cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A phase transition in the first passage of a Brownian process through a fluctuating boundary: implications for neural coding
Creators: name: Taillefumier, Thibaud
name: Magnasco, Marcelo O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Finding the first time a fluctuating quantity reaches a given boundary is a deceptively simple-looking problem of vast practical importance in physics, biology, chemistry, neuroscience, economics and industry. Problems in which the bound to be traversed is itself a fluctuating function of time include widely studied settings in neural coding, such as neuronal integrators with irregular inputs and internal noise. We show that the probability p(t) that a Gauss-Markov process will first exceed the boundary at time t suffers a phase transition as a function of the roughness of the boundary, as measured by its Hölder exponent H, with critical value Hc = 1/2. For smoother boundaries, H > 1/2, the probability density is a continuous func- tion of time. For rougher boundaries, H < 1/2, the probability is concentrated on a Cantor-like set of zero measure: the probability density becomes divergent, almost everywhere either zero or infin- ity. The critical point Hc = 1/2 corresponds to a widely-studied case in the theory of neural coding, where the external input integrated by a model neuron is a white-noise process, such as uncorrelated but precisely balanced excitatory and inhibitory inputs. We argue this transition corresponds to a sharp boundary between rate codes, in which the neural firing probability varies smoothly, and temporal codes, in which the neuron fires at sharply-defined times regardless of the intensity of internal noise.
РОЛЬ МУЗЫКИ В ИЗУЧЕНИИ ИНОСТРАННЫХ ЯЗЫКОВ
Creators: name: Азамжонова Сарвиноз Шухратовна Студентка 2 курса Узбекского государственного университета мировых языков
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Статья посвящена исследованию роли музыки в процессе изучения иностранных языков. В ней рассматриваются различные аспекты использования музыкальных произведений как инструмента для улучшения языковых навыков, таких как слуховое восприятие, расширение словарного запаса и развитие произношения. Особое внимание уделено эффектам, которые музыка оказывает на память и мотивацию учащихся, а также на создание комфортной и непринужденной атмосферы для изучения языка. В статье также анализируются примеры успешных методов интеграции музыки в образовательный процесс и приводятся рекомендации для преподавателей, как эффективно использовать музыкальные произведения на уроках иностранного языка.

Ключевые слова: музыка и язык, лингвистические навыки, ритм и запоминание, аудирование, интерактивное обучение, мотивация
Class Concerns in a Heritage Setting: Viewers’ responses to Downton Abbey on IMDb
Creators: name: Ridderstrom, Helge
Publisher: name: Series - International Journal of TV Serial Narratives
Year: 2018
Subjects: heritage films; class; audience response

description: This article examines the TV series Downton Abbey (2010-15) from both a class and a reception perspective. Downton Abbey belongs to the heritage film genre with its claims to detailed historical accuracy, and is thereby separated from conventional costume drama and period TV series. ‘Official’ books on the series, written by Julian Fellowes’s niece and others, will be important references in the article. Downton Abbey comes close to presenting a conservative defense of the values and lifestyles of the aristocracy, but this vision of the elite and its values is challenged by some of the series’ (re)viewers. Non-professional reviews posted on the website International Movie Database include very critical opinions on class struggles and aristocratic privileges. Some respondents are satiric and forcefully oppose the values and interests of the propertied classes in the series; other reviewers in the same vein present analyses of power and class aspects in the series. These comments and criticisms are relevant to today’s class issues in Britain and elsewhere.
description: Series - International Journal of TV Serial Narratives, Vol 4, No 2 (2018)
A New Design and Environment Evaluation Approach for Managed Lanes on a Freeway Facility
Creators: name: Ansari Esfeh, Mohammad
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Civil
subject: Leontief's input output analysis
subject: High occupancy toll lane
subject: Greenhouse gas emission

