cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
No velocity-kicks are required to explain large-distance offsets of Ca-rich supernovae and short-GRBs
Creators: name: Perets, Hagai B.
name: Beniamini, Paz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The environments of explosive transients link their progenitors to the underlying stellar population, providing critical clues for their origins. However, some Ca-rich supernovae (SNe) and short gamma ray burst (sGRBs) appear to be located at remote locations, far from the stellar population of their host galaxy, challenging our understanding of their origin and/or physical evolution. These findings instigated models suggesting that either large velocity kicks were imparted to their progenitors, allowing them to propagate to large distances and attain their remote locations; or that they formed in dense globular clusters residing in the halos. Here we show that instead, the large spatial-offsets of these transients are naturally explained by the observations of highly extended underlying stellar populations in (mostly early type) galaxy halos, typically missed since they can only be identified through ultra-deep/stacked images. Consequently, no large velocity kicks, nor halo globular cluster environments are required in order to explain the origin of these transients. These findings support thermonuclear explosions on white-dwarfs, for the origins of Ca-rich SNe progenitors, and no/small-natal-kicks given to sGRB progenitors. Since early-type galaxies contain older stellar populations, transient arising from older stellar populations would have larger fractions of early-type galaxy hosts, and consequently larger fractions of transients at large offsets. This is verified by our results for sGRBs and Ca-rich SNe showing different offset distributions in early vs. late-type galaxies. Furthermore, once divided between early and late type galaxies, the offsets' distributions of the different transients are consistent with each other. Finally, we point out that studies of other transients' offset distribution (e.g. Ia-SNe or FRBs) should similarly consider the host galaxy-type.
description: Comments are welcome
title: Truck Route Access Evaluation
title: Millard Processing, Nelse, Site #1677
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Weber, Joel M.
name: Agent, Kenneth R.
name: Aldridge, Brian
name: Aultman-Hall, Lisa
name: Cain, David
name: Stamatiadis, Nikiforos
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: This is a study undertaken by the Kentucky Transportation Center on behalf of the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC). There are two main objectives of the Freight Movement and Intermodal Access in Kentucky Study (SPR 98-189): evaluation of the access for trucks between intermodal or other truck generating sites and the National Highway System (NHS); and furthering the understanding of freight commodity flows throughout the state. This report summarizes the access evaluation for Millard Processing located in Pike County in the Big Sandy Area Development District (ADD) and KYTC Highway District #12. The location of the site is shown in Figure 1. Work on other specific sites as well as the freight commodity flow task is ongoing and documented elsewhere.  The sites to be evaluated in this study were selected from two existing databases (a truck facility survey from 1994 and the intermodal facility inventory) based on ADD and KYTC Highway District planner recommendations, geographic location, distance to the NHS, and the number of trucks accessing the site. Consideration was also made for the freight type handled and transportation modes used. A second facility using part of the same route is located on KY 1441 east of KY 1789.  The site was visited for video recording on March 5, 1998, and the field data were collected on August 25, 1998. The facility is located on Nelse Hill Road west of US 460/K.Y 80, which is part of the NHS. The surrounding area is generally rural. A phone survey was conducted with facility managers early in the study process. The survey with Millard Processing found that approximately 200 trucks per day normally access the site. The trucks are generally triaxles or 36-foot semitrailers. The primary freight handled at this facility is coal. The survey respondent did not indicate any problems along the route. The survey can be found in Appendix A.
Ανάπτυξη εφαρμογής πολυκριτηριακών μεθόδων λήψης αποφάσεων:
Creators: name: Μόσχογλου, Αννα Ζαχαρία
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2009
Subjects: Πολυκριτήριες μέθοδοι
Προβλήματα λήψης απόφασης
Προβλήματα ταξινόμησης
Προβλήματα κατάταξης
Multicriteria methods
Electre
Decision making problems

description: Σκοπός αυτής της διπλωματικής είναι η ανάπτυξη μιας εφαρμογής για την επίλυση προβλημάτων λήψης απόφασης με τη χρήση της πολυκριτήριας μεθόδου. Αρχικά γίνεται μια αναφορά στο θεωρητικό υπόβαθρο της μεθόδου, στη συνέχεια περιγράφονται αναλυτικά οι μέθοδοι της οικογένειας ELECTRE, οι οποίες υλοποιούνται στην εφαρμογή, έπειτα περιγράφεται η αρχιτεκτονική του συστήματος και τέλος αναλύεται ο τρόπος με τον οποίο επικοινωνεί ο χρήστης με την εφαρμογή
description: The purpose of this paper is to develop an application for solving decision problems using the Multicriteria method. First there is a reference to the theoretical background of multicriteria method, then there is a detailed description of the methods of ELECTRE famiy, which are implemented in the application, afterwards, there is a description of the system architecure and finally it is analyzed the way in which the user communicates with the application
The role of von Neumann and Lüders postulates in the EPR-Bohm-Bell considerations: Did EPR make a mistake?
