cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Carbon-rich RR Lyr type stars
Creators: name: Wallerstein, George
name: Kovtyukh, V. V.
name: Andrievsky, S. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have derived CNO abundances in 12 RR Lyrae stars. Four stars show [C/Fe] near 0.0 and two stars show [C/Fe] = 0.52 and 0.65. Red giant branch stars, which are known to be the predecessors of RR Lyrae stars, generally show a deficiency of carbon due to proton captures during their evolution from the main sequence up the giant branch. We suggest that the enhancement of carbon is due to production during the helium flash combined with mixing to the surface by vigorous convection induced by the flash itself.
description: accepted for publication in ApJL
The Study of Correlation Between Marketing Strategy Factors And Audience Behavior Thai League Football: Samoson Football PT Prachuap Fc
Creators: name: Napat Chumchittri
Publisher: name: Department of Political Science, Mahamakut Buddhist University
Year: 2024
Subjects: Marketing strategy
Spectators' behavior in football matches PT Prachuap Football Club (FC)

description: Journal of Political Science Mahamakut Buddhist University, 4, 4, 77-91
title: Living Reflections
Creators: name: Leavy, Lorane
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 1985

description: The following works fall into three general categories--non-fiction, fiction, and the psychological analysis of this prose.

Three styles of non-fiction are represented: Creative non-fiction in which the events from a life experience are set forth in a narrative style; magazine journalism which incorporates the research, interviewing skills and informal yet accurate representation attendant to the genre; and a combination of reportorial journalism and the essay forms utilized to recount appropriately a highly personal event while maintaining the· distance necessary to inform and educate.

The short story meets the criteria for form and time frame and addresses a current issue.

The analysis suggests at least some of the forces which had to be active in the creative act in order for the content to have meaning and mission.

Finally, a sense of history and psychology permeates the obvious literary emphasis in this creative thesis.
Hodge-Frobenius equations and the Hodge-Backlund transformation
Creators: name: Marini, Antonella
name: Otway, Thomas H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35A15, 58J72, 58A14

description: Linear and nonlinear Hodge-like systems for 1-forms are studied, with an assumption equivalent to complete integrability substituted for the requirement of closure under exterior differentiation. The systems are placed in a variational context and properties of critical points investigated. Certain standard choices of energy density are related by Backlund transformations which employ basic properties of the Hodge involution. These Hodge-Backlund transformations yield invariant forms of classical Backlund transformations that arise in diverse contexts. Some extensions to higher-degree forms are indicated.
description: 36 pages
A Development of Best Practice for Basic Educational Schools Quality of Excellence Based on the Criteria of Baldrige National Quality Award
Creators: name: Katchrin Kanpinit
Publisher: name: Department of Political Science, Mahamakut Buddhist University
Year: 2024
Subjects: Educational Performance Excellence Criteria of Baldridge
National Quality Award
Best Practice
Composite Indicators
Results

description: Journal of Political Science Mahamakut Buddhist University, 4, 4, 92-108
title: Stakeholders and Shareholders: Are Executives Really “Penny Wise and Pound Foolish” About ESG?
Creators: name: Larcker, David F.
name: Tayan, Brian
name: Trivedi, Vinay
name: Wurzbacher, Owen
Publisher: name: Corporate Governance Research Initiative
Year: 2019

description: Currently, there is much debate about the role that non-investor stakeholder interests play in the governance of public companies. Critics argue that greater attention should be paid to the interest of stakeholders and that by investing in initiatives and programs to promote their interests, companies will create long-term value that is greater, more sustainable, and more equitably shared among investors and society. However, advocacy for a more stakeholder-centric governance model is based on assumptions about managerial behavior that are relatively untested. In this Closer Look, we examine survey data of the CEOs and CFOs of companies in the S&P 1500 Index to understand the extent to which they incorporate stakeholder needs into the business planning and long-term strategy, and their view of the costs and benefits of ESG-related programs. We ask: What are the real costs and benefits of ESG? How do companies signal to constituents that they take ESG activities seriously? How accurate are the ratings of third-party providers that rate companies on ESG factors? Do boards understand the short- and long-term impact of ESG activities? Do boards believe this investment is beneficial for the company?
The Body of Knowledge Regarding Borrowing Money of General Local Government Organizations Within the Context of Thai Research
Creators: name: Suthinan Suwunvijitr
Publisher: name: Department of Political Science, Mahamakut Buddhist University
Year: 2024
Subjects: Borrowing practices
Indebtedness
Local government entities

description: Journal of Political Science Mahamakut Buddhist University, 4, 4, 109-134
On the trace of the antipode and higher indicators
Creators: name: Kashina, Yevgenia
name: Montgomery, Susan
name: Ng, Siu-Hung
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 16T05