description: In this thesis, a new design and environmental evaluation of the managed lane is presented. HOV/HOT lane is an efficient transportation strategy aims to mitigate the congestion by tolling freeway. In the first part of this study, a dynamic toll pricing approach was taken to minimize the total passenger travel time of the tolled freeway. The model was tested using a PARAMICS microsimulation model on a section of the Deerfoot Trail in Calgary, Alberta. The environmental impact of the proposed model is determined using PARAMICS Monitor. In the second part of this study, the long-term impacts of deploying transportation strategies on greenhouse gas (GHG) emission is evaluated. While previous studies relied only on simulation results, this study uses Leontief’s input-output (I-O) model to capture the large-scale environmental impacts of transportation strategies. The I-O model was utilized to assess the impacts of improvements on the induced demand and evaluate the environmental impact of transportation strategy. The transportation strategies effects were estimated in terms of congestion reduction savings, to identify the industries that would be affected. The environmental impact in terms of changes in GHG emissions was conducted for all affected industries. A case study was also conducted on HOV/HOT lane deployment in Deerfoot Trail described in the first part. A sensitivity analysis was conducted for the level of GHG emission savings enhanced by transportation strategies for Calgary and Edmonton, which are two major Alberta cities that are similar in size, population and congestion level to compare the results. The results of the study show that the traditional approaches that focus on simply evaluating the short-term impacts of these strategies considerably overestimate the reduction of GHG emissions. Another major finding of this study is that deploying transportation strategies that would result in the same reduction in congestion levels is shown to result in significantly different long-term impacts on GHG emissions of the two examined cities. This is mainly attributed to the difference in the structure of the economic and industrial sectors in the two cities.
Dynamics of mixed classical-quantum systems, geometric quantization and coherent states
Creators: name: Jauslin, H. R.
name: Sugny, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe quantum and classical Hamiltonian dynamics in a common Hilbert space framework, that allows the treatment of mixed quantum-classical systems. The analysis of some examples illustrates the possibility of entanglement between classical and quantum systems. We give a summary of the main tools of Berezin-Toeplitz and geometric quantization, that provide a relation between the classical and the quantum models, based essentially on the selection of a subspace of the classical Hilbert space. Coherent states provide a systematic tool for the inverse process, called dequantization, that associates a classical Hamiltonian system to a given quantum dynamics through the choice of a complete set of coherent states.
The Second Order Effects of LLMs and Generative AI on Political Communication
Creators: name: Schiff, Kaylyn Jackson
name: Schiff, Daniel S.
name: Dietrich, Bryce
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: American Politics
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Political Science
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: large language models (LLMs)
subject: generative AI
subject: political participation
subject: survey experiment
subject: artificial intelligence
subject: political communication

description: How will generative AI systems and large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT impact political representation and responsiveness? Prior work shows that legislators largely cannot distinguish between machine-generated and human-generated communication (Kreps and Kriner 2023). Moving beyond these persuasive impacts of machine-generated messages, we seek to explore broader \textit{second order} effects of generative AI, examining its impact on political attitudes, communication, and behavior. For example, does awareness of the possible use of generative AI to draft individual emails or even to facilitate systematic use in large advocacy campaigns change the way that members of the public think about political participation? Does it alter how the public feels regarding whether their communication is valued by their elected political representatives, or their intention to reach out to politicians? To study this, we plan to run an online survey experiment of American adults that will randomly vary the presentation of information about how LLMs like ChatGPT can be used in political communication. We will examine impacts of generative AI on the perceived effectiveness of and support for using email or other communication strategies for contact with representatives, among other outcomes.
Titelei
Creators: name: Redaktion, Die
Publisher: name: Der Antike Sudan. Mitteilungen der Sudanarchäologischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin e. V.
Year: 2023

