cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Probing resonance decays to two visible and multiple invisible particles
Creators: name: Cho, Won Sang
name: Kim, Doojin
name: Matchev, Konstantin T.
name: Park, Myeonghun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the decay of a generic resonance to two visible particles and any number of invisible particles. We show that the shape of the invariant mass distribution of the two visible particles is sensitive to both the mass spectrum of the new particles, as well as the decay topology. We provide the analytical formulas describing the invariant mass shapes for the nine simplest topologies (with up to two invisible particles in the final state). Any such distribution can be simply categorized by its endpoint, peak location and curvature, which are typically sufficient to discriminate among the competing topologies. In each case, we list the effective mass parameters which can be measured by experiment. In certain cases, the invariant mass shape is sufficient to completely determine the new particle mass spectrum, including the overall mass scale.
description: Added new figures, conclusions unchanged, published version
Joseph Slaughter, Lettura umanitaria
Creators: name: Zangari, Sostene
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Nell’ambito della discussione sulle potenzialità della lettura e dello studio letterario come strumento di alfabetizzazione nei diritti umani, il saggio intende proporre un’alternativa alle strategie di lettura proposte da Richard Rorty e Martha Nussbaum, le quali pongono l’accento sull’identificazione tra lettore e vittime. Prendendo a oggetto di analisi Un ricordo di Solferino, opera di Henry J. Dunant, il saggio esplora la possibilità di identificazione tra lettore e il volontario impegnato nella cura dei feriti e dei bisognosi, sostituendo all’empatia metaforica proposta da Rorty e Nussbaum un rapporto metonimico di contiguità. La sostituzione consente di superare la divisione lettore/vittima, che ripropone una relazione asimmetrica di potere tra l’Occidente e il resto del mondo, e avviare un discorso diretto a tutta l’umanità senza distinzione.
description: ENTHYMEMA, No 4 (2011)
Determining the Role of the Clr6 Histone Deacetylase Subunit Prw1 and Regulation of the Flocculin Gene gsf2+ in the Flocculation of Schizosaccharomyces pombe
Creators: name: Panchal, Priyal
Publisher: name: Science
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biology--Cell
subject: Biology--Microbiology
subject: Biology--Genetics

description: Flocculation is the nonsexual aggregation of yeast cells in liquid medium under stressed environmental conditions. This process is used as a coping mechanism to survive in undesirable conditions such as lack of nutrients or drastic changes within the environment. Flocculation in Schizosaccharomyces pombe is primarily governed by the flocculin gene, gsf2+. Gsf2 is the primary flocculin as only the absence of this flocculin causes failure to flocculate. Several transcription factors have been identified that directly regulate gsf2+. However, there has not been studies showing the intracellular localization and temporal expression of Gsf2 under various growth conditions, stressed conditions or under control of known and potential transcription factors implicated in flocculation in live cells. In this study, the intracellular localization of Gsf2 was shown using a green fluorescent protein (GFP) tag. First, we found through fluorescence microscopy that Gsf2-GFP was expressed in cells during stationary phase in minimal medium (EMM), and throughout exponential and stationary phases in flocculation-inducing medium (FIM). Next, we looked at the ectopic expression of Gsf2-GFP in the presence and absence of transcriptional activators and repressors, respectively. Second, we explored alternate inducing conditions and found that high concentrations of ferrous chloride (FeCl2) induces flocculation. Further, we tested our gsf2-GFP strain in EMM + FeCl2 medium and detected Gsf2-GFP expression in cells during exponential and stationary phases. Finally, we explored the Clr6 histone deacetylase (HDAC) complex subunit Prw1 for its ability to repress flocculation. We confirmed by plasmid complementation that the constitutive flocculation phenotype was caused by loss of prw1+. Next, we determined that overexpression of prw1+ or clr6+ was not enough to repress flocculation completely in FIM. Further, we found through qPCR analysis that the prw1? strain shows upregulation of several flocculin genes including gsf2+, as well as cell wall remodeling genes, and the former is likely responsible for the constitutive flocculation phenotype. Collectively, these results substantially contribute to a better understanding of flocculation in S. pombe.
