cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
On using the WMAP distance priors in constraining the time evolving equation of state of dark energy
Creators: name: Li, Hong
name: Xia, Jun-Qing
name: Zhao, Gong-Bo
name: Fan, Zu-Hui
name: Zhang, Xinmin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, the WMAP group has published their five-year data and considered the constraints on the time evolving equation of state of dark energy for the first time from the WMAP distance information. In this paper, we study the effectiveness of the usage of these distance information and find that these compressed CMB information can give similar constraints on dark energy parameters compared with the full CMB power spectrum if dark energy perturbations are included, however, once incorrectly neglecting the dark energy perturbations, the difference of the results are sizable.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables
Cyber Resilience in IoT network: Methodology and example of assessment through epidemic spreading
Creators: name: Bellini, Emanuele
name: Bagnoli, Franco
name: Ganin, Alexander A.
name: Linkov, Igor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Cyber Resilience is an important property of complex systems and is important consideration in developing specific IoT applications. This work aims at introducing a novel approach to assess IoT resilience adopting the risk perception in network based epidemic spreading approach. In particular IoT has been considered a network of devices where the probability of infection and interactions (communication), needs to be balanced in order to reduce the malware outbreack while maintaining the network functionalities at an acceptable level. The mathematical model and the simulation results reveal the benefit of a shift from a risk-based to a resilience based approach to threat management in IoT.
The strategic use of intellectual and industrial property laws to maintain and extend a dominant position in the pharmaceutical industry
Creators: name: Rowland-Rouse, Jacqueline
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: It is assumed at the outset of this thesis that there is a public interest in the purchase of prescribed drugs at the lowest aggregate price consistent with the maintenace of reseach and development in the pharmaceutical field. The thesis investigates the operation of intellectual property law in this area and its effect on prices, investment, research and the availability of new drugs. The principal focus is on the United Kingdom but the conclusions reached may be validly applied to other jurisdictions. Each chapter is devoted to a specific branch of the law with a view to demonstrating how its exploitation by pharmaceutical firms has operated in the detriment of the public by virtually eliminating competition and thereby increasing prices. The unique nature of the pharmaceutical industry renders the desirability of exclusive rights in this area highly questionable and the abolition or curtailment of all forms of protection for pharmaceutical products is advocated.
Surface Magnetoelectric Effect in Ferromagnetic Metal Films
Creators: name: Duan, Chun-Gang
name: Velev, Julian P.
name: Sabirianov, R. F.
name: Zhu, Ziqiang
name: Chu, Junhao
name: Jaswal, S. S.
name: Tsymbal, E. Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A surface magnetoelectric effect is revealed by density-functional calculations that are applied to ferromagnetic Fe(001), Ni(001) and Co(0001) films in the presence of external electric field. The effect originates from spin-dependent screening of the electric field which leads to notable changes in the surface magnetization and the surface magnetocrystalline anisotropy. These results are of considerable interest in the area of electrically-controlled magnetism and magnetoelectric phenomena.
Location selection and vehicle routing for tapioca starch production industries in north-eastern of thailand by using ant colony optimization.
Creators: name: Thitiworada  Khumhan
name: Sombat  Sindhuchaod
Publisher: name: Faculty of Engineering, Khon Kaen Univeristy
Year: 2013
Subjects: Location selection,Vehicle routing, Tapioca starch,Ant colony Optimization

description: 3, 40, KKU Engineering Journal
MPEC 2024-T10 : 2024 SR6
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 SR6

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Search for a promising tetraquark candidate $X(ud\bar{s}\bar{s})$ in $pn\to ΛΛX$
Creators: name: Liu, Xiao-Hai
name: Zhao, Qiang
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: We propose to search for a tetraquark candidate $X(ud\bar{s}\bar{s})$ in $pn\to ΛΛX(ud\bar{s}\bar{s})\to ΛΛK^+K^0$ or $ΛΛKK^*$. The existence of tetraquark state $X(ud\bar{s}\bar{s})$ with $J^P=0^+$, $1^-$ or $1^+$ was predicted in the literature based on specific diquark effective degrees of freedom inside hadrons. In order to understand the underlying dynamics for exotic hadrons, a search for the tetraquark $X(ud\bar{s}\bar{s})$ is strongly recommended. The proposed reaction involves two $Λ$ production, of which the narrow widths make it a great advantage in the analysis of the final state missing mass spectrum. We make an estimate of the production rate of $X(ud\bar{s}\bar{s})$ in an effective Lagrangian theory and find that for $J^P=1^-$ the sample events of $\sim 2200 \ nb^{-1}$ will be able to identify $X(ud\bar{s}\bar{s})$ with five standard deviations at a width of 10 MeV to $K^+K^0$ near threshold. For $J^P=1^+$ with a width of 20 MeV to $KK^*$, the sample events of $\sim 130 nb^{-1}$ will be needed. Large production cross sections are expected in a kinematic region beyond the threshold. We emphasize the advantage of low background in this transition channel, and in the meantime caution the large uncertainties in the present estimate due to lack of knowledge about the $X(ud\bar{s}\bar{s})$ state. Implications for its heavy-flavored partners $qq\bar{c}\bar{c}$ and $qq\bar{b}\bar{b}$ are briefly discussed.
