cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Religion's Positive Relationship with the Bereavement Process
Creators: Irwin, Aviva
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Social psychology
subject: Religion

description: As a Modern Orthodox Jew I have been acculturated into a society which has many laws regarding mourning and bereavement for both the relatives of the deceased and the community at large. It has often made me wonder if all religions have such intrinsic laws regarding bereavement. Furthermore, I have frequently heard the claim that Judaism’s laws regarding bereavement are very similar to processes espoused by psychologists. I wanted to see if this is an accurate view of Judaism and whether other religions have similar approaches to bereavement. Finally, as a Psychology major and Religion minor the interplay between religion and psychology is of special interest to me. The many aspects of bereavement, the beliefs and the activities associated with this topic, felt like the ideal subject with which to address the interplay between religion and psychology.
Mentoring And Supporting Student Research: A Wider View
Creators: name: Agoston, Kay
name: Massie, Courtney
name: Lee, Karen
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2019

description: Location: JC Room D This 40-minute roundtable will invite discussion on mentoring student researchers at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, with special focus on strategies and resources beyond the classroom to support student researchers in integrating their curricular, professional, and personal goals. Research activity typically takes shape in the context of a studentâs formal academic curriculum or degree requirements (such a thesis, dissertation, capstone, or honors project), yet research also represents an opportunity for reflection, self-discovery, and to explore new intellectual and professional pathways. While intellectual mentorship comes primarily from faculty advisors in the studentâs field of study, campus-wide resources such as undergraduate research experiences, writing consultants, and fellowship advisors can play an important role in nurturing emerging researchers. These forms of co-curricular support also serve to directly address issues of access by connecting students to research funding and mentorship and offering training in the writing, self-advocacy, and self-presentation skills required to successfully pursue independent research and professional development opportunities. Teaching and learning outcomes go beyond mastery of academic content to incorporate skills such as the ability to write for multiple audiences, identify and pursue funding opportunities, and engage in collaborative research. This roundtable will invite participants to share strategies and insights for mentoring student researchers that take the whole person and the wider spectrum of academic, professional, and personal goals into account.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 11 (2019): Teaching the Whole Student
Spherical Collapse of a Mass-Less Scalar Field With Semi-Classical Corrections
Creators: name: Ayal, Shai
name: Piran, Tsvi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate numerically spherically symmetric collapse of a scalar field in the semi-classical approximation. We first verify that our code reproduces the critical phenomena (the Choptuik effect) in the classical limit and black hole evaporation in the semi classical limit. We then investigate the effect of evaporation on the critical behavior. The introduction of the Planck length by the quantum theory suggests that the classical critical phenomena, which is based on a self similar structure, will disappear. Our results show that when quantum effects are not strong enough, critical behavior is observed. In the intermediate regime, evaporation is equivalent to a decrease of the initial amplitude. It doesn't change the echoing structure of near critical solutions. In the regime where black hole masses are low and the quantum effects are large, the semi classical approximation breaks down and has no physical meaning.
description: 16 pages, 16 eps figures, LaTeX 2e using the caption and mathletters styles (included)
Religion, liberalism and the social question in the Habsburg hinterland : the Catholic Church in Upper Austria, 1850-1914
Creators: Voegler, Max Herbert
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2006
Subjects: History
Catholic Church
Liberalism
Ultramontanism

description: This dissertation focuses on the diocese of Linz in the Habsburg Monarchy during the second half of the nineteenth century, examining how the Roman Catholic Church and its priests adapted to and confronted the broad set of modernizing forces that were shaping the world around them against the backdrop of rising Ultramontanism within the Church. The study is divided into three sections. The first section explores the structural and ideological transformation of the Catholic Church in Upper Austria in this period. With a focus on the clergy, it examines the changing networks and structures of religious life; it investigates how the diocese changed under the watch of Bishop Franz Josef Rudigier (1853-1884) and Franz Maria Doppelbauer (1889-1908), and also under the influence of Ultramontanism. The second section examines the confrontation with liberalism. It begins in the 1850s, exploring how two events - the building of a general hospital in Linz and the burial of a prominent Protestant in a small town - inform our understanding of the dynamics of Catholic-liberal conflict in 1850s Austria. Next it turns to the height of the Austrian Kulturkampf between 1867 and 1875, exploring, how liberals and Catholic-conservatives presented a social vision that used the active exclusion of the 'other' to define itself. The third section shifts from liberalism to socialism, and from a study of the rise of Ultramontanism to that of Ultramontanism in practice. Examining Catholic responses to the social question, the study argues that Ultramontanism created its own internal set of contradictions when converted into policy, especially after the publication of the 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum. Instead of bringing the different elements together within the Church, the encyclical had the opposite effect; each group began to interpret the document in different ways and to act accordingly, effectively demolishing the image of Catholic unity that existed around Ultramontanism.
LIGHTNING TALK: Impact Of Academic Advising On Retention: Care Within The Context Of Student Success
Creators: name: Al-Khulaidy, Amira
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2019

