cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Participant retention practices in longitudinal clinical research studies with high retention rates
Creators: name: Abshire, M
name: Dinglas, VD
name: Cajita, Maan Isabella
name: Eakin, MN
name: Needham, DM
name: Himmelfarb, CD
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Background: There is a need for improving cohort retention in longitudinal studies. Our objective was to identify cohort retention strategies and implementation approaches used in studies with high retention rates. Methods: Longitudinal studies with ≥200 participants, ≥80% retention rates over ≥1 year of follow-up were queried from an Institutional Review Board database at a large research-intensive U.S. university; additional studies were identified through networking. Nineteen (86%) of 22 eligible studies agreed to participate. Through in-depth semi-structured interviews, participants provided retention strategies based on themes identified from previous literature reviews. Synthesis of data was completed by a multidisciplinary team. Results: The most commonly used retention strategies were: study reminders, study visit characteristics, emphasizing study benefits, and contact/scheduling strategies. The research teams were well-functioning, organized, and persistent. Additionally, teams tailored their strategies to their participants, often adapting and innovating their approaches. Conclusions: These studies included specialized and persistent teams and utilized tailored strategies specific to their cohort and individual participants. Studies’ written protocols and published manuscripts often did not reflect the varied strategies employed and adapted through the duration of study. Appropriate retention strategy use requires cultural sensitivity and more research is needed to identify how strategy use varies globally.
Re-transcription of unpublished Whilkut texts
Creators: name: Parker, Verdena
name: Spence, Justin
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: hup

description: Audio file VP-121221-06: Re-transcription and translation of Whilkut texts transcribed by P.E. Goddard, American Philosophical Society Na20j.1, notebook #7, pp. 23-25.
Constructing higher-order topological states in higher dimension
Creators: name: Wang, Yao
name: Ke, Yongguan
name: Chang, Yi-Jun
name: Lu, Yong-Heng
name: Gao, Jun
name: Lee, Chaohong
name: Jin, Xian-Min
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Higher-order topological phase as a generalization of Berry phase attracts an enormous amount of research. The current theoretical models supporting higher-order topological phases, however, cannot give the connection between lower and higher-order topological phases when extending the lattice from lower to higher dimensions. Here, we theoretically propose and experimentally demonstrate a topological corner state constructed from the edge states in one dimensional lattice. The two-dimensional square lattice owns independent spatial modulation of coupling in each direction, and the combination of edge states in each direction come up to the higher-order topological corner state in two-dimensional lattice, revealing the connection of topological phase in lower and higher dimensional lattices. Moreover, the topological corner states in two-dimensional lattice can also be viewed as the dimension-reduction from a four-dimensional topological phase characterized by vector Chern number, considering two modulation phases as synthetic dimensions in Aubry-Andre-Harper model discussed as example here. Our work deeps the understanding to topological phases breaking through the lattice dimension, and provides a promising tool constructing higher topological phases in higher dimensional structures.
description: 10 pages, 9 figures
Mental Training: A Study Concerning the Effects of Mental Training on NCAA Division III Swimmers at Goucher College
Creators: name: Heyde, Kelly
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Swimming
subject: Swim
subject: Mental training
subject: Visualization
subject: Relaxation
subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: This purpose of this research was to determine the effectiveness of mental training on 9 Division II swimmers ages 19-22. A one group pretest-post test design was used and found that racing time was not improved by mental training. A self-evaluation questionnaire that measured positive or negative mental states did reveal that positive item responses were correlated modestly with swimming performance and did increase after mental training. A swimmer’s feeling of security and confidence become stronger following mental training. There was a similar pattern of relationships among negative item responses on the questionnaire indicating that swimmers’ performance became less tied to their negative feelings after they received mental training.
Opportunistic Scheduling and Beamforming for MIMO-OFDMA Downlink Systems with Reduced Feedback
Creators: name: Pun, Man-On
name: Kim, Kyeong Jin
name: Poor, H. Vincent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Opportunistic scheduling and beamforming schemes with reduced feedback are proposed for MIMO-OFDMA downlink systems. Unlike the conventional beamforming schemes in which beamforming is implemented solely by the base station (BS) in a per-subcarrier fashion, the proposed schemes take advantages of a novel channel decomposition technique to perform beamforming jointly by the BS and the mobile terminal (MT). The resulting beamforming schemes allow the BS to employ only {\em one} beamforming matrix (BFM) to form beams for {\em all} subcarriers while each MT completes the beamforming task for each subcarrier locally. Consequently, for a MIMO-OFDMA system with $Q$ subcarriers, the proposed opportunistic scheduling and beamforming schemes require only one BFM index and $Q$ supportable throughputs to be returned from each MT to the BS, in contrast to $Q$ BFM indices and $Q$ supportable throughputs required by the conventional schemes. The advantage of the proposed schemes becomes more evident when a further feedback reduction is achieved by grouping adjacent subcarriers into exclusive clusters and returning only cluster information from each MT. Theoretical analysis and computer simulation confirm the effectiveness of the proposed reduced-feedback schemes.
