cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Electron-Ion Recombination of Fe X Forming Fe IX And of Fe XI Forming Fe X: Laboratory Measurements and Theoretical Calculations
Creators: name: Lestinsky, M.
name: Badnell, N. R.
name: Bernhardt, D.
name: Grieser, M.
name: Hoffmann, J.
name: Lukic, D.
name: Muller, A.
name: Orlov, D. A.
name: Repnow, R.
name: Savin, Daniel Wolf
name: Schmidt, E. W.
name: Schnell, M.
name: Schippers, S.
name: Wolf, A.
name: Yu, D.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Ion recombination
Plasma (Ionized gases)
Physics
Astrophysics

description: We have measured electron-ion recombination for Fe9+ forming Fe8+ and for Fe10+ forming Fe9+ using a merged beams arrangement at the TSR heavy-ion storage ring in Heidelberg, Germany. The measured merged beams recombination rate coefficients (MBRRC) for relative energies from 0 to 75 eV are presented, covering all dielectronic recombination (DR) resonances associated with 3s → 3p and 3p → 3d core transitions in the spectroscopic species Fe X and Fe XI, respectively. We compare our experimental results to state-of-the-art multiconfiguration Breit-Pauli (MCBP) calculations and find significant differences. Poor agreement between the measured and theoretical resonance structure is seen for collision energies below 48 eV for Fe X and below 35 eV for Fe XI. The integrated resonance strengths, though, are in reasonable agreement. At higher energies, good agreement is seen for the resonance structure but for the resonance strengths theory is significantly larger than experiment by a factor of ≈ 1.5 (2) for Fe X (Fe XI). From the measured MBRRC, we have extracted the DR contributions and transform them into plasma recombination rate coefficients (PRRCs) for astrophysical plasmas with temperatures in the range of 102-107 K. This range spans across the regimes where each ion forms in photoionized or in collisionally ionized plasmas. For both temperature regimes, the experimental uncertainties are 25% at a 90% confidence level. As expected based on predictions from active galactic nucleus observations as well as our previous laboratory and theoretical work on M-shell iron, the formerly recommended DR data severely underestimated the rate coefficient at temperatures relevant for photoionized gas. At these temperatures relevant for photoionized gas, we find agreement between our experimental results and MCBP theory. This is somewhat surprising given the poor agreement in MBRRC resonance structure. At the higher temperatures relevant for collisionally ionized gas, the MCBP calculations yield an Fe XI DR rate coefficient that is significantly larger than the experimentally derived one. We present parameterized fits to our experimentally derived DR PRRC for ease of inclusion into astrophysical modeling codes.
Exact Kohn-Sham eigenstates versus quasiparticles in simple models of strongly correlated electrons
Creators: name: Carrascal, D. J.
name: Ferrer, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present analytic expressions for the exact density functional and Kohn-Sham Hamiltonian of simple tight-binding models of correlated electrons. These are the single- and double-site versions of the Anderson, Hubbard and spinless fermion models. The exact exchange and correlation potentials are fully non-local. The analytic expressions allow to compare the Kohn-Sham eigenstates of exact density functional theory with the many-body quasi-particle states of these correlated-electron systems. The exact Kohn-Sham spectrum describes correctly many of the non-trivial features of the many-body quasi-particle spectrum, as for example the precursors of the Kondo peak. However, we find that some pieces of the quasi-particle spectrum are missing because the many-body phase-space for electron and hole excitations is richer.
Tabletop interfaces for composing and playing music
Creators: name: Lynch, Sean George
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 90-98
description: A few pages are in colour.
description: Through the advent of multi-touch tabletops, there has been a plethora of interfaces that enable new possibilities for musical expression. These interfaces have focused primarily on tasks such as synthesising sounds, creating musical sequences, and using virtual in­struments. Within this space, I identified two significant deficiencies: the mapping of expressive, multi-touch gestures to physical models of instruments, and the composition and performance of music in a way that leverages some of the benefits of multi-touch tabletops. To address these deficiencies, I designed and implemented two interfaces: Sur­faceM usic and ToCoPlay. SurfaceMusic provides the ability to play virtual instruments using multi-touch gestures; ToCoPlay is a tabletop interface for collaborative composi­tion and real-time mixing and performing of music. These interfaces use state-of-the-art multi-touch interaction techniques, while creating a few new techniques as well. They provide new possibilities for what can be done within the space of collaborative tabletop music.
title: Multimodality imaging of acute non-obstetric maternal complications
Creators: name: Gravell, Rachel
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Not applicable
subject: Retrospective
subject: Obstetrics
subject: Acute
subject: Complications
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Obstetrics (Pregnancy / birth / postnatal period)
subject: Emergency
subject: Emergency Imaging

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: We aim to present a review of acute non-obstetric pathologies in pregnant and early postpartum women presenting to radiological services to highlight the differentials radiologists can expect to see when reviewing imaging in this...
