cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Effects of the AVID Program on the School Performance of Students
Creators: name: Nash, Erika
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: AVID
subject: Effects of school performance
subject: AVID program and high school
subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: The purpose of this study was to explore the differences in the school performance of students enrolled in the AVID program versus those students who are not enrolled in the program. The causal-comparative study utilized AVID students in a secondary program and investigated student enrollment and academic data such as attendance, GPA, and SAT scores compared to an Honors group of English 12 students. The study retained the null hypothesis of no statistically significant differences between the groups.
Floquet phonon lasing in multimode optomechanical systems
Creators: name: Mercadé, Laura
name: Pelka, Karl
name: Burgwal, Roel
name: Xuereb, André
name: Martínez, Alejandro
name: Verhagen, Ewold
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dynamical radiation pressure effects in cavity optomechanical systems give rise to self-sustained oscillations or `phonon lasing' behavior, producing stable oscillators up to GHz frequencies in nanoscale devices. Like in photonic lasers, phonon lasing normally occurs in a single mechanical mode. We show here that phase-locked, multimode phonon lasing can be established in a multimode optomechanical system through Floquet dynamics induced by a temporally modulated laser drive. We demonstrate this concept in a suitably engineered silicon photonic nanocavity coupled to multiple GHz-frequency mechanical modes. We find that the long-term frequency stability is significantly improved in the multimode lasing state as a result of the phase locking. These results provide a path towards highly stable ultra-compact oscillators, pulsed phonon lasing, coherent waveform synthesis, and emergent many-mode phenomena in oscillator arrays.
The Effect of Teacher-Written Feedback on the Motivation of High School English Students
Creators: name: Kurtzman, Colleen
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Motivation
subject: English
subject: Teacher-written feedback
subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of teacher-written feedback, the commentary that the teacher provides to students, on the motivation of low-achieving ninth grade English students. Motivation was defined as the mean number of words students wrote per open-ended journal response. This study used a convenience sample of two different classes assigned to intervention or control conditions. There was no significant difference in the mean journal entry word count during the intervention, comparing the feedback group (n = 23;Mean =75.47; SD =42.91) and the control group (n = 19; Mean =73.38; SD =22.59; t(40) =0.10, p =.85. Practical and theoretical implications as well as threats to validity are discussed. Recommendations for future research are discussed, including the suggestions that research be conducted with different populations, that positive reinforcement could be added in addition to teacher feedback, and a questionnaire could be added for students to self-report their level of motivation before and after the intervention.
Gonostomum bromelicola Foissner 2016
Creators: name: Durán-Ramírez, Carlos Alberto
name: Dias, Roberto Júnio Pedroso
name: Estrada, Rosaura Mayén-
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Chromista
Ciliophora
Hypotrichea
Oxytrichida
Oxytrichidae
Gonostomum
Gonostomum bromelicola

description: Gonostomum bromelicola 1 Foissner 2016
Distribution. JAMAICA: (Foissner 2016), (Ap). MEXICO: Biocultural Reserve Kaxil Kiuic, near Oxkutzcab (ps), (Ab); Reserve of the Biosphere Chamela-Cuixmala (Durán-Ramírez & Mayén-Estrada 2018), (Bk, Td, Tr).
description: Published as part of Durán-Ramírez, Carlos Alberto, Dias, Roberto Júnio Pedroso & Estrada, Rosaura Mayén-, 2020, Checklist of ciliates (Alveolata: Ciliophora) that inhabit in bromeliads from the Neotropical Region, pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 4895 (1) on page 12, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4895.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4321437
Massive Star and Star Cluster Formation
Creators: name: Tan, Jonathan C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I review the status of massive star formation theories: accretion from collapsing, massive, turbulent cores; competitive accretion; and stellar collisions. I conclude the observational and theoretical evidence favors the first of these models. I then discuss: the initial conditions of star cluster formation as traced by infrared dark clouds; the cluster formation timescale; and comparison of the initial cluster mass function in different galactic environments.
description: 7 pages, invited paper in proceedings of IAU Symposium 237, "Triggered Star Formation in a Turbulent ISM", eds. B. G. Elmegreen & J. Palous
The Effects of Participation in a Math Fact Fluency Intervention on Curriculum Based Mathematics Assessments
Creators: name: Kane, Lori
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Intervention
subject: Fact fluency
subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: The purpose of this study was to determine whether participation in a math fact fluency intervention would impact student performance on curriculum-based mathematics assessments for selected fourth grade students in Anne Arundel County Public Schools (AACPS). The measurement tool used was AACPS grade four District Assessment 1 and Mid-Year Assessment. This study utilized a pretest/posttest design to compare data from September 2014 to January 2015. Although participating students did not demonstrate gains in score from pre to post testing, these students did demonstrate statistically significant growth in proficiency levels described as basic, proficient, and advanced. Further research is needed to determine if student participation in a math fact fluency program will increase math achievement.
