cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Measurement of electroweak $Z(\nu\bar{\nu})\gamma jj$ production and limits on anomalous quartic gauge couplings in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
Creators: name: ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2022
Subjects: p p: scattering
p p: colliding beams
Z0: hadroproduction
Z0: leptonic decay
neutrino: pair production
dijet: associated production
jet: pair production
coupling: gauge
gauge boson: coupling
coupling: (4gauge boson)
vector boson: scattering
electroweak interaction: symmetry breaking
transverse momentum: high
photon: transverse momentum
ATLAS
CERN LHC Coll
photon: final state
effective field theory
operator: higher-dimensional
dimension: 8
channel cross section: measured
coupling: anomaly
coupling constant: upper limit
experimental results
13000 GeV-cms

description: Measurement of electroweak $Z(\nu\bar{\nu})\gamma jj$ production and limits on anomalous quartic gauge couplings in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV with the ATLAS detector The electroweak production of $Z(\nu\bar{\nu})\gamma$ in association with two jets is studied in a regime with a photon of high transverse momentum above 150 GeV using proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider. The analysis uses a data sample with an integrated luminosity of 139 fb$^{-1}$ collected by the ATLAS detector during the 2015-2018 LHC data-taking period. This process is an important probe of the electroweak symmetry breaking mechanism in the Standard Model and is sensitive to quartic gauge boson couplings via vector-boson scattering. The fiducial $Z(\nu\bar{\nu})\gamma jj$ cross section for electroweak production is measured to be 0.77$^{+0.34}_{-0.30}$ fb and is consistent with the Standard Model prediction. Evidence of electroweak $Z(\nu\bar{\nu})\gamma jj$ production is found with an observed significance of 3.2$\sigma$ for the background-only hypothesis, compared with an expected significance of 3.7$\sigma$. The combination of this result with the previously published ATLAS observation of electroweak $Z(\nu\bar{\nu})\gamma jj$ production yields an observed (expected) signal significance of 6.3$\sigma$ (6.6$\sigma$). Limits on anomalous quartic gauge boson couplings are obtained in the framework of effective field theory with dimension-8 operators.
title: Internet Infrastructures for Large Scale Emulation with Efficient HW/SW Co-design
Creators: name: Gula, Aiden K
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2021

description: Connected systems are becoming more ingrained in our daily lives with the advent of cloud computing, the Internet of Things (IoT), and artificial intelligence. As technology progresses, we expect the number of networked systems to rise along with their complexity. As these systems become abstruse, it becomes paramount to understand their interactions and nuances. In particular, Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANET) and swarm communication systems exhibit added complexity due to a multitude of environmental and physical conditions. Testing these types of systems is challenging and incurs high engineering and deployment costs. In this work, we propose a scalable MANET emulation framework using virtualized internet infrastructures that generalizes an assortment of application spaces with diverse attributes. We then quantify the architecture using various evaluation techniques to determine both feasibility and scalability. Finally, we developed a hardware offload engine for virtualized network systems that builds upon recent work in the field.
CMC and Face-to-face Communication in L2 Learning
Creators: name: Liu, Zehua
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Learning, Psychology of
Second language acquisition--Research
Telematics
Education
English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers

description: Bhatia and Richie (2009), in their book chapter, compare computer-mediated communication (CMC) and face-to-face communication by analyzing how learners behave when they learn a language in these two modes. Studies on face-to-face communication (e.g., VanPatten, 1990) reveal that learners have a tendency to process meaning before form because human interaction is conducted in real time. Speakers have to attend to the form (i.e., the oral output) and the meaning of the verbal production simultaneously. Previous studies on working memory (Li, 1999; Maehara and Saito, 2007) reveal that there is a trade-off between the maintenance and processing of information, as both involve working memory. VanPatten (2004), in particular, pinpoints that processing second language (L2) input involves making form-meaning connections in real-time comprehension, an online task that takes place in the working memory. As such, L2 learners have less memory space to store new information in face-to-face communication, given that the working memory is used for processing input. In contrast, CMC is said to provide more opportunities for focus on form. After all, when chatting online in L2, learners do not have to focus on both form and meaning at the same time the way they do in face-to-face interaction. They could take time to process, test out, and revise their linguistic production. This is what is considered an obvious advantage of using CMC for language learning.
CALL in the L2 Classroom: Possibilities and Limitations
Creators: name: Combs, Charles C.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Telematics
Second language acquisition
Language and languages--Computer-assisted instruction
Education
English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers

