cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Performance of Corrugated Polyethylene Entrance Pipe
Creators: name: Hughes, Ronald D.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1989
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: Observations noted during inspections of 57 entrance pipe installations are summarized. Inspections were conducted in 1986 and 1989. It is recommended that corrugated polyethylene pipe be permitted routinely as an alternate to other materials for entrance pipe.
On the Kuzmin model in fractional Newtonian gravity
Creators: name: Giusti, Andrea
name: Garrappa, Roberto
name: Vachon, Geneviève
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 35R11, 35J05, 85A05

description: Fractional Newtonian gravity, based on the fractional generalization of Poisson's equation for Newtonian gravity, is a novel approach to Galactic dynamics aimed at providing an alternative to the dark matter paradigm through a non-local modification of Newton's theory. We provide an in-depth discussion of the gravitational potential for the Kuzmin disk within this new approach. Specifically, we derive an integral and a series representation for the potential, we verify its asymptotic behavior at large scales, and we provide illuminating plots of the resulting equipotential surfaces.
description: 13 pages, 8 figures, published in EPJ Plus
Preliminary Engineering, Monitoring of Construction, and Initial Performance Evaluation
Use of Ponded Fly Ash in Highway Road Base
Creators: name: Hunsucker, David Q.
name: Graves, R. Clark
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1989
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: This report summarizes findings of laboratory and field trial evaluations of ponded fly ash used as a component In a stabilized aggregate base course. Ponded fly ash is the fine portion of pond ash which is a by-product of a coal burning process and Is disposed by sluicing to a disposal pond.  Three stabilized aggregate base mixtures containing various proportions of dense graded aggregate, ponded fly ash, and hydrated lime were evaluated In the laboratory relative to maximum dry density, optimum moisture content, and unconfined compressive strength. The mixture that was selected for field trial evaluation had the highest unconfined compressive strength and consisted of 85% dense graded aggregate, 11% ponded fly ash, and 5% hydrated lime.  A 750-foot section of a 22-fool wide roadway was constructed in May 1988. Approximately 80 tons of ponded fly ash were utilized in constructing the experimental base. Prior to construction, in-place California Bearing Ratio tests, moisture content determinations and Road Rater deflection tests were performed on the prepared subgrade. The stabilized aggregate base was placed in one 8-inch lift During construction, relative compaction and moisture content of the base material were monitored by nuclear devices. Post construction evaluations included Road Rater deflections tests and coring to obtain samples for laboratory evaluation.  To dale, the section containing the stabilized aggregate base Is performing very well in comparison to the conventionally paved section.
Understanding the Relationship Between Observations and Stellar Parameters in an Eclipsing Binary System
Creators: name: Creevey, O. L
name: Brown, T. M.
name: Jiménez-Reyes, S.
name: Belmonte, J. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We would like to investigate the information contained in our observations and to what extent each of them contributes individually to constraining the physical parameters of the system we are investigating. To do this, we present a study involving the technique of Singular Value Decomposition using as a simple example a detached eclipsing binary system. We intend to apply an extension of this technique to asteroseismic measurements of Delta~Scuti stars that are members of eclipsing binary systems.
description: 4 pages
Development of a Priority Ranking System for Bridge Rehabilitation and Replacement
Creators: name: Hopwood, Theodore
name: Oka, Vishwas G.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1989
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: The main objective of this study was to review a Bridge Priority Ranking System for Bridge Replacement developed by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet Division of Maintenance. The system ranked bridges for improvement (rehabilitation or replacement) based on a benefit/cost ratio.  The system was used to rank a large data base consisting of 267 bridges. Analysis of the rankings revealed that the ranking system gave priority to bridges having low improvement costs. Many of those had low traffic volumes and subsequently, they had high costs of improvement per vehicle served.  The equation used to compute bridge deficiency points was revised. Several proposed alternate ranking systems were analyzed. Those systems and their analyses are discussed.
From innovation, through stigma, to origin myth: the changing perception of psychological trauma and its relevance to contemporary forensic issues
Creators: name: Marxsen, David
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The history of the construct of psychological trauma is traced. This history begins with the often-misundersfood construct of repression and its complex relationship to trauma. In the 1800's, the metaphor of psychological trauma was a radical innovation to most writers. Military physicians, however, had been aware of psychological trauma and its effects centuries earlier. In the present century, changing ideas concerning trauma have been interwoven with contemporary military history. The varieties of experiences that are considered potentially traumatic have multiplied notably over the past few decades, as have the suspected sequelae of that trauma. Accompanying this has been a general trend in taking blame from the victim, and placing it on the traumatic experience. This expansion of cause and effect, and the removal of blame from the victim, has led to the modern phenomenon of 'victim-hood'. The relevance of current views on the subject to the forensic issue is discussed.
