cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Great Power Politics Among Asante and its Neighbours in the 18th and 19th Centuries: An Offensive Realist Explanation
Creators: name: Yankey-Wayne, Valerie Anne
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: History--African
subject: Political Science
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: Political Science--International Law and Relations
subject: Pre-Colonial African History
subject: Asante Empire
subject: Gold Coast (West Africa)
subject: Offensive Realism
subject: Mearsheimer
subject: Great Power Politics

description: Pre-colonial African history has been excluded from realists’ analysis of great power politics because they consider Africa to have had no significant history of influence before the World Wars. This thesis seeks to determine whether a pre-colonial African states system was equivalent to the European model, and whether the same factors inﬂuenced security competition and the motivation to maximize military power. The thesis answers the above assertion by testing Mearsheimer’s offensive realism’s central proposition—‘maximizing military power with the ultimate aim of becoming a hegemon is the logical solution in an anarchic environment’—against the international relations of Asante and its neighbors in the 18th and 19th centuries. Although both Africanists and realists may reject the application of offensive realism to pre-colonial African history, there is evidence to suggest that this maybe a viable argument. The Asante case, just like Mearsheimer’s great power politics of Europe, was characterized by the lack of higher authority, which generated a climate of uncertainty that manifested itself through maximization of military power, formation of alliances and wars. The African polities’ drive to maximize their military power arguably made the concept of ‘balance of power’ unworkable, in the sense that almost all the polities in the system were prepared to use military power to achieve their objectives, and this made wars more frequent. In this case, whereas Asante used military aggression to aspire for hegemony, its neighbors rather used military aggression to defend their status quo, that is, their control of the trade routes. Mearsheimer’s theory was useful in explaining how structural factors such as anarchy and the distribution of military power strongly shaped the behavior of the polities of the Asante case, but it has little to say about why Asante, a revisionist state was revisionist. Furthermore, although Mearsheimer introduces the argument that nationalism, a sub-unit factor can directly influence structural factors, it may benefit realism to build on Mearsheimer’s theory by looking into non-Western ways of thinking, which incorporates non-structural factors like collective identity (glorification of the nation) and regime (personal) power into their understanding of great power politics and revisionism.
Overstraining International Climate Finance: When Conflicts of Objectives Threaten Its Success
Creators: name: Buchholz, Wolfgang
name: Rübbelke, Dirk
name: Buchholz, Wolfgang
name: Rübbelke, Dirk
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Ancillary Benefits
subject: CDM, Climate Finance
subject: Co-benefits, Global Environment Facility
subject: Incremental Cost
subject: International Transfers
subject: Paris Agreement
subject: Premium Prices

description: Expectations concerning international climate finance have increased considerably. In particular, provisions for international transfer schemes are an important element in the Paris Agreement. Yet, climate finance is not only seen as a tool to efficiently combat global warming, but also to solve development problems in the recipient countries. Thereby, conflicts between distributive and allocative objectives arise, which threaten overall performance of such transfer schemes. Given the severity of the climate change problem, we raise concerns whether the world can afford climate transfer schemes that do not focus on prevention of (and adaptation to) climate change, but are considered as a vehicle of rent-seeking by many agents. In line with the famous Tinbergen rule we argue that other sustainability problems and issues of global fairness should not be primarily addressed by climate finance but should be mainly tackled by other means. Future designs of international transfer schemes within the framework of the Paris Agreement are to be based on experience gained from existing mechanisms. Therefore, we con-sider different existing schemes using a graphical technique first proposed by David Pearce and describe the conflicts between allocative and distributional goals that arise.
title: Improvement of electromagnetic flow meters for aggressive liquids
Creators: name: Ataullaev, A.O.
name: Ataullaev, N.O.
Publisher: name: Tashkent State Technical University Named after Islam Karimov
Year: 2020

description: The model developed electromagnetic flow sensors with ring channels and alternating magnetic poles alternately in a three-dimensional approximation and the results of a study of their static characteristics. It was shown that due to the formation in the pipeline system with alternating magnetic poles is substantially increased channel length of the active zone of the sensor, thereby improving sensitivity of measurement. Found that the positive effect, i.e. fuller use of the cross-sectional area of the pipeline in the area of the electrodes is especially pronounced in the flow sensor with a diameter of 150 mm pipeline. It was found that the developed electromagnetic flow sensors allow to produce records of undistorted streams of water with an accuracy better than ± 0,5%.
Additional file 1 of Deep learning parametric response mapping from inspiratory chest CT scans: a new approach for small airway disease screening
Creators: name: Chen, Bin
name: Liu, Ziyi
name: Lu, Jinjuan
name: Li, Zhihao
name: Kuang, Kaiming
name: Yang, Jiancheng
name: Wang, Zengmao
name: Sun, Yingli
name: Du, Bo
name: Qi, Lin
name: Li, Ming
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology

description: Additional file 1. Visual Assessment on HRCT.  Construction of PRM Generative Model. Table S1. The AUC of Pred PRMfSAD at Different Thresholds of GT PRMfSAD (n = 76). Table S2. Characteristics of Enrolled Participants. Table S3. Pearson Correlation Coefficients of PRM Metrics (n = 76). Table S4. Pearson Correlation Coefficient of HRCT Visual Evaluation and PRM Metrics (n = 76). Table S5. The AUC of Pred PRMfSAD(n = 76).
Additional file 4: of METTL3-mediated N6-methyladenosine modification is critical for epithelial-mesenchymal transition and metastasis of gastric cancer
Creators: name: Yue, Ben
name: Song, Chenlong
name: Yang, Linxi
name: Cui, Ran
name: Cheng, Xingwang
name: Zhang, Zizhen
name: Zhao, Gang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Table S4. Univariate and multivariate analysis of disease-free survival (DFS) after surgery. (PDF 116 kb)
Far-Field Linear Optical Superresolution via Heterodyne Detection in a Higher-Order Local Oscillator Mode
Creators: name: Yang, Fan
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optics
subject: superresolution
subject: heterodyne detection
subject: Imaging

description: Rayleigh criterion has been the unbreakable rule for direct imaging. In the past few decades, new imaging techniques emerged to circumvent Rayleigh limit by changing the imaging conditions. By analysing the optical field in image plane with quantum optics, one can find quantum Fisher information for estimating the distance between two light sources remains constant, which means one can always estimate this distance with finite error. This discovery makes Rayleigh criterion irrelevant to quantum optimal measurements. Inspired by the theoretical analysis, we propose an experimental implementation to achieve sub-Rayleigh resolution. Using optical heterodyne detection with a local oscillator in TEM01, we can measure the single slit position within 0.0015 and 0.012 of Rayleigh limit for coherent and incoherent light. We can also measure the distance between two slits emitting incoherent light within 0.019 of Rayleigh limit. By engaging more Hermite-Gaussian modes, we can reconstruct the full image.
Local 2D Particle-in-cell simulations of the collisionless MRI
Creators: name: Riquelme, Mario A.
name: Quataert, Eliot
name: Sharma, Prateek
name: Spitkovsky, Anatoly
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The magnetorotational instability (MRI) is a crucial mechanism of angular momentum transport in a variety of astrophysical accretion disks. In systems accreting at well below the Eddington rate, such as the central black hole in the Milky Way (Sgr A*), the rate of Coulomb collisions between particles is very small, making the disk evolve essentially as a collisionless plasma. We present a nonlinear study of the collisionless MRI using first-principles particle-in-cell (PIC) plasma simulations. In this initial study we focus on local two-dimensional (axisymmetric) simulations, deferring more realistic three-dimensional simulations to future work. For simulations with net vertical magnetic flux, the MRI continuously amplifies the magnetic field until the Alfvén velocity, v_A, is comparable to the speed of light, c (independent of the initial value of v_A/c). This is consistent with the lack of saturation of MRI channel modes in analogous axisymmetric MHD simulations. The amplification of the magnetic field by the MRI generates a significant pressure anisotropy in the plasma (with the perpendicular pressure being larger than the parallel pressure). We find that this pressure anisotropy in turn excites mirror modes and that the volume averaged pressure anisotropy remains near the threshold for mirror mode excitation. Particle energization is due to both reconnection and viscous heating associated with the pressure anisotropy. Reconnection produces a distinctive power-law component in the energy distribution function of the particles, indicating the likelihood of non-thermal ion and electron acceleration in collisionless accretion disks. This has important implications for interpreting the observed emission -- from the radio to the gamma-rays -- of systems such as Sgr A*.
description: 21 pages, 17 figures
Deformed Distance Duality Relations and Supernovae Dimming
Creators: name: Lima, J. A. S.
name: Cunha, J. V.
name: Zanchin, V. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The basic cosmological distances are linked by the Etherington cosmic distance duality relation, $η(z) = D_{L}(z)(1+z)^{-2}/D_{A}(z) \equiv 1$, where $D_{L}$ and $D_{A}$ are, respectively, the luminosity and angular diameter distances. In order to test its validity, some authors have proposed phenomenological expressions for $η(z)$ thereby deforming the original Etherington's relation and comparing the resulting expressions with the available and future cosmological data. The relevance of such studies is unquestionable since any violation of the cosmic distance duality relation could be the signal of new physics or non-negligible astrophysical effects in the usually assumed perfectly transparent Universe. In this letter, we show that under certain conditions such expressions can be derived from a more fundamental approach with the parameters appearing in the $η(z)$ expression defining the cosmic absorption parameter as recently discussed by Chen and Kantowski. Explicit examples involving four different parametrizations of the deformation function are given. Based on such an approach, it is also found that the latest Supernova data can also be explained in the framework of a pure cold dark matter model (Einstein-de Sitter). Two different scenarios with cosmic absorption are discussed. Only if the cosmic opacity is fully negligible, the description of an accelerating Universe powered by dark energy or some alternative gravity theory must be invoked.
description: 12 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ Letters
Spies Wearing Purple Hats: The use of social computing to improve information sharing inside the Intelligence Community of the United States
Creators: name: Chomik, Andrew
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Information Science
subject: Military Studies
subject: Public Administration
subject: Intelligence
subject: Social Computing
subject: Social Media
subject: Communications
subject: September 11, 2001
subject: Collaboration
subject: Political Science
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: Computer Science