Creators: name: Khrennikov, Andrei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the projection postulate plays a crucial role in the discussion on the so called "quantum nonlocality", in particular in the EPR-argument. We stress that the original von Neumann projection postulate was crucially modified by extending it to observables with degenerate spectra (the Lüders postulate) and we show that this modification is highly questionable from a physical point of view, and it is the real source of "quantum nonlocality". The use of the original von Neumann postulate eliminates this problem: instead of "action at the distance"-nonlocality, we obtain a classical measurement nonlocality. It seems that EPR did mistake in their 1935-paper: if one uses correctly von Neumann projection postulate, no ``elements of reality'' can be assigned to entangled systems. Our analysis of the EPR and projection postulate makes clearer Bohr's considerations in his reply to Einstein.
description: Coupling to recent preprints: arXiv:0804.2006 (detailed analysis of EPR-paper) and arXiv:0805.3258 (demonstration that quantum teleportation is an artifact of the misuse of von Neumann's postulate)
Engaging audiences to value and invest in participatory art practice through reciprocal and relational interactions
Creators: name: Guth, Robert Ern-Yuan
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: N6494.I57 G88 2012
subject: Tiravanija, Rirkrit, 1961-
subject: Bourriaud, Nicolas
subject: Interactive art
subject: Relational art
subject: Communication in art
subject: Arts audiences
subject: Art, Modern 21st century

description: This research project examines certain forms of exchange and reciprocity in participatory art from a practitioner's perspective. It refers to aspects of Nicolas Bourriaud's Relational Aesthetics, touches on the food works of Rirkrit Tiravanija and uses practice-led research to examine audience interactions. In each research event the audience was given the opportunity to participate in some form of exchange, mostly involving food. Eight small research events and one larger work (staged in four editions) were produced. These works are examined as a means of gaining further knowledge of the stagecraft involved in my research practice and developing theoretical frameworks that can be used to better explain the inteactions occurring between people during these events. The outcomes from this investigation include a practical body of technical knowledge in making participatory art. The development o fthis expertise in practice-oedresearch can be seen in the increasing complexity of the research events, culminating in the final participatory event for examination. Tools were also developed, which focus on the indirect and direct reciprocal outcomes expected by participants ande artist, based on their engagement. These tools can equally be applied to the deconstruction of existing works to examine the mechanics of interaction or for the planning of future works.
Minutes of meeting of the Trustees of the Winfield and Okanagan Centre Irrigation District, March 4, 1942
Creators: name: Trustees Of The Winfield And Okanagan Centre Irrigation District
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Minutes of meeting of the Trustees of the Winfield and Okanagan Centre Irrigation District, dated March 4, 1942, regarding paying off their debt to the conservation board.
Incoherent Cooper pairing and pseudogap behavior in single-layer FeSe/SrTiO$_3$
Creators: name: Faeth, Brendan D.
name: Yang, Shuolong
name: Kawasaki, Jason K.
name: Nelson, Jocienne N.
name: Mishra, Pramita
name: Chen, Li
name: Schlom, Darrell G.
name: Shen, Kyle M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In many unconventional superconductors, the presence of a pseudogap - a suppression in the electronic density of states extending above the critical temperature - has been a long-standing mystery. Here, we employ combined \textit{in situ} electrical transport and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) measurements to reveal an unprecedentedly large pseudogap regime in single-layer FeSe/SrTiO$_3$, an interfacial superconductor where incoherent Cooper pairs are initially formed above $T_Δ$ $\approx$ 60 K, but where a zero resistance state is only achieved below $T_{0}$ $
Observational constraint of electron/positron pair halos in X-ray waveband
Creators: name: Luangtip, Wasutep
name: Eungwanichayapant, Anant
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Pair halo

description: Abstract: Very high energy gamma-rays (E > 10 TeV) from Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) could start electromagnetic cascades because of the absorption of the extragalactic background light (EBL). With sufficiently strong extragalactic magnetic field strengths (1 nG < B < 1 μG), the cascades could develop isotropically and produce electron/positron pairs around the AGN, which is called an electron/positron pair halo. Although, the haloes are originally predicted that they might be observed in gamma-ray waveband, however there has been no evidence of the detection in this waveband yet. Theoretically, they should be observable in X-ray waveband due to the Synchrotron radiation of the electron/positron pairs as well; in fact, this might provide a new window for detecting the haloes. In this work, we aim to test whether the X-ray emission from the haloes would be detectable by the current generation and next-generation X-ray telescopes. We simulated the intrinsic X-ray emissions of the haloes under different conditions of gamma-ray energy and magnetic field. Accounting for the contamination from the central AGN and X-ray background photons, we then analyzed the detectability of the halo emission created from these conditions. In the presentation, we will show whether the haloes would be observable by X-ray observatories; the possible ranges of the parameters which might allow the haloes to be detectable will be discussed. Moreover, we will also present how much the halo emission signal to noise would be gained by Athena, comparing to that of XMM-Newton.
description: This poster is supported by grants from Graduate School, Srinakharinwirot University.