Degree and valuation of the Schur elements of cyclotomic Hecke algebras
Creators: name: Chlouveraki, Maria
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20C08

description: Following the generalization of the notion of families of characters, defined by Lusztig for Weyl groups, to the case of complex reflection groups, thanks to the definition given by Rouquier, we show that the degree and the valuation of the Schur elements (functions A and a) remain constant on the "families" of the cyclotomic Hecke algebras of the exceptional complex reflection groups. The same result has already been obtained for the groups of the infinite series and for some special cases of exceptional groups.
description: 19 pages, the paper has been reorganized and shortened considerably without changes to the mathematical content, the introduction has changed
Stacking Neural Network Models for Automatic Short Answer Scoring
Creators: name: Rajagede, Rian Adam
name: Hastuti, Rochana Prih
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Automatic short answer scoring is one of the text classification problems to assess students' answers during exams automatically. Several challenges can arise in making an automatic short answer scoring system, one of which is the quantity and quality of the data. The data labeling process is not easy because it requires a human annotator who is an expert in their field. Further, the data imbalance process is also a challenge because the number of labels for correct answers is always much less than the wrong answers. In this paper, we propose the use of a stacking model based on neural network and XGBoost for classification process with sentence embedding feature. We also propose to use data upsampling method to handle imbalance classes and hyperparameters optimization algorithm to find a robust model automatically. We use Ukara 1.0 Challenge dataset and our best model obtained an F1-score of 0.821 exceeding the previous work at the same dataset.
description: submitted to The 5th International Conference on Information Technology and Digital Applications 2020
An endoreversible quantum heat engine driven by atomic collisions
Creators: name: Bouton, Quentin
name: Nettersheim, Jens
name: Burgardt, Sabrina
name: Adam, Daniel
name: Lutz, Eric
name: Widera, Artur
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum heat engines are subjected to quantum fluctuations related to their discrete energy spectra. Such fluctuations question the reliable operation of quantum engines in the microscopic realm. We here realize an endoreversible quantum Otto cycle in the large quasi-spin states of Cesium impurities immersed in an ultracold Rubidium bath. Endoreversible machines are internally reversible and irreversible losses only occur via thermal contact. We employ quantum control over both machine and bath to suppress internal dissipation and regulate the direction of heat transfer that occurs via inelastic spin-exchange collisions. We additionally use full-counting statistics of individual atoms to monitor heat exchange between engine and bath at the level of single quanta, and evaluate average and variance of the power output. We optimize the performance as well as the stability of the quantum engine, achieving high efficiency, large power output and small power output fluctuations.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures
The Effects of Teacher Leadership on Teacher Satisfaction in a Small Urban Charter School
Creators: name: Harper, Kia J.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Leadership
subject: Satisfaction
subject: Empowerment
subject: Collaboration
subject: Urban
subject: Charter
subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of providing teacher leadership
opportunities in a small urban charter school on teacher satisfaction. The study was
conducted from October 2014 to March 2015 during which time teacher leadership
opportunities were offered school wide to teachers who had been employed at the school
for at least one year. The results indicate that providing teacher leadership opportunities
had no significant effect on teacher satisfaction. All teachers reported an increased level
of teacher leadership and satisfaction in certain areas of the school, but that did not
change the level of satisfaction with teaching overall.
On types for unramified p-adic unitary groups
Creators: name: Kariyama, Kazutoshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 22E50 (Primary), 22D99 (Secondary)

description: Folloing the methods of Bushnell-Kutzko for general linear groups, we construct simple types attached to certain skew simple strata for a symplectic group and an unramified unitary group over a non-archimedean local field.
description: 38pages,no figures
Rotating edge-field driven processing of chiral spin textures in racetrack devices
Creators: name: Schäffer, Alexander F.
name: Siegl, Pia
name: Stier, Martin
name: Posske, Thore
name: Berakdar, Jamal
name: Thorwart, Michael
name: Wiesendanger, Roland
name: Vedmedenko, Elena Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Topologically distinct magnetic structures like skyrmions, domain walls, and the uniformly magnetized state have multiple applications in logic devices, sensors, and as bits of information. One of the most promising concepts for applying these bits is the racetrack architecture controlled by electric currents or magnetic driving fields. In state-of-the-art racetracks, these fields or currents are applied to the whole circuit. Here, we employ micromagnetic and atomistic simulations to establish a concept for racetrack memories free of global driving forces. Surprisingly, we realize that mixed sequences of topologically distinct objects can be created and propagated over far distances exclusively by local rotation of magnetization at the sample boundaries. We reveal the dependence between the chirality of the rotation and the direction of propagation and define the phase space where the proposed procedure can be realized. The advantages of this approach are the exclusion of high current and field densities as well as its compatibility with an energy-efficient three-dimensional design.
