cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Foreign Fighter Recruitment Messaging and the ‘Islamic State’
Creators: name: Nelson, Jacob M.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2017

description: The so called ‘Islamic State,’ an Islamic extremist organization which currently controls large swaths of territory in the Middle East, has attracted foreign fighters to its insurgency in tens of thousands. Until just recently, foreign fighters were not well researched or understood separately from local fighters. David Malet (2013) argues that insurgencies recruit foreign fighters by persuading them to defend a ‘common group’ against a threatening enemy. This ‘defensive mobilization,’ he believed, was critical to recruiting foreign fighters throughout history. After preliminary analysis, the Islamic State presented evidence contrary to this theory, and it seemed dubious that they would use defensive mobilization to recruit foreign fighters.
By analyzing at Islamic State’s recruitment propaganda, this research found that the Islamic State did indeed break with Malet’s understanding of foreign fighters. Interestingly, the Islamic State instead invoked the religious duty to conquer on behalf of a legitimate religious state and restore Islamic dominion over the world. These findings may serve to increase our understanding of the Islamic State in general and will likely cause us to make adjustments in how we understand foreign fighter recruitment to other civil conflicts.
Leading- and next-to-leading-order lateral Casimir force on corrugated surfaces
Creators: name: Cavero-Pelaez, Ines
name: Milton, Kimball A.
name: Parashar, Prachi
name: Shajesh, K. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive explicit analytic expressions for the lateral force for two different configurations with corrugations, parallel plates and concentric cylinders. By making use of the multiple scattering formalism, we calculate the force for a scalar field under the influence of a delta-function potential that has sinusoidal dependence in one direction simulating the corrugations. By making a perturbative expansion in the amplitude of the corrugation we find the leading order for the corrugated concentric cylinders and the next-to-leading order for the corrugated parallel plates.
description: 6 pages. Seventh Alexander Friedmann International Seminar on Gravitation and Cosmology
title: Complexive Ordering of Reading Experience Through Grapheme-Phoneme Relative Frequency Control
Creators: name: Roberts, Wesley K.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1973

description: This dissertation develops a word bank based on a series of well defined filters. The basis of this system is grapheme-phoneme relative frequency control. The word bank is designed to be used in developing reading materials at varied degrees of difficulty.
Four short stories were edited as to their grapheme-phoneme relationships. Reading speed and reading comprehension were measured for each student on these stories. All students read a story in the original form and a story in the filtered version.
No difference in reading comprehension were found, but reading speed was significantly higher on three of four stories.
Site Selected for Colorado Plateau Coring: Colorado Plateau Coring Project Workshop, Phase 2: 100 Million Years of Climatic, Tectonic, and Biotic Evolution From Continental Coring . . .
Creators: name: Geissman, John W.
name: Olsen, Paul E.
name: Kent, Dennis V.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Geophysics
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: A workshop was convened in New Mexico to plan for the Colorado Plateau Coring Project (CPCP) and identify the target site for initial coring. The giant continental and near-shore to shallow marine epicontinental basins of the American Southwest are particularly well exposed on the Colorado Plateau and its environs and contain a rich record of early Mesozoic (~251-145 million years ago) strata. This time period was punctuated by two major mass extinctions and is notable for the evolutionary appearance of the modern biota and its apparent dramatic climate changes. Classic studies of these basins, their strata, and their fossils have made this sequence instrumental in framing the context for the early Mesozoic world. Ambiguities in temporal resolution, uncertainties in global correlations with other early Mesozoic strata, and major doubts about latitudinal position still hamper testing of competing climatic, biotic, and tectonic models for the evolution of western Pangea.
Status of NEMO: results from the NEMO Phase-1 detector
Creators: name: Distefano, Carla
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The NEMO Collaboration installed an underwater detector including most of the critical elements of a possible km$^3$ neutrino telescope: a four-floor tower (called Mini-Tower) and a Junction Box, including the data transmission, the power distribution, the timing calibration and the acoustic positioning systems. These technical solutions will be evaluated, among others proposed for the construction of the km$^3$ detector, within the KM3NeT Consortium. The main test of this test experiment was the validation of the proposed design solutions mentioned above. We present results of the analysis of data collected with the NEMO Mini-Tower. The position of PMTs is determined through the acoustic position system; signals detected with PMTs are used to reconstruct the tracks of atmospheric muons. The angular distribution of atmospheric muons was measured and results were compared with Monte Carlo simulations.
