cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Cueing--operant conditioning : mediators of experimenter expectancy?
Creators: name: Moffat, Michael Carter
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The psychological experiment is frequently regarded as a situation which allows for complete control over the inputs to the experimental Ss. Closer examination reveals it to be vulnerable to unwanted and unprogrammed experimenter influence, mediated through essentially two modes of communication-- visual-kinesic and auditory-para Iingulstic. This study examines the effect of different types of S to E feedback of information, mediated by verbal and nonverbal channels of communication, upon the E outcome-bias phenomenon. Experimenters who were given an expectancy for certain responses from their Ss, were placed in an experimental situation that permitted or restricted verbal communication, and included correct, reversed, or no feedback of subjects' responses, on a photo-rating task. Ten Es each ran 12 Ss on a photo-rating task in a study purporting to be a research project developing a test of empathy. The Ss were required to examine 20 standardized neutral photographs of faces and to rate each one on the degree of success or failure that the person pictured had been experiencing. The Es had been led to expect a predominance of success responses from their Ss. The principal hypothesis, that E expectancy effects are independent of the type of S to E feedback, was supported: the photo-ratings by Ss showed a significant increase in magnitude as a function of the number of photos rated, irrespective of the type of S to E feedback permitted. The more photos rated, the greater the magnitude of the success rating. This has relevance for the type of process that should be considered as a mediator of E's expectancy. Three alternative processes are discussed in the light of the findings of the present study. The second hypothesis, that greater E bias effects occur in conditions permitting both verbal and nonverbal cues as compared to conditions permitting nonverbal cues alone, was not supported. This suggests that verbal cues do not make a significant contribution to E bias effects during the data collecting phase of the psychological experiment. Implications of the findings of this study and suggestions for future research are discussed.
title: Endangered Species Act Section 7(a)(2) Biological Opinion and Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act Essential Fish Habitat Response for the Proposed Grays Harbor Potash Export Facility, Grays Harbor County, Washington (HUC 17100105, Corps No.: NWS-2017-715)
Creators: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. West Coast Region
Publisher: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. West Coast Region
Year: 2020

description: ESA Section 7 Consultation ; WCRO-2019-01316
Sol-gel niobium pentoxide coatings: Applications to photovoltaic energy conversion and electrochromism
Creators: name: Aegerter, M.A.
name: Schmitt, M.
name: Guo, Y.
Publisher: name: London : Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: sol-gel process
subject: synthetic materials
subject: coatings
subject: 530

description: In the last decade the sol-gel process became a promising method to synthesize materials in form of coatings, nanoscale powders and porous systems. Several products or devices made with such a process already exist on the market. This paper briefly reviews the state of the art in the development of electrochromic coatings and devices and nanocrystalline solar cells achieved during the last decade using sol-gel derived pure and doped niobium pentoxide.
Evolutionary Dynamics of Populations with Conflicting Interactions: Classification and Analytical Treatment Considering Asymmetry and Power
Creators: name: Helbing, Dirk
name: Johansson, Anders
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Evolutionary game theory has been successfully used to investigate the dynamics of systems, in which many entities have competitive interactions. From a physics point of view, it is interesting to study conditions under which a coordination or cooperation of interacting entities will occur, be it spins, particles, bacteria, animals, or humans. Here, we analyze the case, where the entities are heterogeneous, particularly the case of two populations with conflicting interactions and two possible states. For such systems, explicit mathematical formulas will be determined for the stationary solutions and the associated eigenvalues, which determine their stability. In this way, four different types of system dynamics can be classified, and the various kinds of phase transitions between them will be discussed. While these results are interesting from a physics point of view, they are also relevant for social, economic, and biological systems, as they allow one to understand conditions for (1) the breakdown of cooperation, (2) the coexistence of different behaviors ("subcultures"), (2) the evolution of commonly shared behaviors ("norms"), and (4) the occurrence of polarization or conflict. We point out that norms have a similar function in social systems that forces have in physics.
Charged Higgs phenomenology in the flipped two Higgs doublet model
Creators: name: Logan, Heather E.
name: MacLennan, Deanna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the phenomenology of the charged Higgs boson in the "flipped" two Higgs doublet model, in which one doublet gives mass to up-type quarks and charged leptons and the other gives mass to down-type quarks. We present the charged Higgs branching ratios and summarize the indirect constraints. We extrapolate existing LEP searches for H+H- and Tevatron searches for t tbar with t --> H+ b into the flipped model and extract constraints on MH+ and the parameter tan(beta). We finish by reviewing existing LHC charged Higgs searches and suggest that the LHC reach in this model could be extended for charged Higgs masses below the tb threshold by considering t tbar with t --> H+ b and H+ --> q qbar, as has been used in Tevatron searches.
description: 23 pages, 7 figures. V2: added refs on H+W- associated production
title: Endangered Species Act Section 7(a)(2) Biological Opinion, and Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act Essential Fish Habitat Response and Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act Recommendations for the Union Pacific Railroad Valley Subdivision Milepost 252.81 Bridge Replacement Project (SPK-2016-00360)
Creators: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. West Coast Region
Publisher: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. West Coast Region
Year: 2017

