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Finite element analysis of creep problems in soil mechanics
Creators: name: Emery, John Joseph
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Application of the finite element method of stress analysis to problems in soil mechanics has enabled the engineer to gain much information on the deformations and stresses in earth structures under the assumption that the properties of soil are independent of time. However, both laboratory studies and field observations indicate that time is a very important factor in the behaviour of cohesive soils. The finite element method is extended to deal with typical problems in soil mechanics in which the time dependence of the mechanical properties of soil is considered. From creep studies reported in the literature, stress-strain-time relationships that have been developed for essentially uniaxial constant stress creep tests are extended to the multiaxial changing stress condition that is applicable in situ. The finite element method is used to examine problems where the soil is assumed to be linear viscoelastic. The correspondence rule of linear viscoelasticity is used as part of this development. This is an idealized case and will generally be limited to qualitative studies. Then, the incremental initial strain finite element method is developed to deal with general soil creep as described by empirical relationships. A cumulative creep law based on the strain-hardening rule is adopted in this .analysis. Creep rupture is introduced into the general incremental solution method by reducing the stiffness of elements of the earth, structure that have failed. The failure criterion used in the analysis is based on the total elapsed time from the beginning of creep and the creep strain rate. Some typical examples of problems in soil mechanics are examined to illustrate the methods developed.
title: A Comparison of Mednick's Remote Associates Test and Pettigrew's Category-Width Test
Creators: name: Sesney, John W.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1968

description: The present study was designed to examine the relationship between Mednick's Remote Associates Test and Pettigrew's Category-Width Test. The sample was made up of 36 educational psychology students enrolled in the Utah State Summer School.
The correlation for males and females was made independently. Although the males showed a higher correlation between the two tests than did the females (males, .296 and females, .058), the correlations were not statistically significant.
No full explanation was given for the lack of correlation between the category-width scores and the RAT scores except for the qualification that the RAT may be measuring a different type of creativity than what the category-width test is measuring.
title: Reading Instruction and Phonetic Control In Materials Development Based Upon Relative Frequency of Phoneme-Grapheme Correspondences
Creators: name: Grow, Richard T.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1969

description: This dissertation suggests a new approach to reading instruction and phonetic control in materials development. The central feature of this approach is its reliance on phoneme-grapheme correspondence data.
Specifically, the products of this dissertation were (1) the development of relative frequency tables depicting the various phonemes produced by a given grapheme structure, (2) the development of five different levels of phonetic sophistication, (3) the classification of 974 words as regular or irregular in accordance with each level of sophistication, and (4) the phonetic rewriting of three existing short stories to make them phonetically regular.
One of the phonetically rewritten stories was given to an existing group of sixth grade students along with its original form. The students performed with superior reading speed and equal comprehension on the phonetically rewritten story. This difference was significant at the .01 level.
Synthesis of nanoadsorbent entailed mesoporous organosilica for decontamination of methylene blue and methyl orange from water
Creators: name: Shahzad, Khurram
name: Nazir, Muhammad Altaf
name: Jamshaid, Muhammad
name: Kumar, Ome Parkash
name: Najam, Tayyaba
name: Shah, Syed Shoaib Ahmad
name: Rehman, Aziz ur
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Hematology

description: Water, being a universal solvent, is contaminated by highly toxic pollutants, which is alarming for life on this planet. However, eco-friendly human efforts are constantly trying to overcome this problem. In continuation of these efforts, the present study reported the synthesis of template-supported nanoadsorbents consisting of mesoporous organosilica (MPOS) through poly-condensation of organic (3-methacryloxypropyltrimethoxysilane) and inorganic (sodium silicate) silicon precursors. The nanoadsorbent with suitable textural characteristics, heat-resistant competency and highly porous nature provided a good platform for achieving an excellent performance to remove methylene blue (MB) and methyl orange (MO) from water. Due to easy handling and efficient adsorption capacity, the MPOS nanoadsorbent shows 93.1% and 66.7% adsorptions of MB and MO, respectively. The intra-particle diffusion kinetic model of synthesised materials explained high surface interactions of adsorbate on active sites of adsorbent, which also support possible chemisorption. The MPOS exhibited adsorption capacities of 57.58 mg/g for MB and 56.62 mg/g for MO by using the multilayered sorption mechanism. Reusability of MPOS is also checked up to file cycles and the results indicate the minute decline in the adsorption proficiency of regenerated MPOS. An eco-friendly synthetic approach, efficient exclusion of MB and MO and better regain results make these MPOS a competent nanoadsorbent for water decontamination.
