cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The 100-month Swift catalogue of supergiant fast X-ray transients I. BAT on-board and transient monitor flares
Creators: name: Romano, P.
name: Krimm, H. A.
name: Palmer, D. M.
name: Ducci, L.
name: Esposito, P.
name: Vercellone, S.
name: Evans, P. A.
name: Guidorzi, C.
name: Mangano, V.
name: Kennea, J. A.
name: Barthelmy, S. D.
name: Burrows, D. N.
name: Gehrels, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the characteristics of bright flares for a sample of supergiant fast X-ray transients and their relation to the orbital phase. We have retrieved all Swift/BAT Transient Monitor light curves, and collected all detections in excess of $5σ$ from both daily- and orbital-averaged light curves in the time range of 2005-Feb-12 to 2013-May-31. We also considered all on-board detections as recorded in the same time span and selected those within 4 arcmin of each source in our sample and in excess of $5σ$. We present a catalogue of over a thousand BAT flares from 11 SFXTs, down to 15-150keV fluxes of $\sim6\times10^{-10}$ erg cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$ (daily timescale) and $\sim1.5\times10^{-9}$ erg cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$ (orbital timescale, averaging $\sim800$s) and spanning 100 months. The great majority of these flares are unpublished. This population is characterized by short (a few hundred seconds) and relatively bright (in excess of 100mCrab, 15-50keV) events. In the hard X-ray, these flares last in general much less than a day. Clustering of hard X-ray flares can be used to indirectly measure the length of an outburst, even when the low-level emission is not detected. We construct the distributions of flares, of their significance (in terms of sigma) and their flux as a function of orbital phase, to infer the properties of these binary systems. In particular, we observe a trend of clustering of flares at some phases as $P_{\rm orb}$ increases, as consistent with a progression from tight, circular or mildly eccentric orbits at short periods, to wider and more eccentric orbits at longer orbital periods. Finally, we estimate the expected number of flares for a given source for our limiting flux and provide the recipe for calculating them for the limiting flux of future hard X-ray observatories. (Abridged).
description: Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics. 23 pages, 8 figures. Full catalog files will be available at CDS and at http://www.ifc.inaf.it/sfxt/ Fixed typos and updated references
title: Redesigning Web-Based Courses for Nurse Educators. Fully Online? Hybrid?
Creators: name: Barber Parker, Elaine
name: Wassef, Maureen E.
name: Abbate, Judith
Publisher: name: eScholarship@UMMS
Year: 2009

description: Background:
Schools of nursing are experiencing faculty shortages which limit student admissions. The additional time and effort needed to gain competency as an academic nurse educator is one reason for this shortage. Nurse educator web-based courses offer increased flexibility in time management as well as reduced commuting time, however not all nurses embrace the online learning environment.

Aim:
Expand access to two web-based nurse educator courses at the University of Massachusetts Worcester by offering nurses the choice, within a single course, of completing either a hybrid or fully online course.

N620: Teaching and Curriculum Development
N623: Identifying and Measuring Outcomes

Research Design:
Exploratory prospective design. Qualitative data gathered from student focus groups and interviews. Quantitative data gathered through initial, formative and end of course surveys, student assignments, grades.

Findings:
1. 50% of the students completed the hybrid course because face to face interaction was highly valued.
2. Students with prior satisfactory online learning experiences and who knew each other from other courses completed the fully online course.
3. Students with no previous experience taking online courses did not anticipate the time commitment.
4. Even a hybrid course format can increase access to graduate courses for busy students with jobs and families. The online format reduced the burden of commuting and allowed for flexibility. Enrollment in N 620 more than doubled from the previous year (four versus nine students).

Recommendations:
1. Potential students should complete a self-assessment to determine if they are motivated to be self-directed learners and learn basic computer skills, Powerpoint© and Blackboard Vista© technology prior to beginning a hybrid or fully online course.
2. To facilitate communication in a hybrid or fully online course, course syllabi should contain detailed descriptions of all assignments, grading criteria and due dates. (U Wisconsin Milwaukee Learning Technology Center).
Cuspidal crosscaps and folded singularities on a maxface and a minface
Creators: name: Bardhan, Rivu
name: Dhochak, Anu
name: Kumar, Pradip
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53A35

