Showing papers by "Albion College published in 2007"
TL;DR: In the past 25 years, archaeologists have increasingly started to address ritual in their research as mentioned in this paper, arguing that the experience of ritual and ritual symbolism promotes social orders and dominant ideologies, instead of the enactment of religious principles or myths.
Abstract: Archaeologists traditionally assumed that rituals were understood best in light of religious doctrines, beliefs, and myths. Given the material focus of archaeology, archaeologists believed that ritual was a particularly unsuitable area for archaeological inquiry. In the past 25 years, archaeologists have increasingly started to address ritual in their research. Some archaeologists with access to extensive historical or ethnohistorical sources continue to see rituals as the enactment of religious principles or myths. Other archaeologists have adopted a more practice-oriented understanding of ritual, arguing that ritual is a form of human action. In emphasizing ritual practice, archaeologists reject a clear dichotomy between religious and nonreligious action or artifacts, focusing instead on the ways that the experience of ritual and ritual symbolism promotes social orders and dominant ideologies.
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TL;DR: A review of the geology, petrology, and geochronology collected over the past 10 years since these localities were discovered supports a correlation of the North Qaidam and South Altyn terranes, offset 350-400 km across the altyn Tagh fault as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: The North Qaidam and South Altyn terranes extend approximately 1000 km across the northern Tibetan Plateau, and five localities preserve evidence of Early Paleozoic high-pressure (HP) or ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) metamorphism, including the presence of coesite, coesite pseudomorphs, and diamond. A review of the geology, petrology, and geochronology collected over the past 10 years since these localities were discovered supports a correlation of the North Qaidam and South Altyn terranes, offset 350-400 km across the Altyn Tagh fault. Geochronology interpreted to reflect eclogite-facies metamorphism yields ages between 500 and 420 Ma; detailed geochronology from one locality supports a protracted (tens of m.y.) history of HP/UHP metamorphism. Rock associations and geochronology support a passive-margin origin for the protolith of the HP/UHP rocks, which received sediments from a Proterozoic-Late Archean source, and was intruded by Neoproterozoic granites derived from crustal melting.
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TL;DR: The logic of inference to the best explanation is explored and clear criteria to determine what makes one explanation better than another is provided and a system of understanding explanation is introduced that emphasizes the role of contrastive pairings in the construction of specific explanations.
Abstract: Processual and postprocessual archaeologists implicitly employ the same epistemological system to evaluate the worth of different explanations: inference to the best explanation. This is good since inference to the best explanation is the most effective epistemological approach to archaeological reasoning available. Underlying the logic of inference to the best explanation is the assumption that the explanation that accounts for the most evidence is also most likely to be true. This view of explanation often reflects the practice of archaeological reasoning better than either the hypothetico-deductive method or hermeneutics. This article explores the logic of inference to the best explanation and provides clear criteria to determine what makes one explanation better than another. Explanations that are empirically broad, general, modest, conservative, simple, testable, and address many perspectives are better than explanations that are not. This article also introduces a system of understanding explanation that emphasizes the role of contrastive pairings in the construction of specific explanations. This view of explanation allows for a better understanding of when, and when not, to engage in the testing of specific explanations.
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TL;DR: Overweight and obesity were more prevalent in youth football players than in national samples of American boys, and the risk appears to be greater for offensive and defensive line positions.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used Canonical Correspondence Analysis (CCA) to map current species distributions over 6220 km2 (622 000 ha) of the White and Inyo Mountains.
Abstract: Complex environmental gradients in the White and Inyo Mountains in eastern California produce striking variations in vegetation assemblages over short distances. Vegetation composition is dominated by elevational gradients of temperature and precipitation, but local modifications by geologic substrate, potential insolation, slope, and topographic position create finescale mosaics. Digital elevation models, geologic maps, and field data were used to map current species distributions over 6220 km2 (622 000 ha) of the White and Inyo Mountains. Species–environment relationships of 88 plant species were modeled at a scale of 54 m using canonical correspondence analysis (CCA). CCA models were calibrated from 434 field plots and evaluated with 216 plots using kappa statistics. Vegetation responses to temperature increases of 1°–6°C were modeled by shifting species tolerances along the elevational gradient according to a standard lapse rate [3°C (500 m)−1] while all other factors were kept constant. Rang...
