cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Weak cosmic censorship conjecture in Kerr black holes of modified gravity
Creators: name: Liang, Bin
name: Wei, Shao-Wen
name: Liu, Yu-Xiao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By neglecting the effects of self-force and radiation, we investigate the possibility of destroying the Kerr-MOG black hole through the point particle absorption process. Using the instability of event horizon and equation of particle motion, we get the upper and lower energy bounds allowed for a matter particle to produce the naked singularity. We find that the energy gap always exists between the upper and lower energy bounds for both extremal and near-extremal black holes, which means some tailored particles can actually lead to the violation of the weak cosmic censorship conjecture. However, when considering the effect of the adiabatic process, the result shows that the Kerr-MOG black hole gets more stable instead of a naked singularity, and thus the weak cosmic censorship conjecture can be restored at some level.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures, and 1 table
title: ADCO, Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome V, Cart. 189 (11 H 74), 316 folios, f. 0170v
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: cartulaire
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi

description: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome V, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 189 (11 H 74), 316 folios, f. 0170v, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome V, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 189 (11 H 74), 316 folios, f. 0170v, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
Introduction to the Photon Collider
Creators: name: Telnov, V. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The purpose of this Introduction, presented at PHOTON2007, is to provide an overview of the basic principles, possible parameters, some technical aspects and the physics program of the photon collider and discuss its status within the ILC project.
description: Talk at Photon2007, Paris, July 9-13, 2007, to be published in Nucl. Phys. B, 17 pp, Latex, 10 .eps figures
SynthScribe: Deep Multimodal Tools for Synthesizer Sound Retrieval and Exploration
Creators: name: Brade, Stephen
name: Wang, Bryan
name: Sousa, Mauricio
name: Newsome, Gregory Lee
name: Oore, Sageev
name: Grossman, Tovi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Synthesizers are powerful tools that allow musicians to create dynamic and original sounds. Existing commercial interfaces for synthesizers typically require musicians to interact with complex low-level parameters or to manage large libraries of premade sounds. To address these challenges, we implement SynthScribe -- a fullstack system that uses multimodal deep learning to let users express their intentions at a much higher level. We implement features which address a number of difficulties, namely 1) searching through existing sounds, 2) creating completely new sounds, 3) making meaningful modifications to a given sound. This is achieved with three main features: a multimodal search engine for a large library of synthesizer sounds; a user centered genetic algorithm by which completely new sounds can be created and selected given the users preferences; a sound editing support feature which highlights and gives examples for key control parameters with respect to a text or audio based query. The results of our user studies show SynthScribe is capable of reliably retrieving and modifying sounds while also affording the ability to create completely new sounds that expand a musicians creative horizon.
Review of Paltridge, B. & Phakiti, A. (2015). Research Methods in Applied Linguistics: A Practical Guide, 2nd Ed. London, UK: Bloomsbury.
Creators: name: Landry, Michael Henry
Publisher: name: BC TEAL Journal
Year: 2020

description: Book Review
description: BC TEAL Journal, Vol. 5 No. 1 (2020)
Semistable reduction for overconvergent F-isocrystals, IV: Local semistable reduction at nonmonomial valuations
Creators: name: Kedlaya, Kiran S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14F30, 14F40

description: We complete our proof that given an overconvergent F-isocrystal on a variety over a field of positive characteristic, one can pull back along a suitable generically finite cover to obtain an isocrystal which extends, with logarithmic singularities and nilpotent residues, to some complete variety. We also establish an analogue for F-isocrystals overconvergent inside a partial compactification. By previous results, this reduces to solving a local problem in a neighborhood of a valuation of height 1 and residual transcendence degree 0. We do this by studying the variation of some numerical invariants attached to p-adic differential modules, analogous to the irregularity of a complex meromorphic connection. This allows for an induction on the transcendence defect of the valuation, i.e., the discrepancy between the dimension of the variety and the rational rank of the valuation.
description: 68 pages; v4: final refereed version; new section A.2; changes in 2.5 and throughout section 5
Non-Thermal Cosmic Rays During Big Bang Nucleosynthesis to Solve the Lithium Problem
Creators: name: Kang, Ming-Ming
name: Hu, Yang
name: Hu, Hong-Bo
name: Zhu, Shou-Hua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The discrepancy between the theoretical prediction of primordial lithium abundances and astronomical observations is called the Lithium Problem. We find that extra contributions from non-thermal hydrogen and helium during Big Bang nucleosynthesis can explain the discrepancy, for both Li-7 and Li-6, and will change the deuterium abundance only little. The allowed parameter space of such an amount of non-thermal particles and the energy range is shown. The hypothesis is stable regardless of the cross-section uncertainty of relevant reactions and the explicit shape of the energy spectrum.
description: 20 pages, 9 figures
Educational Framework for Volunteering on Exchange
Creators: name: SocialErasmus+ consortium
Publisher: name: SocialErasmus+
Year: 2019

description: A detailed rationale that links the social responsibility of Higher Education Institutions and guidelines on how to implement the aforementioned recommendations can be found in the Educational Framework developed in cooperation by universities, student associations, schools and other NGOs.

