cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Path Integral Quantization of Generalized Stueckelberg Electrodynamics: A Faddeev-Jackiw Approach
Creators: name: Caro, L. G.
name: de Gracia, G. B.
name: Nogueira, A. A.
name: Pimentel, B. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We build a setup for path integral quantization through the Faddeev-Jackiw approach, extending it to include Grassmannian degrees of freedom, to be later implemented in a model of generalized electrodynamics that involves fourth-order derivatives in the components of a massive vector field being endowed with gauge freedom, due to an additional scalar field. Namely, the generalized Stueckelberg electrodynamics. In the first instance, we work on the free case to gain some familiarity with the program and, subsequently, we add the interaction with fermionic matter fields to complete our aim. In addition to deriving the correct classical brackets for such a model, we get the full expression for the associated generating functional and its associated integration measure.
Canadian cultural identity, disillusionment, and isolation in contemporary realistic Canadian young adult fiction
Creators: name: Wilcox, Mary Elizabeth
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: This study explores Canadian cultural identity in a selection of contemporary realistic dark-themed Canadian Young Adult (YA) fiction: The Lottery by Beth Goobie, The Space Between by Don Aker, The Beckoners by Carrie Mac, and Swimming in the Monsoon Sea by Shyam Selvadurai. Using close reading, these adolescent novels are analyzed for the “bleak” themes of disillusionment and isolation. The themes are compared to corresponding trends in American YA literature, including self-reflection, ambiguous endings, the role of violence, absent parents, and the forms of the socially and psychologically abject characters. The novels are then analyzed using Canadian critical lenses adapted from John Ralston Saul’s theory of false myths and Daniel Coleman’s theory of wry civility. The critical lenses are also linked to Dennis Lee’s theory of inauthenticity and authenticity in Canadian culture and Northrop Frye’s definitions of unity and uniformity. The analysis concludes that the themes of isolation and disillusionment reflect deep engagement with authentic Canadian cultural theories.
Paired Afferent Stimulation in Children: Mechanisms of Developmental Plasticity
Creators: name: Damji, Omar
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Human Development
subject: Pediatrics
subject: Stroke
subject: Plasticity
subject: TMS
subject: Motor
subject: PAS

description: Plasticity may be enhanced in the developing brain, but mechanisms are poorly understood. Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) offers increasingly sophisticated means of assessing neurophysiology and mechanisms of neuroplasticity in vivo in adults. Paired associative stimulation (PAS) is an advanced modality that pairs sensory electrical peripheral nerve stimulation with TMS over the contralateral motor strip (M1). PAS induces rapidly evolving, long lasting, reversible and topographically specific increases in M1 excitability in adults consistent with NMDAR-dependent long-term potentiation (LTP). PAS has not been studied in the more plastic brains of children. Our aim was to determine the developmental profile of PAS neurophysiology in school-aged children, evaluating the putative correlation of PAS effect with age, and possible endogenous systems that may be modulators of PAS (i.e. Shot-Interval Intracortical Inhibition) and dictating plasticity. Twenty-eight children aged 6-18 years underwent PAS evaluations. Eighteen had significant PAS responses that were reproducible on repeat testing. Addition of inhibitory paired-pulse TMS appeared to block the PAS effect. The PAS effect did not correlate with age. PAS is safe and tolerable with effects comparable to adults. PAS may carry clinical and research utility in perinatal stroke and other pediatric brain injury populations.
Environmental Effects on TPB Wavelength-Shifting Coatings
Creators: name: Chiu, C. S.
name: Ignarra, C.
name: Bugel, L.
name: Chen, H.
name: Conrad, J. M.
name: Jones, B. J. P.
name: Katori, T.
name: Moult, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The scintillation detection systems of liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPCs) require wavelength shifters to detect the 128 nm scintillation light produced in liquid argon. Tetraphenyl butadiene (TPB) is a fluorescent material that can shift this light to a wavelength of 425 nm, lending itself well to use in these detectors. We can coat the glass of photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) with TPB or place TPB-coated plates in front of the PMTs. In this paper, we investigate the degradation of a chemical TPB coating in a laboratory or factory environment to assess the viability of long-term TPB film storage prior to its initial installation in an LArTPC. We present evidence for severe degradation due to common fluorescent lights and ambient sunlight in laboratories, with potential losses at the 40% level in the first day and eventual losses at the 80% level after a month of exposure. We determine the degradation is due to wavelengths in the UV spectrum, and we demonstrate mitigating methods for retrofitting lab and factory environments.
What Drives Democratic Government Expenditures? Evidence from Canadian Provincial Governments
Creators: name: Ponsu, Peter
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Finance
subject: Drivers
subject: Government spending
subject: Median voter model
subject: Political budget cycle model

description: This thesis aims at analyzing the drivers of provincial government spending on health care, education and municipal services from the perspectives of the median voter and political budget cycle models. A panel of province-level data for the period 1989 to 2009 is used with FGLS and GMM estimation methods. The results show that median income is positively related with both health and education spending, while the tax-price faced by the median voter is negatively associated with both health and municipal services spending. Population density has a positive link with education spending but inversely related to municipal services spending. Increases in income inequality raise provincial spending on education and municipal services. The effects of the age-cohorts on these expenditures are program-specific. The predictions of the political budget cycle models indicate that although there is a tendency for the expenditures on these three programs to increase in election-years, only the cyclical effects on health and municipal services are statistically significant.
