cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Still a private matter? Evaluating the Irish State’s response to domestic abuse
Creators: name: LEAHY, SUSAN
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: Law and legal studies

description: The Domestic Violence Act 2018 (DVA 2018) reformed Irish law on domestic abuse, providing some welcome advancements on the preceding law in this area (eg criminalizing coercive control). However, while the Act represents an improvement on the previous legislation, there remains an orientation towards private, civil law responses to domestic abuse, rather than a promotion of proactive State-led responses which recognize domestic abuse as a public wrong. Consequently, this article argues that the so-called ‘public–private dichotomy’ traditionally associated with domestic abuse is still evident in Ireland. The article begins with an analysis of evidence of the public–private dichotomy in operation in Irish domestic abuse law and policy. Prevailing efforts to recognize domestic abuse as a public wrong are then examined via a discussion of the provisions of the DVA 2018 and an evaluation of the current response of the criminal justice system to domestic abuse. This examination highlights shortcomings in Irish legislation, policy, and practice, which result in domestic abuse still being treated primarily as a private problem. Consequently, the article concludes by suggesting law and policy reforms that would promote a more effective recognition of domestic abuse as a public wrong which requires a proactive, State-led response.
Quench Dynamics in a Model with Tuneable Integrability Breaking
Creators: name: Essler, F. H. L.
name: Kehrein, S.
name: Manmana, S. R.
name: Robinson, N. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider quantum quenches in an integrable quantum chain with tuneable-integrability-breaking interactions. In the case where these interactions are weak, we demonstrate that at intermediate times after the quench local observables relax to a prethermalized regime, which can be described by a density matrix that can be viewed as a deformation of a generalized Gibbs ensemble. We present explicit expressions for the approximately conserved charges characterizing this ensemble. We do not find evidence for a crossover from the prethermalized to a thermalized regime on the time scales accessible to us. Increasing the integrability-breaking interactions leads to a behaviour that is compatible with eventual thermalization.
description: 22 pages, 35 figures, minor updates to manuscript
Amemboa lyra
Creators: name: Zettel, Herbert
name: Yang, Chang Man
name: Tran, A. D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Gerridae
Amemboa
Amemboa lyra

description: Amemboa (s. str.) lyra (Paiva, 1918)  Additional material examined. – 1 male (apterous), 3 males, 1 female (macropterous): Laos, Khammouan Prov., Ban Khoun Ngeun env., 18°07'N 104°29'E, alt. 250 m, Laos, coll. E. Jendek & P. Pacholatko, 4–16 Nov., 25–30 Nov.2000 (NHMW, PPCC).  Remarks. – The species was recently recorded from Yunnan (Cheng et al., 2006); these records are not repeated in this study. Here the first record from Laos is presented. All males from China and Laos have the profemora similar to the type specimens of A. riparia Polhemus & Andersen, 1984 which was synonymized by Zettel & Chen, 1996.
description: Published as part of Zettel, Herbert, Yang, Chang Man & Tran, A. D., 2007, Two New Species Of Amemboa Subgenus Amemboides (Heteroptera: Gerridae) From China And Laos, pp. 223-229 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 55 (2) on page 228, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5333022
description: {"references": ["Cheng, L., Yang, C. M., Li, D. & H. Liu, 2006: Aquatic Heteroptera (Insecta: Gerromorpha and Nepomorpha) from Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 54 (2): 203 - 214."]}
Acomys cilicicus Spitzenberger 1978
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Acomys
Acomys cilicicus

description: Acomys cilicicus Spitzenberger, 1978. Ann. Nat. Hist. Mus. Wien, 81:444. TYPE LOCALITY: Turkey, Vil Mersin, 17 km E. Silifke. DISTRIBUTION: Asia Minor.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 5), pp. 504-560 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 505, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353037
Inganno
Creators: name: PsykoSapiens
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Indaghiamo qui come le costruzioni ideologiche di figure come il tal Paolo di Tarso e il tal Platone abbiano allontanato l’essere umano dalla sua essenza viscerale, trasformando il pensiero in strumento di controllo. Attraverso una critica radicale di miti religiosi, concetti filosofici e istituzioni come la famiglia, il testo smaschera i meccanismi di potere che hanno imposto una visione astratta e dualistica della realtà. Solo un ritorno alla materia e al sentire viscerale può liberare l’uomo dalle sue catene ideologiche e aprire nuove possibilità di esistenza.  

