cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Temporal stability of network partitions
Creators: name: Petri, Giovanni
name: Expert, Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present a method to find the best temporal partition at any time-scale and rank the relevance of partitions found at different time-scales. This method is based on random walkers coevolving with the network and as such constitutes a generalization of partition stability to the case of temporal networks. We show that, when applied to a toy model and real datasets, temporal stability uncovers structures that are persistent over meaningful time-scales as well as important isolated events, making it an effective tool to study both abrupt changes and gradual evolution of a network mesoscopic structures.
description: 15 pages, 12 figures
Critical engagements on Making Kin not Population : An epistolary review essay
Creators: name: Appleton, Nayantara Sheoran
name: Glabau, Danya
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 169999 Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classified
subject: 160599 Policy and Administration not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Political science

description: No description supplied
TMD PDFs in the Laguerre polynomial basis
Creators: name: Vladimirov, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We suggest the modified matching procedure for TMD PDF to the integrated PDF aimed to increase the amount of perturbative information in the TMD PDF expression. The procedure consists in the selection and usage of the non-minimal operator basis, which restricts the expansion to desired general behavior. The implication of OPE allows to systematic account of the higher order corrections. In the case of TMD PDF we assume the Gaussian behavior, which suggests Laguerre polynomial basis as the best for the convergence of OPE. We present the leading and next-to-leading expression of TMD PDF in this basis. The obtained perturbative expression for the TMD PDF is valid in the wide region of $b_T$ (we estimate this region as $b_T\lesssim 2-3$ GeV$^{-1}$ depending on $x$).
description: 19 pages, 6 figures; corrected abstract, conclusion and various misprints; version submitted to JHEP
title: An Empirical Investigation into the Impact of Automated Grading
Creators: name: St. Aubin, Alex
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2022

description: Context: Computer Science enrollment has seen increases in recent years. At the University of Nevada, Las Vegas we have seen an average year to year growth rate of 17.33% in the spring and 13.71% in the fall over the past 10 years in our entry level programming course. These enrollment increases have led to considerable additional costs for grading course material.Objective: The goal of this study is to determine the impact of automatic grading systems on students. If automatic grading is at least as effective as manual grading in practice, it may reduce cost under the context of at least entry level courses. However, negative impacts of automatic grading are not well understood in the literature and such systems should at least "do no harm" to students in order to be considered. Participants: We recruited 171 college level computer science students from our introduction to C++ programming class (CS135 - Computer Science I) at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas during the fall semester of 2021 and analyzed their work over the semester. Study Method: A counterbalanced within subjects study with repeated measures was run over the course of the fall 2021 semester measuring scores from programming lab assignments. The goal was to evaluate the student impact when students are graded by a paid human teaching assistant vs. an automatic grading platform. Findings: Each student had ten manually graded and ten automatically graded lab scores that were collected, resulting in 3,420 total data points. After data cleaning (e.g., outlier and missing lab submissions), we were left with 2,539. Results show that assignments automatically graded had higher scores with lower standard deviation amongst submissions (M = 98.7, SD= 2.4), compared to those graded manually (M = 95.9, SD = 6.2), a significant difference of moderate size (F(3.27, 130.79) = 6.249, p < 0.001, eta_P^2 = 0.135). Conclusions: While our results were gathered in a particular context, a first programming course, we found that automated grading had no obvious negative impact on students. Notably, we observed a significant increase in grades, we theorize because it provided immediate feedback on code submissions. Further, we observed a higher standard deviation in manually graded assignments. After inspection, we suspect this was caused by general inconsistency between human graders, despite training and practice. More work is needed, but we conclude that automated grading in our context may have had a small positive impact, in addition to potentially reducing cost.
Monmouth County Park System Deer Management Program Annual Report to the Board of Recreation Commissioners
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Monmouth County Park System
Year: 2005