description: 23 pages, 7 figures
Macroscopic superposition states in rotating ring lattices
Creators: name: Nunnenkamp, Andreas
name: Rey, Ana Maria
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the effects of rotation on one-dimensional ultracold bosons confined to optical ring lattices. First, we show that there exists a critical rotation frequency at which the ground state of a weakly-interacting and integer-filled atomic gas is fragmented into a macroscopic superposition state with different circulation. Second, we point out several advantages of using slightly non-uniform ring lattices. Finally, we demonstrate that different quasi-momentum states can be distinguished in time-of-flight absorption imaging and propose to probe correlations via the many-body oscillations induced by a sudden change in the rotation frequency.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures; PQE-2008 conference proceedings; minor corrections
The Relationship between Fluency and Comprehension
Creators: name: Myers, Tania
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Comprehension
subject: Fluency
subject: Relationship between fluency and comprehension
subject: DIBELS
subject: MAP testing
subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between reading fluency and comprehension and whether a student’s fluency rate impacted his or her ability to comprehend information. The study looked closely at the performance of 23 students enrolled in a second grade class. The measurement tools used were the Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills, Sixth Edition (DIBELS), Oral Reading Fluency Assessment, and the Measures of Academic Progress Reading Assessment. The study involved the use of data collected during fall, spring, and winter testing intervals from the 2014-2015 school year. A Pearson correlational study was used to analyze the data collected during the testing intervals. The analysis showed a significant relationship between data collected during the fall and spring testing intervals but did not support a significant relationship during the winter testing interval. The results could be attributable to a number of intervening factors; however, though the findings varied, two out of the three results support the importance of teaching fluency and comprehension together.
Topological Terms and the Misner String Entropy
Creators: name: Ciambelli, Luca
name: Corral, Cristóbal
name: Figueroa, José
name: Giribet, Gastón
name: Olea, Rodrigo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The method of topological renormalization in anti-de Sitter (AdS) gravity consists in adding to the action a topological term which renders it finite, defining at the same time a well-posed variational problem. Here, we use this prescription to work out the thermodynamics of asymptotically locally anti-de Sitter (AlAdS) spacetimes, focusing on the physical properties of the Misner strings of both the Taub-NUT-AdS and Taub-Bolt-AdS solutions. We compute the contribution of the Misner string to the entropy by treating on the same footing the AdS and AlAdS sectors. As topological renormalization is found to correctly account for the physical quantities in the parity preserving sector of the theory, we then investigate the holographic consequences of adding also the Chern-Pontryagin topological invariant to the bulk action; in particular, we discuss the emergence of the parity-odd contribution in the boundary stress tensor.
description: 19 pages
Rewriting third world security : a comparative study of nuclear discourse in Pakistan and India
Creators: name: Nizamani, Haider Khan
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Retaining the nuclear option has become an article of strategic faith and a symbol of national sovereignty in Pakistan and India. There is widespread belief among security analysts of South Asia that the popularity of the nuclear issue among the Pakistani and Indian masses makes it impossible for any government in Islamabad or New Delhi to tamper with the existing policies of nuclear ambiguity. In spite of the domestic roots of the nuclear politics in the subcontinent, existing literature does not tell us how an issue which requires considerable scientific knowledge has assumed such political salience. This study attempts to redress this gap by offering an explanation and analysis of the gradual ascendance of the nuclear issue in the dominant security discourse of Pakistan and India. This study employing the methodology of the discourse analysis accounts for the dynamics that propel the politics of the nuclear issue in the subcontinent. As the overwhelming majority of studies of the nuclear issue approach the matter with theoretical lens of Political Realism, scant attention is paid to the question of the discourse on national identities and imperatives of domestic politics in which the nuclear issue is firmly embedded. Political Realism's assumption of states as undifferentiated entities forecloses possibility of looking inside the state to account for its security policies. The "weak state" perspective attempts to rectify this theoretical limitation by emphasizing the internal characteristics of the Third World states. However, this dissertation argues that the "weak state" framework concerns itself with symptoms rather than processes underway in the Third World. Given these analytical limitations, this study using insights of Critical Security Studies explains how and why the nuclear issue has assumed such an important place in the security discourse of Indian and Pakistan. Comparing the two discourses, the dissertation shows how the politics of the nuclear issue can be meaningfully understood by locating it in the broader context of national identity formation processes in the both countries. This objective is achieved by critically analyzing the works and words of leading politician, strategic analysts, and opinionmakers of Pakistan and India.
