cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Rings with a polynomial identity
Creators: name: Bridger, Lawrence Ernest
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Since Kaplansky's first paper on the subject of P.I. rings appeared in 1948, many fruitful results have arisen from the study of such rings. This thesis attempts to present the most important of these results in a unified theory. Chapter I gives the basic notation, definitions, a number of small lemmas together with Kaplansky's incisive result on primitive P.I. rings. We investigate also the Kurosh problem for P.I. rings, providing for such rings an affirmative answer. A rather nice universal property for P.I. rings which ensures that all P.I. rings satisfy some power of the standard identity is proved. Chapter II deals with particular types of rings such as rings without zero divisors and prime rings and culminates in a pair of pretty results due to Posner and Procesi. We show that prime P.I. rings have a rather tight structure theory and in fact the restrictions on the underlying set of coefficients can in this case be relaxed to a very great extent. Chapter III is exclusively devoted to P.I. rings with involution. Although such rings are rather specialized much has been accomplished in this direction in recent years and many beautiful theorems and proofs have been established, especially by Amitsur and Martindale. The source material for chapter IV is primarily Procesi and Amitsur's work on Jacobson rings and Hilbert algebras. Application to Hilbert's Nullstellensatz and to the Burnside problem are considered. Finally, chapter V concerns itself completely with generalizations of the preceding four chapters. For the most part these results do not generalize entirely, but by reducing our demand on polynomial identities slightly, many remarkably fine results have been proved.
Finite Temperature Field Theory on the Moyal Plane
Creators: name: Akofor, E.
name: Balachandran, A. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we initiate the study of finite temperature quantum field theories (QFT's) on the Moyal plane. Such theories violate causality which influences the properties of these theories. In particular, causality influences the fluctuation-dissipation theorem: as we show, a disturbance in a space-time region $M_1$ creates a response in a space-time region $M_2$ space-like with respect to $M_1$ ($M_1\times M_2$). The relativistic Kubo formula with and without noncommutativity is discussed in detail, and the modified properties of relaxation time and the dependence of mean square fluctuations on time are derived. In particular, the Sinha-Sorkin result \cite{sorkin-sinha} on the logarithmic time dependence of the mean square fluctuations is discussed in our context. We derive an exact formula for the noncommutative susceptibility in terms of the susceptibility for the corresponding commutative case. It shows that noncommutative corrections in the four-momentum space have remarkable periodicity properties as a function of the four-momentum $k$. They have direction dependence as well and vanish for certain directions of the spatial momentum. These are striking observable signals for noncommutativity. The Lehmann representation is also generalized to any value of the noncommutativity parameter $θ^{μν}$ and finite temperatures.
description: 25 pages, 0 figures
Towards a three dimensional solution for 3N bound states with 3NFs
Creators: name: Hadizadeh, M. R.
name: Bayegan, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: After a brief discussion about the necessity of using the 3D approach, we present the non PW formalism for 3N bound state with the inclusion of 3N force (3NF). As an example the evaluation of 3NF matrix elements, which appear in the obtained coupled three dimensional integral equations, for $2π$-exchange Tucson-Melbourne 3NF show how would be this formalism efficient and less cumbersome in comparison with the PW formalism.
description: 8 pages, this paper is based on an invited talk given at the Fourth Asia-Pacific Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics 2008, Depok, Indonesia, August 19 - 23, 2008
title: The Effect of Oven Temperature, Cooking Method, and Breed on the Tenderness, Juiciness, and Flavor of Beef
Creators: name: Stembridge, Carma B.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1968

description: The effect of oven temperature, dry-roasting, and breed on the eating quality of beef was determined by sensory and objective methods. Two adjacent standing rib and two adjacent chuck roasts of prime, choice, and good grades from animals of Hereford, Shorthorn, and Charolais breeding were dry-roasted. Control roasts (9-12th ribs) were cooked at 325 F. Experimental roasts (6-8th rib and two chucks) were assigned an oven temperature of 325 or 250 F at random. All roasts were allowed to reach ah internal temperature of 155 F as recorded on a potentiometer.
Tenderness, as determined by a Warner-Bratzler shear, was greater in roasts cooked in the 325 F oven. The amount of press fluid and the percentage of total cooking loss due to drip was greater in the 325 F oven.
The panel of judges preferred the flavor of meat which was dry roasted to that cooked by a moist heat method.
An effect of breed on eating quality was shown: meat from animals of Charolais breeding rated highest by the taste panel for tenderness, juiciness, and flavor. One group of samples from a Shorthorn sire was consistently low in the three factors scored.
There was a high correlation between objective and sensory methods of evaluation for tenderness and juiciness. Correlations were high between the taste panel scores for tenderness and flavor and also for juiciness and flavor. Flavor and backfat thickness were shown to be closely related.