description: {"references": ["Aharonian et al. 1994. ApJ, 423 L5-L8", "Eungwanichayapant et al. 2019. ApJ, 880 124"]}
Extended X-ray Emission in Compton Thick AGN with Deep Chandra Observations
Creators: name: Jones, Mackenzie L
name: Parker, K.
name: Fabbiano, G.
name: Elvis, M.
name: Maksym, W. P.
name: Paggi, A.
name: Ma, J.
name: Karovska, M.
name: Siemiginowska, A.
name: Wang, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the spatial analysis of five Compton thick (CT) active galactic nuclei (AGNs), including MKN 573, NGC 1386, NGC 3393, NGC 5643, and NGC 7212, for which high resolution Chandra observations are available. For each source, we find hard X-ray emission (>3 keV) extending to ~kpc scales along the ionization cone, and for some sources, in the cross-cone region. This collection represents the first, high-signal sample of CT AGN with extended hard X-ray emission for which we can begin to build a more complete picture of this new population of AGN. We investigate the energy dependence of the extended X-ray emission, including possible dependencies on host galaxy and AGN properties, and find a correlation between the excess emission and obscuration, suggesting a connection between the nuclear obscuring material and the galactic molecular clouds. Furthermore, we find that the soft X-ray emission extends farther than the hard X-rays along the ionization cone, which may be explained by a galactocentric radial dependence on the density of molecular clouds due to the orientation of the ionization cone with respect to the galactic disk. These results are consistent with other CT AGN with observed extended hard X-ray emission (e.g., ESO 428-G014 and the Ma et al. 2020 CT AGN sample), further demonstrating the ubiquity of extended hard X-ray emission in CT AGN.
description: 29 pages, 22 figures, 7 tables, Accepted for publication in ApJ
Η πειθαρχία στο σύγχρονο ελληνικό σχολείο. Ορθόδοξη χριστιανοπαιδαγωγική διερεύνηση:
Creators: name: Σβωλοπούλου, Αικατερίνη Ιωάννη
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2009
Subjects: Πειθαρχία
Χριστιανοπαιδαγωγική
Σχολική αγωγή
Επιείκεια
Αυστηρότητα
Ποινές
Discipline
Leniency
Punishments
Severity

description: Οι μαθητές και ειδικότερα οι έφηβοι ε΄χουν ανάγκη από μία στάση ζωής, χωρίς εσωτερικές αντιφάσεις. Χρειάζονται ένα σύστημα αρχών και προτύπων, όπως αυτό που προσφέρουν οι πατέρες της εκκλησίας που να απολοποιεί τη ζωή τους και να τους θέτει σκοπούς, νοήματα και στόχους, χωρίς να τους στερεί τις ελευθερίες τους. ΟΙ παιδαγωγοί οφείλουν να είναι πηγή έμπνευσης για την αποδοχή και την υιοθέτηση από την πλευρά των μαθητών ενός νέου τρόπου ζωής και αντιμετώπισης των δυσκολιών της. Τα πειθαρχικά παραστρατήματά τους πρέπει να αντιμετωπίζονται από τους εκπαιδευτικους ως μία ευκαιρία προκειμένου να τους προσεγγίσουν να γνωρίσουν τον κόσμο, τα προβλήματα και τα οράματά τους
description: Students and mostly teenagers need an attitude towards life, without internal contradictions. They need a system of principles and patterns, like the one that the fathers of the church offer, wichi will simplify their lives without depriving their freedoms. Teachers ought to be a source of inspiration for the students. Their lack of discipline must be dealt from the teachers as an opportunity to approach them
Quantum pumping of electrons by a moving modulated potential
Creators: name: Jaaskelainen, Markku
name: Corvino, Frank
name: Search, Christopher P.
name: Fessatidis, Vassilios
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum pumping holds great potential for future applications in micro- and nanotechnology. Its main feature, dissipationless charge transport, is theoretically possible via several different mechanisms. However, since no unambiguous verification has been demonstrated experimentally, the question of finding a viable mechanism for pumping remains open. Here we study quantum pumping in an one dimensional electron waveguide with a single time-dependent barrier. The quantum pumping of electrons using a potential barrier whose height and position are harmonically varied is analyzed analytically and by numerically solving the time-dependent Schr{ö}dinger equation. The pumped charge is modeled analytically by including two contributions in linear response theory. First, the scattering of electrons off a potential moving slowly through matter-waves gives a contribution independent of the translational velocity of the potential. Second, Doppler-shifted scattering events give rise to a velocity dependent contribution, which is found in general to be small in comparison with the first one. The relative phase between the oscillations of the height and position is found to be the factor that determines to what extent either contribution is present.
