cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: NS-Vergangenheit unter Ulbricht und Adenauer. Gesichtspunkte einer vergleichenden Bewältigungsforschung
Creators: name: Frei, Norbert
name: Zentrum Für Zeithistorische Forschung
Publisher: name: ZZF - Centre for Contemporary History
Year: 2017

description: Die geteilite Vergangenheit. Zum Umgang mit Nationalsozialismus und Widerstand in beiden deutschen Staaten
Percolation in networks composed of connectivity and dependency links
Creators: name: Bashan, Amir
name: Parshani, Roni
name: Havlin, Shlomo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Networks composed from both connectivity and dependency links were found to be more vulnerable compared to classical networks with only connectivity links. Their percolation transition is usually of a first order compared to the second order transition found in classical networks. We analytically analyze the effect of different distributions of dependencies links on the robustness of networks. For a random Erd$\ddot{o}$s-R$\acute{e}$nyi (ER) network with average degree $k$ that is divided into dependency clusters of size $s$, the fraction of nodes that belong to the giant component, $P_\infty$, is given by $ P_\infty=p^{s-1} [1-\exp{(-kpP_\infty)}]^s $ where $1-p$ is the initial fraction of removed nodes. Our general result coincides with the known Erd$\ddot{o}$s-R$\acute{e}$nyi equation for random networks for $s=1$ and with the result of Parshani et al (PNAS, in press, 2011) for $s=2$. For networks with Poissonian distribution of dependency links we find that $P_\infty$ is given by $P_\infty = f_{k,p}(P_\infty) e^{(-1)(pf_{k,p}(P_\infty)-1)}$ where $f_{k,p}(P_\infty) \equiv 1-\exp{(-kpP_\infty)}$ and $$ is the mean value of the size of dependency clusters. For networks with Gaussian distribution of dependency links we show how the average and width of the distribution affect the robustness of the networks.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures
REINVENTING WASTESCAPES IN PORT CITIES. A RESILIENT AND REGENERATIVE APPROACH TO PLAN NAPLES AT THE TIME OF LOGISTICS
Creators: name: Castigliano, Marica
name: De Martino, Paolo
name: Amenta, Libera
name: Russo, Michelangelo
Publisher: name: Bulletin of the Calza Bini Center
Year: 2020

description: Port cities and metropolitan port territories are experiencing a profound transition as a consequence of radical spatial and governance changes mainly led by logistics’ dynamics. Contemporary spaces between ports and cities have often become a collage of wastescapes: marginal territories resulting from the current uneven growth of port cities. This contribution developes a new methodological approach by stating that neglected spaces represent a precious resource to initiate circular and resilient regenerations of port cities through metabolic transformation processes. The article points out the wastescapes of the port of Naples as network of resources that allows decision-makers and urban planners to combine the logistical strategies and the enhancement of the port cultural heritage through synergistic interventions. Keywords: port city, wastescapes, Naples
description: Bulletin of the Calza Bini Center, Vol 20 No 2 (2020): Public Spaces, Nature-based Infrastructures and Common Goods
Data-poor fisheries : case studies from the southern Mediterranean and the Arabian Peninsula
Creators: name: Khalfallah, Myriam
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2020

description: Considerable gaps of knowledge regarding the state of the marine fisheries occur in most economically developing countries despite the importance of fisheries as a source of food security and livelihood for their inhabitants. Global studies in fisheries science have often disregarded the data-poor fisheries in economically developing countries due to a combination of factors including the high cost and data requirements of classical stock assessments. However, other methods, less costly and equally reliable, such as the catch reconstruction approach combined with catch-based indicators and the most recent ‘CMSY’ stock assessment method have been developed to help assess the state of marine living resources. The countries of the Southern Mediterranean and the Arabian Peninsula (SMAP) are examples of where marine fisheries are not as well assessed as in other regions, aggravated by the frequency of political and socio-economic instability, the latest being the so-called “Arab Spring”, which has deeply impacted the regions. The "catch reconstruction" method, which improves official catch statistics, is applied here to re-estimate marine fisheries catches for the SMAP for 1950-2015 and to reconstruct a century of Mediterranean marine fisheries catches for Egypt (i.e., 1917-2017) to which two catch-based indicators, i.e., the Marine Trophic Index and the Mean Temperature of Catch were also applied. In the third part of this thesis the CMSY method is used to assess several commercially important fish stocks of the SMAP to provide decision makers with alternative policy options for better fisheries management and more effective marine conservation strategies.
title: An Ounce of Truth
Creators: name: Cox, Matilda Wyche
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04zjtrb98
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 1994

description: An Ounce of Truth is a collection of poems. Subjects range from pregnancy, to growing-up Black in America, to dealing with death as a natural phenomenon. These poems, though filled with subjective experience and emotion, often intersect with objective economic and historical realities, thus forming strong political and social statements.