Paleomagnetism of Upper Triassic continental sedimentary rocks from the Dan River—Danville rift basin (eastern North America)
Creators: name: Kent, Dennis V.
name: Olsen, Paul E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Geophysics
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Paleontology

description: A magnetic polarity stratigraphy and a corresponding paleomagnetic pole position are reported from 113 sampling sites representing 3000 m of Late Triassic continental sedimentary rocks that crop out in the Dan River—Danville basin of North Carolina and Virginia. Characteristic magnetizations isolated by thermal demagnetization for either the hematite-bearing red siltstones or the interbedded magnetite-bearing gray to black mudstones of the Leakesville Formation are indistinguishable in mean direction and pass reversal tests. The magnetic polarity sequence consists of 11 magnetozones that vary from ≈100 m to 800 m in thickness and can be uniquely correlated within biostratigraphic constraints to magnetochrons E9n to E14n of the Newark geomagnetic polarity time scale. According to this correlation, the sampled section is the age equivalent of the uppermost Stockton, the entire Lockatong, and the lowermost Passaic formations of the Newark basin, and represents ≈7.5 m.y. of deposition. The late Carnian Dan River—Danville paleopole is located at 55.4°N 100.1°E (A_95 = 1.9°), which is not significantly different from paleopoles reported from essentially coeval rocks in the Newark basin. Considering that the Dan River—Danville and Newark basins are ≈600 km apart, the close agreement of the coeval paleopoles argues strongly for the overall tectonic coherence of these rift basins with respect to each other and, most probably, with respect to cratonic North America. Discordant latest Triassic paleopoles from the southwestern United States, which have tended to be attributed to fast apparent polar wander for North America in the Late Triassic and predict anomalously high paleolatitudes for eastern North America, are best accounted for by a large net clockwise rotation of the Colorado Plateau.
Discovery of the Transiting Planet Kepler-5b
Creators: name: Koch, David G.
name: Borucki, William J.
name: Rowe, Jason F.
name: Batalha, Natalie M.
name: Brown, Timothy M.
name: Caldwell, Douglas A.
name: Caldwell, John
name: Cochran, William D.
name: DeVore, Edna
name: Dunham, Edward W.
name: Dupree, Andrea K.
name: Gautier, Thomas N.
name: Geary, John C.
name: Gilliland, Ron L.
name: Howell, Steve B.
name: Jenkins, Jon M.
name: Latham, David W.
name: Lissauer, Jack J.
name: Marcy, Geoff W.
name: Morrison, David
name: Tarter, Jill
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present 44 days of high duty cycle, ultra precise photometry of the 13th magnitude star Kepler-5 (KIC 8191672, Teff=6300 K, logg=4.1), which exhibits periodic transits with a depth of 0.7%. Detailed modeling of the transit is consistent with a planetary companion with an orbital period of 3.548460+/-0.000032 days and a radius of 1.431+/-0.050 Rj. Follow-up radial velocity measurements with the Keck HIRES spectrograph on 9 separate nights demonstrate that the planet is more than twice as massive as Jupiter with a mass of 2.114+/-0.057 and a mean density of 0.894+/-0.079 g/cm^3.
description: 13 pages, 3 figures, submitted to the Astrophysical Journal Letters
Paleomagnetism of Siluro-Devonian rocks from eastern Maine: Reply
Creators: name: Kent, Dennis V.
name: Opdyke, Neil D.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1982
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Roy's discussion of our paper covers two topics. First, he attempts to show on the basis of various statistical tests that the characteristic magnetizations we reported in the Hersey red beds and the Eastport Formation were acquired after tectonic tilting and represent what he refers to as an "orogenic" remanence. Second, he presents an interpretation of paleomagnetic data from eastern Appalachian rock units proposing that low paleoatitudes are in general derived from orogenic remanences of Devonian-Carboniferous age whereas the intermediate to high paleoatitudes are derived from older remanences. In reply, we argue that Roy's statistical methods may not be appropriate and nevertheless are not sufficient to demonstrate a post-folding origin of remanence and that the weight of evidence in fact favors remanence acquisition near the time of formation of the Siluro-Devonian rock units. Independent of the question of pre- or post-folding magnetization of these rock units, we find that the available paleomagnetic data from the eastern Appalachians do not support his model of a relatively simple paleolatitudinal progression with age for this area, but rather point to the results from Acadian (Devonian) intrusive rocks as anomalous for reasons that are not yet entirely clear.
