cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Stabilization of cycles for difference equations with a noisy PF control
Creators: name: Braverman, Elena
name: Diblík, Josef
name: Rodkina, Alexandra
name: Šmarda, Zdeněk
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 93D15, 37H99, 39A30

description: Difference equations, such as a Ricker map, for an increased value of the parameter, experience instability of the positive equilibrium and transition to deterministic chaos. To achieve stabilization, various methods can be applied. Proportional Feedback control suggests a proportional reduction of the state variable at every $k$th step. First, if $k \neq 1$, a cycle is stabilized rather than an equilibrium. Second, the equation can incorporate an additive noise term, describing the variability of the environment, as well as multiplicative noise corresponding to possible deviations in the control intensity. The present paper deals with both issues, it justifies a possibility of getting a stable blurred $k$-cycle. Presented examples include the Ricker model, as well as equations with unbounded $f$, such as the bobwhite quail population models. Though the theoretical results justify stabilization for either multiplicative or additive noise only, numerical simulations illustrate that a blurred cycle can be stabilized when both multiplicative and additive noises are involved.
description: 9 pages, 8 figures
The Effect of Sight Word Instruction on the Reading Fluency of First Grade Students
Creators: name: Scilipote, Kristy
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Reading fluency
subject: Sight word instruction
subject: First grade
subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of sight word vocabulary on fluency for first grade students. The participants in this study were enrolled in first grade at an elementary school in Baltimore County, Maryland in the 2014-2015 school year. All of the research subjects were divided into small groups. The treatment group received regular whole group instruction, read independent leveled texts 15 minutes per day as well as sight word instruction and repeated readings of texts. While both the control and treatment groups showed some improvement in their independent reading levels, the hypothesis that sight word instruction would improve reading fluency was not supported upon data analysis. Research in this area should continue to determine if increasing sight word instruction will improve oral reading fluency.
Entanglement of Collaboration
Creators: name: Gour, Gilad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The entanglement of collaboration (EoC) quantifies the maximum amount of entanglement, that can be generated between two parties, A and B, given collaboration with N-2 other parties, when the N parties share a multipartite (possibly mixed) state and where the collaboration consists of local operations and classical communication (LOCC) by all parties. The localizable entanglement (LE) is defined similarly except that A and B do not participate in the effort to generate bipartite entanglement. We compare between these two operational definitions and find sufficient conditions for which the EoC is equal to the LE. In particular, we find that the two are equal whenever they are measured by the concurrence or by one of its generalizations called the G-concurrence. We also find a simple expression for the LE in terms of the Jamiolkowski isomorphism and prove that it is convex.
description: 6 pages, to appear in Phys. Rev. A
The Instruction of Effective Questioning and Discussion Strategies to Improve Reading Comprehension
Creators: name: Sawyer, Jayna
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Reading comprehension
subject: Questioning
subject: Discussion strategies
subject: Comprehension strategies
subject: Improvement
subject: Questioning techniques
subject: Elementary
subject: Strategy instruction
subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the effects of questioning and discussion strategies impact reading comprehension for 2nd grade students. The participants of this study were 26 students enrolled in a Baltimore County school for the 2014-2015 school year. The students were divided into two groups in which both groups received regular whole group instruction. However, only one group received additional instruction on effective questioning and discussion strategies. The measurement tools used were an English-Language Arts diagnostic and culminating assessment designed by Baltimore County and the Informal Discourse Measure. This study involved a pretest/posttest design to compare data from April 2015 to data from May 2015, after the interventions were completed. The null hypothesis was supported for this study since there was no significant differences between the two groups.
title: Catastrophe bonds as innovations in an agent-based CAPM
Creators: name: Su, F
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2018

description: This thesis studies the effect of catastrophe (CAT) bonds as innovations in a financial market. It provides a new and alternative approach to the description of CAT bonds, by utilizing an agent-based CAPM to analyse the behaviour of CAT bonds in a financial-market setting that comprises key features of an insurance industry. First, a model of CAT bonds as new assets in the single-period CAPM is developed. In this model, a CAT bond price is determined by a market clearing condition. The effects of CAT bonds on the financial market are discussed. Conditions under which investors include new assets in their portfolios to increase utility are established. The premium and coupon of a CAT bond are determined, which provides an equilibrium theoretical foundation of the premium calculation principle from actuarial science. The notion of transferable insurance risk is developed and conditions for the transferability of catastrophe risk from the insurance industry to the financial market by means of CAT bonds are established. In a second step, CAT bonds are introduced in an agent-based multi-period CAPM with investors holding heterogeneous beliefs regarding future payoffs of assets. The minimum premium and coupon are determined. The notion of transferable risk is adapted to an agent-based framework. The concept of perceived Pareto superiority is introduced. Stochastic difference equations are derived to describe the co-evolution of asset and CAT bond prices. The changes in the market price of risk are analysed. The concept of a perfect forecasting rule is generalized to CAT bonds. Finally, a compound Poisson process that describes the evolution of insurance losses related to catastrophe risk is introduced. The loss that CAT bonds cover at each time period is simulated and discussed according to two different scenarios. By applying the loss process, the effects of CAT bonds on the financial market are simulated in terms of investors' behaviour and market risk.