WG2_ND1_Methods description
Creators: name: Garcia-Garcia, Ekhine
name: Verhegge, Jeroen
name: Horak, Jan
name: Vargemezis, George
name: Asandulasei, Andrei
name: Dragor, Mahmut
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: COST Action SAGA
near-surface geophysics
soil science
archaeology
archaeological prospection
geoarchaeology

description: This WG2 New Deliverable developed by Task Force 3 is a table summarising complementary methods (linked to D2.15) divided into 3 groups:
 -less applied geophysical methods in archaeology
 -airborne/remote sensing
 -geochemical & geotechnical methods AIM: Linked to WG2_D15 (review paper/white paper/integration in database) TASK Leader: Ekhine Garcia-Garcia TEAM: Jeroen, George, Jan, Andrei & Mahmut PROGRESS: The first draft was developed during the SAGA working group meeting and completed on 14 Feb 2020
Statistics of WMAP ILC map temperature fluctuations towards distant radio galaxies
Creators: name: Verkhodanov, O. V.
name: Khabibullina, M. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For 2442 galaxies of the catalog, compiled based on the NED, SDSS, and CATS survey data with redshifts z, > 0.3 we conducted an analysis of the amplitude of temperature fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) in the points, corresponding to the direction to these objects. To this end, we used the ILC map from the WMAP mission seven-year data release. We have estimated the dipole component of the background and tested the hypothesis of Kashlinsky on the existence of a "dark bulk flow", determined for the estimated dipole component of the CMB WMAP by the value of the CMB anisotropy in the direction to the clusters of galaxies. We show that the amplitude of this dipole T max = 0.012mK is located within the σ interval, estimated by Monte Carlo simulations for the Gaussian fluctuations of the CMB signal in the ΛCDM model. The low amplitude of the dipole indicates that it is impossible to confirm this hypothesis from the WMAP data. In addition, we studied the statistics of the fluctuation amplitude of the microwave signal in the direction to radio galaxies. A weakening of the absolute value of the mean signal in the corresponding fields was discovered.
description: 7 pages,4 figures,1 table
Characterization of rock matrix block size distribution, dispersivity, and mass transfer coefficients in fractured porous media
Creators: name: Sharifi Haddad, Amin
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Hydrology
subject: Petroleum
subject: Mathematical Modeling
subject: Fractured rocks
subject: Characterization
subject: Dispersivity
subject: Tracer test
subject: Mass transfer coefficient

description: Fractured porous media are important structures in petroleum engineering and geohydrology. The accelerating global demand for energy has turned the focus to fractured formations. The fractured porous media are also found in conventional naturally fractured reservoirs and the water supply from karst (carbonate) aquifers. Studying mass transfer processes allows us to explore the complexities and uncertainties encountered with fractured rocks. This dissertation is developing an analytical methodology for the study of mass transfer in fractured reservoirs. The dissertation begins with two cases that demonstrate the importance of the rock matrix block size distribution and dispersivity through a transient mass exchange mechanism between rock matrix blocks and fractures. The first case assumes a medium with no surface adsorption, and the second case includes the surface adsorption variable. One of the main focuses of this work is the characterization of the rock matrix block size distribution in fractured porous media. Seismic surveying, well test analysis, well logging, and geomechanical tools are currently used to characterize this property, based on measurements of different variables. This study explores an innovative method of using solute transport to determine the fracture intensity. This methodology is applied to slab-shaped rock matrix blocks and can easily be extended to other geometries. Another focus of this dissertation is the characterization of dispersivity in field scale studies. Improving our knowledge of dispersivity will enable more accurate mass transfer predictions and advance the study of transport processes. Field tracer tests demonstrated that dispersivity is scale-dependent. Proposed functions for the increasing trend of dispersivity include linear and asymptotic scale-dependence. This study investigated the linear dispersivity trend around the injection wellbore. An analysis of the tracer concentration in a monitoring well was used to characterize the slope of the linear function for different rock geometries. The final part of the study is the development of a lumped mass transfer coefficient between fractures and rock matrix blocks with different geometries. The obtained lumped mass transfer coefficient confirms that the scale of study, dispersivity, and the rate of injection of the fluid into the wellbore are important variables in solute transport in fractured rocks.
