cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Holistic and Analytic Representations' of Ignored and Attended Objects
Creators: name: Thoma, Volker
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2003

description: Attended images prime both themselves and their left-right reflections, whereas ignored images prime themselves but not their reflections (Stankiewicz, Hummel, & Cooper, 1998). These and other effects are predicted by the hybrid theory of object recognition (Hummel & Stankiewicz, 1996a) that the human visual system represents ignored images holistically (i.e., view-based), and attended images both holistically and analytically (i.e., part-based). In nine experiments using a naming task the predictions of the model were tested with split, plane-rotated and depth-rotated views of common objects. Consistent with the prediction of the hybrid theory, Experiments 1 and 3 demonstrated that split images primed their intact and split counterparts when they were attended but not when they were ignored, whereas intact images primed themselves whether they were attended or not. Experiment 2 demonstrated that a substantial component of the observed priming for attended split images was specifically visual. In Experiment 5, attended images primed themselves and their plane-rotated versions (90°) whereas ignored images only primed themselves but not their rotated versions. Experiment 6 tested whether rotated objects with a definite upright orientation prime themselves in the same view. Substantial priming was observed for attended and ignored objects when shown in their upright view. However, rotated objects with a definite upright orientation primed themselves only when attended but not when ignored. This result indicates that ignored images make contact with stored representations. Experiment 7 replicated the findings of Stankiewicz et al. for mirror images but with grey-level rendered 3D images. Experiment 8 tested priming for these objects using orientations in which parts change from study to test view. As before, there was substantial priming in all but the ignored-rotated condition. However, there was a greater reduction in priming for attended rotated objects than for ignored rotated objects. This result indicates that the representations mediating recognition of attended images are specifically sensitive to part changes. In Experiment 9, objects were rotated in depth such that equivalent parts were visible in both views. As in Experiment 7, the priming effects of view and attention were additive. These data provide strong evidence that one function of visual attention is to permit the generation of analytic (i.e., part-based) representations of object shape. At the same time these results show that object recognition is also mediated by additional holistic representations.
Quantum Simulations of One-Dimensional Nanostructures under Arbitrary Deformations
Creators: name: Koskinen, Pekka
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A powerful technique is introduced for simulating mechanical and electromechanical properties of one-dimensional nanostructures under arbitrary combinations of bending, twisting, and stretching. The technique is based on a novel control of periodic symmetry, which eliminates artifacts due to deformation constraints and quantum finite-size effects, and allows transparent electronic structure analysis. Via density-functional tight-binding implementation, the technique demonstrates its utility by predicting novel electromechanical properties in carbon nanotubes and abrupt behavior in the structural yielding of Au7 and MoS nanowires. The technique drives simulations markedly closer to the realistic modeling of these slender nanostructures under experimental conditions.
description: 9 pages, 8 figures, 1 video
The load capacity of a composite prestressed concrete beam and reinforced concrete deck bridge using shakedown theory :
Creators: name: Tam, Vincent Sheung Kuen.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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On the Cosmic Ray Driven Firehose Instability
Creators: name: Scott, R.
name: Reville, B.
name: Spitkovsky, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The role of the non-resonant firehose instability in conditions relevant to the precursors of supernova remnant shocks is considered. Using a second order tensor expansion of the Vlasov-Fokker-Planck equation we illustrate the necessary conditions for the firehose to operate. It is found that for very fast shocks, the diffusion approximation predicts that the linear firehose growth rate is marginally faster than its resonant counterpart. Preliminary hybrid MHD-Vlasov-Fokker-Planck simulation results using young supernova relevant parameters are presented.
description: Contribution to the 6th International Symposium on High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy (Gamma2016), Heidelberg, Germany. To be published in the AIP Conference Proceedings
Production of ethanol, lipid and lactic acid from mixed agrowastes hydrolysate
Creators: name: Singh, Jyoti
name: Sharma, Abha
name: Sharma, Pushpendra
name: Tomar, Govind Singh
name: Grover, Minakshi
name: Singh, Surender
name: Nain, Lata
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
classificationCode: 39999
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: To combat the shortage of single agro-residue and overcome the problem of seasonal availability, it is beneficial to use mixture of lignocellulosic biomasses. In the present study, efforts were made to use mixed lignocellulosic biomass for production of bioethanol, along with microbial lipids and lactic acid. Upon enzymatic hydrolysis of mixed biomass at varied proportions it was observed that mixture of paddy straw and jute in the ratio 3:1 resulted in best sugar yield (41.50 g/L) at 10% substrate loading. Ethanolic fermentation of mixed substrate hydrolysate by thermotolerant yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae JRC6 resulted in 8.39 g/L of ethanol. To maintain sustainability and economic impact, oleaginous yeast (Trichosporon mycotoxinivorans S2) and lactic acid bacteria (Lactobacillus plantarum LP-9) were used for lipid production (14.5 g/L) and lactic acid production (11.08 g/L), respectively. Therefore, this study explored the potential of mixed lignocellulosic biomass to be exploited for production of various value-added products.