While most of the poems are written in free verse, which seems more appropriate to the subject matter, there are also more formal arrangements including the sestina "Talking Blues" and a concrete poem entitled "The Ninth Month."

The untitled poem by Nikki Giovanni is the unifying element of the thesis. Above all, the poems are an attempt to honestly present life as I see it, in all its splendor and horror.
Thermal momentum distribution from path integrals with shifted boundary conditions
Creators: name: Giusti, Leonardo
name: Meyer, Harvey B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For a thermal field theory formulated in the grand canonical ensemble, the distribution of the total momentum is an observable characterizing the thermal state. We show that its cumulants are related to thermodynamic potentials. In a relativistic system for instance, the thermal variance of the total momentum is a direct measure of the enthalpy. We relate the generating function of the cumulants to the ratio of (a) a partition function expressed as a Matsubara path integral with shifted boundary conditions in the compact direction, and (b) the ordinary partition function. In this form the generating function is well suited for Monte-Carlo evaluation, and the cumulants can be extracted straightforwardly. We test the method in the SU(3) Yang-Mills theory and obtain the entropy density at three different temperatures.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure, minor revisions; version accepted in PRL
Single Shot Transverse Emittance Measurement of multi-MeV Electron Beams Using a Long Pepper-Pot
Creators: name: Delerue, Nicolas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a pepper-pot design in which we address the problem of penetration by high energy particle, deriving analytical expressions and performing GEANT4 simulations for the estimation of the error introduced by a long (thick) pepper-pot. We also show that a careful design allows to measure the emittance of electron beam of several hundred MeV and beyond.
SATELLITE IMAGE PROCESSING OF BANDUNG AREA TO SIMULATE ZERO ARTIFICIAL RUNOFF
Creators: name: Irawan, Dasapta Erwin
name: Hukama, Iftitah Rohman
name: Dauwani, Karin Nadira
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Atmospheric Sciences
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Climate Science

description: This paper was published in the Proceeding of 2011 Environmental Technology and Management Conference, Institut Teknologi Bandung
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title: Auf den Inhalt kommt es an. Zum Verhältnis von Zeitgeschichtsforschung und Geschichtsdiskurs im neuvereinigten Deutschland
Creators: name: Küttler, Wolfgang
name: Zentrum Für Zeithistorische Forschung
Publisher: name: ZZF - Centre for Contemporary History
Year: 2017

description: Die geteilite Vergangenheit. Zum Umgang mit Nationalsozialismus und Widerstand in beiden deutschen Staaten
title: Die KZ-Gedenkstätte Dachau: Anmerkungen zur Geschichte eines umstrittenen historischen Ortes
Creators: name: Zarusky, Jürgen
name: Zentrum Für Zeithistorische Forschung
Publisher: name: ZZF - Centre for Contemporary History
Year: 2017

description: Die geteilite Vergangenheit. Zum Umgang mit Nationalsozialismus und Widerstand in beiden deutschen Staaten
title: "Stimme und Faust der Nation" - Thälmann-Kult kontra Antifaschismus
Creators: name: Leo, Annette
name: Zentrum Für Zeithistorische Forschung
Publisher: name: ZZF - Centre for Contemporary History
Year: 2017

description: Die geteilite Vergangenheit. Zum Umgang mit Nationalsozialismus und Widerstand in beiden deutschen Staaten
CITTA’ E PANDEMIE. DENSITA’ URBANA E DENSIFICAZIONE DOPO IL COVID-19
Creators: name: Sgobbo, Alessandro
Publisher: name: BDC. Bollettino Del Centro Calza Bini
Year: 2020