Keroro Gunsô : carnivalization in Japanese anime
Creators: name: Qiu, Huiyong
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: This thesis explores the playful world of Keroro Gunsô, a manga-turned-anime comedy that is immensely popular in millennium Japan and starting to gain popularity on a global scale. Drawing from a parody of Japan’s military aggression during World War Two, the anime plays with the public memory about Japan’s imperial past and the binary opposition between war and peace, invader and the invaded, and ultimately, patriarchy and matriarchy. This paper will examine the text of Keroro Gunsô as a symbolic site of what Mikhail Bakhtin called “carnival,” a discursive space for renewal, festivity and laughter freed from ordinary social restrictions and conformity. I would argue that Keroro Gunsô offers a playful fantasy for Japan’s “post-postwar memory” (as Carol Gluck calls it) to deal with social anxieties associated with Japan’s imperial past and its tragic defeat in the war. I will start my argument by looking at the increasingly significant role of carnival/festival anime in today’s global culture. Then, after a brief reading of the story of Keroro Gunsô, I will locate its text in the framework of “carnival” to examine its carnivalesque features: the attack against historical facts through parody as well as the reversal of Japan’s patriarchal hierarchy through the mobilization of its symbolic characters. Finally, I will examine how Keroro Gunsô embraces/celebrates Japan’s playfully weak, irresponsible, and ultimately, emasculated identity as a response to the social anxieties surrounding Japan’s defeat in World War Two. Through the alternate reading of this incredibly popular comedy, this paper attempts to explore a different side of Japanese society encapsulated in this carnivalesque anime behind its humor and festival laughter.
Mixed States from Anomalies
Creators: name: Balachandran, A. P.
name: de Queiroz, Amilcar R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There are several instances where quantum anomalies of continuous and discrete classical symmetries play an important role in fundamental physics. Examples come from chiral anomalies in the Standard Model of fundamental interactions and gravitational anomalies in string theories. Their generic origin is the fact that classical symmetries may not preserve the domains of quantum operators like the Hamiltonian. In this work, we show by simple examples that anomalous symmetries can often be implemented at the expense of working with mixed states having non-zero entropies. In particular there is the result on color breaking by non-abelian magnetic monopoles. This anomaly can be rectified by using impure states. We also argue that non-abelian groups of twisted bundles are always anomalous for pure states sharpening an earlier argument of Sorkin and Balachandran. This is the case of mapping class groups of geons indicating that "large" diffeos are anomalous for pure states in the presence of geons. Nevertheless diffeo invariance may be restored by using impure states. This work concludes with examples of these ideas drawn from molecular physics. The above approach using impure states is entirely equivalent to restricting all states to the algebra of observables invariant under the anomalous symmetries. For anomalous gauge groups such as color, this would mean that we work with observables singlet under global gauge transformations. For color, this will mean that we work with color singlets, a reasonable constraint.
description: 22 pages; v2: A new subsection "Relation to Lagrangian Approach" added to section II, other minor improvements. Published in PRD
L'oggetto del desiderio ha il colore del vuoto
Creators: name: Bottiroli, Giovanni
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: L’oggetto del desiderio non è semplicemente un oggetto empirico; su ciò, con qualche esitazione, potrebbe esistere un consenso generale. Resta la difficoltà di indicare le caratteristiche dell’oggetto del desiderio: che non sono banalmente delle proprietà, e neanche solo delle parti (in senso empirico, come si potrebbe nominarle da un punto di vista mereologico). L’oggetto del desiderio ha uno statuto modale: è un oggetto modalmente diviso, nei registri e nei regimi. Nella dimensione del desiderio, tanto il soggetto quanto l’oggetto sono abitati dal conflitto tra il diviso e l’indiviso. La spinta verso l’indiviso corrisponde a ciò che Freud ha introdotto con la nozione enigmatica di «pulsione di morte». In termini lacaniani, è l’attrazione verso la Cosa (das Ding). E la Cosa vuole coincidere con se stessa, abolendo ogni distinzione. L’oggetto del desiderio non è un dato o una forma empirica, per attraente che sia: l’attrazione che esercita proviene dal caos. Alla pericolosa coincidenza del «vuoto-pieno» (das Ding) il desiderio oppone il vuoto logico della non-coincidenza. Una teoria del desiderio non può fare a meno di una riflessione sui differenti significati del vuoto.
description: ENTHYMEMA, No 4 (2011)
Examining the Experiences of Punjabi Women in Alberta Accessing Mental Health Services
Creators: name: Thind, Rajneek K.
Publisher: name: Social Work
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Mental Health
subject: Punjabi
subject: Punjabi Women's Mental Health
subject: Transnational Feminism
subject: Intersectionality
subject: Qualitative Research
subject: Interpretive Description
subject: Qualitative Methodology
subject: Social Work Practice
subject: Social Work Practice with Diverse Communities
subject: Social Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Education
subject: Health And Environmental Sciences

description: This study explores lived experience related to mental health service utilization among Punjabi women living in Alberta. The Punjabi diaspora has roots connecting to the state of Punjab in India, which has witnessed significant historical trauma. The Punjabi population in Alberta is increasing with immigration and migration from other areas in Canada. Punjabi women face challenges seeking appropriate support for their mental health. There are significant gaps in the literature in this area, warranting further exploration to better understand and support mental health service delivery for this population. Based on an Interpretive Description methodology, seven Punjabi women living in Alberta participated in semi-structured interviews to share their mental health service access experiences. Findings convey a range of challenges related to mental health service utilization. Recommendations are offered to inform mental health support for this population.