A controlled double blind study comparing the effects of strong burst mode, and high rate transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation, when both are appled to acupuncture points on osteoarthritic knees
Creators: name: Grimmer, KA
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: This study examined the effects of two different frequencies of Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) on chronically painful and stiff osteoarthritic knees. The effects studied were changes in pain state, changes in stiffness state, changes in circumference, and changes in range of movement. Three groups, each of 20 subjects, were given a single 30 minute application of TENS: the first group received High Rate (Conventional) TENS, the second group received strong Burst Mode (Low Rate) TENS, and the third (control) group received a placebo application using the same active TENS with nonfunctioning leads. Each TENS frequency was applied for the same length of time, at tolerable intensities, to the same four acupuncture points around the knee. Measurements of joint pain and stiffness using Absolute Visual Analogue Scales were made immediately before and after the TENS application. Objective measurements of joint circumference and range of movement were also made immediately before and after the test, using a tape measure and goniometer respectively. The length of time the post-test pain and stiffness relief lasted was determined by the subject reporting when his \normal\" pain and stiffness returned. These reports were collected 24 hours after the test. The aim of the experiment was to establish the hypothesis that strong Burst Mode TENS would produce significantly greater and longer lasting effects than those produced by High Rate TENS. The results from the study did not entirely support the hypothesis but the significance of the findings suggested that continuing investigation into TENS action is warranted."
Faster quantum algorithm for evaluating game trees
Creators: name: Reichardt, Ben W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We give an O(sqrt n log n)-query quantum algorithm for evaluating size-n AND-OR formulas. Its running time is poly-logarithmically greater after efficient preprocessing. Unlike previous approaches, the algorithm is based on a quantum walk on a graph that is not a tree. Instead, the algorithm is based on a hybrid of direct-sum span program composition, which generates tree-like graphs, and a novel tensor-product span program composition method, which generates graphs with vertices corresponding to minimal zero-certificates. For comparison, by the general adversary bound, the quantum query complexity for evaluating a size-n read-once AND-OR formula is at least Omega(sqrt n), and at most O(sqrt{n} log n / log log n). However, this algorithm is not necessarily time efficient; the number of elementary quantum gates applied between input queries could be much larger. Ambainis et al. have given a quantum algorithm that uses sqrt{n} 2^{O(sqrt{log n})} queries, with a poly-logarithmically greater running time.
description: 25 pages, 4 figures
Comparative behaviour of an undisturbed clay under triaxial and plane strain conditions
Creators: name: Vaid, Yoginder P.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Many field problems in soils approximate plane strain conditions. Conventional laboratory practice, however, consistently uses triaxial compression testing for evaluating strength and deformation properties of soils. Possible differences between triaxial and plane strain behaviour of natural soils have so far received little attention. New plane strain and K₀-triaxial apparatuses have been designed in which it is now possible to shear samples under various stress paths. A series of triaxial and plane strain tests were performed on identically K₀-consolidated samples of an undisturbed, sensitive, marine clay. Drained and undrained compression and extension tests under both increasing and decreasing stresses were carried out. Similar series of tests were also made on heavily overconsolidated specimens. It is demonstrated that the use of triaxial test results where plane strain conditions prevail invariably leads to an overestimate of deformations and an underestimate of strength. Methods to estimate strains in undrained plane strain shear from the results of triaxial tests under identical stress paths have been developed. Similarly, strains during drained plane strain shear of normally consolidated clay could be predicted from drained and undrained triaxial results, using an extended form of Rendulic's hypothesis.
Additional file 4 of Quantifying differences in packaged food and drink purchases among households with diet-related cardiometabolic multi-morbidity: a cross-sectional analysis
Creators: name: Ricket, Iben M.
name: Brown, Jeremiah R.
name: MacKenzie, Todd A.
name: Ma, Yu
name: Grewal, Dhruv
name: Ailawadi, Kusum L.
name: Emond, Jennifer A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 4. One-Year Monthly Average Weighed Per Capita Calories (kcal) Per Food Group, Stratified by Diet-Related Cardiometabolic Multi-Morbid Households. Supplemental analysis the on the average calories per capita for each food and drink category grouping.
Palaeomagnetic field intensity variation recorded in a Brunhes epoch deep-sea sediment core
Creators: name: Kent, Dennis V.
name: Opdyke, Neil D.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1977
Subjects: Geology, Stratigraphic

description: Deep-sea sediments have been shown to possess a natural remanent magnetisation (NRM) that often can be attributed to the statistical alignment of detrital magnetic grains in the Earth's magnetic field at or shortly after the time of their deposition. In favourable circumstances this remanence can be interpreted as a record of palaeomagnetic field behaviour. In the study reported here we have attempted to describe relative variations in palaeomagnetic field intensity on a time scale of 10^4-10^5 yr, during the past 700,000 yr, using the palaeomagnetic record of deep-sea sediment piston core RC10-167 (33°2′N, 150°23′E), which has an exceptionally thick section of sediment deposited during the Brunhes normal polarity epoch (Fig. 1). After subtracting the stratigraphic contribution of several distinct volcanic ash layers interspersed with the otherwise uniform pelagic sediment, we calculate an average deposition rate of 2.1cm kyr^-1 between the adjusted level (1,470cm) of the Brunhes-Matuyama boundary (t=700,000 yr) and the top of the core, assumed t=0 yr. A 2-cm thick sample, representing about 1,000 yr of deposition, was taken at an average interval of 3.3 cm (representing about 1,600 yr). This sampling placed a theoretical limit of 3,000-4,000 yr on the period of a resolvable sinusoidal variation.