ผลของพลาสมาแบบไดอิเล็กทริคแบริเออร์ดิสชาร์จต่อการเจริญเติบโตและปริมาณสารทุติยภูมิของต้นอ่อนผักกาดหอม
Creators: name: ภาณุมาศ ฤทธิไชย
Publisher: name: กองบริหารการวิจัย
Year: 2563
Subjects: DBDพลาสมา
ผักกาดหอม
ฟีนอลิก
ฟลาโวนอยด์

description: วารสารวิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี, 28, 11, 2001-2012
A note on the well posed anisotropic discrete BVP's
Creators: name: Galewski, Marek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Using the direct method of the calculus of variations we investigate the existence, uniqueness and continuous dependence on parameters for solutions of second order discrete anisotropic equations with Dirichlet boundary conditions.
description: paper is accepted by Journal of Difference Equations and Applications, no. GDEA-2012-0047
INVESTITSIYA FAOLIYATININING DAVLAT TOMONIDAN HUQUQIY TARTIBGA SOLINISHI
Creators: name: Inatov, Sherzod
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Ushbu tezisda O`zbekiston Respublikasida investitsiya faoliyatini davlat tomonidan tartibga solish har tomonlama tahlil qilingan va misol sifatida keltirib o`tilgan mamlakatlarning me'yoriy-huquqiy bazalari bilan taqqoslanadi. Tadqiqot investitsiyalarni rag`batlantirish tashabbuslari, investorlarni himoya qilish choralari va xorijiy investitsiyalar qoidalarini o`rganadi. O`zbekiston va boshqa mamlakatlar tomonidan qo'llanilayotgan yondashuvlarni o'rganish orqali ushbu maqola normativ-huquqiy bazaning asosiy jihatlarini aniqlash va investitsiya faoliyatini davlat tomonidan tartibga solishning ilg'or tajribalarini yoritishga qaratilgan. Investitsiyalarni davlat tomonidan tartibga solishning milliy iqtisodiyotga ta'siri ko'rib chiqiladi. Investitsiyalarning huquqiy asoslariga alohida e'tibor qaratilmoqda. Davlatning investitsiyalarga aralashuvi vositalari, shuningdek, ichki va tashqi xarajatlarni talab qiluvchi yondashuvlar aniqlangan.
Parametric solution of certain nonlinear differential equations in cosmology
Creators: name: D'Ambroise, Jennie
name: Williams, Floyd L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 33E05, 83C20, 83F05

description: We obtain in terms of the Weierstrass elliptic $\wp-$function, sigma function, and zeta function an explicit parametrized solution of a particular nonlinear, ordinary differential equation. This equation includes, in special cases, equations that occur in the study of both homogeneous and inhomogeneous cosmological models, and also in the dynamic Bose-Einstein condensates - cosmology correspondence, for example.
Influence of Nutrients on Developmental Programming of Glucose and Lipid Metabolism in a Wistar Rat Model
Creators: name: Hallam, Megan Carroll
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Molecular
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Nutrition
subject: Prebiotic Fiber
subject: developmental programming
subject: Gut Microbiota
subject: satiety hormones
subject: protein diet

description: Objectives: To determine the effects of pre-natal diets high in protein or prebiotic fiber on offspring health in adulthood and to examine the potential for postnatal prebiotic fiber to mitigate the metabolic malprogramming associated with maternal protein restriction during pregnancy. Methods: Three main studies were performed. Maternal diets high in prebiotic fiber (21.6%; HF) or protein (40%, HP) were compared with control. Gut microbiota and milk were analyzed in the dams along with adult offspring body composition, plasma satiety hormones and gut microbiota after a high fat/sucrose (HFS) dietary challenge. Re-matching to maternal diet after the HFS challenge was examined in the second study. The HF diet was further examined as a weaning diet in offspring malprogrammed due to gestational protein restriction (PR) in the third study. Results: Two oligosaccharides were increased in maternal milk of HP and HF dams. HF dams also had increased levels of bifidobacteria compared to HP and C. In the offspring, HF diets decreased body weight and adiposity, and increased plasma PYY and the abundance of bifidobacteria in the gut across all studies. The HP diet increased offspring body weight and adiposity, but decreased HOMA-IR scores. Liver triglycerides were also increased, which in the second study was accompanied by upregulation of hepatic lipogenic genes (SREBP1c, ACC, FAS). In the first two studies HF decreased plasma lipopolysaccharide, a measure of metabolic endotoxemia. Re-matching to maternal diet blunted the typical response to the HF and HP diets with increased fasting glucose, energy intake and decreased bone mineral density seen in re-matched versus naïve offspring. In the final study with malprogrammed offspring, HF improved HOMA-IR scores in male offspring but also increased markers of intestinal permeability in female PR offspring. Conclusions: A maternal diet high in prebiotic fiber prevented excessive weight and adiposity gain in adult offspring during an HFS dietary challenge. While improving HOMA-IR scores, the HP diet lead to increased adiposity and increased hepatic lipogenesis. A weaning diet high in prebiotic fiber has beneficial effects on body weight and adiposity, plasma satiety hormones, glycemia and gut microbiota in malprogrammed offspring.
title: Vernichtungskrieg und Provenienzforschung. Der nationalsozialistische Kulturgutraub in Osteuropa
Creators: name: Kreft, Anika
Publisher: name: ZZF - Centre for Contemporary History: Visual History
Year: 2020

description: Mit dem deutschen Überfall auf Polen 1939 begann ein rassistischer Vernichtungskrieg in Osteuropa, der den Tod von Millionen von Zivilisten einkalkulierte. Der Eroberungsfeldzug wurde begleitet von einem systematischen Kunst- und Kulturgutraub durch die deutschen Einheiten in den eingenommenen Gebieten.
