cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Dissipative current in SIFS Josephson junctions
Creators: name: Vasenko, A. S.
name: Kawabata, S.
name: Golubov, A. A.
name: Kupriyanov, M. Yu.
name: Hekking, F. W. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate superconductor/insulator/ferromagnet/superconductor (SIFS) tunnel Josephson junctions in the dirty limit, using the quasiclassical theory. We consider the case of a strong tunnel barrier such that the left S layer and the right FS bilayer are decoupled. We calculate quantitatively the density of states (DOS) in the FS bilayer for arbitrary length of the ferromagnetic layer, using a self-consistent numerical method. We compare these results with a known analytical DOS approximation, which is valid when the ferromagnetic layer is long enough. Finally we calculate quantitatively the current-voltage characteristics of a SIFS junction.
description: Proceedings of the Vortex VI conference, to be published in Physica C
Surveillance and Performance in Norman Eberstein
Creators: name: French, Sara
Publisher: name: Emily Carr University of Art and Design
Year: 2011
Subjects: DIY--Performance art--Gender--Electronic surveillance -- Criticism

description: The central investigation of my practice lies in reconsidering surveillance through performance art by subverting its role in the everyday and questioning its reliance on technology. This paper introduces my visual art process and describes how the project Norman Eberstein is manifested in a gallery. This body of work suggests that the concept of surveillance is open for interrogation: Can altruism be reconciled with surveillance? Does technology create safe spaces? Is surveillance necessary? These queries reflect critiques on surveillance written by Matt Hern, John E. McGrath, Michel Foucault, Clive Norris and Gary Armstrong. Referring to their texts, I trace the proliferation of surveillance and the excessive production of technological devices in public and private spaces. My practice is multi-faceted, simultaneously manifesting elements of performance, drag, craft, drawing, writing and video. Within these medias I have developed an experimental methodology, in which the performance of surveillance is core. Norman Eberstein is an ongoing series of performances and body of work in which I use a persona to re-identify myself in the guise of surveillant. The performance is the process that creates the work itself. This is enacted through the role of a security guard in training, the persona Norman Eberstein, who finds himself subsumed in certain settings that he is compelled to guard and document. In discussing works by Marcel Duchamp, Jill Magid, Bernadette Corporation, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, K8 Hardy and Wynne Greenwood, I will demonstrate how key concepts and methods in these works speak to my practice. Though my work is informed by the history of performance art, it is rooted in an experimental process in which performance is a method, and its fruits are valid not only as documentation, but as art. I’m interested in performativity as a process that feeds a range of experiences in galleries and public spaces. To frame this idea, I will specifically refer to the catalogue and essays from the exhibition Not to Play with Dead Things. Like many of the artists in the exhibition, my work is as invested in the attendant objects and relics as it is in the performance itself.
description: Criticism
description: Craft
description: Gender
Inclusive cross section and double helicity asymmetry for pi^0 production in p+p collisions at sqrt(s) = 62.4 GeV
Creators: name: PHENIX Collaboration
name: Adare, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The PHENIX experiment presents results from the RHIC 2006 run with polarized proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 62.4 GeV for inclusive pi^0 production at mid-rapidity. Unpolarized cross section results are measured for transverse momenta p_T = 0.5 to 7 GeV/c. Next-to-leading order perturbative quantum chromodynamics calculations are compared with the data, and while the calculations are consistent with the measurements, next-to-leading logarithmic corrections improve the agreement. Double helicity asymmetries A_LL are presented for p_T = 1 to 4 GeV/c and probe the higher range of Bjorken_x of the gluon (x_g) with better statistical precision than our previous measurements at sqrt(s)=200 GeV. These measurements are sensitive to the gluon polarization in the proton for 0.06 < x_g < 0.4.
description: 387 authors from 63 institutions, 10 pages, 6 figures, 1 table. Submitted to Physical Review D. Plain text data tables for the points plotted in figures for this and previous PHENIX publications are (or will be) publicly available at http://www.phenix.bnl.gov/papers.html
Combinatorial methods in algorithms and complexity theory
Creators: name: Potukuchi, Aditya
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2020