description: The number of possibilities that computers and computer-assisted technology have opened up for second language (L2) learners over the years is intriguing. However, one must bear in mind that even though computer-assisted language learning (CALL) does create situations for computer- mediated interaction, can it really replace face-to-face interaction or just be an alternative resource? In larger numbers, with shrinking budgets, many universities are formulating online options for students in which one professor lectures to thousands of students online, and graduate assistants grade their assignments. While such an approach may be suitable for some content areas such as an Introduction to Psychology course, I think it could have different effects (though perhaps limited ones) in an L2 classroom, simply because face-to-face interaction is so vital. To date, some SLA researchers have argued for the importance of interaction in the learners L2 development. In his Interaction Hypothesis, Long (1983) advocated a critical role for interaction. He asserted that learners will make conversational adjustments during face-to-face interaction, which will in turn facilitate L2 learning. Mackey, Gass, and McDonough (2000) further argue that “through interaction, some aspects of their attention may become focused on the parts of their language that deviate from target language norms” (p. 473). So in relating CALL to the existing body of interaction research in SLA, one question stands out: Will CALL provide the same opportunities for learners as face-to-face interaction?
No Neutron Star Companion to the Lowest Mass SDSS White Dwarf
Creators: name: Agüeros, Marcel Andre
name: Heinke, Craig
name: Camilo, Fernando
name: Kilic, Mukremin
name: Anderson, Scott F.
name: Freire, Paulo
name: Kleinman, Scott J.
name: Liebert, James W.
name: Silvestri, Nicole M.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Astrophysics
White dwarf stars
Low mass stars
Neutron stars
Astronomy

description: SDSS J091709.55+463821.8 (hereafter J0917+4638) is the lowest surface gravity white dwarf (WD) currently known, with log g = 5.55 ± 0.05 (M ≈ 0.17 M ☉). Such low-mass white dwarfs (LMWDs) are believed to originate in binaries that evolve into WD/WD or WD/neutron star (NS) systems. An optical search for J0917+4638's companion showed that it must be a compact object with a mass ≥0.28 M ☉. Here we report on Green Bank Telescope 820 MHz and XMM-Newton X-ray observations of J0917+4638 intended to uncover a potential NS companion to the LMWD. No convincing pulsar signal is detected in our radio data. Our X-ray observation also failed to detect X-ray emission from J0917+4638's companion, while we would have detected any of the millisecond radio pulsars in 47 Tuc. We conclude that the companion is almost certainly another WD.
No Confirmed New Isolated Neutron Stars in the SDSS Data Release 4*
Creators: name: Agüeros, Marcel Andre
name: Posselt, Bettina
name: Anderson, Scott F.
name: Rosenfield, Philip
name: Haberl, Frank
name: Homer, Lee
name: Margon, Bruce
name: Newsom, Emily R.
name: Voges, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Astrophysics
Neutron stars
X-ray astronomy
Astronomy

description: We report on follow-up observations of candidate X-ray-bright, radio-quiet isolated neutron stars (INSs) identified from correlations of the ROSAT All-Sky Survey (RASS) and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 4 in Agüeros et al. We obtained Chandra X-ray Observatory exposures for 13 candidates in order to pinpoint the source of X-ray emission in optically blank RASS error circles. These observations eliminated 12 targets as good INS candidates. We discuss subsequent observations of the remaining candidate with XMM-Newton, the Gemini North Observatory, and the Apache Point Observatory. We identify this object as a likely extragalactic source with an unusually high log (f_X/f_opt) ~ 2.4. We also use an updated version of the population synthesis models of Popov et al. to estimate the number of RASS-detected INSs in the SDSS Data Release 7 footprint. We find that these models predict ~3-4 INSs in the 11,000 deg² imaged by SDSS, which is consistent with the number of known INSs that fall within the survey footprint. In addition, our analysis of the four new INS candidates identified in the SDSS footprint implies that they are unlikely to be confirmed as INSs; together, these results suggest that new INSs are not likely to be found from further correlations of the RASS and SDSS.
title: Algorithm Performance on the Estimation of CDOM and DOC in the North Slopes of Alaska
Creators: name: Weisenbach, Monica
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2021

description: Use of satellite imagery makes environmental monitoring easy and convenient with little of the logistics involved in planning sampling campaigns. Colored dissolved organic matter (CDOM) is an important component to track as a proxy for the large pool of dissolved organic carbon (DOC). In a world contending with the looming issue of global climate change, the ability to investigate the carbon cycle of inland to coastal environments allows for examination of the magnitude of carbon flowing through the system and potential changes over years. The Arctic region is a critical area for climate change impacts but is a difficult landscape for sampling implementation and is thus an excellent target for satellite monitoring. This thesis focuses on the North Slopes region of Alaska to take advantage of the Toolik Lake monitoring site. Landsat 8 imagery has the appropriate spatial, spectral, and temporal resolutions for use in inland water and coastal environments. There are numerous developed algorithms for CDOM estimations, but many algorithms are designed for specific regions. A special challenge in inland environments is the bottom reflectance contribution to the outgoing light signal. An algorithm designed specifically for optically-shallow water environments (SBOP) was tested against two algorithms designed for optically-deep water environments (QAA-CDOM, K05). The relationship between CDOM and DOC was also investigated and used as further validation for algorithm performance. The SBOP algorithm shows promise iv alongside QAA-CDOM at estimating CDOM absorption, but the number of validation point makes pinpointing one algorithm difficult. All algorithms performed well at estimating DOC concentrations.
Factor structure of the acute stress disorder scale in a sample of Hurricane Katrina evacuees
Creators: name: Edmondson, Donald E.
name: Mills, Mary Alice
name: Park, Crystal L.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Confirmatory factor analysis
subject: Hurricane Katrina (2005)
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Stress (Psychology)