BPS counting for knots and combinatorics on words
Creators: name: Kucharski, Piotr
name: Sułkowski, Piotr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We discuss relations between quantum BPS invariants defined in terms of a product decomposition of certain series, and difference equations (quantum A-polynomials) that annihilate such series. We construct combinatorial models whose structure is encoded in the form of such difference equations, and whose generating functions (Hilbert-Poincaré series) are solutions to those equations and reproduce generating series that encode BPS invariants. Furthermore, BPS invariants in question are expressed in terms of Lyndon words in an appropriate language, thereby relating counting of BPS states to the branch of mathematics referred to as combinatorics on words. We illustrate these results in the framework of colored extremal knot polynomials: among others we determine dual quantum extremal A-polynomials for various knots, present associated combinatorial models, find corresponding BPS invariants (extremal Labastida-Mariño-Ooguri-Vafa invariants) and discuss their integrality.
description: 41 pages, 1 figure, a supplementary Mathematica file attached
Fermiology of possible topological superconductor Tl0.5Bi2Te3 derived from hole-doped topological insulator
Creators: name: Trang, C. X.
name: Wang, Z.
name: Takane, D.
name: Nakayama, K.
name: Souma, S.
name: Sato, T.
name: Takahashi, T.
name: Taskin, A. A.
name: Ando, Yoichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have performed angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy on Tl0.5Bi2Te3, a possible topological superconductor derived from Bi2Te3. We found that the bulk Fermi surface consists of multiple three-dimensional hole pockets surrounding the Z point, produced by the direct hole doping into the valence band. The Dirac-cone surface state is well isolated from the bulk bands, and the surface chemical potential is variable in the entire band-gap range. Tl0.5Bi2Te3 thus provides an excellent platform to realize two-dimensional topological superconductivity through a proximity effect from the superconducting bulk. Also, the observed Fermi-surface topology provides a concrete basis for constructing theoretical models for bulk topological superconductivity in hole-doped topological insulators.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures (paper proper) + 1 pages, 1 figures (supplemental material); final version accepted for publication in PRB Rapid Communication
Theory of magnetic ordering in the heavy rare earths: ab-initio electronic origin of pair- and four- spin interactions
Creators: name: Tapia, Eduardo Mendive
name: Staunton, Julie B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe an ab-initio disordered local moment theory for long period magnetic phases and investigate the temperature and magnetic field dependence of the magnetic states in the heavy rare earth elements (HRE), namely paramagnetic, conical and helical anti-ferromagnetic(HAFM), fan and ferromagnetic (FM) states. We obtain a generic HRE magnetic phase diagram which is consequent on the response of the common HRE valence electronic structure to f-electron magnetic moment ordering. The theory directly links the first order HAFM-FM transition to the loss of Fermi surface nesting as well as providing a template for analysing the other phases and exposing where f-electron correlation effects are particularly intricate. Gadolinium, for a range of hexagonal, close-packed lattice constants, c and a, is the prototype and applications to other HREs are made straightforwardly by scaling the pair and quartic local moment interactions with de Gennes factors and choosing appropriate lanthanide contracted c and $a$ values.
description: Manuscript: 10 pages, 3 figures, 1 table Supplementary information: 11 pages, 3 figures, 1 table
Forming of coated and laminated sheets
Creators: name: Kim, Jang-Kyo.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Spin-wave dynamics in FeGe helimagnet: studied by small-angle neutron scattering
Creators: name: Siegfried, S. -A.
name: Sukhanov, A. S.
name: Altynbaev, E. V.
name: Honnecker, D.
name: Heinemann, A.
name: Tsvyashchenko, A. V.