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TL;DR: Assessment of how different facets of aging anxiety contributed to the prediction of tangible and existential death anxiety revealed that the aging anxiety dimensions of physical appearance concern and fear of losses each positively predicted tangible death anxiety.
Abstract: To assess how different facets of aging anxiety contributed to the prediction of tangible and existential death anxiety, 167 Americans of various Christian denominations completed a battery of questionnaires. Multiple regression analyses, controlling for demographic variables and previously demonstrated predictors of death anxiety, revealed that the aging anxiety dimensions of physical appearance concern and fear of losses each positively predicted tangible death anxiety. In addition, the aging anxiety dimension of fear of losses predicted existential death anxiety. Results are discussed with respect to the multifaceted nature of death anxiety and how different forms of aging anxiety contribute to anxieties about death.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a large-scale general knowledge test was conducted on four universities and four hundred and thirty students from four universities completed a learning styles questionnaire and a measure of the Big Five personality variables.
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TL;DR: This paper found that defensive self-handicapping tactics mediate the relationship between materialism and life satisfaction in a battery of questionnaires of 277 undergraduates, and found that it was primarily the defensive Self-Handicapping that mediated the relationship This paper.
Abstract: To learn how materialism is related to defensive and assertive self–presentational tactics, and how such tactics might mediate the established link between materialism and life satisfaction, 277 undergraduates completed a battery of questionnaires. We expected that materialism would be positively related to the use of defensive self–presentational tactics, and that defensive self–presentational tactics, in turn, would mediate the relationship between materialism and life satisfaction. Zero–order correlations generally supported these expectations. Moreover, results of structural equation modeling suggested that it was primarily the defensive self–presentational tactic of self–handicapping that mediated the relationship between materialism and life satisfaction. We discuss our findings with respect to the protective penchant of materialistic individuals.
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TL;DR: It is suggested that this novel microsporidian parasite in female-biased populations of an intertidal amphipod, Corophium volutator, at mudflat sites in the Bay of Fundy, Canada is a contributing factor to local and widespread sex ratio distortion in C. volutATOR.
Abstract: In this paper, we describe the occurrence of a microsporidian parasite in female-biased populations of an intertidal amphipod, Corophium volutator (Pallas), at mudflat sites in the Bay of Fundy, Canada. Sequence data for the parasite's 16S rDNA indicate that it is a novel microsporidian species. This parasite was found principally in female host gonads, indicating that it might be a vertically transmitted, sex-distorting microparasite. At 4 sites each sampled in early and mid-summer, parasite prevalence varied from 0 to 21%. In the lab, infected mothers gave rise to more female-biased broods, than did uninfected mothers. Infection was not associated with size of females or with lowered survivorship of their young. Surprisingly, infected mothers actually had higher fertility controlling for body length than did uninfected mothers. Taken together, our results suggest that this novel microsporidian is likely a feminizing microparasite and is a contributing factor to local and widespread sex ratio distortion in C. volutator.
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TL;DR: The major and minor element abundances were determined by electron microprobe in 1039 glasses from regoliths and regolith breccias to define the compositional topology of lunar glasses at the Apollo 16 landing site as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: The major- and minor-element abundances were determined by electron microprobe in 1039 glasses from regoliths and regolith breccias to define the compositional topology of lunar glasses at the Apollo 16 landing site in the central highlands of the Moon. While impact glasses with chemical compositions similar to local materials (i.e., Apollo 16 rocks and regoliths) are abundant, glasses with exotic compositions (i.e., transported from other areas of the Moon) account for up to ~30% of the population. A higher proportion of compositionally exotic, angular glass fragments exists when compared to compositionally exotic glass spherules. Ratios of non-volatile lithophile elements (i.e., Al, Ti, Mg) have been used to constrain the original source materials of the impact glasses. This approach is immune to the effects of open-system losses of volatile elements (e.g., Si, Na, K). Four impact glasses from one compositionally exotic group (low-Mg high-K Fra Mauro; lmHKFM) were selected for 40Ar/39Ar dating. The individual fragments of lmHKFM glass all yielded ages of ~3750 ± 50 Ma for the time of the impact event. Based on the petrography of these individual glasses, we conclude that the likely age of the impact event that formed these 4 glasses, as well as the possible time of their ballistic arrival at the Apollo 16 site from a large and distant cratering event (perhaps in the Procellarum KREEP terrain) (Zeigler et al. 2004), is 3730 ± 40 Ma, close to the accepted age for Imbrium.