A new construction of perfectly matched layers for the linearized Euler equations
Creators: name: Nataf, Frédéric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65M99

description: Based on a PML for the advective wave equation, we propose two PML models for the linearized Euler equations. The derivation of the first model can be applied to other physical models. The second model was implemented. Numerical results are shown.
description: submitted for publication on February 1st 2005 What's new: interface conditions for the first PML model, a 3D section, more numerical results
Fundamental cosmic strings
Creators: name: Davis, A. -C.
name: Kibble, T. W. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cosmic strings are linear concentrations of energy that may be formed at phase transitions in the very early universe. At one time they were thought to provide a possible origin for the density inhomogeneities from which galaxies eventually develop, though this idea has been ruled out, primarily by observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Fundamental strings are the supposed building blocks of all matter in superstring theory or its modern version, M-theory. These two concepts were originally very far apart, but recent developments have brought them closer. The `brane-world' scenario in particular suggests the existence of macroscopic fundamental strings that could well play a role very similar to that of cosmic strings. In this paper, we outline these new developments, and also analyze recent observational evidence, and prospects for the future.
description: Review to appear in Contemporary Physics
Dynamical entropy of generalized quantum Markov chains on gauge invariant $C^*$-algebras
Creators: name: Ohno, Hiromichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46L55; 28D20

description: We prove that the mean entropy and the dynamical entropy are equal for generalized quantum Markov chains on gauge-invariant $C^*$-algebras.
description: 8 pages
Invecchiamento nel settore sanitario italiano: dalle criticità alle soluzioni possibili
Creators: name: Isolani, Lucia
name: Comi, Francesco
Publisher: name: Diritto della sicurezza sul lavoro
Year: 2019

description: L’età media della popolazione generale e al contempo della popolazione lavorativa è in continuo e progressivo aumento, soprattutto in alcuni settori lavorativi, come ad esempio quello della sanità, caratterizzato da lavoratori prevalentemente di genere femminile e con età media elevata. Vi è pertanto necessità di programmi di intervento come linee guida e buone prassi che consentano di migliorare le condizioni di salute e di sicurezza, ad esempio evitando gli incidenti o favorendo il rientro al lavoro dopo malattia o infortunio. Soluzioni organizzative ed ergonomiche vanno ricercate ed incentivate per garantire lavoratori sani, attivi e produttivi all’interno di luoghi di lavoro sicuri. The average age of the general population and at the same time of the working population is increasing continuously and progressively, especially in certain sectors of work, such as health care one, with predominantly female workers with a high average age. There is a need for action programmes such as guidelines and good practices to improve health and safety conditions, for example by avoiding accidents or facilitating return to work after illness or injury. Organizational and ergonomic solutions must be encouraged to ensure healthy, active and productive workers in safe workplaces.
description: Diritto della sicurezza sul lavoro, N. 1 (2019)
The Heun equation and the Calogero-Moser-Sutherland system V: generalized Darboux transformations
Creators: name: Takemura, Kouichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 33E10,34M35,82B23

description: We obtain isomonodromic transformations for Heun's equation by generalizing Darboux transformation, and we find pairs and triplets of Heun's equation which have the same monodromy structure. By composing generalized Darboux transformations, we establish a new construction of the commuting operator which ensures finite-gap property. As an application, we prove conjectures in part III.
description: 24 pages
Space-time Vector Supersymmetry and Massive Spinning Particle
Creators: name: Casalbuoni, Roberto
name: Gomis, Joaquim
name: Kamimura, Kiyoshi
name: Longhi, Giorgio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct the action of a relativistic spinning particle from a non-linear realization of a space-time odd vector extension of the Poincaré group. For particular values of the parameters appearing in the lagrangian the model has a gauge world-line supersymmetry.{As a consequence of this local symmetry there are BPS solutions in the model preserving 1/5 of the supersymmetries.} A supersymmetric invariant quantization produces two decoupled 4d Dirac equations.
