cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Ecological and Economic Implications of Establishing Quercus spp. in the Urban Environment
Creators: name: Bocsi, Tierney
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2019

description: As urban greening efforts continue, it is important to assess whether decisions to intensify street tree planting are meeting intended goals of improving urban canopy cover and increasing ecosystem services. Benefits of the urban forest take many forms, from ecological and economic to social and cultural, and are frequently cited in support of street tree planting. However, it is unknown to what extent factors such as species or nursery production method affect the ability of trees to successfully establish and provide ecosystem services in the urban environment. Using a system of oak trees planted along roads in South Amherst, Massachusetts during spring 2014, growth in caliper at six inches, diameter at breast height, and total tree height from fall 2014 to fall 2018 were modeled to determine whether species and/or nursery production method influenced street tree establishment and growth. Economic benefits were examined using a novel approach, whereby the breakeven point of costs and returns in ecosystem services was identified. Results indicated that both species and nursery production method influenced the success of these trees, which provided a return on investment by year 2018, in terms of both growth and benefits provided. This information is relevant to tree wardens and others tasked with street tree planning and maintenance, who must work within the confines of limited budgets in an environment that poses many challenges for trees.
Validation of the RR Lyrae variables in the Pan-STARRS PS1 3π survey with K2
Creators: name: Forró, Adrienn
name: Molnár, László
name: Plachy, Emese
name: Szabó, Róbert
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: RR Lyrae variables are old, helium-core burning stars on the horizontal branch that are important tools for tracing the structure of the Galaxy thanks to their high luminosity and their period-luminosity relation. Pan-STARRS observed a large number of them during its PS1 3π survey. However, as a ground-based telescope, it could only observe during night-time and its 4-year-long light curves contain a dozen or so data points in each filter. Sesar et al. (2017) constructed a catalog of RR Lyrae stars found in the Pan-STARRS data. The objective of this study was to validate both the classification and the period determination of the stars. During Kepler’s K2 mission only limited sky areas were observed, with a high sampling frequency, although each for a shorter duration of ~80 days. We investigated the overlap and found 1,353 RR Lyrae stars in total. This list was also cross-matched with the Gaia DR3 and Gaia RR Lyrae catalogs. For the vast majority of the stars, the classification and the period from the K2 data was consistent with those from the Sesar et al. catalog and the Gaia data. Analyzing the frequencies of the remaning stars, we found a systematic difference, a 1 or 2 c/d offset between the data sets. It affected 7.4% of the sample, and 25.3% of RRc stars specifically. The reason for aliases in the Pan-STARRS frequencies is the sampling bias resulting from the diurnal cycle. Since the RRc subtypes have a less sharp light curve shape, they are more likely to be affected.
Variationality of geodesic circles in two dimensions
Creators: name: Matsyuk, R. Ya.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 53C22, 49N45, 53A40, 70H50, 58E10, 83C10

description: This note treats the notion of Lagrange derivative for the third order mechanics in the context of covariant Riemannian geometry. The variational differential equation for geodesic circles in two dimensions is obtained. The influence of the curvature tensor on the Lagrange derivative leads to the emergence of the notion of quasiclassical spin in the pseudo-Riemannian case.
description: 10th International Conference "Differential Geometry and Its Applications" (Olomouc, August 27-31, 2007). MR2462829 (2009k:53087) Corrected after publ.: reference 5 changed
Letter from Scott B. Shepherd III to 12 MSG/CEP, Building of FMO Warehouse in the Historic Landmark District, Randolph Air Force Base, Texas
Creators: name: Shepherd, Scott B.
Publisher: name: Department of the Air Force, Air Education and Training Command
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Randolph Historic Landmark District
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/83184/randolph-historic-landmark-district
subject: Randolph Field
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/82870/randolph-field
subject: Texas
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/6923/texas
subject: Randolph Air Force Base
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/78971/randolph-air-force-base
subject: Governmental Structure
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/318/governmental-structure
subject: Historic Governmental Structure
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/320/historic-governmental-structure
subject: Military Structure
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/322/military-structure
subject: Non-Domestic Structures
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/309/non-domestic-structures
subject: FMO Warehouse
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/153442/fmo-warehouse
subject: Architectural Documentation
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/16/architectural-documentation
subject: Heritage Management
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/24/heritage-management

