cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
ความสำเร็จของนักเรียนและความคาดหวังของนักเรียนและผู้ปกครองต่อการเรียนภาษาญี่ปุ่นของนักเรียนระดับมัธยมศึกษาตอนปลายเขตอำเภอเมืองเชียงใหม่
Creators: name: วลัยพร กาญจนการุณ
Publisher: name: สมาคมญี่ปุ่นศึกษาแห่งประเทศไทย
Year: 2018
Subjects: ความสำเร็จ
ความคาดหวัง
ภาษาญี่ปุ่น
นักเรียนและผู้ปกครอง

description: วารสารเครือข่ายญี่ปุ่นศึกษา, 8, 2, 58-76
Enhancing the Alloy Analyzer with Patterns of Analysis
Creators: name: Heaven, William
name: Russo, Alessandra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Formal techniques have been shown to be useful in the development of correct software. But the level of expertise required of practitioners of these techniques prohibits their widespread adoption. Formal techniques need to be tailored to the commercial software developer. Alloy is a lightweight specification language supported by the Alloy Analyzer (AA), a tool based on off-the-shelf SAT technology. The tool allows a user to check interactively whether given properties are consistent or valid with respect to a high-level specification, providing an environment in which the correctness of such a specification may be established. However, Alloy is not particularly suited to expressing program specifications and the feedback provided by AA can be misleading where the specification under analysis or the property being checked contains inconsistencies. In this paper, we address these two shortcomings. Firstly, we present a lightweight language called "Loy", tailored to the specification of object-oriented programs. An encoding of Loy into Alloy is provided so that AA can be used for automated analysis of Loy program specifications. Secondly, we present some "patterns of analysis" that guide a developer through the analysis of a Loy specification in order to establish its correctness before implementation.
description: 17 pages, 15th Workshop on Logic Programming Environments (WLPE05), Sitges (Barcelona), Spain, 2005
Elimination of Candida albicans’ Biofilms on Intravascular Catheters
Creators: name: Akbari, Freshta
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2015

description: Julia Rogers Research Prize: Junior/Senior Winner, 2015
description: This paper is the product of one semester’s work and research. I began the research with preliminary consultations with Professor Birthe Kjellerup and Goucher Library’s reference librarians to help my investigation of microbiology, bacteriology, and public health. After searching keyword terms such as “bacterial infections”, “disease”, and “microbiology” and cross-referencing them with the WorldCat and the Goucher College Classic Library Catalogue, I discovered there is a great amount of recent research on Candida-based infections. As I skimmed through the papers, I noticed Candida albicans infections in catheters are significant contributors to nosocomial infections. This reinforced for me the value of not only reviewing the literature on this topic, but also the necessity of proposing an optimal strategy to reduce catheter-related bloodstream infections associated with Candida albicans.
I then turned to PubMed electronic database and searched for articles on the topic of eliminating bloodstream infections caused by Candida albicans in catheters. The reference lists of selected studies were examined for relevant articles, and efforts were made to find recent articles. Additionally, I made sure that the articles were primary literature and peer-reviewed. During this process, the research librarians assisted me in finding free full articles and using more common synonym search words to increase the number of eligible articles. Additionally, they aided me in using the “RefWorks” in order to keep a record of my references and citation.
After finishing the research, I learned that writing a quality research paper requires a lot of work and that it is helpful to start broad and then narrow down the topic. This way, the chances of finding the topic of interest and its relevance to other disciplines increases. For me, I enjoyed collaborating with my professor and the research librarians and using various library resources and databases to prepare this work. I am greatly indebted to my professor and the library resources for this review paper, which provides current success and failure of the new preventative approaches, and their comparison to the older strategies in order to understand which preventative treatment is the most effective in controlling the catheter-related BSIs.
description: Birthe Kjellerup
ความคิดเห็นต่อกลยุทธ์การเรียนคันจิของผู้เรียนภาษาญี่ปุ่นชาวไทย: เปรียบเทียบความแตกต่างระหว่างความคิดเห็นของผู้สอนและผู้เรียน
Creators: name: บุษบา บรรจงมณี
Publisher: name: สมาคมญี่ปุ่นศึกษาแห่งประเทศไทย
Year: 2018
Subjects: กลยุทธ์
การเรียนคันจิ
ความคิดเห็น

description: วารสารเครือข่ายญี่ปุ่นศึกษา, 8, 2, 77-94
Dirac Assisted Tree Method for 1D Heterogeneous Helmholtz Equations with Arbitrary Variable Wave Numbers
Creators: name: Han, Bin
name: Michelle, Michelle
name: Wong, Yau Shu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65L12, 65N06, 35J05

