cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Southern Ocean circulation from hydrographic data : a finite difference inverse model
Creators: name: Harris, JL
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: A finite difference inverse model is developed to investigate the circulation of the Southern Ocean. The circulation of the Southern Ocean is largely unknown, and yet the heat and freshwater transported by the circulation plays an important role in maintaining the global climate [Rintoul 1988]. Previous inverse studies of the Southern Ocean, and inverse studies in general, suffer from relatively poor average spatial resolution [Martel and Wunsch 1993]. This study presents an inverse model of the Southern Ocean (SOINV) that begins to improve the spatial resolution of inverse investigations. In a move away from the quasi-synoptic approach of previous inverse models, the SOINV utilises all available hydrographic data measured between 190,I and 1990 to estimate a time averaged thermal wind circulation that is added to a mean Ekman circulation on a 1¬¨‚àû x 1¬¨‚àû grid of the Southern Ocean. By applying conservation equations on each 1¬¨‚àû x 1¬¨‚àû grid, a mass conserving, weakly vorticity conserving circulation of the Southern Ocean is developed that is dynamically consistent with the observations. The SOINV solves 26,945 equations to determine 28,480 unknowns using weighted damped least squares. By comparing with in-situ observations, it is found that the SOINV circu-lation: underestimated velocities, developed comparable mass transports across sections in the model domain, and was in high qualitative agreement with the observations. The special features of the SOINV circulation are then highlighted by comparing the circulation to satellite measurements, a forward eddy-resolving numerical model and surface velocity estimates. None of these comparisons are possible with more traditional inverse studies. All of these comparisons show that the circulation developed by the inverse model is internally consistent, and is in close agreement with observations. Using the mass circulation developed by the inverse model, the heat and fresh-water transports are diagnosed. Comparing the heat and freshwater transports highlight that there are some inconsistencies within the global circulation. Despite these inconsistencies, this investigation demonstrates that a finite difference 1¬¨‚àûx 1¬¨‚àû grid inverse model is possible. The resultant circulation is statistically consistent with the observations and gives a higher average spatial resolution than previous inverse investigations.
Rice husk and rice straw based materials for toxic metals and dyes removal: a comprehensive and critical review
Creators: name: Sahoo, Jitendra Kumar
name: Hota, Amrutashree
name: Singh, Chintan
name: Barik, Supravarani
name: Sahu, Naini
name: Sahoo, Shraban Kumar
name: Sahu, Manoj Kumar
name: Sahoo, Harekrushna
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: This review investigated depth literature survey on the removal of various heavy metals and dyes contamination. The current study is a broad review of the different methods of preparation of biowaste adsorbent from rice husk and rice straw that has been implemented for the adsorption of many hazardous heavy metals and dyes in order to reduce their harmful effect on the environment. The selection of rice waste-based material for the adsorption process was considered due to its cost-effectiveness, easy availability, high adsorption efficiency, and reusability. This study is a comprehensive review of the adsorption of toxic heavy metals and dyes using rice husk and rice straw-based adsorbents either in bare or in modified forms under different physicochemical processes. In addition, some parameters affecting adsorption capability like pH, initial dye concentration, equilibrium time, temperature, adsorbent dosage, and shaking or stirring speed influence the adsorption mechanism have been discussed thoroughly. The applicability of various adsorption isotherm models and adsorption kinetic models for dye adsorption by various rice husk and straw biomass adsorbents is also reported here. Finally, from the literature reviewed conclusions have been drawn and also proposed a few future research suggestions.
Additional file 6 of Quantifying differences in packaged food and drink purchases among households with diet-related cardiometabolic multi-morbidity: a cross-sectional analysis
Creators: name: Ricket, Iben M.
name: Brown, Jeremiah R.
name: MacKenzie, Todd A.
name: Ma, Yu
name: Grewal, Dhruv
name: Ailawadi, Kusum L.
name: Emond, Jennifer A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 6. One-Year Monthly Average Weighed Per Capita Calories (kcal) Per Serving Per Food Group, Stratified by Diet-Related Cardiometabolic Multi-Morbid Households. Supplemental analysis the on the average per capita calories per serving from each food and drink category grouping.