Camminiamo nell’infero che ci ha voluti, tra corpi distesi su piano autoptico che abbiamo scelto di indagare e altri, scoperti lungo il tragitto, nei solchi abissali più profondi. Ogni cretta, un richiamo. Ogni corpo, nuovo vecchio enigma da dissezionare.
Acomys minous Bate 1906
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Acomys
Acomys minous

description: Acomys minous Bate, 1906. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1905(2):321. TYPE LOCALITY: Greece, Crete Isl., Kanea. DISTRIBUTION: Crete (Greece). COMMENT: Considered a distinct species by Niethammer and Krapp, 1978, Handbuch der Saugetiere Europas, 1:452; but also see Corbet, 1978: 142, who listed minous as a subspecies of cahirinus.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 5), pp. 504-560 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 505, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353037
description: {"references": ["Niethammer, J., and F. Krapp (eds.). 1978. Handbuch der Saugetiere Europas. Vol. 1, Rodentia. Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft (Weisbaden), 476 pp."]}
PHENOTYPIC AND FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERIZATION OF HUMAN NEUTROPHIL SUBSETS IN PATIENTS WITH COLORECTAL CANCER AND INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES
Creators: name: PELLEGRINO, GABRIELLA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2017

description: Neutrophils play a critical role in the maintenance of intestinal homeostasis while, in pathological conditions, these cells, together with macrophages, T and B lymphocytes, infiltrate the lamina propria where they exert their functions. In murine models of intestinal inflammation and cancer, a change in neutrophils phenotype and its possible functional consequence has already been described while, in humans, there are limited data. Whether mucosal neutrophils play different functional roles in inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) and colorectal cancer (CRC) is still debated. Here, we report the identification of two populations of human neutrophils (CD15+/CD66bhigh and CD15int/CD66bint) differentially expressed in the peripheral blood and in the gut tissue of IBD and CRC patients. We extensively characterized them phenotipically and we evaluated if the differences observed among groups of patients might correlate with pharmacological treatments; we also evaluated if these circulating and tissue-infiltrating cells also showed a skewing in the functional phenotype towards a more inflammatory or tolerogenic (N1/N2) phenotype. Finally, we evaluated cytokine and ROS production by freshly isolated neutrophils in response to intestinal bacteria.
Enhanced Upper Critical Fields in a New Quasi-one-dimensional Superconductor Nb2PdxSe5
Creators: name: Khim, Seunghyun
name: Lee, Bumsung
name: Choi, Ki-Young
name: Jeon, Byung-Gu
name: Jang, Dong Hyun
name: Patil, Deepak
name: Patil, Seema
name: Kim, Rokyeon
name: Choi, Eun Sang
name: Lee, Seongsu
name: Yu, Jaejun
name: Kim, Kee Hoon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a discovery of superconductivity with Tc = 5.5 K in Nb2PdxSe5, in which one-dimensional (1D) Nb-Se chains existing along the b-direction hybridize each other to form the conducting b-c* plane. The magnetic susceptibility and specific heat data in both single- and poly-crystals show evidence of bulk superconductivity. The resistivity, Hall coefficient, and magneto-resistance data all indicate the presence of an energy scale T* = ~ 50 K, which becomes systematically lowered under hydrostatic pressure and competes with the stabilization of superconductivity. Combined with the band calculation results showing the Fermi surfaces with 1D character, we postulate that the energy scale T* is related to a formation of a density wave or a stabilization of low dimensional electronic structure. The zero temperature upper critical field, Hc2(0), of the single crystal is found to be 10.5, 35 and 22 T in the a', b and c*-directions, respectively. While the linearly increasing Hc2(T) for H // c* indicates the multi-band effect, Hc2(0) for H // b and c* are found to be much bigger than the BCS Pauli limiting field, 1.84 Tc ~ 9 T. The suppressed Pauli paramagnetic effect points to a possibility of the enhanced spin-orbit scattering related to the low dimensional electronic structure or the presence of heavy elements such as Pd.
description: To appear in New J. Phys
Front Matter - Market Structure and Technological Performance in the Food Manufacturing Industries
Creators: name: Mueller, Willard F.
name: Culbertson, John
name: Mueller, Willard F.
name: Culbertson, John
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1982
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Agribusiness

description: Peckham, Brian
Chapter 1: Introduction
Creators: name: Mueller, Willard F.
name: Culbertson, John
name: Mueller, Willard F.
name: Culbertson, John
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1982
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Agribusiness

description: Peckham, Brian
APPLICATION OF DEFECATION LIME IN PADDY FIELD: EFFECTS ON RICE (ORYZA SATIVA L.) PLANTS AND SOIL CHARACTERISTICS
Creators: name: CHIODINI, MARCELLO ERMIDO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2013

