cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Water distribution system reliability under pipe failure conditions : advanced multiple states/aspects analyses
Creators: name: Gheisi, Alireza
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Every water distribution system (WDS) fails (partially or completely) at some point(s) during its lifetime. Measuring the reliability of a system under various failure conditions has been recognized as a highly controversial issue in the field of WDS analysis. Accordingly, numerous techniques have been developed to estimate WDS reliability. This research provided an in-depth review of the relevant literature and developed advanced techniques for reliability analysis. The research organized and classified the available techniques into three major categories and discussed which technique should be used depending upon the type of a failure (mechanical failure, hydraulic failure, and water quality failure). Previous studies have focused on WDS reliability when pipes fail individually. The current research developed an advanced technique to determine the reliability of a WDS experiencing different degrees of simultaneous pipe failure (i.e., higher-states reliability analysis). The technique was applied to two case studies including a hypothetical as well as an in-practice WDSs. Results demonstrated that a system might be able to achieve a higher level of reliability if more realistic expectations of simultaneous failure were assumed. Studying various reliability measures, this dissertation revealed statistical flow entropy had stronger correlation with higher states of reliability and was a better surrogate measure. Using multiple criteria decision analysis (MCDA), an advanced technique of multiple states reliability analysis was developed and applied to rank a set of WDS layouts (alternatives) using various states of reliabilities (criteria). The analysis revealed that the higher-states reliabilities should have more contribution in the decision-making process. A comprehensive reliability analysis should consider the system’s responses to various states of failure. This research employed the techniques of quadrant and octant analyses to study the response of a hypothetical WDS to various simultaneous failures in two or three aspects. It was found that evaluating the reliability in one aspect without incorporating other aspects would lead to misleading results. The advanced technique of multiple aspects/multiple states reliability analysis was developed using MCDA. Multiple aspects/multiple states reliability analysis was employed to rank the WDS’s layouts. Results revealed that multiple aspects/multiple states reliability analyses would assure more reliable operation of a WDS.
On a stochastic Trotter formula with application to spontaneous localization models
Creators: name: Dürr, Detlef
name: Hinrichs, Günter
name: Kolb, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60F17, 60H15, 81S22

description: We consider the relation between so called continuous localization models - i.e. non-linear stochastic Schrödinger evolutions - and the discrete GRW-model of wave function collapse. The former can be understood as scaling limit of the GRW process. The proof relies on a stochastic Trotter formula, which is of interest in its own right. Our Trotter formula also allows to complement results on existence theory of stochastic Schrödinger evolutions by Holevo and Mora/Rebolledo.
description: submitted to Journal of Statistical Physics
Child care decision-making: a Key Topic Resource List
Creators: name: Child Care & Early Education Research Connections
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Child care
Early childhood education
Decision making
Families

description: A compilation of selected Research Connections resources focused on the child care choices of parents with young children, including a summary of issues addressed in the literature, and a list of resources in the areas of choices associated with: parental characteristics, child characteristics, parental employment status, type of child care, perceptions of quality, market characteristics, financial assistance, and consumer education
Precise predictions for W γγ+jet production at hadron colliders
Creators: name: Campanario, Francisco
name: Englert, Christoph
name: Rauch, Michael
name: Zeppenfeld, Dieter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this letter we report on a calculation of W gamma gamma + jet production at next-to-leading order QCD. We include the leptonic decays of the W and take into account all off-shell and finite width effects. This is the first computation which falls into the category of triboson+jet production at next-to-leading order QCD. In total we find sizable corrections with nontrivial phase space dependencies. Therefore, our results are important for phenomenological analyses such as the extraction of anomalous electroweak quartic couplings from inclusive hadron collider data.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures
Child care and obesity prevention: A Key Topic Resource List
Creators: name: Child Care & Early Education Research Connections
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Child care
Child development
Obesity in children--Prevention
Children--Health and hygiene