title: Effect of Drought, Flooding, and Potassium Stress on the Quantity and Composition of Root Exudates in Axenic Culture
Creators: name: Henry, Amelia
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2003

description: Root exudates include important chelating compounds and can change the rhizosphere pH by several units. These changes are essential for nutrient uptake and can also alter solubility of soil contaminants and increase plant uptake. Mild root-zone stress may increase exudation and more severe stress can damage membranes and increase root turnover, all of which increase root-zone carbon. Increased carbon from this rhizodeposition can increase microbial activity, which might help degrade contaminants. We studied the effect of three types of stress on root exudation of crested wheatgrass (Agropyron cristatum): low K+, drought, and flooding. These stresses were compared to two types of controls: 100% NO3- and high NH4+:NO3- ratio. We developed an improved axenic system to keep plants microbe-free for 70 days while analyzing exudates for total organic carbon (TOC) and organic acids. Axenic conditions were confirmed by plate counts of the leachate and microscopic observations of the leachate and roots. Optimal conditions for plant growth were maintained by monitoring temperature, light, humidity, water, O2, CO2, nutrient availability, and root-zone pH. Plants were grown in Ottawa sand that was layered by size to optimize water availability. Total organic carbon released over the 70-day growth period in mg per gram dry plant was 2.6 in the control, 2.3 in the NH4+ treatment, 3.7 in the flood and K+ stress treatments, and 4.4 in the drought treatment, which was the only treatment significantly higher than controls (p = 0.05). TOC and organic acid levels in the exudates peaked before the end of the study. The peak TOC levels, expressed as mg TOC per gram new dry plant mass, were 1.9 in the control, 3.0 in the NH4+ treatment, 2.9 in the flood, and 5.8 in the drought and K+ stress treatments. Organic acids were measured by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Malic acid was the predominant organic acid, and accounted for the majority of the TOC in the drought treatment. Oxalic, succinic, fumaric, and malonic acids accounted for less than 10% of the TOC. These data indicate that stress may enhance phytoremediation by changing root-zone exudate composition.
Pliocene-Pleistocene radiolarian events and magnetostratigraphic calibrations for the tropical Indian Ocean
Creators: name: Johnson, David A.
name: Schneider, David A.
name: Nigrini, Catherine A.
name: Caulet, Jean Pierre
name: Kent, Dennis V.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1989
Subjects: subject: Oceanography
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Submarine geology

description: A composite of four piston cores from the Central Indian Basin and adjacent Ninetyeast Ridge has yielded a continuous magnetobiostratigraphic reference section for most of the Pliocene and the Pleistocene (0.0–4.5 Ma). We identified thirty-three radiolarian events (first- or last-occurrences), and precisely correlated each event to the Neogene geomagnetic polarity time scale. Thirteen of these events are based on revised taxonomic studies of the genera Anthocyrtidium and Pterocorys. Some events show significant departures from synchroneity: five of the radiolarian first-appearances and seven of the last-appearances are time-transgressive by 0.4 m.y. or greater. We here propose a revised, eleven-fold radiolarian zonation for the Pliocene-Pleistocene, using zonal boundaries defined by events which are easily recognized and are demonstrably synchronous in the tropical Indo-Pacific. The sequence of faunal and floral events reported in this paper will allow high-resolution biostratigraphic correlations within the tropical Indian Ocean; however, the same sequence of events is not necessarily applicable to other tropical or extratropical regions.
Large deflections and imperfection sensitivity of structural systems
Creators: name: Stephenson, Norman G
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The sensitivity of a structural system to initial imperfections is known to be largely determined by the post-buckling behaviour of the ideal system and further the rate at which the load capacity of the ideal system changes near the critical load. A general non-linear stiffness matrix capable of predicting the post-buckling behaviour of structural systems is developed and tested. A procedure is formulated for predicting the stable equilibrium zones of structural systems and examples are investigated to verify the correctness of the method.
On multiplicity of mappings between surfaces
Creators: name: Bogatyi, Semeon
name: Fricke, Jan
name: Kudryavtseva, Elena
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 54H25, 55M20, 57M12

description: Let M and N be two closed (not necessarily orientable) surfaces, and f a continuous map from M to N. By definition, the minimal multiplicity MMR[f] of the map f denotes the minimal integer k having the following property: f can be deformed into a map g such that the number |g^{-1}(c)| of preimages of any point c in N under g is at most k. We calculate MMR[f] for any map $f$ of positive absolute degree A(f). The answer is formulated in terms of A(f), [pi_1(N):f_#(pi_1(M))], and the Euler characteristics of M and N. For a map f with A(f)=0, we prove the inequalities 2 <= MMR[f] <= 4.
description: This is the version published by Geometry & Topology Monographs on 29 April 2008
Additional file 7 of Quantifying differences in packaged food and drink purchases among households with diet-related cardiometabolic multi-morbidity: a cross-sectional analysis
Creators: name: Ricket, Iben M.
name: Brown, Jeremiah R.
name: MacKenzie, Todd A.
name: Ma, Yu
name: Grewal, Dhruv
name: Ailawadi, Kusum L.
name: Emond, Jennifer A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 7. Unadjusted associations for 3 nutritional profile metrics across all food and drink categoriesa and grouped into those perceived as healthyb and unhealthyc, stratified by diet-related cardiometabolic multi-morbid household status, when including baked goods/desserts and candy/confectionary. Supplemental analysis re-running unadjusted associations with the inclusion of baked goods/desserts and candy/confectionary foods.