description: In this paper we introduce a new method called the Dirac Assisted Tree (DAT) method, which can handle 1D heterogeneous Helmholtz equations with arbitrarily large variable wave numbers. DAT breaks an original global problem into many parallel tree-structured small local problems, which are linked together to form a global solution by solving small linking problems. To solve the local problems in DAT, we propose a compact finite difference method (FDM) with arbitrarily high accuracy order and low numerical dispersion for piecewise smooth coefficients and variable wave numbers. This compact FDM is particularly appealing for DAT, because the local problems and their fluxes in DAT can be computed with high accuracy. DAT with such compact FDMs can solve heterogeneous Helmholtz equations with arbitrarily large variable wave numbers accurately by solving small linear systems - $4 \times 4$ matrices in the extreme case - with tridiagonal coefficient matrices in a parallel fashion. Several numerical examples are provided to illustrate the effectiveness of DAT using the $M$th order compact FDMs with $M=6,8$ for numerically solving heterogeneous Helmholtz equations with variable wave numbers. We shall also discuss how to solve some special 2D Helmholtz equations using DAT.
A new reduction of the raw Hipparcos data
Creators: name: van Leeuwen, Floor
name: Fantino, Elena
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an outline of a new reduction of the Hipparcos astrometric data, the justifications of which are described in the accompanying paper. The emphasis is on those aspects of the data analysis that are fundamentally different from the ones used for the catalogue published in 1997. The new reduction uses a dynamical modelling of the satellite's attitude. It incorporates provisions for scan-phase discontinuities and hits, most of which have now been identified. Solutions for the final along-scan attitude (the reconstruction of the satellite's scan phase), the abscissa corrections and the instrument model, originally solved simultaneously in the great-circle solution, are now de-coupled. This is made possible by starting the solution iterations with the astrometric data from the published catalogue. The de-coupling removes instabilities that affected great-circle solutions for short data sets in the published data. The modelling-noise reduction implies smaller systematic errors, which is reflected in a reduction of the abscissa-error correlations by about a factor 40. Special care is taken to ensure that measurements from both fields of view contribute significantly to the along-scan attitude solution. This improves the overall connectivity of the data and rigidity of the reconstructed sky, which is of critical importance to the reliability of the astrometric data. The changes in the reduction process and the improved understanding of the dynamics of the satellite result in considerable formal-error reductions for stars brighter than 8th magnitude.
description: Accepted for publication by A&A, 13 pages, 18 figures
title: Διερεύνηση μεταβολών χρήσεων γης σε περιοχή με συχνά συμβάντα πυρκαγιάς, χρησιμοποιώντας δορυφορικές εικόνες: Η περίπτωση του Πεντελικού Όρους
title: Investigating land use change in an area with frequent fire events using satellite imagery: The case of Mount Pentelis
Creators: name: Παλαιολογου Λουιζα-Σταματια
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2024

description: Οι πυρκαγιές αποτελούν αναπόσπαστο μέρος του βιότοπού μας, καθώς επιφέρουν καταστροφικές συνέπειες επηρεάζοντας τόσο την βλάστηση όσο και την λειτουργία του οικοσυστήματος. Αξιοποιώντας δορυφορικά δεδομένα, τα οποία παρέχουν την δυνατότητα παρακολούθησης, καταγραφής και αποτύπωσης της επαναλαμβανόμενης κάλυψης της γήινης επιφάνειας, η Δορυφορική Τηλεπισκόπηση αποτελεί ένα ευρέως χρησιμοποιούμενο εργαλείο σε όλες τις φάσεις της διαχείρισης των πυρκαγιών. Πιο συγκεκριμένα, η Τηλεπισκόπηση σε συνδυασμό με τα Γεωγραφικά Συστήματα Πληροφοριών έχουν αποδειχθεί πολύτιμα για την ακριβή ανίχνευση των καμένων εκτάσεων, την καταγραφή των επιπτώσεων μετά από μια πυρκαγιά και την διερεύνηση των αλλαγών στην χρήση-κάλυψη της γης.
Σκοπός της παρούσας διπλωματικής εργασίας είναι η διερεύνηση των μεταβολών των χρήσεων γης σε περιοχή με συχνά συμβάντα πυρκαγιάς. Πιο συγκεκριμένα, η περιοχή μελέτης που επιλέχθηκε είναι το Πεντελικό Όρος στην Αττική. Η χρονική περίοδος της μελέτης θα αφορά το διάστημα 1993 έως σήμερα. Στο παρόν ερευνητικό έργο, θα εφαρμοστεί ανάλυση δορυφορικών εικόνων με αρχικό στόχο τον εντοπισμό των καμένων εκτάσεων και μετέπειτα των χρήσεων γης. Τέλος μέσω της διαδικασίας της επιβλεπόμενης ταξινόμησης με πολύγωνα εκπαίδευσης, θα πραγματοποιηθεί καταγραφή των χρήσεων γης στις περιόδους που θα ανιχνευτούν πυρκαγιές και σύγκριση δεικτών για κάθε χρονολογία.
description: Wildfires are an integral part of our habitat, causing destructive consequences that affect both vegetation and the functioning of ecosystems. Utilizing satellite data, which provides the ability to monitor, record, and capture the recurring coverage of the Earth's surface, Remote Sensing has become a widely used tool in all phases of wildfire management. More specifically, Remote Sensing, in combination with Geographic Information Systems, has proven valuable for the accurate detection of burned areas, the assessment of post-fire impacts, and the investigation of land use and land cover changes.
The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the changes in land use in an area with frequent wildfire incidents. More specifically, the selected study area is the Penteli Mountain in Attica. The study period will cover the time span from 1993 to the present day. In this research project, satellite image analysis will be applied, with the initial goal of identifying burned areas, followed by an analysis of land use. Finally, through the process of supervised classification using training polygons, land use will be recorded for the periods when wildfires are detected, and indices will be compared for each year.
EXPERIMENTAL EXAMINATION OF A THIN MARKET: PRICE BEHAVIOR IN A DECLINING TERMINAL MARKET REVISITED
Creators: name: Nelson, Robert G.
name: Turner, Steven C.
name: Nelson, Robert G.
name: Turner, Steven C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Auction
subject: Experimental economics
subject: Price discovery
subject: Thin market

