cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Anomaly detection using logs and metrics analysis for system application operations
Creators: name: Farshchi, Mostafa
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Anomaly detection is the identification of events or observations that do not conform to an expected behaviour of a system. The lack of detecting anomalous items could translate to some kind of problems such as system failure, network intrusion, frauds, etc. This thesis addressed some of the challenges in this domain by proposing a set of mechanisms to perform a cross-layer anomaly detection using correlation analysis of systems’ logs and metrics. The result of investigating with two complex case studies demonstrate that the proposed techniques were able to detect emulated anomalies with high accuracy.
The Stigmaphile and Stigmaphobe: How Queer TikTok Exists in Refusal of Dichotomies
Creators: name: Osiason, Eden Sarabeth
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2024
Subjects: TikTok
LGBTQ Studies
Multimedia or Interactive Communications Technology

description: As social media gains popularity among younger generations, previously conceived boundaries of the internet are being continuously challenged. When considering the newest social media platform TikTok, its unique algorithm allows for the creation of communities and subcultures; in this case, I am studying the queer community. This paper argues that TikTok has formed an online space of queerness where it rejects the dichotomies of the stigmaphile/stigmaphobe, the overt/covert, and the public/private. This online space embraces the different categorizations within the queer community rather than algorithmically encouraging people to fraction further by fostering conflict and segregation.
Biodiesel: A green polymerization solvent
Creators: name: Salehpour, Somaieh
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Chemical.

description: A number of polymer products are traditionally made using a solution polymerization technique. However, with increased environmental awareness and thus, concerns over the volatile organic content (VOC) associated with various polymer processes, there is an ongoing effort to find alternatives to traditional solvents. In an effort to use cleaner technologies, fatty acid methyl ester (FAME) was used for the first time as a polymerization solvent. Biodiesel or FAME has garnered much attention in recent years as an alternative to diesel fuel. It is environmentally benign and has a low volatility. Because biodiesel is a high boiling solvent, its use can increase productivity by enabling polymerizations at elevated temperatures. This would result in faster reaction rates and thus, shorter reaction times. In the first part of this study, solution polymerizations of four commercially important monomers (i.e., methyl methacrylate (MMA), styrene, butyl acrylate (BA) and vinyl acetate (VAc)) were studied at 60°C using FAME produced from canola oil as a solvent. Reactions were carried out at different solvent concentrations to verify the effect of the FAME on the polymerizations. Chain transfer to solvent rate parameters were obtained using the Mayo method. In addition, the effect of solvent on solution polymerizations of each monomer was investigated. This was suspected to contribute to a change in the lumped kinetic parameter (kp/kt1/2). The collected kinetic experimental data were modeled using a polymerization simulator. In the second part of this thesis, canola-based FAME was used as a high boiling solvent in the solution polymerization of the aforementioned monomers at 120°C. Chain transfer to solvent rate constants were calculated and were employed in a polymerization simulator to predict the polymerization rates and the cumulative average molecular weights of the polymer product. As in the study at 60°C, changes in the lumped kinetic parameter with solvent concentration were incorporated into the free radical polymerization simulator; these changes considerably improved the model predictions. In the third part of the thesis, the effect of FAME produced from different oil feedstocks on polymerization kinetics was investigated for styrene homopolymerizations at 60°C. Soybean oil, and 50% yellow grease-50% canola oil were the feedstocks employed in this study. Experimental results were compared to the runs using canola-based FAME at 60°C. Chain transfer to solvent constants were estimated for each solvent using the Mayo method and no significant difference between the values obtained from polymerization in different FAME was found. On the other hand, dissimilar effects on the rate of polymerization were observed. These were shown to relate to the degree of unsaturation of each FAME type. Model predictions of reaction rates and molecular weights for the investigated systems are also presented.
EXPLORING THERMOTHERAPY SPRAY APPLICATIONS FOR PEAR PSYLLA (CACOPSYLLA PYRI) SUPPRESSION
Creators: name: Schrader, Mark Jacob
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2026
Subjects: Entomology