description: An evaluation was conducted on siting of the proposed FMO Warehouse by applying Federal criteria and the procedures of Civil Engineer Division Instruction 32-1. It was determined the site is located within the Randolph Field Historic Landmark District and that the action will have no adverse effect on the landmark district.
Bayesian inversion for unified ductile phase-field fracture
Creators: name: Noii, Nima
name: Khodadadian, Amirreza
name: Ulloa, Jacinto
name: Aldakheel, Fadi
name: Wick, Thomas
name: François, Stijn
name: Wriggers, Peter
Publisher: name: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: (An)isotropic ductile materials
subject: Bayesian inference
subject: MCMC techniques
subject: Phase-field fracture
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::000 | Allgemeines, Wissenschaft::000 | Informatik, Wissen, Systeme::004 | Informatik
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::530 | Physik

description: The prediction of crack initiation and propagation in ductile failure processes are challenging tasks for the design and fabrication of metallic materials and structures on a large scale. Numerical aspects of ductile failure dictate a sub-optimal calibration of plasticity- and fracture-related parameters for a large number of material properties. These parameters enter the system of partial differential equations as a forward model. Thus, an accurate estimation of the material parameters enables the precise determination of the material response in different stages, particularly for the post-yielding regime, where crack initiation and propagation take place. In this work, we develop a Bayesian inversion framework for ductile fracture to provide accurate knowledge regarding the effective mechanical parameters. To this end, synthetic and experimental observations are used to estimate the posterior density of the unknowns. To model the ductile failure behavior of solid materials, we rely on the phase-field approach to fracture, for which we present a unified formulation that allows recovering different models on a variational basis. In the variational framework, incremental minimization principles for a class of gradient-type dissipative materials are used to derive the governing equations. The overall formulation is revisited and extended to the case of anisotropic ductile fracture. Three different models are subsequently recovered by certain choices of parameters and constitutive functions, which are later assessed through Bayesian inversion techniques. A step-wise Bayesian inversion method is proposed to determine the posterior density of the material unknowns for a ductile phase-field fracture process. To estimate the posterior density function of ductile material parameters, three common Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) techniques are employed: (i) the Metropolis–Hastings algorithm, (ii) delayed-rejection adaptive Metropolis, and (iii) ensemble Kalman filter combined with MCMC. To examine the computational efficiency of the MCMC methods, we employ the R^ - convergence tool. The resulting framework is algorithmically described in detail and substantiated with numerical examples.
Vacuum induced phonon transfer between two solid dielectric materials: Illustrating the case of Casimir force coupling
Creators: name: Ezzahri, Younes
name: Joulain, Karl
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The natural transition from the radiative regime to the conductive regime of heat transfer between two identical isotropic dielectric solid materials, is questioned by investigating the possibility of induced phonon transfer in vacuum. We describe the process in a general way assuming a certain phonon coupling mechanism between the two identical solids, then we particularly illustrate the case of coupling through Casimir force. We analyze how this mechanism of heat transfer compares and competes with the near field thermal radiation using a local model of the dielectric function. We show that the former mechanism can be very effective and even overpass the latter mechanism depending on the nature of the solid dielectric materials, the distance gap between them as well as the operating temperature regime.
description: 16 pages, 4 figures and 1 table
title: Skin texture features for face recognition
Creators: name: Al-Qarni, Garsah Farhan
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2022

description: Face recognition has been deployed in a wide range of important applications including surveillance and forensic identification. However, it still seems to be a challenging problem as its performance severely degrades under illumination, pose and expression variations, as well as with occlusions, and aging. In this thesis, we have investigated the use of local facial skin data as a source of biometric information to improve human recognition. Skin texture features have been exploited in three major tasks, which include (i) improving the performance of conventional face recognition systems, (ii) building an adaptive skin-based face recognition system, and (iii) dealing with circumstances when a full view of the face may not be avai'lable. Additionally, a fully automated scheme is presented for localizing eyes and mouth and segmenting four facial regions: forehead, right cheek, left cheek and chin. These four regions are divided into nonoverlapping patches with equal size. A novel skin/non-skin classifier is proposed for detecting patches containing only skin texture and therefore detecting the pure-skin regions. Experiments using the XM2VTS database indicate that the forehead region has the most significant biometric information. The use of forehead texture features improves the rank-l identification of Eigenfaces system from 77.63% to 84.07%. The rank-l identification is equal 93.56% when this region is fused with Kernel Direct Discriminant Analysis algorithm.
Response from F. Lawerence Oaks to John Brenneman, Project Review for Building 4019, Fort Sam Houston, Texas
Creators: name: F. Lawrence Oaks
Publisher: name: Texas Historical Commission
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: JBSA-Sam Houston
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/82532/jbsa-sam-houston
subject: San Antonio
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/4149/san-antonio
subject: Bexar (County)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/4150/bexar-county
subject: Texas
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/6923/texas
subject: Historic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/25/historic
subject: Building 4019
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/146641/building-4019
subject: Architectural Documentation
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/16/architectural-documentation
subject: Heritage Management
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/24/heritage-management