description: Der Antike Sudan. Mitteilungen der Sudanarchäologischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin e. V., Bd. 9 (1999): Mitteilungen der Sudanarchäologischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin e. V.
D-meson decay constants and a check of factorization in non-leptonic B-decays
Creators: name: Becirevic, Damir
name: Lubicz, Vittorio
name: Sanfilippo, Francesco
name: Simula, Silvano
name: Tarantino, Cecilia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the vector meson decay constants fD*, fDs* from the simulation of twisted mass QCD on the lattice with Nf = 2 dynamical quarks. When combining their values with the pseudoscalar D(s)-meson decay constants, we were able (i) to show that the heavy quark spin symmetry breaking effects with the charm quark are large, fDs*/fDs = 1.26(3), and (ii) to check the factorization approximation in a few specific B-meson non-leptonic decay modes. Besides our main results, fD* = 278 \pm 13 \pm 10 MeV, and fDs* = 311 \pm 9 MeV, other phenomenologically interesting results of this paper are: fDs*/fD* = 1.16 \pm 0.02 \pm 0.06, fDs*/fD = 1.46 \pm 0.05 \pm 0.06, and fDs/fD* = 0.89 \pm 0.02 \pm 0.03. Finally, we correct the value for B(B0 \rightarrow D+ pi-) quoted by PDG, and find B(B0 \rightarrow D+ pi-) = (7.8 \pm 1.4) \times 10-7. Alternatively, by using the ratios discussed in this paper, we obtain B(B0 \rightarrow D+ pi-) = (8.3 \pm 1.0 \pm 0.8)\times10-7.
description: 16 pages, 4 eps figures
Wiedemann algorithm: an efficient approach for solving linear systems with sparse matrices
Creators: name: Moumouni DJASSIBO WOBA*
name: ZONGO Moumouni
name: ZOUNGRANA Amidou
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Sparse matrices, Linear systems, Minimal polynomial, Recurrent sequence, Constant coefficients.

description: Abstract: Sparse matrices are matrices that contain many zero elements. The Wiedemann algorithm is an iterative method for solving linear systems represented by sparse matrices. It reduces the solution to the computation of the minimal polynomial, which itself relies on the recognition of a recurrent sequence with constant coefficients.
A note on the infrared behavior of the compactified Ginzburg--Landau model in a magnetic field
Creators: name: Linhares, C. A.
name: Malbouisson, A. P. C.
name: Souza, M. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the Euclidean large-$N$ Ginzburg--Landau model in $D$ dimensions, $d$ ($d\leq D$) of them being compactified. For D=3, the system can be supposed to describe, in the cases of d=1, d=2, and d=3, respectively, a superconducting material in the form of a film, of an infinitely long wire having a rectangular cross-section and of a brick-shaped grain. We investigate the fixed-point structure of the model, in the presence of an external magnetic field. An infrared-stable fixed points is found, which is independent of the number of compactified dimensions. This generalizes previous work for type-II superconducting films
description: LATEX, 6 pages no figures. arXiv admin note: 80% of text overlaps with arXiv:1102.1396
Panicum (sect. Parvigluma) Hitch. & Chase ex Pilg. 1940
Creators: name: Fernando O. Zuloaga
name: Diego Giraldo-Cañas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Poales
Poaceae
Panicum
Panicum parviglume

description: 6.  Panicum sect. Parviglumia  Hitchc. & Chase ex Pilg.,
Nat. Pflanzenfam. (ed. 2) 14e: 16. 1940.
 Especie tipo. Panicum parviglume Hack.
 Plantas perennes. Cañas erectas o ascendentes, comúnmente geniculadas y arraigadas en los nudos inferiores, rara vez estoloníferas. Hojas con lígulas membranáceas, cortamente ciliadas en la porción superior, reducidas; láminas ovado-lanceoladas a lanceoladas, planas, cortamente pseudopecioladas. Inflorescencias laxas a contraídas, espiguillas dispuestas en racimos densos. Espiguillas ovoides a obovoides, obtusas, comprimidas dorsiventralmente, glabras. Gluma inferior 1/5 a 1/4 (raro 1/2) del largo de la espiguilla, enervia a 1-3-nervia. Gluma superior y lema inferior subiguales, 5(-7)-nervias, obtusas. Pálea inferior ausente. Antecio superior ovoide a obovoide, piloso en toda su super- ficie, con macropelos unicelulares largos, adpresos, ocasionalmente ausentes; lodículas 3-nervias. Cariopsis elipsoide, hilo punctiforme, embrión la mitad o menos del largo de la cariopsis.
 Composición y distribución. Esta sección es americana y está integrada por seis especies, cuatro de las cuales habitan en México y Centroamérica, y las otras dos (Panicum arundinariae Trin. ex E. Fourn. y P. trichidiachne Döll) alcanzan Sudamérica. Sus especies se encuentran en lugares húmedos y sombríos, en el interior o en márgenes de selvas o bosques, frecuentemente a lo largo de cursos de agua, desde el nivel del mar hasta 2800 m de altitud.
 Comentarios. Plantas C3, no-Kranz; número cromosómico básico x = 9.    Clave para las especies de Panicum sect. Parviglumia presentes en Colombia
 1. Antecio superior papiloso, con papilas simples distribuidas regularmente; láminas oblongo a ovado-lanceoladas, asimétricas, 1-3 cm de ancho...............................................................................................................................  6-2. Panicum trichidiachne
 1. Antecio superior liso; láminas linear-lanceoladas, de base redondeada, simétricas, 0.5-0.8 cm de ancho.......................................................  6-1. Panicum arundinariae
description: Published as part of Fernando O. Zuloaga & Diego Giraldo-Cañas, 2013, 30. Panicum, pp. 1-107 in Flora de Colombia 30 on pages 49-50, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.259616
Integrating Vision Derived Bearing Measurements with Differential GPS for Vehicle-to-Vehicle Relative Navigation
Creators: name: Amirloo Abolfathi, Elmira
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: Engineering

