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The crystal world: executing a new media materialism
Creators: name: Kemp, Jonathan
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2013

description: This thesis presents practice-based research to establish new forms of social and artistic production through examinations of the materiality of the technical media, namely the computer, that underpins new media art. Contemporary new media art practice has tended to focus attention on software or hardware interfaces, interactivity and network communications. Whilst explorations of these specific affordances of computational media have been important they have generally avoided a more informed engagement with the material structures that frame, underpin, and ultimately shape the works produced with these media. The hypothesis of the research is that a richer understanding of the creative potentials of computational media as a form of practice can accrue from an active engagement with these material foundations in which any computational device employed in a media art practice is embedded. Thus the research presents a novel methodology for approaching new media art, driven by an imperative to engage with the computational, not from some abstract and universalised point-of-view, but up close with a focus on the materiality of its media and thus on matter itself. Hence a second assumption in the research is that this lacunae has impacted on the geology of ideas around new media theory and practice, and includes a failure to account for the intractable difficulties around the material production of the technical media that underpins new media art. Following Karen Barad, the research employs, a diffractive methodology - a practice of presenting computational materiality through insights and traditions while paying attention to their differences, including the material effects of their constitutive exclusions . Using this methodology, new forms of production have been achieved with the participation of diverse groups of people in workshops, “open laboratories”, and two exhibitions. It is intended that the methodology can be adapted, used and developed by practitioners in new media art, philosophy, media archaeology, museology, ethnography and anthropology.
A Viral Timeline Branching Process to study a Social Network
Creators: name: Dhounchak, Ranbir
name: Kavitha, Veeraruna
name: Altman, Eitan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Bio-inspired paradigms are proving to be useful in analyzing propagation and dissemination of information in networks. In this paper we explore the use of multi-type branching processes to analyse viral properties of content in a social network, with and without competition from other sources. We derive and compute various virality measures, e.g., probability of virality, expected number of shares, or the rate of growth of expected number of shares etc. They allow one to predict the emergence of global macro properties (e.g., viral spread of a post in the entire network) from the laws and parameters that determine local interactions. The local interactions, greatly depend upon the structure of the timelines holding the content and the number of friends (i.e., connections) of users of the network. We then formulate a non-cooperative game problem and study the Nash equilibria as a function of the parameters. The branching processes modelling the social network under competition turn out to be decomposable, multi-type and continuous time variants. For such processes types belonging to different sub-classes evolve at different rates and have different probabilities of extinction etc. We compute content provider wise extinction probability, rate of growth etc. We also conjecture the content-provider wise growth rate of expected shares.
description: 76 pages, Document has Part-1 and Part-2 of the work
I Act Therefore I Become: Dramatherapeutically Informed Drama Teaching
Creators: name: Roberts, Jeanne
Publisher: name: Leeds Beckett University
Year: 2023

description: This thesis considers the influence of the classroom environment and wider socio-political discourses on the embodied psychosocial-relational processes involved when students create identity-expressions in a dramatherapeutically informed mainstream curriculum-delivery drama classroom. Therefore, this thesis considers: how the classroom environment and the contents and themes of student drama relate to the wider performative and neoliberal social-political-economic context; the ways in which incompatible classroom and policy-demands influence teaching/classroom choices; and the impact those choices have on student identity-forming work. This Practitioner Enquiry followed the curriculum drama of one mainstream class of year-9 students for an academic year. The parameters of the research design were constrained by teaching pedagogy and classroom context. Analysis was via abductive synthesis of 4-part story structure, grounded theory, and discourse analysis. Following a scrutiny of the embodied psychosocial relational processes that underpin the negotiation of identity performance, the findings show that the drama change process is not located in the dramatherapy core processes per se but in the embodied psychosocial relational processes for which the dramatherapy core processes function as a vector, and that those negotiations take place in dialogy between the dramatherapy core processes, not in individual core processes in isolation. The 4-part structure makes the relational process visible and includes: encoding as multiple protagonists; developing the fiction; identity work – values exploration and negotiation; and cyclical re-roling and reflection. Students, whose self-narratives took shadow, consolidatory, exploratory/emancipatory, and aspirational trajectories, developed diversified role repertoires. The findings show that in group work, aesthetic distance, which mediates relationships between individual, group, and material should be conceptualised as a network not a continuum. Teacher use-of-self choices influenced student identity-work through structural, interpretational, technical, and relational means, including being both audience and witness to students. This thesis should be of interest to teachers of all disciplines including drama teachers, dramatherapists, education policy-makers, teacher-trainers, and administrators.