name: Grigoriev, S. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have studied the spin-wave stiffness of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya helimagnet FeGe in a temperature range from 225~K up to $T_C \approx$~278.7~K by small-angle neutron scattering. The method we have used is based on [S. V. Grigoriev et al. Phys. Rev. B \textbf{92} 220415(R) (2015)] and was extended here for the application in polycrystalline samples. We confirm the validity of the anisotropic spin-wave dispersion for FeGe caused by the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. We have shown that the spin-wave stiffness $A$ for FeGe helimagnet decreases with a temperature as $A(T) = 194(1-0.7(T/T_C)^{4.2})$ meVÅ$^2$. The finite value of the spin-wave stiffness $A = 58$ meVÅ$^2$ at $T_C$ classifies the order-disorder phase transition in FeGe as being the first order one.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures
Identifying and Displaying EdTech Implementation Context Profiles
Creators: name: Bush, Caroline
name: Danek, Brennan
name: Rivera, Alexandra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: education technology
survey responses
variable selection
Gaussian Mixture Modeling
UVA MSDS 2023

description: Education technology (edtech) is increasingly preva- lent in classrooms, yet 85% of the technologies currently imple- mented are a bad fit for the school, or are poorly implemented. To address this limitation, the EdTech Evidence Exchange has collected survey responses to characterize the contexts in which technologies are being implemented. Their platform is working to leverage educator knowledge and experiences with edtech and connect similar schools. Variable selection via penalized regression and unsupervised methods extracts a subset of the factors that are the most informative in characterizing schools’ contexts. This subset is then used to fit a Gaussian Mixture Model to create soft clusters of schools with similar contexts. A new feature, ”Schools Like Mine,” combines soft classification and Euclidean distance to identify and rank schools by similarity.
Age differences in peritraumatic and posttraumatic processing using a trauma film paradigm
Creators: name: Green, Trudy A.
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Epidemiological studies typically report lower prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in older adults. However, there is limited research investigating the mechanisms underlying these age differences in responses to psychological trauma. Theoretical models and research suggest that older adults may respond better after trauma than younger adults due to the more effective use of strategies to manage their emotions. The aim of the present study was to examine age differences in peritraumatic and posttraumatic processing, and the use of two emotion regulation strategies, rumination and positive reappraisal, using a trauma film paradigm. Participants (45 older adults, 45 younger adults) completed baseline measures of psychological functioning and emotion regulation, then watched a trauma film, during which their eye-gaze and skin conductance were recorded. Participants provided information about their peritraumatic response immediately after viewing the film. They completed an intrusive memory diary over the next seven days and follow-up measures of posttraumatic symptoms and emotion regulation. Results showed no age differences in levels of peritraumatic distress, or the use of rumination or positive reappraisal while viewing the film. Older adults reported less posttraumatic symptoms and distress associated with their intrusive memories than younger adults, despite comparable number of intrusive memories. Rumination was found to explain part of the variance in the relationship between age and posttraumatic symptoms. There were no age differences in the use of positive appraisal, and positive reappraisal was not associated with posttraumatic distress. The study’s findings also provide support for the theories of ageing in relation to trauma, demonstrating both age-related strengths and vulnerabilities in the context of trauma.
On exponential type entire functions without zeros in the open lower half-plane
Creators: name: Zastavnyi, Viktor P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 30C15, 30D15, 42A82, 60E10

description: We obtain sufficient conditions for an exponential type entire function not to have zeros in the open lower half-plane. An exact inequality containing the real and imaginary parts of such functions and their derivatives restricted to the real axis is deduced. A connection is established to the positive definite functions.