description: Vehicle positioning is an important component of intelligent transportation systems. Due to the relative low cost and low complexity of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), the automotive industry has adopted this technology to provide vehicle position. GNSSs solution are reliable in open sky environments. However, position solutions are needed in the areas where there is poor GNSS accuracy or availability and other sensors may be required This thesis presents the integration of vision-derived bearing measurements with between vehicle GNSS relative navigation. Two methods: target detection and machine learning based vehicle recognition, have been developed to obtain bearing measurements from the images. The resulting bearings are then integrated with a GNSS solution resulting in improved position accuracy and availability. The usefulness of the GNSS solution to improve the vehicle recognition algorithm is also investigated.
Shear viscosity and the nucleation of antikaon condensed matter in protoneutron stars
Creators: name: Banik, Sarmistha
name: Nandi, Rana
name: Bandyopadhyay, Debades
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study shear viscosities of different species in hot and neutrino-trapped dense matter relevant to protoneutron stars. It is found that the shear viscosities of neutrons, protons and electrons in neutrino-trapped matter are of the same orders of magnitude as the corresponding shear viscosities in neutrino-free matter. Above all, the shear viscosity due to neutrinos is higher by several orders of magnitude than that of other species in neutrino-trapped matter. Next we investigate the effect of shear viscosity in particular, neutrino shear viscosity on the thermal nucleation rate of droplets of antikaon condensed matter in protoneutron stars. The first-order phase transition from hadronic matter to antikaon condensed matter is driven by the thermal nucleation process. We compute the equation of state used for the calculation of shear viscosity and thermal nucleation time within the relativistic mean field model. Neutrino shear viscosity enhances the prefactor in the nucleation rate by several orders of magnitude compared with the $T^4$ approximation of earlier calculations. Consequently the thermal nucleation time in the $T^4$ approximation overestimates our result. Furthermore, the thermal nucleation of an antikaon droplet might be possible in neutrino-trapped matter before neutrino diffusion takes place.
description: 21 pages including 7 figures; to be published in Phys. Rev. C
QOQIO'TDOSHLAR OILASINING DORIVORLIK XUSUSIYATLARI
Creators: name: Abdurashidova, Gulsanam
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Qoqio‘tdoshlar (Lamiaceae) oilasi gullaydigan ikki pallali o‘simliklarning eng yirik oilalaridan biri bo‘lib, 7000 dan ortiq turi va 230 dan ortiq jinsi mavjud. Ushbu o‘simliklar butun dunyoda keng tarqalgan bo‘lib, ko‘pchiligi dorivor xususiyatlarga ega. Lamiaceae vakillari tarkibida efir moylari, flavonoidlar, alkaloidlar va boshqa biologik faol moddalar mavjud bo‘lib, ular antiseptik, yallig‘lanishga qarshi, immunitetni mustahkamlovchi va tinchlantiruvchi ta’sir ko‘rsatadi. Ushbu maqolada qoqio‘tdoshlarning dorivorlik xususiyatlari, kimyoviy tarkibi va tibbiyotda qo‘llanilishi ilmiy manbalarga asoslangan holda yoritiladi.
The origin of the Schott term in the electromagnetic self force of a classical point charge
Creators: name: Ferris, Michael R.
name: Gratus, Jonathan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Schott term is the third order term in the electromagnetic self force of a charged point particle. The self force may be obtained by integrating the electromagnetic stress-energy-momentum tensor over the side of a narrow hypertube enclosing a section of worldline. This calculation has been repeated many times using two different hypertubes known as the Dirac Tube and the Bhabha Tube, however in previous calculations using a Bhabha Tube the Schott term does not arise as a result of this integration. In order to regain the Lorentz-Abraham-Dirac equation many authors have added an ad hoc compensatory term to the non-electromagnetic contribution to the total momentum. In this article the Schott term is obtained by direct integration of the electromagnetic stress-energy-momentum tensor.
description: 13 pages, 2 figures, Accepted by J. Math. Phys. Supplementary MAPLE Code included
In-situ Heavy Oil Upgrading with Molybdenum Carbide Nanoparticles: A Multiscale Modelling Approach
Creators: name: Liu, Xingchen
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Chemistry--Physical
subject: multiscale modelling
subject: Nanoparticles