description: The Texas Historical Commission has received and reviewed a project review submitted by Fort Sam Houston concerning Building 4019. This letter serves as comment on the proposed undertaking from the State Historic Preservation Officer, the Executive Director of the Texas Historical Commission.
The Building 905 Mystery, Randolph Air Force Base, Texas
Creators: name: Walter, Chelsea
Year: 1980
Subjects: subject: Universal City
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/42082/universal-city
subject: Texas
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/6923/texas
subject: Randolph Air Force Base
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/78971/randolph-air-force-base
subject: Historic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/25/historic
subject: Historic Background Research
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/18/historic-background-research
subject: Heritage Management
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/24/heritage-management

description: Newspaper clipping. On the roof at the north end of Building 905 is a light fixture that hasn't been used for more than 40 years. The round light has four separate horizontal light tubes. The Air Education and Training Command History Office and the Randolph Historic Preservation Office are trying to determine the purpose of the Lights. The article speculates that the lights may have signaled the uniform of the day or authorized wear of inclement weather clothing. The article asks for help with information and provides contact information.
Spectroscopic confirmation of linear relation between Heisenberg- and interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya-exchange in polycrystalline metal films
Creators: name: Nembach, Hans T.
name: Shaw, Justin M.
name: Weiler, Mathias
name: Jué, Emilie
name: Silva, Thomas J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Proposals for novel spin-orbitronic logic1 and memory devices2 are often predicated on assumptions as to how materials with large spin-orbit coupling interact with ferromagnets when in contact. Such interactions give rise to a host of novel phenomena, such as spin-orbit torques3,4 , chiral spin-structures5,6 and chiral spin-torques. These chiral properties are related to the anti-symmetric exchange, also referred to as the interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI)9,10. For numerous phenomena, the relative strengths of the symmetric Heisenberg exchange and the DMI is of great importance. Here, we use optical spin-wave spectroscopy (Brillouin light scattering) to directly determine the DMI vector for a series of Ni80Fe20/Pt samples, and then compare the nearest-neighbor DMI coupling energy with the independently measured Heisenberg exchange integral. We find that the Ni80Fe20-thickness-dependencies of both the microscopic symmetric- and antisymmetric-exchange are identical, consistent with the notion that the basic mechanisms of the DMI and Heisenberg exchange essentially share the same underlying physics, as was originally proposed by Moriya11. While of significant fundamental importance, this result also leads us to a deeper understanding of DMI and how it could be optimized for spin-orbitronic applications.
title: Garlic Mustard (Alliaria petiolata) Management Effectiveness and Plant Community Response
Creators: name: Coates-Connor, Erin
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2019

description: The control and eradication of the invasive biennial herb garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata) and the restoration of invaded forest habitats present important linked challenges to land managers in North America. Removing garlic mustard by hand and by glyphosate herbicide application have both been used as eradication strategies with mixed results. Each method has advantages and disadvantages, but they are rarely compared for effectiveness and community impact across multiple years of management. Some previous studies have shown improvements in species diversity and plant community composition following management, while others have found no differences. To better understand both garlic mustard population and native plant community responses to these two methods across a broad geographic range, we tested these two management methods for four years in seven northern hardwood forests in Massachusetts and New York State. We found that pulling juvenile and adult garlic mustard plants for four years significantly reduced adult abundance, while spraying had no effect compared to invaded control plots. In the plant community, we found no negative impacts of garlic mustard on species diversity nor increased diversity in managed plots following three consecutive years of management. Our results suggest that increased diversity should not be the primary goal of garlic mustard management at these sites and plant community monitoring at the site-specific scale should be explored. This study highlights how complicated decisions can be for managers when deciding which invasions to prioritize and how to measure plant community recovery.
L’evoluzione della responsabilità delle imprese
Creators: name: Frey, Marco
Publisher: name: Department of Economics and Business Studies, University of Genoa
Year: 2020
Subjects: Management