description: 28 pages
An explanation of trans-ionospheric pulse pairs
Creators: name: Wu, H. -C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Trans-ionospheric pulse pairs are the most powerful natural radio signals on the Earth and associated with lightning. They have been discovered for two decades by satellites, but their origin still remains elusive. Here we attribute these radio signals to relativistic electrons produced by cloud-to-ground lightning. When these electrons strike the ground, radio bursts are emitted towards space in a narrow cone. This model naturally explains the interval, duration, polarization, coherence and bimodal feature of the pulse pairs. Based on electron parameters inferred from x-ray observation of lightning, the calculated signal intensity agrees with the measurement of satellites. Our results are useful to develop global warning system of storms and hurricane based on GPS satellites.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, the key idea is proposed in [H.-C. Wu, Theory of ball lightning, arXiv:1411.4784, 2014] and has been presented at the 1st International Symposium on Lightning and Storm-Related Phenomena (July 2-3, 2015) in Aurillac, France
Teacher incentive allotment : rewards and outcomes
Creators: name: Ramos, Xóchitl Tanya
name: 0009-0003-3267-9409
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2023
Subjects: Teacher pay for performance
TIA
Teacher incentive allotment

description: Recruiting and retaining teachers is of utmost importance for ensuring student achievement, and increasing teacher productivity has been addressed by pay-for-performance programs. The purpose of this program study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the Teacher Incentive Allotment (TIA) program in Urban Independent School District (UISD) in Texas, as defined by the program’s attainment of its three stated outcomes: (a) reward teachers for effectively increasing student performance using valid and reliable measures; (b) recruit people to the teaching profession; and (c) retain high-performing teachers at high need campuses. The research design was a mixed methods convergent parallel approach and allowed for qualitative and quantitative data to be collected concurrently. The context, input, process, and products (CIPP) program evaluation model was applied to the TIA program. The TIA program’s effectiveness was measured using quantitative methods to compare student achievement data between teachers who were TIA designated and non-designated. The qualitative methods were applied through document analysis of reports available in the public domain and focus group interviews on measuring the UISD principals’ and teachers’ beliefs and attitudes about the TIA program. The quantitative findings showed the TIA designated teachers as demonstrating statistically significantly higher student achievement with a large effect size over the non-designated teachers. However, no relationship could be identified between the implementation of the TIA program and teacher retention at UISD. The focus group data yielded three overarching themes: (a) communication, (b) fairness, and (c) emotional response. Several subthemes emerged between the teacher focus groups and the principal focus groups for the first two overarching themes. Communication contained the subthemes of (a) understanding of the program, (b) recognition of designated teachers, (c) teacher support, and (d) confusion. Fairness contained the subthemes of (a) alignment, (b) testing, and (c) T-TESS evaluation inconsistencies. The theme of emotional response emerged from the participants’ perceptions of fairness and lack of communication. Both policymakers and educational leaders of other districts can benefit from the findings regarding UISD’s TIA program evaluation by implementing the recommendations seen in Chapter 5 that could increase TIA program effectiveness.
Recovery and refining of gold and silver : a review
Creators: name: Fox, David Kenneth.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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General Electric Quarterly Survey 82-01, Versions I & II and College Student
Creators: name: Electric, General
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2020

description: Personal, local and world concerns; positive and negative aspects of science and technology; racial relations; electricity and power sources; willingness to pay more taxes to ensure increased government involvement in solutions to various problems; government's role in mergers; media usage; various national issues; satisfaction with one's financial situation; ability to keep up with inflation; unemployment due to the economy; wage and price controls, main responsibility for medical care, the poor, the aged, unemployment and housing; likelihood of various energy related events in the next fifteen years; nuclear power plants; satisfaction with one's life; value for the dollar of various goods and services; comparison of automobiles of various nations; electric automobiles; responsibilities of business; the importance of various economic, environment, and scientific topics ten years from now.
title: Das Potenzial von Energiegemeinschaften in Österreich als sozial-ökologische Transformation
Creators: name: Lebert, Stefanie
Year: 2023

description: Der Energiesektor muss eine führende Rolle bei der Dekarbonisierung übernehmen, um Österreichs Ziel der Klimaneutralität bis 2040 zu erreichen. Gleichzeitig hat die Energiekrise im Jahr 2022 gezeigt, dass ein Übergang vom derzeitigen zentralisierten Energiemarkt in ein demokratisches, gerechtes, gemeinschaftliches und soziales System dringend notwendig ist. In diesem Zusammenhang war es das Ziel dieser Masterarbeit, die Rolle von Energiegemeinschaften in dieser sozial-ökologischen Transformation zu analysieren. Als konzeptuelle Grundlage hierfür wurde die Multi-Level Perspektive für die Analyse komplexer Nachhaltigkeits-Transformationen von Herrfahrdt-Pähle et al. (2020) verwendet. Es wurden eine Reihe zukünftiger Potenziale von Energiegemeinschaften untersucht, insbesondere in Bezug auf die Verhinderung von Energiearmut. Außerdem wurden zentrale Risiken, Hindernisse und Herausforderungen identifiziert, die sich negativ auf die Entwicklung von Energiegemeinschaften auswirken. Auf dieser Basis wurden Lösungsansätze und Forderungen formuliert, um die weitere Entwicklung und Verbreitung von Energiegemeinschaften regulatorisch zu unterstützen. Die Grundlage für die empirische Studie bilden 14 im November und Dezember 2022 durchgeführte qualitative Interviews mit Expert*innen, die Energiegemeinschaften in Österreich gegründet haben oder diese leiten. Die Ergebnisse liefern Anhaltspunkte für politische Diskussionen.
