cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Fat or elastic: an inquiry into classification of black clay soils of Addis Ababa around Tulu Dimtu area
Creators: name: Gemechu, Tewodros
Publisher: name: Zede Journal of Ethiopian Engineers and Architects
Year: 2023

description: Addis Ababa Black clays are one of two dominant clay found in the city and known for its expansive nature. Using the unified soil classification system, such soil, traditionally, is classified by the group name fat clay and group symbol of CH. But some investigations on local soil have resulted in classifying the soil as elastic silt, MH. In this research laboratory investigation is conducted to determine if in fact Addis Ababa black clays may end up being classed as elastic silts and if so, what may be the parameters that play a role in such a classification. For the study three samples were collected from Tulu-Dimtu, where previous investigations have resulted in the discrepancy. Simple classification tests were conducted on the samples. In addition, the effect of sample preparation, utilization of tap water, experience level of operator and variations among laboratories investigated. It was found that Addis Ababa black clay soils mayend up being classified as elastic silts but in general remain within the boundary region of the A-line on both sides. The experience level of the operator was found to have the most profound effect on index tests and classification.
description: Zede Journal of Ethiopian Engineers and Architects, Vol. 40 (2022): Zede: Journal of Ethiopian Engineers and Architects
Chemical abundances and kinematics of 257 G-, K-type field giants. Setting a base for further analysis of giant-planet properties orbiting evolved stars
Creators: name: Adibekyan, V. Zh.
name: Benamati, L.
name: Santos, N. C.
name: Alves, S.
name: Lovis, C.
name: Udry, S.
name: Israelian, G.
name: Sousa, S. G.
name: Tsantaki, M.
name: Mortier, A.
name: Sozzetti, A.
name: De Medeiros, J. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We performed a uniform and detailed abundance analysis of 12 refractory elements (Na, Mg, Al, Si, Ca, Ti, Cr, Ni, Co, Sc, Mn, and V) for a sample of 257 G- and K-type evolved stars from the CORALIE planet search program. To date, only one of these stars is known to harbor a planetary companion. We aimed to characterize this large sample of evolved stars in terms of chemical abundances and kinematics, thus setting a solid base for further analysis of planetary properties around giant stars. This sample, being homogeneously analyzed, can be used as a comparison sample for other planet-related studies, as well as for different type of studies related to stellar and Galaxy astrophysics. The abundances of the chemical elements were determined using an LTE abundance analysis relative to the Sun, with the spectral synthesis code MOOG and a grid of Kurucz ATLAS9 atmospheres. To separate the Galactic stellar populations both a purely kinematical approach and a chemical method were applied. We confirm the overabundance of Na in giant stars compared to the field FGK dwarfs. This enhancement might have a stellar evolutionary character, but departures from LTE may also produce a similar enhancement. Our chemical separation of stellar populations also suggests a "gap" in metallicity between the thick-disk and high-alpha metal-rich stars, as previously observed in dwarfs sample from HARPS. The present sample, as most of the giant star samples, also suffers from the B - V colour cut-off, which excludes low-log g stars with high metallicities, and high-logg star with low-[Fe/H]. For future studies of planet occurrence dependence on stellar metallicity around these evolved stars we suggest to use a sub-sample of stars in a "cut-rectangle" in the logg - [Fe/H] diagram to overcome the aforementioned issue.
description: accepted to MNRAS
Is the Handling Data Cycle about to do a runner?
Creators: name: Woodage, Simon
Publisher: name: The School of Education and Communities, University of East London
Year: 2011
Subjects: statistics
mathematics teaching

description: This article reflects back on a previous review of the
Handling Data Cycle (HDC), part of the statistics
section of the National Curriculum programmes of
study for mathematics. It summarises the findings of
the earlier review, considering these in light of recent
experiences in school of a group of trainee secondary
mathematics teachers. In particular, the effect of
there no longer being GCSE statistics coursework is
discussed. With reference to the priorities of different
educational ideological groups, the article supports a
continued emphasis on HDC in our training, despite
indications that it is becoming increasingly marginalised
in the secondary mathematics curriculum.
Application of shallow energy piles for the purpose of heating and cooling of buildings
Creators: name: Fikre, Henok
Publisher: name: Zede Journal of Ethiopian Engineers and Architects
Year: 2023