La funzione testuale secondo Daniel Dubuisson. Fondamenti di etica letteraria in Anthropologie poétique
Creators: name: Lopopolo, Mariangela
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Nei tempi di crisi che stiamo attraversando, l’interrogativo sul ruolo e sull’utilità della opere letterarie sembra proporsi con una certa insistenza e rinnovarsi anche nel nostro paese. A cercare di rispondergli, sono, in particolare, gli studi dei rapporti tra l’etica e la letteratura, tradizionalmente concentrati su contenuti testuali espliciti, messaggi e ideologie. Tali studi, però, specie di recente, hanno mostrato di sapersi rivolgere anche al testo letterario in quanto forma artistica autonoma e dunque libera. Nella libertà del testo, l’etica della letteratura ha, quindi, scorto responsabilità cognitive, educative nonché orientative dei testi nei confronti degli uomini.
 Svolgendo ricerche in una chiave antropologico-metafisica, Daniel Dubuisson ha individuato proprio la conoscenza, l’educazione e l’orientamento come costitutivi della funzione testuale in generale e ha riservato alla questione il libro Anthropologie poétique (1996). Questo contributo ripercorre alcuni punti del lavoro dell’antropologo e storico delle religioni francese, con l’intento di presentare fondamenti di un’etica letteraria che si segnala all’attenzione della teoria e della critica della letteratura.
description: ENTHYMEMA, No 4 (2011)
Private and Quantum Capacities of More Capable and Less Noisy Quantum Channels
Creators: name: Watanabe, Shun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Two new classes of quantum channels, which we call more capable and less noisy, are introduced. The more capable class consists of channels such that the quantum capacities of the complementary channels to the environments are zero. The less noisy class consists of channels such that the private capacities of the complementary channels to the environment are zero. For the more capable class, it is clarified that the private capacity and quantum capacity coincide. For the less noisy class, it is clarified that the private capacity and quantum capacity can be single letter characterized.
description: 6 pages, 1 figure, In v2, fig 1 is modified because fig 1 in v1 incorrectly stated that the degradable class is included in the conjugate degradable class. Main results are unchanged. V3 is the published version. In v3, the title is changed by a suggestion from an editor
Cosmological constraints on non-standard inflationary quantum collapse models
Creators: name: Landau, Susana J.
name: Scóccola, Claudia G.
name: Sudarsky, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We briefly review an important shortcoming --unearthed in previous works-- of the standard version of the inflationary model for the emergence of the seeds of cosmic structure. We consider here some consequences emerging from a proposal inspired on ideas of Penrose and Diósi about a quantum-gravity induced reduction of the wave function, which has been put forward to address the shortcomings, arguing that its effect on the inflaton field is what can lead to the emergence of the seeds of cosmic structure. The proposal leads to a deviation of the primordial spectrum from the scale-invariant Harrison-Zel'dovich one, and consequently, to a different CMB power spectrum. We perform statistical analyses to test two quantum collapse schemes with recent data from the CMB, including the 7-yr release of WMAP and the matter power spectrum measured using LRGs by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Results from the statistical analyses indicate that several collapse models are compatible with CMB and LRG data, and establish constraints on the free parameters of the models. The data put no restriction on the timescale for the collapse of the scalar field modes.
description: 23 pages, 16 figures, replaced to match version to appear in Physical Review D
Role of Cdk5rap2 in Centriole Cohesion, Cytoskeleton Dynamics, and Cell Senescence
Creators: name: Sipila, Patrick S
Publisher: name: Cumming School of Medicine
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biological Sciences

description: Cyclin-dependent kinase 5 regulatory subunit-associated protein 2 (Cdk5rap2) loss-of-function mutations are associated with primary microcephaly (also known as MCPH3), a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by reduced brain size and intellectual disability. Cdk5rap2 is most abundant in the developing brain, but it is ubiquitously expressed, and several other phenotypes have been reported upon loss of Cdk5rap2, including primordial dwarfism, congenital cataracts, cochlear and retinal defects. However, how Cdk5rap2 influences development is not well understood. Cdk5rap2 is a large centrosomal protein (also known as Cep215) that regulates microtubule dynamics. Loss of Cdk5rap2 causes premature centrosome splitting and centriole amplification. Here, we show that Cdk5rap2 contains a functional Walker A motif (G816ehldGKT823) that directly binds ATP through its K822 residue, which is required for Cdk5rap2-mediated regulation of centriole cohesion and cytoskeleton dynamics. Loss of Cdk5rap2 induces centrosome splitting through displacement of linker proteins, rootletin and dishevelled, which is rescued by expression of wildtype Cdk5rap2, but not Walker A-mutant K822Q. We further characterize Cdk5rap2 as (i) an actin-binding protein that stimulates polymerization in an ATP-dependent manner and (ii) a guanine nucleotide exchange factor, indicating Cdk5rap2 functions as a novel molecular link between actin dynamics and small Rho family GTPases. We also show that Cdk5rap2, which shares considerable sequence homology with phosphodiesterase (Pde4d)-interacting protein, is a novel Pde4d-interacting protein that inhibits Pde4d’s phosphodiesterase activity, upregulating intracellular cAMP concentration. Loss of Cdk5rap2, which induces premature senescence marked by senescence-associated ?-galactosidase (SA-?-gal) and heterochromatin foci through downregulation of the magnesium-dependent protein phosphatase 1 delta (Ppm1d) and subsequent activation of the p53-dependent pathway, causes reduced intracellular cAMP. Treating Cdk5rap2 loss-induced senescent cells with exogenous cAMP analog reverses the phenotype by restoring the level of Ppm1d, a critical regulator of senescence. Premature senescence is recapitulated in Cdk5rap2an/an mouse embryos, as demonstrated by decreased embryonic body weight and increased SA-?-gal staining. Treatment with cAMP analog restores embryonic body weight and SA-?-gal staining in Cdk5rap2+/an and Cdk5rap2an/an mice, respectively. Premature cell senescence via deregulated cAMP signaling due to Cdk5rap2 loss may contribute to developmental disorders associated with Cdk5rap2 loss-of-function.