description: One of the elements of the Monmouth County Park System Deer Management Program, which was approved by the Monmouth County Board of Recreation Commissioners in April of 2004, requires that the staff 'prepare an annual report to the Board relative to the administration of this program, its effectiveness, and the need for changes to the program as designed.' This annual report consists of the following sections: Program Administration, Program Effectiveness (including a 2004/2005 End-of-Season Deer Harvest Report Summary), and Proposed Changes. Attachments include Monmouth County Park System Areas to be open for deer hunting, Monmouth County Park System maps of areas to be open for deer hunting, and Monmouth County Board of Recreation Commissioners resolution authorizing deer management program. Overall, the staff considers the first year of the Park System Deer Management Program, the 2004/2005 season, a success. Nine park areas were hunted a total of 5442 hunter days and 307 deer were harvested.
Classic tests of General Relativity described by brane-based spherically symmetric solutions
Creators: name: Cuzinatto, R. R.
name: Pompeia, P. J.
name: de Montigny, M.
name: Khanna, F. C.
name: da Silva, J. M. Hoff
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss a way to obtain information about higher dimensions from observations by studying a brane-based spherically symmetric solution. The three classic tests of General Relativity are analyzed in details: the perihelion shift of the planet Mercury, the deflection of light by the Sun, and the gravitational redshift of atomic spectral lines. The braneworld version of these tests exhibits an additional parameter $b$ related to the fifth-coordinate. This constant $b$ can be constrained by comparison with observational data for massive and massless particles.
description: 18 pages. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:0903.2488
“Utilizing adaptive reuse to balance community desires and economic needs" a case study of Old Taylor High, Taylor, Texas
Creators: name: Roy, Nora Leigh
name: 0009-0002-9990-1783
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2023
Subjects: Economic development
Rural
Community character
Social capital
Small town
Growth
Historic
Preservation
Adaptive reuse
Rehabilitation
Texas
Taylor

description: While small towns often have deep-rooted and vibrant cultural histories, it is common for them to be constrained by stagnant or declining economies. Concurrently, it is typical for these towns to have an inventory of existing building stock which is no longer suited for its original purpose. Utilizing this building inventory to meet current needs and desires through adaptive reuse can contribute to the overall wellbeing of the town. By leveraging the community’s existing community character and social capital which are embodied within its built environment, adaptive reuse projects have the potential to contribute to the overarching economic development needs of the city. This report examines the practice of adaptive reuse, from theory to implementation. Centering itself around a case study of the Old Taylor High development in Taylor, Texas, the paper explores the economic value of social capital and community character, potential benefits to both property owners and cities, common challenges and triumphs, economic development practices, and replicable elements of success. Through extensive review of existing research, interviews with public and private staff involved with the adaptive reuse process, and exploration of pertinent historical documents and communications, this paper concludes that, while not viable in all circumstances, adaptive reuse can be a strong and viable option as a means of economic development.
Does consistency in perceptual assimilation reflect language dominance in early bilinguals?
Creators: name: Afshar, Naeimeh
name: Van Heuven, Vincent J.
Publisher: name: Pannon Egyetem
Year: 2022

description: Alkalmazott nyelvtudomány, vol. 22. issue 2. ISSN 1587-1061, eISSN 2498-4442
Photon Regions and Shadows of Kerr-Newman-NUT Black Holes with a Cosmological Constant
Creators: name: Grenzebach, Arne
name: Perlick, Volker
name: Lämmerzahl, Claus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the Plebański class of electrovacuum solutions to the Einstein equations with a cosmological constant. These space-times, which are also known as the Kerr-Newman-NUT-(anti-)de Sitter space-times, are characterized by a mass $m$, a spin $a$, a parameter $β$ that comprises electric and magnetic charge, a NUT parameter $\ell$ and a cosmological constant $Λ$. Based on a detailed discussion of the photon regions in these space-times (i.e., of the regions in which spherical lightlike geodesics exist), we derive an analytical formula for the shadow of a Kerr-Newman-NUT-(anti-)de Sitter black hole, for an observer at given Boyer-Lindquist coordinates $(r_O, \vartheta_O)$ in the domain of outer communication. We visualize the photon regions and the shadows for various values of the parameters.
description: 11 pages, 10 figures
Clustering Approach for Modeling Course Difficulty Level in Adaptive Learning
Creators: name: Imamah
name: Yuhana, Umi Laili
name: Djunaidy, Arif
name: Pardede, Eric
name: Purnomo, Mauridhi Hery
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3901
subject: Curriculum and pedagogy
classificationCode: 46
subject: Information and computing sciences

description: No description supplied
Environmental Resource Inventory: Fairfield Township, Cumberland County, New Jersey
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Fairfield Township Environmental Commission
Year: 1994

description: This document compiles an environmental inventory of Fairfield Township that includes information on the total environment including factors contributing to the quality of life: social, cultural, economic and natural resources.  Information assesses how civil planning for land use, roads, sewage and waste water supplies, public services reflects the capacity of the land and the needs of the residents.
Jacob of Serugh on the Eucharist: Homilies 22 and 95
Creators: name: Connolly, R. Hugh (Richard Hugh)
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1908