description: We introduce two kinds of gauge invariants for any finite-dimensional Hopf algebra H. When H is semisimple over C, these invariants are respectively, the trace of the map induced by the antipode on the endomorphism ring of a self-dual simple module, and the higher Frobenius-Schur indicators of the regular representation. We further study the values of these higher indicators in the context of complex semisimple quasi-Hopf algebras H. We prove that these indicators are non-negative provided the module category over H is modular, and that for a prime p, the p-th indicator is equal to 1 if, and only if, p is a factor of dim H. As an application, we show the existence of a non-trivial self-dual simple H-module with bounded dimension which is determined by the value of the second indicator.
description: additional references, fixed some typos, minor additions including a questions and some remarks
Application of the wedge technique to the measurement of Start shifts of plasma lines
Creators: name: Morris, Robert Norton
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The ability of the GBKO Stark broadening theory to predict the position of the mean of a plasma spectral line is exper-imentally investigated for three isolated neutral helium lines at electron temperatures of about 1.5 eV and electron densities in the region of (0.5 to 2.0) x 10¹⁶ cm⁻³. General agreement was found between experimental and theoretical shifts of the mean of the lines Hel 5016, Hel 4713 and Hel 3889 from their unperturbed wavelengths. A semi-empirical relationship is derived which gives the shift of the mean in terms of the electron impact width, w, and shift, d, as well as in terms of the ion-broadening parameter, a, and the Debye-shielding parameter, r: Δλ ≃ [ d/w ± 4.1α(1 - 0.5r) ]w. This relationship estimates the shift of the mean within 5% of the width, w, over the ranges 0 ≤ α ≤ 0.4 and 0 ≤ r ≤ 0.8. The shifts in the means of the observed lines were measured by a new technique employing a linearly varying neutral density filter mounted in the exit plane of a monochromator. This "wedge technique" has a wide range of possible application from steady state to pulsed conditions for observation of Doppler shifts, van der Waals shifts, Stark shifts or Zeemann shifts. It requires that the line is reasonably isolated and it is useful when the shift to width ratio is either large or small. A complete discussion of the technique is presented along with the important design criteria for linearity, resolution and sensitivity.
Methane T-Dwarf Candidates in the Star Forming Region IC 348
Creators: name: Burgess, Andrew
name: Bouvier, Jerome
name: Moraux, Estelle
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: IC 348 is a young (t$\sim$3Myr) and nearby (d$\sim$340pc) star forming region in the Perseus molecular cloud. We performed a deep imaging survey using the MEGACAM (z-band) and WIRCAM (JHK and narrowband CH${_4}$ on/off) wide-field cameras on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope. From the analysis of the narrowband CH${_4}$ on/off deep images, we report 4 T-dwarf candidates, of which 3 clearly lie within the limits of the IC 348 cluster. An upper limit on the extinction was estimated for each candidate from colour-magnitude diagrams, and found consistent with extinction maps of the cloud. Initial comparisons with T-dwarf spectral models suggest these candidates have a spectral type between T3 and T5, and perhaps later, potentially making these among the lowest mass isolated objects detected in a young star forming region so far.
Carbonaceous nanoparticles and carbon on carbon composite materials : preparation, properties and application in adsorption
Creators: name: Duffy, E
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The inclusion of carbonaceous nanoparticles (CNPs) in composite materials is an area of significant research interest. Their addition is expected to result in differing properties, and a possible transfer of the CNP's favourable properties to the final composite. Detonation nanodiamond (DND) has emerged as an interesting CNP, offering an array of attractive properties, including mechanical stability, thermal conductivity and a flexible surface chemistry, that make it an ideal candidate for integration in composite materials. This material still requires further characterisation in order to fully understand its colloidal stability, aggregation behaviour and batchto-batch variability. The aim of the present thesis was to investigate DND as a new candidate for inclusion in the synthesis of novel carbon monolithic composite materials suitable for potential application in analytical chemistry, separation and adsorption processes, sensors or electrode materials. To address the variable nature of this CNP, new approaches for its characterisation and modification have been investigated. Capillary electrophoresis (CE) was shown to provide an insight into the onset of particle aggregation and offered the capability of separating DND from different sources or purification processes. Surface modification with silanes resulted in hydrophobisation and improved DND colloidal stability. After a detailed characterisation of these different DND materials, a commercial suspension of single-digit DND particles was selected for preparation of carbon on carbon composites. Hierarchical porous graphitic carbon-nanodiamond monoliths (CND) were prepared by adding DND to a resorcinol formaldehyde copolymer, with silica gel as a hard template. The influence of DND was systematically studied and for the first time it has been shown that altering DND content can allow for facile tuning of surface areas, pore sizes, and graphitic nature of carbon monoliths. The first controlled production of novel structures resulting from DND inclusion within the composite monoliths, such as carbon onions, has been achieved. Properties of CND composites including graphitic character, surface area, morphology, pore structures and adsorption performance for organic dyes were studied in detail. CND materials embody an interesting new group of carbon on carbon composite materials with potential for application in areas including adsorption, extraction, catalysis and electrode materials.
Electronic Structure of Fe-Based Superconductors
Creators: name: Singh, D. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The electronic structure of the Fe-based superconductors is discussed, mainly from the point of view of first principles calculations in relation to experimental data. Comparisons and contrasts with cuprates are made. The problem of reconciling experiments indicating an $s$ symmetry gap with experiments indicating line nodes is discussed and a possible resolution is given.
description: Updated references. Additional discussion
Additional file 3 of Dynamic light caused less photosynthetic suppression, rather than more, under nitrogen deficit conditions than under sufficient nitrogen supply conditions in soybean
Creators: name: Li, Yu-Ting
name: Li, Ying
name: Li, Yue-Nan
name: Liang, Ying
name: Sun, Qiang
name: Li, Geng
name: Liu, Peng
name: Zhang, Zi-Shan
name: Gao, Hui-Yuan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3: Figure S3. The effect of osmotic potential on photosynthetic gas exchange.
Additional file 5 of Dynamic light caused less photosynthetic suppression, rather than more, under nitrogen deficit conditions than under sufficient nitrogen supply conditions in soybean
Creators: name: Li, Yu-Ting
name: Li, Ying
name: Li, Yue-Nan
name: Liang, Ying
name: Sun, Qiang
name: Li, Geng
name: Liu, Peng
name: Zhang, Zi-Shan
name: Gao, Hui-Yuan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 5: Figure S5. The original, full-length gel and blot of Rubisco, SBPase and FBPase.
Universal Centrality and Collision Energy Trends for $v_2$ Measurements From 2D Angular Correlations
Creators: name: STAR Collaboration
name: Kettler, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have measured the $p_t$-integrated quadrupole component of two-particle azimuth correlations (related to quantity $v_2$, denoted in this case by $v_2 \{2D\}$) via two-dimensional (2D) angular autocorrelations on $(η, ϕ)$ for unidentified hadrons in Au-Au collisions at 62 and 200 GeV. The 2D autocorrelation provides a method to remove non-quadrupole contributions to $v_2$ (conventionally termed ``nonflow'') under the assumption that such processes produce significant dependence on pair-wise relative $η$ within the detector acceptance. We hypothesize, based on empirical observations, that non-quadrupole contributions are dominated by minijets or minimum-bias jets. Using the optical Glauber eccentricity model for initial-state geometry we find simple and accurate universal energy and centrality trends for the quadrupole component. Centrality trends are determined only by the initial state (impact parameter $b$ and center-of-mass energy $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$). There is no apparent dependence on evolving system dynamics (e.g., equation of state or number of secondary collisions). Our measurements of the quadrupole and non-quadrupole components have implications for the contributions to $v_2$. They suggest that the main source of the difference between $v_2 \{2\}$ and $v_2 \{4\}$ (or $v_2 \{2D\}$) is measured properties of minijets.
description: Conference proceedings from Hot Quarks 2008. 6 pages, 8 figures
title: Loosey-Goosey Governance: Four Misunderstood Terms in Corporate Governance
Creators: name: Larcker, David F.
name: Tayan, Brian
Publisher: name: Corporate Governance Research Initiative
Year: 2019