description: A compilation of selected Research Connections resources focused on child care and obesity prevention, including a summary of issues addressed in the literature and a listing of resources in the areas of food and nutrition, exercise and physical activity, prevention programs and interventions, and policies, regulations, and monitoring
Extensive rod and cone photoreceptor-cell degeneration in rat models of giant axonal neuropathy: implications for gene therapy of human disease
Creators: name: Armao, Diane
name: Bouldin, Thomas W.
name: Bailey, Rachel M.
name: Gray, Steven J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Background: Giant axonal neuropathy (GAN; ORPHA: 643; OMIM# 256850) is a rare, hereditary, pediatric neurodegenerative disorder associated with intracellular accumulations of intermediate filaments (IFs). Validation of therapeutic efficacy and viral vector delivery systems with GAN knockout (KO) mouse models has provided the springboard for the development of a viral vector being delivered intrathecally in an ongoing Phase I gene therapy clinical trial for the treatment of children with GAN (https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02362438). Purpose: To characterize the ocular pathologic phenotype of newly developed GAN rat models. Materials and Methods: Microscopic examination of eyes at various timepoints. Results: We noted the unexpected finding of progressive and extensive degeneration of rod and cone photoreceptor (PR) cells in the retinas of GAN rat models. Conclusion: This PR-cell loss in rat models of GAN raises the possibility that PR-cell loss may contribute to the visual impairment observed in human GAN. The intrathecal viral vector employed in the ongoing Phase I gene therapy clinical trial for the treatment of children with GAN was not specifically designed to address PR-cell degeneration. If GAN-associated PR-cell loss is present and clinically significant in humans, then future treatment protocols for GAN may need to include a gene transfer approach or combinatorial treatment strategy that also targets retinal PR cells.
A Test Automation Framework for Mercury
Creators: name: Biener, Peter
name: Degrave, François
name: Vanhoof, Wim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents a test automation framework for Mercury programs. We developed a method that generates runnable Mercury code from a formalized test suite, and which code provides a report on execution about the success of test cases. We also developed a coverage tool for the framework, which identifies and provide a visualization of the reached parts of the program when executing a given test suite.
description: Online proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Implementation of Constraint Logic Programming Systems and Logic-based Methods in Programming Environments (CICLOPS-WLPE 2010), Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K., July 15, 2010
Child care and early education for children who have experienced trauma: Research-to-policy resources
Creators: name: Ferguson, Daniel
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Child care
Early childhood education
Psychic trauma in children
Psychic trauma--Prevention
Child development

description: This Research-to-Policy Resource List identifies resources in the Research Connections collection published in the past 10 years that examine the role child care and early education can play in both preventing traumatic experiences and in supporting children who have experienced or are at risk of experiencing trauma. The resources on this list have been assigned to the following categories: research reviews, programs, interventions/curricula/trainings, systems, policies, and access.
Vachellia choriophylla Seigler & Ebinger 2006
Creators: name: Miller, Joseph T.
name: Seigler, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Fabales
Fabaceae
Vachellia
Vachellia choriophylla