description: Secondo Marco Frey lo Statement della RoundTable si aggiunge alla Stakeholder Theory di Freeman ed al modello dello Shared Value di Porter come traccia di un percorso di evoluzione strategica delle imprese in direzione della sostenibilità. Questo percorso si sviluppa in un quadro in cui giocano gli stop sul fronte ambientale degli USA ma anche il Green Deal dell’UE, il Global Compact e gli SDGs dell’ONU, i nuovi approcci degli investitori a partire da BlacRock e le posizioni della Chiesa Cattolica, ed ora anche il diffondersi sotto l’influsso della pandemia di nuovi valori ed orientamenti culturali.
title: Patient Sex and Physician Adherence to Treatment Guidelines for Non-Purulent Cellulitis
Creators: name: Goldberg, Rebecca
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2019

description: In 2015, participating US Emergency Departments (EDs) reported approximately 2.8 million visits related to skin and soft tissue infections (SSTIs). Studies indicate that there may be disparities by patient sex in physician treatment guideline adherence rates as a result of a gender bias during physician-patient interactions; however, only two epidemiologic studies have investigated the role of patient sex in guideline adherence rates for SSTIs. These prior studies were limited in size and covariate assessment. Thus, the magnitude and direction of the effect of patient sex is uncertain, warranting further research. Therefore, we conducted a large prospective study to elucidate the role that patient sex plays in guideline adherence rates among physicians for non-purulent cellulitis at two UMass Memorial Health Care Group EDs in 2017. Data on treatment and sex was abstracted from electronic medical records. Compliance with treatment guidelines was based on 2014 Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) guidelines. Adjusted multinomial regressions indicated that female patient sex was associated with lower prevalence of overtreatment (POR=0.72, 95%CI: 0.57-0.92). In contrast, female physician sex was significantly associated with higher prevalence of overtreatment (POR=1.48, 95%CI: 1.16-1.87), but did not affect the relationship of patient sex with overtreatment (P-interaction=0.80). Awareness of differential treatment by patient sex may improve physician adherence to guidelines. This study contributes to a growing body of literature elucidating the role of sex in medical decision making and is the first to account for both patient and physician sex as well as relevant covariates in studies regarding cellulitis treatment.
Holography of 3d-3d correspondence at Large N
Creators: name: Gang, Dongmin
name: Kim, Nakwoo
name: Lee, Sangmin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the physics of multiple M5-branes compactified on a hyperbolic 3-manifold. On the one hand, it leads to the 3d-3d correspondence which maps an $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal field theory to a pure Chern-Simons theory on the 3-manifold. On the other hand, it leads to a warped AdS$_4$ geometry in M-theory holographically dual to the superconformal field theory. Combining the holographic duality and the 3d-3d correspondence, we propose a conjecture for the large $N$ limit of the perturbative free energy of a Chern-Simons theory on hyperbolic 3-manifold. The conjecture claims that the tree, one-loop and two-loop terms all share the same $N^3$ scaling behavior and are proportional to the volume of the 3-manifold, while the three-loop and higher terms are suppressed at large $N$. Under mild assumptions, we prove the tree and one-loop parts of the conjecture. For the two-loop part, we test the conjecture numerically in a number of examples and find precise agreement. We also confirm the suppression of higher loop terms in a few examples.
description: 37 pages, 7 figures
Response from Donald Peterson to Curtis Tunnell, Building 902 Alterations, Randolph Air Force Base, Texas
Creators: name: Tunnell, Curtis
Publisher: name: Department of the Air Force, Randolph Air Force Base
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: San Antonio
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/4149/san-antonio
subject: Bexar (County)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/4150/bexar-county
subject: Texas
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/6923/texas
subject: Randolph Air Force Base
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/78971/randolph-air-force-base
subject: Historic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/25/historic
subject: Governmental Structure
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/318/governmental-structure
subject: Historic Governmental Structure
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/320/historic-governmental-structure
subject: Building 902
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/146467/building-902
subject: Architectural Documentation
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/16/architectural-documentation
subject: Heritage Management
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/24/heritage-management

description: A letter requesting a meeting between Randolph Air Force Base and the Texas Historical Commission staff to coordinate and discuss the proposed rehabilitation of Building 902. This letter is part of a group of correspondence concerning a federal undertaking at Building 902, Randolph Air Force Base, Texas. The project includes modification, refurbishment and replacement of windows and doors.
title: READING AND TRANSLATING “NOW-NESS” AND “CONTINUITY” IN THE IMAGISTIC LANGUAGE OF TANG POEMS
Creators: name: Du, Mei
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2019