Additional file 1 of Developing an assessment scale for long-term care reablement literacy in home care workers in Taiwan using a modified Delphi method
Creators: name: Yu, Hsiao-Wei
name: Chiu, Tzu-Ying
name: Chen, Pin-Yuan
name: Liao, Tai-Hsiang
name: Chang, Wen-Hui
name: Wang, Mei-Wen
name: Lin, Pay-Shin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Appendix. Complete list of categories and competencies with the final Likert score on the three-round Delphi.
Rejection sensitivity and social anxiety among university students in Yemen
Creators: name: M. Taresh, Sahar
name: Zaid, Sumaia Mohammed
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 520501
subject: Community psychology
classificationCode: 520505
subject: Social psychology
classificationCode: 520599
subject: Social and personality psychology not elsewhere classified

description: AbstractPeople readiness to recognize and react to rejection can vary, those who detect purposeful rejection in slight or even imagined insensitivity of others react in a way that disturb themselves and others. This study examined the association between rejection sensitivity and social anxiety among Yemeni adults. Correlational design was utilized in this study, and data was collected from 339 Yemeni university students (99 males and 239 females). Almost 34% of the sample exhibited a high level of rejection sensitivity (RS); whereas 69% reported a low level of social anxiety (SA). There was no significant difference between males and females in RS level, however, females reported a higher level of social anxiety compared to males. Moreover, SR and SA were significantly and positively correlated though the correlation was low. Future studies need to confirm the strength of the relationship between RS and RA among university students.
title: Effects of Water Hardness on Processed Quality of Carrots, Sweet Cherries, and Apricots
Creators: name: Chiang, Jack C.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1970

description: The Honey Sweet carrots were canned with Ethyienediamine tetracetic acid (CaNa 2 EDTA) and Sodium hexametaphosphate (Ha-HMP) at five different water hardness (0 , 20, 40, 80, 160 ppm of calcium and 20 of magnesium) , then stored at temperatures of 70 and 100 F. Evaluations were made at sixty-day i intervals for six months. Firmness and color degradation decreased significantly when water hardness or storage time increased. Under storage at 100 F and 0 hardness of water, the decrease of color and firmness was constantly accelerated. When hard water (above 80 ppm or below 40 ppm) was used for canning Van sweet cherries and Large Early Montgament apricots, the firmness , volatile reducing substances, and pH decreased. Sensory acceptability was maximum at 40 and 80 ppm. However, when either CaNa 2 EDTA or Na-HMP was used at the 500 ppm, it was found that they counteracted the effects of hard water and the quality of canned sweet cherries and apricots improved, when compared with control.
An "archaeological" quest for galactic supernova neutrinos
Creators: name: Lazauskas, Rimantas
name: Lunardini, Cecilia
name: Volpe, Cristina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the possibility to observe the effects of electron neutrinos from past galactic supernovae, through a geochemical measurement of the amount of Technetium 97 produced by neutrino-induced reactions in a Molybdenum ore. The calculations we present take into account the recent advances in our knowledge of neutrino interactions, of neutrino oscillations inside a supernova, of the solar neutrino flux at Earth and of possible failed supernovae. The predicted Technetium 97 abundance is of the order of 10^7 atoms per 10 kilotons of ore, which is close to the current geochemical experimental sensitivity. Of this, 10-20% is from supernovae. Considering the comparable size of uncertainties, more precision in the modeling of neutrino fluxes as well as of neutrino cross sections is required for a meaningful measurement.
description: PDFLateX, 22 pages, 2 Tables, 6 figures
Findings PHZH & UNICEF-Workshop, Flip-Charts
Creators: name: Turkawka, Gregory
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: SDG 4
Teacher Education
Education
UNICEF

description: Handwritten findings on flip-charts. Written down at the meeting of a UNICEF delegation and team members of International Projects in Education IPE, Continuing Education and Consultancy and Digital Learning at Zurich University of Teacher Education end of March 2019
Representation of additive and biadditive nonlinear functionals
Creators: name: Aulakh, Pritam Singh
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: In this thesis we are concerned with obtaining an integral representation of a class of nonlinear additive and biadditive functionals on function spaces of measurable functions and on L[superscript] p-spaces, p > 0 . The associated measure space is essentially atom-free finite and o-finite. Also we are concerned to the extend the presence of atoms in a measure space complicates the representation theory for functionals of the type under consideration here. A class of nonlinear transformations on L[superscript] p-spaces, 1 ≤ p ≤ ∞, called Urysohn operators. [11] taking measurable functions to measurable functions is studied and we describe an integral representation for this class when the associated measure space is an arbitrary 0-finite measure space and this characterization extends our previous results where the measure space considered was atom-free.