description: Shallow energy piles are these days internationally being implemented for serving as heat exchanging media between the ground and the building in addition to supporting structural loads. This research aims at providing the basic concepts for the application of energy piles for a portion of the total demands of high-rise buildings in Ethiopia, specifically heating and cooling demands. Preliminary estimation of the number of energy piles to cover a certain portion of the total heating and cooling demands of a selected building in Addis Ababa showed the potential for its application in the future. Investigation of the behaviour of energy piles due to the action of cycling heating and cooling loads by using finite element software TOCHNOG were also performed by employing the appropriate hypo-plasticity constitutive model for the soil layers. The measured values of the thermo-mechanically loaded pile were reasonably simulated by the finite element model. The coupled thermomechanical cyclic thermal and mechanical loads were found to reduce the settlements of the foundation significantly, which can be considered as an additional advantage of this foundation technique for high rise buildings.
description: Zede Journal of Ethiopian Engineers and Architects, Vol. 40 (2022): Zede: Journal of Ethiopian Engineers and Architects
Quaternionic Heisenberg groups as naturally reductive homogeneous spaces
Creators: name: Agricola, Ilka
name: Ferreira, Ana Cristina
name: Storm, Reinier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C10, 53C15, 53C25, 53C26, 53C27, 53C30

description: In this note, we describe the geometry of the quaternionic Heisenberg groups from a Riemannian viewpoint. We show, in all dimensions, that they carry an almost $3$-contact metric structure which allows us to define the metric connection that equips these groups with the structure of a naturally reductive homogeneous space. It turns out that this connection, which we shall call the canonical connection because of its analogy to the $3$-Sasaki case, preserves the horizontal and vertical distributions and even the quaternionic contact structure of the quaternionic Heisenberg groups. We focus on the $7$-dimensional case and prove that the canonical connection can also be obtained by means of a cocalibrated $G_2$ structure. We then study the spinorial properties of this group and present the noteworthy fact that it is the only known example of a manifold which carries generalized Killing spinors with three different eigenvalues.
(102355) Morgan Lewis
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Gauge-invariant implementation of the Abelian Higgs model on optical lattices
Creators: name: Bazavov, Alexei
name: Meurice, Yannick
name: Tsai, Shan-Wen
name: Unmuth-Yockey, Judah
name: Zhang, Jin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a gauge-invariant effective action for the Abelian Higgs model (scalar electrodynamics) with a chemical potential $μ$ on a 1+1 dimensional lattice. This formulation provides an expansion in the hopping parameter $κ$ which we test with Monte Carlo simulations for a broad range of the inverse gauge coupling $β_{pl}$ and small values of the scalar self-coupling $λ$. In the opposite limit of infinitely large $λ$, the partition function can be written as a traced product of local tensors which allows us to write exact blocking formulas. Their numerical implementation requires truncations but there is no sign problem for arbitrary values of $μ$. We show that the time continuum limit of the blocked transfer matrix can be obtained numerically and, in the limit of infinite $β_{pl}$ and with a spin-1 truncation, the small volume energy spectrum is identical to the low energy spectrum of a two-species Bose-Hubbard model in the limit of large onsite repulsion. We extend this procedure for finite $β_{pl}$ and derive a spin-1 approximation of the Hamiltonian. It involves new terms corresponding to transitions among the two species in the Bose-Hubbard model. We propose an optical lattice implementation involving a ladder structure.
description: 10 pages, 9 figures
MPEC 2024-R233 : 2024 RL10
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 RL10

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Dissecting the quasar main sequence: insight from host galaxy properties
Creators: name: Sun, Jiayi
name: Shen, Yue
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The diverse properties of broad-line quasars appear to follow a well-defined main sequence along which the optical FeII strength increases. It has been suggested that this sequence is mainly driven by the Eddington ratio (L/L_Edd) of the black hole (BH) accretion. Shen & Ho demonstrated with quasar clustering analysis that the average BH mass decreases with increasing FeII strength when quasar luminosity is fixed, consistent with this suggestion. Here we perform an independent test by measuring the stellar velocity dispersion sigma* (hence the BH mass via the M-sigma* relation) from decomposed host spectra in low-redshift Sloan Digital Sky Survey quasars. We found that at fixed quasar luminosity, sigma* systematically decreases with increasing FeII strength, confirming that Eddington ratio increases with FeII strength. We also found that at fixed luminosity and FeII strength, there is little dependence of sigma* on the broad Hbeta FWHM. These new results reinforce the framework put forward by Shen & Ho that Eddington ratio and orientation govern most of the diversity seen in broad-line quasar properties.
description: ApJL in press; 5 pages and 4 figures
(102351) Sarah [Lewis]
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Minimum Data Set prototype Urban Vitality
Creators: name: Ulzen, N.R. Van
name: A.S. De Jong
Publisher: name: University of Amsterdam / Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
Year: 2020
Subjects: Health Sciences

