Telescope Bibliographies: an Essential Component of Archival Data Management and Operations

Assessing the impact of astronomical facilities rests upon an evaluation of the scientific discoveries which their data have enabled. Telescope bibliographies, which link data products with the literature, provide a way to use bibliometrics as an impact measure for the underlying data. In this paper we argue that the creation and maintenance of telescope bibliographies should be considered an integral part of an observatory's operations. We review the existing tools, services, and workflows which support these curation activities, giving an estimate of the effort and expertise required to maintain an archive-based telescope bibliography.Comment: 10 pages, 3 figures, to appear in SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, SPIE Conference Series 844

Pay System Management Dilemmas: Approaching the New Millennium

Edwin W. Arnold, Ph.D., SPHR, is a professor of management, Department of Management, School of Business, Auburn University Montgomery, Montgomery, AL

Online Drift Compensation for Chemical Sensors Using Estimation Theory

Sensor drift from slowly changing environmental conditions and other instabilities can greatly degrade a chemical sensor\u27s performance, resulting in poor identification and analyte quantification. In the present work, estimation theory (i.e., various forms of the Kalman filter) is used for online compensation of baseline drift in the response of chemical sensors. Two different cases, which depend on the knowledge of the characteristics of the sensor system, are studied. First, an unknown input is considered, which represents the practical case of analyte detection and quantification. Then, the more general case, in which the sensor parameters and the input are both unknown, is studied. The techniques are applied to simulated sensor data, for which the true baseline and response are known, and to actual liquid-phase SH-SAW sensor data measured during the detection of organophosphates. It is shown that the technique is capable of estimating the baseline signal and recovering the true sensor signal due only to the presence of the analyte. This is true even when the baseline drift changes rate or direction during the detection process or when the analyte is not completely flushed from the system

Linking science to technology: using bibliographic references in patents to build linkage schemes.

In this paper, we develop and discuss a method to design a linkage scheme that links the systems of science and technology through the use of patent citation data. After conceptually embedding the linkage scheme in the current literature on science-technology interactions and associations, the methodology and algorithms used to decelop the linkage scheme are discussed in detail. The method is subsequently tested on and applied to subsets of USPTO patents. The results point to highly skewed citation distributions, enabling us to discern between those fields of technology that are highly science-interactive and those fields where technology develoment is highly independent from the scientific literature base.Science; Patents; Systems; Data; Algorithms; Distribution;

Does Broad Banding Improve Pay System Effectiveness?

Edwin W. Arnold, Ph.D., SPHR, is professor of management, Department of Management, Auburn University Montgomery, Montgomery, AL 36124. Clyde J. Scott, Ph.D., is associate professor of management, Department of Management and Marketing, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487

The phoric response in the nine cardinal fields of gaze

The phoric response in the nine cardinal fields of gaz

Photometric Variability in Earthshine Observations

The identification of an extrasolar planet as Earth-like will depend on the detection of atmospheric signatures or surface non-uniformities. In this paper we present spatially unresolved flux light curves of Earth for the purpose of studying a prototype extrasolar terrestrial planet. Our monitoring of the photometric variability of earthshine revealed changes of up to 23 % per hour in the brightness of Earth's scattered light at around 600 nm, due to the removal of specular reflection from the view of the Moon. This variability is accompanied by reddening of the spectrum, and results from a change in surface properties across the continental boundary between the Indian Ocean and Africa's east coast. Our results based on earthshine monitoring indicate that specular reflection should provide a useful tool in determining the presence of liquid water on extrasolar planets via photometric observations.Comment: To appear in Astrobiology 9(3). 17 pages, 3 figures, 1 tabl

An Enhanced Archive Facilitating Climate Impacts and Adaptation Analysis

We describe the expansion of a publicly available archive of downscaled climate and hydrology projections for the United States. Those studying or planning to adapt to future climate impacts demand downscaled climate model output for local or regional use. The archive we describe attempts to fulfill this need by providing data in several formats, selectable to meet user needs. Our archive has served as a resource for climate impacts modelers, water managers, educators, and others. Over 1,400 individuals have transferred more than 50 TB of data from the archive. In response to user demands, the archive has expanded from monthly downscaled data to include daily data to facilitate investigations of phenomena sensitive to daily to monthly temperature and precipitation, including extremes in these quantities. New developments include downscaled output from the new Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 5 (CMIP5) climate model simulations at both the monthly and daily time scales, as well as simulations of surface hydrologi- cal variables. The web interface allows the extraction of individual projections or ensemble statistics for user-defined regions, promoting the rapid assessment of model consensus and uncertainty for future projections of precipitation, temperature, and hydrology. The archive is accessible online (http://gdo-dcp.ucllnl.org/downscaled_ cmip_projections)

Real-time finite-temperature correlators from AdS/CFT

In this paper we use AdS/CFT ideas in conjunction with insights from finite temperature real-time field theory formalism to compute 3-point correlators of ${\cal N}{=}4$ super Yang-Mills operators, in real time and at finite temperature. To this end, we propose that the gravity field action is integrated only over the right and left quadrants of the Penrose diagram of the Anti de Sitter-Schwarzschild background, with a relative sign between the two terms. For concreteness we consider the case of a scalar field in the black hole background. Using the scalar field Schwinger-Keldysh bulk-to-boundary propagators, we give the general expression of a 3-point real-time Green's correlator. We then note that this particular prescription amounts to adapting the finite-temperature analog of Veltman's circling rules to tree-level Witten diagrams, and comment on the retarded and Feynman scalar bulk-to-boundary propagators. We subject our prescription to several checks: KMS identities, the largest time equation and the zero-temperature limit. When specializing to a particular retarded (causal) 3-point function, we find a very simple answer: the momentum-space correlator is given by three causal (two retarded and one advanced) bulk-to-boundary propagators, meeting at a vertex point which is integrated from spatial infinity to the horizon only. This result is expected based on analyticity, since the retarded n-point functions are obtained by analytic continuation from the imaginary time Green's function, and based on causality considerations.Comment: 43 pages, 6 figures Typos fixed, reference added, one set of plots update

Propuesta de sistematización: normas del procedimiento en la (UIA)

Trabajo de investigaciónEn la propuesta de sistematización de las normas de procedimiento de la Unidad de Investigación y Acusación (UIA) de la Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz (JEP), se realizó un único cuerpo normativo del procedimiento. Las normas principales del procedimiento son el (Acuerdo Final, 2016), el (Acto Legislativo 1, 2017), la (Ley 1957, 2019), el (Acuerdo 001, 2018) y la (Ley 1922, 2018), las cuales fueron sometidas a un proceso de sistematización filtrando las normas de procedimiento de la Unidad de Investigación y Acusación (UIA) y en donde se describieron sus cualidades y concordancias a través de un método inductivo. Se descubrió que este método se puede aplicar a cada uno de los órganos de la Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz (JEP), con el fin de tener un único cuerpo de normas de procedimiento. La propuesta de sistematización de las normas de procedimiento de la Unidad de Investigación y Acusación (UIA), es una herramienta pedagógica y propositiva, invita a que se realicen otros trabajos de investigación relacionados con la Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz (JEP).MaestríaMagíster en Derechos HumanosINTRODUCCIÓN 1. ACUERDO FINAL VS UIA 2. ACTO LEGISLATIVO 1, 2017 VS LA UIA 3. LEY 1957, 2019 VS UIA 4. ACUERDO 001, 2018 VS (UIA) 5. LEY 1922, 2018 VS (UIA) CONCLUSIONES RECOMENDACIONES BIBLIOGRAFÍA ANEXO