description: Location: George's Student data in higher education is increasingly available, yet understanding how to better support students given this data remains a challenge. Computational models help synthesize the data in a way where trends and patterns become more easily understood. The ability to use modeling software to test theories of student support help us understand, predict, and mitigate challenges. By capitalizing on the access to data and technology we can better support our students for better retention.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 11 (2019): Teaching the Whole Student
Efficient Implementation of Elastohydrodynamics via Integral Operators
Creators: name: Hall-McNair, Atticus L.
name: Montenegro-Johnson, Thomas D.
name: Gadelha, Hermes
name: Smith, David J.
name: Gallagher, Meurig T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 76Z10, 76D07, 74F10, 45B05, 65R20, 65Z05

description: The dynamics of geometrically non-linear flexible filaments play an important role in a host of biological processes, from flagella-driven cell transport to the polymeric structure of complex fluids. Such problems have historically been computationally expensive due to numerical stiffness associated with the inextensibility constraint, as well as the often non-trivial boundary conditions on the governing high-order PDEs. Formulating the problem for the evolving shape of a filament via an integral equation in the tangent angle has recently been found to greatly alleviate this numerical stiffness. The contribution of the present manuscript is to enable the simulation of non-local interactions of multiple filaments in a computationally efficient manner using the method of regularized stokeslets within this framework. The proposed method is benchmarked against a non-local bead and link model, and recent code utilizing a local drag velocity law. Systems of multiple filaments (1) in a background fluid flow, (2) under a constant body force, and (3) undergoing active self-motility are modeled efficiently. Buckling instabilities are analyzed by examining the evolving filament curvature, as well as by coarse-graining the body frame tangent angles using a Chebyshev approximation for various choices of the relevant non-dimensional parameters. From these experiments, insight is gained into how filament-filament interactions can promote buckling, and further reveal the complex fluid dynamics resulting from arrays of these interacting fibers. By examining active moment-driven filaments, we investigate the speed of worm- and sperm-like swimmers for different governing parameters. The MATLAB(R) implementation is made available as an open-source library, enabling flexible extension for alternate discretizations and different surrounding flows.
description: 37 pages, 17 figures
Brachystethus cribrus Fabricius 1781
Creators: name: Castro-Huertas, Valentina
name: Schwertner, Cristiano F.
name: Fernández, Fernando
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pentatomidae
Brachystethus
Brachystethus cribrus

description: Brachystethus cribrus (Fabricius, 1781)
Examined material. CUNDINAMARCA. Palma, 6 may 2007, Sist. Animal Ecología (1f, ICN). META. Villavicencio, Bosque de Bavaria, 28 apr 2009, Sist. Animal (1f, ICN).
Comments. First record of this species for Colombia. The genus has ten species described. This species has been recorded for Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia (Barcellos & Grazia 2003).
description: Published as part of Castro-Huertas, Valentina, Schwertner, Cristiano F. & Fernández, Fernando, 2015, New records of stink bugs (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) from Colombia, pp. 553-566 in Zootaxa 3973 (3) on page 558, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3973.3.9, http://zenodo.org/record/236474
Probing the Lee-Yang zeros of a spin bath by correlation functions and entanglement of two spins
Creators: name: Kuzmak, A. R.
name: Tkachuk, V. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the Lee-Yang zeros of the ferromagnetic Ising bath via the interaction with the two probe spins. Similarly as in paper [Bo-Bo Wei, Ren-Bao Liu, Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 185701 (2012)] the problem of detecting the zeros is reduced to the exploration of time evolution of probe spins. As a result, the relation between the Lee-Yang zeros of the bath and correlation functions of the probe system is obtained. Also we obtain relation between the Lee-Yang zeros and values of the entanglement of probe spins. We apply these results to the 1D Ising spin model with nearest-neighbor interaction which can be prepared on trapped atoms.
description: 18 pages, 3 figures
SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS of the paper: "Atrial tachypacing induces atrial fibrillation and consequent left atrial and left ventricular dysfunction, increases heart weight and atrial and ventricular fibrosis in pig"
Creators: name: Citerni, Carlotta
name: Kirchhoff, Jeppe
name: Olsen, Lisbeth Høier
name: Sattler, Stefan Michael
name: Gentilini, Fabio
name: Forni, Monica
name: Zannoni, Augusta
name: Grunnet, Morten
name: Edvardsson, Nils G.
name: Bentzen, Bo Hjorth
name: Diness, Jonas G.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 110201 Cardiology (incl. Cardiovascular Diseases)
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Atrial tachypacing induces atrial fibrillation and consequent left atrial and left ventricular dysfunction, increases heart weight and atrial and ventricular fibrosis in pig, supplemental materials.
Applications for remote sensing by unmanned aerial vehicles in reclamation monitoring
Creators: name: Anderson, Jeff
name: Iverson, Melissa
name: Pearse, Ben
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2021

