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The Williams Scale of Attitude toward Paganism: development and application among British Pagans
This article builds on the tradition of attitudinal measures of religiosity established by Leslie Francis and colleagues with the Francis Scale of Attitude toward Christianity (and reflected in the Sahin-Francis Scale of Attitude toward Islam, the Katz-Francis Scale of Attitude toward Judaism, and the Santosh-Francis Scale of Attitude toward Hinduism) by introducing a new measure to assess the attitudinal disposition of Pagans. A battery of items was completed by 75 members of a Pagan Summer Camp. These items were reduced to produce a 21-item scale that measured aspects of Paganism concerned with: the God/Goddess, worshipping, prayer, and coven. The scale recorded an alpha coefficient of 0.93. Construct validity of the Williams Scale of Attitude toward Paganism was demonstrated by the clear association with measures of participation in private rituals
Highly-parallelized simulation of a pixelated LArTPC on a GPU
The rapid development of general-purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPU) is allowing the implementation of highly-parallelized Monte Carlo simulation chains for particle physics experiments. This technique is particularly suitable for the simulation of a pixelated charge readout for time projection chambers, given the large number of channels that this technology employs. Here we present the first implementation of a full microphysical simulator of a liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) equipped with light readout and pixelated charge readout, developed for the DUNE Near Detector. The software is implemented with an end-to-end set of GPU-optimized algorithms. The algorithms have been written in Python and translated into CUDA kernels using Numba, a just-in-time compiler for a subset of Python and NumPy instructions. The GPU implementation achieves a speed up of four orders of magnitude compared with the equivalent CPU version. The simulation of the current induced on 10^3 pixels takes around 1 ms on the GPU, compared with approximately 10 s on the CPU. The results of the simulation are compared against data from a pixel-readout LArTPC prototype
Linkage of Niemann-Pick Disease Type D to the Same Region of Human Chromosome 18 as Niemann-Pick Disease Type C
Observation of Shear Thickening During Compressive Flow of Mgâ âYââAgâCuââ in the Supercooled Liquid Region
Uniaxial compression tests of Mg54Y11Ag7Cu28 metallic glass were performed in the supercooled liquid region (SCLR) (468 K) at a strain rate range of 5 Ă 10â4 to 2 Ă 10â3 sâ1. In the course of testing, shear thickening behavior was observed, where the magnitude of the peak stress increases with increasing initial strain rate. The deformation behavior of the glassy metal is discussed with emphasis on the commonly reported stress overshoot, strain softening behavior, and the previously unreported shear thickening behavior observed
Including the Soldier in Military Simulations: Modeling the Psychological Effects of Anti-Personnel Landmines
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