cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Gaussian entropy of fermionic systems
Creators: name: Prokopec, Tomislav
name: Schmidt, Michael G.
name: Weenink, Jan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the entropy and decoherence in fermionic quantum systems. By making a Gaussian Ansatz for the density operator of a collection of fermions we study statistical 2-point correlators and express the entropy of a system fermion in terms of these correlators. In a simple case when a set of N thermalised environmental fermionic oscillators interacts bi-linearly with the system fermion we can study its time dependent entropy, which also represents a quantitative measure for decoherence. We then consider a relativistic fermionic quantum field theory and take a mass mixing term as a simple model for the Yukawa interaction. It turns out that even in this Gaussian approximation, the fermionic system decoheres quite effectively, such that in a large coupling and high temperature regime the system field approaches the temperature of the environmental fields.
description: 28 pages, 13 figures, updated to match published version
title: The timing of island effects in nonnative sentence processing
Creators: name: Felser, Claudia
name: Cunnings, Ian
name: Batterham, Claire
name: Clahsen, Harald
Publisher: name: Universität Potsdam
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 400 Sprache

description: Using the eye-movement monitoring technique in two reading comprehension experiments, this study investigated the timing of constraints on wh-dependencies (so-called island constraints) in first- and second-language (L1 and L2) sentence processing. The results show that both L1 and L2 speakers of English are sensitive to extraction islands during processing, suggesting that memory storage limitations affect L1 and L2 comprehenders in essentially the same way. Furthermore, these results show that the timing of island effects in L1 compared to L2 sentence comprehension is affected differently by the type of cue (semantic fit versus filled gaps) signaling whether dependency formation is possible at a potential gap site. Even though L1 English speakers showed immediate sensitivity to filled gaps but not to lack of semantic fit, proficient German-speaking learners of English as a L2 showed the opposite sensitivity pattern. This indicates that initial wh-dependency formation in L2 processing is based on semantic feature matching rather than being structurally mediated as in L1 comprehension.
description: Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe, 526
One Step 3D Printing of Surface Functionalized Composite Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering Applications
Creators: name: Kotlarz, Marcin
name: Jordan, Rainer
name: Wegener, Erik
name: Dobrzyński, Piotr
name: Neunzehn, Jörg
name: Lederer, Albena
name: Wolf-Brandstetter, Cornelia
name: Pamula, Elzbieta
name: Scharnweber, Dieter
Publisher: name: Institute of Machine Design and Operation, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław
Year: 2018
Subjects: surface properties, degradation, calcium carbonate, PLGA, 3D-printing, amphiphilic poly(2-oxazoline)

description: Acta of Bioengineering and Biomechanics; 02/2018; ISSN 1509-409X
Chrysolina jinxiaoae Ge
Creators: name: Tang, Jin
name: Zhang, Gongaote
name: Guo, Junqi
name: Luo, Lingxuan
name: Jiang, Jiamei
name: Pan, Hongbo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Chrysolina
Chrysolina jinxiaoae

description: Chrysolina jinxiaoae Ge in: Daccordi, Ge, Cui, Yang, 2011
 Material examined: PARATYPES: China, N Sichuan Province, environs of Nanping, H = 3500m, 10–19. VI.1997, S. Murzin leg.: 1 male, 1 female (ABC).
description: Published as part of Tang, Jin, Zhang, Gongaote, Guo, Junqi, Luo, Lingxuan, Jiang, Jiamei & Pan, Hongbo, 2023, Three Amazing New Species Of The Genus Chrysolina (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Chrysomelinae) From China, pp. 199-211 in Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 69 (3) on page 209, DOI: 10.17109/AZH.69.3.199.2023http://zoobank.org/7B2844FD-4725-4DBF-B1C8-F61DD86DCB30, http://zenodo.org/record/10272270
Excessive Tensile Strain Induced the Change in Chondrocyte Phenotype
Creators: name: Zhong, Dongyan
name: Chen, Xi
name: Zhang, Wen
name: Luo, Zong-Ping
Publisher: name: Institute of Machine Design and Operation, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław
Year: 2018
Subjects: osteoarthritis, phenotype, Chondrocyte, tensile strain

