cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Catholic Church in Haiti and recent political and social change
Creators: name: Greene, J. Anne
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation examines the history of the Catholic Church in Haiti, focusing on Church-State relations during the regime of President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier (1971-1986). The Church in Haiti generally supported the government in power. The movement against Duvalier, however, was different; the Church provided the leadership and moral authority for Haitians to overthrow Jean-Claude Duvalier on 7 February 1986. The changes that led the Church from acquiescence to activism are the consequence of both internal and external factors. As the initially weak and foreign-dominated institution grew stronger and increasingly Haitian, it adopted a new sense of mission. Ideas stemming from the Bishops' Meetings at Medellin, Colombia and Puebla, Mexico, Vatican II, and the visit of the Pope to Haiti, contributed to the change. We conclude that restrictions on civil liberties, economic decline, religious and racial friction, and the dichotomy between government promises and reality created tensions that produced a revolutionary climate in Haiti. Increasingly deprived of other outlets to vent frustration and express its moral outrage, the Haitian public turned to the Church as a mechanism for dealing with the government. Conscious of a need to redress the past and motivated by the new ideas, a significant sector of the Church, with its well-established systems of communication, became the leading institutional vehicle for the expression of discontent and, ultimately, a champion for change.
An Empirical study of the Economic Effects of Climate Change on World Agriculture
Creators: name: Kane, Sally
name: Reilly, John
name: Tobey, James
name: Kane, Sally
name: Reilly, John
name: Tobey, James
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Environmental Economics and Policy

description: The economic effects of a doubling of carbon dioxide levels on world agriculture under what are termed "optimistic" and "pessimistic" crop response scenarios are empirically estimated. These effects include both changes in the prices of agricultural commodities as a result of changes in domestic agricultural yields, and changes in economic welfare following altered pricing and trade patterns of agricultural commodities. Under both scenarios, with a few exceptions, the effects on national economic welfare are found to be quite modest. However, prices of agricultural commodities are estimated to rise considerably under the pessimistic scenario. Increased agricultural prices reduce consumer surplus and diminish the benefits from climate change that some countries with predicted positive yield effects would otherwise receive.
Soba Expedition. Preliminary report on the season of fieldwork conducted in 2019-2020
Creators: name: Drzewiecki, Mariusz
name: Ryndziewicz, Robert
name: Michalik, Tomasz
name: Ciesielska, Joanna
name: Czyżewska-Zalewska, Ewa
name: Kurcz, Maciej
name: Hassan, Mokhtar Maali Alden Mokhtar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Archaeology
subject: 210103 Archaeology of Asia, Africa and the Americas
subject: FOS: History and archaeology

description: The preliminary report from fieldwork conducted in 2019-2020 at Soba East (remains of the capital city of the medieval kingdom of Alwa). The report was written for the National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums of Sudan in January 2020.
The Catholic Church in Haiti and recent political and social change
Creators: name: Greene, J. Anne
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: This dissertation examines the history of the Catholic Church in Haiti, focusing on Church-State relations during the regime of President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier (1971-1986). The Church in Haiti generally supported the government in power. The movement against Duvalier, however, was different; the Church provided the leadership and moral authority for Haitians to overthrow Jean-Claude Duvalier on 7 February 1986. The changes that led the Church from acquiescence to activism are the consequence of both internal and external factors. As the initially weak and foreign-dominated institution grew stronger and increasingly Haitian, it adopted a new sense of mission. Ideas stemming from the Bishops' Meetings at Medellin, Colombia and Puebla, Mexico, Vatican II, and the visit of the Pope to Haiti, contributed to the change. We conclude that restrictions on civil liberties, economic decline, religious and racial friction, and the dichotomy between government promises and reality created tensions that produced a revolutionary climate in Haiti. Increasingly deprived of other outlets to vent frustration and express its moral outrage, the Haitian public turned to the Church as a mechanism for dealing with the government. Conscious of a need to redress the past and motivated by the new ideas, a significant sector of the Church, with its well-established systems of communication, became the leading institutional vehicle for the expression of discontent and, ultimately, a champion for change.