description: La pandemia del 2020 ha insinuato nell’opinione pubblica, nel decisore politico e nelle discipline che poco approfondiscono la conoscenza del fenomeno città la convinzione che, nelle aree urbane, sussista un rapporto di proporzionalità diretta tra densità abitativa e diffusione del contagio. L’approfondimento scientifico riporterà queste considerazioni nella giusta prospettiva. Vi è però il rischio che, nelle more, possa risentirne il processo di codificazione nel quadro legislativo italiano di esigenze chiave su cui la disciplina urbanistica pare ormai convergere: arrestare il consumo di suolo; rigenerare la città in chiave ecologica e sociale; convertire a forme collettive la mobilità locale. In questo studio, nel verificare l’insussistenza, ad oggi, di una base scientifica per affermare tale proporzionalità, si sono altresì evidenziati indicatori potenzialmente in grado di meglio descrivere e misurare la fragilità della condizione urbana rispetto alle epidemie. Parole chiave: densità urbana, pandemia, resilienza
description: BDC. Bollettino Del Centro Calza Bini, Vol 20 No 2 (2020): Public Spaces, Nature-based Infrastructures and Common Goods
Asymmetric orbital-lattice interactions in ultra-thin correlated oxide films
Creators: name: Chakhalian, J.
name: Rondinelli, J. M.
name: Liu, Jian
name: Gray, B. A.
name: Kareev, M.
name: Moon, E. J.
name: Prasai, N.
name: Cohn, J. L.
name: Varela, M.
name: Tung, I. C.
name: Bedzyk, M. J.
name: Altendorf, S. G.
name: Strigari, F.
name: Dabrowski, B.
name: Tjeng, L. H.
name: Ryan, P. J.
name: Freeland, J. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using resonant X-ray spectroscopies combined with density functional calculations, we find an asymmetric bi-axial strain-induced $d$-orbital response in ultra-thin films of the correlated metal LaNiO$_3$ which are not accessible in the bulk. The sign of the misfit strain governs the stability of an octahedral "breathing" distortion, which, in turn, produces an emergent charge-ordered ground state with an altered ligand-hole density and bond covalency. Control of this new mechanism opens a pathway to rational orbital engineering, providing a platform for artificially designed Mott materials.
PERCEPCIÓN DE LOS ESTUDIANTES DE INGENIERÍA CIVIL SOBRE LA IMPORTANCIA DE LA CONSTRUCCIÓN EN LA ECONOMÍA DE BOLIVIA
Creators: name: Linneo, Cereny Laura Velásquez
name: Dávalos, Adriana Karen Fernández
name: Téllez, Camila Liliana Saavedra
name: León, Fabrizio Andrés Gonzáles
name: Rocha, Joaquin Humberto Aquino
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 90599 Civil Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: El objetivo de la presente investigación fue determinar la percepción de los estudiantes de Ingeniería Civil sobre la relevancia de la construcción en la economía de Bolivia, considerando a la carrera de Ingeniería Civil de la Universidad Privada del Valle (Bolivia). La metodología consistió en la aplicación de un cuestionario en línea a 64 estudiantes, que fue enviado por los canales oficiales de la Universidad. Los resultados muestran que existe una sobreestimación del aporte de la construcción en la economía, principalmente en la generación de empleo y en el aporte al PIB nacional. Según la percepción de los encuestados, la construcción tiene mayor relevancia en los países en vías de desarrollo, entre ellos Bolivia; no obstante, esto es refutado en la literatura. Es necesario que los estudiantes conozcan los alcances reales de este sector y su relación con otras industrias, esto con el fin de generar un mejor desempeño como futuros profesionales.
Holy City
Creators: name: Bates, Shelley
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Utopianism
cult

description: This three-part thesis begins with a 65,000-word novel entitled Holy City – named for a California town founded in 1918 by William E. Riker (1873–1969), the leader of a small utopian group called the Perfect Christian Divine Way. It was here that Riker brought Lucille Jensen Schutrum (1874–1950) as his wife, and where she spent most of her married life. The novel features two female points of view – that of Lucille Riker, and that of a fictional biracial divorcée named Clara Cercatore Spelman. One woman has found her place – or perhaps created it out of what her husband founded. The other is seeking a place to belong. One woman is free to speak – in letters, poetry, and essays. The other is silenced and eventually expelled. Holy City is specifically about what happened and what might have happened in 1927 and 1928, when Riker was sued for $500,000 for breach of promise by Evelyn Rosencrantz, an aviatrix with whom he was having an affair. So, perhaps the novel is really about three women – two present and one absent, and the effects they had upon each other’s lives. Hundreds of newspaper articles report on Riker’s car accidents, court cases, and grandstanding, but in his shadow is Lucille, who held Holy City together for thirty years. Lucille’s poetry and essays were published almost exclusively by the Holy City Press, but she also tried unsuccessfully to be published in a larger arena, sending hymns and popular song lyrics to music companies and a short story to a publisher. Everyone in the area may have heard of Father Riker, but now, seventy-one years after her death, hardly anyone remembers Lucille. This project’s contribution to knowledge, then, is twofold: Firstly, it seeks to explore the character and actions of Lucille Riker, a previously unknown female writer, through the words she left behind. Secondly, it seeks to explore Holy City by bringing to fictional life the contents of the recently discovered papers of Irvin Bryant Fisher (1881–1980), Riker’s trusted first disciple. In these two ways, this PhD project contributes to the cultural historiography of religious sects in California at the beginning of the 20th century. The novel is accompanied by a 30,000-word reflective thesis structured as a walk through the ruins of Holy City today. All that remains are the Riker home, some overgrown concrete foundations, and an airfield. The restaurant, bottling works, dance hall, dormitories, bar, print shop, market, and finally, the Headquarters of the World’s Perfect Government exist now only in yellowed photographs. The reflective thesis works via these physical remains to explore some of the ways in which the novel draws upon the once very real world that was Holy City. The third part consists of a bibliography and an appendix, the latter comprising all of the works of Lucille Riker I have been able to locate, spanning the years 1916 to 1946.
ASSESSING THE BALANCE BETWEEN URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND DENSIFICATION: CONSOLIDATED PRACTICES AND NEW CHALLENGES
Creators: name: Conticelli, Elisa
name: De Luca, Claudia
name: Tondelli, Simona
Publisher: name: Bulletin of the Calza Bini Center
Year: 2020