description: Addition of thermotherapy to spray applications of a plant-based horticultural oils has been reported to increase their pesticidal efficacy. This dissertation aimed to critically evaluate the feasibility of horticultural oil thermotherapy (HOT) for suppression of winterform pear psylla. The first objective was focused on development and evaluation of a field-scale thermotherapy spray delivery system. The system was evaluated for spray patterns using a vertical patternator and then for coverage on matured pear trees. Spray coverage was acceptable (50–88%), but heat in the spray mix dissipated within 0.6 m from the nozzle. This motivated the second objective which focused on evaluating role of heat in HOT. A bioassay study was conducted with four different oil products, two heat conditions, and at two spray distances. Study results were in general agreement with previous research, i.e., heating oils increased biological efficacy, for two of the four tested oils at 0.3 m spray distance. At 0.6 m, the effect of heating the spray mixture, regardless of product, failed to significantly increase the psylla mortality. Thus, objective 3 efforts were undertaken to characterize the thermal and evaporative losses for thermotherapy sprays with six different disc-core hollow cone nozzles commonly used in tree fruit crop protection. The spray experienced significant thermal energy loss immediately after release from nozzle(s) which was likely a function of latent heat of vaporization. An empirical equation was developed to generalize the decay of the bulk spray temperature for the six tested nozzles. Future work needs to explore alternative methods of thermotherapy applications in orchard environments and an economic evaluation of such technologies.
Delineation of the structure-function relationships within the fourth intracellular loop of dopamine D1-like receptors
Creators: name: Zhang, Dongling
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Biology, Neuroscience.
subject: Biology, Cell.

description: The present study focuses the attention on a region of CT known to participate in the formation of a fourth intracellular loop (IL.4). The central objective of this study is to investigate the potential role of variant residues within IL4 region in regulating distinct D1-like functional properties. Results obtained from ligand binding and agonist-dependent G protein coupling studies using chimeric receptors reveal a crucial role of the N-terminal segment of IL4 (IL4N) in regulating receptor expression, ligand binding and dopamine (DA) potency of D1-like subtypes. Moreover, results show that the C-terminal segment of IL4 (IL4C) regulate the extent of IL4N-mediated effects on DA binding and potency mostly through interfering intramolecular interactions. Meanwhile, agonist-independent G protein coupling data suggest that the Dl-like subtype-specific agonistindependent activity relies exclusively on intramolecular interactions regulated by IL4N segment. Taken together, the present study underscores the important roles of IL4N and IL4C segments of D1-like receptors in regulating their distinct ligand binding and G protein coupling properties, a finding that may prove beneficial for the development of D1A/D1 and D1B/D5 subtype-specific ligands. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Multiscale Modeling Studies of Self-Assembling and Active Systems
Creators: name: Tsidilkovski, Lev
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Computer Simulation or Modeling
Molecular Biology

description: Molecular machinery is capable of many tasks using few components. Some systems assemble machinery to accelerate chemical reactions, while others assemble to provide scaffolding. Here we will examine several systems of machinery and their components to better understand what factors can be used to predict machine behavior. First, we describe dynamical simulations of the assembly of an icosahedral protein shell around a bicomponent fluid cargo. Our simulations are motivated by the goal of designing synthetic bacterial microcompartments - protein shells found in bacteria. These microcompartments assemble around a complex of enzymes and their reactants involved in certain metabolic processes. The simulations demonstrate that the relative interaction strengths among the different cargo species play a key role in determining the amount of each encapsulated species, their spatial organization, and the nature of the shell assembly pathways. However, the shell protein-protein and shell-cargo interactions that help drive assembly and encapsulation also influence cargo composition within certain parameter regimes. These behaviors are governed by combination of thermodynamic and kinetic effects. In addition to elucidating how natural microcompartments encapsulate multiple components involved within reaction cascades, these results have implications for synthetic biology efforts to colocalize alternative sets of molecules within microcompartments to accelerate reactions. More broadly, the results suggest that coupling between self-assembly and multicomponent liquid-liquid phase separation may play a role in organization of the cellular cytoplasm. Next, we examine simulations of microtubules with crosslinkers and motors. These simulations are based on microtubule filaments that span the cell acting as part of the cytoskeleton. The vimotors and crosslinkers provide rigidity and activity to the simulations, creating different resulting filament networks. We determined the relative quantities of components needed for targeted levels of activity and elasticity. These results aid active network research by furthering understanding of rational design of the network. Finally, we develop a framework of carboxysome hexamer multiscale simulations. Carboxysomes are a type of bacterial microcompartment whose shell is comprised of hexameric and pentameric subunits, used to accelerate the Calvin cycle. The simulations compare hexameric interactions at different scales helping to clarify both the all-atom interaction geometry and the effect that it has on a larger scale. Using these comparisons, large scale simulations of a rigid body approximation of a hexameric subunit will improve our understanding of the behavior of the assembling subunits.
Blind adaptive sensor-array processing techniques for extracting highly corrupted radio communication signals.
Creators: name: April, Eric.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: This thesis examines the techniques for blindly extracting highly corrupted radio communication signals with the use of sensor arrays. Initially, existing work is reviewed. The blind signal extraction techniques reviewed do not require known a priori training signals, signals direction of arrival, sensor array geometry or calibration. However they are found generally to be dependent upon some prior signal assumptions made as their basis for separating signals. A new blind adaptive filtering technique called the Self-Adapting sensor array MUlti-Signal blind Extractor, or S-AMUSE, is proposed by the author to provide a general truly blind adaptive filtering framework based on a multi-stage approach. The technique is described in detail and results are presented via Monte Carlo simulations. The performance results obtained are highly promising.
Characterizing the in vivo pathogenicity of Vps35-D620N in Drosophila
Creators: name: Narayanan, Krishna
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2024