description: In the two articles reprinted here, Dom Hugh Connolly offers an English translation of two homilies from Jacob of Serugh dealing with the Eucharist. Connolly used the Syriac text of Bedjan’s edition of Jacob’s homilies (also available from Gorgias Press), homilies 22 and 95 in that edition. A short selection from homily 53 is also translated because of its related subject matter. Connolly gives an introduction to each homily and includes some explanatory notes to the texts. These translations originally appeared in The Downside Review, nos. 27 (1908) and 29 (1910).
Pion structure in the nuclear medium
Creators: name: de Melo, J. P. B. C.
name: Tsushima, K.
name: El-Bennich, Bruno
name: Rojas, E.
name: Frederico, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the light-front pion wave function based on a Bethe-Salpeter amplitude model, we study the properties of the pion in symmetric nuclear matter. The pion model we adopt is well constrained by previous studies to explain the pion properties in vacuum. In order to consistently incorporate the constituent up and down quarks of the pion immersed in symmetric nuclear matter, we use the quark-meson coupling model, which has been widely applied to various hadronic and nuclear phenomena in a nuclear medium with success. We predict the in-medium modifications of the pion lectromagnetic form factor, charge radius and weak decay constant in symmetric nuclear matter.
description: Use revtex4, 7 figures. Title change. Revised text and figures. Accepted, Physical Review C (August, 2014)
DOcker-based fRamework fOr gaTHering nEtflow dAta (DOROTHEA)
Creators: name: Campazas Vega, Adrián
name: Crespo Martínez, Ignacio Samuel
name: Guerrero Higueras, Ángel Manuel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: DOROTHEA is a Docker-based framework to build network flow datasets. It uses a NetFlow sensor that allows for collecting the streams of packets that pass through a network interface. The tool allows for simulating a computer network. It is easily configurable and scalable allowing to set the number of computers that generate network traffic. It also allows for setting a threshold that defines the number of packets used to create flows, thus emulating the real functionality of routers. When its running process is finished, DOROTHEA returns flow data.
title: The World of the Living
Creators: name: Scott-Mccharen, Bronwyn
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2022

description: Set between the Argentine military’s secret prisons in the 1970s and the open-air prison of besieged Sarajevo in the 1990s, THE WORLD OF THE LIVING is a novel that asks how people and societies construct the narratives of heroism and victimhood that sustain them, for better or worse, and examines the stories people create to justify or cope with the unspeakable.
Reducing orbital eccentricity in initial data of binary neutron stars
Creators: name: Kyutoku, Koutarou
name: Shibata, Masaru
name: Taniguchi, Keisuke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a method to compute low-eccentricity initial data of binary neutron stars required to perform realistic simulations in numerical relativity. The orbital eccentricity is controlled by adjusting the orbital angular velocity of a binary and incorporating an approaching relative velocity of the neutron stars. These modifications improve the solution primarily through the hydrostatic equilibrium equation for the binary initial data. The orbital angular velocity and approaching velocity of initial data are updated iteratively by performing time evolutions over ~3 orbits. We find that the eccentricity can be reduced by an order of magnitude compared to standard quasicircular initial data, specifically from ~0.01 to
description: 20 pages, 12 figures, matched to the published version
Three-nucleon forces and spectroscopy of neutron-rich calcium isotopes
Creators: name: Holt, J. D.
name: Menendez, J.
name: Simonis, J.
name: Schwenk, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study excited-state properties of neutron-rich calcium isotopes based on chiral two- and three-nucleon interactions. We first discuss the details of our many-body framework, investigate convergence properties, and for two-nucleon interactions benchmark against coupled-cluster calculations. We then focus on the spectroscopy of 47-56Ca, finding that with both 3N forces and an extended pfg9/2 valence space, we obtain a good level of agreement with experiment. We also study electromagnetic transitions and find that experimental data are well described by our calculations. In addition, we provide predictions for unexplored properties of neutron-rich calcium isotopes.
description: 15 pages, 22 figures, published version
Discriminating Strength: a bona fide measure of non-classical correlations
Creators: name: Farace, A.
name: De Pasquale, A.
name: Rigovacca, L.
name: Giovannetti, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new measure of non-classical correlations is introduced and characterized. It tests the ability of using a state ρ of a composite system AB as a probe for a quantum illumination task [e.g. see S. Lloyd, Science 321, 1463 (2008)], in which one is asked to remotely discriminate among the two following scenarios: i) either nothing happens to the probe, or ii) the subsystem A is transformed via a local unitary R_A whose properties are partially unspecified when producing ρ. This new measure can be seen as the discrete version of the recently introduced Intereferometric Power measure [G. Girolami et al. e-print arXiv:1309.1472 (2013)] and, at least for the case in which A is a qubit, it is shown to coincide (up to an irrelevant scaling factor) with the Local Quantum Uncertainty measure of D. Girolami, T. Tufarelli, and G. Adesso, Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 240402 (2013). Analytical expressions are derived which allow us to formally prove that, within the set of separable configurations, the maximum value of our non-classicality measure is achieved over the set of quantum-classical states (i.e. states ρ which admit a statistical unravelling where each element of the associated ensemble is distinguishable via local measures on B).
description: 11+2 pages, 2+1 figures
Ultrafast two-dimensional field spectroscopy of terahertz intersubband saturable absorbers
Creators: name: Raab, Jürgen
name: Lange, Christoph
name: Boland, Jessica L.
name: Laepple, Ignaz
name: Furthmeier, Martin
name: Dardanis, Enrico
name: Dessmann, Nils
name: Li, Lianhe
name: Linfield, Edmund H.
name: Davies, A. Giles
name: Vitiello, Miriam S.
name: Huber, Rupert
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 530 Physik

