cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A Lindahl Solution to International Emissions Trading
Creators: name: Nishimura, Yukihiro
name: Nishimura, Yukihiro
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: International Development
subject: International emissions trading
subject: Global externality
subject: Lindahl equilibrium
subject: Efficiency
subject: Equity
subject: Core
subject: Implementability
subject: Second-best analysis

description: We consider international negotiations on the level of global pollution, and examine the Lindahl solution which determines the distribution of the pollution permits with unanimous agreement. We show various properties to clarify difficulties to achieve a Pareto efficient allocation as an agreement. The Lindahl solution may result in an unfair allocation, and it does not belong to the -core as in other solutions based on emissions trading. On the other hand, we provide mechanisms that implement the Lindahl solution as the subgame-perfect equilibrium. We also consider the market with region-specfic prices as a device to induce second-best Pareto efficient allocations.
Design and Selection of Additional Residuals to Enhance Fault Isolation of a Turbocharged Spark Ignited Engine System
Creators: name: Ng, K. Y.
name: Frisk, E.
name: Krysander, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This paper presents a method to enhance fault isolation without adding physical sensors on a turbocharged spark ignited petrol engine system by designing additional residuals from an initial observer-based residuals setup. The best candidates from all potential additional residuals are selected using the concept of sequential residual generation to ensure best fault isolation performance for the least number of additional residuals required. A simulation testbed is used to generate realistic engine data for the design of the additional residuals and the fault isolation performance is verified using structural analysis method.
description: 6 pages, 10 figures, To appear in 7th International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies (CoDIT'20)
Envy Minimization in the Optimal Tax Context
Creators: name: Nishimura, Yukihiro
name: Nishimura, Yukihiro
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Income Taxation
subject: Envy

description: This paper examines the second-best tax policy to minimize envy in the sense of Chaudhuri (1986) and Diamantaras and Thomson (1990). An allocation is -equitable if no agent prefers a proportion of any other agent's bundle. We study the allocations that maximize among the second-best Pareto efficient allocations. In the standard two-class economy with identical preferences, the Chaudhuri-Diamantaras-Thomson allocation coincides with the leximin allocation. In many-agent economies, it is possible to order the class of second-best Pareto efficient allocations graded by progressivity in the sense of Hemming and Keen (1983), with respect to the intensity of envy. Envy is then minimized in the most progressive tax system.
Beyond the manuscript: Using IRs for non-traditional content types
Creators: name: Ilik, Violeta
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Institutional repositories
subject: Scholarly communication
subject: Institutional repositories

description: NISO Virtual Conference - Institutional Repositories: Ensuring Your IR is Populated, Useful and Thriving Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Identification of mutagenic electrophiles in chlorinated water and characterization of nucleoside adducts formed in DNA by phenanthrene-9,10-oxide
Creators: name: Xiao, Wei
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 34
subject: Chemical sciences
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
classificationCode: 3401
subject: Analytical chemistry

description: This research has been directed towards identifying mutagens that are present in chlorinated drinking water and investigating the addition reactions of two mutagens that may be present, 3-chloro-4-(dichloromethyl)-5-hydroxy-2-(5H)-furanone (MX) and phenanthrene-9,10-oxide (PhO), with nucleophiles such as thiols or DNA. An immobilized nucleophile, 5-mercapto-2-nitrobenzoic acid (MNB) attached by an ester linkage to a polysaccharide coating of controlled pore glass, was used to trap the unknown mutagenic electrophiles present in chlorinated drinking water, permitting the removal of the bulk of noncovalently bound matrix by washing. This was followed by the release, isolation and identification of the trapped unknowns. Overall recovery of model electrophiles from this process was up to 67%. MX was reacted with the nucleophile 4-nitrothiophenol (NTP) in order to investigate the types of addition products that might be formed. Attempts were made to determine the stability of MX in solution, optimize MX-NTP reaction conditions and isolate the addition products using HPLC. Characterization of the DNA adducts formed by a second mutagenic electrophile, phenanthrene-9,10-oxide (PhO), was performed. The reaction of PhO with DNA formed covalent nucleoside adducts at the exocyclic amino groups of 2$\sp\prime$-deoxyadenosine (dA, 42.9%) and 2$\sp\prime$-deoxyguanosine (dG, 52.2%), in addition to a minor 2$\sp\prime$-deoxycytidine (dC, 4.9%) adduct. In order to determine unequivocally the structures of the chiral pairs of cis and trans dA adducts formed from PhO, the adducts were chemically synthesized from chiral cis and trans 9-amino-10-hydroxy-9,10-dihydrophenanthrene of known configuration. Assignment of absolute configurations of the four PhO-dA adducts formed in DNA was accomplished by comparison of their HPLC retention times and circular dichroism spectra with those of synthesized adducts.