The SocialErasmus programme incorporated all volunteer activities where international students engage with locals to contribute to their local host society. The SocialErasmus+ project was an Erasmus+ KA3 Forward- Looking Cooperation grant project to support the development and professionalisation of the SocialErasmus initiative across Europe.
Storybooks Canada, English Language Learners, and the School Curriculum
Creators: name: Gilman, Michelle
name: Norton, Bonny
Publisher: name: BC TEAL Journal
Year: 2020

description: Given the large number of students from immigrant and refugee backgrounds in Canadian schools, our study investigates to what extent an open access multilingual digital platform, Storybooks Canada (https://www.storybookscanada.ca/), might serve the interests of elementary school English language learners. Our study drew on insights from 13 experienced language tutors across greater Vancouver, each volunteering for a local organization in an after-school program for multilingual learners. We sought to determine how the diverse stories on the Storybooks Canada platform could be used in classrooms and homes in British Columbia and Canada. We investigated a range of questions, including the following: Is Storybooks Canada a helpful resource to improve student reading? Can Storybooks Canada be used to build home/school partnerships? How can the stories be used within the British Columbia Curriculum? We then did a follow-up study of British Columbia’s English Language Arts curriculum in order to align the stories with curricular mandates. Our findings suggest that, given the universal themes of the stories, and the 18 languages available in text and audio, Storybooks Canada is a valuable tool for the maintenance of the first language, while supporting English language learning. Further, links between the stories and the British Columbia Curriculum may be helpful for teachers within and beyond British Columbia. We conclude with the hope that Storybooks Canada, and other derivative sites on the Global Storybooks portal (https://globalstorybooks.net), might support English language learners in Canada and the international community.
description: BC TEAL Journal, Vol. 5 No. 1 (2020)
Scholar-Practitioners Contributing to the English as an Additional Language Teaching and Learning Community’s Knowledge Resources
Creators: name: Douglas, Scott Roy
Publisher: name: BC TEAL Journal
Year: 2019

description: This editorial explores the underlying reason for the journal and articulates a stance that promotes scholarship as a shared endeavour of everyone in the field of English as an additional language teaching and learning. It further offers a definition of a scholar-practitioner that underscores professional growth, content and pedagogical knowledge, articulated language, and connections between teaching and research. The six articles in the current issue are summarized in three groups related to higher education and English for academic purposes, English language proficiency testing and student success, and TESOL certificate and graduate student experiences.
description: BC TEAL Journal, Vol. 4 No. 1 (2019)
Using the Software CMM in Small Organizations
Creators: name: Paulk, Mark C
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: 80399 Computer Software not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The Capability Maturity Model for Software developed by the Software Engineering Institute has had a major influence on software process and quality improvement around the world. Although the CMM has been widely adopted, there remain many misunderstandings about how to use it effectively for business-driven software process improvement, particularly for small organizations and small projects. Some of the common problems with interpreting the Software CMM for the small project/organization include: * What does "small" mean? In terms of people? Time? Size of project? Criticality of product? * What are the CMM "requirements"? Are there key process areas or goals that should not be applied to small projects/organizations? Are there "invariants" of good processes? * What are the drivers and motivations that cause abuse of the CMM? This paper discusses how to use the CMM correctly and effectively in any business environment, with examples for the small organization. The conclusion is that the issues associated with interpreting the Software CMM for the small project or organization may be different in degree, but they are not different in kind, from those for any organization interested in improving its software processes. Using the Software CMM effectively and correctly requires professional judgment and an understanding of how the CMM is structured to be used for different purposes.
Many associated primes of powers of primes
Creators: name: Kim, Jesse
name: Swanson, Irena
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 13F20, 13A30

description: We construct families of prime ideals in polynomial rings for which the number of associated primes of the second power (or higher powers) is exponential in the number of variables in the ring. We give a lower bound on the Ananyan-Hochster constant for the number of associated primes.
Academic Engagement, Social Integration, and Academic Socialization: English as an Additional Language in Higher Education
Creators: name: Jabeen, Rubaiyat
name: Wang, Peiyu
name: Cheng, Liying
Publisher: name: BC TEAL Journal
Year: 2019