description: For a given zero mean curvature surface $X$ (in the Lorentz Minkowski space) having folded singularity, we construct a family of maxface and minface, having increasing cuspidal crosscaps, converging to $X$. We include a general discussion of this.
description: published in Indian J Pure Appl Math (2023)
Malnutrition defined by GLIM criteria identifies a higher incidence of malnutrition and is associated with pulmonary complications after oesophagogastric cancer surgery, compared to ICD-10-defined malnutrition
Creators: name: Murnane, Lisa
name: Forsyth, Adrienne
name: Koukounaras, J
name: Shaw, K
name: King, Susannah
name: Brown, WA
name: Mourtzakis, M
name: Tierney, Audrey
name: Burton, PR
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 321005
subject: Public health nutrition
classificationCode: 3211
subject: Oncology and carcinogenesis

description: Background & Objectives: Low muscle mass, measured using computed tomography (CT), is associated with poor surgical outcomes. We aimed to include CT-muscle mass in malnutrition diagnosis using the Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition (GLIM) criteria, compare it to the International Classification of Diseases 10th Revision (ICD-10) criteria, and assess the impact on postoperative outcomes after oesophagogastric (OG) cancer surgery. Methods: One hundred and eight patients who underwent radical OG cancer surgery and had preoperative abdominal CT imaging were included. GLIM and ICD-10 malnutrition data were assessed against complication and survival outcomes. Low CT-muscle mass was determined using predefined cut-points. Results: GLIM-defined malnutrition prevalence was significantly higher than ICD-10-malnutrition (72.2% vs. 40.7%, p < 0.001). Of the 78 patients with GLIM-defined malnutrition, low muscle mass (84.6%) was the predominant phenotypic criterion. GLIM-defined malnutrition was associated with pneumonia (26.9% vs. 6.7%, p = 0.010) and pleural effusions (12.8% vs. 0%, p = 0.029). Postoperative complications did not correlate with ICD-10 malnutrition. Severe GLIM (HR: 2.51, p = 0.014) and ICD-10 (HR: 2.15, p = 0.039) malnutrition were independently associated with poorer 5-year survival. Conclusions: GLIM criteria appear to identify more malnourished patients and more closely relate to surgical risk than ICD-10 malnutrition, likely due to incorporating objective muscle mass assessment.
title: Rhyming Tactics in Korean Hip-Hop with Two Approaches of English and Korean Syllable Structures
Creators: name: Gal, Gihyun
Publisher: name: University of Kentucky Libraries
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 6.2
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Rhyming Tactics in Korean Hip-Hop with Two Approaches of English and Korean Syllable Structures

Today, Korean Hip-Hop (KHH) has been slowly moving beyond a localized pop culture through the internet and media. This study finds that rhyming patterns in KHH are much more complex than prior research suggests. Especially, this study focuses on an evolution of Korean Hip-Hop through the time such as since 1989 to 2015. Park (2016) discusses how Korean rappers think about using rhyming tactics as "[m]over, the concept of rhyming was not conceptualized as belonging to the Korean language by most of rappers. Even if rappers understand rhyme conceptually, it is necessarily a straightforward matter for them to 'use' rhyme in their creative processes at the pragmatic level" (p. 284). However, this study suggests that the rhyming patterns of Korean rap lyrics are actually quite similar to those found in English (Alim 2003). While Park assumes that the rhyming structure of Korean should be identical to that of English, this study examines rhyme from a Korean perspective suggested by perceptual phonetic experiments. In a series of experiments such as a sound similarity judgement (SSJ) and concept formation (CF), Yoon and Derwing (2001) find evidence to argue for a left-branching syllable for Korean. Yoon and Derwing (2201) suggest that, in contrast to a language like English, speakers of Korean are more sensitive to similarities between Onset-Nucleus CV pairs than to Nucleus-Coda VC pairs. Building on this work, this study analyzes Korean rap lyrics in light of a left-branching syllable patters. Alim (2003) shows a wide range of rhyming tactics including end rhymes, chain rhymes, assonance, alliteration and so on. Park (2016) shows only a couple of rhyming tactics such as end rhymes or assonance in his study, but concludes that rhyme does not play an important role in Korean Hip-Hop. However, considering the rhyming patterns associated with left-branching syllables shows a much more complicated set of rhyming tactics than Park (2016) describes. If Alim (2003)'s tactics are applied with left-branching syllable structure, then there are many tactics that Korean rappers deploy in their lyrics and the differences in syllable structure between languages (and not because of some rejection of rhyme on the part of Korean rappers as Park suggests). The ultimate goal of this study is how Korean rhyming tactics have been evolved base on 1) Onset-Nucleus CV pairs and 2) Nucleus-Coda VC pairs that both are allowed in Korean syllable structures through the time since 1989 to 2015. Presumably, many rappers have been using more complexed rhyming tactics than early rappers and they have been deploying them with those possible Korean syllable structures beautifully.
title: Возведение зданий методом подъёма перекрытий и этажей
Creators: name: Алексеев, Семен
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2020

