A nonlinear generalization of the Filbert matrix and its Lucas analogue

In this paper, we present both a new generalization and an analogue of the Filbert matrix (Formula presented.) by the means of the Fibonacci and Lucas numbers whose indices are in nonlinear form (Formula presented.) for the positive integers (Formula presented.) and the integers r, s, c. This will be the first example as nonlinear generalizations of the Filbert and Lilbert matrices. Furthermore, we present q-versions of these matrices and their related results. We derive explicit formulæ for the inverse matrix, the LU-decomposition and the inverse matrices (Formula presented.), (Formula presented.) as well as we present the Cholesky decomposition for all matrices

A microeconomic approach to estimating demand: the asymptotically ideal model

Microeconomics

Particle models and noncommutative geometry

We write three particle models in terms of noncommutative gauge theory: the Glashow-Weinberg-Salam model, the Peccei-Quinn model and the standard model.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/29524/1/0000611.pd

Intensive Archeological Survey of FM 1488 from Existing FM 1488 West of Magnolia to Proposed SH 249 Montgomery County, Texas

The Houston District of the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) proposes to construct a new roadway on primarily undeveloped land around the north side of the City of Magnolia in Montgomery County, Texas. The proposed roadway will be the Farm-to-Market (FM) 1488 Magnolia Relief Route extending from the existing FM 1488 west of Magnolia to the proposed State Highway (SH) 249 east of Magnolia. The proposed project would be approximately 5.4 miles (8.7 kilometers) in length. The proposed roadway will consist of four lanes, two in each direction, separated by a median. This project will also include grade-separated overpasses at FM 1774, at the Union Pacific Railroad, and at the proposed SH 249 extension. The project and archeological area of potential effects totals 199.88 acres, 155.0 of which are new right-of-way, 41.5 acres that overlap with the proposed SH 249 project, and 3.38 acres of existing right-ofway. Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) applies to this project; the Antiquities Code of Texas also applies. Based on a review of the Houston Potential Archeological Liability Map (PALM), 73 percent of the 199.88-acre (80.8-hectare) project area (146.91 acres or 59.45 hectares) is designated as Map Unit 2, for which a surface survey is recommended. The total acreage includes right-of-way that overlaps with the proposed SH 249 project. PALM data also indicated that the remaining area, 27 percent (52.97 acres or 21.43 hectares), is located within Map Unit 4, for which surface survey is not recommended. Cox|McLain Environmental Consulting, Inc. (CMEC) completed an intensive archeological survey to inventory and evaluate archeological resources within the area of potential effects (APE). Fieldwork was conducted April 11-13, 2017, under Texas Antiquities Permit 7914. Only 48 percent of the total acreage was surveyed since access was not granted for the remaining 52 percent. The majority of accessible parcels where intensive survey was conducted was determined to have been heavily disturbed by activities associated with agriculture and cattle grazing, as well as erosion. No new archeological sites were identified during the survey and no artifacts were identified or recovered. Project records will be curated at the Center for Archaeological Studies at Texas State University per TAC 26.16 and 26.17. The Texas Historical Commission concurred with the findings and recommendations of this report on September 1, 2017

FM 2206 Improvements from State Highway 42 to Loop 281 Gregg County, Texas

Between September 2015 and March 2016, reconnaissance and intensive archeological surveys were completed in order to inventory and evaluate archeological resources within the footprint of proposed improvements to Farm-to-Market (FM) 2206 from State Highway 42 to Loop 281 in Longview, Gregg County, Texas. The project is identified under TxDOT control-section-job numbers 2073-01-009 and 2073-01-010. The work associated with this archeological survey was carried out under Texas Antiquities Permit 7404 by Melissa M. Green (Principal Investigator), Haley Rush, and David Sandrock of Cox|McLain Environmental Consulting, Inc., a subcontractor to Burns and McDonnell. Results of the survey show that the majority of the project corridor has been highly disturbed from numerous types of activities dating from the early oil exploration in the area to recent installation of buried utilities, as well as natural impacts such as erosion. Twenty-nine shovel test units were excavated on both publicly- and privately-owned land in areas where subsurface archeological materials might occur, no obvious impacts or disturbances were observed, slope was less than 30 percent, ground visibility was limited, and moisture levels allowed. Soils were found to be extremely shallow (generally extendingsurface); subsoil was encountered in the majority of the tests. All of the shovel tests were sterile, except for one where an iron pipe was encountered. Three backhoe trenches were excavated on the west side of Hawkins Creek where deeper Holoceneage soils were present that could contain paleosols or archeological deposits. All three backhoe trenches were sterile for cultural materials and none showed evidence of intact paleosols that might contain archeological deposits No further work is recommended in the APE prior to the proposed improvements to FM 2206. If any unanticipated cultural materials or deposits are found at any stage of clearing, preparation, or construction, the work should cease and TxDOT should be immediately notified. All materials (notes, photographs, administrative documents, and other project data) generated from this work will be housed at the Center for Archaeological Studies at Texas State University, where they will be made permanently available to future researchers per 13 Texas Administrative Code 26.16- 17. No artifacts were collected and therefore none will be curated