description: The energy sector must take a leading role in decarbonization to achieve Austria's goal of climate neutrality by 2040. At the same time, the energy crisis in 2022 has shown that a transition from the current centralized energy market to a democratic, just, community-based and social system is urgently needed. In this context, the aim of this master thesis was to analyze the role of energy communities in this social-ecological transformation. As a conceptual basis, the multi-level per-spective for the analysis of complex sustainability transformations by Herrfahrdt-Pähle et al. (2020) was used. A number of future potentials of energy communities were explored, especial-ly in relation to the prevention of energy poverty. Key risks, barriers, and challenges that negatively impact the development of energy communities were also identified. On this basis, solu-tions and demands were formulated which could provide regulatory support for the further development and diffusion of energy communities. The empirical study is based on 14 qualitative interviews conducted in November and December 2022 with experts who have founded or lead energy communities in Austria. The results provide indications for political discussions.
Impact of Free Carriers on Modulational Instability in Silicon-on-insulator Nanowaveguides
Creators: name: Chaturvedi, Deepa
name: Kumar, Ajit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have numerically studied the effect of free-carrier-induced loss and dispersion on the modulational instability (MI) gain at low input powers in silicon-on-insulator (SOI) nanowaveguides with normal and anomalous second-order dispersion. We have shown that the free carriers affect the gain spectra even at low input powers. First time we have reported the gain in normal SOI nanowaveguides even in the absence of higher order dispersion parameters, which is due to the interaction of free-carrier-induced dispersion and nonlinearity. The MI gain in an anomalous SOI nanowaveguide vanishes even at a few milliwatt range of input power due to this interaction. We have shown that the gain could be achieved in an anomalous nanowaveguides by reducing the free carrier lifetime.
Tau protein aggregation associated with SARS-CoV-2 main protease
Creators: name: Eberle, Raphael Josef
name: Coronado, Mônika Aparecida
name: Gering, Ian
name: Korostov, Karolina
name: Stefanski, Anja
name: Stühler, Kai
name: Kraemer-Schulien, Victoria Maria
name: Blömeke, Lara
name: Bannach, Oliver
name: Willbold, Dieter
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 570

description: bioRxiv beta XX, XX (2023). doi:10.1101/2023.03.04.531078
description: Published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY, Cold Spring Harbor
Computer simulation study of a mesogenic lattice model based on long-range dispersion interactions
Creators: name: Romano, Silvano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In contrast to thermotropic biaxial nematic phases, for which some long sought for experimental realizations have been obtained, no experimental realizations are yet known for their tetrahedratic and cubatic counterparts,involving orientational orders of ranks 3 and 4, respectively, also studied theoretically over the last few decades. In previous studies, cubatic order has been found for hard-core or continuous models consisting of particles possessing cubic or nearly-cubic tetragonal or orthorhombic symmetries; in a few cases, hard-core models involving uniaxial ($D_{\infty h}-$symmetric) particles have been claimed to produce cubatic order as well. Here we address by Monte Carlo simulation a lattice model consisting of uniaxial particles coupled by long-range dispersion interactions of the London-De Boer-Heller type; the model was found to produce no second-rank nematic but only fourth-rank cubatic order, in contrast to the nematic behavior long known for its counterpart with interactions truncated at nearest-neighbor separation.
description: revtex4, 26 pages, 17 eps figures; to appear in Phys. Rev. E
Synthesis of novel debondable adhesives
Creators: name: Devani, Kian
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2025

description: Debondable adhesives, also known as temporary or removable adhesives, are a class of adhesives that allow for easy removal of the bonded materials without damaging them. These adhesives have gained significant attention in various applications, such as in the automotive, electronics, and medical industries, due to their ability to provide a strong yet reversible bonding solution. Unlike traditional permanent adhesives, debondable adhesives allow for the temporary assembly of components, facilitating repair, rework, and recycling. This unique feature makes them an attractive option for manufacturers who seek to reduce waste and increase efficiency. In this context, the development of novel debondable adhesives and their optimization for different applications is an active area of research, driven by the growing demand for sustainable and cost-effective solutions, this thesis shows the methodology and concepts behind the development of various debondable adhesives which have different applications due to different debonding methods.