Investigating the experimental and theoretical treatment of spent caustic effluent from an industrial Olefin plant by combining Fenton-like and foam fractionation methods on the bench scale
Creators: name: Tahmouresinejad, Hamed
name: Darvishi, Parviz
name: Lashanizadegan, Asghar
name: Sharififard, Hakimeh
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: In the present study, the treatment of a typical spent Merox caustic waste (SMC) was investigated by three methods of Fenton-like process, foam fractionation and combination of both methods. Immobilised TiO2/Fe0 nanoparticles on modified silica nanoparticles were used as heterogeneous Fenton-like catalyst. The characterisation of catalyst was carried out using Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR), X‐ray diffraction (XRD), diffuse reflectance spectra (DRS) analysis, thermal gravimetric analysis (TGA), differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The performance of the combined method was evaluated in terms of chemical oxygen demand (COD) residual parameter. The parameters including pH, gas flow rate to the separator column, concentrations of hydrogen peroxide/catalyst/surfactant/chelate agent, surfactant type, and chelate agent type were investigated to obtain the optimum conditions of the process by response surface methodology (RSM) based on eight-factors central composite design (CCD). Under optimum conditions of combining Fenton-like and foam fractionation methods, the minimum residue of COD was 10.98 ppm, corresponding to a COD removal of 99.7%. However, the measured values for the Fenton-like or foam fractionation methods alone did not exceed 88.9% and 58.4%, respectively. In addition, hydrogen peroxide consumption decreased by 63% compared to the Fenton-like method. Also, another important result shows that the use of cationic surfactants is more effective than anionic and amphoteric for wastewater treatment.
The Early Carboniferous paleomagnetic field of North America and its bearing on tectonics of the Northern Appalachians
Creators: name: Kent, Dennis V.
name: Opdyke, Neil D.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1979
Subjects: Paleoclimatology
Plate tectonics

description: We have obtained additional evidence for the Early Carboniferous paleomagnetic field for cratonic North America from study of the Barnett Formation of central Texas. A characteristic magnetization of this unit was isolated after thermal demagnetization at four sites (36 samples) out of eight sites (65 samples) collected. The mean direction of declination = 156.3°, inclination = 5.8° (N = 4 ,k = 905 , α95 = 3.0°), corresponds to a paleomagnetic pole position at lat. = 49.1°N,long. = 119.3°E (dp = 1.5° , dm = 3.0°). Field evidence suggests that characteristic magnetization was acquired very early in the history of the rock unit whereas the rejected sites are comprised of weakly magnetized limestones dominated by secondary components near the present-day field direction. Comparison of the Barnett pole with other Early Carboniferous (Mississippian) paleopoles from North America shows that it lies close to the apparent polar wander path for stable North America and that the divergence of paleopoles from the Northern Appalachians noted previously for the Devonian persisted into the Early Carboniferous. We interpret this difference in paleopoles as further evidence for the Northern Appalachian displaced terrain which we refer to here as Acadia, and the apparent coherence of Late Carboniferous paleopoles as indicating a large (∼1500 km) motion of Acadia with respect to stable North America over a rather short time interval in the Carboniferous
Identification of direct residue contacts in protein-protein interaction by message passing
Creators: name: Weigt, M.
name: White, R. A.
name: Szurmant, H.
name: Hoch, J. A.
name: Hwa, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Understanding the molecular determinants of specificity in protein-protein interaction is an outstanding challenge of postgenome biology. The availability of large protein databases generated from sequences of hundreds of bacterial genomes enables various statistical approaches to this problem. In this context covariance-based methods have been used to identify correlation between amino acid positions in interacting proteins. However, these methods have an important shortcoming, in that they cannot distinguish between directly and indirectly correlated residues. We developed a method that combines covariance analysis with global inference analysis, adopted from use in statistical physics. Applied to a set of >2,500 representatives of the bacterial two-component signal transduction system, the combination of covariance with global inference successfully and robustly identified residue pairs that are proximal in space without resorting to ad hoc tuning parameters, both for heterointeractions between sensor kinase (SK) and response regulator (RR) proteins and for homointeractions between RR proteins. The spectacular success of this approach illustrates the effectiveness of the global inference approach in identifying direct interaction based on sequence information alone. We expect this method to be applicable soon to interaction surfaces between proteins present in only 1 copy per genome as the number of sequenced genomes continues to expand. Use of this method could significantly increase the potential targets for therapeutic intervention, shed light on the mechanism of protein-protein interaction, and establish the foundation for the accurate prediction of interacting protein partners.