Multiplicity and Representation Theory of Purely Non-deterministic Stochastic Processes

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Postemancipation Landscapes and Material Culture: The Bethel Community and the Benjamin W. Jackson Plantation

This dissertation explores the history and archaeology of a postemancipation community that developed around the Benjamin W. Jackson Plantation in Bethel, Texas, particularly concentrating on the transformation of the landscape through the rise of black land ownership and material culture collected at two households occupied by generations of the Davis family. The Davises were tenant farmers whose ancestors were previously enslaved on the plantation and members of the family continued to occupy the lands through the 1950s. In the decades following emancipation the antebellum landscape of the Benjamin Jackson plantation and the Bethel community in East Texas were slowly transformed and developed into an economically diverse community of African American tenants and independent landowners. Over generations, people who were formerly enslaved on the Jackson Plantation as well as people from neighboring plantations and communities built the infrastructure necessary for semi-autonomy, practicing subsistence agriculture and developing formal and informal economies, while in many instances continuing to labor through the production of commercial cotton on white owned land. Drawing upon diverse sources including archaeology, archival research, forms of oral history, art, and landscape, I consider how the material world functioned in the maintenance and reinforcement of unequal social and economic conditions, and also how over generations people engaged with the material world as a mechanism to reformulate and transform these conditions. The active participation of rural black farmers in consumer markets as a means to subvert and challenge day to day racism is explored, as are shifts in consumption from one generation to another following WWII and the accompanying increase in product diversity and availability during this period

Archeological Survey Investigations at Martin Creek Lake State Park, Rusk County, Texas

An intensive cultural resources survey was conducted at Martin Creek Lake State Park by the Center for Archaeological Studies and Archeological & Environmental Consultants, LLC in June 2010 under contract with Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. Although previous investigations had been carried out in the park, no comprehensive survey had been completed that would allow TPWD and park management personnel to appropriately manage the park’s cultural resources in accordance with state law. During the 2010 survey, the park was stratified into areas with high, medium, and low probability of containing archaeological sites. A total of 423 shovel tests were excavated in these areas; four new sites were documented and nine previously reported sites were revisited and assessed. These 13 sites reflect historic era occupations in the park dating from the mid-1800s to the mid-1900s and prehistoric occupations that include Late Archaic, Woodland, and Caddo components

Integrating Water Resources and Land Use Planning

Information and recommendations were developed pertaining to the integrating of water resource and land use planning at a conceptual level. In the accomplishment of this goal, the report acts as a vehicle of information transfer to facilitate recognition of the interrelationships between land use and winter resources planning by practitioners in both areas. The approach that was used includes six basic components: 1) the clarification of current planning theory as it pertains to both water and land use planning, 2) analysis and review of historical and current land use planning practices, 3) review of historical and current land use planning practices, 4) identification of problems and concepts which would affect the integration of land and water planning, 5) the design of a conceptual framework (the IRUM model) which would facilitate the integration of land and water planning, and 6) a case study of a selected planning region for small scale applications of the IRUM model. In connection with the case study, a general population survey was taken to identify social and environmental values, land and water use preferences, and other conditions which would affect an integrated planning effort. The recommendations developed in the report cover institutional issues such as culture, law, and organizational arrangements, and also methodological issues such as conceptual framework development and procedural problems which will confront actual efforts to integrate land and water resource planning