bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Polarized pairs, log minimal models, and Zariski decompositions
Authors: Birkar Caucher , Hu Zhengyu 
Published: July 2014

AbstractWe continue our study of the relation between log minimal models and various types of Zariski decompositions. Let (X,B) be a projective log canonical pair. We will show that (X,B) has a log minimal model if either KX + B birationally has a Nakayama–Zariski decomposition with nef positive part, or if KX +B is big and birationally has a Fujita–Zariski or Cutkosky–Kawamata–Moriwaki–Zariski decomposition. Along the way we introduce polarized pairs (X,B +P), where (X,B) is a usual projective pair and where P is nef, and we study the birational geometry of such pairs.
Formalizing Economic Tasks Research Based on State-Variable Approach
Authors: Гришина  , Grishina Svetlana 
Published: July 2014

The paper explains how to apply state-variable approach when exploring multidimensional
economic systems. Applicability of this approach, broadly used in
the systems theory to solve economic tasks, is justified primarily by dynamic
nature of the said tasks. Shown, how to apply state-variable approach to a single-
nomenclature system of inventory management; also proved that the statevariable
approach can be applicable for exploring complex multidimensional
economic systems.
Susceptibility of Melipona scutellaris Latreille, 1811 (Hymenoptera: Apidae) worker bees to Beauveria bassiana (Bals.) Vuill.
Authors: Conceição Pamela de Jesus , Neves Cynthia Maria de Lyra , Sodré Geni da Silva , De Carvalho Carlos Alfredo Lopes , Souza Adriane Vieira , Ribeiro Generosa Sousa , Pereira Rozimar de Campos 
Published: July 2014

Entomopathogenic fungi are often used as an alternative method for insect pest control. However, few studies mention the action of these fungi on bees and selectivity to beneficial organisms in agroecosystems. The objective of the present study was to assess the susceptibility of Melipona scutellaris bees to the isolate of the entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana. The experiment was carried out by applying fungus suspension on the back and by contact on recently emerged bees. A complete randomized design was used with five treatments (four concentrations: 1 x 105, 1 x 106, 1 x 107, 1 x 108 conidia/ml and a control of distilled water) with five replications. The mortality data were subjected to variance analysis, regression Probit analysis Statistic software, obtaining the estimate of the lethal dose to 50% of the population (LD50). The curves adjustment to model was evaluated by Pearson test chi-squared test and differences between the curves evaluated by test of parallelism. The B. bassiana was virulent uruçu bees (M. scutellaris) causing mortality at lower dose. Based on these results, it can make recommendations to minimize the impact, contributing to maintenance of naturalpopulations of these insects.
Trap-nesting solitary wasps (Hymenoptera: Aculeata) in an insular landscape: Mortality rates for immature wasps, parasitism, and sex ratios
Authors: Nascimento Ana Luiza Oliveira , Garófalo Carlos Alberto 
Published: July 2014

The aim of this study was to examine the species composition and the abundance of solitary wasps that nest in preexisting cavities in the Ilha Anchieta State Park, Brazil. Sampling was made during two years utilizing trap-nests. Of the 254 nests obtained, 142 nests were built by 14 species belonging to four genera and four families. In the remaining 112 nests all immatures were dead by unknown causes or had been parasitized by natural enemies. The occupation of trap-nests occurred almost throughout the study period and the wasps nested more frequently during the super-humid season. Trypoxylon lactitarse, Pachodynerus nasidens, Trypoxylon sp.2 aff. nitidum and Podium denticulatum were the most abundant species. The sex ratios of T. lactitarse and Trypoxylon sp.2 aff. nitidum were significantly male-biased, whereas those of Trypoxylon sp.5 aff. nitidum and P. nasidens were significantly female-biased. Sex ratios of P. denticulatum and P. brevithorax were not significantly different from 1:1. Natural enemies emerging from the nests were identified as belonging to the families Chrysididae, Ichneumonidae and Chalcididae (Hymenoptera), the genus Melittobia (Hymenoptera, Eulophidae), and the species Amobia floridensis (Townsend, 1892) (Diptera: Sarcophagidae). The number of cells with dead immatures from unknown factors was significantly higher than the number of cells parasitized by insects.
A romantic fairy tale in the era of globalization: Love, mobility and cosmopolitanism in Elizabeth Tchoungui’s Je vous souhaite la pluie
Authors: Toivanen Anna-Leena 
Published: July 2014

