cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: A Historical Study of Educational Broadcasting and Broadcast Training at Utah State University
Creators: name: Randall, James Kay
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1969

description: Utah State University began to present radio programs on a regular basis over KSL Radio in Salt Lake City in 1931. In 1952, its first television program was televised over KSL-TV. Today the University is broadcasting programs over the majority of Utah's radio and television stations.
This thesis covers the development of broadcasting from USU in three major areas: (1) radio and television programs presented over Utah broadcasting outlets, (2) the construction of radio and television stations on the campus, and (3) instruction in broadcasting. There has been no attempt made to evaluate the University's use of these media.
It is pointed out that off-campus broadcasting did not expand in an organized manner; that the later attempt to coordinate it has not achieved complete success, and that broadcast training at Utah State University paralleled the development of the television industry in Utah. Also pointed out is the role that students played in establishing the Institution's first broadcasting facility.
BF Cyg during ITS current outburst
Creators: name: Siviero, A.
name: Tamajo, E.
name: Lutz, J.
name: Wallerstein, G.
Publisher: name: Vilnius : Lithuanian Astronomical Union
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Individual (bf cyg)
subject: Stars: Symbiotic binaries
subject: 550

description: We are intensively monitoring the current outburst on BF Cyg, both spectroscopically (high and low resolution modes) and photometrically (so far 450 BVRCRIC measurements have been collected). The outburst is photometrically reminiscent of the major event BF Cyg experienced in 1890 when it rose by 4 mag in the blue. In this contribution we present the data and describe the plans to investigate this object.
Tasmania's Chinese heritage : an historical record of Chinese sites in North East Tasmania
Creators: name: Vivian, H
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The Chinese came to Tasmania ( 1875 - 1890) to work the alluvial tin fields of the North East. They came as sojourners to make quick fortunes before returning to China. They comprised the largest non-European ethnic community in 19th Century Tasmania. The number of Chinese was never great, reaching a peak of approximately 1000 - 1500 in 1887, but they played a very important role in the settlement and development of the North East. Tin mining was the main industry in the region and accounted for 1/4 of the colony's export earnings during the 1880s. The Chinese were brought in as cheap labour for the mines in the late 1870s and early 1880s, but, by a combination of circumstances and perserverance, they quickly established themselves in their own right. By 1882, Chinese were more numerous than Europeans in the alluvial tin mines and they remained in the majority until about 1897 (by which time alluvial mining had diminished in importance). After the introduction of restrictive immigration laws in 1887 and a recession in tin mining in 1888, the number of Chinese gradually declined. Those that remained form the roots of the Tasmanian population of the 1980s. Very little has been recorded of the history of the Chinese in Tasmania, and this survey of historical Chinese sites can only be regarded as a preliminary step towards understanding a period of history which has all but vanished today. The project located and recorded 41 sites and includes 15 oral history recordings; this forms the most comprehensive collection or primary source material available on the Chinese to date. The archaelogical record is currently an untapped source of information on the Chinese. However, these sites are currently under threat from forestry, fossicking, and small-scale mining. It is important to preserve the sites as sources of culturally significant information and vital to protect them as culturally significant fabric, since very few structures have survived from this era of Tasmanian history.
Tytgat Chocolat
Creators: name: Bryssinck, Marc
name: Lenaerts, Filip
Publisher: name: DARIAH-DE
Year: 2023
Subjects: Love
Migration
Family
Work

