cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Analysis of Plant and Animal Proteins Using Raman Spectroscopy
Creators: name: Bapardekar, Noopur
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2022

description: There has been a notable rise in the alternative protein market in the recent years which promotes an interest in the research of both animal and plant proteins to establish better structure-function relationships. Over the years many analytical tools have been used to study proteins and compare them, however Raman Spectroscopy and Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) have not been as much used for this application. SERS consolidates Raman Spectroscopy that primarily measures molecular vibrations and nanostructures that enhance the weak Raman signals. The objective of this study is to explore the capability of the Raman instrumentation in combination with different substrates for spectroscopic analysis of 3 animal proteins viz. whey, k-casein and albumin from chicken egg white and 4 plant proteins namely mung bean, soy, pea and faba bean. Herein, we firstly established a method that could be applied to all proteins to detect characteristic peaks that are related to their structure. Of all the methods, SERS with silver dendrites was the most promising method that detected protein characteristic peaks, particularly the shifts around 700-900 cm-1 attributed to the CN stretch and tryptophan groups. Although different proteins exhibit similar spectral characteristics, they were discriminated using principal component analysis. Then we explored the optimal method to study the effect of different environmental conditions including pH and salt concentration on the protein spectroscopic analysis. The limitations of the substrates were better understood during this process as Ag dendrites failed to provide a spectrum in the high pH range but was compatible with different salt concentrations. The peaks in the Amide-I region were vi used as a marker to study the effect of change in pH and salt. Most proteins showing a shift in the band suggesting a transition from α-sheet to a random coil conformation. The acquired spectra and subsequent PCA results depicted that pea protein was the most susceptible to change in pH amongst other proteins whereas faba bean was susceptible to a change in salt concentration. Finally, these learnings were applied to analyze a real-world food product to compare its spectroscopic characteristic with the standards we have. In conclusion, we demonstrated that Raman Spectroscopy and SERS was able to provide distinct spectroscopic characteristics of plant and animal proteins that may be used to facilitate the quality control or product development of novel plant-based food products. Future work will investigate the relationship between the spectroscopic characteristics and the structural function of proteins.
British Columbia Legislative Assembly sessional clipping book (1967-02)
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Politics and government
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919741
subject: Law
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/993678
subject: FOS: Law
subject: British Columbia. Legislative Assembly
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/600765

description: These Sessional Clippings books cover the period 1891 to 1972, and include newspaper accounts written by various legislative reporters who covered debates occurring in the British Columbia Legislative Assembly. Transcripts of debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard) were not published in B.C. until 1970; hence these "Sessional Clipping Books" augment the "Journals", the record of daily proceedings of the Legislative Assembly. Selected clippings from various newspapers including the Vancouver Sun, the Vancouver Province, the Colonist, and the Times newspapers, relating to the newspaper reports concerning activities of the Legislature. The original sessional clippings books comprise 351 ledger size print volumes, held at the Legislative Library in Victoria BC. The print volumes were microfilmed onto 26 reels in 1977 under a Tri University Libraries (TRIUL) project by Precision Micrographic Services (Vancouver, B.C.), with the permission of the Legislative Library, Victoria, British Columbia. This digital collection was created by scanning the 26 microfilm reels.
Teaching English Language Learners through Technology
Creators: name: Madrazo, Danielle
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: English language--Study and teaching--Technological innovations
Educational technology
English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers--Computer-assisted instruction
Education
English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers

description: As the fourth book in the series Teaching Language Learners Across the Curriculum, this volume by Tony Erben, Ruth Ban, and Martha Castañeda serves as a straightforward and practical handbook for pre-service and in-service K-12 classroom teachers who have no formal pedagogical training in second language teaching. Whereas the previous books in the series focused on specific subject areas, Teaching Language Learners through Technology is relevant to all content areas and bridges linguistics, language learning research, and practical day-to-day teaching strategies to show educators how the use of technology in differentiated instruction can help facilitate language learning.
Second Language Reading Research and Instruction: Crossing the Boundaries
Creators: name: Jung, Jookyoung
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Reading comprehension
Reading comprehension--Research
Second language acquisition--Research
Education
English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers

description: Second language (L2) reading serves dual roles in L2 learning – both as a literacy skill for comprehension and as a source of L2 input (Eskey, 2005; Grabe, 1991). However, L2 reading researchers have traditionally focused on either one of the two dimensions at a time, with the other largely unattended, as is reflected in the discrepancies between literacy-oriented research and language-oriented research. With its primary goal being comprehension, literacy-oriented research has fueled most notably a whole language approach, and a skills approach, to L2 reading instruction. The whole language approach highlights the importance of higher-level processes based on background knowledge, whereas the skills approach emphasizes lower-level processes such as orthographic processing, morphological analysis, and word recognition, among others. By contrast, with language-oriented research, the acquisition approach conceptualizes reading as a vehicle for delivering L2 input that is conducive to the development of L2 competence. As can be expected, the theoretical and pedagogical chasms among these approaches have thus yielded unbalanced views on the nature of L2 reading and, more importantly, on its relationship with L2 acquisition.
A Large, Uniform Sample of X-Ray-emitting Active Galactic Nuclei from the ROSAT All Sky and Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: The Data Release 5 Sample
Creators: name: Anderson, Scott F.
name: Margon, Bruce
name: Voges, Wolfgang
name: Plotkin, Richard M.
name: Syphers, David
name: Haggard, Daryl
name: Collinge, Matthew J.
name: Meyer, Jillian
name: Strauss, Michael A.
name: Agüeros, Marcel Andre
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2007
Subjects: Astrophysics
Galactic nuclei
X-ray spectroscopy
X-ray astronomy
Active galactic nuclei
Astronomy

description: We describe further results of a program aimed at yielding ~104 fully characterized optical identifications of ROSAT X-ray sources. Our program employs X-ray data from the ROSAT All Sky Survey (RASS) and both optical imaging and spectroscopic data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). RASS/SDSS data from 5740 deg² of sky spectroscopically covered in SDSS Data Release 5 provide an expanded catalog of 7000 confirmed quasars and other active galactic nuclei (AGNs) that are probable RASS identifications. Again, in our expanded catalog the identifications as X-ray sources are statistically secure, with only a few percent of the SDSS AGNs likely to be randomly superposed on unrelated RASS X-ray sources. Most identifications continue to be quasars and Seyfert 1 galaxies with 15 < m < 21 and 0.01 < z < 4, but the total sample size has grown to include very substantial numbers of even quite rare AGNs, e.g., it now includes several hundreds of candidate X-ray-emitting BL Lac objects and narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies. In addition to exploring rare subpopulations, such a large total sample may be useful when considering correlations between the X-ray and the optical and may also serve as a resource list from which to select the "best" object (e.g., X-ray-brightest AGN of a certain subclass at a preferred redshift or luminosity) for follow-up X-ray spectral or alternate detailed studies.
Magnetic fields of Sun-like stars
Creators: name: Fares, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetic fields play an important role at all stages of stellar evolution. In Sun-like stars, they are generated in the outer convective layers. Studying the large-scale magnetic fields of these stars enlightens our understanding of the field properties and gives us observational constraints for the field generation models. In this review, I summarise the current observational picture of the large-scale magnetic fields of Sun-like stars, in particular solar-twins and planet-host stars. I discuss the observations of large-scale magnetic cycles, and compare these cycles to the solar cycle.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the IAUS302 "Magnetic fields throughout stellar evolution". arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1109.3982
Improving Seasonal Prediction Practices Through Attribution of Climate Variability
Creators: name: Barnston, Anthony G.
name: Kumar, Arun
name: Goddard, Lisa M.
name: Hoerling, Martin P.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2005
Subjects: Ocean temperature
Ocean-atmosphere interaction
Climatic changes--Simulation methods
Climatic changes--Forecasting
Atmosphere

description: The Seasonal Diagnostics Consortium of the Applied Research Centers is engaging in a real-time activity to detect and understand the role of sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies in observed climate anomalies. The activity is aimed to improve practices in seasonal climate forecasting by fully harvesting the accumulated research evidence of the climate's sensitivity to ocean forcing. The approach, in the first phase of the activity, involves performing ensembles of atmospheric general circulation models (AGCMs) at several institutions, using the most recently observed global SST anomalies as prescribed forcings. The runs are routinely updated each month as the latest SST observations become available, adding to the archive of historical simulations spanning the last half-century. The SST-forced signal in the seasonal mean climate is detected through the agreement among ensemble mean anomalies drawn from the simulations of the various AGCMs. The consortium activity also compares the dynamically forced signals with those estimated empirically, based on the observational archive. A comparison of the coordinated simulations with the observed climate anomalies is then made for two principal reasons: 1) to offer an attribution for the ocean's role in the origin of the observed seasonal climate anomalies, and 2) to determine the causes for success or failure of operational seasonal climate predictions, whose tools may be either mainly dynamically or empirically derived. It is expected that routine climate diagnostics and attribution efforts for climate anomalies will help further develop the knowledge base for improving the practice of seasonal climate predictions, and advance understanding of global climate on seasonal to decadal time scales.
title: The Future of EU Cohesion
title: Effects of the Twin Transition on Disparities across European Regions
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Maucorps, Ambre
name: Römisch, Roman
name: Vujanovic, Nina
name: Schwab, Thomas
Publisher: name: Bertelsmann Stiftung
Year: 2022
Subjects: Europäische Union
Regionen
Transformation
Digitalisierung
Grüner Wandel
Kohäsionspolitik