description: ESA Section 7 Consultation ; WCRO-2016-00297
Staff-patient communication in a mental hospital. |b A pilot study of social worker's information-giving and patient's information-receiving in acute treatment units at Riverview Hospital; including a proposed design for a more comprehensive study of staff-patient communication
Creators: name: Bogren, Lyle
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: This study is a formulative exploratory study in the area of communication. It investigates the operation of the social worker-patient communication process with respect to selected variables thought to influence this process. The study consists of three parts; the original research design, the critique of the original design, and the new design. The project takes place at the Riverview Hospital and involves both Crease Clinic and Centre Lawn units. The original design is formed around a frame of reference which underlines the need for communication by patients at a mental hospital. Unfortunately, the original design, which involved a study of factors affecting the information flow between social worker and patient, failed to achieve a clear focus in its purpose and problem formulation. The critique pointed out the various factors influencing the original study and which led to the necessary revision of the study design. It includes a comprehensive outline of the extraneous variables which were encountered in this study and suggests the extent to which they may affect the validity of the study findings. The new design incorporates the findings and implications of the original design, and was enlarged to include communication between the staff treatment team (doctor, social worker, charge nurse) and the patient. A more specific theoretical frame of reference was developed and in addition suggestions for implementation of the new design are made and can serve as a reference point for any continuing studies in this area.
Ungenügend. Zur Relationalität und Relativität von Wissen und Können im Studium zum Lehrberuf
Creators: name: Leonhard, Melanie
name: Leonhard, Tobias
Publisher: name: wbv Media
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Wissensordnungen
subject: Ordnung der Wahrheit
subject: Praktikumserfolg
subject: Wissen und Können
subject: 370 - Erziehung, Schul- und Bildungswesen

description: Ein zentrales Element in der Lehrkräftebildung stellen Prüfungen dar. Der Beitrag plädiert dafür, die Frage nach der Relationierung von Wissen und Können um die Frage „Wie verhält sich, was einer oder eine kann und weiß zu dem, wie relevante Andere das einschätzen und anerkennen?" unter Anschluss an diskurstheoretische Ansätze von Foucault und Butler zu erweitern.
D3.3 – Annual Report from TheFSM Software Components Integration and Testing
Creators: name: Vergeti, Danai
name: Ntalaperas, Dimitris
name: Angelidis, Iosif
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: food safety
big data
standards
certification