description: Theoretical Computer Science has connections to several areas of mathematics and one of the more prominent of these connections is to combinatorics. Indeed, many problems in this subject are often very combinatorial in nature. These problems have either used existing techniques from combinatorics or have given rise to new combinatorial techniques. This dissertation is a collection of the study of some such problems.1. We recover a result by Abbe, Shpilka and Wigderson which states that a Reed-Muller code of rate 1 - Theta((log^r n)/n) can be recovered from o((log^((r-1)/2))/n) randomly chosen errors in a stronger way. Namely, we show that the set of corrupted locations in the message can be recovered just from the syndrome of the message. Among the techniques are the study of tensor decomposition over finite fields and an algorithm to find the roots of a space of low degree polynomials.2. We show that it is NP-hard to properly 2-color a k-uniform (k - O(sqrt{k}))-rainbow colorable hypergraph. In particular, we show that it is NP-hard to properly 2-color a 4-uniform $3$-rainbow colorable hypergraph. We further extend this using a notion of almost rainbow colorability. We show that given a k-uniform hypergraph where there is a $(k - sqrt{ck})$-coloring of the vertices such that every edge gets (k - 3sqrt{ck})-colors, it is NP-hard to properly c-color it. Among the techniques are topological methods to lower bound the chromatic number of certain hypergraphs and a theorem of Sarkaria on the chromatic number of the generalized Kneser hypergraph.3. We show that the discrepancy of a regular hypergraph can be bounded in terms of its spectral information. Let H subset 2^{[n]} be a t-regular hypergraph where |H| >= n, and M be the |H| x n incidence matrix. Define $ lambda : = max_{v perp 1}||Mv||/||v||$. We show that the discrepancy of H is at most O(sqrt{t} + lambda). In particular, this shows that for every t, the discrepancy of a random t-regular hypergraph on m > = n hyperedges has discrepancy O(sqrt{t}) with high probability as n grows. This bound also comes with an efficient algorithm that takes $mathcal{H}$ as input and outputs a coloring that has the guaranteed discrepancy.4. We show that every q-ary error-correcting code of distance 1 - q^{-1} - epsilon^2 can be punctured to rate tilde{Omega}((epsilon)/(log q)) so that it is (O_{rho,delta}(q),delta,rho)-zero-error list-decodable. In particular, this shows that there are Reed-Solomon codes that are zero-error list-recoverable beyond the Johnson radius. This immediately improves the degree bound for unbalanced expanders obtained from randomly punctured Reed-Solomon codes
Noise Music, Environment and Peripheral Patterns
Creators: name: Thorogood, Miles
Publisher: name: Emily Carr University of Art and Design
Year: 2010
Subjects: Soundscapes
Noise music
Algorithms
Computer programming
Music

description: The development of the project Peripheral Patterns aims toward an autonomous software system for generative music, that takes as a point of departure, how sound is implicated in our experience of the everyday world in the city. This investigation began with the analysis and consideration of the contrasting soundscapes of the city and the natural settings. The analysis was found to show some correlation with the arrangement and frequencies of sounds in soundscapes and post-industrial noise music works. The above observations led me to the further analysis of soundscapes and noise music. My position on the current city soundscape is as follows: As the human is both a creature from the natural and urban environments, these contrasting vistas will create modern sonic topographies which are exhibited in noise music. Peripheral Patterns explores these convergent spaces to investigate the potential of the sound that is at the limits of human hearing. Whereas once animals occupied small spectral niches in the soundfield, a sky train can be heard passing over Commercial Drive as the constant white noise roars from the city. Conversely, there is a desire for something that resembles peace, a desire to return to an experience of natural soundscape. This thesis looks at a possible convergence of urban and natural soundscapes.
description: In support of the fulfillment of the degree of Master of Applied Arts at Emily Carr University of Art and Design.
Contemporary Art and Nomadic Subjectivities: Rethinking the Subject in an Interrelational Context
Creators: name: Tasdelen, Erdem
Publisher: name: Emily Carr University of Art and Design
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Subjectivity in art
subject: Identity (Philosophical concept) in art
subject: Self (Philosophy) in art
subject: Poststructuralism
subject: Homosexuality and art
subject: Sexuality
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: This essay interrogates the notion of subjectivity and poses the following questions: How does one become a subject? What positions constitute his/her subjectivity? How are these positions interpreted by others? How can we envision an ethics that doesn't take the unitary subject or universal moral norms as its foundation? To this end, I trace poststructuralist discourses around identity and sexuality, and investigate the subject both as shaped by the self and called into being by an Other. The proposition presented as a result of this discussion is to think of the contemporary subject as a nomadic one, and to seek an ethics that can accompany this understanding. Interpellation and power relations in Althusser and Foucault, resistance to power in Butler and Žižek, and nomadic subjectivity and ethics in Deleuze and Guattari and Braidotti form the core of this paper's theoretical explorations. These notions provide a framework within which my three studio projects Indefinitions, Card No. IV and Dear, can be thought. These projects investigate gay subjectivity, psychology as ideological power, and emotional vulnerability; respectively. Interspersed within the essay are further links drawn to some of the ways in which subjectivity is negotiated in contemporary art, with reference to specific artworks by artists Elmgreen Dragset, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, and Sophie Calle.
description: Identity
description: Philosophy
description: Modern art
description: Ethics
Visual Storytelling: A Design Method to Capture and Validate Experience in the Early Stages of the Design Process
Creators: name: Salevati, Sara
Publisher: name: Emily Carr University of Art and Design
Year: 2010
Subjects: Design--Storytelling--Children's Hospital (Vancouver, B.C.)--Radio frequency identification systems
Information visualization