Diagonals between $\mathcal{Q}$-distributors
Creators: name: Shen, Lili
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 18D20, 18A40

description: For a small quantaloid $\mathcal{Q}$, it is shown that the category of $\mathcal{Q}$-distributors and diagonals is equivalent to a quotient category of the category of $\mathcal{Q}$-interior spaces and continuous $\mathcal{Q}$-distributors. Kan adjunctions induced by $\mathcal{Q}$-distributors play a crucial role in establishing this equivalence.
description: 20 pages, final version
Rhetoric and reality: The Eisenhower Administration and unrest in Eastern Europe, 1953-1959
Creators: name: Marchio, James David
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 43
subject: History, heritage and archaeology
classificationCode: 4303
subject: Historical studies

description: Despite keen American interest in the political upheaval that has periodically erupted behind the Iron Curtain over the last thirty years, scholars have produced few works that systematically analyze U.S. policies in response to these events. Moreover, those studies completed have been limited by the lack of access to important national security memoranda. This dissertation attempts to partially fill this gap by using recently declassified materials to explore the Eisenhower Administration's policies toward Eastern Europe and the issue of unrest. It examines the U.S. response to the 1953 East German uprising, the Poznan riots three years later, and the explosions in Poland and in Hungary during the fall of 1956 to discover what the Eisenhower Administration was trying to accomplish and why. What is found suggests a lot more substance and coherence to the Eisenhower Administration's policies than previously thought. Talk of liberation was more than mere election year rhetoric directed at ethnic voters. Following the East German uprising, a loosely defined operational strategy was devised, incorporating elements of the "liberation" policy espoused by the Republicans, that guided U.S. actions in Eastern Europe for the next three years. This strategy sought to weaken the war fighting capabilities of the USSR at the same time that it improved living conditions for the "captive peoples" and contributed to the region's eventual liberation. Humanitarian and economic aid, covert operations, psychological warfare, and rhetoric were all used to "pressure" Eastern Europe and accelerate change. Despite its seeming coherency, the Eisenhower Administration's strategy toward Eastern Europe and unrest was flawed, both in conception and implementation. For what contributed to the administration's success ultimately was its undoing. The ambiguity that surrounded the administration's policies, and particularly its rhetoric, helped maintain the "spirit of resistance" behind the Iron Curtain; but the military support it implied also contributed to the bloodshed in East Germany and Hungary. Walking the fine line between encouragement and incitement was an inherently dangerous policy that was beyond the willingness and capabilities of the Eisenhower Administration to support. After Hungary, the United States pursued similar goals in less dangerous ways.
Special Geometry of Euclidean Supersymmetry I: Vector Multiplets
Creators: name: Cortes, Vicente
name: Mayer, Christoph
name: Mohaupt, Thomas
name: Saueressig, Frank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We construct the general action for Abelian vector multiplets in rigid 4-dimensional Euclidean (instead of Minkowskian) N=2 supersymmetry, i.e., over space-times with a positive definite instead of a Lorentzian metric. The target manifolds for the scalar fields turn out to be para-complex manifolds endowed with a particular kind of special geometry, which we call affine special para-Kahler geometry. We give a precise definition and develop the mathematical theory of such manifolds. The relation to the affine special Kahler manifolds appearing in Minkowskian N=2 supersymmetry is discussed. Starting from the general 5-dimensional vector multiplet action we consider dimensional reduction over time and space in parallel, providing a dictionary between the resulting Euclidean and Minkowskian theories. Then we reanalyze supersymmetry in four dimensions and find that any (para-)holomorphic prepotential defines a supersymmetric Lagrangian, provided that we add a specific four-fermion term, which cannot be obtained by dimensional reduction. We show that the Euclidean action and supersymmetry transformations, when written in terms of para-holomorphic coordinates, take exactly the same form as their Minkowskian counterparts. The appearance of a para-complex and complex structure in the Euclidean and Minkowskian theory, respectively, is traced back to properties of the underlying R-symmetry groups. Finally, we indicate how our work will be extended to other types of multiplets and to supergravity in the future and explain the relevance of this project for the study of instantons, solitons and cosmological solutions in supergravity and M-theory.
description: 74 pages
ENVIRONMENTAL AND FARM COMMODITY POLICY LINKAGES IN THE US AND EC
Creators: name: Abler, David G.
name: Shortle, James S.
name: Abler, David G.
name: Shortle, James S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Environmental Economics and Policy

description: This paper analyzes restrictions on agricultural chemicals in the US and EC under various farm commodity policy scenarios using a partial equilibrium simulation model. The model has three regions (US, EC, rest of the world) and four commodities (wheat, corn, coarse grain, soybeans). Medium- and long-run impacts are derived. Given existing farm programs, US landowners gain from chemical restrictions while EC ·1andowners generally lose. Given bilateral elimination of farm programs, both US and EC landowners gain from chemical restrictions. Bilateral farm program elimination without chemical restrictions induces a shift in chemical usage from the EC to the US.