description: Supplementary information available on http://www.pnas.org/content/106/1/67.abstract
Correlation of paleointensity variation records in the Brunhes/Matuyama polarity transition interval
Creators: name: Kent, Dennis V.
name: Schneider, David A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Geophysics
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Paleomagnetic records of the 0.78 Ma Brunhes/Matuyama (B/M) polarity reversal interval described from high resolution (8–11 cm/kyr) deep-sea sediments from western equatorial Pacific ODP Sites 767B and 769A show two successive and marked decreases in paleointensity, of about 15 kyr wavelength each, and a shift from full reversed to fuli normal polarity directions in only ∼ 2 kyr, associated with the uppermost paleointensity decrease. In contrast, transition records from deep-sea sediments with lower sedimentation rates tend to show simpler paleointensity variation with more complex patterns of directional change; for example, the B/M transition record described from deep-sea sediment core V16–58 from the southern Indian Ocean. We suggest that the twin 10Be peaks reported in V16–58 correspond to increased production of this cosmogenic isotope, associated with the double paleointensity dips recorded in ODP 767B/769A,. The low-resolution V16–58 paleomagnetic record can be accounted for by modeling of the geomagnetic field history in ODP 767B at a nominal recording rate of 1 cm/kyr and using an exponential lock-in process filter with a half fixing depth of 16 cm. The double paleointensity dips become a single, broad magnetization low and the change in paleomagnetic directions is offset by about 16 cm below the actual level of the polarity transition, similar to what we infer for V16–58. The low resultant magnetizations will be especially prone to overprinting, which, if in the present field, will tend to give an Americas VGP path. The main features of the 10Be profile will be unaffected by the remanence lock-in process and, consequently, retain their usefulness for correlation as a proxy of geomagnetic dipole intensity variation.
Degradation of dye wastewater by using cobalt, copper and nickel Schiff base complexes as catalysts: spectral, molecular modelling, catalytic activity and metal removal from aqueous solution
Creators: name: Awad, Aml Adel Amer
name: Ali, Omyma Ahmed Moustafa
name: Nassar, Doaa Abdel Fattah
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Metal complexes of Co(II), Cu(II) and Ni(II) with the Schiff base ligand, 6,6ʹ-(([1,1ʹ-biphenyl]-4,4ʹ diylbis(azaneylylidene))bis(methaneylylidene))bis(2,4-dichlorophenol) (H2L) were synthesised. All synthesised compounds were identified and characterised. The conductivity measurements showed the non-electrolytic nature of all the complexes. The decomposition of all complexes ended with metal oxide. Octahedral geometries were proposed for all complexes. Photocatalytic degradation of methylene blue dye (MB) in the presence and absence of hydrogen peroxide was studied by using Co(II), Cu(II) and Ni(II) complexes as catalysts. Fluorescence studies have shown that the reported compounds can act as photoactive materials. Density functional theory was used to investigate the geometries of the ligand and its complexes. The adsorption of Co2+, Ni2+ and Cu2+ in an aqueous solution on H2L ligand under various conditions was studied. The optical properties of all complexes were studied. Antimicrobial activities of the ligand and its transition metal complexes were studied. The in-vitro cytotoxicity of ligand and its cobalt(II), nickel(II) and copper(II) complexes were evaluated towards the human Liver Carcinoma (HepG2) cell line and compared with standard cisplatin.
Paleomagnetic Evidence for Post-Devonian Displacement of the Avalon Platform (Newfoundland)
Creators: name: Kent, Dennis V.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1982
Subjects: subject: Geophysics
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: The possibility that the Avalon Platform, where the Avalonian lithotectonic belt is best developed, was involved in late Paleozoic displacement was tested by paleomagnetic study of red sandstones of the Upper Devonian Terrenceville Formation of eastern Newfoundland. Two magnetization directions were identified by thermal demagnetization analysis of 60 oriented samples from 10 sites: a high blocking temperature, thermally discrete A component of normal and reversed polarity, and an intermediate blocking temperature, thermally distributed B component of reversed polarity. The B component (D = 185.9°, I = -3.3°, a_95 = 7.2° for N = 8 sites) is interpreted as a postfolding secondary magnetization and gives a paleomagnetic pole position (latitude = 43.6°N, longitude = 117.1°E) near Early to Late Permian paleopoles for North America. The A component (D = 181.6°,I = 28.0°, a_95 = 10.1° for N = 9 sites) is interpreted as the characteristic magnetization possibly dating from near the time of deposition of the Terrence ville Formation. The corresponding paleomagnetic pole position (latitude = 27.4°N, longitude = 123.5°E) falls within a group of Late Devonian-early Carboniferous paleopoles obtained from the Acadia displaced terrain, encompassing the coastal areas of New England and the Canadian maritimes which form another part of the Avalonian belt. These paleopoles are systematically offset by 15° to 20° in latitude from coeval pole positions obtained from cratonic North America. Thus the Avalonian belt of the northern Appalachians, which is thought to represent a remnant of a Precambrian and early Paleozoic microcontinent on tectonostratigraphic considerations, appears to correspond to a late Paleozoic displaced terrain on the basis of paleomagnetic evidence.