description: The Retromer trafficking complex sorts endosomal cargo, driving recycling from the lysosomal degradation pathway. The D620N mutation in the core Retromer subunit, Vps35, is a cause of the late-onset, autosomal dominant form of Parkinson’s Disease. Using Drosophila to study the in vivo effects of the mutant protein, Vps35-D620N, we can better understand the role of Vps35 in neuronal growth and morphology and its role in Parkinson’s Disease. However, previously described Vps35-D620N phenotypes in Drosophila may be an artifact of the GAL4-UAS overexpression system that was used to introduce the mutant protein into the neurons of the animal. We generated flies with an endogenous knock-in of Vps35-D620N. Here, we perform lifespan, larval locomotion, and bouton counting assays to study the in vivo pathogenicity of the endogenous mutant. The endogenous Vps35-D620N flies show a slight lifespan phenotype and no dramatic reduction in larval locomotion, but the endogenous mutant protein leads to synaptic overgrowth at the NMJ akin to phenotypes observed in nwk null mutants and vps35 loss of function mutants. We conclude that future experiments should be directed towards determining if the synaptic overgrowth correlates with increased pMad levels and defective F-actin polymerization.
Intervention by Other Means: The U.S.,Cuba, and the Rockefeller Foundation International Health Division, 1929-1946
Creators: name: Rodriguez, Steven
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2017
Subjects: U.S.-Cuban Realtions
Rockefeller Foundation International Health Division
U.S. Foreign Relations
Public Health

description: This thesis explores the work of the Rockefeller Foundation International Health Division in Cuba from 1929-1946. During these critical years, U.S.-Cuban relations experienced dramatic changes. The Platt Amendment, which had granted the U.S. sweeping powers to intervene in Cuba to control disease and preserve independence, was abrogated in 1934 and a subsequent Cuban-American Treaty was signed that same year removing many of the Amendment’s most odious provisions. Set against the backdrop of this shifting diplomatic landscape, the Rockefeller Foundation became entangled in the bilateral relations of Cuba and the United States. It served as a way for the U.S. to maintain its control over the island without direct government intervention, as well as a way for the Cuban government to claim sovereignty by taking ownership over its public health program—a domain historically linked with direct U.S. intervention. Rejecting traditional interpretations that view the Rockefeller Foundation International Health Division as a mere handmaid of U.S. imperialism, this paper presents the complex role of the Rockefeller Foundation as a transnational agent caught between the U.S. desire to promote its policy of nonintervention following the start of Franklin Roosevelt’s Good Neighbor policy and the Cuban government’s desire to protect its own sovereignty through public health programs. In trying to satisfy its own institutional interests of offering cooperative assistance to foreign governments, as well as the politically-charged interests of the US and Cuban governments, the Rockefeller Foundation’s public health work in Cuba ultimately failed in 1941 with its final attempt to straddle both interests by proposing to launch a malaria control program at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base.
Tactile pattern recognition using neural networks.
Creators: name: Colven, David Michael.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: This thesis presents a system for the capture and recognition of tactile images using neural networks. Neural Networks utilizing the backpropagation technique are used to provide a general purpose recognition engine for several classes of pattern recognition problems. Examples of successful networks are presented with discussion of the results and methodology for development of each. The system consists of the following: Image capture, training of network using an iterative approach and testing of the network against independent images not present during training. Pattern capture is performed by scanning a force sensitive tactile sensor that interfaces to a general purpose computer. Following capture, examples of tactile patterns of desired types are stored in a training file and the training goal of the network set. The goal is determined by the "trainer" who when the patterns are captured indicates the pattern type. Related patterns are given the same class name. The Network is required to consist of as many output neurons as classification types. The goal is that an output neuron becomes "activated" when its pattern types are present and "de-activated" when another type is present. Patterns in the training file are then recursively applied to the inputs of the Neural Network. Once the Network converges to the desired goal it is tested against a new set of patterns to determine if the network has learned to apply generalization in its recognition of the patterns. The training set and network topology may be modified in heuristic fashion until satisfactory results are achieved.
A Golem on the Playground: A Survey of the Golem Figure in American Jewish Children's Literature
Creators: name: Horrocks, Mary
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2012
Subjects: golem
folklore
Jewish
Jewish identity
Children's Literature
Judaism