description: A reliable system of corporate governance is considered to be an important requirement for the long-term success of a company. Unfortunately, after decades of research, we still do not have a clear understanding of the factors that make a governance system effective. Our understanding of governance suffers from 1) a tendency to overgeneralize across companies and 2) a tendency to refer to central concepts without first defining them. In this Closer Look, we examine four central concepts that are widely discussed but poorly understood. We ask: Would the caliber of discussion improve, and consensus on solutions be realized, if the debate on corporate governance were less loosey-goosey? Why can we still not answer the question of what makes good governance? How can our understanding of board quality improve without betraying the confidential information that a board discusses? Why is it difficult to answer the question of how much a CEO should be paid? Are U.S. executives really short-term oriented in managing their companies?
Unsettling space : trauma and architecture in contemporary art
Creators: name: Burke, EK
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: This thesis is an inquiry into relationships between concepts of trauma and architectural forms and spaces in contemporary art. Through critical analyses of a selection of the sculptural and site-¬¨‚â†‚ÄövÑv™specific works of four key artists -¬¨‚â†-Krzysztof Wodiczko, Rachel Whiteread, Doris Salcedo and Gregor Schneider -¬¨‚â†-it argues that architectural form and space provides a rich material and metaphorical framework for exploring the shifting conceptual terrain of contemporary trauma. Where the representational problem of trauma has traditionally been theorised in relation to subjective experience and the failures of language, the thesis suggests that through their engagement with architecture, all four artists present it as a problem of space and social relations. It argues that these artists utilise architectural form and space as a medium for exploring contemporary anxieties about trauma and its continued effect on both our political and personal lives and our experience and memory of past and present events. The thesis is structured in three chapters that analyse meanings of trauma in the selected works along a trajectory of different approaches to domestic, institutional, and public architectural sites and spaces. It suggests that through the sculptural strategies of displacement and the blurring of structural boundaries between interior/exterior space, the works straddle the traditional, psychologised space of private, individual experience and a broader, more political space that encompasses collective experience and public forms of commemoration and inhabitation. As such, the thesis argues that problematizing the experience of inhabitation across these spaces is an aesthetic and political strategy that has the power to unsettle the viewer and initiate affective engagements with some of the more ethical dimensions of trauma and our collective response to it in contemporary contexts. By identifying conceptual links between the works of Wodiczko, Whiteread, Salcedo and Schneider, the thesis develops a critical framework for theorising how the unsettled parameters of architectural spaces and forms can foster new approaches to trauma.
The Satisfaction of People to Quality of Public Services in Pattaya City for the Fiscal Year 2023
Creators: name: Kitthachet Krivart
Publisher: name: Department of Political Science, Mahamakut Buddhist University
Year: 2024
Subjects: Satisfaction
Public Service Quality
Public Service
Pattaya City