SIMULATOR-BASED MISSION OPTIMIZATION FOR CONCEPTUAL AIRCRAFT DESIGN WITH TURBOELECTRIC PROPULSION
Creators: name: Hu, Hanyao
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 400105
subject: Flight dynamics
classificationCode: 400103
subject: Aircraft performance and flight control systems

description: The electrification of pneumatic or hydraulic system on aircraft has been shown effective in reducing the fuel burn. Recently, electrifying propulsive loads has attracted a lot of atten- tion to further improve fuel economy. This work focuses on tools to facilitate more electric aircraft at conceptual design stage, particularly assuming a turbo-generator architecture. Specifically, we develop a simulation tool, mimicking SUAVE [1], which allows mission and fuel burn analysis. Major differences from SUAVE include more detailed models of compo- nents in the electric propulsive branch and degrees of freedom to adjust the velocity profile along the entire mission. Based on the simulator, this work further proposes to leverage a gradient-free optimization technique, which optimizes the optimal velocity profile along the entire mission to minimize fuel burn. Simulation results on two aircraft designs, a con- ventional Boeing 737-800 and NASA-STARC-ABL, verify the effectiveness of the proposed tools.
Neuro-fuzzy application for concrete strength prediction using combined non-destructive tests
Creators: name: Na, U. J.
name: Park, T. W.
name: Feng, Maria Q.
name: Chung, L.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mechanical engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering
subject: Civil engineering
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: The application of the neuro-fuzzy inference system to predict the compressive strength of concrete is presented in this study. The adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) is introduced for training and testing the data sets consisting of various parameters. To investigate the influence of various parameters which affect the compressive strength, 1551 data pairs are collected from the technical literature. These data sets cover early and late compressive strengths from 3 to 365 days and low and high strength in the range 6·3–107·7 MPa. To reflect the effects of other uncertain parameters and in situ conditions, the results of non-destructive tests (NDTs) such as ultrasonic pulse velocity (UPV) and rebound hammer test are also included as input parameters, in addition to mix proportion and curing histories. For the testing of trained ANFIS models, 20 cube specimens and 210 cylinders are prepared, and compressive test and NDTs are conducted. For the comparative study of the applicability of ANFIS models combined with NDT results, four ANFIS models are developed. Depending on whether the input parameters of ANFIS models include NDT results or not, these are distinguished from each other. Among the four models, the ‘ANFIS-UR' model having the parameters for both UPV and rebound hammer test results shows the best accuracy in the prediction of compressive strength.
Head Start and Urban Children's School Readiness: A Birth Cohort Study in 18 Cities
Creators: name: Zhai, Fuhua
name: Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne
name: Waldfogel, Jane
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Developmental psychology

description: We used longitudinal data from a birth cohort study, the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, to investigate the links between Head Start and school readiness in a large and diverse sample of urban children at age 5 (N = 2,803; 18 cities). We found that Head Start attendance was associated with enhanced cognitive ability and social competence and reduced attention problems but not reduced internalizing or externalizing behavior problems. These findings were robust to model specifications (including models with city-fixed effects and propensity-scoring matching). Furthermore, the effects of Head Start varied by the reference group. Head Start was associated with improved cognitive development when compared with parental care or other nonparental care, as well as improved social competence (compared with parental care) and reduced attention problems (compared with other nonparental care). In contrast, compared with attendance at pre-kindergarten or other center-based care, Head Start attendance was not associated with cognitive gains but with improved social competence and reduced attention and externalizing behavior problems (compared with attendance at other center-based care). These associations were not moderated by child gender or race/ethnicity.
CHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF NANOPLASTIC PARTICLES FORMED IN AIRBORNE WASTE DISCHARGED FROM SEWER PIPE REPAIRS
Creators: name: Peterson, Brianna Nicole
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2023
Subjects: Analytical chemistry not elsewhere classified

description: Micro- and nanoplastic (MNP ) particles are an increasing environmental concern related to the widespread uncontrolled degradation of various commercial products made of plastic materials and their associated waste disposal. Most frequently MNP particles are documented as pollutants in terrestrial, aquatic, and marine environments. Reports of MNP detected in snow samples from mountain glaciers in remote locations suggest their atmospheric transport. Recently, common technology used to repair sewer pipes was reported as one of the direct emission sources of airborne MNP in urban areas. This research reports on the multi-modal detailed chemical characterization of the MNP particles related to waste discharged in the repair process and compares MNP composition with the components of uncured resin and cured plastic material used in the process. Comprehensive analysis of these materials employed complementary use of surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy, scanning transmission x-ray spectro-microscopy, single particle laser ablation time-of-flight mass spectrometry, and direct analysis in real-time high-resolution mass spectrometry. It is shown that the composition of the relatively large MP particles resembles components of plastic material used in the process. In contrast, composition of the NP particles is significantly different, suggesting their formation from unintended polymerization of water-soluble components occurring in drying droplets of the air-discharged waste. Results are further discussed to guide the detection and advanced characterization of NP particles in future field studies.