description: Perceived characteristics of thin markets are described and approaches to furthering their study are suggested. Design features of a laboratory thin market, patterned after a typical livestock marketing situation, are described. Price bias and variation from a "thick" private negotiation market with 22 traders is compared to that from a "thin" auction market with 8 traders. No systematic price bias was found in any of the markets. Price variation was actually lower in the thin auction market.
Fluid viscoelasticity triggers fast transitions of a Brownian particle in a double well optical potential
Creators: name: Ferrer, Brandon R.
name: Gomez-Solano, Juan Ruben
name: Arzola, Alejandro V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Thermally activated transitions are ubiquitous in nature, occurring in complex environments which are typically conceived as ideal viscous fluids. We report the first direct observations of a Brownian bead transiting between the wells of a bistable optical potential in a viscoelastic fluid with a single long relaxation time. We precisely characterize both the potential and the fluid, thus enabling a neat comparison between our experimental results and a theoretical model based on the generalized Langevin equation. Our findings reveal a drastic amplification of the transition rates compared to those in a Newtonian fluid, stemming from the relaxation of the fluid during the particle crossing events.
description: 6 pages and four figures
EXAMINATION OF ALTERNATIVE HETEROSCEDASTIC ERROR STRUCTURES USING EXPERIMENTAL DATA
Creators: name: Mjelde, James W.
name: Capps, Oral
name: Griffin, Ronald C.
name: Mjelde, James W.
name: Capps, Oral
name: Griffin, Ronald C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Corn
subject: Heteroscedasticity
subject: Production function

description: Impacts of alternative specifications for heteroscedastic error structures are examined by estimating various production functions for corn in Central Texas. Production- and profit- maximizing levels of input and the shape of the profit equation obtained from models not corrected for heteroscedasticity differed from those obtained from models corroded for heteroscedasticaity. Using the profit-maximizing input levels for each production function gave essentially the same estimated yield and profit, regardless of the specification for heteroscedasticity employed. Differences of up to one-quarter to one-third are noted, however, in the amount of profit-maximizing levels of input used, depending on the heteroscedasticity correction.
TRADE-OFF ANALYSIS OF HERBICIDE WITHDRAWALS ON AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION AND GROUNDWATER QUALITY
Creators: name: Liu, Shiping
name: Carlson, Gerald A.
name: Hoag, Dana L.
name: Liu, Shiping
name: Carlson, Gerald A.
name: Hoag, Dana L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Herbicide cancellations
subject: Corn/soybean supply shifts
subject: Groundwater quality

description: This study examines the trade-off between agricultural production and groundwater contamination potential for ten potential herbicide cancellations. Theoretical and empirical models are developed for estimating losses in consumer and producer benefits in the agricultural commodity market and changes in groundwater quality. Using corn and soybean production in the southeastern Coastal Plain as a study area, the analysis concludes that (1) effects of herbicide cancellations on groundwater quality can be very significant; (2) a cancellation does not guarantee groundwater quality improvement; (3) effects of a multiple cancellation are different from the summation of the effects of independent cancellations; and (4) weed density has a very strong effect on losses to farmers and consumers from cancellations, but output demand and supply elasticities do not.
A Necessary Evil: The Midwives of Anne Arundel County
Creators: name: Gaddy, Kristina
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2015