SINR Analysis of Opportunistic MIMO-SDMA Downlink Systems with Linear Combining
Creators: name: Pun, Man-On
name: Koivunen, Visa
name: Poor, H. Vincent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Opportunistic scheduling (OS) schemes have been proposed previously by the authors for multiuser MIMO-SDMA downlink systems with linear combining. In particular, it has been demonstrated that significant performance improvement can be achieved by incorporating low-complexity linear combining techniques into the design of OS schemes for MIMO-SDMA. However, this previous analysis was performed based on the effective signal-to-interference ratio (SIR), assuming an interference-limited scenario, which is typically a valid assumption in SDMA-based systems. It was shown that the limiting distribution of the effective SIR is of the Frechet type. Surprisingly, the corresponding scaling laws were found to follow $ε\log K$ with $0
description: Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Beijing, May 19-23, 2008
The Effect of Direct Instruction about Text Features on the Comprehension of Science Texts for Learning-disabled Middle School Students
Creators: name: Moretz, Heather
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Text features
subject: Learning-disabled
subject: Science
subject: Expository
subject: Middle school
subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: The purpose of this study was to determine if direct instruction teaching students to identify important information using cues from the text features in a science textbook has a direct effect on the comprehension of learning-disabled middle school students. The study consisted of a sample of ten seventh and eighth grade learning-disabled students who were directly instructed to identify text features and then locate important information. The participants were evaluated during two units of study on independent completion of two-sided notes after reading the textbook. The study involved the use of a pretest/posttest design to compare data from February of 2015 (before direct instruction was administered) to data from March of 2015 (after direct instruction was completed) in order to measure the difference in comprehension. The instrument used was cloze format two-sided notes created by the classroom teacher. The null hypothesis was accepted because the results were not statistically significant that the direct instruction about text features improved comprehension. Further research is necessary to better explore the effect of teaching text features to learning-disabled students to improve comprehension.
I-SiamIDS: an improved Siam-IDS for handling class imbalance in network-based intrusion detection systems
Creators: name: Bedi, Punam
name: Gupta, Neha
name: Jindal, Vinita
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: NIDSs identify malicious activities by analyzing network traffic. NIDSs are trained with the samples of benign and intrusive network traffic. Training samples belong to either majority or minority classes depending upon the number of available instances. Majority classes consist of abundant samples for the normal traffic as well as for recurrent intrusions. Whereas, minority classes include fewer samples for unknown events or infrequent intrusions. NIDSs trained on such imbalanced data tend to give biased predictions against minority attack classes, causing undetected or misclassified intrusions. Past research works handled this class imbalance problem using data-level approaches that either increase minority class samples or decrease majority class samples in the training data set. Although these data-level balancing approaches indirectly improve the performance of NIDSs, they do not address the underlying issue in NIDSs i.e. they are unable to identify attacks having limited training data only. This paper proposes an algorithm-level approach called I-SiamIDS, which is a two-layer ensemble for handling class imbalance problem. I-SiamIDS identifies both majority and minority classes at the algorithm-level without using any data-level balancing techniques. The first layer of I-SiamIDS uses an ensemble of b-XGBoost, Siamese-NN and DNN for hierarchical filtration of input samples to identify attacks. These attacks are then sent to the second layer of I-SiamIDS for classification into different attack classes using m-XGBoost. As compared to its counterparts, I-SiamIDS showed significant improvement in terms of Accuracy, Recall, Precision, F1-score and values of AUC for both NSL-KDD and CIDDS-001 datasets. To further strengthen the results, computational cost analysis was also performed to study the acceptability of the proposed I-SiamIDS.
description: 21 pages
Accretion to Stars with Non-dipole Magnetic Fields
Creators: name: Long, M.
name: Romanova, M. M.