description: Mapping by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is a relatively new tool which is becoming more accessible, with an increasing set of sensors with potential applications in mine reclamation. UAV mounted multispectral and hyperspectral sensors provide imagery capturing narrow bands within the visible spectra, but also capture imagery in the invisible near-infrared, red-edge spectra, as well as the ultraviolet for hyperspectral. Imagery captured from these cameras are ideal for monitoring of vegetation communities, including through the analysis of vegetation indices, such as the most widely used normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI). Every year there are better and more cost-effective options for UAV mounted LiDAR sensors, which are able to provide detailed elevation maps of small areas. The best-known uses for UAV mounted LiDAR at mine sites are conducting high-quality cover-depth surveys and as-built site diagrams. These systems can also be used to create highly accurate descriptions of vegetation systems, providing data such as: canopy and sub-canopy heights, tree counts, and aboveground biomass. Even a small UAV equipped with a simple camera can be a useful tool in reclamation monitoring. Using a Mavic Pro purchased in 2018 for about fifteen hundred dollars, IEG created RGB (visual spectrum) imagery of a reclamation trial area. The RGB imagery was used for semi-autonomous classification of areas which had received a high, medium, or low application of an organic peat amendment as a component of reclamation-cover placement. This classification was then used to assess differences in survival of planted seedlings by peat content, which would have been more difficult using ground-based sampling methods. These methods will allow for assessment of impacts of this uneven distribution of an organic amendment on the success of revegetation efforts over time. This paper outlines reclamation monitoring applications of UAV technology, including a case study from our own work.
title: Simulation des Mikrorisswachstums bei zyklischer Beanspruchung
Creators: name: Zenner, Harald
Publisher: name: Cramer
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Brunsvicensien der Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
subject: Abhandlungen der BWG
subject: 62

description: Die Treffsicherheit der Lebensdauerberechnung zyklisch beanspruchter Bauteile ist nach wie vor unbefriedigend. Dies liegt einmal daran, dass die Vorgänge, die zur Mikrorissentstehung, zum Mikrorisswachstum und schließlich zum makroskopischen Rissfortschritt und Bruch führen, äußerst komplex sind, zum anderen sind die Schädigungsmechanismen, die sich im Werkstoff abspielen und zum Versagen eines Bauteils führen können, nicht vollständig verstanden. Die heute verwendeten Berechnungskonzepte behandeln die Schadensakkumulation rein phänomenologisch (Nennspannungskonzept, Örtliches Konzept), d.h. ohne Berücksichtigung mikrostruktureller Vorgänge.
In den letzten Jahren ist das Verständnis des Mikrorisswachstums erweitert worden. Das Risswachstum in duktilen metallischen Werkstoffen verläuft zunächst in stage I (microstructural short cracks) innerhalb des Korns, getrieben durch die Schubspannung. Mit Annäherung an eine Barriere, z.B. Korngrenze, verlangsamt sich das Risswachstum. Nach Erreichen einer spezifischen Risslänge (mehrere Körner) erfolgt das Wachstum in stage II, d.h. als Normalspannungsriss (physical small crack).
Damit bietet es sich an, das Mikrorisswachstum zu modellieren und zu simulieren und mit experimentellen Befunden zu vergleichen mit dem Ziel, die Schädigungsmechanismen besser zu verstehen und damit die Schadensakkumulation in der Lebensdauerberechnung realistischer als bisher beschreiben zu können. Die hier betrachtete Lebensdauerphase von der Risskeimbildung bis zum makroskopischen Anriss kann je nach Geometrie, Beanspruchungshöhe und Werkstoff dominierend für ein Bauteil sein.
Religiosity, Gay Identity Affirmation, and Outness in a Sample of New York Same-sex Attracted Men
Creators: Jones II, Vincent Alexander
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Public health education
Homophobia
Gay men--Identity
Gay men--Social conditions
Gay men--Religion