description: Статья посвящена исследованию технологии метода подъёма перекрытий и этажей при возведении многоэтажных зданий, выявлены её достоинства и недостатки, произведён сравнительный анализ эволюции применения данной
технологии как в нашей стране, так и за рубежом, определены перспективы применения метода подъёма перекрытий и этажей.
Increasing Replication for Knowledge Accumulation in Strategy Research
Creators: name: Singh, K
name: Ang, Siah
name: Leong, SM
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 150599 Marketing not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified

description: No description supplied
title: Increasing Flexibility for Adult Learners: Merging a Hybrid Course with a Fully Online Course
Creators: name: Barber Parker, Elaine
name: Wassef, Maureen E.
Publisher: name: eScholarship@UMMS
Year: 2009

description: The objectives of this presentation are to:

1. Examine the processes and outcomes of a project aimed at increasing enrollment into two nurse educator courses at the Graduate School of Nursing at the University of Massachusetts Worcester.

2. Discuss the pros and cons of the strategy selected for the project.

This peer-reviewed slide presentation was presented at the 15th Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning, on October 30, 2009, in Orlando, Florida.
Partner alignment and governance in it software alliances
Creators: name: Ang, Siah
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This study investigates the effect of partner alignment on the choice of using equity versus non-equity alliance governance mode in information technology (IT) software alliances. Using 485 IT software alliances established in six developed Asia Pacific countries in the period 1998 to 2004, this study proposed and found that non-equity governance mode is adopted when the partners are of the same nationality and when the number of partners in the alliance is smaller. The choice of governance mode is however not affected by whether the partners come from similar or related industries and whether the alliance is established in the same industry as the partners. These results partially support the behavioral uncertainty arguments in transaction cost economics (TCE), as opposed to the need to maintain control and protect knowledge and technologies. This observation can be partially attributed to the nature of activities in the IT software sector where ex ante specification of activities is difficult and thus the need to maintain flexibility to allow for uncertainty and emergent opportunities. Various implications are discussed.
Status and use of truth tools : MCParticle, RecoMCTruthLinker and TrueJet
Creators: name: Berggren, Carl Mikael
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2018

description: ILD meeting, Ichinoseki, Japan, 19 Feb 2018 - 22 Feb 2018
Blue-Antifouling: Innovating in Application to Keep Up With the Modernization of Naval Power
Creators: name: Capitâ Cintia, Cardoso
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description:  

https://educapes.capes.gov.br/bitstream/capes/869184/2/Blue-antifouling%20INTERNATIONAL%201%20%2839%29%20%282%29.pdf

Blue-Antifouling: Innovating in Application to Keep Up With the Modernization of Naval Power

Cardoso, Cintia CPA1 ABSTRACT 

1Captain & Marine Science Specialist, Brazil

Undoubtedly, Blue Biodiversity is recognized as an invaluable source of natural resources. In the marine context,bioprospecting can significantly influence society's perception of the oceans, representing an advance in Brazil'spolitical-strategic position. To accompany the modernization of Naval Power and innovate the technique ofapplicability of antifouling products, Blue-antifouling, which is not a biocide, promotes prevention in themaintenance of maritime equipment. This contributes to operational stability and directs the country to advanceresearch in the areas of Marine Science and Technology. The Blue Amazon Management System (SisGAAz), bymonitoring macroalgae blooming areas, becomes an essential tool for boosting the country's bioeconomy.Seaweed, a natural source of alginate composed of alginic acid units and calcium ions, has the ability to gel.Alginate hydrogel, used in the synthesis of amphiphilic polymers synthesized through polymerization, induces self-association forming stable micelles and creates a hydrated layer in the living works of vessels. Cross-linking canbe accomplished through physical mixing or the principles of ecologic chemistry, combining hydrophilic andhydrophobic polymers. Blue-antifouling is a high-performance hydrogel that uses hydrodynamics to preventbiofouling.

