cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Semantic technologies:from niche to the mainstream of Web 3? A comprehensive framework for web Information modelling and semantic annotation
Creators: name: Dotsika, Fefie
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2012

description: Context: Web information technologies developed and applied in the last decade have considerably changed the way web applications operate and have revolutionised information management and knowledge discovery. Social technologies, user-generated classification schemes and formal semantics have a far-reaching sphere of influence. They promote collective intelligence, support interoperability, enhance sustainability and instigate innovation. Contribution: The research carried out and consequent publications follow the various paradigms of semantic technologies, assess each approach, evaluate its efficiency, identify the challenges involved and propose a comprehensive framework for web information modelling and semantic annotation, which is the thesis’ original contribution to knowledge. The proposed framework assists web information modelling, facilitates semantic annotation and information retrieval, enables system interoperability and enhances information quality. Implications: Semantic technologies coupled with social media and end-user involvement can instigate innovative influence with wide organisational implications that can benefit a considerable range of industries. The scalable and sustainable business models of social computing and the collective intelligence of organisational social media can be resourcefully paired with internal research and knowledge from interoperable information repositories, back-end databases and legacy systems. Semantified information assets can free human resources so that they can be used to better serve business development, support innovation and increase productivity.
Asynchronous parallel primal-dual block coordinate update methods for affinely constrained convex programs
Creators: name: Xu, Yangyang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 90C06, 90C25, 68W40, 49M27

description: Recent several years have witnessed the surge of asynchronous (async-) parallel computing methods due to the extremely big data involved in many modern applications and also the advancement of multi-core machines and computer clusters. In optimization, most works about async-parallel methods are on unconstrained problems or those with block separable constraints. In this paper, we propose an async-parallel method based on block coordinate update (BCU) for solving convex problems with nonseparable linear constraint. Running on a single node, the method becomes a novel randomized primal-dual BCU with adaptive stepsize for multi-block affinely constrained problems. For these problems, Gauss-Seidel cyclic primal-dual BCU needs strong convexity to have convergence. On the contrary, merely assuming convexity, we show that the objective value sequence generated by the proposed algorithm converges in probability to the optimal value and also the constraint residual to zero. In addition, we establish an ergodic $O(1/k)$ convergence result, where $k$ is the number of iterations. Numerical experiments are performed to demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed method and significantly better speed-up performance than its sync-parallel counterpart.
(501797) Walter Henry Kemp
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Analysis of public attitudes towards “local agreements” on restarting nuclear power plants: a questionnaire survey in four prefectures in Japan
Creators: name: Nakazawa, Takashi
name: Tatsumi, Tomoyuki
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: This study explored public attitudes towards the “local agreement” process as it relates to the restart of nuclear power plants (NPPs) in Japan. Conflicts have arisen over not only whether NPPs should be restarted, but also how and by whom the local agreements on their restart should be made. Using exploratory factor analysis on the data from an online monitor questionnaire survey conducted in four prefectures with NPPs in Japan, this study identified three latent factors behind public attitudes: “the conventional decision makers,” “those negatively affected,” and “those benefitting from the restart.” A multi-regression analysis of factor scores showed that opinions on restarting NPPs, prefectural referendums, and the geographical range of local agreements were related to attitudes towards local agreements. There were also differences in attitudes towards local agreements according to prefectures, gender, and age, while where respondents live in relation to the nearby NPP had little influence. To design a more socially acceptable local agreement process, it is necessary to reconcile such differences. By providing a better understanding of the local politics regarding restarting NPPs in Japan, this study paved the way for resolving conflicts over local agreements.
(501796) William George Kemp
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Bandgap widening by disorder in rainbow metamaterials
Creators: name: Celli, Paolo
name: Yousefzadeh, Behrooz
name: Daraio, Chiara
name: Gonella, Stefano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Stubbed plates, i.e., thin elastic sheets endowed with pillar-like resonators, display subwavelength, locally-resonant bandgaps that are primarily controlled by the intrinsic resonance properties of the pillars. In this work, we experimentally study the bandgap response of a tunable heterogeneous plate endowed with reconfigurable families of pillars. We demonstrate that, under certain circumstances, both the spectrum of resonant frequencies of the pillars and their spatial arrangement influence the filtering characteristics of the system. Specifically, both spatially graded and disordered arrangements result in bandgap widening. Moreover, the spectral range over which attenuation is achieved with random arrangements is on average wider than the one observed with graded configurations.
(501795) John Kemp
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Near-Feasible Stable Matchings with Budget Constraints
Creators: name: Kawase, Yasushi
name: Iwasaki, Atsushi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We consider the matching with contracts framework of Hatfield and Milgrom when one side (a firm or hospital) can make monetary transfers (offer wages) to the other (a worker or doctor). In a standard model, monetary transfers are not restricted. However, we assume that each hospital has a fixed budget; that is, the total amount of wages allocated by each hospital to the doctors is constrained. With this constraint, stable matchings may fail to exist and checking for the existence is hard. To deal with the nonexistence, we focus on near-feasible matchings that can exceed each hospital budget by a certain amount, and We introduce a new concept of compatibility. We show that the compatibility condition is a sufficient condition for the existence of a near-feasible stable matching in the matching with contracts framework. Under a slight restriction on hospitals' preferences, we provide mechanisms that efficiently return a near-feasible stable matching with respect to the actual amount of wages allocated by each hospital. By sacrificing strategy-proofness, the best possible bound of budget excess is achieved.
description: Accepted for the 26th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI2017)
Reclaiming the image. Béla Tarr's world of 'inhuman' becoming: an artistic and philosophical inquiry
Creators: name: Buslowska, Elzbieta
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2012