description: The imagistic language of Tang poetry can be defined as the language of Tang poetry that presents directly the immediate sensory/emotive experience, which is the early, unprocessed inner response of an external experience that involves what is previously unknown. The primary purpose of my thesis is to explore a theoretical definition of two characteristics: “now-ness” and “continuity” in the immediate sensory/emotive experience as well as to explore how the two characteristics are generally demonstrated in the imagistic language of Tang poems. Through the demonstration of seven individual analyses of Tang poems and their translations from the perspective of now-ness and continuity, this thesis also intends to foster now-ness and continuity as a particular perspective that assists us with the reading, understanding and translation of the imagistic language of Tang poetry.
Rapid evolution of seed dormancy during sunflower de-domestication
Creators: name: Hernández, Fernando
name: Vercellino, Roman B.
name: Pandolfo, Claudio
name: Mandel, Jennifer
name: Presotto, Alejandro
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: de-domestication
feral weeds
Herbicide resistance
Rapid evolution
resurrection approach
seed dormancy

description: Hybridization between crops and their wild relatives may promote the evolution of de-domesticated (feral) weeds. Wild sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) is typically found in ruderal environments, but crop-wild hybridization may facilitate the evolution of weedy populations. Using one crop-specific mitochondrial marker (CMS-PET1) and 14 nuclear SSR markers, we studied the origin and genetic diversity of a recently discovered weedy population of sunflower (named BRW). Then, using a resurrection approach, we tested for rapid evolution of weedy traits (seed dormancy, herbicide resistance, and competitive ability) by sampling weedy and wild populations 10 years apart (2007 and 2017). All the weedy plants present the CMS-PET1 cytotype, confirming their feral origin. At the nuclear markers, BRW showed higher genetic diversity than the cultivated lines and low differentiation with one wild population, suggesting that wild hybridization increased their genetic diversity. We found support for rapid evolution towards higher seed dormancy, but not for higher competitive ability or herbicide resistance. Our results highlight the importance of seed dormancy during the earliest stages of adaptation and show that crop-wild hybrids can evolve quickly in agricultural environments.
description: Funding provided by: National Agency for Scientific and Technological Promotion*
Crossref Funder Registry ID:
Award Number: PICT 2017-0473Funding provided by: Universidad Nacional del Sur
Crossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100005740
Award Number: PGI 24/ A244Funding provided by: University of Memphis
Crossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100011518
Award Number:
OAHP Inventory, Building 56 Gun Shed, Fort Sam Houston, Texas
Creators: name: Tompkins, Sally Kress
Publisher: name: Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation
Year: 1980
Subjects: subject: Fort Sam Houston
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/83681/fort-sam-houston
subject: San Antonio
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/4149/san-antonio
subject: Bexar (County)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/4150/bexar-county
subject: Texas
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/6923/texas
subject: Historic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/25/historic
subject: Governmental Structure
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/318/governmental-structure
subject: Historic Governmental Structure
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/320/historic-governmental-structure
subject: Non-Domestic Structures
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/309/non-domestic-structures
subject: Offices
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/159053/offices
subject: Gun Shed
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/158110/gun-shed
subject: OAHP
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/138292/oahp
subject: Building 56
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/158106/building-56
subject: Architectural Documentation
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/16/architectural-documentation
subject: Architectural Survey
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/2/architectural-survey
subject: Heritage Management
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/24/heritage-management

description: An inventory form by the Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation for Building 56 at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. The structure was built in 1891 as a gun shed and now serves as office space. Included in the inventory are 6 black and white photographs taken in 1980 of the structure.
L'-band AGPM vector vortex coronagraph's first light on LBTI/LMIRCam
Creators: name: Defrère, D.
name: Absil, O.
name: Hinz, P.
name: Kuhn, J.
name: Mawet, D.
name: Mennesson, B.
name: Skemer, A.
name: Wallace, J. Kent
name: Bailey, V.
name: Downey, E.
name: Delacroix, C.
name: Durney, O.
name: Forsberg, P.
name: Gomez, C.
name: Habraken, S.
name: Hoffmann, W. F.
name: Karlsson, M.
name: Kenworthy, M.
name: Leisenring, J.
name: Montoya, M.
name: Pueyo, L.
name: Skrutskie, M.
name: Surdej, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first observations obtained with the L'-band AGPM vortex coronagraph recently installed on LBTI/LMIRCam. The AGPM (Annular Groove Phase Mask) is a vector vortex coronagraph made from diamond subwavelength gratings. It is designed to improve the sensitivity and dynamic range of high-resolution imaging at very small inner working angles, down to 0.09 arcseconds in the case of LBTI/LMIRCam in the L' band. During the first hours on sky, we observed the young A5V star HR\,8799 with the goal to demonstrate the AGPM performance and assess its relevance for the ongoing LBTI planet survey (LEECH). Preliminary analyses of the data reveal the four known planets clearly at high SNR and provide unprecedented sensitivity limits in the inner planetary system (down to the diffraction limit of 0.09 arcseconds).
description: 9 pages, 4 figures, SPIE proceedings
(:unas) unassigned
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universita' degli Studi di Salerno
Year: 2024