description: 14 pages. Few references and two comments added
Parental coping with a child’s epilespy: a secondary analysis using the Canam Adaptive Task Framework
Creators: name: Calvert, Susan Ellen Catherine
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This qualitative study is a secondary analysis of an existing data set generated from a descriptive study of parents of children with epilepsy. The conceptual framework that provided a basis for this study was the Canam Adaptive Task Framework (ATF) and the purpose of this study was to apply the ATF to transcribed narrative data from a sample of parents to determine if the adaptive tasks effectively represented their experiences. The ATF is based on the premise that there is a series of eight adaptive tasks common to parents of children with chronic conditions, regardless of the child's specific medical condition. The ATF is an organizing structure that guides the nurse in not only identifying the common issues, but in determining the knowledge, skills, and resources required for the parent to cope. By determining the representativeness of the ATF with this condition-specific data set, the credibility of the ATF with parents of children with chronic conditions may be increased. In the current study, 12 families were randomly selected from the original, convenience sample of 20 families from the Seizure Clinic at BC's Children's Hospital. Data were analyzed using latent content analysis (Morse & Field, 1995) according to the appropriate adaptive task categories. Through the study, the author's findings demonstrate that the ATF provides the nurse with credible and practical direction to collaborate with parents in identifying the knowledge, skills, and resources needed by parents to cope effectively with their child's condition. More specifically, these parents had difficulty accessing adequate, useful information about their child's condition, developing effective working relationships with health care professionals, communicating with their children's teachers, and promoting normalization in their families' lives. A major conclusion indicates that by being representative of these parents' experiences, the ATF is considered to be effective in identifying the difficulties and strengths of parents of children with epilepsy and in facilitating the acquisition of their coping strategies. Implications for nursing practice, education, and research are presented.
Self-interacting Inelastic Dark Matter in the light of XENON1T excess
Creators: name: Dutta, Manoranjan
name: Mahapatra, Satyabrata
name: Borah, Debasish
name: Sahu, Narendra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a self-interacting inelastic dark matter (DM) scenario as a possible origin of the recently reported excess of electron recoil events by the XENON1T experiment. Two quasi-degenerate Majorana fermion DM interact within themselves via a light hidden sector massive gauge boson and with the standard model particles via gauge kinetic mixing. We also consider an additional long-lived singlet scalar which helps in realising correct dark matter relic abundance via a hybrid setup comprising of both freeze-in and freeze-out mechanisms. While being consistent with the required DM phenomenology along with sufficient self-interactions to address the small scale issues of cold dark matter, the model with GeV scale DM can explain the XENON1T excess via inelastic down scattering of heavier DM component into the lighter one. All these requirements leave a very tiny parameter space keeping the model very predictive for near future experiments.
description: 34 pages, 14 figures, version accepted for publication in PRD
Front Propagation Dynamics with Exponentially-Distributed Hopping
Creators: name: Cohen, Elisheva
name: Kessler, David A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study reaction-diffusion systems where diffusion is by jumps whose sizes are distributed exponentially. We first study the Fisher-like problem of propagation of a front into an unstable state, as typified by the A+B $\to$ 2A reaction. We find that the effect of fluctuations is especially pronounced at small hopping rates. Fluctuations are treated heuristically via a density cutoff in the reaction rate. We then consider the case of propagating up a reaction rate gradient. The effect of fluctuations here is pronounced, with the front velocity increasing without limit with increasing bulk particle density. The rate of increase is faster than in the case of a reaction-gradient with nearest-neighbor hopping. We derive analytic expressions for the front velocity dependence on bulk particle density. Compute simulations are performed to confirm the analytical results.
Synchronized Magnetization Oscillations in F/N/F Nanopillars
Creators: name: Kudo, Kiwamu
name: Sato, Rie
name: Mizushima, Koichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Current-induced magnetization dynamics in a trilayer structure composed of two ferromagnetic free layers and a nonmagnetic spacer is examined. Both free layers are treated as a monodomain magnetic body with an uniform agnetization. The dynamics of the two magnetizations is modeled by modified Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equations with spin-transfer torque terms. By solving the equations simultaneously, we discuss their various solutions in detail. We show that there exists the synchronous motion of two magnetizations among the various solutions; the magnetizations are resonantly coupled via spin-transfer torques and perform precessional motions with the same period. The condition to excite the synchronous motion depends on the difference between the intrinsic frequencies of the two ferromagnetic free layers as well as the magnitude of current.
description: 7 pages, 13 figures, submitted to Japanese Journal of Applied Physics
The configurational measure on mutually avoiding SLE paths
Creators: name: Kozdron, Michael J.
name: Lawler, Gregory F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60G50 (Primary), 60J45, 60J65 (Secondary)

description: We define multiple chordal SLEs in a simply connected domain by considering a natural configurational measure on paths. We show how to construct these measures so that they are conformally covariant and satisfy certain boundary perturbation and Markov properties, as well as a cascade relation. As an example of our construction, we derive the scaling limit of Fomin's identity in the case of two paths directly; that is, we prove that the probability that an SLE(2) and a Brownian excursion do not intersect can be given in terms of the determinant of the excursion hitting matrix. Finally, we define the lambda-SAW, a one-parameter family of measures on self-avoiding walks on Z^2.