description: Intersubband (ISB) transitions in semiconductor multi-quantum well (MQW) structures are promising candidates for the development of saturable absorbers at terahertz (THz) frequencies. Here, we exploit amplitude and phase-resolved two-dimensional (2D) THz spectroscopy on the sub-cycle time scale to observe directly the saturation dynamics and coherent control of ISB transitions in a metal-insulator MQW structure. Clear signatures of incoherent pump-probe and coherent four-wave mixing signals are recorded as a function of the peak electric field of the single-cycle THz pulses. All nonlinear signals reach a pronounced maximum for a THz electric field amplitude of 11 kV/cm and decrease for higher fields. We demonstrate that this behavior is a fingerprint of THz-driven carrier-wave Rabi flopping. A numerical solution of the Maxwell-Bloch equations reproduces our experimental findings quantitatively and traces the trajectory of the Bloch vector. This microscopic model allows us to design tailored MQW structures with optimized dynamical properties for saturable absorbers that could be used in future compact semiconductor-based single-cycle THz sources.
Setting The Scene
Creators: name: Russell, Keith
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: research
training
skills
training material
ARDC
research data commons
digital research skills agenda

description: Opening Address for the ARDC Skills Summit 2023

 This presentation provides a welcome to the ARDC Skills Summit 2023, and includes an outline of the importance of digital research skills to data-enriched research, the value of skills training and highly skilled research workforce to the broader economy, and an overview of related ARDC activity.
description: "Speaker bio: With an international background in research data management and sharing, Keith is taking on the interim role of Director Outreach. This involves working with the Skills, Engagements, Expertise and Communications teams to ensure ARDC reaches our stakeholders and partners to grow the capability across the sector."
The Pinelander: Newsletter of the New Jersey Pinelands Commission, Winter 2006
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: New Jersey Pinelands Commission
Year: 2006

description: This is the newsletter of the New Jersey Pinelands Commission, which administers the Pinelands Comprehensive Management Plan. The Commission works to preserve, protect, and enhance the natural and cultural resources of the Pinelands National Reserve, and to encourage compatible economic and other human activities consistent with that purpose. This issue features the following articles: Federal judge halts construction of proposed solid waste transfer facility in the Pinelands; Longtime Vice-Chair of the Pinelands Commission steps down; Restoring a historic gem (Fenwick Manor); Pinelands Housing Task Force releases preliminary report; Nine new presentations highlight Pinelands Short Course; Commission releases annual report charting financial health of Pinelands communities; Pinelands Commission applies for federal grant to fund management plan for the new Southern Pinelands Natural Heritage Trail; Students test water quality in the Pinelands as part of global water monitoring day; A history of Fenwick manor; Commission proposing eight amendments to the Pinelands Comprehensive Management Plan; Preliminary conservation plan unveiled for Southern Medford and Evesham.
The Pinelander: Newsletter of the New Jersey Pinelands Commission, Summer 2004
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: New Jersey Pinelands Commission
Year: 2004