description: Il contributo esamina la pièce di Giuseppe Giacosa La signora di Challant, dedicata alla vicenda di Bianca Maria Gaspardone (o Scapardone), nar rata da Matteo Bandello nelle Novelle. Commis sionata al drammaturgo da Sarah Bernhardt, l’opera fu al centro di una rivalità tra la commit tente ed Eleonora Duse. La contesa fu causa di un differimento nella rappresentazione, che suscitò ilarità nella stampa dell’epoca. Palumbo riper corre la genesi dell’opera attraverso gli epistolari giacosiani, dà conto della ricezione per mezzo dell’esame ed esplora i meccanismi di funziona mento de La signora di Challant. In linea con la cronaca di Giovanni Pozza, emerge la particolare felicità della costruzione del personaggio di Ro berto Sanseverino.
description: The essay examines the play by Giuseppe Giacosa La signora di Challant, that narrates the story of Bianca Maria Gaspardone (or Scapardone), ac cording to a tale of Matteo Bandello (Novelle, I, 4). Commissioned to the playwright by Sarah Bern hardt, the pièce was an occasion of rivalry be tween Bernhardt and Eleonora Duse. The dispute caused a delay in the staging, which aroused hi larity in the contemporary press. Palumbo traces the genesis of the work through Giacosa’s letters. He gives an account of the reception through the examination of reviews; he also explores strengths and weaknesses of La signora di Challant. As Gio vanni Pozza, Palumbo points out the excellent construction of the character of Roberto Sanse verino.
Staff Summary Sheet, Work on Major General Profitt's Quarters, Randolph Air Force Base, Texas
Creators: name: Smith, Emmitt G.
Publisher: name: Department of the Air Force, Randolph Air Force Base
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: San Antonio
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/4149/san-antonio
subject: Bexar (County)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/4150/bexar-county
subject: Texas
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/6923/texas
subject: Randolph Air Force Base
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/78971/randolph-air-force-base
subject: Historic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/25/historic
subject: Governmental Structure
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/318/governmental-structure
subject: Domestic Structures
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/256/domestic-structures
subject: Historic Governmental Structure
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/320/historic-governmental-structure
subject: Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/251/domestic-structure-or-architectural-complex
subject: Building 520
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/153007/building-520
subject: Architectural Documentation
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/16/architectural-documentation
subject: Heritage Management
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/24/heritage-management

description: A staff summary sheet on the purpose, discussion, and recommendation of the work on Major General Profitt's Quarters. This letter is part of a group of correspondence concerning an undertaking that may effect General Officer housing units at Randolph Air Force Base, Texas. Attachments included with the letters are location maps, description and assessment, photographs, and construction elevations.
title: The Association between Diet Quality and Inflammatory Biomarkers among College-aged Women
Creators: name: Lin, Luotao
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2019

description: Inflammation status has been associated with chronic diseases such as Type 2 Diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer. Previous studies suggested that healthful dietary patterns and dietary scores may have been associated with reduced concentrations of inflammatory biomarkers. However, studies have been usually conducted among middle- aged and older adults by examining commonly used biomarkers such as C-Reactive Protein (CRP) and Interleukin 6 (IL-6). For the current study, diet quality was measured by applying food frequency data to create the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans Adherence Index (DGAI-2010). Concentrations of inflammatory biomarkers were obtained from fasting blood samples collected at the late-luteal phase of paticipants’ menstrual cycle. We used linear regression to analyze the association between each natural log-transformed inflammatory biomarker concentration and the continuous DGAI-2010 Score among 142 young, healthy women (aged 18-30 years) from the UMass Vitamin D Status Study. We found that as diet quality increased, concentrations of IL-7, IL-12p70, IL-13 and IFN- were significantly lower after adjustment for BMI, age, physical activity, smoking, race/ethnicity, multivitamin use, oral contraceptive use, and total energy intake per day. Following a diet that adheres to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans as a measure of dietary quality is associated with lower inflammation in healthy, normal weight and overweight young women.
Boltzmann-Gibbs entropy is sufficient but not necessary for the likelihood factorization required by Einstein
Creators: name: Tsallis, Constantino
name: Haubold, Hans J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In 1910 Einstein published a crucial aspect of his understanding of Boltzmann entropy. He essentially argued that the likelihood function of any system composed by two probabilistically independent subsystems {\it ought} to be factorizable into the likelihood functions of each of the subsystems. Consistently he was satisfied by the fact that Boltzmann (additive) entropy fulfills this epistemologically fundamental requirement. We show here that entropies (e.g., the $q$-entropy on which nonextensive statistical mechanics is based) which generalize the BG one through violation of its well known additivity can {\it also} fulfill the same requirement. This fact sheds light on the very foundations of the connection between the micro- and macro-scopic worlds.
description: 5 pages including 2 figures
title: In-situ Zircon and Monazite Geochronology from Compositionally Distinct Layers in a Single Migmatitic Paragneiss Sample Located in the Eastern Adirondack Mountains, NY
Creators: name: Suarez, Kaitlyn
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2019