description: Proc. of CRIS 2008
Countdown to extinction, Dicerorhinus sumatrensis harrissoni (Groves, 1965)
Creators: name: Bowden, MD
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The Bornean subspecies of the Sumatran rhino is at imminent risk of extinction. During the last quarter century, concerted efforts have been made to counteract that risk. Despite early efforts that focussed on ex situ conservation, the situation did not improve and consequently the international Asian rhino conservation strategy changed its focus in the mid 1990s to in situ conservation. This strategy appears to have stabilised the situation for the present. This thesis examines the reasons for lack of progress in Bornean rhino population recovery. It argues that the current population stasis is unsatisfactory, and that a far more comprehensive analysis of the situation is required, one that accounts for, in broad terms, the human dimension to conservation in a regional context where human population density and growth, modification of moist tropical forest habitat, poverty, demand for animal parts used in folk medicines‚ÄövÑvÆand future challenges such as global climate change‚ÄövÑvÆconspire to perpetuate pressures conducive to the subspecies' extinction. The thesis concludes by identifying the need for a more detailed and comprehensive conservation planning process‚ÄövÑvÆopen to peer review, and which identifies options for inclusion of human development issues‚ÄövÑvÆto be included in any future revision of the current 1997 Action Plan for Asian Rhinos, published by the IUCN's Asian Rhino Action Group.
Early Cretaceous paleomagnetic results from Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica: Implications for the Weddellia collage of crustal blocks
Creators: name: DiVenere, Victor J.
name: Kent, Dennis V.
name: Dalziel, I. W. D.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Geophysics
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: A new ~117 Ma paleomagnetic pole has been defined from the study of volcanic and plutonic rocks from the eastern portion Marie Byrd Land (MBL). The new pole (185.6°E/56.8°S, A_95 = 8.7°) implies that the eastern portion of MBL was an integral part of Weddellia, which included the ancestral Antarctic Peninsula, Thurston Island, and Ellsworth-Whitmore Mountains blocks of West Antarctica. This pole is generally similar to a ~125 Ma pole from Thurston Island. Both poles call for major clockwise rotation and poleward motion of eastern MBL and Thurston Island between the Early Cretaceous (125-117 Ma) and the mid-Cretaceous (110-100 Ma). We propose that in the Early Cretaceous, eastern MBL and the Eastern Province of New Zealand were part of a continuous active Pacific margin of Gondwana, connecting with the Antarctic Peninsula, and distinct from western MBL, the Western Province of New Zealand, and North Victoria Land. These western terranes are thought to have accreted to Gondwana in the Devonian. Eastern MBL and the Eastern Province of New Zealand amalgamated with western MBL and the Western Province of New Zealand by the mid-Cretaceous. Major Early Cretaceous motions of the Weddellia blocks postdate the estimated initiation of seafloor spreading in the Weddell Sea and therefore may be the result of plate reorganization during the Cretaceous Quiet Zone.
title: Priming and the Post-Prime Pause in Mixed Fixed-Ratio Schedules
Creators: name: Alferink, Larry Allen
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1975

description: The present study was designed to investigate the effects of a stimulus change inserted in the large component of a mixed fixed-ratio 10 fixed-ratio 100 schedule. In mixed fixed-ratio schedules, a run of responses which approximates the response requirement of the smaller fixed ratio occurs at the beginning of the larger fixed ratio. This run of responses and the pause it precedes is called a prime. In Experiment I, priming acquisition was compared in a mixed schedule in which a change in key-color followed completion of the first 10 responses of the fixed-ratio 100 component and a mixed schedule with no stimulus change. Primes were acquired more rapidly in the mixed schedule with the stimulus change and the number of responses in a priming run was less variable than occurred without the stimulus change. In Experiment II, the effect of the stimulus change on primes was further investigated by removal of the smaller fixed-ratio component or by varying the location of the stimulus change. Primes occurred only when the smaller fixed-ratio component was present. Varying the location of the stimulus change resulted in the transfer of control from the external stimulus to response-produced stimuli. Future investigation of this point of transfer should prove useful in the study of the proprioceptive stimulus control of homogeneous behavior sequences.
In Experiments Ill through VI, the variables controlling the length of the post-prime and the post-reinforcement pauses were investigated using the mixed FR x chained FR x FR y schedule. In this series of experiments, FR x was varied with FR y held constant at both high and low values. In addition, FR y was varied with FR x held constant at both high and low values. The results indicate that the post-prime pause is primarily a function of FR y, the number of responses required after the priming run. On the other hand, both post-reinforcement pauses were shown to be a function of FR x, the size of the small fixed ratio. An interaction between FR x and FR y and both the post-reinforcement and the post-prime pauses suggested that pausing in mixed schedules is a closed system. Taken as a whole, these results indicate the importance of mixed chained schedules in the investigation of the priming phenomenon.