description: The early stages of the design process are often ambiguous and complex. In this phase designers discover, learn and gather much information about the audience, culture and the context they are designing for. Through the synthesis of data their goal is to learn as much as possible about all stakeholder perspectives, activities and constraints involved in the design situation in order to identify and prioritize design problems. This paper examines the value of visual storytelling methods in the early stages of the design process to enhance the identification of design opportunities, validate assumptions and improve design decision-making when designing for an optimal user experience. To help evaluate the potential benefits of visual storytelling methods a case study has been conducted with fourth year Interaction Design students at Emily Carr University involved in designing a patient tracking system using radio frequency identification technology for the BC Children's Hospital Emergency Department. This research explores storytelling as a visualization tool for translating, interpreting, verifying and communicating data collected from diverse user communities to build a better understanding of the context and circumstances surrounding complex design challenges involving multiple stakeholders.
description: Health practice
description: RFID
description: Research
description: Health knowledge
description: Health attitudes
Rigorous treatment of electrostatics for spatially varying dielectrics based on energy minimization
Creators: name: Obolensky, O. I.
name: Doerr, T. P.
name: Ray, R.
name: Yu, Yi-Kuo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A novel energy minimization formulation of electrostatics that allows computation of the electrostatic energy and forces to any desired accuracy in a system with arbitrary dielectric properties is presented. An integral equation for the scalar charge density is derived from an energy functional of the polarization vector field. This energy functional represents the true energy of the system even in non-equilibrium states. Arbitrary accuracy is achieved by solving the integral equation for the charge density via a series expansion in terms of the equation's kernel, which depends only on the geometry of the dielectrics. The streamlined formalism operates with volume charge distributions only, not resorting to introducing surface charges by hand. Therefore, it can be applied to any spatial variation of the dielectric susceptibility, which is of particular importance in applications to biomolecular systems. The simplicity of application of the formalism to real problems is shown with analytical and numerical examples.
description: 27 pages, 5 figures
My Grandfather the Cedar My Grandmother the Wool
Creators: name: Clifford, Rachelle
Publisher: name: Emily Carr University of Art and Design
Year: 2010
Subjects: Environmental sustainability--Design--Research--Coast Salish--British Columbia--Oral history--Basket making

description: This thesis is a personal journey that seeks to comprehend whether First Nations philosophies, specifically the Coast Salish can contribute to current research on sustainability. As a Coast Salish person, I initially set out to deepen my understanding of my own culture and ended up learning about the environment – simply because the two cannot be teased apart. My praxis explores stories based within Coast Salish knowledge of the land, seasonal harvesting, elder's guidance, and a traditional philosophy of respect. I weave this with Western philosophies centered on land ethic and systems thinking to create a space of hybridity. This thesis describes my new understanding of materiality in our interdependent world. The writing structure is woven and fragmented with different voices that reflect the academic, the poetic and the making. The writing is tangential, repetitive and circular, which mimics the structure of the traditional oral history of the Coast Salish people.
description: Storytelling
Line Studies: Standards and Postulates
Creators: name: Hall, Lyndl
Publisher: name: Emily Carr University of Art and Design
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Drawing--Conceptual art--Line
subject: Drawing
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History

description: This thesis essay examines a drawing discourse that is not defined by graphite on paper but rather by an axiomatic construction of space that entails a distinct and interwoven relation between line and surface. In order to examine this formal relationship between line and surface, and the conceptual repercussions, I will address relevant work from my own studio practice, theoretical discourse, contemporary examples and historical precedent. Specifically concentrating on Mel Bochner (and the conceptual drawing practices of the 1960s) Francis Alÿs and Robin Rhode. The lines considered here cut across grids, reposition objects and direct/obstruct the flow of bodies, they delineate space, cleaving an undefined surface into an object and a ground, and open spaces into bounded areas. Drawing then becomes an apparatus through which to think differently about the surface that is being marked, the world sustaining that mark. The work examined in this thesis has been distilled to lines and line-makers, basic elements and primary structures that can expand to other forms. Here drawing is seen not as a material, but as a stance out of which to make gestures affiliated with a medium that explicitly resists determination. This paper will outline the ambivalent or multi-valent nature of the line: vibrating continually, never being fully one thing or another, never fully mimetic or fully abstract. The work examined seeks to understand the structural nature of lines, how they delineate looking, acting, and create moments of transgression. This thesis asks: how can space be constructed along alternate base lines? And what changes when we are asked to look at the standard itself instead of being corralled into seeing along the standard?
Exploring Brand Identity: Storytelling Through the Use of Emotional Branding for The Institute for Fuel Cell Innovation
Creators: name: Corbacioglu, Defne
Publisher: name: Emily Carr University of Art and Design
Year: 2010
Subjects: National Research Council Canada--Commercial art--Graphic arts--Fuel cell industry -- British Columbia -- Vancouver--Fuel cells -- Public opinion--Branding (Marketing)

