cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Deciphering the Mechanism of G9a Spreading Genome-wide
Creators: name: Yevstafiev, Dmytro
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: G9a
GLP
Epigenetics
ChIP
ChIP-sequencing
Ankyrin domain
Spreading genome-wide

description: The cell differentiation process is associated with activation and repression of different genes, whereby the formation of heterochromatin is mediated by spreading of repressor proteins along large chromatin domains. Some of these proteins are methyltransferases, including GLP and G9a that are implicated in the addition of mono- and dimethyl groups to lysine 9 at Histone 3. Despite extensive research the exact mechanism of binding and spreading of G9a and GLP is unclear. To better understand the molecular mechanisms through which G9a and GLP bind to chromatin we tested the in vivo binding of a mutant G9a that is unable to bind to H3K9me2 histone marks via its Ankyrin domain. Murine erythroleukemia (MEL) cell line with expression of mutant G9a was generated using recombinant DNA technologies; G9a binding targets genome-wide were detected by the analysis of ChIP-sequencing data. We validated ChIP-sequencing data providing a reliable tool to visualize G9a targets in MEL cells. We also found that G9a Ankyrin mutant bound to all tested regions suggesting that the Ankyrin domain is not the only factor that contributes to the binding of G9a on chromatin in vivo.
Haine religieuse: l’action “pank – Te Deum” du groupe “Pussy Riot” 21 Février 2012 dans les locaux de la Cathédrale du Christ-Sauveur de l’Église Chrétienne Orthodoxe Russe
Creators: name: Ponkine, Igor V.
name: Abramènkova, Vera V.
name: Troytsky, Vsevolod J.
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2013

description: Contributo accettato dal Direttore SOMMAIRE: 1. Introduction – 2. Analyse des actions des participants au groupe “Pussy Riot” accomplies par ceux-ci pendant le temps de la réalisation de l’action – 3. Analyse du texte de la chansonnette interprétée par les participants au groupe “Pussy Riot” au cours de l’action – 4. Les actions des participants au groupe “Pussy Riot” réalisées par ceux-ci le 21 Février 2012 dans la Cathédrale du Christ-Sauveur peuvent être appréciées, à juste titre, comme réalisées en commun selon l’intention unifiée de l’action – 5. Tribunal Khamovniky de la ville de Moscou et Cour de cassation de la ville de Moscou.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2013: 4 febbraio
Sensor Deployment and Coverage Maintenance by a Team of Robots
Creators: name: Li, Qiao
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Sensor Deployment
Coverage Maintenace

description: Wireless sensor and robot networks (WSRNs) are an integration of wireless sensor network (WSNs) and multi-robot systems. They comprise of networked sensor and mobile robots that communicate via wireless links to perform distributed sensing and actuation tasks in a region of interest (ROI). In addition to gathering and reporting data from the environment, sensors may also report failures of neighboring sensors or lack of coverage in certain neighborhood to nearby mobile robot. Once an event has been detected, robots coordinate with each other to make a decision on the most appropriate way to perform the action. Coverage can be established and improved in different ways in wireless sensor and robot networks. Initial random sensor placement, if applied, may be improved via robot-assisted sensor relocation or additional placement. One or more robots may carry sensors and move within the ROI; while traveling, they drop sensors at proper positions to construct desired coverage. Robots may relocate and place spare sensors according to certain energy optimality criteria. This thesis proposes a solution, which we call Election-Based Deployment (EBD), for simultaneous sensor deployment and coverage maintenance in multi-robot scenario in failure-prone environment. To our knowledge, it is the first carrier-based localized algorithm that is able to achieve 100% coverage of the ROI with multiple robots in failure-prone environment since it combines both sensor deployment and coverage maintenance process. We can observe from the simulation results that EBD outperforms the existing algorithms and balances the workload of robots while reducing the communication overhead to a great extent.
On Steinerberger Curvature and Graph Distance Matrices
Creators: name: Chen, Wei-Chia
name: Tsui, Mao-Pei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C12, 05C50