Abstract
Elizabeth Tchoungui’s Je vous souhaite la pluie (2006) is a pronouncedly cosmopolitan novel as it acknowledges the intertwined character of the local and the global. The novel could be defined as a romantic postcolonial fairy tale that is as much informed by the African predicament as it is by global inequalities. In the face of the fiasco of the postcolonial nation state, hopes for more viable future prospects are invested in western diasporic spaces. In this context, love represents an important element of transnational mobility for the underprivileged protagonist who eventually becomes the heroine of a diasporic African Cinderella tale in the global age. The article focuses on the novel’s ways of representing intercultural love affairs against the canvas of globalization, pondering also on the possibility of a truly cosmopolitan future and the obstacles on its way.
Je vous souhaite la pluie (2006) d’Elizabeth Tchoungui est un roman à tendance cosmopolite dans lequel l’auteure révèle la nature imbriquée des sphères locales et globales. Le roman est apparenté à un conte de fées romantique postcolonial marqué tout autant par une sensibilité à l’embarras africaine que par les inégalités causées par la mondialisation. Face aux échecs de l’état-nation postcolonial, l’Occident est devenu l’espace d’espoir dans l’imagination postcoloniale africaine. Dans ce contexte, l’amour représente un aspect central de la mobilité transnationale pour la protagoniste, une Cendrillon africaine des temps contemporains. Le présent article s’attache à définir la manière dont le roman dépeint les relations amoureuses interculturelles dans le cadre de la mondialisation, et envisage également l’éventualité d’un avenir véritablement cosmopolite ainsi que les obstacles qu’il rencontre.
Year of the Typhus: Operation Torch through the eyes of Tunisian women, or how to make the Holocaust an Arab story?
Authors: Benyoussef Lamia 
Published: July 2014

Abstract
This article examines the plight of Tunisian ‘Arabs’ and ‘Jews’ during the critical period between 8 November 1942 and 20 May 1943 through the viewpoint of a local subaltern narrative, known in women’s oral history as Year of the Typhus. Relying on interviews conducted with World War II women survivors, family archives, war memoirs and other military correspondence by the Allies, this article presents four main arguments. First, both the Jew and the Arab appear as a dehumanized Oriental Otherness in the war diaries of the Anglo-American soldiers and war correspondents who were stationed in North Africa during Operation Torch. Second, both the Allies and the Axis Powers were anti-Semitic, not just the Nazis. Third, the chapter of the Holocaust in North Africa is not separate from European history of colonialism in Africa and the Middle East. Although today the word anti-Semitism includes only the ‘Jew’, World War II archives show that it included various ethnicities, namely, the Jew, the Arab, the Negro/Black and the Italian. Finally, the relations between ‘Jews’ and ‘Arabs’ during the war were governed by the racial and social hierarchy characterizing all colonized societies as well as by the French colonial politics of nativization and denativization. This hierarchal system shaped not only how these two groups viewed each other, but also how they viewed themselves.
Cet article examine la situation de la population tunisienne ‘juive’ et ‘arabe’ pendant la période critique entre le 8 novembre 1941 et le 20 mai 1943 à travers un référant narratif local appelé l’année du typhus dans l’histoire féminine orale et subalterne. En s’appuyant sur des interviews avec des survivantes de la deuxième guerre mondiale, les mémoires de guerre et autres correspondances militaires et médicales entre les alliés, cet article soutient quatre arguments majeurs. Le premier est la déshumanisation du juif et de l’arabe en tant qu’altérité orientale dans les carnets de guerre des soldats et correspondants de guerre Anglo-Américains stationnés en Afrique du Nord pendant Opération Torche. Deuxièmement, l’antisémitisme existait dans les deux camps, autant bien chez les alliés que les forces de l’axe. Troisièmement, dans le contexte Nord-Africain, le holocauste ne peut-pas être séparé de l’histoire du colonialisme européen en Afrique et au Moyen-Orient. Bien que le mot antisémitisme n’inclue que le ’juif’ aujourd’hui, les archives de la deuxième guerre mondiale démontrent qu’il incluait au passé non seulement le juif et l’arabe mais aussi l’Italien et le noir africain. En conclusion, les relations entre ‘juifs’ et ‘arabes’ étaient gouvernées par la hiérarchie raciale et sociale caractéristique de toute société colonisée ainsi que par la politique de dé-indigénisation et de ré-indigénisation poursuivie par la France coloniale. Cette hiérarchie coloniale a façonné non seulement l’image de l’autre, juif ou arabe, mais aussi l’image de soi.
Secret histories revealed: The journal of Joseph Elisée Pèyre-Ferry
Authors: Mahlis Kristen 
Published: July 2014