Online Supplemental Material 1. Search Strategy for the first search in identifying fatigue patient-reported outcome measures in adults with inflammatory bowel disease
Creators: name: Fan, Vanessa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 110307 Gastroenterology and Hepatology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Online Supplemental Material 1. Search Strategy for the first search in identifying fatigue patient-reported outcome measures in adults with inflammatory bowel disease for the Systematic review: Patient-reported outcome measures of fatigue in inflammatory bowel disease
Additional file 4 of A metabolic switch regulates the transition between growth and diapause in C. elegans
Creators: name: Sider Penkov
name: Bharath Kumar Raghuraman
name: Erkut, Cihan
name: Oertel, Jana
name: Galli, Roberta
name: Ackerman, Eduardo Jacobo Miranda
name: Vorkel, Daniela
name: Jean-Marc Verbavatz
name: Koch, Edmund
name: Fahmy, Karim
name: Shevchenko, Andrej
name: Teymuras V. Kurzchalia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 4: Figure S4. DAF-16 controls the catabolism of energy reserves in dauer larvae. a TLC of lipids and sugars in daf-2 dauers and daf-2;daf-12 arrested L3 larvae grown at 25 °C, and wild-type (N2) dauers and daf-16 dauer-like larvae grown on 4-MS in the period after the developmental arrest is completed. TG – triglycerides, GlcCer – glucosylceramides, Mar – maradolipids, PE – phosphatidylethanolamines, PS – phosphatidylserines, PI – phosphatidylinositols, PC – phosphatidylcholines, Glc – glucose, Tre – trehalose. Representative images of at least 2 experiments. b 2D-TLC of amino acids from the same types of animals as in (a). Arg – arginine, Lys – lysine, Glu – glutamate, Gly – glycine, Ser - serine, Gln – glutamine, Ala – alanine, Thr - threonine. Representative images of at least 2 experiments.
Impurity-induced stabilization of Luttinger liquid in quasi-one-dimensional conductors
Creators: name: Artemenko, S. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown theoretically that the Luttinger liquid phase in quasi-one-dimensional conductors can exist in the presence of impurities in a form of a collection of bounded Luttinger liquids. The conclusion is based upon the observation by Kane and Fisher that a local impurity potential in Luttinger liquid acts, at low energies, as an infinite barrier. This leads to a discrete spectrum of collective charge and spin density fluctuations, so that interchain hopping can be considered as a small parameter at temperatures below the minimum excitation energy of the collective modes. The results are compared with recent experimental observation of a Luttinger-liquid-like behavior in thin NbSe$_3$ and TaS$_3$ wires.
description: 11 pages, revtex, final version published in JETP Letts
Emergency Department Based Interventions for Youth with Firearm and Assault-Related Injuries: A Scoping Review Protocol
Creators: name: Kemal, Samaa
name: Hernandez, Jethel
name: Donnelly, Katie
name: Nunes, Denise
name: Fein, Joel
name: Sheehan, Karen
Publisher: name: Prism. Galter Health Sciences Library. Northwestern University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Gunshot wounds
subject: Wounds, Gunshot
subject: Emergency medicine
subject: Pediatric Emergency Medicine
subject: Pediatric emergencies
subject: Child
subject: Infant
subject: Adolescent
subject: United States

description: This scoping review aims to describe what interventions are currently being utilized for children presenting to the Emergency Department (ED) with firearm and assault-related injuries.  A comprehensive understanding of the current landscape of ED-based interventions for children with violent injuries will help identify gaps in the literature to inform future directions in pediatric violent injury prevention.