Conference on the Magnetization of the Oceanic Crust Steers Future Research
Creators: name: Johnson, H. Paul
name: Kent, Dennis V.
name: Tivey, Maurice A.
name: Gee, Jeffrey S.
name: Largon, Roger L.
name: Embley, Robert W.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Geophysics
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Because marine magnetic anomalies arise from the combination of seafloor spreading and geomagnetic polarity reversals, they delineate a history of global plate motions and geomagnetic field behavior. Thirty years ago, interpretation of sea surface magnetometer profiles led to the plate tectonics revolution. Recent developments in high resolution magnetic studies are similarly changing our view of the structure and evolution of oceanic crust and beginning to answer basic questions concerning geomagnetic field behavior. In response to these developments, the Conference on the Magnetization of Oceanic Crust was held September 21-24,1996, on Orcas Island in Washington State. Forty-seven scientists representing 20 institutions in seven countries attended the conference, which was funded by the National Science Foundation, the Ridge Interdisciplinary Global Experiment (RIDGE), and the United States Science Advisory Committee (USSAC).
Relativism about truth
Creators: name: Davson-Galle, Peter
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Broadly put, the thesis is an investigation of the possibility of articulating a coherent thesis of truth relativism within first, a host correspondence theory of truth and second, a host coherence theory of truth. The type of relativism addressed in the thesis is what is sometimes called 'framework relativism', that where truth is relativised to a framework of belief, conceptual scheme or something of that sort. A further restraint is that it is a global relativistic thesis which is sought, one that is relativistic about all truths. The thesis does not set itself the task of defending relativism but just that of seeking a coherent articulation of it. The work is in two sections. In the first, the host theory is the correspondence theory of truth. The result of that section's analysis is that, although what Chris Swoyer calls 'strong truth relativism' is not able to be given coherent articulation, what he calls 'weak truth relativism' is. The conception of weak correspondence relative truth that is explicated here is a three place relation of proposition, world (without \joints at which to carve\") and categorial repertoire (of a type suggested by Jack Meiland). A global thesis in its terms proves coherently articulable and does not suffer from problems of self-inclusion. In the second section the host theory is the coherence theory. Promising looking host though it seems neither propositional nor doxastic web versions of the coherence theory prove to be able to permit either weak or strong global truth relativistic theses to be coherently articulated. The most promising looking coherence relativist candidate of those examined is a strong doxastic thesis developed by James Young. Like other coherence relativisms examined Young's succumbs to the reflexitivity demands of a global thesis. Strong coherence theses also prove to have difficulty in having the same proposition true relative to one propositional/doxastic web and false relative to another. Weak variants have difficulty explicating the \"appropriate alternativeness\" of the categorial repertoire in terms of which some target proposition is to be ineffable. The results of investigation are contrary to conventional wisdom concerning relativism in that it proves to be the correspondence theory not the coherence theory within which it is easier to articulate global (though only weak) framework truth relativism. iv I wish to acknowledge the advice given to me by my supervisors Dr. Edgar Sleinis and Prof. Bill Joske and the helpful correspondence and conversations concerning various parts of the work that I have had with Jack Meiland Jim Young Steve Rappaport Steve Edwards Jack Smart Howard Sankey Henry Krips Brian Ellis Kathy Bohsted Frank White and Harvey Siegel. I also wish to acknowledge the emotional support and forbearance of my spouse Chrissy and my daughters Jenny and Kathleen."
Photo-catalytic degradation of sulfamethoxazole from aqueous solutions using Cu-TiO2/ CQDs hybrid composite, optimisation, performance and reaction mechanism studies
Creators: name: Noroozi, Roghayeh
name: Gholami, Mitra
name: Kalantary, Roshanak Rezaei
name: Farzadkia, Mahdi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Cu doped TiO2 decorated with carbon quantum dots (CQDs), called Cu-doped TiO2/CQD, was synthesised as a photocatalyst, and then used in the degradation of sulfamethoxazole (SMX) antibiotic. The properties of the synthesised catalyst were determined by FT-IR, XRD, FESEM, TEM, EDX, BET and UV–Vis DRS analysis. These analyses showed successful doping of TiO2 with Cu coated by CQDs. Variable parameters such as different CQDs ratios, photocatalyst dosage, initial concentration of SMX, pH and intensity of visible light were investigated. The best removal efficiency of SMX was obtained at initial concentration = 20 mg/L SMX, photocatalytic dosage = 0.8 g/L, pH = 6, visible light intensity = 75 W/m2 and CQDs ratios in the composite = 4% wt during 60 min reaction time. The photocatalytic degradation kinetic of SMX fitted well with the pseudo-first-order kinetic model. Experiments showed that HO• and O2• – were active species in the photocatalytic destruction of SMX and O2• – had more inhibiting effects in the SMX degradation process. The synthesised photocatalyst was used for six cycles with a slight reduction in the SMX degradation efficiency. TOC removal efficiency was 81% at optimal condition.