Search for Proton Decay into Muon plus Neutral Kaon in Super-Kamiokande I, II, and III
Creators: name: Kamiokande Collaboration
name: Regis, C.
name: Abe, K.
name: Hayato, Y.
name: Iyogi, K.
name: Kameda, J.
name: Koshio, Y.
name: Marti, Ll.
name: Miura, M.
name: Moriyama, S.
name: Nakahata, M.
name: Nakayama, S.
name: Obayashi, Y.
name: Sekiya, H.
name: Shiozawa, M.
name: Suzuki, Y.
name: Takeda, A.
name: Takenaga, Y.
name: Ueno, K.
name: Yokozawa, T.
name: Kaji, H.
name: Kajita, T.
name: Kaneyuki, K.
name: Lee, K. P.
name: Okumura, K.
name: McLachlan, T.
name: Labarga, L.
name: Kearns, E.
name: Raaf, J. L.
name: Stone, J. L.
name: Sulak, L. R.
name: Goldhaber, M.
name: Bays, K.
name: Carminati, G.
name: Kropp, W. R.
name: Mine, S.
name: Renshaw, A.
name: Smy, M. B.
name: Sobel, H. W.
name: Ganezer, K. S.
name: Hill, J.
name: Keig, W. E.
name: Jang, J. S.
name: Kim, J. Y.
name: Lim, I. T.
name: Albert, J. B.
name: Scholberg, K.
name: Walter, C. W.
name: Wendell, R. A.
name: Wongjirad, T.
name: Ishizuka, T.
name: Tasaka, S.
name: Learned, J. G.
name: Matsuno, S.
name: Smith, S. N.
name: Hasegawa, T.
name: Ishida, T.
name: Ishii, T.
name: Kobayashi, T.
name: Nakadaira, T.
name: Nakamura, K.
name: Nishikawa, K.
name: Oyama, Y.
name: Sakashita, K.
name: Sekiguchi, T.
name: Tsukamoto, T.
name: Suzuki, A. T.
name: Takeuchi, Y.
name: Ieki, K.
name: Ikeda, M.
name: Kubo, H.
name: Minamino, A.
name: Murakami, A.
name: Nakaya, T.
name: Fukuda, Y.
name: Choi, K.
name: Itow, Y.
name: Mitsuka, G.
name: Miyake, M.
name: Mijakowski, P.
name: Hignight, J.
name: Imber, J.
name: Jung, C. K.
name: Taylor, I.
name: Yanagisawa, C.
name: Ishino, H.
name: Kibayashi, A.
name: Mori, T.
name: Sakuda, M.
name: Takeuchi, J.
name: Kuno, Y.
name: Kim, S. B.
name: Okazawa, H.
name: Choi, Y.
name: Nishijima, K.
name: Koshiba, M.
name: Totsuka, Y.
name: Yokoyama, M.
name: Martens, K.
name: Vagins, M. R.
name: Chen, S.
name: Sui, H.
name: Yang, Z.
name: Zhang, H.
name: Connolly, K.
name: Dziomba, M.
name: Wilkes, R. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have searched for proton into muon plus neutral kaon using data from a 91.7 kiloton-year exposure of Super-Kamiokande-I, a 49.2 kiloton-year exposure of Super-Kamiokande-II, and a 31.9 kiloton-year exposure of Super-Kamiokande-III. The number of candidate events in the data was consistent with the atmospheric neutrino background expectation and no evidence for proton decay in this mode was found. We set a partial lifetime lower limit of 1.6x10^33 years at the 90% confidence level.