description: General Description
This series narrates the story of Jasper, a man with Down Syndrome who starts working in the packaging area of Tytgat Chocolat firm, a chocolate truffles factory in Vosselaar (Amberes, Belgium). Roman, the executive boss of the company, contracts people with cognitive disabilities as packers in the honour of his dead sister Indra, the first packer with Down Syndrome in the factory. At the moment of Jasper’s arrival, Tytgat Chocolat is dealing with a bad prognostic in its economic situation. The bookkeeper of the company announces a bankruptcy. Tytgat Chocolat needs to improve its profits and a way of achieving that would be the mechanization of the packaging area, a decision that threatens the job of Jasper and his colleagues.
Roman creates the contest of “The Golden Truffle” in order to boost sales and avoid the dismissal of the packers, and the company has good results soon. This initiative awards three prizes to those who find one of the three gold truffles located in Tytgat Chocolat’s boxes, which is exchanged for money. In parallel, Jasper integrates into the work environment, and he falls in love with Tina, one of his coworkers. Nevertheless, Tina and her mother Katarina, the taster and maker of the flavour of Tytgat Chocolat’s truffles, are deported to Kosovo, their country of origin, since they are illegally living in the European country. Jasper and some of his colleagues find out that Tina is one of the winners of the firm contest. She unknowingly had the third golden truffle in her locker of the factory changing room. However, she cannot receive the prize because she and her mother are already in Kosovo. Additionally, since the third winner of the golden truffle did not appear, and rumours of fraud began to be associated with Tytgat Chocolat, Roman secretly creates a fourth golden truffle. Therefore, he tries not to publicize the existence of Tina’s truffle.
Jasper and some of his friends from work decide to plan a secret road trip to Kosovo and go after Tina. With everything prepared and a cover to shield them from the controlling gaze of their families, Jasper’s gang starts the journey to Kosovo. After a trip full of vicissitudes, Jasper arrives in Kosovo and finds Tina. Jasper’s parents realize the real love that their son feels for Tina and his determination to fulfil his own will. After his journey, Jasper has developed his self-reliance and decides to stay with Tina in her country.
Particle decay in de Sitter spacetime via quantum tunneling
Creators: name: Volovik, G. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The quantum tunneling process of decay of the composite particle in the de Sitter vacuum looks as thermal radiation with the effective temperature twice larger than the Hawking temperature associated with the cosmological horizon.
description: 5 pages, no figures, JETP Lett. style, version accepted in JETP Lett
Tasmanian landowner preferences for conservation incentive programs: a latent class approach
Creators: name: Putten, van
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Incentive programs aimed at encouraging private landowners to set aside areas of forest for their conservation value have existed in Australia for more than two decades. Many programs restrict the use of the land by legal agreements or other means and some programs offer the landowner financial compensation. Most programs are based on voluntary entry by landowners. Programs available in Tasmania have added significantly to the total forest area conserved on private land. Nevertheless, in some regions more than 80 percent of land with conservation value remains unprotected and programs routinely fail to meet enrolment targets. This has resulted in considerable debate about the design of programs and has resulted in an increase in the amount of compensation offered and the introduction of more flexible conservation management options. In a limited number of situations, the option of forcing landowner entry into conservation incentive programs has also been considered. The objective of this study is to provide information for policy makers that hasn't existed before and that can be used in designing conservation programs. An improved understanding of landowners' decision framework, their motivation and the strength of their behavioral response will facilitate better forecasting of landowner participation decisions which may lead to an increase in landowner enrolment in programs. In this dissertation a conceptual model of landholders' participation choice is developed that combines a traditional utility maximisation framework with information about landowner attitudes. An empirical model of landowners' conservation incentive program choice is then developed. The model is estimated using stated preference data from a Best-Worst and a Choice survey. The responses to the Best-Worst survey, which was carried out first, were used to determine the choice set for the subsequent Choice survey. The Best-Worst survey was also used to explore differences between the perceived importance of program attributes by program designers and administrators, and landowners.
Space for outdoor recreation : planning aspects for a national policy
Creators: name: Spankie, Caroline Margaret Dacre
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Maintenance of public welfare is the function of the public sector. It is the duty of a government to do whatever is conducive to the welfare of the governed. It is the assumption of this study that as recreation is conducive to human well-being, it is the responsibility of government to provide each citizen with the opportunity of a diversity and variety of recreative pursuits. The substitution of automation and advanced technology for human powers and the subsequent gains in productivity have created an affluent society. Never before has man had greater prospects for a higher income, increased longevity, greater mobility and shorter working hours. By means of the rationalization of work, man's role in society will increasingly be sustained through recreative pursuits. Because of man's increased ability and need to participate in recreation, it has been estimated that the demand for recreation, and outdoor recreation in particular, will increase substantially. As a result of rising competition amongst all land uses and concurrent with an increase in demand for outdoor recreation there is a decreasing supply of recreation resources. The underlying purpose of this study was to ascertain what provisions society can make in order to ensure that outdoor recreation amenities will be available to all. In particular, this study sought to define the inadequacy of present policy in light of an increasing demand, and by means of a case study, to determine whether integration of recreation into the environment could represent an aspect of a new policy. The study results clearly uphold the following hypothesis: That the policy concerning the provision of opportunity for outdoor recreation has failed to recognize the dynamics of the supply and demand for outdoor recreation; new policy is indicated, one aspect of which, would be the Integration of recreation into the environment. The case study was focused upon the needs of the citizens of Vancouver and a trail system was conceived as being an instrument of a new policy. It was found that outdoor recreation could be compatible with other land uses. Land in the form of utility rights-of-way represents a recreation potential that could be used not only for the development of a trail system but also as a system serving to connect the major parks. A study of the function of outdoor recreation revealed that recreation is a continuous activity and therefore it is not logical to conceive of it as occurring only in a designated site. Recreation must be a feature of the environment especially as available land for recreation within the urban area is limited and thus a comprehensive approach towards its provision is required. This approach would necessitate the co-operation of all levels of government and the development of the recreation potential in all land uses.
title: An Analysis and Evaluation of the Methods of Reporting Pupils' Progress in the Elementary Schools of Utah
Creators: name: Chadwick, John W.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1945