description: This study aimed to investigate how “outness,” spirituality/religiosity, gay identity affirmation and demographic factors relate to each other and predict internalized homophobia (IH). IH is linked to a host of negative outcomes. The study took place over three months at the 2012 New York Pride parades in all five boroughs. Participants were recruited via the cross-sectional street-intercept approach, 195 of whom met the inclusion criteria. Data were analyzed using SPSS 26. In sum, the sample consisted of a highly educated, mostly white, high-income subset of men. The regression model indicated that gay identity importance and being “out” to world were predictive of IH. There were also significant differences in participation in gay activities along the lines of education and race. Same sex attracted men who earned a four-year college degree reported more participation in gay activities compared to those of lower attainment levels. Compared to White men, Latino men participated in less gay activities, possibly due to cultural factors. Men who have higher levels of affirmation were more likely to participated in gay activities, which could include pride, which suggests a potential bias. Buddhists reported unusually high levels of internalized homophobia compared to other spiritual and religious practices and orientations. Finally, there were no significant differences in homophobia with race, but there was one with religion. Christians exhibited statistically significantly higher levels of internalized homophobia compared to those who were nonreligious namely atheists, agnostics, and the spiritual but not religious. Implications for health promotion were discussed.
Academic Integrity At Mason: Best Practices, What To Avoid, And Tips For Submitting Referrals
Creators: name: Anthony, LaShonda
name: Ogisi, Amanda
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2019

description: Location: Dewberry Hall Abstract: As of May 31, 601 students were referred to the Office of Academic Integrity for violations of the Honor Code. Several approaches are being utilized to deter students from engaging in academic misconduct, but there are also steps that faculty can take to prevent integrity violations. Additionally, there are some key points faculty should know in order to submit a strong referral. This presentation is designed to provide some tips as well as information on reporting structures at Mason. More information on the Honor Code and Academic Integrity at Mason can be found at our website oai.gmu.edu.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 11 (2019): Teaching the Whole Student
Thermodynamic properties of the exactly solvable transverse Ising model on decorated planar lattices
Creators: name: Strecka, Jozef
name: Jascur, Michal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The generalized mapping transformation technique is used to obtain the exact solution for the transverse Ising model on decorated planar lattices. Within this scheme, the basic thermodynamic quantities are calculated for different planar lattices with arbitrary spins of decorating atoms. The particular attention has been paid to the investigation of the transverse-field effects on magnetic properties of the system under investigation. The most interesting numerical results for the phase diagrams, compensation temperatures and several thermodynamic quantities are discussed in detail for the ferrimagnetic version of the model.
description: 9 pages, 13 figures, submitted to Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials
Gymnosporia heterophylla Loes.
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Celastrales
Celastraceae
Gymnosporia
Gymnosporia heterophylla

description: Gymnosporia heterophylla (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Loes.  —
Habit: Shrub or small tree.
Habitat: LMWF, LMDF, BZ; up to 2 700 m. Distribution: II.
 Voucher: Chogoria Track, Alt. 2 523 m, 27 Jan. 2015, SAJIT 002919 (HIB).
References: Fries & Fries (1926), Bussmann (1993, 1994), Bussmann & Beck (1995a, 1998).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 53, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Supplemental materials.docx
Creators: name: Citerni, Carlotta
name: Kirchhoff, Jeppe
name: Olsen, Lisbeth Høier
name: Sattler, Stefan Michael
name: Gentilini, Fabio
name: Forni, Monica
name: Zannoni, Augusta
name: Grunnet, Morten
name: Edvardsson, Nils G.
name: Bentzen, Bo Hjorth
name: Diness, Jonas G.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 110201 Cardiology (incl. Cardiovascular Diseases)
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Atrial tachypacing induces atrial fibrillation and consequent left atrial and left ventricular dysfunction, increases heart weight and atrial and ventricular fibrosis in pig, supplemental materials.
Teachable Moments: When to Submit an Academic Integrity Referral
Creators: name: Anthony, LaShonda
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2019