description: 15 pages, 13 figures
Ultra-tightly coupled high sensitivity gps receiver for on-road vehicular applications
Creators: name: Li, Tao
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 180-187
description: For on-road vehicular navigation applications, High Sensitivity GPS (HSGPS) receivers are usually preferable to improve signal acquisition and tracking capabilities in comparison to conventional GPS receivers that suffer degraded performance or may completely fail to operate. Vehicle sensors can provide aiding information to bridge the gaps and thus improve the continuity and reliability of the navigation system. Therefore, this thesis focuses on ultra-tightly coupling of HSGPS receivers and vehicle sensors for improved navigation performance. A block estimator based HSGPS receiver is developed with improved tracking sensitivity. The receiver uses a block of correlators for GPS signal parameter estimation and a vector based tracking strategy. Up to 100 ms coherent integration time is used in the receiver to improve the sensitivity with external data bit aiding. The performance of the receiver is analyzed in both the positioning and tracking domain, which provides the basis for the design of an innovative ultra-tightly coupled GPS receiver. To integrate vehicle sensors, improved dead reckoning (DR) based integration algorithms are proposed in this research to provide better navigation performance. Vehicle sideslips, pitch and roll dynamics, usually ignored in previous research are also taken into consideration in this work. Field test results show that the accuracy of 2.4% of travelled distance can be obtained using the proposed algorithm. The performance of the integrated system with various sensor configurations is also analyzed in different environments. Furthermore, a novel DR based in-motion alignment algorithm is proposed to initialize low cost reduced Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs). The new in-motion alignment algorithm features five-degree alignment accuracy within 20 seconds, without initial knowledge of the attitude. Finally a new ultra-tightly coupled GPS receiver based on the block estimator and DR integration algorithms is proposed and developed. The performance of the receiver is comprehensively analyzed in different environments. The field test results shows that the receiver provides within a RMS positioning accuracy within five metres even in deep urban canyon environments, which meets the requirement for most vehicular navigation applications.
Long-term trends and radiative impact in vertically resolved stratospheric water vapour from ESA WV_cci data records
Creators: name: Ye, Hao
name: Hegglin, Michaela
name: Hubert, Daan
name: Lambert, Jean-Christopher
name: Walker, Kaley
name: Sioris, Chris
name: Millan, Luis
name: Manney, Gloria
name: Froidevaux, Lucien
name: Kerridge, Brian
name: Siddans, Richard
name: Wang, Ray
name: Plummer, David
name: Krämer, Martina
name: Rolf, Christian
name: Shine, Keith
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2023

description: EGU General Asssembly 2023 Wien, Wien, Austria, 24 Apr 2023 - 28 Apr 2023; doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu23-9271
description: Water vapour in the upper troposphere and stratosphere has a significant impact both on theradiative and chemical properties of the atmosphere. Reliable water vapour climate data records(CDRs) are essential for use in climate research, to assess vertically resolved trends and associatedradiative impacts. Within the ESA Water Vapour Climate Change Initiative (WV_cci), new verticallyresolved water vapour CDRs in the stratosphere and UTLS were merged from a range of satelliteobservations. In this contribution, we provide an overview of these CDRs, highlighting innovationsin the merging methodologies and results from a detailed quality assessment. In particular, thelong-term trends derived from the new water vapour CDRs are compared to other mergeddatasets, reanalyses, and simulations from chemistry-climate models, with the ESA WV_cci CDRsdeemed to be valuable new datasets for climate studies. We conclude that, mostly driven bydynamical variability, the derived water vapour trends vary significantly depending on the datasetused, chosen time period and location in the atmosphere. Using an off-line radiative transfermodel, we estimate the consequence of these differences on the radiative forcing from watervapour changes in the upper troposphere and stratosphere over the past 30+ years.
Additional file 7 of Rosaceae, Brassicaceae and pollen beetles: exploring relationships and evolution in an anthophilous beetle lineage (Nitidulidae, Meligethes-complex of genera) using an integrative approach
Creators: name: Liu, Meike
name: Huang, Min
name: Cline, Andrew Richard
name: Mancini, Emiliano
name: Scaramuzzi, Andrea
name: Paradisi, Simone
name: Audisio, Paolo
name: Badano, Davide
name: Sabatelli, Simone
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 7 The Bayesian tree of Meligethes-complex based on combined molecular and morphological dataset. The posterior probabilities exceeding 50% are shown at nodes.
Damage Detection Based On Damping Analysis Of Ambient Vibration Data
Creators: name: Feng, Maria Q.
name: Soyoz, Serdar
name: Frizzarin, Michele
name: Franchetti, Paolo
name: Modena, Claudio
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mechanical engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering
subject: Civil engineering
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: Enabling an automated, remote and rapid detection of structural damage, sensor-based structural health monitoring is becoming a powerful tool for maintenance of civil engineering structures. In this study, a baseline-free, time-domain damage detection method was developed for concrete structures, which is based on analysis of nonlinear damping from measured structural vibration responses. The efficacy of the proposed method was demonstrated through a large-scale concrete bridge model subjected to different levels of seismic damage caused by shaking table tests. By applying the random decrement signature technique, the proposed method successfully identified, from its ambient vibration responses, nonlinear damping of the bridge associated with the seismic damage. The amount of the nonlinear damping increases as the seismic damage becomes more severe. This paper also compares the damage detection results with those obtained by stiffness-based methods, demonstrating a strong correlation between the increase in nonlinear damping and the decrease in structural stiffness associated with the increase in damage severity.