description: Closing the prosperity gap between regions has always been a key political aspiration of the European Union – and cohesion policy is the primary means to achieve that goal. Europe is currently undergoing a digital and green transition that is drastically changing the way its economy works. How well prepared are regions to capitalise on the twin transition? And what impact will it have on regional cohesion in Europe? Our study finds that greening and digitalising the economy will likely widen the gap between rich and poor regions in Europe.
Electronic nematic phase transition in the presence of anisotropy
Creators: name: Yamase, Hiroyuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the phase diagram of electronic nematic instability in the presence of xy anisotropy. While a second order transition cannot occur in this case, mean-field theory predicts that a first order transition occurs near van Hove filling and its phase boundary forms a wing structure, which we term a Griffiths wing, referring to his original work of He3-He4 mixtures. When crossing the wing, the anisotropy of the electronic system exhibits a discontinuous change, leading to a meta-nematic transition, i.e., the analog to a meta-magnetic transition in a magnetic system. The upper edge of the wing corresponds to a critical end line, which shows a non-monotonic temperature dependence as a function of the external anisotropy and vanishes at a quantum critical end point for a strong anisotropy. The mean-field phase diagram is, however, very sensitive to fluctuations of the nematic order parameter, yielding a topologically different phase diagram. The Griffiths wing is broken into two pieces. A tiny wing appears close to zero anisotropy and the other is realized for a strong anisotropy. Consequently three quantum critical end points are realized. We discuss that these results can be related to various materials including a cold atom system.
description: 19 pages, 2 figures
British Columbia Legislative Assembly sessional clipping book (1967-03)
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Politics and government
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919741
subject: Law
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/993678
subject: FOS: Law
subject: British Columbia. Legislative Assembly
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/600765

description: These Sessional Clippings books cover the period 1891 to 1972, and include newspaper accounts written by various legislative reporters who covered debates occurring in the British Columbia Legislative Assembly. Transcripts of debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard) were not published in B.C. until 1970; hence these "Sessional Clipping Books" augment the "Journals", the record of daily proceedings of the Legislative Assembly. Selected clippings from various newspapers including the Vancouver Sun, the Vancouver Province, the Colonist, and the Times newspapers, relating to the newspaper reports concerning activities of the Legislature. The original sessional clippings books comprise 351 ledger size print volumes, held at the Legislative Library in Victoria BC. The print volumes were microfilmed onto 26 reels in 1977 under a Tri University Libraries (TRIUL) project by Precision Micrographic Services (Vancouver, B.C.), with the permission of the Legislative Library, Victoria, British Columbia. This digital collection was created by scanning the 26 microfilm reels.
Homotopy Perturbation Method for Solving a Spatially Flat FRW Cosmological Model
Creators: name: Shchigolev, V. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the present paper, we study a homogeneous cosmological model in Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) space-time by means of the so-called Homotopy Perturbation Method (HPM). First, we briefly recall the main equations of the cosmological model and the basic idea of HPM. Next we consider the test example when the exact solution of the model is known, in order to approbate the HPM in cosmology and present the main steps in solving by this method. Finally, we obtain a solution for the spatially flat FRW model of the universe filled with the dust and quintessence when the exact solution cannot be found. A comparison of our solution with the corresponding numerical solution shows that it is of a high degree of accuracy.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Another Look at Norris and Ortega (2000)
Creators: name: Shin, Hye Won
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Meta-analysis
Linguistics--Research--Methodology
Second language acquisition--Research
Education
English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers

description: Since Norris and Ortega’s (2000) seminal work on the effectiveness of second language instruction, there has been a proliferation of meta-analyses in the field of applied linguistics. Subsequent meta-analysts, however, have uncritically followed the methodological choices made by Norris and Ortega. This paper suggests a critical reevaluation of the methodological procedures underlying the Norris and Ortega (2000) meta-analysis. I reexamined their procedures, and reassessed the 49 unique samples they used in their meta-analysis. In doing so, I identified three key methodological limitations with the study, pertaining, respectively, to (a) the data collection procedure, (b) the coding system, and (c) the statistical analysis. I argue that the lack of data quality inherent in the primary studies, the oversimplified coding scheme, and the inappropriate use of effect size statistics combine to compromise the validity of the conclusions Norris and Ortega have drawn from their meta-analysis. I subsequently provide alternative procedures which may yield a more empirically sound research synthesis, recommending, for future meta-analysts, the “best evidence synthesis‟ approach where conclusions are drawn from combining quantitative and qualitative analyses.
Speech Characteristics of Japanese Speakers Affecting American and Japanese Listener Evaluations
Creators: name: Kashiwagi, Atsuko
name: Snyder, Michael
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: English language--Study and teaching--Japanese speakers
Oral communication
English language--Pronunciation by foreign speakers
Education
English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers

description: The study examines what pronunciation features (i.e., segmental and suprasegmental features, as well as other acoustic properties such as speech rate, intensity, pitch, and pitch range) affect the intelligibility of Japanese learners of English, when judged by native-speaking (NS; American) and non-native-speaking (NNS; Japanese) listeners. Kashiwagi and Snyder (2008) concluded, based on both statistical and interview data, that intelligibility and accentedness judgments were quasi-independent of each other, and that segmental features in the speech samples of Japanese learners were perceived both by NS (American) and NNS (Japanese) listeners to be more problematic than suprasegmentals. The present study is designed to verify these conclusions by re-examining the data with further statistical procedures. Additional data on speech rate, intensity, pitch, and pitch range were also added to the statistical analyses to explore the issue of intelligibility. The resulting data suggest that non-native pronunciation of segmentals, especially of certain vowels, affect the judgments of intelligibility most strongly, and that intelligibility scores and accentedness ratings are controlled by different sets of factors. Speech rate, intensity, pitch and pitch range are also found to have some effects. The data also suggest that NS (American) and NNS (Japanese) listeners are affected differently by certain pronunciation features.
The Ultraviolet, Optical, and Infrared Properties of Sloan Digital Sky Survey Sources Detected by GALEX
Creators: name: Agüeros, Marcel Andre
name: Ivezić, Željko
name: Covey, Kevin R.
name: Obrić, Mirela
name: Hao, Lei
name: Walkowicz, Lucianne M.
name: West, Andrew A.
name: Vanden Berk, Daniel E.
name: Lupton, Robert H.
name: Knapp, Gillian R.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2005
Subjects: Astrophysics
Stars
Ultraviolet spectra
Galaxies

description: We discuss the ultraviolet, optical, and infrared properties of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) sources detected by the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) as part of its All-sky Imaging Survey Early Release Observations. Virtually all (>99%) the GALEX sources in the overlap region are detected by SDSS; those without an SDSS counterpart within our 6'' search radius are mostly unflagged GALEX artifacts. GALEX sources represent ~2.5% of all SDSS sources within these fields, and about half are optically unresolved. Most unresolved GALEX-SDSS sources are bright (r < 18 mag), blue, turnoff, thick-disk stars and are typically detected only in the GALEX near-ultraviolet (NUV) band. The remaining unresolved sources include low-redshift quasars (z < 2.2), white dwarfs, and white dwarf–M dwarf pairs, and these dominate the optically unresolved sources detected in both GALEX bands. Almost all the resolved SDSS sources detected by GALEX are fainter than the SDSS main spectroscopic limit. (Conversely, of the SDSS galaxies in the main spectroscopic sample, about 40% are detected in at least one GALEX band.) These sources have colors consistent with those of blue (spiral) galaxies (u - r < 2.2), and most are detected in both GALEX bands. Measurements of their UV colors allow much more accurate and robust estimates of star formation history than are possible using only SDSS data. Indeed, galaxies with the most recent (lesssim20 Myr) star formation can be robustly selected from the GALEX data by requiring that they be brighter in the far-ultraviolet (FUV) than in the NUV band. However, older starburst galaxies have UV colors similar to those of active galactic nuclei and thus cannot be selected unambiguously on the basis of GALEX fluxes alone. Additional information, such as spatially resolved FUV emission, optical morphology, or X-ray and radio data, is needed before blue GALEX colors can be unambiguously interpreted as a sign of recent star formation. With the aid of Two Micron All Sky Survey data, we construct and discuss median 10-band UV through infrared spectral energy distributions for turnoff stars, hot white dwarfs, low-redshift quasars, and spiral and elliptical galaxies. We point out the high degree of correlation between the UV color and the contribution of the UV flux to the UV through infrared flux of galaxies detected by GALEX; for example, this correlation can be used to predict the SDSS z-band measurement, using only two GALEX fluxes, with a scatter of only 0.7 mag.
Vulpes vulpes
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Canidae
Vulpes
Vulpes vulpes