description: The thesis entitled 'Reclaiming the Image' is an artistic and philosophical enquiry. It aims at a radical re-thinking of the concept of the image outside the accepted notions of realism and representation by opening up the photographic real in the process of bringing together photography and cinema, stillness and movement, life and art, aesthetics and politics. It involves a thinking and writing with Béla Tarr's cinematic imagery through Gilles Deleuze's philosophical concepts. Its objective is not to illustrate Deleuze's ideas with Tarr's images, nor to read Tarr's cinema through Deleuze as such, but to think with images philosophically, in the hope of opening up the area of theory to the creative 'powers of the false'. I wish it to be seen as an aesthetico-ethical experiment which, rather than developing an overarching theoretical argument, constructs a critical and creative assemblage of different ideas and voices. On the one hand, the project seeks to creatively re-think Deleuzian concepts while thinking 'about' still and moving images, in relation to the real as affect and thought. On the other, to 'continue' films' images by opening their thinking further. The project of reclaiming the image as re-thinking in non-representational terms of immanent becoming will engage the Deleuzian- Bergsonian- Nietzschean concepts of time, life and aesthetics, and Tarr's intensely felt image-world in the series of encounters – affect-thoughts – that will undermine the normative notion of reality. The two modes – critical and creative – are not constructed separately but weaved together throughout what is 'enacted' as filmosophical "free indirect discourse" – a poetic coming together of film, philosophy and writing (as art). It is hoped that this will enable the potential for opening new areas of thinking and writing about/ with film/ photographic imagery outside the main discourses concerning theory and practice, the critical and the creative.
(501794) John Kemp
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Localizing the media, locating ourselves: a critical comparative analysis of socio-spatial sorting in locative media platforms (Google AND Flickr 2009-2011)
Creators: name: Barreneche, Carlos
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2012