KEYWORDS: Blue-antifouling, Naval Political-operational-strategy.
Scalar Soliton Quantization with Generic Moduli
Creators: name: Papageorgakis, Constantinos
name: Royston, Andrew B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We canonically quantize multi-component scalar field theories in the presence of solitons. This extends results of Tomboulis to general soliton moduli spaces. We derive the quantum Hamiltonian, discuss reparameterization invariance and explicitly show how, in the semiclassical approximation, the dynamics of the full theory reduce to quantum mechanics on the soliton moduli space. We emphasize the difference between the semiclassical approximation and a truncation of the dynamical variables to moduli. Both procedures produce quantum mechanics on moduli space, but the two Hamiltonians are generically different.
description: 23 pages; v2: reference added
Blue-Antifouling: Innovating in Application to Keep Up With  the Modernization of Naval Power
Creators: name: Capitâ Cintia, Cardoso
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: ABSTRACTUndoubtedly, Blue Biodiversity is recognized as an invaluable source of natural resources. In the marine context,bioprospecting can significantly influence society's perception of the oceans, representing an advance in Brazil'spolitical-strategic position. To accompany the modernization of Naval Power and innovate the technique ofapplicability of antifouling products, Blue-antifouling, which is not a biocide, promotes prevention in themaintenance of maritime equipment. This contributes to operational stability and directs the country to advanceresearch in the areas of Marine Science and Technology. The Blue Amazon Management System (SisGAAz), bymonitoring macroalgae blooming areas, becomes an essential tool for boosting the country's bioeconomy.Seaweed, a natural source of alginate composed of alginic acid units and calcium ions, has the ability to gel.Alginate hydrogel, used in the synthesis of amphiphilic polymers synthesized through polymerization, induces self-association forming stable micelles and creates a hydrated layer in the living works of vessels. Cross-linking canbe accomplished through physical mixing or the principles of ecologic chemistry, combining hydrophilic andhydrophobic polymers. Blue-antifouling is a high-performance hydrogel that uses hydrodynamics to preventbiofouling.KEYWORDS: Blue-antifouling, Naval Political-operational-strategy.
title: Enhancing Active Collaborative Classroom Learning with Tablet PC Technology
Creators: name: Barber Parker, Elaine
Publisher: name: eScholarship@UMMS
Year: 2008

description: This research study had two aims:

Aim 1: Describe graduate student and faculty perceptions of using tablet laptop technology to enhance active collaborative classroom learning.

Aim 2: Identify supporting structures and processes for using tablet laptop technology to enhance active collaborative classroom learning.

This peer-reviewed poster was presented as a series of mounted/laminated Microsoft PowerPoint slides at the UMass Instructional Technology Conference, April 2008.
The impact of luxury brand status signaling, extension authenticity, quality and fit on luxury line extensions evaluation: A cross-national study
Creators: name: Boisvert, Jean
name: Ashill, Nicholas
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 150599 Marketing not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150699 Tourism not elsewhere classified
subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified

description: Purpose: Grounded in categorization theory, this study examines the impact of luxury parent brand status signaling on brand extension authenticity and consumer attitudes in two international luxury markets. Design/methodology/approach: Using samples of luxury consumers from France and the United States, the study's hypotheses are tested using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), structural equation modelling (SEM) and multi-groups comparisons. Findings: Findings demonstrate that luxury parent brand (PB) status signaling, familiarity and perceived quality impact luxury extension authenticity, and authenticity has a significant effect on consumer attitudes toward the extension. The relationship between PB status signaling and extension authenticity is stronger for French consumers compared to their American counterparts. The effect of luxury PB perceived quality and familiarity on PB status signaling is similar for both American and French consumers. However, the effect of PB familiarity on luxury brand extension authenticity is stronger in France than the United States. Research limitations/implications: Results provide researchers and managers with insights on how to design marketing programs for luxury line extensions in a cross-national context. Originality/value: The authors contribute to existing literature examining factors related to the parent brand and the relationship between the parent brand and the extension by examining the effect of PB status signaling and extension authenticity on extension attitudes in two international luxury markets.
title: Family Practice Based Interventions to Reduce Stress in Parents
Creators: name: Campbell Hanson, Amy
Publisher: name: eScholarship@UMMS
Year: 2016

description: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a group of neurodevelopmental disorders typically diagnosed before the age of three that effect the child’s behavior, communication and social skills. Although a pediatric neuropsychologist often confirms a diagnosis of this disorder, the primary care provider is highly involved in the ongoing care of the autistic child. It is well researched that parenting a child with ASD is correlated with high levels of stress, anxiety and depression. While the current interventions for the child with ASD vastly improve the child lifetime outcomes, there are few programs in place beyond “support group” to address the specific mental health needs of the parent caring for a child with ASD. This research asks how a family-practice-based peer support group with rotations of primary care providers, nursing staff, occupational/physical therapists, and mental health counselors compared to standard ASD intervention alone affects the stress experienced by parents of children with autism over a one year period. A literature search of PubMed, The Cochrane Library, Scopus, Eric and PsychINFO yielded six appropriate articles for a literature review. The outcomes of these studies were reviewed, compared and summarized, and it was concluded that although the interventions examined in the literature varied in modality, length and setting, there was sufficient evidence to suggest that the above mentioned intervention would result in decreased stress in parents of children with ASD. Further research is needed to determine how best to determine which modes of intervention are most appropriate for specific stressful triggers.
Turaev-Viro amplitudes from 2+1 Loop Quantum Gravity
Creators: name: Pranzetti, Daniele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Turaev-Viro state sum model provides a covariant spin foam quantization of three-dimensional Riemannian gravity with a positive cosmological constant Λ. We complete the program to canonically quantize the theory in the BF formulation using the formalism of Loop Quantum Gravity. In particular, we show first how quantum group structures arise from the requirement of the constraint algebra to be anomaly free. This allows us to generalize the construction of the physical scalar product, from the Λ = 0 case, in presence of a positive Λ. We prove the equivalence between the covariant and canonical quantizations by recovering the spin foam amplitudes.
description: 23 pages, many figures; v3: minor modifications to match published version
title: Adolescent Sexual Health in Barre, Massachusetts
Creators: name: Meyer Bensen, Rachel
name: Janssens, Christina
Publisher: name: eScholarship@UMMS
Year: 2016

