cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The challenge to develop a reclamation and closure program for mining activities in Chile
Creators: name: Olcay, L. A.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Mining exports represents approximately fifty percent of Chilean exports, with foreign investments amounting to US $ 7 billions between 1990 and 1996 for mining projects. The new mining operations and the older one have to comply with the just enacted environmental regulations during the whole life cycle of the mining activity. Regarding those aspects it is important to highlight the positive attitude of the mining sector towards to solve pollution problems. However, at the moment Chile does not have an specific regulation to control efficiently the closure and reclamation stages of a mining site. Therefore, the real challenge is to develop a competent policy, program and regulation of closure and reclamation of mining sites in order to prevent significant pollution problems at the beginning of the mining project and to permit mining Chilean land in a sustainable form. The Chilean Ministry of Mining is leading the aims to develop a policy, program and regulation for the closure and reclamation of mining sites. This process involves many organisations such as public institutions, mining companies, academic community and the community in general in order to develop a realistic policy, program and regulation.
Additional file 1 of CHN1 promotes epithelial–mesenchymal transition via the Akt/GSK-3β/Snail pathway in cervical carcinoma
Creators: name: Zhao, Haoqi
name: Wang, Lan
name: Wang, Shufang
name: Chen, Xihua
name: Liang, Min
name: Zhang, Xin
name: Wang, Jiedong
name: Xu, Xiangbo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. The specific primers used in our experiments.
Flows and particles with shear-free and expansion-free velocities in (L^-_n,g)- and Weyl's spaces
Creators: name: Manoff, Sawa
name: Dimitrov, Bogdan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Conditions for the existence of flows with non-null shear-free and expansion-free velocities in spaces with affine connections and metrics are found. On their basis, generalized Weyl's spaces with shear-free and expansion-free conformal Killing vectors as velocity's vectors of spinless test particles moving in a Weyl's space are considered. The necessary and sufficient conditions are found under which a free spinless test particle could move in spaces with affine connections and metrics on a curve described by means of an auto-parallel equation. In Weyl's spaces with Weyl's covector, constructed by the use of a dilaton field, the dilaton field appears as a scaling factor for the rest mass density of the test particle. PACS numbers: 02.40.Ky, 04.20.Cv, 04.50.+h, 04.90.+e
description: 20 pages, LaTeX, to appear in Classical and Quantum Gravity. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:gr-qc/0011045
اعطای کسری/جایگزین خدمت با طراحی مدل‌های کسب‌وکار در مراکز رشد و فناوری
Creators: name: AmirMohammad Abhary
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: رویکرد اشتغال آفرینی و توسعه کسب‌وکار از جمله برنامه‌های جدیدی است که در دستور کار دانشگاه‌ها به‌عنوان دانشگاه‌های نسل سوم قرار گرفته است. همچنین این نیاز به یاری خدا در برخی دانشگاه‌های نظامی نیز به‌خوبی درک و برای آن مقدمه آفرینی شده است. از مهم‌ترین مقدمات این برنامه‌ها می‌توان به مراکز رشد و فناوری اشاره نمود. در حال حاضر می‌توان با توجه به ظرفیت بالای بسیاری از افراد در یاری‌رساندن به سایرین در نوشتن برنامه‌های مدل‌های کسب‌وکار (Business Plan)، از این ظرفیت جهت کاهش هزینه‌های نوشتن برنامه‌های کسب‌وکار، افزایش اشتیاق واحدهای مستقر در مراکز رشد و فناوری به سمت تدوین برنامه کسب‌وکار و همچنین افزایش اشتیاق خدمت در متخصصان از ریق برنامه‌های کسر / جایگزین خدمت اقدام نمود.
Drosophila apiki Magnacca and O'Grady 2009
Creators: name: Rampasso, Augusto Santos
name: O'Grady, Patrick Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Basidiomycota
Agaricomycetes
Agaricales
Psathyrellaceae
Drosophila
Drosophila apiki

description: Drosophila apiki Magnacca and O’Grady, 2009
Distribution: Endemic: Kauai
description: Published as part of Rampasso, Augusto Santos & O'Grady, Patrick Michael, 2022, Distribution and Taxonomy of Endemic and Introduced Drosophilidae in Hawaii, pp. 1-80 in Zootaxa 5106 (1) on page 46, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5106.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6336841
Ionic Hydrogenation of Pyridinium and Azetidinium Cations
Creators: Yang, Zheren Jim
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Chemistry, Inorganic
Chemistry, Organic
Pyridinium compounds
Hydrogenation