description: Acta of Bioengineering and Biomechanics; 02/2018; ISSN 1509-409X
Raman Enhancement in Bowtie-Shaped Aperture-Particle Hybrid Nanostructures Fabricated with DNA-Assisted Lithography
Creators: name: Kabusure, Kabusure M.
name: Piskunen, Petteri
name: Yang, Jiaqi
name: Linko, Veikko
name: Hakala, Tommi K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on efficient surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) supporting substrates, which are based on DNA-assisted lithography (DALI) and a layered configuration of materials. In detail, we used nanoscopic DNA origami bowtie templates to form hybrid nanostructures consisting of aligned silver bowtie-shaped particles and apertures of similar shape in a silver film. We hypothesized that this particular geometry could facilitate a four-fold advantage in Raman enhancement compared to common particle-based SERS substrates, and further, we verified these hypotheses experimentally and by finite difference time domain simulations. In summary, our DALI-fabricated hybrid structures suppress the background emission, allow emission predominantly from the areas of high field enhancement, and support additional resonances associated with the nanoscopic apertures. Finally, these nanoapertures also enhance the fields associated with the resonances of the underlying bowtie particles. The versatility and parallel nature of our DNA origami-based nanofabrication scheme and all of the above-mentioned features of the hybrid structures therefore make our optically resonant substrates attractive for various SERS-based applications.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures, Supporting Information (5 pages, 3 tables, 1 figure)
Augmenting Accessibility: An Exploration of AR Usability and Adaptations for Nonspeaking Autistic Individuals
Creators: name: Nazari, Ahmadreza
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: nonspeaking autistic people
subject: augmented reality
subject: usability study
subject: assistive technology
subject: imitation learning
subject: personalized user interface
subject: Computer Science
subject: Engineering--Electronics and Electrical

description: About one-third of autistic people are nonspeaking, and most are never provided access to an effective alternative to speech. Thoughtfully designed Augmented Reality (AR) applications could provide members of this population with structured learning opportunities, including training on skills that underlie alternative forms of communication. Yet, a considerable gap exists in research exploring AR's use for nonspeaking autistic individuals– a gap this work seeks to address. A fundamental step toward bridging this gap is to investigate nonspeaking autistic people's ability to tolerate a head-mounted AR device and to interact with virtual objects. This thesis presents the first study to examine the usability of an interactive AR-based application by this population. 17 nonspeaking autistic subjects were recruited to play a HoloLens 2 game that involved holographic animations and buttons. Almost all subjects tolerated the device long enough to begin the game, and most completed increasingly challenging tasks that involved pressing holographic buttons. These findings contradict prevailing assumptions about nonspeaking autistic people and open up exciting possibilities for AR-based applications for this population targeting areas such as communication and education. Building upon these findings and recognizing that nonspeaking autistic individuals often have motor skill challenges, this thesis introduces a novel system to enhance the accessibility of AR by optimizing the placement of virtual content using Behavioural Cloning. Specifically, this work targets nonspeaking autistic individuals who are learning to communicate by pointing to letters on a physical letterboard with the help of a caregiver. Observing the real-world interactions between a subject and their caregiver, the proposed system automatically derives a personalized virtual object placement policy. We show that the proposed approach requires only modest training effort and places a virtual object accurately, closely mirroring how the caregiver caters to the user's unique motor skills and movement patterns. This work represents a significant additional step toward enabling AR applications for this population. In summary, this thesis presents empirical evidence that supports the use of AR for assisting nonspeaking autistic people. It also introduces a system for a personalized AR experience to improve the accessibility of this technology. The contributions of this thesis pave the way for broader future applications of AR for this understudied and underserved population.
Topological Superfluid in one-dimensional Ultracold Atomic System with Spin-Orbit Coupling
Creators: name: Yan, Zhongbo
name: Yang, Xiaosen
name: Wan, Shaolong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a one-dimensional Hamiltonian $H_{1D}$ which supports Majorana fermions when $d_{x^{2}-y^{2}}$-wave superfluid appears in the ultracold atomic system and obtain the phase-separation diagrams both for the time-reversal-invariant case and time-reversal-symmetry-breaking case. From the phase-separation diagrams, we find that the single Majorana fermions exist in the topological superfluid region, and we can reach this region by tuning the chemical potential $μ$ and spin-orbit coupling $α_{R}$. Importantly, the spin-orbit coupling has realized in ultracold atoms by the recent experimental achievement of synthetic gauge field, therefore, our one-dimensional ultra-cold atomic system described by $H_{1D}$ is a promising platform to find the mysterious Majorana fermions.
description: 5 papers, 2 figures
Disruption and The Space Between: Staging The Tao of the World in Precarious Times
Creators: name: Sy, Jovanni
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Restoration comedy
subject: Asian Canadian drama
subject: cross-cultural adaptation
subject: pandemic drama
subject: COVID theatre
subject: Theater

description: The Tao of the World is an original play written and directed by Jovanni Sy, inspired by William Congreve's comedy The Way of the World. This play was produced by the Drama Division of the School of Creative and Performing Arts, University of Calgary, and was performed for live audiences at the University Theatre from February 11 - 13, 2022. This artist statement reflects on the process of directing this piece with a specific focus on: (1) how the Omicron variant of COVID-19 affected the rehearsal process; (2) the role of disruption as a tool to challenge assumptions and prompt creative thinking; and (3) the liminal space between Asian and Western cultures and between logical and creative processes.
title: Number dissimilarities facilitate the comprehension of relative clauses in children with (Grammatical) Specific Language Impairment
Creators: name: Adani, Flavia
name: Forgiarini, Matteo
name: Guasti, Maria Teresa
name: Van der Lely, Heather K. J.
Publisher: name: Universität Potsdam
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 400 Sprache

