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UMBC Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture
The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture (CADVC) is a non-profit organization dedicated to organizing comprehensive exhibitions, the publication of catalogs, CDs, DVDs, and books on the arts, and educational and ...
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The Economic Impact of Medicaid Expansion in Mississippi, 2023–2028: Technical Report
(The Hilltop Institute, 2022-01-11)Enacted in 2010, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) gave states the option to expand their Medicaid programs by extending eligibility to almost all adults under age 65 with income below 138% of the federal poverty level (FPL). ... -
The Economic Impact of Medicaid Expansion in Mississippi, 2023–2028: Summary Report
(The Hilltop Institute, 2022-01-11)Enacted in 2010, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) gave states the option to expand their Medicaid programs by extending eligibility to almost all adults under age 65 with income below 138% of the federal poverty level (FPL). ... -
Correcting Energy Estimation Errors Due to Finite Sampling of Transition‑Edge Sensor Data
(Springer, 2022-03-30)We are developing transition-edge sensor microcalorimeters for the X-ray integral field unit (X-IFU) on-board ESA’s Athena space telescope. These detectors will be read out using time-domain multiplexing. Due to the ... -
Elevated Hot Gas and High-Mass X-ray Binary Emission in Low Metallicity Galaxies: Implications for Nebular Ionization and Intergalactic Medium Heating in the Early Universe
(2022-04-01)High-energy emission associated with star formation has been proposed as a significant source of interstellar medium (ISM) ionization in low-metallicity starbursts and an important contributor to the heating of the ... -
Direct Measurement of the Nickel Spectrum in Cosmic Rays in the Energy Range from 8.8 GeV/n to 240 GeV/n with CALET on the International Space Station
(APS, 2022-04-01)The relative abundance of cosmic ray nickel nuclei with respect to iron is by far larger than for all other transiron elements; therefore it provides a favorable opportunity for a low background measurement of its spectrum. ... -
The White Dwarf Mass versus X-Ray Temperature Relationship of Dwarf Novae, Revisited
(IOP Science, 2022-03)While Keplerian orbits account for the majority of the astrometric motion of directly-imaged planets, perturbations due to N-body interactions allow us to directly constrain exoplanet masses in multiplanet systems. This ... -
Global dust optical depth climatology derived from CALIOP and MODIS aerosol retrievals on decadal timescales: regional and interannual variability
(EGU, 2021-09-09)We derived two observation-based global monthly mean dust aerosol optical depth (DAOD) climatological datasets from 2007 to 2019 with a 2° (latitude) × 5° (longitude) spatial resolution, one based on Cloud-Aerosol Lidar ... -
Efficient and Flexible Aggregation and Distribution of MODIS Atmospheric Products Based on Climate Analytics as a Service Framework
(MDPI, 2021-09-06)MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) is a key instrument onboard NASA’s Terra (launched in 1999) and Aqua (launched in 2002) satellite missions as part of the more extensive Earth Observation System (EOS). ... -
Unveiling the Fermi Bubbles origin with MeV photon telescopes
(2022-03)The Fermi Bubbles (FB) are a pair of large-scale ellipsoidal structures extending above and below the Galactic plane almost symmetrically aligned with the Galactic Center. After more than 10 years since their discovery, ... -
The 21-cm signal from the Cosmic Dawn: metallicity dependence of high mass X-ray binaries
(2022-03-21)X-rays from High-Mass X-ray Binaries (HMXBs) are likely the main source of heating of the intergalactic medium (IGM) during Cosmic Dawn (CD), before the completion of reionization. This Epoch of Heating (EoH; z∼10−15) ... -
The Future of Gamma-Ray Experiments in the MeV-EeV Range
(2021-03-14)Naturally occurring particle accelerators shine brightly throughout the universe, inviting us to discover fundamental laws and hone our theories if we look in their directions with the right detectors. Gamma-rays, the ... -
Simultaneous view of the FRB~180301 with FAST and NICER during a bursting phase
(2022-03-14)FRB180301 is one of the most actively repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) which has shown polarization angle changes in its radio burst emission, an indication for their likely origin in the magnetosphere of a highly-magnetized ... -
Limits on the hard X-ray emission from the periodic fast radio burst FRB 180916.J0158+65
(2022-03-16)FRB 180916.J0158+65 is one of the nearest, periodically repeating, and actively bursting fast radio burst (FRB) which has been localized to the outskirts of a spiral galaxy. In this work we study the FRB with the hard X-ray ... -
Advancing the Landscape of Multimessenger Science in the Next Decade
(2022-03-18)The last decade has brought about a profound transformation in multimessenger science. Ten years ago, facilities had been built or were under construction that would eventually discover the nature of objects in our ... -
Employing relaxed smoothness constraints on imaginary part of refractive index in AERONET aerosol retrieval algorithm
(EGU, 2022-03-15)In the Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) aerosol retrieval algorithm, smoothness constraints on the imaginary part of the refractive index (IPRI) provide control of retrieved spectral dependence of aerosol absorption by ... -
Science Goals and Mission Concept for a Landed Investigation of Mercury
(IOP Science, 2022-03-25)Mercury holds valuable clues to the distribution of elements at the birth of the solar system and how planets form and evolve in close proximity to their host stars. This Mercury Lander mission concept returns in situ ... -
Gamma-ray Eclipses and Orbital Modulation Transitions in the Candidate Redback 4FGL J1702.7-5655
(2022-03-10)Observations with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) of the gamma-ray source 4FGL J1702.7-5655, previously classified as a candidate millisecond pulsar, show highly-significant modulation at a period of 0.2438033 days ... -
A radio, optical, UV and X-ray view of the enigmatic changing look Active Galactic Nucleus 1ES~1927+654 from its pre- to post-flare states
(2022-03-16)The nearby type-II AGN 1ES1927+654 went through a violent changing-look (CL) event beginning December 2017 during which the optical and UV fluxes increased by four magnitudes over a few months, and broad emission lines ... -
Unveiling the Origin of the Fermi Bubbles with MeV Photon Telescopes
(IOP Science, 2022-03-21)The Fermi Bubbles (FBs) are a pair of large-scale ellipsoidal structures extending above and below the Galactic plane almost symmetrically aligned with the Galactic center. After more than 10 yr since their discovery, their ... -
The Challenge of Choices When Teaching During COVID-19
(The Scholarly Teacher, 2020-07-23)