description: This is the newsletter of the New Jersey Pinelands Commission, which administers the Pinelands Comprehensive Management Plan. The Commission works to preserve, protect, and enhance the natural and cultural resources of the Pinelands National Reserve, and to encourage compatible economic and other human activities consistent with that purpose. This issue features the following articles: Pinelands Commission Advances Toms River Conservation Plan; Aquifer Study in Full Swing; Program Preserves 21 Pinelands Farms; Report Tracks Economic Health of Pinelands Communities; First System Installed Under Pinelands Wastewater Pilot Program; Forestry Review Underway; Pinelands Smart Growth Program Honored.
Scaling Properties of Dislocation Simulations in the Similitude Regime
Creators: name: Zaiser, Michael
name: Sandfeld, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dislocation systems exhibit well known scaling properties such as the Taylor relationship between flow stress and dislocation density, and the "law of similitude" linking the flow stress to the characteristic wavelength of dislocation patterns. Here we discuss the origin of these properties, which can be related to generic invariance properties of the equations of evolution of discrete dislocation systems, and their implications for a wide class of models of dislocation microstructure evolution. We demonstrate that under certain conditions dislocation simulations carried out at different stress, dislocation density, and strain rate can be considered as equivalent, and we study the range of deformation conditions ("similitude regime") over which this equivalence can be expected to hold. In addition, we discuss the restrictions imposed by the formulated invariance properties for density-based, nonlocal or stochastic models of dislocation microstructure evolution, and for dislocation patterns and size effects.
Physical properties of the interstellar medium using high-resolution Chandra spectra: O K-edge absorption
Creators: name: Gatuzz, E.
name: García, J.
name: Mendoza, C.
name: Kallman, T. R.
name: Bautista, M. A.
name: Gorczyca, T. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Chandra high-resolution spectra toward eight low-mass Galactic binaries have been analyzed with a photoionization model that is capable of determining the physical state of the interstellar medium. Particular attention is given to the accuracy of the atomic data. Hydrogen column densities are derived with a broadband fit that takes into account pileup effects, and in general are in good agreement with previous results. The dominant features in the oxygen-edge region are O I and O II K$α$ absorption lines whose simultaneous fits lead to average values of the ionization parameter of $\logξ=-2.90$ and oxygen abundance of $A_{\rm O}=0.70$. The latter is relative to the standard by Grevesse & Sauval (1998), but a rescaling with the revision by Asplund et al. (2009) would lead to an average abundance value fairly close to solar. The low average oxygen column density ($N_{\rm O}=9.2 \times 10^{17}$ cm$^{-2}$) suggests a correlation with the low ionization parameters, the latter also being in evidence in the column density ratios OII/OI and OIII/OI that are estimated to be less than 0.1. We do not find conclusive evidence for absorption by any other compound but atomic oxygen.
description: 32 pages, 7 figures, Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
Professionalizing Training - Origin Stories for the Modern Researcher
Creators: name: Williams, Jason
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: research
training
skills
superheroes
formal
career
change
workshops
milestones
community
principles
bicycle principles
professionalizing
training material

description: Keynote Presentation for the ARDC Skills Summit 2023

 This keynote presentation provides a brief outline of Jason William’s experience and an overview of the training initiatives he has been involved in. His presentation looks at what makes a good researcher and provokes thinking about modern researchers and the need for them to get serious bout career-spanning training. Jason also provides an overview of the Bike Principles and focuses on the first Bike Principles recommendation - Professionalize the training of short-format training instructors and instructional designers.
description: Speaker bio: Jason is Assistant Director, External Collaborations, at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's DNA Learning Center where he works to spread hands-on biology education internationally. As Education, Outreach, and Training lead for CyVerse – the U.S. National Cyberinfrastructure for Life Science – Jason provides training and support to scientists and educators, helping them leverage the most advanced tools and best methods for research and education in data-intensive biology. Jason organizes, instructs, and speaks at more than a dozen bioinformatics workshops and conferences annually. Additionally, he serves on several committees and boards for projects that advance science and science education including his service on the Steering Committee of the Software Carpentry Foundation (Chair, 2016), and as an instructor for Software and Data Carpentry – organizations that center around scientists teaching scientists computational best practice. Jason is co-creator and Lead Instructor of "The Science Institute" at Yeshiva University High School for Girls.
title: Quantum-enhanced imaging and sensing with spatially correlated biphotons
Creators: name: Toninelli, Ermes
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: quantum enhanced imaging sensing spatially correlated biphotons.

description: In this thesis I discuss the experimental demonstration of quantum-enhanced imaging and sensing schemes able to surpass the performance of their classical counterparts. This is achieved by exploiting the spatial properties of quantum correlated biphotons. Over the next chapters I ﬁrst discuss the production and detection of quantum correlated photons using a type-I nonlinear crystal and a single-photon sensitive electron-multiplying CCD camera. I then provide a simple yet powerful description of the spatially resolved detection of biphotons, allowing to accurately model and assess the performance of the quantum-enhanced schemes featured in this thesis. These consist of a shadow-sensing and an imaging scheme able to respectively beat the shot-noise-limit in the optical measurement of the position of a shadow and the diﬀraction limit in the full-ﬁeld imaging of real-world objects. A combination of simulated and experimental results are used to investigate both the achieved and theoretically available quantum advantage. Optical losses and detector noise are found to limit the better-than-classical performance of the schemes, which rely on the ability to jointly detect an as high as possible number of spatially correlated biphotons.
2006 Fish Consumption Advisories
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP), Division of Science Research and Technology
Year: 2006