description: Heterogeneous reactions catalyzed by transition-metal-related nanoparticles represent a crucial type of reaction in chemical industry. This thesis provides a multiscale modelling approach to study the benzene hydrogenation reactions on molybdenum carbide nanoparticles (MCNPs) in the process of in-situ heavy oil upgrading in Alberta. To clarify the debate on the benzene hydrogenation mechanism, density functional theory (DFT) calculations are performed with cluster models in Chapter 3. From the DFT thermodynamic data, together with the experimental information gathered in the literature, the benzene hydrogenation mechanism on molybdenum carbide was identified as the Horiuti-Polanyi type Langmuir-Hinshelwood mechanism. Benzene adsorbs horizontally on the molybdenum carbide, and the hydrogenation process causes the gradual tilting up of the C6 ring, to form 12-dihydrobenzene and 1234-tetrahydrobenzene, and finally the product cyclohexane, and causes the crossover from chemisorption to physisorption. Topological analysis of the electron localization function (ELF) in Chapter 4 provides a deeper understanding of the interactions between the unsaturated hydrocarbons and the MCNPs. The chemisorption of unsaturated hydrocarbons on the MCNPs involves strong chemical interactions of a covalent nature, and is dominated by multi-center electron sharing interactions. The building up of a multiscale model starts with the parameterization of the quantum mechanical (QM) density functional tight-binding (DFTB) method for Mo, C, H, O, and Si. The QM calculations show that the MCNPs are highly metallic nanoparticles. The topology of the active sites is more important than the sizes of the MCNPs for the catalytic activity. By coupling the QM DFTB method with an MM force field, a quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical (QM/MM) model was built to describe the reactants, the nanoparticles and the surroundings. Umbrella sampling (US) was used to calculate the free energy profiles of the benzene hydrogenation reactions in a model aromatic solvent in the in-situ heavy oil upgrading conditions. By comparing with the traditional method in computational heterogeneous catalysis, the results reveal new features of the metallic MCNPs. Rather than being rigid, they are very flexible in the working condition due to the entropic contributions of the MCNPs and the solvent, which greatly affect the free energy profiles of these nanoscale heterogeneous reactions.
New Cosmological Solutions in Massive Gravity
Creators: name: Kobayashi, Tsutomu
name: Siino, Masaru
name: Yamaguchi, Masahide
name: Yoshida, Daisuke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We find new, simple cosmological solutions with flat, open, and closed spatial geometries, contrary to the previous wisdom that only the open model is allowed. The metric and the Stückelberg fields are given explicitly, showing nontrivial configurations of the Stückelberg in the usual Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker coordinates. The solutions exhibit self-acceleration, while being free from ghost instabilities. Our solutions can accommodate inhomogeneous dust collapse represented by the Lemaître-Tolman-Bondi metric as well. Thus, our results can be used not only to describe homogeneous and isotropic cosmology but also to study gravitational collapse in massive gravity.
description: 5 pages
Angels, demons and whatever comes next: the storyworld dynamics of Supenatural
Creators: name: Favard, Florent
Publisher: name: Series - International Journal of TV Serial Narratives
Year: 2018
Subjects: storyworld; narratology; writing; ethos; showrunner