description: The high-density city has been considered a controversial model, since it does not ensure sustainability a priori if not supported by a control of the just density and the promotion of natural spaces in the urban environment, fostering good living conditions and wellbeing. Understanding the right limit between urban development and densification, accompanied by the enhancement of urban natural spaces and ecosystem services, has becoming crucial to prevent pandemic effects as well. To this aim, assessing frameworks are already available to urban planners to make informed decisions as well as the knowledge on the role of green infrastructures and ecosystem services that can guarantee urban health and quality life. The paper aims at rediscovering these findings in the new perspective of the pandemics. Keywords: urban densification, strategic environmental assessment, ecosystem services
description: Bulletin of the Calza Bini Center, Vol 20 No 2 (2020): Public Spaces, Nature-based Infrastructures and Common Goods
title: Der politische und propagandistische Umgang mit der "Reichskristallnacht" in der DDR
Creators: name: Timm, Angelika
name: Zentrum Für Zeithistorische Forschung
Publisher: name: ZZF - Centre for Contemporary History
Year: 2017

description: Die geteilite Vergangenheit. Zum Umgang mit Nationalsozialismus und Widerstand in beiden deutschen Staaten
Asymptotically perfect discrimination in the LOCC paradigm
Creators: name: Kleinmann, M.
name: Kampermann, H.
name: Bruß, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We revisit the problem of discriminating orthogonal quantum states within the local quantum operation and classical communication (LOCC) paradigm. Our particular focus is on the asymptotic situation where the parties have infinite resources and the protocol may become arbitrarily long. Our main result is a necessary condition for perfect asymptotic LOCC discrimination. As an application, we prove that for complete product bases, unlimited resources are of no advantage. On the other hand, we identify an example, for which it still remains undecided whether unlimited resources are superior.
description: 7 pages, 3 trees; v2: minor corrections & improvements
EXPLORING THE ROLE OF MEDICAL AND OBSTETRIC FACTORS IN SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION AMONG POSTPARTUM WOMEN IN RIVERS STATE
Creators: name: Chukwuemeka, Oluwaseun Ibe
Publisher: name: AYDEN JOURNAL
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medical And Obstetric Factors, Sexual Dysfunction, Postpartum Women

description: This study investigated the medical and obstetric determinant of sexual dysfunction among postpartum women in Rivers State. The study adopted descriptive research design with a population consisting of two million, six hundred and seventy thousand, nine hundred and three (2,670,903) postpartum women in Rivers State. A multi-stage sampling procedure was used to select a sample size of 1,200. Data was collected using an adapted questionnaire titled “Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI)” with a reliability coefficient of 0.856. The data collected were analyzed with the aid of Statistical Product for Service Solution (SPSS) version 23.0 linear and multinomial logistic regression at 0.05 alpha level. The finding of the study showed that there existed statistically significant relationship between sexual dysfunction and variables such as mode of delivery (p<0.05), history of hypertension (p<0.05), and history of diabetes (p<0.05). The findings of the study further established that majority 825(98.9%) of those who had Cesarean section had sexual dysfunction; all the respondents (100%) and majority (98.0%) who were hypertensive and diabetic respectively had sexual dysfunction. It was concluded that the determinants of sexual dysfunction among postpartum women in Rivers State were mode of delivery, history of hypertension, and history of diabetes. It was recommended that, the Rivers State healthcare board should help postpartum women to ease sexual health problems by establishing special sexual health units for postnatal mothers in every healthcare facility.
BASR Poll: Pretrial Discovery & Adversarial Process
Creators: name: Bureau Of Applied Social Research, Columbia University
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2022