Rhetoric and reality: The Eisenhower Administration and unrest in Eastern Europe, 1953-1959
Creators: name: Marchio, James David
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Despite keen American interest in the political upheaval that has periodically erupted behind the Iron Curtain over the last thirty years, scholars have produced few works that systematically analyze U.S. policies in response to these events. Moreover, those studies completed have been limited by the lack of access to important national security memoranda. This dissertation attempts to partially fill this gap by using recently declassified materials to explore the Eisenhower Administration's policies toward Eastern Europe and the issue of unrest. It examines the U.S. response to the 1953 East German uprising, the Poznan riots three years later, and the explosions in Poland and in Hungary during the fall of 1956 to discover what the Eisenhower Administration was trying to accomplish and why. What is found suggests a lot more substance and coherence to the Eisenhower Administration's policies than previously thought. Talk of liberation was more than mere election year rhetoric directed at ethnic voters. Following the East German uprising, a loosely defined operational strategy was devised, incorporating elements of the "liberation" policy espoused by the Republicans, that guided U.S. actions in Eastern Europe for the next three years. This strategy sought to weaken the war fighting capabilities of the USSR at the same time that it improved living conditions for the "captive peoples" and contributed to the region's eventual liberation. Humanitarian and economic aid, covert operations, psychological warfare, and rhetoric were all used to "pressure" Eastern Europe and accelerate change. Despite its seeming coherency, the Eisenhower Administration's strategy toward Eastern Europe and unrest was flawed, both in conception and implementation. For what contributed to the administration's success ultimately was its undoing. The ambiguity that surrounded the administration's policies, and particularly its rhetoric, helped maintain the "spirit of resistance" behind the Iron Curtain; but the military support it implied also contributed to the bloodshed in East Germany and Hungary. Walking the fine line between encouragement and incitement was an inherently dangerous policy that was beyond the willingness and capabilities of the Eisenhower Administration to support. After Hungary, the United States pursued similar goals in less dangerous ways.
Stabilization in the braid groups II: Transversal simplicity of knots
Creators: name: Birman, Joan S
name: Menasco, William W
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M25, 53C15, 57M50

description: The main result of this paper is a negative answer to the question: are all transversal knot types transversally simple? An explicit infinite family of examples is given of closed 3-braids that define transversal knot types that are not transversally simple. The method of proof is topological and indirect.
description: This is the version published by Geometry & Topology on 4 October 2006. Part I (arXiv:math/0310279) is also published in this volume
Erigorgus cerinops
Creators: name: Schnee, Heinz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Erigorgus
Erigorgus cerinops

description: Erigorgus cerinops (GRAVENHORST, 1807)
6 : „Köln“, „Thom.“, „Aachen“ und o. F.
 Im Gegensatz zu allen anderen europäischen Erigorgus -Arten, die im Frühjahr fliegen und monovoltin sind, ist E. cerinops eine bivoltine Art, deren Flugzeit sich von Juni bis Oktober erstreckt. Wichtigste Wirte sind die Erdraupen der Wintersaateule [Agrotis segetum (DENIS & SCHIFFERMÜLLER)] (Noctuidae).
description: Published as part of Schnee, Heinz, 2008, Die Anomaloninae der Sammlung A F - Typenrevision und faunistische Anmerkungen (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae), pp. 249-266 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 58 (2) on page 261, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.58.2.249-266, http://zenodo.org/record/4779375
The role of federal agency management information systems in dynamic, structured environments
Creators: name: Deller, Robert William
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The purpose of this dissertation was to investigate the factors influencing the use of public-sector management information systems (MIS) developed to support decision-makers responsible for structured tasks performed in dynamic environments. The investigation was based on propositions posed by Barry Bozeman and Stuart Bretschneider, John M. Stevens and Robert P. McGowan, and examined by Blake Ives, Eric Blaustein, and others. It also examined criticisms of MIS use in the public sector made by oversight agencies such as the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO). The research methodology utilized structured interviews administered to thirty-four management information officials in seven federal agencies. Interview data, agency documentation, and GAO reports were examined qualitatively. Interview data were also tested quantitatively through analyses of regressions and contingency tables. Some relationships were found between levels of user satisfaction and characteristics of MIS operational environments, participation in MIS, and decision-maker attitudes toward developers (ADP groups). Findings include (1) Organizational officials appeared to view their MISes as fulfilling their needs for information. The age of the system did not appear to influence that view. While government officials stated that they used their MISes for purposes other than decision support, none of the study variables appeared to influence such use. (2) Environmental change as a group variable did not appear to affect attitudes toward MIS. Testing environmental variables individually revealed a relationship between changes in MIS operation and satisfaction with MIS database quality. (3) User participation in MIS design appeared to influence satisfaction with database quality. (4) User control of MIS operations appeared to have had no effect upon whether the MIS was viewed as satisfactory. User attitudes toward ADP groups influenced user confidence in MIS output. (5) No relationship was found between support staff turnover and satisfaction with MIS.