description: Revised version to appear on J. Phys. G. Additional discussions on the tetraquark production mechanisms are included
Anomalous WWH couplings in gamma gamma collision with initial beams and final state polarizations
Creators: name: Sahin, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The constraints on anomalous Higgs boson couplings are investigated through the process $γγ\to W^{+}W^{-}H$. Considering the longitudinal and transverse polarization states of the final $W^{+}$ and $W^{-}$ bosons and incoming beam polarizations, we find 95% confidence level limits on the anomalous coupling parameters $Δa_{W}$, $b_{W}$ and $β_{W}$ with an integrated luminosity of 500 $fb^{-1}$ and $\sqrt{s}$=0.5, 1 TeV energies. We show that initial beam and final state polarizations lead to a significant improvement on the sensitivity limits of the anomalous coupling parameters $b_{W}$ and $β_{W}$.
description: 20 pages, 9 figures
Anomalous Hall Effect in Magnetite: Universal Scaling Relation Between Hall and Longitudinal Conductivity in Low-Conductivity Ferromagnets
Creators: name: Venkateshvaran, Deepak
name: Kaiser, Wolfgang
name: Boger, Andrea
name: Althammer, Matthias
name: Rao, M. S. Ramachandra
name: Goennenwein, Sebastian T. B.
name: Opel, Matthias
name: Gross, Rudolf
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The anomalous Hall effect (AHE) has been studied systematically in the low-conductivity ferromagnetic oxide Fe$_{3-x}$Zn$_x$O$_4$ with $x = 0$, 0.1, and 0.5. We used (001), (110), and (111) oriented epitaxial Fe$_{3-x}$Zn$_x$O$_4$ films grown on MgO and sapphire substrates in different oxygen partial pressure to analyze the dependence of the AHE on crystallographic orientation, Zn content, strain state, and oxygen deficiency. Despite substantial differences in the magnetic properties and magnitudes of the anomalous Hall conductivity $σ_{xy}^{\rm AHE}$ and the longitudinal conductivity $σ_{xx}$ over several orders of magnitude, a universal scaling relation $σ_{xy}^{\rm AHE} \propto σ_{xx}^α$ with $α= 1.69 \pm 0.08$ was found for all investigated samples. Our results are in agreement with recent theoretical and experimental findings for ferromagnetic metals in the dirty limit, where transport is by metallic conduction. We find the same scaling relation for magnetite, where hopping transport prevails. The fact that this relation is independent of crystallographic orientation, Zn content, strain state, and oxygen deficiency suggests that it is universal and particularly does not depend on the nature of the transport mechanism.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Spectral Analysis of Solar Radio Type III Bursts from 20 kHz to 410 MHz
Creators: name: Raja, K. Sasikumar
name: Maksimovic, Milan
name: Kontar, Eduard P.
name: Bonnin, Xavier
name: Zarka, Philippe
name: Lamy, Laurent
name: Reid, Hamish
name: Vilmer, Nicole
name: Lecacheux, Alain
name: Krupar, Vratislav
name: Cecconi, Baptiste
name: Nora, Lahmiti
name: Denis, Laurent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the statistical analysis of the spectral response of solar radio type III bursts over the wide frequency range between 20 kHz and 410 MHz. For this purpose, we have used observations that were carried out using both spaced-based (Wind/Waves) and ground-based (Nançay Decameter Array and Nançay Radioheliograph) facilities. In order to compare the flux densities observed by the different instruments, we have carefully calibrated the data and displayed them in Solar Flux Units. The main result of our study is that type III bursts, in the metric to hectometric wavelength range, statistically exhibit a clear maximum of their median radio flux density around 2 MHz. Although this result was already reported by inspecting the spectral profiles of type III bursts in the frequency range 20 kHz - 20 MHz, our study extends such analysis for the first time to metric radio frequencies (i.e., from 20 kHz to 410 MHz) and confirms the maximum spectral response around 2 MHz. In addition, using a simple empirical model we show that the median radio flux $S$ of the studied dataset obeys the polynomial form $Y = 0.04 X^3 - 1.63 X^2 + 16.30 X -41.24$, with $X=\ln{(F_\text{MHz})}$ and with $Y=\ln{(S_\text{SFU})}$. Using the Sittler and Guhathakurtha model for coronal streamers \citep{Sit1999}, we have found that maximum of radio power falls therefore in the range 4 to 10 $R_{\odot}$, depending on whether the type III emissions are assumed to be at the fundamental or the harmonic.