Memory-assisted exciton diffusion in the chlorosome light-harvesting antenna of green sulfur bacteria
Creators: name: Fujita, Takatoshi
name: Brookes, Jennifer C.
name: Saikin, Semion K.
name: Aspuru-Guzik, Alan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Subcellular Processes (q-bio.SC)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Chlorosomes are likely the largest and most efficient natural light-harvesting photosynthetic antenna systems. They are composed of large numbers of bacteriochlorophylls organized into supramolecular aggregates. We explore the microscopic origin of the fast excitation energy transfer in the chlorosome using the recently-resolved structure and atomistic-detail simulations. Despite the dynamical disorder effects on the electronic transitions of the bacteriochlorophylls, our simulations show that the exciton delocalizes over the entire aggregate in about 200 fs. The memory effects associated to the dynamical disorder assist the exciton diffusion through the aggregates and enhance the diffusion coefficients as a factor of two as compared to the model without memory. Furthermore, exciton diffusion in the chlorosome is found to be highly anisotropic with the preferential transfer towards the baseplate, which is the next functional element in the photosynthetic system.
description: 16 pages, 4 figures
Mathematical Modeling of Steam-Solvent Gravity Drainage of Heavy Oil and Bitumen in Porous Media
Creators: name: Rabiei Faradonbeh, Moosa
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Petroleum
subject: SAGD
subject: ES-SAGD
subject: Convective Mixing
subject: Heavy Oil and Bitumen

description: With increasing world demand for energy, more attention has been given to the exploitation of the huge resources present in the form of heavy oil and bitumen. Co-injection of solvent with steam has shown to be promising in enhancing oil rates as well as in reduction of energy and water consumption with lower environmental impacts. Commercial numerical simulators are very time consuming to model and optimize the hybrid thermal-solvent oil recovery process. Semi-analytical models may be used to estimate production rates and thermal efficiency of the process in much less time compared to the numerical reservoir simulators. This dissertation is composed of three parts, including convective mixing, gravity drainage of heavy oil and bitumen, and energy balance, all for the steam-solvent recovery process. A linear stability analysis is presented for double-diffusive convection in a horizontal and homogenous porous medium saturated with bitumen exposed to high temperature and solvent concentration. A new and more general criterion is obtained for occurrence of natural convection, considering variation of fluid viscosity and density with temperature and solvent concentration. Results show that the onset of convection is delayed for a fluid with variable viscosity. For the second part, steady-state and unsteady-state semi-analytical models are developed to predict the oil flow rate in steam-solvent assisted recovery process. Butler’s model for SAGD is modified to account for the effect of solvent co-injected with steam, considering the transverse dispersion and concentration-dependent molecular diffusion. Both models are validated against CMG-STARS™ thermal simulator. The oil rate predictions with selected solvents are in agreement with reported experimental data. In third part, equations are derived for energy consumption of the steam-solvent process for evaluation of thermal efficiency and SOR for each model. The results from this dissertation will help to select a proper solvent for a given reservoir and bitumen properties, in terms of the oil production rate and energy efficiency. The proposed model may be used to find the optimal operation parameters, leading to an efficient design of a steam-solvent recovery process that utilizes less water and reduces the amount of energy and gas emissions per barrel of oil produced.
Das zivilgesellschaftliche Engagement der Polen. Historie und Gegenwart
Creators: name: Makowski, Grzegorz
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Die zivilgesellschaftliche Aktivität der Polen ist nicht herausragend groß, aber sie auch nicht so gering, wie es auf den ersten Blick scheint. Der historische Rückblick und die Betrachtung verschiedener Formen zivil-gesellschaftlichen Handelns in der Gegenwart (formalisierte Aktivität in zivilgesellschaftlichen Organisa-tionen, Wahlen, informelles Engagement) zeigen, dass die Polen keineswegs passiv sind und eine lange, auf die Gesellschaft orientierte Tradition haben. Im Vergleich zu den westeuropäischen Gesellschaften und ins-besondere Deutschland bleibt die zivilgesellschaftliche Aktivität der Polen allerdings immer noch zurück.