description: This thesis project investigates branding strategies, such as “emotional branding” to tell the story of National Research Council's Institute for Fuel Cell Innovation. There are three aspects to the visual component: signage design, a process book and an animation. Each of these elements acts as the narrator of the story. The book includes a documentation of visual process and synthesizes this information into a section of brand guidelines. It showcases the brand identity and the evolution of visual process in the medium of print, while the animation illustrates the brand through motion graphics and provides an example of how the visual elements that form the identity work coherently as an animation piece. The signage design is the three-dimensional aspect of the project. It presents the branding applied in a tactile way and also reflects a relationship with the space in which it is showcased. With these visual and sensory tools, the Gateway will showcase the rich graphic language of the new brand identity. The written component of the thesis explores the ideas of Marc Gobé in relation to emotional branding and Peter Turchi and Tim Ingold in reference to storytelling. Linda Leung and Donald Norman's works and Ellen Lupton's theories on graphic design are also examined to further investigate theories of storytelling in branding and motion graphics.
description: Graphic design
description: Technology
description: Storytelling
description: Branding
description: Communication
description: Design
description: Hydrogen
description: Marketing
My Journey Into the Sensations of Sight
Creators: name: Rauscher, Morgan
Publisher: name: Emily Carr University of Art and Design
Year: 2010
Subjects: Technology--Interactive art--Ineteractive multimedia--Multimedia--Digital media--Art and science--Science--Art and technology

description: Electronic media technology provides artists with tools for exploring interactivity. New immersive media sensations can result from the interactions between viewers and electronic artwork. This thesis is a record of my personal creative journey, including the ideas and the resulting interactive artworks that have unfolded on a voyage towards expressing sensations of sight. There are two interactive and immersive new media artworks that were developed as a part of this creative exploration. “Zeugen” uses thirty-two human-cast robotic faces and a face tracking system to track the movements of viewers in a gallery space. “Mind Mirror” is an electronic artwork that uses stereoscopic and stroboscopic audiovisual phenomenon (intermittent photic-stimulation) to cause the viewer's mind to create involuntarily visual hallucinations. The result is an experiential event propelling the viewer into a state of visual euphoria. My creative process (methodology) is presented in the form of a personal narrative outlining the practical motivations that have guided my work and I situate the work within a historical and theoretical discourse.
description: Vision
description: Interaction Design
Birational aspects of the geometry of M_g
Creators: name: Farkas, Gavril
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We discuss topics on the geometry of the moduli space of curves. We present a short proof of the Harris-Mumford theorem on the Kodaira dimension of the moduli space which replaces the computations on the stack of admissible covers by a simple study of tautological Koszul bundles on M_g. We also present a streamlined self-contained account of Verra's recent work on the unirationality of M_g. Finally, we discuss a proof that the moduli space of curves of genus 22 is of general type. Written for Surveys in Differential Geometry.
description: 45 pages. Numerous minor corrections, more details on the proof that M_{22} is of general type. A new section on lower bounds on slopes of M_g
Emergent Value(s) of Giving Through Object Matter
Creators: name: Leong, Penny
Publisher: name: Emily Carr University of Art and Design
Year: 2010
Subjects: Communication--Found objects (Art)--Ceremonial exchange--Craigslist.com (Firm)--Found objects--Gifts--Internet advertising
Vancouver (B.C.)