A survey of undergraduate students at Brazilian federal universities: Personal background, socioeconomic characteristics and perception of selected academic experiences
Creators: name: Fontenele E Silva Gomes, Maria Luiza
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The purpose of this study was to describe a sample of undergraduate students at Brazilian federal universities, in terms of certain personal and socioeconomic background characteristics, and the students' perceptions of selected academic experiences. The study also identified some of the students' instructional and developmental needs that could be addressed through adequate programs at the university. A random sample of 3,636 undergraduate students enrolled at ten Brazilian federal universities in five different regions of the country completed the Brazilian College Student Questionnaire. The data were processed through the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). It was found that except for a few characteristics common to all undergraduates, students of federal universities were quite diverse in terms of personal background and socioeconomic characteristics. These differences showed a response pattern associated with the geographical location of their university. Differences were also found regarding the students' academic experiences related to processes of instruction, academic performance and campus resources. But unlike the results on personal background and socioeconomic characteristics, these differences did not show a strong regional response pattern. Analysis of data of the national sample as a whole, yielded the following findings: there was found to be a slight majority of female students; the predominant age group was between 18 and 23 years for both sexes, and the vast majority of those students were single and had no children. Most of those students had attended a private high school, passed the university entrance examination the first time, and expressed interest in pursuing a graduate degree. Almost half of the students' parents did not have formal education beyond elementary school, over half of the students reported having three or more siblings, and coming from families whose total income was up to US$850.00 monthly. Students reported only a moderate degree of satisfaction with their teachers, and they were critical of most campus resources. Finally, study implications and recommendations for future research were specified.
The Twitter Explorer: a Framework for Observing Twitter through Interactive Networks
Creators: name: Pournaki, Armin
name: Gaisbauer, Felix
name: Banisch, Sven
name: Olbrich, Eckehard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: D.2.2; E.1

description: We present an open-source interface for scientists to explore Twitter data through interactive network visualizations. Combining data collection, transformation and visualization in one easily accessible framework, the twitter explorer connects distant and close reading of Twitter data through the interactive exploration of interaction networks and semantic networks. By lowering the technological barriers of data-driven research, it aims to attract researchers from various disciplinary backgrounds and facilitates new perspectives in the thriving field of computational social science.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures
A survey of undergraduate students at Brazilian federal universities: Personal background, socioeconomic characteristics and perception of selected academic experiences
Creators: name: Fontenele E Silva Gomes, Maria Luiza
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3903
subject: Education systems
classificationCode: 3904
subject: Specialist studies in education

description: The purpose of this study was to describe a sample of undergraduate students at Brazilian federal universities, in terms of certain personal and socioeconomic background characteristics, and the students' perceptions of selected academic experiences. The study also identified some of the students' instructional and developmental needs that could be addressed through adequate programs at the university. A random sample of 3,636 undergraduate students enrolled at ten Brazilian federal universities in five different regions of the country completed the Brazilian College Student Questionnaire. The data were processed through the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). It was found that except for a few characteristics common to all undergraduates, students of federal universities were quite diverse in terms of personal background and socioeconomic characteristics. These differences showed a response pattern associated with the geographical location of their university. Differences were also found regarding the students' academic experiences related to processes of instruction, academic performance and campus resources. But unlike the results on personal background and socioeconomic characteristics, these differences did not show a strong regional response pattern. Analysis of data of the national sample as a whole, yielded the following findings: there was found to be a slight majority of female students; the predominant age group was between 18 and 23 years for both sexes, and the vast majority of those students were single and had no children. Most of those students had attended a private high school, passed the university entrance examination the first time, and expressed interest in pursuing a graduate degree. Almost half of the students' parents did not have formal education beyond elementary school, over half of the students reported having three or more siblings, and coming from families whose total income was up to US$850.00 monthly. Students reported only a moderate degree of satisfaction with their teachers, and they were critical of most campus resources. Finally, study implications and recommendations for future research were specified.
The Casimir effect: Recent controversies and progress
Creators: name: Milton, Kimball A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The phenomena implied by the existence of quantum vacuum fluctuations, grouped under the title of the Casimir effect, are reviewed, with emphasis on new results discovered in the past four years. The Casimir force between parallel plates is rederived as the strong-coupling limit of $δ$-function potential planes. The role of surface divergences is clarified. A summary of effects relevant to measurements of the Casimir force between real materials is given, starting from a geometrical optics derivation of the Lifshitz formula, and including a rederivation of the Casimir-Polder forces. A great deal of attention is given to the recent controversy concerning temperature corrections to the Casimir force between real metal surfaces. A summary of new improvements to the proximity force approximation is given, followed by a synopsis of the current experimental situation. New results on Casimir self-stress are reported, again based on $δ$- function potentials. Progress in understanding divergences in the self-stress of dielectric bodies is described, in particular the status of a continuing calculation of the self-stress of a dielectric cylinder. Casimir effects for solitons, and the status of the so-called dynamical Casimir effect, are summarized. The possibilities of understanding dark energy, strongly constrained by both cosmological and terrestrial experiments, in terms of quantum fluctuations are discussed. Throughout, the centrality of quantum vacuum energy in fundamental physics in emphasized.