Emergent Electroweak Symmetry Breaking with Composite W, Z Bosons
Creators: name: Cui, Yanou
name: Gherghetta, Tony
name: Wells, James D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a model of electroweak symmetry breaking in a warped extra dimension where electroweak symmetry is broken at the UV (or Planck) scale. An underlying conformal symmetry is broken at the IR (or TeV) scale generating masses for the electroweak gauge bosons without invoking a Higgs mechanism. By the AdS/CFT correspondence the W,Z bosons are identified as composite states of a strongly-coupled gauge theory, suggesting that electroweak symmetry breaking is an emergent phenomenon at the IR scale. The model satisfies electroweak precision tests with reasonable fits to the S and T parameter. In particular the T parameter is sufficiently suppressed since the model naturally admits a custodial SU(2) symmetry. The composite nature of the W,Z-bosons provide a novel possibility of unitarizing WW scattering via form factor suppression. Constraints from LEP and the Tevatron as well as discovery opportunities at the LHC are discussed for these composite electroweak gauge bosons.
description: 39 pages, 4 figures
title: Development of a Whey-Based Lactic Culture Medium Capable of Bacteriophage Inhibition
Creators: name: Cheng, Chao Tung
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1970

description: A whey product has been formulated for use as a lactic starter medium. Phosphate-treated whey medium (PWM) has been shown to support growth of lactic cultures and prevent phage proliferation. Comparisons were made of a commercial phage inhibitory medium (PIM), reconstituted non-fat dry milk (NDM) and PWM. PWM inhibited all phages tested and stimulated starter growth. PWM was not as stimulating as PIM but was better than NDM. Good Cheddar cheese has been made using PWM. PWM is more economical than PIM but NDM is the most economical one if cheese yield is considered.
A simultaneous generalization of independence and disjointness in boolean algebras
Creators: name: Bruns, Corey Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 03G05, 03E17

description: We give a definition of some classes of boolean algebras generalizing free boolean algebras; they satisfy a universal property that certain functions extend to homomorphisms. We give a combinatorial property of generating sets of these algebras, which we call n-independent. The properties of these classes (n-free and omega-free boolean algebras) are investigated. These include connections to hypergraph theory and cardinal invariants on these algebras. Related cardinal functions, $n$Ind, which is the supremum of the cardinalities of n-independent subsets; i_n, the minimum size of a maximal n-independent subset; and i_omega, the minimum size of an omega-independent subset, are introduced and investigated. The values of i_n and i_omega on P(omega)/fin are shown to be independent of ZFC.
description: Sumbitted to Order
Phase transitions and gaps in quantum random energy models
Creators: name: Presilla, Carlo
name: Ostilli, Massimo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By using a previously established exact characterization of the ground state of random potential systems in the thermodynamic limit, we determine the ground and first excited energy levels of quantum random energy models, discrete and continuous. We rigorously establish the existence of a universal first order quantum phase transition, obeyed by both the ground and the first excited states. The presence of an exponentially vanishing minimal gap at the transition is general but, quite interestingly, the gap averaged over the realizations of the random potential is finite. This fact leaves still open the chance for some effective quantum annealing algorithm, not necessarily based on a quantum adiabatic scheme.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures
"Way back then": A Data-driven View of 25+ years of Web Evolution
Creators: name: Agarwal, Vibhor
name: Sastry, Nishanth
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Since the inception of the first web page three decades back, the Web has evolved considerably, from static HTML pages in the beginning to the dynamic web pages of today, from mainly the text-based pages of the 1990s to today's multimedia rich pages, etc. Although much of this is known anecdotally, to our knowledge, there is no quantitative documentation of the extent and timing of these changes. This paper attempts to address this gap in the literature by looking at the top 100 Alexa websites for over 25 years from the Internet Archive or the "Wayback Machine", archive.org. We study the changes in popularity, from Geocities and Yahoo! in the mid-to-late 1990s to the likes of Google, Facebook, and Tiktok of today. We also look at different categories of websites and their popularity over the years and find evidence for the decline in popularity of news and education-related websites, which have been replaced by streaming media and social networking sites. We explore the emergence and relative prevalence of different MIME-types (text vs. image vs. video vs. javascript and json) and study whether the use of text on the Internet is declining.
description: To appear at The ACM Web Conference 2022
Discovering the Growth Histories of Exoplanets: The Saturn Analog HD 149026b
Creators: name: Dodson-Robinson, Sarah E.