description: Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Beijing, May 19-23, 2008
DigiVet Deliverable 3.1: reports from international workshops
Creators: name: Shortall, Orla
name: Kyle, Carol
name: Boden, Lisa
name: Denwood, Matt
name: Enright, Jessica
name: Bogaardt, Carlijn
name: Cha, Wonhee
name: Nielsen, Soren
name: Puk Skarbye, Alice
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This upload contains the reports that constitute deliverable D3.1 from the DigiVet project.  They describe the findings of three international workshops held during the project, one associated with each core case study.
title: Life-courses of young convicts transported to Van Diemen’s Land
Creators: name: Watkins, ED
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2023

description: Abstract This thesis has traced the lives of juveniles convicted at the Old Bailey and transported to Van Diemen’s Land (VDL) in the early-nineteenth century. As well as their ‘criminal career’, their pre- and post-transportation lives, including family life, occupational standing, and deaths were uncovered. These male and female juvenile convicts were then compared and contrasted with other convicts transported to VDL, free immigrants arriving in the colony and the free population back home. They were then contextualised within the punishment system, economy, and culture that they were thrust into by their forced movement to Australia. This allowed an understanding of whether juvenile convicts transported to VDL were able to have ‘settled’ lives. A settled life is not simple to determine. However, certain aspects surrounding the formation of relationships, employment and desistance from crime all point to one. This does not mean climbing the social and economic spectrum of society but rather the formation of a stable and normal working-class life free from crime. Using data-linkage of criminal and non-criminal records, individual lives were traced beyond the circumstances of their offending through to their punishment period, and their lives upon release. By looking at how the different factors interacted in supporting or inhibiting a settled life, and what the lasting impact of the experience of being transported to a penal colony, during youth, was - the lives of these juveniles can be better understood. Going beyond the institution and focusing directly on female and male juveniles was important in understanding the lives of this unique group. While in some ways juveniles were treated the same, and experienced the same, as adults in this period, this thesis has highlighted that in many ways they were not, and did not. Moreover, this affected their life-outcomes in terms of experience, economic attainment, familial life and mortality.
The Effect of Background Music on the Level of Independence in Students with Autism
Creators: name: Branco, Judy A.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Autism
subject: Music
subject: Prompting
subject: Special education
subject: Asperger's syndrome
subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: The premise of this study was to investigate the effect of music being played, on the level of independence children with Autism demonstrate as they work in the classroom. The participants in the study were a group of ten students in third through fifth grades in a public school, who are all diagnosed with Autism and receiving special education services. The data was collected on a daily basis by indicating the level of prompt each student needed as they completed daily work at their desks, while listening to classical music. Over a period of one school month results showed that there was no significant difference between the level of independence of students with Autism during their designated work time, and music played in the background. Playing classical music did not have an impact on helping students with Autism work independently.
Quantum Physics and Human Language
Creators: name: Hartle, James B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Human languages employ constructions that tacitly assume specific properties of the limited range of phenomena they evolved to describe. These assumed properties are true features of that limited context, but may not be general or precise properties of all the physical situations allowed by fundamental physics. In brief, human languages contain `excess baggage' that must be qualified, discarded, or otherwise reformed to give a clear account in the context of fundamental physics of even the everyday phenomena that the languages evolved to describe. The surest route to clarity is to express the constructions of human languages in the language of fundamental physical theory, not the other way around. These ideas are illustrated by an analysis of the verb `to happen' and the word `reality' in special relativity and the modern quantum mechanics of closed systems.
description: Contribution to the festschrift for G.C. Ghirardi on his 70th Birthday, minor corrections
Sustained Kozai-Lidov oscillations in misaligned circumstellar gas disks
Creators: name: Smallwood, Jeremy L.
name: Martin, Rebecca G.