A Determination of the CKM Parameter |Vus|
Creators: name: KTeV Collaboration
name: Alexopoulos, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a determination of the CKM parameter |Vus| based on new measurements of the six largest KL branching fractions and semileptonic form factors by the KTeV (E832) experiment at Fermilab. We find |Vus| = 0.2252 +- 0.0008(KTeV) +- 0.0021(ext), where the errors are from KTeV measurements and from external sources. We also use the measured branching fractions to determine the CP violation parameter |eta+-| = [2.228 +- 0.005(KTeV) +- 0.009(ext)]E-3.
description: Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett.; 4 pages, 4 figures
ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY WHEN MARKET STRUCTURE AND PLANT LOCATIONS ARE ENDOGENOUS
Creators: name: Markusen, James R.
name: Olewiler, Nancy
name: Markusen, James R.
name: Olewiler, Nancy
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Environmental Economics and Policy

description: A two-region, two-firm model is developed in which firms choose the number and the regional locations of their plants. Both firms pollute and, in this context, market structure is endogenous to environmental policy. There are increasing returns at the plant level, imperfect competition between the "home" and the "foreign" firm, and transport costs between the two markets. These features imply that at critical levels of environmental policy variables, small policy changes cause large discrete jumps in a region's pollution ai:d welfare as a firm closes or opens a plant, or shifts production for the foreign region from/to the home-region plant to/from a foreign branch plant. The implications for optimal environmental policy differ significantly from those suggested by traditional Pigouvian marginal analysis.
The role of federal agency management information systems in dynamic, structured environments
Creators: name: Deller, Robert William
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4407
subject: Policy and administration

description: The purpose of this dissertation was to investigate the factors influencing the use of public-sector management information systems (MIS) developed to support decision-makers responsible for structured tasks performed in dynamic environments. The investigation was based on propositions posed by Barry Bozeman and Stuart Bretschneider, John M. Stevens and Robert P. McGowan, and examined by Blake Ives, Eric Blaustein, and others. It also examined criticisms of MIS use in the public sector made by oversight agencies such as the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO). The research methodology utilized structured interviews administered to thirty-four management information officials in seven federal agencies. Interview data, agency documentation, and GAO reports were examined qualitatively. Interview data were also tested quantitatively through analyses of regressions and contingency tables. Some relationships were found between levels of user satisfaction and characteristics of MIS operational environments, participation in MIS, and decision-maker attitudes toward developers (ADP groups). Findings include (1) Organizational officials appeared to view their MISes as fulfilling their needs for information. The age of the system did not appear to influence that view. While government officials stated that they used their MISes for purposes other than decision support, none of the study variables appeared to influence such use. (2) Environmental change as a group variable did not appear to affect attitudes toward MIS. Testing environmental variables individually revealed a relationship between changes in MIS operation and satisfaction with MIS database quality. (3) User participation in MIS design appeared to influence satisfaction with database quality. (4) User control of MIS operations appeared to have had no effect upon whether the MIS was viewed as satisfactory. User attitudes toward ADP groups influenced user confidence in MIS output. (5) No relationship was found between support staff turnover and satisfaction with MIS.
Double-Peaked Low-Ionization Emission Lines in Active Galactic Nuclei
Creators: name: Strateva, Iskra V.
name: Strauss, Michael A.
name: Hao, Lei
name: Schlegel, David J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new sample of 116 double-peaked Balmer line Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Double-peaked emission lines are believed to originate in the accretion disks of AGN, a few hundred gravitational radii (Rg) from the supermassive black hole. We investigate the properties of the candidate disk emitters with respect to the full sample of AGN over the same redshifts, focusing on optical, radio and X-ray flux, broad line shapes and narrow line equivalent widths and line flux-ratios. We find that the disk-emitters have medium luminosities (~10^44erg/s) and FWHM on average six times broader than the AGN in the parent sample. The double-peaked AGN are 1.6 times more likely to be radio-sources and are predominantly (76%) radio quiet, with about 12% of the objects classified as LINERs. Statistical comparison of the observed double-peaked line profiles with those produced by axisymmetric and non-axisymmetric accretion disk models allows us to impose constraints on accretion disk parameters. The observed Halpha line profiles are consistent with accretion disks with inclinations smaller than 50 deg, surface emissivity slopes of 1.0-2.5, outer radii larger than ~2000 Rg, inner radii between 200-800Rg, and local turbulent broadening of 780-1800 km/s. The comparison suggests that 60% of accretion disks require some form of asymmetry (e.g., elliptical disks, warps, spiral shocks or hot spots).