name: Bodenheimer, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The transiting "hot Saturn" HD 149026b, which has the highest mean density of any confirmed planet in the Neptune-Jupiter mass range, has challenged theories of planet formation since its discovery in 2005. Previous investigations could not explain the origin of the planet's 45-110 Earth-mass solid core without invoking catastrophes such as gas giant collisions or heavy planetesimal bombardment launched by neighboring planets. Here we show that HD 149026b's large core can be successfully explained by the standard core accretion theory of planet formation. The keys to our reconstruction of HD 149026b are (1) applying a model of the solar nebula to describe the protoplanet nursery; (2) placing the planet initially on a long-period orbit at Saturn's heliocentric distance of 9.5 AU; and (3) adjusting the solid mass in the HD 149026 disk to twice that of the solar nebula in accordance with the star's heavy element enrichment. We show that the planet's migration into its current orbit at 0.042 AU is consistent with our formation model. Our study of HD 149026b demonstrates that it is possible to discover the growth history of any planet with a well-defined core mass that orbits a solar-type star.
description: 20 pages, including 3 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ letters. Discussion updated to include new NICMOS transit photometry (Carter et al. 2009)
Parity conditions, currency forward market efficiency and risk premium : Australian evidence
Creators: name: Leong, SuSan
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The objective of this thesis is to undertake an empirical investigation of three wellknown exchange rate relationships, namely, covered interest parity (CIP), uncovered interest parity (UIP) and forward market efficiency (FME), using daily data as it applied to the Australian and US economies over the period 2 December 1985-29 December 2000. Due to the issue of non-stationary of the regression variables, ordinary least squares (OLS) results are corrected according to West (1988)'s procedures and two new estimation techniques ‚ÄövÑvÆ fully modified ordinary least squares (FM-OLS) developed by Phillips and Hansen (1990) and fully modified least absolute deviation (FM-LAD) by Phillips (1995) ‚ÄövÑvÆ are introduced and utilised. Modified versions of the UIP and FME models are also developed to incorporate a time-varying risk premium to rationalise the rejections of the UIP and FME in their original forms. Estimation of these modified UIP and FME models is conducted in the context of three types of generalised-auto-regressive-conditional-heteroskedasticityin-mean (GARCH-M) processes. An attempt is also made to investigate the effects of monetary policy actions not necessarily targeted at the exchange rate on the conditional volatility of the spot exchange rate, that is, the time-varying risk premium by including the monetary policy target (the overnight cash rate) in these models. While both the full sample (2 December 1985 ‚ÄövÑvÆ 29 December 2000) and the subsample (2 December 1985 ‚ÄövÑvÆ 31 December 1991 and 2 January 1992 ‚ÄövÑvÆ 29 December 2000) analysis reveal evidence supporting OP over the period December 1985 ‚ÄövÑvÆ December 2000, the UIP and FME conditions are only found to hold in the 90-day market over the period 2 January 1992 ‚ÄövÑvÆ 29 December 2000. The results of the subsample analysis reveal no conclusive evidence to support the notion of a time-varying risk premium over the period 2 December 1985 ‚ÄövÑvÆ 31 December 1991 leading to rejections of both the HIP and FME models in the 90-day market. However, when the cash rate is included, the presence of a time-varying risk premium is supported in that market, suggesting that the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA)'s monetary policy plays an important role in influencing the volatility of exchange rates.
Generalised linear mixed model analysis via sequential Monte Carlo sampling
Creators: name: Fan, Y.
name: Leslie, D. S.
name: Wand, M. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present a sequential Monte Carlo sampler algorithm for the Bayesian analysis of generalised linear mixed models (GLMMs). These models support a variety of interesting regression-type analyses, but performing inference is often extremely difficult, even when using the Bayesian approach combined with Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). The Sequential Monte Carlo sampler (SMC) is a new and general method for producing samples from posterior distributions. In this article we demonstrate use of the SMC method for performing inference for GLMMs. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the method on both simulated and real data, and find that sequential Monte Carlo is a competitive alternative to the available MCMC techniques.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/07-EJS158 the Electronic Journal of Statistics (http://www.i-journals.org/ejs/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Time energy budget of the New Holland honeyeater Phylidonyris novaehollandiae (Aves: Meliphagidae) near Hobart, Tasmania
Creators: name: Kusuma Yuni, Dra. Luh Putu Eswaryanti
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The New Holland honeyeater Phylidonyris novaehollandiae is a member of the family Meliphagidae, which is one of Australia's dominant passerine families (Ford and Paton, 1977). Many siu-dies have been conducted on this species in mainland Australia (e.g. Paton, 1981; 1982; McFarland, 1986) but there is much less data from Tasmania. This study was conducted near Hobart, Tasmania (S 42¬¨‚àû 54' 10\ E 147¬¨‚àû 19' 26\" average 50 m a.s.1). The site consisted of two adjacent habitats one was dry sclerophyll forest and the other a modified man-made habitat. The first stage of this study was the determination of time budgets. The activities of the New Holland honeyeater were found to be significantly different both seasonally and diurnally. The time proportion for foraging exceeded the time proportion for other activities throughout the year. The study also found that the major diet of this bird was nectar in all seasons of the year while other non-nectar carbohydrate sources such as manna lerp or honeydew were found to be less important in this study. The bird also spent a small proportion of their foraging time to feed on insects to satisfy their protein requiremeni's. . During the study on time budget activity observations on various aspects of the breeding of the New Holland honeyeater were also conducted. The birds in this study had a lengthy breeding season from early winter to mid-summer. The birds were multi-brooded and the mean clutch 'size was 2.14 ¬¨¬±. 'S .E 0.13. The parental roles and nesting activity observed were similar to the earlier studies in mainland Australia. The second stage involved measurement of the basal metabolic rate. This was found to be higher (5.12 ¬¨¬± 0.14 ml g-1hr-1 ) than in the same species from mainland Australia probably because the colder climate in Tasmania is more energetically demanding therefore the birds enhance their thermogenesis with an increased basal metabolic rate. The basal metabolic rate did not vary seasonally perhaps because the birds reside in a temperate climate and are prepared for the stress of changing seasons by making physiological and behavioural adaptations that allow the birds to survive throughout the year in Hobart Tasmania. The third section deals with the time energy budget of the New Holland honeyeater. The time energy budget did not vary seasonally (153.95 -1- 4.5 in spring 134.00 ¬¨¬± 7.5 in summer 130.10 -¬¨¬± 10.7 in autumn and 123.00 1- 7.5 in winter) as the bird balance the time and energy allocation for their activities in facing the varying energy demands of their annual cycle."