name: Lubow, Stephen H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A disk around one component of a binary star system with sufficiently high inclination can undergo Kozai-Lidov (KL) oscillations during which the disk inclination and disk eccentricity are exchanged. Previous studies show that without a source of accretion, KL unstable disks exhibit damped oscillations, due to viscous dissipation, that leave the disk stable near or below the critical inclination for KL oscillations. With three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations we show that a highly misaligned circumbinary disk that flows onto the binary components forms highly inclined circumstellar disks around each component. We show that a continuous infall of highly inclined material allows the KL oscillations to continue. The KL disk oscillations produce shocks and eccentricity growth in the circumstellar disks that affect the conditions for planet formation.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures, Accepted to ApJL
The Effects of NCAA Division III Athletic Departments Hiring Fulltime Soccer Coaching Staffs On The Programs’ Win Percentage
Creators: name: Grant, Kelly
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Athletics
subject: Coach
subject: NCAA
subject: Fulltime employee
subject: Part-time employee
subject: Win percentage
subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: The purpose of this study was to determine if hiring fulltime coaching staffs for Landmark Conference soccer teams would have an effect on the teams' win and loss record. The measurement tools used were the Equity in Athletics Data Analysis Cutting Tool and each team's personal athletic website. The results concluded that there was no significant correlation between the total number of coaches on staff and win percentage and no correlation between the number of fulltime coaches and games won. Research in this area should continue since there is very limited data on the productiveness of having fulltime athletic coaches verse part time coaches.
The Effects of Self-Selected Reading on the Reading Comprehension Level of Children of Poverty in an Eleventh Grade Classroom
Creators: name: Whitley, Brian
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Poverty
subject: Reading comprehension
subject: Self-selected reading
subject: College placement
subject: Low SES
subject: Test scores
subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: The purpose of this study was to determine whether monitored, self-selected reading would affect the reading achievement of 11th grade children of poverty. The measurement tool was the reading comprehension portion of the Accuplacer Test taken online. This study was a quasi-experimental design that involved the use of a pretest/posttest strategy to compare data over an eight-week period of intervention. Achievement gains were significant, although other factors may have impacted the results. More research into implementing this low-cost intervention for students of poverty should be investigated as the need to prepare students for the rigors of college becomes more important as more and more jobs are now requiring higher levels of education.
Strong Lensing in Abell 1703: Constraints on the Slope of the Inner Dark Matter Distribution
Creators: name: Limousin, M.
name: Richard, J.
name: Kneib, J. -P.
name: Brink, H.
name: Pello, R.
name: Jullo, E.
name: Tu, H.
name: Sommer-Larsen, J.
name: Egami, E.
name: Michalowski, M. J.
name: Cabanac, R.
name: Stark, D. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this article, we apply strong lensing techniques in Abell 1703, a massive X-ray luminous galaxy cluster at z=0.28. Our analysis is based on imaging data both from space and ground in 8 bands, complemented with a spectroscopic survey. Abell 1703 looks rather circular from the general shape of its multiply imaged systems and present a dominant giant elliptical cD galaxy in its centre. This cluster exhibits a remarkable bright 'central ring' formed by 4 bright images at z_{spec}=0.888 located very close to the cD galaxy, providing observational constraints that are potentially very interesting to probe the central mass distribution. The stellar contribution from the cD galaxy (~1.25 10^{12} M_{sun} within 7") is accounted for in our parametric mass modelling, and the underlying smooth dark matter component distribution is described using a generalized NFW profile parametrized with a central logarithmic slope α. We find that within the range where observational constraints are present (from ~5" to ~50"), the slope of the dark matter distribution in Abell1703 is equal to 1.09^{+0.05}_{-0.11} (3σconfidence level). The concentration parameter is equal to c_{200} ~ 3.5, and the scale radius is constrained to be larger than the region where observational constraints are available. Within this radius, the 2D mass is equal to M(50")=2.4 10^{14} M_{\sun}. We cannot draw any conclusions on cosmological models at this point since we lack results from realistic numerical simulations containing baryons to make a proper comparison. We advocate the need for a sample of observed and simulated unimodal relaxed galaxy clusters in order to make reliable comparisons, and potentially provide a test of cosmological models.
description: Accepted for publication, conclusion unchanged but strengthened by a serie of tests suggested by a constructive referee report. Higher resolution available at http://www.dark-cosmology.dk/~marceau/1703.php.html
Lightweight Multi-Branch Network for Person Re-Identification
Creators: name: Herzog, Fabian
name: Ji, Xunbo
name: Teepe, Torben
name: Hörmann, Stefan
name: Gilg, Johannes
name: Rigoll, Gerhard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Person Re-Identification aims to retrieve person identities from images captured by multiple cameras or the same cameras in different time instances and locations. Because of its importance in many vision applications from surveillance to human-machine interaction, person re-identification methods need to be reliable and fast. While more and more deep architectures are proposed for increasing performance, those methods also increase overall model complexity. This paper proposes a lightweight network that combines global, part-based, and channel features in a unified multi-branch architecture that builds on the resource-efficient OSNet backbone. Using a well-founded combination of training techniques and design choices, our final model achieves state-of-the-art results on CUHK03 labeled, CUHK03 detected, and Market-1501 with 85.1% mAP / 87.2% rank1, 82.4% mAP / 84.9% rank1, and 91.5% mAP / 96.3% rank1, respectively.