description: This study of the pupil-progress reports of the elementary school of the state of Utah came about as the result of an assignment of the late Superintendent Keith Wahlquist. In answer to requests of local teachers and principals, a committee was assigned to make an investigation and recommendations for a revision of our reporting system. The work with the committee led to further study, which finally led to the writing of this thesis.
Analyzing Canadian ecological restoration literature with bibliometric analysis and a systematic map. Presented at ESMARConf2021
Creators: name: Alamenciak, Tim
name: Pomesanski, Dorian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Our presentation will discuss a novel use of bibliometric analysis (using Bibliometrix) paired with a systematic map to characterize and synthesize a broad selection of research. Ecological Restoration Knowledge Synthesis (ERKS) is a nationally-funded knowledge synthesis project that has involved a systematic literature review, interviews and case studies to assess and synthesize the current state of ecological restoration knowledge in Canada. We will demonstrate how we used the Bibliometrix R package to draw conclusions about a selection of 3,013 peer-reviewed journal articles. The analysis from Bibliometrix highlighted key clusters of literature. We then conducted a systematic map on studies that measured the outcomes of ecological interventions. The bibliometric analysis process helped inform the scope of our systematic map by providing insights about the body of literature. The systematic map was conducted using CADIMA to track the exclusions and data extraction. The extracted data was analyzed using R to cluster the results and create heatmaps for specific subject areas. The two approaches taken together allowed us to synthesize the broad sweep of the academic literature.The resulting analysis blends bibliometric analysis with a systematic map, resulting in a methodology that can be used to characterize a wide body of subject-specific literature. Our talk will highlight how these two methods of synthesis work together to highlight gaps in the research landscape.
A glottochronological analysis of Latvian and Russian
Creators: name: Staume, Guido
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Glattochronology is a branch of linguistics which attempts to provide dates for a historical relationship between languages, as well as to establish degrees of lexical relationship. In much the same way as carbon 14 dating provides dates for archaeological finds, glottochronological analysis is a technique utilized to estimate linguistic prehistory. The hypothesis that a proto Balto-Slavonic language has existed in prehistoric times is tested in this paper. This test is based on the cognate count, which reflects the cognation, in percentages, of corresponding lexical forms in both languages. The validity of the results obtained in the cognate count is dependent on the method of determination of cognation. Therefore, only an extremely rigorous approach, in the comparison of corresponding farms in Latvian and Russian, can be accepted as a reasonably valid method of determining true cognation. The corpus of the cognate count consists of 207 items in either language. Each item is formed by corresponding free morphemes in both Latvian and Russian, and is designated as either a positive, or a negative item, depending on the cognation of the corresponding forms. The results of the cognate count are then processed according to the accepted glottochronological methods. According to the results obtained, it was concluded that the hypothesis, claiming a prate Balto-Slavonic language, had to be rejected due to insufficient evidence for such a language. It also appeared that a substantial increase in sample size could furnish this type of investigation with mare reliable results. The conclusions reached indicate that the determination of a genetic relationship between languages, with the aid of the glattochronological technique, tends to be inconclusive. It appears that glattochronological analysis is a valuable method for use in the determination of degrees, of relationship between languages. The results obtained from this type of analysis should be utilized in correlation to results obtained by other disciplines in an endeavour to reconstruct prehistory, as dates obtained via this technique should be viewed as not absolute but rather as relative measurements.
Introducing metalabR: A package to facilitate living meta-analyses and dynamic meta-analytic visualizations. Presented at ESMARConf2021
Creators: name: LORETTA GASPARINI