description: Research described herein seeks to study the reactivity of CpRu(P-P)H with pyridinium and azetidinium cations.  For the former, we wish to determine if a previously established methodology for the regioselective reduction of a particular pyridinium cation may be extended to other pyridinium cations and if the methodology may be improved with the introduction of a pendant amine in the diphosphine.  Our studies have shown that this methodology could not be extended to pyridinium cations having substituents on the pyridinium ring.  For the latter, we seek to establish the reactivity of CpRu(P-P)H with azetidinium cations and compare these results to what the Norton Group has previously established in studies concerning aziridinium cations.  Our studies have shown that opening of azetidinium is about six orders of magnitude slower compared to the opening of aziridinium.
Ion conduction characteristics in small diameter carbon nanotubes and their similarities to biological nanochannels
Creators: Amiri, Hasti
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Ion-permeable membranes
Nanochemistry
Nanostructured materials
Carbon nanotubes
Chemistry
Materials science
Nanoscience

description: In this study, we designed a series of experiments to determine the factors governing ion permeation through individual carbon nanotubes (CNTs) less than 1.5 nm in diameter and 20 Âµm in length. We then rationalize the experimental results by using a model, which is drawn from previous literature on protein ion channels and is centered around a simplified version of the Gouy-Chapman theory of electrical double layer. Lastly, we experimentally demonstrate and discuss the general similarities in ion permeation characteristics between CNTs and biological ion-selective pores. The role of many potential factors influencing the ion transport is assessed by taking two experimental approaches: (1) studying the effect of electrolyte concentration and composition on channel conductance and reversal potential, and (2) examining a second type of nanochannel as a parallel ion conduction pathway within the same device architecture and measurement set-up, which we refer to as leakage devices. This helps to differentiate the effect of CNT on ionic transport from any other possible source. Taken together, these two experimental methods provide strong evidence that the electrostatic potential arising from ionized carboxyl groups at the nanopore entrance has a significant effect on ionic permeation in a manner consistent with a simple electrostatic mechanism.
Condensation in Globally Coupled Populations of Chaotic Dynamical Systems
Creators: name: Zanette, D. H.
name: Mikhailov, A. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The condensation transition, leading to complete mutual synchronization in large populations of globally coupled chaotic Roessler oscillators, is investigated. Statistical properties of this transition and the cluster structure of partially condensed states are analyzed.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures, revtex
Ionizing Radiation Effects on Graphene Based Field Effects Transistors
Creators: Alexandrou, Konstantinos
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Electrical engineering
subject: Field-effect transistors
subject: Ionizing radiation
subject: Graphene
subject: Nanoscience
subject: Nanotechnology
subject: FOS: Nanotechnology

description: Graphene, first isolated in 2004 by Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, is an atomically thin two-dimensional layer of hexagonal carbon that has been extensively studied due to its unique electronic, mechanical, thermal and optical properties. Its vast potential has led to the development of a wide variety of novel devices such as, transistors, solar cells, batteries and sensors that offer significant advantages over the conventional microelectronic ones.
      Although graphene-based devices show very promising performance characteristics, limited has been done in order to evaluate how these devices operate in a radiation harsh environment. Undesirable phenomena such as total dose effects, single event upsets, displacement damage and soft errors that silicon-based devices are prone to, can have a detrimental impact on performance and reliability. Similarly, the significant effects of irradiation on carbon nanotubes indicate the potential for related radiation induced defects in carbon-based materials, such as graphene. In this work, we fabricate graphene field effect transistors (GFETs) and systematically study the various effects of ionizing radiation on the material and device level. Graphene grown by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) along with standard lithographic and shadow masking techniques, was used for the transistor fabrication. GFETs were subjected to different radiation sources, such as, beta particles (electron radiation), gamma (photons) and ions (alpha, protons and Fe particles) under various radiation doses and energies. The effects on graphene’s crystal structure, transport properties and doping profile were examined by using a variety of characterization tools and techniques. We demonstrate not only the mechanisms of ionized charge build up in the substrate and displacement damage effects on GFET performance, but also that atmospheric adsorbents from the surrounding environment can have a significant impact on the radiation hardness of graphene. We developed different transistor structures that mitigate these effects and performed computer simulations to enhance even further our understanding of radiation damage. Our results show that devices using a passivation layer and a shielded gate structure were less prone to irradiation effects when compared to the standard back-gate GFETs, offering less performance degradation and enhanced stability over prolonged irradiation periods. This is an important step towards the development of radiation hard graphene-based devices, enabling operation in space, military, or other radiation sensitive environments.
Gravitational Interaction of Spinning Bodies, Center-of-Mass Coordinate and Radiation of Compact Binary Systems
Creators: name: Khriplovich, I. B.
name: Pomeransky, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spin-orbit and spin-spin effects in the gravitational interaction are treated in a close analogy with the fine and hyperfine interactions in atoms. The proper definition of the cener-of-mass coordinate is discussed. The technique developed is applied then to the gravitational radiation of compact binary stars. Our result for the spin-orbit correction differs from that obtained by other authors. New effects possible for the motion of a spinning particle in a gravitational field are pointed out. The corresponding corrections, nonlinear in spin, are in principle of the same order of magnitude as the ordinary spin-spin interaction.
description: 11 pages, latex, no figures
Iron Gongs and Singing Birds: Paths of Migration and Acoustic Assemblages of Alterity in the Former Dutch Colonial Empire
Creators: Clark, Emily Hansell
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Music
Ethnology
Gamelan
Songbirds
Music--Javanese influences