description: Julia Rogers Research Prize: Margaret Guccione Prize Winner, 2015
description: I’ve poured over sources, both primary and secondary. Right now I have nine books checked out from
the library. My computer has gotten so full of digitized articles from the Baltimore Sun and the New
York Times , medical papers and journal articles, and pamphlets and books, that I barely have enough
space to download anymore. I’m trying to recreate the world of Progressive Era America with what
has been left behind.
I need the broad picture, which I get from books like Tina Cassidy’s Birth: The Surprising History of
How We are Born and Judy BarrettLitoff’s
American Midwives: 1860 to the Present , and the minutia
too, like the published letters of Margaret Sanger to the biography of Julia Lathrop. Interlibrary loan
has been my friend, allowing me to get almost any book I’ve needed.
But what I love the most about research is the archive. It’s quiet as I delve into private lives of the past.
I gaze at the letters of Lilian Welsh here at Goucher, the scribbles in the margin of Dr. John Whitridge
William’s textbooks at Hopkins, the notes in a midwife’s journal at the Jewish Museum of Maryland,
the photographs of agricultural workers at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. I’m the
optimist; I believe that if I look long enough, I’ll find something of amazing value. That feeling is
encouraged by times like when, in small print in a Nurse’s Alumni Magazine at Hopkins, I read, “Infant
son of Dr. and Mrs. Guy Steele passed in December.” A doctor crusading against infant mortality lost
his own son. To make my story compelling, I’ve learned to get the historical context, but also to dig
deep into the little details that bring characters and places to life.
description: Richard Todd
The Canvas: Excerpt from "They Said They Wanted Revolution"
Creators: name: Semnani, Neda
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2015

description: Julia Rogers Research Prize: Graduate Winner, 2015
description: When I decided to tell the story of my parents, I realized that it required heavy research and investigation. My father’s execution, which took place on January 25, 1983, in Iran, and my mother and my own escape from that country, could not be divorced from history or politics. The story didn’t have emotional resonance without this context: they were part of a group of Iranian revolutionaries radicalized at Berkeley during the height of the anti-Vietnam War era.
Since all revolutions are born out of history and politics, my research had to be expansive. And because all revolutions are personal, it also had to be focused. I had to create a chapter, early in the narrative, that gave the reader a background in Iranian and American history from 1953 into the 1970s. The excerpt, reproduced below, attempts to ground the reader, so they have a clear sense of time and place. At the same time, I had to tell a complicated history quickly as not to bore or overwhelm the reader.
Since I am neither historian nor political philosopher nor US-Iran policy expert, I had to begin my research at the beginning. I had to get my head around the entire history, so I started with secondary sources. I read great big books, including several biographies of the Iranian monarchy, histories of the CIA and America’s Middle East policy and more. I tried to choose authors who were objective, as well as others with a clear points-of-view. Next I turned to academic journals and graduate dissertations. From there I went after primary sources. I scoured old newspapers, legal cases, and the national security archives. I searched archival news footage and watched documentaries. I contacted presidential libraries and university archives. I read through my mother’s oral history and interviewed family members and friends. Then, to verify each account, I went back and crosschecked facts.
In the end, it was research that transformed this memoir.
description: Diana Hume George
r-Process Calculations and Galactic Chemical Evolution
Creators: name: Wanajo, Shinya
name: Ishimaru, Yuhri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: While the origin of r-process nuclei remains a long-standing mystery, recent spectroscopic studies of extremely metal-poor stars in the Galactic halo strongly suggest that it is associated with core-collapse supernovae. In this article, an overview of the recent theoretical studies of the r-process is presented with a special emphasis on the astrophysical scenarios related to core-collapse supernovae. We also review a recent progress of the Galactic chemical evolution studies as well as of the spectroscopic studies of extremely metal-poor halo stars, which provide us important clues to better understanding of the astrophysical r-process site.
description: 31 pages, 17figures, Nuclear Physics A (Special Issue on Nuclear Astrophysics / eds. K. Langanke, F.-K. Thielemann, & M. Wiescher), in press
Kwak'wala elicitation on causatives and unaccusativity 2
Creators: name: Dawson Cranmer, Ruby
name: Sardinha, Katie
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: kwk
subject: Kwak'wala language

description: Elicitation on various topics, including: instrument subjects; 'by itself'; complex causal events; events as causes; 'let' causatives; 'to do on purpose'; negative events as causes; 'see' vs. 'show'; causatives of 'remember' and 'forget'; 'understand' and 'explain'; the expression of connected events, signs, and signals.
A PRINCIPAL-AGENT MODEL FOR REGIONAL PEST CONTROL ADOPTION
Creators: name: Ahouissoussi, Nicolas B.C.
name: Ahouissoussi, Nicolas B.C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Regional pest control
subject: Principal-agent model
subject: Proposition
subject: Firm-specific
subject: Industry-specific