description: This is the updated New Jersey Fish Consumption Advisories for 2006. The table details the recommended meal limits for various fish on a statewide, regional and waterbody-specific basis. New or revised advisories are shown in bold and primarily involve fish found in marine and estuarine waters of the state.
Perceived Impacts of Fish Consumption Advisories on the Recreational Fishing Boat Industry in New Jersey
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Division of Science, Research and Technology of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP)
Year: 2003

description: In this research project, captains of New Jersey party and charter fishing boats were interviewed about fish consumption advisories, to address a charge to the New Jersey Mercury Task Force to identify economic impacts of such advisories. Overall, boat captains identified advisories as a moderate influence on their business, less important than market forces and fish management regulations, and those who thought it was a strong factor were not more likely to specialize in species subject to mercury or PCB advisories than were other captains. Boat captains had a mix of correct and incorrect views about fish consumption advisories, which may affect the advisory knowledge of many salt-water recreational anglers. Education directed at party and charter boat captains could be important in educating salt-water anglers about fish consumption advisories.
Watershed Focus Newsletter, Spring/Summer 2002
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP), Division of Watershed Management
Year: 2002

description: Watershed Focus Newsletter, which is published by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection's Division of Watershed Management, concentrates on watershed management, stormwater and nonpoint source pollution management issues in New Jersey. The Spring/Summer 2002 issue features the following articles: NJ Drought Continues - Rainfall deficit remains; Water Conservation Tips - Things you can do to help save water; Contaminated Crabs in Newark Bay - Health advisory issued; 2002 Watershed Management Awards - Top ten awardees honored at Watershed symposium; A Raindrop's Journey Through Your Watershed - Student Rainstick Contest winners awarded; Got Geese? - Morris County workshop focuses on waterfowl control; New Planning Tool Developed - What the Water Resource Evaluation System (WRES) could mean to you; Restoration Volunteers Needed at Coles Brook - Hackensack River Tributary improvements underway; Little Egg Harbor Celebrates Water  - Water festival promotes water appreciation.
How to impose initial conditions for QCD evolution of double parton distributions?
Creators: name: Golec-Biernat, Krzysztof
name: Lewandowska, Emilia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Double parton distribution functions (DPDFs) are used in the QCD description of double parton scattering. The DPDFs evolve with hard scales through QCD evolution equations which obey nontrivial momentum and valence quark number sum rules. We describe an attempt to construct initial conditions for the evolution equations which exactly fulfil these sum rules and discuss its shortcomings. We also discuss the factorization of the DPDFs into a product of two single parton distribution functions at small values of the parton momentum fractions.
description: 7 pages, version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D
Report of access of simulated supernovas data at LSST DC2
Creators: name: Rodriguez, O.
name: Quiroga, N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Access
LSST Project
Photometry
Simulated supernovas

description: This report intends to provide guide about the access management in the LSST project to the public, and supply information about its structure. This is one of the differents challenges when one faces to access to the properly data in the Rubin Science Platform and LSST DESC Data Portal. We particularly focus on testing the photometry of the Vera Rubin Telescope for simulated supernovas data at LSST DC2.
description: Rubin Observatory's mission is to build a well-understood system that will produce an unprecedented astronomical data set for studies of the deep and dynamic universe. The aims is to produce the data widely accessible to a diverse community of scientists, and engage the public to explore the Universe with all the scientific staff . Given the initiative to investigate the entire project that frames the Vera Rubin Observatory, RECA (The Network of Astronomy Students in Colombia) initiated the summer internship project in which undergraduate students of careers related to Astronomy contribute to the scientific development of this project. This report aims to describe the steps taken to access LSST data, since it was not easily accessible, and therefore, it is important to keep in mind the difficulties presented. So, the scientific community has greater ease in accessing and continuing to generate science.
Capillary focusing close to a topographic step: Shape and instability of confined liquid filaments
Creators: name: Hein, M.
name: Afkhami, S.
name: Seemann, R.
name: Kondic, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Step-emulsification is a microfluidic technique for droplet generation which relies on the abrupt decrease of confinement of a liquid filament surrounded by a continuous phase. A striking feature of this geometry is the transition between two distinct droplet breakup regimes, the "step-regime" and "jet-regime", at a critical capillary number. In the step-regime, small and monodisperse droplets break off from the filament directly at a topographic step, while in the jet-regime a jet protrudes into the larger channel region and large plug-like droplets are produced. We characterize the breakup behavior as a function of the filament geometry and the capillary number and present experimental results on the shape and evolution of the filament for a wide range of capillary numbers in the jet-regime. We compare the experimental results with numerical simulations. Assumptions based on the smallness of the depth of the microfluidic channel allow to reduce the governing equations to the Hele-Shaw problem with surface tension. The full nonlinear equations are then solved numerically using a volume-of-fluid based algorithm. The computational framework also captures the transition between both regimes, offering a deeper understanding of the underlying breakup mechanism.
Differences in Housing Credit Terms and Usage Between Metro and Nonmetro Areas in the United States, 1971
Creators: name: Spurlock, Hughes H.
name: Spurlock, Hughes H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1975
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Housing
subject: Financing
subject: Rural housing
subject: Metro
subject: Nonmetro
subject: Credit
subject: Mortgages
subject: Census