description: An example for the development of a potential Minimum Data Set (MDS) within the Urban Vitality (UV) themes ‘Gezond ouder worden / Mensen in Beweging’. The goal is to ensure more uniform collection of outcome measures, based on FAIR principles, and to facilitate reuse of data and analyses spanning multiple studies. This prototype MDS is based on The Older Persons and Informal Caregivers Survey Minimum DataSet (TOPICS-MDS) (ref 1), the project FAIR: geen woorden maar data (ref 2) in which we examined 14 UV-studies about ageing and frailty of elderly, and the set of common data elements for rare disease registration (ref 3).
Explicit upper bound for $\left|L(1, χ)\right|$ when $χ(2)=1$ and $χ$ is even
Creators: name: Eddin, Sumaia Saad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 11M06, Secondary 11Y35

description: Let $χ$ be a primitive Dirichlet character of conductor $q$ and let us denote by $L(z, χ)$ the associated $L$-series. In this paper, we provide an explicit upper bound for $\left|L(1, χ)\right|$ when $χ$ is a primitive even Dirichlet character with $χ(2)=1$.
description: 16 pages, 2 figures. Submitted to International Journal of Number Theory
Optimum Location to Intercept Interstellar Objects with Build-and-wait Missions
Creators: name: Llobet, Laia López
name: Hein, Andreas M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Until now, only two Interstellar Objects (ISOs) have been discovered: 1I/'Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov. Despite a limited amount of observations, they present high scientific interest for the research community. In order to further analyze these objects, in-situ data is required. However, beginning the mission design and spacecraft manufacture after ISO detection would significantly lower mission success probability. Consequently,"build-and-wait" is an appealing mission concept. To prepare the upcoming missions to ISOs it is required to have a deeper knowledge on the probability analysis to locate these objects within the Solar System. Therefore, the optimum location to intercept these objects has been studied by performing a computational analysis using the Runge-Kutta RKF4(5) numerical method. This method has been used to determine the likelihood of ISOs trajectories intercepting the ecliptic. The results show a peak at a distance of ~1 AU from the Sun. Therefore, the vicinity of the Earth's orbit is the best position to send or place a spacecraft for ISO interception. In addition, these results add validity to the theory of panspermia via ISO impact. The author has estimated an annual probability of ISO-Earth impact of 10$^{-7}$.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures. This paper is intended to be published in Acta Astronautica
Generalized gauge transformation with $PT$-symmetric non-unitary operator and classical correspondence of non-Hermitian Hamiltonian for a periodically driven system
Creators: name: Gu, Yan
name: Hao, Xiao-Lei
name: Liang, J. -Q.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We in this paper demonstrate that the $PT$-symmetric non-Hermitian Hamiltonian for a periodically driven system can be generated from a kernel Hamiltonian by a generalized gauge transformation. The kernel Hamiltonian is Hermitian and static, while the time-dependent transformation operator has to be $PT$ symmetric and non-unitary in general. Biorthogonal sets of eigenstates appear necessarily as a consequence of non-Hermitian Hamiltonian. We obtain analytically the wave functions and associated non-adiabatic Berry phase $γ_{n}$ for the $n$th eigenstate. The classical version of the non-Hermitian Hamiltonian becomes a complex function of canonical variables and time. The corresponding kernel Hamiltonian is derived with $PT$ symmetric canonical-variable transfer in the classical gauge transformation. Moreover, with the change of position-momentum to angle-action variables it is revealed that the non-adiabatic Hannay's angle $Δθ_{H}$ and Berry phase satisfy precisely the quantum-classical correspondence,$γ_{n}=$ $(n+1/2)Δθ_{H}$.
description: 8 pages
(102353) Thomas Lewis
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
The Renaissance of Black Phosphorus
Creators: name: Ling, Xi
name: Wang, Han
name: Huang, Shengxi
name: Xia, Fengnian
name: Dresselhaus, Mildred
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One hundred years after its first successful synthesis in the bulk form in 1914, black phosphorus (black P) was recently rediscovered from the perspective of a two-dimensional (2D) layered material, attracting tremendous interest from condensed matter physicists, chemists, semiconductor device engineers and material scientists. Similar to graphite and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), black P has a layered structure but with a unique puckered single layer geometry. Because the direct electronic band gap of thin film black P can be varied from 0.3 to around 2 eV, depending on its film thickness, and because of its high carrier mobility and anisotropic in-plane properties, black P is promising for novel applications in nanoelectronics and nanophotonics different from graphene and TMDs. Black P as a nanomaterial has already attracted much attention from researchers within the past year. Here, we offer our opinions on this emerging material with the goal of motivating and inspiring fellow researchers in the 2D materials community and the broad readership of PNAS to discuss and contribute to this exciting new field. We also give our perspectives on future 2D and thin film black P research directions, aiming to assist researchers coming from a variety of disciplines who are desirous of working in this exciting research field.
description: 23 pages, 6 figures, perspective article, appeared online in PNAS
Résilience et reproduction sociale dans une communauté isolée du Québec nordique : Le cas de Tête-à-la-Baleine
Creators: name: Lemieux-Huard, Luce
Publisher: name: Université Saint-Paul / Saint Paul University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Résilience communautaire
Reproduction sociale
Isolement géographique
Basse-Côte-Nord