description: v2: 29 pages, 4 figures; fixed minor typos, updated references
Implicit regularization beyond one loop order: gauge field theories
Creators: name: Dias, E. W.
name: Scarpelli, A. P. Baeta
name: Brito, L. C. T.
name: Sampaio, Marcos
name: Nemes, M. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend a constrained version of Implicit Regularization (CIR) beyond one loop order for gauge field theories. In this framework, the ultraviolet content of the model is displayed in terms of momentum loop integrals order by order in perturbation theory for any Feynman diagram, while the Ward-Slavnov-Taylor identities are controlled by finite surface terms. To illustrate, we apply CIR to massless abelian Gauge Field Theories (scalar and spinorial QED) to two loop order and calculate the two-loop beta-function of the spinorial QED.
description: 18 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in European Physical Journal
General corner charge formula in two-dimensional C_n-symmetric higher-order topological insulators
Creators: name: Takahashi, Ryo
name: Zhang, Tiantian
name: Murakami, Shuichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we derive a general formula for the quantized fractional corner charge in two-dimensional C_n-symmetric higher-order topological insulators. We assume that the electronic states can be described by the Wannier functions and that the edges are charge neutral, but we do not assume vanishing bulk electric polarization. We expand the scope of the corner charge formula obtained in previous works by considering more general surface conditions, such as surfaces with higher Miller index and surfaces with surface reconstruction. Our theory is applicable even when the electronic states are largely modulated near system boundaries. It also applies to insulators with non-vanishing bulk polarization, and we find that in such cases the value of the corner charge depends on the surface termination even for the same bulk crystal with C_3 or C_4 symmetry, via a difference in the Wyckoff position of the center of the C_n-symmetric crystal.
description: 17 pages, 10 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. B
Perceptions of staff nurse clinical leadership and its influence on patient safety and quality of care in hospitals in Central Texas
Creators: name: Chávez, Eduardo Che
name: 0000-0001-8052-8881
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2019
Subjects: Staff nurse clinical leadership
Front-line leadership
Staff nurse
Clinical leadership

description: The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore staff nurse and clinical manager perspectives of staff nurse clinical leadership in hospitals in Central Texas. The Institute of Medicine called for leadership throughout all areas and at every level of the nursing profession to help lead the transformation of healthcare in the United States. Frontline staff nurses have the most frequent and extended contact with patients and are uniquely positioned to be leaders in the advancement of patient care. However, there is a significant gap in the literature about staff nurse clinical leadership. Face-to-face semi-structured interviews were used to interview nine staff nurses and ten clinical managers to explore how staff nurse clinical leadership was perceived by nurses at the frontlines of patient care. Content analysis was used to analyze the interview transcripts. The data were coded to create categories of information from which common themes emerged. A total of seven themes emerged from the staff nurse interview data, these included: (1) Characteristics of the individual, (2) Human relation skills, (3) Build trust, (4) Unity, (5) Speaking-up, (6) Awareness, and (7) Role-modeling. In addition, nine distinct themes emerged from the clinical manager data, these included: (1) Characteristics of the individual, (2) Human relation skills, (3) Contribute to the team, (4) Speak-out, (5) Advocate for patients, (6) Generate followership, (7) Do the right thing, (8) Take the extra steps, and (9) Problem-solve. Moreover, the theme speak-out emerged twice as a theme from the clinical manager data. Although there were a few similarities between the staff nurse and manager themes, there were fundamental differences in how they perceived staff nurse clinical leadership. The staff nurse themes emphasized leadership qualities that favored teamwork and specific team-player qualities. In contrast, the manager themes emphasized leadership qualities that were more focused on staff nurses’ self-management and problem-solving abilities in their work environment. Therefore, the findings of this study suggested that while staff nurses were perceived as clinical leaders by their peers and managers, there were different perceptions of how they demonstrated those leadership qualities in their work environment.
Evaluation of the Effects of Asphalt Additives on Properties of Class A Surface Mixtures
Creators: name: Mahboub, Kamyar C.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1989
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: Various modified asphalt mixture systems were selected for laboratory and field testing. These systems included the following asphalt mixtures: Class A mix, as the control mixture; Class N, which is a coarse mixture; polymerized Class A; polyester fiber; polypropylene fiber; and Vestoplast. Laboratory testing included: Marshall stability, resilient modulus, moisture susceptibility, tensile strength, and freeze-thaw. A field trial section was constructed for long-term performance monitoring.