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Developmental psychologists often make statements of the form “babies do X at age Y”. Such summaries can misrepresent a messy and complex evidence base, yet meta-analyses are under-used in the field. To facilitate developmental researchers’ access to current meta-analyses, we created MetaLab (metalab.stanford.edu), a platform for open, dynamic meta-analytic datasets. In 5 years the site has grown to 29 meta-analyses with data from 45,000 infants and children. A key feature is the unique standardized data storage format, which allows a unified framework for analysis and visualization, and facilitates addition of new datapoints to ensure living meta-analyses that give the most up-to-date summary of the body of literature. MetalabR facilitates and standardizes the process of conducting and integrating meta-analyses with the MetaLab platform. Existing key features focus on ensuring adherence to our standardized data format by providing functions for reading, validating, and cleaning new datasets and added datapoints. Furthermore, MetalabR helps access existing MetaLab functionalities for quantitative analysis, building on metafor (Viechtbauer, 2007). In progress are visualization tools for developmental meta-analyses and a report summarizing results of random effects models appropriate for developmental psychology.
National dance and folk elements in Argentine cello compositions
Creators: name: Witt, P
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: This research project focuses on the national dance and folk elements of Argentine compositions for cello and piano and for solo cello. Research has been conducted through the study and performance of these works with the aim of developing musical interpretation skills specific to the repertoire and improving general performance expertise. The outcomes of this research are a series of recorded performances and an accompanying exegesis that contextualises these performances. The scope of the project was limited to 138 musical scores of Argentine cello compositions dating from 1898 to 2005. The research culminated in four major recitals which included performances of works by Argentina's most well-known composers, Alberto Ginastera and Astor Piazzolla. These recitals also included compositions by other established Argentine composers such as Julian Aguirre, Constantino Gaito, Carlos Guastavino, Juan Jose Castro, Washington Castro, Luis Gianneo and Jose Bragato, and introduced new works by Alejandro Iglesias Rossi, Juan Maria Solare, Roberto Segret, Valdo Sciammarella and Roque de Pedro. Recordings of these concerts are appended to the exegesis. The exegesis includes a survey of literature and background information on the musical heritage of Argentina and the history of nationalism in Argentine art music. This background information is followed by the musical analysis of the national dance and folk elements found in the selected Argentine cello repertoire. A significant proportion of the works analysed show evidence of musical elements from tango and indigenous and Creole folk music from Argentina and the majority of these elements have been incorporated with direct nationalistic intent. Instrumental techniques assimilated from folk and tango performance are demonstrated in the performances of this repertoire and discussed in the exegesis.
The Structure of the Accretion Disk in the ADC X-Ray Binary 4U 1822-371 at Optical and Ultraviolet Wavelengths
Creators: name: Bayless, Amanda J.
name: Robinson, Edward L.
name: Hynes, Robert I.
name: Ashcraft, Teresa A.
name: Cornell, Mark E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The eclipsing low-mass X-ray binary 4U 1822-371 is the prototypical accretion disk corona (ADC) system. We have obtained new time-resolved UV spectroscopy of 4U 1822-371 with the Advanced Camera for Surveys/Solar Blind Channel (ACS/SBC) on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and new V- and J-band photometry with the 1.3-m SMARTS telescope at CTIO. We use the new data to construct its UV/optical spectral energy distribution and its orbital light curve in the UV, V, and J bands. We derive an improved ephemeris for the optical eclipses and confirm that the orbital period is changing rapidly, indicating extremely high rates of mass flow in the system; and we show that the accretion disk in the system has a strong wind with projected velocities up to 4000 km/s. We show that the disk has a vertically-extended, optically-thick component at optical wavelengths.This component extends almost to the edge of the disk and has a height equal to ~0.5 of the disk radius. As it has a low brightness temperature, we identify it as the optically-thick base of a disk wind, not as the optical counterpart of the ADC. Like previous models of 4U 1822-371, ours needs a tall obscuring wall near the edge of the accretion disk, but we interpret the wall as a layer of cooler material at the base of the disk wind, not as a tall, luminous disk rim.
description: 37 pages, 12 figures, submitted to ApJ
title: Membership Relations of the Utah Poultry and Farmers' Cooperative
Creators: name: Nelson, Glen T.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1947