description: Cette étude de cas porte sur la résilience dans la communauté de Tête-à-la-Baleine en Basse-Côte-Nord. En mobilisant des approches critique et socioécologique de la résilience ainsi que les concepts d'isolement géographique et de travail de reproduction sociale, nous avons développé un portrait de la résilience dans une communauté nordique isolée québécoise. Des entretiens semi-dirigés, un séjour d‟observation sur le terrain et une analyse de documents nous ont menés à voir que le travail des initiatives locales et des membres de la communauté contribue à développer et mobiliser les capitaux de Tête-à-la-Baleine. Nous verrons que les critiques apportées au concept de résilience peuvent être particulièrement utiles pour mieux comprendre la complexité de la résilience d‟une communauté isolée. Sans prétendre apporter des solutions aux différentes crises, perturbations et défis que connaissent les Baleinois-es, cette recherche souhaite mettre de l‟avant les forces de la communauté et les efforts quotidiens des résident-es du village.
Minimum Data Set prototype Urban Vitality
Creators: name: Ulzen, N.R. Van
name: A.S. De Jong
Publisher: name: University of Amsterdam / Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
Year: 2020
Subjects: Health Sciences

description: An example for the development of a potential Minimum Data Set (MDS) within the Urban Vitality (UV) themes ‘Gezond ouder worden / Mensen in Beweging’. The goal is to ensure more uniform collection of outcome measures, based on FAIR principles (ref 1), and to facilitate reuse of data and analyses spanning multiple studies. This prototype MDS is based on The Older Persons and Informal Caregivers Survey Minimum DataSet (TOPICS-MDS) (ref 2), the project FAIR: geen woorden maar data (ref 3) in which we examined 14 UV-studies about ageing and frailty of elderly, and the set of common data elements for rare disease registration (ref 4).
Ten Years of the State-of-the-Art Conference: Reflecting on the Progress of Inclusive Postsecondary Education
Creators: name: Myers, Beth
name: Grigal, Meg
Publisher: name: Journal of Inclusive Postsecondary Education
Year: 2023