TL;DR: This paper develops a parsimonious method of parameter fitting for high-resolution PARMA models, using discrete Fourier transforms to represent the set of periodic autoregressive and moving average model coefficients.
Abstract: For analysis and design of water resource systems, it is sometimes useful to generate high-resolution (e.g., weekly) synthetic river flows. Periodic autoregressive moving average (PARMA) time series models provide a powerful tool for generating synthetic flows. Periodically stationary models are indicated when the basic statistics (mean, variance, and autocorrelation) of the time series exhibit significant seasonal variations. Parameter estimation for high-resolution PARMA models involves numerous parameters, which can lead to overfitting. Thus, this paper develops a parsimonious method of parameter fitting for high-resolution PARMA models, using discrete Fourier transforms to represent the set of periodic autoregressive and moving average model coefficients. Model parameters are computed via the innovations algorithm, and the asymptotic distributions of the discrete Fourier transform coefficients are obtained. Those asymptotic results are useful to determine the statistically significant Fourier coeffici...
TL;DR: In this paper, the spin diffusion length at 4.2K in sputtered Ni of lsfNi=21±2nm, and spindependent scattering parameters in Ni and at Ni∕Cu interfaces were reported.
Abstract: The authors report the spin diffusion length at 4.2K in sputtered Ni of lsfNi=21±2nm, and spin-dependent scattering parameters in Ni and at Ni∕Cu interfaces. They have employed current perpendicular to plane giant magnetoresistance in both a traditional and an alternative exchange-biased spin valve geometry that inserts a Ni “spoiler” layer into a Py/Cu/Py spin valve. Fits to data of AΔR vs Ni thickness using Valet-Fert theory [Phys. Rev. B 48, 7099 (1993)] show good agreement between fit parameters for both sample geometries.
TL;DR: Analysis of Netrin accumulation during development of the brine shrimp Artemia franciscana suggests that this protein functions to regulate commissure formation during Artemia CNS development, and detection of afrNet at the midline and on commissural axons occurs at a relatively later time point in Artemia as compared with Drosophila.
Abstract: SUMMARY Although many similarities in arthropod central nervous systems (CNS) development exist, differences in midline cell formation and ventral nerve cord axonogenesis have been noted in arthropods. It is possible that changes in the expression of axon guidance molecules such as Netrin, which functions during commissural axon guidance in Drosophila and many other organisms, may parallel these differences. In this investigation, we analyze this hypothesis by examining Netrin accumulation during development of the brine shrimp Artemia franciscana, a branchiopod crustacean. An Artemia franciscana netrin (afrnet) orthologue was cloned. An antibody to the afrNet protein was generated and used to examine the pattern of afrNet accumulation during Artemia development. Despite differences between Drosophila and Artemia nerve cord development, examination of afrNet accumulation suggests that this protein functions to regulate commissure formation during Artemia CNS development. However, detection of afrNet at the midline and on commissural axons occurs at a relatively later time point in Artemia as compared with Drosophila. Detection of afrNet in a subset of midline cells that closely resemble Netrin-expressing cells at the Drosophila midline provides evidence for homology of midline cells in arthropods. Expression of Netrins in many other tissues is comparable, suggesting that Netrin proteins may play many conserved roles during arthropod development.
TL;DR: This study compares the news content of 1 week from four different computer news web sites in four different countries (using four different languages) to address how global and how local the Internet is.
Abstract: The Internet is not only an object of and a tool for study; it is also both simultaneously global and local. In order to address how global and how local it is, this study compares the news content of 1 week from four different computer news web sites in four different countries (using four different languages). These sites use the same code base and all strive to be the same in terms of computer culture. They are global in their reach and in the news they cover, yet they are all local in terms of language and geography. They are ideal locales to study how forces of the global and the local play out on the highly connected Internet, using Google language tools for translation. Findings were surprising in that they showed very little in terms of a pattern of any sort. This is similar to a 1953 UNESCO study of newspapers, but strange in that given the passing of 50 years and the connectedness of the Internet, greater overlap was expected. Link destinations for stories that were on more than one site were also examined, and the Japanese site had more in common with the American site while the two European sites were more alike in this lens. This is also surprising, given that an East/West split was expected. Little work in this specific area was found, and this study highlights some of the questions and methodological difficulties that need to be addressed.