description: This study investigates whether number dissimilarities on subject and object DPs facilitate the comprehension of subject-and object-extracted centre-embedded relative clauses in children with Grammatical Specific Language Impairment (G-SLI). We compared the performance of a group of English-speaking children with G-SLI (mean age: 12; 11) with that of two groups of younger typically developing (TD) children, matched on grammar and receptive vocabulary, respectively. All groups were more accurate on subject-extracted relative clauses than object-extracted ones and, crucially, they all showed greater accuracy for sentences with dissimilar number features (i.e., one singular, one plural) on the head noun and the embedded DP. These findings are interpreted in the light of current psycholinguistic models of sentence comprehension in TD children and provide further insight into the linguistic nature of G-SLI.
description: Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe, 525
Controlling False Positives in Association Rule Mining
Creators: name: Liu, Guimei
name: Zhang, Haojun
name: Wong, Limsoon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Association rule mining is an important problem in the data mining area. It enumerates and tests a large number of rules on a dataset and outputs rules that satisfy user-specified constraints. Due to the large number of rules being tested, rules that do not represent real systematic effect in the data can satisfy the given constraints purely by random chance. Hence association rule mining often suffers from a high risk of false positive errors. There is a lack of comprehensive study on controlling false positives in association rule mining. In this paper, we adopt three multiple testing correction approaches---the direct adjustment approach, the permutation-based approach and the holdout approach---to control false positives in association rule mining, and conduct extensive experiments to study their performance. Our results show that (1) Numerous spurious rules are generated if no correction is made. (2) The three approaches can control false positives effectively. Among the three approaches, the permutation-based approach has the highest power of detecting real association rules, but it is very computationally expensive. We employ several techniques to reduce its cost effectively.
description: VLDB2012
MOESM2 of Mapping the evidence on health equity considerations in economic evaluations of health interventions: a scoping review protocol
Creators: name: Besar Saâ€™aid, Hafizah
name: Mathew, Sharon
name: Richardson, Marina
name: Bielecki, Joanna
name: Sander, Beate
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2. Search strategy for Ovid MEDLINE, CLHTA + CLEED + CDSR. (docx 21kb)
Gravitational stability of a cylindrical plasma with an azimuthal and an axial magnetic field
Creators: name: McLeman, James A.
name: Wang, Charles H. -T.
name: Bingham, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the gravitational stability of a current carrying filamentary cloud in the presence of both axial and azimuthal magnetic fields using a simple analytic model. The azimuthal magnetic field is shown to give rise to a new contribution, dictated by Ampere's law, in the corresponding virial equation for magnetohydrodynamic equilibrium. From this we obtain a computationally inexpensive guidance on the gravitational stability of current carrying filamentary clouds. The approach not only provides a fresh insight into the essential physical mechanisms involved, but also demonstrates clearly that, for sufficiently large and yet astronomically realistic currents, the azimuthal magnetic field can cause filamentary clouds to undergo instability.
description: 7 pages, 2 column aastex, to appear in ApJ
Stability and Efficiency of Personalised Cultural Markets
Creators: name: Zhu, Haiqing
name: Cheung, Yun Kuen
name: Xie, Lexing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This work is concerned with the dynamics of online cultural markets, namely, attention allocation of many users on a set of digital goods with infinite supply. Such dynamic is important in shaping processes and outcomes in society, from trending items in entertainment, collective knowledge creation, to election outcomes. The outcomes of online cultural markets are susceptible to intricate social influence dynamics, particularly so when the community comprises consumers with heterogeneous interests. This has made formal analysis of these markets improbable. In this paper, we remedy this by establishing robust connections between influence dynamics and optimization processes, in trial-offer markets where the consumer preferences are modelled by multinomial logit. Among other results, we show that the proportional-response-esque influence dynamic is equivalent to stochastic mirror descent on a convex objective function, thus leading to a stable and predictable outcome. When all consumers are homogeneous, the objective function has a natural interpretation as a weighted sum of efficiency and diversity of the culture market. In simulations driven by real-world preferences collected from a large-scale recommender system, we observe that ranking strategies aligned with the underlying heterogeneous preferences are more stable, and achieves higher efficiency and diversity. In simulations driven by real-world preferences collected from a large-scale recommender system, we observe that ranking strategies aligned with the underlying heterogeneous preferences are more stable, and achieves higher efficiency and diversity.
The ecology and fitness consequences of gut microbiome variation in Sable Island feral horses (Equus caballus)
Creators: name: Stothart, Mason R.
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: holobiont
subject: metagenomic
subject: non-genetic inheritance
subject: quantitative genetics
subject: symbiosis
subject: wildlife
subject: Education--Sciences
subject: Forestry and Wildlife
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Biology--Molecular