1998 Safety Belt Usage Survey and Evaluation of Effectiveness in Kentucky
Creators: name: Agent, Kenneth R.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: The objective of this study was to establish 1998 safety belt and child safety seat usage rates in Kentucky. The 1998 survey documents the continuing results from enacting a statewide mandatory safety belt law in 1994. Data were collected at 100 sites and combined based on vehicle miles travelled for a given type of highway, rural or urban location, and county population category. Also included in the report is an analysis of accident records evaluating the effectiveness of safety belts.  The data show that the usage rate has stabilized at a level slightly below the high value which occurred in 1994 immediately after enactment of the statewide usage law. The usage rate for front seat occupants was 54 percent in 1998, compared to 54 percent in 1997 and 1995, 55 percent in 1996, and 58 percent in 1994. The current usage is substantially above the 1993 level prior to enactment of the statewide law of 42 percent.  The 1998 statewide usage rate for children under the age of four was determined to be 80 percent. This continues the high rate found for this age category and compares to the high of 82 percent in 1997.  Benefits in the reduction of injuries for occupants involved in police-reported accidents who were wearing a safety belt or in a safety seat were shown through the analysis of accident records. For example, there was a 73 percent reduction in the probability of a driver sustaining a fatal or incapacitating injury in a traffic accident when a safety belt was worn compared to not wearing a safety belt.
Impulsively Excited Gravitational Quantum States: Echoes and Time-resolved Spectroscopy
Creators: name: Tutunnikov, I.
name: Rajitha, K. V.
name: Voronin, A. Yu.
name: Nesvizhevsky, V. V.
name: Averbukh, I. Sh.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We theoretically study an impulsively excited quantum bouncer (QB) - a particle bouncing off a surface in the presence of gravity. A pair of time-delayed pulsed excitations is shown to induce a wave-packet echo effect - a partial rephasing of the QB wave function appearing at twice the delay between pulses. In addition, an appropriately chosen observable [here, the population of the ground gravitational quantum state (GQS)] recorded as a function of the delay is shown to contain the transition frequencies between the GQSs, their populations, and partial phase information about the wave packet quantum amplitudes. The wave-packet echo effect is a promising candidate method for precision studies of GQSs of ultra-cold neutrons, atoms, and anti-atoms confined in closed gravitational traps.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures
title: Truck Route Access Evaluation
title: Hopkinsville Industrial Park, Off US 41 South of Hopkinsville, Site #41
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Agent, Kenneth R.
name: Aldridge, Brian
name: Aultman-Hall, Lisa
name: Cain, David
name: Lefever, Nicole
name: Stamatiadis, Nikiforos
name: Weber, Joel M.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: The Freight Movement and Intermodal Access in Kentucky Study (SPR 98-189) is being conducted on behalf of the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC). There are two major objectives of the study: evaluation of the access for trucks between intermodal or other truck generating sites and the National Highway System (NHS); and furthering the understanding of freight commodity flows throughout the state. This report summarizes the access evaluation for one cluster of facilities located in Christian County in the Pennyrile Area Development District (ADD) and KYTC Highway District# 2. The location of the site is shown in Figure I. Work on other specific sites and the freight commodity flow task are on-going and are reported elsewhere.
Σύνθεση και μελέτη τριοργανοκασσιτερικών ενώσεων με αμινο-υποκατεστημένες θειοφαινόλες: μελέτη των 2-,3- και 4-[3-φαινυλπροπ-2-ενυλιδενεαμινο] θειοφαινολών
Creators: name: Πιλιτζίδου, Αναστασία Ιωάννη
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2008
Subjects: Θειοφαινόλες
Ιμίνες
Οργανοκασσιτερικές ενώσεις
Φασματοσκοπική μελέτη
Υπολογιστική μελέτη
Thiophenols
Imines
Organotin compounds
Spectroscopic study
Computational study

description: Στην διατριβή παρουσιάζεται η σύνθεση μιας σειράς τριοργανοκασσιτερικών ενώσεων του τύπου R3SnL όπου την θέση του R έχουν οργανικές ομάδες που εμφανίζουν ποικιλία στερικών και ηλεκτρονιακών φαινομένων (συγκεκριμένα, μεθυλο, Me, βουτυλο, Bu, κυκλοεξυλο, Cy, φαινυλο, Ph και βενζυλο, Bz) ενώ ο τέταρτος δότης L που είναι συναρμοσμένος στον τετρασθενή κασσίτερο είναι κάποιο από τα αποπρωτονιωμένα ανιόντα της 2-, 3- ή 4-[3-φαινυλπροπ-2-ενυλιδενεαμινο] θειοφαινόλης. Τα μόρια αυτά παρασκευάσθηκαν με την συμπύκνωση της αντίστοιχης αμινο- υποκατεστημένης θειοφαινόλης και κιναμμωμικής αλδεϋδης. Οι οργανοκασσιτερικές ενώσεις μελετήθηκαν με ποικιλία φασματοσκοπικών μεθόδων καθώς και υπολογιστικά με σύγχρονες ημιεμπειρικές κβαντομηχανικές μεθόδους, με σκοπό την διερεύνηση της δομής τους και της πιθανής εφαρμογής τους σε διαδικασίες όπου απαιτούνται υγροί κρύσταλλοι. Οι ενώσεις είναι στην πλειονότητά τους άμορφες στερεές, διαλυτές σε ορισμένους οργανικούς διαλύτες και εμφανίζουν κάποιες ιδιότητες που μπορεί να επιτρέψουν, όχι στις ίδιες αλλά σε παράγωγά τους την χρήση τους ως υλικά σε εφαρμογές υγρών κρυστάλλων. Οι υπολογιστικές μέθοδοι που χρησιμοποιήθηκαν ταυτίζονται σε ικανοποιητικό βαθμό ως προς τα φασματοσκοπικά δεδομένα των ενώσεων που μελετήθηκαν και για τον λόγο αυτό κρίνονται ικανές να δώσουν αντίστοιχα στοιχεία και για παράγωγα των ενώσεων αυτών που θα μελετηθούν στο μέλλον.