description: 60 pages, 19 figures, accepted for publication in AJ. For high quality figures and full tables, please see http://astro.princeton.edu/~iskra/disks.html
Determining how firms decide to comply with government regulations
Creators: name: Edwards, Patrick Ronald
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4407
subject: Policy and administration
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Hypotheses relevant to how firms decide to comply with government regulations, particularly federal equal employment opportunity requirements, are developed and tested. Findings support economic models of compliance and conclude that detection and sanctions influence compliance decisions. Modifications to the economic model that account for bounded rationality are theorized. Empirical support is obtained for adjustments that substitute perceived probability of detection and probable level of sanctions for actual probabilities, and that recognize individual actors within the organization. The proposed model also accounts for, and findings support, the influence that characteristics of enforcement programs have on compliance decisions. Different investigative techniques are shown to have varying influences on compliance decisions; specifically, class investigations appear to have the greatest effect on preferred compliance due to their ability to stress the consequences of detecting noncompliance. In addition, the existence of supplemental State and local agencies increases preferred compliance. Hypotheses were tested by surveying key actors in equal employment opportunity compliance decisions: the hiring official, the personnel officer and the Equal Employment Opportunity Officer. The sample consisted of firms in the Washington, D.C. area so that federal contractors (who have more equal employment requirements than other private employers) would be included. Further, the sample was constructed to draw more respondents from high technology firms to control for factors such as unionization.
Determining how firms decide to comply with government regulations
Creators: name: Edwards, Patrick Ronald
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Hypotheses relevant to how firms decide to comply with government regulations, particularly federal equal employment opportunity requirements, are developed and tested. Findings support economic models of compliance and conclude that detection and sanctions influence compliance decisions. Modifications to the economic model that account for bounded rationality are theorized. Empirical support is obtained for adjustments that substitute perceived probability of detection and probable level of sanctions for actual probabilities, and that recognize individual actors within the organization. The proposed model also accounts for, and findings support, the influence that characteristics of enforcement programs have on compliance decisions. Different investigative techniques are shown to have varying influences on compliance decisions; specifically, class investigations appear to have the greatest effect on preferred compliance due to their ability to stress the consequences of detecting noncompliance. In addition, the existence of supplemental State and local agencies increases preferred compliance. Hypotheses were tested by surveying key actors in equal employment opportunity compliance decisions: the hiring official, the personnel officer and the Equal Employment Opportunity Officer. The sample consisted of firms in the Washington, D.C. area so that federal contractors (who have more equal employment requirements than other private employers) would be included. Further, the sample was constructed to draw more respondents from high technology firms to control for factors such as unionization.
Investigation of the thermal degradation of a cation exchange resin in aqueous medium
Creators: name: Emery, Anna Pober
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: A strong acid cation resin consisting of a styrene-divinylbenzene copolymer matrix with sulfonic acid functional groups was studied in aqueous solution at high temperatures and pressures in a Teflon-lined Parr pressure reactor to mimic power plant conditions. Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectroscopy and High Performance Liquid Chromatography were used to identify and quantitate the resin degradation products. The effects of two metal alloys--Inconel 600 and Carpenter 20--on the degradative behavior of the resin and the effect of the resin and its degradation products on these alloys were also investigated. In the environment within the Parr pressure reactor, thermal, oxidative, mechanical, and solvent forces acted on the resin producing a variety of products. Analysis of the sample solutions showed that trace amounts of polymeric and non-polar aromatic material such as acetophenone, styrene, and benzaldehyde were produced. Part-per-million concentrations of polar aromatic compounds, principally p-sulfobenzoic acid, were also found in solution. In agreement with literature studies, sulfate was the major degradation product. It was found at the percent concentration levels. The resin and its degradation products increased the corrosion rates of the alloys. Carpenter 20 was more affected because of its composition. The large quantities of metal ions that were dissolved from the alloys under the high temperature and pressure conditions suppressed the formation of sulfate and increased the production of organic material from the cation exchange resin.