Relativistic Tidal Acceleration of Astrophysical Jets
Creators: name: Bini, Donato
name: Chicone, Carmen
name: Mashhoon, Bahram
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Within the framework of general relativity, we investigate the tidal acceleration of astrophysical jets relative to the central collapsed configuration ("Kerr source"). We neglect electromagnetic forces throughout. The rest frame of the Kerr source is locally defined via the set of hypothetical static observers in the spacetime exterior to the source. Relative to such a fiducial observer fixed on the rotation axis of the Kerr source, jet particles are tidally accelerated to almost the speed of light if their outflow speed is above a certain threshold, given roughly by one half of the Newtonian escape velocity at the location of the reference observer; otherwise, the particles reach a certain height, reverse direction and fall back toward the gravitational source.
description: 26 pages, 6 figures, revtex macros used. Revised version matching the published one. v3: typos corrected in equations (5) and (10)-(12)
ВЛИЯНИЕ ХИМИЧЕСКИХ ЭЛЕМЕНТОВ НА СОСТОЯНИЕ ТКАНЕЙ ПАРОДОНТА У БОЛЬНЫХ БРОНХИАЛЬНОЙ АСТМОЙ
Creators: name: Казакова, Нозима
name: Алавдинов, Салохидин
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: (БА) — это заболевание, характерным проявлением которого является хроническое воспаление дыхательных путей, респираторные симптомы (свистящие хрипы, одышка, заложенность в груди и кашель), которые варьируют по времени и интенсивности и проявляются вместе с вариабельной обструкцией дыхательных путей.[1]
Traps and tools: a contextual critique of the right to development in international law
Creators: name: Mamah, Wilfred
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2013

description: Chronic poverty existing alongside surplus wealth engages issues of ‘rights’ and ‘development’; however, law’s capacity to respond to these issues appears gravely limited and under analysed. This paradoxical coexistence of poverty and wealth in society and ‘rights’ and ‘development’ in law tends to transverse national, regional and international realms, hence the proposition that something more is at stake than normative inadequacy, defective judicialisation or ‘non-sequitur’ rules application. On the basis of this premise, this thesis contributes to the literature in Nigeria and globally by making the case for a shift of analytical lenses from legal norms to structures, and from property to people. By focusing on structures, law’s presuppositions become objects of critical inquiry, thus facilitating interrogation of the apparent value neutrality of law in the seeming perennial struggles between power and powerlessness – ‘having’ and ‘being’. Drawing from the case study of Nigeria, an oil-rich country with high poverty indices, this thesis critically examines the underlying structures of ‘rights’ and ‘development’ in national and transnational constitutions. Five structural pitfalls relating to law’s contradictory existence as traps and tools, the orthodoxies of economic determinism and methodological fetishism are identified and critiqued. In delving into the dichotomies of orthodox/unorthodox, visible/invisible, norms/structures, rights/emancipation and regulation/deregulation, this thesis draws methodological insights from Sousa Santos’ (2007) ‘Epistemology of the South’ and Smith’s (1999) Decolonizing Methodologies. In conclusion, the thesis offers suggestions for transcending traps as conditions necessary for the success of any socio-legal, political and economic strategies for poverty eradication in Nigeria – and by extension many ‘Third World’ countries.
The very model of a modern travel agency? : the Polytechnic Touring Association 1888-1962
Creators: name: Matthews, Neil
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2013

description: This thesis provides an original contribution to the history of modern British travel and tourism, in the form of the first full-length analysis of the Polytechnic Touring Association (PTA). It seeks to establish whether the PTA was distinctive among contemporary travel agencies; whether it was successful; and in what senses it might be considered as ‘modern’. Apart from Thomas Cook, virtually no modern British travel agency has been the subject of detailed historical investigation. Beginning with an examination of the PTA’s late Victorian origins in its parent institution, Quintin Hogg’s Polytechnic, the thesis contextualises both organisations within a wider history of leisure, with specific reference to ‘rational recreation’ and respectability. Using Polytechnic records and comparative material from other emerging travel agencies, it builds a profile of the early PTA’s operations including the key managers and staff members, the finances and the evolving portfolio of UK and foreign destinations. It considers accounts of Polytechnic/PTA tours from the inhouse magazine, again in conjunction with comparative material from other agencies, situating those accounts in the context of postcolonial theories relating to travel writing, in particular Orientalism and anti-conquest. Finally, it traces the PTA’s history as a privately owned company between 1911 and 1962, siting the company within historiographical debates on modernity. The overall conclusion is that the PTA was a distinctive, significant and successful player in the growing British travel and tourism industry. While other travel agencies had ‘rational recreational’ and educational origins, the PTA was distinctive in terms of the numbers of tourists for whom it catered and the balance of its portfolio. Polytechnic/PTA travel accounts up to 1911, considered as a body of writing, formed an ideology of ‘collective Continentalism’ which represented aspects of modernity. Their emphasis on simple fun and enjoyment suggested a degree of willingness to edge close to the boundaries of respectability while on holiday. After its change of status in 1911, the PTA became an effective adaptor to changing economic and social conditions – if not the pioneer it claimed to be, in emulation of the Polytechnic. By its latter days in the 1950s, now known as Poly Travel, it was a sizeable and well-respected firm, though not as modern – in the sense of being new and innovative – as perhaps it had been in its early years.