title: DEPRECATED: FLUID INERTIA AND END EFFECTS IN RHEOMETER FLOWS
Creators: name: HUGHES, JASON PETER
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 1998

description: This thesis is concerned with the characterisation of the flow behaviour of inelastic and viscoelastic fluids in steady shear and oscillatory shear flows on commercially available rheometers. The first part of this thesis is concerned with a linear viscoelastic theory to describe the oscillatory shear flow behaviour of fluids on a Weissenberg rheogoniometer. A fluid inertia perturbation analysis is used to produce analytical formulae for correcting complex viscosity data for first and second order fluid inertia effects. In order to validate the perturbation theory we perform a simulation of the oscillatory shear flow behaviour of Newtonian and single element Maxwell fluids on a Weissenberg rheogoniometer. A theoretical prediction of end effects and fluid inertia effects on steady shear viscosity measurements of Newtonian fluids in a recessed concentric cylinder geometry is developed for a GSR controlled stress rheometer and a Weissenberg rheogoniometer. The relevant equations are solved using a perturbation analysis which is valid for low Reynolds number flows. From this theory correction formulae are produced to compensate for end effects and second order fluid inertia effects in steady shear flows on these instruments. End effects and fluid inertia effects are also investigated for power law shear thinning fluids. The final part of the thesis is concerned with a theoretical prediction of the end effect of a recessed concentric cylinder geometry on complex viscosity measurements of a generalised linear viscoelastic fluid. The linear viscoelastic theory is carried out for oscillatory shear flows on a CSR controlled stress rheometer and a Weissenberg rheogoniometer. A fluid inertia perturbation analysis is used to produce analytical formulae to correct complex viscosity data for end effects and second order fluid inertia effects. Numerically simulated oscillatory shear data is used to establish the limitations of the second order fluid inertia correction formulae which include end effects.
North American ornithomimids: morphology, taxonomy, morphometrics, and phylogenetics
Creators: name: Nottrodt, Rachel E
Publisher: name: Science
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Ornithomimids
subject: Morphology
subject: Taxonomy
subject: Morphometrics
subject: Phylogenetics
subject: Paleontology

description: Ornithomimids, also known as bird-mimic dinosaurs, are known from the Late Cretaceous of Asia and North America. Within North America, the majority of specimens come from the Campanian to Maastrichtian aged formations of Alberta, Canada. Despite a large collection of ornithomimid specimens from North America, informative anatomical and taxonomic comparisons have been limited by incomplete specimens and a lack of overlapping material. In this thesis, I conduct a thorough review of existing North American ornithomimid specimens using a combination of morphological examinations, taxonomic revisions, geometric and traditional morphometrics, and phylogenetics. I show how distal tarsal morphology varies across ornithomimosaurs and report on the diversity of North American ornithomimids leading up the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction through descriptive work. Using both geometric morphometrics and multivariate ratio analysis, I demonstrate the utility of quantitative approaches in differentiating ornithomimid taxa. Finally, I integrate taxon and specimen-based phylogenetic methods, finding a series of evolutionary hypotheses for ornithomimid interrelationships.
Barriers and Facilitators to Implementing a National Injury and Health Surveillance System for Varsity Athletes in Canada
Creators: name: Evans, Taffin S
Publisher: name: Kinesiology
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: barriers
subject: facilitators
subject: CFIR
subject: injury surveillance
subject: qualitative
subject: Health Sciences--General
subject: Health Sciences--Epidemiology
subject: Health Sciences--Public Health
subject: Health Sciences--Rehabilitation and Therapy

description: This thesis aimed to determine the barriers and facilitators of implementing an integrated injurysurveillance system [The Canadian Integrated Injury and Health Surveillance System (CanIIHSS)] in varsity athletics at university institutions across Canada. This study was done using aqualitative study design considered within a pragmatic worldview. An implementationframework, the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR), was used toassess potential barriers and facilitators to implementation and associated ExpertRecommendations for Implementing Change (ERIC) strategies informed the creation ofeducational resources to help encourage uptake of the program. Barriers identified included nothaving enough staff or time to collect all the components of the Can-IIHSS (i.e., exposure,concussion and mental health baselines), not understanding the components of the Can-IIHSS,and not having support (i.e., financial) from stakeholders. Utilizing an implementation model canhelp facilitate a comprehensive evaluation of context specific barriers and facilitators toimplementation.