description: This dissertation investigates the roles of nonhuman (object and animal) entities in auditory practices that construct selfhood, homeland, and memory for people in migration, in order to draw broader conclusions about the aural formation of subject-object relationships in colonial empires and in present-day Europe and the Caribbean. I focus on two sonic objects that have traveled with colonial and postcolonial migrants in the former Dutch colonial empire: (1) traditional Javanese gamelan (pitched percussion orchestra) instruments that traveled with indentured laborers and their descendants to Suriname and the Netherlands, and (2) Caribbean songbirds raised and trained for singing competitions held by Surinamese men in Suriname and the Netherlands. By attending ethnographically to historical and contemporary human encounters with these objects, I argue that individual sensory perception is shaped by historically formed societal paradigms of difference such as "ethnic plurality" in Suriname and "multiculturalism" in the Netherlands, and that such notions of difference perpetuate a colonial zoopolitics that in turn shapes contemporary relations between different groups of humans and between humans and the nonhuman world. Chapter 1 is concerned with the notion of Javanese ethnicity in Suriname. Through historical inscriptions of colonial listening and ethnographic vignettes of contemporary Javanese performance in Suriname and the Netherlands, I investigate the formation and perpetuation of a sense of Javaneseness with origins in a migration of indentured laborers from the Dutch East Indies to Suriname between 1890 and 1939. Chapter 2 recounts the development of gamelan music and Javanese-Surinamese culture during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries by tracing specific sets of gamelan instruments in their circulations between Indonesia, Suriname, and the Netherlands. Chapter 3 provides a contrasting ethnographic exploration, namely of Caribbean songbirds who are bred, raised, and trained to compete in songbird competitions in Suriname and in Surinamese migrant communities in the Netherlands. Chapter 4 develops outwards from these ethnographic studies to pose larger questions about epistemologies of nature and culture that can be traced from Caribbean plantations to contemporary projects of cultural preservation and natural conservation and to discourses of resources, rights, (bio)diversity, sustainability, and environmental justice. Taken together, these chapters interrogate epistemologies and discourses that form culture and nature as separate realms, from the plantation colony to the present, from a perspective informed by aural and multisensory engagements with human and nonhuman difference.
Geodetic Brane Gravity
Creators: name: Karasik, David
name: Davidson, Aharon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Within the framework of geodetic brane gravity, the Universe is described as a 4-dimensional extended object evolving geodetically in a higher dimensional flat background. In this paper, by introducing a new pair of canonical fields {lambda, P_{lambda}}, we derive the quadratic Hamiltonian for such a brane Universe; the inclusion of matter then resembles minimal coupling. Second class constraints enter the game, invoking the Dirac bracket formalism. The algebra of the first class constraints is calculated, and the BRST generator of the brane Universe turns out to be rank-1. At the quantum level, the road is open for canonical and/or functional integral quantization. The main advantages of geodetic brane gravity are: (i) It introduces an intrinsic, geometrically originated, 'dark matter' component, (ii) It offers, owing to the Lorentzian bulk time coordinate, a novel solution to the 'problem of time', and (iii) It enables calculation of meaningful probabilities within quantum cosmology without any auxiliary scalar field. Intriguingly, the general relativity limit is associated with lambda being a vanishing (degenerate) eigenvalue.
description: 23 pages, 1 figure, minor changes
The community model at Crossref and ORCID - a presentation for the CSCCE Community Call, October 2020
Creators: name: Wilkinson, Laura J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Community, Infrastructure, Scholarly communications, Crossref, ORCID