description: Gut microbiomes are understood to be integral to the ecology and evolution of animal life, but until very recently, the scientific literature has lacked robust empirical characterization of the host genetic basis and fitness consequences of microbiome variation within wild animal populations. As a closed population of free-living but exhaustively surveyed fate-known individuals which are obligately reliant on their gut microbiomes, the feral horses of Sable Island (Nova Scotia) provide a tractable study system in which to study the ecology, host-to-host transmission, and fitness consequences of microbiome variation in the wild. In this thesis, I begin by characterizing the ecological determinants of the Sable Island horse hindgut microbiome (Chapter 2) and validate the use of shallow shotgun metagenomic sequencing methods for characterizing diverse microbial communities in the horse hindgut (Chapter 3). In applying a shallow shotgun metagenomic sequencing method to a dataset of 2394 fecal samples from 794 individuals spanning 7 years of collection, I find evidence that variation the gut microbiome is visible to host-level selection (Chapter 4). Further quantitative genetic analyses of these data reveal that microbiome features are weakly heritable on average (Chapter 5), suggesting a limited capacity for the microbiome to rapidly respond to selection; but animal model and eco-phylogenetic null model results independently provide evidence that the social dispersal of microbes between horses is an important determinant of microbiome structure. Furthermore, the microbiota which show the strongest evidence for social structuring are those which are most consequential for horse survival. These findings support hypotheses that non-genetic inheritance mechanisms (microbe dispersal) could critically underlie the ability for microbiomes to adaptively respond to selection on ecologically-relevant timescales. However, host inbreeding may constrain the capacity for microbiome variation to adaptively respond to host-level selection, since microbe responses to inbreeding were negatively associated with the estimated effects of those same microbiota on horse survival (Chapter 6). The proximate environmental and host genetic mechanisms underpinning microbiome variation, patterns of context-specific selection, and strain-level transmission remain to be characterized in detail. Nonetheless, this thesis contains tentative but important empirical milestones in describing the eco-evolutionary significance of host-associated microbiomes in the wild.
Raman spectra and SEM EDX analyses of artifacts resembling Ediacaran / Cambrian fossils
Creators: name: Toniolo, Thiago
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: artifacts
Micropaleontology
Ediacaran
Cambrian
cloudina
Mineral
Biomineralization

description: This data is related to the paper: "Artifacts resembling Ediacaran / Cambrian fossils: how to identify them and avoid their generation" submitted for publication in the "Journal of Micropaleontology" on March 24, 2023. The reaction between hydrogen peroxide and pyrite can lead to the generation of objects very similar to Ediacaran and Cambrian fossils, such as Cloudina. This dataset and related paper provides criteria to distinguish artifacts from fossils based on their composition and structure. This dataset cotains all the Raman spectra and SEM/EDX analyses of artifacts that characterize them and are used for discussion in the related paper.
description: Raman spectra are saved in .txt and .wdf SEM images are saved in .tif EDX analyses are saved in .docxFunding provided by: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Crossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001807
Award Number: 2016/06114-6
description: Raman spectrometry: used for identifying the mineralogical / molecular composition of artifacts. These analyses were carried out at the Brazilian Research Unit of Astrobiology (NAP/Astrobio) using a Renishaw inVia micro-Raman, with laser excitation wavelength of 785 nm, 1% power, acquisition time of 1 s and 30 accumulations. Scanning Electron Microscopy with Energy Dispersive X-Ray Analyzer (SEM/EDX): The artifacts were covered with carbon and analyzed in order to characterize their ultrastructure and elemental composition. These analyses were carried out in the Laboratory of Scanning Electron Microscopy, at the Institute of Geosciences of USP using a LEO 440 scanning electron microscope coupled with an Oxford energy dispersive X-ray spectrometer.
Accelerating Evolution Through Gene Masking and Distributed Search
Creators: name: Shahrzad, Hormoz
name: Miikkulainen, Risto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In building practical applications of evolutionary computation (EC), two optimizations are essential. First, the parameters of the search method need to be tuned to the domain in order to balance exploration and exploitation effectively. Second, the search method needs to be distributed to take advantage of parallel computing resources. This paper presents BLADE (BLAnket Distributed Evolution) as an approach to achieving both goals simultaneously. BLADE uses blankets (i.e., masks on the genetic representation) to tune the evolutionary operators during the search, and implements the search through hub-and-spoke distribution. In the paper, (1) the blanket method is formalized for the (1 + 1)EA case as a Markov chain process. Its effectiveness is then demonstrated by analyzing dominant and subdominant eigenvalues of stochastic matrices, suggesting a generalizable theory; (2) the fitness-level theory is used to analyze the distribution method; and (3) these insights are verified experimentally on three benchmark problems, showing that both blankets and distribution lead to accelerated evolution. Moreover, a surprising synergy emerges between them: When combined with distribution, the blanket approach achieves more than $n$-fold speedup with $n$ clients in some cases. The work thus highlights the importance and potential of optimizing evolutionary computation in practical applications.
Algorithms and applications of next-generation DNA sequencing : ChIP-Seq, database of human variations, and analysis of mammary ductal carcinomas
Creators: name: Fejes, Anthony Peter
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technologies enable Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) or Ribonucleic Acid (RNA) sequencing to be done at volumes and speeds several orders of magnitude faster than Sanger (dideoxy termination) based methods and have enabled the development of novel experiment types that would not have been practical before the advent of the NGS-based machines. The dramatically increased throughput of these new protocols requires significant changes to the algorithms used to process and analyze the results. In this thesis, I present novel algorithms used for Chromatin Immunoprecipitation and Sequencing (ChIP-Seq) as well as the structures required and challenges faced for working with Single Nucleotide Variations (SNVs) across a large collection of samples, and finally, I present the results obtained when performing an NGS based analysis of eight mammary ductal carcinoma cell lines and four matched normal cell lines.
title: Answer set programming as a modeling language for course timetabling
Creators: name: Banbara, Mutsunori
name: Soh, Takehide
name: Tamura, Naoyuki
name: Inoue, Katsumi
name: Schaub, Torsten
Publisher: name: Universität Potsdam
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 004 Datenverarbeitung; Informatik