description: Like many public school systems across the country, cuts to funding have impacted the availability of sexual health education for youth in Barre, Massachusetts. Barre Family Health Center, a federally qualified community health center, in partnership with students from University of Massachusetts Medical School are attempting to fill the gap with Girl Talk!, a curriculum developed to promote empowerment, self-awareness and health to youth. Girl Talk! is a 10 week program for girls ages 10 to 12, focusing on sexual health while also promoting self-esteem, safety & communication through dynamic activities. We evaluated the efficacy of the program using qualitative interviews with participants and their parents. Based on initial data from the inaugural session, several topics have been added to the curriculum including bullying, self-harm, safe social media use, and eating disorders. We have also begun conducting a needs assessment for building a program to include boys, called Guy Talk!. This curriculum will parallel Girl Talk! with particular attention to the needs that boys have surrounding sexual health. To reach more of the community and make sexual health information more available to youth, we have developed a multi-faceted approach by building a partnership with the local high school, parents, and student groups. We feel this comprehensive approach to sexual health promotion in the community, which connects the local health center, high school, and youth is both sustainable and essential for the health of individuals, families, and community.
China Wash Flume Documentation Report
Creators: name: Rayle, Greta
name: Helana Ruter
Publisher: name: North Wind Resource Consulting
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Coolidge, Pinal County, Arizona
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/83774/coolidge-pinal-county-arizona
subject: Historic-age
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/7331/historic-age
subject: Historic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/25/historic
subject: AZ AA:3:215 (ASM)-Florence-Casa Grande Canal
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/91337/az-aa3215-asm-florence-casa-grande-canal
subject: Water-Related
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/365/water-related
subject: Canal System
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/370/canal-system
subject: Building Materials
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/8/building-materials
subject: Standing Structure
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/4490/standing-structure
subject: Architectural Documentation
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/16/architectural-documentation
subject: Historic Background Research
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/18/historic-background-research

description: The San Carlos Irrigation and Drainage District (SCIDD) is undertaking a 10-year rehabilitation project of the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)-eligible Florence-Casa Grande (FCG) Canal (also known as the Main Canal/AZ AA:3:215[ASM]) in Pinal County, Arizona. The canal, which is currently operated and maintained by SCIDD, was constructed by the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) between 1923 and 1928 and incorporated into the San Carlos Irrigation Project (SCIP)—a comprehensive irrigation project designed to provide water to both private individuals and the Gila River Indian Community (GRIC). To improve the overall safety and efficiency of the FCG Canal, the anticipated work involves decommissioning the existing China Wash Flume—a contributing structure of the SCIP irrigation system. Reclamation contracted with North Wind Resource Consulting (North Wind) to conduct archival research and prepare HAER documentation and interpretive materials for the China Wash Flume to serve as mitigation for future improvement activities that could have an “adverse effect” on the NRHP-eligible property. The current document serves to provide the results of the archival research and field documentation.
title: Health Policy 101: A Video for Future Clinicians
Creators: name: Salvi, Stephanie
Publisher: name: eScholarship@UMMS
Year: 2016

description: During my two-week health policy clerkship, my interprofessional group learned a tremendous amount about the current state of health policy. When speaking to our peers, it was clear that many students, both in the GSN and medical school, knew very little about this topic. Our group realized that clinicians are the heart of moving this issue forward, and therefore, educating future clinicians is critical.

When attempting to locate educational tools for future clinicians on health policy, very little was available. This discovery became the reason why I chose to develop an online resource for future clinicians. Due to my previous career in marketing, I determined that a short video, that is easily accessible online, would be a great way to educate current and future UMass Medical students.