description: The community model at Crossref and ORCID: how we use the following methods to work with our community and build a shared, open infrastructure to support scholarly communications, and which is responsive to changing needs: Guiding principles/truths Community governance and participation Financial model The concept of community and the nature of collaboration Enduring-ness and evolution; common ground and space to diverge This is why at Crossref we say that we are "smart alone; brilliant together". Presentation recording available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shc35e8BRNs
How to detect the lightest glueball
Creators: name: Kosyakov, B. P.
name: Popov, E. Yu.
name: Vronsky, M. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We suggest a procedure of the lightest glueball detection in a head-on collision of photons whose center-of-mass energy is in the range $1.3-2$ GeV. Recent evidence for the scattering of light by light in experiments at the Large Hadron Collider is used as a phenomenological basis of our suggestion. With this evidence, the cross section of the lightest glueball creation in the $γγ$ collisions is estimated to be $\sim 60\,$nb. The predominant mode of the lightest glueball decay, predicted from the gauge/gravity duality, proves to be the decay into two neutral vector mesons $ρ^0ρ^0$. Because $ρ^0$ decays into $π^+π^-$, a drastic increase in the $π^+π^-π^+π^-$ yield is expected as the center-of-mass energy of the colliding photons approaches the value of the lightest glueball mass. This fact may be regarded as the unique signature of the lightest glueball detection.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure; v2 minor improvement; v3 references added; v4 minor improvement; v5 13 pages, 3 figures, several significant improvements; v6 material rearranged, accepted for publication in JETP
Is Employee Turnover Related to Higher Education Institutional Performance? An Empirical Analysis
Creators: Glazer, Randy
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Business administration
Education--Administration
School management and organization
Organizational sociology
Labor turnover

description: Employee turnover continues to be discussed as an outcome in Human Resources (HR), but comparatively few studies have examined the relationship between turnover as the independent variable and institutional outcomes. Although the call to HR practitioners has often been made over the past 20 years regarding the importance of tying HR programs and measures to institutional goals, there has been limited reporting of such initiatives among higher education institutions, which typically focus on student outcomes equally or more prominently than financial outcomes. While the HR Analytics field has been growing and there is a robust community of academics involved in data analysis of organizations, the field in Higher Education is still in its development stages.
      The purpose of this cross-sectional study was to test whether employee turnover in various iterations can be a statistically significant predictor of (a) student completion rate, and (b) aggregate organizational external research funding. The study also tested whether such measures can be established by strictly using current institutional “legacy” data, as opposed to gathering any data that are not currently collected or available from normal business operations. Reviewing these questions through a theoretical framework of general systems theory and using student data, employee data, and financial data of a single higher education institution, this study was designed for the HR practitioner to review the use of models to predict whether employee turnover statistics are meaningful in explaining operational goals of an organization that are not financial.
      Six years of data (2006-2011) from a single higher education institution were used in the analysis. The sample subject group comprised students enrolled in various Master’s degree programs across 10 academic departments at the University. The analysis was conducted using ordinary least squares regression and via binomial logistic regression. Other forms of analysis were considered as part of the review.
      Overall, findings suggested that employee turnover (operationalized as employee instability rate) is statistically significant in models that predict student completion rate. Furthermore, employee turnover is statistically significant in models that predict the University’s external research funding levels (operationalized as indirect cost recovery statistics reported annually).
Iranian Encounters in Azerbaijan: The Case of Nardaran
Creators: Karasioglu, Isa Kagan
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Ethnology--Research
Villages
Hegemony
Ethnology

description: This dissertation is based on the study that has been conducted in the form of an ethnographic field research in Nardaran, an ancient Azeri village of Absheron peninsula, Baku, Azerbaijan. As a result of many historical and political reasons it can be argued that the two nation states, Azerbaijan and Iran, have not been overly friendly throughout the history. However, interestingly enough, Nardarani villagers, unlike the broader Azeri society, are tightly linked to Iran. Therefore, the primary goal of this dissertation is to investigate the prominent reasons, which rendered these villagers Iranian proponents. By adopting the concept of ‘hegemony’ as primary theoretical approach, the dissertation primarily investigates the hegemonic efforts of Iran upon Nardaran to account for the current situation and the future of the village. After looking at the broader Azerbaijan and the rural communities of the region and providing a selective historical sketch, it is the aim of the study to provide the reader with the opportunity to make comparisons and to locate Nardaran within the broader picture. In what follows, it presents the Iranian hegemonic consequences upon the village and seeks to identify the implications of the concept of change over Nardaran. Finally, the study investigates the underlying reasons and the processes that led to the aferomentioned situation under the title of  ‘hegemony and peaceful mechanisms of change’. Since the study is the only anthropological one that specifically handles Nardaran, the researcher tried to conduct the research in the form of an anthropological community study. Accordingly, the dissertation attempts to take an overall picture of the village. This manner, namely adopting a holistic approach, was not only useful but also necessary in terms of answering the research questions. In other words, looking at the history, geography, economy, material culture, environmental design and so forth, seem to be essential in terms of understanding the case of Nardaran.
به‌کارگیری فارغ‌التحصیلان با درجه کارشناسی ارشد به بالا در قالب پژوهش‌یار/تدریس یار در دانشگاه‌های نظامی
Creators: name: AmirMohammad Abhary
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: بحث مهارت‌آموزی از جنبه‌های گوناگون قابل بررسی است. یکی از این جنبه‌های آموزش و پژوهش و انتقال مفاهیم در این قالب‌ها است. با توجه به ظرفیت بالای فارغ‌التحصیلان کارشناسی ارشد و دانشجویان دکتری در بحث آموزش و پژوهش و همچنین متداول بودن بحث پژوهش‌یاری و آموزشیاری این افراد در محیط‌های دانشگاهی، می‌توان با توجه به رویکرد مهارت آفرینی موردنظر ستاد کل نیروهای مسلح، این فرآیند را به‌عنوان بک برنامه تشویقی جهت ارائه کسر / جایگزین خدمت در دانشگاه‌های نظامی و مراکز پژوهشی وابسته به آن‌ها ارائه نمود تا ضمن افزودن به جذابیت‌های سربازی، بتوان نهایت بهره‌وری را در این دوره از معلومات و توانمندی‌های این افراد به دنبال داشت و همچنین رویکرد جریان دانش و مهارت افزایی را در این دانشگاه‌ها و یگان‌های نظامی متصور شد.
A q-analogue of convolution on the line
Creators: name: Carnovale, G.
name: Koornwinder, T. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 33D80, 33D15, 42A85 (primary), 17B37 (secondary)