description: Commercial egg production in Utah has developed gradually since 1920. Production of eggs increased from 142 million in 1924 to 433 million eggs in 1946. The percentage of total farm income of the state derived from the poultry industry increased from 5.3 percent in 1924 to 23.1 percent in 1946 and at the present time constitutes the largest income of any farm enterprise in this area. Factors influencing this development are: 1. High prices resulting from the war period of 1917 to 1920 followed by the depression period when prices were low. 2. The organization of cooperative egg-marketing associations. 3. Shipments of eggs to the eastern markets. 4. The lack of marketing facilities for the high-quality eggs produced in the state.
title: A Survey of the Present Status and the Potential for Future Organization of Business Youth Organizations in Utah High Schools
Creators: name: Salazar, Roman S.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1969

description: The purpose of the study was to determine the present status and the potential for future organization of business youth organizations in Utah high schools.
Questionnaires were mailed to Utah high school business teachers and to Utah high school principals.
Sixty-six per cent of the responding teachers bad never served as a business youth club sponsor; and 69 per cent of the teachers had never belonged to a business youth organization in high school or in college.
Fifty-one per cent of the teachers expressed an interest in attending a regional meeting to discuss the organization of additional business youth organizations.
Fifty-four per cent of the teachers expressed an interest in serving as sponsors for business youth cubs.
Forty-three per cent of the teachers expressed a complete lack of knowledge about how to organize a business youth club in their schools within the next two years. The high schools in Utah were found to be neutral in encouraging business youth organizations at the local, state, and national levels.
Significant differences at the .05 level of significance were found between the opinions of high school business teachers and high school principals in regard to (1) the levels at which business youth organizations should be promoted; (2) what type of student should be allowed membership in business youth organizations; and (3) the holding of conventions for business youth organizations.
No significant differences were found between the teachers and principals in regard to (1) the sponsoring of contests for business club members and (2) the importance of business youth organizations.
Southern hemisphere gamma-ray blazars
Creators: name: Blanchard, JM
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The detection of high energy gamma-ray emission from AGN has resulted in several emission mechanisms and emission sites being proposed. One such emission mechanism relies on the inverse Compton effect. In this effect low energy photons are upscattered to high energies due to collisions with high energy electrons. This would suggest a possible link between radio synchrotron emission (providing high energy electrons) and the observed gamma-ray emission. Previous work in the field has suggested such a link, however the details of the interaction are not fully understood. Statistical studies on a sample of AGN have shown a delay due to optical depth effects of the order of 1.2 months in the source frame, with the gamma-ray emission leading. In this thesis studies of individual sources are presented, for which flaring events have been observed, and it is found that while optical depth can explain the time lag between flaring at different frequencies in some cases, it can not be the sole mechanism causing such a delay. Different emission sites for the radio and gamma-ray flares are proposed, to account for the properties observed. A new instrument, the single baseline interferometer CHI which can be used to quickly ascertain the compact radio flux of a gamma-ray flaring AGN is also introduced.
PsychOpen CAMA - A platform for open and cumulative meta-analyses in psychology. Presented at ESMARConf2021
Creators: name: Burgard, Tanja
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Typically, meta-analyses are published as printed articles. This practice leads to serious limitations for the re-usability of meta-analytic data. Results of printed meta-analyses can often neither be replicated, nor can the sensitivity of the results to subjective decisions, as the use of statistical models, be examined. Results quickly become outdated and without access to the meta-analytic dataset, the process of meta-analytic data collection starts from scratch. A solution for an infrastructure for continuous updating of meta-analytic evidence is the concept of CAMA (Community-Augmented Meta-Analysis). A CAMA is an open repository for meta-analytic data, that provides a GUI for meta-analytic tools. PsychOpen CAMA serves the field of psychology. The PHP application relies on an OpenCPU server to process requests from the analyses called from the GUI. All functions needed for these analyses are stored in an R package. To ensure interoperability, all data available on the platform follow certain conventions defined in a data template. The results from the operations on the OpenCPU Server are given back as output on the GUI.Meta-analyses published on the platform are accessable and can be augmented continuously by the research community. A first release of the service will be available in early 2021. All meta-analytic functionalities (data exploration, meta-regression, publication bias, power analyses) can already be demonstrated with our test version.
Switching from electron to hole transport in solution-processed organic blend field-effect transistors
Creators: name: Fidyk, Julia
name: Waliszewski, Witold
name: Sleczkowski, Piotr
name: Kiersnowski, Adam
name: Pisula, Wojciech
name: Marszalek, Tomasz
Publisher: name: Basel : MDPI
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Bulk heterojunction
subject: Charge carrier transport
subject: Film morphology
subject: Organic electronics
subject: Organic field-effect transistor
subject: 540

description: Organic electronics became an attractive alternative for practical applications in complementary logic circuits due to the unique features of organic semiconductors such as solution processability and ease of large-area manufacturing. Bulk heterojunctions (BHJ), consisting of a blend of two organic semiconductors of different electronic affinities, allow fabrication of a broad range of devices such as light-emitting transistors, light-emitting diodes, photovoltaics, photodetectors, ambipolar transistors and sensors. In this work, the charge carrier transport of BHJ films in field-effect transistors is switched from electron to hole domination upon processing and post-treatment. Low molecular weight n-type N,N′-bis(n-octyl)-(1,7&1,6)-dicyanoperylene-3,4:9,10-bis(dicarboximide) (PDI8-CN2) was blended with p-type poly[2,5-bis(3-tetradecylthiophene-2-yl)thieno[3,2-b]thiophene] (PBTTT-C14) and deposited by spin-coating to form BHJ films. Systematic investigation of the role of rotation speed, solution temperature, and thermal annealing on thin film morphology was performed using atomic force microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, and grazing incidence wide-angle X-ray scattering. It has been determined that upon thermal annealing the BHJ morphology is modified from small interconnected PDI8-CN2 crystals uniformly distributed in the polymer fraction to large planar PDI8-CN2 crystal domains on top of the blend film, leading to the switch from electron to hole transport in field-effect transistors.
Quantum annealing for particle matching in quasi-cyclic discrete-element method simulations
Creators: name: Ahrend, Oliver
name: Kowalski, Julia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Presentation for the 16th World Congress on Computational Mechanics and 4th Pan American Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM 2024 / PANACM 2024).
title: Albedo of the Earth's Surface -- A Comparison of Measurements Taken on the Ground and from Flying Platforms
Creators: name: Eaton, Frank D.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1976