description: 5 pages, 1 figure
Minutes of meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Winfield & Okanagan Centre Irrigation District, July 8, 1931
Creators: name: Trustees Of The Winfield And Okanagan Centre Irrigation District
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Minutes of meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Winfield & Okanagan Centre Irrigation District, July 8, 1931, regarding the Conservation Fund Loan and Crooked Lake construction.
Delayed (sudden) birth of entanglement
Creators: name: Ficek, Z.
name: Tanas, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The concept of time delayed creation of entanglement by the dissipative process of spontaneous emission is investigated. A threshold effect for the creation of entanglement is found that the initially unentangled qubits can be entangled after a finite time despite the fact that the coherence between the qubits exists for all times. This delayed creation of entanglement, that we call sudden birth of entanglement, is opposite to the currently extensively discussed sudden death of entanglement and is characteristic for transient dynamics of one-photon entangled states of the system. We determine the threshold time for the creation of entanglement and find that it is related to time at which the antisymmetric state remains the only excited state being populated. It is shown that the threshold time can be controlled by the distance between the qubits and the direction of initial excitation relative to the interatomic axis. This effect suggests a new alternative for the study of entanglement and provides an interesting resource for creation on demand of entanglement between two qubits.
description: References added, version accepted for publication in PRA
Verb paradigm elicitation: 'to look after'
Creators: name: Parker, Verdena
name: Spence, Justin
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: hup

description: Audio file VP-121221-05: Paradigm elicitation for the verb 'to look after', varying aspect/mode and the person and number of subject and object.
Non-perturbative Quantization of Phantom and Ghost Theories: Relating Definite and Indefinite Representations
Creators: name: van Tonder, André
name: Dorca, Miquel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the non-perturbative quantization of phantom and ghost degrees of freedom by relating their representations in definite and indefinite inner product spaces. For a large class of potentials, we argue that the same physical information can be extracted from either representation. We provide a definition of the path integral for these theories, even in cases where the integrand may be exponentially unbounded, thereby removing some previous obstacles to their non-perturbative study. We apply our results to the study of ghost fields of Pauli-Villars and Lee-Wick type, and we show in the context of a toy model how to derive, from an exact non-perturbative path integral calculation, previously ad hoc prescriptions for Feynman diagram contour integrals in the presence of complex energies. We point out that the pole prescriptions obtained in ghost theories are opposite to what would have been expected if one had added conventional $iε$ convergence factors in the path integral.
description: 56 pages, Latex2e, minor edits, to appear in IJMPA
Attitudes of Coaches and Athletes: The Impact of Attitudes on Concussions in Athletics
Creators: name: Valone, Stacie
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Concussions
subject: Athletes
subject: Coaches
subject: Education
subject: Knowledge
subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: The purpose of this study was to explore coaches and athletes understanding of
concussions and comparing what coaches and athletes themselves say about concussions.
This study involved the use of surveys designed specifically towards athletes and coaches
about the awareness, diagnosis and educational background of concussions. Research in
this area should continue as there is very little information available regarding
educational implications of coaches and athletes about concussions.
BDDC by a frontal solver and the stress computation in a hip joint replacement
Creators: name: Šístek, Jakub
name: Novotný, Jaroslav
name: Mandel, Jan
name: Čertíková, Marta
name: Burda, Pavel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65N55

description: A parallel implementation of the BDDC method using the frontal solver is employed to solve systems of linear equations from finite element analysis, and incorporated into a standard finite element system for engineering analysis by linear elasticity. Results of computation of stress in a hip replacement are presented. The part is made of titanium and loaded by the weight of human body. The performance of BDDC with added constraints by averages and with added corners is compared.