description: With a fast-growing population of immigrant and international students entering English-medium higher education in Canada, it is critical to understand the nature of academic experiences for these students and what contributes to their academic acculturation and post-secondary success. As such, a literature review was carried out to identify emerging themes related to students using English as an additional language in post-secondary settings. This article is based on a literature review of 87 empirical studies, conducted between 2008 and 2018, related to the academic acculturation journey of international students using English as an additional language in English medium higher education setting. Three major themes—academic engagement, academic socialization, and social integration in relation to English language ability—emerged from the literature among a multitude of influential factors. The findings of this literature review point to the importance of supporting students using English as an additional language as they navigate a new academic culture.
description: BC TEAL Journal, Vol. 4 No. 1 (2019)
d+id'-wave Superconducting States in Graphene
Creators: name: Jiang, Yongjin
name: Yao, Dao-Xin
name: Carlson, E. W.
name: Chen, Han-Dong
name: Hu, JiangPing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that effective superconducting orders generally emerge at low energy in the superconducting state of graphene with conventionally defined pairing symmetry . We study such a particular interesting example, the $d_{x^2-y^2}+id'_{xy}$ spin singlet pairing superconducting state in graphene, which can be generated by electronic correlation as well as induced through a proximity effect with a d-wave superconductor. We find that effectively the d-wave state is a state with mixed s-wave and exotic $p+ip$-wave pairing orders at low energy. This remarkable property leads to distinctive superconducting gap functions and novel behavior of the Andreev conductance spectra.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
The Correlation between IELTS Scores and International Students’ Academic Success: A Literature Review
Creators: name: Stigger, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: BC TEAL Journal
Year: 2019

description: This review synthesizes the findings of research compiled between the relationship on international student success and the International English Language Testing System (IELTS). Increasingly, within higher education, IELTS test scores have become not only a benchmark for testing the language proficiency of international students who speak English as an additional language, and subsequently their entry into higher education institutions, but also a presumption of student academic learning success. A growing concern for many higher education institutions is that proficiency in English does not necessarily equate to international students’ preparedness to study at the higher education level with regards to their academic learning success. Amidst growing ambivalence related to the use of IELTS as a placement tool, this literature review outlines three main themes found in connection to the correlation between IELTS and international students’ academic learning success at the undergraduate level. The first two themes focus on the positive and negative correlations between IELTS scores and international students’ academic learning success. The third theme is related to a social dimension which focuses on the fact that, for international students, linguistic proficiency is linked to how they adapt to their new learning and living environments. Here the relationship between IELTS as an indicator of students’ preparedness for the rigours of academic study is being explored. The review ends with a short examination of published documents by IELTS. Overall, this literature review suggests that a common theme found in the published research is that even with a high IELTS score, international students do need academic support when studying at the higher education level.
description: BC TEAL Journal, Vol. 4 No. 1 (2019)
The Noncommutative Geometry of the Quantum Projective Plane
Creators: name: D'Andrea, Francesco
name: Dabrowski, Ludwik
name: Landi, Giovanni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 58B34, 17B37

description: We study the spectral geometry of the quantum projective plane CP^2_q, a deformation of the complex projective plane CP^2, the simplest example of a spin^c manifold which is not spin. In particular, we construct a Dirac operator D which gives a 0^+ summable spectral triple, equivariant under U_q(su(3)). The square of D is a central element for which left and right actions on spinors coincide, a fact that is exploited to compute explicitly its spectrum.
description: v2: 26 pages. Paper completely reorganized; no major change, several minor ones
Comparing First-Term Students’ English Language Proficiency at a Canadian Polytechnic Institute
Creators: name: Devos, Nathan J
Publisher: name: BC TEAL Journal
Year: 2019