Magnetic and structural characterization of nanosized BaCo_xZn_{2-x}Fe_{16}O_{27} hexaferrite in the vicinity of spin reorientation transition
Creators: name: Pasko, Alexander
name: Mazaleyrat, Frédéric
name: Bue, Martino Lo
name: Loyau, Vincent
name: Basso, Vittorio
name: Küpferling, Michaela
name: Sasso, Carlo
name: Bessais, Lotfi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Numerous applications of hexagonal ferrites are related to their easy axis or easy plane magnetocrystalline anisotropy configurations. Certain W-type ferrites undergo spin reorientation transitions (SRT) between different anisotropy states on magnetic field or temperature variation. The transition point can be tuned by modifying the chemical composition, which suggests a potential application of hexaferrites in room temperature magnetic refrigeration. Here we present the results of structural and magnetic characterization of BaCo_xZn_{2-x}Fe_{16}O_{27} (0.7 \leq x \leq 2) doped barium ferrites. Fine powders were prepared using a sol-gel citrate precursor method. Crystal structures and particle size distributions were examined by X-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy. The optimal synthesis temperature ensuring complete formation of single W-phase with limited grain growth has been determined. Spin reorientation transitions were revealed by thermomagnetic analysis and AC susceptibility measurements.
The Neuroanatomical Correlates of Impaired Position Sense After Stroke
Creators: name: Findlater, Sonja
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Stroke
subject: Proprioception
subject: Lesion Mapping
subject: Robotic Assessment

description: Proprioception describes our sense of self-position and movement without vision. It plays a key role in the production and control of movement. Affected in 50% of stroke patients, impairment in proprioception is correlated with poor motor recovery, functional outcomes, and extended hospitalization. Proprioception-targeted rehabilitation is lacking. To contribute to improved understanding of the anatomical regions underlying proprioception, this study aimed to identify brain areas responsible for impaired position sense post-stroke. Voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping compared lesion location and performance on quantitative robotic position sense assessment. This and region of interest analyses revealed that the hypothesized areas: the thalamus; posterior limb of the internal capsule; postcentral gyrus; posterior parietal association area were associated with poor position sense in addition to non-hypothesized areas: insula; lingual, inferior frontal, superior temporal, and middle temporal gyri. Position sense appears to be a multi-dimensional construct, processed via a distributed network of brain regions.
"I am not the fine man you take me for" : the postmortem western from Unforgiven to No Country for Old Men
Creators: name: Strang, Brent
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The Postmortem Western is so named because, after having been buried for 15 years, the genre reappears with a pronounced self-awareness of its atrophied conventions and ideologies. As Jim Kitses and Alexandra Keller observe, today’s Western is almost entirely revisionist. Chapter One delineates two broad revisionist cycles: those Westerns that re-imagine marginalized histories and those that deconstruct the genre’s problematic influence on subject formation. This thesis is concerned with the latter, which may be likened to a postmortem examination of the Classical Western that reveals a systemic cause of death rooted in the Frontier Myth. While Richard Slotkin researches how the Frontier Myth has become symbolically encoded within American ideology, he does not attend to how it has also functioned as a prescription for masculine subject formation. Building from Michael Kimmel and Stephen Whitehead sociologies of masculinity, I elaborate how the Myth’s perpetual retelling through the Western has worked to justify compulsive masculinities, incite disjunctive gender relations, and foster an illusory lone-hero mythology of mastery and wholeness. Chapter Two is a literature and theory review that contextualizes the Postmortem Western within the genre’s history of adapting to cultural and ideological change. It also establishes an historical, profeminist methodology to substantiate the connection between an ancestral pattern of frontier masculinity and a perceived contemporary crisis in masculinity. Chapter Three establishes the cycle’s foundation insofar as Unforgiven, The Proposition, and The Claim depict masculinities constrained in rigid gender scripts and dysfunctional behaviours. These same themes thread through Chapter Four’s analysis of HBO’s Deadwood, whose epic scale is able to go much further by formulating a new mythic-historical script to cope with neoliberalism. Lastly, Chapter Five presents The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, Down in the Valley, and No Country for Old Men as a subset that deploy Western elements in a modern day setting in order to express another intricacy of this cultural condition. Their narratives and formal designs portray our moment of historical rupture with a palpable sense of loss, when culture feels increasingly disconnected from the meaning and national cohesion once glimpsed in the past.
Mössbauer spectroscopy study of the magnetostructural and spin-state transitions in the breathing pyrochlore LiFeCr$_{4}$O$_{8}$
Creators: name: Zhang, Bo
name: Ren, Wei
name: Yang, Shengyu
name: Kuang, Qifeng
name: Li, Da
name: Liu, Xin
name: Zhang, Anmin
name: Pang, Hua
name: Tang, Liyun
name: Qiao, Liang
name: Li, Fashen
name: Li, Zhiwei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on investigations of the complex magnetostructural and spin-state transitions in the breathing pyrochlore LiFeCr$_{4}$O$_{8}$ by means of magnetization, Mössbauer spectroscopy, and density functional theory (DFT) calculations. Three transitions corresponding to the ferrimagnetic transition at $T_N\sim94$ K, the spin-gap transition at $T_{SG}\sim50$ K, and the magnetostructural transition at $T_{MS}\sim19$ K were observed from the $χ$(T) curve, whereas only $T_N$ and $T_{MS}$ were evidenced for the Fe site from our Mössbauer measurements, suggesting that the spin-gap transition is absent at the Fe site. This indicates that the spin-gap transition is an effect of the breathing Cr$_4$ lattice, in agreement with our DFT calculations from which we see nearly decoupled electronic states for the FeO$_4$ and CrO$_6$ units. From the temperature dependence of the hyperfine magnetic field we also observed a spin-state transition for the Fe spins at $T_{MS}$ consistent with earlier neutron diffraction measurements. These local characteristics are believed to be important for a complete understanding of the complex magnetostructural coupling effects observed in similar systems.