description: The main objectives of this study were to develop the intricacies of reflected solar radiation from different natural surfaces and to show comparisons between values sensed in space of emergent radiation to ground values obtained from accounting for anisotropic reflection and estimating the effect of the intervening atmosphere. Thus, this study demonstrated that a prior knowledge of the angular distribution of reflected radiation allows determining the true hemispherical reflected radiation from a narrow field of view instrument such as found on a flying platform. Measurements for determining the indicatrices were made from a tower-mounted Nimbus MRIR and, in one case, with a hand-held TIROS five-channel radiometer.
Anisotropy of reflected radiation was found for all surfaces examined and increased with decreasing solar angle. Different surfaces showed different degrees and patterns of forward and backscatter. A clearly defined anti-solar point was found for plowed field, various agricultural crops and vegetated desert surfaces, while snow, the Alkali Flats, and Bonneville Salt Flats showed a broad pattern of backscatter. As a consequence of surfaces exhibiting well-defined antisolar points the anisotropic correction factors relating normal reflectances to 2π reflected values were less than 100 percent for solar angles greater than approximately 60°. All surfaces examined showed anisotropic correction factors increasing with decreasing solar angles.
The albedo over the White Sands dune field decreased with decreasing solar angles due to large shadow patterns which are produced at low solar angles. The sand dunes values were derived from aircraft measurements.
Comparisons were made between estimated emergent radiation from the top of the earth 's atmosphere accounting for anisotropy of the ground reflection pattern and estimates of atmospheric attenuation to values of reflected radiation obtained from the MSS subsystem of the ERTS program for the lava beds region and White Sands area in New Mexico. Also comparisons were shown between the estimated emergent radiation from the earth's surface for the same features and spectral bands to the values sensed in space. Under high albedo conditions as found in the White Sands area there was a decrease in emergent radiation to space while with low surface albedo, such as the lava beds region, the extra-terrestrial radiation increased from the ground values.
Signature of the black hole phase transition in quasinormal modes
Creators: name: He, Xi
name: Wang, Bin
name: Cai, Rong-Gen
name: Lin, Chi-Yong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the perturbation of the scalar field interacting with the Maxwell field in the background of d-dimensional charged AdS black hole and AdS soliton. Different from the single classical field perturbation, which always has the decay mode in the black hole background, we observe the possible growing mode when the perturbation of the scalar field strongly couples to the Maxwell field. Our results disclose the signature of how the phase transition happens when the interaction among classical fields is strong. The sudden change of the perturbation to growing mode is also observed in the AdS soliton with electric potential. However in the magnetic charged AdS soliton background, we observe the consistent perturbation behavior when the interaction between scalar field and Maxwell field is considered. This implies that for the magnetic charged AdS soliton configuration, unlike the situation with electric potential, there is no scalar field condensation which causes the phase change.
description: 12 pages, revised version, accepted for publication in PLB
Swift follow-up observations of 17 INTEGRAL sources of uncertain or unknown nature
Creators: name: Rodriguez, J.
name: Tomsick, J. A.
name: Chaty, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: (abridged) We analysed data from observations of 17 INTEGRAL sources made with the Swift satellite. We refine the position of the hard X-ray sources to an accuracy of a few arcsec. We then browsed the online catalogs (e.g., NED, SIMBAD, 2MASS, 2MASX, USNO) to search for counterparts at other wavelengths. We also made use of the X-ray spectral parameters to try to identify the nature of those sources. We provide the X-ray position with arcsec accuracy, identify possible infrared and optical counterparts (when found), give the magnitudes in those bands and in the optical and UV as seen with the Swift/UVOT telescope when observations are available. We confirm the previously suggested associations and source types for IGR J03532-6829, J05346-5759, J10101-5654, J13000+2529, J13020-6359, J15479-4529, J18214-1318, and J23206+6431. We identify IGR J09025-6814 as an AGN for the first time, and we suggest that it may be a Seyfert 2. We suggest that IGR J05319-6601, J16287-5021, J17353-3539 and J17476-2253 are X-ray binaries, with J05319-6601 being located in the LMC and the other three possibly being HMXBs in our Galaxy. For IGR J15161-3827 and J20286+2544, we find several possible X-ray counterparts in the IBIS error region, and we discuss which, if any, are the likely counterparts. Both are likely AGNs, although the latter could be a blend of two AGNs. For IGR J03184-0014 and J19267+1325, we find X-ray sources slightly outside the IBIS error circle. In the former, we do not favour an association of the Swift and INTEGRAL source, while it is very likely that IGR J19267+1325 and the Swift source are the same.
description: 12 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
Spectral imaging based on 2D diffraction patterns and a regularization model
Creators: name: Nimmer, Max
name: Steidl, Gabriele
name: Riesenberg, Rainer
name: Wuttig, Andreas
Publisher: name: Washington D.C. : Optical Society of America
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: multispectral image
subject: monochromatic image
subject: spectral imaging
subject: 620