description: Investigating the underlying producer characteristics associated with regional pest control adoption revealed an interesting proposition. Early adopting producers of firm-specific techniques with characteristics including higher education, more specialized operations, and larger sized business units are dissatisfied with a regional pest control technique. This study provides an explanation of the proposition based on a principal-agent model. Empirical support for the proposition is also presented by developing a multinomial logit model for predicting producers' dissatisfaction with boll weevil eradication.
Element abundances of unevolved stars in the open cluster M 67
Creators: name: Randich, S.
name: Sestito, P.
name: Primas, F.
name: Pallavicini, R.
name: Pasquini, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We determined the metallicity ([Fe/H]), together with O, Na, Mg, Al, Si, Ca, Ti, Cr and Ni abundances for a sample of 10 unevolved or slightly evolved stars belonging to the open cluster M 67. We find an average metallicity [Fe/H]=0.03 +/- 0.01, in very good agreement with previous determinations. All the [X/Fe] abundance ratios are very close to solar. The star-to-star scatter in [Fe/H] and [X/Fe] ratios for all elements, including oxygen, is lower than 0.05 dex, implying that the large dispersion in lithium reported in previous studies is not due to differences in these element abundances. We also find that, when using a homogeneous scale, the abundance pattern of unevolved stars in our sample is very similar to that of evolved stars, suggesting that, at least in this cluster, RGB and clump stars have not undergone any chemical processing. Finally, our results show that M 67 has a chemical composition that is representative of the solar neighborhood.
description: 18 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
PRICE INCENTIVES FOR COMMERCIAL FRESH TOMATOES
Creators: name: Bierlen, Ralph W.
name: Grunewald, Orlen C.
name: Bierlen, Ralph W.
name: Grunewald, Orlen C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Tomato quality
subject: Hedonic prices

description: Hedonic price models are estimated to determine if there are incentives to supply higher quality tomatoes. Price premiums are associated with extra-large tomatoes originating from shipping points located closer to consumption points. Price differences between mature-green and vine-ripe tomatoes are not significant. Vine-ripe tomatoes are favored by consumers in the summer while mature-green tomatoes are favored the rest of the year. The U.S. Department of Agriculture should consider changing the present tomato grading system, which is based on shape and smoothness, to include a flavor indicator based on harvest maturity.
National Register of Historic Places Registration Form for the Nomination of the Taytu Hotel, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Creators: name: Gottert, Leslie
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2011

description: Julia Rogers Research Prize: Graduate Winner, 2011
description: My research goal for the final project of the preservation documentation course (HP611) was to provide information to support the nomination of a historical site in Ethiopia as a national landmark, according to the United States Department of Interior National Park Service criteria for recognition as a national historic monument. The selected site, the Taytu Hotel, established by the Empress Taytu in Addis Ababa, was the first hotel in Ethiopia. The aim of the research strategy was to explore the hotel’s connection to the early 20th century Ethiopian imperial court by gathering information through site visits; museum exhibitions; interviews with historic preservationists; and access to print materials (books, articles, maps and photographs) at local libraries.
While it is difficult obtain permission to use the Addis Ababa University library, the library of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies (IES) housed at the university is accessible to foreign researchers, who register as members. During the research period from January to May 2010, however, a number of unexpected obstacles hindered the research process; for example, frequent power outages limited access to the library because of inadequate lighting. As a result, the research strategy shifted from one relying on primary source materials found in the library collection to one based on locally available books, exhibitions at the IES and local museums, and websites on Ethiopian history and culture. Although the situation in Ethiopia prevented the use of the resources available in the university libraries, the overall experience led to my heightened appreciation of the Athenaeum, its professional staff and the inter-library loan system and the support that they provide to graduate student research.
description: Dr. Betsy Bradley
Resolving the Bethe-Salpeter kernel
Creators: name: Qin, Si-Xue
name: Roberts, Craig D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A novel method for constructing a Bethe-Salpeter kernel for the meson bound-state problem is described. It produces a closed-form kernel that is symmetry-consistent (discrete and continuous) with the gap equation defined by any admissible gluon-quark vertex. Applicable even when the diagrammatic content of that vertex is unknown, the scheme can foster new synergies between continuum and lattice approaches to strong interactions. The framework is illustrated by demonstrating that the presence of a dressed-quark anomalous magnetic moment in the gluon-quark vertex, an emergent feature of strong interactions, can remedy many defects of widely used meson bound-state kernels, including the level ordering of pseudoscalar and vector meson radial excitations.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication as an "Express Letter" in Chinese Physics Letters
TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES IN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS CURRICULA
Creators: name: Schurle, Bryan W.
name: Comer, Dorothy A.
name: Schurle, Bryan W.
name: Comer, Dorothy A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: Agricultural economics curricula
subject: Computers
subject: Multimedia
subject: Technological adoption

description: The potential use of computers and electronic technology have created considerable interest among educators in agricultural economics. This paper provides an overview of the use of electronic technology within agricultural economics curricula; examines areas in which technological development offers promise and examines issues associated with adoption of the technology.
Housing Solutions: Found Architecture, the Vernacular, and the Bungalow for Washington’s Teachers’ Homes
Creators: name: Felber, Lynette
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2011