description: In this paper we study a q-analogue of the convolution product on the line in detail. A convolution product on the braided line was defined algebraically by Kempf and Majid. We adapt their definition in order to give an analytic definition for the q-convolution and we study convergence extensively. Since the braided line is commutative as an algebra, all results can be viewed both as results in classical q-analysis and in braided algebra. We define various classes of functions on which the convolution is well-defined and we show that they are algebras under the defined product. One particularly nice family of algebras, a decreasing chain depending on a parameter running through (0,1], turns out to have 1/2 as the critical parameter value above which the algebras are commutative. Morerover, the commutative algebras in this family are precisely the algebras in which each function is determined by its q-moments. We also treat the relationship between q-convolution and q-Fourier transform. Finally, in the Appendix, we show an equivalence between the existence of an analytic continuation of a function defined on a q-lattice, and the behaviour of its q-derivatives.
description: 31 pages; many small corrections; accepted by Methods and Applications of Analysis
تنظیم برنامه تبادل و چرخش و سربازی پویا با رویکرد جریان دانش و مهارت افزایی
Creators: name: AmirMohammad Abhary
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: اهمیت برنامه‌های تبادل و چرخشی (Mobility) در حدی است که امروز در سطح دنیا جهت افزایش تجارب و انتقال دانش مطرح است و در دانشگاه‌های تراز دنیا به‌عنوان یکی از مؤلفه‌های برتر بررسی و رده‌بندی مطرح می‌شود. می‌توان از این موقعیت و این فرصت در قالب برنامه‌های سربازی نیز جهت افزایش مهارت و آموخته‌های افراد در هر سطح و یگان خدمتی بهره‌مند شد. این برنامه در موضع مقابل فرآیند امروزی سربازی است که حالت استاتیک دارد و می‌کوشد تا با پویایی، حالت سکون و انجماد را به تغییر درآورد و باعث گردش دانش و افزایش مهارت‌ها بین سربازان و مشمولان شود.
Drosophila barbata Magnacca and O'Grady 2009
Creators: name: Rampasso, Augusto Santos
name: O'Grady, Patrick Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Basidiomycota
Agaricomycetes
Agaricales
Psathyrellaceae
Drosophila
Drosophila barbata

description: Drosophila barbata Magnacca and O’Grady, 2009
Distribution: Endemic: Hawaii
 Additional References: Magnacca et al. (2008); O’Grady et al. (2011)
description: Published as part of Rampasso, Augusto Santos & O'Grady, Patrick Michael, 2022, Distribution and Taxonomy of Endemic and Introduced Drosophilidae in Hawaii, pp. 1-80 in Zootaxa 5106 (1) on page 46, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5106.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6336841
The massless XXZ chain with a boundary
Creators: name: Kojima, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study the XXZ chain with a boundary at massless regime $-1
description: LaTEX2e, 18pages
Evidence of Sussex prehistoric ritual traditions: the archaeological investigation of a Bronze Age funerary monument situated on Baily's Hill near Crowlink, Eastbourne.
Creators: name: Greatorex, Christopher
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2004