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-081021-07: Paradigm elicitation for the verb 'to wake someone up', varying aspect/mode and the person and number of subject and object.
การประยุกต์ใช้เทคนิคบัญชีต้นทุนการไหลวัสดุเพื่อลดความสูญเสีย ในกระบวนการผลิตลำไยอบแห้ง
Creators: name: สรรฐติชัย ชีวสุทธิศิลป์
name: คมศักดิ์ หารไชย
Publisher: name: มหาวิทยาลัยนครพนม
Year: 2557
Subjects: บัญชีต้นทุนการไหลของวัสดุ, ISO-14051, ลำไยอบแห้ง

description: 2, 4, วารสารมหาวิทยาลัยนครพนม
ยุทธศาสตร์การพัฒนากำลังคนระดับอาชีวศึกษาของสาธารณรัฐประชาธิปไตยประชาชนลาว ให้สอดรับกับประชาคมเศรษฐกิจอาเซียน
Creators: name: ทวนชัย อรุณโรจน์
name: เกรียงชัย ปึงประวัติ
Publisher: name: มหาวิทยาลัยนครพนม
Year: 2557
Subjects: ยุทธศาสตร์การพัฒนากำลังคน, การจัดการอาชีวศึกษาของ สปป.ลาว, ประชาคมเศรษฐกิจอาชียน, มาตรฐานคุณภาพของแรงงานฝีมือ, กรอบมาตรฐานคุณวุฒิวิชาชีพแห่งชาติ

description: 2, 4, วารสารมหาวิทยาลัยนครพนม
รับค่านิยมที่ผิดจะกลายเป็นบัณฑิตขาดจิตสำนึก
Creators: name: เพชราวลัย ถิระวณัฐพงศ์
name: ปัญจ์ปพัชรภร บุญพร้อม
Publisher: name: มหาวิทยาลัยนครพนม
Year: 2557
Subjects: ค่านิยม, บัณฑิต, จิตสำนึก, นิสิต-นักศึกษา

description: 2, 4, วารสารมหาวิทยาลัยนครพนม
Link and subgraph likelihoods in random undirected networks with fixed and partially fixed degree sequence
Creators: name: Foster, Jacob G.
name: Foster, David V.
name: Grassberger, Peter
name: Paczuski, Maya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The simplest null models for networks, used to distinguish significant features of a particular network from {\it a priori} expected features, are random ensembles with the degree sequence fixed by the specific network of interest. These "fixed degree sequence" (FDS) ensembles are, however, famously resistant to analytic attack. In this paper we introduce ensembles with partially-fixed degree sequences (PFDS) and compare analytic results obtained for them with Monte Carlo results for the FDS ensemble. These results include link likelihoods, subgraph likelihoods, and degree correlations. We find that local structural features in the FDS ensemble can be reasonably well estimated by simultaneously fixing only the degrees of few nodes, in addition to the total number of nodes and links. As test cases we use a food web, two protein interaction networks (\textit{E. coli, S. cerevisiae}), the internet on the autonomous system (AS) level, and the World Wide Web. Fixing just the degrees of two nodes gives the mean neighbor degree as a function of node degree, $_k$, in agreement with results explicitly obtained from rewiring. For power law degree distributions, we derive the disassortativity analytically. In the PFDS ensemble the partition function can be expanded diagrammatically. We obtain an explicit expression for the link likelihood to lowest order, which reduces in the limit of large, sparse undirected networks with $L$ links and with $k_{\rm max} \ll L$ to the simple formula $P(k,k') = kk'/(2L + kk')$. In a similar limit, the probability for three nodes to be linked into a triangle reduces to the factorized expression $P_Δ(k_1,k_2,k_3) = P(k_1,k_2)P(k_1,k_3)P(k_2,k_3)$.