description: Julia Rogers Research Prize: Graduate Winner, 2011
description: “Housing Solutions: Found Architecture, the Vernacular, and the Bungalow for Washington’s Teachers’ Homes” was a challenging project because it researched a debate about school architecture that circulated primarily between 1915 and 1916. Publications dating back to this period are nearly archival, and as a distance education student I needed many resources that were only available to me through interlibrary loan. The Goucher Library staff, particularly Distance Learning Librarian Yvonne Lev and Research Services Librarian Randy Smith, was instrumental in helping me access rare materials.
The idea for this paper began with my discovery of Josephine Corliss Preston, Washington Superintendent of Public Schools (1913-28). Preston was a national leader in promoting teacher cottages, or “teacherages,” to house rural teachers. I began my search on the Internet and found that Preston’s original 1915 pamphlet, Teachers’ Cottages In Washington, was available through Google Books. This publication offered a valuable primary source, including photographs and plans for the cottages.
The pamphlet led me to search the databases of the library. As I discovered more articles published on the subject circa 1915-16, I also used their bibliographies to add further sources to my list -- some of the publications were too obscure to be included in databases. Ultimately, my working bibliography included sources ranging from popular culture (Ladies’ Home Journal) to journals for educators, such as the American School Board Journal. The latter was only available on microfilm, but the staff procured an extended loan so that I could read several years of the issues on the microfilm reader at my public library.
The research process is cumulative and collaborative: each source leads to another source, each inquiry to further development. The final bibliography for my paper contained thirty-eight highly relevant sources retrieved with the aid of the Goucher Library staff and collections.
description: Dale Allen Gyure
The Large N Reduction in Matrix Quantum Mechanics -- a Bridge between BFSS and IKKT --
Creators: name: Kawahara, Naoyuki
name: Nishimura, Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The large N reduction is an equivalence between large N gauge theories and matrix models discovered by Eguchi and Kawai in the early 80s. In particular the continuum version of the quenched Eguchi-Kawai model may be useful in studying supersymmetric and/or chiral gauge theories nonperturbatively. We apply this idea to matrix quantum mechanics, which is relevant, for instance, to nonperturbative studies of the BFSS Matrix Theory, a conjectured nonperturbative definition of M-theory. In the bosonic case we present Monte Carlo results confirming the equivalence directly, and discuss a possible explanation based on the Schwinger-Dyson equations. In the supersymmetric case we argue that the equivalence holds as well although some care should be taken if the rotational symmetry is spontaneously broken. This equivalence provides an explicit relation between the BFSS model and the IKKT model, which may be used to translate results in one model to the other.
description: REVTeX, 4 pages with 3 figures
Perturbations in a scalar field model with virtues of $Λ$CDM
Creators: name: Sinha, Srijita
name: Banerjee, Narayan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the era of precision cosmology, the cosmological constant $Λ$ gives quite an accurate description of the evolution of the Universe, but it is still plagued with the fine-tuning problem and the cosmic coincidence problem. In this work, we investigate the perturbations in a scalar field model that drives the recent acceleration in a similar fashion that the cosmological constant does and has the dark energy (DE) density comparable to the dark matter (DM) energy density at the recent epoch starting from arbitrary initial conditions. The perturbations show that this model, though it keeps the virtues of a $Λ$CDM model, has a distinctive qualitative feature, particularly it reduces the amplitude of the matter power spectrum on a scale of $8 h^{-1}\, \mbox{Mpc}$, $σ_{8}$ at the present epoch.
description: 13 pages, 8 figures; revised version accepted for publication in JCAP
The Kentucky Department of Highway’s Scholarship Program
Creators: name: Terrell, D. V.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1962
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: The Kentucky Department of Highways was organized in 1912, at that time the field of highway engineering was new, little was actually known about the scientific process of building roads, there were no highway engineers as such. The civil engineer because of his experience in the construction of railroads and public works was to become the highway engineer in the future. As road building began to be an important fact, most schools added courses in highway construction to the already over-crowded field of civil engineering, and highway engineering today is considered on of the major branches of the broad field of civil engineering. The general practice is to give the Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering for four years of college study; and, by additional study, one may major in highway engineering and receive the Master of Science in Civil Engineering (highway major).
Digital Image Correlation used to Analyze the Multiaxial Behavior of Rubber-like Materials
Creators: name: Chevalier, Luc
name: Calloch, Sylvain
name: Hild, François
name: Marco, Yann
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an experimental approach to discriminate models describing the mechanical behavior of polymeric materials. A biaxial loading condition is obtained in a multiaxial testing machine. An evaluation of the displacement field obtained by digital image correlation allows us to evaluate the heterogeneous strain field observed during these tests. We focus on the particular case of hyper-elastic models to simulate the behavior of a rubber-like material. Different expressions of hyper-elastic potential are used to model experiments under uniaxial and biaxial loading conditions.
One-shot quantum error correction of classical and quantum information
Creators: name: Nakata, Yoshifumi
name: Wakakuwa, Eyuri
name: Yamasaki, Hayata
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum error correction (QEC) is one of the central concepts in quantum information science and also has wide applications in fundamental physics. The capacity theorems provide solid foundations of QEC. We here provide a general and highly applicable form of capacity theorem for both classical and quantum information, i.e., hybrid information, with assistance of a limited resource of entanglement in one-shot scenario, which covers broader situations than the existing ones. Harnessing the wide applicability of the theorem, we show that a demonstration of QEC by short random quantum circuits is feasible and that QEC is intrinsic in quantum chaotic systems. Our results bridge the progress in quantum information theory, near-future quantum technology, and fundamental physics.
description: 15 pages, 5 figures
WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO GROWTH IN LATIN AMERICA
Creators: name: Morley, Samuel A.
name: Morley, Samuel A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: International Development