Impact of maximum borehole depths on inverted temperature histories in borehole paleoclimatology
Creators: name: Beltrami, H.
name: Smerdon, Jason E.
name: Matharoo, Gurpreet S.
name: Nickerson, N.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Paleoclimatology

description: A quantitative assessment is presented for the impact of the maximum depth of a temperature-depth profile on the estimate of the climatic transient and the resultant ground surface temperature (GST) reconstruction used in borehole paleoclimatology. The depth of the profile is important because the downwelling climatic signal must be separated from the quasi-steady state thermal regime established by the energy in the Earth's interior. This component of the signal is estimated as a linear increase in temperature with depth from the lower section of a borehole temperature profile, which is assumed to be unperturbed by recent changes in climate at the surface. The validity of this assumption is dependent on both the subsurface thermophysical properties and the character of the downwelling climatic signal. Such uncertainties can significantly impact the determination of the quasi-steady state thermal regime, and consequently the magnitude of the temperature anomaly interpreted as a climatic signal. The quantitative effects and uncertainties that arise from the analysis of temperature-depth profiles of different depths are presented. Results demonstrate that widely different GST histories can be derived from a single temperature profile truncated at different depths. Borehole temperature measurements approaching 500-600 m depths are shown to provide the most robust GST reconstructions spanning 500 to 1000 yr BP. It is further shown that the bias introduced by a temperature profile of depths shallower than 500-600 m remains even if the time span of the reconstruction target is shortened.
title: Behavioral Modification of Trainable Mentally Retarded Children
Creators: name: Frair, Cheryl Mayo
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1969

description: In Experiment I, contingency management was employed with five non-institutionalized trainable retardates (mean MA=4.l, CA=9.9, and language age=2.6) in a classroom situation. Empirically determined high probability behaviors were displayed as colored cartoon figures in a reinforcement menu. Tasks from the Peabody Language Development Kit defined the behavior strengthened during 15 one-hour sessions. A quantity of low probability task behavior had to occur in order for subjects to emit 4 minutes of high probability reinforcing activity. Through contingency management, amount of task per reinforcement was shaped from a low ratio to a high ratio. Significant gains in language age (p
In Experiment II, the five children of Experiment I and another trainable retardate served as subjects. Dependent upon the behavioral change desired of the subject in the classroom situation, each subject had to meet the criterion of increasing or decreasing the specified behavior to receive the reinforcement menu and engage in 4 minutes of high probability reinforcing activity. Contingency management over 15 one-hour sessions was successful in reducing and possibly extinguishing the rate of aggressive acts, delays in starting work, shouting, leaving the desk during lessons, and refusing to obey teacher instructions. Frequency of task relevant vocalizations was also increased by this technique. During an unsystematic observation of the subjects 6 months after termination of the experiment, the undesirable behaviors occurred once an hour on the average, a rate far below the baseline frequency. Task relevant vocalizations which had been shaped to a high frequency during the experiment were emitted at a rate higher than the rate obtained during the baseline period.
Electrical & Computer Engineering: An International Journal (ECIJ)
Creators: name: N/A
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Communications and Networks • Control, Intelligent Systems and Robotics • Integrated Circuits and Embedded Systems • Microelectronic Technologies, Devices, CAD and, VLSI • Microwave, Nano Devices and RF • Power and Energy Systems • Signal Processing and New Media • Applied Electromagnetics • Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Life • Hardware Formal Verification • Photonics • Software Engineering and Real-time Systems
Covariant Star Product for Exterior Differential Forms on Symplectic Manifolds
Creators: name: McCurdy, Shannon
name: Zumino, Bruno
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: After a brief description of the $\mathbb{Z}$-graded differential Poisson algebra, we introduce a covariant star product for exterior differential forms and give an explicit expression for it up to second order in the deformation parameter $\hbar$, in the case of symplectic manifolds. The graded differential Poisson algebra endows the manifold with a connection, not necessarily torsion-free, and places upon the connection various constraints.