description: This work aimed to evaluate the effects of the defecation lime (DL) at the paddy rice field scale. According to the prescriptions of the Italian D.Lgs (Legislative Decree) no. 75/2010 defecation lime is defined as a ?product obtained by the chemical hydrolysis (or enzymatic attack) of biological materials by lime and/or sulphuric acid and subsequent calcium sulphate precipitation.? This product is classified as "lime and magnesia soil conditioner". They must contain at least 20% of calcium oxide (CaO) and 15% of sulphuric anhydride (SO3) both related on a dry basis. According by law origin of the hydrolysed biological material must be reported on the label. Raw biological material for the DL used in this experiment was sewage slugde deriving from municipal and industrial wastewater treatment plant. DL effects were evaluated both during and at the end of growing season, on rice (Oryza sativa L.) plants and soil chemical characteristics. The analysis of the effects was conducted over two year ? two growing season ? in the same paddy field in order to know also the effects of repeated application of the product. After spreading, incorporation of DL and soil tillage, rice, Volano variety, was immediately seeded by a row seeder. In order to evaluate the effects of depth of incorporation, for the first year DL was placed into soil by plowing instead for the second year by harrowing using a disc harrow. For the rice plants the analysis were conducted over different variables i.e. number of emerged plants, development stage, aboveground biomass at the harvesting, yield, milling yield and trace metals concentration in grains while for the soil pH, TOC, CEC and trace metals concentration were evaluated.
Universal Quantum Computation With Majorana Fermion Edge Modes Through Microwave Spectroscopy Of Quasi-1D Cold Gases In Optical Lattices
Creators: name: Sundar, Bhuvanesh
name: Mueller, Erich J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe how microwave spectroscopy of cold fermions in quasi-1D traps can be used to detect, manipulate, and entangle exotic non-local qbits associated with "Majorana" edge modes. We present different approaches to generate the p-wave superfluidity which is responsible for these topological zero-energy edge modes. We find that the edge modes have clear signatures in the microwave spectrum, and that the line shape distinguishes between the degenerate states of a qbit encoded in these edge modes. Moreover, the microwaves rotate the system in its degenerate ground-state manifold. We use these rotations to implement a set of universal quantum gates, allowing the system to be used as a universal quantum computer.
description: 16 pages, 9 figures; added a new paragraph in sections I, IV, V and IXB1; added citations to sections I and II; corrected typos; conclusions unchanged
The epistemology of testimony: reductionism vs antireductionism.
Creators: name: MONDAL, GOPI NATH
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2016