Innovative Brain Cell Culture by Using a Bicompartmental Device Suitable for Atomic Force Microscopy
Creators: name: Rando, Alessandra Maria Anna
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Different brain cell cultures have been experimented over the years in order to develop a reliable in vitro model to study the brain morphology and the pathological pathways of many significant diseases whose progression is still unclear. The focus of this thesis is to study an innovative approach to culture brain cells by using a bicompartmental device which is compatible with most of the laboratory equipment, including the Atomic Force Microscope. Indeed, Atomic Force Microscopy has been proven to be crucial to investigate cellular mechanics, since diseased cells often modify their mechanical properties. The traditional commercially distributed bicompartmental cell culture devices do not allow to perform AFM analyses without damaging the biological sample, therefore it is extremely relevant to develop alternative brain-on-chip models which facilitate post-culture analyses pre serving the cell culture intact. This work focuses on the True Tissue on Plate (TToP) device, first by verifying its reliability for brain cell culture, by comparing it with traditional well plates, and then testing its suitability to perform atomic force microscopy. The results implicates that the TToP could represent an effective in vitro model for brain cells, and confirm the possibility to perform Atomic Force Microscopy on cells growing on a porous membrane by using a simple support piece which doesn’t damage the biological sample.
title: The Development and Validation of Self-Actualizing Education: A Primer for Affective Education
Creators: name: Barcus, Carolyn G.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1975

description: This study describes the development and evaluation of a communications skills course for elementary teacher inservice training. The development and evaluation strategy centered on a research and development (R & D) process. The major steps of the R & D process were: (1) product selection, (2) literature review, (3) prototype planning, (4) development of preliminary prototype, (5) expert appraisal and product revision, (6) main fieldtest, (7) product revision, and (8) operational fieldtest.
The course was composed of 13 communication skills with 20 behavioral objectives and evaluations. Experiences in self-awareness and practical application of the skills presented were stressed.
The purpose of the Operational Fieldtest was to determine if there was any change in verbal behavior of the teachers on a paper-pencil evaluation given pre and post. The test used was a criterion-referenced test in three parts. Part 1 consisted of three problem-solving episodes relating a problem with a boy being out-of-seat or talking-out, a girl crowding in the lunchline or running in the hall, and a boy fighting or destroying property. Part 2 was an objective test, and part 3 was a teacher estimate of student responsibility.
The subjects for the Operational Fieldtest were 39 elementary teachers, including a principal, four special educators, two counselors, and a school nurse. The data were collected over a 10-week period from January 14 to March 18, 1975.
The first five hypotheses stated that scores would increase after treatment for the three student episodes and the objective test. Hypothesis 6 stated that the teachers' estimate of student responsibility would increase. Of the six hypotheses, four showed a significant increase in communication skills used at the .001 level using a One-Way Analysis of Variance on the three groups. The second episode and the estimate of student responsibility were not significantly different. It was decided that the course had met its primary goal of teaching communication skills to elementary teachers. Evaluation of the product for exportability is the next step to be taken.
Discovery of the Silver Isotopes
Creators: name: Schuh, A.
name: Fritsch, A.
name: Ginepro, J. Q.
name: Heim, M.
name: Shore, A.
name: Thoennessen, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Thirty-eight silver isotopes have so far been observed; the discovery of these isotopes is discussed. For each isotope a brief summary of the first refereed publication, including the production and identification method, is presented.
description: to be published in At. Data. Nucl. Data Tables
Additional file 1 of Cost-effectively dissecting the genetic architecture of complex wool traits in rabbits by low-coverage sequencing
Creators: name: Wang, Dan
name: Xie, Kerui
name: Wang, Yanyan
name: Hu, Jiaqing
name: Li, Wenqiang
name: Yang, Aiguo
name: Zhang, Qin
name: Ning, Chao
name: Fan, Xinzhong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Venn diagram illustrating the number of the variants called by BaseVar, GATK and Bcftools. Figure S2. CLR and Pi analyses in the Angora rabbit population. Figure S3. Q-Q plots for the Angora rabbits. Figure S4. Manhattan plots for the Angora rabbits.
Detection of Human Influence on a New, Validated 1500-Year Temperature Reconstruction
Creators: name: Hegerl, Gabriele C.
name: Crowley, Thomas J.
name: Pollack, Henry N.
name: Allen, Myles
name: Hyde, William T.
name: Smerdon, Jason E.
name: Zorita, Eduardo
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2007
Subjects: Earth temperature
Climatic changes--Effect of human beings on
Paleoclimatology

description: Climate records over the last millennium place the twentieth-century warming in a longer historical context. Reconstructions of millennial temperatures show a wide range of variability, raising questions about the reliability of currently available reconstruction techniques and the uniqueness of late-twentieth-century warming. A calibration method is suggested that avoids the loss of low-frequency variance. A new reconstruction using this method shows substantial variability over the last 1500 yr. This record is consistent with independent temperature change estimates from borehole geothermal records, compared over the same spatial and temporal domain. The record is also broadly consistent with other recent reconstructions that attempt to fully recover low-frequency climate variability in their central estimate. High variability in reconstructions does not hamper the detection of greenhouse gas-induced climate change, since a substantial fraction of the variance in these reconstructions from the beginning of the analysis in the late thirteenth century to the end of the records can be attributed to external forcing. Results from a detection and attribution analysis show that greenhouse warming is detectable in all analyzed high-variance reconstructions (with the possible exception of one ending in 1925), and that about a third of the warming in the first half of the twentieth century can be attributed to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. The estimated magnitude of the anthropogenic signal is consistent with most of the warming in the second half of the twentieth century being anthropogenic.