description: 17 pages, includes 11 figures; first revision: shortened to 14 pages (7 figures), added discussion of subgraph counts, deleted discussion of directed networks
title: Nascent Entrepreneurial Teams (NETs): An Insight into Their Composition and Its Effect on Success
Creators: name: Hernández Sabater, Carolina Zyanya
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2018

description: The thesis explored nascent entrepreneurial team (NET) composition and its effect on business success. Drawing on team formation theory (i.e. homophily, similarity- attraction paradigm, rational process model, cognitive resource perspective theory), the thesis addressed the composition, typology and effect on future success in nascent entrepreneurial businesses started by teams. To do so, this thesis addresses three research questions: 1) What types of composition are prevalent in NETs? 2) What different team profiles or types can be identified among NETs, based on their compositional dimensions? 3) What effect does NET composition have on nascent entrepreneurial success? NET composition is studied by calculating the degree of diversity and physical proximity within the team. In line with the current literature, four dimensions of NET composition are examined: Demographic Diversity, Human Capital, Resource Heterogeneity, and Familiarity. The research is conducted by using data from the US Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics II. The dataset provides information on each team member of the NET and records information about the business over a period of five years. This enables examination of NET composition and its effect on the nascent business success. Thus, the units of analysis considered in this thesis are the team for the predictor variables and the firm for the outcome variables. Overall, the quantitative exploratory study revealed that NET composition has an effect on the probability of success as a nascent business, but has no significant impact on the time taken to achieve success The present thesis makes original contributions to the existing body of knowledge on entrepreneurship in three ways. First, this thesis adds to entrepreneurship literature by exploring to what extent team formation theory can be applied in the nascent entrepreneurial context. Second, this thesis considers the effect of team composition on three dimensions of success, which aims to clarify the current debate regarding success measurement when studying nascent entrepreneurial stage. Third, this thesis introduces an innovative way to study NET composition by considering a typological approach, which at the same time adds to the few methodological efforts to use clustering in entrepreneurial research. Lastly, the findings of this thesis have implications for practitioners, advisory bodies, and policy-makers. For practitioners, the conclusions suggest that attention should be given to identify the potential limitations and advantages related to the team composition/configuration. For advisory or consultant bodies, the present results are helpful in designing better support programmes and training courses for NETs. Finally, while this thesis does not explicitly concern itself with entrepreneurial policy, its findings can suggest a number of implications worth of attention in support to entrepreneurial activity.
Enhancing Resource Management through Prediction-based Policies
Creators: name: Navarro, Antoni
name: Lorenzon, Arthur F.
name: Ayguadé, Eduard
name: Beltran, Vicenç
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Task-based programming models are emerging as a promising alternative to make the most of multi-/many-core systems. These programming models rely on runtime systems, and their goal is to improve application performance by properly scheduling application tasks to cores. Additionally, these runtime systems offer policies to cope with application phases that lack in parallelism to fill all cores. However, these policies are usually static and favor either performance or energy efficiency. In this paper, we have extended a task-based runtime system with a lightweight monitoring and prediction infrastructure that dynamically predicts the optimal number of cores required for each application phase, thus improving both performance and energy efficiency. Through the execution of several benchmarks in multi-/many-core systems, we show that our prediction-based policies have competitive performance while improving energy efficiency when compared to state of the art policies.
description: Postprint submitted and published at Euro-Par2020: International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Springer) (https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-030-57675-2_31)
การประเมินผลกองทุนหมู่บ้าน ในเทศบาลตำบลโพธิ์ชัย อำเภอเมือง จังหวัดหนองคาย
Creators: name: สิริวงษ์ เอียสกุล
Publisher: name: มหาวิทยาลัยนครพนม
Year: 2557
Subjects: การประเมินผลการดำเนินงาน, กองทุนหมู่บ้านเทศบาลตำบลโพธิ์ชัย, จังหวัดหนองคาย

description: 2, 4, วารสารมหาวิทยาลัยนครพนม
Minutes of a Meeting of the Trustees of the Winfield and Okanagan Center Irrigation District, August 1, 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 Powlet, Williams, Seaton, and Goldie, dated August 1, 1931.
Restriction categories III: colimits, partial limits, and extensivity
Creators: name: Cockett, J. R. B.
name: Lack, Stephen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 18B99, 18A30, 18D20, 68P05

description: A restriction category is an abstract formulation for a category of partial maps, defined in terms of certain specified idempotents called the restriction idempotents. All categories of partial maps are restriction categories; conversely, a restriction category is a category of partial maps if and only if the restriction idempotents split. Restriction categories facilitate reasoning about partial maps as they have a purely algebraic formulation. In this paper we consider colimits and limits in restriction categories. As the notion of restriction category is not self-dual, we should not expect colimits and limits in restriction categories to behave in the same manner. The notion of colimit in the restriction context is quite straightforward, but limits are more delicate. The suitable notion of limit turns out to be a kind of lax limit, satisfying certain extra properties. Of particular interest is the behaviour of the coproduct both by itself and with respect to partial products. We explore various conditions under which the coproducts are ``extensive'' in the sense that the total category (of the related partial map category) becomes an extensive category. When partial limits are present, they become ordinary limits in the total category. Thus, when the coproducts are extensive we obtain as the total category a lextensive category. This provides, in particular, a description of the extensive completion of a distributive category.