description: 12 pages, no figures. Invited talk at the 17th International Conference on Supersymmetry and the Unification of Fundamental Interactions, 5-10 June 2009, Boston, MA, USA. To appear in the Conference Proceedings
Intimate Space and the Public Sphere: Margarita Paksa in Argentina’s Military Dictatorship
Creators: name: Behar, Ionit
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This dissertation studies the work of artist Margarita Paksa (1933-2020) during Argentina’s military dictatorship. Unlike other Argentinian artists who left the country and enjoyed commercial success or security in the postwar art world, Paksa never left Buenos Aires. While living under the military dictatorship that ruled Argentina from 1966 to 1983, Paksa responded critically and creatively to political oppression through an ever-evolving sequence of mediating frameworks. In the context of a dictatorship, where the public sphere becomes more and more theatricalized amid arbitrary measures of control and repression, the private space of intimacy takes on a different and essential role. Addressing the differences between private and public, exteriority and interiority, proximity and distance, Paksa expands the notion and boundary of intimacy. Paksa’s work allows us to theorize the subversive potential of critical art forms only apparently produced to serve an intimate, embodied aesthetic. While censorship, violence, and disappearance were commonplace in Argentina, Paksa effectively claimed the public sphere on behalf of herself and other artists, developing alternative and oppositional ways of encountering art institutions as well as the military regime. Even though Paksa was among the first conceptual artists in Latin America, she has been widely ignored in the international art world. My dissertation corrects the oversight by writing Paksa’s history in terms of the theoretical, critical, and historical frameworks that situate her work at the center of its time and place both in Argentina and internationally.
title: Spatial Reasoning as Related to Solving "Story Type" Problems
Creators: name: Holder, James R.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1969

description: In this study it was hypothesized that the ability to mentally solve II story type" problems, those presented in the form of sentences, is significantly related to one's spatial reasoning ability and that a weakness in this ability, when tested by the "story type" problems, could be compensated for by training in and utilization of overt "paper and pencil" manipulations.
To test the hypothesis, three measures were used. These were the DAT Verbal Reasoning test--used to control the factor of verbal reasoning, the DAT Space Relations test--used to measure spatial reasoning ability, and two forms of a test composed of "story type" problems--used to measure problem-solving ability.
A large group of college students (146) were first tested on the DAT tests and then 18 pairs were selected which were matched as nearly as possible on verbal reasoning abilities while keeping their spatial reasoning abilities as diverse as possible. The 18 pairs were then tested and retested on the problem-solving tests with half of the pairs receiving problem-solving instructions prior to the retest.
Statistical analysis of the results confirmed the hypothesis in that it revealed a substantial positive correlation between spatial reasoning ability and the ability to solve "story type" problems. Also, an analysis of the results showed, to a significant degree, that a weakness in spatial reasoning ability, when used to solve the type of problems considered, can be compensated for by using "paper and pencil" manipulations involving graphic procedures.
Extent of gas hydrate filled fracture planes: Implications for in situ methanogenesis and resource potential
Creators: name: Cook, Ann E.
name: Goldberg, David S.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Submarine geology
subject: Geophysics
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: High-angle gas hydrate filled fracture planes were identified along a 31 m interval in logging while drilling images in two holes located ~11 m apart drilled during the Indian National Gas Hydrate Program Expedition 01, offshore India. Using Monte Carlo simulations to account for uncertainty in hole location, hole deviation, strike and dip, we assert with 95% confidence that the fracture planes in the two holes are not the same. The gas hydrate filled fracture planes likely only extend a few meters laterally from each borehole and occur in an isolated interval in the middle of the gas hydrate stability zone. This suggests gas generated microbially within in the gas hydrate stability zone may have supplied the gas hydrate-filled fracture interval. Production of methane from these reservoirs using conventional methods may be quite challenging.
title: A Study of the Difference in Short-term Memory Between Seventh Grade Students Rated High and Low in the Ability to Acquire Sport Skills
Creators: name: Watkins, Vera Jeppesen
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1969

description: This study investigated the possibility that the short-term memory factor may be one of the variables involved in the learning of motor skills.
The subjects of the study were all of the seventh grade gym students at Logan Junior High School who were rated by their teachers as being in the upper or lower one-fourth of their class in respect to their abilities in sport skills, After a short-term memory (STM) test develop ed by the researcher was administered to this group, their scores were compared to determine whether there was a significant difference between the upper and lower one-fourth.
An analysis of variance determined that among the boys and the girls taken separately and the group as a whole, means for the top group were higher on the STM test and that the difference was significant at the , 01 level. It was also found that the mean score of the entire group of girls was significantly higher than that of the boys at the .05 level. There was no significant difference in the way the STM test discriminated between the top and bottom boys and the top and bottom girls.