Tracking Course and Curriculum Progressions at the University of Virginia
Creators: name: Franko, Gunnar
name: JR Kargbo
name: Nickol, Connor
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: UVA MSDS 2023

description: At UVA there is no central database to look at each major and the courses required for that major and also no way to see the paths students take in order to complete their major. We were tasked with solving each of these problems. For these tasks we created a singular file with all of the majors at UVA, and their requirements, and a way to find differences in performance and retention between majors based on sociodemographic characteristics and the class order students took to fulfill their requirements. Our method to solving this problem involved creating a way to visualize the path that students take to move through their major requirements
An investigation into the behaviour of thin-walled portal frames
Creators: name: Ahammed., Mukshed
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Seasonal variations of the rate of multiple-muons in the Gran Sasso underground laboratory
Creators: name: Ronga, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is well known that the rate of cosmic ray muons depends on the atmospheric temperature, and that for events with a single muon the peak of the rate is in summer, in underground laboratories in the northern hemisphere. In 2015 the MINOS experiment, in USA, found that, for small distances between the multiple-muons, the rate of multiple-muons peaks in the winter and that the amplitude of the modulation is smaller than in the case of a single muon. I have done a re-analysis of data of the past MACRO experiment. The result is that under Gran Sasso the rate of multiple-muons at small distances peaks in the summer. This difference with MINOS could be explained by differences in the atmospheric temperature due to latitude. This results could be of interest for dark matter experiments looking to dark matter seasonal modulation due to the Earth's motion.
description: presented to the RICAP 2016 conference
Overview of recent azimuthal correlation measurements from ALICE
Creators: name: Zhou, You
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Azimuthal correlations are a powerful tool to probe the properties and the evolution of the collision system. In this proceedings, we will review the recent azimuthal correlation measurements from ALICE at the LHC. The comparison to other experimental measurements and various theoretical calculations will be discussed as well.
description: 12 pages, 9 figures, invited talk in 5th International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics (6-14 July 2016), Crete, Greece
Arbitrary optical wavefront shaping via spin-to-orbit coupling
Creators: name: Larocque, Hugo
name: Gagnon-Bischoff, Jérémie
name: Bouchard, Frédéric
name: Fickler, Robert
name: Upham, Jeremy
name: Boyd, Robert W.
name: Karimi, Ebrahim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Converting spin angular momentum to orbital angular momentum has been shown to be a practical and efficient method for generating optical beams carrying orbital angular momentum and possessing a space-varying polarized field. Here, we present novel liquid crystal devices for tailoring the wavefront of optical beams through the Pancharatnam-Berry phase concept. We demonstrate the versatility of these devices by generating an extensive range of optical beams such as beams carrying $\pm200$ units of orbital angular momentum along with Bessel, Airy and Ince-Gauss beams. We characterize both the phase and the polarization properties of the generated beams, confirming our devices' performance.
description: 9 pages, and 7 figures
Circuit QED: Cross-Kerr-effect induced by a superconducting qutrit without classical pulses
Creators: name: Liu, Tong
name: Yang, Chui-ping
name: Zhang, Yang
name: Yu, Chang-shui
name: Zhang, Wei-ning
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The realization of cross-Kerr nonlinearity is an important task for many applications in quantum information processing. In this work, we propose a method for realizing cross-Kerr nonlinearity interaction between two superconducting coplanar waveguide resonators coupled by a three-level superconducting flux qutrit (coupler). By employing the qutrit-resonator dispersive interaction, we derive an effective Hamiltonian involving two-photon number operators and a coupler operator. This Hamiltonian can be used to describe a cross-Kerr nonlinearity interaction between two resonators when the coupler is in the ground state. Because the coupler is unexcited during the entire process, the effect of coupler decoherence can be greatly minimized. More importantly, compared with the previous proposals, our proposal does not require classical pulses. Furthermore, due to use of only a three-level qutrit, the experimental setup is much simplified when compared with previous proposals requiring a four-level artificial atomic systems. Based on our Hamiltonian, we implement a two-resonator qubits controlled-phase gate and generate a two-resonator entangled coherent state. Numerical simulation shows that the high-fidelity implementation of the phase gate and creation of the entangled coherent state are feasible with current circuit QED technology.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures
Flux cancellation and the evolution of the eruptive filament of 2011 June 7
Creators: name: Yardley, S. L.
name: Green, L. M.
name: Williams, D. R.
name: van Driel-Gesztelyi, L.
name: Valori, G.