description: In the current document we present the integration strategy of TheFSM Platform which includes the development, testing and deployment strategy for TheFSM technical solution. We focus on the methodology on both component and platform level. Unit testing is utilized to automate testing as much as possible, while we carefully follow well-established industry standards and methodologies in our approach. We provide examples of unit tests which test the internal functionality of components and their compliance with the specifications. Additionally, integration tests are provisioned in order to assure the interoperability between components. As more use cases are covered by the platform, these tests will evolve, adapt and carefully cover the newly added functionality. Moreover, we describe issue tracking and the dockerization process we follow during development. The current document provides a) the approach we follow in development regarding both the overall project and within component level, b) the technical verification of our pipeline. We define how verification is guaranteed via unit and integration testing, thoroughly describing the unit testing process and c) the technical evaluation, where we define metrics and KPIs relevant to the project and we provide analytical tables which include our performance against the relevant metrics
Acid mine drainage in the Bakers Creek waste rock dump, Hercules, Western Tasmania
Creators: name: Smith, SE
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Mining has occurred at the Hercules Ag, Au, Cu, Pb, Zn VHMS deposit in western Tasmania, almost continuously for the last I 00 years. Mining activity has degraded the local environment, through clearing of vegetation, enhanced erosion and the formation of acid mine drainage (AMD). Of significant concern is the Bakers Creek waste rock dump, situated in a waterfall in the upper reaches of Bakers Creek. This steep, unstable sulfidic rock pile cannot be readily removed or engineered, and is an on-going source of AMD. To allow rehabilitation options for the waste rock dump to be devised, the contribution of AMD from the Bakers Creek waste rock dump needed to be ascertained. Long term and intensive water sampling programs have been implemented to characterise and quantify AMD emanating from the waste rock dump, and to investigate climatic controls on water quality of Bakers Creek. Water samples were collected from ten sites along Bakers Creek, where field analyses of pH, Eh, conductivity and temperature were conducted. Water samples were collected for laboratory analyses of major and trace element concentrations, sulphate, chloride and alkalinity. The pH of the drainage waters vary from 5.6 (upstream of mining activity) to 3.0 (foot of the waste rock dump). Maximum metal concentrations were measured at the adit, or the base of the waste rock dump. Major contaminants are Fe (43.8ppm), Pb (19.2ppm), AI (8.47ppm) and Sulfate (1440ppm) and Zn (82.2ppm). During base flow, approximately 47.6 T/yr of Zn is discharging from Bakers Creek into Ring River, (98% of which is contributed by the waste rock dump). Other contaminants contributed by the waste rock dump, represented at least 95% of the total contamination in Bakers Creek including AI (2.87 T/yr), Cu (0.77 T/yr), Fe (1.54 T/yr), Pb 1.9 T/yr, and Sulfate, (199T/yr). The maximum mass loads were recorded during storm events (measured at the base of Bakers Creek). The maximum mass load for each contaminant was 158.9 T/yr Zn, 13.9 T/yr AI, 0.33 T/yr Cd, 3.95 T/yr Cu, 65.4 T/yr Fe, 56.15 T/yr Mn, 23.75 Pb T/yr, and 756 T/yr sulphate. These metal mass loads are high enough to consider metal recovery strategies. To remediate Bakers Creek, a combination of treatment strategies are probably required. Diversion of Bakers Creek upstream of the waste rock dump, combined with the installation of a biosulphide metal recovery plant to treat Zn, have potential to reduce metal and sulphate concentrations to acceptable levels, and to increase pH. A major advantage would be the metals can be extracted from solution and sold to create revenue to offset costs incurred from installing and operating the plant. Diversion of Bakers Creek combined with a wetland filter system at Williamsford, could be an alternative remediation strategy if a biosulphide treatment is not viable.
Detecting Transits of Planetary Companions to Giant Stars
Creators: name: Assef, R. J.
name: Gaudi, B. S.
name: Stanek, K. Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Of the approximately 350 extrasolar planets currently known, of order 10% orbit evolved stars with radii R >~ 2.5 R_sun. These planets are of particular interest because they tend to orbit more massive hosts, and have been subjected to variable stellar insolation over their recent histories as their primaries evolved off the main sequence. Unfortunately, we have limited information about the physical properties of these planets, as they were all detected by the radial velocity method and none have been observed to transit. Here we evaluate the prospects for detecting transits of planetary companions to giant stars. We show that several of the known systems have a priori transit probabilities of >~ 10%, and about one transiting system is expected for the sample of host stars with R >= 2.5 R_sun. Although the transits are expected to have very small amplitudes (~few x 10^-4) and long durations (>~ 50 hrs), we argue that the difficulty with detecting these signals in broadband light is one of systematic errors and practicality rather than photon noise, even for modest aperture ~1m telescopes. We propose a novel method that may overcome these difficulties, which uses narrow-band measurements to isolate the thin ring of chromospheric emission expected at the limb of giant stars. The transit signals in these narrow bands are expected to be larger in magnitude and briefer in duration than in broad-band emission, and thus alleviating many of the difficulties with transit detection in broad-band emission. Finally, we point out that it may be possible to discover planetary companions to giant stars using Kepler, provided that a sufficient number of such targets are monitored.
description: 34 pages, 10 figures, modified to include comments made by the referee; Accepted for publication in ApJ
title: Endangered Species Act Section 7(a)(2) Biological Opinion and Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act Essential Fish Habitat Response for the Rock Slough Fish Screen Facilities Improvement Project located in Contra Costa County, California
Creators: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. West Coast Region
Publisher: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. West Coast Region
Year: 2017

description: ESA Section 7 Consultation ; WCRO-2016-00299
Charmonium in the vector channel at finite temperature from QCD sum rules
Creators: name: Dominguez, C. A.
name: Loewe, M.
name: Rojas, J. C.
name: Zhang, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Thermal Hilbert moment QCD sum rules are used to obtain the temperature dependence of the hadronic parameters of charmonium in the vector channel, i.e. the $J$ / $ψ$ resonance mass, coupling (leptonic decay constant), total width, and continuum threshold. The continuum threshold $s_0$, which signals the end of the resonance region and the onset of perturbative QCD (PQCD), behaves as in all other hadronic channels, i.e. it decreases with increasing temperature until it reaches the PQCD threshold $s_0 = 4 m_Q^2$, with $m_Q$ the charm quark mass, at $T\simeq 1.22 T_c$. The rest of the hadronic parameters behave very differently from those of light-light and heavy-light quark systems. The $J$ / $ψ$ mass is essentially constant in a wide range of temperatures, while the total width grows with temperature up to $T \simeq 1.04 T_c$ beyond which it decreases sharply with increasing T. The resonance coupling is also initially constant and then begins to increase monotonically around $T \simeq T_c$. This behaviour of the total width and of the leptonic decay constant provides a strong indication that the $J$ / $ψ$ resonance might survive beyond the critical temperature for deconfinement.
description: An error in the PQCD scattering term has been corrected. No changes result, other than a slight reduction of the critical temperature. A few clarifying paragraphs have been added
pySDC: Prototyping Spectral Deferred Corrections
Creators: name: Baumann, Thomas
name: Speck, Robert
name: Lunet, Thibaut
name: Ruprecht, Daniel
name: Wimmer, Lisa
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2023