description: Sussex Archaeological Collections, 139, 27-73
description: Excavation of a prehistoric monument in advance of its destruction by coastal erosion revealed a number of cremation pits cut into an area of natural chalk demarcated by a shallow ditch. These burials were radiocarbon dated to the Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age. Although no evidence was found of a contemporaneous in-situ `barrow', all the burials including the partial remains of an adult male inhumation were covered with an oval-shaped cairn. This incorporated Late Bronze Age material, including struck flints and pottery, as well as Neolithic, Beaker and Early Bronze Age pottery, indicating that residual material from previous activity in the area has been incorporated into the cairn matrix. The monument seems to have retained or recaptured a position of ritual significance within the local landscape over an extended period of time. Includes
Is Inquiry Learning Unjust? An Ethical Defense of Deweyan Instructional Design
Creators: Tanchuk, Nicolas Jordan
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Educational philosophy
Educational psychology
Education--Study and teaching
Teaching
Inquiry-based learning
Instructional systems--Design
Learning and scholarship--Moral and ethical aspects

description: A long tradition of progressive pedagogy, running from Jean-Jacques Rousseau and through the work of John Dewey, argues that it is ethically and politically important for students to learn to co-direct the process of inquiry. In a series of recent articles, a group of cognitive scientists (hereafter called ‘DI theorists’) has argued that due to the nature of human cognitive architecture, student-led instructional designs are likely to be less effective than fully teacher-led instructional designs and to exacerbate achievement gaps. Were DI theorists correct, contrary to the intentions of many educators, a great deal of progressive pedagogy would be likely to have negative effects on educational justice. In this dissertation, I argue that the framing of the debate in cognitive science misconstrues the ethical and political value of treating students as cooperative designers of educative experiences. To defend this controversial claim, I advance a Deweyan approach to ethics and justice in instructional design against two recent philosophical challenges. The first challenge, which I call ‘Dewey’s grounding problem’, asserts that Dewey’s appeal to the single ethical and political value of learning is unjustified against dissent and oppressive of reasonable pluralism. The second challenge, which I call ‘Dewey’s problem of elitism’, argues that his call to promote the common good of learning in ethics and politics will sometimes permit or require elitism, aristocracy, or tyranny. Based on the Deweyan ethos I defend, I trace four principles of just instructional design to reassess the claims of DI theorists. I argue that integrating DI theorists’ insights about efficacy and equality as means to create a student co-led community of inquiry confirms many educators’ intuitions: that student-led designs are important parts of developing the skills of inquiry, are well placed as culminating tasks, and are best phased in on a developmental pathway towards greater student independence.
Tradable water saving certificates to improve urban water use efficiency: an ex-ante evaluation in a French case study
Creators: name: Rinaudo, Jean-Daniel
name: Calatrava, Javier
name: Vernier De Byans, Marine
name: Rinaudo, Jean-Daniel
name: Calatrava, Javier
name: Vernier De Byans, Marine
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: efficiency
subject: mathematical programming
subject: tradable water saving certificates
subject: water management and policy
subject: water market

description: This paper proposes a system of tradable Water Saving Certificates to improve the efficiency of water allocation between Drinking Water Utilities at river basin level. A market institutional set-up, inspired from recent policy developments in the energy sector, is proposed. An original analytical price-endogenous model is developed to simulate trade intensity, equilibrium price and efficiency gains in this urban water market. The economic model is implemented in a French case study using mathematical programming. It is used for conducting an ex-ante evaluation of trade possibilities and efficiency gains, considering different spatial restrictions aimed at controlling environmental externalities. Our modelling exercise provides evidence of the benefits of the proposed Water Saving Certificate scheme.
Is Parking Essential to Transit-oriented Development?
Creators: Wang, Chongyuan
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: City planning--Transportation
Automobile parking--Planning
Local transit--Evaluation
Community development, Urban--Planning

description: Transit-oriented development (TOD) is accepted to be a promising urban planning strategy for long-term sustainability, equity, livability, and prosperity in cities. The debates over the balance and interaction continue whether TOD actually increases transit ridership and reduces vehicle miles traveled (VMT) in different sizes of spatial areas. Among those factors that affect the ridership, parking policy appears inconsistent with the underlying benefits of TOD. The thesis intends to examine whether the VMT reduces and transit ridership increases in TOD, and measure the impact of parking on VMT reduction and transit ridership enlargement. The San Francisco Bay Area is chosen as the study area. The thesis places emphasis on spatial analysis and statistical modeling for the methodology. The spatial analysis performed in the thesis utilizes a Geographic Information System (GIS) software to identify the location, scale and characteristics of TODs in study areas. Thus, what and where are the TODs can be addressed. For statistical modeling, the thesis chooses a multi-level model mixed with random and fixed effects to develop for the analysis. A census tract level and an individual trip level factors are combined as fixed effects to estimate simultaneously. Additionally, the thesis introduces a discussion on parking policies and innovative approaches in the context of the likely future trends. Through a series of logically ordered questions and approaches, the thesis is aiming to shed new light on the research question that parking is essential to TOD and needs demand management. Developing TOD in suburban areas would help to increase transit ridership and reduce VMT on the regional scale. The results unveil the evidence that parking spaces and distance to transit stations of park-and-ride have a significant impact on transit usage and vehicle miles traveled in the Bay Area. The TOD areas are highly likely to have lower GHG emissions.
Is Problem Based Learning Effective in Fostering the Development of Intellectual Skills?
Creators: Jewett, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Learning--Methodology
Problem-based learning
Developmental psychology
Cognitive psychology

