APS observerPub Date : 2018-03-07DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/zu7sj
Christopher R. Chartier, M. Kline, Randy J. McCarthy, Michèle B. Nuijten, D. Dunleavy, A. Ledgerwood
{"title":"The Cooperative Revolution Is Making Psychological Science Better","authors":"Christopher R. Chartier, M. Kline, Randy J. McCarthy, Michèle B. Nuijten, D. Dunleavy, A. Ledgerwood","doi":"10.31234/osf.io/zu7sj","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/zu7sj","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":87430,"journal":{"name":"APS observer","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44000493","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
APS observerPub Date : 2017-02-28DOI: 10.1201/9781420009187.ch8
L. Tay, Scott Parrigon, Qiming Huang, James M. LeBreton
{"title":"Data on Display","authors":"L. Tay, Scott Parrigon, Qiming Huang, James M. LeBreton","doi":"10.1201/9781420009187.ch8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1201/9781420009187.ch8","url":null,"abstract":"Types of data page 3 \" Data \" is a catchall term. But data comes in a number of varieties, and it's important to distinguish among these varieties. The Pareto chart page 7 The Pareto chart is a simple but flashy presentation method for categorical data. The dot diagram page 10 The dot diagram is a primitive display device for quantitative data. It can only be used for relatively small numbers of data points. The stem-and-leaf display page 12 This simple display for quantitative data can be constructed by hand. It's an approximation to a histogram (bar chart), and it facilitates the hand calculation of the median and the quartiles. It gives a quick visual impression of the data while still providing considerable detail. The boxplot page 18 This graphical device for quantitative data is effective for comparing two or more groups. The boxplot utilizes the median and the quartiles. Boxplot pathologies page 22 Boxplots can sometimes look weird. Here are some examples, along with the reasons why they happen.","PeriodicalId":87430,"journal":{"name":"APS observer","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47145049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
APS observerPub Date : 2016-07-29DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a093683
Anna Mikulak
{"title":"The Heart of the Matter","authors":"Anna Mikulak","doi":"10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a093683","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a093683","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":87430,"journal":{"name":"APS observer","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a093683","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"61630321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Video as Data: From Transient Behavior to Tangible Recording.","authors":"Karen Adolph","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":87430,"journal":{"name":"APS observer","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5519292/pdf/nihms840113.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35193003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
APS observerPub Date : 2013-08-16DOI: 10.2307/3016305
Peter Hayes, D. Hippel, R. Tanter, Takase, Kae, Jungmin Kang, Wen Bo, Gordon Thompson, Yi Kiho, A. Imhoff, Scott Bruce, Joan Diamond
{"title":"AFTER THE DELUGE","authors":"Peter Hayes, D. Hippel, R. Tanter, Takase, Kae, Jungmin Kang, Wen Bo, Gordon Thompson, Yi Kiho, A. Imhoff, Scott Bruce, Joan Diamond","doi":"10.2307/3016305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/3016305","url":null,"abstract":"And descending ruinous from these precipices in its boisterous course, let it dash along and lay bare the twisted and gnarled roots of large trees overthrowing their roots upwards; and let the mountains, as they are scoured bare, discover the profound fissures made in them by ancient earthquakes... And into the depth of some valley may have fallen the fragments of a mountain forming a shore to the swollen waters of its river; which, having already burst its banks, will rush on in monstrous waves; and the greatest will strike upon and destroy the walls of the cities and farmhouses in the valley.","PeriodicalId":87430,"journal":{"name":"APS observer","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/3016305","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68504855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Financial Decision Making and the Aging Brain.","authors":"Gregory R Samanez-Larkin","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":87430,"journal":{"name":"APS observer","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3740974/pdf/nihms-498810.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31657824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
APS observerPub Date : 2013-01-01DOI: 10.5167/UZH-84604
P. Titzmann
{"title":"Immigrants or Adolescents? The Interplay of Development and Acculturation Using the Example of Delinquent Behavior","authors":"P. Titzmann","doi":"10.5167/UZH-84604","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5167/UZH-84604","url":null,"abstract":"situation and delinquency that offer an explanation for ethnic differences in levels and rates of delinquency.","PeriodicalId":87430,"journal":{"name":"APS observer","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70662856","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
APS observerPub Date : 2012-01-01DOI: 10.4324/9781315776293-10
A. Safavi-Naini, P. Rabl, P. Weck, H. Sadeghpour
{"title":"All that is gold does not glitter","authors":"A. Safavi-Naini, P. Rabl, P. Weck, H. Sadeghpour","doi":"10.4324/9781315776293-10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315776293-10","url":null,"abstract":"Considering how it affects science and technology, surprisingly little is known about the electric field noise generated near the surface of metals. Now, in a theoretical paper appearing in Physical Review A, Arghavan SafaviNaini at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge and colleagues have uncovered a source of noise from the surfaces of metals that has been a major headache for ion trapping experiments. They argue that electrical dipoles, formed by impurity atoms adsorbed on the metal electrodes of an ion trap, cause noise of just the right strength and characteristics to explain the noise that has been observed in ion trap experiments [1]. Their work provides a guideline for attacking electric field noise and could impact many fields, including surface and materials science, modern electronics, quantum information technology, and precision tests of fundamental physics. Scientists in all of these disciplines strive to have an electrically quiet environment for their measurements. Is there, however, a fundamental lower limit for electric noise generated by an ordinary conductor, such as a piece of gold? Although electric field (or voltage) noise from the thermal motion of the freely moving electrons inside a conductor is well understood, this so-called JohnsonNyquist noise is typically not the sole source. In practice, nonequilibrium noise mechanisms, such as flicker and shot noise, often dominate device performance. Controlling noise is particularly important for modern applications that use ion traps, such as ion-trap quantum computing. In ion traps, electrodes, usually metallic, generate electric fields that confine the ions to a small volume close by. When researchers started laser-cooling ions to the ground state of the trap, they expected that the ions would stay cold for many minutes. However, electric field noise from the trap electrodes heated up the ions within milliseconds, several orders of magnitude faster than what was expected from Johnson-Nyquist noise [2, 3]. The intensity of this unexpected noise appeared to drop with the ion’s distance d from the metal as 1/d4 and the noise appeared to be thermally activated [4]. Trying to piece the puzzle together, researchers tried a host of different metals and even tested traps with semiconducting and superconducting electrodes. Still, no clear picture of what was causing the excessive noise emerged and even initially promising models could not explain the size of the field noise [3]. Early on, researchers guessed that the 1/d4 scaling could be the result of a large number of uncorrelated electrical-dipole-type noise sources sitting on the metal surfaces. For example, in the so-called patch-potential model, dipolelike fields are caused by patches on the surface of a metal in which the electrons have a different work function compared to other regions on the surface. In this model, the noise arises because the patches fluctuate as impurities adsorbed on the trap electrodes d","PeriodicalId":87430,"journal":{"name":"APS observer","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70442451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}