name: Lovelace, R. V. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Disc accretion to a rotating star with a non-dipole magnetic field is investigated for the first time in full three-dimensional (3D) magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations. We investigated the cases of (1) pure dipole, (2) pure quadrupole, and (3) dipole plus quadrupole fields. Simulations have shown that in each case the structure of the funnel streams and associated hot spots on the surface of the star have specific features connected with the magnetic field configuration. In the case (1), matter accretes in two funnel streams which form two arch-like spots near the magnetic poles. In the case (3), most of the matter flows through the quadrupole "belt" forming a ring-shaped hot region on the magnetic equator. In the case (2), magnetic flux in the northern magnetic hemisphere is larger than that in the southern, and the quadrupole belt and the ring are displaced to the south. The stronger the quadrupole, the closer the ring is to the magnetic equator. At sufficiently large misalignment angle $Θ$, matter also flows to the south pole, forming a hot spot near the pole. The light curves have a variety of different features which makes it difficult to derive the magnetic field configuration from the light curves. There are specific features which are different in cases of dipole and quadrupole dominated magnetic field: (1) Angular momentum flow between the star and disc is more efficient in the case of the dipole field; (2) Hot spots are hotter and brighter in case of the dipole field because the matter accelerates over a longer distance compared with the flow in a quadrupole case.
description: 11 pages, 10 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
The Relationship between Reading Comprehension and Interest in Post-Secondary Study and the Assignment Method and Content of Readings Regarding Careers
Creators: name: Hall, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Careers
subject: Comprehension
subject: Post-secondary study
subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: The purpose of this study was to determine whether reading articles about careers of
interest versus general careers would be related to secondary students’ reading
comprehension or affect their interest in pursuing post-secondary education. Interests
were assessed via Secondary Interest Survey (PSIS), which was administered before
and after students read 10 assigned articles about careers. A comprehension assessment
was administered after each reading to determine whether students understood what
they read and whether the article influenced their career interests or feelings about postsecondary
education. No significant differences were found between the comprehension or interests of
the groups, which read about their own career interests or about random careers,
but each group made gains in comprehension scores and interest in attending
college or some other post- secondary institution after completing the readings and
survey.
Ring-localized states, radial aperiodicity and quantum butterflies on a Cayley tree
Creators: name: Mukherjee, Amrita
name: Nandy, Atanu
name: Chakrabarti, Arunava
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an analytical method, based on a real space decimation scheme, to extract the exact eigenvalues of a macroscopically large set of pinned localized excitations in a Cayley tree fractal network. Within a tight binding scheme we exploit the above method to scrutinize the effect of a deterministic deformation of the network, first through a hierarchical distribution in the values of the nearest neighbor hopping integrals, and then through a radial Aubry Andre Harper quasiperiodic modulation. With increasing generation index, the inflating loop less tree structure hosts pinned eigenstates on the peripheral sites that spread from the outermost rings into the bulk of the sample, resembling the spread of a forest fire, lighting up a predictable set of sites and leaving the rest unignited. The penetration depth of the envelope of amplitudes can be precisely engineered. The quasiperiodic modulation yields hitherto unreported quantum butterflies, which have further been investigated by calculating the inverse participation ratio for the eigenstates, and a multifractal analysis. The applicability of the scheme to photonic fractal waveguide networks is discussed at the end.
description: 7 pages, 7 figures
Melitaea Fabricius 1807
Creators: name: Kolesnichenko, Kirill A.
name: Kotlobay, Anatoly A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Nymphalidae
Melitaea

description: Genus Melitaea Fabricius, 1807
Fig. 1–30, Tables 1–6
Our study indicates the existence of four independent species within the complex under consideration: M. lutko, M. mimetica, M. shahvarica sp. nov., and M. timandra. The latter species is well differentiated into two subspecies that are isolated both geographically and ecologically.