description: 39 pages
The Effects of Mentor Gender on Mentee Attitudes towards Mathematics
Creators: name: Nusbaum, Karry
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mentor
subject: Gender
subject: Attitudes
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Mentee
subject: Concordant
subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: The purpose of this study was to compare the attitudes of Algebra I students who were
being mentored to see if there was a difference between the attitude of students with a
gender concordant (n = 18) or discordant (n = 18) mentor pairing. This is important
because if a way can be found to improve student attitudes toward mathematics through
the structuring of mentoring programs, then students will be better prepared for success in
mathematics. The students’ scores on the questionnaire were used to evaluate each
student’s attitude towards math and their personal math capabilities. There was also a
total math attitude score. The mean Attitude Toward Math score of the Gender
Concordant group (Mean = 27.28, SD = 2.95) did not differ significantly from that of the
Gender Discordant group (Mean = 28.94, SD = 4.80) [t (34) = 1.23, p = .22]. The mean
Attitude Toward Personal Math Capabilities score of the Gender Concordant group
(Mean = 27.06, SD = 3.26) did not differ significantly from that of the Gender Discordant
group (Mean = 26.67, SD = 5.67) [t(34) = .25, p = .80]. The mean Total Math Attitude
score of the Gender Concordant group (Mean = 54.33, SD = 5.14) did not differ
significantly from that of the Gender Discordant group (Mean = 55.61, SD = 9.70) [t(34)
= .49, p = .63]. Results did not indicate that adjusting mentor and mentee pairings based
on gender will impact math attitudes. Implications of the findings and ideas for future
research are discussed.
Food Costs… From Farm to Retail in 1991
Creators: name: Dunham, Denis
name: Dunham, Denis
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: How much are food costs changing? Why? How much of the consumer food dollar goes to the farmer and how much to food processors and marketers? Because of great interest in these questions, Congress directed the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to regularly study them and to report its findings. This bulletin provides the answers, focusing on developments in 1991.
Lienemann, Wolfgang (hrsg.): Schweizer Ethiker im 20. Jahrhundert
Creators: name: Münk, Hans J.
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 56 Nr. 1 (2007): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 56, Heft 1
title: An investigation of the thermal comfort and climate change resilience of bioclimatic design strategies for free running social housing in San Luis Potosi City, Mexico
Creators: name: Piña Hernandez, EH
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2019

description: Rising temperatures due to global warming will impact on thermal comfort conditions in the social housing sector throughout the XXI century. Social housing represents the majority of the new build stock in the forthcoming decades in low and mid income countries such as Mexico due to demographic trends. Those families in social housing are particularly vulnerable to thermal discomfort because of the high initial and operating costs of HVAC systems that represent an economic burden that many of them will not be able to afford in order to achieve thermal comfort. Complementarily, the indiscriminate adoption of HVAC systems will add pressure to the national energy network and will further exacerbate global warming by increasing the amount of energy consumed by households. On the other hand, cities such as San Luis Potosi, Mexico have a relatively mild climate year-round which make it particularly suitable for the implementation of passive design as a low-cost strategy in order to achieve thermal comfort. This research explores the potential of bioclimatic design strategies and locally available construction materials to generate thermal comfort and climate change resilience for free running social housing in San Luis Potosi up to 2080. To do so, a social housing prototype was designed in a contextually responsive way that incorporates several aspects of sustainability and translates them into architectural design guidelines. Then, the prototype was used for building energy simulations with DesignBuilder software in order to test the climate change resilience of the bioclimatic design strategies and locally available construction materials. Complementarily, parametric optimization simulations were done in order to find out the best windows sizes that would provide a balance between solar heat gains during the cold season while preventing over heating discomfort during the hot season. Simulation results demonstrated that it is possible to design free running social housing by the use of bioclimatic design, local construction materials, and natural ventilation. They also allowed to provide general design guidelines for the implementation of those parameters for the wider residential sector in San Luis Potosi City, Mexico. It was also found that the adaptive model of thermal comfort (AMTC) as developed by the ASHRAE 55-2013 standard is a suitable and locally appropriate first approach to thermal comfort for the social housing sector because it can incorporate people’s thermal acceptancy with a more flexible thermal comfort temperature band than the one traditionally used when designing with the static model of thermal comfort. In that sense, the AMTC opens research possibilities for the development of locally appropriate energy saving standards and policy making.