description: Vachellia choriophylla (Bentham) Seigler & Ebinger , UI Ghse s.n., EU440017, EU811870 EU812041
description: Published as part of Miller, Joseph T. & Seigler, David, 2012, Evolutionary and taxonomic relationships of Acacia s. l. (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae), pp. 217-224 in Australian Systematic Botany 25 (3) on page 224, DOI: 10.1071/sb11042, http://zenodo.org/record/4278146
QCD corrections to $J/ψ$ production in association with a $W$-boson at the LHC
Creators: name: Gang, Li
name: Mao, Song
name: Ren-You, Zhang
name: Wen-Gan, Ma
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD corrections to the $J/ψ+W$ production at the LHC, and provide the theoretical distribution of the $J/ψ$ transverse momentum. Our results show that the differential cross section $\frac{dσ}{dp_T^{J/ψ}}$ at the LO is significantly enhanced by the NLO QCD corrections. We believe that the comparison between the theoretical predictions for the $J/ψ+W$ production and the experimental data at the LHC can provide a verification for the colour-octet mechanism of non-relativistic QCD in the description of the processes involving heavy quarkonium.
description: 8 page revtex, 4 eps figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. D
Imaging of the CCS 22.3 GHz emission in the Taurus Molecular Cloud complex
Creators: name: Roy, Nirupam
name: Datta, Abhirup
name: Momjian, Emmanuel
name: Sarma, Anuj P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Thioxoethenylidene (CCS) is an abundant interstellar molecule, and a good tracer of high density and evolutionary stage of dense molecular clouds. It is also a suitable candidate for Zeeman splitting observations for its high splitting factor and narrow thermal linewidths. We report here EVLA 22.3 GHz observations of three dense molecular cores TMC-1, TMC-1C and L1521B in the Taurus Molecular Cloud complex to image the CCS 2_1-1_0 transition. For all three sources, the clumpy CCS emission is most likely tracing the starless cores. However, these compact structures account for only ~ 1-13% of the integrated emission detected in single-dish observations, indicating the presence of significant large scale diffuse emission in favorable conditions for producing CCS.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters EVLA special issue. The definitive version will be available at http://iopscience.iop.org/
Familial exudative vitreoretinopathy with TGFBR2 mutation without signs of Loeys-Dietz syndrome
Creators: name: Asano, Toshiaki
name: Oku, Kazuma
name: Kondo, Hiroyuki
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Background: Familial exudative vitreoretinopathy (FEVR) is an inherited retinal disorder with high genetic heterogeneity, and it is characterized by a defect in the development of the retinal vascular system. Loeys-Dietz syndrome (LDS) is an autosomal dominant systemic connective tissue disorder that is caused by mutations in the genes related to transforming growth factor signaling systems including the TGFBR2 gene. Two earlier studies reported that patients with LDS from mutations in the TGFBR2 gene were associated with FEVR-like retinal phenotype. The purpose of this study was to determine the characteristics of a case of FEVR without systemic abnormalities who had a mutation in the TGFBR2 gene. Materials and Methods: The clinical appearances and surgical outcomes were determined from the medical records. Genetic analysis was performed by whole exome sequencing. Results: A 15-year-old boy was diagnosed with FEVR by the appearance of the peripheral retina of both eyes and a retinal detachment in the left eye. Whole exome sequencing revealed a heterozygous deletion mutation in the TGFBR2 gene. A de novo mutation was confirmed by examining the family members. No systemic abnormalities were detected in the patient including those associated with LDS. Conclusions: FEVR can be associated with a TGFBR2 mutation without showing signs of LDS.
On the Non-equilibrium Phase Transition in Evaporation-Deposition Models
Creators: name: Connaughton, Colm
name: Rajesh, R.
name: Zaboronski, Oleg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a system of diffusing-aggregating particles with deposition and evaporation of monomers. By combining theoretical and numerical methods, we establish a clearer understanding of the non-equilibrium phase transition known to occur in such systems. The transition is between a growing phase in which the total mass increases for all time and a non-growing phase in which the total mass is bounded. In addition to deriving rigorous bounds on the position of the transition point, we show that the growing phase is in the same universality class as diffusion-aggregation models with deposition but no evaporation. In this regime, the flux of mass in mass space becomes asymptotically constant (as a function of mass) at large times. The magnitude of this flux depends on the evaporation rate but the fact that it is asymptotically constant does not. The associated constant flux relation exactly determines the scaling of the two-point mass correlation function with mass in all dimensions while higher-order mass correlation functions exhibit nonlinear multi-scaling in dimension less than 2. If the deposition rate is below some critical value, a different stationary state is reached at large times characterised by a global balance between evaporation and deposition with a scale-by-scale balance between the mass fluxes due to aggregation and evaporation. Both the mass distribution and the flux decay exponentially in this regime. Finally, we develop a scaling theory of the model near the critical point, which yields non-trivial scaling laws for the critical two-point mass correlation function with mass. These results are well supported by numerical measurements.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures
The quasi-periodic doubling cascade in the transition to weak turbulence
Creators: name: van Veen, Lennaert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The quasi-periodic doubling cascade is shown to occur in the transition from regular to weakly turbulent behaviour in simulations of incompressible Navier-Stokes flow on a three-periodic domain. Special symmetries are imposed on the flow field in order to reduce the computational effort. Thus we can apply tools from dynamical systems theory such as continuation of periodic orbits and computation of Lyapunov exponents. We propose a model ODE for the quasi-period doubling cascade which, in a limit of a perturbation parameter to zero, avoids resonance related problems. The cascade we observe in the simulations is then compared to the perturbed case, in which resonances complicate the bifurcation scenario. In particular, we compare the frequency spectrum and the Lyapunov exponents. The perturbed model ODE is shown to be in good agreement with the simulations of weak turbulence. The scaling of the observed cascade is shown to resemble the unperturbed case, which is directly related to the well known doubling cascade of periodic orbits.
COSTA, M. Gonçalves da - Seminário e Seminaristas de Lamego — Monografia Histórica. Lamego 1990, 536 p.
Creators: name: Rema, Henrique Pinto
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 1991