description: After the terrorist attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001, the 9/11 Commission Report identified that the “need to know” culture and the “stove-piping” of agency-centric information in the United States intelligence community were critical factors in contributing towards intelligence failures on that day. Since the report, new methods of information sharing in the community have emerged, including the implementation and use of social computing tools and Web 2.0 technology. However, intelligence failures have continued to occur in recent years, and social computing tools are not being used effectively enough to help mitigate these failures. For example, tools are not required to be used during intelligence production cycles, making them complementary to pre-existing processes. This thesis critically examines the community’s internal use of social computing tools, using recent and online sources from within the community and beyond.
A fluctuating lattice-Boltzmann method with improved Galilean invariance
Creators: name: Kaehler, G.
name: Wagner, A. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we show that standard implementations of fluctuating Lattice Boltzmann methods do not obey Galilean invariance at a fundamental level. In trying to remedy this we are led to a novel kind of multi-relaxation time lattice Boltzmann methods where the collision matrix depends on the local velocity. This new method is conceptually elegant but numerically inefficient. With a small numerical trick, however, this method recovers nearly the original efficiency and allows the practical implementation of fluctuating lattice Boltzmann methods with significantly improved Galilean invariance. This will be important for applications of fluctuating lattice Boltzmann for non-equilibrium systems involving strong flow fields.
Multiple quantum NMR dynamics in a gas of spin-carrying molecules in fluctuating nanopores
Creators: name: Fel'dman, E. B.
name: Zenchuk, A. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effect of Gaussian fluctuations of nanopores filled with a gas of spin-carrying molecules ($s=1/2$) on the multiple quantum (MQ) NMR dynamics is investigated at different variances and correlation times of the fluctuations. We show that the fluctuations smooth out the evolution of MQ NMR coherence intensities which rapidly oscillate as functions of time in the absence of fluctuations. The growth and decay of the MQ coherence clusters in the fluctuating nanopore are also investigated.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures
Hedychridium coriaceum Dahlbom
Creators: name: Paukkunen, Juho
name: Rosa, Paolo
name: Soon, Villu
name: Johansson, Niklas
name: Ødegaard, Frode
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Chrysididae
Hedychridium
Hedychridium coriaceum

description: 26. Hedychridium coriaceum (Dahlbom, 1854)
Hedychrum coriaceum Dahlbom 1854: 88. Lectotype ♀ (designated by Morgan 1984: 10); Poland: Glogovia (ZMUL) (examined).
Holopyga coriacea: Mocsáry 1889: 151.
Elampus coriaceus: Sahlberg 1910: 98.
Hedychridium coriaceum: Hellén 1920: 209, Trautmann 1927: 66, Trautmann 1930: 495, Hellén 1935: 8, Berland & Bernard 1938: 45, Balthasar 1954: 115, Haupt 1957: 57, Linsenmaier 1959: 53, Valkeila 1962: 64, Wengris 1962: 8, Valkeila et al. 1964: 75, Erlandsson 1971: 88 (as H. coreaceum), Tumšs 1976: 22, Banaszak 1980: 15, Vikberg 1986b: 68, Hedström 1987: 156, Kimsey & Bohart 1991: 191, Doronin 1996: 18, Cederberg 2000: 177, Söderman & Vikberg 2003: 44, Soon 2004: 45, Cederberg 2005: 290, Hallin 2007: 21, Kalniņš et al. 2007: 142, Salminen 2007: 143, Karlsson 2008, Sörensson 2008d, Franzén & Norén 2009: 40, Hallin 2009: 10, Allearter.dk 2010, Cederberg et al. 2010: 353, Johansson 2010: 118, Orlovskytė et al. 2010: 146, Stenmark 2010: 33, Hallin 2012, Ranta 2012: 33, Rosa & Soon 2012, Dyntaxa 2013, Johansson, in press.
Material examined. Denmark: ‘ Dania’, 1 ♀ (Wüstnei). * Estonia: Tartu, pitfall trap, 7.–13.VII.2011, 1 ♀ (M. Kruus).
Distribution. Denmark, * Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden, Russian Fennoscandia.—Westpalearctic: Europe, North Africa (Kimsey & Bohart 1991).
Remarks. The species is known from all countries in the region except Norway. In Sweden it has been classified as near threatened (Cederberg et al. 2010). Soon (2004) reported the species from Denmark based on an old specimen in ZMUC (label without accurate locality).
description: Published as part of Paukkunen, Juho, Rosa, Paolo, Soon, Villu, Johansson, Niklas & Ødegaard, Frode, 2014, Faunistic review of the cuckoo wasps of Fennoscandia, Denmark and the Baltic countries (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae), pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 3864 (1) on pages 22-23, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3864.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4930433
Visual Archaeology: Artifacts of the Past, Present, and Future.
Creators: name: Hoekstra, Derrick
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: Fine Arts