description: First discovery step (7); days between filing suits (2); Rule 36 (3); oral depositions (3); number of different depositions (1); interrogatories (2); number of written interrogatories (1); Rule 31 depositions (1); Rule 35 examinations (2); Rule 34 inspections (1); discovery devices (17); both parties in case discovered (1); type of action (1); time from filing to deposition (1); case termination (1); judgment (1); deponent (1); Rule 45(d) subpoena (3); summary judgment (2); pretrial conference (3); plaintiff recovery (4); trial commencement (1); trial length (1); trial before jury (1); new trial motion (1); appeal taken (2); years in practice (1); firm affiliation (2); attorneys in firm (1); other employment (1); litigation time (1); time spent in court (1); case types (4); field concentration (2); representing sides (1); law specialty (2); client percentages (8); business clients (1); individual client income (6); frequency of discovery (2); terminated cases (2); discovery rules (5); type of discovery (3); evidence (7); case center (1); case issues (1); quantity of information (2); quantity of evidence (2); substitute counsel (5); opposing counsel (6); opposition in other cases (2); conferring before case (4); informal discussions (3); counsel cooperation (8); factual contentions (3); laws governing case (3); disclosure (3); claim against assureds (1); policy limits (1); settlement offers (5); amount of settlement (1); case discussions (14); house counsel (1); case interest (1); net worth (2); prior services (4); first consult (3); settlement decision (3); issues litigated (3); burden of proof (10); factual issues removed (3); case strength (2); purposes of discovery (20); evidence gained (11); new information (5); impeding discovery (3); tripping (11); judicial relief (10); factors hindering discovery (2); discovery rules (9); authenticity of documents (1); eliminating facts (1); trial characteristics (4); unnecessary witnesses (1); impeachment (1); discovered evidence (2); outcome satisfaction (4); expected outcome (4); discovery helpfulness (1); work product doctrine (1); showing good cause (1); case disposition (3); adversary discovery (4); importance of sources (5); pushing (22); attorneys on case (1); attorney days (23); investigators (1); investigator days (1); attorney fees (17); depositions transcripts (2); taxed costs (2); consequences of discovery (6).
title: Die Opfer- und Verfolgtenperspektive als Gründungskonsens? Zum Umgang mit der Widerstandstradition und der Schuldfrage in der DDR
Creators: name: Danyel, Jürgen
name: Zentrum Für Zeithistorische Forschung
Publisher: name: ZZF - Centre for Contemporary History
Year: 2017

description: Die geteilite Vergangenheit. Zum Umgang mit Nationalsozialismus und Widerstand in beiden deutschen Staaten
In eigener Sache
Creators: name: Döbel, Susen
name: Gütter, Susanne
name: Heisig, Sophie F.
name: Höhler-Brockmann, Hajo
Publisher: name: Rundbrief Grabungstechnik
Year: 2023

description: Rundbrief Grabungstechnik, Bd. 21 (2022): Rundbrief Grabungstechnik
EDITORIALE
Creators: name: Fusco Girard, Luigi
Publisher: name: BDC. Bollettino Del Centro Calza Bini
Year: 2020

description: Nel luglio 2020 il WHO (World Health Organization) proponeva un importante Manifesto post COVID-19. Esso riguarda alcuni punti essenziali, quali la conservazione della biodiversità a garanzia della salute/benessere, la necessità di poter fruire di servizi igienico/sanitari essenziali la necessità di avviare quanto prima la transizione verso una energia non fossile. Un punto si riferisce esplicitamente alle città, da progettare, pianificare e gestire in modo da garantire benessere e qualità della vita (healthy, liveable cities). Si metteva in evidenza la necessità di incorporare nelle strategie di sviluppo e negli strumenti di pianificazione i valori ecologici, ed in particolare il “valore della natura”. Nel paragrafo n. 5 si auspica l’integrazione dell’obiettivo tutela della salute/benessere delle persone negli strumenti e nelle politiche urbanistiche generali e di settore (mobilità, energia, verde pubblico, ecc.). Gli spazi pubblici, i luoghi, le aree a parco pubblico, le infrastrutture green/blue, ecc., sono viste come essenziale strumento per garantire il diritto alla salute/benessere dei cittadini.
description: BDC. Bollettino Del Centro Calza Bini, Vol 20 No 2 (2020): Public Spaces, Nature-based Infrastructures and Common Goods
Local anesthesia produced by quaternary lidocaine derivatives : the comparative efficacy and safety of QX-314, QX-572, and QX-222 in mice
Creators: name: Fung, Desmond
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: Poorly managed acute pain, particularly postoperative pain, reduces quality of life, delays recovery, and increases financial burden. Current therapeutic regimens focus on nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and systemic opioids. Unfortunately, these analgesics are associated with notable and potentially life-threatening adverse events. Thus, there is a great need for analgesic alternatives. Local anesthetics are among the most effective non-opioid analgesic options for acute pain. However, conventional agents are limited by their short duration as well as local and systemic toxicity. Previous research at the UBC Hugill Anesthesia Research Centre, showed that the quaternary lidocaine derivative, QX-314, produces long-lasting local anesthesia in animals. However, QX-314 was found to be more toxic compared to its parent compound. The quaternary lidocaine derivatives, QX-572 and QX-222, have not been studied systematically to compare their duration and toxicity. In this thesis, I tested the primary hypothesis that perineural injection of QX-572 and QX-222, similar to QX-314, will produce long-lasting local anesthesia. I assessed nerve blockade in mice and found that QX-572 concentration-dependently produced long-lasting sensory and motor blockade. In contrast, QX-222 produced long-lasting sensory blockade but did not produce extended motor blockade. I determined the order of potency among quaternary lidocaine derivatives to be: QX-572 > QX-314 > QX-222. Additionally, I tested the secondary hypothesis that QX-572 and QX-222 have more favorable local and systemic toxicity profiles relative to QX-314. I found that QX-314 and QX-222 induced myofibre degeneration whereas QX-572 induced ischemic necrosis of the mouse tail. Adverse reactions were observed that manifested as death. To investigate the possibility of systemic toxicity, I developed a novel liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry method to measure plasma concentrations of quaternary derivatives. I found that QX-314 and QX-222 were absorbed more readily than QX-572 or lidocaine. The results from this thesis suggest that differences in therapeutic and toxic local anesthetic effects are mediated by structural differences. Overall, the present findings do not unreservedly support the transition of QX-314, QX-572, or QX-222 into human studies for the treatment of acute postoperative pain, however, they illustrate a potentially promising pharmacological avenue for further research and provide insight into quaternary anesthetic pharmacology.
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title: Signal processing algorithms for air traffic control systems
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Publisher: name: Ð¡Ð°Ð½ÐºÑ-ÐÐµÑÐµÑÐ±ÑÑÐ³ÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ Ð¿Ð¾Ð»Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐ½Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ ÑÐ½Ð¸Ð²ÐµÑÑÐ¸ÑÐµÑ ÐÐµÑÑÐ° ÐÐµÐ»Ð¸ÐºÐ¾Ð³Ð¾
Year: 2019
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air traffic control
secondary radiolocation
constant false alarm rate
request signals
response signals