description: Location: Dewberry Hall Abstract: When it comes to Academic Integrity one challenge is determining what situations qualify as an Honor Code Violation. All suspected, documentable cases of integrity violations should be reported to our office. That said, not all suspected cases may be cases worth reporting. We do not exist solely to catch students violating the honor code, but to enforce the educational mission. Some situations may not require a formal intervention but may indeed be a teachable moment that can take place between the professor and the student. This presentation is designed share examples of the types of cases that could be considered a teachable moment, rather than integrity violation. More information on the Honor Code and Academic Integrity at Mason can be found at our website oai.gmu.edu.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 11 (2019): Teaching the Whole Student
Real-Life Problem Solving Using Critical Thinking Discussions
Creators: name: Avramovic, Sanja
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2019

description: Location: Dewberry Hall Abstract: There is a huge market for distance education programs and fully on-line or hybrid courses, but we still face challenges encouraging students to develop critical thinking skills (Allen at al, 2013). In the Advance Health Information Systems course, which is offered as an on-line and hybrid course, we developed a “Critical thinking discussion,” which exposes students to real-life problems. A short video explains a problem given to, for example, a consultant in a company, and challenges students to come up with their own solutions. Students use facts that they have learned during the lectures to devise a solution, which they post on the class Discussion Board for consideration. They are expected to provide responses with a clear, well-formulated thesis; and support posts with appropriate rationale and citations from readings. Also, they are expected to provide responses to at least two classmates' postings. Those responses should be thoughtful, substantial, polite and more extensive than a simple "well done" or "I agree" phrase. They should consider points of agreement, disagreement, assumptions, and value judgments. They can respond to others after they submit the initial post. Also, after the initial post, they will be able to see the instructor’s solution for the same problem. There is no “correct” or “incorrect” answer, and it is their activity itself which is graded. Participants will learn how to apply similar strategies to their courses using Blackboard.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 11 (2019): Teaching the Whole Student
Additional file 3 of Risk stratification and pathway analysis based on graph neural network and interpretable algorithm
Creators: name: Liang, Bilin
name: Gong, Haifan
name: Lu, Lu
name: Xu, Jie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 3. The key pathways associated with cancer survival identified by PathGNN.
Religiosity and HIV Risk Among Male Migrants in Kazakhstan
Creators: Shaw, Stacey A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Social service
Public health

description: This dissertation employs qualitative and quantitative methods to examine the relationship between religion and sexual HIV risk among 1,342 male migrant workers from Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan, employed in Baraholka Market, located in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Drawing on a conceptual theoretical framework which incorporates decision-making, social support, and gender and power theories, research questions examine how religion contributes to engagement in or avoidance of sexual HIV risks through the mechanisms of decision-making, social supports, and gendered norms; whether affiliation and religiosity are associated with sexual HIV risks; and whether changes in religiosity over time are associated with sexual HIV risks. Study findings identified that most men were Muslim and religious norms contributed to their understanding of sexual relationships. Some associations with protective behavior were found for men who were Muslim, men with higher levels of religiosity, and men who maintained higher than average religiosity over time. Men with higher than average religiosity were more likely to consider themselves protected from acquiring HIV. Study findings have a number of implications for HIV prevention efforts in Central Asia.
Design and shelf stability assessment of bacterial agents for simultaneous removal of methane and odors
Creators: name: Yun-Yeong Lee
name: Sodaneath Hong
name: Kyung-Suk Cho
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Two types of solid bacterial agents for the simultaneous removal of methane and odor were designed using humic soil (De-MO-1) and the mixture of humic soil and tobermolite (De-MO-2) as biocarriers. The bacterial consortium, having the removability of methane and dimethyl sulfide (DMS), was immobilized in the biocarriers, and then stored at room temperature for 375 days without additional treatment. Although the lag period, of which the incubation time required for removing methane and DMS, tended to increase over the storage period, the removability of methane and DMS was maintained during 375 days in both bacterial agents. Key bacteria associated with the removal of methane and odors (Streptomyces, Promicromonospora, Paracoccus, Lysobacter, Sphingopyxis and Methylosystis) could keep their abundance during the storage period. The richness and evenness values of the bacterial communities in De-MO-1 and De-MO-2 ranged 4.89 ∼ 6.50 and 0.89 ∼ 0.98, respectively, indicating that high bacterial diversity was maintained during the storage period. The results suggest that De-MO-1 and De-MO-2, designed for the simultaneous removal of methane and odors, had shelf stabilities over one year.
Superconductivity at 48 K of heavily hydrogen-doped SmFeAsO epitaxial films grown by topotactic chemical reaction using CaH2
Creators: name: Matsumoto, Jumpei
name: Hanzawa, Kota
name: Sasase, Masato
name: Haindl, Silvia
name: Katase, Takayoshi
name: Hiramatsu, Hidenori
name: Hosono, Hideo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High-critical-temperature (Tc) superconductivity at 48 K is reported for hydrogen-doped SmFeAsO epitaxial films on MgO single-crystal substrates. The key processes are pulsed laser deposition to grow undoped SmFeAsO epitaxial films and subsequent topotactic chemical reaction using CaH2 powders under evacuated silica-glass ampule atmosphere. Based on this post-deposition thermal annealing treatment that we have developed, a maximum hydrogen concentration x = ~0.35 was realized in SmFeAs(O1-xHx). Disordered hydrogen-substitution at O sites is experimentally confirmed directly by atomic-scale microstructural observations. Magnetization measurement validates the bulk nature of the high-Tc superconductivity in the films. This method will become an effective and general method to fabricate various high-quality oxyhydride epitaxial films.
Religiosity and Modern Prejudice: Points of Convergence and Points of Departure
Creators: Chambers, Carissa Lynn
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Psychology, Religious
Race discrimination--Psychological aspects
Sexism--Psychological aspects
Social classes--Psychological aspects
Prejudices--Psychological aspects
Homophobia--Psychological aspects
Counseling psychology
Religion
Multicultural education