description: In the present work there is presented and discussed the synthesis of a series of triorganotin compounds of the general formula R3SnL where R stands for organic groups which reveal a variety of steric and electronic phenomena (namely, methyl, Me, butyl, Bu, cyclohecyl, Cy, phenyl, Ph and benzyl, Bz) while the fourth donor coordinated to the tetravalent tin is one of the deprotonated anions of 2-, 3- or 4-[3-phenylprop-2-enylideneamino]thiophenol. These ligands were prepared by condensation of the appropriate amino- substituted thiophenol with cinnamaldehyde. The organotin compounds were studied by a variety of spectroscopic methods as well as computationally using modern semiempirical quantum chemical methods, aiming at the unraveling of their structure and their possible use in liquid crystal applications. The compounds are in their majority amorphous solids, soluble in some organic solvents and reveal some properties which may allow, not them but some suitable derivativies, to be used in liquid crystal applications. The computational methods applied correlate very well with the spectral data of the studied compounds and for this reason they are considered as being suitable in providing the corresponding evidence for the derivatives of the studied compounds which will be synthesized and studied in the future.
The Kinematic Evolution of Erupting Structures in Confined Solar Flares
Creators: name: Huang, Z. W.
name: Cheng, X.
name: Ding, M. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this Letter, we study the kinematic properties of ascending hot blobs associated with confined flares. Taking advantage of high-cadence extreme-ultraviolet images provided by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory, we find that for the 26 events selected here, the hot blobs are first impulsively accelerated outward, but then quickly slow down to motionlessness. Their velocity evolution is basically synchronous with the temporal variation of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite soft X-ray flux of the associated flares, except that the velocity peak precedes the soft X-ray peak by minutes. Moreover, the duration of the acceleration phase of the erupting blobs is moderately correlated with that of the flare rise phase. For nine of the 26 cases, the erupting blobs even appear minutes prior to the onset of the associated flares. Our results show that a fraction of confined flares also involve the eruption of a magnetic flux rope, which sometimes is formed and heated prior to the flare onset. We suggest that the initiation and development of these confined flares are similar to that of eruptive ones, and the main difference may lie in the background field constraint, which is stronger for the former than for the latter.
description: 13 pages,4 figures
Kentucky's Road Fund Tax Structure
Creators: name: Zimmer, Ron
name: Hackbart, Merl
name: Calabrese, Steve
name: Luzuriaga, Susana
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: In recent years, there has been a great deal of discussion of whether the incoming Road Fund revenue is sufficient to meet the needs of Kentucky's Highways System. Many have suggested a policy of raising the current tax rates on motor fuels as a way of enhancing the financial health of the Road Fund. This current study examines the sources of the Road Fund and evaluates the sources of revenue in terms of stability, equity, competitiveness, and adequacy. Finally, the study examines the impact various changes in motor fuel taxes would have on revenue.
Downside Risk analysis applied to Hedge Funds universe
Creators: name: Perello, Josep
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Risk Management (q-fin.RM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Hedge Funds are considered as one of the portfolio management sectors which shows a fastest growing for the past decade. An optimal Hedge Fund management requires an appropriate risk metrics. The classic CAPM theory and its Ratio Sharpe fail to capture some crucial aspects due to the strong non-Gaussian character of Hedge Funds statistics. A possible way out to this problem while keeping the CAPM simplicity is the so-called Downside Risk analysis. One important benefit lies in distinguishing between good and bad returns, that is: returns greater or lower than investor's goal. We revisit most popular Downside Risk indicators and provide new analytical results on them. We compute these measures by taking the Credit Suisse/Tremont Investable Hedge Fund Index Data and with the Gaussian case as a benchmark. In this way an unusual transversal lecture of the existing Downside Risk measures is provided.
description: 25 pages, 8 figures
Consistent set of band parameters for the group-III nitrides AlN, GaN, and InN
Creators: name: Rinke, Patrick
name: Winkelnkemper, Momme
name: Qteish, Abdallah
name: Bimberg, Dieter
name: Neugebauer, Jorg
name: Scheffler, Matthias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have derived consistent sets of band parameters (band gaps, crystal field-splittings, band gap deformation potentials, effective masses, Luttinger and EP parameters) for AlN, GaN, and InN in the zinc-blende and wurtzite phases employing many-body perturbation theory in the G0W0 approximation. The G0W0 method has been combined with density-functional theory (DFT) calculations in the exact-exchange optimized effective potential approach (OEPx) to overcome the limitations of local-density or gradient-corrected DFT functionals (LDA and GGA). The band structures in the vicinity of the Gamma-point have been used to directly parameterize a 4x4 k.p Hamiltonian to capture non-parabolicities in the conduction bands and the more complex valence-band structure of the wurtzite phases. We demonstrate that the band parameters derived in this fashion are in very good agreement with the available experimental data and provide reliable predictions for all parameters which have not been determined experimentally so far.