name: Dacie, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate whether flux cancellation is responsible for the formation of a very massive filament resulting in the spectacular 2011 June 7 eruption. We analyse and quantify the amount of flux cancellation that occurs in NOAA AR 11226 and its two neighbouring ARs (11227 & 11233) using line-of-sight magnetograms from the Heliospheric Magnetic Imager. During a 3.6-day period building up to the filament eruption, 1.7 x 10^21 Mx, 21% of AR 11226's maximum magnetic flux, was cancelled along the polarity inversion line (PIL) where the filament formed. If the flux cancellation continued at the same rate up until the eruption then up to 2.8 x 10^21 Mx (34% of the AR flux) may have been built into the magnetic configuration that contains the filament plasma. The large flux cancellation rate is due to an unusual motion of the positive polarity sunspot, which splits, with the largest section moving rapidly towards the PIL. This motion compresses the negative polarity and leads to the formation of an orphan penumbra where one end of the filament is rooted. Dense plasma threads above the orphan penumbra build into the filament, extending its length, and presumably injecting material into it. We conclude that the exceptionally strong flux cancellation in AR 11226 played a significant role in the formation of its unusually massive filament. In addition, the presence and coherent evolution of bald patches in the vector magnetic field along the PIL suggests that the magnetic field configuration supporting the filament material is that of a flux rope.
description: 18 pages, 7 figures. Submitted to ApJ in December 2015, accepted in June 2016
Influence of the workpiece material on the cutting performance in low frequency vibration assisted drilling
Creators: name: Paulsen, Tebbe
name: Guba, Nikolai
name: Sölter, Jens
name: Karpuschewski, Bernhard
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Vibration drilling
subject: Chip deformation
subject: Workpiece material
subject: 620

description: Fundamental problems in drilling processes are associated with the unfavorable machining conditions in the tool center and the difficult chip removal. Low frequency vibration assisted drilling (LFVAD), in which the linear tool feed is superimposed with a vibratory motion in feed direction, is a promising process to overcome these problems. Aiming at a systematic analysis of the influence of workpiece material properties, results from LFVAD experiments with Ti6Al4V, AlMgSi0.5 and 42CrMo4 in different heat treatment states are presented. Specifically the dependence of optimal oscillation amplitudes on the workpiece material behavior is analyzed.
An evaluation of a heat pump and heat storage system for energy conservation in buildings
Creators: name: Sanderson, Bruce Stephen.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Development and application of a test rig for tribological investigations under impact loads
Creators: name: Böhmermann, Florian
name: Riemer, Oltmann
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cold bulk metal forming
subject: Rotary swaging
subject: Friction control
subject: Dry forming
subject: 620

description: The investigation and the understanding of frictional mechanisms occurring between forming dies and work pieces in tribological contact is the prerequisite for the development of novel, dry bulk metal forming processes such as dry rotary swaging. The capability to conduct tribological investigations within the actual forming processes, however, is strongly limited, e.g. due to the limited accessibility of force measurement equipment. This work presents the development and application of a tribological test rig mimicking typical contact geometries and high impact loads associated with infeed rotary swaging for process-independent tribological investigations. The development comprises the designing process based on rotary swaging process simulations, setup assembly, and calibration procedure. Subsequently, the functionality of the test rig was demonstrated successfully, determining the distinct frictional properties under lubricated and dry conditions of various samples with structured surfaces representative for rotary swaging dies.
title: Accounting for Recreational Drug Use: The Lived Practice of Qualitative Interviews
Creators: name: Rapely, Timothy John
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2002

description: The thesis uses (semi-)open-ended interviews with drug users and non-drug users to document the lived practices of qualitative interviewing and talk about drugs. It draws on Sacks and more contemporary work on conversation analysis and membership categorization to outline in detail 'how qualitative interviews come off in and through talk-in-interaction. It also contextualises the interviewees' topic talk, their talk-about- drugs. An (intimately) related concern, is to document some ideals about qualitative interviewing and talk about drugs as ideals-in-and-as-lived-practice. Underlying all types of research interviews is the tension between an extra-local need to collect data on a topic and a here-and-now interactional event in which this data is collected in and through talk-in-interaction (Antaki and Rapley 1996, Mazeland and ten Have 1996/1998, Suchman and Jordan 1990). The thesis describes how interviewers and interviewees manage this tension, documenting (some of) the methods - the practical solutions -they routinely use "to get the job done". Special reference is given to how interviewers locally produce themselves as 'the sort of qualitative interviewers they are supposed to be'. The research outlines how qualitative interviews are locally produced, with reference to the structural, sequential and topical organization. It focuses on (some of) the methods interviewers use explicitly to inform the interviewee that their questions are to be heard and understood as neutralistic and/or facilitatory. These methods include producing questions without preferred responses, question prefaces, specific lexical choices and tag-components. It also outlines (some of) the methods interviewees use to produce themselves as 'morally adequate' types-of-people in relation to topics in the talk. This thesis seeks to unsettle some of the current research practices and theories in the academic 'drug' and 'qualitative interviewing' worlds. Chiefly, it shows how both speakers, the interviewee and interviewer, are essential to, in Silverman's (1973) term, 'bringing off the research instrument'.