description: In this thesis I explore media geocoding (i.e., geotagging or georeferencing), the process of inscribing the media with geographic information. A process that enables distinct forms of producing, storing, and distributing information based on location. Historically, geographic information technologies have served a biopolitical function producing knowledge of populations. In their current guise as locative media platforms, these systems build rich databases of places facilitated by user-generated geocoded media. These geoindexes render places, and users of these services, this thesis argues, subject to novel forms of computational modelling and economic capture. Thus, the possibility of tying information, people and objects to location sets the conditions to the emergence of new communicative practices as well as new forms of governmentality (management of populations). This project is an attempt to develop an understanding of the socio-economic forces and media regimes structuring contemporary forms of location-aware communication, by carrying out a comparative analysis of two of the main current location-enabled platforms: Google and Flickr. Drawing from the medium-specific approach to media analysis characteristic of the subfield of Software Studies, together with the methodological apparatus of Cultural Analytics (data mining and visualization methods), the thesis focuses on examining how social space is coded and computed in these systems. In particular, it looks at the databases’ underlying ontologies supporting the platforms' geocoding capabilities and their respective algorithmic logics. In the final analysis the thesis argues that the way social space is translated in the form of POIs (Points of Interest) and business-biased categorizations, as well as the geodemographical ordering underpinning the way it is computed, are pivotal if we were to understand what kind of socio-spatial relations are actualized in these systems, and what modalities of governing urban mobility are enabled.
Numerical Study of Flow Structure and Pedestrian Level Wind Comfort Inside Urban Street Canyons
Creators: name: Pancholy, P. P.
name: Clemens, K.
name: Geoghegan, P.
name: Jermy, M.
name: Moyers-Gonzalez, M.
name: Wilson, P. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we numerically investigate the flow conditions inside uniform and non-uniform street canyons well within the atmospheric boundary layer. The numerical simulations use the steady RANS method with the near-wall modelling approach to simulate wall roughness at the boundary. With the aim of investigating both flow structure in broad terms, and pedestrian comfort in the street canyon between parallel buildings, we test different canyon configurations with varied street width, building width and building height. Turbulent conditions are broadly expected to hold within the physically-realistic range of Reynolds number of order $10^6$ considered here, where we take the building height to be a characteristic length scale, and the free stream velocity as the characteristic velocity. In addition to discussing the features of the canyon and wake flow, we investigate the effects of canyon geometry on pedestrian comfort by using the Extended Land Beaufort Scale for this purpose. We present and compare pedestrian comfort maps for each of our geometries.
description: 18 pages, 15 figures
(501793) Arthur Vernon Haines
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Politics of Iran-West relations within the contextof Iranian occidentalism; image of the west in theIranian press during reformism (1997-2001) and conservatism (2005-2009)
Creators: name: Bakhshandeh, Ehsan
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2012

description: The present research is about relations between Iran and the West from the communication point of view and the role of the media in creating anti-American and anti-Western sentiments amongst the Iranians. It studies how Occidentalism has evolved in Iran and how, as an ideological representation, it has influenced the press portrayal of the West in the country. It also identifies dominant frames in newspaper reporting of the West and indicates how the perception of reality and meaning construction work in mainstream Iranian newspapers. The present thesis seeks to investigate, through content analysis of news items and critical discourse analysis of news editorials, the impact of political affiliation of newspapers (as the first independent variable) and the political period in which they are published (as the second independent variable) on the representation of the West (as the dependent variable) in Iran. The results and findings of the present study are yet another contribution to the study of the West, particularly in the Iranian context. In fact, the representation of the West in mainstream Iranian newspapers in the way discussed throughout this thesis signifies the creation of a new type of Occidentalism in the Orient, which I here brand as “Iranoccidentalism”. Iranoccidentalism is an ideological concept, which is under the influence of the prevailing discourse; It projects the West, through media, as “arrogant/imperial and interventionist”; It is coupled with anti-Americanism and opposition to the West, and is linked to the history of colonialism and imperialism in Iran as well as the Iranian encounter with modernity; Moreover, it is a reaction to Orientalism and seeks to spread the Islamic ideology of governance and awakening within the framework of the Shiite ideology; Furthermore, Iranoccidentalism pursues a “nativistic” and “nationalistic” approach which manifests itself in the Iranians’ national resolve to develop indigenous technologies such as the nuclear, aerospace and missile technologies as well as biotechnology and nanotechnology. I argue in the course of this thesis that Occidentalism is evolving and turning into a structured discourse in Asia and especially in the Muslim countries of the Middle East, including in Iran where it is under the great influence of the history of relations with the West and in particular the Iranian response to Western-driven modernity.
DNA fragility and repair: some personal recollections
Creators: name: Lindahl, Tomas Robert
Publisher: name: The Francis Crick Institute
Year: 2023
Subjects: Genome Integrity & Repair

description: In this autobiographical article, I reflect on my Swedish background. Then I discuss endogenous DNA alterations and the base excision repair pathway and alternative repair strategies for some unusual DNA lesions. Endogenous DNA damage, such as loss of purine bases and cytosine deamination, is proposed as a major source of cancer-causing mutations.
Molecular intervention in Pierce's Disease
Creators: name: Azizi, Armaghan
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2012