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 3 (1991): Portugal e a Reforma Católica | Catolicismo e Liberalismo
Vachellia collinsii Seigler & Ebinger 2005
Creators: name: Miller, Joseph T.
name: Seigler, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Fabales
Fabaceae
Vachellia
Vachellia collinsii

description: Vachellia collinsii (Safford) Seigler & Ebinger , D. Seigler 16038, EU440031, EU811885, EU811990, EU812054, EU811930
description: Published as part of Miller, Joseph T. & Seigler, David, 2012, Evolutionary and taxonomic relationships of Acacia s. l. (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae), pp. 217-224 in Australian Systematic Botany 25 (3) on page 224, DOI: 10.1071/sb11042, http://zenodo.org/record/4278146
Child care and early education for young children experiencing homelessness: Research-to-policy resources
Creators: name: Stephens, Samuel A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Child care
Early childhood education
Homeless families--Services for
Homeless children--Services for
Child development

description: This Research-to-Policy Resource List identifies resources in the Research Connections collection published in 2010 or later that examine access to and utilization of early care and education by children in families experiencing homelessness, early childhood programs and practices that are designed to address their specific developmental needs, and policy options to increase access to high quality care and education for this particularly vulnerable group of young children.
MARQUES, José - A Arquidiocese de Braga no século XV. Lisboa: I.N. - C.M., 1989
Creators: name: Ramos, Luís A. De Oliveira
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 1991

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 3 (1991): Portugal e a Reforma Católica | Catolicismo e Liberalismo
Child care decision-making
Creators: name: Ferguson, Daniel
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Child care
Early childhood education
Decision making
Families

description: Child care plays an important role in supporting families, from children's development to parents' employment. The complex process by which families find child care arrangements is informed by their preferences for features of care arrangements and constrained by such factors as availability, accessibility, affordability, and awareness of supply. A recent comprehensive literature review and accompanying webinar discuss research on multiple dimensions of the child care decision-making process, structured within the framework of a child care decision-making conceptual model. This Topic of Interest highlights that review, webinar, and conceptual model, as well as data sets, reports, journal articles, projects, and bibliographies from the Research Connections collection.
Entangling two distant nanocavities via a waveguide
Creators: name: Tan, Hua-Tang
name: Zhang, Wei-Min
name: Li, Gao-xiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we investigate the generation of continuous variable entanglement between two spatially-separate nanocavities mediated by a coupled resonator optical waveguide in photonic crystals. By solving the exact dynamics of the cavity system coupled to the waveguide, the entanglement and purity of the two-mode cavity state are discussed in detail for the initially separated squeezing inputs. It is found that the stable and pure entangled state of the two distant nanocavities can be achieved with the requirement of only a weak cavity-waveguide coupling when the cavities are resonant with the band center of the waveguide. The strong couplings between the cavities and the waveguide lead to the entanglement sudden death and sudden birth. When the frequencies of the cavities lie outside the band of the waveguide, the waveguide-induced cross frequency shift between the cavities can optimize the achievable entanglement. It is also shown that the entanglement can be easily manipulated through the changes of the cavity frequencies within the waveguide band.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures
Vachellia constricta Seigler & Ebinger 2006
Creators: name: Miller, Joseph T.
name: Seigler, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Fabales
Fabaceae
Vachellia
Vachellia constricta

description: Vachellia constricta (Bentham) Seigler & Ebinger , D. Seigler 16061, EU440028, EU811881, EU811987, EU812051, EU811927
description: Published as part of Miller, Joseph T. & Seigler, David, 2012, Evolutionary and taxonomic relationships of Acacia s. l. (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae), pp. 217-224 in Australian Systematic Botany 25 (3) on page 224, DOI: 10.1071/sb11042, http://zenodo.org/record/4278146
Vachellia cornigera Seigler & Ebinger 2005
Creators: name: Miller, Joseph T.
name: Seigler, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Fabales
Fabaceae
Vachellia
Vachellia cornigera

description: Vachellia cornigera (L.) Seigler & Ebinger , D. Seigler 16049, EU440021, EU811874, EU811981, EU812045, EU811920
description: Published as part of Miller, Joseph T. & Seigler, David, 2012, Evolutionary and taxonomic relationships of Acacia s. l. (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae), pp. 217-224 in Australian Systematic Botany 25 (3) on page 224, DOI: 10.1071/sb11042, http://zenodo.org/record/4278146
Early care and education teacher well-being: Associations with children's experience, outcomes, and workplace conditions: A research-to-policy brief
Creators: name: Smith, Sheila
name: Lawrence, Sharmila M.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Child care workers
Early childhood educators
Child care--Evaluation
Early childhood education--Evaluation
Child care workers--Job stress