Over half of the far-infrared background light comes from galaxies at z >= 1.2
Creators: name: Devlin, Mark J.
name: Ade, Peter A. R.
name: Aretxaga, Itziar
name: Bock, James J.
name: Chapin, Edward L.
name: Griffin, Matthew
name: Gundersen, Joshua O.
name: Halpern, Mark
name: Hargrave, Peter C.
name: Hughes, David H.
name: Klein, Jeff
name: Marsden, Gaelen
name: Martin, Peter G.
name: Mauskopf, Philip
name: Moncelsi, Lorenzo
name: Netterfield, Calvin B.
name: Ngo, Henry
name: Olmi, Luca
name: Pascale, Enzo
name: Patanchon, Guillaume
name: Rex, Marie
name: Scott, Douglas
name: Semisch, Christopher
name: Thomas, Nicholas
name: Truch, Matthew D. P.
name: Tucker, Carole
name: Tucker, Gregory S.
name: Viero, Marco P.
name: Wiebe, Donald V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Submillimetre surveys during the past decade have discovered a population of luminous, high-redshift, dusty starburst galaxies. In the redshift range 1 <= z <= 4, these massive submillimetre galaxies go through a phase characterized by optically obscured star formation at rates several hundred times that in the local Universe. Half of the starlight from this highly energetic process is absorbed and thermally re-radiated by clouds of dust at temperatures near 30 K with spectral energy distributions peaking at 100 microns in the rest frame. At 1 <= z <= 4, the peak is redshifted to wavelengths between 200 and 500 microns. The cumulative effect of these galaxies is to yield extragalactic optical and far-infrared backgrounds with approximately equal energy densities. Since the initial detection of the far-infrared background (FIRB), higher-resolution experiments have sought to decompose this integrated radiation into the contributions from individual galaxies. Here we report the results of an extragalactic survey at 250, 350 and 500 microns. Combining our results at 500 microns with those at 24 microns, we determine that all of the FIRB comes from individual galaxies, with galaxies at z >= 1.2 accounting for 70 per cent of it. As expected, at the longest wavelengths the signal is dominated by ultraluminous galaxies at z > 1.
description: Accepted to Nature. Maps available at http://blastexperiment.info/
Cultural civility and cultural barbarism : a sociological analysis of the religious factor in Australian cultural tastes
Creators: name: Aarons, HM
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: This thesis examines the influence of religion on cultural taste patterns in Australia in the 1990's. Many extant studies in this field concentrate heavily on class and economic factors involved in the distribution of cultural taste through conflict and stratification models and place a marked emphasis on the utility of cultural taste in attaining social and economic position. Emergent empirical evidence suggests that class and economic factors are only partially relevant in explaining cultural taste patterns in Australia and internationally, however. Consequently there has been a dearth of alternate theorising of culture as a key concept in sociology to accommodate other potential influences on its consumption such as religion. This thesis theorises cultural taste as a moral problem and situates religion as a powerful aspect of cultural structure through which Australians construct cultural taste by assessing levels of \civility\" and \"barbarism\" inherent in the expressive elements of cultural forms and genres. This study draws on the work of Norbert Elias in establishing a theoretical framework for the conceptualisation of culture as a moral problem through its function of emotional arousal in societies characterised by \"routinization\" and uses a binary scale format of moral conceptualisation and classification that codifies cultural taste as symbolically \"civil\" and symbolically \"barbaric\". The emotional arousal afforded by culture is controlled through institutional and self regulating systems of which religion is one. Religion in this study is confined to various types of Christianity in Australia. Patterns of cultural taste between religious and non-religious Australians and among the religious themselves are compared to reveal variation in the distribution of cultural taste. Religion is then tested against a range of social background experiences to assess its predictive power as a factor in the moral approach to cultural taste. The thesis hypothesises that the religious will construct cultural taste to display \"symbolic civility\" and avoid \"symbolic barbarism\" due to religion's role of emotional regulator within cultural practice. The study reveals the continuing role of institutional religion in contexts of late modernity and how the religious negotiate this aspect of secular life. It also highlights the nature of religious difference within Australian Christianity through cultural taste. The broader significance of the study is to provide alternate conceptualisations of culture that can be explored through various social and cultural elements to further open the inquiry into culture to reflect the diverse and continually changing nature of identity and meaning in contexts of late modernity."