description: This paper explores the narrative dynamics of the fantasy television series Supernatural (2005-) in order to better understand how this particular program has become a backbone of The CW network. Combining formal and contextual narratologies, it blends a close-reading of the series with an analysis of its writing, production and reception contexts, and divides the long-running series into four eras, each defined by a specific showrunner. It starts by exploring the context of the series’ creation, before cataloguing the shifting dynamics of the storyworld during the four eras: the ‘stealth teleological’ approach of series creator Eric Kripke; the complex reconfigurations of the Sera Gamble era; the ‘mythology reboot’ of the Jeremy Carver era; and the ever-increasing stakes and expansionist dynamics of the Andrew Dabb era. The aim of this paper is to show how ‘periodising’ a long-running series by using close-reading and studying the dynamics of a storyworld can expand and complete analysis focused on audiences and the genesis of the text..
description: Series - International Journal of TV Serial Narratives, Vol 4, No 2 (2018)
The CW Arrowverse and myth-making, or the commodification of transmedia franchising
Creators: name: Joseph, Charles
Publisher: name: Series - International Journal of TV Serial Narratives
Year: 2018
Subjects: The CW; DC comics; transmedia; convergence; superhero

description: The CW’s influence over the American network television landscape has never ceased to grow since its creation in 2006. The network’s audience composition reflects The CW’s strategies to improve its original content as well as diversifying it, moving away from its image as a network for teenage girls. One of the key elements which has supported this shift was the development of the Arrowverse, a shared narrative space based on DC-inspired original series which provided the network with a fertile groundwork to build upon. The CW did not hesitate to capitalize on its not-so-newfound superhero brand to induce a circulation of myth, relying on these larger-than-life characters at the heart of American pop culture to fortify its cultural and historical bedrock and earn its seat along the rest of the Big 4. This paper aims to decipher how The CW pioneered new technology-based tools which ultimately changed the American media-industrial landscape of the early 2010s, putting these tools to the test with the network’s superhero series. It will thus also address how the Arrowverse set of characters has triggered cross-media and transmedia experimentations, how The CW stimulated rapport with its strong fan base, as well as how the network has been able to capitalize on the superhero genre’s evocative capacities.
description: Series - International Journal of TV Serial Narratives, Vol 4, No 2 (2018)
LONG-TERM LOANS TO THE ECONOMY BY COMMERCIAL BANKS TODAY ON ACCOUNT OF DOMESTIC SOURCES
Creators: name: Nazarov, Elbek
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Today, commercial banks play an important role in financing priority projects in the process of structural change and modernization of the economy, technical and technological renewal. It is known from world practice that the investment lending activity of banks is the main factor that directly ensures the growth of the economy.
Quality TV and Social Distinction:  An Experiment on How Complex Television Series Valorize Their Users
Creators: name: Schlütz, Daniela M.
name: Emde-Lachmund, Katharina
name: Scherer, Helmut
name: Wedemeyer, Jonas
Publisher: name: Series - International Journal of TV Serial Narratives
Year: 2018
Subjects: quality TV; TV series, theory of distinction; symbolic capital; cultural capital

description: This paper addresses the question as to whether serial quality TV has the potential to valorize its fans. We draw on Bourdieu’s theory of distinction, assuming that demonstrated preference for a specific cultural taste has consequences for the attribution of capital endowment overall, and especially within an adept group. These assumptions are tested via a 3 (preference for high-culture vs. conventional television vs. quality TV series) x 1 online experiment with between subject design plus control group (N = 389). Results showed that conspicuously favouring serial quality TV has the potential to function as a distinctive sign – at least to some extent. Significantly more cultural capital is ascribed to a quality TV fan than to a person showing a preference for conventional television. Within a certain group of connoisseurs, a quality TV taste is even worth as much as a preference for high-culture. Implications are discussed with regard to the theory of distinction and quality TV series as the object of investigation.
description: Series - International Journal of TV Serial Narratives, Vol 4, No 2 (2018)
Monitoring Heavy Oil Recovery by Integrating Seismic Data with Reservoir Simulation
Creators: name: Riazi, Naimeh
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Geophysics
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Time-lapse seismic analysis
subject: Time-lapse seismic inversion
subject: Sim2Seis
subject: Heavy Oil