IoT Connectivity Technologies and Applications: A Survey
Creators: name: Ding, Jie
name: Nemati, Mahyar
name: Ranaweera, Chathurika
name: Choi, Jinho
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: The Internet of Things (IoT) is rapidly becoming an integral part of our life and also multiple industries. We expect to see the number of IoT connected devices explosively grows and will reach hundreds of billions during the next few years. To support such a massive connectivity, various wireless technologies are investigated. In this survey, we provide a broad view of the existing wireless IoT connectivity technologies and discuss several new emerging technologies and solutions that can be effectively used to enable massive connectivity for IoT. In particular, we categorize the existing wireless IoT connectivity technologies based on coverage range and review diverse types of connectivity technologies with different specifications. We also point out key technical challenges of the existing connectivity technologies for enabling massive IoT connectivity. To address the challenges, we further review and discuss some examples of promising technologies such as compressive sensing (CS) random access, non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), and massive multiple input multiple output (mMIMO) based random access that could be employed in future standards for supporting IoT connectivity. Finally, a classification of IoT applications is considered in terms of various service requirements. For each group of classified applications, we outline its suitable IoT connectivity options.
Investigation of the thermal degradation of a cation exchange resin in aqueous medium
Creators: name: Emery, Anna Pober
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 34
subject: Chemical sciences
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
classificationCode: 3401
subject: Analytical chemistry

description: A strong acid cation resin consisting of a styrene-divinylbenzene copolymer matrix with sulfonic acid functional groups was studied in aqueous solution at high temperatures and pressures in a Teflon-lined Parr pressure reactor to mimic power plant conditions. Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectroscopy and High Performance Liquid Chromatography were used to identify and quantitate the resin degradation products. The effects of two metal alloys--Inconel 600 and Carpenter 20--on the degradative behavior of the resin and the effect of the resin and its degradation products on these alloys were also investigated. In the environment within the Parr pressure reactor, thermal, oxidative, mechanical, and solvent forces acted on the resin producing a variety of products. Analysis of the sample solutions showed that trace amounts of polymeric and non-polar aromatic material such as acetophenone, styrene, and benzaldehyde were produced. Part-per-million concentrations of polar aromatic compounds, principally p-sulfobenzoic acid, were also found in solution. In agreement with literature studies, sulfate was the major degradation product. It was found at the percent concentration levels. The resin and its degradation products increased the corrosion rates of the alloys. Carpenter 20 was more affected because of its composition. The large quantities of metal ions that were dissolved from the alloys under the high temperature and pressure conditions suppressed the formation of sulfate and increased the production of organic material from the cation exchange resin.
2QZJ215454.3-305654: a radio-quiet BL Lac object or lineless QSO?
Creators: name: Londish, D.
name: Heidt, J.
name: Boyle, B. J.
name: Croom, S. M.
name: Kedziora-Chudczer, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High signal-to-noise spectroscopy has established a redshift of z=0.494 for the source 2QZJ215454.3-305654, originally selected from the 2dF/6dF QSO Redshift Surveys as one of 45 candidate BL Lac objects displaying a featureless continuum at optical wavelengths. Radio observations using the Australia Telescope Compact Array at 1.4 GHz place a 3σupper limit on the object's radio flux density of approx 0.14mJy. The radio-to-optical flux ratio of this object is thus more than 7 times lower than the lowest such ratio observed in BL Lac objects. While the optical properties of 2QZJ215454.3-305654 are consistent with a BL Lac identification, the lack of radio and/or X-ray emission is not. It is uncertain whether this object is an AGN dominated by optical continuum emission from an accretion disk, or is similar to a BL Lac object with optical nonthermal emission from a relativistic jet.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures, accepted by MNRAS
Turkish stimulability treatment program for children with speech sound disorders: a preliminary study
Creators: name: Özcebe, Esra
name: Aysin Noyan Erbas
name: Tirank, Sadiye Bacik
name: Bulent Gunduz
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Purpose: The objective of this study was to create a stimulability treatment program in Turkish language that targets Turkish consonants and vowels and to present the preliminary findings of the effectiveness of the program in a small group of Turkish children with speech sound disorder (SSD). Method: Twenty-two children with SSD participated in the study. The Turkish Articulation and Phonology Test (SST) was used in the assessment of children. Intelligibility ratings were completed by their caregivers through the Turkish version of Intelligibility in Context Scale (ICS), and the stimulability assessments were completed. Stimulability intervention were given for a total of 12 sessions. Comparisons were made between the pre- and post-test results of children, and the preliminary data of treatment efficacy were collected. Results: The data analysis showed a significant difference in the total number of articulation errors of children between Time 1 and Time 2 (p p Conclusion: These findings provide initial data on the positive effect of the Turkish stimulability treatment program for children with SSD. This preliminary study would contribute toward designing the main trial for an evidence-based study for the Turkish stimulability treatment program, thereby leading to better practices in SSD.