description: Canadian post-secondary classrooms are linguistically diverse. This diversity comes from immigration, more access to higher education for marginalized and minority groups, and international student recruitment. An institute’s language prerequisites serve as tools to help admissions decide who is linguistically prepared for study in English. Despite these language prerequisites, some students still need support with their language development to succeed in intense, two-year diploma programs at polytechnic institutes. The objective of this study, therefore, was to explore first-term students’ language proficiency and compare differences based on language and education variables. The long-term goal of the project is to create local language diagnostics to identify and support students during their diploma programs. Participants were recruited from four different programs at a large polytechnic institute in western Canada. Reading, writing, and vocabulary tests were accompanied by a 15-item survey about language and education backgrounds. In total, 437 first-term students participated in the tests and survey. The results suggest that there are statistically significant differences between the first-term participants with an English background and those who do not have an English background. In addition, the range of scores on the tests is wider for participants with non-English backgrounds. I conclude that this range cannot be captured by language prerequisites pre-admissions. With locally developed, post-admission language assessments, diploma-crediting institutes could identify students at the lower end of the range and allocate necessary resources to provide them with early and individual language support so that they can succeed in their programs.
description: BC TEAL Journal, Vol. 4 No. 1 (2019)
Using Semantic Web Services for Context-Aware Applications
Creators: name: Mithun  Sheshagiri
name: Sadeh, Norman
name: Gandon, Fabien L.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: 80399 Computer Software not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: One way of overcoming the challenges associated with mobile and pervasive computing environments involves providing users with higher levels of automation. This in turn requires capturing the context within which the user operates. In this paper, we describe ongoing research aimed leveraging Semantic Web Services in support of context awareness. This includes modeling sources of contextual information as web services that can be automatically discovered and accessed by agents that assist the user with different sets of tasks. By automatically discovering and accessing a variety of external web services, these agents can automatically develop and execute simple plans to assist the user (e.g. ordering a pizza, organizing an evening out, etc.). This research is being conducted in the context of myCampus, a prototype semantic web environment to enhance everyday campus life at Carnegie Mellon University.
Writing a Manuscript-Style Dissertation in TESOL/Applied Linguistics
Creators: name: Anderson, Tim
name: Okuda, Tomoyo
Publisher: name: BC TEAL Journal
Year: 2019

description: This paper draws on autoethnographical insights and genre analysis in offering an introductory guide for writing a manuscript-style master’s level thesis or doctoral dissertation in TESOL and Applied Linguistics fields. We report on our own recent experiences writing, defending, and preparing for publication from our own manuscript-style dissertations during and following our doctoral study, both conducted at the same major Canadian research university. While other work in TESOL and Applied Linguistics areas have addressed the manuscript-style format amidst more general discussions of thesis and dissertation writing (e.g., Paltridge, 2002; Paltridge & Starfield; 2007), this article concentrates specifically on the unique characteristics of this dissertation structure and the genre-features, processes, and considerations around planning, composing, presenting, and publishing in this format. The intended audience of this paper is primarily graduate students and supervisors in TESOL and Applied Linguistics, although other stakeholders involved in graduate-level writing across various disciplines can also benefit from our discussion. Our central goal in writing this article is therefore to provide an introductory discussion regarding the nuances inherent in this format of dissertation compared to other traditional monograph forms.
description: BC TEAL Journal, Vol. 4 No. 1 (2019)
Including nonlocality in exchange-correlation kernel from time-dependent current density functional theory: Application to the stopping power of electron liquids
Creators: name: Nazarov, V. U.
name: Pitarke, J. M.
name: Takada, Y.
name: Vignale, G.
name: Chang, Y. -C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a scheme for building the scalar exchange-correlation (xc) kernel of time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) from the tensorial kernel of time-dependent {\em current} density functional theory (TDCDFT) and the Kohn-Sham current density response function. Resorting to the local approximation to the kernel of TDCDFT results in a nonlocal approximation to the kernel of TDDFT, which is free of the contradictions that plague the standard local density approximation (LDA) to TDDFT. As an application of this general scheme, we calculate the dynamical xc contribution to the stopping power of electron liquids for slow ions to find that our results are in considerably better agreement with experiment than those obtained using TDDFT in the conventional LDA.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, accepted to Phys. Rev. B
Factors Contributing to TESOL Employment: A Graduate Perspective
Creators: name: Wu, Ziwei Vera
Publisher: name: BC TEAL Journal
Year: 2019

description: The profession of teaching English to speakers of other language (TESOL) has experienced significant changes in the past decades, and career development in the contemporary era is becoming increasingly complex and unpredictable. This study aimed at finding the patterns and attractors that contribute to successful careers in TESOL from the perspectives of graduates. Data were collected through a comprehensive survey of international and Canadian TESOL certificate graduates at a mid-size university in British Columbia and through interviews with several of the graduates. The results were analysed through the lens of the forms of capital (Bourdieu, 1986) and chaos (Bright & Pryor, 2005) theories. The results indicated a significant diversity of TESOL employment and the varied effectiveness of factors in career development amongst participants. Graduates experienced challenges in terms of their TESOL skills and their job search skills, with both being impacted by the forms of capital they held in the TESOL profession. While TESOL students and early career TESOL professionals need to be more prepared for the complexity and unpredictability of TESOL careers by continuously improving their forms of capital, TESOL teacher educators, TESOL program administrators, and TESOL professional organizations should take the diverse needs of students with different backgrounds into consideration and provide long-term career support to build a robust TESOL community.
description: BC TEAL Journal, Vol. 4 No. 1 (2019)
Practical Guidelines for Volunteer Activities
Creators: name: SocialErasmus+ consortium
Publisher: name: SocialErasmus+
Year: 2019

