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    A Case Study: Changing Human Resource Management Education to Fit the Field

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    The field of Human Resource Management has embarked upon a process of significant change. To keep up with changes to the field, Barksdale (1998) argued that so too must HR education change. This article presents an effort that changed the HR educational model from a functional silos focused model to an integrated outcome-based model. The logic for the change, what changes were made, and comments about the outcomes are presented

    Joint Modeling of Radial Velocities and Photometry with a Gaussian Process Framework

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    Developments in the stability of modern spectrographs have led to extremely precise instrumental radial velocity (RV) measurements. For most stars, the detection limit of planetary companions with these instruments is expected to be dominated by astrophysical noise sources such as starspots. Correlated signals caused by rotationally-modulated starspots can obscure or mimic the Doppler shifts induced by even the closest, most massive planets. This is especially true for young, magnetically active stars where stellar activity can cause fluctuation amplitudes of \gtrsim0.1 mag in brightness and \gtrsim100 m s1^{-1} in RV semi-amplitudes. Techniques that can mitigate these effects and increase our sensitivity to young planets are critical to improving our understanding of the evolution of planetary systems. Gaussian processes (GPs) have been successfully employed to model and constrain activity signals in individual cases. However, a principled approach of this technique, specifically for the joint modeling of photometry and RVs, has not yet been developed. In this work, we present a GP framework to simultaneously model stellar activity signals in photometry and RVs that can be used to investigate the relationship between both time series. Our method, inspired by the FF\textit{FF}^\prime framework of (Aigrain et al. 2012), models spot-driven activity signals as the linear combinations of two independent latent GPs and their time derivatives. We also simulate time series affected by starspots by extending the starry\texttt{starry} software (Luger et al. 2019) to incorporate time evolution of stellar features. Using these synthetic datasets, we show that our method can predict spot-driven RV variations with greater accuracy than other GP approaches.Comment: 19 pages, 10 figure

    Weakly correlated electrons on a square lattice: a renormalization group theory

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    We study the weakly interacting Hubbard model on the square lattice using a one-loop renormalization group approach. The transition temperature T_c between the metallic and (nearly) ordered states is found. In the parquet regime, (T_c >> |mu|), the dominant correlations at temperatures below T_c are antiferromagnetic while in the BCS regime (T_c << |mu|) at T_c the d-wave singlet pairing susceptibility is most divergent.Comment: 12 pages, REVTEX, 3 figures included, submitted to Phys. Rev. Let

    The Sun Remains Relatively Refractory Depleted: Elemental Abundances for 17,412 Gaia RVS Solar Analogs and 50 Planet Hosts

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    The elemental abundances of stars, particularly the refractory elements (e.g., Fe, Si, Mg), play an important role in connecting stars to their planets. Most Sun-like stars do not have refractory abundance measurements since obtaining a large sample of high-resolution spectra is difficult with oversubscribed observing resources. In this work we infer abundances for C, N, O, Na, Mn, Cr, Si, Fe, Ni, Mg, V, Ca, Ti, Al, and Y for solar analogs with Gaia RVS spectra (R=11,200) using the Cannon, a data-driven method. We train a linear model on a reference set of 34 stars observed by Gaia RVS with precise abundances measured from previous high resolution spectroscopic efforts (R > 30,000--110,000). We then apply this model to several thousand Gaia RVS solar analogs. This yields abundances with average upper limit precisions of 0.04--0.1 dex for 17,412 stars, 50 of which are identified planet (candidate) hosts. We subsequently test the relative refractory depletion of these stars with increasing element condensation temperature compared to the Sun. The Sun remains refractory depleted compared to other Sun-like stars regardless of our current knowledge of the planets they host. This is inconsistent with theories of various types of planets locking up or sequestering refractories. Furthermore, we find no significant abundance differences between identified close-in giant planet hosts, giant planet hosts, and terrestrial/small planet hosts and the rest of the sample within our precision limits. This work demonstrates the utility of data-driven learning for future exoplanet composition and demographics studies.Comment: 24 pages, 10 figures, 4 tables, 1 appendix. Accepted in ApJ. Tables 1 and 2 available upon reques