description: As an artist and writer, I am interested in “object matter,” a term I use to signify how objects are mediated through visual and textual languages. In my thesis, I explore used, everyday objects, things no longer wanted or needed by their owners, by examining ways people give them away to strangers. In particular, I have chosen to the study the use of everyday language by people who give away their used goods through the online network Craigslist Vancouver “Free Stuff.” The three central question of my exploration are: How do people give to strangers? What kinds of value(s), if not monetary value, could these objects have in their being given away? What is at stake in these free offerings? I approach these questions through language, suggesting that what is offered is not only the objects themselves but their “object matter,” articulated through the written and spoken gestures of giving towards the other. I study how people describe their used goods and how they position their offerings both online and offline. These gestures reveal emergent values that may imply an obligation to use or receive these objects in certain ways, forming temporary yet sustaining bonds between strangers. Various visual components produced out of the research will be discussed along with an exploration of the central ideas of tactics, emergent value(s) and object matter. The collected objects and some of the components of the visual documentation culminate into a two-part installation that is part documentation and part participatory event. Methodologically, the research borrows from sociological examinations of the gift economy and Michel de Certeau's ideas of “tactics” as everyday practices of singular forms of production. The conceptual poetics of Marcel Duchamp who significantly introduced language into the visual arts through the readymade is discussed. Furthermore, language as “indirect discourse” informs how I interpret the ways of speaking and writing that poignantly illustrate how people in Craigslist “Free Stuff” value and give away their used things.
description: Internet
description: Language
Cloud Computing and Grid Computing 360-Degree Compared
Creators: name: Foster, Ian
name: Zhao, Yong
name: Raicu, Ioan
name: Lu, Shiyong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: C.2.4; A.1

description: Cloud Computing has become another buzzword after Web 2.0. However, there are dozens of different definitions for Cloud Computing and there seems to be no consensus on what a Cloud is. On the other hand, Cloud Computing is not a completely new concept; it has intricate connection to the relatively new but thirteen-year established Grid Computing paradigm, and other relevant technologies such as utility computing, cluster computing, and distributed systems in general. This paper strives to compare and contrast Cloud Computing with Grid Computing from various angles and give insights into the essential characteristics of both.
description: IEEE Grid Computing Environments (GCE08) 2008
Deterministic Capacity of MIMO Relay Networks
Creators: name: Host-Madsen, Anders
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The deterministic capacity of a relay network is the capacity of a network when relays are restricted to transmitting \emph{reliable} information, that is, (asymptotically) deterministic function of the source message. In this paper it is shown that the deterministic capacity of a number of MIMO relay networks can be found in the low power regime where $\SNR\to0$. This is accomplished through deriving single letter upper bounds and finding the limit of these as $\SNR\to0$. The advantage of this technique is that it overcomes the difficulty of finding optimum distributions for mutual information.
description: Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Short-time-interaction quantum measurement through an incoherent mediator
Creators: name: Casanova, J.
name: Romero, G.
name: Lizuain, I.
name: Retamal, J. C.
name: Roos, C. F.
name: Muga, J. G.
name: Solano, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a theory of indirect measurements where a probe is able to read, in short interaction times, the quantum state of a remote system through an incoherent wall. The probe and the system can interact with an ancilla in an incoherent state but not directly among themselves and, nevertheless, the fast transfer of quantum information can be achieved with robustness. We exemplify our measurement scheme with a paradigmatic example of this tripartite problem: qubit-oscillator-qubit, and discuss different physical scenarios pointing out the associated advantages and limitations.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
The effect of perceived global stress and altruism on prosocial driving behavior, yielding behavior, and yielding attitude
Creators: name: Yu, Zhenhao
name: Yu, Tao
name: Ge, Yan
name: Qu, Weina
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Traffic accidents are mainly caused by driver-to-pedestrian collisions or driver-to-driver collisions. Prosocial driving behavior indicates that drivers exhibit altruistic behavior toward other drivers on roads. Yielding behavior demonstrates that drivers grant the right of passage to pedestrians at unsignalized crossings, while yielding attitude presents the subjective emotional and cognitive inclination to yield to pedestrians at unsignalized crossings. This study aims to explore the effect of altruism and drivers’ perceived stress on prosocial driving behavior, yielding behavior, and yielding attitude. In addition, we endeavor to explore the effect of stress on prosocial driving behavior exhibiting an inverted “U-type” curve as Yerkes-Dodson’s law suggests and test the moderating role of perceived stress on altruism and prosocial driving behavior/yielding behavior/yielding attitude. Using a survey method, we asked 454 participants to complete an altruism scale from the IPIT measuring altruism, a Perceived Stress Scale-10 measuring drivers’ perceived stress, a prosocial driving scale from the PADI measuring prosocial driving behavior, and items on yielding behavior and yielding attitude. Then, a correlational matrix, a hierarchical multiple nonparametric regression analysis, and a moderating analysis of perceived stress were employed in sequence to reach our objective. The hierarchical multiple nonparametric regression analysis showed that altruism positively predicts yielding attitude (F = 41.56, p < 0.001), yielding behavior (z = 8.46, p < 0.001, odds ratio = 4.90) and prosocial driving behavior (F = 110.66, p < 0.001), but stress predicts only prosocial driving behavior (F = 7.63, p < 0.001), not yielding attitude (F = 0.51, p > 0.05) or yielding behavior (z = 0.12, p > 0.05), which exhibits an inverted “U-type” curve. Moderating analyses showed that stress only moderates the relationship between altruism and yielding attitude (B = −0.24, t = −2.62, p < 0.01). Altruism is positively related to prosocial driving behavior, yielding behavior, and yielding attitude. Stress influences prosocial driving behavior only and exhibits an inverted “U-type” curve. Stress does not directly influence the yielding behavior. Instead, stress moderates the relationship between altruism and yielding attitude only and may further increase the possibility of yielding behavior.
SEL and Depressive Symptoms
Creators: name: Teng, Zhaojun
name: Chen, Chun
name: Chunyan Yang
name: Nie, Qian
name: Hanbin Wang
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Educational Psychology
subject: School Psychology
subject: Developmental Psychology
subject: Education
subject: Child Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: This project will explore the reciprocal longitudinal associations between social-emotional learning (SEL) competencies and depressive symptoms among Chinese middle and high school students.
The Transmutation of Visceral Desecration: Marginalizing Women, Murder and the Urban Environment Contextualized in Film
Creators: name: Del Pieve Gobbi, Rena
Publisher: name: Emily Carr University of Art and Design
Year: 2009
Subjects: Experimental film
Abstract films
Feminism
Rape
Missing person -- Women