ПЕДАГОГИЧЕСКИЕ И ПСИХОЛОГИЧЕСКИЕ ОСНОВЫ ВНУТРЕННЕГО УПРАВЛЕНИЯ УНИВЕРСАЛЬНЫМ ОБРАЗОВАТЕЛЬНЫМ УЧРЕЖДЕНИЕМ
Creators: name: Садуллоева, Сарвиноз
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: В данной статье описано, какие вопросы может включать в себя план внутреннего контроля и исполнения общеобразовательного учреждения, а также его педагогические и психологические основы.
title: Durch die Linse von Erich Lessing: Das ungarische Revolutionsjahr 1956. Rezension zu „Ungarn 1956. Aufstand, Revolution und Freiheitskampf in einem geteilten Europa“
Creators: name: Rudolf, Violetta
Publisher: name: ZZF - Centre for Contemporary History: Visual History
Year: 2016

description: Anlässlich des 60. Jahrestags der Ungarischen Revolution brachte der Tyrolia-Verlag aus Innsbruck einen Band mit Bildern des Magnum-Fotografen Erich Lessing heraus. Die oben beschriebene Szenerie ist eine von 197 Fotografien, mit denen der gebürtige Wiener von den Ereignissen in Ungarn 1956 erzählt. Der Titel „Ungarn 1956“ steht bei dieser Publikation für mehr als das Synonym für die Revolution im Herbst 1956. Er steht für die Dokumentation des ganzen Jahres und beschäftigt sich auch mit dem gesellschaftlichen Leben vor und nach der Revolution.
Quantum-like modeling in biology with open quantum systems and instruments
Creators: name: Basieva, Irina
name: Khrennikov, Andrei
name: Ozawa, Masanao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We present the novel approach to mathematical modeling of information processes in biosystems. It explores the mathematical formalism and methodology of quantum theory, especially quantum measurement theory. This approach is known as {\it quantum-like} and it should be distinguished from study of genuine quantum physical processes in biosystems (quantum biophysics, quantum cognition). It is based on quantum information representation of biosystem's state and modeling its dynamics in the framework of theory of open quantum systems. This paper starts with the non-physicist friendly presentation of quantum measurement theory, from the original von Neumann formulation to modern theory of quantum instruments. Then, latter is applied to model combinations of cognitive effects and gene regulation of glucose/lactose metabolism in Escherichia coli bacterium. The most general construction of quantum instruments is based on the scheme of indirect measurement, in that measurement apparatus plays the role of the environment for a biosystem. The biological essence of this scheme is illustrated by quantum formalization of Helmholtz sensation-perception theory. Then we move to open systems dynamics and consider quantum master equation, with concentrating on quantum Markov processes. In this framework, we model functioning of biological functions such as psychological functions and epigenetic mutation.
Evaluation of Stone Column Stabilized Embankment Foundation
Creators: name: Meade, Bobby W.
name: Allen, David L.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1989
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: The purpose of this study was to document construction procedures, monitor field performance, and make recommendations as to the effectiveness and future use of the stone column procedure for foundation stabilization. This effort was executed by use of field inspections, photologs, instrumentation to monitor foundation and field response, and laboratory analyses of existing and possible conditions.  Instrumentation included earth pressure meters, a multipoint settlement gage, a horizontal slope inclinometer, a settlement platform, and vertical slope inclinometers. Settlement of the foundation after column construction was observed to be approximately 9 inches as compared to the predicted total settlement of 16 inches. Initial pressure distribution was affected by the stone columns but long term distribution indicated no relationship to the stone columns. Performance of the stone columns was judged to be satisfactory in that embankment stability was obtained.
Moral Animals and Agency as a Two-dimensional Capacity
Creators: name: KOSINSKI, MICHAEL
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 500311
subject: Philosophical psychology (incl. moral psychology and philosophy of action)

description: Nonhuman animals are usually not considered moral agents, but does morality exist in the animal kingdom? This thesis explores the possibility of moral animals through a concept of agency adapted from Christine Korsgaard's that argues moral agency may extend further than thought under a view like hers.
title: Evaluation of Wick Stabilization of Approach Fill Foundation
title: (Carroll County)
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Meade, Bobby W.
name: Allen, David L.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1989
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: The purpose of this study was to document construction procedures and evaluate the effectiveness of wick drains as a foundation stabilization method. This effort was executed by use of field inspections, photologs, and instrumentation to monitor foundation and field response. Instrumentation included a multipoint settlement gage, settlement platforms, and vertical slope inclinometers.  This procedure was judged to be successful in that 90 percent consolidation of the deep foundation occurred within approximately 100 days. Construction procedures were generally satisfactory.