The Effects of Literature Circles on Second Graders’ Reading Comprehension and Motivation
Creators: name: Meredith, Jessica
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Literature circles
subject: Reading comprehension
subject: Reading motivation
subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: The purpose of this study was to examine the increase in levels of reading comprehension and motivation for students participating in literature circles and guided reading groups. The participants of this study were second grade students enrolled in a suburban school in Anne Arundel County for the 2014-2015 school year. Data was collected during small group instruction between January and April. The students were given a pre-test to determine their
beginning reading comprehension level using the Fountas and Pinnell program. Throughout the study, behaviors were recorded using a behavior and motivation tally chart. At the end of the study, the students were given a post-test to assess their reading comprehension level using the Fountas and Pinnell program. They hypothesis was supported since there was no significant difference between the increase in levels of comprehension for literature circles compared to guided reading. Research in the area of reading comprehension and motivation should continue in order to provide students with the most effective form of instruction.
Multistep Bayesian strategy in coin-tossing games and its application to asset trading games in continuous time
Creators: name: Takeuchi, Kei
name: Kumon, Masayuki
name: Takemura, Akimichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Trading and Market Microstructure (q-fin.TR)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60F15

description: We study multistep Bayesian betting strategies in coin-tossing games in the framework of game-theoretic probability of Shafer and Vovk (2001). We show that by a countable mixture of these strategies, a gambler or an investor can exploit arbitrary patterns of deviations of nature's moves from independent Bernoulli trials. We then apply our scheme to asset trading games in continuous time and derive the exponential growth rate of the investor's capital when the variation exponent of the asset price path deviates from two.
Springs Memories Presentation at St. Peter's Chapel Highlights, April 7, 2002,
Creators: name: Springs Historical Society/Library
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Springs
East Hampton
Churches
St. Peter's Chapel
Chapels

description: This document discusses key highlights from a presentation given by local Springs and East Hampton residents titled, Springs Memories, held on April 7, 2002 at St. Peter's Chapel.
description: This material was lent to the Long Island Collection by the Springs Historical Society Library for digitization purposes.
Governing refugees
Creators: name: Lippert, Randy
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Practices directed at refugees emerged in the inter-war period. Thousands of Europeans were maintained in camps, selected, and then resettled in the decades that followed. By the 1960s, what had been ad hoc, small scale, temporary international responses in Europe had become routine, distinctive practices directed at crises and millions of people around the world. In the Canadian context, practices of government directed at refugees have only recently arisen. The present thesis focuses on these Canadian practices as a governmental regime. By adopting Foucault's methods of discourse analysis and genealogy, the overarching research question, 'How is the Canadian refugee regime constituted and governed?', is pursued. Research procedures included forty-eight interviews with authorities active in the regime, attendance at a refugee conference, collection of documents, and examination of indices of the humanities and social sciences. The thesis begins by discussing conditions of possibility of the Canadian regime's emergence. It explores the development of the international refugee regime as one of these conditions, and in so doing, suggests the potential relevance of concepts and themes drawn from governmentality studies to understanding international regimes. The rise of an advanced liberal rationality in Canadian selection, determination, and resettlement practices since the 1970s is then discussed. In all three areas, refugees' conduct and fate can be seen gradually becoming governed less by state agents and more by agents at a distance from political authorities. In resettlement during this period, however, an advanced liberal rationality can be seen deferring to a pastoral rationality, thereby suggesting the Canadian regime has been constituted by more than one rationality. Developments consistent with the ascendancy of advanced liberalism or otherwise making the governance of refugees possible are then explored. These include: the 'partnership' as a form of association; refugee studies; psychological knowledge revealing the resettling refugee's soul; economic knowledge identifying the economically risky refugee; knowledge developing early warning systems: and technologies such as the documentation centre. Finally, the thesis argues that while resistance, understood as obstruction to (liberal) governance, is evident during this period, the presence of a pastoral rationality suggests a more complex view is required.
Non-Kolmogorov turbulence in multiphase intracluster medium driven by cold gas precipitation and AGN jets
Creators: name: Wang, C.
name: Ruszkowski, M.
name: Pfrommer, C.