description: Vulpes vulpes (Linnaeus, 1758). Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:40. TYPE LOCALITY: Sweden, Uppsala. DISTRIBUTION: Europe and continental Asia except the tundra; N. India and peninsular Indochina; Japan; Palearctic Africa; N. America as far south as Texas and New Mexico (U.S.A.), but absent in part of the Central Plains and the Arctic. COMMENT: Includes fulva; see Hall, 1981:936. Placed in genus Canis, subgenus Vulpes by Van Gelder, 1978:8. ISIS NUMBER: 5301412001015010000.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, pp. 244-289 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 250, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980
description: {"references": ["Hall, E. R. 1981. The mammals of North America. Second ed. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1: 1 - 600 + 90, 2: 601 - 1181 + 90.", "Van Gelder, R. G. 1978. A review of canid classification. American Museum Novitates, 2646: 1 - 10."]}
Decadal Prediction: Can It Be Skillful?
Creators: name: Meehl, Gerald A.
name: Goddard, Lisa M.
name: Murphy, James
name: Stouffer, Ronald J.
name: Boer, George
name: Danabasoglu, Gokhan
name: Dixon, Keith
name: Giorgetta, Marco A.
name: Greene, Arthur M.
name: Hawkins, Ed
name: Hegerl, Gabriele
name: Karoly, David
name: Keenlyside, Noel
name: Kimoto, Masahide
name: Kirtman, Ben
name: Navarra, Antonio
name: Pulwarty, Roger
name: Smith, Doug
name: Stammer, Detlef
name: Stockdale, Timothy
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Climatic changes--Research
Climatic changes--Forecasting
Atmosphere
Climatic changes

description: A new field of study, “decadal prediction,” is emerging in climate science. Decadal prediction lies between seasonal/interannual forecasting and longer-term climate change projections, and focuses on time-evolving regional climate conditions over the next 10–30 yr. Numerous assessments of climate information user needs have identified this time scale as being important to infrastructure planners, water resource managers, and many others. It is central to the information portfolio required to adapt effectively to and through climatic changes. At least three factors influence time-evolving regional climate at the decadal time scale: 1) climate change commitment (further warming as the coupled climate system comes into adjustment with increases of greenhouse gases that have already occurred), 2) external forcing, particularly from future increases of greenhouse gases and recovery of the ozone hole, and 3) internally generated variability. Some decadal prediction skill has been demonstrated to arise from the first two of these factors, and there is evidence that initialized coupled climate models can capture mechanisms of internally generated decadal climate variations, thus increasing predictive skill globally and particularly regionally. Several methods have been proposed for initializing global coupled climate models for decadal predictions, all of which involve global time-evolving three-dimensional ocean data, including temperature and salinity. An experimental framework to address decadal predictability/prediction is described in this paper and has been incorporated into the coordinated Coupled Model Intercomparison Model, phase 5 (CMIP5) experiments, some of which will be assessed for the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5). These experiments will likely guide work in this emerging field over the next 5 yr.
Frames, Footing, and Teacher-Initiated Questions: An Analysis of a Beginning French Class for Adults
Creators: name: Creider, Sarah
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: French language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers
Adult education--Psychological aspects
Teacher-student relationships
Education
English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers

description: Unlike children learning to speak, adults come to the language-learning process with years of life experience. They may be beginners in a new language, but they are not beginners in their own lives. Yet, some of the most common types of teacher/student exchanges, especially those that follow a teacher-initiated question, may lead to situations in which students who are speaking about familiar topics still feel, act, and are treated as novices. This paper explores a beginning French class for adults, asking how the class participants deal with dual — and sometimes conflicting — roles. On the one hand, the teacher‘s knowledge of French puts her in the role of expert, especially in comparison to her beginning-level students. At the same time, teacher and students are all adults who, outside of the classroom, would meet as equals in terms of general knowledge and experience. These shifting roles can be seen especially clearly in interchanges following questions about students‘ own lives. While it seems evident that a student would know more about her background than anyone else, such questions often seem more like tests of how well students can answer in French than actual requests for information.
Waste_PET_to_polyols(Review).docx
Creators: name: Mardanov, Aladdin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 30306 Synthesis of Materials
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 30305 Polymerisation Mechanisms
subject: 30302 Nanochemistry and Supramolecular Chemistry
subject: 30399 Macromolecular and Materials Chemistry not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: PET recycling means and comparisons between conditions, catalysts, and residence time.Production of novel polyols for polyurethane production
Decadal Climate Predictability and Prediction: Where Are We?
Creators: name: Mehta, Vikram
name: Meehl, Gerald
name: Goddard, Lisa M.
name: Knight, Jeff
name: Kumar, Arun
name: Latif, Mojib
name: Lee, Tong
name: Rosati, Anthony
name: Stammer, Detlef
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Climatic changes--Research
Climatic changes--Forecasting
Atmosphere
Climatic changes