TARJIMANING ADABIYOTLARARO ALOQADAGI O'RNI
Creators: name: Azamshoyev, Ibrohimjon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ushbu maqolada tarjimaning adabiyotlararo aloqadagi o’rni. Tarjimaning turli tillar va madaniyatlarni bir biriga bog’lashi    haqida fikr yuritiladi.
One-dimensional Fe surface states confined by self-assembled carbon chains at the Fe(001) surface
Creators: name: Trimarchi, G.
name: Binggeli, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A c($3\sqrt{2} \times \sqrt{2}$) reconstructed structure of the Fe(001) surface with self-assembled C zigzag chains has been recently observed experimentally. Using ab initio density-functional calculations, we address the effect of the C zigzag chains on the electronic structure of this surface. We find that the formation of the C chains produces one-dimensional surface states localized along the zigzag chains. These states are spin-polarized and derive from preexisting two-dimensional Fe $d_{3z^{2}-r^{2}}$-like surface states of the clean Fe(001) surface. The simulation of the STM image allows us to assign the chain-like structure, observed in STM experiments, to the one-dimensional Fe surface states laterally confined within the C zigzag stripes.
description: to be published in Phys. Rev. B, Rapid Communications
Gravitational Radiation from Cylindrical Naked Singularity
Creators: name: Nakao, Ken-ichi
name: Morisawa, Yoshiyuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct an approximate solution which describes the gravitational emission from a naked singularity formed by the gravitational collapse of a cylindrical thick shell composed of dust. The assumed situation is that the collapsing speed of the dust is very large. In this situation, the metric variables are obtained approximately by a kind of linear perturbation analysis in the background Morgan solution which describes the motion of cylindrical null dust. The most important problem in this study is what boundary conditions for metric and matter variables should be imposed at the naked singularity. We find a boundary condition that all the metric and matter variables are everywhere finite at least up to the first order approximation. This implies that the spacetime singularity formed by this high-speed dust collapse is very similar to that formed by the null dust and thus the gravitational emission from a naked singularity formed by the cylindrical dust collapse can be gentle.
description: 20 pages, 1 figure
Topological gimbal phonons in T-carbon
Creators: name: You, Jing-Yang
name: Sheng, Xian-Lei
name: Su, Gang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The topological metal states in electronic systems have been extensively studied, but topological phonons were explored only in few examples so far. Here, we expose for the first time that the topological nodal gimbal phonons, type-I and type-II Weyl phonons are simultaneously present in T-carbon, a recently realized new allotrope of carbon. At about 15.2 THz, we find that there exist three mutually intersecting nodal loops (named as nodal gimbal phonons) around Γ point, and two pairs of type-I Weyl phonons on the boundary of Brillouin zone around each X point. In addition, there exist three pairs of type-II Weyl phonons at about 14.5 THz around each L point. It is shown that these exotic topological phonons are protected by corresponding symmetries, and lead to topologically nontrivial surface states. Our findings not only afford plenty of intriguing topological phonon states in a simple material like T-carbon but also provide a new platform to study novel properties of topological phonons, which would facilitate further both experimental and theoretical works in future.
Chaotic Observer-based Synchronization Under Information Constraints
Creators: name: Fradkov, Alexander L.
name: Andrievsky, Boris
name: Evans, Robin J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Limit possibilities of observer-based synchronization systems under information constraints (limited information capacity of the coupling channel) are evaluated. We give theoretical analysis for multi-dimensional drive-response systems represented in the Lurie form (linear part plus nonlinearity depending only on measurable outputs). It is shown that the upper bound of the limit synchronization error (LSE) is proportional to the upper bound of the transmission error. As a consequence, the upper and lower bounds of LSE are proportional to the maximum rate of the coupling signal and inversely proportional to the information transmission rate (channel capacity). Optimality of the binary coding for coders with one-step memory is established. The results are applied to synchronization of two chaotic Chua systems coupled via a channel with limited capacity.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures, 27 references
Women, old and aware: living as a minority in extended care institutions
Creators: name: Campbell, Linda-Mae
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The purpose of this phenomenological study was to describe the everyday lived experiences of old, cognitively intact women, residing in an integrated extended care facility among an overwhelming majority of confused elderly people. The research question was "From your perspective, what is the impact of living in an environment where the majority of residents, with whom you reside, are cognitively impaired?". A purposive sample of five older women participated in multiple in-depth interviews about their subjective experiences. All five live at different sites of the Juan de Fuca Hospitals Society, a 512 bed, integrated, extended care facility in Greater Victoria, British Columbia. Data analysis of the essential meaning of participants way of being in the hospital world was guided primarily by van Manen's (1990) work on researching lived experience and Colaizzi's (1978) phenomenological analytical approach. A number of significant statements were extracted and clustered into themes reflective of the participants' perspectives. The findings revealed that the systematic procedures, practices and policies of the institutions where they resided, came before the needs they themselves identified as important. The women in this study did not feel heard by the hospital decision makers. The data suggests that integrating cognitively well residents with people who are confused is not in the best interests of alert residents. The issues raised by participants suggest that without sufficient staff, more staff training and funding, care geared to specific client needs will not be possible. It is recommended that: - the understanding given dementia by staff also be given to the cognitively well; - that the company of people able to communicate in challenging and supportive ways could dramatically increase the quality of life for the cognitively well; - that structures be created to enable cognitively well residents to have a voice in the organisational goals and objectives; - and that structures be created to ensure those working in the field the time to listen to clients voices.