description: Visual archeology is the name I have given to the style of artwork I make. This paper explores visual archeology, and explains it through a combination of Autoethnography, and examining artists such as Jeff Koonz, Andy Warhal, Bill Viola. These artists are used as evidence that this type of artwork has existed for some time in one form or another. The support paper is written as a narrative to mirror the use of narrative in the actual thesis exhibition. For this reason, the paper itself is less of a support document to the thesis exhibition, and instead another artwork that belongs with the exhibition.
Full phase stabilization of a Yb:fiber femtosecond frequency comb via high-bandwidth transducers
Creators: name: Benko, C.
name: Ruehl, A.
name: Martin, M. J.
name: Eikema, K. S. E.
name: Fermann, M. E.
name: Hartl, I.
name: Ye, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present full phase stabilization of an amplified Yb:fiber femtosecond frequency comb using an intra-cavity electro-optic modulator and an acousto-optic modulator. These transducers provide high servo bandwidths of 580 kHz and 250 kHz for frep and fceo, producing a robust and low phase noise fiber frequency comb. The comb was self-referenced with an f - 2f interferometer and phase locked to an ultra-stable optical reference used for the JILA Sr optical clock at 698 nm, exhibiting 0.21 rad and 0.47 rad of integrated phase errors (over 1 mHz - 1 MHz) respectively. Alternatively, the comb was locked to two optical references at 698 nm and 1064 nm, obtaining 0.43 rad and 0.14 rad of integrated phase errors respectively.
title: Basic characteristics of thermal converters for controlling of humidity of liquid materials
Creators: name: Avezova, N.I.
name: Ismatullaev, P.R.
name: Matyakubova, P.M.
Publisher: name: Tashkent State Technical University Named after Islam Karimov
Year: 2020

description: In the article, the static characteristics of thermal converters of liquid materials are investigated for three possible operating modes: — at a constant heating power; — at constant temperature difference; — with discrete switching on and off of the heating element. It is shown: that a simpler and more reliable mode of operation: at a more linear static characteristic occurs at mode.It is shown that the reliability of thermal converters of moisture content in liquid materials in tracking gradual failures, taking into account destabilizing factors, when the error of the converters is not more than.
Rhythmic Topologies and the Manifold Nature of Network Music Performance
Creators: name: Cayko, Ethan
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Music
subject: Education--Music
subject: Education--Technology
subject: Rhythm
subject: Network Music
subject: Telemusic
subject: Sonic Art
subject: topology

description: Network music performance is no longer in its infancy. In recent years, researchers have made strides toward a more seamless approach to distributed, multi-site, realtime music performances. However, interaction over vast distances comes at the cost of latency. Today’s fiber optic infrastructure transmits data close to the speed of light, but even at light speed, our acuteness to sounds in time makes synchronous planetary-scale music performance a physical impossibility. This research proposes a method that calibrates latency to a rhythmic unit of time, which allows for novel restructuring of pulse-based network music. The technique, called toporhythm, creates a rhythmic topology between performers that can be utilized to create distributed patterns. These patterns unfold differently in each performance space, resulting in a manifold music. This thesis presents historical context for the work, outlines the toporhythmic technique, describes the latency calibration software tool, and surveys a selection of music composed toporhythmically.
Under Serious Threat: Representations of Predatory Mammals in the Literary Nonfiction of Sid Marty, Charlie Russell and John Vaillant
Creators: name: Emery, Tempest
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Literature
subject: Literature--Canadian (English)
subject: Ecocriticism
subject: Predator
subject: Animal Studies

description: Drawing on the fields of ecocriticism and animal studies, this research engages with three examples of creative nonfiction to examine literary representations of other-than-human beings that are categorized as predators. This thesis examines the treatment of grizzly bears and black bears in Sid Marty's The Black Grizzly of Whiskey Creek, grizzly bears in Charlie Russell's Grizzly Heart: Living Without Fear Among the Brown Bears of Kamchatka, and tigers in John Vaillant's The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival. This project investigates the extent to which the concept of the predator is an anthropocentric reflection of human fears and analyzes new forms of ethics and politics regarding the human-bear relationship. It also demonstrates that human and other-than-human beings are more profoundly connected than conventional Western paradigms acknowledge. Reconsidering human perceptions of so-called predators creates opportunities to alter and improve our interactions with them.
The Pain of Metamorphosis: The Necessity of Witnessing in The Love of the Nightingale
Creators: name: Bradac, Alyssa
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: Fine Arts
Theater