description: Published as part of Kolesnichenko, Kirill A. & Kotlobay, Anatoly A., 2022, Review of the fritillary species systematically close to Melitaea lutko Evans, 1932 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) with analysis of their geographic distribution and interrelations with host plants, pp. 1-60 in European Journal of Taxonomy 830 (1) on page 5, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.830.1865, http://zenodo.org/record/6839847
The generalized-Euler-constant function $γ(z)$ and a generalization of Somos's quadratic recurrence constant
Creators: name: Sondow, Jonathan
name: Hadjicostas, Petros
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11M35, 11Y55, 11Y60, 33B15, 33B30, 40A05, 40A20

description: We define the generalized-Euler-constant function $γ(z)=\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} z^{n-1} (\frac{1}{n}-\log \frac{n+1}{n})$ when $|z|\leq 1$. Its values include both Euler's constant $γ=γ(1)$ and the "alternating Euler constant" $\log\frac{4}π=γ(-1)$. We extend Euler's two zeta-function series for $γ$ to polylogarithm series for $γ(z)$. Integrals for $γ(z)$ provide its analytic continuation to $\C-[1,\infty)$. We prove several other formulas for $γ(z)$, including two functional equations; one is an inversion relation between $γ(z)$ and $γ(1/z)$. We generalize Somos's quadratic recurrence constant and sequence to cubic and other degrees, give asymptotic estimates, and show relations to $γ(z)$ and to an infinite nested radical due to Ramanujan. We calculate $γ(z)$ and $γ'(z)$ at roots of unity; in particular, $γ'(-1)$ involves the Glaisher-Kinkelin constant $A$. Several related series, infinite products, and double integrals are evaluated. The methods used involve the Kinkelin-Bendersky hyperfactorial $K$ function, the Weierstrass products for the gamma and Barnes $G$ functions, and Jonquière's relation for the polylogarithm.
description: 26 pages, 2 figures, to appear in J. Math. Anal. Appl
Graduate Students’ in Education Knowledge and Perception of Autism Spectrum Disorder, Social Interventions, and Their Uses
Creators: name: Woodruff, Alycia J.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Autism spectrum disorder
subject: Social interventions
subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: The purpose of this study was to determine graduate students’ in education (n = 46) familiarity with and perception of the effectiveness of a variety of social interventions used with students diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. The measurement tool was a self-report survey designed for this study. Results are reported descriptively. Most of the respondents had limited experience with autism. Direct teaching was the most commonly used intervention and was also selected most often as the most effective intervention by the participants. Group-based instruction and Social Stories were selected second and third most frequently as the most effective intervention. However, since respondents had limited experience working with students with autism spectrum disorder and were unfamiliar with many of the social interventions listed, effectiveness ratings were likely influenced by familiarity. Although a variety of interventions were reported to be effective, there were also reported limitations to the interventions, including lack of resources, generalizability, and time. A variety of social skill behaviors can be addressed with social interventions including increasing prosocial behaviors and decreasing aggression. Implications and ideas for future research are discussed.
Development of Rubrics for Capstone Project Courses: Perspectives from Teachers and Students
Creators: name: Bringula, Rex P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This study attempted to develop fair, relevant, and content-valid assessment tools for capstone project courses. Toward this goal, new rating instruments based on the concept of rubrics were proposed. To ensure that the new instruments were valid and fair, several meetings with faculty and students of the computing science departments (i.e., Computer Science and Information Technology) were successively conducted. Eight faculty members and 10 students participated in the study. The final versions of the instruments were completed after a series of careful deliberations with faculty and students. Faculty and students perceived the new instruments fairer than the previous ones. Since the final instruments will be deployed this semester, their strengths and weaknesses are not yet known at this time. Directions for future research are presented.
Minutes of a Meeting of the Trustees of the Winfield and Okanagan Center Irrigation District, July 23, 1931
Creators: name: Trustees Of The Winfield And Okanagan Centre Irrigation District
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Minutes of a meeting of the Trustees of the Winfield and Okanagan Center Irrigation District, regarding the Duck Lake Flume; list of present trustees include Seaton, McDonald, Read, Goldie and Grey, dated July 23, 1931.
Deriving Gauge Symmetry and Spontaneous Lorentz Violation
Creators: name: Chkareuli, J. L.
name: Froggatt, C. D.
name: Nielsen, H. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a class of field theories with a four-vector field $A_μ(x)$ in addition to other fields supplied with a global charge symmetry - theories which have partial gauge symmetry in the sense of only imposing it on those terms in the Lagrangian density which have derivatives as factors in them. We suppose that spontaneous Lorentz invariance breaking occurs in such a theory due to the four-vector field taking a non-zero vacuum expectation value. Under some very mild assumptions, we show that this Lorentz violation is not observable and the whole theory is practically gauge invariant. A very important presupposition for this theorem is that an initial condition is imposed on the no-derivative expressions corresponding to the early Universe being essentially in a vacuum state. This condition then remains true forever and can be interpreted as a gauge constraint. We formulate the conditions under which the spontaneous Lorentz violation becomes observable. Spontaneously broken Lorentz invariance could be seen by some primordially existing or created "fossil" charges with the property of moving through the Universe with a fixed velocity.