description: 12th Parallel-in-Time Workshop, Hamburg, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany, 17 Jul 2023 - 21 Jul 2023
description: Spectral deferred corrections (SDC) is a very malleable time-stepping scheme that is especially well-suited for stiff problems. A wide range of parallel-in-time (PinT) extensions exist, from small-scale parallelism across the method to the large-scale PinT algorithm PFASST. SDC iteratively solves fully-implicit Runge-Kutta (RK) schemes with low-order methods. pySDC is a Python library that allows interested users to test how well SDC works for their specific problem or algorithm with very little effort. It includes implementations of PinT algorithms in both simulated parallel versions as well as MPI-based parallel versions. In addition, implementations of many popular serial RK methods are part of pySDC to enable a quick and fair comparison in an internally consistent framework. The code is very actively developed by collaborators in Juelich, Hamburg and Wuppertal. pySDC is publicly hosted on GitHub and extensively tested with continuous integration to ensure reproducibility and maintainability of the code and the results obtained with it. Contribution guidelines and tutorials exist to invite and guide new users. The modular nature allows developers to work on specific features without awareness of all details in the code, which encourages also smaller projects, such as master's theses.
Ozone management in Colorado: Why aren’t we there yet?
Creators: name: deSouza, Priyanka
name: Hood, Grace
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biotechnology
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Since 2004, the state of Colorado in the United States of America has created multiple nonattainment State Implementation Plans (SIPs) that are supposed to comprise air pollution mitigation actions, that have so far been unsuccessful at ensuring Front Range Communities have reduced ozone levels to below the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) standards. By interviewing eight stakeholders and decision-makers involved in ozone SIP rulemaking and drawing on secondary literature, this paper examines shortcomings in the SIP process in Colorado. We found that ozone precursor measurement and the modeling of attainment could be improved by better factoring in uncertainties in emissions inventories and conducting appropriate sensitivity analyses that would require more investment of state staff time and resources. Structural issues with the way the process is organized in Colorado limit optimum overlap between state: Air Pollution Control Division (APCD) and quasi-state: Regional Air Quality Council (RAQC) agencies during the SIP process. Specifically, although the RAQC is currently charged with developing and submitting SIPs to the State for approval, it does not have the power to implement control strategies for several key sources and therefore does not have the authority to propose key policies to be included in the SIP. In recent years, Colorado SIPs have largely focused on the bare minimum emissions controls to demonstrate attainment via modeling. Interviewees recommend that state political leaders take more of a leadership role to lower ground-level ozone levels and bring the Denver Metropolitan Area/North Front Range back into attainment with EPA standards. Implications: We evaluate why the State Implementation Plan (SIP) process has failed to achieve the attainment of the ozone standards in the Denver Metropolitan and North Front Range Area. Specifically, through interviewing several experts we identified several problems, namely: 1) errors in emissions inventories and modeling of ozone levels that have resulted in incorrect determinations that the ozone standards would be met with proposed emissions controls, and 2) structural problems in the way the SIP process is organized in Colorado, and the lack of political leadership.
Correction of temperature and relative humidity biases in ERA5 by bivariate quantile mapping: Implications for contrail classification
Creators: name: Wolf, Kevin
name: Bellouin, Nicolas
name: Boucher, Olivier
name: Rohs, Susanne
name: Li, Yun
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2023

description: doi:10.5194/egusphere-2023-2356
Non-exponential hydrodynamical growth in density-stratified thin Keplerian discs
Creators: name: Shtemler, Yu. M.
name: Mond, M.
name: Rudiger, G.
name: Regev, O.
name: Umurhan, O. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The short time evolution of three dimensional small perturbations is studied. Exhibiting spectral asymptotic stability, thin discs are nonetheless shown to host intensive hydrodynamical activity in the shape of non modal growth of initial small perturbations. Two mechanisms that lead to such behavior are identified and studied, namely, non-resonant excitation of vertically confined sound waves by stable planar inertia-coriolis modes that results in linear growth with time, as well as resonant coupling of those two modes that leads to a quadratic growth of the initial perturbations. It is further speculated that the non modal growth can give rise to secondary strato-rotational instabilities and thus lead to a new route to turbulence generation in thin discs.
title: Endangered Species Act Section 7(a)(2) Biological and Conference Opinion, MagnusonStevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act Essential Fish Habitat Response, and Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act Recommendations for the San Joaquin River Bridge Scour and Seismic Retrofit Project (EA 06-0N990) in Fresno/Madera County, California
Creators: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. West Coast Region
Publisher: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. West Coast Region
Year: 2017