    Quasiparticle dynamics and phonon softening in FeSe superconductors

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    Quasiparticle dynamics of FeSe single crystals revealed by dual-color transient reflectivity measurements ({\Delta}R/R) provides unprecedented information on Fe-based superconductors. The amplitude of fast component in {\Delta}R/R clearly tells a competing scenario between spin fluctuations and superconductivity. Together with the transport measurements, the relaxation time analysis further exhibits anomalous changes at 90 K and 230 K. The former manifests a structure phase transition as well as the associated phonon softening. The latter suggests a previously overlooked phase transition or crossover in FeSe. The electron-phonon coupling constant {\lambda} is found to be 0.16, identical to the value of theoretical calculations. Such a small {\lambda} demonstrates an unconventional origin of superconductivity in FeSe.Comment: Final published version; 5 pages; 4 figure

    Superconductivity and Pseudogap in Quasi-Two-Dimensional Metals around the Antiferromagnetic Quantum Critical Point

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    Spin fluctuations (SF) and SF-mediated superconductivity (SC) in quasi-two-dimensional metals around the antiferrromagnetic (AF) quantum critical point (QCP) are investigated by using the self-consistent renormalization theory for SF and the strong coupling theory for SC. We introduce a parameter y0 as a measure for the distance from the AFQCP which is approximately proportional to (x-xc), x being the electron (e) or hole (h) doping concentration to the half-filled band and xc being the value at the AFQCP. We present phase diagrams in the T-y0 plane including contour maps of the AF correlation length and AF and SC transition temperatures TN and Tc, respectively. The Tc curve is dome-shaped with a maximum at around the AFQCP. The calculated one-electron spectral density shows a pseudogap in the high-density-of-states region near (pi,0) below around a certain temperature T* and gives a contour map at the Fermi energy reminiscent of the Fermi arc. These results are discussed in comparison with e- and h-doped high-Tc cuprates.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure

    Thermoelectric Figure of Merit of Strongly Correlated Superlattice Semiconductors

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    We solved the Anderson Lattice Hamiltonian to get the energy bands of a strongly correlated semiconductor by using slave boson mean field theory. The transport properties were calculated in the relaxation-time approximation,and the thermoelectric figure of merit was obtained for the strongly correlated semiconductor and its superlattice structures. We found that at room temperature ZTZT can reach nearly 2 for the quantum wire lattice structure.We believe that it is possible to find high values of thermoelectric figure of merit from strongly correlated semiconductor superlattice systems.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure

    Dynamic Exponent of t-J and t-J-W Model

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    Drude weight of optical conductivity is calculated at zero temperature by exact diagonalization for the two-dimensional t-J model with the two-particle term, WW. For the ordinary t-J model with WW=0, the scaling of the Drude weight Dδ2D \propto \delta^2 for small doping concentration δ\delta is obtained, which indicates anomalous dynamic exponent zz=4 of the Mott transition. When WW is switched on, the dynamic exponent recovers its conventional value zz=2. This corresponds to an incoherent-to-coherent transition associated with the switching of the two-particle transfer.Comment: LaTeX, JPSJ-style, 4 pages, 5 eps files, to appear in J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. vol.67, No.6 (1998

    Direct Calculation of Spin-Stiffness for Spin-1/2 Heisenberg Models

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    The spin-stiffness of frustrated spin-1/2 Heisenberg models in one and two dimensions is computed for the first time by exact diagonalizations on small clusters that implement spin-dependent twisted boundary conditions. Finite-size extrapolation to the thermodynamic limit yields a value of 0.14±0.010.14\pm 0.01 for the spin-stiffness of the unfrustrated planar antiferromagnet. We also present a general discussion of the linear-response theory for spin-twists, which ultimately leads to the moment sum-rule.Comment: 11 pgs, TeX, LA-UR-94-94 (to be published in Phys. Rev. B
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