_4O_{12} has potentially interesting magnetic properties due to the presence of Cu^{2+} and a structure-suggested low-dimensionality. We present magnetization M versus magnetic field H and temperature T, T- and H-dependent heat-capacity C_{p}, ^{45}Sc nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), muon spin rotation (μSR), neutron diffraction measurements and electronic structure calculations for Ba_{3}Cu_{3}Sc_{4}O_{12}. The onset of magnetic long-range antiferromagnetic order at T_{N} ~16 K is consistently evidenced from the whole gamut of our data. A significant sensitivity of T_{N} to the applied magnetic field H (T_{N}~0 K for H=70 kOe) is also reported. Coupled with a ferromagnetic Curie-Weiss temperature (θ_{CW}~65 K) in the susceptibility (from a 100 K-300 K fit), it is indicative of competing ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic interactions. These indications are corroborated by our density functional theory based electronic structure calculations where we find the presence of significant ferromagnetic couplings between some copper ions whereas AF couplings were present between some others. Our experimental data, backed by our theoretical calculations, rule out one-dimensional magnetic behaviour suggested by the structure and the observed long-range order is due to the presence of non-negligible magnetic interactions between adjacent as well as next-nearest chains.
description: 37 pages, 15 figures
Positive versus Negative Awe: Connection and Self-Significance (Eye-tracking)
Creators: name: Cole, Christopher
name: Quinn, Kimberly
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social Psychology
subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: The current study examines the influence of self-diminishment and connection on experiences of positive and negative awe, using an appraisal approach.
ELISA for detection of humoral immunity against measles
Creators: name: Zahoor, Muhammad Asif
name: Saqalein, Muhammad
name: Nawaz, Zeeshan
Publisher: name: IfADo - Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Dortmund
Year: 2015

description: EXCLI Journal; 14:Doc1133; ISSN 1611-2156
What evidence is available on the impact of Food Policy Groups on local food systems, in urban and non-urban high-income countries?
Creators: name: Kent, Katherine
name: GODRICH, Stephanie
name: Alston, Laura
name: Goodwin, Sarah
name: Doe, Jessica
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Public Health
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Community Health and Preventive Medicine
subject: food insecurity
subject: food policy council
subject: food security

description: This scoping review aims to synthesize the literature describing the impact of Food Policy Groups, for improving food system action, in urban and non-urban high-income countries. The scoping review question was ‘What evidence is available on the impact of Food Policy Groups on local food systems, in urban and non-urban high-income countries?’
Multi-Level Coding Efficiency with Improved Quality for Image Compression based on AMBTC
Creators: name: Somasundaram, K.
name: Vimala, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we have proposed an extended version of Absolute Moment Block Truncation Coding (AMBTC) to compress images. Generally the elements of a bitplane used in the variants of Block Truncation Coding (BTC) are of size 1 bit. But it has been extended to two bits in the proposed method. Number of statistical moments preserved to reconstruct the compressed has also been raised from 2 to 4. Hence, the quality of the reconstructed images has been improved significantly from 33.62 to 38.12 with the increase in bpp by 1. The increased bpp (3) is further reduced to 1.75in multiple levels: in one level, by dropping 4 elements of the bitplane in such a away that the pixel values of the dropped elements can easily be interpolated with out much of loss in the quality, in level two, eight elements are dropped and reconstructed later and in level three, the size of the statistical moments is reduced. The experiments were carried over standard images of varying intensities. In all the cases, the proposed method outperforms the existing AMBTC technique in terms of both PSNR and bpp.
description: 10 Pages, 3 Figures, 2 Tables