description: Journal of Political Science Mahamakut Buddhist University, 4, 4, 135-155
The effects of soil water deficit on physiological, morphological and chemical traits of Eucalyptus
Creators: name: McKiernan, AB
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Drought periods leading to soil water deficit can fundamentally affect plant growth and survival, and alter plant traits such as leaf chemistry. Predictions of increased drought periods in many regions means that widespread plant species may experience soil water deficit that differs in duration and severity over the species natural range. Glasshouse experiments were used to test the effect of water deficit level, water deficit duration and re-watering on juveniles from genetically-distinct Eucalyptus globulus and E. viminalis provenances by quantifying plant morphological, physiological and chemical traits. Eucalyptus globulus provenances vary in genetic-based drought tolerance, and provenances are located across a rainfall gradient. I hypothesised that juveniles of provenances from wet locations would be affected by water deficit to a larger degree than those from dry locations due to intra-specific adaptation to local rainfall patterns. Both species and all provenances responded similarly to all water deficit treatments and to re-watering regardless of genetic-based constitutive trait variation, local rainfall patterns, or in the case of adult E. globulus, field drought susceptibility. The only response to water deficit which varied between provenances was foliar abscisic acid (ABA) levels, and the response pattern was similar for both species at each paired locality, indicating parallel evolution and local adaptation. While many E. viminalis constitutive chemical and morphological traits changed over time due to plant development, the duration of moderate (50%) water deficit had no impact on any trait. Eucalyptus globulus leaf water potential, foliar ABA levels, plant biomass and C:N were affected by different levels of water availability ranging from 90 ‚Äö- 0% of control evapotranspiration. Plant secondary metabolite (PSM) responses to water deficit varied between experiments, and also between the selected PSM traits. Overall, concentrations of individual terpenes and total oil were not influenced by water deficit. Concentrations of phenols were more plastic in response to water deficit than terpenes, as condensed tannin concentrations increased in some experiments and total phenolic and formylated phloroglucinol compound (FPC) concentrations decreased in some experiments. A short re-watering period reversed the effects of water deficit on some chemical traits, but also decreased phenol concentrations. Variation in responses to water deficit between experiments is discussed. Overall, genetic-based quantitative PSM variation was high between species and provenances, with comparably low levels of plasticity due to water deficit. While responses to soil water deficit may largely be similar in juveniles across each species range, the ecological impact of modest changes to Eucalyptus PSM concentrations during drought may be equally modest, and the effect on mature trees is unknown.
DCA for Bot Detection
Creators: name: Al-Hammadi, Yousof
name: Aickelin, Uwe
name: Greensmith, Julie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Ensuring the security of computers is a non-trivial task, with many techniques used by malicious users to compromise these systems. In recent years a new threat has emerged in the form of networks of hijacked zombie machines used to perform complex distributed attacks such as denial of service and to obtain sensitive data such as password information. These zombie machines are said to be infected with a 'bot' - a malicious piece of software which is installed on a host machine and is controlled by a remote attacker, termed the 'botmaster of a botnet'. In this work, we use the biologically inspired Dendritic Cell Algorithm (DCA) to detect the existence of a single bot on a compromised host machine. The DCA is an immune-inspired algorithm based on an abstract model of the behaviour of the dendritic cells of the human body. The basis of anomaly detection performed by the DCA is facilitated using the correlation of behavioural attributes such as keylogging and packet flooding behaviour. The results of the application of the DCA to the detection of a single bot show that the algorithm is a successful technique for the detection of such malicious software without responding to normally running programs.
description: 10pages, 5 tables, 6 figures, IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI2008), Hong Kong
Hymetes Lacordaire 1848
Creators: name: Chamorro-Lacayo, Maria
name: Konstantinov, Alexander
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Hymetes