description: Acute stress disorder (ASD) is a poorly understood and controversial diagnosis (A. G. Harvey & R. A. Bryant, 2002). The present study used confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to test the factor structure of the most widely used self-report measure of ASD, the Acute Stress Disorder Scale (R. A. Bryant, M. L. Moulds, & R. M. Guthrie, 2000), in a sample of Hurricane Katrina evacuees relocated to a Red Cross emergency shelter in Austin, Texas. Results indicated that the proposed 4-factor structure did not fit the data well. However, an alternate 2-factor model did fit the data well. This model included a second-order Distress factor (onto which the Reexperiencing, Arousal, and Avoidance factors loaded strongly) that was positively correlated with the Dissociation factor. Implications for the ASD construct and its measurement are discussed.
Discovery of periodic modulations in the optical spectra of galaxies, possibly due to ultra-rapid light bursts from their massive central black hole
Creators: name: Borra, Ermanno F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A Fourier transform analysis of 2.5 million spectra in the SDSS survey was carried out to detect periodic modulations contained in their intensity versus frequency spectrum. A statistically significant signal was found for 223 galaxies while the spectra of 0.9 million galaxies were observed. A plot of the periods as a function of redshift clearly shows that the effect is real without any doubt, because they are quantized at two base periods that increase with redshift in two very tight parallel linear relations. I suggest that it could be caused by light bursts separated by times of the order of 10-13 seconds because it was the original reason for searching for the spectral periodicity but other causes may be possible. As another possible cause, I investigate the hypothesis that the modulation is generated by the Fourier transform of spectral lines, concluding that it is not valid. Although the light bursts suggestion implies absurdly high temperatures, it is supported by the fact that the Crab pulsar also has extremely short unresolved pulses (<0.5 nanosecond) that also imply absurdly high temperatures. Furthermore, the radio spectrum of the Crab pulsar also has spectral bands similar to those that have been detected. Finally, decreasing the signal to noise threshold of detection gave results consistent with beamed signals having a small beam divergence, as expected from non-thermal sources that send a jet, like those seen in pulsars. Considering that galaxy centers contain massive black holes, exotic black hole physics may be responsible for the spectral modulation. However, at this stage, this is only a hypothesis to be confirmed with further work.
description: Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
Technology Assistance in Second Language Acquisition: Potentials and Limitations
Creators: name: Akbar, Farah Sultana
name: Chen, Cheng-Ling
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Educational technology--Research
English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers--Research
Second language acquisition--Computer-assisted instruction
Education
English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers

description: Technology has revolutionized not only our daily lives but also the way education is practiced around the world. The impact of technology has been far and wide both in physical and social sciences, as well as in arts and humanities. This immense influence has been observed in second language (L2) teaching, acquisition, and research. In L2 instruction, for example, technological tools are used by: (1) practitioners for pedagogical advances; (2) learners for classroom and self-learning; (3) researchers for exploring the effects of technology on language teaching and learning (Bhatia & Ritchie, 2009). Although the use of technology to assist L2 acquisition has been under investigation for the past few decades, there is still much to be explored. Apparently, more research on the role(s) of technology in L2 teaching, learning, and research is needed to gain a better and more nuanced understanding.
title: Robustness of Supply Chain Synchronization Strategies
Creators: name: Frere, Andrew
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2021

description: Modern manufacturing systems dealing with complex assemblies with large numbers of parts present particular challenges in the realm of supply chain management. Complex assemblies, such as those found in aerospace and automobile manufacturing, require thousands of parts to come together at the right time for final assembly. The large number of parts, often coming from hundreds of suppliers, combined with unreliable delivery times and high cost of many of these components can lead to incredibly high inventory costs and assembly delays. Typically, variable delays in part delivery are compensated for by either keeping a buffer of safety stock or a time buffer on the planned lead time of a component. In this thesis, we study the performance of various buffering strategies across a large range of practical scenarios in an effort to identify dominant, robust strategies and how their performance is impacted by the various parameters that define the system. The major conclusion is that aggressive part buffering consistently results in not only better delivery performance but also significant inventory reduction across all settings for assemblies with more than 500 parts.
Assessing the predictability of extreme rainfall seasons over southern Africa
Creators: name: Landman, Willem A.
name: Botes, Stephanie
name: Goddard, Lisa M.
name: Shongwe, Mxolisi
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Atmospheric circulation
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Precipitation forecasting
subject: Atmosphere