Nuclear Data to Reduce Uncertainties in Reactor Antineutrino Measurements: Summary Report of the Workshop on Nuclear Data for Reactor Antineutrino Measurements (WoNDRAM)
Creators: name: Romano, Catherine
name: Bowden, Nathaniel
name: Conant, Andrew
name: Goldblum, Bethany
name: Huber, Patrick
name: Link, Jonathan
name: Littlejohn, Bryce
name: Mumm, Pieter
name: Ochoa-Ricoux, Juan Pedro
name: Prasad, Shikha
name: Riddle, Catherine
name: Sonzogni, Alejandro
name: Wieselquist, William
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The large quantities of antineutrinos produced through the decay of fission fragments in nuclear reactors provide an opportunity to study the properties of these particles and investigate their use in reactor monitoring. The reactor antineutrino spectra are measured using specialized, large area detectors that detect antineutrinos through inverse beta decay, electron elastic scattering, or coherent elastic neutrino nucleus scattering; although, inverse beta decay is the only demonstrated method so far. Reactor monitoring takes advantage of the differences in the antineutrino yield and spectra resulting from uranium and plutonium fission providing an opportunity to estimate the fissile material composition in the reactor. Recent experiments reveal a deviation between the measured and calculated antineutrino flux and spectra indicating either the existence of yet undiscovered neutrino physics, uncertainties in the reactor source term calculation, incorrect nuclear data, or a combination of all three. To address the nuclear data that impact the antineutrino spectrum calculations and measurements, an international group of over 180 experts in antineutrino physics, reactor analysis, detector development, and nuclear data came together during the Workshop on Nuclear Data for Reactor Antineutrino Measurements (WoNDRAM) to discuss nuclear data needs and achieve concordance on a set of recommended priorities for nuclear data improvements. Three topical sessions provided a forum to gain consensus amongst the participants on the most important data improvements to address two goals: 1) understand the reactor anomaly and 2) improve the ability to monitor reactors using antineutrinos. This report summarizes the outcomes of the workshop discussions and the recommendations for nuclear data efforts that reduce reactor antineutrino measurement uncertainties.
description: 26 pages
Globular Cluster System erosion in elliptical galaxies
Creators: name: Capuzzo-Dolcetta, Roberto
name: Mastrobuono-Battisti, Alessandra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we analyze data of 8 elliptical galaxies in order to study the difference between their globular cluster systems (GCSs) radial distributions and those of the galactic stellar component. In all the galaxies studied here the globular cluster system density profile is significantly flatter toward the galactic centre than that of stars. If this difference is interpreted as a depauperation of the initial GC population, the estimated number of missing globular clusters is significant, ranging from 21% to 71% of their initial population abundance in the eight galaxies examined. The corresponding mass lost to the central galactic region is 7x10^7-1.85x10^9 solar masses. All this mass carried toward central galactic regions have likely had an important feedback on the innermost galactic region, including its violent transient activity (AGN) and local massive black hole formation and growth.
description: 12 page paper submitted to A&A
title: The Effects of Sources and Levels of Vitamin A and D on Some Aspects of Sulfur Metabolism
Creators: name: Malekpour, Akbar
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1970

description: Two trials were conducted using 48 infant pigs of both sexes. Pigs were taken from the sow when three to seven days old and placed in wire-bottomed metal cages by pairs. Animals in the first trial received synthetic diets containing 100 or 1000 international units of ergocalciferol and 1000 or 4000 international units of retinyl acetate or four or sixteen milligrams of beta carotene per kilogram of feed. Baby pigs in the second trial received the same synthetic diet plus 1000 international units of ergocalciferol (D2) or cholecalciferol (D3) and 2000 international units of vitamin A or eight milligrams of beta carotene per kilogram of feed.