Improving the quality of dictated operative reports conducted by surgical residents: evidence for effectiveness of a teaching module
Creators: name: Lee, Kathy Kawai
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 93-99
description: Includes copy of ethics approval. Original copy with original Partial Copyright Licence.
description: A dictated operative report (DOR) is an important communication tool that documents procedural details. DO Rs are unique to each surgical event and are required every time a surgeon performs a procedure. Despite their importance, their quality is often poor. The guidelines published by surgical associations, moreover, are vague, and this skill is rarely taught in surgical residency programs. The present study examines the effectiveness of a one-hour teaching module designed to enhance the quality ofDORs. Twenty-five surgical residents attended a teaching session. Their DOR performance before and after the teaching session was compared with paired samples t-tests. Both the accuracy and quality of their DORs significantly improved, according to the Structured Assessment and Global Quality Rating Scale (p < 0.05). Linguistic dictation skills, however, did not change. lt is clear that with targeted teaching, surgical residents can improve the qua I ity of the content in DO Rs.
Long-Term Monitoring and Identification of Bridge Structural Parameters
Creators: name: Feng, Maria Q.
name: Soyoz, Serdar
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mechanical engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering
subject: Civil engineering
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: Vibration of a new concrete bridge was monitored and change in the bridge structural stiffness was identified accordingly over a 5-year period. This three-span 111-m long bridge is instrumented with 13 acceleration sensors at both the superstructure and the columns. The sensor data are transmitted to a server computer wirelessly. Modal parameters of the bridge, that is, the frequencies and the modal shapes were identified by processing 1,707 vibration data sets collected under traffic excitations, based on which the bridge structural parameters, stiffness and mass, and the soil spring values were identified by employing the neural network technique. The identified superstructure stiffness at the beginning of the monitoring was 97% of the stiffness value based on the design drawings. In the identified modal frequencies, a variation from −10% to +10% was observed over the monitoring period. In the identified stiffness values of the bridge superstructure, a variation from −3% to +3% was observed over the monitoring period. Based on the statistical analysis of the collected data for each year, 5% decrease in the first modal frequency and 2% decrease in the superstructure stiffness were observed over the 5-year monitoring period. Probability density functions were obtained for stiffness values each year. Stiffness threshold values for the collapse of the bridge under the operational loading can be determined. Then the number of years can be assessed for which the area under the proposed probability density functions is greater than the threshold value. So the information obtained in this study is valuable for studying aging and long-term performance assessment of similar bridges.
Photon Production from a Quark-Gluon-Plasma at Finite Baryon Chemical Potential
Creators: name: Gervais, Hualong
name: Jeon, Sangyong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the photon production of a QCD plasma at leading order in the strong coupling with a finite baryon chemical potential. Our approach starts from the real time formalism of finite temperature field theory. We identify the class of diagrams contributing at leading order when a finite chemical potential is added and resum them to perform a full treatment of the LPM effect similar to the one performed by Arnold, Moore, and Yaffe at zero chemical potential. Our results show that the contribution of $2\mapsto 3$ and $3\mapsto 2$ processes grows as the chemical potential grows.
description: 28 pages, 14 figures
Scalable Lattice Boltzmann Leaps to Exascale
Creators: name: Badwaik, Jayesh
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2023

description: ISC High Performance 2024, ISC2023, Hamburg, Germany, 23 May 2023 - 26 May 2023
description: Lattice Boltzmann methods (LBM) are trustworthy alternatives to conventionalCFD, showing roughly an order of magnitude performance advantage thanNavier-Stokes approaches in comparable scenarios. The S CALABLE projectbrings together industrial and academic partners to create a new frameworkfor an industrial LBM-based computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solver whichcan achieve high performance, scalability, and energy efficiency.In the context of EuroHPC, LBM is especially well suited to exploit advancedsupercomputer architectures through vectorization, accelerators, and massiveparallelization. To achieve its goals, SCALABLE aims to transfer leading edgeperformance technology between waLBerla and LaBS, thus breaking the silosbetween the worlds of scientific computing and physical flow modelling.
The long history of the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect and its recent applications
Creators: name: Albrecht, Simon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper I will review the Rossiter-McLaughlin (RM) effect; its history, how it manifests itself during stellar eclipses and planetary transits, and the increasingly important role its measurements play in guiding our understanding of the formation and evolution of close binary stars and exoplanet systems.
description: proceedings IAU symposium 282. six pages, two figures, typos corrected
An effective way to use photovoltaics in California: a case of life cycle costing and land use footprinting
Creators: name: Lakhani, Raksha
Publisher: name: Environmental Design
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 102-117
description: Some pages are in colour.
description: Includes copy of copyright permissions. Original copies with original Partial Copyright Licence.
description: A framework that can be used to estimate, evaluate, and compare life cycle costs, land use footprints, and land use impacts of photovoltaic (PV) systems is developed and applied. The framework provides insights into the trade-offs between costs, land quantities required, and consequent land use impacts across the various options of implementing photovoltaic systems. In the current research, the life cycle costs of PV systems include installation, operating and maintenance, replacement, land, and, capital costs of transmission lines. The land use footprint is defined as the total quantity of land required by the PV system throughout its life, and includes land for siting the PV installation (in the case of ground mounted systems) and for transmission right-of-way where applicable. The land use impacts, in this research are monetized, and include the values of the loss of naturalness and the loss of potential carbon sink.