description: Pierce's Disease (PD) is one of the most devastating diseases threatening grapevines in the USA caused by the Gram negative bacterium Xylella fastidiosa. There is no effective control method for Pierce’s Disease and control is mainly achieved by suppressing transmission of the glassy winged sharpshooter (GWSS) insect vector. The study of the surface proteins of X. fastidiosa may provide targets that may be attractive sites for intervention. MopB is an outer membrane protein, which has been identified on the X. fastidiosa surface. Blocking MopB with antibodies may prevent or reduce transmission of the pathogen. The main goal of this research was to generate recombinant antibodies to be used to investigate the interaction of MopB with the plant and GWSS. Towards this goal, recombinant MopB has been produced and used with sera from five mice immunized with whole heat killed X. fastidiosa in an Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent assay (ELISA). The ELISA results revealed the presence of antibodies against the recombinant MopB protein. In vitro combinatorial antibody ribosome display libraries were assembled from immunoglobulin transcripts rescued from the spleens of mice immunized with heat-killed X. fastidiosa. The libraries were used in a single round of selection against the outer-membrane protein MopB, resulting in the isolation of a panel of recombinant antibodies. The potential use of selected anti- MopB antibodies was demonstrated by the successful application of the 4XfMopB3 antibody in ELISA, Western blot and immunofluorescence assays. Pantoea agglomerans, a candidate bacterium for PD paratransgenic approach was engineered to express and secrete selected anti-MopB (4XfMopB3) single chain antibody. The expression cassette that include the pelB secretion signal was created and tested for its efficiency in secreting the 4XfMopB3 antibody in E. coli and P. agglomerans. The 4XfMopB3 antibody was successfully expressed and secreted in E. coli while it was only expressed in P. agglomerans.
Miniaturised bandpass filters for wireless communications
Creators: name: Athukorala, Lakshman
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2012

description: The wireless industry has seen exceptional development over the past few decades due to years of sustained military and commercial enterprise. While the electromagnetic spectrum is becoming increasingly congested, there is a growing tendency to strive for higher bandwidths, faster throughputs, greater versatility, compatibility and interoperability in current and emerging wireless technologies. Consequently, an increasingly stringent specification is imposed upon the frequency utilization of wireless devices. New challenges are constantly being discovered in the development and realization of RF and microwave filters, which have not only sustained but fuelled microwave filter research over the many years. These developments have encouraged new solutions and techniques for the realization of compact, low loss, highly selective RF and microwave bandpass filters. The theme of this dissertation is the realization of planar compact performance microwave and RF bandpass filters for wireless communication systems. The work may be broadly categorised into three sections as follows. The first section presents a novel compact planar dual-mode resonator with several interesting and attractive features. Generally, planar microwave dual-mode resonators are known to half the filter footprint. However, it is found that the proposed resonator is capable of achieving further size reductions. In addition the resonator inherently possesses a relatively wide stopband as the lowest spurious harmonic resonance is observed at thrice the fundamental frequency. Properties of this resonator, such as these and more are explored in depth to arrive at an accurate electrical equivalent circuit, which is used as the basis for high order filter design. The application of these resonators in the design of bandpass filters is the subject of the second section. A general filter design procedure based on the equivalent circuit is presented to assist the design of all-pole filters. Alternatively, it is shown that generalised Chebyshev filters with enhanced selectivity may be developed with cross coupled resonator topologies. The discussions are supplemented with detailed design examples which are accompanied by theoretical, simulated and experimental results in order to illustrate the filter development process and showcase practical filter performance. The third section explores the possibility of employing these resonators in the development of frequency tunable bandpass filters. Preference is given to varactor diodes as the tuning element due to the numerous qualities of this device in contrast to other schemes. In particular, interest is paid to center frequency tuned filters with constant bandwidth. Tunable filters constructed with the dual-mode resonator are shown to have a relatively wide tuning range as well as significantly higher linearity in comparison to similar published works. In line with the previous section, experimental verification is presented to support and supplement the discussions.
A Possible ~20 yr Periodicity in Long-term Optical Photometric and Spectral Variations of the Nearby Radio-Quiet Active Galactic Nucleus Ark 120
Creators: name: Li, Yan-Rong
name: Wang, Jian-Min
name: Zhang, Zhi-Xiang
name: Wang, Kai
name: Huang, Ying-Ke
name: Lu, Kai-Xing
name: Hu, Chen
name: Du, Pu
name: Bon, Edi
name: Ho, Luis C.
name: Bai, Jin-Ming
name: Bian, Wei-Hao
name: Yuan, Ye-Fei
name: Winkler, Hartmut
name: Denissyuk, Eduard K.
name: Valiullin, Rashit R.
name: Bon, Natasa
name: Popovic, Luka C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the long-term variability in the optical monitoring database of Ark~120, a nearby radio-quiet active galactic nucleus (AGN) at a distance of 143 Mpc (z=0.03271). We compiled the historical archival photometric and spectroscopic data since 1974 and conducted a new two-year monitoring campaign in 2015-2017, resulting in a total temporal baseline over four decades. The long-term variations in the optical continuum exhibit a wave-like pattern and the Hbeta integrated flux series varies with a similar behavior. The broad Hbeta profiles have asymmetric double peaks, which change strongly with time and tend to merge into a single peak during some epochs. The period in the optical continuum determined from various period-search methods is about 20 yr and the estimated false alarm probability with null hypothesis simulations is about 1*10^-3. The overall variations of the broad Hbeta profiles also follow the same period. However, the present database only covers two cycles of the suggested period, which strongly encourages continued monitoring to track more cycles and confirm the periodicity. Nevertheless, in light of the possible periodicity and the complicated Hbeta profile, Ark~120 is one candidate of the nearest radio-quiet AGNs with possible periodic variability, and it is thereby a potential candidate host for a sub-parsec supermassive black hole binary.
description: 16 pages, 11 figures, and 4 tables; to match the published version
(501792) Sarah Barnfather Athey
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
(501791) John William Athey
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Enhancing democratic communication? Television and partisan politics in Palestine
Creators: name: Abuzanouna, Bahjat
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2012