description: Analysis of 1971 census data on existing mortgages shows home buyers in rural areas paid higher interest rates on conventional mortgages and had shorter repayment periods than did their urban counterparts. They also had fewer choices of lenders. Even so, it appears credit conditions did improve during the 1960's in rural areas. Savings and loan associations, the major home mortgage lenders, became more active in rural areas. They held 35 percent of the first mortgages in 1971 as compared with 23 percent in 1960. Also, Federal agencies, particularly Farmers Home Administration, expanded activities in rural areas. This expansion tended to narrow the gap between the percentage of loans guaranteed and insured in rural areas as compared to metro areas.
Customer On-site Renewable Energy Program Changes Effective July 1, 2005 (Updated May 25, 2005)
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: New Jersey's Clean Energy Program (NJCEP), New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU), Office of Clean Energy
Year: 2005

description: With the advice and consent of the Clean Energy Council, the Office of Clean Energy is changing the rebate levels for solar photovoltaic equipment installation in the Customer On-site Renewable Energy program. The new rebate levels, referenced in this document, will take effect July 1, 2005.
Entanglement and nonclassical properties of hypergraph states
Creators: name: Gühne, O.
name: Cuquet, M.
name: Steinhoff, F. E. S.
name: Moroder, T.
name: Rossi, M.
name: Bruß, D.
name: Kraus, B.
name: Macchiavello, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hypergraph states are multi-qubit states that form a subset of the locally maximally entangleable states and a generalization of the well--established notion of graph states. Mathematically, they can conveniently be described by a hypergraph that indicates a possible generation procedure of these states; alternatively, they can also be phrased in terms of a non-local stabilizer formalism. In this paper, we explore the entanglement properties and nonclassical features of hypergraph states. First, we identify the equivalence classes under local unitary transformations for up to four qubits, as well as important classes of five- and six-qubit states, and determine various entanglement properties of these classes. Second, we present general conditions under which the local unitary equivalence of hypergraph states can simply be decided by considering a finite set of transformations with a clear graph-theoretical interpretation. Finally, we consider the question whether hypergraph states and their correlations can be used to reveal contradictions with classical hidden variable theories. We demonstrate that various noncontextuality inequalities and Bell inequalities can be derived for hypergraph states.
description: 29 pages, 5 figures, final version
Proceedings of the Aging Americans: Impacts on Ecology and Environmental Quality
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Office of Research and Development, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Atlantic Ecology Division
Year: 2005

description: This document reports on a workshop held in August 2004 by the EPA which discussed the change in aging demographics over time, key issues (i.e., socio-economic, geographic)affecting demographic projections, the potential impacts of an aging population on natural resources and environmental quality, and the research needed to ensure both the desired amenities for this aging population and the protection of natural resources.
Quantum non-Gaussianity witnesses in the phase space
Creators: name: Hughes, Catherine
name: Genoni, Marco G.
name: Tufarelli, Tommaso
name: Paris, Matteo G. A.
name: Kim, M. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We address detection of quantum non-Gaussian states, i.e. nonclassical states that cannot be expressed as a convex mixture of Gaussian states, and present a method to derive a new family of criteria based on generic linear functionals. We then specialise this method to derive witnesses based on $s$-parametrized quasiprobability functions, generalising previous criteria based on the Wigner function. In particular we discuss in detail and analyse the properties of Husimi Q-function based witnesses and prove that they are often more effective than previous criteria in detecting quantum non-Gaussianity of various kinds of non-Gaussian states evolving in a lossy channel.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures
Integrable interpolations: From exact CFTs to non-Abelian T-duals
Creators: name: Sfetsos, Konstadinos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive two new classes of integrable theories interpolating between exact CFT WZW or gauged WZW models and non-Abelian T-duals of principal chiral models or geometric coset models. They are naturally constructed by gauging symmetries of integrable models. Our analysis implies that non-Abelian T-duality preserves integrability and suggests a novel way to understand the global properties of the corresponding backgrounds.
description: 33 pages, Latex, V2: NPB version, minor changes and some references added, V3: typos below eq. (2.12) and in eq. (A.1) corrected
title: Locating a Marketplace at the Ancient Maya City of Lakamha’, Mexico Using the Configurational Approach
Creators: name: Roldan, Jonathan
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2022