description: Steinerberger proposed a notion of curvature on graphs involving the graph distance matrix (J. Graph Theory, 2023). We show that nonnegative curvature is almost preserved under three graph operations. We characterize the distance matrix and its null space after adding an edge between two graphs. Let $D$ be the graph distance matrix and $\mathbf{1}$ be the all-one vector. We provide a way to construct graphs so that the linear system $Dx = \mathbf{1}$ does not have a solution.
description: 3 figures
Bandwidth Parameterized by Cluster Vertex Deletion Number
Creators: name: Gima, Tatsuya
name: Kim, Eun Jung
name: Köhler, Noleen
name: Melissinos, Nikolaos
name: Vasilakis, Manolis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Given a graph $G$ and an integer $b$, Bandwidth asks whether there exists a bijection $π$ from $V(G)$ to $\{1, \ldots, |V(G)|\}$ such that $\max_{\{u, v \} \in E(G)} | π(u) - π(v) | \leq b$. This is a classical NP-complete problem, known to remain NP-complete even on very restricted classes of graphs, such as trees of maximum degree 3 and caterpillars of hair length 3. In the realm of parameterized complexity, these results imply that the problem remains NP-hard on graphs of bounded pathwidth, while it is additionally known to be W[1]-hard when parameterized by the tree-depth of the input graph. In contrast, the problem does become FPT when parameterized by the vertex cover number. In this paper we make progress in understanding the parameterized (in)tractability of Bandwidth. We first show that it is FPT when parameterized by the cluster vertex deletion number cvd plus the clique number $ω$, thus significantly strengthening the previously mentioned result for vertex cover number. On the other hand, we show that Bandwidth is W[1]-hard when parameterized only by cvd. Our results develop and generalize some of the methods of argumentation of the previous results and narrow some of the complexity gaps.
description: An extended abstract of this article was presented at IPEC 2023
Electronic Supplementary Material from Pesticide and resource stressors additively impair wild bee reproduction
Creators: name: Stuligross, Clara
name: Williams, Neal M.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Figures S1 to S4, Tables S1 to S3, Supplementary Methods
Moving toward a Greener China: Is China’s National Park Pilot Program a Solution?
Creators: name: Sheng, Gonghan
name: Chen, Heyuan
name: Ferretti-Gallon, Kalifi
name: Innes, John L.
name: Wang, Zhongjun
name: Zhang, Yujun
name: Wang, Guangyu
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2021

description: National parks have been adopted for over a century to enhance the protection of valued natural landscapes in countries worldwide. For decades, China has emphasized the importance of economic growth over ecological health to the detriment of its protected areas. After decades of environmental degradation, dramatic loss of biodiversity, and increasing pressure from the public to improve and protect natural landscapes, China’s central government recently proposed the establishment of a pilot national park system to address these issues. This study provides an overview of the development of selected conventional protected areas (CPAs) and the ten newly established pilot national parks (PNPs). A literature review was conducted to synthesize the significant findings from previous studies, and group workshops were conducted to integrate expert knowledge. A qualitative analysis was performed to evaluate the effectiveness of the pilot national park system. The results of this study reveal that the PNP system could be a potential solution to the two outstanding issues facing CPAs, namely the economic prioritization over social and ecological considerations that causes massive ecological degradation, and the conflicting, overlapping, and inconsistent administrative and institutional structures that result in serious inefficiencies and conflicts.
Fate of initially bound timelike geodesics in spherical boson stars
Creators: name: Zhang, Yu-Peng
name: Sun, Shi-Xian
name: Wang, Yong-Qiang
name: Wei, Shao-Wen
name: Laguna, Pablo
name: Liu, Yu-Xiao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Boson stars are horizonless compact objects and they could possess novel geodesic orbits under the equilibrium assumption, which differ from those in black hole backgrounds. However, unstable boson stars may collapse into black holes or migrate to stable states, resulting in an inability to maintain the initially bound geodesic orbits within the backgrounds of unstable boson stars. To elucidate the fate of initially bound geodesic orbits in boson stars, we present a study of geodesics within the spherical space-times of stable, collapsing, and migrating boson stars. We focus on timelike geodesics that are initially circular or reciprocating. We verify that orbits initially bound within a stable boson star persist in their bound states. For a collapsing boson star, we show that orbits initially bound and reciprocating finally either become unbound or plunge into the newly formed black hole, depending on their initial maximal radii. {For initially circular geodesics, we have discovered the existence of a critical radius. Orbits with radii below this critical value are found to plunge into the newly formed black hole, whereas those with radii larger than the critical radius continue to orbit around the vicinity of the newly formed black hole, exhibiting nonzero eccentricities}. For the migrating case, a black hole does not form. In this case, the reciprocating orbits span a wider radial range. For initially circular geodesics, orbits with small radii become unbound, and orbits with large radii remain bound with nonvanishing eccentricities. This geodesic study provides a novel approach to investigating the gravitational collapse and migration of boson stars.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures, comments are welcome
Einfluss des Klimawandels auf die Biotropie des Wetters und die Gesundheit der Bevölkerung in Deutschland
Creators: name: Zacharias, Stefan
name: Mücke, Hans-Guido
name: Koppe, Christina
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015