description: 21 Pages, 6 Figures, 1 Table, Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
Statistics on bargraphs of inversion sequences of permutations
Creators: name: Mansour, Toufik
name: Shattuck, Mark
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05A15, 05A05

description: We consider the joint distribution of the area and perimeter statistics on the set I_n of inversion sequences of length n represented as bargraphs. Functional equations for both the ordinary and exponential generating functions are derived from recurrences satisfied by this distribution. Explicit formulas are found in some special cases as are expressions for the totals of the respective statistics on I_n. A similar treatment is provided for the joint distribution on I_n for the statistics recording the number of levels, descents and ascents. Some connections are made between specific cases of this latter distribution and the Stirling numbers of the first kind and Eulerian numbers.
Fluorine in carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars: a binary scenario
Creators: name: Lugaro, M.
name: de Mink, S. E.
name: Izzard, R. G.
name: Campbell, S. W.
name: Karakas, A. I.
name: Cristallo, S.
name: Pols, O. R.
name: Lattanzio, J. C.
name: Straniero, O.
name: Gallino, R.
name: Beers, T. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A super-solar fluorine abundance was observed in the carbon-enhanced metal-poor (CEMP) star HE 1305+0132 ([F/Fe] = +2.90, [Fe/H] = -2.5). We propose that this observation can be explained using a binary model that involve mass transfer from an asymptotic giant branch (AGB) star companion and, based on this model, we predict F abundances in CEMP stars in general. We discuss wether F can be used to discriminate between the formation histories of most CEMP stars: via binary mass transfer or from the ejecta of fast-rotating massive stars. We compute AGB yields using different stellar evolution and nucleosynthesis codes to evaluate stellar model uncertainties. We use a simple dilution model to determine the factor by which the AGB yields should be diluted to match the abundances observed in HE 1305+0132. We further employ a binary population synthesis tool to estimate the probability of F-rich CEMP stars. The abundances observed in HE 1305+0132 can be explained if this star accreted 3-11% of the mass lost by its former AGB companion. The primary AGB star should have dredged-up at least 0.2 Msun of material from its He-rich region into the convective envelope via third dredge-up, which corresponds to AGB models of Z ~ 0.0001 and mass ~ 2 Msun. Many AGB model uncertainties, such as the treatment of convective borders and mass loss, require further investigation. We find that in the binary scenario most CEMP stars should also be FEMP stars, that is, have [F/Fe] > +1, while fast-rotating massive stars do not appear to produce fluorine. We conclude that fluorine is a signature of low-mass AGB pollution in CEMP stars, together with elements associated with the slow neutron-capture process.
description: accepted for publication on A&A Letters
The Linet-Tian metrics are a restricted set of Krasiński's solutions of Einstein's field equations for a rotating perfect fluid
Creators: name: Gleiser, Reinaldo J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this note we show that the Linet-Tian family of solutions of the vacuum Einstein equations with a cosmological constant are a restricted set of the solutions of the Einstein field equations for a rotating perfect fluid previously found by A. Krasiński.
description: 7 pages, No figures
Postcard from Kathleen Raine to Robin Skelton, [July 27, 1953]
Creators: name: Raine, Kathleen, 1908-2003
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Authors
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821688
subject: Periodical editors
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1058064
subject: Skelton, Robin
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/51853
subject: Editors
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/902475
subject: Wiccans
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1765210
subject: Novelists
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1039684
subject: Philosophy
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1060777
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: Raine, Kathleen, 1908-2003
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/52672
subject: Platonists
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1066881
subject: Literature, Modern
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1000172
subject: Novelists, English
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1039718
subject: Poets
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067778
subject: Scholars
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1106878
subject: Poets, English
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067870
subject: Neoplatonism
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1035884
subject: Authors, English
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821945
subject: Book industries and trade
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/836171
subject: English poetry--Manuscripts
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/912320
subject: Periodicals--Publishing
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1058100
subject: Critics
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/883769

description: Part of a collection of correspondence from Kathleen Raine to Robin Skelton. Skelton was a British poet, academic, anthologist, and practicing Wiccan. He taught at Manchester University before emigrating to Canada in 1963, where he taught creative writing at the University of Victoria and started the literary magazine The Malahat Review. Also included are some letters to Skelton’s wife Sylvia, and his daughters. Spanning close to forty-five years, the correspondence discusses poetry, writing, and philosophy; particularly Platonism and Neoplatonism. Raine often refers to the writings of William Blake and W. B. Yeats. Many letters also mention contemporary literary figures at the time including: Herbert Read, Peter Russell, Liam Miller, and Thurairajah Tambimuttu. In this card, Raine asks when Skelton will be visiting London next and about the poetry he is currently reading.