On the Geometry of Matrix Models for N=1*
Creators: name: Petrini, M.
name: Tomasiello, A.
name: Zaffaroni, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the geometry of the matrix model associated with an N=1 super Yang-Mills theory with three adjoint fields, which is a massive deformation of N=4. We study in particular the Riemann surface underlying solutions with arbitrary number of cuts. We show that an interesting geometrical structure emerges where the Riemann surface is related on-shell to the Donagi-Witten spectral curve. We explicitly identify the quantum field theory resolvents in terms of geometrical data on the surface.
description: 17 pages, 2 figures. v2: reference added
Provenance evolution of Oligocene—Pliocene foreland deposits in the Dezful embayment to constrain Central Zagros exhumation history
Creators: name: Najmeh Etemad-Saeed
name: Najafi, Mahdi
name: Vergés, Jaume
Publisher: name: Geological Society of London
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Details of the petrography and geochemistry results are presented in 7 tables and 4 figures.
Erigorgus femorator
Creators: name: Schnee, Heinz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Erigorgus
Erigorgus femorator

description: Erigorgus femorator (AUBERT, 1960)
1 : o. F.
 Das nördlichste Vorkommen der im mediterranen Raum häufigen, beim Pinienprozessionsspinner [Thaumetopoea pithyocampa (DENIS & SCHIFFERMÜLLER)] (Notodontidae) parasitierenden Art ist aus der Südschweiz bekannt.
description: Published as part of Schnee, Heinz, 2008, Die Anomaloninae der Sammlung A F - Typenrevision und faunistische Anmerkungen (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae), pp. 249-266 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 58 (2) on page 262, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.58.2.249-266, http://zenodo.org/record/4779375
An arithmetic enrichment of Bézout's Theorem
Creators: name: McKean, Stephen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14N15 (Primary), 14F42 (Secondary)

description: The classical version of Bézout's Theorem gives an integer-valued count of the intersection points of hypersurfaces in projective space over an algebraically closed field. Using work of Kass and Wickelgren, we prove a version of Bézout's Theorem over any perfect field by giving a bilinear form-valued count of the intersection points of hypersurfaces in projective space. Over non-algebraically closed fields, this enriched Bézout's Theorem imposes a relation on the gradients of the hypersurfaces at their intersection points. As corollaries, we obtain arithmetic-geometric versions of Bézout's Theorem over the reals, rationals, and finite fields of odd characteristic.
description: Updated and revised version for publication. 27 pages, 3 figures
Involuntary commitment: An investigation of the clinician's decision-making process
Creators: name: Engleman, Nancy Bachman
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 5203
subject: Clinical and health psychology

description: To investigate clinicians' decision making regarding involuntary commitment, 18 clinicians in a community mental health center completed 169 questionnaires on patients they deemed to present some degree of risk. Forty-two of those evaluations resulted in detention, the first step in the involuntary commitment process. Two aspects of clinical decision making were addressed in this study: (a) the actual process by which clinicians arrive at decisions regarding commitment and (b) the effects of patient and clinician characteristics and bed availability on that process. Factor analysis revealed three underlying constructs that produced significant direct effects on the clinician's rating of the patient's overall risk: a danger to self factor, a danger to others factor, and a substantial inability to care for self factor. The patient's overall risk rating was a significant predictor of whether or not he or she would be detained. None of the patient characteristics tested (diagnosis, sex, age, insurance) produced significant direct effects on the patients' risk ratings or the detention decision. Analysis of the effects of clinician characteristics produced unexpected results. Greater clinician experience resulted in higher overall risk ratings, suggesting that experience may sensitize, rather than desensitize, clinicians' responses to risk factors. Experience level did not, however, have direct effects on the detention decision. Instead, a new variable, reflecting the clinician's past behavior regarding commitment (the Clinician Detention Ratio), did significantly predict the detention decision, indicating that the clinician's general tendency to detain patients plays a significant role in commitment decisions. The setting in which decisions were made also had relevance. Significant differences were obtained in both overall risk ratings and the detention decision between an in-house Emergency Service and a Mobile Crisis Unit. Not surprisingly, the availability of detention beds within the community significantly affected whether or not a patient would be detained. These findings are discussed in terms of the interplay between what the patient brings to an evaluation and the clinician's unique perceptions of that patient. The possibility that clinicians may be unaware of some influences on their decision making is discussed, as is the significant effect of community resources on clinical decision making.