description: Extended version
Exploring global diverse attention via pairwise temporal relation for video summarization
Creators: name: Li, Ping
name: Ye, Qinghao
name: Zhang, Luming
name: Yuan, Li
name: Xu, Xianghua
name: Shao, Ling
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Video summarization is an effective way to facilitate video searching and browsing. Most of existing systems employ encoder-decoder based recurrent neural networks, which fail to explicitly diversify the system-generated summary frames while requiring intensive computations. In this paper, we propose an efficient convolutional neural network architecture for video SUMmarization via Global Diverse Attention called SUM-GDA, which adapts attention mechanism in a global perspective to consider pairwise temporal relations of video frames. Particularly, the GDA module has two advantages: 1) it models the relations within paired frames as well as the relations among all pairs, thus capturing the global attention across all frames of one video; 2) it reflects the importance of each frame to the whole video, leading to diverse attention on these frames. Thus, SUM-GDA is beneficial for generating diverse frames to form satisfactory video summary. Extensive experiments on three data sets, i.e., SumMe, TVSum, and VTW, have demonstrated that SUM-GDA and its extension outperform other competing state-of-the-art methods with remarkable improvements. In addition, the proposed models can be run in parallel with significantly less computational costs, which helps the deployment in highly demanding applications.
description: 12 pages, 8 figures
Reading the constellation : Eudora Welty’s patterns of time, culture, and memory
Creators: name: Sylvester, Barbara J.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Eudora Welty's full stature in world literature is not clear because her canon has not yet been seen as unified by an advertent thematic structure. This oversight stems in part from the fact that critics, seeing her regional detail as an end rather than a means, neglected Lewis Simpson's insistence that Welty is a modernist writer working, like Faulkner, in the tradition of Proust, Joyce, and Eliot. By applying a modernist paradigm to several major volumes of her fiction, I have traced consistent, discernible patterns that can be communicated in classrooms as well as in scholarly discussions. Welty focuses primarily on major transitional eras in national history that particularly illustrate the inevitable disintegration of familiar cultures. Partly by employing Bakhtin's concept of chronotopes, I show that each era she portrays is systematically intersected by parallel cultures of other eras and locales, evoked by allusions to masterpieces of past art works, to historical similarities, and to myths that gave meaning to human life in times of shared belief. The juxtapositions of different cultures comment on a crucial, universal challenge for all humans: to accept time's mutability without evasion or retreat. The fragments of art form a unifying collage, reminding readers of art's importance in sustaining human life by providing codes for emotional and spiritual survival of change. Welty's final work affirms that humanity can put the details of temporal existence into an emotionally liberating perspective by recognizing the constant and reassuring cyclic patterns of the natural world, for these patterns can be held in memory and preserved in art.
Transcription of "Coyote and the Stars"
Creators: name: Parker, Verdena
name: Spence, Justin
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: hup

description: Audio file VP-121221-03: Transcription of "Coyote and the Stars," file VP-090812-05, from the beginning of the story at 00:20 to the end of the story.
The Effects of Integrating Encoding and Decoding Instruction on the Word Attack Skills of Second Grade Students Reading Below Grade Level
Creators: name: Greenbaum, Lindsay
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Encoding
subject: Decoding
subject: Word attack skills
subject: Phonemic awareness
subject: Spelling
subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of teaching encoding instruction during spelling lessons in comparison to also integrating decoding instruction in order to strengthen the word attack skills of second grade students reading below grade level. The measurement tool for this study was a Phonological Awareness Assessment of Nonsense Words developed by the researcher. The study employed a pre-experimental design with a convenience sample of a group of fifteen second-grade students from February 2015 to April 2015. The result of the post assessment showed the students scored significantly higher on the word list which was taught with combined encoding and decoding strategies (Word List 2; Mean = 16.40, SD = 2.41) than on the word list taught with just encoding strategies (Word List 1; Mean = 14.40,
SD = 3.11 [ t(14) = 3.20, p = .006]. Implications and recommendations for future research are discussed and include continuing to examine these instructional methods, both in isolation and combined.
REEEM-D1.2a_First Integrated Impact Report
Creators: name: REEEM Project
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: The current report highlights the key indicators that provide the main insights from the REEEM modelling
 exercise. The indicator selection process is described followed by the illustration of key results coming from 5
 different models. The methodology builds on “REEEM D1.1 Report on Pathway definition”. This report is the
 outcome of a collective effort of the REEEM consortium.