01 Aug 2007-Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section B-beam Interactions With Materials and Atoms
TL;DR: The ion-atom merged-beams (IBBE) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has been used to measure the total charge transfer cross sections for a variety of multicharged ions with atomic H from keV/u down to the center-of-mass collision energies as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The ion–atom merged-beams apparatus at Oak Ridge National Laboratory measures benchmark total charge-transfer cross sections for a variety of multicharged ions with atomic H from keV/u down to meV/u center-of-mass collision energies. The apparatus has recently been upgraded and moved to the new high voltage platform where a permanent magnet ECR ion source provides intense high-velocity ion beams. Upgrades to the merged-beams apparatus include more accurate beam profiles and a shortened merge path to increase the angular acceptance of the apparatus. An observed factor of four decrease in the angular divergence of the ion beam translates into access to lower collision energies with higher resolution. The higher velocity ion beams will enable charge transfer measurements with heavier ions, and measurements with both H and D at eV/u energies and below to directly observe the isotope effect.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze rates of case dismissal against felony arrestees by race and find higher dismissal rates for blacks charged with minor violent crimes and crimes where police have more discretion over whether to make an arrest, pointing to more aggressive policing of blacks in these situations.
Abstract: Prior research has produced conflicting evidence of racial profiling during traffic stops. We instead analyze rates of case dismissal against felony arrestees by race. At the arrest stage, superficial bias based on "unobservables" should be reduced due to the evidentiary requirements and non-negligible costs of filing charges. Nonetheless, we produce and empirically test a model that predicts higher rates of false arrests (and subsequent dismissals) for blacks for crimes where police are required to make snap judgments. Using data from over 58,000 U.S. felony cases from 1990-1998, our probit analysis finds higher dismissal rates for blacks charged with minor violent crimes and crimes where police have more discretion over whether to make an arrest, which points to more aggressive policing of blacks in these situations. Case dismissal rates are also elevated for both whites and blacks when blacks are under-represented on local police forces.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe methodologies that allow one to effectively study creative thinking by capturing interactions among the individual, task, and problem solving situation in doing so, they demonstrate that the relation between executive functioning and problem-solving success is not always as straightforward as one might initially believe.
TL;DR: Medicalization and commodification of health was continuous with modern trends and became a wartime site of attempted well‐being of the self at the expense of the Nazi ethnic community.
Abstract: Illness in Nazi Germany was a site of contestation around the existing modern self. The Nazis mobilized the professions of medicine and psychology, two disciplines built around self, to exploit physical and mental capacity. Nazi projects thus instrumentalized the individual and essentialized a self of race and will. A cruel and anxious obsession with health as a means of racial exclusion was a monstrous form of the modern turn inward to agency of body and mind. The Nazis regulated the individual through family and factory (social control), areas of ordinary life in which modernity located human activity and meaning, and propagandized traditional values the populace internalized (social discipline). A Nazi premodern warrior ethos was served by a liberal ethic of productivity and an absolutist tradition of state control. Medicalization and commodification of health was continuous with modern trends and became a wartime site of attempted well‐being of the self at the expense of the Nazi ethnic commu...
TL;DR: This paper examined trends in player productivity and salaries as players age, finding that the best players peak about two years later than marginal players, and development and depreciation of ability appear to be more pronounced for players with the highest peak ability levels.
Abstract: Using panels of player pay and performance from Major League Baseball (MLB), we examine trends in player productivity and salaries as players age. Pooling players of all ability levels leads to a systematic bias in regression coefficients. After addressing this problem by dividing players into talent quintiles, we find that the best players peak about two years later than marginal players, and development and depreciation of ability appear to be more pronounced for players with the highest peak ability levels. Within-career variation, however, is less pronounced than between-player variation, and the talent level of players within a given quintile will typically remain lower than the talent level for rookies in the next higher quintile. Free agents are paid proportionately with their production at all ability levels, whereas young players' salaries are suppressed by similar amounts.