description: This Artist’s Statement is an examination of the creative process that culminated in the staging of Timberlake Wertenbaker’s play, The Love of the Nightingale, at the University of Calgary. The production ran from October 23rd to November 3rd, 2012. The introduction focuses on the director’s inspiration and observations which helped to chart the course for the project. Chapter two begins with a three-part textual analysis of The Love of the Nightingale, examining the play through the lenses of Timberlake Wertenbaker’s alterations to Ovid’s poem in Metamporphoses, the importance of hyper-theatricality within the play, and an analysis of the role of violence and importance of witnessing through the lens of trauma theory. The third chapter discusses creative and rehearsal processes which culminated in the production staging at the University of Calgary. The final chapter is a reflection of the project as a whole, specifically addressing feedback and outcome.
Additional file 1 of Multi-omics analysis of functional substances and expression verification in cashmere fineness
Creators: name: Xu, Yanan
name: Zhang, Yu
name: Qin, Yuting
name: Gu, Ming
name: Chen, Rui
name: Sun, Yinggang
name: Wu, Yanzhi
name: Li, Qian
name: Qiao, Yanjun
name: Wang, Xiaowei
name: Zhang, Qiu
name: Kong, Lingchao
name: Li, Shuaitong
name: Wang, Zeying
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1
Natural Language Processing: Text Categorization and Classifications
Creators: name: Nasr, Mona
name: Karam, Andrew
name: Atef, Mina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 80107 Natural Language Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: There are huge data from unstructured text obtained daily from various resources like emails, tweets, socialmedia posts, customer comments, reviews, and reports in many different fields, etc. Unstructured text data can beanalyzed to obtain useful information that will be used according to the purpose of the analysis also the domainthat the data was obtained from it. Because of the huge amount of the data the human manually analysis of thesetexts is not possible, so we have to automatic analysis. The topic analysis is the Natural Language Processing(NLP) technology that organizes and understands large collections of text data, by identifying the topics, findingpatterns and semantic. There two common approaches for topic analysis, topic modeling, and topic classificationeach approach has different algorithms to apply that will be discussed.
5-year-olds' Use of Disfluency and Speaker Identity in Referential Communication
Creators: name: Thacker, Justine
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Psychology--Clinical
subject: Psychology--Cognitive
subject: Psychology--Developmental
subject: Language Processing
subject: Speech Disfluency
subject: Reference Comprehension