description: Zahlreiche biometeorologische Studien belegen den Einfluss bestimmter Wetterlagen und Wetterelemente auf die menschliche Gesundheit. Aufbauend auf den in einer systematischen Literaturrecherche und einer repräsentativen Wetterfühligkeitsbefragung identifizierten Zusammenhängen zwischen Wetter und Gesundheit sowie auf eigenen Abschätzungen der Beziehung zwischen Wetterfaktoren und Mortalität für das gegenwärtige Klima, wurde der Einfluss des Klimawandels auf Basis von 19 regionalen Klimamodellen für Deutschland analysiert und die Auswirkungen der zukünftigen Entwicklung auf die Gesundheit abgeschätzt. Die Auswertung von Klima-Modellsimulationen zeigt, dass sich die zukünftige Belastung durch hohe Temperaturen in Deutschland bis zum Ende des 21. Jahrhunderts mehr als verdoppeln wird, während die Belastung durch niedrige Temperaturen eher abnehmen wird. Häufigkeit, Dauer und Intensität von Hitzewellen werden deutlich zunehmen. Des Weiteren kommen rasche Temperaturänderungen zum Vortag und innertägliche Temperaturschwankungen, die ebenfalls mit einer erhöhten biotropen Belastung in Verbindung gebracht werden, in einem zukünftigen Klima häufiger vor. Die erzielten Ergebnisse belegen die Bedeutung des Klimawandels für die Gesundheit der Bevölkerung in Deutschland und unterstreichen die Wichtigkeit von Anpassungsmaßnahmen, um die Auswirkungen der erwarteten Klimaänderungen so gering wie möglich zu halten.
Quelle: UMID : Umwelt und Mensch - Informationsdienst ; Umwelt & Gesundheit, Umweltmedizin, Verbraucherschutz. - Berlin. S. 21
description: Biometeorological studies show that weather affects human well-being and health in many ways. Based on relationships identified in a systematic literature review and a representative survey on meteorosensitivity as well as on evaluations between weather factors and mortality for the present climate, the influence of climate change is analyzed from 19 regional models for Germany and future climate impacts on health. The evaluation of climate model simulations shows that the future heat-related health impact in Germany will increase significantly, with at least a doubling by the end of the 21st century. In contrast, the cold-related health impact will decrease. According to the model simulations, also the frequency, duration, and intensity of heat waves will increase significantly. Furthermore, rapid day-to-day temperature changes and diurnal temperature variability which are also associated with enhanced health stress are projected to increase. The obtained results document the fundamental relevance of climate change on human health in Germany and underline the importance of public adaptation strategies to minimize the impact of the expected changes on health.
Quelle: UMID : Umwelt und Mensch - Informationsdienst ; Umwelt & Gesundheit, Umweltmedizin, Verbraucherschutz. - Berlin. S. 21
Shaftesbury's Aesthetic Theory Revisited
Creators: name: Kubota, Mami
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Shaftesbury
Aesthetics

description: This thesis examines Shaftesbury’s Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711), and revisits his concepts of aesthetics and ethics by providing a key to understanding his controversial methodology and definitions of terms. Kubota claims that Shaftesbury's main purpose in writing Characteristics is to defend the concept of innate ideas of beauty and moral goodness against the views of Hobbes and Locke. Not only is Characteristics a significant work of moral and aesthetic theory, but it is Shaftesbury’s attempt to act on his theory and put it into practice. Through describing the place of actual life experiences, he intends to show that the various aspects of the concepts he discusses contribute to the whole or the end of the universe, to realize ultimate beauty. Kubota claims that his challenging use of terminology – in which words have many definitions – may be understood in light of his teleological and dualistic view of humanity. His view of dualism and the dialectic categorization of each term, showing the two opposed or distinct characters of each term and the integrated character of the two, reveals either a partial or an integrated human condition. Thus, he changes the meaning of his terms depending on which level he is discussing. Kubota argues that his concept of an innate moral and aesthetic sense is found in the third character of terms such as the third manner (miscellaneous manner) which is the integrated state of both poetical manner and methodical manner, the third truth (moral truth) which is the integrated state of both poetical manner and historical manner, and the third affection (natural affection) which is the integrated state of self-affection and public-affection. It is only this integrated self which reveals the innate moral sense, in which one can experience and create true beauty, virtue, and enthusiasm, resulting in a state of happiness where one is able to serve both the self and the public good.
A portfolio of research work, including a critical discourse analysis exploring performing musicians’ constructions of experiences of music performance anxiety (MPA)
Creators: name: Lees, Ben
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2020

