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The Origin of Adversative Passives
Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics
Society: General Session Dedicated to the Contributions of Charles J.
Fillmore (1994
The Effects of Priming on Moral Judgement
Forming judgments and making decisions based on those judgments is an important and inescapable part of life. Moral decision-making often affects oneself and the people surrounding them. Previous literature has suggested that the act of making moral and ethical decisions can be separated and explained using various theoretical perspectives, two of the most prominent being utilitarianism and absolute deontology (Scott, 2012). Applying and categorizing decision-making into either of these categories has been shown and suggested to largely depend on the priming of a decision, with positive priming leading to more utilitarian decision-making (Broeders et al. 2011). It has further been found that when priming was utilized (with both positive and negative conditions) and participants were presented with moral dilemmas, priming subconsciously altered moral decision-making by activating moral standards (Welsh & Ordonez, 2014). The purpose of the current study is to explore the relationship between priming moral judgment and decision-making, and how that could lead to more or less confidence in a decision. In this study, adults 18 and older (N=X) filled out a survey on Qualtrics that primed them positively or negatively, and then asked them to answer a of moral dilemmas and rate their confidence after each one. The results will be presented at SURS
Recurrent Urethral Diverticulum: A Case Report
Recurrence of urethral diverticulum after surgical repair is common and well established in the literature. However, data on the rates of multiple recurrences in the same patient is lacking. Here, we present the case of a 42-year-old female patient with a history of multiple urethral diverticula, who presented with a urethral diverticulum containing a large calculus. Our aim was to review the risk factors and management of patients who present with recurrent urethral diverticula
Advanced Caution and Warning System
The current focus of ACAWS is on the needs of the flight controllers. The onboard crew in low-Earth orbit has some of those same needs. Moreover, for future deep-space missions, the crew will need to accomplish many tasks autonomously due to communication time delays. Although we are focusing on flight controller needs, ACAWS technologies can be reused for on-board application, perhaps with a different level of detail and different display formats or interaction methods. We expect that providing similar tools to the flight controllers and the crew could enable more effective and efficient collaboration as well as heightened situational awareness
Large scale structure around a z=2.1 cluster
The most prodigious starburst galaxies are absent in massive galaxy clusters
today, but their connection with large scale environments is less clear at
. We present a search of large scale structure around a galaxy
cluster core at using a set of spectroscopically confirmed galaxies.
We find that both color-selected star-forming galaxies (SFGs) and dusty
star-forming galaxies (DSFGs) show significant overdensities around the
cluster. A total of 8 DSFGs (including 3 X-ray luminous active
galactic nuclei, AGNs) and 34 SFGs are found within a 10 arcmin radius
(corresponds to 15 cMpc at ) from the cluster center and within
a redshift range of , which leads to galaxy overdensities of
and . The cluster core and
the extended DSFG- and SFG-rich structure together demonstrate an active
cluster formation phase, in which the cluster is accreting a significant amount
of material from large scale structure while the more mature core may begin to
virialize. Our finding of this DSFG-rich structure, along with a number of
other protoclusters with excess DSFGs and AGNs found to date, suggest that the
overdensities of these rare sources indeed trace significant mass
overdensities. However, it remains puzzling how these intense star formers are
triggered concurrently. Although an increased probability of galaxy
interactions and/or enhanced gas supply can trigger the excess of DSFGs, our
stacking analysis based on 850 m images and morphological analysis based
on rest-frame optical imaging do not show such enhancements of merger fraction
and gas content in this structure.Comment: 11 pages, 4 figures, ApJ accepte
Composite Fermions and the Fermion-Chern-Simons Theory
The concept of composite fermions, and the related Fermion-Chern-Simons
theory, have been powerful tools for understanding quantum Hall systems with a
partially full lowest Landau level. We shall review some of the successes of
the Fermion-Chern-Simons theory, as well as some limitations and outstanding
issues.Comment: 13 pages, including 2 figures. Invited talk at International
Symposium, Quantum Hall Effect: Past, Present and Future, Stuttgart, July
2003. Proceedings to appear in Physica
A Population of Metal-Poor Galaxies with ~L* Luminosities at Intermediate Redshifts
We present new spectroscopy and metallicity estimates for a sample of 15
star-forming galaxies with redshifts in the range 0.29 - 0.42. These objects
were selected in the KPNO International Spectroscopic Survey via their strong
emission lines seen in red objective-prism spectra. Originally thought to be
intermediate-redshift Seyfert 2 galaxies, our new spectroscopy in the far red
has revealed these objects to be metal-poor star-forming galaxies. These
galaxies follow a luminosity-metallicity (L-Z) relation that parallels the one
defined by low-redshift galaxies, but is offset by a factor of more than ten to
lower abundances. The amount of chemical and/or luminosity evolution required
to place these galaxies on the local L-Z relation is extreme, suggesting that
these galaxies are in a very special stage of their evolution. They may be
late-forming massive systems, which would challenge the current paradigm of
galaxy formation. Alternatively, they may represent intense starbursts in
dwarf-dwarf mergers or a major infall episode of pristine gas into a
pre-existing galaxy. In any case, these objects represent an extreme stage of
galaxy evolution taking place at relatively low redshift.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures; to appear in 10 April 2009 ApJ
Stripes in Quantum Hall Double Layer Systems
We present results of a study of double layer quantum Hall systems in which
each layer has a high-index Landau level that is half-filled. Hartree-Fock
calculations indicate that, above a critical layer separation, the system
becomes unstable to the formation of a unidirectional coherent charge density
wave (UCCDW), which is related to stripe states in single layer systems. The
UCCDW state supports a quantized Hall effect when there is tunneling between
layers, and is {\it always} stable against formation of an isotropic Wigner
crystal for Landau indices . The state does become unstable to the
formation of modulations within the stripes at large enough layer separation.
The UCCDW state supports low-energy modes associated with interlayer coherence.
The coherence allows the formation of charged soliton excitations, which become
gapless in the limit of vanishing tunneling. We argue that this may result in a
novel {\it ``critical Hall state''}, characterized by a power law in
tunneling experiments.Comment: 10 pages, 8 figures include
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