Since the other variables were not controlled, this study was only able to distinguish between groups, and there were many individual exceptions. However, the test showed great variability in STM ability among normal individuals in the same age group, and suggests a relationship between this ability and the ability to acquire sport skills.
Late Neogene chronology: New perspectives in high-resolution stratigraphy
Creators: name: Berggren, William A.
name: Hilgen, F. J.
name: Langereis, C. G.
name: Kent, Dennis V.
name: Obradovich, J. D.
name: Raffi, Isabella
name: Raymo, Maureen E.
name: Shackleton, N. J.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1995
Subjects: Paleontology

description: We present an integrated geochronology for late Neogene time (Pliocene, Pleistocene, and Holocene Epochs) based on an analysis of data from stable isotopes, magnetostratigraphy, radiochronology, and calcareous plankton biostratigraphy. Discrepancies between recently formulated astronomical chronologies and magnetochronologies for the past 6 m.y. have been resolved on the basis of new, high-precision Ar/Ar ages in the younger part of this interval, the so-called Brunhes, Matuyama, and Gauss Epochs (= Chrons C1n-C2An; 0-3.58 Ma), and revised analysis of sea floor anomalies in the Pacific Ocean in the older part, the so-called Gilbert Epoch (= Chron C2Ar-C3r; 3.58-5.89 Ma). The magneto- and astrochronologies are now concordant back to the Chron C3r/C3An boundary at 5.89 Ma. The Neogene (Miocene, Pliocene, Pleistocene, and Holocene) and Paleogene are treated here as period/system subdivisions of the Cenozoic Era/Erathem, replacements for the antiquated terms Tertiary and Quaternary. The boundary between the Miocene and Pliocene Series (Messinian/Zanclean Stages), whose global stratotype section and point (GSSP) is currently proposed to be in Sicily, is located within the reversed interval just below the Thvera (C3n.4n) Magnetic Polarity Subchronozone with an estimated age of 5.32 Ma. The Pliocene/Pleistocene boundary, whose GSSP is located at Vrica (Calabria, Italy), is located near the top of the Olduvai (C2n) Magnetic Polarity Subchronozone with an estimated age of 1.81 Ma. The 13 calcareous nannoplankton and 48 planktonic foraminiferal datum events for the Pliocene, and 12 calcareous nannoplankton and 10 planktonic foraminiferal datum events for the Pleistocene, are calibrated to the newly revised late Neogene astronomical/geomagnetic polarity time scale.
Additional file 2 of Quantifying differences in packaged food and drink purchases among households with diet-related cardiometabolic multi-morbidity: a cross-sectional analysis
Creators: name: Ricket, Iben M.
name: Brown, Jeremiah R.
name: MacKenzie, Todd A.
name: Ma, Yu
name: Grewal, Dhruv
name: Ailawadi, Kusum L.
name: Emond, Jennifer A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Outcome, Main Exposures, and Covariate Variable Operationalization. Details on the operationalization of variables used in study analysis.
Mood and health judgements : does the Affect Infusion Model hold?
Creators: name: Dobber, RCP
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: This thesis reports an investigation into the applicability of Forgas's (1992a, 1992c, 1994a, 1995b) Affect Infusion Model (AIM) to health judgments made by healthy people. According to the AIM, the extent of mood influence on judgments depends on the information processing strategy used and the length of processing time. Findings of mood-congruence for some health judgments (Salovey & Birnbaum, 1989) suggested that complex stimuli requiring elaborate processing could be expected to be particularly influenced by mood and hence result in mood-congruent judgments (Forgas, 1994a). A preliminary experiment established suitable audiovisual and autobiographical methods of inducing happy, neutral and sad moods. A programme of seven experiments was conducted which tested the AIM, and more particularly tested the hypothesis that people in an induced sad mood would take longer to process information and make more pessimistic judgments than people in an induced happy mood. In three experiments, happy or sad (and in two of these experiments neutral) moods were induced and health judgments made. The findings lacked consistency with the AIM. Possible methodological issues were examined and ruled out as explanations for lack of affect infusion. A replication of Salovey and Birnbaum's (1989) Experiment 3 on health judgments was run with the addition of the health items developed for the experiments reported in this thesis. There was partial confirmation of Salovey and Birnbaum's findings of reduced optimistic bias for people in a sad mood making judgments of negative health events. A final experiment involved the breaking down of the items of this study into four subtypes to establish under what circumstances affect infused judgments. Processing times were assessed separately for negative and positive items, enabling testing of the processing time aspect of the AIM, in relation to Salovey and Birnbaum's finding of mood effects with negative health judgments. Results again provided partial confirmation of Salovey and Birnbaum's mood-congruence findings. However, even when mood congruence was demonstrated, this was not associated with differences in processing time as predicted by the AIM, either for Salovey and Birnbaum's items or for those developed for this series of experiments. The lack of finding of an association between processing time and mood congruence, when it occurred, indicates difficulties for the AIM. The predictions of the model do not apply in a straightforward way to health judgments made by healthy people. It is suggested that an optimistic bias might sometimes result in motivated processing reducing the likelihood of mood effects in health judgments. An examination of Forgas's model in relation to the Interacting Cognitive Subsystems model (Barnard & Teasdale, 1991) is proposed as an area for further research.