Sysrec : a computer program to record transmission network structures
Creators: name: Gray, Barry Hugh
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The design of large-scale industrial or experimental facilities oftentimes involves the routing of complex networks of power supply lines, control lines or signals, heating or cooling ducts, product transmission pipes etc. In such cases it is essential to be able to maintain an up-to-date, easily accessible, global record of each cable, duct or signal path, the function each performs and its relation to like elements within the system. It is the purpose of this thesis to describe such a facility as implemented by a conversational computer program - SYSREC. The facility discussed allows the user to build network configurations, perform minimum path routing of signals etc., delete connectors or signals and save the record of a network for further modification at some later date. In addition, it is possible to generate output summarizing, in detail, the status of a given network. The program is designed to perform the above operations interactively by means of commands inputted by the user. The thesis is composed of two logically separate sections; a User's Manual describing the capabilities and usage of the program and a Logic Manual describing the internal logic of the program. The purpose of such a separation is to provide self contained references for two distinct levels of user: the general user and the user who wishes to extend or modify the existing implementation. Since both the User's Manual and the Logic Manual contain their own tables of contents, appendices etc., the thesis may be split into two physically distinct parts should the need arise.
Revised calibration of the geomagnetic polarity timescale for the Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic
Creators: name: Cande, Steven C.
name: Kent, Dennis V.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Geophysics
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Recently reported radioisotopic dates and magnetic anomaly spacings have made it evident that modification is required for the age calibrations for the geomagnetic polarity timescale of Cande and Kent (1992) at the Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary and in the Pliocene. An adjusted geomagnetic reversal chronology for the Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic is presented that is consistent with astrochronology in the Pleistocene and Pliocene and with a new timescale for the Mesozoic.
Junctions of Spin-Incoherent Luttinger Liquids with Ferromagnets and Superconductors
Creators: name: Tilahun, Dagim
name: Fiete, Gregory A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the properties of a strongly interacting spin-charge separated one dimensional system coupled to ferromagnets and/or superconductors. Our results are valid for arbitrary temperatures with respect to the spin energy, but require temperature be small compared to the charge energy. We focus mainly on the spin-incoherent regime where temperature is large compared to the spin energy, but small compared to the charge energy. In the case of a ferromagnet we study spin pumping and the renormalized dynamics of a precessing magnetic order parameter. We find the interaction-dependent temperature dependence of the spin pumping can be qualitatively different in the spin-incoherent regime from the Luttinger liquid regime, allowing an identification of the former. Likewise, the temperature dependence of the renormlized magnetization dynamics can be used to identify spin-incoherent physics. For the case of a spin-incoherent Luttinger liquid coupled to two superconductors, we compute the ac and dc Josephson current for a wire geometry in the limit of tunnel coupled superconductors. Both the ac and dc response contain "smoking gun" signatures that can be used to identify spin-incoherent behavior. Experimental requirements for the observation of these effects are laid out.
description: 19 pages, 3 figures
title: The Effects of Direction of Grouping, Type of Stimuli, and Class Level on Cognitive Equivalence Transformations
Creators: name: Joseph, Christopher A.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1973

description: The major purpose of this investigation was to study the structure, attributes , and supplemental aspects of equivalence classifying of words and pictures made by sixth graders, freshmen college students and junior and senior college students . A particular point of interest was whether or not increasing or decreasing the size of the groups results in different types of equivalence classifying. Other minor goals were to determine the effects of direction of grouping, type of stimuli, and class level on unique reasons produced and recall of stimuli.
The results of the study support the thesis that there is a cognitive developmental progression which supports the works of Piaget, Bruner, Vinacke and others. Children, compared to college levels, use a less efficient grouping structure, lower level simple association and concrete and perceptual grouping attributes, lower quality responses, and more specific reasons for grouping. College levels, compared to six grade, use more representational grouping attributes, have higher quality responses, and have a more general level of specificity. In addition, decreasing grouping structure results in a high level of cognitive performance in all aspects of grouping. There were no main effect differences between the words and pictures. However, there were significant interaction effects involving directions, stimuli, and class levels. There were more stimuli recalled and unique reasons produced by the college students. More pictures than words were recalled by all groups.
One implication of the results is that decreasing the size of groupings apparently results in a higher level of cognitive functioning. One reason ventured for this result is that decreasing group size results in more divergent thinking and allows the individual to contemplate more possibilities for his groupings. Increasing group size is related to convergent thinking in which the subject is hindered by a previous set. Another implication is that there is a cognitive development a l progression which results in an increasingly more sophisticated ability to deal with the complex stimuli of the environment. Also, there is some evidence that different grade levels handle pictures differently than they do words.