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description: The air traffic control systems and their signal processing are observed in the first chapter. The matlab simulation of signal processing algorithms for air traffic control standard is considered in the second chapter. The bit error rate for different algorithms is obtained.
Generalized coherent states for solvable quantum systems with degenerate discrete spectra and their nonclassical properties
Creators: name: Honarasa, G. R.
name: Tavassoly, M. K.
name: Hatami, M.
name: Roknizadeh, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, the generalized coherent state for quantum systems with degenerate spectra is introduced. Then, the nonclassicality features and number-phase entropic uncertainty relation of two particular degenerate quantum systems are studied. Finally, using the Gazeau-Klauder coherent states approach, time evolution of some of the nonclassical properties of the coherent states corresponding to the considered physical systems are discussed.
description: 17 pages, 10 figures,Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Article in Press
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title: Ð²ÑÐ¿ÑÑÐºÐ½Ð°Ñ ÐºÐ²Ð°Ð»Ð¸ÑÐ¸ÐºÐ°ÑÐ¸Ð¾Ð½Ð½Ð°Ñ ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÐ° Ð¼Ð°Ð³Ð¸ÑÑÑÐ°
titleType: Subtitle
title: Development of methods for assessing the effectiveness of light detectors in smoke
Creators: name: ÐÐ¾Ð·ÑÑÐµÐ², ÐÑÑÑÐ¼
Publisher: name: Ð¡Ð°Ð½ÐºÑ-ÐÐµÑÐµÑÐ±ÑÑÐ³ÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ Ð¿Ð¾Ð»Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐ½Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ ÑÐ½Ð¸Ð²ÐµÑÑÐ¸ÑÐµÑ ÐÐµÑÑÐ° ÐÐµÐ»Ð¸ÐºÐ¾Ð³Ð¾
Year: 2019
Subjects: ÐÐ¾Ð¶Ð°ÑÐ½Ð°Ñ Ð¾Ñ ÑÐ°Ð½Ð°
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description: In the given work the essence of the methodology of research of photometric characteristics of light sirens when exposed to hazardous factors of a fire, in particular smoke. The study of photometric characteristics in the smoke of various types of sirens for compliance with the requirements of the regulatory framework. The proposed methodology for the assessment of the performance of light sirens in the smoke.
Canyon of Current Suppression in an interacting two-level Quantum Dot
Creators: name: Karlström, O.
name: Pedersen, J. N.
name: Samuelsson, P.
name: Wacker, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by the recent discovery of a canyon of conductance suppression in a two-level equal spin quantum dot system [Phys. Rev. Lett. $\bf{104}$, 186804 (2010)] the transport through this system is studied in detail. At low bias and low temperature a strong current suppression is found around the electron-hole symmetry point independent of the couplings, in agreement with previous results. By means of a Schrieffer-Wolff transformation we are able to give an intuitive explanation to this suppression in the low-energy regime. In the general situation, numerical simulations are carried out using quantum rate equations. The simulations allow for the prediction of how the suppression is affected by the couplings, the charging energy, the position of the energy levels, the applied bias, and the temperature. We find that away from electron-hole symmetry, the parity of the couplings is essential for the current suppression. It is also shown how broadening, interference, and a finite interaction energy cause a shift of the current minimum away from degeneracy. Finally we see how an increased population of the upper level leads to current peaks on each side of the suppression line. At sufficiently high bias we discover a coherence-induced population inversion.
description: 16 pages, 13 figures. Accepted by PRB 2011
Observaciones a la Ley de Glaciares del Panel Independiente de Investigadores en Ciencias de la Criósfera
Creators: name: Rada, Camilo
name: Fernandoy, Francisco
name: Crespo, Sebastián A.
name: Cordero, Raul
name: Dussaillant, Ines
name: Farias Barahona, David
name: Inigo, Irarrazaval
name: Lambert, Fabrice
name: Araos, José
name: DUSSAILLANT J., Alejandro
name: Fernandez, Hans
name: Ruiz-Pereira, Sebastian
name: Schaefer, Marius
name: Fernandez, Alfonso
name: Somos-Valenzuela, Marcelo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 50202 Conservation and Biodiversity
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 40602 Glaciology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Hydrology