description: The current study examines the effect of religious orientation, social dominance orientation, right wing authoritarianism, and group socialization on the degree to which covert prejudice beliefs are endorsed. This study is novel in that individual and intergroup factors are simultaneously considered. Unlike much of the existing research, the study measures all six types of religious orientation for a nuanced examination of the different approaches to religion and the effect this has on attitude formation and maintenance. The study also demonstrates higher levels of generalizability in that questionnaires were distributed to a diverse sample and also considered many forms of discrimination (racism, sexism, classism, and heterosexism). Additionally, relevant prejudice measures that better represent covert, modern day prejudice are used in the current study. Social dominance orientation (SDO) was strongly and positively correlated with all four types of subtle prejudice. In hierarchical regression modeling, right wing authoritarianism was the strongest predictor variable for all prejudice outcome variables. SDO was the second strongest predictor for all variables except for benevolent sexism. Demographic and religious orientation predictors varied by prejudice outcome variable. Only immanence and intrinsic emerged as significant religious orientations predictors. Multiple regression models with only religious orientation predictors were also conducted to examine the relationship of each religious orientation to each prejudice when the other religious orientations were held constant. Different trends for different prejudice attitudes were found for intrinsic and immanence orientations. Quest orientation was negatively correlated with prejudice and extrinsic religious orientation was positively correlated with prejudice for all prejudice outcome variables. Increasing intolerance with more indiscriminately pro- or anti-religious responding was not elicited. Instead a pattern of increasing pro-religiosity was related to higher prejudice scores. Progressive congregational factors correlated with lower colorblind racial attitudes, benevolent sexism, classism, and homonegativity among congregants.
Weak Limits of Riemannian Metrics in Surfaces with integral Curvature Bound
Creators: name: Chen, Xiuxiong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 58E11