description: 9 pages, 8 figures
Comparative study of CH+ and SH+ absorption lines observed towards distant star-forming regions
Creators: name: Godard, Benjamin
name: Falgarone, E.
name: Gerin, M.
name: Lis, D. C.
name: De Luca, M.
name: Black, J. H.
name: Goicoechea, J. R.
name: Cernicharo, J.
name: Neufeld, D. A.
name: Menten, K. M.
name: Emprechtinger, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Aims. The HIFI instrument onboard Herschel has allowed high spectral resolution and sensitive observations of ground-state transi- tions of three molecular ions: the methylidyne cation CH+, its isotopologue 13CH+, and sulfanylium SH+. Because of their unique chemical properties, a comparative analysis of these cations provides essential clues to the link between the chemistry and dynamics of the diffuse interstellar medium. Methods. The CH+, 13CH+, and SH+ lines are observed in absorption towards the distant high-mass star-forming regions (SFRs) DR21(OH), G34.3+0.1, W31C, W33A, W49N, and W51, and towards two sources close to the Galactic centre, SgrB2(N) and SgrA*+50. All sight lines sample the diffuse interstellar matter along pathlengths of several kiloparsecs across the Galactic Plane. In order to compare the velocity structure of each species, the observed line profiles were deconvolved from the hyperfine structure of the SH+ transition and the CH+, 13CH+, and SH+ spectra were independently decomposed into Gaussian velocity components. To analyse the chemical composition of the foreground gas, all spectra were divided, in a second step, into velocity intervals over which the CH+, 13CH+, and SH+ column densities and abundances were derived. Results. SH+ is detected along all observed lines of sight, with a velocity structure close to that of CH+ and 13CH+. The linewidth distributions of the CH+, SH+, and 13CH+ Gaussian components are found to be similar. These distributions have the same mean ( ~ 4.2 km s-1) and standard deviation (σ(δ\u{psion}) ~ 1.5 km s-1). This mean value is also close to that of the linewidth distribution of the CH+ visible transitions detected in the solar neighbourhood. We show that the lack of absorption components narrower than 2 km s-1 is not an artefact caused by noise: the CH+, 13CH+, and SH+ line profiles are therefore statistically broader than those of most species detected in absorption in diffuse interstellar gas (e. g. HCO+, CH, or CN). The SH+/CH+ column density ratio observed in the components located away from the Galactic centre spans two orders of magnitude and correlates with the CH+ abundance. Conversely, the ratio observed in the components close to the Galactic centre varies over less than one order of magnitude with no apparent correlation with the CH+ abundance. The observed dynamical and chemical properties of SH+ and CH+ are proposed to trace the ubiquitous process of turbulent dissipation, in shocks or shears, in the diffuse ISM and the specific environment of the Galactic centre regions.
Influence of environment, feeding, and dive activity on the use of heart rate to predict oxygen consumption in resting and diving Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus)
Creators: name: Young, Beth Lyn
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Despite its essential role in bioenergetic modeling, reliable measures of energy expenditure (i.e., oxygen consumption) associated with the different activities of wild animals have remained elusive. Oxygen consumption rate (VO₂) associated with activity can be estimated as a function of heart rate (fh), and the empirical relationship between the two has been determined for several aquatic vertebrates while fasting and resting. However, the simplified fh:VO₂ relationships established from such studies may differ under more complex physiological circumstances, such as when animals are foraging at depth or feeding on prey. I assessed the efficacy of using fh to predict VO₂ in 7 captive Steller sea lions, Eumetopias jubatus, while fasting and feeding at rest (on land or in water) and while diving (up to 40 m in the open ocean). Linear mixed-effects models revealed that environment, amount of food fed, and type of diving activity all altered the fh:VO₂ relationship. They also showed that different linear equations are needed to predict VO₂ from fh for sea lions fasted while on land or in water, but that a single equation can predict VO₂ on land regardless of whether fasted or feeding. When in water, feeding animals a 4, 6, or 12 kg meal changed the fh:VO₂ relationship compared to fasted animals. While fh can reliably be used to predict VO₂ in diving sea lions, the relationship differed between single dive cycles (one dive +surface interval) and dive bout cycles (multiple dives+surface intervals). However, the equation that predicted VO₂ for single dive cycles did not differ from that for sea lions resting on the surface. Neither dive duration, dive depth, nor food consumed significantly affected the fh:VO₂ relationships. Heart rate could be used to predict VO₂ in diving sea lions, but only over complete dive cycles or dive bouts where animals recovered fully from the O₂ debt incurred underwater. Based on these results, separate equations that distinguish among environmental, digestive, and diving states can be employed to accurately predict VO₂ from heart rate in wild Steller sea lions.