description: Abstract This portfolio represents the research component of four years’ training towards qualification as a psychotherapeutic and counselling psychologist (PsychD) at the University of Surrey (UK). A brief introduction outlines my interest in and approach to the chosen topic area; namely, music performance anxiety (MPA). This is followed by a research development dossier consisting of three separate projects: Year 1: a critical literature review exploring how MPA has been examined in extant research; Year 2: a quantitative, cross-sectional enquiry which draws on attachment theory to examine associations between attachment patterns and MPA, and the extent to which any such relationship is mediated by perfectionistic behaviours, and Year 3: a critical discourse analysis (CDA) exploring the ways that performing musicians construct their experiences of MPA.
Progress in End-to-End Optimization of Detectors for Fundamental Physics with Differentiable Programming
Creators: name: Aehle, Max
name: Arsini, Lorenzo
name: Barreiro, R. Belén
name: Belias, Anastasios
name: Bury, Florian
name: Cebrian, Susana
name: Demin, Alexander
name: Dickinson, Jennet
name: Donini, Julien
name: Dorigo, Tommaso
name: Doro, Michele
name: Gauger, Nicolas R.
name: Giammanco, Andrea
name: Gray, Lindsey
name: González, Borja S.
name: Kain, Verena
name: Kieseler, Jan
name: Kusch, Lisa
name: Liwicki, Marcus
name: Maier, Gernot
name: Nardi, Federico
name: Ratnikov, Fedor
name: Roussel, Ryan
name: de Austri, Roberto Ruiz
name: Sandin, Fredrik
name: Schenk, Michael
name: Scarpa, Bruno
name: Silva, Pedro
name: Strong, Giles C.
name: Vischia, Pietro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this article we examine recent developments in the research area concerning the creation of end-to-end models for the complete optimization of measuring instruments. The models we consider rely on differentiable programming methods and on the specification of a software pipeline including all factors impacting performance -- from the data-generating processes to their reconstruction and the extraction of inference on the parameters of interest of a measuring instrument -- along with the careful specification of a utility function well aligned with the end goals of the experiment.
 Building on previous studies originated within the MODE Collaboration, we focus specifically on applications involving instruments for particle physics experimentation, as well as industrial and medical applications that share the detection of radiation as their data-generating mechanism.
description: 70 pages, 17 figures. To be submitted to journal
Synthesis of Homo A-CD Estrogens for Potential Use in Hormone Replacement Therapy
Creators: name: Talbi, Oussama
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Synthesis
HRT
Estrogen
Hydride shift

description: Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) has been subject to much debate due to concerns that long term use of such treatment of menopause increases the risk of breast and uterine cancer. This is thought to be caused by estradiol (1) binding to the estrogen receptor α (ERα) resulting in increased cell proliferation. Another possible mechanism relates to toxicity of the estrodiol metabolites, which are thought to be genotoxic ortho-quinones. In a previous project, a series of A-CD estrogens (2) were synthesised as non-carcinogenic estradiol agonists where the cis CD ring junction was thought to be the cause of the desirable selectivity for ERβ. In this thesis, homo A-CDs were synthesised (3) with expansion of the D ring thought to increase the selecitivty for ERβ. Relative Binding Affinities (RBA) were determined with selectivity to ERα and ERβ. Most ligands showed decreased selectivity when compared to the original A-CD series. However, compounds carrying the CF3 moiety continued to show very high potency. In addition, novel synthetic routes were employed in the preparation of certain compounds.
Supplementary document for Theoretical analysis of glide-Z₂ magnetic topological photonic crystals - 5431461.pdf
Creators: name: Kim, Heejae
name: Cheng, Hengbin
name: lu, ling
name: Murakami, Shuichi
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document on details and tables in the calculations in the main text
Searching for quantum non-thermodynamic phenomena
Creators: name: Qiao, Yu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent research on the fundamentals of statistical mechanics has led to an interesting discovery [1-3]: With locally nonchaotic barriers, as Boltzmann's H-theorem is inapplicable, there exist nontrivial non-thermodynamic systems that can produce useful work by absorbing heat from a single thermal reservoir without any other effect, thereby breaking the boundaries of the second law of thermodynamics. The previous analyses used classical mechanical models. In the current investigation, the study is extended to quantum mechanics. First, we reiterate that the Fermi-Dirac distribution and the Bose-Einstein distribution are compatible with the generalized Maxwell's relations, which demonstrates the general robustness of the framework of quantum statistical mechanics. Next, we analyze a set of simple-step scattering problems. When the system is in contact with a thermal reservoir, a bound state inherently follows the second law of thermodynamics, while a scattering state may not. The root cause is associated with the nonlocal nature of the wave function. It implies that the non-thermodynamic phenomena favor unquantized energy and localized wave packets, exhibiting a tendency to occur in "semiclassical" setups.
description: 40 pages, 5 figures
A Positional theory of grand strategy under decline
Creators: name: Vasileiadis, Panagiotis
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2024
Subjects: decline
great powers
grand strategy

