10,035 research outputs found
Adaptive management of Ramsar wetlands
Abstract
The Macquarie Marshes are one of Australiaâs iconic wetlands, recognised for their international importance, providing habitat for some of the continentâs more important waterbird breeding sites as well as complex and extensive flood-dependent vegetation communities. Part of the area is recognised as a wetland of international importance, under the Ramsar Convention. River regulation has affected their resilience, which may increase with climate change. Counteracting these impacts, the increased amount of environmental flow provided to the wetland through the buy-back and increased wildlife allocation have redressed some of the impacts of river regulation.
This project assists in the development of an adaptive management framework for this Ramsar-listed wetland. It brings together current management and available science to provide an informed hierarchy of objectives that incorporates climate change adaptation and assists transparent management. The project adopts a generic approach allowing the framework to be transferred to other wetlands, including Ramsar-listed wetlands, supplied by rivers ranging from highly regulated to free flowing.
The integration of management with science allows key indicators to be monitored that will inform management and promote increasingly informed decisions. The project involved a multi-disciplinary team of scientists and managers working on one of the more difficult challenges for Australia, exacerbated by increasing impacts of climate change on flows and inundation patterns
The Magnetic Moments of the Octet Baryons in Quenched Chiral Perturbation Theory
We compute the magnetic moments of the octet baryons up to two orders in
quenched chiral perturbation theory. In addition to the
contributions that arise in QCD, there are lower-order contributions of the
form from loop diagrams involving hairpin interactions.Comment: 18 pages, 3 figures, late
Senior Recital: Daniel Kim, double bass
This recital is presented in partial fulfillment of requirements for the degree Bachelor of Music in Music Education. Mr. Kim studies double bass with Joe McFadden.https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/musicprograms/2150/thumbnail.jp
Chiral corrections to the axial charges of the octet baryons from quenched QCD
We calculate one-loop correction to the axial charges of the octet baryons
using quenched chiral perturbation theory, in order to understand chiral
behavior of the axial charges in quenched approximation to quantum
chromodynamics (QCD). In contrast to regular behavior of the full QCD chiral
perturbation theory result, , we find
that the quenched chiral perturbation theory result,
, is
singular in the chiral limit.Comment: standard LaTeX, 16 pages, 4 epsf figure
Nucleons in Two-Flavor Partially-Quenched Chiral Perturbation Theory
Properties of the proton and the neutron are explored in partially-quenched
chiral perturbation theory with two non-degenerate light flavors. Masses,
magnetic moments, matrix elements of isovector twist-2 operators and
axial-vector currents are computed at the one-loop level in the chiral
expansion.Comment: 24 pages LaTeX, 4 eps fig
Electromagnetic Moments of the Baryon Decuplet
We compute the leading contributions to the magnetic dipole and electric
quadrupole moments of the baryon decuplet in chiral perturbation theory. The
measured value for the magnetic moment of the is used to determine
the local counterterm for the magnetic moments. We compare the chiral
perturbation theory predictions for the magnetic moments of the decuplet with
those of the baryon octet and find reasonable agreement with the predictions of
the large-- limit of QCD. The leading contribution to the quadrupole
moment of the and other members of the decuplet comes from one--loop
graphs. The pionic contribution is shown to be proportional to (and so
will not contribute to the quadrupole moment of nuclei), while the
contribution from kaons has both isovector and isoscalar components. The chiral
logarithmic enhancement of both pion and kaon loops has a coefficient that
vanishes in the limit. The third allowed moment, the magnetic octupole,
is shown to be dominated by a local counterterm with corrections arising at two
loops. We briefly mention the strange counterparts of these moments.Comment: Uses harvmac.tex, 15 pages with 3 PostScript figures packed using
uufiles. UCSD/PTH 93-22, QUSTH-93-05, Duke-TH-93-5
Flavor Twisted Boundary Conditions and the Nucleon Axial Current
With twisted boundary conditions on the quark fields, we study nucleon matrix
elements of the axial current utilizing twisted heavy baryon chiral
perturbation theory. One can explore the momentum transfer dependence of the
axial form factors more easily than by using ordinary lattice quantized momenta
alone. As examples, we derive expressions for the nucleon axial radius and
pseudoscalar form factor.Comment: 11 pages, Refs. added, sign error correcte
Too Fast? Too Slow? A Novel Approach for Identifying Extreme Response Behavior in Online Surveys
Some participants of online surveys engage in extreme answering behavior while generating responses (i.e., they respond too fast or too slow) relative to population norms. Here, we demonstrate how participantsâ navigation behaviors can be used to potentially identify such responses. We administered an online survey where students (who were earlier instructed to complete a task) report lenience scores towards non-appropriate behavior while completing the task. We draw on cognitive dissonance theory to posit that failure to follow instruction predicts lenience scores. We then created different datasets by excluding data from participants flagged by our metrics and generated predictive models. We found that model performance improves by removing data from flagged participants, indicating a reduction in noise from the dataset. Despite demonstrating the effectiveness of our approach, we encourage researchers to exercise caution and elaborate on the limitations of our approach and future avenues of research
Typing Fast versus Typing Slow: Using Typing Dynamics to Reveal Authentic and Imposter Users
Real-time assessment of users' cognitive states has practical importance, allowing organizations to infer user behaviors. Realizing its importance, prior studies â specifically those using mouse cursor movements â have applied various theories to answer a similar question, i.e., how does a high cognitive load influence the users' device usage behavior? While numerous activities can increase cognitive load, we argue that the mechanisms behind how humans process information can more holistically be explained using Dual Process Theory (DPT) (i.e., when cognitive load is either low or high) and can be applied under a broad range of usage contexts. Using a within-participant experiment and a simple typing task, we demonstrate that DPT is robust to work by examining DPT and mouse cursor movements. Specifically, users' typing speed and task execution are significantly slower when engaged in the task (System 2) and significantly faster when completing the task with lower cognitive effort and engagement (System 1)
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