description: Jewish children's literature has become an important method for developing Jewish\r American identity in recent decades. A Jewish children's book, when carefully selected\r for the right child at the right moment, has the potential to equip the child to claim his or\r her own Jewishness and position within a larger community, rich with history and\r meaning. When the golem figure is at the helm of a children's book, I have found this potential can sway perilously on his broad shoulders.\r American Jewish children's literature has offered a plethora of diverse golem adaptations. Based on research into the world of children's literature and Jewish identity\r development, interviews with children's book authors and illustrators, and a survey of\r nearly forty American children's books and comic books, I have sorted representations of\r the golem figure into four distinct categories. These categories include: the religious\r champion golem (upheld within some highly observant American Jewish circles); the\r terrifying golem (an historic European-Jewish ghost story); the universal superhero\r golem (presented in some American comic books); and the happy helpmate golem\r (shown in some children's picture books). These categories are characterized not simply\r by the textual and aesthetic representation of the golem character in a particular book, but\r also by the overall book's potential impact on a young American Jewish readership.\r Within some religious denominations or communities, one category of golem may be\r popularized for strategic reasons while in another community that same golem figure is\r eschewed for one more suited to its constituency. The golem is a powerful figure, and a\r golem story can have complex ramifications depending on the age, identity, and\r parentage of the reader in today's diverse and nuanced American Jewish community. I\r argue that though all golem children's books may have their place in a household's\r library, some titles do more harm than good in cultivating a young American reader's\r Jewish identity.
Cultural Resource Management (ANTH 535) Community Engagement Assignment
Creators: name: Tushingham, Shannon
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2021
Subjects: public archaeology
Archaeology

description: This sample course assignment was developed by Dr. Shannon Tushingham for her graduate seminar in Cultural Resource Management (ANTH 535). This is one of several graded assignments that are explicitly incorporated to develop graduate student mastery in public archaeology education and dissemination skills by exposing them to creative public communication projects, activities, and discussions. This particular project is given early in the course, and tasks students with defining project-specific communities and publics. This and later course assignments are designed to promote extensive group discussion and reflection about research engagement, ethics, and practices. This assignment is cited in the paper, Public Archaeology Education “Of the People, For the People, By the People”: Democratized Science Communication in Theory and Practice”, 2021 paper in press by Shannon Tushingham and Tiffany Fulkerson, in a special issue of the Journal of Northwest Anthropology entitled Do We Reach More? Essays on Sharing Cultural and Archaeological Research.
Optimal Patent Lengths in Polluting Industries
Creators: name: Choi, Pak-Sing
name: Diaz-Farina, Eugenio
name: Espinola-Arredondo, Ana
name: Munoz-Garcia, Felix
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Patent length, emission fees
polluting industries
environmental regulation
environmental damages
green innovation

description: This paper examines the setting of optimal patent length in polluting industries. We find that in the absence of environmental regulation, the patent office offers longer patents when the industry is polluting than otherwise helping mitigate pollution. In the presence of environmental regulation, however, the patent office sets shorter (longer) patents than otherwise if it assigns similar (different) weights on pollution than the environmental agency does. In each setting, we evaluate the patent inefficiency that arises from the patent office ignoring the environmental damages from pollution and/or environmental regulation. Finally, we extend our model to other contexts, allowing for green innovations, a Pigouvian environmental agency, and inflexible regulations, analyzing how optimal patents are affected.
Rights, Revolution, and Nationhood: Israeli Supreme Court Cases After the Basic Law of Human Dignity
Creators: name: Theisen, Maham
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2025
Subjects: Constitutionalism
Human Rights
Land
Religion
Family
Nationalism
Middle Eastern studies