description: This year, 10 years of the State-of-the-Art Conference in Inclusive Higher Education was celebrated. The introduction to this issue of the Journal reflects on that decade of progress as noted in the keynote presentation at this year’s conference. We discuss what it means to have been working with inclusive postsecondary education for ten years and consider the past, present, and future of the field.
description: Journal of Inclusive Postsecondary Education, Vol. 4 No. 2 (2023): Journal of Inclusive Postsecondary Education
(102349) James Williams
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Analytic Solutions and Observational support: A study of $f(R,T)$ gravity with $f(R,T)=R+h(T)$
Creators: name: Bose, Akash
name: Sardar, Gopal
name: Chakraborty, Subenoy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The present work deals with cosmological solutions in $f(R,T)$ gravity theory for perfect fluid with constant equation of state ($ω$). For a viable cosmological solution $ω$ is restricted to $ω<\dfrac{1}{3}$. Also depending on the sign of an arbitrary constant one has two possible solutions: a finite universe model and an ever expanding model of the universe. Field theoretic description of the model and possibility of a ghost scalar field has been studied. Also, an equivalence with modified Chaplygin gas has been shown. Finally, from the observational data it has been concluded that this model represents an evolution of the universe from matter dominated phase to present accelerating phase.
Precise determination of $^{12}_Λ$C level structure by $γ$-ray spectroscopy
Creators: name: Hosomi, K.
name: Ma, T.
name: Ajimura, S.
name: Aoki, K.
name: Dairaku, S.
name: Fu, Y. Y.
name: Fujioka, H.
name: Futatsukawa, K.
name: Imoto, W.
name: Kakiguchi, Y.
name: Kawai, M.
name: Kinoshita, S.
name: Koike, T.
name: Maruyama, N.
name: Mimori, M.
name: Minami, S.
name: Miura, Y.
name: Miwa, K.
name: Miyagi, Y.
name: Nagae, T.
name: Nakajima, D.
name: Noumi, H.
name: Shirotori, K.
name: Suzuki, T.
name: Takahashi, T.
name: Takahashi, T. N.
name: Tamura, H.
name: Tanida, K.
name: Terada, N.
name: Toyoda, A.
name: Tsukada, K.
name: Ukai, M.
name: Zhou, S. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Level structure of the $^{12}_Λ$C hypernucleus was precisely determined by means of $γ$-ray spectroscopy. We identified four $γ$-ray transitions via the $^{12}$C$(π^{+},K^{+}γ)$ reaction using a germanium detector array, Hyperball2. The spacing of the ground-state doublet $(2^{-}_{1},1^{-}_{1})$ was measured to be $161.5\pm0.3\text{(stat)}\pm0.3\text{(syst)}$\,keV from the direct $M1$ transition. Excitation energies of the $1^{-}_{2}$ and $1^{-}_{3}$ states were measured to be $2832\pm3\pm4$\,keV and $6050\pm8\pm7$\,keV, respectively. The obtained level energies provide definitive references for the reaction spectroscopy of $Λ$ hypernuclei.
title: Richard Niccols’s A Mirour for Magistrates (1610) and the Politicization of the English speculum principis Literary Tradition
Creators: name: Making, Ericka Theresa Ann
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Year: 2021

description: The progenitive text of the English speculum principis, or mirror for princes, literary tradition, John Lydgate’s (1370-1451) The Fall of Princes (1438) was reprinted and reinterpreted for new political purposes by Protestant printers and authors alike throughout the sixteenth century. As the print history and reception of the numerous early modern adaptations of Lydgate’s The Fall reveal, the development of the English mirror tradition was closely related to the evolution of nationalistic English literature from the 1550s to the early seventeenth century. Following William Baldwin’s influential A Mirror for Magistrates (1559), the adaptations of Lydgate’s The Fall provided a suitable platform from which authors could communicate their displeasure, especially with the political directions of Mary I’s and later James I’s regimes. The last early modern adaptation of Lydgate’s The Fall by the poet and editor Richard Niccols (1584-1616), A Mirour for Magistrates: Being a True Chronicle Historie of the Untimely falls of such unfortunate Princes and men of note…Newly Enlarged with A Last part, called A Winter’s Nights Vision (1610), exemplifies how authors tried to shape the responses of the reading public to contemporary political and religious disputes through topically applicable historical exempla. The 1610 edition of A Mirour with the addition of Niccols’s own composition entitled A Winter’s Night Vision represents the mirror tradition as what it had come to signify by the early seventeenth century: an archetypically Elizabethan monument of imagined national history. Niccols’s choice to concentrate solely on England’s past reveals his disdain for and criticism of the policies of the Scottish James I (1566-1625) and the latter’s concerted efforts to create the culturally unified kingdom of “Great Britain” under his rule. Moreover, Niccols’s insertion of the tragedies of King Arthur, Richard III, Edward II, and King John, and his lengthy laudatory poem of Elizabeth I were intended to offer covert, but pointed, princely instruction to James I. Reinforcing Niccols’s oppositional political stand and promoting a certain type of English patriotism during a period of growing political and religious unrest, A Mirour for Magistrates can be aligned with the emerging anti-Jacobean literature of the early seventeenth century.
Inclusive Postsecondary Education Provider Perspectives of Stressful Situations for College Students with an Intellectual Disability
Creators: name: Plotner, Anthony J.
name: Shoemaker, Adrianna
name: Walters, Charlie
name: Bloom, Molly
name: Mojica, Abigail
Publisher: name: Journal of Inclusive Postsecondary Education
Year: 2023