The goal of the video is to educate current and future UMass Medical students on the current state of health policy in Massachusetts, and motivate students to become an activate participant in the policy transformation discussion.

The video is available online by clicking here: https://youtu.be/HKVraUGeeFs

For any questions about the video, please contact Stephanie.salvi@umassmed.edu.
(0,2)-Deformations and the $G$-Hilbert Scheme
Creators: name: Gaines, Benjamin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study first order deformations of the tangent sheaf of resolutions of Calabi-Yau threefolds that are of the form $\mathbb{C}^3/Z_r$, focusing on the cases where the orbifold has an isolated singularity. We prove a lower bound on the number of deformations for any crepant resolution of this orbifold. We show that this lower bound is achieved when the resolution used is the G-Hilbert scheme, and note that this lower bound can be found using methods from string theory. These methods lead us to a new way to construct the G-Hilbert scheme using the singlet count.
description: 20 pages, 7 figures
Competitive intensity and collaboration: Impact on firm growth across technological environments
Creators: name: Ang, Siah
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 150599 Marketing not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified

description: This article investigates the impact of competitive intensity and collaboration on firm growth across technological environments. I propose that competitive intensity determines the likelihood of firm collaboration, and that the interaction of competitive intensity and collaboration influences firm growth. These relationships are, in turn, moderated by industry-level technological intensity. Analyzing 1,004 firms and 378 collaborations from the manufacturing sector in Singapore, I find that firms facing high or low levels of competitive intensity collaborate less often than those facing moderate levels of competitive intensity. Industry technology intensity moderates this relationship, with a stronger inverted-U-shaped association between competitive intensity and collaboration in more technology intensive industries. Collaboration leads to higher growth for firms facing lower levels of competitive intensity than for firms facing higher levels of competitive intensity only in more technology intensive industries. In technologically less intensive industries, collaboration leads to higher growth for firms facing higher levels of competitive intensity as compared to those facing lower levels of competitive intensity. These findings have important implications for competitive and collaborative dynamics for firm growth in different technological environments. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Orbital-dependent singlet dimers and orbital-selective Peierls transitions in transition metal compounds
Creators: name: Streltsov, Sergey V.
name: Khomskii, Daniel I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that in transition metal compounds containing structural metal dimers there may exist in the presence of different orbitals a special state with partial formation of singlets by electrons on one orbital, while others are effectively decoupled and may give e.g. long-range magnetic order or stay paramagnetic. Similar situation can be realized in dimers spontaneously formed at structural phase transitions, which can be called orbital-selective Peierls transition. This can occur in case of strongly nonuniform hopping integrals for different orbitals and small intra-atomic Hund's rule coupling JH. Yet another consequence of this picture is that for odd number of electrons per dimer there exist competition between double exchange mechanism of ferromagnetism, and the formation of singlet dimer by electron on one orbital, with remaining electrons giving a net spin of a dimer. The first case is realized for strong Hund's rule coupling, typical for 3d compounds, whereas the second is more plausible for 4d-5d compounds. We discuss some implications of these phenomena, and consider examples of real systems, in which orbital-selective phase seems to be realized.
description: to be published in PRB Rapid Com
title: Виброакустический метод контроля давления
Creators: name: Белевцев, Даниил
name: Зехов, Дмитрий
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2020

description:  Метод экспериментально апробирован на трубе с избыточным внутренним давлением. Установлено, что с увеличением внутреннего давления трубы возрастает основная частота ее свободно затухающих колебаний. Описана методика проведения экспериментальных исследований, приведены основные результаты.
Testing Grumiller's modified gravity at galactic scales
Creators: name: Cervantes-Cota, Jorge L.
name: Gomez-Lopez, Jesus A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using galactic rotation curves, we test a -quantum motivated- gravity model that at large distances modifies the Newtonian potential when spherical symmetry is considered. In this model one adds a Rindler acceleration term to the rotation curves of disk galaxies. Here we consider a standard and a power-law generalization of the Rindler modified Newtonian potential that are hypothesized to play the role of dark matter in galaxies. The new, universal acceleration has to be -phenomenologically- determined. Our galactic model includes the mass of the integrated gas and stars for which we consider a free mass model. We test the model by fitting rotation curves of thirty galaxies that has been employed to test other alternative gravity models. We find that the Rindler parameters do not perform a suitable fit to the rotation curves in comparison to the Burkert dark matter profile, but the models achieve a similar fit as the NFW's profile does. However, the computed parameters of the Rindler gravity show some spread, posing the model to be unable to consistently explain the observed rotation curves.
description: 7 pages, a few figures and tables are added as supplementary material
L'activité brise-glace en formation à distance
Creators: name: Centre de pédagogie universitaire de l'Université de Montréal
Publisher: name: Université de Montréal, Centre de pédagogie universitaire
Year: 2021
Subjects: Formation à distance
Enseignement à distance
Communication en éducation
Classes (Éducation)--Conduite
Pédagogie universitaire
Enseignement universitaire
Relations enseignants-étudiants