description: Identifying features of early care and education (ECE) settings that positively affect children's early learning and development is a critical challenge for the field. Most research related to this challenge has focused on structural features of ECE quality, such as teacher-child ratios and teacher credentials, and on process quality, which refers to aspects of teacher-child interactions. Another dimension of ECE settings that is receiving increased attention is teacher well-being and staff wellness. Research relevant to this topic has mainly focused on the degree to which ECE teachers show stress and other negative psychological states, such as worry, depression and emotional exhaustion, especially in response to workplace conditions. This brief examines research on ECE teachers' experience of various forms of stress and their associations with teaching practices, children's learning, and workplace conditions. The brief concludes with a set of policy recommendations informed by this research. For convenience, the term "stress" is used in summary statements and questions to reflect the broader range of negative states examined in the research. The following questions are addressed in this brief: 1. How prevalent is ECE teachers' experience of stress? 2. How does ECE teachers' work-related stress contribute to the quality of teaching practices and child outcomes? 3. What workplace factors contribute to ECE teacher stress? 4. What interventions and workplace supports promote teacher well-being? 5. What key policy recommendations are suggested by the research? (author abstract)
Suitability of Tray-Pack Shipping Containers and Bin Containers for Palletized Overseas Shipments of Small Apples
Creators: name: Fountain, James B.
name: Hovey, Roy M.
name: Risse, Lawrence A.
name: Doordan, Martin
name: Fountain, James B.
name: Hovey, Roy M.
name: Risse, Lawrence A.
name: Doordan, Martin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1972
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Excerpts from the report: The purpose of this study was to investigate ways to package and ship fresh apples to Europe at lower costs or to improve their arrival condition or both. This study investigates the costs of packaging and shipping in shallow-cup and deep-cup tray-packed boxes, palletized and nonpalletized, and bin boxes, palletized. In addition, the extent of bruising of the apples, damage to the boxes and bins, and pilferage of apples when they were packed and shipped in these containers were investigated.
Adaptation of PG 13 on Indonesian Adolescents
Creators: name: Gunawan, Prudentia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Supplemental materials for journal submission:
1. Principal Component Analysis results of the PG 13 Indonesian Version
2. Principal Component Analysis results of the DASS

3. PG 13 Indonesian Version & DASS in Google Form format
4. Dataset PG 13 Responses
5. Dataset DASS Responses
6. PG 13 Indonesian Version
Child Care and Development Block Grant Reauthorization and child care policy
Creators: name: Ferguson, Daniel
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Child care
Child care--Government policy

description: President Obama signed the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) Act of 2014 into law on November 19, reauthorizing the federal child care program for the first time since 1996. The law will have important implications for child care policy across the United States, in areas including provider health and safety requirements, consumer education, subsidy redetermination, quality improvement, and tribal child care. The full statute and a plain language summary are available on the Office of Child Care website, along with continually-updated resources on the reauthorization. The National Women's Law Center (NWLC) has developed a chart comparing provisions in the reauthorization to those in the former law, and with the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) has released an implementation guide for states. This Topic of Interest highlights recently released resources in the Research Connections collection on current child care policies that will be affected by the law.
Complete WMAP Constraints on Bandlimited Inflationary Features
Creators: name: Dvorkin, Cora
name: Hu, Wayne
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using a principal component (PC) basis that accommodates order unity features in the slow roll parameters as fine as 1/10 of a decade across more than 2 decades of the inflationary expansion, we test slow roll and single field inflation with the WMAP7 data. Detection of any non-zero component would represent a violation of ordinary slow roll and indicate a feature in the inflaton potential or sound speed. Although one component shows a deviation at the 98% CL, it cannot be considered statistically significant given the 20 components tested. The maximum likelihood PC parameters only improves 2DeltalnL by 17 for the 20 parameters associated with known glitches in the WMAP power spectrum at multipoles l<60. We make model-independent predictions for the matching glitches in the polarization spectrum that would test their inflationary origin. This complete analysis for bandlimited features in the source function of generalized slow roll can be used to constrain parameters of specific models of the inflaton potential without requiring a separate likelihood analysis for each choice. We illustrate its use by placing bounds on the height and width of a step-like feature in the potential proposed to explain the glitch at 20
description: 15 pages, 19 figures, submitted to Phys.Rev.D. Principal components of the GSR source function, means and covariances from the fiducial analysis in the paper available at http://background.uchicago.edu/wmap_fast
Vachellia cucuyo Seigler & Ebinger 2005
Creators: name: Miller, Joseph T.
name: Seigler, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Fabales
Fabaceae
Vachellia
Vachellia cucuyo