description: This dissertation explores the constitutional legal history of Israel from 1992 to 2013, following the passage of its Basic Law of Human Dignity and Liberty. This modern Jewish nation-state operates under a set of Basic Laws, as opposed to a written constitution, which collectively lays out the contours of state institutions. The vast gap between a Basic Law and a written Constitution, however, has created interpretive uncertainty with far-reaching implications for state institutional boundaries, the equality of rights, and the role of nationalism in the courtroom. By looking at Supreme Court cases in Israel from the 1990s and the early 2000s, I draw on the specific instances where the boundaries of individual claims to basic right are challenged and redefined. Land, family, and religion—watchwords of nationalism in the 20th century as much as in the 21st—became subject to the most contentious and contested claims in this legal tug of war and are the focus of my main chapters. The final chapter brings together the themes of land, family, and religion as inflecting cases regarding the use of cemeteries. This framework provides an overlay to the otherwise disparate legal, ideological, and emotional nuances of the main themes. Engaging various theories of nationalism and jurisprudence, the study shows how the Basic Law of Human Dignity is interpreted as constitutional and human rights law. The Basic Law of Human Dignity disrupted the balance of power in favor of individual rights, but fell short of being the constitutional revolution imputed to it by both admirers and critics. Human dignity, the substantive core of this Basic Law, emerged as a bold legal tool that was nonetheless circumscribed by the evolving national component of Israel’s legal heritage.
Entanglement Entropy in QFT and Bias-correction of Daily Temperatures
Creators: name: Hampapura, Harsha Ramesh
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2025
Subjects: Bias Correction
Daily Maximum Temperature
Entanglement Entropy
Renyi Entropy
Quantum Field Theory

description: This dissertation is a summary of investigations in two different branches of physics - a) theoretical high-energy physics and b) climate dynamics.
description: In the first part of this thesis, we will study the properties of entanglement entropy and R ́enyi entropies in Quantum Field Theories (QFTs). We begin our exploration by studying spatial entanglement in an interacting QFT. We consider the reduced density matrix for a disc in the ground state of the interacting fixed points of the large-N O(N) vector model in 2 + 1 dimensions. Using the map to the free energy on H2 × S1, we show that there is an instability in the R ́enyi entropies at n = 1, in the N → ∞ limit, indicating a phase transition at or near this R ́enyi parameter. However, we argue that this does not invalidate the replica trick, which is often used to obtain entanglement entropies from R ́enyi entropies.
description: In the second half of the first part, we study target space entanglement in gauged multi- matrix models as models of entanglement between groups of D-branes separated by a planar entangling surface, paying close attention to the implementation of gauge invariance. Along the way, we review the example of target space entanglement between identical particles, which shares some important features (specifically a gauged permutation symmetry) with our main problem. For our matrix models, we implement a gauge fixing well-adapted to the entangling surface. In this gauge, we map the matrix model problem to that of entanglement of a U(1) gauge theory on a complete or all-to-all lattice. Matrix elements corresponding to
description: open strings stretching across the entangling surface in the target space lead to interesting contributions to the entanglement entropy.
description: The second part of this dissertation is an attempt to develop a new bias-correction tech- nique for daily maximum temperature. The method called Quantile delta mapping (QDM), which is often used to map the present-day observed PDF of some variable (e.g., daily max- imum temperature) to a projected future PDF using the changes in quantiles from a global climate model (GCM), suffers from the problem of quantile crossing, which produces fu- ture quantile functions that are ill-defined because they are non-monotonic. We explore the alternative method of moment delta mapping (MDM), which, in application to daily maxi- mum temperature, has the bias-correction benefits of QDM, but never suffers from quantile crossing. We demonstrate the accuracy of MDM using daily maximum temperatures from 100 members of the Community Earth System Model 2 (CESM2) Large Ensemble (LENS2) spanning 150 years of simulation output.
Organocatalytic Asymmetric α-C-H-functionalization of Amines and Nitriles
Creators: name: Deng, Tianran
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2025

description: The catalytic asymmetric α-C-H functionalization of amines features as an ideal strategy for the synthesis of advanced chiral amines from abundant prochiral amines. However, the difficulty of activating inert C-H bond and the elusive reactivity and selectivity of the carbanion intermediates limited its development. We discovered organocatalytic amine α-C-H functionalization reactions through 1,4-addition reaction. In these reactions, various primary amines including aliphatic amines and α-fluorinated amines underwent both functionalization reactions smoothly affording versatile chiral amines. These reactions were promoted by a class of powerful new organo-catalysts and enabled by new N-arylidene ligands as removable activators. The catalytic asymmetric α-C-H functionalization of nitriles was also investigated. Initial studies indicated nitriles could be activated in α-C-H functionalization reactions via organocatalysis.
The evolution of galaxies in the HI-rich group environment
Creators: name: Dzudzar, Robert
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This thesis shows the importance of environmental processing of galaxies within small, HI-rich groups using primarily atomic hydrogen gas, other multi-wavelength observations and insights from simulations. The sample of galaxy groups used in this thesis represents an excellent laboratory to study galaxies in low-density environments and analyse the role of the environment in galaxy evolution. This study gives us insights and brings us closer to knowing the minimum density scale at which the environment starts affecting the gas content of galaxies.
The Necessity of Entropy: the Macroscopic Argument, the Microscopic Response, and Some Practical Consequences
Creators: name: Herzfeld, Judith
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classical thermodynamics
statistical thermodynamics
entropy
free energy
chemical thermodynamics