description: ESA Section 7 Consultation ; WCRO-2017-00994
GPU Programming Part 1: Foundations
Creators: name: Herten, Andreas
name: Meinke, Jan
name: Haghighi Mood, Kaveh
name: Kraus, Jiri
name: Hrywniak, Markus
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2023

description: Lecture at JSC - as part of the Training Programme of Forschungszentrum Jülich (Jülich, Germany), 17 Apr 2023 - 19 Apr 2023
description: GPU-accelerated computing drives current scientific research. Writing fast numeric algorithms for GPUs offers high application performance by offloading compute-intensive portions of the code to a GPU.The course covers aspects of GPU architectures and programming. Focus is on the usage of the parallel programming language CUDA C++, which allows maximum control of NVIDIA GPU hardware. Examples of increasing complexity are used to demonstrate optimization and tuning of scientific applications.For the first time, the GPU Programming with CUDA course is held in two parts. This course is a basic course covering the foundations of GPU programming including an introduction to GPU/parallel computing, programming with CUDA, GPU libraries, tools for debugging and profiling, and performance optimizations.An advanced course with more involved and specific topics is available as an individual entry.
Ultra-high sensitive strain sensor based on post-processed optical fiber Bragg grating
Creators: name: Ferreira, M.S.
name: Bierlich, J.
name: Becker, M.
name: Schuster, K.
name: Santos, J.L.
name: Frazão, O.
Publisher: name: Basel : MDPI AG
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Fiber Bragg grating
subject: Post-processing
subject: Strain sensor
subject: 620

description: An ultra-high sensitive strain sensor is proposed. The sensing head, based on the post-processing of a fiber Bragg grating, is used to perform passive and active strain measurements. Both wavelength and full width half maximum dependences with the applied strain are studied for the passive sensor, where maximum sensitivities of 104.1 pm/με and 61.6 pm/με are respectively obtained. When combining the high performance of this sensor with a ring laser cavity configuration, the Bragg grating will act as a filter and high resolution measurements can be performed. With the proposed sensor, a resolution of 700 nε is achieved.
Studies in the geometry of folding and its mechanical interpretation
Creators: name: Powell, C
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Analysis of thickness variation of folded layers in terms of apparent flattening indicates the relative 11viscositiesrr of the layers, and hence modes of deformation, Orthogonal-thickness ratios, which are unique for each percentage of flattening, are convenient indicators of the equivalent flattening of an initially concentric profile. Axial-thickness ratios, intrinsi cally more sensitive, are less useful because there is a spread of values for each percentage of flattening. Measurements of fold profiles from diverse sedimentary, diagenetic and low-grade metamorphic environments show that the higher the t emperature and pressure at which the rocks were deformed the smaller the range of fold style. At Port Moresby, Papua, progressive syntaphral sliding has folded Eocene cherts and less competent argillite in a complex polyclinal style. Individual layers, then groups of layers up to one metre thick, and finally slip sheets tens of metres thick slid towards the west-southwest. Structural analysis of linear and planar fold elements in diagenetic or lovr-grade metamorphic environments in Tasmania leads to the conclusion that cleavage developed contemporaneously in both sandstone and slate as a planar feature. The cleavage in the slate is penetrative to the scale of detrital grains, but non-penetrative in the sandstone where pelitic ribbons anastomose through the rock enclosing non-cleaved lenses of normal greywacke fabric. The most satisfactory hypothesis to account for the observed mesoscopic configurations is that the cleavage formed during deformation as pelitic deposits in channels along which excessive water was forced out of the rock at very high pore pressure.The ratio between pore pressure and confining pressure is a significant parameter determining fold style. Heterogeneities necessary for concentric folding are effective where the pore pressure is relatively low, and the fold style is similar where the pore pressure approaches the pressure on the grain fabric. Pore-pressure ratios are most readily varied in superficial deposits, and many different fold styles occur in the intrastratal contortions in the terrestrial, Pleistocene, preglacial deposits in Tasmania, and in the intraformational slumps of the Pleistocene Lisan Formation in Israel. Irregular \flow\" folds in the contact aureoles of two intrusive bodies in Tasmania grade outwards into more regular concentric and disjunctive folds. Both the folding and the variation in fold style may have been caused by water pressures approaching the lithostatic load in the intrusions and decreasing outwards."
The effect of rotation on the stability of nuclear burning in accreting neutron stars
Creators: name: Keek, L.
name: Langer, N.
name: Zand, J. J. M. in 't
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hydrogen and/or helium accreted by a neutron star from a binary companion may undergo thermonuclear fusion. At different mass accretion rates different burning regimes are discerned. Theoretical models predict helium fusion to proceed as a thermonuclear runaway for accretion rates below the Eddington limit and as stable burning above this limit. Observations, however, place the boundary close to 10% of the Eddington limit. We study the effect of rotationally induced transport processes on the stability of helium burning. For the first time detailed calculations of thin helium shell burning on neutron stars are performed using a hydrodynamic stellar evolution code including rotation and rotationally induced magnetic fields. We find that in most cases the instabilities from the magnetic field provide the dominant contribution to the chemical mixing, while Eddington-Sweet circulations become important at high rotation rates. As helium is diffused to greater depths, the stability of the burning is increased, such that the critical accretion rate for stable helium burning is found to be lower. Combined with a higher heat flux from the crust, as suggested by recent studies, turbulent mixing could explain the observed critical accretion rate. Furthermore, close to this boundary we find oscillatory burning, which previous studies have linked to mHz QPOs. In models where we continuously lower the heat flux from the crust, the period of the oscillations increases by up to several tens of percents, similar to the observed frequency drift, suggesting that this drift could be caused by the cooling of deeper layers.
description: 11 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Conservation laws for electron vortices in strong-field ionisation
Creators: name: Kang, Yuxin
name: Pisanty, Emilio
name: Ciappina, Marcelo
name: Lewenstein, Maciej
name: Morisson Faria, Carla Figueira De
name: Maxwell, Andrew S.
Publisher: name: Berlin ; Heidelberg : Springer
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Above-Threshold Ionization
subject: Harmonic-Generation
subject: Momentum
subject: Light
subject: 530