description: How do great powers behave when they experience relative decline? This study makes the argument that the behaviour of great powers in modern capitalism, expressed internationally, is best interpreted as a race for wealth among uneven racers. Each participant joins the race by erecting an international economic zone designed to accrue maximum income. But great powers’ uneven power positions, produced through technology gaps, drive each power to employ distinct zone architectures, varied “building blocks” as well as divergent modes of interacting with the rest of the racers. Based on the “race-for-wealth” analogy, this study focuses on those great powers which fail to keep up, or who lose part or all of their lead in a dynamic race for innovation. It more specifically constructs four types of great power “laggards”, each experiencing a distinct type of an adverse relative power shift. In exploring how each of these power positions plays out, I analyse the grand strategies of Great Britain and France from the end of the Napoleonic Wars up until the turbulent interwar period.
Consumer Adoption of Personal Health Records
Creators: name: Majedi, Armin
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Persoanl Health Records
PHR
Adoption
Acceptance
Health Information Technology
Consumer Health Informatics
Positive Technologies
HIT
CHI
Technology Acceptance Model
Social Cognitive Theory
TAM
SCT
Empirical
Quantitative

description: Health information technology (HIT) aims to improve healthcare services by means of technological tools. Patient centered technologies such as personal health records are relatively new HIT tools that enable individuals to get involved in their health management activities. These tools enable the transformation of health consumer behavior from one of passive health information consumers to that of active managers of their health information. This new role is more interactive and engaged, and with such tools, patients can better navigate their lives, and exercise more control over their treatments, hence potentially also leading to improvement in the quality of health services. Despite the benefits of using personal health record systems for health consumers, the adoption rate of these systems remains low. Many free and paid services have not received the uptake that had been anticipated when these services were first introduced. This study investigates some factors that affect the adoption of these systems, and may shed light on some potential reasons for low adoption rates. In developing the theoretical model of this study, social cognitive theory (SCT) and technology acceptance model (TAM) were utilized. The theoretical model was validated through a quantitative survey-based methodology, and the results were derived using structural equation modeling techniques. The key findings of this study highlight the role of individual and environmental factors as determinants of end-user behavior in the adoption of personal health records. The results show that in addition to perceptions of usefulness and ease of use, factors such as social norms and technology awareness are also significantly associated with various factors that directly and indirectly affect intention to use PHRs Based on the results obtained in this study, recommendations are offered for technology providers, and possible directions are proposed for academic researchers.
OptiReduce: Resilient and Tail-Optimal AllReduce for Distributed Deep Learning in the Cloud
Creators: name: Warraich, Ertza
name: Shabtai, Omer
name: Manaa, Khalid
name: Vargaftik, Shay
name: Piasetzky, Yonatan
name: Kadosh, Matty
name: Suresh, Lalith
name: Shahbaz, Muhammad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present OptiReduce, a new collective-communication system for the cloud with bounded, predictable completion times for deep-learning jobs in the presence of varying computation (stragglers) and communication (congestion and gradient drops) variabilities. OptiReduce exploits the inherent resiliency and the stochastic nature of distributed deep-learning (DDL) training and fine-tuning to work with approximated (or lost) gradients -- providing an efficient balance between (tail) performance and the resulting accuracy of the trained models.
 Exploiting this domain-specific characteristic of DDL, OptiReduce introduces (1) mechanisms (e.g., unreliable bounded transport with adaptive timeout) to improve the DDL jobs' tail execution time, and (2) strategies (e.g., Transpose AllReduce and Hadamard Transform) to mitigate the impact of gradient drops on model accuracy. Our evaluation shows that OptiReduce achieves 70% and 30% faster time-to-accuracy (TTA), on average, when operating in shared, cloud environments (e.g., CloudLab) compared to Gloo and NCCL, respectively.
description: 19 pages
Crosslinked Microgels as Platform for Hydrolytic Catalysts
Creators: name: Macro Man
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 30601 Catalysis and Mechanisms of Reactions
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 30403 Characterisation of Biological Macromolecules
subject: 30603 Colloid and Surface Chemistry
subject: 30501 Free Radical Chemistry
subject: 30203 Inorganic Green Chemistry
subject: 30399 Macromolecular and Materials Chemistry not elsewhere classified
subject: 30502 Natural Products Chemistry
subject: Organic Chemistry
subject: 30504 Organic Green Chemistry
subject: 30305 Polymerisation Mechanisms
subject: 30406 Proteins and Peptides

description: Crosslinked Microgels as Platform for Hydrolytic Catalysts
Social Scenographics: acts of conversation and social processes beyond design
Creators: name: Slade, Eleanor Victoria Frances
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2024
Subjects: scenography
scenographics
nonhuman
material agency
Actor-Network-Theory
theatre design
performance design
conversation
nonhuman agency
social scenographics
social scenography
Dramatic or Theatre Arts
Performing Arts