description: A model output statistics (MOS) technique is developed to investigate the potential rainfall forecast skill for extreme seasons over southern Africa. Rainfall patterns produced by the ECHAM4.5 atmospheric GCM are statistically recalibrated to regional rainfall for the seasons of September–November, December–February, March–May and June–August. Archived records of the GCM simulated fields are related to observed rainfall through a set of canonical correlation analysis (CCA) equations. Probabilistic forecast skill (RPSS and ROC) of MOS-recalibrated simulations for 5 equi-probable categories is assessed using a 3-year-out cross-validation approach. High skill RPSS values are found for the DJF and MAM seasons. Although ROC scores for DJF and MAM are larger than 0.5 for all categories (scores less than 0.5 suggest negative skill), scores for DJF show that the extreme categories are more predictable than the inner categories and scores for MAM show that skill is mostly associated with the extremely wet category. The GCM's ability to reproduce tropical-temperate trough variability constitutes the main source of predictability for DJF and MAM.
Differential ultrafast all-optical switching of the resonances of a micropillar cavity
Creators: name: Thyrrestrup, Henri
name: Yüce, Emre
name: Ctistis, Georgios
name: Claudon, Julien
name: Vos, Willem L.
name: Gérard, Jean-Michel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform frequency- and time-resolved all-optical switching of a GaAs-AlAs micropillar cavity using an ultrafast pump-probe setup. The switching is achieved by two-photon excitation of free carriers. We track the cavity resonances in time with a high frequency resolution. The pillar modes exhibit simultaneous frequency shifts, albeit with markedly different maximum switching amplitudes and relaxation dynamics. These differences stem from the non-uniformity of the free carrier density in the micropillar, and are well understood by taking into account the spatial distribution of injected free carriers, their spatial diffusion and surface recombination at micropillar sidewalls.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Microanalyzing Discourse in the Second and Foreign Language Classrooms: A Review of the Literature
Creators: name: Box, Catherine Marie
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Critical discourse analysis
Conversation analysis
Classroom environment--Social aspects
Sociolinguistics--Research
Education
English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers

description: Classroom interaction has long been a rich site for scholarly research, as attested by the sizable body of literature surrounding classroom discourse. This paper reviews three frameworks currently informing the analysis of classroom talk, or more specifically, the qualitative microanalysis of the turn-by-turn talk that occurs in naturally-occurring unfolding exchanges between teachers and students, and amongst students themselves. Findings from studies working within (1) language socialization, (2) critical discourse analysis, and (3) conversation analysis are explored, with particular attention paid to the ways in which these frameworks complement and complicate one another. The paper also attempts to identify areas of classroom discourse that have yet to be fully explored, and highlights the need for further research along those lines.
Vulpes bengalensis
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Canidae
Vulpes
Vulpes bengalensis

description: Vulpes bengalensis (Shaw, 1800). Gen. Zool. Syst. Nat. Hist., l (2): 330. TYPE LOCALITY: Pakistan, Bangladesh, "Bengal." DISTRIBUTION: India; Pakistan; S. Nepal. COMMENT: Placed in genus Canis, subgenus Vulpes by Van Gelder, 1978:8. ISIS NUMBER: 5301412001015001001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, pp. 244-289 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 248, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980
description: {"references": ["Van Gelder, R. G. 1978. A review of canid classification. American Museum Novitates, 2646: 1 - 10."]}
Aligning CALL with the Theory and Practice of Instructed SLA
Creators: name: Wai Man Lew, Adrienne
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Second language acquisition
Telematics
Language and languages--Computer-assisted instruction
Education
English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers

description: With the availability of a wide range of information technologies in the 21st century, the second language (L2) classroom has by and large been transformed digitally. Such technological tools include, but are not limited to, authoring software and blogs, learning management systems (LMSs), online real-time texting via instant messengers (IMs) like Google Talk, audio-and video-conferencing through Skype, artificial intelligence (AI) and intelligent systems, speech recognition and pronunciation training technologies, mobile technologies, and even web-based social networking interfaces like Facebook and Google Plus. In a sense, computer-assisted language learning (CALL) seems to have brought about abundant opportunities for innovation and creativity vis-à-vis the language acquisition process. During the course of acquiring an L2, in particular, instructed learners are faced with the challenge of processing instructional input (e.g., from textbooks) and modified input (e.g., corrective feedback through teacher-learner interaction) for the underlying form-meaning-function relations of any linguistic structure of the target language (TL). In order to fully capitalize from this technology craze, therefore, it is essential that the properties and strengths of these technologies be thoroughly studied in ways that would bring their applications in spirit with the core theoretical underpinnings and principles of practice in instructed second language acquisition (SLA) and its related research.
HealthyCloud Data Management Plan
Creators: name: González-García, Juan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Data Management Plan