description: Filled pauses, once thought to be an extraneous aspect of language, play an important role in communication by serving as a signal of speaker difficulty. If children can make such attributions, then their interpretation of filled pauses should be speaker-specific. Using an eye-tracking paradigm, listeners were introduced to two characters with gender-typed colour preferences. These characters instructed children to look at pink or blue objects in a display using fluent (“Look at the X”) and disfluent (“Look at thee, uh, X”) instructions. Experiment 1indicated that 5-year-olds did not make any referential predictions. With the addition of filler trials, Experiment 2 indicated that 5-year-olds and adults anticipated reference to gender-typed objects during the baseline interval (“Look at”), and disfluent instructions led listeners to amend this prediction. These results suggest that children use disfluency as a marker to adjust their speaker-specific referential predictions.
The role of defensins and C-X-C chemokines in mammalian innate immunity
Creators: name: Rehaume, Linda Marie
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: In humans, defensins constitute the largest group of host defence peptides that are evolutionarily conserved components of innate immunity. Defensins share many structural and functional characteristics with C-X-C chemokines, including a C-X-C amino acid motif, net positive charge, disulphide bonding, three-dimensional shape and chemokine activity. Deficiencies in α-defensins and C-X-C chemokines have been correlated with susceptibility to infection and chronic inflammatory diseases. However the genetics and diversity of defensins and mechanisms underlying these disorders were not well understood. This thesis comprises three separate but overlapping approaches to address these issues. The genomic content of murine α-defensins within the reference C57BL/6J strain was characterized. Novel α-defensin (11) and defensin-related cryptdin (3) genes were found, as were gene duplications and differences in genomic content between strains of mice. A next-generation sequencing method was developed for the quantitative analysis of α-defensin and defensin-related cryptdin gene expression. The α-defensin DEFA1 induced interleukin (IL) 8 and IL10 release from human PBMCs. The mechanism(s) of action of defensins, which appears to involve induction of chemokines and anti-inflammatory cytokines, needs further elucidation in vivo. Consequently, novel murine models of inflammation and immunosuppression were developed. The IL8 and Il10 genes were separately cloned, behind an intestine-specific promoter, into eukaryotic expression vectors, which were used to transfect murine embryonic stem cells. Correct targeting was confirmed for both constructs and germline transmission achieved for the IL8 mice. Conditional homozygous mice were generated, which, upon breeding with Cre-expressing mice, will express IL8, a C-X-C chemokine, in an intestinal-specific manner. This will enable analyses of effects of chemokine overexpression on intestinal infection, and on peptide efficacy in the resolution of infection. In other studies to address innate immune mechanisms, the transcriptional profiles of patients susceptible to Salmonella and mycobacterial infections due to immunodeficiencies in IL12- and interferon-γ-mediated immunity were generated. These data indicated that the chemokines CXCL9 and CXCL10 might mediate immunity to Mycobacteria whereas additional defects in TLR4 responses appeared to underlie susceptibility to Salmonella. The data presented here strengthen our understanding of the murine defensin repertoire and provide tools that enable sophisticated systems level studies of in vivo function.
Magnetic stars from a FEROS cool Ap star survey
Creators: name: Elkin, V. G.
name: Kurtz, D. W.
name: Nitschelm, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: New magnetic Ap stars with split Zeeman components are presented. These stars were discovered from observations with the FEROS spectrograph at the ESO 2.2-m telescope. Fifteen new magnetic stars are analysed here. Several stars with very strong magnetic fields were found, including HD\,70702 with a 15-kG, and HD\,168767 with a 16.5-kG magnetic field strength measured using split Zeeman components of spectral lines and by comparison with synthetic calculations. The physical parameters of the stars were estimated from photometric and spectroscopic data. Together with previously published results for stars with strong magnetic fields, the relationship between magnetic field strength and rotation period is discussed.
description: 10 pages, 21 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Mothballing in a Duopoly: Evidence from a (Shale) Oil Market
Creators: name: Comincioli, Nicola
name: Hagspiel, Verena
name: Kort, Peter M.
name: Menoncin, Francesco
name: Miniaci, Raffaele
name: Vergalli, Sergio
name: Comincioli, Nicola
name: Hagspiel, Verena
name: Kort, Peter M.
name: Menoncin, Francesco
name: Miniaci, Raffaele
name: Vergalli, Sergio
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Crude Oil
subject: Shale Oil
subject: Mothballing
subject: OPEC
subject: Output Game

description: The mothballing option has been studied in the literature, but mainly in decision theoretic frameworks. This paper looks at it from a strategic point of view and applies it to an incumbent-entrant framework. In particular, based on the recent strategic interactions between OPEC and the shale oil industry, we conduct a case study where the incumbent OPEC is a exible producer that competes with a representative shale oil firm. Upon entry, the latter produces a fixed amount but it can apply the mothballing option in times of low demand. Our main results are threefold. First, we find that under low demand uncertainty, the mothballing option has a negative effect on the value of the entrant. Second, a large market share of the entrant will stimulate mothballing, caused by a so-called squeeze strategy of the incumbent. Third, our empirical analysis of the (shale) oil market learns that a higher demand elasticity induces mothballing.
Geometry and Shape of Minkowski's Space Conformal Infinity
Creators: name: Jadczyk, Arkadiusz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review and further analyze Penrose's 'light cone at infinity' - the conformal closure of Minkowski space. Examples of a potential confusion in the existing literature about it's geometry and shape are pointed out. It is argued that it is better to think about conformal infinity as of a needle horn supercyclide (or a limit horn torus) made of a family of circles, all intersecting at one and only one point, rather than that of a 'cone'. A parametrization using circular null geodesics is given. Compactified Minkowski space is represented in three ways: as a group manifold of the unitary group U(2) a projective quadric in six-dimensional real space of signature (4,2) and as the Grassmannian of maximal totally isotropic subspaces in complex four--dimensional twistor space. Explicit relations between these representations are given, using a concrete representation of antilinear action of the conformal Clifford algebra Cl(4,2) on twistors. Concepts of space-time geometry are explicitly linked to those of Lie sphere geometry. In particular conformal infinity is faithfully represented by planes in 3D real space plus the infinity point. Closed null geodesics trapped at infinity are represented by parallel plane fronts (plus infinity point). A version of the projective quadric in six-dimensional space where the quotient is taken by positive reals is shown to lead to a symmetric Dupin's type `needle horn cyclide' shape of conformal infinity.
description: 19 pages, 8 figures, a dozen of typos fixed
L1-Optimal Control of Variable-Speed Variable-Pitch Wind Turbines
Creators: name: Jafarnejadsani, Hamidreza
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Mechanical
subject: L1-optimal control
subject: Linear matrix inequality
subject: Variable-speed variable-pitch wind turbine
subject: Gain-scheduling.
subject: Linear parameter-varying system
subject: Genetic Algorithm
subject: FAST software