description: In this paper, we study the weak compactness of the set of conformal metrics in any Riemann surface without boundary whose Calabi energy and area are uniformly bounded. We prove that for any sequence of such metrics, there alwasy exists a subsequence which converges in H\sp{2,2}_\sb{loc} everywhere except a finite number of bubble points. Blowup analysis near bubble shows that the bubble on bubble phenomenon occurs. The limit metric gives rise to a tree structure decomposition, where each node in the tree represents a limit metric of a subsequence at that stage while the edge of the tree structure represents the neck on the process of blowing up. We also show that the number of the nodes which have more than three edges attached is finite.
description: 40 pages, 5 figures
Periodic Orbit Theory for Rydberg Atoms in External Fields
Creators: name: Dando, P. A.
name: Monteiro, T. S.
name: Owen, S. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Although hydrogen in external fields is a paradigm for the application of periodic orbits and the Gutzwiller trace formula to a real system, the trace formula has never been applied successfully to other Rydberg atoms. We show that spectral fluctuations of general Rydberg atoms are given with remarkable precision by the addition of diffractive terms. Previously unknown features in atomic spectra are exposed: there are new modulations that are neither periodic orbits nor combinations of periodic orbits; `core-shadowing' generally decreases primitive periodic orbit amplitudes but can also lead to increases.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures. To appear in Phys.Rev.Lett
Astrophysical Bounds on Global Strings
Creators: name: Larson, Shane L.
name: Hiscock, William A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Global topological defects produce nonzero stress-energy throughout spacetime, and as a result can have observable gravitational influence on surrounding matter. Gravitational effects of global strings are used to place bounds on their cosmic abundance. The minimum separation between global strings is estimated by considering the defects' contribution to the cosmological energy density. More rigorous constraints on the abundance of global strings are constructed by examining the tidal forces such defects will have on observable astrophysical systems. The small number of observed tidally disrupted systems indicates there can be very few of these objects in the observable universe.
description: 14 pages, REVTeX
Collaborative approach to remediation at the Howard Mine Mill and Tailings Area
Creators: name: Croston, Jonathan
name: Bains, Harbey
name: White, Jennifer
name: Sinnett, Geoff
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2021

description: SNC-Lavalin Inc. was contracted by the Crown Contaminated Sites Program (CCSP) of the BC Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development to complete investigations and remediation at the former Howard Mine Mill and Tailings Area (Site) located south of Ymir, British Columbia. The Site included a mill and tailings deposit along the banks of the Salmo River. The mine wastes were determined to be acid generating, contain metal concentrations greater than soil standards protective of human and ecological health and were a source of contamination to the river. The mine wastes were located on Crown land; however, a small portion extended onto adjacent residential properties and contaminated a local drinking water well. CCSP prioritized the Site for remediation. Engagement with community, Indigenous Peoples and government agencies was an important part of the remedial planning process. It included meetings to seek input on the remedial plan and reclamation design. Through this engagement, consensus on the plan was achieved and the remedial work was approved by the BC Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy. Remediation was completed in 2015 and included excavation and consolidation of mine waste into an approved hazardous waste facility covered with a bituminous geomembrane liner and growth medium. All disturbed areas were reclaimed and an erosion barrier/artificial floodplain with fish habitat was constructed on the east bank of the Salmo River. A new drinking water well was installed for the adjacent landowner. The site is currently undergoing long term monitoring to ensure the remedial works are performing as designed, as well as to measure natural attenuation of residual contamination in groundwater. Performance verification results indicate the remediation was successful in removing terrestrial risks to human and ecological receptors and reducing metals concentrations in groundwater, porewater and surface water across most of the Site.
Graduate Student Education At Mason: What's New?
Creators: name: Bray, Laurence
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2019

description: Location: Dewberry Hall Abstract: This poster will showcase an update from the Office of Graduate Education about the latest data about Mason Graduate Students, funding, and other initiatives. The Associate Provost for Graduate Education will be available to answer your questions and address concerns you may have.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 11 (2019): Teaching the Whole Student
Mean magnetic field renormalization and Kolmogorov's energy spectrum in MHD turbulence
Creators: name: Verma, Mahendra K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we construct a self-consistent renormalization group procedure for MHD turbulence in which small wavenumber modes are averaged out, and effective mean magnetic field at large wavenumbers is obtained. In this scheme the mean magnetic field scales as $k^{-1/3}$, while the energy spectrum scales as $k^{-5/3}$ similar to that in fluid turbulence. We also deduce from the formalism that the magnitude of cascade rate decreases as the strength of the mean magnetic field is increased.
description: 14 pages REVTEX, 1 postscript figure, Submitted to Phys. Plasmas
The gravitational redshift of boson stars
Creators: name: Schunck, Franz E
name: Liddle, Andrew R
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the possible gravitational redshift values for boson stars with a self-interaction, studying a wide range of possible masses. We find a limiting value of $z_{lim} \simeq 0.687$ for stable boson star configurations. We compare theoretical expectation with the observational capabilities in several different wavebands, concluding that direct observation of boson stars by this means will be extremely challenging. X-ray spectroscopy is perhaps the most interesting possibility.
description: 7 pages RevTeX file with five figures incorporated (uses RevTeX and psfig)
Gymnosporia keniensis Jordaan
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Celastrales
Celastraceae
Gymnosporia
Gymnosporia keniensis