Il museo che non c’è. Note sulla dispersione del patrimonio in Gran Bretagna
Creators: name: Patey, Caroline
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Indifferente alla loro recente moltiplicazione come al sodalizio che vi si celebra con l’architettura di grido, un fantasma si aggira per i musei. Sordo al nome di Jean Nouvel (Reina Sofia, Louvre) quanto a quelli di Herzog & De Meuron (Tate Modern), impermeabile ai fasti del British Museum (Norman Foster) come ai restauri della Tate Britain (James Stirling), disinteressato alle fortune del ‘nuovo’ Victoria and Albert Museum e malinconico come si addice alla sua natura, il fantasma invita a interrogare tanta luccicante spettacolarità e forse a non dimenticare che, per quanto custode di memoria e guardiano di culture, il museo è anche il luogo dove vengono consumate, direttamente o meno, amnesie e damnatio memoriae e in nome del quale continuano a perpetrarsi non poche violazioni e disseminazioni.
description: Altre Modernità, No 5 (2011): Se il museo si fa teatro: la cultura del display tra conservazione e produzione
Studies on the curing and leaching kinetics of mixed copper ores
Creators: name: Barriga Vilca, Abrahan
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Heap leaching is a metal extraction process from low grade ores where crushed ore is stacked on an impermeable pad and irrigated from the top with a solution of chemical reagents. An enriched solution containing the targeted metal is collected at the bottom. This technique involves complex chemical/electrochemical reactions and transport processes. Among the main features of this method of extraction include low capital and operative cost, modularity, and relatively high inventory of solutions. The need to optimize a heap operation has led to research studies in order to understand and interpret the chemistry and transport involved in a heap leach. These scientific investigations are focused on mathematical expressions of the reactions and transport phenomena of the minerals and reagents from the particle scale to the bulk scale. However, it was envisaged that pretreatment of these minerals are not accounted for in existing mathematical models of heap leaching. Sulfuric acid curing is a pretreatment to accelerate the extraction kinetics of copper ores and is widely used in copper operations. The curing process involves the addition of a highly concentrated sulfuric acid to the copper ore during agglomeration. Then, chemical reactions already begin prior to irrigation of the heap, transforming the initial copper species into new copper species which are easier to solubilize once the leach solution is provided to top of the heap. The present study aims to provide a means for the systematic integration of the curing pretreatment and the subsequent leaching process. The numerical implementation of the model is done using the Matlab programming language. The focus of this curing and leaching model is to represent the leaching kinetics of each mineral species, which involves solution of a system of ordinary differential equations. The numerical parameters of the proposed curing and leaching kinetic model were found from a set of laboratory experiments. Additionally, novel methods for determining the optimum agglomeration moisture, the optimum sulfuric acid dose for acid curing, and the relevant solute transport parameters were employed. The resulting model can be applied for design, scale-up, and optimization of a new or existing commercial heap leach operation.
Una”significant form” svelata L’allestimento della mostra” Italian Art” alla Royal Academy nella Londra del 1930
Creators: name: Borghi, Barbara Clara
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2011
Subjects: Display and Interpretation; Curation; poetica dell’allestimento; architettura d’arte; idee per allestimenti; aesthetic display

description: My essay argues with the Exhibition of Italian Art 1200-1900 at the Burlington fine Arts Club, made possible by Mussolini and Lady Ivy Chamberlain in 1930. It focuses on the development and deployment of the aesthetic display resources theorized by Roger Fry to enhance the visitors’ experience of the art work, unveiling a hidden structure in the rhythm of the art galleries. In the growing interest amongst curators, interpretation managers and designers exploring ways in which they can enhance public understanding of, and access to the arts and decorative arts, this study builds a frame into which display discourses might find a proper set and a parameter model. It highlights words spoken and written about Italian Art and its legacy in London and Italy during Fascism, exploring ways of organising the rooms and hanging the precious selected works of art, deploying distinctive aesthetic resources, designing a display with a ‘significant form’ able to enhance the impact of the vision of art, aiming to give London the highest emotion of art. Thanks to the display descriptions left by Haskell and Witt it is now possible to retrace a structure in the galleries design of this  very first blockbuster exhibition. It nourishes the debate on art display strategies and styles preserving national identity within the mood of postmodernism. It figures out a model that could be adapted or be inspiring for museum and galleries professionals today.