description: Against the political backdrop of the Palestinian conflict and Israeli occupation, this thesis focuses on the most important media in the Palestinian context, television, which has the widest reach and influence among Palestinians. The main aim of the thesis is to investigate the question of how far, in the perceptions of Palestinians, the two television channels – Palestine TV and Al-Aqsa TV – are contributing to the development of a new democratic political state through participative communication processes. Both quantitative and qualitative data were collected in the Gaza Strip between December 2009 and July 2010 through a survey questionnaire of 500 Gazans, semi-structured and unstructured interviews and focus groups with a range of participants, from university students and human rights activists, to journalists and non-governmental organization (NGO) employees. The thesis investigates the perceptions of different sectors of Palestinian society and media workers about their access to the television channels, their views on media reliability, freedom of expression, the watchdog role of television, their opinions on the status of democracy and human rights, and other issues related to media functions and democracy in Palestine. Three functions of the media - as a forum for discussion and debate; as provider of information and as a watchdog, critiquing the powers that be – are explored. The thesis examines how the media perform in providing the functions of democratic communication through exploring the relationship between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas governments and the two television channels Palestine Television and Al-Aqsa. The key findings of the research were, in the view of many respondents, that the two television channels, Palestine TV and Al-Aqsa TV, were controlled by the two political parties - Fatah and Hamas respectively and that this has compromised the media’s function to promote democratic communication and the democratic process. The thesis argues that the two political factions are trying to manipulate the public and conceal information that affects their power. As a result, the political parties have polarized the emerging public sphere. The lack of freedom of expression and access to information has prevented the establishment of a democratic space essential to create a coherent political system and on which to base a democratic society that respects human rights. The thesis concludes by suggesting, however, in the transition to democracy, the existence of partisan media may be able to fulfil a role in contributing to the democratization of Palestine. The two television channels do provide limited functions of democratic communication to their own factions, so between them they may benefit Palestinian society in the progress towards the development of independent media.
Degree of Quantumness in Quantum Synchronization
Creators: name: Eneriz, H.
name: Rossatto, D. Z.
name: Cárdenas-L'opez, F. A.
name: Solano, E.
name: Sanz, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce the concept of degree of quantumness in quantum synchronization, a measure of the quantum nature of synchronization in quantum systems. Following techniques from quantum information, we propose the number of non-commuting observables that synchronize as a measure of quantumness. This figure of merit is compatible with already existing synchronization measurements, and it captures different physical properties. We illustrate it in a quantum system consisting of two weakly interacting cavity-qubit systems, which are coupled via the exchange of bosonic excitations between the cavities. Moreover, we study the synchronization of the expectation values of the Pauli operators and we propose a feasible superconducting circuit setup. Finally, we discuss the degree of quantumness in the synchronization between two quantum van der Pol oscillators.
(501790) Joseph Athey
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Definition of the estrogen negative feedback pathway controlling the GnRH pulse generator in female mice
Creators: name: McQuillan, H. James
name: Clarkson, Jenny
name: Kauff, Alexia
name: Han, Su Young
name: Yip, Siew Hoong
name: Cheong, Isaiah
name: Porteous, Robert
name: Heather, Alison K.
name: Herbison, Allan E.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2022
Subjects: Article
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/631/378/87
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article