description: 80 pages, 7 eps figures, uses iopart.cls and iopams.sty
Alleviating confounding in spatio-temporal areal models with an application on crimes against women in India
Creators: name: Adin, A.
name: Goicoa, T.
name: Hodges, J. S.
name: Schnell, P.
name: Ugarte, M. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Assessing associations between a response of interest and a set of covariates in spatial areal models is the leitmotiv of ecological regression. However, the presence of spatially correlated random effects can mask or even bias estimates of such associations due to confounding effects if they are not carefully handled. Though potentially harmful, confounding issues have often been ignored in practice leading to wrong conclusions about the underlying associations between the response and the covariates. In spatio-temporal areal models, the temporal dimension may emerge as a new source of confounding, and the problem may be even worse. In this work, we propose two approaches to deal with confounding of fixed effects by spatial and temporal random effects, while obtaining good model predictions. In particular, restricted regression and an apparently -- though in fact not -- equivalent procedure using constraints are proposed within both fully Bayes and empirical Bayes approaches. The methods are compared in terms of fixed-effect estimates and model selection criteria. The techniques are used to assess the association between dowry deaths and certain socio-demographic covariates in the districts of Uttar Pradesh, India.
Interferometric differentiation between resonant Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering and nonresonant four-wave-mixing processes
Creators: name: Marks, Daniel L.
name: Vinegoni, Claudio
name: Bredfeldt, Jeremy S.
name: Boppart, Stephen A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A major impediment of using Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering to identify biological molecules is that the illumination levels required to produce a measurable signal often also produce significant nonresonant background from the medium, especially from water, that is not specific to the resonance being investigated. We present a method of using nonlinear interferometry to measure the temporal shape of the anti-Stokes signal to differentiate which components are resonant and nonresonant. This method is easily adaptable to most existing pulsed CARS illumination methods and should allow for distinguishing resonant CARS when using higher energy pulses. By examining the differences between signals produced by acetone and water, we show that the resonant and nonresonant signals can be clearly differentiated.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures
Kinematic decomposition of IllustrisTNG disk galaxies: morphology and relation with morphological structures
Creators: name: Du, Min
name: Ho, Luis C.
name: Debattista, Victor P.
name: Pillepich, Annalisa
name: Nelson, Dylan
name: Zhao, Dongyao
name: Hernquist, Lars
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We recently developed an automated method, auto-GMM to decompose simulated galaxies. It extracts kinematic structures in an accurate, efficient, and unsupervised way. We use auto-GMM to study the stellar kinematic structures of disk galaxies from the TNG100 run of IllustrisTNG. We identify four to five structures that are commonly present among the diverse galaxy population. Structures having strong to moderate rotation are defined as cold and warm disks, respectively. Spheroidal structures dominated by random motions are classified as bulges or stellar halos, depending on how tightly bound they are. Disky bulges are structures that have moderate rotation but compact morphology. Across all disky galaxies and accounting for the stellar mass within 3 half-mass radii, the kinematic spheroidal structures, obtained by summing up stars of bulges and halos, contribute ~45% of the total stellar mass, while the disky structures constitute 55%. This study also provides important insights about the relationship between kinematically and morphologically derived galactic structures. Comparing the morphology of kinematic structures with that of traditional bulge+disk decomposition, we conclude: (1) the morphologically decomposed bulges are composite structures comprised of a slowly rotating bulge, an inner halo, and a disky bulge; (2) kinematically disky bulges, akin to what are commonly called pseudo bulges in observations, are compact disk-like components that have rotation similar to warm disks; (3) halos contribute almost 30% of the surface density of the outer part of morphological disks when viewed face-on; and (4) both cold and warm disks are often truncated in central regions.
description: 20 pages, 14 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ. The mass fraction catalogue and images of the kinematically derived galactic structures are publicly available (https://www.tng-project.org/data/docs/specifications/#sec5m)
Status and perspectives of sin2alpha measurements
Creators: name: Sagawa, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the neutral B meson system, it is possible to measure the CKM angle alpha using the decay mode b -> u ubar d in the presence of pollution from gluonic b -> d penguin decays. Here the recent status of the measurements of CP-violating asymmetry parameters using time-dependent analyses in B -> pi+pi- and B -> rho pi decays and the perspectives of a sin2alpha measurement are presented.