Phase diagram of the toric code model in a parallel magnetic field
Creators: name: Wu, Fengcheng
name: Deng, Youjin
name: Prokof'ev, Nikolay
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ground-state phase diagram of the toric code model in a parallel magnetic field has three distinct phases: topological, charge-condensed, and vortex-condensed states. To study it we consider an implicit local order parameter characterizing the transition between the topological and charge-condensed phases, and sample it using continuous-time Monte Carlo simulations. The corresponding second-order transition line is obtained by finite-size scaling analysis of this order parameter. Symmetry breaking between charges and vortices along the first-order transition line is also observed, and our numerical result shows that the end point of the first-order transition line is located at $h_x^{(c)}=h_z^{(c)}=0.418(2)$.
description: 8 pages, 17 figures
An observation of a new class of afterpulses with delay time in the range of 70-200 microseconds in classical vacuum photomultipliers
Creators: name: Poleshchuk, R. V.
name: Lubsandorzhiev, B. K.
name: Vasiliev, R. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results of the first observation of afterpulses with extremely long (~120 microseconds) delay time from the main pulse in 8 inch classical vacuum photomultipliers.
description: To be published in NIMA
Galois actions on l-adic local systems and their nearby cycles: a geometrization of fourier eigendistributions on the p-adic lie algebra sl(2)
Creators: name: Christie, Aaron
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 101-104
description: In this thesis, two Qe-local systems, and 0 £1 (Definition 3.2.1) on the regular unipotent subvariety Uo,I< of p-adic SL(2)1< are constructed. Making use of the equiv­alence between Qe-local systems and £-adic representations of the etale fundamental group, we prove that these local systems are equivariant with respect to conjugation by SL(2)1< (Proposition 3.3.5) and that their nearby cycles, when taken with respect to appropriate integral models, descend to local systems on the regular unipotent subvariety of SL(2)k, k the residue field of K (Theorem 4.3.1). Distributions on SL(2, K) are then associated to 0 £ and 0 £1 (Definition 5.1.4) and we prove properties of these distributions. Specifically, they are admissible distributions in the sense of Harish-Chandra (Proposition 5.2.1) and, after being transferred to the Lie algebra, are linearly independent eigendistributions of the Fourier transform (Proposition 5.3.2). Together, this gives a geometrization of important admissible invariant distributions on a nonabelian p-adic group in the context of the Local Langlands program.
title: Fantastic shunts and where to find them - A review of congenital portosystemic shunts
Creators: name: MORENO, MARIA
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Paediatric
subject: Abdomen
subject: Liver
subject: Paediatric
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: CT
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Balloon occlusion
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Arteriovenous malformations
subject: Congenital
subject: Not applicable

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: Define and classify the portosystemic shunts, based on their anatomy and embryology, and the characteristics of each different type. Describe the findings of CPSS using different imaging techniques, combined with clinical data. Explain the value of...
Exploiting Split Browsers for Efficiently Protecting User Data
Creators: name: Zavou, Angeliki
name: Portokalidis, Georgios
name: Keromytis, Angelos D.
name: Athanasopoulos, Elias
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Information science

description: Offloading complex tasks to a resource-abundant environment like the cloud, can extend the capabilities of resource constrained mobile devices, extend battery life, and improve user experience. Split browsing is a new paradigm that adopts this strategy to improve web browsing on devices like smartphones and tablets. Split browsers offload computation to the cloud by design; they are composed by two parts, one running on the thin client and one in the cloud. Rendering takes place primarily in the latter, while a bitmap or a simplified web page is communicated to the client. Despite its difference with traditional web browsing, split browsing still suffers from the same types of threats, such as cross-site scripting. In this paper, we propose exploiting the design of split browsers to also utilize cloud resources for protecting against various threats efficiently. We begin by systematically studying split browsing architectures, and then proceed to propose two solutions, in parallel and inline cloning, that exploit the inherent features of this new browsing paradigm to accurately and efficiently protect user data against common web exploits. Our preliminary results suggest that our framework can be efficiently applied to Amazon’s Silk, the most widely deployed at the time of writing, split browser.
