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RETRACTED – See Author Note - Validation of Crawford’s Postulate: Quantum Collapse Dynamics (v1.51)
No full textUpdated Author Note – May 2025
This paper represents an early attempt to model quantum collapse within the EiG (Energy–information Gradient) framework. While the formulation was internally consistent, I have since identified key flaws in the simulation methodology—particularly in how photon dynamics were represented across discernibility gradients.
As a result, the core conclusion of this manuscript is no longer considered valid. However, the process of developing and testing this model directly led to several foundational insights now informing an updated field theory of light, discernibility, and time—Now available here: https://osf.io/uwn2e
I’ve chosen to leave this paper online as part of an open research process. Future readers should interpret it as an early step in an ongoing effort to model physical reality from first principles under the EiG framework.
— Jason Crawfor
Ionosphere redistribution during strong geomagnetic storms as detected by the CHAMP, SAC-C, TOPEX and Jason-1 satellites
No full textIonosphere response to severe geomagnetic storms that occurred in 2001-2003 was analyzed using data of global ionosphere maps (GIM), altimeter data from the Jason-1 and TOPEX satellites, and data of GPS receivers onboard CHAMP and SAC-C satellites. This allowed us to study in detail ionosphere redistribution due to geomagnetic storms, dayside ionospheric uplift and overall dayside TEC increase. It is shown that after the interplanetary magnetic field turns southward and intensifies, the crests of the equatorial ionization anomaly (EIA) travel poleward and the TEC value within the EIA area increases significantly (up to ～50%). GPS data from the SAC-C satellite show that during the main phase of geomagnetic storms TEC values above the altitude of 715 km are 2-3 times higher than during undisturbed conditions. These effects of dayside ionospheric uplift occur owing to the > and last few hours while the enhanced interplanetary electric field impinged on the magnetopause
Retracted article: Students' learning styles and academic performance in Readings in Philippine History: Basis for a proposed course syllabus enhancement
No full textThe article entitled “Students’ learning styles and academic performance in Readings in Philippine History: Basis for a proposed course syllabus enhancement” (Volume 4, Issue 1, December 2022, pp. 45-51) written by Adrian Ote, Margie M. Lepangge, Nobelen Joy M. Marsonia, Sheena Joy C. Pagran, Jennilyn C. Se, and Jason A. Romero has been retracted at the request of the Corresponding Author
Oregon Commerce and Compliance Division safety action plan, final report
No full textby Jason C. Anderson (Ph.D., Research Associate, Portland State University) and Sal Hernandez (Ph.D., Associate Professor, Oregon State University) and Doug Hedlund (MBA, Hedlund Consulting, LLC) for Oregon Department of Transportation Commerce and Compliance Division.Title from PDF cover (viewed on February 10, 2021).This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references (page 39).Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Landslide risk reduction in Wasco County, Oregon
No full textby William J. Burns, Nancy Calhoun, Jon Franczyk, Jason D. McClaughry, and Katherine Daniel.Title from PDF cover (viewed on February 27, 2023).This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references (pages 20-24).Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
The number of degree sequences of graphs
No full textThesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mathematics, 2007.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 60-62).We give nontrivial upper and lower bounds for the total number of distinct degree sequences among all simple, unlabeled graphs on n vertices (graphical partitions on n vertices). Our upper bound is ... for some constant C, and improvement of ... over the trivial upper bound which is asymptotic to ... Our lower bound is ..., and improvement of ... over the trivial lower bound which is asymptotic to ...by Jason Matthew Burns.Ph.D
Finding Florida in the Mountains: Understanding the Role of the “Creative Class” in Appalachian Economic Development.