Neither growth nor feed efficiency were influenced by diet, but in Trial II, pigs receiving vitamin D2 showed higher gains per kilogram of diet than pigs fed vitamin D3.
The weight and density of ribs and femurs did not show any differences due to diet. Different sources and levels of vitamins A and D did not effect strength characteristics of femurs. However, trends indicated 1000 IU of vitamin D in Trial I and vitamin D2 in Trial II slightly increased the bone ash in comparison with beta carotene and in Trial II retinyl acetate with vitamin D2 resulted in the maximum amount of mineral deposition in bone. Liver as a percent of body weight was higher in pigs treated with beta carotene than in those fed retinyl acetate either with vitamin D2 or D3.
Serum total sulfur was increased in pigs receiving vitamin D3 in Trial II. Inorganic sulfur in Trial I was lowered significantly by high levels of vitamin D and either low beta carotene, low retinyl acetate, or high beta carotene.
There were not significant effects of level and source of vitamin A or D on uronic acid or total sulfur concentration in cartilage. However, on the high level of dietary vitamin D, uronic acid in cartilage was slightly increased (Trial I). Trends indicated that beta carotene increased and high levels of vitamin D lowered total sulfur in cartilage (Trial I).
Occupation times of subcritical branching immigration systems with Markov motion, clt and deviations principles
Creators: name: Milos, Piotr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60F17, 60G20

description: In this paper we consider two related stochastic models. The first one is a branching system consisting of particles moving according to a Markov family in R^d and undergoing subcritical branching with a constant rate of V>0. New particles immigrate to the system according to a homogeneous space time Poisson random field. The second model is the superprocess corresponding to the branching particle system. We study rescaled occupation time process and the process of its fluctuations with very mild assumptions on the Markov family. In the general setting a functional central limit theorem as well as large and moderate deviations principles are proved. The subcriticality of the branching law determines the behaviour in large time scales and in "overwhelms" the properties of the particles' motion. For this reason the results are the same for all dimensions and can be obtained for a wide class of Markov processes (both properties are unusual for systems with critical branching).
A Triplet Resonance in Superconducting FeSe0.4Te0.6
Creators: name: Bao, Wei
name: Savici, A. T.
name: Granroth, G. E.
name: Broholm, C.
name: Habicht, K.
name: Qiu, Y.
name: Hu, Jin
name: Liu, Tijiang
name: Mao, Z. Q.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: From heavy fermions to cuprates and iron pnictides, a spin resonance is a staple of nearly magnetic superconductors. Possible explanations include a two-particle bound state or loss of magnon damping in the superconductor. While both scenarios suggest a central role for magnetic fluctuations, distinguishing them is important to identify the right theoretical framework and to guide the search for higher temperature superconductors. Using inelastic neutron scattering technique, we show that the spin resonance in optimally doped Fe(Se,Te) splits into three peaks in a high magnetic field, a signature of a two-particle triplet bound state
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Fixed point theorems for point-to-set mappings
Creators: name: Ko, Hwei-Mei
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Let f be a point-to-set mapping from a topological X space X into the family 2(X) of nonempty closed subsets of X . K. Fan [13] proved that if X is a Hausdorff locally convex linear topological space and K is a nonempty compact convex subset of X , then an upper semicontinuous mapping (abbreviated by u.s.c.) f from K into k(K), the family of nonempty closed convex subsets of K, has a fixed point in K . Our main object in this work is to weaken "compactness" of K to "weak compactness" and prove a fixed point theorem for a mapping f on K into certain subfamily of 2(K). The definition of convex function has been extended to point-to-set mappings in Chapter I. Let I denote the identity mapping on a Banach space X. Assume that I-f is a convex mapping on a weakly compact closed convex subset K of X. Then any of the following conditions implies the existence of the fixed point of f on K: (1) f : K → 2(K) is u.s.c. and [formula omitted] d(x,f(x)) = 0. (2) f : K → 2(K) is u.s.c. and is asymptotically regular (see definition 1.3) at some point in K . (3) f : K → cc(K) is nonexpansive and the Banach space X has a strictly convex norm. Moreover, it has been shown that if f : K → cpt(K) (see definition 0.3) is nonexpansive and I-f is strictly convex (see definition 1.5) on K, then K has a fixed point on K . Finally, an effort has been made to investigate the properties of the set of fixed points of a point-to-set mappings. In Chapter II, we have confined ourselves to a reflexive Banach space X which has a weakly continuous duality map J (see definition 2.3) and X has a strictly convex norm. On such a special space we are able to prove that a nonexpansive mapping f : X → cc(X) such that f(x)ʗ K, for any x in a closed convex bounded subset K of X , has a fixed point. As an application of this result we prove a fixed point theorem for semicontractive mappings (see definition 2.7). F : X → cc(X) such that F(x)ʗK for any x ε K , where K and X are the same as above. . In the last Chapter, we have proved that if f is strictly nonexpansive on a.Banach space X into cpt(X) and if there is x(o) ε X such that [formula omitted] has a subsequence convergent to a set A ε cpt(X) under the Hausdorff metric D on cpt(X), then f has a fixed point in A . Furthermore we prove that a nonexpansive mapping f : K → cpt(K), where K is a weakly compact convex subset of a metrizable locally convex linear topological space X, has a fixed point in K, provided that a constant k > 0 exists such that the set E(x) = {y ε K ; d(x,y) ≥ kd(y,f(y))} is nonempty and convex and the mapping E : K → k(K), with E(x) defined above, is weakly locally closed (see definition 3.1). Finally the comparisons of the continuities of a point-to-set mapping have been made.