description: Expanded, 22 pages, 8 figures
An integrated model of the development of process-induced deformation in autoclave processing of composite structures
Creators: name: Johnston, Andrew A.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Manufacture of large composite structures presents a number of challenges, one of the most critical of which is prediction and control of process-induced deformation. Traditional empirical techniques for tooling and process cycle development are particularly unsuitable for large parts, especially when development costs and process variability are key issues. Thus, there is a critical need to supplement current techniques with a science-based manufacturing approach. In the present work, a two-dimensional finite element model for prediction of process-induced deformation has been developed. Integration of this model with analyses for heat transfer and resin cure and resin flow allows analysis of all major identified deformation sources. A 'virtual autoclave' concept is employed in which autoclave control algorithms and autoclave response are simulated to predict structure boundary conditions during processing. Characterization of a carbon fibre/epoxy composite is performed and models developed to describe material behaviour during processing. An examination of autoclave heat transfer is also performed and a model developed for the observed effect of pressure on heat transfer rates. Using these data as inputs, the process model is demonstrated through application to three case studies of varying complexity. In each, model predictions are compared to experimental results and the predicted sensitivity of processing outcomes to process parameter variation is examined. A good match between model predictions and experimental results was obtained in most cases. The developed model is expected to perform two complementary roles. First, the ability to analyse structures of practical size and complexity makes the model a potentially useful process-development tool for the industrial composites processor. Also, the integration of analyses for all major deformation sources allows examination of parameter interaction, potentially driving fundamental research into deformation mechanisms and the development of improved material behavioural models.
TECHNOLOGY FOR THE EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF PRESCHOOL CHILDREN THROUGH PLAY
Creators: name: Odilova, Barnoxon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Preschool education is an educational organization that has an important responsibility for raising children as a mature developed person and comprehensively developing the young generation of knowledge and values that determine the whole future of the child. The game is the main activity of children of preschool age , through which the child is formed as a person.
CMB and Matter Power Spectra of Early f(R) Cosmology in Palatini Formalism
Creators: name: Li, Baojiu
name: Chu, Ming-Chung
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate in this article the CMB and matter power spectra of a class of early $f(R)$ cosmologies, which takes the form of $f(R) = R + λ_1 H_0^2\text{exp}[R/(λ_2 H_0^2)]$. Unlike the late-time $f(R)$ cosmologies such as $f(R) = R + α(-R)^β$ ($β<0$), the deviation from $Λ\text{CDM}$ of this model occurs at a higher redshift (thus the name \emph{Early $f(R)$ Cosmology}), and this important feature leads to rather different ISW effect and CMB spectrum. The matter power spectrum of this model is, at the same time, again very sensitive to the chosen parameters, and LSS observations such as SDSS should constrain the parameter space stringently. We expect that our results are applicable at least qualitatively to other models that produce $f(R)$ modification to GR at earlier times (\emph{e.g.}, redshifts $\mathcal{O}(10) \lesssim z \lesssim \mathcal{O}(1)$) than when dark energy begins to dominate -- such models are strongly disfavored by data on CMB and matter power spectra.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures; accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D
The Effect of Focused Attention Span on Overall Academic Achievement
Creators: name: Stasch, Kiley
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: First grade
subject: Attention
subject: Focus
subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: The study focused on the effect of in-class exercise prior to a lesson on first graders’ attention
span. The null hypothesis was that exercise would not significantly alter the student’s ability to
maintain a longer attention span during the subsequent lesson. The subjects in this study were
eight first grade students, six boys and two girls. Four of the boys were Caucasian; two were
African American. One of the girls was Caucasian and the other was African American. Tallies
were used to collect data through in class observation of predetermined “off-task” behaviors,
including calling out, getting out of their seat, talking to a neighbor, etc. Data was then compared
between the lesson observed following a class-led exercise break and the lesson observed
without exercise implemented at any point. The null hypothesis was rejected and the findings
concluded that class-led exercise prior to a lesson did significantly reduce students’ observed
“off-task” behaviors.
Update on g-mode research
Creators: name: Garcia, R. A.
name: Jimenez, A.
name: Mathur, S.
name: Ballot, J.
name: Eff-Darwich, A.
name: Jimenez-Reyes, S. J.
name: Palle, P. L.
name: Provost, J.
name: Turck-Chieze, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Since the beginning of this century we have attended a blooming of the gravity-mode research thanks to the unprecedented quality of the data available, either from space with SoHO, or from the ground-based networks as BiSON or GONG. From the first upper limit of the gravity-mode amplitudes fixed at 10 mm/s at 200 microHz given by Appourchaux et al. (2000), on one hand, a peak was supposed to be a component of the l=1, n=1 mixed mode (Garcia et al. 2001a, b; Gabriel et al. 2002) and, on the other hand, a couple of patterns --multiplets-- were attributed to gravity modes (Turck-Chieze et al. 2004; Mathur et al. 2007). One of these patterns, found around 220 microHz, could be labeled as the l=2, n =-3 g mode, which is expected to be the one with the highest surface amplitude (Cox and Guzik 2004). Finally, in 2007, Garcia et al. were able to measure the fingertips of the dipole gravity modes looking for their asymptotic properties. In the present paper we present an update of the recent developments on this subject with special attention to the 220 microHz region, the dipole asymptotic properties and the impact of the incoming g-mode observations on the knowledge of the solar structure and rotation profile.