description: Students often find thermodynamics baffling. This should not be surprising because it took many years for some of the best scientific minds to work it out. Nor should that arduous history be surprising because thermodynamics links visible phenomena with molecular phenomena, two realms that are more often considered separately. However, the grand ambition of this linkage has been elegantly established and there is nothing convoluted about it. 
The short primer offered here lays out the foundational logic of thermodynamics in crisp, linear fashion, sidestepping the historical detours and the technical digressions generally included in textbooks. The hope is that this straightforward presentation will provide students with a sturdy scaffold for further exploration of the richness of these ideas and their applications.
Electro-formation of self-assembled monolayers of thiol and sulfide on gold.
Creators: name: Qu, Deyu.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Chemistry, Physical.

description: The electro-deposition of thiol and sulfide monolayers has been studied with Electrochemical Quartz Crystal Microbalance (EQCM), chronoamperometry, FTIR, and cyclic voltammetry. The surface concentrations of alkanethiols/alkanethiolates calculated from the oxidative charge and from the EQCM signal using the Sauerbrey equation are in excellent agreement for depositions done in alkaline and pH neutral aqueous solutions. This allowed the measurement of the kinetics of the oxidative deposition of alkanethiols and alkanethiolates on gold. These experiments show that the oxidative depositions of alkanethiols and alkylthiolates occur in two steps. The oxidative deposition can be described by a combination of a potential dependent instantaneous nucleation-growth process and a potential independent Langmuir process. These results show that the rate of deposition of these compounds as well as their coverage can be controlled by an applied electric field. The effects of temperature and concentration on the oxidative deposition process are also reported. The electro-deposition of sulfide was found to be complex. In a pH neutral solution, sulfides go through a slow dissociative adsorption process and form a monolayer of thiolates. In alkaline solution, the oxidative adsorption of sulfide is faster. This observation is compatible with an SNZ reaction between physisorbed sulfides and hydroxyl ions.
Calibrated Passive Microwave Daily EASE-Grid 2.0 Brightness Temperature ESDR (CETB) Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document, Version 2.1
Creators: name: Brodzik, Mary J.
name: Long, David G.
name: Hardman, Molly A.
Publisher: name: NSIDC MEaSUREs Project White Paper
Year: 2024
Subjects: passive microwave
brightness temperatures
Radiometer Version of Scatterometer Image Reconstruction
rSIR
EASE-Grid 2.0
enhanced resolution

description: This technical document is the Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document for the NASA MEaSUREs Calibrated Passive Microwave Daily EASE-Grid 2.0 Brightness Temperature (CETB) Earth Science Data Record (ESDR) Version 2.0. The document describes the theory of the Radiometer version of Scatterometer Image Reconstruction (rSIR) that was used to produce the CETB ESDR Version 2, an enhanced-resolution, gridded passive microwave data set derived from a suite of satellite-borne sensors operating from 1978 to present. Complete historical Version 2 processing is scheduled for summer 2023, and will be performed using input Global Precipitation Mission (GPM) Level 1C (L1C) products. Version 2 data are managed and distributed at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC). This ATBD contains the primary material that the NSIDC DAAC has used to compile the data user guide.
Influence du naled de la rivière Firth sur les sols et la végétation, Yukon, Canada.
Creators: name: Duchesne, Caroline.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Biology, Ecology.

description: The Firth River is located in a sector of northern Yukon that has not been touch by the latest glaciations. The objective of the study is to determine if the Firth River naled ice has an impact on the surrounding soils and vegetation. The analysis of the soils and the observation of the vegetation along 3 transects, one longitudinal and 2 cross-sectional, has showned a differential evolution. The study and datation of an island in the center of the valley has permitted to establish that the river has cut in the valley after 16084 +/$-$ 340 B.P. The grain size distribution of the soils gives an estimation of the deposition modes which, in this case, is mainly fluvial but where the ice may play a role in its dynamic. The soils salt concentration show a relationship with the distance from the center of the valley. It is an indicator of the impact of the ice on the soils and act as a signature of the presence of the ice. The observation of the vegetation growing in the valley also show the influence of the ice: its destruction shows the presence of the ice although its development stages indicate the absence of the ice on a long or short term.
Mechanisms of Behavior Change: Increasing Intensity and Motivation through Gameplay
Creators: name: Vaillancourt Poultney, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2016
Subjects: competition
cooperation
behavior change
motivation
intensity
game