description: Invited talk at the Workshop on the CKM Unitarity Triangle, IPPP Durham, April 2003 (eConf C0304052). 7 pages LaTeX, 13 eps figures
Experimental Investigation of 5G Base Station functionalities in Reverberation Chamber at Millimeter-Wave
Creators: name: Colombo, Michele
name: Diamanti, Riccardo
name: Bastianelli, Luca
name: Gradoni, Gabriele
name: Colella, Emanuel
name: Primiani, Valter Mariani
name: Moglie, Franco
name: Micheli, Davide
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The performance and functionalities of a commercial fifth generation base station are evaluated inside the reverberation chamber at the mmWave frequency range. The base station capability to operates in different propagation environment conditions reproduced by the reverberation chamber is investigated. Throughput, modulation code scheme and beamforming are analyzed for different real life scenarios both in uplink and downlink. Experimental results inform network operators in their evaluation of the base station operation: i) in many scenarios within a laboratory; ii) in the assessment of whether expected benefit justifies the additional costs in an operating actual network.
An examination of Charles Hartshorne's process philosophy of religion in the light of Abhidhamma Buddhist philosophy
Creators: name: Harding, Richard Wallace
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 50
subject: Philosophy and religious studies
classificationCode: 5003
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
classificationCode: 5005
subject: Theology
classificationCode: 500501
subject: Theology

description: This study argues that Hartshorne, after he makes a promising beginning in developing a metaphysics that allows for the attainment of value, fails adequately to distinguish success from failure in the attainment of value. This study then further argues that Abhidhamma Buddhist philosophy, which begins with metaphysical doctrines which are remarkably similar to Hartshorne's doctrines, draws conclusions which are both more consistent with these doctrines and more conducive to distinguishing value from dis-value. This study finds that Hartshorne's beginning is especially promising in that he reformulates process philosophy to meet the demands of contemporary logic and semantics. Despite criticisms of metaphysics from logicians and semanticists Hartshorne ably defends the rationality of metaphysical claims, in particular claims concerning unit occasions and how they allow for freedom, which is crucial for the attainment of value. Following this beginning, however, Hartshorne's philosophy gets into difficulty through the implication that whatever occurs is an instance of value. The ideal of this philosophy, the divinity, is present to the events of the world to ensure that they instantiate value. This study then argues that Abhidhamma Buddhist philosophy is useful for correcting this difficulty. The ideal of this philosophy, Nibbana, is a goal that is possible to attain, but the attainment of the goal is dependent on individual effort. This effort, in turn, follows criteria which indicate to the individual whether the quest for the goal is succeeding or failing. These criteria, in turn, follow principles of intelligibility, testability, and meaning; one finds that there is a goal to attain, and a path leading to the goal, through individual verification. The relation of the path to the goal, in turn, is an intelligible causal relation. Not only, then, does Abhidhamma Buddhist philosophy succeed where Hartshorne fails in determining the practical matter of value, but also in determining the theoretical matter of satisfying logical and semantic criteria. This study concludes that a philosophy needs to determine truth in order to determine value, and Abhidhamma Buddhist philosophy is more promising with respect to determining truth than Hartshornian process philosophy.
An examination of Charles Hartshorne's process philosophy of religion in the light of Abhidhamma Buddhist philosophy
Creators: name: Harding, Richard Wallace
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This study argues that Hartshorne, after he makes a promising beginning in developing a metaphysics that allows for the attainment of value, fails adequately to distinguish success from failure in the attainment of value. This study then further argues that Abhidhamma Buddhist philosophy, which begins with metaphysical doctrines which are remarkably similar to Hartshorne's doctrines, draws conclusions which are both more consistent with these doctrines and more conducive to distinguishing value from dis-value. This study finds that Hartshorne's beginning is especially promising in that he reformulates process philosophy to meet the demands of contemporary logic and semantics. Despite criticisms of metaphysics from logicians and semanticists Hartshorne ably defends the rationality of metaphysical claims, in particular claims concerning unit occasions and how they allow for freedom, which is crucial for the attainment of value. Following this beginning, however, Hartshorne's philosophy gets into difficulty through the implication that whatever occurs is an instance of value. The ideal of this philosophy, the divinity, is present to the events of the world to ensure that they instantiate value. This study then argues that Abhidhamma Buddhist philosophy is useful for correcting this difficulty. The ideal of this philosophy, Nibbana, is a goal that is possible to attain, but the attainment of the goal is dependent on individual effort. This effort, in turn, follows criteria which indicate to the individual whether the quest for the goal is succeeding or failing. These criteria, in turn, follow principles of intelligibility, testability, and meaning; one finds that there is a goal to attain, and a path leading to the goal, through individual verification. The relation of the path to the goal, in turn, is an intelligible causal relation. Not only, then, does Abhidhamma Buddhist philosophy succeed where Hartshorne fails in determining the practical matter of value, but also in determining the theoretical matter of satisfying logical and semantic criteria. This study concludes that a philosophy needs to determine truth in order to determine value, and Abhidhamma Buddhist philosophy is more promising with respect to determining truth than Hartshornian process philosophy.