More study is needed to clarify the role of different forms of stimuli in classifying. From this study it is clear that there are no main effect differences between words and pictures. However, there certainly appear to be some interaction effects, and these need further clarification.
Paleointensity record in zero-age submarine basalt glasses: testing a new dating technique for recent MORBs
Creators: name: Carlut, Julie
name: Kent, Dennis V.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Geophysics
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Thellier–Thellier paleointensity experiments were conducted on a collection of glasses from three very recent submarine axial flows. Two were erupted along the Juan de Fuca ridge at around 46°N and one along the East Pacific Rise South at around 18°S. The within-sample dispersion of paleointensity results from the ‘Animal Farm’ flow (EPR south) is very low and leads to a well-defined mean value of 35.6±1 μT (95% error on the mean) based on 11 glass chips from four independent samples. Today’s geomagnetic field intensity in the area is 31.2 μT. Comparing Animal Farm results with published field model reference curves developed for the past 400 yr suggests an eruptive date estimated between 1880 A.D. and 1950 A.D. (taking into account different sources of errors). This is consistent with qualitative evidence for the age of this flow and constitutes the first precise demonstration of using paleointensity as a dating tool for very recent mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORBs). However in the Juan de Fuca area results show a more erratic pattern with samples varying by up to 30% higher and lower from the expected value of about 55 μT. The dispersion is attributed to the large local crustal magnetic anomalies in this area that can lead to inconsistent intensity values over the same unit. Local magnetic anomalies should thus always be checked when doing paleointensity on MORB samples which should also be distributed as widely as possible in a flow unit. When no significant magnetic anomalies are detected the paleointensity dating tool is anticipated to be especially efficient to investigate the volcanic cyclicity along the EPR axis during the last several hundred years.
title: Utilization of Phoneme-Grapheme Relative Frequency Data as an Effective Method of Developing Reading Materials for Navajo Students
Creators: name: Roberts, Wesley K.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1972

description: This thesis suggests a new method of developing reading materials for Navajo students. The core of this method is based on phoneme- grapheme relative frequency correspondence data.
A short story was phonetically edited and rewritten using the phoneme-grapheme relative frequency method. This short story was one of the major products of the thesis.
This short story and three other short stories previously phonically rewritten, were presented in both this form and in original text to 38 Navajo students for reading.
Reading speed and reading comprehension were measured for each student on the short stories. The students performed with superior reading speed and with superior reading comprehension on two stories and equal comprehension on two stories. The difference on reading speed was significant at the .01 level. On the two stories with reading comprehension differences, the difference was significant at the .05 level.
Simulation of the intraseasonal variability over the Eastern Pacific ITCZ in climate models
Creators: name: Jiang, Xianan
name: Waliser, Duane E.
name: Kim, Daehyun
name: Zhao, Ming
name: Sperber, Kenneth R.
name: Stern, William F.
name: Schubert, Siegfried D.
name: Zhang, Guang J.
name: Wang, Wanqiu
name: Khairoutdinov, Marat
name: Neale, Richard B.
name: Lee, Myong-In
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Atmosphere

description: During boreal summer, convective activity over the eastern Pacific (EPAC) inter-tropical convergence zone (ITCZ) exhibits vigorous intraseasonal variability (ISV). Previous observational studies identified two dominant ISV modes over the EPAC, i.e., a 40-day mode and a quasi-biweekly mode (QBM). The 40-day ISV mode is generally considered a local expression of the Madden-Julian Oscillation. However, in addition to the eastward propagation, northward propagation of the 40-day mode is also evident. The QBM mode bears a smaller spatial scale than the 40-day mode, and is largely characterized by northward propagation. While the ISV over the EPAC exerts significant influences on regional climate/weather systems, investigation of contemporary model capabilities in representing these ISV modes over the EPAC is limited. In this study, the model fidelity in representing these two dominant ISV modes over the EPAC is assessed by analyzing six atmospheric and three coupled general circulation models (GCMs), including one super-parameterized GCM (SPCAM) and one recently developed high-resolution GCM (GFDL HIRAM) with horizontal resolution of about 50 km. While it remains challenging for GCMs to faithfully represent these two ISV modes including their amplitude, evolution patterns, and periodicities, encouraging simulations are also noted. In general, SPCAM and HIRAM exhibit relatively superior skill in representing the two ISV modes over the EPAC. While the advantage of SPCAM is achieved through explicit representation of the cumulus process by the embedded 2-D cloud resolving models, the improved representation in HIRAM could be ascribed to the employment of a strongly entraining plume cumulus scheme, which inhibits the deep convection, and thus effectively enhances the stratiform rainfall. The sensitivity tests based on HIRAM also suggest that fine horizontal resolution could also be conducive to realistically capture the ISV over the EPAC, particularly for the QBM mode. Further analysis illustrates that the observed 40-day ISV mode over the EPAC is closely linked to the eastward propagating ISV signals from the Indian Ocean/Western Pacific, which is in agreement with the general impression that the 40-day ISV mode over the EPAC could be a local expression of the global Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO). In contrast, the convective signals associated with the 40-day mode over the EPAC in most of the GCM simulations tend to originate between 150°E and 150°W, suggesting the 40-day ISV mode over the EPAC might be sustained without the forcing by the eastward propagating MJO. Further investigation is warranted towards improved understanding of the origin of the ISV over the EPAC.