Rigorous computation of the endomorphism ring of a Jacobian
Creators: name: Costa, Edgar
name: Mascot, Nicolas
name: Sijsling, Jeroen
name: Voight, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11g10, 11Y99, 14K15, 14H40, 14Q05

description: We describe several improvements to algorithms for the rigorous computation of the endomorphism ring of the Jacobian of a curve defined over a number field.
description: 37 pages, 1 figure; v5 missing reference added
title: To what extent is Performance Management empowering a better educational experience in the Pakistani secondary school sector?
Creators: name: Kawsar, M
Publisher: name: Liverpool John Moores University
Year: 2024

description: This research explores the ubiquitous role of Performance Management (PM) in enabling a better educational experience in Pakistani secondary education from the perspectives of stakeholders. Pakistan is facing long-standing problems in education in terms of both access and quality of education. Presently, the country has the second highest number of out of school children, while those students enrolled in schools deal with poor learning quality. Due to the increased internal demand for quality education (Aziz et al., 2014) and external pressure for meeting international commitments on education, PM was introduced as a tool to tackle the persistent issues in education (Fancy and Razzaq, 2017; NEP, 2009). This research aims to explore the concept and effectiveness of PM from the perspectives of stakeholders, including school leaders, teachers and education officers in the secondary education of the KPK province of Pakistan. Drawing on interpretivism as the research philosophy, the study adopts case study methodology. It sought to explore the case “Performance Management” within two units of analysis, two secondary schools in the KPK province. The data collection process involved semi-structured interviews with a total of 31 participants and analysis of relevant documents. The data was analysed using a template analysis procedure. The findings of the study indicate that participants have understood the purpose of PM introduction into secondary education. They have welcomed it and are optimistic that it would improve the education sector in Pakistan if appropriately followed. To date, there is a significant improvement in visible access-related outcomes like teachers' and students' attendance. However, its influence in improving the learning quality is negligible. This is due to issues in practical implementation and because of the influence of various contextual factors that undermine its applicability in these schools. The whole process in practice is detached from the school’s context and has led to frequent quantitative data collection on indicators that count. Based on the insights from the data, a contextual model has been outlined which, along with other factors, identifies ‘religiosity and leadership’ as essential in determining the effectiveness of PM in these schools. It proposes an emphasis on the developmental aspect of PM for bringing individual and school-level improvement. The study contributes to the existing knowledge on PM from a developing country and a previously untouched context of secondary education in Pakistan. By identifying different contextual factors that influence the effectiveness of PM, this study has practical implications for policy makers to avoid the dysfunctional behaviour of PM in secondary education and push it towards achieving the desired outcomes in quality and access of education.
A Construction of Infinitely Many Solutions to the Strominger System
Creators: name: Fei, Teng
name: Huang, Zhijie
name: Picard, Sebastien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we construct explicit smooth solutions to the Strominger system on generalized Calabi-Gray manifolds, which are compact non-Kähler Calabi-Yau 3-folds with infinitely many distinct topological types and sets of Hodge numbers.