description: Vachellia cucuyo (Barneby & Zanoni) Seigler & Ebinger , D. Seigler 14534, EU440010, EU811862 EU812034
description: Published as part of Miller, Joseph T. & Seigler, David, 2012, Evolutionary and taxonomic relationships of Acacia s. l. (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae), pp. 217-224 in Australian Systematic Botany 25 (3) on page 224, DOI: 10.1071/sb11042, http://zenodo.org/record/4278146
Vachellia grandicornuta Seigler & Ebinger 2010
Creators: name: Miller, Joseph T.
name: Seigler, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Fabales
Fabaceae
Vachellia
Vachellia grandicornuta

description: Vachellia grandicornuta (Gerstner) Seigler & Ebinger , CANB 632220, EU440026, EU811879, EU811985, EU812049, EU81192
description: Published as part of Miller, Joseph T. & Seigler, David, 2012, Evolutionary and taxonomic relationships of Acacia s. l. (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae), pp. 217-224 in Australian Systematic Botany 25 (3) on page 224, DOI: 10.1071/sb11042, http://zenodo.org/record/4278146
MARQUES, João Francisco - A Parenética Portuguesa e a Restauração, 2 vols. INIC e Centro de História da Universidade do Porto, 1989. 296 + 640 p.
Creators: name: Torres, Amadeu
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 1991

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 3 (1991): Portugal e a Reforma Católica | Catolicismo e Liberalismo
Adaptation of PG 13 on Indonesian Adolescents
Creators: name: Gunawan, Prudentia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Supplemental materials for journal submission:
1. Principal Component Analysis results of the PG 13 Indonesian Version
2. Principal Component Analysis results of the DASS

3. PG 13 Indonesian Version in Google Form format
4. Dataset PG 13 Responses
5. Dataset DASS Responses
Building high-quality after school systems: Research-to-policy resources
Creators: name: Ferguson, Daniel
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: After-school programs
School-age child care
School children--Services for

description: This Research-to-Policy Resource List focuses on resources in the Research Connections collection published in the past ten years that focus on building high-quality after schools systems. The resources on this list have been assigned to the following categories: building systems, improving quality, supporting the workforce, and sustaining program finances.
A novel design for the housing of bileaflet mechanical heart valves (St. Jude medical model) : a computational approach
Creators: name: Jahandardoost, Mehdi
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: The St. Jude Medical (SJM) bileaflet mechanical heart valve (MHV) was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in the late 70’s. The basic idea for the design of the valve is simply two semicircular flat plates pivoting on recessed hinges. The SJM valve provides improved hemodynamics compared to preceding MHV models. The overall performance of SJM valves, such as the symmetry of centralized blood flow, the complete opening of leaflets, and minimal pressure drop across the valve is satisfactory; however, non-physiological hemodynamics which may lead to red blood cell (RBC) lysis and thrombogenicity (often related to incomplete wash in the hinges area) still remains a major issue. In this thesis, a design improvement was proposed to the housing of the SJM valve. It is suggested that applying 10% ovality to the housing while its perimeter remains constant may improve the hemodynamics of the SJM valve significantly. In the first step, a quick computational platform was developed to assess the hemodynamic performance of the proposed design during the closing phase. Results indicated a clear hemodynamic improvement of the proposed design over the conventional design. In the next step, a novel computational platform was developed using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) method in order to evaluate the hemodynamic performance of the new design in details in the opening phase. Using this platform, the hemodynamic behavior of the proposed design was quantitatively compared to those of the conventional design. In particular, high shear stress zones, recirculation areas, velocity vectors in different sections and time phases, and the overall valve pressure drop for both conventional design and the proposed design were successfully investigated. Also, in order to evaluate the performance of MHVs at elevated heart rates (HRs), the proposed computational platform was successfully applied. Results indicated that hemodynamics was improved in the proposed design. This improvement is characterized by a lower pressure drop across the valve and lower shear stress zones in multiple locations compared to the conventional SJM valve. The proposed design shows promise and merits further development.
Attendance rates and child outcomes
Creators: name: Ferguson, Daniel
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: School attendance
School attendance--Research
Child development
Academic achievement

description: Each September marks Attendance Awareness Month, which recognizes the important role attendance plays in supporting children's development, learning, and academic achievement. Research has examined this role extensively for attendance during children's K-12 school years. For children's early years there is a wide range of research exploring topics related to the time they spend enrolled in programs, including in full- versus part-day programs, their age at enrollment, and the number of years of program enrollment. However, there is less research asking: once children are enrolled in a given program, how often do they attend and how does attendance relate to their developmental and school outcomes? This Topic of Interest highlights research that addresses those questions.
RODRIGUES, Francisco, SI - Jesuítas Portugueses astrónomos na China, 1583-1805. Macau. I.C.M., 1990
Creators: name: Costa, João Paulo Oliveira E
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 1991