description: Students with intellectual disability are increasingly attending inclusive postsecondary education programs (IPSEs) to equip them to thrive in adult-life environments. Students within these programs receive training and support in various areas, such as academics, employment, social engagement, personal development, and independent living. Although students may not receive specific training on dealing with stressors or stressful situations, it is assumed that these college students encounter new and unique stressful situations during their time on campus. Stress can be caused by many circumstances and can be handled differently depending on the student and the situation. The purpose of this study was to examine IPSE professionals’ perceptions of the most severe and persistent stressful situations encountered by students participating in IPSE programs. The findings gleaned from this study offer four interrelated themes, all of which are related to relationships and communication. These findings along with implications for practice are discussed.
description: Journal of Inclusive Postsecondary Education, Vol. 4 No. 2 (2023): Journal of Inclusive Postsecondary Education
(102350) Anne Watkins
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Fiscal Policies and Asset Prices
Creators: name: Kung, Howard
name: Schmid, Lukas
name: Croce, M. Max
name: Nguyen, Thien
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: The surge in public debt triggered by the financial crisis has raised uncertainty about future tax pressure and economic activity. We examine the asset pricing effects of fiscal policies in a production-based general equilibrium model in which taxation affects corporate decisions by: i) distorting profits and investment; ii) reducing the cost of debt through a tax shield; and iii) depressing productivity growth. In settings with recursive preferences, these three tax-based channels generate sizable risk premia making tax uncertainty a first order concern. We document further that corporate tax smoothing can substantially alter the effects of public expenditure shocks.
Computation of the $a$-invariant of ladder determinantal rings
Creators: name: Ghorpade, Sudhir R.
name: Krattenthaler, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 05A15, 13C40, Secondary 05A19, 13F50, 13H10

description: We solve the problem of effectively computing the $a$-invariant of ladder determinantal rings. In the case of a one-sided ladder, we provide a compact formula, while, for a large family of two-sided ladders, we provide an algorithmic solution.
description: AmS-LaTeX, 20 pages; minor improvements of presentation
What Motivates Minority Acquisitions? The Trade-Offs between a Partial Equity Stake and Complete Integration
Creators: name: Ouimet, Paige Parker
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Minority acquisitions, involving less than 50% of the target, represent a distinct organizational choice. With a minority acquisition, the target can mitigate some of the incentive problems that arise in contractual relationships. Less is known, however, about the trade-off between minority acquisitions and complete integration. We find minority acquisitions are more common when keeping target managerial incentives intact is important and when the target is financially constrained or can benefit from certification. Minority acquisitions are also more likely where the target’s valuation is especially uncertain - integrating internal capital markets will be costly - and consolidating earning will lower EPS.
(102347) Sarah [Sillman]
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
A Nominal Group Technique Study Identifying Evidence-Based and Promising Practices: Taxonomy for Postsecondary Comprehensive Transition Programs
Creators: name: Kohler, Paula
name: Gothberg, June
name: Andrews, W. Drew
name: Mahon, Alycia
name: Seabrooks-Blackmore, Janice
Publisher: name: Journal of Inclusive Postsecondary Education
Year: 2023

description: As more institutions of higher education offer comprehensive transition and postsecondary programs for students with intellectual disabilities, a systematic process for strategically planning their postsecondary programs is needed. Guiding principles and an organizational taxonomy are available for program development. However, a mechanism that combines existing literature and research to specifically address program development for students with intellectual disabilities is missing. A nominal group technique approach identified strategies and practices to frame existing categories from a well-researched postsecondary taxonomy. How those categories were incorporated into a planning tool used to assist institutions in developing comprehensive transition and postsecondary programs is presented. Keywords: postsecondary education; strategic planning; intellectual disability; comprehensive transition and postsecondary programs
description: Journal of Inclusive Postsecondary Education, Vol. 4 No. 2 (2023): Journal of Inclusive Postsecondary Education
Review of "Virus detection and identification in minutes using single-particle imaging and deep learning" https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.10.13.20212035
Creators: name: Himes, Benjamin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: SARS-CoV-2 COVID19