description: 17 pages, comments welcome! Section 2.6 is added in v2, the final version
A multi-frequency polarimetric study of the Radio Galaxy "Pictor A"
Creators: name: Galluzzi, Vincenzo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Pictor A is one of the brightest and most extended radio sources of the Southern Hemisphere. Its distinctive FRII morphology is characterized by two hotspot complexes, each at the edge of a diffuse and roundish lobe: the Western one, i.e. the brightest, shows a more standard morphology, dominated by a compact feature preceded by a filamentary structure orthogonal to the jet direction, while the Eastern one displays a double-structure whose origin is still currently debated, despite this object has been extensively observed from 80 MHz up to 300 GeV (but not at frequencies above 10 GHz). Both regions can be easily resolved by current facilities up to X-rays, hence offering a unique opportunity to characterize and understand the physics of hotspots. Moreover, the Western hotspot arose as one of the best candidates for calibrating and validating polarimetry of high frequency (> 10 GHz) CMB observations, a necessary step for pursuing precision cosmological studies. Thus, we observed with the Australia Compact Array a 7 mm mosaic of the whole radio galaxy, providing high-fidelity polarimetric maps for hotspots and core regions (sampling spatial scales up to ~1 arcmin). We complement our study with recent lower frequency observations from SKA precursors and pathfinders, such as ASKAP and MeerKAT, as well as past GMRT archival data. At the higher frequency, instead, we concentrate on the core, exploiting nearly a decade of ALMA (Band 3,6, and 7) calibrator observations acquired on an almost regular (typically 3-7 days) basis.
The migrant in contemporary Irish literature and film:representations and perspectives
Creators: name: McKeown, Aisling
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2013

description: The transition from the twentieth to the twenty-first century saw Ireland transformed from a homogeneous emigrant nation into a multi-cultural society. A growing body of contemporary Irish literature and film is engaging with the reality of multi-cultural Ireland and representing the challenges of migrant life from a variety of perspectives. At the same time, these narratives reflect the contradictions, confusions and concerns that define Irish attitudes towards their new migrant communities. The central argument of this thesis is that this new cultural production, whilst interrogating paradigms of national identity, is also adding different perspectives to the Irish literary and cinematic canon. I have chosen to focus on the novel, short story and film genres for their accessibility and potentially wide reach, as well as their tangible and permanent forms. Within my chosen genres, I have selected texts and films by both Irish and migrant writers and filmmakers that represent as diverse a range of perspectives as possible. My close textual analysis of the novels, short stories and films draws on historic Irish literary tradition and in the case of migrant writers, those of their countries of origin, to examine key themes, narrative style and form. More broadly, the research is informed by postcolonial, globalisation and transnational theory, reflecting its anthropological and sociological dimensions. My thesis reveals the impact of migrants on new Irish writing as producers of and protagonists within texts. It outlines changes to the notion of Irish identity, culture and writing as a consequence of immigration. Finally, as a study of a range of narratives that represent the experience of first-generation migrants in twenty-first century Ireland, it constitutes an original contribution to knowledge and provides a benchmark for further research into migrant writing and film of the future.
Towards more sustainable urban forms in the city of Benghazi:a study of urban fragmentation at the neighbourhood level
Creators: name: Mohamed, Adel
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2013

description: Urban sprawl is a challenge to the sustainability of many cities around the world. Fragmented urban development and vacant land are widespread problems in many Arab cities (UN-Habitat, 2012) which are, according to Ben-Hamouch, mainly a result of inappropriate modern planning and poor land management (2013). This study addresses the problem of urban fragmentation at the neighbourhood level and examines to what extent the concept of compact urban form can contribute to the improvement of social and environmental sustainability in the Libyan city of Benghazi and Arab cities in general. The objectives and scope of the study have justified a morphological approach, where eleven case studies that present different urban typologies in the city have been investigated. The research strategy and selection of case studies were driven by the availability of data and meant to cover the main urban types and important issues defined within this context. This research, which has been conducted to explore and explain the relationships that exist between local urban forms and their performance in terms of sustainability, has produced valuable knowledge and helped to identify measures which target the improvement of people’s quality of life and environmental sustainability of the city. The research draws on the argument that adopting a type of human scale urban form, which is relatively compact and dense, well-connected and comfortably diverse, coupled with concepts of urban greening and flexible development relevant to the local context, would help to create a high quality urban form that is liveable and accessible, while causing minimum damage to the natural environment. This work is an attempt to respond and add to the ongoing debate on sustainable urban form in the developing countries (see: (Jenks, 2000)). The findings have contributed to the understanding of urban fragmentation and highlighted the relevance of the theory of compact city to sustainable development in Benghazi and the South in general. It is anticipated that this work would raise awareness on the impact of urban fragmentation on the sustainability of the built environment within this context and help to advance research on planning theory and practice based on real-life experience and responses to local circumstances.