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 3 (1991): Portugal e a Reforma Católica | Catolicismo e Liberalismo
Quantum simulation of classical thermal states
Creators: name: Dür, W.
name: Nest, M. Van den
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We establish a connection between ground states of local quantum Hamiltonians and thermal states of classical spin systems. For any discrete classical statistical mechanical model in any spatial dimension, we find an associated quantum state such that the reduced density operator behaves as the thermal state of the classical system. We show that all these quantum states are unique ground states of a universal 5-body local quantum Hamiltonian acting on a (polynomially enlarged) system of qubits arranged on a 2D lattice. The only free parameters of the quantum Hamiltonian are coupling strengthes of two-body interactions, which allow one to choose the type and dimension of the classical model as well as the interaction strength and temperature.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure
Topological stability for conservative systems
Creators: name: Bessa, Mario
name: Rocha, Jorge
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37C10, 37C15

description: We prove that the C1-interior of the set of all topologically stable C1-incompressible flows is contained in the set of Anosov incompressible flows. Moreover, we obtain an analogous result for the discrete-time case.
description: 8 pages
Vachellia hockii Seigler & Ebinger 2010
Creators: name: Miller, Joseph T.
name: Seigler, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Fabales
Fabaceae
Vachellia
Vachellia hockii

description: Vachellia hockii (De Wild.) Seigler & Ebinger , T. Young 3199 Mpala, EU440014, EU811867, EU811978, EU812038
description: Published as part of Miller, Joseph T. & Seigler, David, 2012, Evolutionary and taxonomic relationships of Acacia s. l. (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae), pp. 217-224 in Australian Systematic Botany 25 (3) on page 224, DOI: 10.1071/sb11042, http://zenodo.org/record/4278146
Documenta Bartholomaeana Tridentina. Intervenções Conciliares. Leitura e tradução de Aires A. NASCIMENTO - A. do ESPIRITO SANTO, Introdução de R. A. ROLO. Biblioteca Verdade e Vida, 12 - Textos, IX. Braga, 1990. 168 p.
Creators: name: Sousa, P. G. Alves De
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 1991

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 3 (1991): Portugal e a Reforma Católica | Catolicismo e Liberalismo
Global Simulations of Accretion Disks I: Convergence and Comparisons with Local Models
Creators: name: Sorathia, Kareem A.
name: Reynolds, Christopher S.
name: Stone, James M.
name: Beckwith, Kris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Grid-based magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations have proven invaluable for the study of astrophysical accretion disks. However, the fact that angular momentum transport in disks is mediated by MHD turbulence (with structure down to very small scales) raises the concern that the properties of the modeled accretion disks are affected by the finite numerical resolution of the simulation. By implementing an orbital advection algorithm into the Athena code in cylindrical geometry, we have performed a set of global (but unstratified) Newtonian disk simulations extending up to resolutions previously unattained. We study the convergence of these models as a function of spatial resolution and initial magnetic field geometry. The usual viscosity parameter ($α$) or the ratio of thermal-to-magnetic pressure ($β$) are found to be poor diagnostics of convergence, whereas the average tilt angle of the magnetic field in the $(r,ϕ)$-plane is a very good diagnostic of convergence. We suggest that this is related to the saturation of the MHD turbulence via parasitic modes of the magnetorotational instability. Even in the case of zero-net magnetic flux, we conclude that our highest resolution simulations (with 32-zones and 64-zones per vertical scale height) have achieved convergence. Our global simulations reach resolutions comparable to those used in local, shearing box models of MHD disk turbulence. We find that the saturation predictors derived from local simulations correspond well to the instantaneous correlations between local flux and stress found in our global simulations. However, the conservation of magnetic flux implicit in local models is not realized in our global disks. Thus, the magnetic connectivity of an accretion disk represents physics that is truly global and cannot be captured in any ab-initio local model.
description: 55 pages, 17 figures, ApJ submitted
Synthetics and Substitutes for Agricultural Products: Projections for 1980
Creators: name: Gallimore, William W.
name: Gallimore, William W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1972
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: substitutes
subject: synthetics
subject: projections 1980
subject: resource allocation
subject: animal products
subject: cotton
subject: sweeteners
subject: citrus