description: Effective methods of inducing and maintaining behavior change include the presence of a social environment, game scenarios, and proper goal setting. This study looked at competition versus cooperation as both a social scenario and a game scenario. Past studies have found that competition increases intensity of a task while cooperation increases the motivation to continue a task. Studies have also found that a difficult but obtainable goal level is best to increase motivation to continue. As intensity and desire to continue a task are both important when looking at behavior change, this study aimed to explore if both could be raised simultaneously. After a practice run to get base scores, participants were asked to play a memory based computer game created for the purpose of this study either competitively or cooperatively. The other person they were playing with was fictitious and the scores of this person were calculated based on the participant’s scores. They were only able to see the scores that their partner was able to achieve. The score that participants need in order to either beat their partner or to achieve a cooperative goal was set either at a high or medium level relative to their base score. Those in the cooperative condition showed a higher motivation level overall but there was no difference between goal levels within this condition. There was a difference in goal level for the competitive condition with a high goal leading to more motivation. There were no significant differences in intensity levels between the groups. Implications for self-change research are discussed.
SMAP Twice-Daily rSIR-Enhanced EASE-Grid 2.0 Brightness Temperatures Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document, Version 3.0
Creators: name: Brodzik, Mary J.
name: Long, David G.
name: Hardman, Molly A.
Publisher: name: NSIDC Project White Paper
Year: 2024
Subjects: passive microwave
brightness temperatures
Radiometer Version of Scatterometer Image Reconstruction
rSIR
EASE-Grid 2.0
enhanced resolution
SMAP
SMAP Radiometer

description: The Soil Moisture Active-Passive (SMAP) Mission was designed to produce globally-derived soil-moisture maps every 2-3 days. At a spatial resolution of 3-10 kilometers, the soil moisture maps were intended to improve long-range weather and seasonal forecasting, and to set the stage for a new generation of hydrologic models capable of predicting and studying floods and droughts. The original SMAP mission concept relied on synergistic measurements from both radar and radiometer instruments, with radar information produced at higher spatial resolutions than radiometer measurements. Data products were planned to use both radar and radiometer information to provide higher resolution products. Unfortunately, the loss of the radar instrument on July 7, 2015, only six months after launch, compromised the ability to meet spatial resolution mission requirements for soil moisture and freeze-thaw products. Fortunately, the radiometer version of the Scatterometry Image Reconstruction (rSIR) technique, which has been successfully used to enhance spatial resolution of similar passive microwave sensors, can be used to enhance the spatial resolution of the SMAP radiometer brightness temperature (TB) data. Characterized by large fields-of-view and oversampled measurements, SMAP measurements are ideally suited to application of the rSIR technique. This document describes the theoretical basis for application of the rSIR algorithm to improve spatial resolution of gridded SMAP radiometer measurements, with details applicable to the contents of rSIR-SMAP (nsidc0738) v3 files.
Public Archaeology & Engagement in Popular Media Assignment
Creators: name: Tushingham, Shannon
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2021
Subjects: public archaeology
Archaeology

description: This sample course assignment was developed by Dr. Shannon Tushingham for her WSU undergraduate class in Archaeological Methods and Interpretation (ANTH 230). This is one of several graded assignments that are explicitly incorporated to develop graduate student mastery in public archaeology education and dissemination skills by exposing them to creative public communication projects, activities, and discussions. For this assignment, students are asked to reflect questions such as, “how is science is effectively communicated with the public?” They are also tasked with researching examples of archaeology in public media from a variety of sources. This assignment is cited in the paper, Public Archaeology Education “Of the People, For the People, By the People”: Democratized Science Communication in Theory and Practice”, 2021 paper in press by Shannon Tushingham and Tiffany Fulkerson, in a special issue of the Journal of Northwest Anthropology entitled Do We Reach More? Essays on Sharing Cultural and Archaeological Research.
Integration of Students with Disabilities in Mainstream Classrooms
Creators: name: Shou, Yiwei
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2024
Subjects: Inclusive Education
Education for People with Disabilities
Politics of Education
Special Education