description: The fast-growing technology of large scale wind turbines demands control systems capable of enhancing both the efficiency of capturing wind power, and the useful life of the turbines. Control based on L1 performance is an approach to deal with persistent exogenous disturbances which have bounded magnitude (L1-norm) such as realistic wind disturbances and turbulence profiles. In this study, we use a linear matrix inequality (LMI) approach for solution of the L1-optimal control problem. We develop an LPV model of a variable-speed variable-pitch (VS-VP) wind turbine in the transition region (between power point tracking and power regulation regimes). Then, we derive an LPV L1-optimal controller using LMI methods. We also develop an efficient method for computing the L1-norm of a closed-loop system. As the control synthesis problem is non-convex, we use the proposed method to design optimal output feedback controllers for a linear model of a wind turbine at different operating points using genetic algorithm (GA) optimization. The locally optimized controllers were interpolated using a gain-scheduled technique with guaranteed stability. The controller is tested with comprehensive simulation studies on a 5 MW wind turbine using FAST software. The proposed controller was compared with a well-tuned PI controller. The results show improved power quality, and decrease in the fluctuations of generator torque and rotor speed.
El control de autoridades en catálogos bibliográficos. El catálogo de autoridades de la Red de Bibliotecas del CSIC
Creators: name: Cottereau, Mario
name: Bautista, Teresa
Publisher: name: Digital.CSIC
Year: 2004
Subjects: Control de autoridades
Catálogos bibliográficos
Formato Ibermarc
Red de Bibliotecas del CSIC

description: En este curso se trata el control de autoridades estableciendo directrices para catálogos bibliográficos ; se estudia el formato Ibermarc para registros de autoridad y se visualiza el catálogo de autoridades de la Red de Bibliotecas del CSIC y otros catálogos de autoridades. En una segunda parte se explica específicamente el control de autoridades de autor personal.
Additional file 5: of METTL3-mediated N6-methyladenosine modification is critical for epithelial-mesenchymal transition and metastasis of gastric cancer
Creators: name: Yue, Ben
name: Song, Chenlong
name: Yang, Linxi
name: Cui, Ran
name: Cheng, Xingwang
name: Zhang, Zizhen
name: Zhao, Gang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Figure S1. a GC patients with high METTL3 expression had a shorter overall survival time in GSE66229 data set. b After excluding the samples without clinical information, analysis of GSE66229 data set showed that METTL3 level was significantly higher in advanced-stage GC tissues. c-d METTL3 was more highly expressed in the diffuse-type GC tissues compared with the intestinal-type samples in both GSE66229 (excluding the samples without clinical information) and Cohort 1. e The mRNA levels of METTL3 and EMT markers were evaluated by qRT-PCR in three GC cells, gastric epithelial cell line GES-1 was used as control. f Confocal immunofluorescent analysis of the expression of EMT markers in indicated GC cell clones. *pâ <â 0.05. (PDF 322 kb)
Harnessing Mixed Species Biofilms for Hydrocarbon Biodegradation
Creators: name: Demeter, Marc
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biofilms
subject: Naphthenic Acid
subject: PAH
subject: bioremediation

description: Environmental contamination by anthropogenic pollutants has steadily become a far- reaching problem. Despite the inherent toxicity, many microbial organisms are able to adapt and inhabit contaminated environments; some even metabolize the pollutants as a source of carbon and/or energy. The favorable metabolisms of these microbes may be utilized to effectively remove the pollutants through a process known as bioremediation. How one harnesses and manipulates the natural microbial community to achieve bioremediation of target pollutants is the focus of this thesis. Biofilms are well known for their multifaceted tolerance to various pollutants. We hypothesized therefore that biofilms, cultivated directly from a contaminated environmental source, might be a choice strategy to harness microbes for use specifically in ex situ bioremediation of naphthenic acids (NAs) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). This study examined the cultivation (and NA and PAH degradative capacity) of both mixed and single species biofilm and planktonic cultures from contaminated environments. Scalability and environmental performance were also examined. All cultures derived from contaminated water and soil samples were capable of growing in the presence of synthetic mixtures of their respective contaminants, (NAs or PAHs) as determined by confocal microscopy and 16S rDNA qPCR. Of the 8 NAs tested, mixed communities degraded all but one, while single species cultures selectively degraded fewer NAs. Contrary to the hypothesis, biofilm and planktonic mixed communities exhibited comparable NA degradation. The initial microtiter device used to grow biofilms was successfully up scaled, and applied to existing wastewater treatment technology. Through life cycle assessment techniques, application of this technology for treating oil sands wastewater was deemed environmentally favorable over alternative, conventional practices. Overall, microbial communities were better able to degrade PAHs, although this varied for each soil inoculum source. Combined, the results of this thesis suggest that the ability to harness a diverse community of microbes from the environment as opposed to individual organisms is key for obtaining a population effective for ex situ biodegradation of NA and PAH hydrocarbons. Additionally, growth as a biofilm affords practical and logistical advantages making it more feasible to apply these communities in current ex situ bioremediation technologies.
Catalogación básica
Creators: name: Cottereau, Mario
Publisher: name: Digital.CSIC
Year: 2004
Subjects: Catalogación bibliográfica
Red de Bibliotecas del CSIC
CIRBIC