description: Timely review of preprint: Note: The review presented here reflects my professional, but personal, reading of the manuscript and in no way reflects the view of my employer, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, or my home institution, the University of Massachusetts school of medicine. Scope: While I am an expert in feature detection in very noisy microscope images, I do not work with fluorescence imaging. This is a rapid review and likely contains mistakes itself.
Lessons Learned from Group Counseling with Young Adults with Intellectual Disabilities Enrolled in a Comprehensive Transition Program
Creators: name: Hill, Julie
name: Wisniewski, Elena
name: Patten, Betty
Publisher: name: Journal of Inclusive Postsecondary Education
Year: 2023

description: The purpose of this practice article is to describe group counseling conducted with young adults with intellectual disability enrolled in a comprehensive transition program at a university in the Southern United States. There are very few guidelines available for counselors working with young adults with intellectual disabilities. The aim of this article is to describe the tools and techniques used when running these groups to assist other counselors in their efforts. Implications for practice are presented, as well as recommendations for future research with this population.
description: Journal of Inclusive Postsecondary Education, Vol. 4 No. 2 (2023): Journal of Inclusive Postsecondary Education
Automatic regions of interest detection and classification for screening microscopy
Creators: name: Thomas, Laurent
name: Gehrig, Jochen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: object-detection
microscopy
Fiji
python
KNIME

description: Poster presenting object-detection in microscopy images using multi-template matching, presented at Trends in Microscopy (TIM) 2020. Multi-Template matching available for Fiji, python and KNIME. See article in BMC Bioinformatics Thomas, L.S.V., Gehrig, J. Multi-template matching: a versatile tool for object-localization in microscopy images. BMC Bioinformatics 21, 44 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-020-3363-7
Employers’ Perspectives on Ohio’s Postsecondary Programs for Students with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Creators: name: Weinbrandt, Diane
name: Shuman, Amy
name: Ott, Shannon
name: Riter-Rowland, Makenna
name: Anderson, Eric
name: Buck, Andrew
name: Green, Jessie
name: Izzo, Margo
name: Stark, Savannah
Publisher: name: Journal of Inclusive Postsecondary Education
Year: 2023

description: As postsecondary programs grow for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities (SwIDD), there is an increased focus on program evaluation and effectiveness, specifically related to impact on employment outcomes. Ohio’s Statewide Consortium (OSC) of postsecondary programs for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities interviewed seventeen current employer partners to determine to what degree they perceive OSC programs demonstrate quality indicators, as outlined in the eight Think College Standards for Inclusive Higher Education (TCSIHE). Results indicate OSC programs are providing high-quality, positive work-based learning experiences for SwIDD and their employer partners that align to TCSIHE. Key components of quality partnerships are highlighted as well as aspects of work-based learning experiences critical to skill development for SwIDD, and barriers to post-graduation employment outcomes.
description: Journal of Inclusive Postsecondary Education, Vol. 4 No. 2 (2023): Journal of Inclusive Postsecondary Education
The Economics of Solicited and Unsolicited Credit Ratings
Creators: name: Strobl, Günter
name: Fulghieri, Paolo
name: Xia, Han
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: This paper develops a dynamic rational expectations model of the credit rating process, incorporating three critical elements of this industry: (i) the rating agencies' ability to misreport the issuer's credit quality, (ii) their ability to issue unsolicited ratings, and (iii) their reputational concerns. We analyze the incentives of credit rating agencies to issue unsolicited credit ratings and the effects of this practice on the agencies' rating strategies. We  nd that the issuance of unfavorable unsolicited credit ratings enables rating agencies to extract higher fees from issuers by credibly threatening to punish those that refuse to acquire a rating. Also, issuing unfavorable unsolicited ratings increases the rating agencies' reputation by demonstrating to investors that they resist the temptation to issue in ated ratings. In equilibrium, unsolicited credit ratings are lower than solicited ratings, because all favorable ratings are solicited; however, they do not have a downward bias. We show that, under certain conditions, a credit rating system that incorporates unsolicited ratings leads to more stringent rating standards.
Are Consumers Put off by Retargeted Ads on Social Media? Evidence for Perceptions of Marketing Surveillance and Decreased Ad Effectiveness
Creators: name: Edwards, Jeffrey R.
name: Farman, Lisa
name: Comello, Maria Leonora
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020