description: Abstract This dissertation discusses one of the most fundamental issues of the epistemology of testimony, that is, how the hearer ascribes trustworthiness to the speaker?s testimony. For this discussion, I focus on two theories, namely reductionism and anti-reductionism. My discussion is based on justified true belief (JTB) theory of knowledge. However, in the history of Western epistemology, controversy exists regarding the possibility of the JTB theory. Without entering the controversy I accept the definition of Knowledge it provides. In Chapter One and Two, I formulate David Hume?s concept of testimony and then argue that the Humean account of testimony is a type of local reductionism. Some epistemologists contend that Hume?s concept of testimony is a type of global reductionism. However, I reject this view. In Chapter Three, I discuss Elizabeth Fricker?s concept of local reductionism and further argue that there is no disagreement between Hume?s concept of local reductionism and Fricker?s concept of local reductionism. In Chapter Four and Five, I analyse the anti-reductionist account of Tyler Burge and Jennifer Lackey. In particular, I analyse Burge?s apriori defense of anti-reductionism, and Lackey?s formulation of minimal anti-reductionism. Finally, I argue that both reductionism and anti-reductionism emphasize one aspect of epistemology of testimony only. Reductionism tries to explain why the hearer should accept the speaker?s testimony after verification and anti-reductionism explains why the hearer should accept speaker?s testimony without any verification. Yet, both theories are incomplete and I contend that an alternative theory is needed for the epistemology of testimony. I present one alternative theory already present in the literature, namely Lackey?s dualism. After criticizing Lackey?s account, I defend a new theory, which I called contextualism.
Daily, multiwavelength Swift monitoring of the neutron star low-mass X-ray binary Cen X-4: evidence for accretion and reprocessing during quiescence
Creators: name: Bernardini, F.
name: Cackett, E. M.
name: Brown, E. F.
name: D'Angelo, C.
name: Degenaar, N.
name: Miller, J. M.
name: Reynolds, M.
name: Wijnands, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We conducted the first long-term (60 days), multiwavelength (optical, ultraviolet, and X-ray) simultaneous monitoring of Cen X-4 with daily Swift observations from June to August 2012, with the goal of understanding variability in the low mass X-ray binary Cen X-4 during quiescence. We found Cen X-4 to be highly variable in all energy bands on timescales from days to months, with the strongest quiescent variability a factor of 22 drop in the X-ray count rate in only 4 days. The X-ray, UV and optical (V band) emission are correlated on timescales down to less than 110 s. The shape of the correlation is a power law with index gamma about 0.2-0.6. The X-ray spectrum is well fitted by a hydrogen NS atmosphere (kT=59-80 eV) and a power law (with spectral index Gamma=1.4-2.0), with the spectral shape remaining constant as the flux varies. Both components vary in tandem, with each responsible for about 50% of the total X-ray flux, implying that they are physically linked. We conclude that the X-rays are likely generated by matter accreting down to the NS surface. Moreover, based on the short timescale of the correlation, we also unambiguously demonstrate that the UV emission can not be due to either thermal emission from the stream impact point, or a standard optically thick, geometrically thin disc. The spectral energy distribution shows a small UV emitting region, too hot to arise from the accretion disk, that we identified as a hot spot on the companion star. Therefore, the UV emission is most likely produced by reprocessing from the companion star, indeed the vertical size of the disc is small and can only reprocess a marginal fraction of the X-ray emission. We also found the accretion disc in quiescence to likely be UV faint, with a minimal contribution to the whole UV flux.
description: 19 pages, 6 figures, 4 tables
ON THE GEOMETRY OF NEWTON OPERATORS
Creators: name: IMPERA, DEBORA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: We studied the geometry of hypersurfaces of complete constant higher order mean curvature, both in the Riemannian and in the Lorentzian setting. In particular, in the Riemannian setting, we focused on uniqueness results for hypersurfaces in warped products. An analytic approach based on a general version of the Omori-Yau maximum principle for trace-type semi-elliptic operators and on the parabolicity for elliptic operators in divergence form, combined with suitable geometric conditions on the geometry of the ambient manifold, allowed to characterize the slices as the only hypersurfaces of constant higher order mean curvature in warped products. Later on, we studied how to extend, using the same technique, uniqueness results to spacelike hypersurfaces of constant higher order mean curvature in Lorentzian warped products. Finally, we focused on comparison geometry in the Lorentzian setting proving, under suitable bounds on the Ricci or the sectional curvature of a Lorentzian manifold, hessian and laplacian comparison theorems for the Lorentzian distance function. Jointly with the Omori-Yau maximum principle, these theorems, applied to the distance function restricted to spacelike hypersurfaces, allowed to obtain higher order mean curvature estimates for spacelike hypersurfaces bounded by a level set of the distance function and Bernstein-type theorems.
LA LECTURE DU COMIQUE CHEZ PIERRE DE LARIVEY ET LES AUTEURS COMIQUES DE LA FIN DU XVI SIECLE. LE RENOUVEAU DE LA COMEDIE ET SES MODELES ITALIENS
Creators: name: LOMBI, CELINE
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2017

description: Pierre de Larivey published his first six comedies in 1579, before the theatrical comedy had managed to fulfill the aspirations of the first generation of la Pleiade authors ? namely, to enrich the French language, to fight Latin and farce, and to exalt the greatness of the French nation by imitating the very Ancient and Italian texts they translated. In spite of the innovations this first generation of authors introduced, it was not until the second generation, among whom Larivey is the best representative, that the comedy was able to come into its own, and to challenge the Italian model, of which it takes advantage, and to rival as well the noble genre of the tragedy. The precise nature of the innovations they introduced, and more specifically the actual work done by Larivey to rethink this evolving genre, both raise profound questions from this point forward. Larivey?s nine plays seem to designate this translator/adaptor of Italian plays as the main agent of the revival and emancipator of the French comedy from its Italian roots. But other Italianates of the same generation, such as Louis Le Jars, Francois d?Ambroise, and Odet de Turn�be, also took part in this ambitious project, which not only revitalized the comic genre, but also contributed to the evolution and affirmation of the French language itself. From the close reading of comic works published from the late sixteenth to the early seventeenth centuries, this study aims to determine the nature of the links between these playwrights, and to understand better how they helped to revitalize the French comedy and to place it at the service of their noblest and most ambitious aspirations.
Artificial root instructions.pdf
Creators: name: Waring, Bonnie
name: Liang, Guopeng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 60299 Ecology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: This document describes a protocol for building artificial root mimics, which can be deployed to real or artificial soils to investigate root controls over soil biogeochemistry.
Chapter 2: Economic Hypotheses Relating Firm and Market Structure and Firm R & D
Creators: name: Mueller, Willard F.
name: Culbertson, John
name: Mueller, Willard F.
name: Culbertson, John
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1982
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Agribusiness

description: Peckham, Brian
INFLATION-INDEXED BONDS IN THE EUROZONE
Creators: name: SORBO, JACOPO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2017