O'ZBEKISTONNING JAHON SAVDO TASHKILOTIGA A'ZO BO'LISH ISTIQBOLIDA KAMSITMASLIK TAMOYILINING TA'SIRI
Creators: name: Mamirov, Jamshid
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Ushbu maqolada jahon savsdo tashkilotiga a'zolik O'zbekiston iqtisodiyotiga ta'siri va kamsitmaslik tamoyilini amalda qo'llash xususiyatari haqida yozilgan.
Comment: Numerical calculation of thermal noise-voltage in a Josephson junction of finite capacitance
Creators: name: Ambegaokar, Vinay
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The autocorrelation function of the Langevin force in the model introduced in the cited paper is calculated and verified to be correct.
description: 2 pages, to appear in Annalen der Physik; dedicated to Ulrich Eckern on the occasion of his 60th birthday
Amoebas of complex hypersurfaces in statistical thermodynamics
Creators: name: Passare, Mikael
name: Pochekutov, Dmitry
name: Tsikh, August
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The amoeba of a complex hypersurface is its image under a logarithmic projection. A number of properties of algebraic hypersurface amoebas are carried over to the case of transcendental hypersurfaces. We demonstrate the potential that amoebas can bring into statistical physics by considering the problem of energy distribution in a quantum thermodynamic ensemble. The spectrum ${ε_k}\subset \mathbb{Z}^n$ of the ensemble is assumed to be multidimensional; this leads us to the notions of a multidimensional temperature and a vector of differential thermodynamic forms. Strictly speaking, in the paper we develop the multidimensional Darwin and Fowler method and give the description of the domain of admissible average values of energy for which the thermodynamic limit exists.
description: 18 pages, 5 figures
Essays on Applied Econometrics
Creators: name: Chang, Dongfeng
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: General
subject: Econometrics
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Energy Economics
subject: Monetary Economics

description: This dissertation consists of three essays on applied econometrics. An abstract for each of the three essays follows. Essay 1 (Chapter 1) investigates the demand for gasoline in Canada using annual household survey data from 1997 to 2009 and three of the widely used flexible functional forms. I find that the demand for gasoline is inelastic in Canada. Given that none of the studies in the existing literature checks if their estimates are consistent with economic theory, this essay addresses the importance of the theoretical consistency in the empirical work of demand analysis and is the first study in the literature that provides the elasticity estimates for the demand for gasoline that is consistent with the theory. Essay 2 (Chapter 2) examines the effect of oil price uncertainty on gasoline prices and investigates the relationship between gasoline and crude oil prices. The empirical model is based on a structural vector autoregression model that is modified to accommodate multivariate GARCH-in-Mean errors. I use monthly data for the United States from January 1976 to January 2013. I find that oil price uncertainty has positive effects on gasoline price changes and that there is an asymmetric relationship between crude oil and gasoline prices. My results are robust to alternative measures of oil prices and alternative model specifications. Essay 3 (Chapter 3) investigates the demand for money and the degree of substitutability among monetary assets in the United States from 1967 to 2013 using four commonly used flexible functional forms, on three monetary subaggregates: M1, savings deposits, and time deposits. As in Essay 1, I pay explicit attention to economic regularity in order to produce inference consistent with neoclassical microeconomic theory. Moreover, I incorporate financial econometrics in the empirical flexible functional forms approach to money demand analysis by using a BEKK GARCH(1,1) specification to model the covariance matrix of the errors in the demand equations. I find significant evidence of ARCH effects in the estimations under the homoscedasticity assumption and that the demand for money is inelastic and that the three monetary assets taken as a whole are Morishima substitutes.
HOOP D5.3 Circular Evaluation Framework Guidance Report
Creators: name: Ramos Silva, David
name: Rodrigues de Almeida, Jorge
name: Vaz, Leandro
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: investment
circular economy
biowaste

description: The HOOP Project Maturity Level (PML) is a standardized assessment, questionnaire, and ranking of six levels tool designed to gauge the maturity level of projects. It assigns a grade to each project based on several criteria, with the goal of enhancing their maturity and attractiveness for securing green financing and funding for implementation.
The primary objective of the HOOP PML approach is to assist project developers, promoters, and investors in identifying which projects within their portfolio are investment-ready and which ones require further development. Simultaneously, this tool facilitates matchmaking between project developers/promoters and investors, aiding in the assessment and enhancement of the maturity and bankability of Urban Circular Bioeconomy (UCBE) projects.
The HOOP PML approach provides a structured means of assessing and ranking UCBE projects while also acting as a bridge between project developers and investors. By promoting clear, transparent, and consistent evaluations, it facilitates greater access to green financing within the circular bioeconomy sector.
The HOOP PML matrices and respective calculator were developed with the purpose of measuring how well UCBE projects align with the criteria associated with each maturity level. This ranking system encompasses six distinct maturity levels, each defined by its own set of specific criteria. Additionally, it aids in the identification of the underlying rationale and supporting evidence for these assessments.