Selections of bounded variation for roots of smooth polynomials
Creators: name: Parusinski, Adam
name: Rainer, Armin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove that the roots of a smooth monic polynomial with complex-valued coefficients defined on a bounded Lipschitz domain $Ω$ in $\mathbb R^m$ admit a parameterization by functions of bounded variation uniformly with respect to the coefficients. This result is best possible in the sense that discontinuities of the roots are in general unavoidable due to monodromy. We show that the discontinuity set can be chosen to be a finite union of smooth hypersurfaces. On its complement the parameterization of the roots is of optimal Sobolev class $W^{1,p}$ for all $1 \le p < \frac{n}{n-1}$, where $n$ is the degree of the polynomial. All discontinuities are jump discontinuities. For all this we require the coefficients to be of class $C^{k-1,1}(\overline Ω)$, where $k$ is a positive integer depending only on $n$ and $m$. The order of differentiability $k$ is not optimal. However, in the case of radicals, i.e., for the solutions of the equation $Z^r = f$, where $f$ is a complex-valued function and $r\in \mathbb R_{>0}$, we obtain optimal uniform bounds.
description: 33 pages. This version covers the general case, while the previous one only treated the case of radicals. Minor changes. Accepted for publication in Selecta Mathematica
Observables and Dynamics, Quantum to Classical, from a Relativity Symmetry and Noncommutative Geometric Perspective
Creators: name: Chew, Chuan Sheng
name: Kong, Otto C. W.
name: Payne, Jason
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: With approaching quantum/noncommutative models for the deep microscopic spacetime in mind, and inspired by our recent picture of the (projective) Hilbert space as the model of physical space behind basic quantum mechanics, we reformulate here the WWGM formalism starting from the canonical coherent states and taking wavefunctions as expansion coefficients in terms of this basis. This provides us with a transparent and coherent story of simple quantum dynamics where both the wavefunctions for the pure states and operators acting on them arise from the single space/algebra, which exactly includes the WWGM observable algebra. Altogether, putting the emphasis on building our theory out of the underlying relativity symmetry -- the centrally extended Galilean symmetry in the case at hand -- allows one to naturally derive both a kinematical and a dynamical description of a quantum particle, which moreover recovers the corresponding classical picture (understood in terms of the Koopman-von Neumann formalism) in the appropriate (relativity symmetry contraction) limit. Our formulation here is the most natural framework directly connecting all of the relevant mathematical notions and we hope it may help a general physicist better visualize and appreciate the noncommutative-geometric perspective behind quantum physics. It also helps to inspire and illustrate our perspective on looking at quantum mechanics and quantum physics in general in direct connection to the notion of quantum (deformed) relativity symmetries and the corresponding quantum/noncommutative models of spacetime as various levels of approximations all the way down to the Newtonian.
description: 39 pages, published version
THE TECHNOLOGY OF DEVELOPING VOCABULARY OF B2 LEVEL STUDENTS
Creators: name: Embergenova, Altinay
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This article discusses the importance of developing the vocabulary of B2 level students and the role of technology in this process. It highlights the significance of a wide vocabulary for language development and suggests various methods, such as flashcards, reading exercises, and word games, that can be enhanced through technology to help students expand their vocabulary. The article emphasizes the transition from intermediate to upper-intermediate proficiency and how a strong vocabulary is crucial for continued growth and success in language learning.
Explicit reciprocity laws for higher local fields
Creators: name: Flórez, Jorge
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Using the previously constructed explicit reciprocity laws for the generalized Kummer pairing of an arbitrary (one-dimensional) formal group, in this article a special consideration is given to Lubin-Tate formal groups. In particular, this allows for a completely explicit description of the Kummer pairing in terms of multidimensional p-adic differentiation. The results obtained here constitute a generalization, to higher local fields, of the formulas of Artin-Hasse, Iwasawa, Kolyvagin and Wiles.
description: 37 pages
Geometric allocation approach to accelerating directed worm algorithm
Creators: name: Suwa, Hidemaro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The worm algorithm is a versatile technique in the Markov chain Monte Carlo method for both classical and quantum systems. The algorithm substantially alleviates critical slowing down and reduces the dynamic critical exponents of various classical systems. It is crucial to improve the algorithm and push the boundary of the Monte Carlo method for physical systems. We here propose a directed worm algorithm that significantly improves computational efficiency. We use the geometric allocation approach to optimize the worm scattering process: worm backscattering is averted, and forward scattering is favored. Our approach successfully enhances the diffusivity of the worm head (kink), which is evident in the probability distribution of the relative position of the two kinks. Performance improvement is demonstrated for the Ising model at the critical temperature by measurement of exponential autocorrelation times and asymptotic variances. The present worm update is approximately 25 times as efficient as the conventional worm update for the simple cubic lattice model. Surprisingly, our algorithm is even more efficient than the Wolff cluster algorithm, which is one of the best update algorithms. We estimate the dynamic critical exponent of the simple cubic lattice Ising model to be $z \approx 0.27$ in the worm update. The worm and the Wolff algorithms produce different exponents of the integrated autocorrelation time of the magnetic susceptibility estimator but the same exponent of the asymptotic variance. We also discuss how to quantify the computational efficiency of the Markov chain Monte Carlo method. Our approach can be applied to a wide range of physical systems, such as the $| ϕ|^4$ model, the Potts model, the O($n$) loop model, and lattice QCD.