description: Migmatites are a common rock type in the Adirondack Mountains, NY. We analyzed a single sample of biotite-garnet-sillimanite paragneiss with foliation parallel leucosome along Route 22 south of Whitehall, NY in order to determine the timing of melting using both in-situ monazite and zircon U/Pb geochronology from the restite and leucosome layers of the same rock. Monazite was analyzed via in-situ EMPA on the Ultrachron microprobe at the University of Massachusetts. Zircon was analyzed via LA-ICP-MS (in-situ and mounted mineral separates) at the LaserChron Center. Monazite analyses from the restite yielded six compositionally distinct populations with dates of 1178 ± 16, 1139 ± 4, 1064 ± 6, 1049 ± 4, 1030 ± 5, and 1004 ± 10 Ma. Yttrium and heavy REEs decrease in monazite in two steps: one dramatic drop from ca. 1150 to 1065 Ma and another between ca. 1065 and 1050, interpreted to reflect two periods of garnet growth and melting. Analyses from the restite zircon separate yielded a significant single peak near 1050 Ma. These zircon grains exhibit fir-tree sector zoning texture which is interpreted to indicate crystallization from melt. Monazite from leucosome yielded a unimodal population at ca. 1050 Ma, however, backscatter images document alteration of monazite to apatite on the edges of the grains, and abundant uranothorite inclusions. Leucosome zircon analyses yielded a ca. 1150 Ma population from cores and a 1050 Ma population from rims. Cathodoluminescence imaging reveals that the zircon rims have textures indicative of fluid alteration. The data are consistent with these rocks undergoing two periods of melting. The first event at ca. 1150 Ma may have involved a non-garnet producing melting reaction, such as muscovite dehydration-melting. The second event at 1065 Ma involved significant garnet growth, interpreted to represent biotite dehydration-melting. Subsequently, the rocks underwent hydrothermal alteration at 1050 Ma. Monazite grains with dates at 1030 ± 5 and 1004 ± 10 Ma have higher yttrium concentrations suggesting garnet breakdown and monazite growth during decompression and retrograde metamorphism. A combination of monazite and zircon dating techniques from each compositional layer is necessary to constrain leucosome-restite relationships and to accurately interpret the timing of melting from migmatites that have experienced multiple phases of melting.
Sono le imprese la ricchezza dell’Italia. Riflessioni sul ravvedimento del capitalismo americano
Creators: name: Gozzi, Antonio
Publisher: name: Department of Economics and Business Studies, University of Genoa
Year: 2020
Subjects: Management

description: Antonio Gozzi osserva che la serietà della svolta delineata con lo Statement della Business RoundTable dalla business community americana andrà verificata soprattutto alla luce delle risposte che saranno date dagli oligolipoli dei social media rispetto alla gestione dei dati dei loro clienti, e dai fondi e dalle grandi banche d’affari rispetto al riequilibrio dell’asse dei loro investimenti. In Europa ed in Italia secondo Gozzi tende invece ad emergere una cultura s’impresa capace di promuovere comportamenti aperti ed inclusivi, centrati sulla valorizzazione delle persone e sugli investimenti per la sostenibilità.
Memorandum of Agreement Between Fort Sam Houston and the Texas State Historic Preservation Officer Regarding the Demolition of Building 1030 Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
Creators: name: Fort Sam Houston
Publisher: name: Fort Sam Houston
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: JBSA-Sam Houston
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/82532/jbsa-sam-houston
subject: San Antonio
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/4149/san-antonio
subject: Bexar (County)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/4150/bexar-county
subject: Texas
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/6923/texas
subject: Historic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/25/historic
subject: Building 1030
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/150019/building-1030
subject: Architectural Documentation
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/16/architectural-documentation
subject: Heritage Management
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/24/heritage-management