Wildlife ranching industry: the South African flagship of a sustainable green economy
Creators: name: Dry, Gert C.
name: International Wildlife Ranching Symposium, Producer
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Wildlife management -- Congresses
subject: Range management -- Congresses

description: Presented at the 8th international congress for wildlife and livelihoods on private and communal lands: livestock, tourism, and spirit, that was held on September 7-12, 2014 in Estes Park, Colorado.
description: Unlike American wildlife culture which is based on the belief that making money out of wildlife is immoral; the South African wildlife culture is based upon sustainable use and or commercialisation. It is trite knowledge that the value placed on game, the wildlife industry has not only restored wildlife to the land but has also enhanced and restored the genetic quality of our wildlife. The wildlife industry has grown positively, predominantly as a result of the legal trade, the exclusivity of wildlife and the hunting and tourism industry. Currently 16,8% marginal, uneconomic, semi desert agricultural land has been converted into a sustainable land use option. All private game ranches are marginal farms in economic terms that have been converted from domestic stock/crop farms into effective land-use options. These farms are not, and never have been conservation land. The South African Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) has been highly successful with their conservation and preservation mandate with regard to national- and provincial owned parks but the implementation of a newly proposed legislative regime will seriously cripple the wildlife industry as the 'flagship' of South Africa's Green Economy. The wildlife industry proposes the development of enabling legislation that will give the wildlife industry room to grow and prosper and to be regulated as a "national competency" for the governance of the wildlife industry. The wildlife industry can assist the national growth agenda to ensure real progress. The sustainable use of South African wildlife can gain traction given evidence based research reported in various pieces of research, Macro Economic indicators for game ranching in South Africa and some specific game ranching growth initiatives.
Quantum Locality?
Creators: name: Stapp, Henry P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Robert Griffiths has recently addressed, within the framework of a 'consistent quantum theory' that he has developed, the issue of whether, as is often claimed, quantum mechanics entails a need for faster-than-light transfers of information over long distances. He argues that the putative proofs of this property that involve hidden variables include in their premises some essentially classical-physics-type assumptions that are fundamentally incompatible with the precepts of quantum physics. One cannot logically prove properties of a system by establishing, instead, properties of a system modified by adding properties alien to the original system. Hence Griffiths' rejection of hidden-variable-based proofs is logically warranted. Griffiths mentions the existence of a certain alternative proof that does not involve hidden variables, and that uses only macroscopically described observable properties. He notes that he had examined in his book proofs of this general kind, and concluded that they provide no evidence for nonlocal influences. But he did not examine the particular proof that he cites. An examination of that particular proof by the method specified by his 'consistent quantum theory' shows that the cited proof is valid within that restrictive version of quantum theory. An added section responds to Griffiths' reply, which cites general possibilities of ambiguities that make what is to be proved ill-defined, and hence render the pertinent 'consistent framework' ill defined. But the vagaries that he cites do not upset the proof in question, which, both by its physical formulation and by explicit identification, specify the framework to be used. Griffiths confirms the validity of the proof insofar as that framework is used. The section also shows, in response to Griffiths' challenge, why a putative proof of locality that he has described is flawed.
description: This version adds a response to Griffiths' reply to my original. It notes that Griffiths confirms the validity of my argument if one uses the framework that I use. Griffiths' objection that other frameworks exist is not germaine, because I use the unique one that satisfies the explicitly stated conditions that the choices be macroscopic choices of experiments and outcomes in a specified order
The development of decidability proofs based on sequent calculi
Creators: Katalin Bimbó
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2020

Some logics are decidable, that is, there is an algorithm to determine whether a formula is provable in a calculus formalizing the logic. This paper aims to depict the evolution of decidability proofs based on sequent calculi from the first such proof for intuitionist logic to some of the latest results that use -- in an essential way -- the Curry-Kripke technique.
Zur Erziehung der „allseitig entwickelten sozialistischen Persönlichkeit“
Creators: name: Lanz, Juliane
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock, Arbeitsstelle Pädagogische Lesungen Rostock
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 370 Education
subject: 943 General history of Europe Central Europe Germany

description: Das ab 1965 klar formulierte Ziel, eine allseits entwickelte sozialistische Persönlichkeit zu erziehen, beeinflusste alle Teile der Gesellschaft der DDR. Der Sportunterricht folgte den Vorgaben ebenfalls, wie die Lehrpläne bestätigen. Der Anspruch galt auch für Kinder und Jugendliche mit Lernschwierigkeiten und kognitiven Behinderungen, die an sogenannten Hilfsschulen unterrichtet wurden. Dem Sport kam hierbei eine herausragende Rolle zu, denn die mit dem Unterricht verfolgten pädagogischen Anforderungen waren hoch und umfassten sowohl gesellschaftspolitische und ideologische als auch physiologische Ziele, wie eine Lehrplananalyse zeigt. Verschiedene staatlicherseits herausgegebene Materialien, die den Lehrerpersonen u.a. mit den sogenannten „Unterrichtshilfen“ und ähnlichen Publikationen zur Verfügung standen, machten ein Erreichen dieser Ziele – zumindest auf dem Papier – greifbar. Des Weiteren boten sich die Pädagogischen Lesungen, die von Lehrer*innen für Lehrer*innen erstellt wurden, als hilfreiche Unterstützung an, da sie aus der Praxis für die Praxis Material zur Verfügung stellten. Die Analyse letzterer zeigt, dass für engagierte und interessierte Pädagog*innen Spielräume in der Gestaltung des Sportunterrichts existierten, beziehungsweise Lücken identifiziert wurden, denen eigene inhaltliche Konzepte entgegengestellt wurden. Die Erziehung des Hilfsschulkindes zu einer allseitig entwickelten sozialistischen Persönlichkeit wurde vor allem insofern gefolgt, so lange dieses Ziel half, den Schüler*innen die bestmögliche Chance auf gesellschaftliche Teilhabe zu ermöglichen.