The Effect of Cross-Age Mentoring on Elementary Students Disruptive Behavior
Creators: name: Glee, Chanell
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cross age mentoring
subject: Disruptive behavior
subject: Peer mentoring
subject: Disruptive behavior disorders
subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: The purpose of this study was to determine whether a six-week cross-age mentoring
program could impact the disruptive behavior of first and second graders (N = 10). The
measurement tool was the appropriate learning behavior score, which was based off of
items on students’ report cards. This study involved the use of a pretest/posttest design to
compare data from the third quarter report card (before the intervention was
administered) to data from May of 2015 (after the intervention was complete). The
students had significantly higher post-intervention appropriate learning behavior scores
(Mean = 11.00, SD = 3.09) than pre-intervention appropriate learning behavior scores
(Mean = 9.90, SD = 2.51) [t (9) = 2.91, p = .017]. Implications of the findings are
discussed. Research in the area of cross-age mentoring programs should continue given
the lack of research in this particular type of mentoring especially in the elementary
setting.
The Effects of Parental Involvement on Reading Success in Kindergarten
Creators: name: Brady, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Kindergarten reading
subject: Parental involvement
subject: Reading fluency
subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: A study was conducted to research if there is an improvement in kindergarten students reading fluency, if they read daily at home with an adult. A small sample was used to conduct the research. The students reported their reading on a daily reading log. The data was then broken down into two groups, the number of days read and the number of books read. The researcher observed, a low participation in parental involvement in the daily reading program. As a result, there was a wide range of data. Children who read more days and more books did show a larger gain in reading fluency, however, there was not a significant gain over children who did not read books or many days. More research with a more specific sample is required for concise results.
A Geographic Analysis of Seasonal Agricultural Services Farms
Creators: name: Runyan, Jack L.
name: Oliveira, Victor J.
name: Runyan, Jack L.
name: Oliveira, Victor J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Labor and Human Capital
Production Economics

description: In 1987, over 1 million U.S. farms were classified as seasonal agricultural services (SAS) farms, defined as farms involved in the field production of fruits, vegetables, and other perishable crops. Over half used hired or contract labor during the year and have been targeted for special worker programs under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA). This report analyzes labor expenditure data for farms producing SAS products to determine the geographic location and types of SAS farms that used the greatest amounts of farm labor. SAS farms producing vegetables, fruits and tree nuts, and horticultural specialties had the largest expenditures for hired and contract labor. Large SAS farms with value of sales of $500,000 and over were also labor intensive, accounting for over half of all labor expenditures on SAS farms in 1987. Farms in California and Florida accounted for 36 percent of all SAS labor expenses.
A U(3)_C X U(3)_L X U(3)_R gauge symmetry from intersecting D-branes
Creators: name: Leontaris, G. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A three-family non-supersymmetric model with U(3)^3 gauge symmetry is analyzed in the context of intersecting D-branes. This is equivalent to the `trinification' model extended by three U(1) factors which survive as global symmetries in the low energy effective model. The Standard Model fermions are accommodated in the three possible bifundamental multiplets represented by strings with endpoints attached on different brane-stacks of this particular setup. Further, a natural Quark-Lepton hierarchy is realized due to the existence of the additional abelian symmetries
description: 10 pages
Verb paradigm elicitation: 'to wake someone up'
Creators: name: Parker, Verdena
name: Spence, Justin
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: hup

description: Audio file VP-121221-02: Paradigm elicitation for the verb 'to wake someone up', varying aspect/mode and the person and number of subject and object.
Reduction of quantum noise using the quantum locking with an optical spring for gravitational wave detectors
Creators: name: Yamada, Rika
name: Enomoto, Yutaro
name: Watanabe, Izumi
name: Nagano, Koji
name: Michimura, Yuta
name: Nishizawa, Atsushi
name: Komori, Kentaro
name: Naito, Takeo
name: Morimoto, Taigen
name: Iwaguchi, Shoki
name: Ishikawa, Tomohiro
name: Ando, Masaki
name: Furusawa, Akira
name: Kawamura, Seiji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In our previous research, simulation showed that a quantum locking scheme with homodyne detection in sub-cavities is effective in surpassing the quantum noise limit for Deci-hertz Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (DECIGO) in a limited frequency range. This time we have simulated an optical spring effect in the sub-cavities of the quantum locking scheme. We found that the optimized total quantum noise is reduced in a broader frequency band, compared to the case without the optical spring effect significantly improving the sensitivity of DECIGO to the primordial gravitational waves.