description: We investigate twisted electrons with a well-defined orbital angular momentum, which have been ionised via a strong laser field. By formulating a new variant of the well-known strong field approximation, we are able to derive conservation laws for the angular momenta of twisted electrons in the cases of linear and circularly polarised fields. In the case of linear fields, we demonstrate that the orbital angular momentum of the twisted electron is determined by the magnetic quantum number of the initial bound state. The condition for the circular field can be related to the famous ATI peaks, and provides a new interpretation for this fundamental feature of photoelectron spectra. We find the length of the circular pulse to be a vital factor in this selection rule and, employing an effective frequency, we show that the photoelectron OAM emission spectra are sensitive to the parity of the number of laser cycles. This work provides the basic theoretical framework with which to understand the OAM of a photoelectron undergoing strong field ionisation.
Health and wellbeing of intermarried Filipino women in rural Tasmania
Creators: name: Hannah, CT
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Intermarriage has become a social phenomenon for some Filipino women. This is particularly true in Australia, where most Filipino women have arrived on the basis of marriage. They bring with them their cultural values and beliefs which affect the way in which they view their new environment, through their cultural lenses and their views and attitudes may not be understood or accommodated by the mainstream. The main purpose of this research was to investigate the health and wellbeing of Filipino wives who came to Australia as a result of intermarriage and now live in rural parts of Tasmania. The focus was on the following aspects: acculturation problems, health concepts and health care in rural Tasmania, problems in access to health care services, and the social and cultural capital. This study employed mixed methods with a combination of quantitative and qualitative approaches. Data analysis revealed that health and wellbeing were the two most important aspects in the life of the intermarried Filipino women in rural Tasmania. The main factors which significantly affect their health and wellbeing in their acculturation into rural Tasmania include: age gap, English language proficiency, highest level of education, and length of stay in Tasmania. The findings of this study also presented insights into the mental and emotional intelligence of the intermarried Filipino women as to how they handled possible culture shock and how they adapted to the mainstream culture throughout their interracial married life.
Publication patterns of U.S. Academic librarians and libraries from 2003 to 2012
Creators: name: DD Blecic
name: SE Wiberley
name: Groote, Sandra L De
name: J Cullars
name: M Shultz
name: V Chan
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Library and Information Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: © 2017 Deborah D. Blecic, Stephen E. Wiberley Jr., Sandra L. De Groote, John Cullars, Mary Shultz, and Vivian Chan. This study investigated contributions to the peer-reviewed library and information science (LIS) journal literature by U.S. academic librarian (USAL) authors over a ten-year period (2003-2012). The results were compared to those of two previous five-year studies that covered the time periods of 1993-1997 and 1998-2002 to examine longitudinal trends. For USAL authors as a group, publication productivity, the proportion of peer-reviewed articles contributed to the LIS literature, and sole-authorship declined. Among USALs who did publish, productivity patterns remained similar over twenty years, with a slight increase in the percentage of USAL authors who published three or more articles in five years. The top twenty high-publication libraries from 2003 to 2012 were from public research universities, unlike two earlier studies that found private university libraries among the top twenty.
Non-conformal limit of AGT relation from the 1-point torus conformal block
Creators: name: Alba, Vasiliy
name: Morozov, Andrey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Given a 4d N=2 SUSY gauge theory, one can construct the Seiberg-Witten prepotentional, which involves a sum over instantons. Integrals over instanton moduli spaces require regularisation. For UV-finite theories the AGT conjecture favours particular, Nekrasov's way of regularization. It implies that Nekrasov's partition function equals conformal blocks in 2d theories with W_{N_c} chiral algebra. For $N_c=2$ and one adjoint multiplet it coincides with a torus 1-point Virasoro conformal block. We check the AGT relation between conformal dimension and adjoint multiplet's mass in this case and investigate the limit of the conformal block, which corresponds to the large mass limit of the 4d theory e.i. the asymptotically free 4d N=2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. Though technically more involved, the limit is the same as in the case of fundamental multiplets, and this provides one more non-trivial check of AGT conjecture.
description: 5 pages, 1 figure
Open Educational Resources als neue Aufgabe für Wissenschaftliche Bibliotheken
Creators: name: Stummeyer, Sabine
Publisher: name: Hannover : Hochschule Hannover
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Neue Dienstleistungen
subject: OER
subject: Open Educational Resources
subject: Wissenschaftliche Bibliothek
subject: 020