description: The Practical Guidelines for Volunteer Activities support the organisation of volunteer activities and community engagement during international student mobility.

The SocialErasmus programme incorporated all volunteer activities where international students engage with locals to contribute to their local host society. The SocialErasmus+ project was an Erasmus+ KA3 Forward- Looking Cooperation grant project to support the development and professionalisation of the SocialErasmus initiative across Europe.
The Efficacy of Teaching Independent Study Skills Within English for Academic Purposes Programs
Creators: name: Landry, Michael Henry
Publisher: name: BC TEAL Journal
Year: 2019

description: While teaching students how to become independent learners offers great promise for their future academic success, research has yet to offer detailed insight into students’ evaluation of learning such strategies. The Study Skills for Independent Learning module was introduced as part of a Canadian university English for Academic Purposes (EAP) bridging program. The objective of the module was to help international students who had been conditionally accepted into their undergraduate programs acquire skills they could employ to become more independent learners during their undergraduate studies. The study set out to collect students’ perceptions of the module to better assess the efficacy of teaching independent study skills in an EAP context. Data were gathered from an analysis of the module’s overview and learning objectives, questionnaires from a group of students enrolled in the EAP program (n =7), and feedback from a retrospective focus group (n = 5) that consisted of students who had taken the module the previous year and had just completed the first semester of their undergraduate programs. Data were transcribed, coded, and organized into themes for analysis. Time management, reflective skills, and strategies for maintaining focus were identified as three transferable skills taught in the module.
description: BC TEAL Journal, Vol. 4 No. 1 (2019)
Nonparametric estimation of age-depth relationships from sedimentological and stratigraphic data
Creators: name: Hohmann, Niklas
name: De Vleeschouwer, David
name: Batenburg, Sietske J.
name: Jarochowska, Emilia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Geochronology
subject: Stratigraphy
subject: Sedimentology
subject: Age-depth modeling
subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Presentation for NWO NAC, 7th & 8th of March, 2024 in Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Abstract:

Age-depth models are fundamental tools in all geohistorical sciences. They assign ages to stratigraphic positions, which is necessary to estimate rates of past environmental change and timing of past events.

Methods to estimate age-depth models commonly use simplified parametric assumptions on the uncertainties of tie points. The distribution of time between tie points is estimated using simplistic assumptions on the formation of the stratigraphic record (e.g., that sediment accumulation follows a Poisson process). As a result, they cannot incorporate evidence from complex empirical data or expert knowledge (e.g., from sedimentary structures such as erosional surfaces or from basin models), leaving important sources of information un- or underused.

We present two non-parametric methods to estimate age-depth relationships from complex sedimentological and stratigraphic data, which are implemented in the admtools package for R Software. As use cases, we

1.      construct age-depth models for Devonian strata in the La Thure section, Belgium, using sedimentation rates constrained by cyclostratigraphic methods.

2.      use measurements of extra-terrestrial 3He from ODP site 690 (Maud Rise, Weddell Sea) to construct age-depth models for the Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum.

These examples show how complex sedimentological and stratigraphic information can be combined into age-depth relationships that accurately reflect uncertainties of available data and expert knowledge.
Heavy Cosmic Ray Nuclei from Extragalactic Sources above 'The Ankle'
Creators: name: Wibig, Tadeusz
name: Wolfendale, Arnold W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A very recent observation by the Auger Observatory group claims strong evidence for cosmic rays above 56 EeV being protons from Active Galactic Nuclei. If, as would be expected, the particles above the ankle at about 2 EeV are almost all of extragalactic origin then it follows that the characteristics of the nuclear interactions of such particles would need to be very different from conventional expectation -- a result that follows from the measured positions of 'shower maximum' in the Auger' work. Our own analysis gives a different result, viz that the detected particles are still 'massive' specifically with a mean value of = 2.2 +- 0.8. The need for a dramatic change in the nuclear physics disappears.
description: 10 pages
Contributing to Open Access Journals with Peer Review: A Meaningful Opportunity for Engaged Continuing Professional Development
Creators: name: Douglas, Scott Roy
Publisher: name: BC TEAL Journal
Year: 2018