The opinions of admissions officers at selective postsecondary institutions on the appropriateness of independent consultant services in the college admissions process
Creators: name: Turner, II, Harry O'Neal
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This study determined the opinions of admissions officers at selective postsecondary institutions on the appropriateness of independent consultant services in the college admissions process. In addition, it ascertained differences in such opinions when the admissions officers were classified by their employing institutions' funding (i.e., private versus public), size of undergraduate enrollment (under 6,000 versus over 6,000), and academic emphasis (liberal arts versus university). Five research questions and three hypotheses were developed in this study pertaining to the opinions of a sample of admissions professionals regarding the appropriateness of the independent consultant providing services in five areas of college and university admissions: information gathering, list creation, personal presentation, application and client representation. Data used to address the research questions and to test the study hypotheses were elicited in June of 1991 from the admissions officer with the most responsibility for interacting with the independent consultant on admissions matters at each of the 157 selective postsecondary institutions. One hundred thirty (82.8 percent) instruments were completed properly and returned. Data analysis entailed the compilation of frequencies and percentages of admissions officer respondent opinions as they pertained to each of five research questions. Three study hypotheses were tested through the use of the t-test statistic. The.05 level was the standard set for significance. The 130 admissions officer respondents said that nine of the thirty-seven services considered (24 percent) were viewed as "appropriate." This seems to warrant the conclusion that the independent consultant's role in college admissions is not fully endorsed by college admissions officers. The opinions of admissions officers on the appropriateness of the independent consultant providing the set of thirty-seven services when classified by institutional funding, size of undergraduate enrollment, and academic emphasis were not found to be significantly related. While the data did not support the view that admissions officers employed by either small or liberal arts institutions are generally more agreeable as to the value of the independent consultant in the admissions process than are their counterparts at large or university institutions, it indicated that admissions officers at private institutions value the services provided by the independent consultant more than do their counterparts at public institutions.
title: Diversity, ecology and domoic acid production of Pseudo-nitzschia spp. in Scottish waters
Creators: name: Fehling, Johanna
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2004

description: Some diatoms of the genus Pseudo-nitzschia produce the toxin domoic acid (DA). Accumulation of DA in shellfish has led to harvesting closures in western Scottish waters since 1999. This thesis investigated the diversity, ecology and distribution of toxic and non-toxic Pseudo-nitzschia species in western Scottish waters and physiological aspects of growth and toxin production dynamics of P. seriata. The temporal and spatial distribution of phytoplankton was analysed in two separate field studies. 1) Temporal changes were followed by sampling a site in coastal Scottish waters weekly to fortnightly over a period of three years. 2) The spatial distribution of the phytoplankton community was investigated by sampling a transect across the shelf. Within both studies, physical, biological and chemical parameters were measured and correlated to temporal and spatial distribution patterns in the phytoplankton community, indicating seasonality, and differences in the distribution of toxic and non-toxic Pseudo-nitzschia species between coastal and offshore waters. From those samplings 59 clonal cultures of Pseudo-nitzschia, comprising 7 species (2 of them toxic), were established. Strains were identified via classic morphological and genetic techniques. Phylogenetic relationships were established between Scottish Pseudo-nitzschia strains. P. seriata was identified for the first time in Scottish waters as a DA producer. Laboratory experiments with cultured strains showed a) enhanced toxin production by P. seriata under silicate (Si) and phosphate (P) limitation, with higher DA production under Si than under P limitation b) similar cell yields of P. seriata, when grown in nitrate or ammonia based media c) a preference for spring light conditions (short day length) in a non-toxic P. delicatissima strain and summer light conditions (long day length) for a toxic P. seriata strain, expressed by enhanced biomass yield under the respective light condition. It was also shown that the presence of bacteria enhanced the growth of single P. seriata cells.