description: Open Educational Resources (OER) sind sich in Deutschland bisher hauptsächlich im Bereich der schulischen Bildung im Gespräch. Ihr Potential innerhalb der deutschen Hochschullehre wurde zwar bereits erkannt, wird aber bisher noch nicht genutzt. Die Arbeit gibt einen Überblick über die terminologischen Grundlagen von OER und ihren Entwicklungsmöglichkeiten im Hochschulbereich. In einer Zusammenfassung werden die Förderung von OER durch die Europäische Kommission und in Deutschland, sowie ihre Entwicklung im deutschen Hochschulbereich dargestellt. In einem theoretischen Abgleich aktueller Studien und Fachliteratur wird eine Bestandsaufnahme zu neuen Aufgabenbereichen für Wissenschaftlicher Bibliotheken durch OER durchgeführt. Eine Expertenbefragung, die beispielhaft unter Lehrenden der Leibniz Universität Hannover (LUH) durchgeführt wurde, gibt Aufschluss über deren aktuellen Nutzungsstand von OER. Die wird ergänzt durch eine Untersuchung zweier Sharingdienste (Zenodo und SlideShare) nach freien Lehrmaterialien von Angehörigen der LUH. Abschließend werden auf der Basis der theoretischen Möglichkeiten sowie der individuellen Bedürfnisse der Lehrenden Empfehlungen für neue Dienstleistungen und Serviceangebote Wissenschaftlicher Bibliotheken zur Unterstützung der Hochschulen bei der Einführung, Herstellung und Verbreitung von OER am Beispiel der Technischen Informationsbibliothek Hannover (TIB) gegeben, sowie neue Aufgabenbereiche für Hochschulbibliotheken skizziert, die sich daraus ergeben.
Monolithic Pixel Sensors in Deep-Submicron SOI Technology with Analog and Digital Pixels
Creators: name: Battaglia, Marco
name: Bisello, Dario
name: Contarato, Devis
name: Denes, Peter
name: Giubilato, Piero
name: Glesener, Lindsay
name: Mattiazzo, Serena
name: Vu, Chinh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper presents the design and test results of a prototype monolithic pixel sensor manufactured in deep-submicron fully-depleted Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) CMOS technology. In the SOI technology, a thin layer of integrated electronics is insulated from a (high-resistivity) silicon substrate by a buried oxide. Vias etched through the oxide allow to contact the substrate from the electronics layer, so that pixel implants can be created and a reverse bias can be applied. The prototype chip, manufactured in OKI 0.15 micron SOI process, features both analog and digital pixels on a 10 micron pitch. Results of tests performed with infrared laser and 1.35 GeV electrons and a first assessment of the effect of ionising and non-ionising doses are discussed.
description: 5 pages, 7 figures, submitted to Nuclear Instruments and Methods A
Spatial ecology and conservation of parrots in New Caledonia
Creators: name: Legault, AJ
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: New Caledonia's parrots face a variety of threats, and the populations of several species appear to be in decline. However, it is difficult to determine the cause or extent of their declines due to a scarcity of ecological data. Accordingly, this research aims to contribute to the conservation of parrots in New Caledonia by studying their spatial ecology. This thesis documents the habitat preferences of parrots on the main island of New Caledonia in relation to environmental variables on a large and small scale. Information about their activity patterns and flock sizes is provided, and an optimised method of surveying parrots is described. In addition, ecological niche models are used to infer the distribution and population size of parakeets. New Caledonian Rainbow Lorikeets (Trichoglossus haematodus deplanchii) were frequently encountered in this study, and were successful in a variety of habitats, including urban areas. New Caledonian Parakeets (Cyanoramphus saisseti) and Horned Parakeets (Eunymphicus cornutus) were less common, and appeared to be more specialised in their habitat requirements. Relatively large and intact patches of rainforest on oligotrophic soils at intermediate altitudes provided important habitat for both of these species, and would be appropriate areas for conservation given their vulnerability to mining activities. New Caledonian Parakeets foraged mainly at low canopy heights, and were regularly observed at the edge of forest, in slope forest, or in maquis (shrubland). In comparison, Horned Parakeets tended to forage at greater heights, favoured valley forest over slope forest, and avoided open habitats. The observed patterns of vertical stratification and habitat segregation probably help to prevent interspecific competition. Flocks of parakeets usually consisted of one or two birds, and their size remained relatively consistent during the day, and throughout the year. Most Rainbow Lorikeet flocks contained only a few individuals, though some had up to 40 birds. All species had bimodal activity patterns. Distance sampling was found to be suitable for surveying parakeets in New Caledonia, but surveys should be standardised to facilitate comparison between different areas and time periods. Parakeets in New Caledonia appear to have small populations, and their distributions are expected to contract as a result of climate change. Ouvea Parakeets (Eunymphicus uvaeensis) may be particularly vulnerable in this regard. This study indicates that the current reserve network provides insufficient protection for parakeets. There is a need to increase the area devoted to reserves, provide corridors for dispersal, manage introduced species, and raise environmental awareness in the region.
Multiphoton excitations and inverse population in two-flux-qubit system
Creators: name: Il'ichev, E.
name: Shevchenko, S. N.
name: van der Ploeg, S. H. W.
name: Grajcar, M.
name: Temchenko, E. A.
name: Omelyanchouk, A. N.
name: Meyer, H. -G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study spectroscopy of artificial solid-state four-level quantum system. This system is formed by two coupled superconducting flux qubits. When multiple driving frequency of the applied microwaves matches the energy difference between any two levels, the transition to the upper level is induced. We demonstrate two types of the multi-photon transitions: direct transitions between two levels and ladder-type transitions via an intermediate level. For the latter transitions, in particular, the inverse population of the excited state with respect to the ground one is realized. These processes can be useful for the control of the level population for the multilevel scalable quantum systems.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures; v.2: minor changes
Open Access und offene Datenpublikation
Creators: name: Neumann, Janna
name: Tullney, Marco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: openaccess
subject: opendata
subject: forschungsdaten
subject: 020