description: Altre Modernità, No 5 (2011): Se il museo si fa teatro: la cultura del display tra conservazione e produzione
Most Powerful Test against High Dimensional Free Alternatives
Creators: name: He, Yi
name: Jaidee, Sombut
name: Gao, Jiti
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 380202
subject: Econometric and statistical methods
classificationCode: 380299
subject: Econometrics not elsewhere classified

description: We propose a powerful quadratic test for the overall significance of many weak exogenous variables in a dense autoregressive model. By shrinking the classical weighting matrix on the sample moments to be identity, the test is asymptotically correct in high dimensions even when the number of coefficients is larger than the sample size. Our theory allows a non-parametric error distribution and estimation of the autoregressive coefficients. Using random matrix theory, we show that the test has the optimal asymptotic testing power among a large class of competitors against local dense alternatives whose direction is free in the eigenbasis of the sample covariance matrix among regressors. The asymptotic results are adaptive to the predictors' cross-sectional and temporal dependence structure, and do not require a limiting spectral law of their sample covariance matrix. The method extends beyond autoregressive models, and allows more general nuisance parameters. Monte Carlo studies suggest a good power performance of our proposed test against high dimensional dense alternative for various data generating processes. We apply our tests to detect the overall significance of over one hundred exogenous variables in the latest FRED-MD database for predicting the monthly growth in the US industrial production index.
Fluctuation-Dissipation Relations for Motions of Center of Mass in Driven Granular Fluids under Gravity
Creators: name: Wakou, Jun'ichi
name: Isobe, Masaharu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigated the validity of fluctuation-dissipation relations in the nonequilibrium stationary state of fluidized granular media under gravity by two independent approaches, based on theory and numerical simulations. A phenomenological Langevin-type theory describing the fluctuation of center of mass height, which was originally constructed for a one-dimensional granular gas on a vibrating bottom plate, was generalized to any dimensionality, even for the case in which the vibrating bottom plate is replaced by a thermal wall. The theory predicts a fluctuation-dissipation relation known to be satisfied at equilibrium, with a modification that replaces the equilibrium temperature by an effective temperature defined by the center of mass kinetic energy. To test the validity of the fluctuation-dissipation relation, we performed extensive and accurate event-driven molecular dynamics simulations for the model system with a thermal wall at the bottom. The power spectrum and response function of the center of mass height were measured and closely compared with theoretical predictions. It is shown that the fluctuation-dissipation relation for the granular system is satisfied, especially in the high-frequency (short time) region, for a wide range of system parameters. Finally, we describe the relationship between systematic deviations in the low-frequency (long time) region and the time scales of the driven granular system.
description: 13 pages, LaTeX, 12 figures. Version 2: changes in the text
Formal Methodologies And Supporting Tools Towards Autonomous Software Generation
Creators: name: Xu, Yifan
Publisher: name: Schulich School of Engineering
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Electronics and Electrical

description: The generation of software system specifications and programs from informal user requirements is not only a highly demanded technology by the software industry but also a persistent challenge to the theories of software engineering and computational intelligence. Although a wide range of studies has been conducted, many hard problems still remain particularly formal requirement analysis theories and suitable mathematical means towards autonomous software generation. This thesis pursues a formal approach to software system specifications and the development of supporting tools for AI-aided programming. This work has been underpinned by software science theories and intelligent mathematics developed by Prof. Y. Wang and his colleagues in recent years. It leads to the design and implementation of an Intelligent Tool for Autonomous Software Specification (ITASS). During the course towards the development of ITASS, the following methodological and technical advances have been achieved: •A systematical study on software engineering theories and programming environments for understanding the fundamental essences, challenges, and inherent complexity in software system design and implementation. It helped to understand that software systems, in general, are a 3-dimensional abstract entity constrained by a Cartesian product of sets of events, process models, and structure models. It inspired a rigorous approach to the development of ITASS for both human and machine behavioral realization by software engineering and computational intelligence.•A methodology for software requirement elicitation based on Real-Time Process Algebra (RTPA). This work will focus on formal models for transferring informal software requirements to system specifications by RTPA process models and operations. The derived mathematical specifications of software systems have provided a rigorous model for ITASS to generate a formal design model for a target software system.•A methodology for mathematics/AI-aided software code generation based on the output of the front-end tool for requirement elicitations. The autonomous code generation system has seamlessly transformed formal specifications of a software system into executable code in a target programming language supported by an intelligent compiling technology driven by an AI programming knowledge base.