Tighter monogamy and polygamy relations for a superposition of the generalized $W$-class state and vacuum
Creators: name: Lai, Le-Min
name: Fei, Shao-Ming
name: Wang, Zhi-Xi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Monogamy and polygamy relations characterize the distributions of entanglement in multipartite systems. We investigate the monogamy and polygamy relations with respect to any partitions for a superposition of the generalized $W$-class state and vacuum in terms of the Tsallis-$q$ entanglement and the Rényi-$α$ entanglement. By using the Hamming weight of the binary vectors related to the partitions of the subsystems, new classes of monogamy and polygamy inequalities are derived, which are shown to be tighter than the existing ones. Detailed examples are presented to illustrate the finer characterization of entanglement distributions.
description: 17 pages, 4 figures
The boat people : descriptive analysis of a program for teaching English as a foreign language
Creators: name: Bardal, Nancy J.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The purpose of this study was to describe an innovative E.F.L. Program in McCauley School in Edmonton, Alberta, which appeared to provide the basic reading skills and learning experiences needed to help E.F.L. students to integrate into the regular classroom. More specifically, this study sought to gather descriptive data about the program by monitoring the progress of 83 students, mainly Vietnamese boat people, enrolled in the program between September, 1980 and June, 1981. Through the use of teacher and student questionnaires and interviews, examination of curriculum schedules and instructional materials and the use of various formal and informal measures, this study attempted to answer the following questions: 1. Who are the students involved in the program and what are their educational and language backgrounds? 2. Who are the teachers in the program and what are their qualifications? 3. How are the students selected and assigned to the various program levels? 4. What is the curriculum organization of the program? 5. How is the reading component of the curriculum organized in terms of instructional time, content, resources and methodology? 6. How is the program evaluated? 7. Is the program effective, i.e., are there demonstrable gains in students' reading ability? The findings of the study seem to indicate that the McCauley program .in an effective model for responding to the need for special programs in E.F.L. Students appeared to have made about a year's growth in reading and. spelling skills. However, because of the developmental nature of the McCauley program, it is difficult to isolate specific features to draw conclusions at to which components of the program are contributing most to the program's success. It is equally difficult to generalize the findings of the present descriptive study to other populations.
title:  Regulatory Quality and Trade Performance: An Econometric Analysis
Creators: name: Riker, David
Publisher: name: United States International Trade Commission
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/05hsggr76
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2022

description: Using a set of econometric models, I estimate the positive effects of a country’s regulatory quality, as measured by the World Bank’s World Governance Indicators, on
the value of the country’s GDP and its exports of manufactured goods to the United
States. A second set of models estimates the effects of regulatory quality on the country’s imports of manufactured goods from the United States. The estimated positive
effects on trade are much larger, in percentage terms, for developing countries. Finally, I use the econometric models to simulate the effects of hypothetical changes in
regulatory quality in a group of ten developing countries.
Universal features of gravitational waves emitted by superkick binary black hole systems
Creators: name: Ma, Sizheng
name: Giesler, Matthew
name: Varma, Vijay
name: Scheel, Mark A.
name: Chen, Yanbei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use numerical relativity to study the merger and ringdown stages of "superkick" binary black hole systems (those with equal mass and anti-parallel spins). We find a universal way to describe the mass and current quadrupole gravitational waves emitted by these systems during the merger and ringdown stage: (i) The time evolutions of these waves are insensitive to the progenitor's parameters (spins) after being normalized by their own peak values. (ii) The peak values, which encode all the spin information of the progenitor, can be consistently fitted to formulas inspired by post-Newtonian theory. We find that the universal evolution of the mass quadrupole wave can be accurately modeled by the so-called Backwards One-Body (BOB) model. However, the BOB model, in its present form, leads to a lower waveform match and a significant parameter-estimation bias for the current quadrupole wave. We also decompose the ringdown signal into seven overtones, and study the dependence of mode amplitudes on the progenitor's parameters. Such dependence is found to be insensitive to the overtone index (up to a scaling factor). Finally, we use the Fisher matrix technique to investigate how the ringdown waveform can be at least as important for parameter estimation as the inspiral stage. Assuming the Cosmic Explorer, we find the contribution of ringdown portion dominates as the total mass exceeds ~ 250 solar mass. For massive BBH systems, the accuracy of parameter measurement is improved by incorporating the information of ringdown -- the ringdown sector gives rise to a different parameter correlation from inspiral stage, hence the overall parameter correlation is reduced in the full signal.