description: Data Management Plan of the HealthyCloud project (https://healthycloud.eu/). HealthyCloud Coordination and Support Action, funded by the European Commision under the H2020 program, will deliver a Strategic Agenda including a Ready-to-implement Roadmap for the Health Research and Innocation Cloud, one of the major cornerstone pieces for of the future European Health Data Space.
Lifshitz-sector mediated SUSY breaking
Creators: name: Pospelov, Maxim
name: Tamarit, Carlos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a novel mechanism of SUSY breaking by coupling a Lorentz-invariant supersymmetric matter sector to non-supersymmetric gravitational interactions with Lifshitz scaling. The improved UV properties of Lifshitz propagators moderate the otherwise uncontrollable ultraviolet divergences induced by gravitational loops. This ensures that both the amount of induced Lorentz violation and SUSY breaking in the matter sector are controlled by Lambda_HL^2/M_P^2, the ratio of the Horava-Lifshitz cross-over scale Lambda_HL to the Planck scale M_P. This ratio can be kept very small, providing a novel way of explicitly breaking supersymmetry without reintroducing fine-tuning. We illustrate our idea by considering a model of scalar gravity with Horava-Lifshitz scaling coupled to a supersymmetric Wess-Zumino matter sector, in which we compute the two-loop SUSY breaking corrections to the masses of the light scalars due to the gravitational interactions and the heavy fields.
description: 18 pages, 2 figures
Common Proper-motion Wide White Dwarf Binaries Selected From the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Creators: name: Andrews, Jeff J.
name: Agüeros, Marcel Andre
name: Belczynski, Krzysztof
name: Dhital, Saurav
name: Kleinman, S. J.
name: West, Andrew A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Astrophysics
White dwarf stars
Binary stars
Astronomy

description: Wide binaries made up of two white dwarfs (WDs) receive far less attention than their tight counterparts. However, our tests using the binary population synthesis code StarTrack indicate that, for any set of reasonable initial conditions, there exists a significant observable population of double white dwarfs (WDWDs) with orbital separations of 102-105 AU. We adapt the technique of Dhital et al. to search for candidate common proper-motion WD companions separated by <10' around the >12,000 spectroscopically confirmed hydrogen-atmosphere WDs recently identified in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Using two techniques to separate random alignments from high-confidence pairs, we find nine new high-probability wide WDWDs and confirm three previously identified candidate wide WDWDs. This brings the number of known wide WDWDs to 45; our new pairs are a significant addition to the sample, especially at small proper motions (<200 mas yr⁻¹) and large angular separations (>10''). Spectroscopic follow-up and an extension of this method to a larger, photometrically selected set of SDSS WDs may eventually produce a large enough dataset for WDWDs to realize their full potential as testbeds for theories of stellar evolution.
British Columbia Legislative Assembly sessional clipping book (1964-01)
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: British Columbia. Legislative Assembly
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/600765
subject: Politics and government
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919741
subject: Law
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/993678
subject: FOS: Law