Involuntary commitment: An investigation of the clinician's decision-making process
Creators: name: Engleman, Nancy Bachman
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: To investigate clinicians' decision making regarding involuntary commitment, 18 clinicians in a community mental health center completed 169 questionnaires on patients they deemed to present some degree of risk. Forty-two of those evaluations resulted in detention, the first step in the involuntary commitment process. Two aspects of clinical decision making were addressed in this study: (a) the actual process by which clinicians arrive at decisions regarding commitment and (b) the effects of patient and clinician characteristics and bed availability on that process. Factor analysis revealed three underlying constructs that produced significant direct effects on the clinician's rating of the patient's overall risk: a danger to self factor, a danger to others factor, and a substantial inability to care for self factor. The patient's overall risk rating was a significant predictor of whether or not he or she would be detained. None of the patient characteristics tested (diagnosis, sex, age, insurance) produced significant direct effects on the patients' risk ratings or the detention decision. Analysis of the effects of clinician characteristics produced unexpected results. Greater clinician experience resulted in higher overall risk ratings, suggesting that experience may sensitize, rather than desensitize, clinicians' responses to risk factors. Experience level did not, however, have direct effects on the detention decision. Instead, a new variable, reflecting the clinician's past behavior regarding commitment (the Clinician Detention Ratio), did significantly predict the detention decision, indicating that the clinician's general tendency to detain patients plays a significant role in commitment decisions. The setting in which decisions were made also had relevance. Significant differences were obtained in both overall risk ratings and the detention decision between an in-house Emergency Service and a Mobile Crisis Unit. Not surprisingly, the availability of detention beds within the community significantly affected whether or not a patient would be detained. These findings are discussed in terms of the interplay between what the patient brings to an evaluation and the clinician's unique perceptions of that patient. The possibility that clinicians may be unaware of some influences on their decision making is discussed, as is the significant effect of community resources on clinical decision making.
Indexing Exoplanets with Physical Conditions Potentially Suitable for Rock-Dependent Extremophiles
Creators: name: Jagadeesh, Madhu Kashyap
name: Valluri, Sagarika Rao
name: Kari, Vani
name: Kubska, Katarzyna
name: Kaczmarek, Łukasz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The search for different life forms elsewhere in the universe is a fascinating area of research in astrophysics and astrobiology. Currently, according to the NASA Exoplanet Archive database, 3876 exoplanets have been discovered. The Earth Similarity Index (ESI) is defined as the geometric mean of radius, density, escape velocity, and surface temperature and ranges from 0 (dissimilar to Earth) to 1 (similar to Earth). The ESI was created to index exoplanets on the basis of their similarity to Earth. In this paper, we examined rocky exoplanets whose physical conditions are potentially suitable for the survival of rock-dependent extremophiles, such as the cyanobacteria Chroococcidiopsis and the lichen Acarospora. The Rock Similarity Index (RSI) is first introduced and then applied to 1659 rocky exoplanets. The RSI represents a measure for Earth-like planets on which physical conditions are potentially suitable for rocky extremophiles that can survive in Earth-like extreme habitats (i.e., hot deserts and cold, frozen lands).
Full counting statistics and fluctuation-dissipation relation for periodically driven two-state systems
Creators: name: Takahashi, Kazutaka
name: Hino, Yuki
name: Fujii, Keisuke
name: Hayakawa, Hisao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive the fluctuation theorem for a stochastic and periodically driven system coupled to two reservoirs with the aid of a master equation. We write down the cumulant generating functions for both the current and entropy production in closed compact forms so as to treat the adiabatic and nonadiabatic contributions systematically. We derive the fluctuation theorem by taking into account the time reversal symmetry and the property that the instantaneous currents flowing into the left and the right reservoir are not equal. It is found that the fluctuation-dissipation relation derived from the fluctuation theorem involves an expansion with respect to the time derivative of the affinity.
description: 22 pages, 7 figures, revised for publication
Promoting Cotton Green Production in Shandong through Accelerating Simplified Cultivation Technique
Creators: name: WANG，Guifeng
name: WEI，Xuewen
name: WANG，Yan
name: DONG，Wenquan
name: WANG，Guifeng
name: WEI，Xuewen
name: WANG，Yan
name: DONG，Wenquan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Shandong, Cotton, Simplified cultivation, Green production

description: At present, the compatative benefits and comparative labor production are relatively low, and cotton production and in industrial development of cotton get seriously frustrated. The fundamental reason is that the quality of cotton production development and the development mode are not suitable for the market demands. In this situation, the cotton production and development must take the road of green development concept as the guidance, and improve the quality and benefits of cotton development. Finally it came up with the basic idea, technical approach and industrial mode of taking simplified cultivation technique as the support, to promote green and efficient cotton production in Shandong Province.