The energy budget of stellar magnetic fields: comparing non-potential simulations and observations
Creators: name: Lehmann, L. T.
name: Jardine, M. M.
name: Vidotto, A. A.
name: Mackay, D. H.
name: See, V.
name: Donati, J. -F.
name: Folsom, C. P.
name: Jeffers, S. V.
name: Marsden, S. C.
name: Morin, J.
name: Petit, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The magnetic geometry of the surface magnetic fields of more than 55 cool stars have now been mapped using spectropolarimetry. In order to better understand these observations, we compare the magnetic field topology at different surface scale sizes of observed and simulated cool stars. For ease of comparison between the high-resolution non-potential magnetofrictional simulations and the relatively low-resolution observations, we filter out the small-scale field in the simulations using a spherical harmonics decomposition. We show that the large-scale field topologies of the solar-based simulations produce values of poloidal/toroidal fields and fractions of energy in axisymmetric modes that are similar to the observations. These global non-potential evolution model simulations capture key magnetic features of the observed solar-like stars through the processes of surface flux transport and magnetic flux emergence. They do not, however, reproduce the magnetic field of M-dwarfs or stars with dominantly toroidal field. Furthermore, we analyse the magnetic field topologies of individual spherical harmonics for the simulations and discover that the dipole is predominately poloidal, while the quadrupole shows the highest fraction of toroidal fields. Magnetic field structures smaller than a quadrupole display a fixed ratio between the poloidal and toroidal magnetic energies.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS Letters
Growing complex network of citations of scientific papers -- measurements and modeling
Creators: name: Golosovsky, M.
name: Solomon, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: To quantify the mechanism of a complex network growth we focus on the network of citations of scientific papers and use a combination of the theoretical and experimental tools to uncover microscopic details of this network growth. Namely, we develop a stochastic model of citation dynamics based on copying/redirection/triadic closure mechanism. In a complementary and coherent way, the model accounts both for statistics of references of scientific papers and for their citation dynamics. Originating in empirical measurements, the model is cast in such a way that it can be verified quantitatively in every aspect. Such verification is performed by measuring citation dynamics of Physics papers. The measurements revealed nonlinear citation dynamics, the nonlinearity being intricately related to network topology. The nonlinearity has far-reaching consequences including non-stationary citation distributions, diverging citation trajectory of similar papers, runaways or "immortal papers" with infinite citation lifetime etc. Thus, our most important finding is nonlinearity in complex network growth. In a more specific context, our results can be a basis for quantitative probabilistic prediction of citation dynamics of individual papers and of the journal impact factor.
description: 26 pages, 24 figures
Adapting scientific reasoning instruction to children’s needs: effects on learning processes and learning outcomes
Creators: name: Schlatter, Erika
name: Molenaar, Inge
name: Lazonder, Ard W.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Scientific reasoning helps children understand the world around them. Teaching scientific reasoning can be challenging because not all component scientific reasoning skills develop at the same age and not all children learn these skills at the same pace. Adaptive support thus seems called for. We designed two types of adaptive instruction, based on children’s standardised test scores (macro-adaptive; n = 58) or their performance in the previous lesson (micro-adaptive; n = 46), and tested their effectiveness against a non-adaptive control condition (n = 49). Analysis of pre- and post-test scores showed comparable improvements in all three instructional conditions. As many children in both adaptive conditions received medium support, additional analyses were done on children in the macro-adaptive condition who received high or low-support worksheets, and their control group counterparts. Learning gains for these groups were similar. Children’s overall task performance during the lessons also improved, and this improvement interacted with condition. These results suggest that more specific information on children’s performance and more frequent and precise adaptations might lead to better learning outcomes. As this was not possible in this study, future research should explore hybrid solutions that enable children to practice scientific reasoning with physical materials while receiving adaptive support via their computers.