description: 15 pages, 10 figures
A Search for Molecular Gas in the Nucleus of M87 and Implications for the Fueling of Supermassive Black Holes
Creators: name: Tan, Jonathan C.
name: Beuther, Henrik
name: Walter, Fabian
name: Blackman, Eric G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Supermassive black holes in giant elliptical galaxies are remarkably faint given their expected accretion rates. This motivates models of radiatively inefficient accretion, due to either ion-electron thermal decoupling, generation of outflows that inhibit accretion, or settling of gas to a gravitationally unstable disk that forms stars in preference to feeding the black hole. The latter model predicts the presence of cold molecular gas in a thin disk around the black hole. Here we report Submillimeter Array observations of the nucleus of the giant elliptical galaxy M87 that probe 230 GHz continuum and CO(J=2--1) line emission. Continuum emission is detected from the nucleus and several knots in the jet, including one that has been undergoing flaring behavior. We estimate a conservative upper limit on the mass of molecular gas within ~100pc and +-400km/s line of sight velocity of the central black hole of ~8x10^6Msun, which includes an allowance for possible systematic errors associated with subtraction of the continuum. Ignoring such errors, we have a 3 sigma sensitivity to about 3x10^6Msun. In fact, the continuum-subtracted spectrum shows weak emission features extending up to 4 sigma above the RMS dispersion of the line-free channels. These may be artifacts of the continuum subtraction process. Alternatively, if they are interpreted as CO emission, then the implied molecular gas mass is ~5x10^6Msun spread out over a velocity range of 700km/s. These constraints on molecular gas mass are close to the predictions of the model of self-gravitating, star-forming accretion disks fed by Bondi accretion (Tan & Blackman 2005).
description: 10 pages, accepted to ApJ Main Journal
Burkhardt, Friedemann: Christoph Gottlob Müller und die Anfänge des Methodismus in Deutschland
Creators: name: Twardowski, Stephan Von
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 56 Nr. 1 (2007): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 56, Heft 1
Frobenius splittings of toric varieties
Creators: name: Payne, Sam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14M25; 13A35, 16S37, 14M15

description: We discuss a characteristic free version of Frobenius splittings for toric varieties and give a polyhedral criterion for a toric variety to be diagonally split. We apply this criterion to show that section rings of nef line bundles on diagonally split toric varieties are normally presented and Koszul, and that Schubert varieties are not diagonally split in general.
description: 11 pages, 2 figures. v3: improved exposition throughout; removed Section 5 due to gap in proof of Theorem 1.5. To appear in Algebra and Number Theory
Well-balanced lattice Boltzmann equation for two-phase flows
Creators: name: Guo, Zhaoli
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The standard lattice Boltzmann equation (LBE) method usually fails to capture the physical equilibrium state of a two-phase fluid system, i.e., zero velocity and constant chemical potential. Consequently, spurious velocities and inconsistent thermodynamic density properties are frequently encountered in LBE simulations. In this work, based on a rigorous analysis of the discrete balance equation of LBE, we identify the structure of the force imbalance due to discretization errors from different parts. Then a well-balanced LBE is proposed which can achieve the discrete equilibrium state. The well-balanced properties of the LBE are confirmed by some numerical tests of a flat interface problem and a droplet system.
description: 9 papes, 5 figures; presented at the 11th Conference on Fluid Dynamics of China (Shen Zheng, Dec. 2-7, 2020)
A new signature for color octet pseudoscalars at the LHC
Creators: name: Zerwekh, Alfonso R.
name: Dib, Claudio O.
name: Rosenfeld, Rogerio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Color octet (pseudo)scalars, if they exist, will be copiously produced at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). However, their detection can become a very challenging task. In particular, if their decay into a pair of top quarks is kinematically forbidden, the main decay channel would be into two jets, with a very large background. In this Brief Report we explore the possibility of using anomaly-induced decays of the color octet pseudoscalars into gauge bosons to find them at the LHC.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures. New references added
The Impact of Synthetic Turf on Goucher College Men’s and Women’s Lacrosse Teams
Creators: name: Chambers, Alexandra W.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Athletes
subject: Survey
subject: Record
subject: Synthetic turf
subject: Grass field
subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of synthetic turf on the men’s and women’s
lacrosse teams at Goucher College. The measurement tool for the study was overall team records
five years prior to and five years following the installation of synthetic turf. The statistics that
were analyzed through a survey were gender, number of years the student athlete played lacrosse,
primary position, and school status level. Each athlete was asked about incidents of dehydration,
heat exhaustion, and heat stroke. The survey asked each athlete about any injuries and the effects
on loss of practice and game time, or a season ending injury in the areas of upper body, lower
body, and concussions. The areas of performance examined were agility, endurance, skill level,
and anticipation of opponent and ball movement. This study was quasi-experimental in that it
included student perceptions and team records. The men’s team showed no significant impact on
the number of wins and losses with the installation of synthetic turf. The women’s team had a
significant negative impact on the number of wins and losses after synthetic turf was installed.