description: Growth in the first post-reform decade in Latin America has been disappointing, largely because of a severe slowdown after 1995 in the countries in South America. Per capita income grew at only .9% per year between 1995 and 1999 compared to 2.7% for 1950-80 and 1.5% for the nineties as a whole. What has gone wrong? The paper finds that neither falling investment, volatile capital inflows nor the implementation of structural reforms is the problem. Indeed relative growth performance across countries is positively related to the amount of reform they adopted. Instead the problem seems to relate to a significant reduction in the growth rate of exports since 1997. Mexico, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic did well, but every country in South America has suffered a reduction in exports with the exception of Colombia where they were constant. Partly that is because the countries that are the main markets for Latin exports are not growing as fast as they were, but South America is also losing market share in those countries. The basic assumption of the new reform growth model is that exports will be a significant engine of growth. It does not seem to be working out that way for South America. It is not clear what the cause of the export slowdown is, but no export-led growth strategy is going to work if it cannot produce an export growth rate higher than 2.3% per year.
THE IMPACT OF ALTERNATIVE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES ON GROWTH AND DISTRIBUTION: SIMULATIONS WITH A DYNAMIC MODEL FOR EGYPT
Creators: name: El-Said, Moataz
name: Lofgren, Hans
name: Robinson, Sherman
name: El-Said, Moataz
name: Lofgren, Hans
name: Robinson, Sherman
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: International Development
subject: Atkinson inequality index
subject: CGE
subject: Egypt
subject: growth
subject: income distribution
subject: SAM
subject: Theil index

description: Addressing longer-term issues of economic development in Egypt, the paper employs a dynamically recursive computable general equilibrium (CGE) model to assess the outcomes associated with two types of development approaches over the period 1998-2012. One is a targeted sector development approach, and the second is a more broad-based development approach. Under the first development approach technological advancement is separately targeted to three sectors: agriculture, food processing, and textiles. Each sectoral choice is intended to represent alternative development strategies which we label (i) agricultural-demand- led industrialization (ADLI); (ii) food-processing-based (FOOD); and (iii) textile-based industrialization (TEXTILE). Under the second approach a more broad based development strategy is adopted where the same technological advancement is equally distributed among the three sectors and takes place simultaneously. We refer to it as (BAL) – a sectorally balanced industrialization strategy. Results focusing on the pattern of growth and measures of income inequality – the Theil and Atkinson measures – from the four strategies are compared to a benchmark growth path, which we label (BASE). The analysis was carried out under two cases; one where the ease of transforming output between domestic markets and export markets is low for all production sectors including agriculture, and another where we assume perfect transformability for agriculture. In the first case, the TEXTILE strategy is pro-growth and more egalitarian, while ADLI generates a combination of more rapid growth and increasing inequality. For the second case, ADLI strategy dominates in terms of rapid growth and reduced inequality. The results indicate that, when agricultural exports remain relatively low, promoting the Egyptian textile sector is a win-win scenario in terms of rapid growth and equity. In addition, adopting policies that maintain agricultural prices leads to rapid growth and a general improvement of the distribution of income among households. A crucial policy objectives for achieving rapid and egalitarian growth for the Egyptian economy is the ability to secure improved access to international textile markets and the successful expansion of agricultural exports.
Small polarons in dilute gas Bose-Einstein condensates
Creators: name: Cucchietti, Fernando M.
name: Timmermans, Eddy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A neutral impurity atom immersed in a dilute Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) can have a bound ground state in which the impurity is self-localized. In this small polaron-like state, the impurity distorts the density of the surrounding BEC, thereby creating the self-trapping potential minimum. We describe the self-localization in a strong coupling approach.
DISTRIBUTION AND GROWTH IN LATIN AMERICA IN AN ERA OF STRUCTURAL REFORM
Creators: name: Morley, Samuel A.
name: Morley, Samuel A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: International Development