description: The purpose of this research study was to monitor the recovery process of a heavy oil reservoir using the time-lapse seismic data in order to reduce the ambiguity of reservoir simulation. The sim2seis (simulation to seismic) procedure was applied in a cold heavy oil production with sand (CHOPS) reservoir located in western Saskatchewan, Canada to convert the pressure and saturation results to seismic attributes as a function of time. Qualitative and quantitative analysis of time-lapse seismic data was also performed to determine the changes in the elastic properties that occurred in the reservoir during hydrocarbon production. In the studied heavy oilfield, operated by Husky Energy Ltd, time-lapse seismic Amplitude versus Offset (AVO) analysis and inversion were also applied to detect the production related changes in the reservoir between the wells. Different time-lapse seismic techniques were applied to maximize the information taken from the seismic data and to increase the reliability of the seismic analysis. Although time-lapse seismic results were successful in identifying the anomalous zones, time-lapse seismic attributes were also extracted to highlight the changes observed in the reservoir and to better confirm and describe the physical properties of the anomalous zones. In addition, forward seismic modeling was applied to derive the AVO responses which should be expected in a typical CHOPS reservoir. The minimum thickness of the reservoir layer which can be resolved by the time-lapse seismic data was also determined by the forward modeling. To compare quantitatively the sim2seis results with the time-lapse seismic results, a rock physics model was also applied to link the reservoir simulation results to the seismic elastic properties and vice versa. This model attempted to mimic the conditions observed in the unconsolidated heavy oil reservoirs. In summary, this research study confirmed that the application of the sim2seis process can improve the characterization of a heavy oil reservoir in four dimensions in a quantitative sense. Different time-lapse seismic analyses were applied to extract the maximum information from the time-lapse seismic data and to identify the foamy oil zones and production footprints. This procedure leads to the improvement in the forecasting of the future reservoir performance.
Characterization of Oxidative Enzymes Involved in the Biosynthesis of Benzylisoquinoline Alkaloids in Opium Poppy (Papaver somniferum)
Creators: name: Beaudoin, Guillaume Arthur Welch
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biology--Molecular
subject: Plant Physiology
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Alkaloid
subject: Specialized metabolism
subject: Opium poppy
subject: Cytochrome P450
subject: Aldo-keto reductase
subject: Fusion protein
subject: Virus-induced gene silencing

description: Benzylisoquinoline alkaloids (BIAs) are a large group of nitrogen-containing specialized metabolites. Opium poppy (Papaver somniferum) is an important pharmaceutical plant and has been cultivated for thousands of years for its analgesic constituents: the morphinan BIAs codeine and morphine. In addition, opium poppy produces other BIAs with biological activities, such as the vasodilator papaverine, the potential anti-cancer drug noscapine and the antimicrobial agent sanguinarine. The objective of this work was to identify and characterize oxidative enzymes involved in BIA biosynthesis, with a specific focus on cytochromes P450 (P450s). The biosynthesis of sanguinarine from (S)-reticuline requires four P450s. Our first objective was to identify these unidentified P450s in opium poppy. Our approach was based on the coordinated induction of all sanguinarine biosynthetic enzyme transcripts and proteins in elicited opium poppy cell suspension cultures. Using data from a previous microarray study, we identified 12 uncharacterized inducible P450s. Recombinant expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae revealed that 4 of these enzymes (CYP719A20, CYP719A25, CYP82N3 and CYP82N4) were involved in sanguinarine biosynthesis. Unexpectedly, in planta silencing using virus-induced gene silencing showed that plants suppressed in these P450s transcripts have significantly increased levels of sanguinarine and dihydrosanguinarine. Many changes in the accumulation of sanguinarine biosynthetic intermediates were also detectable. In CYP82N3- and CYP82N4-silenced plants, we detected a significant accumulation of some alkaloids in roots and a significant reduction of some of these in latex. Previous silencing of the penultimate step in morphine biosynthesis, codeinone reductase (COR), showed a dramatic decrease in morphinan alkaloids, as well as a significant increase in reticuline, the central BIA branch point intermediate. A search for similar enzymes that may be co-silenced revealed a P450 reductase fusion. Further in vitro and in planta characterization showed that this enzyme is responsible for the final unidentified and first committed steps in morphine biosynthesis, the epimerization of (S)-reticuline. Papaver rhoeas, which does not accumulate morphinan alkaloids, possesses this enzyme as two polypeptides. The significance of this difference remains to be studied. We were also able to identify a paralog of COR which can catalyze the isomerization of many morphinans, potentially opening new routes to manufacture novel opiates.
title: Managerial and Administrative Competencies for Dental Hygiene Program Administrators
Creators: name: Tanner, Kelly Gale
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 2002