description: The thesis consists in two papers exploiting thorughly the inflation-indexed bond markets in the Eurozone. In the first paper, after presenting some empirical stylized facts about the European sovereign inflation-indexed markets we address the effectiveness of nominal and real rational expectation hypothesis and of inflation-expectation hypothesis. Then, we document the existence of a liquidity premium and of a default premium for France, Italy and Germany, moving from a market based measure of inflation. The second paper is about yield curve modeling and forecasting. We provide a threefactor yield curve model delivering estimates for nominal term structure of France, Germany and Italy, from January 2000 to December 2016 and for real term structure of France and Italy from July 2003 to December 2016. The framework is the latent factor model with time varying level, slope and curvature. The overall fitting performances is good and the identification is consistent with many shapes assumed by the term structure. After the empirical estimation we forecast the yield curve by forecasting the factors and we compare them with several standard competitors. Lastly, we document for the first time a significant liquidity issue on short-term real bond spreads and of a default premium affecting more heavily real spreads as compared to nominal across various maturities.
Chapter 3: Definition and Construction of Variables
Creators: name: Mueller, Willard F.
name: Culbertson, John
name: Mueller, Willard F.
name: Culbertson, John
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1982
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Agribusiness

description: Peckham, Brian
Acomys russatus
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Acomys
Acomys russatus

description: Acomys russatus (Wagner, 1840). Abh. Akad. Wiss. Munich, 3: 195. TYPE LOCALITY: Egypt, Sinai. DISTRIBUTION: E. Egypt; Sinai; Jordan; Israel; Arabia. COMMENT: Includes lewisi; see Harrison, 1972, The Mammals of Arabia, 3:489, Corbet, 1978:142, and Osborn and Helmy, 1980, Fieldiana Zool., n.s., 5:286-293. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410011001015001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 5), pp. 504-560 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 505, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353037
description: {"references": ["Osborn, D. J., and I. Helmy. 1980. The contemporary land mammals of Egypt (including Sinai). Fieldiana: Zoology, 5: 1 - 579."]}
Chapter 4: Structure -R & D Performance Relationships
Creators: name: Mueller, Willard F.
name: Culbertson, John
name: Mueller, Willard F.
name: Culbertson, John
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1982
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Agribusiness

description: Peckham, Brian
A POSTCOLONIAL CRITIQUE OF GEORGE LAMMING'S IN THE CASTLE OF MY SKIN
Creators: name: Dr. Subhash Chander, Mr. Ravi Kumar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: : Resistance, Racism, Hybridity, Identity, Decolonisation, Oppression.

description: Abstract This paper examines George Lamming’s earliest novel In the Castle of My Skin (1953) in the light of postcolonial theory. Lamming in this novel explores the colonial experience and its effects on the social, moral and cultural life of his Barbadian natives. This paper employs the key concepts of postcolonial theory such as resistance, decolonisation, oppression, race, identity, third-space and hybridity to analyze the narrative of the novel.
Critical ingredients of supernova Ia radiative-transfer modeling
Creators: name: Dessart, Luc
name: Hillier, D. John
name: Blondin, Stephane
name: Khokhlov, Alexei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the physics of SN Ia light curves and spectra using the 1-D non-LTE time-dependent radiative-transfer code CMFGEN. Rather than adjusting ejecta properties to match observations, we select as input one "standard" 1-D Chandrasekhar-mass delayed-detonation hydrodynamical model, and then explore the sensitivity of radiation and gas properties on radiative-transfer modeling assumptions. The correct computation of SN Ia radiation is not exclusively a solution to an "opacity problem", characterized by the treatment of a large number of lines. It is also key to treat important atomic processes consistently. Besides handling line blanketing in non-LTE, we show that including forbidden line transitions of metals is increasingly important for the temperature and ionization of the gas beyond maximum light. Non-thermal ionization and excitation are also critical since they affect the color evolution and the Delta-M15 of our model. While impacting little the bolometric luminosity, a more complete treatment of decay routes leads to enhanced line blanketing, e.g., associated with 48Ti in the U and B bands. Overall, we find that SN Ia radiation properties are influenced in a complicated way by the atomic data we employ, so that obtaining converged results is a challenge. We nonetheless obtain a good match to the golden standard type Ia SN 2005cf in the optical and near-IR, from 5 to 60d after explosion, suggesting that assuming spherical symmetry is not detrimental to SN Ia radiative-transfer modeling at these times. Multi-D effects no doubt matter, but they are perhaps less important than accurately treating non-LTE processes [abridged].
description: Accepted to MNRAS
Chapter 5: Summary of Structure-R & D Performance
Creators: name: Mueller, Willard F.
name: Culbertson, John
name: Mueller, Willard F.
name: Culbertson, John
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1982
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Agribusiness