description: This thesis is made up of a 35mm film, reinsertion, and a praxis paper that investigated my film processes and research, concerning the missing and murdered women of Vancouver. The catalyst was my experience living in a city in shock during the Pickton Trial. In 2007 Robert Pickton was charged with 26 counts of First Degree Murder. He was tried and found guilty for six out of a possible 26 murders that took place on his pig farm in Coquitlam. My goal was to create a film that positions the responsibility of the murders on the City of Vancouver, its police, City Hall and residents. My research focused on my personal experiences in the community and feminist discourse. Through the creation of an experimental film about the murders, I explored ideas such as authorship, experiential art and absence as representation. Simultaneously, the film subliminally communicates the trauma of the aforementioned women. This thesis pursues several key questions: Can a city be a sexual predator? Who has the right to tell a story? Can film emote without narrative? It concludes that a society, by inaction, can condone atrocities, that the stories we tell are inherently our own and that trauma can be communicated through subtle movements, gestures or objects.
description: Feminist film
description: Media
description: Missing women
The Szegö Kernel on a Sewn Riemann Surface
Creators: name: Tuite, Michael P.
name: Zuevsky, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe the Szegö kernel on a higher genus Riemann surface in terms of Szegö kernel data coming from lower genus surfaces via two explicit sewing procedures where either two Riemann surfaces are sewn together or a handle is sewn to a Riemann surface. We consider in detail the examples of the Szegö kernel on a genus two Riemann surface formed by either sewing together two punctured tori or by sewing a twice-punctured torus to itself. We also consider the modular properties of the Szegö kernel in these cases.
description: Minor typos corrected, 37 pages, 3 figures. To appear in Commun. Math. Phys
Finite-Size Corrections of the $\mathbb{CP}^3$ Giant Magnons: the Lüscher terms
Creators: name: Bombardelli, Diego
name: Fioravanti, Davide
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute classical and first quantum finite-size corrections to the recently found giant magnon solutions in two different subspaces of $\mathbb{CP}^3$. We use the Lüscher approach on the recently proposed exact S-matrix for $\mathcal{N}=6$ superconformal Chern-Simons theory. We compare our results with the string and algebraic curve computations and find agreement, thus providing a non-trivial test for the new $AdS_4/CFT_3$ correspondence within an integrability framework.
description: 20 pages, references added, improved and extended version
Measurement of the Longitudinal Spin Transfer to Lambda and Anti-Lambda Hyperons in Polarised Muon DIS
Creators: name: The COMPASS Collaboration
name: Alekseev, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The longitudinal polarisation transfer from muons to lambda and anti-lambda hyperons, D_LL, has been studied in deep inelastic scattering off an unpolarised isoscalar target at the COMPASS experiment at CERN. The spin transfers to lambda and anti-lambda produced in the current fragmentation region exhibit different behaviours as a function of x and xF . The measured x and xF dependences of D^lambda_LL are compatible with zero, while D^anti-lambda_LL tends to increase with xF, reaching values of 0.4 - 0.5. The resulting average values are D^lambda_LL = -0.012 +- 0.047 +- 0.024 and D^anti-lambda_LL = 0.249 +- 0.056 +- 0.049. These results are discussed in the frame of recent model calculations.
description: 13 pages, 7 figures
The Birthday
Creators: name: Teng, Lawrence
Publisher: name: Emily Carr University of Art and Design
Year: 2009
Subjects: Autobiography--Animation (Cinematography)--Identity--Emigration and immigration--Fairy tales