Properties of Axial-vector Mesons and Charmless B Decays: B -> VV, VA, AA
Creators: name: Yang, Kwei-Chou
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I introduce the properties of the light axial-vector mesons. The branching ratios, longitudinal fractions and direct CP asymmetries of the related charmless two-body B decays into final states involving two axial-vector mesons ($AA$) or one vector and one axial-vector meson ($VA$) are discussed within the framework of QCD factorization.
description: 4 pages, 1 Table, Talk given at QCD08, the 14th International QCD Conference, July, 7-12th, 2008, Montpellier, France
Water resources of the vernon irrigation district
Creators: name: Johnston, Ronald Harvey
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The Okanagan Valley is an important agricultural area in south-central British Columbia. Due to the low annual precipitation and a high rate of evapotranspiration, irrigation is necessary for the production of most crops. Since water shortage problems in the valley are likely to arise in the future, since irrigation accounts for over 90% of the consumptive use of water in the valley, and since data on the actual irrigation operation is sparse, a detailed study was made of one district. Vernon Irrigation District, the largest district in the Okanagan Basin, was selected for detailed study. Its distribution system has recently been modernized. The history of the development of the district is outlined and the old system and the way in which it operated are described. The reasons for selection of the new system, the criteria used in its design, and the way in which the new system now operates are described. Particular attention is paid to scheduling—the timing of the application of water to the crops—since this offers one of the best opportunities for the conservation of water in the future. Minor conflicts with other users of the water resource are identified and suggestions given for minimizing such conflicts.
title: The Teaching of Concrete Thinking Strategies to Five-Year-Old Children and its Effect on Performance on the Bender-Gestalt Test
Creators: name: Bennett, Ronald C.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1970

description: This study was designed to examine the effect teaching five and one-half to six-year-old children analytical and conceptual thinking strategies would have on their subsequent performance on the Bender-Gestalt Test. The sample was composed of 34 kindergarten children in this age range from the Providence Elementary School. They were randomly divided into two groups of equal size; one group was then given three 10-minute training sessions over three days which were designed to teach them analytical and conceptual thinking strategies. The other group was also given three 10-minute sessions with the investigator; however, they were only involved in looking at and identifying pictures./p>
The hypothesis that the group receiving this training would have lower error scores on the Bender-Gestalt Test was not substantiated by this research.
One possible explanation for these results is that the training given was not extensive enough to effectively teach the use of these concepts as measured by their test performance.
Additional file 9 of Quantifying differences in packaged food and drink purchases among households with diet-related cardiometabolic multi-morbidity: a cross-sectional analysis
Creators: name: Ricket, Iben M.
name: Brown, Jeremiah R.
name: MacKenzie, Todd A.
name: Ma, Yu
name: Grewal, Dhruv
name: Ailawadi, Kusum L.
name: Emond, Jennifer A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 9. Adjusteda odds ratios of diet-related cardiometabolic multi-morbid households relative to monthly weighed per capita nutrients per serving, controlling for calories per capita from food & drinksb and when grouped into perceived healthyc and unhealthyd with inclusion of baked goods/desserts and candy/confectionary. Supplemental analysis re-running multiple variable logistic regression model using per serving (quality) variables with the inclusion of baked goods/desserts and candy/confectionary food items.
Central limit theorems for correlated variables: some critical remarks
Creators: name: Hilhorst, H. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this talk I first review at an elementary level a selection of central limit theorems, including some lesser known cases, for sums and maxima of uncorrelated and correlated random variables. I recall why several of them appear in physics. Next, I show that there is room for new versions of central limit theorems applicable to specific classes of problems. Finally, I argue that we have insufficient evidence that, as a consequence of such a theorem, q-Gaussians occupy a special place in statistical physics.
description: New paragraph and references added. 20 pages, 9 figures. Text at the basis of a talk presented at the 7th International Conference on Nonextensive Statistical Mechanics: Foundations and Applications (NEXT2008), Foz do Iguacu, Parana, Brazil, 27-31 October 2008
Depth of post-depositional remanence acquisition in deep-sea sediments: a case study of the Brunhes-Matuyama reversal and oxygen isotopic Stage 19.1
Creators: name: DeMenocal, Peter B.