Réduction de la nuisance olfactive par oxydation photocatalytique
Creators: name: Vincent, Guillaume
name: Zahraa, Orfan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Heterogeneous photocatalysis is an interesting alternative for the purification, decontamination and smell abatment of air. In the present work, the photocatalytic oxidation of 2-butanone (MEK : methyl ethyle ketone) is investigated, this low molecular mass product being the source of serious smell pollution. The influence of light and of the pollutant concentration were investigated in an annular photoreactor. As most VOC's, the degradation rate of MEK follows a Langmuir-Hinshelwood type law. Intermediate products were analysed by GC-MD ; acetaldehyde is the dominant byproduct of the photocatalytic oxidation.
title: Transient Effects during Dynamic Operation of a Wall‐Cooled Fixed‐Bed Reactor for CO₂ Methanation
Creators: name: Tauer, Georg
name: Kern, Christoph
name: Jess, Andreas
Publisher: name: University of Bayreuth
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 540
subject: 600
subject: 620
subject: 660

description: The power‐to‐gas process is an option to transform fluctuating renewable electric energy into methane via water electrolysis and subsequent conversion of H2 by methanation with CO2. The dynamic behavior of the methanation reactor may then be a critical aspect. The kinetics of CO2 methanation on a Ni‐catalyst were determined under isothermal and stationary conditions. Transient isothermal kinetic experiments showed a fast response of the rate on step changes of the concentrations of H2, CO2; in case of H2O, the response was delayed. Non‐isothermal experiments were conducted in a wall‐cooled fixed‐bed reactor. Temperature profiles were measured and the effect of a changing volumetric flow was studied. The experimental data were compared with simulations by a transient reactor model. The dynamic behavior of a methanation reactor may be a critical feature in power‐to‐gas processes. Steady‐state kinetics for CO2 methanation on a Ni catalyst were determined. Transient kinetic effects were observed in step change experiments for the reactants. A load change experiment in a wall‐cooled fixed‐bed reactor was modeled, showing distinct kinetic effects on the temperature in dynamic operation.
Additional file 1 of Quantifying differences in packaged food and drink purchases among households with diet-related cardiometabolic multi-morbidity: a cross-sectional analysis
Creators: name: Ricket, Iben M.
name: Brown, Jeremiah R.
name: MacKenzie, Todd A.
name: Ma, Yu
name: Grewal, Dhruv
name: Ailawadi, Kusum L.
name: Emond, Jennifer A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Covariate Categories. Details on the operationalization of covariate variables.
title: The Influence of Color and/or Movement Added to Thematic Apperception Test to Evoke Need Achievement
Creators: name: Hurst, Justin Fred
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1969

description: This study utilized the theories of David C. McClelland and associates regarding affective arousal, concept of cues arousing motives, and neutral testing procedures. The problem was to study the influence of color and/ or movement, as cues added to the McClelland four-picture Thematic Apperception Test, to evoke need achievement responses to determine whether or not the added stimuli of color and/or movement might evoke increased need achievement responses.
Four treatment variations of the test were made: Treatment A, consisted of the standard McClelland test, in black and white pictures. This treatment served as the control. Treatment B used the black and white pictures, but with movement added to the standard test. Treatment C added color to the pictures, but no movement. Treatment D added both color and movement to the test. A special effects apparatus was used to create the color and/or movement added to the pictures. The treatment variations of the four pictures were recorded on motion picture film in order to standardize the experimental procedures of the study.
A sample of 120 male college students was tested, and subdivided into groups of 30 subjects each. Each group of 30 students saw only one of the four treatment variations. The testing was accomplished by projecting the filmed, four-picture McClelland test, with each of the four pictures being shown for 20 seconds. After each picture was shown, five minutes were allowed for the subjects to write a story about the picture. The stories were scored for need achievement by the McClelland and associates (1953) scoring system C.
Statistical comparisons were made among the three experimental groups (Treatment B, C, D), as compared with the control group (Treatment A) in terms of the subject's mean scores in need achievement. No significant differences were found in any of the statistical comparisons. It was, therefore, concluded that the study subjects did not respond to the addition of color and/or movement as significant cues related to achievement motivation.