description: This MAA paper examines the relationship between my animation and character design artwork and the autobiographic elements that inform these works. I will document my evolving creative process as I worked on a semi-autobiographic fairy tale called The Birthday, a ctionalized self portrait that depicts my mental state in dealing with an identity crisis I experienced as a new Canadian immigrant in the mid 1980s. This paper will draw parallels between the fairy tale I created and my personal experience by touching on cultural and social issues that have shaped my philosophy. I will reference authors whose analytical works on fairy tales and myths have informed my storytelling process, in particular Bruno Bettelheim and Joseph Campbell. I will also examine the role of the subconscious and the Jungian archetypes in my fairy tale and at the same time explore possible connections between my own character and the characters that I have designed. The scope of this paper does not allow for an in-depth analysis of my book project, but by introducing some psychological concepts used by Jung, Bettelheim and Campbell in their discussion of myths and fairy tales into my work, I hope to gain a better understanding of my creative process, which will help build the foundation for my future projects. Finally, I also want to reach out to my audience by highlighting universal themes that the project addresses.
description: Autoethnography
description: Film
description: Cinematography
description: Folklore
Beloved Labours in Pink
Creators: name: Schuler, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Emily Carr University of Art and Design
Year: 2009
Subjects: Colour theory--Gender--Ritual--Popular culture

description: Beloved Labours in Pink, a praxis paper, is a form of colour study. It constitutes a critical look at how the cultural associations of the colour pink inform my studio work and its concern with my gender and body as an artist, domestic rituals as personal performances, and the recognition of labour within the space of the home. My aim is to provide a space with which to investigate how pink is a politically charged colour. To do this, I will be analyzing the role of pink in relation to colour theory, popular culture, gender studies, theories of aesthetics, and institutions of power.
Maximum $Δ$-edge-colorable subgraphs of class II graphs
Creators: name: Mkrtchyan, Vahan V.
name: Steffen, Eckhard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A graph $G$ is class II, if its chromatic index is at least $Δ+1$. Let $H$ be a maximum $Δ$-edge-colorable subgraph of $G$. The paper proves best possible lower bounds for $\frac{|E(H)|}{|E(G)|}$, and structural properties of maximum $Δ$-edge-colorable subgraphs. It is shown that every set of vertex-disjoint cycles of a class II graph with $Δ\geq3$ can be extended to a maximum $Δ$-edge-colorable subgraph. Simple graphs have a maximum $Δ$-edge-colorable subgraph such that the complement is a matching. Furthermore, a maximum $Δ$-edge-colorable subgraph of a simple graph is always class I.
description: 13 pages, 2 figures, the proof of the Lemma 1 is corrected
A New Class of Exact Hairy Black Hole Solutions
Creators: name: Kolyvaris, Theodoros
name: Koutsoumbas, George
name: Papantonopoulos, Eleftherios
name: Siopsis, George
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new class of black hole solutions with minimally coupled scalar field in the presence of a negative cosmological constant. We consider a one-parameter family of self-interaction potentials parametrized by a dimensionless parameter $g$. When $g=0$, we recover the conformally invariant solution of the Martinez-Troncoso-Zanelli (MTZ) black hole. A non-vanishing $g$ signals the departure from conformal invariance. All solutions are perturbatively stable for negative black hole mass and they may develop instabilities for positive mass. Thermodynamically, there is a critical temperature at vanishing black hole mass, where a higher-order phase transition occurs, as in the case of the MTZ black hole. Additionally, we obtain a branch of hairy solutions which undergo a first-order phase transition at a second critical temperature which depends on $g$ and it is higher than the MTZ critical temperature. As $g\to 0$, this second critical temperature diverges.
description: 18 pages, 6 figures, minor changes, references added, published version
Apocalypse Now, Maybe Later, or Even Sooner: The Bliss of Prediction
Creators: name: Sansom, Kathryn
Publisher: name: Emily Carr University of Art and Design
Year: 2009
Subjects: Anxiety--Health--Mental illness--Sculpture