description: How best to help students master the control of variables skill is a debated topic among educators and psychologists.  Contrasting theories as to how it develops parallel contrasting ideas about how it should be taught.  Recent studies relying on direct instruction have shown that this approach to teaching the control of variables skill is not successful for academically disadvantaged populations.
      	Problem Based Learning (PBL) is a method of instruction that holds promise in this regard and is explored in the present work as a method for teaching the control of variable skill.  Recent empirical studies have proven its effectiveness with the learning and application of declarative knowledge.  A tightly controlled experiment was conducted with 6th and 7th grade students. Students were randomly assigned to one of 4 conditions (team, individual, observer, control) following a pretest to determine skill level.  These groups varied in level of engagement and social interaction. Students who solved the problem individually, in a team of three, or students that observed an individual solver were compared to a control group.  Students were presented with a realistic problem involving causes of teen crime.  Records from varying towns reported variable levels and outcomes.  Over three sessions students examined the records with the objective of determining which variables did or did not make a difference to teen crime. Following the PBL sessions students in all conditions were administered both immediate and delayed assessments of skill..
      	Between 75 and 80% of students in the PBL individual and team conditions successfully demonstrated use of the skill.  Students who achieved the highest level on both the causal and noncausal variables scored on average 41% higher on the posttest. There was no difference between these two groups in acquisition of the skill. A significant difference was found between the the PBL groups and the two remaining groups (observer and control).  Performance of these groups was not significantly different and inferior to that of the PBL groups..
      	The implications of these findings are considered in a number of different theoretical and applied contexts: a) enhancing students' mastery of the control of variables skill; (b) extending evidence of the effectiveness of a PBL method from declarative to procedural knowledge; (c) active vs. vicarious learning, and (d) individual vs. collaborative reasoning and problem solving.
Additional file 1 of TBX5-AS1, an enhancer RNA, is a potential novel prognostic biomarker for lung adenocarcinoma
Creators: name: Cheng, Lin
name: Han, Tong
name: Chen, Bolin
name: Nie, Kechao
name: Peng, Weijun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. List of 174 survival-related eRNAs in lung adenocarcinoma. Table S2. List of the 76 eRNAs with a significant correlation with their target gene in lung adenocarcinoma. Table S3. List of the 26 types of tumours associated with TBX5-AS1 and TBX5.
On the calculation of covariant expressions for Dirac bilinears
Creators: name: Olpak, Mehmet Ali
name: Ozpineci, Altug
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this article, various approaches to calculate covariant expressions for the bilinears of Dirac spinors are presented. For this purpose, algebraic equations defining Dirac spinors are discussed. Following that, a covariant approach for spacetime parameterization is presented and the equations defining Dirac spinors are written fully in terms of Lorentz scalars. After presenting how the tensorial bilinears can be reduced to combinations of scalar bilinears with appropriate Lorentz structures, a covariant recipe for the calculation of scalar bilinears is provided.
description: 10 pages, 1 figure
Is criminogenic risk assessment a prisoner of the proximate? Challenging the assumptions of an expanding paradigm
Creators: Prins, Seth Jacob
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Recidivism
subject: Risk assessment
subject: Criminal investigation
subject: Epidemiology
subject: Criminology
subject: FOS: Law