description: In some cases, plazas that undergo archaeological testing for marketplace activity are identified using a method known as the configurational approach. This preliminary research method compares plaza locations to a list of associated features, often treated as a list of criteria. However, this approach has been criticized for its speculative nature and the equifinality of the results. Additionally, some argue that these “criteria” are only a list of assumptions. Until now, the configurational approach has received little attention due to its limitations and speculative nature, yet it remains an integral part of the preliminary process in marketplace research. This project compiles the criteria list(s) that have been previously proposed and will compare them to those marketplaces positively identified elsewhere in the Maya region. This study sets out to determine if some, all, or no features typically outlined as marketplace criteria are associated with confirmed marketplaces. Then, the “criteria” list is tested against plazas at Lakamha’ to narrow down a potential location for future investigations. The collection of empirical data recorded here is expected to create stronger criteria associated with marketplaces. Furthermore, identifying which architecture is most often associated with marketplaces, allows us to minimize any ambiguity during the preliminary process.
New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife Marine Fisheries Administration Commercial Regulations - 2003
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) Division of Fish and Wildlife
Year: 2003

description: This publication is a summary of the New Jersey commercial fishing regulations at the time of publication. It is not the full law. It outlines the regulations relating to fishing specific species, regulations relating to specific fishing gear, regulations pertaining to shellfish, and locations of New Jersey reefs.
Phase I Natural Resource Inventory: Peters Tract, Borough of Bernardsville, Somerset County, New Jersey
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Professional Planning and Engineering Corporation
Year: 1991

description: This document is an inventory of the natural resources present in Peters Tract, in the Borough of Bernardsville.  The topics covered in the inventory are: wildlife, vegetation, wetlands, site soils, and a soil survey.  Included with the inventory is the NJDEP Office of Natural Lands Management endangered Species Report.
title: A Performance Guide for Four Songs by Francisco Mignone
Creators: name: Rizzotto Vidal Pessoa, Amanda Mara
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2022

description: The scope of this document is to demonstrate the richness and diversity to be found in the art song genre from countries outside of the standard repertoire, specifically focusing on the Brazilian composer Francisco Mignone. The purpose of this document is to provide performance practice guidelines for four selected pieces by Francisco Mignone: No Meio do Caminho (1938), Pregão (1947), Si eu sei o que é saudade (1976), and Valsa-Vocalise (1972). They exemplify expressions of Brazilian national identity through the music selected. Furthermore, it provides a brief background on the composer and his compositional style phases, and context for the selection of his work. It will also provide resources related to the Brazilian Portuguese language because the language factor should not be a barrier impeding people from singing repertoire in Brazilian Portuguese. Singers should continue exploring different composers from different nationalities in order to expand the art song canon, and to discover great repertoire connected to different cultures.
title: Characterization of Physical and Dosimetric Aspects of SRS HyperArc Treatment Technique
Creators: name: Rickels, Emma
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2022

description: HyperArc is a radiation therapy planning technique using stereotactic radiosurgical doses delivered via single isocenter volumetric modulated arcs (VMAT) for multi-lesion brain cancer. Due to the nature of these types of treatments it is imperative that the proper quality assurance is completed to ensure the safety of the patient. Geometric limits were assessed using a dose volume histogram (DVH) and known rotational errors of theoretical lesions of different dimensions and lengths from the isocenter. Dosimetric comparisons were evaluated using an ion chamber and Gafchromic EBT-XD film and portal dosimetry. The conclusions from these investigations were that patient rotation will result in a loss of target coverage, which is emphasized for smaller targets and isocenter placement farther away from the lesion. The use of a six degree of freedom (6DoF) couch for set-up and surface tracking during beam delivery reliably positions patients to avoid positioning errors that would degrade treatment outcomes. HyperArc is a user-friendly clinical tool that can be confidently used in a clinical setting when the limitations are well known to the user.