No full textFlorida’s (2006) conceptualization of the “creative class” has generated significant interest in how groups of highly educated, diverse, and tolerant individuals contribute to economic development. In this paper, we consider how the “creative class” is viewed by city leaders within Appalachia. Significant efforts to incorporate the “creative class” in theories of local economic development have focused on the economic benefit of attracting these individuals to large metropolitan areas. Considerable analysis addresses how many of the largest cities within developed countries have established incentives for such individuals to relocate to their communities. Little effort has been directed to determine whether city leaders within rural regions have also developed similar economic development strategies. Economic development is increasingly becoming the responsibility of cities, and many cities within Appalachia reflect this reality. In this paper, we address this question by studying the economic development efforts of several Appalachian cities. Using multiple data sources, we reconstruct if and how city leaders approach recruiting the “creative class” and the challenges of attracting this group to their cities. The findings presented within this paper illustrate the extent to which city leaders within Appalachia view the “creative class” as a potential source of future residents for their communities. Findings also illustrate which strategies are viewed by city leaders as most and least effective in recruiting members of the “creative class.” These findings suggest that increasing awareness of the diversity within Appalachia among the “creative class” is the most effective way of attracting these individuals
Kinematics and thermodynamics of a midlatitude, continental mesoscale convective system and its mesoscale vortex
No full textAlso issued as author's dissertation (Ph.D.) -- Colorado State University, 2001.The author examines a mesoscale convective system (MCS) and the mesoscale convective vortex (MCV) it generated. The MCS, which comprised a leading convective line and trailing stratiform region, traversed Kansas and Oklahoma on 1 August 1996, passing through the NOAA Wind Profiler Network, as well as four sites from which soundings were being taken every three hours during a field project. The unusually rich data set permitted study of the MCS and MCV over nine hours on scales between those of operational rawinsondes and Doppler radars. The author used a spatial bandpass filter to divide observed wind into synoptic and mesoscale components. The environment-relative, mesoscale wind contained an up- and downdraft and divergent outflows in the lower and upper troposphere. The mesoscale wind was asymmetric about the MCS, consistent with studies of gravity waves generated by heating typical of that in many MCSs. According to a scale-discriminating vorticity budget, both the synoptic and mesoscale winds contributed to the prominent resolved sources of vorticity in the MCV: tilting and convergence. Unresolved sources were also large. The author speculates that an abrupt change in the main source of vorticity in an MCV may appear as an abrupt change in its altitude of maximum vorticity. Distributions of temperature and humidity in the MCS were consistent with its mesoscale circulations. In the terminus of the mesoscale downdraft, advection of drier, potentially warmer air exceeded humidifying and cooling from rain, so profiles of temperature and dewpoint exhibit onion and double-onion patterns. The mesoscale updraft was approximately saturated with a moist adiabatic lapse rate. Mesoscale drafts. and convective drafts vertically mixed the troposphere, partially homogenizing equivalent potential temperature. The MCV contained a column of high potential vorticity in the middle troposphere, with a cold core below the freezing level and a warm core above-a pattern characteristic of profiles of heating by stratiform regions. The cold core was 2 km too shall w to be in pure gradient balance with wind in the MCV. Ongoing forcing during the observed lifetime of the MCV may have prevented it from achieving balance, even if that was its tendency.Sponsored by the National Science Foundation under grants ATM-0071371 and ATM-9618684; and NASA grant NCCS-288
Geologic assessment of potential cable landing sites along the Oregon coast
No full textReport -- Plate 1. Detailed geology and other factors related to the suitability of potential cable landing sites in the Gold Beach area, southern Oregon -- Plate 2. Detailed geology and other factors related to the suitability of potential cable landing sites in the Rockaway Beach area, northern Oregon.by Reed J. Burgette, Eduardo F. Guerrero, Jonathan C. Allan, Fletcher E. O'Brien, Jason D. McClaughry, Lowell H. Anthony, Robert W. Hairston-Porter, and Jon J. Franczyk.This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
The Emerging Federal Role in Growth Management
No full textIn his comment, The Emerging Federal Role in Growth Management, author Jason Rylander argues for a more prominent federal role in state and local land use decisions. The author champions the Clinton-Gore Livability Agenda, a recent proposal designed to encourage state and local governments to adopt certain land use restrictions in exchange for substantial federal funding. Urban sprawl and the resulting traffic congestion experienced by an increasing number of U.S. cities is the fuel behind this sweeping enterprise. Federal intervention in land use policy is not a new phenomenon. The comment documents the numerous federal housing and land use programs implemented in the New Deal era, and suggests that federal intervention into contemporary state and local land planning decisions should be endorsed rather than viewed with suspicion as a threat to federalism. The author evaluates the recent federalism jurisprudence of the United States Supreme Court and concludes that conditioning federal funds on state and local acquiescence of their land use policies to the federal government passes Constitutional muster
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