Abstract
This article examines the recently published (2005) journal of a French officer and soldier fighting in the final year (1802–1803) of the Haitian Revolution. Napoleon Bonaparte’s failed campaign to recolonize the French territory of Saint-Domingue has been the subject of historians and imaginative writers alike, but Pèyre-Ferry’s journal complicates previous representations of the French mission to subdue its former colony and reinstitute slavery. As captain of the grenadiers, Pèyre-Ferry fulfils his military duty but uses his journal to launch a subtly feminist critique of colonialism through the perspective of a male soldier. Indeed, Peyre-Ferry’s close relationship with his mother, played out in his journal, is the medium through which his anti-colonial and pro-feminist sentiments take shape. What emerges in this remarkable journal is a radical critique of the racist assumptions implicit in the colonial venture.
‘Screenwriting research: No longer a lost cause’: A keynote presentation at the SRN Conference 2013
Authors: Nelmes Jill 
Published: July 2014

Abstract
The article discusses the past, present and future of screenwriting research from a somewhat personal viewpoint, being US and UK in its focus, partly because of my own lack of knowledge of the researchers in other countries in the ‘dark’ years. Yet the pioneering writers and, more recently, the creation of the Screenwriting Research Network and the Journal of Screenwriting have all encouraged the exchanging of ideas and the realization that there are many of us interested in the same subject. More recently the area has proven to be exciting and dynamic with a diverse range of high quality research from many countries.
Indelible experience: An exploration of religion and ethnicity in the films of Woody Allen and the Coen Brothers
Authors: Bachman Gregg 
Published: July 2014

Abstract
This article explores, within the peculiarly modern landscape of assimilation, how the Jewish culture/religion that engages in seemingly unending conversations (Talmudic thinking) encourages the writer/directors Woody Allen and the Coen Brothers, to question tropes of existing genres and conventional narrative structure, and to tackle challenging themes, many of which are connected to a specifically Jewish American response to a moral universe deeply affected by the post-Holocaust world-view.
Speaking images, race-less words: Play and the absence of race in contemporary Scandinavia
Authors: Stubberud Elisabeth , Ringrose Priscilla 
Published: July 2014

Abstract
What happens when a film that deals with issues of race and lived multiculture is released in a socio-political landscape where there is limited language to address lived experiences of racialization? This article examines the Swedish fiction film Play (Östlund, 2011) and a TV interview with its director. While mainstream reviews interpreted the film in terms of a non-racial dynamic, we argue that the film is not only about race, but that its racial dynamic is highly gendered. We suggest furthermore that Ruben Östlund’s ambiguous response to the question of the racist legacy of the film points to its failure to confront the prevailing racial hegemony.
Transgender Worldmaking in Cyberspace: Historical Activism on the Internet
Authors: Rawson K.J. 
Published: July 2014

Abstract
Advances in digital technology have provided new opportunities for historical activism, particularly through the collaborative channels of cyberspace. This article examines transgender historical activism on the Internet by identifying three types of worldmaking projects that respond to nonexistent or impoverished historical record keeping. With the affordances of cyberspace, transgender worldmaking invites collaborative, innovative, experimental, and politically charged historical projects that enact alternative ways of engaging with history and historical representation.
Reanimating Archiving/Archival Corporealities: Deploying “Big Ears” in De Rigueur Mortis Intervention
Authors: Nelson Lydia 
Published: July 2014