description: This thesis begins with an explanation of my curiosity with anxiety, an interest that I have not only revisited from my previous practice, but is elemental to my lived reality. During the Masters candidacy at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, I have come to regard anxiety, and its counterpart panic, as a universal phenomenon as much as an individual affliction. The penchant for speculative anxiety – the tendency to anticipate doom – I argue, has been a reality of Western civilization since the first raindrops fell on Noahʼs holy construction. However, my thesis posits that this anxiety has an enhanced status in post-modern culture. The volatile reality of human civilization, as well as my own feelings of insecurity about the future, emanate from the trope of dystopian futures, popular depictions of apocalypse and post-apocalypses, as well as mediated news sources. I borrow and reprocess each of these in order to prepare for surviving any form of inexorable demise. Throughout the thesis, a number of works are analyzed, focusing on those that are quintessential to my current practice. Beginning with a description of dystopian references that have inspired my anxiety, I go on to describe ways in which speculative anxiety influences the construction and material reality of my work. The thesis distinguishes the utilitarian objects I make from dominant methods of manufacture, suggesting that their alterity of form, function, and fabrication enacts a dissensus -- introducing my own narrative and anxious state to the function of the pieces. The result of my artistic process thus far has consisted of material plans, models and sculptural objects. I conclude by describing forthcoming projects that are more performative by nature, and explain how they function as an additional level of immersion into my neurotic condition.
Design of co-solute formulations for stable, highly concentrated monoclonal antibody solutions with low viscosity
Creators: name: Hung, Jessica Joy
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2018
Subjects: Antibody
Viscosity

description: Highly concentrated (> 200 mg/mL) monoclonal antibody (mAb) formulations with low viscosities are strongly desired for subcutaneous drug delivery for the treatment of diseases such as cancer, as well as for improved process performance and yield in the manufacture of biologic drug products using techniques such as tangential flow ultrafiltration (TFF). High solution viscosities and protein aggregation at high concentration lead to significant challenges in delivery and manufacture due to large injection forces, product loss to aggregation, and significant filter membrane fouling and flux decay. Small-molecule co-solutes such as arginine and various electrolytes have in some cases been shown to greatly reduce the viscosity of concentrated mAbs. However, the mechanism by which co-solutes modify mAb viscosity is not well understood. Herein, we investigate the effects of several amino acids and inorganic ionic co-solutes on the viscosity of mAbs up to 250 mg/mL. We relate the viscosities to measurable changes in the protein-protein interactions (PPI), mAb structure and self-association behavior as assessed through small-volume techniques such as dynamic light scattering (DLS), static light scattering (SLS) and fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) in order to develop a hierarchical understanding of the co-solute effects on the mAb behavior. We demonstrate that the viscosity reduction is correlated with the disruption of mAb self-association and attractive PPI, as directly probed by SLS, DLS, FCS and rheology. We also relate these changes in the PPI and viscosity to the physical properties of the co-solute, including the co-solute charge, size and shape. Finally, we demonstrate that the ability to mitigate aggregation and membrane fouling by the combined addition of viscosity-reducing co-solutes and selection of hollow fiber filter geometries resulted in a high-concentration transmembrane flux three-fold higher than that of conventional low co-solute buffer formulations. The reduced viscosities also led to more uniform axial transmembrane pressure and shear stress profiles, which led to reduce irreversible aggregation and solution turbidity during ultrafiltration.
Supporting Information from A Cu2+ triggered reversible photochromic system: the structure photochromic response relationship study and potential applications
Creators: name: Wang, Shuping
name: Wu, Lumiao
name: Li, He
name: Zhang, Guoyan
name: Wei, Xueqian
name: Zheng, Jiyi
name: Jiang, Long
name: Ju, Ping
name: Qu, Fengli
name: Zhang, Ensheng
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2023

description: Fifteen rhodamine B hydrazide hydrazone (RhBHH) derivatives (compounds a-o) with various substituent groups at different position and their photochromic property triggered by Cu2+ were studied to illustrate the structure photochromic response relationship (SPRR). Three of them (compounds f-h) with a para-position hydroxyl group and two meta-position halogen substituents display Cu2+ triggered photochromic which is significantly different from the previous reports. It was found that halogen atoms, which were generally considered to have no remarkable regulation effect, exhibited great influences on the photochromic behaviour of RhBHH derivatives. Detail photochromic properties of the developed photochromic system were revealed by using compound g as the model substrate and only Cu2+ displayed high selective trigger effect. Good reversible photochromic phenomenon was observed after stimulated with visible light irradiation and dark (or heat) bleaching consecutively. Furthermore, this photochromic system could be used in the preparation of photochromic glass, special security ink, molecular logic gate and two-dimensional code for security information storage.
Domain Walls in a Tetragonal Chiral p-Wave Superconductor
Creators: name: Logoboy, N. A.
name: Sonin, E. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Domain walls in a tetragonal chiral p-wave superconductors with broken time reversal symmetry are analyzed in the framework of the Ginsburg-Landau theory. The energy and the jump of the magnetic induction on the wall were determined for different types of walls as functions of the parameters of the Ginzburg-Landau theory and orientation of the domain wall with respect to the crystallographic axes. We discuss implications of the analysis for $Sr_{2}RuO_{4}$, where no stray magnetic fields from domain walls were detected experimentally.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures