Village of Horseheads, NY and CSEA Local 1000, Unit #6359

In the matter of the fact-finding between the Village of Horseheads, NY, employer, and CSEA Local 1000, Unit#6359, union. PERB case no. 2011-146. Before: Timothy W. Gorman, fact finder

Barker, Town of and International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), AFL-CIO, Local 317

In the matter of the fact-finding between the Town of Barker, employer, and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), AFL-CIO, Local 317, union. PERB case no. M2015-259. Before: Timothy W. Gorman, fact finder

Deposit Central School District and Deposit Teachers Association, NYSUT

In the matter of the fact-finding between the Deposit Central School District, employer, and the Deposit Teachers Association, NYSUT, union. PERB case no. M2010-300. Before: Timothy W. Gorman, fact finder

Maine-Endwell Central School District and Main-Endwell Teachers Association, New York State United Teachers (NYSUT)

In the matter of the fact-finding between the Maine-Endwell Central School District, employer, and the Main-Endwell Teachers Association, New York State United Teachers (NYSUT), union. PERB case no. M2016-156. Before: Timothy W. Gorman, fact finder

The CIC metadata portal: A collaborative effort in the area of digital libraries

Article copies available from The Haworth Document Delivery Service: 1-800-HAWORTH | [email protected] | http://www.HaworthPress.com/The CIC consortium includes 12 major Midwestern Universities. Their libraries have decided to share the cost of a joint project (2003-2006) aimed at better understanding the mechanisms by which emerging technologies and standards can facilitate metadata sharing and the creation of value-added services for their users. The CIC metadata portal project has performed advanced work in the area of Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, collection level descriptions, metadata transformation and enrichment, and practices and usability of metadata standards. It has provided an opportunity for increased collaboration between CIC academic libraries and a way to highlight the wealth of digital resources held by the participating libraries. This article describes the project and enumerates project accomplishments. The project has helped to better the way in which partner institutions share information about digital content and provide access to digital resources. Four content providers of the project highlight different aspects of the project and the practical benefits they found in the collaboration.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/58774/1/STL_Foulonneau.pd

Collapse and revival of entanglement between qubits coupled to a spin coherent state

We extend the study of the Jayne-Cummings (JC) model involving a pair of identical two-level atoms (or qubits) interacting with a single mode quantized field. We investigate the effects of replacing the radiation field mode with a composite spin, comprising N qubits, or spin-1/2 particles. This model is relevant for physical implementations in superconducting circuit QED, ion trap and molecular systems. For the case of the composite spin prepared in a spin coherent state, we demonstrate the similarities of this set-up to the qubits-field model in terms of the time evolution, attractor states and in particular the collapse and revival of the entanglement between the two qubits. We extend our analysis by taking into account an effect due to qubit imperfections. We consider a difference (or "mismatch") in the dipole interaction strengths of the two qubits, for both the field mode and composite spin cases. To address decoherence due to this mismatch, we then average over this coupling strength difference with distributions of varying width. We demonstrate in both the field mode and the composite spin scenarios that increasing the width of the "error" distribution increases suppression of the coherent dynamics of the coupled system, including the collapse and revival of the entanglement between the qubits

Making Connections - Envisioning Springfield\u27s North End

This work explores a service learning strategy in the context of the senior Urban Design Studio taught in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The primary goal of this project is to stimulate a conversation in the neighborhoods of the North End, to develop green design strategies, to improve services and businesses for residents and the employees of local businesses, and to foster cultural engagement and interaction in the North End that will enhance the vibrancy, resilience, and quality of life of this urban community. Making connections - Envisioning Springfield\u27s North End proposes improved connectivity in a physical, cultural, and social sense will be key to attaining these goals and to engaging and synergizing individuals and community groups in the North End - residents, businesses, schools, churches, employers, and employees. Six sustainable learning and planning principles have emerged from this studio: 1. Input and interaction – Visioning workshops connect campus and community 2. Community-building art - Expression of place and people 3. Healthy living - Urban agriculture and education 4. Urban greenways – Abandoned railways and urban rivers and streams 5. Green infrastructure - Green streets as networks and structural framework 6. Sustainable urban form – Mixed use and pedestrian friendly neighborhood

Comprehensive genetic assessment of the ESR1 locus identifies a risk region for endometrial cancer

Excessive exposure to estrogen is a well-established risk factor for endometrial cancer (EC), particularly for cancers of endometrioid histology. The physiological function of estrogen is primarily mediated by estrogen receptor alpha, encoded by ESR1. Consequently, several studies have investigated whether variation at the ESR1 locus is associated with risk of EC, with conflicting results. We performed comprehensive fine-mapping analyses of 3633 genotyped and imputed single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in 6607 EC cases and 37 925 controls. There was evidence of an EC risk signal located at a potential alternative promoter of the ESR1 gene (lead SNP rs79575945, P=1.86x10(-5)), which was stronger for cancers of endometrioid subtype (P=3.76x10(-6)). Bioinformatic analysis suggests that this risk signal is in a functionally important region targeting ESR1, and eQTL analysis found that rs79575945 was associated with expression of SYNE1, a neighbouring gene. In summary, we have identified a single EC risk signal located at ESR1, at study-wide significance. Given SNPs located at this locus have been associated with risk for breast cancer, also a hormonally driven cancer, this study adds weight to the rationale for performing informed candidate fine-scale genetic studies across cancer types