description: This brief meeting summary provides an overview of the consensus of a research community workshop on decadal climate variability (DCV) held in the fall of 2009. The consensus of the participants was that decadal climate predictions may become useful to society some time in the future, but will be highly experimental in the near future. Reflecting the increasing interest in decadal climate predictions since the previous DCV Workshop in May 2007, the main theme this time was “Decadal climate predictability and prediction: Where are we?”; the purpose was to describe and summarize the status of decadal climate nowcasting and forecasting, thus outlining a research strategy to secure the needed observations and methods to quantify predictability of DCV, and to identify unsolved science problems. Gaps in our knowledge of DCV were identified, as were areas of needed research. Recommendations in areas of predictability and prediction; observations, theory, and modeling; and societal impacts are summarized.
Decadal Climate Prediction: An Update from the Trenches
Creators: name: Meehl, Gerald A.
name: Goddard, Lisa M.
name: Boer, George
name: Burgman, Robert
name: Branstator, Grant
name: Cassou, Christophe
name: Corti, Susanna
name: Danabasoglu, Gokhan
name: Doblas-Reyes, Francisco
name: Hawkins, Ed
name: Karspeck, Alicia
name: Kimoto, Masahide
name: Kumar, Arun
name: Matei, Daniela
name: Mignot, Juliette
name: Msadek, Rym
name: Navarra, Antonio
name: Pohlmann, Holger
name: Rienecker, Michele
name: Rosati, Tony
name: Schneider, Edwin
name: Smith, Doug
name: Sutton, Rowan
name: Teng, Haiyan
name: Van Oldenborgh, Geert Jan
name: Vecchi, Gabriel
name: Yeager, Stephen
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Climatic changes--Simulation methods
Climatic changes--Forecasting
Atmosphere

description: This paper provides an update on research in the relatively new and fast-moving field of decadal climate prediction, and addresses the use of decadal climate predictions not only for potential users of such information but also for improving our understanding of processes in the climate system. External forcing influences the predictions throughout, but their contributions to predictive skill become dominant after most of the improved skill from initialization with observations vanishes after about 6–9 years. Recent multimodel results suggest that there is relatively more decadal predictive skill in the North Atlantic, western Pacific, and Indian Oceans than in other regions of the world oceans. Aspects of decadal variability of SSTs, like the mid-1970s shift in the Pacific, the mid-1990s shift in the northern North Atlantic and western Pacific, and the early-2000s hiatus, are better represented in initialized hindcasts compared to uninitialized simulations. There is evidence of higher skill in initialized multimodel ensemble decadal hindcasts than in single model results, with multimodel initialized predictions for near-term climate showing somewhat less global warming than uninitialized simulations. Some decadal hindcasts have shown statistically reliable predictions of surface temperature over various land and ocean regions for lead times of up to 6–9 years, but this needs to be investigated in a wider set of models. As in the early days of El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) prediction, improvements to models will reduce the need for bias adjustment, and increase the reliability, and thus usefulness, of decadal climate predictions in the future.
title: Utilizing Climate Change Refugia For Climate Change Adaptation And Management In The Northeast
Creators: name: Wisner, Sara A
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2022

description: To account for the effects of climate change, management plans in the northeast need to incorporate climate adaptation. Conserving climate change refugia is one adaptation strategy. Climate change refugia are areas buffered by climate change that enable the persistence of valued physical, ecological, and cultural resources; preserving these areas could be a potential adaptation strategy. Using a translational ecology approach where researchers and managers from the National Park Service, US Geological Survey, the University of Massachusetts, and elsewhere worked together, we focused on identifying refugia for tree, herbaceous plant, mammal, and bird species in order to prioritize them for conservation action. Results predict shifts in distribution of habitats and species due to climate change, identifying areas to prioritize for invasive species treatment and other management actions. This study highlights priorities for future monitoring and data analysis, providing a model that can be replicated in other regions and motivate future research.
ASTROSAT: Some Key Science Prospects
Creators: name: Paul, Biswajit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: ASTROSAT is an astronomy satellite designed for simultaneous multi-wavelength studies in the Optical/UV and a broad X-ray energy range. With four X-ray instruments and a pair of UV-Optical telescopes, ASTROSAT will provide unprecendented opportunity for simultaneous multi-wavelength observations, which is of immense value in study of highly variable sources, especially X-ray binaries and Active Galactic Nuclei. The Large Area X-ray Proportional Counters (LAXPC) of ASTROSAT, which has the largest effective area in the hard X-ray band compared to all previous X-ray missions, will enable high time resolution X-ray measurements in the 2-80 keV band with moderate energy resolution. Here we give a brief summary of the payload characteristics of ASTROSAT and discuss some of the main science topics that will be addressed with the LAXPC, and with simultaneous observations with the UVIT telescopes, with particular emphasis on X-ray binaries and compact objects. The possibility of aiding gravitational wave experiments is also briefly mentioned.
description: Invited Review to International Journal of Modern Physics D (based on a talk in ASTROD-5 symposium at RRI, Bangalore)
The International Research Institute for Climate and Society: why, what and how
Creators: name: Goddard, Lisa M.
name: Baethgen, Walter E.
name: Bhojwani, Haresh
name: Robertson, Andrew W.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Climatic changes--Risk management
Sustainable development--International cooperation
Climate change mitigation
Climatic changes--Research
Climatic changes