description: Hymetes Lacordaire (Figs. 1 H; 2 G; 3 G; 4 G; 5 G) Hymetes Lacordaire, 1848: 861; Type species: Hymetes javana Lacordaire, 1848, by monotypy; Baly, 1865: 61 (description) Diagnosis. Length 6.34-7.10 mm, width 4.27-4.46 mm. General body shape subquadrate. Antenna serrate beyond 5 th antennomere, 2 nd antennomere globular, 3 rd, 4 th and 5 th antennomere of equal size, subcylindrical, 6 th antennomere very short. Pronotum medially elevated, without pronounced tubercules, but with relatively short, acute ridges. Pronotal base opposite mesoscutellum (posterior pronotal lobe) with acute notch. Prosternal process approximately ½ length of entire prosternum, narrow, slightly broadening posteriorly. Anterior margin of metasternum forming an elongate projection. Mesoscutellum trapezoidal. Metascutellum not exposed. Sutural serra- tion of elytra complete. Elytral tubercules weakly developed. Tibiae slightly curved, flattened dorsally, with sharp edge dorsomedially. Fore- and midtibial apices without spine. Tarsal claw appendiculate. Distribution. Oriental Region (Monrós 1952). Remarks. This genus can be separated from all other chlamisine genera by the anteriorly elongate metasternum projection (concave in other chlamisines), by the subcylindrical 3 rd, 4 th and 5 th antennomeres, and by the absence of spines on the fore- and midtibiae. Three species are known from India and Java (Monrós 1952). Material examined. Hymetes javana Lacordaire: 1) a. [Indonesia] Java / b. F. Monrós Collection, 1959. 2) a. [Indonesia] East Borneo, Batan bessi, M. E. Walsh, 1937/ b. F. Monrós Collection, 1959/ c. Hymetes javana Lac. F. Monrós det. 1957. Hymetes indica Chapuis: 1) a. India / b. F. Monrós Collection, 1959/ c. Hymetes indica Chap F. Monrós det. 1957.
description: Published as part of Chamorro-Lacayo, Maria & Konstantinov, Alexander, 2009, Synopsis of warty leaf beetle genera of the world (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Cryptocephalinae, Chlamisini), pp. 63-88 in ZooKeys 8 (8) on pages 77-78, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.8.90, http://zenodo.org/record/576444
description: {"references": ["Lacordaire MT (1848) Monographie des Coleopteres subpentameres de la famille des Phytophages. Tome second. Bruxelles et Leipzig, 890 pp.", "Baly JS (1865) Phytophaga Malayana; a revision of the phytophagous beetles of the Malay Archipelago, with descriptions of the new species collected by Alfred R. Wallace. Transactions of the Entomological Society London 3 (4): 1 - 76.", "Monros F (1952) Revision de las especies argentinas de Chlamisinae (Col., Chrysomelidae) (5 a contribucion al conocimiento de Chlamisinae). Acta Zoologica Lilloana 10: 489 - 672."]}
Electric dipole moments of nitric acid-water complexes measured by cluster beam deflection
Creators: name: Moro, Ramiro
name: Heinrich, Jonathon
name: Kresin, Vitaly V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Water clusters embedding a nitric acid molecule HNO3(H2O)_{n=1-10} are investigated via electrostatic deflection of a molecular beam. We observe large paraelectric susceptibilities that greatly exceed the electronic polarizability, revealing the contribution of permanent dipole moments. The moments derived from the data are also significantly higher than those of pure water clusters. An enhancement in the susceptibility for n=5,6 and a rise in cluster abundances setting in at n=6 suggest that dissociation of the solvated acid molecule into ions takes place in this size range.
description: Proceedings of ISACC 2009, The Fourth International Symposium "Atomic Cluster Collisions: structure and dynamics from the nuclear to the biological scale" (AIP Conference Proceedings)
The time-dependence of the local stellar velocity distribution
Creators: name: Byl, John
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: It is a well-known observational fact that the velocity distribution of a group of stars is related to the spectral classes of the stars. In particular, a large vertex deviation exists for stars of early spectral types, which disappears for stars of later spectral types. Also, the velocity dispersions tend to increase with later spectral types. An examination of the nearby stars yielded relations between the velocity distribution and the spectral type. Since it was possible to estimate ages for a number of stars, the dependence of the velocity dispersions on age could also be determined. It was proposed that the observed effects are due to spiral density waves. If account was taken also of the fact that the orbits of the younger stars are not yet well-mixed, then it was found that the predicted values of the vertex deviation agree quite well with the observational values. The increase in the velocity dispersion can be explained if the spiral pattern has dissolved and reformed a number of times. From a comparison of the theoretical age-dependence of the velocity dispersion and the observational curve it was possible to estimate the number of spiral patterns which have existed, their amplitudes and their decay rates.
Additional file 1: of Fabrication of Poly(acrylic acid)/Boron Nitride Composite Hydrogels with Excellent Mechanical Properties and Rapid Self-Healing Through Hierarchically Physical Interactions
Creators: name: Xue, Shishan
name: Wu, Yuanpeng
name: Guo, Meiling
name: Liu, Dan
name: Zhang, Tao
name: Lei, Weiwei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biophysics
Biochemistry
Space Science
Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Medicine
Biotechnology
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Computational Biology

description: Figure S1. Tensile stress-strain curves of B0Py hydrogels with different water contents. Figure S2. Tensile stress-strain curves of B0.1Py hydrogels with different water contents. Figure S3. Tensile stress-strain curves of B0.5Py hydrogels with different water contents. Figure S4. Tensile stress-strain curves of B0.8Py hydrogels with different water contents. Figure S5. Tensile stress-strain curves of B1.0Py hydrogels with different water contents. Figure S6. The digital photograph of torsion hydrogel. Figure S7. Youngâ s modulus of hydrogels of BxP50 and BxP70. Figure S8. the fracture stresses of original BxP25 hydrogels and healed BxP25 hydrogels with different BNNS-NH2 concentrations (the healing time was 1â h). (DOCX 783 kb)
Hadron Correlations in Jets and Ridges through Parton Recombination
Creators: name: Hwa, Rudolph C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hadron correlations in jets, ridges and opposite dijets at all $p_T$ above 2 GeV/c are discussed. Since abundant data are available from RHIC at intermediate $p_T$, a reliable hadronization scheme at that $p_T$ range is necessary in order to relate the semihard partonic processes to the observables. The recombination model is therefore first reviewed for that purpose. Final-state interaction is shown to be important for the Cronin effect, large B/M ratio and forward production. The effect of semihard partons on the medium is then discussed with particular emphasis on the formation of ridge with or without trigger. Azimuthal anisotropy can result from ridges without early thermalization. Dynamical path length distribution is derived for any centrality. Dihadron correlations in jets on the same or opposite side are shown to reveal detail properties of trigger and antitrigger biases with the inference that tangential jets dominate the dijets accessible to observation.
description: 55 pages, 19 figures in pdf, review article for QGP4
AARP Poll: Attitudes Toward Long-Term Care Amid COVID-19
Creators: name: American Association Of Retired Persons (AARP)
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2022