description: 16 pages including 4 figures; related publications can be found at http://www.fhi-berlin.mpg.de/th/th.html
Estimating the probability law of the codelength as a function of the approximation error in image compression
Creators: name: Malgouyres, Francois
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 49-02;52B99;41-02

description: After a recollection on compression through a projection onto a polyhedral set (which generalizes the compression by coordinates quantization), we express, in this framework, the probability that an image is coded with $K$ coefficients as an explicit function of the approximation error.
Letter from Alice R. Appenzeller to William Elliot Griffis, May 19, 1912
Creators: name: Appenzeller, Alice R.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1912

description: Updates on the Appenzeller family; Mary is happy in Northfield, Henry graduates on the 10th anniversary of their father's death, and Mother's birthday on July 22nd. Discusses two weddings; Griffis' family wedding, and Grace Kilborne's wedding. Asks about the train travel from Eaglesmere to Boston
Evaluation of the Impact of External Conditions on Arm Positioning During Punches in MMA Fighters: A Comparative Analysis of 2D and 3D Methods
Creators: name: Skalski, Dariusz
name: Prończuk, Magdalena
name: Stastny, Petr
name: Maszczyk, Adam
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: MMA, biomechanics, motion capture, fatigue, balance, joint angles, combat sports

description: Data for: Evaluation of the Impact of External Conditions on Arm Positioning During Punches in MMA Fighters

This dataset contains the kinematic data of 21 elite MMA fighters collected during an experimental study comparing 2D and 3D motion analysis methods.Data was recorded under three different external conditions: normal, fatigue, and balance disruption.Each fighter performed straight right punches (SRP) and swing punches (PWS), while elbow joint (EJ) and shoulder joint (SJ) angles were measured using 2D and 3D methods.COLUMNS:- Test: Indicates the method used (3D and 2D)- SRP (EJ): Elbow joint angle during straight right punch (degrees)- PWS (EJ): Elbow joint angle during swing punch (degrees)- SRP (SJ): Shoulder joint angle during straight right punch (degrees)- PWS (SJ): Shoulder joint angle during swing punch (degrees)- Condition: Testing condition (Normal, Fatigue, Disruption)CONTACT:For access or questions regarding the dataset, contact the corresponding authors:- Prof. Adam Maszczyk: a.maszczyk@awf.katowice.pl- Dr. Petr Stastny: stastny@ftvs.cuni.cz
Weindel, Matthias: Leben und Lernen hinter Stacheldraht
Creators: name: Gurland, Hans-Heinrich
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 52 Nr. 3 (2003): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 52, Heft 3
The Meaning of therapeutic change within the context of a person’s life story
Creators: name: Adler, Michal
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This study is aimed at elucidating the meaning of therapeutic change within the context of a person's life story. The author believes that delineation of therapeutic change within this context may help to overcome the incongruence among counselling theory, research, practice, and the experience of counselling clients. After reviewing the traditional literature on therapy outcome and change, the new options coming from narrative approaches were considered. The qualitative method of a multiple-case study was chosen as the most appropriate for the posed question. Three participants in this project completed either individual (1 woman) or group (1 woman and 1 man) therapy, and believed that they achieved a substantial therapeutic change; all of them had written their autobiography in the beginning of their therapy. In each case study, the autobiography was interpreted, the interpretation refined in the Life story interview, and validated in another interview with the participant. Then the Current life interview and the Interview with a significant other were conducted, and the Portrait of change was construed; again, the product was reviewed and validated with the participant. All interpretations, and the videotapes of interviews were reviewed by two independent judges. The three Portraits of change were mutually compared, and the working delineation of the therapeutic change within the context of a person's life story was abstracted from this comparison. In all 3 cases, the change seemed to be connected with a substantial reinterpretation of the individual's life story. This reinterpretation seemed to be based on the change of the individual's fundamental beliefs about self and others in-the-world, on greater and more flexible acceptance of self and others in their relational complexity, and on positioning one's Self as an agentic hero in his or her own life story. These changes were also reflected in the genre, the formal structure, and the explanatory reasoning of the new stories the participants told about their current lives, and lived by. The limitations of this study, and the implications of the findings for counselling theory, practice, and future research are discussed.