description: These Sessional Clippings books cover the period 1891 to 1972, and include newspaper accounts written by various legislative reporters who covered debates occurring in the British Columbia Legislative Assembly. Transcripts of debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard) were not published in B.C. until 1970; hence these "Sessional Clipping Books" augment the "Journals", the record of daily proceedings of the Legislative Assembly. Selected clippings from various newspapers including the Vancouver Sun, the Vancouver Province, the Colonist, and the Times newspapers, relating to the newspaper reports concerning activities of the Legislature. The original sessional clippings books comprise 351 ledger size print volumes, held at the Legislative Library in Victoria BC. The print volumes were microfilmed onto 26 reels in 1977 under a Tri University Libraries (TRIUL) project by Precision Micrographic Services (Vancouver, B.C.), with the permission of the Legislative Library, Victoria, British Columbia. This digital collection was created by scanning the 26 microfilm reels.
Trait anxiety and trait anger measured by ecological momentary assessment and their correspondence with traditional trait questionnaires
Creators: name: Edmondson, Donald E.
name: Shaffer, Jonathan A.
name: Chaplin, William F.
name: Burg, Matthew M.
name: Stone, Arthur A.
name: Schwartz, Joseph E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Anxiety
subject: Anger
subject: Personality questionnaires
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Ecological momentary assessments (EMA) of anxiety and anger/hostility were obtained every 25–30 min over two 24-h periods, separated by a median of 6 months, from 165 employees at a university in the Northeast. We used a multilevel trait-state-error structural equation model to estimate: (1) the proportion of variance in EMA anxiety and anger/hostility attributable to stable trait-like individual differences; (2) the correspondence between these trait-like components of EMA anxiety and anger/hostility and traditional questionnaire measures of each construct; and (3) the test–retest correlation between two 24-h averages obtained several months apart. After adjustment for measurement error, more than half the total variance in EMA reports of anxiety and anger/hostility is attributable to stable trait-like individual differences; however, the trait-like component of each construct is only modestly correlated with questionnaire measures of that construct. The 6-month “test–retest” correlations of latent variables representing the true 24-h EMA average anxiety and average anger are quite high (r ≥ 0.83). This study represents the longest follow-up period over which EMA-based estimates of traits have been examined. The results suggest that although the trait component (individual differences) of EMA momentary ratings of anxiety and anger is larger than the state component, traditional self-report questionnaires of trait anxiety and anger correspond only weakly with EMA-defined traits.
Private Standards Organizations and Public Law
Creators: name: Strauss, Peter
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Incorporation
subject: Civil law
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: Simplified, universal access to law is one of the important transformations worked by the digital age. With the replacement of physical by digital copies, citizens ordinarily need travel only to the nearest computer to find and read the texts that bind them. Lagging behind this development, however, has been computer access to standards developed by private standards development organizations, often under the umbrella of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), and then converted by agency actions incorporating them by reference into legal obligations. To discover what colors the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requires for use in work-place caution signs, one must purchase from ANSI the standard OSHA has referenced in its regulations, at the price ANSI chooses to charge for it. The regulations governing incorporation by reference as a federal matter have not been revised since 1982, and therefore do not address the changes the digital age has brought about in what it means for incorporated matter to be "reasonably available," as 5 U.S.C. § 552(a)(1) requires. This Article seeks to bridge that gap, suggesting a variety of approaches that might bring the use of incorporation by reference into conformity with modern rulemaking practices and respect the general proposition that documents stating citizens' legal obligations are not subject to copyright, while at the same time both honoring clear federal statutory policy favoring the use of privately developed standards in rulemaking and respecting the needs standards organizations have to find reasonable means to support the costs of their operations. Business models created in the age of print need to change; the challenge is to find ways to permit the market in privately developed voluntary standards to thrive, without thereby permitting the monopoly pricing of access to governing law.
Cataclysmic Variables from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. III. The Third Year
Creators: name: Szkody, Paula
name: Henden, Arne
name: Fraser, Oliver J.
name: Silvestri, Nicole M.
name: Bochanski, John J.
name: Wolfe, Michael A.
name: Agüeros, Marcel Andre
name: Warner, Brian
name: Woudt, Patrick
name: Tramposch, Jonica
name: Homer, Lee
name: Schmidt, Gary
name: Knapp, Gillian R.
name: Anderson, Scott F.
name: Covey, Kevin
name: Harris, Hugh
name: Hawley, Suzanne
name: Schneider, Donald P.
name: Voges, Wolfgang
name: Brinkmann, J.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2004
Subjects: Astrophysics
Cataclysmic variable stars
Cataclysmic variable stars--Spectra
Astronomy

description: This paper continues the series that identifies new cataclysmic variables found in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We present 36 cataclysmic variables and one possible symbiotic star from Sloan spectra obtained during 2002, of which 34 are new discoveries, two are known dwarf novae (BC UMa and KS UMa), and one is a known cataclysmic variable identified from the Two-Degree Field survey. The positions, colors, and spectra of all 37 systems are presented, along with follow-up spectroscopic/photometric observations of 10 systems. As in the past 2 yr of data, the new SDSS systems show a large variety of characteristics based on their inclination and magnetic fields, including three eclipsing systems, four with prominent He II emission, and 15 systems showing features of the underlying stars.
title: Nutzlicher Denckspruch; 1743
title: Das ist: Andächtige und einfältige Denck- und Danck-Predig, Bey der Anderen geistlichen Profession Jn dem Hochlöblichen Closter, und Gottshauß Weichen-Stephan, von dem fünffzig-jährigen Professen Patre Æmiliano Naißl Selbsten abgelegt, Am 20. Sonntag nach Pfingsten Den 20. Octobr. Anno 1743.
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Naisl, Aemilianus
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2012

description: Vorlageform des Erscheinungsvermerks: Regenspurg gedruckt, und zu finden bey Joh. Baptist Lang, Hochfürstl. Bischöfflichen Hof-Buchdrucker, 1743
A Critical History of Renormalization
Creators: name: Huang, Kerson
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The history of renormalization is reviewed with a critical eye, starting with Lorentz's theory of radiation damping, through perturbative QED with Dyson, Gell-Mann & Low, and others, to Wilson's formulation and Polchinski's functional equation, and applications to "triviality", and dark energy in cosmology.
description: To the memory of Kenneth G. Wilson (1936--2013)
title: Antioxidant Synergism Between α-Tocopherol And a High Phosphatidylserine Modified Lecithin
Creators: name: Arora, Harshika
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2021