description: This editorial reinforces the BC TEAL Journal’s commitment to open access, opportunities for continuing professional development, and knowledge creation related to English as an additional language teaching and learning in British Columbia. In particular, it outlines how peer reviewers benefit from taking part in the intellectual life of their scholarly and professional community through access to new ideas, practical skill development, and reducing the separation between theorists, researchers, and practitioners. The editorial continues with a description of the six articles and one book review in the 2018 issue, and it ends with a friendly invitation to everyone interested in English as an additional language teaching and learning in British Columbia to become more involved in the journal.
description: BC TEAL Journal, Vol. 3 No. 1 (2018)
FRW and domain walls in higher spin gravity
Creators: name: Aros, R.
name: Iazeolla, C.
name: Noreña, J.
name: Sezgin, E.
name: Sundell, P.
name: Yin, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present exact solutions to Vasiliev's bosonic higher spin gravity equations in four dimensions with positive and negative cosmological constant that admit an interpretation in terms of domain walls, quasi-instantons and Friedman-Robertson-Walker (FRW) backgrounds. Their isometry algebras are infinite dimensional higher-spin extensions of spacetime isometries generated by six Killing vectors. The solutions presented are obtained by using a method of holomorphic factorization in noncommutative twistor space and gauge functions. In interpreting the solutions in terms of Fronsdal-type fields in spacetime, a field-dependent higher spin transformation is required, which is implemented at leading order. To this order, the scalar field solves Klein-Gordon equation with conformal mass in (anti) de Sitter space. We interpret the FRW solution with de Sitter asymptotics in the context of inflationary cosmology and we expect that the domain wall and FRW solutions are associated with spontaneously broken scaling symmetries in their holographic description. We observe that the factorization method provides a convenient framework for setting up a perturbation theory around the exact solutions, and we propose that the nonlinear completion of particle excitations over FRW and domain wall solutions requires black hole-like states.
description: 63 pages
Lettre de Antoine Gouan à Jean-François Séguier, 1764-02-03
Creators: name: Gouan, Antoine
name: Gouan, Antoine
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2022
Subjects: Botanique

description: [fol. 57] Monsieur,

Vous devez avoir déjà reçu votre paquet et les 8 lt. 10 sols que j’avais remis à un compagnon de voyage de M. Meynier. J’ai par votre ordre parlé à Saint-Montant. Voici la réponse verbale.
J’offre de rendre là la tabatière, mais j’ai vendu les livres depuis longtemps pour la somme à peu près de deux louis. Si l’on veut, je garderai la tabatière sur le pied de deux louis, et je ferai un billet dans tout le temps des états de quatre louis, c’est-à-dire deux louis pour les livres et deux louis pour la tabatière.
J’ai vu la tabatière, mais je n’ai pas voulu la garder, n’ayant de votre part aucun ordre pour cela. Voyez à présent ce que prétend faire la veuve à M. Mathieu. La tabatière est belle, mais un côté est un peu fendu, voilà tout. J’ai oublié de vous renvoyer une petite Alsine que vous trouverez ici, je vous prie de m’en dire votre sentiment, en même temps que vous le ferez pour les mousses. Envoyez-moi si vous le pouvez un brin de Cerastium semidecandrum Linnaei et de l’Arenaria saxalitis Linnaei, sive Alsine saxalitis folio laricis minor et minori flore Magnol Host. Mons. tab. II sive multi flora capittaceo folio Vaillant tab. 2 f. 3.
[fol. 57v] Je viens de recevoir dix écus de la part du Père Rigaud bénédictin, que je vous fais passer par la voie de mon oncle receveur dont vous trouverez ici la rescription sur M. Poussigues receveur à Nîmes.
On vient de m’apporter un Eleagnus, salix babilouisa, populus balsamifera, yucca draconis foliis ciliatis nulantibus. Si celui-ci vous manque, j’en ai un petit à pouvoir vous donner.
N’oubliez pas, je vous prie, de m’informer des mousses et de cette Alsine que je vous envoie dans la lettre.
Vous me ferez plaisir de me fournir un index manuscrit que vous avez de Nissole, Appendix au botanicum, le mien n’étant pas complet et étant impossible de trouver M. Goutaudier.
Je suis avec toute l’amitié la plus sincère votre très humble serviteur

 Gouan

A Montpellier le 3 février 1764.