description: Paper accepted for publication in Astronomische Nachrichten. 9 pages, 8 figures
Fitting Population PBPK models with Quasi-Random Parametric EM Algorithm (QRPEM) and the Nonparametric Adaptive Grid Method (NPAG) of the Simcyp Simulator and comparison with Bayesian MCMC and HMCMC
Creators: name: Wedagadera, J.
name: Afuape A.
name: Chirumamilla, S.K.
name: Momiji, H.
name: Leary, R.
name: Dunlavey, M.
name: Bois, F.Y.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Population pharmacokinetics
PBPK model
Bayesian inference

description: We compare the results of fitting a physiologically-based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) model to a classical theophylline dataset [1] with frequentist parametric and non-parametric asymptotic methods (QRPEM: Quasi Random Parametric EM [2, 3] and NPAG: Non-parametric Adaptive Grid [4]), and two Bayesian numerical samplers: Metropolis-Hastings Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) [5] and Hamiltonian Markov chain Monte Carlo (HMCMC) [6]. QRPEM and NPAG, as implemented in the Simcyp Simulator version 19, gave consistent population and individual parameter estimates and were in reasonable agreement with HMCMC or MCMC estimates. The run-times of both QRPEM and NPAG estimations were similar to those with HMCMC. MCMC simulations ran much faster, partly because they were not tasked with estimating the full population covariance matrix.
Exchange-controlled single-electron-spin rotations in quantum dots
Creators: name: Coish, W. A.
name: Loss, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show theoretically that arbitrary coherent rotations can be performed quickly (with a gating time ~1 ns) and with high fidelity on the spin of a single confined electron using control of exchange only, without the need for spin-orbit coupling or ac fields. We expect that implementations of this scheme would achieve gate error rates on the order of η~ 10^{-3} in GaAs quantum dots, within reach of several known error-correction protocols
description: 4+ pages, 3 figures; v2: Streamlined presentation, final version published in PRB (Rapid Comm.)
An XMM-Newton study of the environments, particle content and impact of low-power radio galaxies
Creators: name: Croston, J. H.
name: Hardcastle, M. J.
name: Birkinshaw, M.
name: Worrall, D. M.
name: Laing, R. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a detailed study of the environments of a sample of nine low-power radio galaxies, based on new and archival XMM-Newton observations. We report new detections of group-scale environments around three radio galaxies, 3C 296, NGC 1044 and 3C 76.1. As with previous studies, we find that FR-I radio galaxies inhabit group environments ranging over nearly two orders of magnitude in bolometric X-ray luminosity, but find no evidence for a tight relationship between large-scale X-ray environment and radio-source properties such as size, radio luminosity, and axial ratio. We confirm earlier work showing that equipartition internal pressures are typically lower than the external pressures acting on the radio lobes, so that additional non-radiating particles must be present or the lobes must be magnetically dominated. We present the first direct observational evidence that entrainment may provide this missing pressure, in the form of a relationship between radio-source structure and apparent pressure imbalance. Finally, our study provides further support for the presence of an apparent temperature excess in radio-loud groups compared to the group population as a whole. For five of eight temperature excesses, the energy required to inflate the radio lobes is comparable to the energy required to produce this excess by heating of the group gas; however, in three cases the current radio source appears too weak to produce the temperature excess. It remains unclear whether the temperature excess can be directly associated with the current phase of AGN activity, or whether it is instead either a signature of previous AGN activity or simply an indicator of the particular set of group properties most conducive to the growth of an FR-I radio galaxy.