Body-centric interaction with a screen-based handheld device
Creators: name: Chen, Xiang (Anthony)
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 112-118
description: Some pages are in colour.
description: Modern mobile devices rely on the screen as a primary input modality. Yet the small screen real-estate limits interaction possibilities, motivating researchers to explore alternate input techniques. Within this arena, this thesis explores Body-Centric Interaction (BCI), specifically in the context of Using a Screen-based Handheld Device. In particular, BCI creates a class of interaction techniques that allows a person to position/orient her mobile device to navigate and manipulate digital contents anchored in the space on and around the body. The research methodology consists of an iterative process of bottom-up prototyping, generalizing recurring design themes, reflecting on these themes and on related work, and producing new designs as a consequence. As a result, this thesis contributes a new design direction for interacting with mobile digital contents where the paradigm shifts from the device's screen to the user's body. A class of interaction techniques, delivered as a set of reusable design examples and three recurring design themes, articulate how this new design direction can be realized, what new experience it can offer, and what issues and challenges we need to address.
title: Wunderlich syndrome: a condition with a wide etiological spectrum
Creators: name: Badiola Molinuevo, Josu
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Not applicable
subject: Haemorrhage
subject: Arteriovenous malformations
subject: Aneurysms
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: CT
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Kidney
subject: Emergency
subject: Abdomen
subject: Genitourinary

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: Description of Wunderlich syndrome and its radiological features. Review of the wide variety of pathologies and lesions that can cause Wunderlich...
Loud bangs and quiet Canadians : power, property relations and anti-Encana sabotage in northeastern British Columbia, October 2008-August 2009
Creators: name: Arsenault, Christopher
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Between October 2008 and August 2009, EnCana, North America’s largest natural gas producer was targeted by a series of bombings in northeastern British Columbia. A prevailing scholarly interpretation of this and similar incidents suggests that such attacks arise from the resentments of small landowners about the separation of surface and subsurface property rights. This thesis uses original reporting, government documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, along with media reports and secondary scholarship to argue that contradictions between surface and subsurface property rights in and of themselves do not explain the bombings or the grievances local people have with the industry. Rather, deregulation of the provincial natural gas industry, beginning before, but accelerating after 2001, has led to the conditions considered unacceptable by a large number of residents in the affected area. Placing this local unrest within the emerging literature on environmental conflict, this thesis argues that industry regulators in B.C. have created legislation which favours gas extractors over other land users. This legislation, supported by industry and a provincial government dependent on petroleum revenues, is the main cause of the conflicts. EnCana’s comparative advantage in its B.C. holdings comes not from the resource itself, which is unconventional and harder to access than typical petroleum deposits, but from Canadian political stability. The desire to exploit stable deposits as fast as possible is, ironically, creating instability.
MPEC 2023-M176 : 2020 MR3
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Characterization of Electromagnetic Properties for Durability Performance
and Saturation in Hardened Cement Mortar
Creators: name: Feng, Maria Q.
name: Kwon, Seung-Jun
name: Park, Sang Soon
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mechanical engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering
subject: Civil engineering
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: Electromagnetic (EM) properties—dielectric constant and conductivity are changed with porosity and saturation in cement-based materials. In this paper, dielectric constant and conductivity are measured in cement mortar with 5 different mixture conditions considering saturation. For the same mixture proportions, durability tests including porosity, chloride diffusion, air permeability, sorptivity, and water diffusion are performed. Among the continuously measured EM properties within 5–20 GHz of frequency range for different saturation, results under 60% of saturation which shows stable results are selected and averaged as one value. The averaged measurements utilizing results under 60% of saturation are compared with those from durability tests. Through the normalization using the results of W/C 40% which shows best durability performances, changing ratios of durability characteristics are evaluated with normalized dielectric constant and conductivity. The behaviors of EM properties with different saturation and their relationships with durability performances are studied.