description: Document qui présente une définition de l'activité brise-glace à distance et ses fonctions, ainsi que des conseils pratiques et de nombreux exemples d'activités pour briser la glace.
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Performance analysis of electronic structure codes on HPC systems: A case study of SIESTA
Creators: name: Corsetti, Fabiano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on scaling and timing tests of the SIESTA electronic structure code for ab initio molecular dynamics simulations using density-functional theory. The tests are performed on six large-scale supercomputers belonging to the PRACE Tier-0 network with four different architectures: Cray XE6, IBM BlueGene/Q, BullX, and IBM iDataPlex. We employ a systematic strategy for simultaneously testing weak and strong scaling, and propose a measure which is independent of the range of number of cores on which the tests are performed to quantify strong scaling efficiency as a function of simulation size. We find an increase in efficiency with simulation size for all machines, with a qualitatively different curve depending on the supercomputer topology, and discuss the connection of this functional form with weak scaling behaviour. We also analyze the absolute timings obtained in our tests, showing the range of system sizes and cores favourable for different machines. Our results can be employed as a guide both for running SIESTA on parallel architectures, and for executing similar scaling tests of other electronic structure codes.
description: 9 pages, 9 figures
BLUE-ANTIFOULING: SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION AGAINST BIOFOULING IN NAVAL EQUIPMENT
Creators: name: Capitã Cintia, Cardoso
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: AbstractSeaweed is a natural source of alginate, a substance composed of alginic acid units and calciumions, known for its gelling capacity. This material induces self-association, forming stablemicelles that create a hydrated layer on the surfaces of vessels, providing resistance tobiofouling. The hydrogel can be crosslinked through physical mixing or by combininghydrophilic and hydrophobic polymers, based on the principles of ecological chemistry.Blue-antifouling represents an innovation in its applicability, being a high-performancenon-biocidal product that uses hydrodynamic principles to prevent biofouling in submergedstructures. In addition, monitoring macroalgae bloom areas can boost the promotion of thebioeconomy, contributing to the advancement of research in the areas of Marine Science andTechnology.
Institutional explanations of cross-border alliance modes: The case of emerging economies firms
Creators: name: Ang, Siah
name: Michailova, S
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Using a sample of 628 cross-border alliances established by emerging economies firms across 25 manufacturing and service industries in 64 host countries in the period 1995-2004, we investigate the effect of institutional factors on the adoption of equity alliance mode. The findings of this study contribute to empirical research in institutional theory, institutional explanations of cross-border alliances and strategic behavior of emerging economies firms. We find support for institutional explanations of the adoption of equity alliance mode by emerging economies firms. We also find that institutional effects are contingent on the alliance location. When emerging economies firms establish alliances in developed host countries, their governance choice is most influenced by the normative pillar, followed by the cognitive pillar, with the regulatory pillar having a negligible effect. When the host countries are emerging economies, the regulatory pillar has the strongest influence followed by the cognitive pillar, with the normative pillar having an insignificant effect. © Gabler Verlag 2008.
A Class III Cultural Resource Survey for the Proposed Pinnacle Park near Black Mountain Boulevard and SR 101 in Phoenix, Arizona
Creators: name: Punzmann, Walter
name: Mitchell, Doug
name: Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd.
Publisher: name: Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd.
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Phoenix
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/126/phoenix
subject: Classic Hohokam period
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/5856/classic-hohokam-period
subject: Hohokam
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/21/hohokam
subject: AZ T:8:53(ASU)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/7868/az-t853asu
subject: Archaeological Feature
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/339/archaeological-feature
subject: Artifact Scatter
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/340/artifact-scatter
subject: Ceramic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/1/ceramic
subject: Chipped Stone
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/2/chipped-stone
subject: Systematic Survey
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/12/systematic-survey