Quando il teatro va al museo. Una storia di oggi
Creators: name: Cavecchi, Mariacristina
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2011
Subjects: museum; drama; attribution; connoisseurship; conservation; fake; identity; memory; Pentecost; Balkans; Anthony Blunt; Giotto; Elisabetta II; David Edgar; Alan Bennett

description: From the early 1970s, the British playwrights of the last thirty years have often turned their attention to existing collections, museums or curatorship. This essay will analyse two plays which are built around a “question of attribution”.  Alan Bennett’s A Question of Attribution (1988) puts on stage the art historian Anthony Blunt, director of the Courtauld Institute and personal art advisor to Queen Elizabeth II, who is puzzled by the interpretation and attribution of Titian’s Allegory of Prudence and Triple Portrait. In Bennett’s plot the investigations to ascertain the attribution of the paintings overlap with a Secret Service officer’s enquiries about Blunt, suspected to be a secret spy to the service of Russian KGB. David Edgar’s Pentecost (1994) is an intellectual thriller, where the discovery of a fresco which could be of great relevance for the whole history of Western art is set within the tragedy of Sarajevo. The museological questions of connoisseurship, restoration and conservation are at the core of the play, but besides them the play shows that the museum is deeply compromised with the memory and history of a nation and contributes to define its identity.  This essay will investigate the ways through which the two playwrights have adopted a detective story perspective to link the theme of the correct identification of a work of art to questions of identity, memory and national history.
description: Altre Modernità, No 5 (2011): Se il museo si fa teatro: la cultura del display tra conservazione e produzione
Il museo di antropologia come museo culturale: il caso del MOA di Vancouver
Creators: name: Gualtieri, Claudia
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2011
Subjects: Canada; First Nations; oggetto materiale; conservazione; restituzione; proprietà culturale; performance.

description: This essay will examine anthropology museums as cultural museums from the methodological approach of Cultural Studies. Within this frame, the museum acts as a mode of conservation of material culture thus revealing its immaterial consequences. In the museum, historical memories are preserved and re-enacted to articulate cultural identities in the present, to shed light on the past, and to illuminate future communal practices. After a brief survey on collections in the epoch of European geographical discoveries and on the birth of anthropology as a science in colonial times, the essay will consider the exhibition of cultural artefacts belonging to the First Nations of British Columbia in the Museum of Anthropology (MOA) in Vancouver. References to native land claims will help to understand the links between time and place, history and geography, cultural memory and land that are central to native re-constructions of identity. Through a critical reading of conventional ethnographic and anthropological criteria in museum displays, the codes of conservation and repatriation will be introduced in relation to the notion of native title and cultural property. The MOA will be used as a case in point to explore practices of negotiation with native peoples. The indigenous worldview regarding the use of objects and the performance of a living culture will be presented as opposed to the conventional aesthetic appreciation and exhibition of cultural objects. The essay will then illustrate how museums are produced and organised according to ideologically relevant standpoints in specific times and places, and how visitor-oriented practices should address a critical reading of dynamics of power and knowledge control in contemporary societies.
description: Altre Modernità, No 5 (2011): Se il museo si fa teatro: la cultura del display tra conservazione e produzione
Il musée du quai Branly, dialogo interculturale o monologo autoreferenziale?
Creators: name: Colombini Mantovani, Adriana
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2011
Subjects: Antropologia ; traduttologia ; estetica

description: The Musée du Quai Branly features ethnological findings from four continents: Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas. Today scholars and experts are still debating whether in this particular museum/institution the aesthetic concern should prevail - allowing visitors to relate to the works without additional knowledge - or whether more complete and updated anthropological references should be provided.
description: Altre Modernità, No 5 (2011): Se il museo si fa teatro: la cultura del display tra conservazione e produzione
Particle creation in flat FRW Universe in the framework of $f(T)$ gravity
Creators: name: Setare, M. R.
name: Houndjo, M. J. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study particle production aspect in the flat FRW universe in the framework of $f(T)$ gravity. The matter is minimally coupled with the gravity and an exact power-law solution is obtained by solving the Friedmann equations, and matter is assumed to be minimally coupled with gravitation. The torsion scalar $T$ appears to plays the same role as the the curvature (Ricci scalar) in the the General Relativity (GR) and its modified theories $f(R)$. Specially in phantom phase, we observe that the vacuum state corresponds to a vanishing torsion scalar and particle production becomes important as the torsion scalar diverges. This aspect, not only provides the equivalence between the teleparallel gravity and the GR, but also between their respective modified versions, f(T) and f(R), in the view of massless particle production phenomenon when the matter is minimally coupled with the gravity. However, when the gravitational and scalar fields are not minimally coupled, it appears that this similarity between the teleparallel and GR may break down, due to the fact that the torsion scalar has no longer the same time dependent expression as the Ricci scalar.