title: Comparative Effects of Dehydration Processes on Physico-Chemical Changes in Fruits
Creators: name: Lee, Chang Yong
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1967

description: Drying with the help of sun and wind is one of the oldest methods of food preservation known to man, but artificial drying, or dehydration, has been developed and used extensively only during the last two decades. The problem in dehydration is that the water content must be decreased sufficiently to maintain the stability of the product by retarding the rates of deteriorative biochemical, microbiological, and enzymatic reactions during subsequent storage. At the same time irreversible changes should not be brought about.
Ghost imaging without beam splitter
Creators: name: He, Shibei
name: Shen, Xia
name: Wang, Hui
name: Gong, Wenlin
name: Han, Shengsheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Many significant results have been achieved in the fields of ghost imaging, in which the beam splitter is an indispensable optical component. This paper introduces a method to realize ghost imaging without beam splitter. And we study this method experimentally and theoretically. Finally, we suggest that our device can be applied to implement the ghost imaging when we use the Sun light as the light source.
Genetic improvement of the wood properties of Eucalyptus nitens : breeding to improve solid wood and pulp properties
Creators: name: Kube, Peter Denis
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Eucalyptus nitens is a hardwood plantation species used in cool-temperate regions of the world. It is mainly used for pulp and paper, although there is increasing interest in using this species for producing high quality appearance and structural timber products. Therefore breeding programs need to consider the requirements of different markets and breed for a variety of end-uses. The aim of this thesis is to study the genetic control of E. nitens wood properties. The focus is on three different product groupings which are pulp and paper, appearance grade timber, and structural grade timber. Pulp and paper traits studied were wood density, cellulose content, fibre length and fibre coarseness; appearance grade timber traits were collapse, checking and decay; and structural grade timber traits were stiffness and microfibril angle. Genetic parameters and potential genetic gains were estimated using data from 12 year old E. nitens progeny trials grown on three sites. Wood properties were sampled using 12 mm cores taken at a height of approximately 1 metre. Relationships between whole tree wood density and core wood density, and whole tree pulp yield and core cellulose content were investigated. For both traits core samples were good predictors of whole tree values. Methods were developed to assess wood collapse and decay using wood cores. All wood properties except fibre coarseness had significant genetic variation, with heritabilities ranging from 0.38 to 0.56. The heritability for stem diameter was 0.39. Genetic correlations between traits were mostly significant and reasonably high. Adverse correlations occurred between diameter and density, diameter and collapse, diameter and stiffness, and between density and cellulose. Favourable correlations occurred between diameter and cellulose, density and collapse and between density and stiffness. Genotype by environment interactions were sometimes present but were always small. Genetic selection can significantly improve the quality of wood produced for pulp and paper, appearance grade timber and structural grade timber. Of particular importance are the potential gains in collapse (or checking) and stiffness, where genetic selection can potentially lift the quality grades of appearance and structural products. Selecting a deployment population for high decay resistance may minimise the risk of value loss on sites known to have severe decay problems. Breeding goals for all product groupings are reasonably well correlated and improved product quality can be achieved in all product groupings without the need for specialised breeds. Selecting for wood density, as well as growth rate, is a minimum requirement if high grades of timber are to be produced.
Supplemental materials — Musical hydropoetics
Creators: name: Astorga de Ita, Diego
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 190409 Musicology and Ethnomusicology
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)
subject: 160403 Social and Cultural Geography
subject: FOS: Social and economic geography
subject: Geography
subject: 160499 Human Geography not elsewhere classified

description: Transcription of the figures of "El Siquisirí" (Laguna Prieta) from Fidel Morteo and Antonio Mulato, as remembered by Ramón Guitérrez Hernández.