description: A climate-informed and climate-ready world is possible. Large investments are being made toward adaptation and resilience to climate change, but many of those investments are separated from the more immediate climate-related vulnerabilities and opportunities that society faces. Information is increasingly available that could be used to guide action; however, information alone is not sufficient. Research at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) since 1996 has led to the identification of the several guiding principles to scope and address climate-related challenges to decision- and policy-makers at local-to-regional scale. These include climate-related information, such as assessment of the main vulnerabilities to climate variability and change in countries or regions, and the provision of climate information, products and tools to support decisions, including financial tools that are appropriate to the climate-related risk and that can mediate residual risk. The guiding principles also include identifying the technologies and practices that optimize results in coming years, demonstration of the usefulness of climate information to support climate-related decisions, training and capacity building, and partnerships for research and implementation. This essay introduces the evolution of the IRI and its work that is then elaborated through a series of articles that constitute a special issue of Earth Perspectives: Transdisciplinarity Enabled. The collection of articles provides insight into the science and process that lead to better climate-informed choices. Part of the collection of articles in the special issue covers specific stories of local-to-regional engagement with partners to address climate-related problems. Other articles represent how we do what we do, in particular highlighting the research, the climate forecast effort, and the IRI Data Library. Finally, there are two papers offered from partners that have long-time engagement with the IRI
Modified Einstein and Finsler Like Theories on Tangent Lorentz Bundles
Creators: name: Stavrinos, Panayiotis
name: Vacaru, Olivia
name: Vacaru, Sergiu I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study modifications of general relativity, GR, with nonlinear dispersion relations which can be geometrized on tangent Lorentz bundles. Such modified gravity theories, MGTs, can be modeled by gravitational Lagrange density functionals $f(\mathbf{R},\mathbf{T},F)$ with generalized/ modified scalar curvature $\mathbf{R}$, trace of matter field tensors $\mathbf{T}$ and modified Finsler like generating function $F$. In particular, there are defined extensions of GR with extra dimensional "velocity/ momentum" coordinates. For four dimensional models, we prove that it is possible to decouple and integrate in very general forms the gravitational fields for $f(\mathbf{R},\mathbf{T},F)$-modified gravity using nonholonomic 2+2 splitting and nonholonomic Finsler like variables $F$. We study the modified motion and Newtonian limits of massive test particles on nonlinear geodesics approximated with effective extra forces orthogonal to the four--velocity. We compute the constraints on the magnitude of extra-accelerations and analyze perihelion effects and possible cosmological implications of such theories. We also derive the extended Raychaudhuri equation in the framework of a tangent Lorentz bundle. Finally, we speculate on effective modelling of modified theories by generic off-diagonal configurations in Einstein and/or MGTs and Finsler gravity. We provide some examples for modified stationary (black) ellipsoid configurations and locally anisotropic solitonic backgrounds.
description: latex2e, 20 pages; version accepted to IJMPD; changed title and modifications following requests of referee
title: Developmental Patterns of EEG and ECG Physiological Similarity Between Mother and Child
Creators: name: Bertrand, Christina
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2022