description: The course timetabling problem can be generally defined as the task of assigning a number of lectures to a limited set of timeslots and rooms, subject to a given set of hard and soft constraints. The modeling language for course timetabling is required to be expressive enough to specify a wide variety of soft constraints and objective functions. Furthermore, the resulting encoding is required to be extensible for capturing new constraints and for switching them between hard and soft, and to be flexible enough to deal with different formulations. In this paper, we propose to make effective use of ASP as a modeling language for course timetabling. We show that our ASP-based approach can naturally satisfy the above requirements, through an ASP encoding of the curriculum-based course timetabling problem proposed in the third track of the second international timetabling competition (ITC-2007). Our encoding is compact and human-readable, since each constraint is individually expressed by either one or two rules. Each hard constraint is expressed by using integrity constraints and aggregates of ASP. Each soft constraint S is expressed by rules in which the head is the form of penalty (S, V, C), and a violation V and its penalty cost C are detected and calculated respectively in the body. We carried out experiments on four different benchmark sets with five different formulations. We succeeded either in improving the bounds or producing the same bounds for many combinations of problem instances and formulations, compared with the previous best known bounds.
description: Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe, 594
Dimensions of Bildung in the novels Eine jüdische Mutter, Nach Mitternacht, and Kindheitsmuster
Creators: name: Toor, Gorsharn Glory
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: In my dissertation I analyze the three novels Eine jüdische Mutter by Gertrud Kolmar, Nach Mitternacht by Irmgard Keun, and Kindheitsmuster by Christa Wolf within the paradigm of the genre of the female Bildungsroman and female anti-Bildungsroman. Ideas of belonging to an imagined community, perceived gender norms, and the power of the state play a critical role in determining the outcome of the protagonists’ Bildung, as does the status of the female protagonist. The theories of Benedict Anderson, Judith Butler and Giorigo Agamben provide a useful theoretical framework for this analysis. In Eine jüdische Mutter, set during the Weimar Republic Martha Wolg is deemed an outsider because of refusal to adhere to certain gender norms and her Jewish identity. She is unable to find a compromise with her society because she refuses to incorporate her experiences into her Bildung. In contrast, Sanna Moder does incorporate her experience in Nach Mitternacht, but goes into exile because she does not want to belong to a society in the Third Reich. In Kindheitsmuster, set in the Third Reich and the German Democratic Republic, the protagonist Nelly Jordan is an accepted member of the imagined German community, but she too faces difficulty in her Bildung. The outcome of my research shows how racism, sexism, narrowly defined gender norms, and the type of political state have a profound impact on the Bildung of the protagonists.
Front matter for: Papers from the Third International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, Vol. 1: Currents in Oceanic
Creators: name: Halim, Amran (Ed.)
name: Carrington, Lois (Ed.)
name: Wurm, S.A. (Ed.)
Publisher: name: Pacific Linguistics
Year: 1982