description: Präsentation vom 18. Februar 2015, gehalten im Rahmen der Open Video Lectures “CoScience – Gemeinsam forschen und publizieren mit dem Netz” des Open Science Lab der TIB.
Publication patterns of U.S. Academic librarians and libraries from 2003 to 2012
Creators: name: DD Blecic
name: SE Wiberley
name: SL De Groote
name: J Cullars
name: M Shultz
name: V Chan
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Library and Information Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: © 2017 Deborah D. Blecic, Stephen E. Wiberley Jr., Sandra L. De Groote, John Cullars, Mary Shultz, and Vivian Chan. This study investigated contributions to the peer-reviewed library and information science (LIS) journal literature by U.S. academic librarian (USAL) authors over a ten-year period (2003-2012). The results were compared to those of two previous five-year studies that covered the time periods of 1993-1997 and 1998-2002 to examine longitudinal trends. For USAL authors as a group, publication productivity, the proportion of peer-reviewed articles contributed to the LIS literature, and sole-authorship declined. Among USALs who did publish, productivity patterns remained similar over twenty years, with a slight increase in the percentage of USAL authors who published three or more articles in five years. The top twenty high-publication libraries from 2003 to 2012 were from public research universities, unlike two earlier studies that found private university libraries among the top twenty.
title: Endangered Species Act Section 7(a)(2) Biological Opinion and Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act Essential Fish Habitat Response for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Programmatic Bio-Engineered Bank Stabilization Permitting Program
Creators: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. West Coast Region
Publisher: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. West Coast Region
Year: 2020

description: ESA Section 7 Consultation ; WCRO-2020-00688