Cités :
Antoine Gouan (1712-1784), intendant de l’hôpital St-Eloi, oncle, receveur.
Pierre Nissole (1656-1726), démonstrateur d’anatomie et de chirurgie. En fait Guillaume Nissole (1647-1706).
description: Source: [établissement de conservation] Nîmes, Bibliothèque Carré d'Art [cote] ms. 144, fol. 57
Using Scenario-Based Requirements to Direct Research on Web Macro Tools
Creators: name: Scaffidi, Christopher
name: Cypher, Allen
name: Elbaum, Sebastian
name: Andhy  Koesnandar
name: Myers, Brad
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: 80399 Computer Software not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Web macros automate the interactions of end users with web sites and related information systems. Though web macro recorders and players have grown in sophistication over the past decade, these tools cannot yet meet many tasks that people perform in daily life. Based on observations of browser users, we have compiled ten scenarios describing tasks that users would benefit from automating. Our analysis of these scenarios yields specific requirements that web macro tools should support if those tools are to be applicable to these real-life tasks. Our set of requirements constitutes a benchmark for evaluating tools, which we demonstrate by evaluating the Robofox, CoScripter, and iMacros tools.
Opposition diagrams for automorphisms of small spherical buildings
Creators: name: Parkinson, J.
name: Van Maldeghem, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: An automorphism $θ$ of a spherical building $Δ$ is called \textit{capped} if it satisfies the following property: if there exist both type $J_1$ and $J_2$ simplices of $Δ$ mapped onto opposite simplices by $θ$ then there exists a type $J_1\cup J_2$ simplex of $Δ$ mapped onto an opposite simplex by $θ$. In previous work we showed that if $Δ$ is a thick irreducible spherical building of rank at least $3$ with no Fano plane residues then every automorphism of $Δ$ is capped. In the present work we consider the spherical buildings with Fano plane residues (the \textit{small buildings}). We show that uncapped automorphisms exist in these buildings and develop an enhanced notion of "opposition diagrams" to capture the structure of these automorphisms. Moreover we provide applications to the theory of "domesticity" in spherical buildings, including the complete classification of domestic automorphisms of small buildings of types $\mathsf{F}_4$ and $\mathsf{E}_6$.
Taking dibaryon fields seriously
Creators: name: Soto, Joan
name: Tarrus, Jaume
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a low energy effective field theory of QCD at the scale of pion mass for the $N_B=2$ sector, $N_B$ being the baryon number, which contains two dibaryon fields in addition to the nucleons and pions. It has a well defined counting, is renormalizable and the nucleon-nucleon scattering amplitudes are manifestly unitary at leading order. We work out a lower energy effective theory for nucleons with energy much lower than the pion mass and three momentum comparable to it, which also has a well defined counting and is renormalizable. The dibaryon fields must also be kept as explicit degrees of freedom in this theory. We calculate the scattering amplitudes at next-to-leading order for the $^1S_0$ and $^3S_1$ channels in this framework and obtain an excellent description of the phase shifts for center of mass energies in the $0-50 MeV$ range.
description: 20 pages, 5 figures; misprints corrected, explanations enlarged, references added. Journal version
title: THE MASS DISTRIBUTION OF STARLESS AND PROTOSTELLAR CORES IN GOULD BELT CLOUDS
Creators: name: Sadavoy, Sarah I.
name: Di Francesco, James
name: Bontemps, Sylvain
name: Megeath, S. Thomas
name: Rebull, Luisa M.
name: Allgaier, Erin
name: Carey, Sean
name: Gutermuth, Robert
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics and Astronomy