description: 21 pages, 13 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS. Version with higher resolution figures available from http://hercules.herts.ac.uk/~jcroston/xmmfris.pdf
Design for fracture control and the mechanical properties of the equine hoof wall
Creators: name: Kasapi, Mario Agamemnon
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Morphological and mechanical studies were conducted on the equine hoof wall to help elucidate the relationship between form and function of this complex, hierarchically organized structure. Numerous levels of the morphological hierarchy were investigated to ascertain the functional significance (if any) of each level, and to determine if the presence of any levels reflect manufacturing limitations. Mechanical tests included tensile, fracture and dynamic tests; morphological studies utilized scanning electron, bright field, and polarized light (using both circularly and plane polarized light) microscopy. A universal stage was utilized to permit the accurate determination of fiber orientation in three dimensions. Mechanical tests indicate that the fracture toughness of hoof wall is independent of loading rate, and the wall is highly resistant to the propagation of cracks initiated in all directions tested here. Cracks initiated along potentially dangerous paths appear to be redirected by morphological crack diversion mechanisms formed by specific alignments of α-keratin intermediate filaments. Hoof wall structure at all levels may be explained in terms of fracture control, suggesting that the evolution of hoof wall design has been driven primarily by fracture issues. To avoid compromising the effective transfer of loads to the bony skeletal elements which may otherwise result from crack diversion mechanisms, the properties of α-keratin have been adjusted through the wall thickness. Although inner wall tubules appear to offer some degree of reinforcement, the similarities in mechanical properties of α-keratin from cells of tubules and intertubular material (which form the hoof wall) from the same area of the wall, suggest that these elements are not analogous to fibers and matrix (respectively) of typical composites, but are instead necessary for the proper alignment of intermediate filaments in the hoof wall. Empirical and derived data suggest that the production of hollow (rather than solid) structures is likely the reflection of a manufacturing limitation.
Re-transcription of unpublished Whilkut texts
Creators: name: Parker, Verdena
name: Spence, Justin
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: hup

description: Audio file VP-121221-04: Re-transcription and translation of Whilkut texts transcribed by P.E. Goddard, American Philosophical Society Na20j.1, notebook #7, pp. 21-22.
One-Particle Anomalous Excitations of Gutzwiller Projected BCS Superconductors and Bogoliubov Quasi-Particle Characteristics
Creators: name: Yunoki, Seiji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Low-lying one-particle anomalous excitations are studied for Gutzwiller projected strongly correlated BCS states. It is found that the one-particle anomalous excitations are highly coherent, and the numerically calculated spectrum can be reproduced quantitatively by a renormalized BCS theory, thus strongly indicating that the nature of low-lying excitations described by the projected BCS states is essentially understood within a renormalized Bogoliubov quasi-particle picture. This finding resembles a well known fact that a Gutzwiller projected Fermi gas is a Fermi liquid. The present results are consistent with numerically exact calculations of the two-dimensional t-J model as well as recent photoemission experiments on high-T_{\rm C} cuprate superconductors.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. B 74, 180504(R) (2006)
The radiative efficiency of neutron stars at low-level accretion
Creators: name: Qiao, Erlin
name: Liu, B. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: When neutrons star low-mass X-ray binaries (NS-LMXBs) are in the low-level accretion regime (i.e., $L_{\rm X}\lesssim 10^{36}\ \rm erg\ s^{-1}$), the accretion flow in the inner region around the NS is expected to be existed in the form of the hot accretion flow, e.g., the advection-dominated accretion flow (ADAF) as that in black hole X-ray binaries. Following our previous studies in Qiao $\&$ Liu 2020a and 2020b on the ADAF accretion around NSs, in this paper, we investigate the radiative efficiency of NSs with an ADAF accretion in detail, showing that the radiative efficiency of NSs with an ADAF accretion is much lower than that of $ε\sim {\dot M GM\over R_{*}}/{\dot M c^2}\sim 0.2$ despite the existence of the hard surface. As a result, given a X-ray luminosity $L_{\rm X}$ (e.g., between 0.5 and 10 keV), $\dot M$ calculated by $\dot M=L_{\rm X}{R_{*}\over {GM}}$ is lower than the real $\dot M$ calculated within the framework of the ADAF accretion. The real $\dot M$ can be more than two orders of magnitude higher than that of calculated by $\dot M=L_{\rm X}{R_{*}\over {GM}}$ with appropriate model parameters. Finally, we discuss that if applicable, the model of ADAF accretion around a NS can be applied to explain the observed millisecond X-ray pulsation in some NS-LMXBs (such as PSR J1023+0038, XSS J12270-4859 and IGR J17379-3747) at a lower X-ray luminosity of a few times of $10^{33}\ \rm erg\ s^{-1}$, since at this X-ray luminosity the calculated $\dot M$ with the model of ADAF accretion can be high enough to drive a fraction of the matter in the accretion flow to be channelled onto the surface of the NS forming the X-ray pulsation.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication by MNRAS
Encouraging Mastery in the Classroom: The Effect of Goal Orientation on Academic Performance
Creators: name: Stec, Ginger
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Goal orientation growth mindset
subject: Fixed mindset
subject: Mastery motivation
subject: Performance motivation
subject: Self-efficacy
subject: Mindsets
subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: The purposes of this study were to determine whether a relationship exists between students’ goal orientation (performance or mastery) and their performance on written English Language Arts (ELA) responses to reading passages and to determine whether students’ mindsets could be influenced through direct teaching about the mind’s ability to grow and through offering feedback highlighting specific improvements made and suggesting targets for improvement. The mindset of 23 third graders from a Maryland public school was assessed using a self-report questionnaire. Students then were then randomly assigned to matched control and treatment groups containing students of mastery and performance goal orientation. Students’ initial ELA scores were correlated with self-ratings of goal orientation to determine whether goal orientation significantly related to success on the ELA tasks.