description: The City of Phoenix Parks and Recreation Department is proposing to create a park along Reach 11 of the Central Arizona Project, on land which is managed by the Bureau of Reclamation. The Area of Potential Effects (APE) was previously surveyed 20 years earlier. The City of Phoenix Archaeology Office requested that this land be re-surveyed and that the location of site AZ T:8:53(ASU) be examined due to its proximity to the APE.
Linear stability of magnetized massive protoplanetary disks
Creators: name: Lin, Min-Kai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magneto-rotational instability (MRI) and gravitational instability (GI) are the two principle routes to turbulent angular momentum transport in accretion disks. Protoplanetary disks may develop both. This paper aims to reinvigorate interest in the study of magnetized massive protoplanetary disks, starting from the basic issue of stability. The local linear stability of a self-gravitating, uniformly magnetized, differentially rotating, three-dimensional stratified disk subject to axisymmetric perturbations is calculated numerically. The formulation includes resistivity. It is found that the reduction in the disk thickness by self-gravity can decrease MRI growth rates; the MRI becomes global in the vertical direction, and MRI modes with small radial length scales are stabilized. The maximum vertical field strength that permits the MRI in a strongly self-gravitating polytropic disk with polytropic index $Γ=1$ is estimated to be $B_{z,\mathrm{max}} \simeq c_{s0}Ω\sqrt{μ_0/16πG} $, where $c_{s0}$ is the midplane sound speed and $Ω$ is the angular velocity. In massive disks with layered resistivity, the MRI is not well-localized to regions where the Elsasser number exceeds unity. For MRI modes with radial length scales on the order of the disk thickness, self-gravity can enhance density perturbations, an effect that becomes significant in the presence of a strong toroidal field, and which depends on the symmetry of the underlying MRI mode. In gravitationally unstable disks where GI and MRI growth rates are comparable, the character of unstable modes can transition smoothly between MRI and GI. Implications for non-linear simulations are discussed briefly.
description: Accepted by ApJ; project source code available at https://github.com/minkailin/sgmri
Class III Cultural Resources Survey and Site Damage Assessment at Arizona Horse Lovers Park, Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona: Report
Creators: name: Rich, Jennifer
name: Kovalchik, Jacob
name: Kelin Flanagan
name: Aguila, Lourdes
name: Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd.
Publisher: name: Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd.
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Granite Reef Aqueduct Reach 11
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/78309/granite-reef-aqueduct-reach-11
subject: Unknown Prehistoric
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/5106/unknown-prehistoric
subject: AZ U:5:357(ASM)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/16130/az-u5357asm
subject: Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/272/resource-extraction-production-transportation-structure-or-features
subject: Agricultural or Herding
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/273/agricultural-or-herding
subject: Canal or Canal Feature
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/275/canal-or-canal-feature
subject: Archaeological Feature
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/339/archaeological-feature
subject: Pit
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/355/pit
subject: Artifact Scatter
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/340/artifact-scatter
subject: Ceramic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/1/ceramic
subject: Chipped Stone
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/2/chipped-stone
subject: Fire Cracked Rock
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/5/fire-cracked-rock
subject: Ground Stone
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/7/ground-stone
subject: Heritage Management
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/24/heritage-management
subject: Systematic Survey
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/12/systematic-survey

description: The City of Phoenix Parks and Recreation Department (PRD) manages the Arizona Horse Lovers Park facility located within the Reach 11 Recreation Area, owned by the Bureau of Reclamation, in Maricopa County, Arizona. Unauthorized blading associated with vegetation clearing at Horse Lovers Park resulted in surface disturbance within the boundaries of AZ U:5:357(ASM), a prehistoric artifact scatter with features that has been recommended eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) under Criterion D. Consequently, the PRD requested a Class III survey and damage assessment of AZ U:5:357(ASM) to assess impacts to the cultural resources and reassess the site’s NRHP eligibility relative to previous determinations.
A Note on the Quantile Formulation
Creators: name: Xu, Zuo Quan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Portfolio Management (q-fin.PM)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Many investment models in discrete or continuous-time settings boil down to maximizing an objective of the quantile function of the decision variable. This quantile optimization problem is known as the quantile formulation of the original investment problem. Under certain monotonicity assumptions, several schemes to solve such quantile optimization problems have been proposed in the literature. In this paper, we propose a change-of-variable and relaxation method to solve the quantile optimization problems without using the calculus of variations or making any monotonicity assumptions. The method is demonstrated through a portfolio choice problem under rank-dependent utility theory (RDUT). We show that this problem is equivalent to a classical Merton's portfolio choice problem under expected utility theory with the same utility function but a different pricing kernel explicitly determined by the given pricing kernel and probability weighting function. With this result, the feasibility, well-posedness, attainability and uniqueness issues for the portfolio choice problem under RDUT are solved. It is also shown that solving functional optimization problems may reduce to solving probabilistic optimization problems. The method is applicable to general models with law-invariant preference measures including portfolio choice models under cumulative prospect theory (CPT) or RDUT, Yaari's dual model, Lopes' SP/A model, and optimal stopping models under CPT or RDUT.
description: to appear in Mathematical Finance