The HOOP PML calculator is integrated as an interactive feature within the HOOP Hub platform, specifically in the "Evaluate" section. Here, users can access various evaluation tools developed within the HOOP project. These tools include the HOOP Bio-Circularity Label, which rates the current performance of a city/region regarding the circular bioeconomy, and the Circular Valuation Method, used to determine the financial viability of circular projects.
Modelling riparian recruitment dynamics: dispersal and germination of riparian tree seeds
Creators: name: Cunnings, Adrienne
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Hydrology
subject: Physical Geography
subject: Riparian
subject: Dispersal
subject: Germination

description: This study investigates the physical processes that control riparian tree seed dispersal and germination within a Mediterranean climate. During the dispersal stage, riparian species are described by advective-dispersion flow to transport seeds while transient storage processes deposit seeds along the bank margin. Seeds remain dormant until appropriate environmental conditions initiate germination. The research is based on a two-part study that presents a one-dimensional, numerical dispersal model and a hydrothermal time germination model coupled with historic flow conditions. The models were applied to the white alder (Alnus rhombifolia) seed population in Northern California, USA. The dispersal model highlights the importance of geomorphological features and flow structures to transport and preferentially deposit seeds. The germination model determines the average time to germinate during the dispersal period while stage height conditions provide insights into the initial recruitment stages of a species community structure.
Generalized Left-Localized Cayley Parametrization for Optimization with Orthogonality Constraints
Creators: name: Kume, Kieta
name: Yamada, Isao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We present a reformulation of optimization problems over the Stiefel manifold by using a Cayley-type transform, named the generalized left-localized Cayley transform, for the Stiefel manifold. The reformulated optimization problem is defined over a vector space, whereby we can apply directly powerful computational arts designed for optimization over a vector space. The proposed Cayley-type transform enjoys several key properties which are useful to (i) study relations between the original problem and the proposed problem; (ii) check the conditions to guarantee the global convergence of optimization algorithms. Numerical experiments demonstrate that the proposed algorithm outperforms the standard algorithms designed with a retraction on the Stiefel manifold.
description: 44 pages
Zeros of the W_L Z_L -> W_L Z_L amplitude: where vector resonances stand
Creators: name: Filipuzzi, Alberto
name: Portoles, Jorge
name: Ruiz-Femenia, Pedro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A Higgsless electroweak theory may be populated by spin-1 resonances around E ~ 1TeV as a consequence of a new strong interacting sector, frequently proposed as a tool to smear the high-energy behaviour of scattering amplitudes, for instance, elastic gauge boson scattering. Information on those resonances, if they exist, must be contained in the low-energy couplings of the electroweak chiral effective theory. Using the facts that: i) the scattering of longitudinal gauge bosons, W_L, Z_L, can be well described in the high-energy region E >> M_W by the scattering of the corresponding Goldstone bosons (equivalence theorem) and ii) the zeros of the scattering amplitude carry the information on the heavier spectrum that has been integrated out; we employ the O(p^4) electroweak chiral Lagrangian to identify the parameter space region of the low-energy couplings where vector resonances may arise. An estimate of their masses is also provided by our method.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures
Melodies of Hawaiʻi: The Relationship Between Hawaiʻi Creole English and ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi Prosody
Creators: name: Murphy, Kelly
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: Phonology
subject: Creole
subject: Intonation

description: This dissertation offers a comparative study of speech melodies of Hawaiian and Hawaiʻi Creole English (HCE), two languages spoken in the Hawaiian Islands. HCE, which is an English lexified creole, developed from many languages such as Chinese, Portuguese, and Hawaiian. This research proposes that Hawaiian intonation patterns remained even after relexification from a Hawaiian based pidgin to an English lexified creole. This comparative study of speech melodies of Hawaiian and HCE provides documentation of falling yes/no question intonation found in both languages, as well as for other utterance types, i.e. statements, wh-questions, and listing/continuation. Patterns emerged from the major utterance types revealing insights into creole genesis from substrate influence, and language universals and variation. Of the utterance types examined, the most striking example is that of falling yes/no question intonation, present in both languages. This type of falling intonation is quite rare amongst the world’s languages, which strengthens the hypothesis I claim, that HCE received intonation patterns from Hawaiian. These findings also have implications for creole genesis as well as for language typology research for question intonation as well as universals and sociolinguistics. With regard to creole genesis, the evidence provided supporting Hawaiian as a contributing language strengthens substrate arguments and weakens a universalist view, specifically that of the Language Bioprogram Hypothesis (LBH). Also, the results show a typology of question intonation that makes use of a more latitudinal categorical distinction rather than the commonly used right-edge question intonation, which changes the perspective on language universals and variation, as well as biological codes. This dissertation also addresses language identity and how these two languages interact in the same linguistic landscape in Hawaiʻi . While providing a much-needed inventory of intonation for all utterance types in Hawaiian and HCE, this research project also addresses broader questions and linguistic topics such as creole genesis, language typology, universals, and sociolinguistics.