description: Aware of the difference between nursing home and assisted living (1); opinion of nursing homes/assisted living (2); coronavirus (COVID-19) in nursing homes/assisted living/other long-term care facilities (2); impact of coronavirus (COVID-19) on opinion of nursing homes/assisted living (2); impact of coronavirus (COVID-19) on thoughts about long-term care (4); preferred long-term care option (2); perceived likelihood of receiving long-term care in preferred setting (3); helpful information for planning long-term care (3); reasons for thinking about long-term care (8); provided unpaid care to family member/friend in the last 12 months (1); likelihood of providing unpaid care to family member/friend in the next 5 years (1); family member/friend currently in nursing home/assisted living/long-term care facility (1).
What can we learn about quasars from alpha_OX measurements in galactic black hole binaries?
Creators: name: Sobolewska, M. A.
name: Gierlinski, M.
name: Siemiginowska, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We draw a comparison between AGN and Galactic black hole binaries using a uniform description of spectral energy distribution of these two classes of accreting X-ray sources. We parametrize spectra of GBHs with an alpha_GBH parameter which we define as a slope of a nominal power law function between 3 and 20 keV. We show that this parameter can be treated as an equivalent of the X-ray loudness, alpha_OX, used to describe AGN spectra. We do not find linear correlation between the alpha_GBH and disc flux (similar to that between alpha_OX and optical/UV luminosity found in AGN). Instead, we show that alpha_GBH follows a well defined pattern during a GBH outburst. We find that alpha_GBH tend to cluster around 1, 1.5 and 2, which correspond to a hard, very high/intermediate and soft spectral state, respectively. We conclude that majority of the observed Type 1 radio quiet AGN are in a spectral state corresponding to a very high/intermediate state of GBHs. The same conclusion is valid for radio loud AGN. We also study variations of the spectral slopes (alpha_GBH and the X-ray photon index, Gamma) as a function of disc and Comptonization fluxes. We discuss these dependencies in the context of correlations of alpha_OX and Gamma with the optical/UV and X-ray 2 keV fluxes considered for AGN and quasars.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Combined local and equilateral non-Gaussianities from multifield DBI inflation
Creators: name: Renaux-Petel, Sébastien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study multifield aspects of Dirac-Born-Infeld (DBI) inflation. More specifically, we consider an inflationary phase driven by the radial motion of a D-brane in a conical throat and determine how the D-brane fluctuations in the angular directions can be converted into curvature perturbations when the tachyonic instability arises at the end of inflation. The simultaneous presence of multiple fields and non-standard kinetic terms gives both local and equilateral shapes for non-Gaussianities in the bispectrum. We also study the trispectrum, pointing out that it acquires a particular momentum dependent component whose amplitude is given by $f_{NL}^{loc} f_{NL}^{eq}$. We show that this relation is valid in every multifield DBI model, in particular for any brane trajectory, and thus constitutes an interesting observational signature of such scenarios.
description: 38 pages, 11 figures. Typos corrected; references added. This version matches the one in press by JCAP
A versatile facility for the calibration of X-ray polarimeters with polarized and unpolarized controlled beams
Creators: name: Muleri, Fabio
name: Soffitta, Paolo
name: Bellazzini, Ronaldo
name: Brez, Alessandro
name: Costa, Enrico
name: Frutti, Massimo
name: Mastropietro, Marcello
name: Morelli, Ennio
name: Pinchera, Michele
name: Rubini, Alda
name: Spandre, Gloria
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We devised and built a versatile facility for the calibration of the next generation X-ray polarimeters with unpolarized and polarized radiation. The former is produced at 5.9 keV by means of a Fe55 radioactive source or by X-ray tubes, while the latter is obtained by Bragg diffraction at nearly 45 degrees. Crystals tuned with the emission lines of X-ray tubes with molybdenum, rhodium, calcium and titanium anodes are employed for the efficient production of highly polarized photons at 2.29, 2.69, 3.69 and 4.51 keV respectively. Moreover the continuum emission is exploited for the production of polarized photons at 1.65 keV and 2.04 keV and at energies corresponding to the higher orders of diffraction. The photons are collimated by means of interchangeable capillary plates and diaphragms, allowing a trade-off between collimation and high fluxes. The direction of the beam is accurately arranged by means of high precision motorized stages, controlled via computer so that long and automatic measurements can be done. Selecting the direction of polarization and the incidence point we can map the response of imaging devices to both polarized and unpolarized radiation. Changing the inclination of the beam we can study the systematic effects due to the focusing of grazing incidence optics and the feasibility of instruments with large field of view.
description: 12 pages, 11 figures
\Becoming people to each other\" : how practice and meaning intersect in the delivery of aged care and disability support"
Creators: name: Banks, SM
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: This Australian research investigates how practice and meanings of care intersect in the delivery of support to people with disability and the frail aged. There is ambivalence surrounding 'care' in the literatures on ageing and disability: constructions of care differ between these fields. In the field of ageing, care tends to be understood as love and altruism, an extension of the self to give ease to another. For disabled people, care is associated with control, institutionalisation, cruelty, and abuse. Despite these differences, found in the literature, the provider organisations, physical practices, and even the individual workers in aged care and disability support frequently overlap. Furthermore, workers and clients from both fields share a sometimes stigmatised position, hidden in backstage settings, engaged in 'dirty' work, and socially and economically marginalised. The voices of workers are rare in the literature, as are studies that combine an empirical focus on meaning and practice. This study used interviews, observations and visual methods with aged care and disability support workers, and with clients. Participants worked or lived in residential facilities, in group and supported accommodation and in private houses. The thematic analysis explored presentation of self, worker and client practices, perceptions of the other and how these elements coalesce in the service encounter. The co-creation of a competent self was revealed as being central to the meaning and practice of care with emotion work enabling both participants to find ways to co-produce one another's presentation of self. Such co-creation is only possible when the actors (workers and clients) recognise one another on the levels of love, rights and solidarity, and relies on emotion work. An ideal encounter between a support worker and a disabled person creates the possibility of (mutual) recognition. But interactions can also undermine individuals' presentation of self and damage opportunities to experience recognition. I argue that all levels of recognition‚ÄövÑvÆlove, rights and solidarity‚ÄövÑvÆmust be present in a support interaction in order for the participants to experience enabling and satisfying working relationships. Further, recognition must be mutual. The research findings have implications for the wellbeing of workers and clients, the responsibilities of community and facility provider organisations, for future training of workers, and for policy.
Rite for reconciliation of individual penitents : confessor's booklet.
Creators: name: Catholic Church.
Publisher: name: University of Notre Dame
Year: 2023