name: Ruddiman, William F.
name: Kent, Dennis V.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Geophysics
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Although post-depositional remanent magnetization (PDRM) in deep-sea sediments appears to be acquired during the earliest stages of sediment compaction, the natural variability of the PDRM lock-in depth in deep-sea sediments is poorly understood and as yet unquantified. Here we consider variations in the relative stratigraphic positions of oxygen isotopic interglacial Stage 19.1 and the Brunhes-Matuyama (B/M) Chronozone reversal for eight deep-sea sediment cores. Results from a similar study of the displacement between a widespread microtektite layer and the B/M boundary are also included [1]. The PDRM lock-in depth and the temporal relationships between the B/M and Stage 19.1 datums can be determined from the offsets between the paleomagnetic and the isotopic (and microtektite) stratigraphies. For cores with sedimentation rates greater than 1 cm kyr−1, the depth offset between the paleomagnetic and isotopic datums is a linear function of sedimentation rate. A simple model (r2 = 0.77) demonstrates that (1) PDRM acquisition occurs ∼ 16 cm below the sediment surface, and (2) the B/M reversal occurs 6 kyr (±2 kyr) after the Stage 19.1 datum, and the Stage 19.1 datum occurs 9 kyr (±3 kyr) after the deposition of the Australasian microtektite strewnfield. This example argues against simple geophysical models linking geomagnetic field reversals to climate change or impact events. The B/M boundary is anomalously deep (30–50 cm) in very low accumulation rate sediments ( < 1 cm kyr−1) and this may reflect the unusual physical properties of these sediments. A review of the geotechnical literature suggests that very low accumulation rate sediments have sufficient time to develop enhanced interparticle rigidity (structural strength) which inhibits early compaction and, hence, PDRM acquisition.
Higher Derivative Gravity, Causality and Positivity of Energy in a UV complete QFT
Creators: name: Hofman, Diego M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this note we discuss the relation between the constraints imposed by causality in the bulk of $AdS$ and the condition of positivity of the energy measured in ideal calorimeters in a collider experiment in the dual CFT. We first extend the analysis in the literature and recover all bounds imposed by causality of the boundary theory in the bulk dynamics for all polarizations of the graviton and the gauge boson field. These results translate to specific bounds for the ratio of central charges $\frac{a}{c}$ in the dual CFT, already found by analyzing the energy one point function. Then, we generalize this discussion and we study shock wave backgrounds in which we make manifest the relation between causality in the bulk and the three point function in the dual field theory. We remark that particular care has to be given to the exponentiation procedure of the three point function when solving the classical equations of motion in the higher gravity theory, as it is not clear that every theory will present causality problems. Finally, we present a field theoretic argument explaining the positivity of energy condition in any UV complete QFT.
description: 31 pages, 3 figures; v2: references added
Are the Pacific and Indo–Atlantic hotspots fixed? Testing the plate circuit through Antarctica
Creators: name: DiVenere, Victor J.
name: Kent, Dennis V.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Geophysics
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: It is often assumed that hotspots are fixed relative to one another and thus constitute a global reference frame for measuring absolute plate motions and true polar wander. But it has long been known that the best documented hotspot track, the Hawaiian–Emperor chain, is inconsistent with the internally coherent tracks left by the Indo–Atlantic hotspots. This inconsistency is due either to unquantified motions within the plate circuit linking the Pacific with other plates, for example, between East and West Antarctica, or relative motion between the Hawaiian–Emperor and Indo–Atlantic hotspots. Analysis of recent paleomagnetic results from Marie Byrd Land in West Antarctica confirms that there has been post-100 Ma motion between West Antarctica (Marie Byrd Land) and East Antarctica. However, incorporation of this motion into the plate circuit does not account for the Cenozoic hotspot discrepancy. Comparison of an updated inventory of Pacific and non-Pacific paleomagnetic data does not show a significant systematic discrepancy, which, along with other observations, indicates that missing plate boundaries and other errors in the plate circuit play a relatively small role in the hotspot inconsistency. We conclude that most of the apparent motion between the Hawaiian–Emperor and Indo–Atlantic hotspots is real. The best-estimate average drift rate between these sets of hotspots is approximately 25 mm/yr since 65 Ma, ignoring errors in the plate circuit and a small contribution from Cenozoic motions between East and West Antarctica.
Involutions on S^6 with 3-dimensional fixed point set
Creators: name: Olbermann, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57S17; 55M35; 57R65

description: In this article, we classify all involutions on S^6 with 3-dimensional fixed point set. In particular, we discuss the relation between the classification of involutions with fixed point set a knotted 3-sphere and the classification of free involutions on homotopy CP^3's.
description: 23 pages