Chemical mixing in smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations
Creators: name: Greif, Thomas H.
name: Glover, Simon C. O.
name: Bromm, Volker
name: Klessen, Ralf S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a simple and efficient algorithm for diffusion in smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations and apply it to the problem of chemical mixing. Based on the concept of turbulent diffusion, we link the diffusivity of a pollutant to the local physical conditions and can thus resolve mixing in space and time. We apply our prescription to the evolution of an idealized supernova remnant and find that we can model the distribution of heavy elements without having to explicitly resolve hydrodynamic instabilities in the post-shock gas. Instead, the dispersal of the pollutant is implicitly modelled through its dependence on the local velocity dispersion. Our method can thus be used in any SPH simulation that investigates chemical mixing but lacks the necessary resolution on small scales. Potential applications include the enrichment of the interstellar medium in present-day galaxies, as well as the intergalactic medium at high redshifts.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures, published in MNRAS
Enhancing the hybridization of plasmons in graphene with 2D superconductor collective modes
Creators: name: Costa, A. T.
name: Peres, N. M. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore ways in which the close proximity between graphene sheets and monolayers of 2D superconductors can lead to hybridization between their collective excitations. We consider heterostructures formed by combinations of graphene sheets and 2D superconductor monolayers. The broad range of energies in which the graphene plasmon can exist, together with its tunability, makes such heterostrucutres promising platforms for probing the many-body physics of superconductors. We show that the hybridization between the graphene plasmon and the Bardasis-Schrieffer mode of a 2D superconductor results in clear signatures on the near-field reflection coefficient of the heterostructure, which in principle can be observed in scanning near-field microscopy experiments.
description: 14 pages, 13 figures
THE EFFECTS OF COUNTY-LEVEL CHARACTERISTICS ON THE RATE OF PETITIONED JUVENILE COURT CASES
Creators: name: Hafiz, Safiya
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2024
Subjects: juvenile justice system
macro-level
petitioning

description: Justice by geography suggests that courtroom outcomes vary based on contextual factors. This project evaluates justice by geography at the county-level by looking at the petitioning stage of juvenile justice system processing, where cases are considered for formal processing or are diverted out of the criminal-legal system. To understand if county-level variables affect the percentage of cases in a county that are formally processed for punishment or diverted out of the system, this project conducts multivariate regression analyses to test if political, economic, or rural contexts influences the rate of petitioned referrals. Results shows that, when controlling for the crime rate, the strength of the Republican Party significantly increases the share of noncriminal referrals that are petitioned in a county. These results imply that a connection between punitive punishments and the strength of the Republican Party exist. It is important to recognize what contexts influence juvenile justice system outcomes vary because these contextual variables contribute to spatial inequality.
Waste reduction in plastic bottle manufacturing for drinking water industry
Creators: name: Radamanee Itthiprom
name: Somruetai Dutchanee
name: Charnnarong Saikaew
Publisher: name: Faculty of Engineering, Khon Kaen Univeristy
Year: 2013
Subjects: Plastic water bottle, Waste reduction, Quality tools, 2k factorial design

description: 3, 40, KKU Engineering Journal
Relation of internal attenuation, dust emission, and the size of spiral galaxies. Calibration at low-z and how to use it as a cosmological test at high-z
Creators: name: Corredoira, M. Lopez
name: Gutierrez, C. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dust in spiral galaxies produces emission in the far-infrared (FIR) and internal absorption in visible wavelengths. However, the relation of the two amounts is not trivial because optical absorption may saturate, but the FIR emission does not. Moreover, the volume concentration of dust plays a role in the relation of absorption and emission, which depends on the size of the galaxy. We explore the relation of these three quantities. In order to understand the geometrical problem, we developed a model of dust distribution. We also investigated the relation of the three variables with real data of spiral galaxies at z<0.2 using the spectroscopic SDSS and FIR AKARI surveys. Internal absorptions were derived with two different methods: the ratio of emission lines H$_α$ and H$_β$, and a previously calibrated relation based on the color variations as a function of absolute magnitude and concentration index. We find that in our low-z sample, the dependence of the average internal attenuation on galaxy size is negligible on average. It allows us to derive the internal attenuation of the galaxy, $A_V$, even when we only know its FIR flux. This attenuation approximately depends on the inclination of the galaxy $i$ as $\overline {A_V}=γ_V \log _{10}\left(\frac{1}{\cos i}\right)$, where $γ_V$ is a constant. We found that $γ_V$ has a maximum value of $1.45\pm 0.27$ magnitudes. When similar properties of dust are assumed, a general expression can be used at any $z$. For cases of nonsaturation, this might be used as a cosmological test. Although the present-day sensitivity of FIR or mm surveys does not allow us to carry out this cosmological test at z>2 within the standard model, it may be used in the future. For much lower z or different cosmological models, a test might be feasible at present.