Abstract
This article considers the ways in which the constrictions of archiving bodies mirror the conscription of archival bodies. I advocate using transtemporal polyphony, irresolution, and ambiguity as a means to incorporate corporealities, historiographically intervening in lesser-known or seemingly “complete” queer histories. Drawing on state documents that usually exclude or suppress queer corporealities and from queer poetic fiction, I work to reanimate reading room intimacies. I offer the term de rigueur mortis to identify and disrupt the codified historical narrative of Progressive Era trans politician Murray Hall. Using Langston Hughes’s ASK YOUR MAMA, I document the ways in which ambiguity and irresolution provide space for queer performing bodies in the often heteronormative historiography of “the dozens.” Imagining and enacting queer historical futures requires us to reenvision tangible archival material; I discuss the role that a comedic ethics toward historiography might have in expanding our present-past for future-pasts to come.
Red light as a 12-oxo-leukotriene B4 antagonist: an explanation for the efficacy of intensive red light in the therapy of peripheral inflammatory diseases
Authors: Paschke Fritz , Rabong Constantin , Schuster Christoph 
Published: July 2014

AbstractTo explain the successful treatment of various inflammatory diseases by using intensive red light, a non-linear theory is presented for the interaction of electric dipoles with light involving frequency doubling. It is applied to analyze the influence of light on organic molecules with permanent electric dipoles. The molecule 5-hydroxy-12-oxo-(5
Modeling temperature effect on dynamic modulus of elasticity of red pine (Pinus resinosa) in frozen and non-frozen states
Authors: Gao Shan , Wang Xiping , Wang Lihai 
Published: July 2014

Abstract
The response of dynamic and static modulus of elasticity (MOEdyn and MOEsta) of red pine small clear wood (25.4×25.4×407 mm3) within the temperature range -40 to 40°C has been investigated. The moisture content (MC) of the specimens ranged from 0 to 118%. The MOEdyn was calculated based on measured ultrasonic velocity (V) and wood density. The MOEsta was measured by static bending tests in a climate chamber between -40 and 40°C. The results indicate that both MOEdyn and MOEsta were affected by temperature and the MC. Above freezing point, MOE decreased linearly at a slow rate with increasing temperature. Below freezing point, MOE increased at a rapid rate with decreasing temperature. The MC-level had a significant effect on the MOE-temperature relationships. Temperature effect was much more significant in green wood than in dry wood. Analytical models were developed to predict the change of MOEdyn relative to that at 20°C in the case of acoustic measurements under different temperature conditions.
Collocation Method for the Modeling of Membrane Gas Permeation Systems
Authors: Feichtinger Anna , Makaruk Aleksander , Weinmüller Ewa , Friedl Anton , Harasek Michael 
Published: July 2014

Abstract
In this work, we describe a numerical method which enables an efficient computation of membrane gas permeation processes that involve multiple membrane stages and multiple gas components. The utilized numerical approach is a collocation method equipped with a grid adaptation strategy based on a dependable error estimate of the numerical approximation. The comparison of the results provided by the collocation method with those calculated from an experimentally validated finite difference method has demonstrated, that the accuracy of both numerical approximations is practically the same. However, the current procedure is characterized by a much better computational efficiency that allows to considerably reduce the computational time. This is a crucial feature when combining computation of membrane permeation processes with optimization algorithms. In such a setting the computation of the permeation process is frequently repeated and naturally, results in long computational times when the efficiency is not adequately improved.
Radioiodine labeled CdSe/CdS quantum dots: Lectin targeted dual probes
Authors: Akca Ozlet , Unak Perihan , Medine E. Ilker , Sakarya Serhan , Yurt Kilcar Ayfer , Ichedef Cigdem , Bekis Recep , Timur Suna 
Published: July 2014

Abstract
CdSe/CdS quantum dots (QD) were synthesized and bioconjugated with Sambucus nigra agglutinin (SNA) lectin (Lec). Mannose
triflate and cysteamine molecules (MTC) were also utilized to prepare MTC-QDs and MTC-QDs-Lec probes as well as Lec bound
QDs. Afterwards; potential use of these nanoparticles as radiolabeled fluorescence nano-probes for the cell imaging studies has been
investigated. Biological activities of 125I
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, 125I-MTC-QDs, MTC-QDs- Lec-125I,
QDs-Lec-125I and Lec-125I were examined on various cancer cell lines such as Caco-2, MCF-7 and A-549 in terms
of cell incorporation. QDs-Lec-125I exhibited the highest cell incorporation on whole cell lines. In addition, the
QDs-Lec-131I, was used for in vivo imaging. The whole body distribution of the radiolabeled QDs on New Zealand
rabbits and Balb C mice were examined by taking dynamic and static images. Radioactivity cleared from the kidneys and the bladder,
while significant amount radioactivity was retained in the heart and liver within 24 h.
Fracture Toughness Measurements From Circumferentially-Notched Pipes Tests
Authors: Mourad A-H. I. , Altarawneha J. , Domiaty A. E. , Chao Y. J. , Haggag F. M. 
Published: July 2014