The opinions of admissions officers at selective postsecondary institutions on the appropriateness of independent consultant services in the college admissions process
Creators: name: Turner, II, Harry O'Neal
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3903
subject: Education systems
classificationCode: 3904
subject: Specialist studies in education

description: This study determined the opinions of admissions officers at selective postsecondary institutions on the appropriateness of independent consultant services in the college admissions process. In addition, it ascertained differences in such opinions when the admissions officers were classified by their employing institutions' funding (i.e., private versus public), size of undergraduate enrollment (under 6,000 versus over 6,000), and academic emphasis (liberal arts versus university). Five research questions and three hypotheses were developed in this study pertaining to the opinions of a sample of admissions professionals regarding the appropriateness of the independent consultant providing services in five areas of college and university admissions: information gathering, list creation, personal presentation, application and client representation. Data used to address the research questions and to test the study hypotheses were elicited in June of 1991 from the admissions officer with the most responsibility for interacting with the independent consultant on admissions matters at each of the 157 selective postsecondary institutions. One hundred thirty (82.8 percent) instruments were completed properly and returned. Data analysis entailed the compilation of frequencies and percentages of admissions officer respondent opinions as they pertained to each of five research questions. Three study hypotheses were tested through the use of the t-test statistic. The.05 level was the standard set for significance. The 130 admissions officer respondents said that nine of the thirty-seven services considered (24 percent) were viewed as "appropriate." This seems to warrant the conclusion that the independent consultant's role in college admissions is not fully endorsed by college admissions officers. The opinions of admissions officers on the appropriateness of the independent consultant providing the set of thirty-seven services when classified by institutional funding, size of undergraduate enrollment, and academic emphasis were not found to be significantly related. While the data did not support the view that admissions officers employed by either small or liberal arts institutions are generally more agreeable as to the value of the independent consultant in the admissions process than are their counterparts at large or university institutions, it indicated that admissions officers at private institutions value the services provided by the independent consultant more than do their counterparts at public institutions.
Additional file 3 of A metabolic switch regulates the transition between growth and diapause in C. elegans
Creators: name: Sider Penkov
name: Bharath Kumar Raghuraman
name: Erkut, Cihan
name: Oertel, Jana
name: Galli, Roberta
name: Ackerman, Eduardo Jacobo Miranda
name: Vorkel, Daniela
name: Jean-Marc Verbavatz
name: Koch, Edmund
name: Fahmy, Karim
name: Shevchenko, Andrej
name: Teymuras V. Kurzchalia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3: Figure S3. Cumulative heat dissipation of larvae in a developmentally arrested state. Left panels - biological replicates generated in various experiments. Right panels - corresponding median heat per experiment. a Heat produced by daf-2 dauers and daf-2;daf-12 arrested L3 larvae grown at 25 °C. Corresponding to Fig. 2a. b Heat produced by N2 and daf-16 larvae grown on 4-MS. Corresponding to Fig. 2c.
Neural-Network Heuristics for Adaptive Bayesian Quantum Estimation
Creators: name: Fiderer, Lukas J.
name: Schuff, Jonas
name: Braun, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Quantum metrology promises unprecedented measurement precision but suffers in practice from the limited availability of resources such as the number of probes, their coherence time, or non-classical quantum states. The adaptive Bayesian approach to parameter estimation allows for an efficient use of resources thanks to adaptive experiment design. For its practical success fast numerical solutions for the Bayesian update and the adaptive experiment design are crucial. Here we show that neural networks can be trained to become fast and strong experiment-design heuristics using a combination of an evolutionary strategy and reinforcement learning. Neural-network heuristics are shown to outperform established heuristics for the technologically important example of frequency estimation of a qubit that suffers from dephasing. Our method of creating neural-network heuristics is very general and complements the well-studied sequential Monte-Carlo method for Bayesian updates to form a complete framework for adaptive Bayesian quantum estimation.
description: 16 pages, 7 figures
225th Station Hospital Bar Check
Creators: name: Creator not identified.