description:
 Published by authority of the Bishops' Committee on the Liturgy--p. 16
 English translation of the Latin text by the International Committee on English in the Liturgy.
 Chapter I of the Rite of Penance (a 1973 revised excerts from the Roman Ritual).
 Caption title.
 The complete version was also published under title: Rite of penance. Hales Corners, Wisc. : Priests of the Sacred Heart, Sacred Heart Monastery, 1975.
 Rite of Penance, chapter I.
title: Pay for Performance … But Not Too Much Pay: The American Public’s View of CEO Pay
Creators: name: Larcker, David F.
name: Tayan, Brian
Publisher: name: Corporate Governance Research Initiative
Year: 2019

description: Among the controversies in corporate governance, perhaps none is more heated or widely debated across society than that of CEO pay. The views that American citizens have on CEO pay is centrally important because public opinion influences political decisions that shape tax, economic, and regulatory policy, and ultimately determine the standard of living of average Americans. This Closer Look reviews survey data of the American public to understand their views on compensation. We ask: How can society’s understanding of pay and value creation be improved and the controversy over CEO pay resolved? How should the level of CEO pay rise with complexity and profitability, particularly among America’s largest corporations? Should pay be reformed in the boardroom, or should high pay be addressed solely through the tax code? Are negative views of CEO pay driven by broad skepticism and lack of esteem for CEOs? Or do high pay levels themselves contribute to low regard for CEOs?
Parametric study of the interface behavior between two immiscible liquids flowing through a porous medium
Creators: name: Mariotti, Alejandro David
name: Brandaleze, Elena
name: Buscaglia, Gustavo C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: When two immiscible liquids that coexist inside a porous medium are drained through an opening, a complex flow takes place in which the interface between the liquids moves, tilts and bends. The interface profiles depend on the physical properties of the liquids and on the velocity at which they are extracted. If the drainage flow rate, the liquids volume fraction in the drainage flow and the physical properties of the liquids are known, the interface angle in the immediate vicinity of the outlet (theta) can be determined. In this work, we define four nondimensional parameters that rule the fluid dynamical problem and, by means of a numerical parametric analysis, an equation to predict theta is developed. The equation is verified through several numerical assessments in which the parameters are modified simultaneously and arbitrarily. In addition, the qualitative influence of each nondimensional parameter on the interface shape is reported.
description: 7 pages, 12 figures
M-theory on Calabi-Yau Five-Folds
Creators: name: Haupt, Alexander S.
name: Lukas, Andre
name: Stelle, K. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the compactification of M-theory on Calabi-Yau five-folds and the resulting N=2 super-mechanics theories. By explicit reduction from 11 dimensions, including both bosonic and fermionic terms, we calculate the one-dimensional effective action and show that it can be derived from an N=2 super-space action. We find that the Kahler and complex structure moduli of the five-fold reside in 2a and 2b super-multiplets, respectively. Constrained 2a super-multiplets arise from zero-modes of the M-theory three-form and lead to cross-couplings between 2a and 2b multiplets. Fermionic zero modes which arise from the (1,3) sector of the 11-dimensional gravitino do not have bosonic super-partners and have to be described by purely fermionic super-multiplets in one dimension. We also study the inclusion of flux and discuss the consistency of the scalar potential with one-dimensional N=2 supersymmetry and how it can be described in terms of a superpotential. This superpotential can also be obtained from a Gukov-type formula which we present. Supersymmetric vacua, obtained by solving the F-term equations, always have vanishing vacuum energy due to the form of this scalar potential. We show that such supersymmetric solutions exist for particular examples. Two substantial appendices develop the topology and geometry of Calabi-Yau five-folds and the structure of one-dimensional N=2 supersymmetry and supergravity to the level of generality required for our purposes.
description: 82 pages, JHEP3 style. v2: acknowledgements and references added, signs and typos corrected, revised sections 4-6 and B.4. Final version accepted for publication
Applying POSDCoRB principles to analyze the process of requesting academic positions for academic personnel in higher education institutions
Creators: name: Thidarat Suebyart
Publisher: name: Department of Political Science, Mahamakut Buddhist University
Year: 2024
Subjects: Requesting academic position
Academic personnel
Higher education institutions

description: Journal of Political Science Mahamakut Buddhist University, 4, 4, 282-295
Improved community structure detection using a modified fine tuning strategy
Creators: name: Sun, Yudong
name: Danila, Bogdan
name: Josic, Kresimir
name: Bassler, Kevin E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The community structure of a complex network can be determined by finding the partitioning of its nodes that maximizes modularity. Many of the proposed algorithms for doing this work by recursively bisecting the network. We show that this unduely constrains their results, leading to a bias in the size of the communities they find and limiting their effectivness. To solve this problem, we propose adding a step to the existing algorithms that does not increase the order of their computational complexity. We show that, if this step is combined with a commonly used method, the identified constraint and resulting bias are removed, and its ability to find the optimal partitioning is improved. The effectiveness of this combined algorithm is also demonstrated by using it on real-world example networks. For a number of these examples, it achieves the best results of any known algorithm.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, 1 table