Analysis of possible anomalies in the QSO distribution of the Flesch & Hardcastle catalogue
Creators: name: Lopez-Corredoira, M.
name: Gutierrez, C. M.
name: Mohan, V.
name: Gunthardt, G. I.
name: Alonso, M. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: AIMS. A recent catalogue by Flesch & Hardcastle presents two major anomalies in the spatial distribution of QSO candidates: i/ an apparent excess of such objects near bright galaxies, and ii/ an excess of very bright QSO candidates compared to random background expectations in several regions of the sky. Because anyone of these anomalies would be relevant in a cosmological context, we carried out an extensive analysis of the probabilities quoted in that catalogue. METHODS. We determine the nature and redshift of a subsample of 30 sources in that catalogue by analysing their optical spectra (another 11 candidates were identified from existing public databases). These have allowed us to statistically check the reliability of the probabilities QSO status quoted by Flesch & Hardcastle for their candidates. RESULTS. Only 12 of the 41 candidates turned out QSOs (7 of which have been identified here for the first time). CONCLUSIONS. The probabilities of the QSOs' being the candidates given by Flesch & Hardcastle are overestimated for m_B<17 and for objects projected near (<1 arcmin) bright galaxies. This is the cause of the anomalies mentioned above.
description: Accepted to be published in A&A
Networks on Chip - Δίκτυα σε ολοκληρωμένα κυκλώματα
Creators: name: Τσαγγόπουλος, Κωνσταντίνος Ιωάννη
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2008
Subjects: Δίκτυα διασύνδεσης επεξεργαστών
Ψηφιακή σχεδίαση
Συστήματα πολλαπλών πυρηνών
Πολυεπεξεργαστές
Network on Chip
Interconnection networks
Multiprocessing
Multicore systems
System on Chip
VLSI design

description: Στην εργασία αυτή, παρουσιάζεται μια νέα αρχιτεκτονική διασύνδεσης επεξεργαστικών στοιχείων σε ένα chip, γνωστή ως Networks-on-Chip. Αναλύονται τα βασικά προβλήματα στην σχεδίαση και ολοκλήρωση σύγχρονων VLSI κυκλωμάτων και παρουσιάζεται ο τρόπος με τον οποίο τα Networks-on-Chip μπορούν να βοηθήσουν στην εξάλειξη των προβλημάτων αυτών. Γίνεται ανάλυση της αρχιτεκτονικής ενός on-chip δικτύου, σε αντιστοίχηση με τα δίκτυα Η/Υ με βάση τις σημαντικότερες προτάσεις της ερευνητικής κοινότητας. Σε συνδυασμό με την παρουσίαση της ερευνητικής περιοχής παρουσιάζεται και η σχεδίαση και προσομοίωση του SPARCNoC, ενός on-Chip δικτύου που προτείνεται για την αντικατάσταση του δικτύου επικοινωνίας του OpenSPARC T1 System-on-Chip της εταιρίας SUN.
description: This thesis, presents a new interconnection architecture for processing cores on a single chip, known as Networks on Chip. The most common design and itegration issues of VLSI circuits are analyzed and the way in which Networks-on-Chip can help overcome them is discussed. A thorough analysis of an on-Chip network is presented, in correspondence with computer networks, based on the most important research proposals. In addition to the research area presentation, a design and simulation scheme of a new Network on Chip is presented. SparCNoC is proposed to replace the on-Chip interconnection network of SUN's OpenSPARC T1 System on Chip.
The LFU Ratio $R_π$ in the Standard Model and Beyond
Creators: name: Bordone, Marzia
name: Cornella, Claudia
name: Isidori, Gino
name: König, Matthias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the possibility of performing precise tests of $μ/e$ universality in $B \toπ\ell^+\ell^-$ decays. We show that in wide regions of the dilepton invariant mass spectrum the ratio between muonic and electronic decay widths can be predicted with high accuracy, both within and beyond the Standard Model. We present numerical expressions which can be used to extract precise information on short-distance dynamics if a deviation from universality is observed in the data.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures
Minutes of meeting of the Trustees of the Winfield and Okanagan Centre Irrigation District, March 4, 1942
Creators: name: Trustees Of The Winfield And Okanagan Centre Irrigation District
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Minutes of meeting of the Trustees of the Winfield and Okanagan Centre Irrigation District, dated March 4, 1942, regarding the conservation fund.
Wendebourg, Christian: Östliche Religionen und christlicher Glaube
Creators: name: Bosselmann, Katrin
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 52 Nr. 3 (2003): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 52, Heft 3
The Environments of Low and High Luminosity Radio Galaxies at Moderate Redshifts
Creators: name: Auger, M. W.
name: Becker, R. H.
name: Fassnacht, C. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the local Universe, high-power radio galaxies live in lower density environments than low-luminosity radio galaxies. If this trend continues to higher redshifts, powerful radio galaxies would serve as efficient probes of moderate redshift groups and poor clusters. Photometric studies of radio galaxies at 0.3 < z < 0.5 suggest that the radio luminosity-environment correlation disappears at moderate redshifts, though this could be the result of foreground/background contamination affecting the photometric measures of environment. We have obtained multi-object spectroscopy of in the fields of 14 lower luminosity (L_1.4GHz < 4x10^24 W/Hz) and higher luminosity (L_1.4GHz > 1.2x10^25 W/Hz) radio galaxies at z ~ 0.3 to spectroscopically investigate the link between the environment and the radio luminosity of radio galaxies at moderate redshifts. Our results support the photometric analyses; there does not appear to be a correlation between the luminosity of a radio galaxy and its environment at moderate redshifts. Hence, radio galaxies are not efficient signposts for group environments at moderate redshifts.