description: 15 pages with 10 figures
DEVELOPING VOCABULARIES OF ESP STUDENTS
Creators: name: Embergenova, Altinay
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This article explores strategies for developing the vocabulary of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) students. It delves into the specialized language needs of ESP learners and provides insights into effective methodologies for teaching and expanding their vocabulary. The article examines the use of context-specific materials and activities to engage ESP students in vocabulary acquisition, with a focus on tailoring the learning process to their specific language needs and professional goals. Furthermore, it discusses the importance of effective vocabulary development for ESP students to communicate competently in their respective fields.
Gambling with regeneration: seaside resort regeneration and casino development
Creators: name: Morgan, James
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2013

description: The United Kingdom’s seaside resorts are in decline. This has been addressed by various regeneration strategies. The Gambling Act 2005 threw a potential lifeline to some seaside resorts that wished to utilise casinos as cultural regeneration tools. However, this is a unique example of a regeneration lever that generates new policy processes. This thesis explores the development and passage of the casino regeneration strategy in three seaside resorts: Great Yarmouth, Scarborough and Torbay. All of these resorts had differing cultural and socio-economic contexts. Linking the perceptions of this type of cultural development demanded a specific methodology. Casinos are cultural objects and social spaces. The intersection of the cultural, economic and social demanded an overarching theoretical guide within which these perceptions could be explored. Of particular value was the work of Lefebvre in his core work on ‘The Production of Space’ (1991) and du Gay et al. ‘Circuit of Culture’ (1997). How policymakers, business and community representatives conceived casino spaces was explored through the regulatory environment at the national, regional and local levels of governance. The perception of how casino spaces should be produced to arrive at culturally compatible representations and identities for consumption followed. It was found that the regulatory environment was experimental and confusing to some. However, most interviewees wanted to see large casino complexes developed in their towns. Potential moral, social and cultural hazards were perceived but not to have been fully considered in the government’s strategy, however the economic advantages outweighed these. This study argues that further research is required into this contested cultural activity, and the spaces that house that activity once they are built and operating.
Convergence of eigenvector empirical spectral distribution of sample covariance matrices
Creators: name: Xi, Haokai
name: Yang, Fan
name: Yin, Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The eigenvector empirical spectral distribution (VESD) is a useful tool in studying the limiting behavior of eigenvalues and eigenvectors of covariance matrices. In this paper, we study the convergence rate of the VESD of sample covariance matrices to the deformed Marčenko-Pastur (MP) distribution. Consider sample covariance matrices of the form $Σ^{1/2} X X^* Σ^{1/2}$, where $X=(x_{ij})$ is an $M\times N$ random matrix whose entries are independent random variables with mean zero and variance $N^{-1}$, and $Σ$ is a deterministic positive-definite matrix. We prove that the Kolmogorov distance between the expected VESD and the deformed MP distribution is bounded by $N^{-1+ε}$ for any fixed $ε>0$, provided that the entries $\sqrt{N}x_{ij}$ have uniformly bounded 6th moments and $|N/M-1|\ge τ$ for some constant $τ>0$. This result improves the previous one obtained in \cite{XYZ2013}, which gave the convergence rate $O(N^{-1/2})$ assuming $i.i.d.$ $X$ entries, bounded 10th moment, $Σ=I$ and $M0$, which improves the previous bound $N^{-1/4+ε}$ in \cite{XYZ2013}.
description: To appear Annals of Statistics
title: Quantum tests for non-inertial and general relativistic effects.
Creators: name: Varju, Katalin
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2023

description: A possible solution of combining General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics is given by means of writing the Dirac equation in curved space-time using Weyl’s tetrad formalism. First some background information is given about the necessity and problems of incorporating gravity into Quantum Mechanics. Then the fine details are described of how the Dirac Hamiltonian can be found in Riemannian spaces. The rest of the thesis is devoted to applying this method to describe the effects of stationary and rotating gravitational sources. This results a possible test of the Equivalence Principle in the quantum domain, as well as finding the limit of the applicability of various approximations of the Earth’s field. Finally a general relativistic treatment of the COW experiment is given.