description: We present a variational approach to reconstruct a multispectral image from an array of diffraction patterns captured in one monochromatic image. The mathematical model relies on the superposition of wavelength dependent calibration diffraction patterns and a spectral regularization with second order differences. The necessary preprocessing steps which influence the mathematical setting are discussed in detail. For computing a minimizer of our model we propose an active set method with model specific modifications. We validate our approach by experimental results for spectra within the range of 400 nm to 700 nm.
Series
Creators: name: Prof. Dr. Susanne Hartwig
name: Dr. Soledad Pereyra
Publisher: name: DARIAH-DE
Year: 2023
Subjects: Series

description: The following is a metadata subcollection on European series involving artists with cognitive disabilities. This subcollection was compiled between 2020 and 2023 as part of the project “Erzählung, Erwartung, Erfahrung. Behinderung im zeitgenössischen europäischen Theater und Film” (EEE) or “Narrative, Expectation, and Experience: Disability in Contemporary European Theatre and Film,” which was funded by the German Research Foundation DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft; project number 429281822) and directed by Prof. Dr. Susanne Hartwig of the University of Passau in Germany. The data collection was coordinated by Dr. Soledad Pereyra, University of Passau.
The regulation of flowering in Pisum
Creators: name: Reid, James
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The expression of two genes, Sn and Hr, which partially control the flowering of peas, was examined in several pure genetic lines. The present study was particulary concerned with the control of the expression of these genes by environmental factors (eg light and temperature), the site of action of the genes and their possible mode of action, including simulation of their effects by growth substances.
Challenges and lessons for automating data extractions from scientific plots. Presented at ESMARConf2021
Creators: name: Lajeunesse, Marc
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Here I present challenges to the semi-automation of data extraction from published figures. I first discuss failed implementations with an existing R package METAGEAR, and then focus on new technologies available in R that can help resolve deficiencies. Finally, I end with best practices for scientists to help make published figures more accessible to automated technologies.
Mon petit frère de la Lune
Creators: name: Philibert, Frédéric
Publisher: name: DARIAH-DE
Year: 2023
Subjects: Communication
Siblings
Animation
Dreams
Autism

description: Abstract:
In a sequence of black and white animated drawings, the voice-over of a little girl tells in a simple and cheerful way her experience with having a younger brother affected by autism.

Details:
The voice-over of a little girl accompanies a sequence of black-and-white animated drawings that depict the story of how a little girl acknowledges her younger brother’s condition as an autistic child. Her innocent and spontaneous voice conveys the simplicity in which she experiences having a younger brother with autism, her efforts to understand him, and to build a relationship with him.
She starts by describing him as a baby and having regular behaviours like every other baby: he ate, cried, and did not sleep much at night. Once he grew, though, he was almost isolated from the rest of the world. In fact, the drawings depict him as surrounded by a white circle that separates him from the black background and from his sister. She says that she tries to make him laugh, but he does not react. He just keeps looking upwards, “towards the sky”. She makes a list of some situations, such as loud noises or activities he does not like, that trigger a bad reaction in him and comments that when it happens, it is not fun. She also says that their parents need to carefully cut his hair when he sleeps to not make him mad that sometimes he moves his arms as if he wanted to fly, while people on the street give him a weird look.
She says that he went to a lot of doctors and that their parents say that he is not like everyone else, and that is why she likes him. Because of his “strange behaviours,” she describes her brother as “coming from the moon,” even though she knows he was born on Earth. The first clue is that he likes rounded and shiny objects. In fact, the only time in which he does not look up is when he sees a manhole on the street. He also only likes to crawl up the stairs, not to descend them.
She reveals that she would like to be a fairy to make everything he wants come true and to take him down from the moon to the earth. She also reveals that she invented a special language to communicate with him, play with him and make him laugh. The end scene shows them both running around and laughing, surrounded by a bigger white circle that she managed to enter. In the end, she hums a song while a text written by an adult speaks metaphorically about the “child from the moon” and wonders about what the right way is to approach him.
Modular Integrals in Minimal Super Liouville Gravity
Creators: name: Belavin, V. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The four-point integral of the minimal super Liouville gravity on the sphere is evaluated numerically. The integration procedure is based on the effective elliptic parameterization of the moduli space. The analysis is performed for a few different gravitational four-point amplitudes. The results agree with the analytic results recently obtained using the Higher super Liouville equations of motion.
description: 20 pages, 2 figures
title: Mesoscale Atmospheric Circulation and Diffusion Characteristics
Creators: name: Ellis, Ronan I.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1973