description: Peckham, Brian
Extreme orbital evolution from hierarchical secular coupling of two giant planets
Creators: name: Teyssandier, Jean
name: Naoz, Smadar
name: Lizarraga, Ian M.
name: Rasio, Frederic A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Observations of exoplanets over the last two decades have revealed a new class of Jupiter-size planets with orbital periods of a few days, the so-called "hot Jupiters". Recent measurements using the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect have shown that many (~ 50%) of these planets are misaligned; furthermore, some (~ 15%) are even retrograde with respect to the stellar spin axis. Motivated by these observations, we explore the possibility of forming retrograde orbits in hierarchical triple configurations consisting of a star-planet inner pair with another giant planet, or brown dwarf, in a much wider orbit. Recently Naoz et al. (2011) showed that in such a system, the inner planet's orbit can flip back and forth from prograde to retrograde, and can also reach extremely high eccentricities. Here we map a significant part of the parameter space of dynamical outcomes for these systems. We derive strong constraints on the orbital configurations for the outer perturber that could lead to the formation of hot Jupiters with misaligned or retrograde orbits. We focus only on the secular evolution, neglecting other dynamical effects such as mean-motion resonances, as well as all dissipative forces. For example, with an inner Jupiter-like planet initially on a nearly circular orbit at 5 AU, we show that a misaligned hot Jupiter is likely to be formed in the presence of a more massive planetary companion (> 2 MJ) within 140 AU of the inner system, with mutual inclination 50 degrees and eccentricity above 0.25. This is in striking contrast to the test-particle approximation, where an almost perpendicular configuration can still cause large eccentricity excitations, but flips of an inner Jupiter-like planet are much less likely to occur. The constraints we derive can be used to guide future observations, and, in particular, searches for more distant companions in systems containing a hot Jupiter.
description: To appear in the Astrophysical Journal
Acomys spinosissimus Peters 1852
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Acomys
Acomys spinosissimus

description: Acomys spinosissimus Peters, 1852. Reise nach Mossambique, Saugeth., p. 160. TYPE LOCALITY: Mozambique, Tette and Buio. DISTRIBUTION: S. Tanzania; S.E. Zaire; Zambia; Zimbabwe; E. Botswana; Mozambique; N. South Africa. COMMENT: Includes selousi; see Davis, 1974, Ann. Transvaal Mus., 29(9): 159. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410011001016001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 5), pp. 504-560 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 505, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353037
Chapter 6: The Origins of Patented Inventions
Creators: name: Mueller, Willard F.
name: Culbertson, John
name: Mueller, Willard F.
name: Culbertson, John
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1982
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Agribusiness

description: Peckham, Brian
Impact of Higher Harmonics in Searching for Gravitational Waves from Non-Spinning Binary Black Holes
Creators: name: Capano, Collin
name: Pan, Yi
name: Buonanno, Alessandra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Current searches for gravitational waves from coalescing binary black holes (BBH) use templates that only include the dominant harmonic. In this study we use effective-one-body multipolar waveforms calibrated to numerical-relativity simulations to quantify the effect of neglecting sub-dominant harmonics on the sensitivity of searches. We consider both signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and the signal-based vetoes that are used to re-weight SNR. We find that neglecting sub-dominant modes when searching for non-spinning BBHs with component masses $3\,M_{\odot} \leq m_1, m_2 \leq 200\,M_{\odot}$ and total mass $M < 360\,M_{\odot}$ in advanced LIGO results in a negligible reduction of the re-weighted SNR at detection thresholds. Sub-dominant modes therefore have no effect on the detection rates predicted for advanced LIGO. Furthermore, we find that if sub-dominant modes are included in templates the sensitivity of the search becomes worse if we use current search priors, due to an increase in false alarm probability. Templates would need to be weighted differently than what is currently done to compensate for the increase in false alarms. If we split the template bank such that sub-dominant modes are only used when $M \gtrsim 100\,M_{\odot}$ and mass ratio $q \gtrsim 4$, we find that the sensitivity does improve for these intermediate mass-ratio BBHs, but the sensitive volume associated with these systems is still small compared to equal-mass systems. Using sub-dominant modes is therefore unlikely to substantially increase the probability of detecting gravitational waves from non-spinning BBH signals unless there is a relatively large population of intermediate mass-ratio BBHs in the universe.
description: 22 pages, 11 figures. Version approved by journal
Beta-plane turbulence: experiments with altimetry
Creators: name: Zhang, Y.
name: Afanasyev, Y. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Results from a new series of experiments on barotropic and baroclinic turbulent flows generated in a rotating tank with topographic beta-effect are presented. The velocity fields are measured by the Altimetric Imaging Velocimetry. The turbulent flows observed in the experiments develop zonal jets which are latent in a stationary forced-dissipative regime of the flow but become prominent in the decaying flow. The two-dimensional energy spectra of the flows exhibit the development of anisotropy towards zonal motions. The experiments demonstrate dual turbulent cascade with energy and enstrophy ranges. The frequency-wavenumber spectra reveal the presence of Rossby waves at low wavenumbers which are excited by the turbulent motions. The experimental results are compared with available theory of beta-plane turbulence.
THE POLITICS OF MINIMUM INCOME PROTECTION EXPLAINING THE POLICY TRAJECTORIES OF REGIONAL MINIMUM INCOME SCHEMES IN ITALY AND SPAIN
Creators: name: NATILI, MARCELLO MARIA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2016