01 Jan 2007
TL;DR: The ANDRILL McMurdo Ice Shelf Project as discussed by the authors recovered a core 1285 m long (AND-1B) from Windless Bight in McMurda Sound, containing a range of lithologies including both siliciclastic and volcanic diamictites, sandstones and mudstones; diatomites; and volcanic ash/tuff and one phonolitic lava flow.
Abstract: Summary During the 2006-2007 austral summer, the ANDRILL McMurdo Ice Shelf Project recovered a core 1285 m long (AND-1B) from Windless Bight in McMurdo Sound. This core contains a range of lithologies, including both siliciclastic and volcanic diamictites, sandstones and mudstones; diatomites; and volcanic ash/tuff and one phonolitic lava flow. This sequence has been subdivided into eight lithostratigraphic units and 25 subunits, based on lithological abundances. Eleven lithofacies have been identified, ranging from open marine diatomites and mudstones to turbidites to ice-proximal massive and stratified diamictites. More than 50 glacimarine sequences have been recognized, bounded by glacial surfaces of erosion. Three distinct stacking patterns are present, showing evidence of glacial advance/retreat/advance with varying degrees of preservation. Carbonate and pyrite are the dominant secondary phases in the core. The pyrite overprint is especially notable in volcanic sediments below ~400 mbsf, where it often obscures stratification and sediment texture.
01 Jan 2007
TL;DR: Dunbar et al. as mentioned in this paper integrated tephrochronology of the West Antarctic region with a potential tephra record in the WAIS Divide Ice Core N.I Wilch NMGB/EES Department, New Mexico Tech, Socorro NM, 87801, USA.
Abstract: Integrated tephrochronology of the West Antarctic regionImplications for a potential tephra record in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide Ice Core N.W. Dunbar, W.C. McIntosh, A.V. Kurbatov, and T.I Wilch NMGB/EES Department, New Mexico Tech, Socorro NM, 87801, USA (nelia@nmt.edu, mcintosh@nmt.edu) Climate Change Institute 303 Bryand Global Sciences Center, Orono, ME, 04469, USA (akurbatov@maine.edu) Department of Geological Sciences, Albion College, Albion MI, 49224, USA (twilch@albion.edu)
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TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that a ring over algebraically closed fields is stably just infinite provided that the ring is either right noetherian or countably generated over a large field.
Abstract: We study just infinite algebras which remain so upon extension of scalars by arbitrary field extensions. Such rings are called stably just infinite. We show that just infinite rings over algebraically closed fields are stably just infinite provided that the ring is either right noetherian or countably generated over a large field. We give examples to show that, over countable fields, a just infinite algebra which is either affine or non-noetherian need not remain just infinite under extension of scalars. We also give a concrete classification of PI stably just infinite rings and give two characterizations of non-PI stably just infinite rings in terms of Martindale's extended center.
26 Aug 2007
TL;DR: Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione di Pisa,Via della Faggiola, 32, Pisa 56126, Italy (pompilio@i.ingv.it) Department of Earth & Environmental Science, N.M. Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, New Mexico, U.S.A. 87801, United States as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia , Sezione di Pisa ,Via della Faggiola, 32, Pisa 56126, Italy (pompilio@i.ingv.it) Department of Earth & Environmental Science, N.M. Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, N.M. 87801, United States (kyle@nmt.edu). Department of Geological Science, Albion College, Albion, MI, 49224, United States (twilch@albion.edu) New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, N.M. Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, N.M. 87801, United States (nelia@nmt.edu) http://www.andrill.org/support/references/appendixc.html
TL;DR: This article examined students' preferences for lecturers' personalities on three continents and found that students in all three settings tended to prefer Conscientious, Open, Stable and Agreeable lecturers.
TL;DR: This paper applied quintile regression methodology to player pay and performance data from the 1985-86 to 2005-06 seasons of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and found that the highest ability veteran players suffer the most salary suppression relative to the lesser ability players in their debut-year cohort, indicating rents have been transferred from the most able players to players of lesser abilities.