description: 16 pages, 1 figure. Accepted for publication in Canadian Journal of Physics (CJP)
Dove vanno i musei dell’“altro”? Dieci anni dopo il Pavillon des Sessions
Creators: name: Aimi, Antonio
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2011
Subjects: musei; antropologia; politica

description: “E alla fine i Baluba sono entrati al Louvre: dal 13 aprile 112 opere d’arte ‘altra’ sono esposte al Pavillon des Sessions. Come duecento anni fa l’irruzione alle Tuileries degli uomini senza storia e senza lettere diede il colpo di grazia al regno di Luigi XVI, oggi l’ingresso nello stesso prestigioso palazzo delle opere dei popoli senza storia e senza lettere segna la fine del dominio dell’arte occidentale” così titolava il mio articolo sul Domenicale del Sole 24 Ore, che il 16 aprile 2000 commentava l’apertura del Pavillon des Sessions.
description: Altre Modernità, No 5 (2011): Se il museo si fa teatro: la cultura del display tra conservazione e produzione
Observation of the quantum Hall effect in epitaxial graphene on SiC(0001) with oxygen adsorption
Creators: name: Pallecchi, E.
name: Ridene, M.
name: Kazazis, D.
name: Mathieu, C.
name: Schopfer, F.
name: Poirier, W.
name: Mailly, D.
name: Ouerghi, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this letter we report on transport measurements of epitaxial graphene on SiC(0001) with oxygen adsorption. In a $50\times 50 μ\mathrm{m^2}$ size Hall bar we observe the half-integer quantum Hall effect with a transverse resistance plateau quantized at filling factor around $ν= 2$, an evidence of monolayer graphene. We find low electron concentration of $9\times 10^{11} \textrm{cm}^{-2}$ and we show that a doping of $10^{13}\textrm{cm}^{-2}$ which is characteristic of intrinsic epitaxial graphene can be restored by vacuum annealing. The effect of oxygen adsorption on carrier density is confirmed by local angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy measurements. These results are important for understanding oxygen adsorption on epitaxial graphene and for its application to metrology and mesoscopic physics where a low carrier concentration is required.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Universality for ensembles of matrices with potential theoretic weights on domains with smooth boundary
Creators: name: Sinclair, Christopher D.
name: Yattselev, Maxim L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate a two-dimensional statistical model of N charged particles interacting via logarithmic repulsion in the presence of an oppositely charged compact region K whose charge density is determined by its equilibrium potential at an inverse temperature corresponding to β= 2. When the charge on the region, s, is greater than N, the particles accumulate in a neighborhood of the boundary of K, and form a determinantal point process on the complex plane. We investigate the scaling limit, as N \to \infty, of the associated kernel in the neighborhood of a point on the boundary under the assumption that the boundary is sufficiently smooth. We find that the limiting kernel depends on the limiting value of N/s, and prove universality for these kernels. That is, we show that, the scaled kernel in a neighborhood of a point ζ\in \partial K can be succinctly expressed in terms of the scaled kernel for the closed unit disk, and the exterior conformal map which carries the complement K to the complement of the closed unit disk. When N / s \to 0 we recover the universal kernel discovered by Doron Lubinsky in Universality type limits for Bergman orthogonal polynomials, Comput. Methods Funct. Theory, 10:135-154, 2010.
description: 25 pages, 11 figures
Proyectos identitarios en la construcción del Museo Nacional de la Inmigración de Buenos Aires
Creators: name: Magnani, Ilaria
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2011
Subjects: migraciones; museos; Argentina; identidad nacional.

description: Visiting the National Immigration Museum is the occasion to think over the relation between a Country and its immigration history. Retrieving the memory of the transoceanic  migration to Argentina which characterized the last decades, is a process based upon the complex interconnection between the individual level and the general one; and whereas immigration as a mass phenomenon turns into an individual experience, the personal recollection is the tool that allows us to reconstruct the past social project and also to give shape to the existing National identity.
Thus the Museum acts as safeguard for the immigration memory and at the same time for the political institutional legitimisation and it represents the promise of a prosperous future like the last decades did.
description: Altre Modernità, No 5 (2011): Se il museo si fa teatro: la cultura del display tra conservazione e produzione
Museums, Memory and the Shaping of Identity
Creators: name: Spicci, Mauro
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Museums, Memory and the Shaping of Identity
A conversation with Professor Eviatar Zerubavel (Rutgers University)
by Mauro Spicci
description: Altre Modernità, No 5 (2011): Se il museo si fa teatro: la cultura del display tra conservazione e produzione
"What about us?" shedding light on the rural school athletic experiences of four girls of Little Salmon Carmacks First Nations in the Yukon Territory
Creators: name: Taylor, Sarah Elizabeth
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: This study explored the sport experiences of four Little Salmon Carmacks First Nations (LSCFN) girls from Carmacks, Yukon Territory. Along with their stories I also tell my own, as I was their coach and teacher during their time in organized sports. Throughout the study the girls described their sport experiences as being enmeshed in notions and issues surrounding their race (Native), gender (female), and location (rurality). These are unpacked and discussed throughout the study. Their stories suggested a need for further attention to pedagogy regarding Physical Education and coaching, as well as intersectionality and the impacts that this has on rural teacher preparation/hiring and retention policies.