An approach to permutation symmetry for the electroweak theory
Creators: name: Jora, Renata
name: Nasri, Salah
name: Schechter, Joseph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The form of the leptonic mixing matrix emerging from experiment has, in the last few years, generated a lot of interest in the so-called tribimaximal type. This form may be naturally associated with the possibility of a discrete permutation symmetry ($S_3$) among the three generations. However, trying to implement this attractive symmetry has resulted in some problems and it seems to have fallen out of favor. We suggest an approach in which the $S_3$ holds to first approximation, somewhat in the manner of the old SU(3) flavor symmetry of the three flavor quark model. It is shown that in the case of the neutrino sector, a presently large experimentally allowed region can be fairly well described in this first approximation. We briefly discuss the nature of the perturbations which are the analogs of the Gell-Mann Okubo perturbations but confine our attention for the most part to the $S_3$ invariant model. We postulate that the $S_3$ invariant mass spectrum consists of non zero masses for the $(τ,b,t)$ and zero masses for the other charged fermions but approximately degenerate masses for the three neutrinos. The mixing matrices are assumed to be trivial for the charged fermions but of tribimaximal type for the neutrinos in the first approximation. It is shown that this can be implemented by allowing complex entries for the mass matrix and spontaneous breakdown of the $S_3$ invariance of the Lagrangian.
description: 24 pages, 1 figure, minor corrections and acknowledgment added. To appear in IJMP
Towards Lefschetz thimbles in Sigma models, I
Creators: name: Krichever, Igor
name: Nekrasov, Nikita
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14D21 (Primary) 81T60

description: We study two dimensional path integral Lefschetz thimbles, i.e. the possible path integration contours. Specifically, in the examples of the $O(N)$ and ${\bf CP}^{N-1}$ models, we find a large class of complex critical points of the sigma model actions which are relevant for the theory in finite volume at finite temperature, with various chemical potentials corresponding to the symmetries of the models. In this paper we discuss the case of the $O(2m)$ and the ${\bf CP}^{N-1}$ models in the sector of zero instanton charge, as well as some solutions of the $O(2m+1)$ model. The ${\bf CP}^{N-1}$-model for all instanton charges and a more general class of solutions of the $O(N)$-model with odd $N$ will be discussed in the forthcoming paper.
description: 38 pages
Heroes and saints : caricature, ethnic anxiety and Punch’s images of Italian Risorgimento in mid-nineteenth century Britain
Creators: name: Hanson, Jennifer
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The expansion of the newspaper and periodical press in Victorian Britain was one sign of the rapid metamorphosis of the modern English city. The emergence of new forms of print media responded to growth in urban populations, shifting class definitions, and rapidly expanding technology and industrialization. Simultaneously, however, these new publications worked to articulate concepts of self and community during a period when domestic politics, immigration, international relations and colonial enterprises were testing and reworking the boundaries of the nation. This thesis focuses on the satirical illustrated journal Punch, first published in 1841, and explores the ways in which the periodical served as a site where anxieties over religious and "racial" difference in Britain were addressed and negotiated. A particular set of international events taking place at mid-century, the wars of Italian Unification (the Risorgimento), provide the vehicle for examining such social anxieties. As this study will show, the events of the Risorgimento were re-cast in Punch in domestic terms; specifically, the journal configured the foreign Italian wars of liberation in relation to contemporary Protestant concerns that Irish Catholics within the British polity posed a threat to cohesive notions of nationhood. Within this context, an analysis of the social and political caricatures in Punch during the early 1860's provides a basis for exploring how the journal's visual rhetoric permitted opportunities for commentary not feasible in other periodical or newspaper forms. As I will argue, both text and satirical imagery within the comic journal, worked to forge a cohesive community of readers through representation. This strategy, however, was ultimately indicative of the fractures within the delicate construction of British identity and modern nation space.