A comparative analysis of the press coverage of the whaling conflict in Australia and Japan in 2005-2006
Creators: name: Kudo, M
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: This study aims to shed light on the differences in the way in which an environmental issue is represented by the news media in Western and non-Western society. It also examines the degree to which the previous theories of media and environment, which have been primarily based on examination of domestic news coverage of environmental issues in Western society, can account for these differences. It employs a case study approach, which comparatively examines news texts of the whaling conflict drawn from three Australian newspapers and two Japanese newspapers. The tension between these two nations dramatically increased in 2005-2006 in the wake of Japan's decision to more than double the quota of its research whaling in the Southern Ocean, and the case study is designed to analyse the newspaper articles published during this period. The method employed in this study combines quantitative and qualitative analysis techniques to investigate four aspects of press coverage of the whaling conflict: fluctuation in the number of articles; diversity of quoted news sources; the articles' coverage of the positions put by the Australian and Japanese governments; and differences in the way in which the newspapers' views of the whaling conflict were reflected in their news reporting. The analyses of the quantitative aspects of the news texts show that Australian newspapers carried more information about the conflict than Japanese newspapers, and they gave a similar amount of coverage to the official positions of Australia and Japan, unlike Japanese papers whose coverage mainly reiterated the arguments presented by the Japanese Government. The qualitative discourse analysis demonstrates that while the suspicion of Australian newspapers and their nation's political elites about Japan's whaling policy was noticeably reflected in the news reports, Japanese newspapers did not show their scepticism of the anti-whaling nations' positions in their news reports in an explicit way. The study shows how some theories of environment and media fail to give a thorough explanation of the differences in press coverage of the whaling conflict - not only the differences between Australian and Japanese papers but also the differences among the newspapers in the same nation. This suggests that the interaction of internal and external factors concerning news production, such as news culture, social perception of the issues and news companies' views on the issues, which in combination generate the diversity in news coverage of environmental issues, is more complex than commonly understood.
Estimating the multivariate extremal index function
Creators: name: Robert, Christian Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The multivariate extremal index function relates the asymptotic distribution of the vector of pointwise maxima of a multivariate stationary sequence to that of the independent sequence from the same stationary distribution. It also measures the degree of clustering of extremes in the multivariate process. In this paper, we construct nonparametric estimators of this function and prove their asymptotic normality under long-range dependence and moment conditions. The results are illustrated by means of a simulation study.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.3150/08-BEJ145 the Bernoulli (http://isi.cbs.nl/bernoulli/) by the International Statistical Institute/Bernoulli Society (http://isi.cbs.nl/BS/bshome.htm)
Quantum vacuum effects from boundaries of designer potentials
Creators: name: Konopka, Tomasz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Vacuum energy in quantum field theory, being the sum of zero-point energies of all field modes, is formally infinite but yet, after regularization or renormalization, can give rise to finite observable effects. One way of understanding how these effects arise is to compute the vacuum energy in an idealized system such as a large cavity divided into disjoint regions by pistons. In this paper, this type of calculation is carried out for situations where the potential affecting a field is not the same in all regions of the cavity. It is shown that the observable parts of the vacuum energy in such potentials do not fall off to zero as the region where the potential is nontrivial becomes large. This unusual behavior might be interesting for tests involving quantum vacuum effects and for studies on the relation between vacuum energy in quantum field theory and geometry.
description: 13 pages, 2 figures
title: The Effect of Heat Treatment of Fresh Frozen Vells on Rennin Extractability
Creators: name: Holm, LeEsther Mifflin
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1972

description: A procedure was developed for the extraction of rennet from fresh frozen vells. Frozen vells were minced in a Model VCM-25 Hobart Vertical Cutter/Mixer. Dry sodium chloride was added until the salt concentration in the moisture of the tissue was 10%. Salted tissue was placed in galvanized steel cells and heated in a water bath to 49, 54, 57 and 60 C for 0, 15, 30, 45 and 60 minutes. The heated tissue was dried to about 4% moisture at ambient temperature with the aid of an electric fan. The dried salted tissue was extracted with a sodium chloride solution adjusted to give a salt concentration of 10% in the extraction solution. Salted vell tissue heated to 49 C for 60 minutes and to 54 C for 30 minutes prior to drying produced 82 and 55%, respectively, more recoverable enzyme activity than unheated salted tissue. However, tissue which was salted, heated and not dried prior to extraction produced less recoverable activity than unheated samples.
Unsalted vell tissue which was heated to 49, 54, 57 and 60 C for 15, 30, 45 and 60 minutes and extracted without being dried yielded lower recoverable activity than unheated samples.
Heating unsalted vell tissue to 54, 57 and 60 C for 15, 30, 45 and 60 minutes prior to drying did not increase recoverable enzyme activity over unheated samples. Unsalted tissue heated to 49 C produced a slightly higher recovery than unheated samples.