Non-Markovian dynamics for a free quantum particle subject to spontaneous collapse in space: general solution and main properties
Creators: name: Bassi, Angelo
name: Ferialdi, Luca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the non-Markovian dynamics of a quantum system subject to spontaneous collapse in space. After having proved, under suitable conditions, the separation of the center-of-mass and relative motions, we focus our analysis on the time evolution of the center of mass of an isolated system (free particle case). We compute the explicit expression of the Green's function, for a generic Gaussian noise, and analyze in detail the case of an exponential correlation function. We study the time evolution of average quantities, such as the mean position, momentum and energy. We eventually specialize to the case of Gaussian wave functions, and prove that all basic facts about collapse models, which are known to be true in the white noise case, hold also in the more general case of non-Markovian dynamics.
description: 37 pages, LaTeX. Title changed. Other minor corrections
Local Behavior of the First-Order Gradient Correction to the Thomas-Fermi Kinetic Energy Functional
Creators: name: Garcia-Aldea, David
name: Martin-Blas, T.
name: Alvarellos, J. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The first order gradient correction to the Thomas-Fermi functional, proposed by Haq, Chattaraj and Deb (Chem. Phys. Lett. vol. 81, 8031, 1984) has been studied by evaluating both the total kinetic energy and the local kinetic energy density. For testing the kinetic energy density we evaluate its deviation from an exact result through a quality factor, a parameter that reflects the quality of the functionals in a better way than their relative errors. The study is performed on two different systems: light atoms (up to Z=18) and a noninteracting model of fermions confined in a Coulombic-type potential. It is found than this approximation gives very low relative errors and a better local behavior than any of the usual generalized gradient approximation semilocal kinetic density functionals.
description: 7 pages, 2 tables, 4 figures
title: Identity: A Study of Existential vs. Social Anchorage
Creators: name: Seymour, Paul J.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1973

description: The purpose of this study was to assess the identity anchorage of persons in different societal positions.
Four experimental groups were chosen to represent different societal positions, namely, students, musicians, management personnel, and nonmanagement personnel. There were 93 subjects involved in these four groups. Each subject was presented with an adapted version of the Twenty Statements Test and a questionnaire to obtain biographical data. The statements made on the Twenty Statements Test were then placed into one of the following categories: physical characteristics; social roles and institutions; characteristic ways of acting, feeling or responding in social interaction; and, broad nondifferentiating statements or denial of identity. These four modes were designated as representing the identity anchorages of a person.
The salient modes of identity anchorage for each of the four experimental groups was that of characteristic ways of acting, feeling, or responding in social interaction.
Two significant differences were obtained. One was that the musician sample had a significantly higher mean score of responses identifying with social roles and institutions than did the other experimental groups, and the other significant difference indicated females to identify with social roles and institutions more than males. Both of these differences were interpreted with caution as sampling error was present.
Warm Extended Dense Gas Lurking At The Heart Of A Cold Collapsing Dense Core
Creators: name: Shinnaga, Hiroko
name: Phillips, Thomas G.
name: Furuya, Ray S.
name: Kitamura, Yoshimi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In order to investigate when and how the birth of a protostellar core occurs, we made survey observations of four well-studied dense cores in the Taurus molecular cloud using CO transitions in submillimeter bands. We report here the detection of unexpectedly warm (~ 30 - 70 K), extended (radius of ~ 2400 AU), dense (a few times 10^{5} cm^{-3}) gas at the heart of one of the dense cores, L1521F (MC27), within the cold dynamically collapsing components. We argue that the detected warm, extended, dense gas may originate from shock regions caused by collisions between the dynamically collapsing components and outflowing/rotating components within the dense core. We propose a new stage of star formation, "warm-in-cold core stage (WICCS)", i.e., the cold collapsing envelope encases the warm extended dense gas at the center due to the formation of a protostellar core. WICCS would constitutes a missing link in evolution between a cold quiescent starless core and a young protostar in class 0 stage that has a large-scale bipolar outflow.