TextGNN: Improving Text Encoder via Graph Neural Network in Sponsored Search
Creators: name: Zhu, Jason Yue
name: Cui, Yanling
name: Liu, Yuming
name: Sun, Hao
name: Li, Xue
name: Pelger, Markus
name: Yang, Tianqi
name: Zhang, Liangjie
name: Zhang, Ruofei
name: Zhao, Huasha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Text encoders based on C-DSSM or transformers have demonstrated strong performance in many Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. Low latency variants of these models have also been developed in recent years in order to apply them in the field of sponsored search which has strict computational constraints. However these models are not the panacea to solve all the Natural Language Understanding (NLU) challenges as the pure semantic information in the data is not sufficient to fully identify the user intents. We propose the TextGNN model that naturally extends the strong twin tower structured encoders with the complementary graph information from user historical behaviors, which serves as a natural guide to help us better understand the intents and hence generate better language representations. The model inherits all the benefits of twin tower models such as C-DSSM and TwinBERT so that it can still be used in the low latency environment while achieving a significant performance gain than the strong encoder-only counterpart baseline models in both offline evaluations and online production system. In offline experiments, the model achieves a 0.14% overall increase in ROC-AUC with a 1% increased accuracy for long-tail low-frequency Ads, and in the online A/B testing, the model shows a 2.03% increase in Revenue Per Mille with a 2.32% decrease in Ad defect rate.
description: Jason Yue Zhu, Yanling Cui, Yuming Liu, Hao Sun, Xue Li, Markus Pelger, Tianqi Yang, Liangjie Zhang, Ruofei Zhang, and Huasha Zhao. 2021. TextGNN: Improving Text Encoder via Graph Neural Network in Sponsored Search. In Proceedings of the Web Conference 2021 (WWW 21), April 19-23, 2021, Ljubljana, Slovenia. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 10 pages. https: //doi.org/10.1145/3442381.3449842
Posing probability problems related to continuous and discrete sample space
Creators: name: Ergene, Özkan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: In this study, it was aimed to examine the probability problems which were posed based on continuous sample space and discrete sample space. Participants of the study consisted of 48 university students selected by using the convenience sampling method. Eight tasks related to continuous and discrete variables were designed by the researcher. Eight problems posed by each student in accordance with these tasks, their reflection papers and interviews conducted with them constituted the data of the study. Problems were analysed according to appropriateness, solvability, context, applicability, language and variable type dimensions. Findings revealed that most solvable problems were in real-life context, applicable and had clear language. However, most of the unsolvable problems had missing information. Inappropriate problems either were not generated depending on the task instructions or suitable variables were not used in them. Students had difficulties particularly in posing continuous sample space problems. It was concluded that problem posing was an effective practice for students since it enhanced their knowledge about probability and helped them to gain insight into problem posing.
ИСПОЛЬЗОВАНИЕ СОВРЕМЕННЫХ ТЕХНОЛОГИЙ В ОБУЧЕНИИ РУССКОМУ ЯЗЫКУ ИНОСТРАННЫХ СТУДЕНТОВ
Creators: name: Отахонова, Севара
name: Пулатова, Дильшода
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: В данной статье обсуждается важность применения современных информационных технологий в обучении русскому языку как иностранному. Приводятся примеры использования различных информационно-коммуникационных    технологий, которые могут улучшить учебный процесс.
Exotic (anti)ferromagnetism in single crystals of Pr6Ni2Si3
Creators: name: Janssen, Y.
name: Dennis, K. W.
name: Prozorov, R.
name: Canfield, P. C.
name: McCallum, R. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ternary intermetallic compound Pr6Ni2Si3, is a member of a structure series of compounds based on a triangular structure where the number of Pr atoms in the prism cross section can be systematically varied. Pr6Ni2Si3 contains two distinct Pr lattice sites which result in complex interactions between the magnetic ions. Extensive measurements of specific heat and magnetization on single crystal samples indicate that Pr6Ni2Si3 orders with both a ferromagnet and an antiferromagnet component, with ordering temperatures of 39.6 K and ~ 32 K, respectively. The ferromagnetic component // c-axis is accompanied by a large hysteresis, and the antiferromagnetic component,_|_ c-axis is accompanied by a spin-flop-type transition. More detailed measurements, of the vector magnetization, indicate that the ferromagnetic and the antiferromagnetic order appear independent of each other. These results not only clarify the behavior of Pr6Ni2Si3 itself, but also of the other members of the structure series, Pr5Ni2Si3 and Pr15Ni7Si10.
description: 9 pages, 13 figures, submitted to PRB