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Bibliometrically Mapping Team Cognition Literature: A Co-citation Analysis
Researchers investigating team cognition must source and review a challenging set of relevant, mature literature from a diverse array of academic disciplines. Such disciplines may include psychology, management, information science, military science, anthropology, and nursing science, etc. This thesis summarizes an effort to bibliometrically map team cognition literature using an author co-citation analysis methodology. The work began with a traditional literature review that identified key authors who were published in peer-reviewed journals. These authors were contacted and asked to provide their own listings of key researchers in the field, which were used in conjunction with the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) to construct a co-citation matrix of authors. Using factor analysis and multi-dimensional analysis techniques, visual maps were constructed that highlight the influence of specific authors, the relationships between authors, and the branching of sub-domains in the literature over time. The overall goals of the research were to provide team cognition researchers with a tool they could use to better inform their efforts, and to provide an explicit mapping of the field in terms of where it has been, and where it may be going
Microstructural influence on dynamic properties of age hardenable FeMnAl alloys
A lightweight castable alloy was sought to reduce the MIL-PRF-32269 class II cast steel perforated armor\u27s weight with the requirement that the material had to be manufactured utilizing existing foundry technology and without incurring large alloy cost increases to meet property requirements. Literature on wrought age hardenable Fe-Mn-Al-C alloys suggested this alloy system could achieve weight reduction through high aluminum concentrations with the highest reported strengths exceeding 2 GPa for a Fe-30Mn-9Al-0.9C composition. Even though ballistic testing had not been conducted on this system, high strain rate data of wrought alloys showed excellent work hardenability; greater than existing ballistic metals. Cast material property information was severely limited, thus, a systematic approach was employed to develop casting and processing techniques and assess related structure property relationships of a nominal silicon modified Fe-30Mn-9Al-0.9C-0.5Mo alloy for ballistic use. Castability was addressed first as this information was crucial for making test coupons and assisting foundries with production of MIL-PRF-32269 ballistic test plates. Four silicon concentrations were investigated for fluidity, microstructure, liquidus, solidus and dendrite coherency point. Silicon was added because it is known to increase fluidity of other ferrous alloys and has also been shown to eliminate a brittle Ă-Mn phase in wrought Fe-Mn-Al-C alloys. Of the four silicon modified fluidity compositions, two were selected for heat treat property evaluation on the basis of microstructure. Hardness, strength, and ductility were measured (hardness is the only MIL-PRF-32269 measured property). The alloy with the highest ductility was selected for high strain rate evaluation. The strain rate testing results were the final means to lock in the alloy composition and heat treatment for solid plate ballistic testing. While conducting Vâ
â ballistic testing, phosphorus content was correlated to ballistic impact energy. Further testing was conducted to examine phosphorus, quench sensitivity, and aging Charpy V-Notch effects. The culmination of this thesis work resulted with positive ballistic threat testing revealing the alloy investigated here meets the Army\u27s MIL-PRF-32269 ballistic requirements and reduces P900 weight by 13% --Abstract, page iv
To have in order to do: Exploring the effects of consuming experiential products on wellâbeing
The experience recommendation â if you want to be happier, buy life experiences instead of material items â is supported in empirical research. However, this evidence is primarily based on the dichotomous comparison of material items and life experiences. The goal of this article is to examine the effects of consuming experiential products â purchases that fall between material items and life experiences â on wellâbeing. Study 1 and Study 2 demonstrate that experiential products provide similar levels of wellâbeing compared to life experiences and more wellâbeing than material items. Study 3 replicates this finding for purchases that turn out well. In addition, Study 3 shows experiential products, when compared to life experiences, lead to more feelings of competence but less feelings of relatedness, which explains why these two purchases result in similar levels of wellâbeing. We discuss why experiential products and life experiences lead to psychological need satisfaction and how our results support the PositiveâActivity Model, SelfâDetermination Theory, and Holbrook and Hirschmanâs hedonic consumption framework.Peer Reviewedhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/142004/1/jcpy28.pd
Effect of Phosphorus on Cleavage Fracture in Î-Carbide
To understand the origin of cleavage fracture which dominates in Fe(Mn)-Al-C alloys at a high phosphorus concentration, we performed first-principles study of the phosphorus effect on ideal cleavage energy and critical stress in Îș-carbide, Fe3 AlC, a precipitate in the austenitic alloys. We find that phosphorus has higher solubility in Fe3 AlC than in Îł-Fe and sharply reduces the cleavage characteristics of Îș-carbide. We show that strong anisotropy of the Fe-P bonds in Fe3 (Al,P) C under tensile stress, leads to the appearance of large structural voids and may facilitate crack nucleation
GALEX, Optical and IR Light Curves of MQ Dra: UV Excesses at Low Accretion Rates
Ultraviolet light curves constructed from NUV and FUV detectors on GALEX
reveal large amplitude variations during the orbital period of the Low
Accretion Rate Polar MQ Dra (SDSSJ1553+55). This unexpected variation from a UV
source is similar to that seen and discussed in the Polar EF Eri during its low
state of accretion, even though the accretion rate in MQ Dra is an order of
magnitude lower than even the low state of EF Eri. The similarity in phasing of
the UV and optical light curves in MQ Dra imply a similar location for the
source of light. We explore the possibilities of hot spots and cyclotron
emission with simple models fit to the UV, optical and IR light curves of MQ
Dra. To match the GALEX light curves with a single temperature circular hot
spot requires different sizes of spots for the NUV and FUV, while a cyclotron
model that can produce the optical harmonics with a magnetic field near 60 MG
requires multipoles with fields > 200 MG to match the UV fluxes.Comment: accepted for ApJ; 15 pages, 7 tables, 8 fig
The Firebreak Problem
Suppose we have a network that is represented by a graph . Potentially a
fire (or other type of contagion) might erupt at some vertex of . We are
able to respond to this outbreak by establishing a firebreak at other
vertices of , so that the fire cannot pass through these fortified vertices.