description: Contents iiiINTRODUCTION ivTHE CONTRIBUTORS vLOCATION MAP vi
The X-ray luminous galaxies optically classified as star forming are mostly narrow line Seyfert 1s
Creators: name: Castelló-Mor, N.
name: Barcons, X.
name: Ballo, L.
name: Carrera, F. J.
name: Ward, M. J.
name: Jin, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We aim to characterize the nature of galaxies whose optical emission line diagnostics are consistent with star formation, but whose X-ray properties strongly point towards the presence of an AGN. Understanding these sources is of particular importance in assessing the completeness of AGN samples derived from large galaxy surveys, selected solely on the basis of their optical spectral properties.We construct a large sample of 211 NELGs, which have FWHMs Hb emission line <1200 km/s from the SDSS-DR7 galaxy spectroscopic catalogue, for which we are able to construct a classical diagnostic diagram, [OIII]/Hb versus [NII]/Ha (hence z<0.4), and that are also detected in the hard energy band and present in the 2XMM catalogue. This sample offers a large database by which to investigate potential mismatches between optical diagnostics and X-ray emission. Among these 211 objects, which based on our selection criteria are all at z<0.4, we find that 145 galaxies are diagnosed as AGNs, having 2-10 keV X-ray luminosities that span a wide range, from 10^40 erg/s to above 10^44 erg/s. Out of the remaining 66 galaxies, which are instead diagnosed as SF, we find a bimodal distribution in which 28 have X-ray luminosities in excess of 10^42 erg/s, large T (>1), and large X/O ratio (>0.1), while the rest are consistent with being simply SF galaxies. Those 28 galaxies exhibit the broadest Hb line FWHMs, from ~300 to 1200 km/s, and their X-ray spectrum is steeper than average and often displays a soft excess. We therefore conclude that the population of X-ray luminous NELGs with optical lines consistent with those of a starforming galaxy (which represent 19% of our whole sample) is largely dominated by NLS1s. The occurrence of such sources in the overall optically selected sample is small (<2%), hence the contamination of optically selected galaxies by NLS1s is very small.
description: 16 pages, 8 figures, 4 tables, accepted for publication in A&A
An algorithm to identify automorphisms which arise from self-induced interval exchange transformations
Creators: name: Jullian, Yann
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37B10, 20E05, 20D45, 20F65 (Primary) 20E08 (Secondary)

description: We give an algorithm to determine if the dynamical system generated by a positive automorphism of the free group can also be generated by a self-induced interval exchange transformation. The algorithm effectively yields the interval exchange transformation in case of success.
description: 26 pages, 8 figures. v2: the article has been reorganized to make for a more linear read. A few paragraphs have been added for clarity
Impact of Homeostasis Disruption on the Structure and Function of Murine Articular Cartilage
Creators: name: Oliveira Masson, Anand
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Osteoarthritis
subject: Articular cartilage
subject: Stem Cells
subject: Engineering--Biomedical
subject: Education--Health

description: Articular cartilage plays a vital role in facilitating pain-free movement and load distribution in synovial joints, such as the knee. Owing to its complex structure-functional requirements and limited regenerative capacity, articular cartilage is particularly vulnerable to deterioration triggered by intrinsic and extrinsic insults. For instance, abnormal loading, trauma and aging can disrupt cellular, anatomical, and functional homeostasis within the knee joint and/or articular cartilage microenvironment, contributing to the pathogenesis of tissue degradation and degenerative joint diseases, particularly osteoarthritis (OA). In this context, it is essential to understand how cartilage and the joint microenvironment respond to differential levels of tissue homeostatic disruption and the resulting implication on remodeling and repair outcomes. In this multifaceted study, I employed several transgenic mouse models in conjunction with histological, imaging, and mechanical testing modalities to deepen our understanding of structural and functional changes associated with degeneration and regeneration of murine articular cartilage.
Optimal control of quantum revival
Creators: name: Rasanen, E.
name: Heller, E. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Increasing fidelity is the ultimate challenge of quantum information technology. In addition to decoherence and dissipation, fidelity is affected by internal imperfections such as impurities in the system. Here we show that the quality of quantum revival, i.e., periodic recurrence in the time evolution, can be restored almost completely by coupling the distorted system to an external field obtained from quantum optimal control theory. We demonstrate the procedure with wave-packet calculations in both one- and two-dimensional quantum wells, and analyze the required physical characteristics of the control field. Our results generally show that the inherent dynamics of a quantum system can be idealized at an extremely low cost.
Parental Perspectives of the Impact of Emotion Dysregulation on Challenging Behaviours in Autistic Children
Creators: name: Horbay, Braxtyn
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: autism
subject: autistic
subject: emotion regulation
subject: emotion dysregulation
subject: challenging behaviour
subject: qualitative
subject: thematic analysis
subject: children
subject: Psychology--Behavioral
subject: Education--Early Childhood
subject: Educational Psychology