The changing pattern of eligibility for veterans' affairs pensions
Creators: name: Harrison, Arthur
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The thesis follows the development of the ways by which successive Australian Governments, from World War I onwards, have attempted to provide a measure of compensation to veterans who suffered injury or disease on war service, and to dependants of veterans whose death could be related to war service. Initially, purely local assessment and determination of claims within a broad framework was applied, but lack of consistency around the country forced the setting up of an entirely new department of government, devoted to serving the ex-service community. Superimposed, in the interest of fairness, was a multiple-level system of review and appeal in a sequence of Boards, Tribunals and, eventually, the Federal Court and High Court, with substantial involvement of lawyers appearing for claimants or the government. As detailed assessment of the effects of disease and injury are a matter for specialists, the medical profession has also become deeply involved in the determination process, but with an all too frequent display of diametrically opposed views on the relationship, if any, of a particular veteran's present conditions and the incomplete record of what happened to him during his time in the Forces. As in other spheres of law, corroboration of a claimant's evidence is highly desirable, but the sheer lapse of time, half a century in the case now of World War II veterans, has made if often impossible to find witnesses with a reliable memory and willing to sign a Statutory Declaration. Increasingly, too, and especially in regard to certain conditions, lack of direct evidence has been relieved by the use of epidemiological data, whereby an acknowledged extra risk has been usable to grant a claim, often long after the death of the veteran concerned. Claims which are seen to lie at the extremes of acceptance or rejection are relatively easy to assess. The inevitable doubt attached to border-line cases are a different matter as shown by the detailed examples in the text. Lest it be thought that the last word has been said on the subject, there is now (June 1994) yet another piece of amending legislation before Parliament, containing some provisions likely to be resisted by the ex-service community. Finally, a plea is made for the abandonment of the present squabbling on medical and legal grounds in favour of a two-tiered, but otherwise universal, flat rate. Adjustment of actual rates of pension should enable this approach to reach the usual objective of budgetary neutrality and is suggested as likely to attract wide approval by those affected.
Thermoviscous remagnetization in some Appalachian limestones
Creators: name: Kent, Dennis V.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1985
Subjects: subject: Geophysics
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Experimental evidence shows that blocking temperature“relaxation time theory for single“domain magnetite can grossly underestimate laboratory thermal demagnetization temperatures of a present day viscous remanence in Devonian limestones of New York State. Thermoviscous remagnetization at moderately elevated burial temperatures during the late Paleozoic cannot therefore be readily excluded for the origin of the stable secondary component in these rocks. More generally, these results emphasize that single domain thermal activation theory cannot be assumed a priori to correctly predict temperature of thermoviscous remanence acquisition in all magnetite“bearing rocks.
Additional file 5 of Quantifying differences in packaged food and drink purchases among households with diet-related cardiometabolic multi-morbidity: a cross-sectional analysis
Creators: name: Ricket, Iben M.
name: Brown, Jeremiah R.
name: MacKenzie, Todd A.
name: Ma, Yu
name: Grewal, Dhruv
name: Ailawadi, Kusum L.
name: Emond, Jennifer A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 5. One-Year Monthly Average Weighed Per Capita Serving (#) Per Food Group, Stratified by Diet-Related Cardiometabolic Multi-Morbid Households. Supplemental analysis the on average calories per serving for each food and drink category grouping.
Apparent correlation of palaeomagnetic intensity and climatic records in deep-sea sediments
Creators: name: Kent, Dennis V.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1982
Subjects: Paleoclimatology

description: Most reports of a correlation between Pleistocene climate and geomagnetic field intensity rely strongly on the assumption that sediment natural remanent magnetic (NRM) intensity provides a record of geomagnetic field strength and is not sensitive to local changes in properties of the sediment. Critical assessment of relevant data presented here and elsewhere from deep-sea sediment cores shows that a pronounced dependence of NRM intensity on sediment composition can occur which implies that this assumption is unlikely to be generally valid. As sediment composition often reflects varying depositional conditions induced by climatic change, the significance of correlations proposed between Pleistocene palaeomagnetism and climatic indicators in deep-sea sediments may be less dramatic than sometimes supposed.
Surfactant assisted magnetic dispersive micro solid phase extraction-HPLC as a straightforward and green procedure for preconcentrating and determining Caffeine, Lidocaine, and Chlorpromazine in biological and water samples
Creators: name: Neshin, Mohsen Varak
name: Khoshnood, Razieh Sanavi
name: Khoshnoud, Davoud Sanavi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Magnetic dispersive micro solid-phase extraction as a proper and selective sample preparation was developed to extract and clean up three drugs, including Caffeine (CAF), Lidocaine (LID), and Chlorpromazine (CPZ), before determining by HPLC-DAD. Nickel-doped BiFeO3 was synthesised using the sol–gel method as a magnetic sorbent core and coated with tetraethyl orthosilicate (TEOS) to enhance the sorbent stability and the sorbent selectivity. In the extraction procedure, the sorbent was dispersed into acetonitrile as disperser solvent and sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS) as a disperser agent before injecting into the sample solution to extract the analytes. Several influential factors in the method were evaluated using an experimental design strategy. Under the optimum conditions, the method displayed wide linearity in the concentration ranges of 20.8–365, 1.4–389, and 2.7–355 ng mL−1 to determine CAF, LID, and CPZ with a suitable R2 between 0.9963 and 0.9971, respectively. Intra-day and inter-day relative standard deviations were in the ranges of 3.5–3.8 and 3.9–4.3%. LODs and LOQs for the determination of CAF, LID, and CPZ were lower than 6.3 and 20.8 ng mL−1. The method is convenient for determining the analytes in real water and biological samples with RSD (n = 3) and recovery in the ranges of 3.0–4.3% and 87.5–96.9%, respectively.