Abstract: We apply quintile regression methodology to player pay and performance data from the 1985-86 to 2005-06 seasons of the National Basketball Association (NBA). In addition to confirming a finding from Hakes and Turner (2007) of systematic bias in pooled OLS regressions of career paths for salary and productivity, the quintile analysis presents two important results regarding NBA salary structure. Unlike Major League Baseball (MLB), the highest ability veteran NBA players suffer salary suppression relative to the lesser-talented players in their debut-year cohort, indicating rents have been transferred from the most able players to players of lesser abilities. Also, while young NBA players in general suffer from salary suppression relative to free agents, as is well-reported in baseball, our regression results show that the highest-ability young players suffer the most salary suppression, and that the effects of the rookie salary cap in the 1995 NBA Collective Bargaining Agreement depressed salaries for young players of all ability levels.
TL;DR: Eight polymorphic loci have been generated for S. campestris using non-enriched and enriched libraries and will be used to determine population genetic structure of Illinois populations as well as to estimate fine-scale gene flow rates.
Abstract: Sabatia campestris is a regionally endangered prairie plant. Eight polymorphic loci have been generated for S. campestris (Gentianaceae) using non-enriched and enriched libraries. Polymorphism was quantified from an isolated population from central Illinois yielding mean observed and expected heterozygosities of 0.723 and 0.801, respectively. The number of alleles per locus for this population ranged from three to 25 with a median of 15.5. These genetic markers will be used to determine population genetic structure of Illinois populations as well as to estimate fine-scale gene flow rates.
TL;DR: In this article, a novel system for ultra-long-distance quantum key distribution in optical fiber, incorporating ultra-low-noise transition-edge sensors (TES) photodetectors, is described.
Abstract: A novel system for ultra-long-distance quantum key distribution in optical fiber, incorporating ultra-low-noise transition-edge
sensor (TES) photodetectors, is described. Integration of the TES detectors into the system was facilitated with a
unique optically switched interferometer design. The performance of the system over 101 km of dark, single-mode fiber
at 1550 nm and a clock rate of 1 MHz is described. Secret-key bits were produced after error correction and privacy
amplification when using mean photon numbers of 0.01, 0.0148, 0.02, 0.0304, and 0.2 photons/pulse at the output of the
transmitter. At a mean photon number of 0.1 photons per pulse at the transmitter, a transmission line loss of 29.92 dB,
roughly equivalent to 150 km of optical fiber, could be tolerated and secret bits extracted from the transmitted key.
Abstract: Kelsey Ebben and Peter Magolda admit that using a campus Christian group as an exemplar of effective student involvement is unorthodox. But, they argue, the widely applicable lessons for other organizations are too praiseworthy to pass up.
TL;DR: In this article, the absolute, total single-electron-capture cross section has been measured for collisions with deuterium (D) at center-of-mass (c.m.) collision energies of $59--949\phantom{\rule{0.3em}{0ex}}\mathrm{eV}∕\mathm{u}$ which is the lowest collision energy for which experimental results have been published.
Abstract: Using the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) ion-atom merged-beams apparatus, the absolute, total single-electron-capture cross section has been measured for collisions of ${\mathrm{Ne}}^{2+}$ with deuterium (D) at center-of-mass (c.m.) collision energies of $59--949\phantom{\rule{0.3em}{0ex}}\mathrm{eV}∕\mathrm{u}$. With the high-velocity ion beams now available at the ORNL Multicharged Ion Research Facility, we have extended our previous merged-beams measurement to lower c.m. collision energies. The data are compared to all four previously published measurements for ${\mathrm{Ne}}^{2+}+\mathrm{H}(\mathrm{D})$ which differ considerably from one another at energies $\ensuremath{\lesssim}600\phantom{\rule{0.3em}{0ex}}\mathrm{eV}∕\mathrm{u}$. We are unaware of any published theoretical cross-section data for ${\mathrm{Ne}}^{2+}+\mathrm{H}(\mathrm{D})$ at the energies studied. Early quantal rate coefficient calculations for ${\mathrm{Ne}}^{2+}+\mathrm{H}$ at eV/u energies suggest a cross section many orders of magnitude below previous measurements of the cross section at $40\phantom{\rule{0.3em}{0ex}}\mathrm{eV}∕\mathrm{u}$ which is the lowest collision energy for which experimental results have been published. Here we compare our measurements to recent theoretical electron-capture results for ${\mathrm{He}}^{2+}+\mathrm{H}$. Both the experimental and theoretical results show a decreasing cross section with decreasing energy.