description: This thesis investigates scenography and scenographic practices as social, claiming that a critical framework of ‘social scenographics’ articulates how scenography and scenographics sustain social networks of humans and nonhumans. This is the case when scenography is undertaken as a crafting process, and when scenographic moments occur in performance and other life experiences. This practice-research inquiry began by investigating processes of collaboratively created scenography through industry projects. As a set and costume designer with a highly collaborative and ensemble approach, I am interested in more deeply recognising the scenographic practices of disciplines other than design and the impact of my scenographic thinking on other areas of performance-making. My practice developed a focus on the social (Latour, 2005), and a recognition of the collaborative work of nonhumans. Solo practice explored Mary Overlie’s Six Viewpoints (2016), offering approaches to balancing human-centric embodied experiences within a realignment of social agency. Further collaborative practice took the form of exploratory studio work and conversations with practitioners and researchers. The thesis explores material agency and collaborative relationships in scenography (human-human, human-nonhuman, and nonhuman-nonhuman) through a focus on the social, to argue that conversations, and acts akin to conversation, are crucial in scenographic practices and social scenographics. Approaches to the social in this thesis focus on the work of Bruno Latour and Actor-Network-Theory (e.g., Latour, 2005). Rachel Hann’s notions of scenographics and scenography as place orientation (Hann, 2019), and frameworks of expanded scenography (e.g., McKinney and Palmer, 2017) are also fundamental to the research. The arguments of this thesis address the critical potential of scenography, proposing a radical realignment of social agency in scenographic practices to de-centre the human and recognise the already present and active nonhuman actants.
Attosecond control of solid-state high harmonic generation using ω-3ω fields
Creators: name: Gindl, Adam
name: Suthar, Pawan
name: Trojánek, František
name: Malý, Petr
name: Derrien, Thibault J. -Y.
name: Kozák, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High harmonic spectra generated in condensed matter carry the fingerprints of sub-cycle electronic motion and the energy structure of the studied system. Here we show that tailoring the waveform of mid-infrared driving light by using a coherent combination with its third harmonic frequency allows to control the time of electron tunneling to the conduction band within each half-cycle of the fundamental wave with attosecond precision. We introduce an experimental scheme in which we simultaneously monitor the modulation of amplitude and emission delays of high harmonic radiation and the excited electron population generated in crystalline silicon as a function of the relative phase between the $ω$-3$ω$ fields. We observe that the mutual $ω$-3$ω$ phase required for the maximum yield of high harmonic generation is shifted by approximately $π/2$ with respect to the phase leading to maximal generated carrier population. The observed emission delays of high harmonic photons of up to few hundred attoseconds scale with the time delay and with the ratio between the electric field amplitudes of the two-color fields. These results reveal the connection between electron tunneling and high harmonic emission processes in solids.
description: v2: AAM, licence CC-BY 4.0
Perché non possiamo non dirci tracciati: analisi ecclesiasticistica della pubblicità comportamentale on-line
Creators: name: Morelli, Dario
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2012

description: Contributo sottoposto a valutazioneSOMMARIO. 1. Introduzione – 2. Cos’è la pubblicità comportamentale – 3. Perché e come la normativa sulla protezione dei dati personali si applica alla pubblicità comportamentale – 4. Le informazioni idonee a rivelare le convinzioni religiose e filosofiche degli interessati nella normativa sulla protezione dei dati personali – 5. La pubblicità comportamentale che usa dati personali idonei a rivelare convinzioni religiose e filosofiche degli interessati e quella che usa dati personali comuni – 6. La pubblicità comportamentale sensibile (a contenuto di proselitismo e a contenuto commerciale) – 7. La pubblicità comportamentale comune (a contenuto di proselitismo e a contenuto commerciale)ABSTRACT:Il contributo si propone di evidenziare, anche alla luce della normativa italiana ed europea in materia di protezione dei dati personali, come le potenzialità comunicative e persuasive della c.d. pubblicità comportamentale on-line, se sfruttate per propagandare fedi o convinzioni di carattere religioso, possano consentire un formidabile balzo in avanti sul piano dell’esercizio effettivo delle libertà religiose garantite dall’art. 19 Cost., ma al tempo stesso rischino di innescare drammatici contrasti con la tutela d’interessi quali la riservatezza, la dignità umana e la stessa libertà religiosa dei cittadini/consumatori destinatari del messaggio.Partendo da una definizione di pubblicità comportamentale on-line che tenga conto sia delle pratiche di mercato più diffuse che delle analisi di derivazione europea ad oggi disponibili, e dopo aver esaminato le ragioni per cui tale forma di comunicazione è soggetta alla normativa in tema di privacy e quali siano in concreto le principali norme applicabili in Italia, anche in una prospettiva de jure condendo, si passerà alla disamina del diritto applicabile alla tutela dei dati personali idonei a rivelare le convinzioni religiose e filosofiche per approdare, infine, ad alcune proposte sulle specifiche soluzioni normative applicabili alle varie possibili forme di interazione tra la pubblicità comportamentale on-line e il fattore religioso inteso in senso lato.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2012: 3 dicembre
The value added approach of entrepreneurial philanthropy
Creators: name: Gordon, Jillian
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Entrepreneurs add value to society beyond the wealth creation process and the creation of new products and services, through their engagement in philanthropy. The increasing prominence of high net worth entrepreneurs engaging in philanthropy, whose focus is typically on global social problems, is worthy of scholarly attention. Accurate reflections of the current practice of entrepreneurial philanthropy are required, in order for researchers to develop knowledge and understand the phenomenon of entrepreneurial philanthropy. Entrepreneurial philanthropy has emerged from practices of entrepreneurship, and the methods and practices associated with venture capital investment. Any analysis of entrepreneurial philanthropy requires careful consideration of the extent to which the practices and behaviours common to entrepreneurship can easily transfer over to the field of philanthropy.
Supplementary figures S1 to S3 from Foamy oysters: vesicular microstructure production in the Gryphaeidae via the emulsification
Creators: name: Checa, Antonio G.
name: Linares, Fátima
name: Maldonado-Valderrama, Julia
name: Harper, Elizabeth M.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: 90301 Biomaterials
subject: FOS: Medical engineering