GangsaMosa: Uyghur Hip Hop as a form of Resistance
Creators: name: Zhao, Xinyi
Publisher: name: University of Chicago
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Resistance, Hip-Hop, Uyghur

description: Music is used by young people to “protest, proclaim identity, build community, and interpret the world” (Aidi, 2014). This thesis deals with questions on how Uyghur rappers use Hip Hop as a form of resistance, and how different types of tactics and strategies are created to realize this unique form of resistance. In this thesis, I argue that Hip Hop is a cultural dialectical network, where the existing power structures can be transformed into a conversation. The rappers are thus able to respond to, challenge, and resist the existing dominations and reconstruct new relationships with the dominating powers. Moreover, the commercial Hip Hop culture activated new relationships, which are always semi-resistant and semi-combatant. This thesis ends with the discussion of this semi-combatant resistance by arguing that rather than looking for some “pure” revolutionary spirit, the resistance proposed by Uyghur Hip Hop is another indigenous response in Xinjiang – standing outside the traditional boundaries of Xinjiang and striving for new networks of identification.
A geometric approach to counting norms in cyclic extensions of function fields
Creators: name: Matei, Vlad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11T55, 14N20, 11T06, 14G15, 20F55, 32S22, 14F99, 55R80

description: In this paper we prove an explicit version of a function field analogue of a classical result of Odoni about norms in number fields in the case of a cyclic Galois extensions. In the particular case of a quadratic extension, we recover the result of Bary-Soroker, Smilanski, and Wolf which deals with finding asymptotics for a function field version on sums of two squares, improved upon by Gorodetsky , and reproved by the author in his Ph.D thesis using the method of this paper. The main tool is a twisted Grothendieck Lefschetz trace formula, inspired by the work of Church, Farb and Ellenberg on representation stability and asymptotic for point counts on varieties. Using a combinatorial description of the cohomology we obtain a precise quantitative result which works in the $q^n\rightarrow \infty$ regime, and a new type of homological stability phenomena, which arises from the computation of certain inner products of representations.
Music as image: an analytical-psychology approach to music in film
Creators: name: Nagari, Benjamin
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2013

description: Sound and music, both independently and inside film are sometimes considered to be secondary to the visual. Some disciplines wish to classify them as triggers to neurological systems while some others will emphasise their affect-inflicting capacity; in both cases these remain as secondary functions and in the case of film as nothing but accompanying elements. Yet, observed psychologically sound and music have a unique and wholesome function in the human psyche. Carl Gustav Jung’s analytical psychology opens the door for the understanding of both as images, far beyond the consensual acceptance of image being of a visual faculty only. Understanding music as image puts music in a different position inside a film as well as a stand-alone phenomenon in the every-day life. Analytical psychology, in both original Jungian and contemporary Post-Jungian versions, using the core ideas of archetype, opposites, functions of the psyche and image - supports the very concept of music/sound as image. This thesis will approach the consequent understanding of the role of music in film beyond the decorative-accompaniment task attributed to it and as an image on its own right. The work is divided into three main parts: Part I will introduce general Jungian aspects to build the case of a Jungian psychological account of the music-image. Part II will attempt to combine theory with practice in analysing how the auditory image (mainly music) works (or sometimes clashes) with the visual (picture) to create the ‘film as a whole’ experience. Part III will implement a specific understanding of three individual film cases of different genres, eras and styles as psychologically scrutinised ‘case histories’.
Competitive Equilibrium For Almost All Incomes: Existence and Fairness
Creators: name: Segal-Halevi, Erel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Competitive equilibrium (CE) is a fundamental concept in market economics. Its efficiency and fairness properties make it particularly appealing as a rule for fair allocation of resources among agents with possibly different entitlements. However, when the resources are indivisible, a CE might not exist even when there is one resource and two agents with equal incomes. Recently, Babaioff and Nisan and Talgam-Cohen (2017) have suggested to consider the entire space of possible incomes, and check whether there exists a competitive equilibrium for almost all income-vectors --- all income-space except a subset of measure zero. They proved various existence and non-existence results, but left open the cases of four goods and three or four agents with monotonically-increasing preferences. This paper proves non-existence in both these cases, thus completing the characterization of CE existence for almost all incomes in the domain of monotonically increasing preferences. Additionally, the paper provides a complete characterization of CE existence in the domain of monotonically decreasing preferences, corresponding to allocation of chores. On the positive side, the paper proves that CE exists for almost all incomes when there are four goods and three agents with additive preferences. The proof uses a new tool for describing a CE, as a subgame-perfect equilibrium of a specific sequential game. The same tool also enables substantially simpler proofs to the cases already proved by Babaioff et al. Additionally, this paper proves several strong fairness properties that are satisfied by any CE allocation, illustrating its usefulness for fair allocation among agents with different entitlements.