description: 13 pages, 10 figures, accepted to be published in A&A
Electroweak and supersymmetric two-loop corrections to lepton anomalous magnetic and electric dipole moments
Creators: name: Feng, Tai-Fu
name: Sun, Lin
name: Yang, Xiu-Yi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the effective Lagrangian method, we analyze the electroweak corrections to the anomalous dipole moments of lepton from some special two-loop diagrams where a closed neutralino/chargino loop is inserted into relevant two Higgs doublet one-loop diagrams in the minimal supersymmetric extension of the standard model with CP violation. Considering the translational invariance of loop momenta and the electromagnetic gauge invariance, we get all dimension 6 operators and derive their coefficients. After applying equations of motion to the external leptons, we obtain the anomalous dipole moments of lepton. The numerical results imply that there is parameter space where the contributions to the muon anomalous dipole moments from this sector may be significant.
description: 39 pages, including 7 figures
Measurement and control of spatial qubits generated by passing photons through double-slits
Creators: name: Taguchi, Gen
name: Dougakiuchi, Tatsuo
name: Yoshimoto, Nobuaki
name: Kasai, Katsuya
name: Iinuma, Masataka
name: Hofmann, Holger F.
name: Kadoya, Yutaka
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an experimental study of the non-classical correlations of a pair of spatial qubits formed by passing two down-converted photons through a pair of double slits. After confirming the entanglement generated in our setup by quantum tomography using separate measurements of the slit images and the interference patterns, we show that the complete Hilbert space of the spatial qubits can be accessed by measurements performed in a single plane between the image plane and the focal plane of a lens. Specifically, it is possible to obtain both the which-path and the interference information needed for quantum tomography in a single scan of the transversal distribution of photon coincidences. Since this method can easily be extended to multi-dimensional systems, it may be a valuable tool in the application of spatial qudits to quantum information processes.
description: 19 pages, including 10 figures and 2 tables
Autistic Children's Mental Model of an Humanoid Robot
Creators: name: Gena, Cristina
name: Mattutino, Claudio
name: Maieli, Andrea
name: Miraglio, Elisabetta
name: Ricciardiello, Giulia
name: Damiano, Rossana
name: Mazzei, Alessandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This position paper introduces the results of an initial card sorting experiment based on the reactions and questions of a group of children with autism working with a humanoid robot in a therapeutic laboratory on autonomy.
The Churches, Foreign Policy, and Global Poverty: New Approaches, New Partnerships
Creators: name: Bane, Mary Jo
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2011
Subjects: churches
global poverty
foreign policy

description: Poverty, although it has declined dramatically in the last few decades, affects more than a billion people in the contemporary world. Their levels of material well being, education, and opportunities are little changed from those of their ancestors. Much is now understood about the causes of lack of development and poverty, but in many places progress is depressingly slow. U.S. attitudes and policy toward global poverty have been and remain ambivalent and inconsistent, at best.

American Christianity, vibrant and relevant to the lives of the majority of Americans, is increasingly engaged in international humanitarian and missionary work, through denominational bodies, international faith-based NGOs and congregations. Millions of American Christians contribute billions of dollars to humanitarian and evangelical efforts, and millions are themselves personally involved in one or another international activity, much of it directed at the alleviation of poverty and hunger.

Perhaps American Christianity has the potential to help shape a more humane and sensible response to global poverty on the part of American society as a whole and the American government in particular? This paper attempts to explore both the potential and the challenges
A Radial Velocity Search for Binary RR Lyrae Variables
Creators: name: Barnes, Thomas G.
name: Guggenberger, Elisabeth
name: Kolenberg, Katrien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report 272 radial velocities for 19 RR Lyrae variables. For most of the stars we have radial velocities for the complete pulsation cycle. These data are used to determine robust center--of--mass radial velocities that have been compared to values from the literature in a search for evidence of binary systems. Center--of--mass velocities were determined for each star using Fourier Series and Template fits to the radial velocities. Our center--of--mass velocities have uncertainties from $\pm0.16$ km s$^{-1}$ to $\pm$2.5 km s$^{-1}$, with a mean uncertainty of $\pm$0.92 km s$^{-1}$. We combined our center--of--mass velocities with values from the literature to look for deviations from the mean center--of--mass velocity of each star. Fifteen RR Lyrae show no evidence of binary motion (BK And, CI And, Z CVn, DM Cyg, BK Dra, RR Gem, XX Hya, SZ Leo, BX Leo, TT Lyn, CN Lyr, TU Per, U Tri, RV UMa, and AV Vir). In most cases this conclusion is reached due to the sporadic sampling of the center--of--mass velocities over time. Three RR Lyrae show suspicious variation in the center--of--mass velocities that may indicate binary motion but do not prove it (SS Leo, ST Leo, and AO Peg). TU UMa was observed by us near a predicted periastron passage (at 0.14 in orbital phase) but the absence of additional center--of--mass velocities near periastron make the binary detection, based on radial velocities alone, uncertain. Two stars in our sample show $Hγ$ emission in phases 0.9--1.0: SS Leo and TU UMa.