description: Aportes de la comunidad glaciológica independiente de Chile a la discusión del proyecto de Ley de protección de glaciares (Boletines N°s 11.876-12 y 4.205-12, refundidos)”, presentando contribuciones de base técnica para cada uno de los artículos en la actual discusión.
Observaciones a la Ley de Glaciares del Panel Independiente de Investigadores en Ciencias de la Criósfera
Creators: name: Rada, Camilo
name: Fernandoy, Francisco
name: Crespo, Sebastián A.
name: Cordero, Raul
name: Dussaillant, Ines
name: Farias Barahona, David
name: Inigo, Irarrazaval
name: Lambert, Fabrice
name: Araos, José
name: DUSSAILLANT J., Alejandro
name: Fernandez, Hans
name: Ruiz-Pereira, Sebastian
name: Schaefer, Marius
name: Somos-Valenzuela, Marcelo
name: Fernandez, Alfonso
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 50202 Conservation and Biodiversity
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 40602 Glaciology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Hydrology

description: Aportes de la comunidad glaciológica independiente de Chile a la discusión del proyecto de Ley de protección de glaciares (Boletines N°s 11.876-12 y 4.205-12, refundidos)”, presentando contribuciones de base técnica para cada uno de los artículos en la actual discusión.
A refined factorization of the exponential law
Creators: name: Patie, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $ξ$ be a (possibly killed) subordinator with Laplace exponent $ϕ$ and denote by $I_ϕ=\int_0^{\infty}\mathrm{e}^{-ξ_s}\,\mathrm{d}s$, the so-called exponential functional. Consider the positive random variable $I_{ψ_1}$ whose law, according to Bertoin and Yor [Electron. Comm. Probab. 6 (2001) 95--106], is determined by its negative entire moments as follows: \[\mathbb {E}[I_{ψ_1}^{-n}]=\prod_{k=1}^nϕ(k),\qquad n=1,2,...\] In this note, we show that $I_{ψ_1}$ is a positive self-decomposable random variable whenever the Lévy measure of $ξ$ is absolutely continuous with a monotone decreasing density. In fact, $I_{ψ_1}$ is identified as the exponential functional of a spectrally negative (sn, for short) Lévy process. We deduce from Bertoin and Yor [Electron. Comm. Probab. 6 (2001) 95--106] the following factorization of the exponential law ${\mathbf {e}}$: \[I_ϕ/I_{ψ_1}\stackrel{\mathrm {(d)}}{=}{\mathbf {e}},\] where $I_{ψ_1}$ is taken to be independent of $I_ϕ$. We proceed by showing an identity in distribution between the entrance law of an sn self-similar positive Feller process and the reciprocal of the exponential functional of sn Lévy processes. As a by-product, we obtain some new examples of the law of the exponential functionals, a new factorization of the exponential law and some interesting distributional properties of some random variables. For instance, we obtain that $S(α)^α$ is a self-decomposable random variable, where $S(α)$ is a positive stable random variable of index $α\in(0,1)$.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.3150/10-BEJ292 the Bernoulli (http://isi.cbs.nl/bernoulli/) by the International Statistical Institute/Bernoulli Society (http://isi.cbs.nl/BS/bshome.htm)
Relative contributions of radiation and cisplatin-based chemotherapy to sensorineural hearing loss in head-and-neck cancer patients
Creators: name: Das, Nidhin
name: Kaushal, Darwin
name: Patro, Sourabha Kumar
name: Pareek, Puneet
name: Dixit, Abhinav
name: Soni, Kapil
name: Nair, Nithin Prakasan
name: Choudhury, Bikram
name: Goyal, Amit
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: One of the debilitating complications of head and neck cancer radiotherapy is hearing loss. To quantify the magnitude of sensory neural hearing loss (SNHL) in the head and neck cancer patients undergoing chemoradiation therapy. This is a prospective study. Eighty patients with head and neck cancers and undergoing volumetric arc therapy were taken up for the study. Regular audiological evaluation was done. The changes in audiological parameters from baseline are correlated with cochlear dose. Cochlea received maximum doses of up to 28.52 Gy without causing SNHL in the absence of chemotherapy. But in concurrent chemoradiotherapy, hearing loss was found at least dose of 9 Gy at frequency range of 4 KHz–8 KHz. The risk of SNHL is independent of cumulative doses of Cisplatin. In 106 ears receiving concurrent chemoradiation, 82.1% and 74.5% ears had sensorineural hearing loss at 4 KHz and 8 KHz respectively, following the completion of treatment. Otoacoustic emissions in the chemoradiation group showed a significant change at the completion of treatment. Volumetric arc therapy have facilitated sparing of cochlea (< 40 Gy). This has resulted in better clinical outcome in terms of SNHL. The inclusion of concurrent cisplatin chemotherapy is a significant risk factor for the development of SNHL at higher frequencies.
A domain decomposing parallel sparse linear system solver
Creators: name: Manguoglu, Murat
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Mathematical Software (cs.MS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 65F05, 65F10, 65Y05