description: All the inexistence results are now stronger - they show that even CE-fairness alone (without efficiency) cannot be attained
IMOM AT-TERMIZIYNING  HADIS ILMI RIVOJIGA QO'SHGAN HISSASI
Creators: name: To'rayev, Abu Bakr Siddiq
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ushbu maqolada Muhammad ibn Iso ibn Savra ibn Muso ibn az-Zahhoq Abu Iso as- Sullamiy az-Zariyr al-Bug‘iy at-Termiziyning Movarounnahrda hadis va fiqh ilmining rivojiga qo’shgan hissasi, Imom Termiziy va Imom al-Buxoriy o’rtasidagi ilmiy va do’stona munosabat,  “Sunani Termiziy” asarining “Kitab ul-sittah” to’plamining boshqa muhaddis olimlarning kitoblaridan farqli va o’ziga xos jihati, uning bir qator asarlariga muhaddis ulamolarning  sharhlari berilgan. Shuningdek, maqolada Imom at-Termiziy asarlarning bugungi kunda hadis ilmidagi  ahamiyati kabi masalalar yoritilgan.
FaSTrack: a Modular Framework for Fast and Guaranteed Safe Motion Planning
Creators: name: Herbert, Sylvia L.
name: Chen, Mo
name: Han, SooJean
name: Bansal, Somil
name: Fisac, Jaime F.
name: Tomlin, Claire J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Fast and safe navigation of dynamical systems through a priori unknown cluttered environments is vital to many applications of autonomous systems. However, trajectory planning for autonomous systems is computationally intensive, often requiring simplified dynamics that sacrifice safety and dynamic feasibility in order to plan efficiently. Conversely, safe trajectories can be computed using more sophisticated dynamic models, but this is typically too slow to be used for real-time planning. We propose a new algorithm FaSTrack: Fast and Safe Tracking for High Dimensional systems. A path or trajectory planner using simplified dynamics to plan quickly can be incorporated into the FaSTrack framework, which provides a safety controller for the vehicle along with a guaranteed tracking error bound. This bound captures all possible deviations due to high dimensional dynamics and external disturbances. Note that FaSTrack is modular and can be used with most current path or trajectory planners. We demonstrate this framework using a 10D nonlinear quadrotor model tracking a 3D path obtained from an RRT planner.
description: Published in the Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2017
Making the news: the media and the movement against the Iraq war
Creators: name: Nineham, Chris
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2013

description: What follows is an investigation of unusual media behaviour. The 2003 Iraq War precipitated a series of demonstrations of unprecedented scale in a cause that often had majority support and challenged the authority of the government. The media’s well documented tendency to marginalise or ignore protest was at least partly suspended as newspapers cleared their front pages to report on demonstrations and the BBC sent senior journalists to interview marchers. For once, protesters were making the news. My research has revealed a very different pattern of reportage to that anticipated by the widely used ‘protest paradigm’ that predicts the marginalisation and even criminalisation of protest. Although the record shows great unevenness across different media outlets, the coverage of some of the anti-Iraq War protests appears more comprehensive, even-handed and at times sympathetic, than any equivalent example in the literature. The central task was to investigate the nature of the divergence and find ways of explaining it. In the process, this exceptional moment could be used to probe the media’s role in modern democracy and its attitudes to dissent at times of mass mobilisation and social stress. A combined textual and quantitative analysis of my research raised some interesting conclusions. Though important, structural or technological developments cannot explain the changes to the way protest was handled, as some of the literature argues. The evidence suggests that a contingent complex of social, ideological and political factors created a perfect storm that scrambled normal lines of communication. Interviews with participants and research into the context of the protests allowed me to fill out these suggestions and draw out more definite conclusions. At the same time, the analysis provided a test of theoretical models of media function, including versions of the ‘propaganda model’, broadly post-structuralist approaches, and more recent work suggesting a greater openness to dissent. Analysis of various theoretical approaches suggests, however, the importance of a model that can combine emphasis on the hegemonic role of the media, with sensitivity to contradictions that emerge between the moments of ‘maintaining consent’.