description: 5 tables, 21 figures
The Multiplicity of Main Sequence Turnoffs in Globular Clusters
Creators: name: Ryabova, M. V.
name: Shchekinov, Yu. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present color-magnitude diagrams of globular clusters for models with self-enrichment and pre-enrichment. The models with self-enrichment turn out to have two or more main sequence turnoff points in the color-magnitude diagram if the fraction of mass lost by the globular cluster under supernova explosions does not exceed 95-97%. The models with pre-enrichment can have only one main sequence turnoff point. We argue that the cluster wCen evolved according to a self-enrichment scenario.
description: 13 pages, 7 figures
title: Börsenblatt Heft 52/2017
title: Magazin für den Deutschen Buchhandel
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels e.V.
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Buchhandel
subject: Buchgeschichte
subject: Buchbranche
subject: Buchmarkt
subject: 6555.5
subject: 381.45002
subject: 070.5

description: Magazinschwerpunkt: Spezial - Sachbuch & Wissen
A psycholinguistic investigation of the cloze responses of grade eight students
Creators: name: Fraser, Janet Mary
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: This study, a partial replication of Cram (1980), investigated the function of exact and non-exact replacements of cloze responses in the assessment of reading comprehension. Two modes of discourse, narrative fiction and expository prose, were examined. Subjects were proficient and less proficient grade eight students. Key theoretical assumptions guiding the research stemmed from psycholinguistics; that reading involves responses to the graphophonemic, syntactic, and semantic cue systems of language (Goodman, 1976a); and from discourse analysis theory; that a 'schema' or cognitive map directs the reader in the search for discourse cues (Winograd, 1977). Subjects were completing grade eight (N = 61) in a small junior secondary school in Surrey, British Columbia. Only subjects whose primary language was English, qualified. Good (N = 19) and poor (N = 19) readers were identified from the sum of scores on the comprehension and vocabulary subtests of the "Nelison Reading Skills Test" (1977). Exact replacements (E.R.'s) of 61 subjects were examined. Non-exact replacements (N.E.R.'s) of good (N = 19) and poor (N = 19) readers were also analysed. Each subject completed two cloze tasks: a narrative fiction and an expository prose, from the "British Columbia Reading Assessment 1977, Grade 8". Responses were examined for exact match to the author's word (Bormuth, 1976). An adaptation of the Cram Reading Assessment Method was used to evaluate N.E.R.'s. Statistical procedures included correlation, independent t-tests and two way analysis of variance. Correlations between the standardized measure and exact cloze scores were significant, particularly for the narrative mode. For both good and poor readers, exact narrative scores were significantly greater than exact expository scores. Poor readers were differentiated from good readers. Scores for both good and poor readers on grammatical function, semantic acceptability and discourse acceptability were significantly greater for narrative fiction than expository prose. Poor readers obtained a significantly higher mean on narrative fiction when compared to expository prose on syntactic acceptability. Data based conclusions were (1) cloze comprehension scores differed for narrative fiction and expository prose modes of discourse, and (2) exact cloze scores discriminated between proficiency levels.
Formation of a Solar Filament by Magnetic Reconnection and Associated Chromospheric Evaporation and Subsequent Coronal Condensation
Creators: name: Yang, Bo
name: Yang, Jiayan
name: Bi, Yi
name: Hong, Junchao
name: Xu, Zhe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first observation of a solar filament formed by magnetic reconnection and associated chromospheric evaporation and subsequent coronal condensation. Driven by shearing motion during flux emergence, a sequential tether-cutting reconnection processes occurred and resulted in an M1.3 confined flare accompany with the formation of a sigmoid structure. It is found that the flare had a conjugate compact footpoint brightenings, which correspond to the footpoints of the sigmoid. Furthermore, observational evidence of explosive evaporation is well diagnosed at the conjugate footpoint brightenings in the impulsive phase of the flare. After the flare, continuous cool condensations formed at about the middle section of the sigmoid and then moved in opposite directions along the sigmoid, eventually leading to the formation of the filament. These observations suggest that magnetic reconnection not only can form the magnetic field structure of the filament, but also heat their chromospheric footpoints during their formation and drive chromospheric evaporation. As a result, the heated chromospheric plasma may be evaporated into the magnetic field structure of the filament, where the accumulated hot plasma might suffer from thermal instability or thermal non-equilibrium, causing catastrophic cooling and coronal condensation to form the cool dense material of the filament. This observation lends strong support to the evaporative-condensation model and highlights the crucial role of magnetic reconnection in forming both the magnetic field structure and the cool dense material of filaments.