The question that now arises is which vertices will result in the greatest
number of vertices being saved from the fire, assuming that the fire will
spread to every vertex that is not fully behind the vertices of the
firebreak. This is the essence of the {\sc Firebreak} decision problem, which
is the focus of this paper. We establish that the problem is intractable on the
class of split graphs as well as on the class of bipartite graphs, but can be
solved in linear time when restricted to graphs having constant-bounded
treewidth, or in polynomial time when restricted to intersection graphs. We
also consider some closely related problems
Cyclotron modeling phase-resolved infrared spectroscopy of polars I: EF Eridani
We present phase-resolved low resolution infrared spectra of the polar EF
Eridani obtained over a period of 2 years with SPEX on the IRTF. The spectra,
covering the wavelength range 0.8 to 2.4 microns, are dominated by cyclotron
emission at all phases. We use a ``Constant Lambda'' prescription to attempt to
model the changing cyclotron features seen in the spectra. A single cyclotron
emission component with B = 12.6 MG, and a plasma temperature of kT = 5.0 keV,
does a reasonable job in matching the features seen in the H and K bands, but
fails to completely reproduce the morphology shortward of 1.6 microns. We find
that a two component model, where both components have similar properties, but
whose contributions differ with viewing geometry, provides an excellent fit to
the data. We discuss the implications of our models and compare them with
previously published results. In addition, we show that a cyclotron model with
similar properties to those used for modeling the infrared spectra, but with a
field strength of B = 115 MG, can explain the GALEX observations of EF Eri.Comment: 25 pages, 5 figures, to appear in Ap
Low State, Phase-Resolved IR Spectroscopy of VV Puppis
We present phase-resolved low resolution and higher resolution -band
spectroscopy of the polar VV Pup. All observations were obtained when VV Pup
was in a low accretion state having a K magnitude near 15. The low resolution
observations reveal cyclotron emission in the band during some phases,
consistent with an origin near the active 30.5 MG pole on the white dwarf. The
secondary in VV Pup appears to be a normal M7V star and we find that the
and band fluxes are entirely due to this star at all orbital phases during
the low accretion state. We use our higher resolution Keck spectroscopy to
produce the first -band radial velocity curve for VV Pup. Our orbital
solution yields =414 km sec and leads to mass estimates of
M=0.730.05 M and M=0.100.02 M. We find
that the mass accretion rates during the normal low states of the polars VV
Pup, EF Eri, and EQ Cet are near 10 M yr. The fact
that \.M is not zero in low state polars indicates active secondary stars in
these binary systems, including the sub-stellar donor star present in EF Eri.Comment: Accepted in Astronomical Journal 5 figure
Effects Of Length, Complexity, And Grammatical Correctness On Stuttering In Spanish-Speaking Preschool Children
Purpose: To explore the effects of utterance length, syntactic complexity, and grammatical correctness on stuttering in the spontaneous speech of young, monolingual Spanish-speaking children. Method: Spontaneous speech samples of 11 monolingual Spanish-speaking children who stuttered, ages 35 to 70 months, were examined. Mean number of syllables, total number of clauses, utterance complexity (i.e., containing no clauses, simple clauses, or subordinate and/or conjoined clauses), and grammatical correctness (i.e., the presence or absence of morphological and syntactical errors) in stuttered and fluent utterances were compared. Results: Findings revealed that stuttered utterances in Spanish tended to be longer and more often grammatically incorrect, and contain more clauses, including more subordinate and/or conjoined clauses. However, when controlling for the interrelatedness of syllable number and clause number and complexity, only utterance length and grammatical incorrectness were significant predictors of stuttering in the spontaneous speech of these Spanish-speaking children. Use of complex utterances did not appear to contribute to the prediction of stuttering when controlling for utterance length. Conclusions: Results from the present study were consistent with many earlier reports of English-speaking children. Both length and grammatical factors appear to affect stuttering in Spanish-speaking children. Grammatical errors, however, served as the greatest predictor of stuttering.Communication Sciences and Disorder
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âDead people donât claimâ: A psychopolitical autopsy of UK austerity suicides
One of the symptoms of post financial crisis austerity in the UK has been an increase in the numbers of suicides, especially by people who have experienced welfare reform. This article develops and utilises an analytic framework of psychopolitical autopsy to explore media coverage of âausterity suicideâ and to take seriously the psychic life of austerity (internalisation, shame, anxiety), embedding it in a context of social dis-ease.
Drawing on three distinct yet interrelated areas of literature (the politics of affect and psychosocial dynamics of welfare, post and anti-colonial psychopolitics, and critical suicidology), the article aims to better understand how austerity âkillsâ. Key findings include understanding austerity suicides as embedded within an affective economy of the anxiety caused by punitive welfare retrenchment, the stigmatisation of being a recipient of benefits, and the internalisation of market logic that assigns value through âproductivityâ and conceptualises welfare entitlement as economic âburdenâ. The significance of this approach lies in its ability to widen analytic framing of suicide from an individual and psychocentric focus, to illuminate culpability of government reforms while still retaining the complexity of suicide, and thus to provide relevant policy insights about welfare reform
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