description: The mechanisms underlying the homeostatic estrogen negative feedback pathway central to mammalian fertility have remained unresolved. Direct measurement of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) pulse generator activity in freely behaving mice with GCaMP photometry demonstrated striking estradiol-dependent plasticity in the frequency, duration, amplitude, and profile of pulse generator synchronization events. Mice with Cre-dependent deletion of ESR1 from all kisspeptin neurons exhibited pulse generator activity identical to that of ovariectomized wild-type mice. An in vivo CRISPR-Cas9 approach was used to knockdown ESR1 expression selectively in arcuate nucleus (ARN) kisspeptin neurons. Mice with >80% deletion of ESR1 in ARN kisspeptin neurons exhibited the ovariectomized pattern of GnRH pulse generator activity and high frequency LH pulses but with very low amplitude due to reduced responsiveness of the pituitary. Together, these studies demonstrate that estrogen utilizes ESR1 in ARN kisspeptin neurons to achieve estrogen negative feedback of the GnRH pulse generator in mice.
3D organ-on-chip chamber
Creators: name: Vlachos, Andreas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Organ-on-chip, chamber, 3D-printing, microfluidics

description: 20230308_Stamp.STL: an STL-File generated in solid works for 3D printing of the a stamp that secures the insert in place. 20230414_Chamber_doubleConnection_part1.STL: an STL-File generated in solid works for 3D printing of the lower part of the microfluidic chamber design. 20230414_Chamber_doubleConnection_part2: an STL-File generated in solid works for 3D printing of the upper part of the microfluidic chamber design. 20230508_SpiderSilk_Holder_M1: an STL-File generated in solid works for 3D printing of a holder for insert during silk application. An M1 screw holding in place. 20230508_SpiderSilk_insert: an STL-File generated in solid works for 3D printing of the inside part of the microfluidic chamber design. 20230417_Chamber_alternative design: an STL-File generated in Tinker cad (online version) for 3D printing a fluidic setup for silk tubes. This setup is designed to work with hydrostatic force.
隠れサービス：HTTPsならパスワードもパスも実は同じ？
Creators: name: Lee, Yeonji
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 461299
subject: Software engineering not elsewhere classified

description: ネットワーク上には多くのプライベートサービスがあります．その中にはプライベートで認証が必要なサービスもあります．認証に使える手法はHTTP基本認証やセッションに基づいた認証など色々あります．これらの手法はたいていHTTPプロトコルの中に，簡単な情報を挟むことで認証を実現しています．しかし，パスもHTTPプロトコルによる伝送している情報の一種であり，認証に使えるのでしょうか？
(501789) Elizabeth Barnfather
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
(501788) Hannah Maria Barnfather
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Refined large N duality for knots
Creators: name: Kameyama, Masaya
name: Nawata, Satoshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We formulate large $N$ duality of $\mathrm{U}(N)$ refined Chern-Simons theory with a torus knot/link in $S^3$. By studying refined BPS states in M-theory, we provide the explicit form of low-energy effective actions of Type IIA string theory with D4-branes on the $Ω$-background. This form enables us to relate refined Chern-Simons invariants of a torus knot/link in $S^3$ to refined BPS invariants in the resolved conifold. Assuming that the extra $\mathrm{U}(1)$ global symmetry acts on BPS states trivially, the duality predicts graded dimensions of cohomology groups of moduli spaces of M2-M5 bound states associated to a torus knot/link in the resolved conifold. Thus, this formulation can be interpreted as a positivity conjecture of refined Chern-Simons invariants of torus knots/links. We also discuss about an extension to non-torus knots.
description: Two Mathematica notebooks are attached as ancillary files; in v2, the title is changed, an extension to non-torus knots is included in section 6, typos are corrected, and references are added; v3, published version
Wasserretention von Schnee - Die Erkenntnisse eines Feldversuchs
Creators: name: Thomi Tobias
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: hydrology, snow, water retention, free water in snow, liquid snow water content