description:
Consumers have described retargeted ads as “creepy,” possibly because these ads cue consumers that marketers are collecting personal data. Participants (N = 280) were either exposed to an ad that was targeted to past online behaviors or a general product ad. Behavioral targeting had a positive direct effect on purchase intent, but it also set off a negative indirect effect. Those exposed to behavioral targeting experienced increased perceived marketing surveillance, which led to increased threat, increased psychological reactance, negative attitudes toward the ad, and negative purchase intention. The indirect cost of perceived marketing surveillance on purchase intent was 4.5 percent.
Assessing Excel VBA Suitability for Monte Carlo Simulation
Creators: name: Botchkarev, Alexei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Software (cs.MS)
subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Monte Carlo (MC) simulation includes a wide range of stochastic techniques used to quantitatively evaluate the behavior of complex systems or processes. Microsoft Excel spreadsheets with Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) software is, arguably, the most commonly employed general purpose tool for MC simulation. Despite the popularity of the Excel in many industries and educational institutions, it has been repeatedly criticized for its flaws and often described as questionable, if not completely unsuitable, for statistical problems. The purpose of this study is to assess suitability of the Excel (specifically its 2010 and 2013 versions) with VBA programming as a tool for MC simulation. The results of the study indicate that Microsoft Excel (versions 2010 and 2013) is a strong Monte Carlo simulation application offering a solid framework of core simulation components including spreadsheets for data input and output, VBA development environment and summary statistics functions. This framework should be complemented with an external high-quality pseudo-random number generator added as a VBA module. A large and diverse category of Excel incidental simulation components that includes statistical distributions, linear and non-linear regression and other statistical, engineering and business functions require execution of due diligence to determine their suitability for a specific MC project.
Valley Hall edge solitons in a photonic graphene
Creators: name: Tang, Qian
name: Ren, Boquan
name: Kompanets, Victor O.
name: Kartashov, Yaroslav V.
name: Li, Yongdong
name: Zhang, Yiqi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We predict the existence and study properties of the valley Hall edge solitons in a composite photonic graphene with a domain wall between two honeycomb lattices with broken inversion symmetry. Inversion symmetry in our system is broken due to detuning introduced into constituent sublattices of the honeycomb structure. We show that nonlinear valley Hall edge states with sufficiently high amplitude bifurcating from the linear valley Hall edge state supported by the domain wall, can split into sets of bright spots due to development of the modulational instability, and that such an instability is a precursor for the formation of topological bright valley Hall edge solitons localized due to nonlinear self-action and travelling along the domain wall over large distances. Topological protection of the valley Hall edge solitons is demonstrated by modeling their passage through sharp corners of the $Ω$-shaped domain wall.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures
Effects of strong anchoring on the dynamic moduli of heterogeneous nematic polymers II: oblique anchoring angles
Creators: name: Ju, Lili
name: Choate, Eric
name: Forest, M. Gregory
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: We extend previous work on the linear viscoelastic moduli of heterogeneous nematic polymers in a small amplitude oscillatory shear flow, focusing on the role of the orientational anchoring conditions at the plates. When tangential or normal anchoring conditions are applied, the Doi-Marrucci-Greco orientation tensor-flow model effectively reduces to the Leslie-Ericksen director-flow model, predicting that director distortions control the dynamic moduli with negligible contributions from tensor order parameters. In this paper, we examine oblique anchoring angles. We use a combination of analysis and numerical simulation on the generalized tensor-flow system for arbitrary anchoring conditions to show that any oblique anchoring condition induces a nontrivial order parameter contribution to the dynamic moduli, which vanishes only in the limit of tangential or normal anchoring. Our approach reveals that the storage and loss moduli admit an approximate decomposition in terms of two reduced problems that are exactly solvable: the heterogeneous director-flow response plus the monodomain tensor response to an imposed shear. The importance of this result is that we gain scaling properties of the moduli with respect to material parameters and experimental conditions without having to compute and assimilate across the full parameter space. These results provide insight into the relative importance of the distortional versus bulk nematic elastic stress in determining the viscoelastic moduli, predicting that anchoring conditions tune the relative contributions.