description: Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Mid-Neogene Mediterranean marine-continental correlations: an alternative interpretation
Creators: name: Aguilar, Jean-Pierre
name: Berggren, William A.
name: Aubry, Marie-Pierre
name: Kent, Dennis V.
name: Clauzon, Georges
name: Benammi, Mouloud
name: Michaux, Jacques
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2004
Subjects: Paleontology
Geology, Stratigraphic

description: Recent revised magnetostratigraphic and astrochronologic calibrations of several calcareous planktonic microfossil datum events (in particular Coccolithus miopelagicus and Neogloboquadrina acostaensis) combined with our magnetobiostratigraphic investigation of a 10 m-thick section at Ecotet, near Lyon (France), in which terrestrial micromammals (Vallesian Zone MN9) are intercalated with calcareous nannoplankton and planktonic foraminifera belonging to Zones NN6-NN8 and N14-15 (=M11 and M12), respectively, lead us to question the recent recalibration by Krijgsman et al. [(1996) Eart Planet. Sci. Lett. 142, 367-380) of the Aragonian/Vallesian (MN7-8/MN9) boundary with Chron C5r.1r (~11.1 Ma) and the lower/upper Vallesian (MN9/10) boundary with Chron C4Ar.2n (~9.6-9.7 Ma). Ecotet, with a uniform reverse polarity, is shown to be assignable uniquely to Chron C5r. Interregional correlation of Ecotet with Mediterranean terrestrial stratigraphies indicates that Progonomys (whose First Occurrence (FO) has been traditionally placed in Mediterranean Mammal Zone MN10) was already present in Mediterranean Zone MN9 at ~11.4 Ma and did not experience a 2 million-year delay in its putative prochoresis from Asia.
Bridging length and time scales in sheared demixing systems: from the Cahn-Hilliard to the Doi-Ohta model
Creators: name: Jelic, Asja
name: Ilg, Patrick
name: Öttinger, Hans Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a systematic coarse-graining procedure which establishes the connection between models of mixtures of immiscible fluids at different length and time scales. We start from the Cahn-Hilliard model of spinodal decomposition in a binary fluid mixture under flow from which we derive the coarse-grained description. The crucial step in this procedure is to identify the relevant coarse-grained variables and find the appropriate mapping which expresses them in terms of the more microscopic variables. In order to capture the physics of the Doi-Ohta level, we introduce the interfacial width as an additional variable at that level. In this way, we account for the stretching of the interface under flow and derive analytically the convective behavior of the relevant coarse-grained variables, which in the long wavelength limit recovers the familiar phenomenological Doi-Ohta model. In addition, we obtain the expression for the interfacial tension in terms of the Cahn-Hilliard parameters as a direct result of the developed coarse-graining procedure. Finally, by analyzing the numerical results obtained from the simulations on the Cahn-Hilliard level, we discuss that dissipative processes at the Doi-Ohta level are of the same origin as in the Cahn-Hilliard model. The way to estimate the interface relaxation times of the Doi-Ohta model from the underlying morphology dynamics simulated at the Cahn-Hilliard level is established.
description: 29 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. E
The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) 2006: Calibration and Flight Performance
Creators: name: Truch, Matthew D. P.
name: Ade, Peter A. R.
name: Bock, James J.
name: Chapin, Edward L.
name: Devlin, Mark J.
name: Dicker, Simon R.
name: Griffin, Matthew
name: Gundersen, Joshua O.
name: Halpern, Mark
name: Hargrave, Peter C.
name: Hughes, David H.
name: Klein, Jeff
name: Marsden, Gaelen
name: Martin, Peter G.
name: Mauskopf, Philip
name: Moncelsi, Lorenzo
name: Netterfield, Calvin B.
name: Olmi, Luca
name: Pascale, Enzo
name: Patanchon, Guillaume
name: Rex, Marie
name: Scott, Douglas
name: Semisch, Christopher
name: Thomas, Nicholas E.
name: Tucker, Carole
name: Tucker, Gregory S.
name: Viero, Marco P.
name: Wiebe, Donald V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) operated successfully during a 250-hour flight over Antarctica in December 2006 (BLAST06). As part of the calibration and pointing procedures, the red hypergiant star VY CMa was observed and used as the primary calibrator. Details of the overall BLAST06 calibration procedure are discussed. The 1-sigma absolute calibration is accurate to 10, 12, and 13% at the 250, 350, and 500 micron bands, respectively. The errors are highly correlated between bands resulting in much lower error for the derived shape of the 250-500 micron continuum. The overall pointing error is <5" rms for the 36, 42, and 60" beams. The performance of the optics and pointing systems is discussed.
description: Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal. Maps available at http://blastexperiment.info/