description: When and why do politicians introduce minimum income reforms? Traditionally, this policy sector has been considered less invested by partisan politics dynamics, in reason of low political resources of would be beneficiaries and low weight on overall welfare budget. Conversely, this work argues that the non-contentiousness of this policy field is result of specific social and political actor preferences and strategies. The emergence of social groups opposing targeted benefits and/or the political activation of additional cleavages ? and in particular the religious and the territorial ones ? might make this policy field particularly contentious, and partisan dynamics more relevant. Empirically, this dissertation focuses on two countries known for long time for the weak development of social assistance within their social policy system, and the absence of a minimum income scheme: Italy and Spain. In both countries, at the subnational level have been recently introduced last resort safety nets, departing from their traditional model: why is it so? And why those programs rapidly diffused and gradually consolidated in Spain, while in Italy they constituted very often a very brief experience followed by policy reversal and the return to the traditional model? Through an in-depth reconstruction of the policy-making process in four regional cases ? Castile and L�on and the Community of Madrid in Spain, Friuli Venezia Giulia and Lazio in Italy ? this thesis argues that political exchange dynamics between powerful social groups, in particular trade unions and faith-based organizations, and political parties are crucial to have path departure, gradual institutionalization and/or policy reversal. More specifically it is argued that the strategic choices of social groups - the socio-political demand ? and the key features of the party system ? the supply ? were conducive to different political exchange dynamics, which are ultimately responsible for the different policy trajectories of regional minimum income schemes in Italy and Spain. In Spain trade unions and faith-based organizations support for Mis (strong demand) under moderate pluralism led to gradual institutionalization, while in Italy, a weak demand coupled with the activation of the religious cleavage made this policy field contentious, with centre left coalitions introducing (often) those programs, and centre-right government displacing them.
MadDM v.1.0: Computation of Dark Matter Relic Abundance Using MadGraph5
Creators: name: Backovic, Mihailo
name: Kong, Kyoungchul
name: McCaskey, Mathew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present MadDM v.1.0, a numerical tool to compute dark matter relic abundance in a generic model. The code is based on the existing MadGraph 5 architecture and as such is easily integrable into any MadGraph collider study. A simple Python interface offers a level of user-friendliness characteristic of MadGraph 5 without sacrificing functionality. MadDM is able to calculate the dark matter relic abundance in models which include a multi-component dark sector, resonance annihilation channels and co-annihilations. We validate the code in a wide range of dark matter models by comparing the relic density results from MadDM to the existing tools and literature.
description: 35 pages, 6 figures
Shear and bulk viscosities of a photon gas at low temperature
Creators: name: Dobado, Antonio
name: Llanes-Estrada, Felipe J.
name: Torres-Rincon, Juan M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the viscosities of a photon gas by means of the Euler-Heisenberg effective theory and quantum electrodynamics at zero electron chemical potential. We find parametric estimates that show a very large shear viscosity and an extremely small bulk viscosity (reflecting the very weak coupling simultaneously with a very approximate dilatation invariance). The system is of some interest because it exemplifies very neatly the influence of the breaking of scale invariance on the bulk viscosity.
description: v2: Typos corrected, one reference updated, one figure added
Chapter 7: Origins of Important Innovations Influencing Productivity of Food Manufacturers
Creators: name: Mueller, Willard F.
name: Culbertson, John
name: Mueller, Willard F.
name: Culbertson, John
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1982
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Agribusiness

description: Peckham, Brian
Chapter 8: High-Fructose Corn Syrup: A Case Study
Creators: name: Mueller, Willard F.
name: Culbertson, John
name: Mueller, Willard F.
name: Culbertson, John
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1982
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Agribusiness

description: Peckham, Brian
title: Компьютерные технологии в фотографии. Борьба с шумом фотографий
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Профобразование, Ай Пи Ар Медиа
Year: 2022