description: Background: Autism is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by impairments in social communication, as well as restricted and repetitive behaviours. It is well established in the literature that difficulties with emotion regulation and the display of challenging behaviours are prominent secondary characteristics of autism that have negative consequences for both the individual and their family. Though emotion dysregulation and challenging behaviours are well studied as separate constructs, little is known about the relation between the two, how one affects the presentation of the other, and the relative implications for intervention. This thesis sought to understand the relation between emotion dysregulation and challenging behaviours by gathering parental perspectives of the perceived impact that emotion dysregulation has on their child’s challenging behaviour and the related implications for intervention. Methodology: This study was intended to be a mixed method analysis using a quantitative online survey to capture the frequency and severity of challenging behaviour and observable indicators of poor emotion regulation followed by a qualitative semi-structured interview. Results: Due to the small sample size, the quantitative data was not included in analysis and was only used to inform the construction of the qualitative semi-structured interview. Reflexive thematic analysis identified eight themes and two subthemes under the domains of emotion dysregulation, challenging behaviours, and the relation between emotion dysregulation and challenging behaviours. Discussion: This thesis identified novel information under the domains of emotion dysregulation, challenging behaviour, and the relation between the two constructs. The results present evidence of communication impairments eliciting feelings of dysregulation in autistic children, and that the inability to engage in adaptive emotion regulation and properly communicate their feelings prohibits them from choosing and engaging in an appropriate emotional response or strategy. Consequently, autistic children seem to engage in challenging behaviour. The current findings can inform programs and services that support autistic children with the goal of decreasing challenging behaviour and increasing adaptive emotion regulation skills. Important implications for future researchers include quantitatively exploring the severity of communication impairments in autistic children and how it affects both emotion dysregulation and challenging behaviour.
Direct numerical simulations of the Taylor-Green Vortex interacting with a hydrogen diffusion flame: Reynolds number and non-unity Lewis number effects
Creators: name: Xu, Yifan
name: Chen, Zhi X.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Understanding the interactions between hydrogen flame and turbulent vortices is important for developing the next-generation carbon neutral combustion systems. In the present work, we perform several direct numerical simulation (DNS) cases to study the dynamics of a hydrogen diffusion flame embedded in the Taylor-Green Vortex (TGV). The evolution of flame and vortex is investigated for a range of initial Reynolds numbers up to 3200 with different mass diffusion models. We show that the vortices dissipate rapidly in cases at low Reynolds numbers, while the consistent stretching, splitting and twisting of vortex tubes are observed in cases with evident turbulence transition at high Reynolds numbers. Regarding the interactions between the flame and vortex, it is demonstrated that the heat release generated by the flame has suppression effects on the turbulence intensity and its development of the TGV. Meanwhile, the intense turbulence provides abundant kinetic energy, accelerating the mixing of the diffusion flame with a contribution to higher strain rate and larger curvatures of the flame. Considering the effects of non-unity Lewis number, it is revealed that the flame strength is more intense in the cases with mixture averaged model. However, this effect is relatively suppressed under the impacts of the intense turbulence.
title: Morphosyntax in the bilingual mental lexicon
title: an experimental study of strong stems in German
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Krause, Helena
name: Bosch, Sina
name: Clahsen, Harald
Publisher: name: Universität Potsdam
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 400 Sprache

description: Although morphosyntax has been identified as a major source of difficulty for adult (nonnative) language learners, most previous studies have examined a limited set of largely affix-based phenomena. Little is known about word-based morphosyntax in late bilinguals and of how morphosyntax is represented and processed in a nonnative speaker's lexicon. To address these questions, we report results from two behavioral experiments investigating stem variants of strong verbs in German (which encode features such as tense, person, and number) in groups of advanced adult learners as well as native speakers of German. Although the late bilinguals were highly proficient in German, the results of a lexical priming experiment revealed clear native-nonnative differences. We argue that lexical representation and processing relies less on morphosyntactic information in a nonnative than in a native language.
description: Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe, 528
A Strongly Dipolar Bose-Einstein Condensate of Dysprosium
Creators: name: Lu, Mingwu
name: Burdick, Nathaniel Q.
name: Youn, Seo Ho
name: Lev, Benjamin L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) of the most magnetic atom, dysprosium. The Dy BEC is the first for an open f-shell lanthanide (rare-earth) element and is produced via forced evaporation in a crossed optical dipole trap loaded by an unusual, blue-detuned and spin-polarized narrow-line magneto-optical trap. Nearly pure condensates of 1.5x10^4 164Dy atoms form below T = 30 nK. We observe that stable BEC formation depends on the relative angle of a small polarizing magnetic field to the axis of the oblate trap, a property of trapped condensates only expected in the strongly dipolar regime. This regime was heretofore only attainable in Cr BECs via a Feshbach resonance accessed at high magnetic field.
description: 4 pages plus refs on fifth, 3 figures; new version includes edits based on referee's comments
Detection of intrinsic cluster alignments to 100 Mpc/h in the SDSS
Creators: name: Smargon, A.
name: Mandelbaum, R.
name: Bahcall, N.
name: Niederste-Ostholt, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We measure the large-scale intrinsic alignments of galaxy clusters in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) using subsets of two cluster catalogues: 6625 clusters with 0.1
description: 6 pages, 2 figures, submitted to MNRAS; minor revisions to address referee comments primarily in section 5, no changes to results
Influence of Microarchitecture on the Mechanical Fatigue Behaviour of Equine Subchondral Bone
Creators: name: Koshyk, Andrew
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Biomedical