description: The first section of this paper reviews the most recent evidence on inequality in 18 Latin American countries and shows that in all but four the changes in inequality over the 1990s were small and insignificant. The distribution depends on the ownership and rate of return on assets, particularly human capital. In the short run changes in these two variables tend to be offsetting-growth widens skill-differentials which is regressive, but advances in education are progressive. The two effects roughly cancel each other out absent severe macroeconomic shocks or revolutionary changes in the rules of the game. The paper then summarizes various recent papers as well as the author’s recent work on the impact of structural reforms on inequality. That work shows that the recent reforms have had a negative but small regressive impact on inequality mainly because many of the individual reforms had offsetting effects. Trade and tax reform have been unambiguously regressive, but opening up the capital account is progressive. Finally, the paper presents evidence of a significant slowdown in the growth rate and argues that given this fact and the insensitivity of the distribution to feasible policy measures, the main problem facing the region at present is not how to improve the distribution but rather how the increase the growth rate.
MACROECONOMIC AND AGRCULTURAL REFORMS IN ZIMBABWE: POLICY COMPLEMENTARITIES TOWARD EQUITABLE GROWTH
Creators: name: Bautista, Romeo M.
name: Thomas, Marcelle
name: Bautista, Romeo M.
name: Thomas, Marcelle
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: International Development

description: Using a CGE (computable general equilibrium) model for Zimbabwe with 1991 as base period, this paper examines quantitatively the income and equity effects of macroeconomic reform measures in isolation and in conjunction with potentially complementary changes in agricultural sector policies. Some important features of the CGE model are an explicit focus on agriculture, distinction among various rural and urban household groups, and detailed specification of factor markets. Specific aspects of economic policy existing in the pre-reform benchmark year are taken into account in the base model, such as the administered setting of the foreign exchange rate, quantitative import restrictions, and government-determined maize prices for domestic producers and grain millers. The model makes use of a 1991 SAM (social accounting matrix) for Zimbabwe as database. “Policy experiments” performed on the model include trade liberalization, maize price decontrol, fiscal reform measures, land redistribution, and reduction in agricultural marketing margins -- implemented in isolation and concurrently. Trade policy reform alone (dismantling of import and foreign exchange controls and reduction of import taxes to a low uniform rate) is shown to increase aggregate household income significantly. However, the least income gain accrues to smallholder farm households, which account for about four-fifths of the poor in Zimbabwe, so the equity impact is unfavorable. Concurrent implementation of two alternative land reform packages with trade liberalization, maize market decontrol, and income tax adjustment result in improved outcomes in aggregate income and in the incomes of poorer household groups. Significant synergy effects are revealed, as the income gains from policy reform packages exceed the sum of corresponding gains from component measures. The comparative results of counterfactual model simulations illuminate the greater effectiveness of trade policy reform in promoting overall income growth and equity when linked to complementary fiscal and sectoral reforms aimed at reducing poverty. They also give strong support to the general argument that piecemeal or partial reforms are inferior to more comprehensive reforms that take account of policy complementarities.
Kwak'wala elicitation on causatives and unaccusativity 1
Creators: name: Dawson Cranmer, Ruby
name: Sardinha, Katie
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: kwk
subject: Kwak'wala language

description: Elicitation on various topics, including: causatives, passives, and purpose clauses, by-phrases, and the adverb meaning 'by itself'; indirect causation; prevention; semantic reflexivity.
GROWTH, DISTRIBUTION AND POVERTY IN MADAGASCAR: LEARNING FROM A MICROSIMULATION MODEL IN A GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM FRAMEWORK
Creators: name: Cogneau, Denis
name: Robilliard, Anne-Sophie
name: Cogneau, Denis
name: Robilliard, Anne-Sophie
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: International Development

description: This paper presents an applied microsimulation model built on household data with explicit treatment of heterogeneity of skills, labor preferences and opportunities, and consumption preferences at the individual and/or household level, while allowing for an endogenous determination of relative prices between sectors. The model is primarily focused on labor markets and labor allocation at the household level, but consumption behavior is also modeled. Modeling choices are driven by a desire to make the best possible use of microeconomic information derived from household data. This framework supports analysis of the impact of different growth strategies on poverty and income distribution, without making use of the “representative agent” assumption. The model is built on household survey data and represents the behavior of 4,508 households. Household behavioral equations are estimated econometrically. Different sets of simulation are carried out to examine the comparative statics of the model and study the impact of different growth strategies on poverty and inequality. Simulation results show the potential usefulness of this class of models to derive both poverty and inequality measures and transition matrices without prior assumptions regarding the intragroup income distribution. Market clearing equations allow for the endogenous determination of relative prices between sectors. The impact of different growth strategies on poverty and inequality is complex given general equilibrium effects and the wide range of household positions in markets for factors and goods markets. Partial equilibrium analysis or the use of representative households would miss these effects.