description: Gymnosporia keniensis (Loes.) Jordaan  —
Habit: Shrub.
Habitat: LMWF; up to 2 300 m. Distribution: IIIa.
 Voucher: Meru Forest, Alt. 1 847 m, 9 Aug. 2015, SAJIT 003893 (HIB).
References: Fries & Fries (1926), Beentje (1994).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 53, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Religious Community Involvement in Adolescence: The Profundity of Lived Religion for Teens
Creators: Jordan, Alexandra
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Adolescent psychology
Teenagers--Religious life
Faith
Communities--Religious aspects
Ritual

description: The present study investigates the contribution of religious community involvement to adolescent development, including the processes of identity formation and moral development. Three key areas are explored: 1) the precursors of faith community membership; 2) the process by which a belief system is chosen; and 3) the ways in which religious belief is supported by a faith community once it is joined. Of specific interest are the ways in which religious community integration nurtures the evolution of religious belief, including through intergenerational support, religious peer groups, and a connection to the ritual and history of a faith tradition. In particular, the influence of peers is examined, both for its role in the initial establishment of a religious identity as well as its role in the maintenance and growth of religious belief. The current study utilizes a phenomenological approach to the qualitative data analysis of adolescent interviews with subjects ranging in age from 12-21 years, from Christian, Jewish, and Muslim faith communities, representing a religiously and ethnically diverse sample. The narratives of participants have been analyzed to allow for the distillation of themes across contexts. This phenomenological analytic framework allows for exploratory hypothesis generating on dimensions of developmental support derived from religious community.
How to probe the microscopic onset of irreversibility with ultracold atoms
Creators: name: Bürkle, Ralf
name: Vardi, Amichay
name: Cohen, Doron
name: Anglin, James R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The microscopic onset of irreversibility is finally becoming an experimental subject. Recent experiments on microscopic open and even isolated systems have measured statistical properties associated with entropy production, and hysteresis-like phenomena have been seen in cold atom systems with dissipation (i.e. effectively open systems coupled to macroscopic reservoirs). Here we show how experiments on isolated systems of ultracold atoms can show dramatic irreversibility like cooking an egg. In our proposed experiments, a slow forward-and-back parameter sweep will sometimes fail to return the system close to its initial state. This probabilistic hysteresis is due to the same non-adiabatic spreading and ergodic mixing in phase space that explains macroscopic irreversibility, but realized \textit{without} dynamical chaos; moreover this fundamental mechanism quantitatively determines the probability of return to the initial state as a function of tunable parameters in the proposed experiments. Matching the predicted curve of return probability will be a conclusive experimental demonstration of the microscopic onset of irreversibility.
Gymnosporia obscura Loes.
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Celastrales
Celastraceae
Gymnosporia
Gymnosporia obscura

description: Gymnosporia obscura (A.Rich.) Loes.  —
Habit: Shrub or small tree.
Habitat: LMWF, LMDF; 2 000–2 600 m. Distribution: II.
Voucher: N/A.
 References: Fries & Fries (1926), Robson et al. (1994).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 53, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Gymnosporia senegalensis Loes.
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Celastrales
Celastraceae
Gymnosporia
Gymnosporia senegalensis

description: Gymnosporia senegalensis (Lam.) Loes.  —
Habit:Shrub or small tree.
Habitat:LMDF; up to 2 300 m. Distribution: I.
 Voucher: West Mount Kenya, ca. 4 km to Naro Moru Gate, Alt. 2 221 m, 23 Jul. 2014, SAJIT 002069 (HIB).
Reference: N/A.
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 53, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Pressures for a One-Component Plasma on a Pseudosphere
Creators: name: Fantoni, R.
name: Jancovici, B.
name: Téllez, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The classical (i.e. non-quantum) equilibrium statistical mechanics of a two-dimensional one-component plasma (a system of charged point-particles embedded in a neutralizing background) living on a pseudosphere (an infinite surface of constant negative curvature) is considered. In the case of a flat space, it is known that, for a one-component plasma, there are several reasonable definitions of the pressure, and that some of them are not equivalent to each other. In the present paper, this problem is revisited in the case of a pseudosphere. General relations between the different pressures are given. At one special temperature, the model is exactly solvable in the grand canonical ensemble. The grand potential and the one-body density are calculated in a disk, and the thermodynamic limit is investigated. The general relations between the different pressures are checked on the solvable model.
description: 24 pages, 1 figure, minor corrections and clarifications