description: 7 pages, 9 figures, Accepted for publication in AJ
Letter from Alice R. Appenzeller to William Elliot Griffis, June 2, 1912
Creators: name: Appenzeller, Alice R.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1912

description: Thanks Griffis for the information about trains from Eaglesmere to Boston, but explains that she will no longer go on this trip. Updates on the Appenzeller family; Ida coming to Princeton for Henry's commencement, Henry heading to Souderton, and her and Mary heading to a conference. Discusses Arthur Lodge and Marion Cochran's wedding.
Η κοινωνικότητα κατά την διδασκαλία του A. Adler και την Ποιμαντική ψυχολογία:
Creators: name: Gacic, Aleksandar Uros
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2009
Subjects: Κοινωνικότητα
Άντλερ
Ποιμαντική
Ψυχολογία
Ευχαριστιακή
Ατομική
Sociability
Adler
Pastoral
Dasein
Existence
Individual psychology

description: Στην παρούσα μελέτη επιχειρήθηκε αρχικά μια γενική-εισαγωγική αναφορά περί της κοινωνικότητας από την σκοπιά ορισμένων ανθρωπιστικών επιστημών και της φιλοσοφίας, ενώ στην συνέχεια έγινε ειδικά έρευνα περί της κοινωνικότητας στην διδασκαλία του Άλφρεντ Άντλερ και στην Ποιμαντική ψυχολογία της Ορθοδόξου Θεολογίας. Με άλλα λόγια προσεγγίστηκε η κοινωνικότητα ως κοινό αντικείμενο, ή μάλλον ως αντικείμενο επαφής και συγκρίσεως της αντλεριανής ψυχολογίας.
description: In this research, primary, it was attempted a general introductive report about the sociability as far as it concerns humanitarian sciences and philosophy. At the procedure special studies about the sociability of the theory of A. Adler and the Pastoral psychology of orthodox Theology have been worked out. In other words sociability was analyzed as a common element or rather as an element of connection and comparison in Adler's psychological theory and in Orthodox Pastoral psychology.
Hydro-chemical interactions in dilute phoretic suspensions: from individual particle properties to collective organization
Creators: name: Traverso, Tullio
name: Michelin, Sebastien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Janus phoretic colloids (JPs) self-propel as a result of self-generated chemical gradients and exhibit spontaneous nontrivial dynamics within phoretic suspensions, on length scales much larger than the microscopic swimmer size. Such collective dynamics arise from the competition of (i) the self-propulsion velocity of the particles, (ii) the attractive/repulsive chemically-mediated interactions between particles and (iii) the flow disturbance they introduce in the surrounding medium. These three ingredients are directly determined by the shape and physico-chemical properties of the colloids' surface. Owing to such link, we adapt a recent and popular kinetic model for dilute suspensions of chemically-active JPs where the particles' far-field hydrodynamic and chemical signatures are intrinsically linked and explicitly determined by the design properties. Using linear stability analysis, we show that self-propulsion can induce a wave-selective mechanism for certain particles' configurations consistent with experimental observations. Numerical simulations of the complete kinetic model are further performed to analyze the relative importance of chemical and hydrodynamic interactions in the nonlinear dynamics. Our results show that regular patterns in the particle density are promoted by chemical signaling but prevented by the strong fluid flows generated collectively by the polarized particles, regardless of their chemotactic or antichemotactic nature (i.e. for both puller and pusher swimmers).
description: 20 pages, 9 figures, to appear in Physical Review Fluids
Coming into her own: the successful mid-life transition for women
Creators: name: Halliday, Sally
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Six women between the ages of 49 and 68 participated in a study investigating the meaning of mid-life changes for women now satisfied with their lives. The research question was: How do Women Make a Successful Mid-life Transition! The purpose was to learn more about how women come through the process of mid-life changes feeling good about themselves. Participants were chosen who were articulate and who identified themselves as having gone through significant changes in mid-life and who now felt satisfied with their lives. The methodology involved phenomenological interviews that generated narrative accounts. A narrative methodology was chosen in order to investigate a process that evolved over time, because the flow of change and temporal patterns lent themselves to storied accounts. Phenomenological interviews allowed participants to articulate their experience and meaning of the mid-life transition in their own voices. The study produced six unique and detailed accounts of what mid-life change was like and what factors were helpful in making the transition meaningful for these women. A comparison of individual accounts produced a common pattern of transition that indicated a progression from an initial triggering event that launches a woman into a state of confusion reflecting a growing dissatisfaction with the course of her life. Within this pattern five themes emerged: Sense of Chaos, Profound Sense of Loss, Letting Go, Making Sense of the Past and The Reorganisation of the Self.