name: Oh, S. Peng
name: Yang, H. -Y. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: AGN feedback is responsible for maintaining plasma in global thermal balance in extended halos of elliptical galaxies and galaxy clusters. Local thermal instability in the hot gas leads to the formation of precipitating cold gas clouds that feed the central supermassive black holes, thus heating the hot gas and maintaining global thermal equilibrium. We perform three dimensional MHD simulations of self-regulated AGN feedback in a Perseus-like galaxy cluster with the aim of understanding the impact of the feedback physics on the turbulence properties of the hot and cold phases of the ICM. We find that, in general, the cold phase velocity structure function (VSF) is steeper than the prediction from Kolmogorov's theory. We attribute the physical origin of the steeper slope of the cold phase VSF to the driving of turbulent motions primarily by the gravitational acceleration acting on the ballistic clouds. We demonstrate that, in the pure hydrodynamical case, the precipitating cold filaments may be the dominant agent driving turbulence in the hot ICM. The arguments in favor of this hypothesis are that: (i) the cold phase mass dominates over hot gas mass in the inner cool core; (ii) hot and cold gas velocities are spatially correlated; (iii) both the cold and hot phase velocity distributions are radially biased. We show that, in the MHD case, the turbulence in the ambient hot medium (excluding the jet cone regions) can also be driven by the AGN jets. The driving is then facilitated by enhanced coupling due to magnetic fields of the ambient gas and the AGN jets. In the MHD case, turbulence may thus be driven by a combination of AGN jet stirring and filament motions. We conclude that future observations, including those from high spatial and spectral resolution X-ray missions, may help to constrain self-regulated AGN feedback by quantifying the multi-temperature VSF in the ICM.
description: 12pages, 15figures, submitted to MNRAS
title: An investigation into Moritz Schlick's foundationalist epistemology
Creators: name: Healey, Daniel James
Publisher: name: University of St Andrews
Year: 2019

description: Moritz Schlick is an influential figure in the history of philosophy, but his place in the narrative is often confined to having been the man who brought great thinkers together, rather than having been a great thinker himself. In this thesis I argue that Schlick’s ideas deserve greater philosophical recognition, and to this end I focus on his work on the foundations of scientific enquiry. I trace Schlick’s thought from Allgemeine Erkenntnislehre through the prism of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico Philosophicus and into his later work on the form and content of statements. I then look at the Vienna Circle’s so-called “protocol sentences debate” and explain why Schlick felt the need to introduce his controversial account of Konstatierungen, his objective being to find epistemically-guaranteed foundations for our scientific beliefs. The problem with Schlick’s account appears to be that any statement that is epistemically secure cannot be connected appropriately to our network of scientific beliefs, which itself is never immune to revision. I argue that Schlick may have been attempting to bridge this gap with the middle-Wittgensteinian notion of the criteria for the acceptance of a statement as separate from its truth conditions, but I argue that this approach leaves the link between Konstatierungen and science underexplained. Finally, I consider some of the advances made in philosophy since Schlick’s death – Donald Davidson’s arguments against the need for individually-infallible judgements to form the foundations of knowledge, and David Chalmers’ scrutability framework which helps us explicate the connection needed between foundational statements and the system of science. I conclude that there is a viable position within the scrutability framework – “weak phenomenal structuralism” – that allows us to retain Schlick’s emphasis on the role of experience in science and implies that science, as a whole, is well-founded, but individually-guaranteed Konstatierungen must stand wholly outside this system.
Efficient video integrity analysis through container characterization
Creators: name: Yang, Pengpeng
name: Baracchi, Daniele
name: Iuliani, Massimo
name: Shullani, Dasara
name: Ni, Rongrong
name: Zhao, Yao
name: Piva, Alessandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Most video forensic techniques look for traces within the data stream that are, however, mostly ineffective when dealing with strongly compressed or low resolution videos. Recent research highlighted that useful forensic traces are also left in the video container structure, thus offering the opportunity to understand the life-cycle of a video file without looking at the media stream itself. In this paper we introduce a container-based method to identify the software used to perform a video manipulation and, in most cases, the operating system of the source device. As opposed to the state of the art, the proposed method is both efficient and effective and can also provide a simple explanation for its decisions. This is achieved by using a decision-tree-based classifier applied to a vectorial representation of the video container structure. We conducted an extensive validation on a dataset of 7000 video files including both software manipulated contents (ffmpeg, Exiftool, Adobe Premiere, Avidemux, and Kdenlive), and videos exchanged through social media platforms (Facebook, TikTok, Weibo and YouTube). This dataset has been made available to the research community. The proposed method achieves an accuracy of 97.6% in distinguishing pristine from tampered videos and classifying the editing software, even when the video is cut without re-encoding or when it is downscaled to the size of a thumbnail. Furthermore, it is capable of correctly identifying the operating system of the source device for most of the tampered videos.
description: Accepted by IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing
Powers of binomial edge ideals with quadratic Gröbner bases
Creators: name: Ene, Viviana
name: Rinaldo, Giancarlo
name: Terai, Naoki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study powers of binomial edge ideals associated with closed and block graphs.