description: Supplementary figure S1. Distribution of vesicular and foliated layers in the internal surface of an upper valve of Hyotissa hyotis. Supplementary figure S2. TGA curves for the indicated species. Supplementary figure S3. Angles between walls measured at triple points (in green) in the indicated species, measured on micro-CT slices approximately parallel to the internal growth surface.
Leading role or bit player? Main contractors, supply chain and sustainable construction.
Creators: name: Russell, Erica F.
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2020
Subjects: construction
sustainable supply network
holistic
fragmentation
collaboration
lifecycle

description: Driven by increased urbanisation, construction of buildings and infrastructure continues to grow worldwide, further exacerbating the social and environmental impacts created by this sector. Large scale projects, requiring thousands of component parts and globally sourced materials, flow across supply networks to construct built assets. Embodied within these supply networks are minerals, energy, water, labour, waste, modern slavery and other human rights abuses. This thesis focuses on the UK construction industry and the ability of the main contractor, a key procurer of materials and manager of the build process, to affect the sustainability of the final asset. This research is case study based on unprecedented access to staff and key suppliers of a major UK main contractor, Carillion plc. The work is an holistic approach to sustainability, incorporating both social and environmental lifecycle thinking, sustainable supply chain theory, and the fields of stakeholder and collaborative working. Applying grounded theory methodology, four major themes emerge from this inductive research; fragmentation, the role of focal nodes, inter- and intra-company collaboration and knowledge of sustainability. Set within the context of a lifecycle perspective they define the ability of the main contractor to directly implement or influence sustainable build. The research develops theory uniting economic equity, network actor perspective and life stage impacts. The findings demonstrate that operating within current unsustainable business models the main contractor can only play a bit role. Additionally, it provides the basis for recommendations on business model, policy and process change.
A saturated 1-system of curves on the surface of genus 3
Creators: name: Zhai, Zhaoshen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57K20

description: We construct a system of 33 essential simple closed curves that are pairwise non-homotopic and intersect at most once on the oriented, closed surface of genus 3. Moreover, we show that our construction is saturated, in the sense that it is not properly contained in any other such system of curves.
description: 8 pages; revisions from refereeing
Characterising the Electrophysiological Properties of Cells in Health and Disease
Creators: name: Clarke, Krista Samantha Pauline
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2024
Subjects: Dielectrophoresis
Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/ Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
SARS-CoV-2
PBMC
COVID-19
Chondrocyte
Diagnosis

description: Biological cells possess intrinsic electrophysiological properties which are fundamental to cellular function. Changes in cell electrophysiology can act as a biomarker, for example to indicate transition from healthy to diseased cell states, changes in cell function, or cell differentiation. This thesis presents three studies which used dielectrophoresis (DEPtech 3DEP) and ζ-potential analysis (two fast, label-free, high-throughput, non-invasive, and low-cost tools) to examine the electrophysiological properties of two cell types, peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) and chondrocytes, for novel medical applications. The first study investigated the electrophysiological properties of PBMCs in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS); a debilitating disease of unknown pathophysiology with no reliable, validated, and quantitative diagnostic test. The dielectric and ζ-potential response of PBMCs to 1.5-hour hyperosmotic challenge differentiated ME/CFS donors from healthy controls with 81.80% sensitivity and 85.70% specificity. This shows potential as a quantitative diagnostic biomarker. The second study examined whether the electrophysiological properties of PBMCs could act as a correlate of protection to SARS-CoV-2. Cytoplasmic conductivity in unchallenged PBMCs was significantly reduced in donors who had received three SARS-CoV-2 vaccine doses compared with unmatched COVID-19 naïve donors. Stimulation with the receptor binding domain of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein resulted in significant differences in normalised values of membrane conductance in third-dose vaccinated donors, from COVID-19 naïve and second-dose donors. The third study investigated chondrocytes, which are used extensively in cell-based cartilage-repair therapies. Chondrocytes rapidly dedifferentiate and become fibroblastic during monolayer cell culture – decreasing the success of reimplantation surgery. Significant changes in chondrocyte electrophysiological properties were observed over time in culture, laying the foundations for the identification of an electrophysiological biomarker that correlates with chondrocytic phenotype, to improve re-implantation outcome. These studies demonstrate novel applications of dielectrophoresis and ζ-potential analysis – to quantitatively diagnose ME/CFS, identify changes in PBMCs following COVID-exposure, and changes in chondrocyte electrophysiology during dedifferentiation.
Jurisdictional Immunities of the State and Exequatur of Foreign Judgments: a private International Law Evaluation of the Recent ICJ Judgment in Germany v. Italy
Creators: name: Boschiero, Nerina
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2012