description: This report describes the present market penetration of substitutes and synthetics available for food and beverages and for apparel and furnishings. Synthetics and substitutes have captured about 21 percent of retail citrus beverage purchases; margarine has more than two-thirds of the table spread market; and other foods and beverages, including whipping cream and sweeteners have lost sales to new products. Nearly half of all broadwoven goods are made from synthetic fibers or a blend containing synthetic and natural fibers. At least two levels of market penetration by synthetics and substitutes are projected for 1980 for red meat and poultry, dairy products, leather, wool, cotton, sweeteners, and citrus products. Changes in land resources are shown for each projected level of market penetration. Agriculture is expected to maintain its position as major supplier of our food and fiber needs in 1980. Synthetics are not expected to cause major adjustment problems for agriculture through the 70's.
Vachellia macracantha Seigler & Ebinger 2006
Creators: name: Miller, Joseph T.
name: Seigler, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Fabales
Fabaceae
Vachellia
Vachellia macracantha

description: Vachellia macracantha (Humboldt & Bonpland ex Willdenow) Seigler & Ebinger , D. Seigler 16052, EU 440030, EU 811884, EU 811989, EU 812053
description: Published as part of Miller, Joseph T. & Seigler, David, 2012, Evolutionary and taxonomic relationships of Acacia s. l. (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae), pp. 217-224 in Australian Systematic Botany 25 (3) on page 224, DOI: 10.1071/sb11042, http://zenodo.org/record/4278146
Research Connections research methods pages
Creators: name: West, Jerry
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Child care--Research
Early childhood education--Research
Research--Methodology
Social sciences--Research--Methodology

description: This document provides basic information about the study designs, data collection and analytic methods commonly used in early child care policy and other social science research. It is intended to give users a general orientation to research designs and methodologies to aid in understanding research in this field. Below are links to descriptions and discussions of different research designs, data collection approaches, and analytic methods and strategies. In addition to the information and discussion contained in each of these sections, links are provided to resources where additional information on a topic can be found. (author abstract)
Using H-alpha Morphology and Surface Brightness Fluctuations to Age-Date Star Clusters in M83
Creators: name: Whitmore, Bradley C.
name: Chandar, Rupali
name: Kim, Hwihyun
name: Kaleida, Catherine
name: Mutchler, Max
name: Calzetti, Daniela
name: Saha, Abhijit
name: O'Connell, Robert
name: Balick, Bruce
name: Bond, Howard E.
name: Carollo, Marcella
name: Disney, Michael J.
name: Dopita, Michael A.
name: Frogel, Jay A.
name: Hall, Donald N. B.
name: Holtzman, Jon A.
name: Kimble, Randy A.
name: McCarthy, Patrick J.
name: Paresce, Francesco
name: Silk, Joseph I.
name: Trauger, John T.
name: Walker, Alistair R.
name: Windhorst, Rogier A.
name: Young, Erick T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use new WFC3 observations of the nearby grand design spiral galaxy M83 to develop two independent methods for estimating the ages of young star clusters. The first method uses the physical extent and morphology of Halpha emission to estimate the ages of clusters younger than tau ~10 Myr. It is based on the simple premise that the gas in very young (tau < few Myr) clusters is largely coincident with the cluster stars, is in a small, ring-like structure surrounding the stars in slightly older clusters (e.g., tau ~5 Myr), and is in a larger ring-like bubble for still older clusters (i.e., ~5-10 Myr). The second method is based on an observed relation between pixel-to-pixel flux variations within clusters and their ages. This method relies on the fact that the brightest individual stars in a cluster are most prominent at ages around 10 Myr, and fall below the detection limit (i.e., M_V < -3.5) for ages older than about 100 Myr. These two methods are the basis for a new morphological classification system which can be used to estimate the ages of star clusters based on their appearance. We compare previous age estimates of clusters in M83 determined from fitting UBVI Halpha measurements using predictions from stellar evolutionary models with our new morphological categories and find good agreement at the ~95% level. The scatter within categories is ~0.1 dex in log tau for young clusters (<10 Myr) and ~0.5 dex for older (>10 Myr) clusters. A by-product of this study is the identification of 22 "single-star" HII regions in M83, with central stars having ages ~4 Myr.
description: 33 pages, 10 figures, 3 tables; published in March ApJ