description: The solution of large sparse linear systems is often the most time-consuming part of many science and engineering applications. Computational fluid dynamics, circuit simulation, power network analysis, and material science are just a few examples of the application areas in which large sparse linear systems need to be solved effectively. In this paper we introduce a new parallel hybrid sparse linear system solver for distributed memory architectures that contains both direct and iterative components. We show that by using our solver one can alleviate the drawbacks of direct and iterative solvers, achieving better scalability than with direct solvers and more robustness than with classical preconditioned iterative solvers. Comparisons to well-known direct and iterative solvers on a parallel architecture are provided.
description: To appear in Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
Anderson localization through Polyakov loops: lattice evidence and Random matrix model
Creators: name: Bruckmann, Falk
name: Kovács, Tamás G.
name: Schierenberg, Sebastian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate low-lying fermion modes in SU(2) gauge theory at temperatures above the phase transition. Both staggered and overlap spectra reveal transitions from chaotic (random matrix) to integrable (Poissonian) behavior accompanied by an increasing localization of the eigenmodes. We show that the latter are trapped by local Polyakov loop fluctuations. Islands of such "wrong" Polyakov loops can therefore be viewed as defects leading to Anderson localization in gauge theories. We find strong similarities in the spatial profile of these localized staggered and overlap eigenmodes. We discuss possible interpretations of this finding and present a sparse random matrix model that reproduces these features.
description: 11 pages, 23 plots in 11 figures; some comments and references added, some axis labels corrected; journal version
title: Geospatial Innovation in the Digital Humanities
title: Implementation and Evaluation of Deep Mapping in the Lake District
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Reinhold, Alexander
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis explores the concept of Deep Mapping and how it can be implemented and evaluated using historic texts from the Lake District region. Deep Mapping is a new way to approach, understand and analyze the relationship between geography, history and literature through a variety of media. Deep Mapping has been discussed in the literature, but few practical implementations of the concept have been created. This thesis works to bridge the gap between the theoretical concept of Deep Mapping and its real-world application and use. The primary data used for this thesis is the Corpus of Lake District Writing, a collection of texts collected by researchers. This corpus contains 80 manually digitized texts about the Lake District region from 1622 to 1900. The corpus is made up of several different genres, including travel journals, essays, novels, and poetry. These texts, along with other multimedia, were brought together with interdisciplinary methods drawn from the fields of history, literature, corpus linguistics, spatial and digital humanities and computer science to create Deep Mapping prototypes. A series of case studies, discussed in chapters 3-7, were undertaken to explore Deep Mapping. Each case study focuses on developing a different Deep Map prototype addressing a new problem and set of objectives. Each prototype was then evaluated based on three sets of criteria: addressing the problem and objectives (design), this thesis’s research questions (research), and classifications of digital and spatial humanities and Deep Mapping (data). The last case study, chapter 7, focuses on processing data not related to the Lake District in order to explore if the methods used to develop the prototypes in chapters 3-6 are repeatable with other data sources. The final chapters discuss the implementation and evaluation of Deep Mapping. This thesis produced four Deep Mapping prototypes that can be used as exemplars for future research. The evaluation of these prototypes led to the development of the Evaluation Rubric, that can be used in the evaluation of applications to help determine their fit as a Deep Map and to assist in the comparison in Deep Mapping applications developed in contrasting forms and based on differing content.