description: This is a Bsc-Thesis that gave 10 ECTS in Geography at University of Bern. It studies the liquid water content of snow and nicely summarizes the very old literature that exists on this topic. Abstract: Die Wasserretention von Schnee ist ein wichtiger Kennwert für die exakte Modellierung des Wasserflusses in einer Schneedecke. Allerdings wird die Wasserretention in aktuellen Schneedeckenmodellen weitgehend vernachlässigt, da sich Schnee in einer permanenten Metamorphose befindet und sich somit die Paramet-risierung der Wasserretention schwierig gestaltet. In dieser Arbeit wurde ein Feldversuch entwickelt, mit welchem Schneeproben aus bestimmten Schneeschichten auf ihre Wasserretention untersucht wurden. Dabei konnten keine Wasserretentions-Werte für spezifische Schneearten generiert werden, da der Ver-such und dessen Durchführung bis zum Messende angepasst wurden. Jedoch wurden verschiedene Er-kenntnisse gewonnen, welche in der Fachliteratur kaum thematisiert werden und aufzeigen, dass für das Nachvollziehen moderner Laborarbeiten mehr Hintergrundwissen notwendig ist. So werden zentrale Fak-toren wie die die Wichtigkeit und die Auswirkungen der Wasserinputs-Menge zu einer Schneeprobe oder die Beschränkung der lateralen Fliesswege, wenn Schnee in einem Zylinder platziert wird, aktuell nicht be-handelt und genannt. Somit bietet diese Arbeit eine Übersicht diverser Schwierigkeiten hinsichtlich der Un-tersuchung der Wasserretention von Schnee, welche in modernen Forschungsarbeiten oftmals vernachläs-sigt werden.
(501787) Emily Barnfather
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Imagining a city never visited: a case study of destination images of London held by Czech non-visitors
Creators: name: Cherifi, Barbora
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2012
Subjects: Destination image, destination image formation, influence of place, city image, nonvisitor, potential tourist

description: This study aims to contribute to knowledge in the under-researched area of destination images held by non-visitors. In particular, it investigates what the images of London held by the Czech non-visitors are, how these were formed and how country and place of residence influence these images and their formation. Overall, three hundred responses were collected in this qualitative study conducted in the Czech Republic. Three case study areas with different degrees of urbanization were chosen for the purposes of this exploratory enquiry. A research instrument with open ended questions was selected as a method. Primary research was conducted with the same instrument in two stages, firstly through local magazines and then through libraries. The collected responses were then translated from Czech into English and analysed through multiple analyses. It has been found that non-visitors imagine the destination through comparisons. Comparisons of the imagined destination with the culture and environment of the place one resides in are discussed. The findings also show that the first images individual forms of a destination persist over time. This is especially important in the postcommunist context of this study. It is also evidenced that the key sources non-visitors use in their formation process are the sources perceived to be highly credible which also tend to be less commercial sources such as school, books and films. The findings also show that archetypal images of a city, capital city, world city and foreign place exist and inform the destination image. These tend to differ according to the place one resides in. Country-related as well as place-related factors that influence destination image are discussed. In regards to the non-visitors’ aspect, it is acknowledged that different types of non-visitors have different image formation processes.
Blurred Complex Exponentiation
Creators: name: Kirby, Jonathan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 03C65 (Primary), 03C48 (Secondary)

description: It is shown that the complex field equipped with the "approximate exponential map", defined up to ambiguity from a small group, is quasiminimal: every automorphism-invariant subset of the field is countable or co-countable. If the ambiguity is taken to be from a subfield analogous to a field of constants then the resulting "blurred exponential field" is isomorphic to the result of an equivalent blurring of Zilber's exponential field, and to a suitable reduct of a differentially closed field. These results are progress towards Zilber's conjecture that the complex exponential field itself is quasiminimal. A key ingredient in the proofs is to prove the analogue of the exponential-algebraic closedness property using the density of the group governing the ambiguity with respect to the complex topology.
description: 14 pages, v2, minor changes