description: Constant volume superpressure pillow balloons were flown over a mountain valley downwind from a sharp ridge line. Balloon trajectories revealed and atmospheric soundings confirmed a persistent turbulently mixed adiabatic layer over the valley at approximately ridge top height except in the immediate lee of the ridge where strong vertical motions were observed. Temporary stationarity of the relative mesoscale turbulence was found to exist on a time scale exceeding 4 hours. Power spectrum analysis of component relative velocities showed greater variance in lower wave numbers and anisotropy in mesoscale turbulence. Eddy diffusivity coefficients for turbulence above the ridge height were Kx= 1×107 , Ky = 5×106 , Kz = 1×106 (cm2 sec-1). Below the ridge line Kz was nearly constant at 2×105 cm2/sec- 1. Kz was found to vary exponentially with R, a balloon-ridge ratio; Kz ∞ exp (3R).
Sysrev - An Open Access Platform for Review. Presented at ESMARConf2021
Creators: name: Luechtefeld, Thomas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Sysrev is an open access platform for data extraction and review. It supports FAIR data principles (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reproducible) with an emphasis on interoperability. Sysrev currently supports three forms of interoperability - a graphql server, an R packages (RSysrev), and a python client (PySysrev). Sysrev provides a free, and open access platform that can be used by developers as a source of review data or as a platform for supporting new reviews. In this talk, we'll briefly demonstrate how sysrev can be used to create a named entity recognition data set for genes (sysrev.com/p/3144) and how that data set can be used to create a named entity recognition model with PySysrev. We will also demonstrate how RSysrev can be used to read open access review data, and how it can be used to generate new data for review. Sysrev is eager to partner with developers who want to improve the way humans and machines work together, we provide a simple open-access platform that lets developers build applications that rely on review data, without needing to recreate a review platform from scratch.
Signals Theory for Religious Studies Dummies: An AAR/SBL Parable
Creators: name: Bilby, Mark G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Benford's Law
Connected: The Hidden Science of Everything
Latif Nasser
American Academy of Religion
Society of Biblical Literature
Gospel of Marcion
Signals theorem of the gospels
Digital Bodhisattva

description: This is LODLIB 3. Be careful. This LODLIB and those before it will enlighten and transform you. You cannot unthink or unhear what you will learn herein. The author is not responsible for the results of your enlightenment and transformation. If you wish to become a digital Bodhisattva of the mind, start making and sharing your own LODLIBs.
title: Transpiration and Dry Matter Response to Atmospheric Humidity, Matric Suction, and Fertility
Creators: name: Warrington, Gordon Edgar
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1970

description: Growth chamber studies showed that a relationship exists between transpiration and dry matter production of spring wheat (Tritiaum Aestivum L. var . Thatcher). A temperature of 27 C for a 16-hour day,and 21 C at night were used throughout the experiment. Relative humidities (RH) of 12, 25, 71, and 83 percent and matric suctions of 1, 3, and 9 bars were used a l ong with six fertility levels and a 20-day growing period. An equation was developed from previous equations by De Wit and Arkley to describe the transpiration ratio (Tr = mass of water transpired/mass of dry matter produced) as it relates to evaporative demand conditions measured by humidity and pan evaporation. Time and fertility effects were not included because of insufficient data.
As humidity both increases and decreases from 25 percent, the transpiration ratio decreases. Increasing levels of matric suction had an effect on Tr only at 25 percent RH. As fertility increased, Tr decreased toward some minimum level. Tr seems to reach a stable maximum as plants mature under steady state conditions.