description: The special education field has been growing in the US since the 1970s when disability movements were raised. As people with disabilities (PWD) continued to fight for their employment, health, and education rights, children with disabilities were brought to the stage by their parents, resulting in the appearance of special education that focused on providing qualified education for students with disabilities (SWD). With continuous movements and parental advocacies, Section 504 (1973) and IDEA (1975) became two of the main policies protecting SWD to receive qualitative education at schools, while IDEA is currently mostly implemented with its Individualized Education Plans (IEPs). With the development of policies, the concept of inclusion is emphasized, and more schools have begun to apply mainstream classrooms where SWD and their peers study together rather than in segregated classrooms. According to the Least Restrictive Environment (LRE) provision in IDEA, SWD have the flexibility to receive support in a separate classroom if needed, while encouraging them to enroll in a mainstream classroom.        This study was conducted at a Newton public elementary school where all classrooms were mainstream classrooms. With teachers’ interviews and classroom observations, the study found that policies set a baseline for schools and teachers to provide a comfortable learning environment with SWD, and teachers’ experiences and passion make them build on it, achieving SWD’s development and promoting an inclusive environment. Though educators faced challenges such as heavy workloads caused by different individual needs when applying strategies, they demonstrated the possibility of achieving inclusion by establishing effective cooperation to further build up and practice the student-centered ideology. The student-centered ideology is essential in creating an inclusive educational environment because it guides educators to treat students as individuals, recognizing the normality of individual differences.
The Cellular and Molecular Basis of Mosquito Hygrosensation
Creators: name: Tang, Ruocong
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2026
Subjects: Aedes
Anopheles
humidity
hygrosensation
mosquito
vector control
Biology

description: Mosquitoes are major vectors of diseases such as malaria, dengue, yellow fever, and Zika, collectively infecting hundreds of millions and killing over 700,000 people annually. Their ability to locate hosts for blood-feeding and find suitable oviposition sites is crucial for their reproductive success and vector competence. Humidity detection (hygrosensation) plays a vital role in these behaviors, yet the underlying cellular and molecular mechanisms remain poorly understood. This thesis provides a comprehensive investigation of hygrosensation primarily in the dengue mosquito Aedes aegypti, elucidating key molecular players, their neuronal expression patterns, and their contributions to vector-relevant behaviors.Chapter 1 offers an extensive review of hygrosensation across insect species, highlighting the gaps in our knowledge of mosquito hygrosensation and setting the stage for subsequent chapters. Chapter 2 explores the roles of ionotropic receptors Ir40a and Ir68a in Ae. aegypti, revealing their contributions to the detection of dry and moist air respectively. Notably, while both receptors act redundantly to promote blood-feeding, only Ir68a is crucial for oviposition site seeking. Chapter 3 maps the brain projections of thermo- and hygro-sensory neurons in Ae. aegypti and An. gambiae, establishing a foundational reference for future studies on sensory integration and neural circuitry in mosquitoes. Chapter 4 discusses the implications of our findings, proposes models for humidity detection mechanisms, and explores how hygrosensation interacts with other sensory modalities in the broader context of mosquito biology.
description: The study significantly advances our understanding of mosquito hygrosensation at the molecular and neuronal levels. By elucidating key components of humidity detection pathways and their roles in guiding critical behaviors, this work lays a strong foundation for developing novel vector control strategies targeting mosquito sensory systems. The findings provide valuable insights for both basic research in mosquito biology and applied approaches to mitigate the global burden of mosquito-borne diseases.
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title: The communicative potential of parables in classes in Russian as a foreign language
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Year: 2024
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parable
Russian as a foreign language
communication potential
reading
speaking
teaching methodology

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description: This paper examines the communicative potential of parables in classes of Russian as a foreign language. The practicality of using parables on various topics is substantiated, and the criteria for their selection are clarified. In the course of scientific work, the genre specifics of the parable and its linguistic features were described. Methodological recommendations have been developed in the form of a system of lessons. As a result, the research can be used in the practice of teaching Russian as a foreign language.
China's Strategies To Undo U.S. Dollar Dominance
Creators: name: Li, Jiaxin
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Renminbi
Yuan
Digital Yuan
Oil Market
Eurozone
Belt and Road
IMF
Internationalization
China
Currency
United States

description: The U.S. Dollar emerged as the dominant world currency after the end of World War II. Though the global economy has changed drastically since then, the U.S. Dollar is still the leading currency. This thesis provides strategies if China wishes to challenge U.S. Dollar dominance as the internationalization of the Chinese Renminbi continues to expand. First, I will evaluate the history of the U.S. Dollar’s replacement of the British Pound Sterling as the dominant world currency. Second, I will present the benefits and disadvantages of China’s currency becoming a leading international currency. Third, I will discuss the potential strategies China could take to undo U.S. Dollar dominance.