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 1944
Subjects: subject: World War II
subject: 12th General Hospital
subject: Souvenirs
subject: Hospitals, Military
subject: Recreation
subject: Naples (Italy)

description: "225th Station Hospital, Bar Check, Good for........5 lire" (typed text on the piece)
A study of the reaction of alcohols with bromine and silver salts
Creators: name: Yang, Ling
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 34
subject: Chemical sciences
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
classificationCode: 3405
subject: Organic chemistry

description: The oxidation of alcohols with bromine and silver salts was studied and the synthetic use of this reaction was evaluated. Thus with bromine, silver salts and in the absence of light, 2-cyclohexylcyclohexanol was oxidized to dodecahydrodibenzofuran and 2-cyclohexylethanol was converted to octahydrobenzofuran. The spiro compound, 1-oxa-spiro (4,5) decane, was obtained from two different alcohols, 1-cyclohexyl-3-propanol and 1-propyl-1-cyclohexanol. Two different bicyclic ethers, 1-methyl-8-oxabicyclo (3,2,1) octane and 1-methyl-9-oxabicyclo (4,2,1) -nonane were obtained from two alcohols; namely: 1-methyl-1-cycloheptanol and 1-methyl-1-cyclooctanol. Two new spiro ketal isomers, cis and trans-2,2,9-trimethyl-1,6-dioxaspiro (4,4) nonane were produced when 1,7-dimethyl-3,7-octadiol was reacted with silver carbonate and bromine. Two other new spiro ketals were synthesized in this research; they were 2,2,9-trimethyl-7-propyl-1,6-dioxaspiro (4,4) nonane and 2,2,9-trimethyl-7-ethyl-1,6-dioxaspiro (4,4) nonane. When 2-ethyl-1,3-hexadiol was treated with bromine and silver carbonate, 2-ethyl-1-hexen-3-one was formed. The dihydric alcohol, 2,5-hexadiol yielded 2,5-hexadione. When 1-methyl-2-cyclohexylcyclohexanol was reacted with silver acetate, the starting alcohol was recovered and 8% of 1-methyl-2-cyclohexylcyclohexene was formed. When 2-cyclohexylcyclohexanol reacted with silver trifluoroacetate, 2-cyclohexylcyclohexanone was the major product and no ether was detected. The results of the present study showed that maximum yields of ethers were formed from mono-alcohols when silver acetate in pentane was used, while with diols, ether formation was favored when silver carbonate in chloroform was used. The results support an ionic mechanism involving the hydroxyl group of the substrate. In both cases, alkenes and brominated alkanes, were detected as by products. Spectral data (infrared, nuclear magnetic resonance and mass spectrometry) was determined for the new compounds. The reaction intermediates were studied by either ultra-iolet spectroscopy or gas chromatography.
Determinants of the Argentinean Wine Price
Creators: name: Andrango, Graciela
name: Canales, Elizabeth
name: Andrango, Graciela
name: Canales, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Argentina
subject: hedonic model
subject: origin
subject: price
subject: quantity
subject: wine

description: Argentina is among the largest players in the New World wine market. The aim of this study is to identify the determinants of Argentinean wine prices in the United States by analyzing data from Wine Spectator Magazine. A hedonic model approach was used to explain how variables such as variety, age, geographic origin, quantity supplied, and other special descriptors impact wine prices. Findings indicate that score and age have a positive effect on wine price while number of cases has a negative effect. Malbec and Malbec blends enjoy higher price premiums. Additionaly, Achával-Ferrer enjoys higher premiums compared to other wineries.
Spin symmetry in the anti-nucleon spectrum
Creators: name: Zhou, Shan-Gui
name: Meng, Jie
name: Ring, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss spin and pseudo-spin symmetry in the spectrum of single nucleons and single anti-nucleons in a nucleus. As an example we use relativistic mean field theory to investigate single anti-nucleon spectra. We find a very well developed spin symmetry in single anti-neutron and single anti-proton spectra. The dominant components of the wave functions of the spin doublet are almost identical. This spin symmetry in anti-particle spectra and the pseudo-spin symmetry in particle spectra have the same origin. However it turns out that the spin symmetry in anti-nucleon spectra is much better developed than the pseudo-spin symmetry in normal nuclear single particle spectra.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures
Assessing Market Channel Performance for Colorado Fruit and Vegetable Producers
Creators: name: Christensen, Jeremiah
name: Thilmany, Dawn
name: Jablonski, Becca
name: Sullins, Martha
name: Naasz
name: Christensen, Jeremiah
name: Thilmany, Dawn
name: Jablonski, Becca
name: Sullins, Martha
name: Naasz
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: farmer recruitment
subject: local food market performance
subject: primary data collection

description: Though data have long been collected to educate producers about how to improve farm performance through benchmarking, this information is almost exclusively available by commodity and not by market channel. Further, there is evidence that the small and mid-scale producers that dominate these markets often do not keep detailed financial records, despite clear evidence that doing so improves the viability of operations. This paper uses a Colorado case study of the Market Channel Assessment Tool (MCAT) to determine recruitment methods that maximize participation among small and mid-scale producers. We find there are four best practices associated with successful farmer recruitment.