Studies related to this topic should continue as there has been little longitudinal research
examining the impact of synthetic turf on lacrosse players.
The Effects of Service-Learning Courses on Students Participating in Service Projects
Creators: name: Brown, Ellen
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Service learning
subject: Community based learning
subject: Community service
subject: Volunteers
subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: Evidence documenting the efficacy of participating in service during the undergraduate years is abundant, however, little attention has been paid to how the effects of service-learning compare with the effects of volunteer service in general (Eyler, Giles, Stenson, & Gray, 2001). The purpose of this study was to assess and compare the personal, social and academic impact of college students who did and did not enroll in a service-learning course while participating in a community service project. The hypothesis was that there will be no difference in student personal outcomes, student social outcomes, and outcomes related to learning between the student participating in service-learning courses and group of volunteers for the same service project. A causal comparative study was conducted to compare the experience of community service work of college students that participated in service-learning courses and those who did not. In addition to basic participation in community service information, ratings from a survey were obtained to assess student personal outcomes, student social outcomes, and outcomes related to learning. The hypothesis was tested and no statistically significant differences were found for questions that both groups shared.
Quantum Scattering of Distinguishable Bosons using an Ultracold Atom Collider
Creators: name: Mellish, Angela S.
name: Kjaergaard, Niels
name: Julienne, Paul S.
name: Wilson, Andrew C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe a new implementation of magnetic collider for investigating cold collisions between ultracold atomic clouds in different spin states, and we use this to investigate scattering involving both even and odd order partial waves. Our method relies on the axial assymetry of a double-well magnetic trap to selectively prepare the spin state in each cloud. We measure the energy dependence of s, p and d partial wave phase shifts in collisions up to 300 microKelvin between ^{87}Rb atoms in the 5S_{1/2}, F=1, m_F=-1 and 5S_{1/2}, F=2, m_F=1 states.
The Effect of Teacher Absenteeism on 8th Grade Students’ Behavior and Attendance in an Urban 6-12 Charter School
Creators: name: Brooks, Sidney A.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of teacher absenteeism on student
behavior and attendance rates in an urban charter school that serves students in grades six
through twelve. The sample groups consisted of 68 eighth grade students and five (5)
teachers. This quasi-experimental design study was conducted over an eight-week time
period. The disciplinary reports and attendance records of the student participants were
identified and monitored through the online Student Management System (SMS). The
attendance of adult participants was identified and monitored through the online Principal
Dashboard system and internal paper-based logs. According to this study, there was no
significant difference in the number of student discipline referrals made by teachers with
high and those with low absence rates. Additionally, teacher absence seemed to have
little statistical influence on student attendance rates. However, the data did show that
teacher tardiness did have a significant effect on student behavior. Teachers with a high
rate of tardiness made more referrals than teachers with a low rate of tardiness. Finally,
students taught by teachers with a high rate of tardiness also had significant rates of
tardiness when compared to their peers taught by teachers with low rates of tardiness.
Student absence was the same no matter if the teacher had high or low rates of tardiness.
These findings suggest that teachers who are frequently absent do not significantly alter
the behaviors and attendance of the students that they teach. However, teachers who are
frequently tardy significantly affect the behavior and tardiness of their students. Actions
are required to support, develop, or remove teachers who are frequently tardy in order to
limit the effect of teacher tardiness on overall school climate and culture. This is
particularly important when this negative behavior is concentrated in one grade level or
department.
Group Actions and Covering Maps in the Uniform Category
Creators: name: Brodskiy, N.
name: Dydak, J.
name: Labuz, B.
name: Mitra, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: General Topology (math.GN)
subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 55Q52, 55M10, 54E15

description: In Rips Complexes and Covers in the Uniform Category (arXiv:0706.3937) we define, following James, covering maps of uniform spaces and introduce the concept of generalized uniform covering maps. In this paper we investigate when these covering maps are induced by group actions. Also, as an application of our results we present an exposition of Prajs' homogeneous curve that is path-connected but not locally connected.
description: 16 pages