description: Phospholipids, such as phosphatidylserine (PS) have been shown to work synergistically with tocopherols to extend the shelf life of oil-in-water emulsions. However, the high cost of PS prevents it from being used as a food additive. This work investigated the potential use of a high PS enzyme-modified lecithin to be used along with α-tocopherol to extend the lag phase of oil-in-water emulsions stabilized using Tween 20. Phospholipase D from Streptomyces sp. and L-serine were used to modify lecithin to increase PS concentration. Enzyme activity was optimized as a function of pH and temperature using a high PC soybean lecithin. The high PS modified lecithin was examined for its ability to enhance the activity of α-tocopherol in Tween 20-stabilized oil-in-water emulsions. The modification was also performed in high PC sunflower lecithin and egg lecithin which were later analyzed for their efficiency in controlling lipid oxidation. α-Tocopherol (3.0 µmol/kg emulsion) alone increased the lag phase of hydroperoxide and hexanal lag phases by 3 and 4 days compared to the control. Authentic PS (15.0 µmol/kg emulsion) increased hydroperoxide and hexanal lag phases by 1 and 3 days, respectively, whereas high PS soy lecithin increased hydroperoxide and hexanal lag phases by 3 and 4 days, respectively. The addition of high PS sunflower and egg lecithin did not have any considerable effects on lag phases compared to the control. Authentic PS (15.0 µmol/kg emulsion) and a-tocopherol (3.0 µmol/kg emulsion) decreased lipid oxidation by increasing the hydroperoxide and hexanal lag phase to 6 and 9 days. The combination of phospholipase D modified high PS lecithins (15.0 µmol/kg emulsion) and a-tocopherol (3.0 µmol/kg emulsion) were able to synergistically increase the antioxidant activity of a-tocopherol increasing the hydroperoxide and hexanal lag phase by 6 and 9 days for soy, 5 days, and 7 days for sunflower and 4 and 6 days for egg lecithin, respectively. This resulted in synergistic antioxidant activity (interaction index > 1.0) except for a-tocopherol and high PS Egg lecithin which showed an additive effect. This research shows that the combination of enzyme-modified high PS lecithin and α-tocopherol could be an effective and commercially viable clean label antioxidant strategy to control lipid oxidation in emulsions.
On the origin of the featureless soft X-ray excess emission from the Seyfert 1 galaxy ESO~198--G24
Creators: name: Laha, Sibasish
name: Dewangan, Gulab C.
name: Kembhavi, Ajit K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present medium and high resolution X-ray spectral study of a Seyfert 1 galaxy ESO~198--G24 using a long (122 ks) XMM-Newton observation performed in February 2006. The source has a prominent featureless soft X-ray excess below $2\kev$. This makes the source well suited to investigate the origin of the soft excess. Two physical models -- blurred reflection, and optically thick thermal Comptonization in a warm plasma, describe the soft-excess equally well resulting in similar fits in the $0.3-10\kev$ band. These models also yield similar fits to the broad-band UV (Optical Monitor) and X-ray data. XMM-Newton observations performed in 2000, 2001 and 2006 on this source show flux variability. From 2001 to 2006, the UV flux increased by $\sim23\%$ while the $2-10\kev$ X-ray flux as well as the soft-excess flux decreased by ~ 20. This observation can be described in the blurred reflection scenario by a truncated accretion disk whose inner-most radius had come closer to the blackhole. We find that the best-fit inner radius of the accretion disk decreases from R_{in}=4.93_{-1.10}^{+1.12}R_G to R_{in}<2.5R_G from 2001 to 2006. This leads to an increase in the UV flux and compressing the corona, leading to reduction of the powerlaw flux and therefore the soft-excess. The blurred reflection model seems to better describe the soft-excess for this source.
description: Accepted for publication in the MNRAS
Cataclysmic Variables from Sloan Digital Sky Survey. IV. The Fourth Year (2003)
Creators: name: Szkody, Paula
name: Henden, Arne
name: Fraser, Oliver J.
name: Silvestri, Nicole M.
name: Schmidt, Gary D.
name: Bochanski, John J.
name: Wolfe, Michael A.
name: Agüeros, Marcel Andre
name: Anderson, Scott F.
name: Mannikko, Lee
name: Downes, Ronald A.
name: Schneider, Donald P.
name: Brinkmann, J.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2005
Subjects: Astrophysics
Cataclysmic variable stars
Cataclysmic variable stars--Spectra
Astronomy

description: This paper continues the series presenting cataclysmic variables identified during the fourth year (2003) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We describe 44 close binary systems, of which 12 are the previously known systems EN Cet, EG Cnc, V844 Her, GG Leo, Leo 7, CY UMa, DV UMa, EK UMa, EV UMa, UMa 8, EUVE J0854+390, and RX J0859.1+0537 and 32 are new cataclysmic variables. As in the previous papers, the positions, colors, and spectra of all 44 systems are shown, along with follow-up spectroscopic, photometric, and/or polarimetric observations of 15 of the new systems. The new objects include one eclipsing system, eight with prominent He II emission (of which two are confirmed new polars), and 12 systems showing features of the underlying stars. Our spectropolarimetry also confirms EUVE J0854+390 as a polar.
X-ray-Emitting Stars Identified From the Rosat All-Sky Survey and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Creators: name: Agüeros, Marcel Andre
name: Anderson, Scott F.
name: Covey, Kevin R.
name: Hawley, Suzanne L.
name: Margon, Bruce
name: Newsom, Emily R.
name: Posselt, Bettina
name: Silvestri, Nicole M.
name: Szkody, Paula
name: Voges, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Astrophysics
Stars--Observations
X-ray astronomy
X-ray sources, Galactic
Astronomy