description: Criminogenic risk assessment, which was developed to predict recidivism, has risen to the status of “evidence-based practice” in corrections systems. As a result of its apparent success, proponents now claim that it captures the origins of criminal behavior, and can thus be leveraged to reduce correctional supervision rates and prevent crime. This dissertation investigates the validity of the these claims, by identifying and testing three assumptions requisite for the framework’s expansion: 1) the evidence base for the framework’s predictive performance is being interpreted correctly and appropriately, 2) the best causal models of recidivism are also the best causal models of the onset and duration of criminal behavior (and by extension, that interventions successful at reducing recidivism will be successful at reducing the onset, duration, and rate of criminal behavior); and 3) the causes of individual variation in criminal behavior are the same as causes of the population distribution, or incidence rate, of crime. This dissertation proceeds in three parts: a meta-review and critical analysis of the literature addresses the first assumption, and two empirical studies test the second and third assumptions, respectively. The meta-review determined that findings for the framework’s predictive performance are inconsistent, based on inadequate or insufficient statistical information, and often overstated. The first empirical study found that each arrest, and to a lesser extent conviction, an individual experienced increased their subsequent criminogenic risk levels, raising concerns about the framework’s applicability for crime prevention and etiology. The second empirical study found that criminogenic risks do not explain group differences in arrest and conviction rates, underscoring that researchers and policymakers should more cautiously communicate the scope of reform that the framework can deliver.
Moebius geometry of surfaces of constant mean curvature 1 in hyperbolic space
Creators: name: Hertrich-Jeromin, Udo
name: Musso, Emilio
name: Nicolodi, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Various transformations of isothermic surfaces are discussed and their interrelations are analyzed. Applications to cmc-1 surfaces in hyperbolic space and their minimal cousins in Euclidean space are presented: the Umehara-Yamada perturbation, the classical and Bryant's Weierstrass type representations, and the duality for cmc-1 surfaces are interpreted in terms of transformations of isothermic surfaces. A new Weierstrass type representation is introduced and a Moebius geometric characterization of cmc-1 surfaces in hyperbolic space and minimal surfaces in Euclidean space is given.
description: 18 pages, plain TeX, 8 PostScript figures
Trends in fish populations at the Leve Creek Mine
Creators: name: Allan, Jim H.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The Line Creek Mine has been operating in the Line Creek valley in southeastern B.C. since 1982. Line Creek is a tributary of the Fording and Elk rivers in the Kootenay/Columbia basin and supports indigenous populations of bull trout, westslope cutthroat trout and mountain whitefish and rarely, introduced brook trout and rainbow trout. A section of the upper main stem of Line Creek was covered by a rock drain and portions of the main stem of South Line Creek and Line Creek have been relocated to accommodate mining operations. The fish populations in Line Creek have been the subject of irregular studies since 1975. The only major changes in fish populations have been an increase in the number of adult bull trout spawning in Line Creek and a reduction in fish densities in 1995. A 78% increase in spawning activity, as indicated by average number of redds, was detected between the period from 1983 and 1989 compared to the period from 1991 to 1994 and was attributed to a change in angling regulations implemented on the Elk River system in 1985. A subsequent 77% increase in the spawning activity which occurred during the period from 1995 to 1996 could not be attributed to a specific cause, although angling regulations may again have been the principal factor. Densities of juvenile bull trout, cutthroat trout and all trout decreased significantly in upper Line Creek and upper South Line Creek in 1995 due to a flood which occurred in June of 1995. Despite some losses of rearing habitat for juvenile bull trout, the adult bull trout spawning in Line Creek have not been measurably affected by the Line Creek Mine, but have been positively affected by changes to angling regulations.
Cherenkov Detectors Fast Simulation Using Neural Networks
Creators: name: Derkach, Denis
name: Kazeev, Nikita
name: Ratnikov, Fedor
name: Ustyuzhanin, Andrey
name: Volokhova, Alexandra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We propose a way to simulate Cherenkov detector response using a generative adversarial neural network to bypass low-level details. This network is trained to reproduce high level features of the simulated detector events based on input observables of incident particles. This allows the dramatic increase of simulation speed. We demonstrate that this approach provides simulation precision which is consistent with the baseline and discuss possible implications of these results.
description: In proceedings of 10th International Workshop on Ring Imaging Cherenkov Detectors
Searching for Gravitational Waves from the Inspiral of Precessing Binary Systems: Problems with Current Waveforms
Creators: name: Grandclement, P.
name: Kalogera, V.
name: Vecchio, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the problem of searching for gravitational waves emitted during the inspiral phase of binary systems when the orbital plane precesses due to relativistic spin-orbit coupling. Such effect takes place when the spins of the binary members are misaligned with respect to the orbital angular momentum. As a first step we assess the importance of precession specifically for the first-generation of LIGO detectors. We investigate the extent of the signal-to-noise ratio reduction and, hence, detection rate that occurs when precession effects are not accounted for in the template waveforms. We restrict our analysis to binary systems that undergo the so-called simple precession and have a total mass close to 10 solar mass. We find that for binary systems with rather high mass ratios (e.g., a 1.4 solar mass neutron star and a 10 solar mass black hole) the detection rate can decrease by almost an order of magnitude. Current astrophysical estimates of the rate of binary inspiral events suggest that LIGO could detect at most a few events per year, and therefore the reduction of the detection rate even by a factor of a few is critical. In the second part of our analysis, we examine whether the effect of precession could be included in the templates by capturing the main features of the phase modulation through a small number of extra parameters. Specifically we examine and tested for the first time the 3-parameter family suggested by Apostolatos. We find that, even though these ``mimic'' templates improve the detection rate, they are still inadequate in recovering the signal-to-noise ratio at the desired level. We conclude that a more complex template family is needed in the near future, still maintaining the number of additional parameters as small as possible in order to reduce the computational costs.
description: Replaced with a shorter version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D. 8 pages, 4 Figs