description: This is the pre-published version which is collected from arXiv. The published version is at http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/710/2/1247
description: Using data from the SCUBA Legacy Catalogue (850 μm) and Spitzer Space Telescope (3.6-70 μm), we explore dense cores in the Ophiuchus, Taurus, Perseus, Serpens, and Orion molecular clouds. We develop a new method to discriminate submillimeter cores found by Submillimeter Common-User Bolometer Array (SCUBA) as starless or protostellar, using point source photometry from Spitzer wide field surveys. First, we identify infrared sources with red colors associated with embedded young stellar objects (YSOs). Second, we compare the positions of these YSO candidates to our submillimeter cores. With these identifications, we construct new, self-consistent starless and protostellar core mass functions (CMFs) for the five clouds. We find best-fit slopes to the high-mass end of the CMFs of –1.26 ± 0.20, –1.22 ± 0.06, –0.95 ± 0.20, and –1.67 ± 0.72 for Ophiuchus, Taurus, Perseus, and Orion, respectively. Broadly, these slopes are each consistent with the –1.35 power-law slope of the Salpeter initial mass function at higher masses, but suggest some differences. We examine a variety of trends between these CMF shapes and their parent cloud properties, potentially finding a correlation between the high-mass slope and core temperature. We also find a trend between core mass and effective size, but we are very limited by sensitivity. We make similar comparisons between core mass and size with visual extinction (for AV ≥ 3) and find no obvious trends. We also predict the numbers and mass distributions of cores that future surveys with SCUBA-2 may detect in each of these clouds.
Using Objects of Measurement to Detect Spreadsheet Errors
Creators: name: Coblenz, Michael
name: Ko, Andrew
name: Myers, Brad
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: 80399 Computer Software not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: There are many common spreadsheet errors that traditional spreadsheet systems do not help users find. This paper presents a statically-typed spreadsheet language that adds additional information about the objects that the spreadsheet values represent. By annotating values with both units and labels, users denote both the system of measurement in which the values are expressed as well as the properties of the objects to which the values refer. This information is used during computation to detect some invalid computations and allow users to identify properties of the resulting values.
How Accurately do English for Academic Purposes Students use Academic Word List Words?
Creators: name: McDonough, Kim
name: Neumann, Heike
name: Hubert-Smith, Nicolas
Publisher: name: BC TEAL Journal
Year: 2018

description: Previous corpus research on English for academic purposes (EAP) writing has analyzed how often additional language (L2) writers use words from the Academic Word List (AWL) (Coxhead, 2000), but few studies to date have explored how accurately those words are used. Therefore, the current study investigated how accurately and appropriately EAP writers (N = 409) use AWL words in their argumentative essays. The 230,694-word corpus was analyzed to identify AWL word families that occurred with at least 20 tokens. All tokens were then coded as being accurately used, or as containing a morphosyntactic or collocational error (or both). The findings showed that the EAP students’ overall accuracy rate was high (67%) and that collocational errors occurred more frequently than grammatical errors. Pedagogical implications for EAP programs are discussed.
description: BC TEAL Journal, Vol. 3 No. 1 (2018)
Direct solution of Minkowski-space Bethe-Salpeter equation in the massive Wick-Cutkosky model
Creators: name: Jia, Shaoyang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In order to solve the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) in the Minkowski space, we first introduce the Nakanishi integral representations of the Bethe-Salpeter amplitude (BSA) and the Bethe-Salpeter wave function (BSWF). We then derive the explicit integral equations for the corresponding spectral functions from the BSE for states of $2$ scalar particles bound by a scalar-particle exchange interaction, where the propagators of constituents are allowed to be fully dressed. These integral equations are subsequently solved numerically in the variation of the Wick-Cutkosky model with massive exchange particles, where an algorithm of adaptive mash grid is proposed. The equations and algorithm we develop here serve as the foundation of Minkowski-space formulation of BSE for bound states of fermions.
A Fast Radio Burst Search Method for VLBI Observation
Creators: name: Liu, Lei
name: Tong, Fengxian
name: Zheng, Weimin
name: Zhang, Juan
name: Tong, Li
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce the cross spectrum based FRB (Fast Radio Burst) search method for VLBI observation. This method optimizes the fringe fitting scheme in geodetic VLBI data post processing, which fully utilizes the cross spectrum fringe phase information and therefore maximizes the power of single pulse signals. Working with cross spectrum greatly reduces the effect of radio frequency interference (RFI) compared with using auto spectrum. Single pulse detection confidence increases by cross identifying detections from multiple baselines. By combining the power of multiple baselines, we may improve the detection sensitivity. Our method is similar to that of coherent beam forming, but without the computational expense to form a great number of beams to cover the whole field of view of our telescopes. The data processing pipeline designed for this method is easy to implement and parallelize, which can be deployed in various kinds of VLBI observations. In particular, we point out that VGOS observations are very suitable for FRB search.
description: Accepted for publication in AJ
Overview of progress in neutrino scattering measurements
Creators: name: Sorel, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent progress in neutrino scattering experiments with few GeV neutrino beams is reviewed, focusing on new experimental input since the beginning of the NuInt workshop series in 2001. Progress in neutrino quasi-elastic scattering, resonance production, coherent pion production, scattering in the transition region between the resonance and deep inelastic regimes, and nuclear effects in neutrino-nucleus scattering, is discussed.
description: To appear in the proceedings of 5th International Workshop on Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions in the Few-GeV Region (NuInt07), Batavia, Illinois, 30 May - 3 Jun 2007. Submitted to AIP Conf.Proc