description: 17 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ Letters
Radio continuum imaging of the R CrA star-forming region with the ATCA
Creators: name: Miettinen, O.
name: Kontinen, S.
name: Harju, J.
name: Higdon, J. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The aim of this study is to investigate the nature of radio sources associated with young stellar objects (YSOs) belonging to the R CrA cluster. By combining the centimetre radio data with the wealth of shorter wavelength data accumulated recently we wish to refine estimates of the evolutionary stages of the YSOs. Fluxes and spectral indices for the brightest radio sources were derived from the observations at 3, 6, and 20 cm using the ATCA. Seven of detected sources can be assigned to YSOs, which have counterparts in the X-rays, infrared or submm. One of the YSOs, Radio Source 9, is a Class 0 candidate, and another, IRS 7B, is suggested to be in the Class 0/I transition stage. IRS 7B is associated with extended radio lobes at 6 and 20 cm. The lobes may have a gyrosynchrotron emission component, which could be understood in terms of Fermi accleration in shocks. The Class I objects detected here seem to be a mixed lot. One of these, the wide binary IRS 5, shows a negative spectral index, rapid variability, and a high degree of circular polarisation with $V/I\approx33$ % on one of the days of observation. These signs of magnetic activity suggest that at least one of the binary components has advanced beyond the Class I stage. The radio source without YSO assigment, Radio Source 5, has been suggested to be a brown dwarf. The radio properties, in particular its persistent strong emission, do not support this classification. The radio characteristics of the detected YSOs roughly agree with the scheme where the dominant emission mechanism changes with age. The heterogeneity of the Class I group can possibly be explained by a drastic decline in the jet activity during this stage, which also changes the efficiency of free-free absorption around the protostar.
description: Accepted for publication in A&A (8 pages, 4 figures, 4 tables)
Collection, in vitro multiplication and restoration of endangered native banana cv. Amrutapani (AAB)
Creators: name: K.Ravindra Kumar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Native banana, male flower bud, tissue culture, plant material, tribal zone

description: Banana cv. Amrutapani (AAB) (IC250667) was a most popular, choicest and premium banana genotype in Andhra Pradesh owing to its peculiar flavour and taste. At present, this variety is vanished from regular cultivation as devastated by panama wilt caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense. Now, this niche cultivar was rare, endangered and only few plants available in the back yards of 4-5 tribal families located in the hilly areas of Kondavada forest zone (17.63” N 81.73” E, 513 MSL), which forms part of the Eastern Ghats. To conserve the genotype, explored the area, tally with the minimal descriptors and collected the male flower buds from the 8 bearing plants out of 29 plants available in the back yards. Healthy suckers were not available due to ill health of plants. The male flower buds were pre treated with 0.1% Carbandazim and surface sterilized with 0.1% HgCl2 under the laminar air hood. Outer bracts along with male flowers were peeled layer by layer and excised male flower hands of 10 - 20 mm size. The explants were cultured on previously standardized media for Poovan (Karpura Chakkera Keli) (AAB) genotype i.e. modified MS media for supplemented with 6.0 mg L-1 BAP + 25 mg L-1 Ads + 50 mg L-1 Ascorbic acid + 30 g sucrose solidified with 7.5 g L-1 agar. After 38 days of culture initiation, out of 60 male hands cultured, 48 hands produced cauliflower like bodies (80% CLBs) and recorded 100% shoot regeneration from these CLBs. From each male flower bud 15.8 shoots were obtained and these micro-shoots will be transferred for multiplication, rooting and hardening. Upon successful multiplication, these plants will be restored in the tribal villages of Eastern Ghats as there is no threat for fusarium wilt in that particular geographical area. As of now, panama wilt was not reported in these hilly areas might be due to acidic nature of soils and no commercial cultivation of banana in earlier days. In future, ample scope is there to restore this genotype for the regular commercial cultivation with the advent of recent biological management of banana fusarium wilt using antagonistic fungal isolate Trichoderma reesei technology developed by ICAR. Safeguarding the future of this precious native banana will also greatly improve the livelihood security of the tribal population.
Strong coupling constants of charmed and bottom mesons with light vector mesons in QCD sum rules
Creators: name: Aliev, T. M.
name: Şimşek, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We estimate the strong coupling constants of charmed and bottom mesons $ D_{(s)}^* $, $ D_{(s)1} $, $ B_{(s)}^* $, and $ B_{(s)1} $ with light vector mesons $ ρ$, $ ω$, $ K^* $, and $ ϕ$ within the framework of light-cone QCD sum rules. We compare our estimations to the ones predicted by other approaches.
description: 18 pages, 2 figures v2: 19 pages, 2 figures, added more references