Additional files used by the LasigeBioTM team in the CANTEMIST competition
Creators: name: Ruas, Pedro
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: 'trained_embeddings.zip': Output files of the training of FLAIR embeddings on Spanish PubMed abstracts. 'resources.zip': Output files of the training of the NER tagger on the CANTEMIST corpus. 'custom_models.zip': Model files for the CANTEMIST-CODING subtask.
title: A Comparison of Methods Used to Predict Success in Ninth Grade Elementary Algebra
Creators: name: Slade, Sherry
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1969

description: A study was conducted at North Cache Junior High School in Richmond, Utah, during the 1967-68 school year to determine an effective method of predicting which students would be able to succeed in algebra in the ninth grade. Eighth grade marks in mathematics, two algebra aptitude test scores, and student self-success ratings were compared with the final algebra grades to determine the best single predictor of success in algebra and to determine the best combined predictors of success.
The best single predictor of success in algebra was the student's final mark in eighth grade mathematics. The best combined predictors of success included the eighth grade marks in mathematics and the Survey Test of Algebra Aptitude scores.
Telling the Transnational Self: Shifting Identities in the Voyages of Pierre- Esprit Radisson
Creators: name: Hilliker, Robert J.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2004
Subjects: History

description: Between his birth, most likely in Paris, in 1636, and his death, in London, in 1710, Pierre-Esprit Radisson led a vagabond life. His youth was spent in the colonies of New France and among the neighboring Native American communities. At roughly fifteen years of age he was taken captive by the Iroquois and adopted into a Mohawk family. After his return to New France, Radisson made good use of his knowledge of Native American customs, traveling west into Huronia with his brother-in-law and trading for furs. After a falling-out with the governor of New France, however, Radisson and his brother-in-law ended up in England, where Radisson made a manuscript record of their voyages. Radisson then played a key role in the founding of the Hudson's Bay Company, which, from 1670 onwards, established the English as an important force in the fur trade. Radisson, however, returned to the service of the French king, Louis XIV, briefly in the 1680s, in large part because of anti-French sentiment in the Company. And yet, Radisson's family ties in England made it difficult for him to find the kind of employment he had hoped for in France, and so he returned again to England, where he remained until his death. This essay examines his life and writings in the context of changing concepts of identity and authorship in the seventeenth century.
title: Retention of Conservation Acquired by Instructional Methods, Eight Months After Termination of Instruction
Creators: name: Waite, Wenden W.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1969

description: This study attempted to determine if subjects that had been instructed in the principle of conservation, maintained conservation after termination of instructions. Using subjects from kindergarten to third grade that had received instructions by use of both concrete example and mental imagery methods. Those S's that received instructions were compared with S's that had received no instructions. A test of conservation was administered to a total of 96 S's approximately eight months after termination of instructions to determine if the scores received on a test of those students that had received instructions exceeded those S's that had not received instructions.
A statistical analysis of the data indicated that instructions were of no value to kindergarten or first grade students , but that second grade students showed a significant improvement in their ability to conserve after receiving instructions and the third grade group achieved the competence on test performance as their peers that had exceeded them before instructions were given. The results thus would indicate that instructions could be valuable in acquiring conservation if the S's have reached a certain cronological or maturational level in his development.
Relativistic aspects of rotational motion of celestial bodies
Creators: name: Klioner, S. A.
name: Gerlach, E.
name: Soffel, M. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Relativistic modelling of rotational motion of extended bodies represents one of the most complicated problems of Applied Relativity. The relativistic reference systems of IAU (2000) give a suitable theoretical framework for such a modelling. Recent developments in the post-Newtonian theory of Earth rotation in the limit of rigidly rotating multipoles are reported below. All components of the theory are summarized and the results are demonstrated. The experience with the relativistic Earth rotation theory can be directly applied to model the rotational motion of other celestial bodies. The high-precision theories of rotation of the Moon, Mars and Mercury can be expected to be of interest in the near future.
description: Proceeding of the IAU Symposium 261, to appear