Abstract
Fracture toughness for full scale steel pipe of API 5L grade X65 PSL1 (ASTM A694) medium strength grade pipeline steel has been measured by a new test specimen utilizing the same procedures of the standard test methods ASTM E399-90 and ASTM E1820-01. Full scale pipe sections with circumferentially machined notches were pulled axially by tensile loads until fracture. An external circumferential sharp notch was machined in the wall of the pipe to simulate the crack. In addition to testing a plain pipe, a well lubricated and axially free loaded plug was mounted inside the pipe to provide plane strain condition for notch failure. Ductile dimple fracture was observed on fractured surfaces of plain pipes, while evidences of cleavage fractures have been observed when the internal plug was used. The measured value of the fracture toughness has been found to be in good agreement with the values measured according to the standard tests for steel plates of similar grade and with the with those measured using in situ Automated Ball Indentation (ABI) tests conducted on the same pipe section. The new testing method for full scale pipe can be used regardless of pipe dimensions since it appears to provide plane strain conditions around the crack.
Leaf Consumption Capacity and Damage Projection of Octodonta nipae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) on Three Palm Species
Authors: Hou Youming , Miao Yunxin , Zhang Zhiyong 
Published: July 2014

Abstract
The nipa palm hispid, Octodonta nipae (Maulik) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), is considered to be the most important invasive pest of palms in southern China. To evaluate the differences in the damage potential of O. nipae on three different host palms, the daily feeding rates of O. nipae were studied based on the age-stage, two-sex life table theory. There were no significant differences in consumption rate during the first to third instar among palm species. However, O. nipae consumed a greater area on Chinese windmill palm Trachycarpus fortunei (Hooker) H. Wendland and Canary Island date palm Phoenix canariensis Chabaud leaves than on pygmy date palm Phoenixroebelenii O' Brien leaves. Females consumed more food than males on all three palms tested. The net consumption rates were 11,007.6, 8,998.0, and 5,773.5 square millimeters per individual for O. nipae reared on Chinese windmill palm, Canary Island date palm, and pygmy date palm, respectively. The host palm had a significant effect on consumption by both male and female O. nipae, and the damage potential was higher on Chinese windmill palm and Canary Island date palm. According to the finite consumption rate, O. nipae could cause more severe damage on Chinese windmill palm and Canary Island date palm than on pygmy date palm. These results provide the first assessment of leaf area consumed and the potential damage by O. nipae on three host palms. Population projections based on age-stage, two-sex life tables, and stage-specific consumption rates can reveal the stage structure and damage potential of the pest population. This approach offers a promising tool for quantitative assessment of the feeding capacity of this invasive beetle.
Optimizing the Drilling HPHT/Deep Offshore Wells Using Managed Pressure Drilling Techniques
Authors: Ali Aneru Suleman , Dosunmu Adewale , Anyanwu Chimaroke , Evelyn Ekeinde , Odagme Barodor 
Published: July 2014

Abstract
Managed Pressure Drilling (MPD) as a drilling technique is the result of the high costs of nonproductive time (NPT) caused by close proximity between formation pore pressures and fracture pressures which is common to offshore/deep-offshore, HPHT and depleted reservoirs as well as some land drilling operations.
The optimization of the Constant Bottom Hole Pressure (CBHP) variation of MPD was studied in this work. The CBHP generally refers to the term used to describe actions taken to correct or reduce the effect of circulating friction loss or equivalent circulating density (ECD) in an effort to stay within the limits imposed by the pore pressure and fracture pressure.
In this work, a computer program was designed to efficiently calculate the required back pressure term needed to maintain the BHP constant between the pore pressure and the fracture pressure. The computer software designed was used to determine the back pressure for both offshore and onshore wells at various depths to verify the robustness of the software and its level of accuracy.
The economic impact of the work was also analyzed in respect to reduction of the general cost associated with the NPT during drilling operations both onshore and offshore.