In an effort to foster mastery orientation, over the course of four weeks, students in the treatment group were shown a series of slideshows about the brain’s ability to grow. After completing written assignments, students in the treatment group were provided written feedback, reflected on their work and set learning goals using a standardized form and process. Students in the control group received feedback in the usual way and were not shown the slideshows.
No significant correlation was found between students’ initial goal orientations and performance on written responses. The null hypotheses that changes mindset ratings of the initially performance oriented students in the treatment and control groups would not differ and that the gains in ELA scores of the initially performance- oriented students in the treatment and control group would not differ also were retained. Further research regarding the development of mastery orientation and the relationship between mindset and achievement appears to be warranted.
Oxytricha ottowi Foissner 1996
Creators: name: Durán-Ramírez, Carlos Alberto
name: Dias, Roberto Júnio Pedroso
name: Estrada, Rosaura Mayén-
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Chromista
Ciliophora
Hypotrichea
Oxytrichida
Oxytrichidae
Oxytricha
Oxytricha ottowi

description: Oxytricha ottowi 2 Foissner, 1996
Distribution. BRAZIL: (Dunthorn et al. 2012). JAMAICA: (Dunthorn et al. 2012).
description: Published as part of Durán-Ramírez, Carlos Alberto, Dias, Roberto Júnio Pedroso & Estrada, Rosaura Mayén-, 2020, Checklist of ciliates (Alveolata: Ciliophora) that inhabit in bromeliads from the Neotropical Region, pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 4895 (1) on page 10, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4895.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4321437
Charge collection properties of TowerJazz 180 nm CMOS Pixel Sensors in dependence of pixel geometries and bias parameters, studied using a dedicated test-vehicle: the Investigator chip
Creators: name: Rinella, G. Aglieri
name: Chaosong, G.
name: di Mauro, A.
name: Eum, J.
name: Hillemanns, H.
name: Junique, A.
name: Keil, M.
name: Kim, D.
name: Kim, H.
name: Kugathasan, T.
name: Lee, S.
name: Mager, M.
name: Manzari, V.
name: Tobon, C. A. Marin
name: Martinengo, P.
name: Mugnier, H.
name: Musa, L.
name: Reidt, F.
name: Rousset, J.
name: Sielewicz, K.
name: Snoeys, W.
name: Šuljić, M.
name: van Hoorne, J. W.
name: Waheed, Q. M.
name: Yang, P.
name: Yoo, I. -K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper contains a compilation of parameters influencing the charge collection process extracted from a comprehensive study of partially depleted Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors with small (<25 um$^2$) collection electrodes fabricated in the TowerJazz 180 nm CMOS process. These results gave guidance for the optimisation of the diode implemented in ALPIDE, the chip used in the second generation Inner Tracking System of ALICE, and serve as reference for future simulation studies of similar devices. The studied parameters include: reverse substrate bias, epitaxial layer thickness, charge collection electrode size and the spacing of the electrode to surrounding in-pixel electronics. The results from pixels of 28 um pitch confirm that even in partially depleted circuits, charge collection can be fast (<10 ns), and quantify the influence of the parameters onto the signal sharing and amplitudes, highlighting the importance of a correct spacing between wells and of the impact of the reverse substrate bias.
Minutes of meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Winfield & Okanagan Centre Irrigation District, July 21, 1931
Creators: name: Trustees Of The Winfield And Okanagan Centre Irrigation District
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Minutes of meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Winfield & Okanagan Centre Irrigation District, July 21, 1931, regarding building the flume and irrigation water.
Nonlocal operator basis from the path representation of the M(k+1,k+2) and the M(k+1,2k+3) minimal models
Creators: name: Jacob, P.
name: Mathieu, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We reinterpret a path describing a state in an irreducible module of the unitary minimal model M(k+1,k+2) in terms of a string of charged operators acting on the module's ground-state path. Each such operator acts non-locally on a path. The path characteristics are then translated into a set of conditions on sequences of operators that provide an operator basis. As an application, we re-derive the vacuum finite fermionic character by constructing the generating function of these basis states. These results generalize directly to the M(k+1,2k+3) models, the close relatives of the unitary models in terms of path description.
description: 22 pages, new title and abstract; section 1 rewritten and section 2.2 improved; version to appear in J. Phys. A