description: The article, accepted by the Director, is forthcoming in N. Boschiero, T. Scovazzi, C. Ragni, C. Pitea (eds), International Courts and the Development of International Law, Essays In Honour of Tullio Treves, T.M.C. ASSER PRESS, The Hague, The Netherlands, 2013.SUMMARY: - 1. Introduction - 1.1. Historical and factual background of the ICJ’s decision in relation to proceedings involving Greek nationals - 2. The arguments of the Court on the private international law issue of jurisdictional immunity in exequatur proceedings - 2.1. Evaluation of the Court’s reasoning: its correctness and weakness in the light of the preliminary unconvincing solution given in respect to the violation of Germany’s jurisdictional immunity in proceedings brought before the Italian courts by Italian claimants - 2.2. The external private international law context of the ICJ’s judgment: the ECJ’s Lechouritou judgment - 2.3. The problematic role of secondary European legislation (in the field of judicial cooperation in civil matters) on human rights claims against a State - 3. The negative impact of the ICJ’s decision on the role of the national/international public order exception; critical assessment of the formalistic “procedure/substance” distinction with regard to criminal and civil proceedings - 3.1 The consequences for the fundamental individual right to have access to justice and the right to an effective remedy - 4. Conclusion.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2012: 10 dicembre
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
Creators: name: DENTE, GABRIELE
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2021

description: This thesis comprises three different chapters in the broad field of education economics, each making its own contribution in different facets of the topic. The first chapter studies the overeducation wage penalty and how it evolves over time for individuals who are stuck in an overeducated job. Using a Propensity Score Matching estimator, and relying on the panel structure of the data to satisfy the Conditional Independence Assumption, I find that these individuals see their relative position worsen over time, as the penalty follows an increasing trend. In the second chapter we study the effect of Higher Education completion on the mental health of young individuals using the Next Steps dataset. In the absence of a Randomised Control Trial we use different econometric techniques and provide evidence that obtaining a Higher Education degree has a protective effect on the mental health of the respondants. The third and final chapter studies the Gender Pay Gap across the distribution for young recent university graduates using an Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition complemented with the Recentered Influence Function of Firpo et al. (2009). While finding that differences in fields of studies and related jobs can explain most of the gap until the median earners, I also find evidence of strong glass ceiling effects for women, who suffer a wage gap of around 25% at the top of the distribution.
Homework and Remote Schoolwork Antecedents and Consequences in School Children
Creators: name: Wu, Yao
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2023

description: Homework is an essential component of students’ education. However, the processes
description: underlying homework behaviour are not yet fully understood. This thesis aimed to test a
description: homework model for secondary school children by examining the predictors and effects of
description: homework behaviour. This thesis reports findings from a weekly-diary study conducted
description: during the first UK Covid-19 school lockdown and a longitudinal study (UK and Chinese
description: samples) conducted after the school lockdown. Findings from the weekly-diary study of
description: children in Years 7-9 found that higher motivation (assessed as higher expectations of
description: success) predicted more support from parents at the within-person level. However, in contrast
description: with predictions, weekly levels of children’s perception of parental support did not predict
description: children’s weekly fluctuations in motivation. Between-family results did not show an
description: association between motivation and parental support. Second, children’s perception of
description: parental involvement varied across types of parental involvement. Third, the results showed
description: that positive state expressions of effort during schoolwork (e.g., putting in effort) predicted
description: higher self-control in the subsequent week. However, this finding was dependent on the
description: reactions and reinforcement children felt about their effort (e.g., emotional responses to their
description: remote schoolwork). Finally, the longitudinal study showed that children’s perceptions of
description: parents’ and teachers’ expectancies and teachers’ feedback were significant predictors of
description: homework motivation. Homework effort did not predict academic outcomes or academic
description: stress. Overall, the findings presented in this thesis advanced our understanding of
description: antecedents and outcomes in homework processes.