description: En esta presentación se dan unas nociones básicas sobre catalogación bibliográfica ; las Reglas de Catalogación ; el Formato Ibermarc y catalogación en el Catálogo Informatizado de la Red de Bibliotecas del CSIC.
Increased Microglial Reactivity Alters Morphine Analgesia
Creators: name: Leduc-Pessah, Heather
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Opioids
subject: Chronic Pain

description: Opioids are a potent class of analgesics in the management of both moderate to severe acute pain and chronic pain. Although neuronal response to opioids is well described, we are lacking a complete characterization of the diverse interplay of neurons with other cells types in response to opioids. Microglia, the immune cells of the CNS, are key targets of opioids and their response to repeated opioid exposure is implicated in the severe side effects associated with prolonged opioid use: opioid analgesic tolerance, opioid-induced hyperalgesia and opioid use disorder. In addition, increased microglial reactivity can alter analgesic response to opioids. Thus, understanding the role of microglia in response to opioids is both critical for improving the analgesic efficacy of opioids and for interfering with the negative side effects associated with prolonged opioid use. This thesis explores the contributions of the microglial P2X7 receptor and the microglial transcription factor Runx1 in morphine analgesia and in the development of adverse effects. My over-arching hypothesis is that increased microglial reactivity diminishes the analgesic potential of opioids, such as morphine. Here I show that repeated morphine causes a potentiation in microglial P2X7R function mediated by µ-receptor activation of Src kinase. Specifically, I identified tyrosine residues 382-384 on the P2X7R C-terminal domain as a critical site of phosphorylation and found that interfering with this site attenuated the development of tolerance in rats. I also show that the microglial transcription factor Runx1 regulates microglial reactivity in vitro and in vivo and that inhibition of Runx1 causes a decline in morphine analgesia. I characterized a novel strain of microglial-specific Runx1 knock-out mice and show that Runx1 deficiency causes a reduction in acute morphine analgesia and an exacerbation of opioid tolerance, hyperalgesia, and naloxone-precipitated withdrawal. Collectively, in this thesis I found that increased microglial reactivity, through variable mechanisms causes a reduction in the antinociceptive response to morphine in rodents. In conclusion, the work of this thesis has identified novel targets (P2X7R and Runx1) for interfering with the side effects associated with prolonged opioid use and in the acute analgesic response.
Catalogación en Formato Ibermarc
Creators: name: Cottereau, Mario
Publisher: name: Digital.CSIC
Year: 2003
Subjects: Catalogación bibliográfica
Formato Ibermarc
Red de Bibliotecas del CSIC

description: En este curso sobre catalogación se examinan las Reglas de Catalogación, el Formato Ibermarc, la catalogación de monografías del Catálogo de la Red de Bibliotecas del CSIC, la captación de registros a través de Z39.50 y el encabezamiento de autores personales.
Dense Gas in Nearby Galaxies: XVII. The Distribution of Ammonia in NGC253, Maffei2 and IC342
Creators: name: Lebron, M.
name: Mangum, J. G.
name: Mauersberger, R.
name: Henkel, C.
name: Peck, A. B.
name: Menten, K. M.
name: Tarchi, A.
name: Weiss, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The central few 100 pc of galaxies often contain large amounts of molecular gas. The chemical and physical properties of these extragalactic star formation regions differ from those in galactic disks, but are poorly constrained. This study aims to develop a better knowledge of the spatial distribution and kinetic temperature of the dense neutral gas associated with the nuclear regions of three prototypical spiral galaxies, NGC253, IC342, and Maffei2. VLA CnD and D configuration measurements have been made of three ammonia (NH3) inversion transitions. The (J,K)=(1,1) and (2,2) transitions of NH3 were imaged toward IC342 and Maffei2. The (3,3) transition was imaged toward NGC253. The entire flux obtained from single-antenna measurements is recovered for all three galaxies observed. Derived lower limits to the kinetic temperatures determined for the giant molecular clouds in the centers of these galaxies are between 25 and 50K. There is good agreement between the distributions of NH3 and other H2 tracers, such as rare CO isotopologues or HCN, suggesting that NH3 is representative of the distribution of dense gas. The "Western Peak" in IC342 is seen in the (6,6) line but not in lower transitions, suggesting maser emission in the (6,6) transition.
description: 13 pages, 8 figures, latex format, accepted by A&A