description: Fractures of the equine metacarpophalangeal (MCP) joint are among the most common and fatal injuries experienced by racehorses. These bone injuries are a direct result of repetitive, high intensity loading of the skeleton during racing and training and there is consensus that they represent a mechanical fatigue phenomenon. Existing work has found the fatigue life of bone to be strongly determined by bone microarchitecture and the resulting stressed volume (i.e., the volume of bone stressed above yield). The purpose of this study was to quantify the influence of bone microarchitecture on the mechanical fatigue behaviour of equine subchondral bone from the MCP joint. Forty-eight subchondral bone samples were prepared from the third metacarpal (MC3) and proximal phalanx (P1) and subsequently imaged using high resolution micro-computed tomography (μCT) to quantify microarchitectural features of interest, including bone volume fraction, tissue mineral density, pore size, pore spacing, and pore number. Samples were cyclically loaded in compression to a stress of 70 MPa, and fatigue life was defined as the number of cycles until failure. Finite element models were created from the μCT images and used to quantify the stressed volume. Based on the expected log point-wise predictive density (ELPD), stressed volume was a strong predictor of fatigue life in both the MC3 and P1. Normalized stress (i.e., initial nominal strain) was also a strong predictor of fatigue life in samples from the MC3, but not for samples from the P1. This disparity can be attributed to differences in microstructure homogeneity. A regional analysis indicated fatigue life was more strongly associated with bone volume fraction in the superficial (r2 = 0.32, p < 0.001) and middle (r2 = 0.70, p < 0.001) regions of the subchondral bone, indicating that the cortical plate plays a more prominent role in the fatigue resistance of subchondral bone. By improving our understanding of the variance in fatigue life measurements, this research helps begin to clarify the underlying mechanisms of the mechanical fatigue process and provide a basic understanding of subchondral bone injuries in the equine fetlock joint.
Prototype electronics for the silicon pad layers of the future Forward Calorimeter (FoCal) of the ALICE experiment at the LHC
Creators: name: Bourrion, O.
name: Tourres, D.
name: Guernane, R.
name: Arata, C.
name: Bouly, J. -L.
name: Ponchant, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A Forward Calorimeter (FoCal) has been proposed as part of the ALICE upgrades for data taking from 2029 onwards. The FoCal will feature a sampling electromagnetic calorimeter segmented into 110 towers supplemented by a hadron calorimeter. The electromagnetic calorimeter will be composed of 20 passive layers of tungsten absorber interleaved with 18 active layers of low-granularity silicon pad sensors and two layers of high-granularity pixel detectors. Each pad layer will be read out by 110 silicon pad sensors of 72 channels, amounting to a total of 1980 sensors. This paper describes, from front-end to back-end, the electronics developed to instrument a tower prototype composed of 18 silicon pad sensors as well as a design proposal for the full-detector readout system.
description: 24 pages , 19 figures
A note on the modified q-Genocchi numbers and polynomials with weight (α,β) and their interpolation function at negative integers
Creators: name: Araci, Serkan
name: Açikgöz, Mehmet
name: Qi, Feng
name: Jolany, Hassan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46A15, 41A65

description: The purpose of this paper concerns to establish modified q-Genocchi numbers and polynomials with weight (α,β). In this paper we investigate special generalized q-Genocchi polynomials and we apply the method of generating function, which are exploited to derive further classes of q-Genocchi polynomials and develop q-Genocchi numbers and polynomials. By using the Laplace-Mellin transformation integral, we define q-Zeta function with weight (α,β) and by presenting a link between q-Zeta function with weight (α,β) and q-Genocchi numbers with weight (α,β) we obtain an interpolation formula for the q-Genocchi numbers and polynomials with weight (α,β). Also we derive distribution formula (Multiplication Theorem) and Witt's type formula for modified q-Genocchi numbers and polynomials with weight (α,β) which yield a deeper insight into the effectiveness of this type of generalizations for q=Genocchi numbers and polynomials. Our new generating function possess a number of interesting properties which we state in this paper.
description: 9 pages, submitted