description: Physiological indicators like heart rate (HR) and its variability (HRV) from ECG (electrocardiograms), and frontal lobe alpha power asymmetry (AA) and frontoparietal connectivity from EEG (electroencephalograms), can elucidate the role of the nervous system and other visceral organs and their effects on behavioral measures of cognitive and emotional self-regulation. Knowledge of the intergenerational transmission of cardiac and cerebral physiology can provide insight as to the developmental patterns of the organization and stabilization of these physiological processes in children and their mothers. The current study addresses a key question: Is there a developmental shift from 3-9 years of age in the overall pattern of EEG and ECG similarity between children and their mothers? The hypothesis was that there would be increasing child-mother similarity with age. EEG and ECG physiology was examined during a resting-state baseline period, during completion of cognitive tasks, and as baseline-to-task changes in EEG AA and frontoparietal coherence, and ECG HR and HRV in children and their mothers. A socioeconomically diverse longitudinal sample of 171 mothers with their children at ages 3, 6, and 9 years completed questionnaires and laboratory visits. Results indicated that there was some evidence to suggest the presence of mother-child similarity. Twenty of the seventy-two estimated intraclass correlations were significant. Furthermore, of the 20 significant correlations overall, none were present at child age 3 years, 6 were significant at child age 6 years, and 14 were significant at child age 9 years. Thus, overall, there was evidence that by age 6 years, child-mother similarity in physiological indicators of SR had begun to emerge. Additionally, consistent with the study hypothesis, there was some evidence of a pattern of increasing similarity for certain physiological indicators. Of the 72 estimated age-difference Fisher tests for increasing similarity, 17 were significant and in the hypothesized direction. The greatest number were seen during the task condition for ages 6 and 9, and particularly for the frontoparietal EEG variables. Findings are interpreted in light of social learning and behavioral genetics theories.
Candidate Isolated Neutron Stars and Other Optically Blank X-Ray Fields Identified from the ROSAT All-Sky and Sloan Digital Sky Surveys
Creators: name: Agüeros, Marcel Andre
name: Anderson, Scott F.
name: Margon, Bruce
name: Posselt, Bettina
name: Haberl, Frank
name: Voges, Wolfgange
name: Annis, James
name: Schneider, Donald P.
name: Brinkmann, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2006
Subjects: X-rays
X-ray astronomy
Astrophysics
Neutron stars
Astronomy

description: Only seven radio-quiet isolated neutron stars (INSs) emitting thermal X-rays are known, a sample that has yet to definitively address such fundamental issues as the equation of state of degenerate neutron matter. We describe a selection algorithm based on a cross-correlation of the ROSAT All-Sky Survey (RASS) and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) that identifies X-ray error circles devoid of plausible optical counterparts to the SDSS g ~ 22 mag limit. We quantitatively characterize these error circles as optically blank; they may host INSs or other similarly exotic X-ray sources such as radio-quiet BL Lac objects and obscured active galactic nuclei. Our search is an order of magnitude more selective than previous searches for optically blank RASS error circles and excludes the 99.9% of error circles that contain more common X-ray-emitting subclasses. We find 11 candidates, 9 of which are new. While our search is designed to find the best INS candidates and not to produce a complete list of INSs in the RASS, it is reassuring that our number of candidates is consistent with predictions from INS population models. Further X-ray observations will obtain pinpoint positions and determine whether these sources are entirely optically blank at g ~ 22, supporting the presence of likely INSs and perhaps enabling detailed follow-up studies of neutron star physics.
British Columbia Legislative Assembly sessional clipping book (1968-01)
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Politics and government
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919741
subject: Law
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/993678
subject: FOS: Law
subject: British Columbia. Legislative Assembly
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/600765

description: These Sessional Clippings books cover the period 1891 to 1972, and include newspaper accounts written by various legislative reporters who covered debates occurring in the British Columbia Legislative Assembly. Transcripts of debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard) were not published in B.C. until 1970; hence these "Sessional Clipping Books" augment the "Journals", the record of daily proceedings of the Legislative Assembly. Selected clippings from various newspapers including the Vancouver Sun, the Vancouver Province, the Colonist, and the Times newspapers, relating to the newspaper reports concerning activities of the Legislature. The original sessional clippings books comprise 351 ledger size print volumes, held at the Legislative Library in Victoria BC. The print volumes were microfilmed onto 26 reels in 1977 under a Tri University Libraries (TRIUL) project by Precision Micrographic Services (Vancouver, B.C.), with the permission of the Legislative Library, Victoria, British Columbia. This digital collection was created by scanning the 26 microfilm reels.
Particle Astrophysics in NASA's Long Duration Balloon Program
Creators: name: Gorham, Peter W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A century after Victor Hess' discovery of cosmic rays, balloon flights still play a central role in the investigation of cosmic rays over nearly their entire spectrum. We report on the current status of NASA balloon program for particle astrophysics, with particular emphasis on the very successful Antarctic long-duration balloon program, and new developments in the progress toward ultra-long duration balloons.
description: 8 pages, 9 figures, invited contribution to SpacePart12 at CERN; to be published in Nuclear Physics B; minor corrections in this version