description: The ROSAT All-Sky Survey (RASS) was the first imaging X-ray survey of the entire sky. Combining the RASS Bright and Faint Source Catalogs yields an average of about three X-ray sources per square degree. However, while X-ray source counterparts are known to range from distant quasars to nearby M dwarfs, the RASS data alone are often insufficient to determine the nature of an X-ray source. As a result, large-scale follow-up programs are required to construct samples of known X-ray emitters. We use optical data produced by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) to identify 709 stellar X-ray emitters cataloged in the RASS and falling within the SDSS Data Release 1 footprint. Most of these are bright stars with coronal X-ray emission unsuitable for SDSS spectroscopy, which is designed for fainter objects (g > 15 [mag]). Instead, we use SDSS photometry, correlations with the Two Micron All Sky Survey and other catalogs, and spectroscopy from the Apache Point Observatory 3.5 m telescope to identify these stellar X-ray counterparts. Our sample of 707 X-ray-emitting F, G, K, and M stars is one of the largest X-ray-selected samples of such stars. We derive distances to these stars using photometric parallax relations appropriate for dwarfs on the main sequence, and use these distances to calculate L_X . We also identify a previously unknown cataclysmic variable (CV) as a RASS counterpart. Separately, we use correlations of the RASS and the SDSS spectroscopic catalogs of CVs and white dwarfs (WDs) to study the properties of these rarer X-ray-emitting stars. We examine the relationship between (f_X /f_g ) and the equivalent width of the Hβ emission line for 46 X-ray-emitting CVs and discuss tentative classifications for a subset based on these quantities. We identify 17 new X-ray-emitting DA (hydrogen) WDs, of which three are newly identified WDs. We report on follow-up observations of three candidate cool X-ray-emitting WDs (one DA and two DB (helium) WDs); we have not confirmed X-ray emission from these WDs.
Irradiation test results
Creators: name: ARIES WP17 Members
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: In this report, we present the main results of several irradiation campaigns performed from 2019 to 2021 at the UNILAC M-Branch facility of GSI and HiRadMat facility at CERN on various graphitic and diamond-based materials. Two types of irradiation effects were analysed: long-term dose accumulation effects using 4.8 MeV/u Ca ions irradiation at the UNILAC accelerator at GSI and transient effects induced by the impact of high intensity, short pulse particle beam on targets both at the HiRadMat facility at CERN, using 440 GeV proton beams, and at UNILAC using 1.1 GeV U ions.
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A test of the diathesis-stress model in the emergency department: Who develops PTSD after an acute coronary syndrome?
Creators: name: Edmondson, Donald E.
name: Kronish, Ian M.
name: Wasson, Lauren
name: Giglio, James F.
name: Davidson, Karina W.
name: Whang, William
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Coronary heart disease--Patients
Medicine and psychology
Hospitals--Emergency services
Depression, Mental
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Mental health
Medicine

description: Most acute coronary syndrome (ACS) patients first present to the emergency department (ED). Patients who present to overcrowded EDs develop more posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms due to the ACS than do patients who present to less crowded EDs, but no research has indicated whether some patients may be more vulnerable to the effects of ED crowding than others. In an observational cohort study, we tested whether depressed patients developed more ACS-induced PTSD symptoms under conditions of ED overcrowding than patients who had never been depressed. We conducted psychiatric interviews for current and past depression in 189 ACS patients admitted through the ED within a week of hospitalization, and screened for PTSD symptoms 1 month later using the Impact of Events Scale-Revised. The sum of ED admissions for the 12 h prior to and 12 h after each participant's admission was categorized into tertiles for analysis. In a 3 (ED crowding tertile) by 3 (never, past, current depression) analysis of covariance adjusted for demographic and clinical factors, we found significant effects for ED crowding, depression status, and their interaction (all p's < .05). Mean PTSD scores were significantly higher (p = .005) for participants who were currently depressed and were treated during times of high ED crowding [25.38, 95% CI = 16.18–34.58], or had a history of depression [10.74, 95% CI = 6.86–14.62], relative to all other participants, who scored 5.6 or less. These results suggest that depressed ACS patients may be most vulnerable to the stress-inducing effects of ED crowding.
Frantzösisches Sprach-Buch, Oder Sehr leichte Methode, Wie ein Teutscher (so nur schreiben und Lesen gelernet/) auch ohne Sprach-Meister, durch Hülffe der Teutschen Buchstaben, innerhalb zwey Monat zum Frantzösischen lesen, schreiben und reden nothdürfftiglich gelangen möge; 1728
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2012

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