description: В учебном пособии описаны операции и инструменты, которые используются для изменения резкости в самых распространенных программах обработки цифровых изображений: Adobe Photoshop, Topaz Studio, Lightroom, Corel Paintshop Pro, Capture One Pro, Photo Ninja, Movavi, Affinity Photo. Отдельные главы посвящены работе с HDR-фотографиями и плагинами Adobe Photoshop и Lightroom. Учебное пособие содержит также лабораторные работы для закрепления теоретического материала. Подготовлено в соответствии с Федеральным государственным образовательным стандартом среднего профессионального образования. Учебное пособие предназначено для студентов, обучающихся по специальности 54.02.08 «Техника и искусство фотографии», изучающих дисциплину «Компьютерные технологии в фотографии», а также будет полезно при изучении дисциплины «Основы ретуши и компьютерного дизайна фотографических изображений» по профессии 54.01.03 «Фотограф».
title: Finite element simulation of the mechanical performance of a WE43 magnesium‐alloy biliary stent
Creators: name: Serrato Lara, Diana Laura
Publisher: name: Tecnológico de Monterrey
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/03ayjn504
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 2.6
subject: FOS: Medical engineering

description: This thesis presents a research endeavor focused on designing a biliary stent to address complications arising from laparoscopic cholecystectomy, with a specific emphasis on bile duct injuries. This work emphasizes the development of a biodegradable magnesium-based alloy stent (WE43). Using the finite element method (FEM), this study aims to simulate the mechanical behavior of the WE43 magnesium alloy biliary stent through non-clinical tests, including a three-point bending test and balloon expansion. Critical to this simulation is the validation process, a material characterization of the WE43 magnesium alloy and a meticulous analysis of the stent's mechanical properties under varied boundary conditions is performed. The research proposes a stage gate process for the development of the biodegradable biliary stent and introduces a methodology for the characterization of the WE43 magnesium alloy, improving the accuracy of experimental predictions. The outcomes demonstrate the efficacy of the Finite Element Method in predicting stent deformation under diverse physiological conditions, particularly in three-point bending and balloon expansion tests.
A Novel (2+1)-Dimensional Model of Chiral Symmetry Breaking
Creators: name: Filev, Veselin G.
name: Ihl, Matthias
name: Zoakos, Dimitrios
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a new model of flavour chiral symmetry breaking in a (2+1)-dimensional defect gauge theory of strongly coupled fermions by introducing probe D5/anti-D5-flavour branes on the conifold. After working out the flavour brane embeddings at zero temperature, we thoroughly investigate the spectra of small fluctuations on the world volume of the flavour branes (meson spectrum) and conclude that they are free of tachyons. Thus the proposed probe brane embedding is stable. Moreover, we introduce finite temperature and an external magnetic field and study the thermodynamics of the resulting configurations. Namely, we compute the free energies, entropies, heat capacities and magnetisations. The results are used to establish a detailed phase diagram of the model. We find that the effect of magnetic catalysis of chiral symmetry breaking is realised in our model and show that the meson-melting phase transition coincides with the chiral symmetry breaking phase transition. Furthermore, we show that the model is in a diamagnetic phase.
description: 1+28 pages, 23 figures, PDFTeX, v2: comments and refs. added, version accepted for publication by JHEP
Material suplementario de "Explorando los L-momentos de orden superior en el análisis y clasificación de flujos de red" (JITEL 2023)
Creators: name: Galeano-Brajones, Jesús
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Network engineering

description: Material suplementario de "Explorando los L-momentos de orden superior en el análisis y clasificación de flujos de red" (Jornadas de Ingeniería Telemática 2023, JITEL23)
Experimental evidence for collisional shock formation via two obliquely merging supersonic plasma jets
Creators: name: Merritt, Elizabeth C.
name: Moser, Auna L.
name: Hsu, Scott C.
name: Adams, Colin S.
name: Dunn, John P.
name: Holgado, A. Miguel
name: Gilmore, Mark A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report spatially resolved measurements of the oblique merging of two supersonic laboratory plasma jets. The jets are formed and launched by pulsed-power-driven railguns using injected argon, and have electron density $\sim 10^{14}$ cm$^{-3}$, electron temperature $\approx 1.4$ eV, ionization fraction near unity, and velocity $\approx 40$ km/s just prior to merging. The jet merging produces a few-cm-thick stagnation layer, as observed in both fast-framing camera images and multi-chord interferometer data, consistent with collisional shock formation [E. C. Merritt et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 111}, 085003 (2013)].
description: 11 pages, 9 figures, accepted by Physics of Plasmas (to be published in 2014 May issue)
Chapter 9: Summary and Conclusions
Creators: name: Mueller, Willard F.
name: Culbertson, John
name: Mueller, Willard F.
name: Culbertson, John
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1982
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Agribusiness

description: Peckham, Brian
Appendix: Classification of Patents into Various Patent Categories
Creators: name: Mueller, Willard F.
name: Culbertson, John
name: Mueller, Willard F.
name: Culbertson, John
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1982
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Agribusiness

description: Peckham, Brian