description: An unsigned agreement regarding the Department of the Army, Fort Sam Houston (FSH) and Advisory Council on Historic Preservation regarding the demolition of building 1030. Fort Sam Houston (FSH) has determined that the Demolition of Building 1030 at Fort Sam Houston (undertaking) will have an adverse effect on the FSH Conservation District, which is eligible for the National Register of Historic Places, and has consulted with the Texas State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO) pursuant to 36 CFR Part 800, regulations implementing Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (16 U.S.C. Section 470f).
title: Ecological Considerations and Application of Urban Tree Selection in Massachusetts
Creators: name: McElhinney, Ashley
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2019

description: Trees provide countless environmental, economic, and societal benefits to the urban environment, and may become increasingly important to maintaining environmental quality and human well-being in the face of increasing urbanization and climate change. However, trees in these urban areas are rapidly diminishing across the United States. Much of this loss can be prevented with proper planning and management, focused on selecting tree species that are both well-suited to the area’s growing conditions and able to survive the many stress factors in an urban setting. Choosing which tree species to plant in Massachusetts is especially challenging considering the lack of resources specific to the state’s growing conditions and the urban environment. I conduct a literature review to answer two research questions: (1) What ecological considerations should be made before tree selection, and (2) Which species should be planted in the urban environments of Massachusetts. My results yielded a comprehensive guide, in book form, detailing the five ecological considerations I recommend to make before selection, and profiles of 75 tree species recommended to plant in these areas. This book may act as a resource for tree wardens and homeowners to help choose the best species for their specific planting site, prompt other states to create or update their own state-specific selection guide, and encourage tree nurseries to grow and distribute favorable species, ultimately providing their communities with the benefits that trees provide.
Bottom-strange mesons in hyperonic matter
Creators: name: Pathak, Divakar
name: Mishra, Amruta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The in-medium behavior of bottom-strange pseudoscalar mesons in hot, isospin asymmetric and dense hadronic environment is studied using a chiral effective model. The same was recently generalized to the heavy quark sector and employed to study the behavior of open-charm and open-bottom mesons. The heavy quark (anti-quark) is treated as frozen and all medium modifications of these bottom-strange mesons are due to their strange anti-quark (quark) content. We observe a pronounced dependence of their medium mass on baryonic density and strangeness content of the medium. Certain aspects of these in-medium interactions are similar to those observed for the strange-charmed mesons in a preceding investigation, such as the lifting of mass-degeneracy of $B_S^0$ and ${\bar B}_S^0$ mesons in hyperonic matter, while the same is respected in vacuum as well as in nuclear matter. In general, however, there is a remarkable distinction between the two species, even though the formalism predicts a completely analogous in-medium interaction Lagrangian density. We discuss in detail the reason for different in-medium behavior of these bottom-strange mesons as compared to charmed-strange mesons, despite the dynamics of the heavy quark being treated as frozen in both cases.
description: 16 pages, 2 figures
title: The Role of International River Basin Organizations in Facilitating Science Use in Policy
Creators: name: Wentling, Kelsey
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2019

description: Transboundary watershed management seeks to reconcile the dichotomy between political lines and the resources that flow freely over such borders. Transboundary waters cover half of the earth’s surface and define the natural communities of over 40% of the global population. Because water plays an integral role in every culture and society, international entities seek to identify the principles and methods that minimize conflict and maximize harmonious water resource management across borders. Successful management practices to date have aimed to incorporate relevant scientific literature throughout the basin using alternate governance structures. International River Basin Organizations (IRBOs), independent governing structures, provide one such method of governance along shared water bodies. In order to determine how science influences policy and management in IRBOs, this research examines five case studies across three IRBOs: The International Joint Commission, the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube and the Mekong River Commission. To understand the gap between science production and its incorporation into IRBO policies, we conducted a comprehensive literature review and applied the findings from existing scientific literature to understand science-policy process in the five case studies. Within each case study we traced the story of science production and its uptake into policy by highlighting two types of key information in the process: the role of mandates and IRBO structure, and the IRBO’s relationship with relevant actors. Through this process we identified and explored the gap between science production and policy action, demonstrating which mechanisms are essential for generating policy founded on scientific research.