description: The purposes of this descriptive study was to validate a list of managerial competencies that may guide administrative/management curricula within master of science in dental hygiene programs nationwide, and compile strategies for the development and implementation of the administrative and managerial competencies for future dental hygiene program administrators. Of the entire population of directors and chairpersons from accredited and accreditation eligible dental hygiene programs nationwide (N=262), 10 were randomly selected and used in a pilot survey. After establishing validity and test-retest reliability, a self-designed instrument, the Managerial and Administrative Competencies for Dental Hygiene Program Administrators Questionnaire, was mailed to the remaining 252 dental hygiene program administrators in the fall 2001 academic semester. This instrument asked participants to provide information concerning personal demographics, educational background, highest education level, academic preparation and experiences, the highest degree in dental hygiene offered at the college or university, extent of agreement on management and administrative competencies, and their recommendations on the implementation of administrative and managerial competencies for future dental hygiene program administrators. Frequencies, percentages, and means were used for data analysis.

Based on a response rate of 64.3% (n=162) results indicated that 96.91 % of the respondents agreed or strongly agreed that the human skill, conceptual skill, and technical skills competencies were important for program administrators. The three highest rated competencies within each domain were: "maintains confidentiality of others", "maintains professional dental hygiene standards of practice", and ''plans and participates in budget development, implementation, and monitoring". Only 3.1 % of the program administrators rated neither agree nor disagree with some of the competencies. The three lowest rated competencies were: ''understands healthcare economics and its application to human resource planning", ''promotes research and other areas of scholarship", and ''utilizes current technology". The majority believed that the competencies were achievable via coursework, mentoring, use of internships, educational programs at American Dental Education Association or online symposiums. A smaller percentage (10%) of the program directors made comments regarding the importance of collaboration and agreement on the competencies among the master of science in dental hygiene programs, and pre-graduation evaluation of competencies. Implementation of competencies within a master of science in dental hygiene program may help prepare future dental hygiene program administrators for their positions, and empower aspiring managers, administrators, and leaders in dental hygiene education to strengthen the future of the profession.
A Necessary and Sufficient Condition for Edge Universality of Wigner matrices
Creators: name: Lee, Ji Oon
name: Yin, Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we prove a necessary and sufficient condition for Tracy-Widom law of Wigner matrices. Consider $N \times N$ symmetric Wigner matrices $H$ with $H_{ij} = N^{-1/2} x_{ij}$, whose upper right entries $x_{ij}$ $(1\le i< j\le N)$ are $i.i.d.$ random variables with distribution $μ$ and diagonal entries $x_{ii}$ $(1\le i\le N)$ are $i.i.d.$ random variables with distribution $\wt μ$. The means of $μ$ and $\wt μ$ are zero, the variance of $μ$ is 1, and the variance of $\wt μ$ is finite. We prove that Tracy-Widom law holds if and only if $\lim_{s\to \infty}s^4\p(|x_{12}| \ge s)=0$. The same criterion holds for Hermitian Wigner matrices.
description: 34 pages, 0 figures
Lethe elwesi, stat. rev.
Creators: name: Lang, Song-Yun
name: Bozano, Gian Cristoforo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Nymphalidae
Lethe
Lethe elwesi

description: Lethe elwesi (Moore, 1892) stat. rev.
(Figs. 7–10, 38)
Zophoessa elwesi Moore, 1892. Lep. ind. 1: 298, pl. 92: 3, ♂. Type locality: E. Himalayas; Sikkim; Bhotan.
Lethe jalaurida elwesi: Fruhstorfer in Seitz, 1911. Macrolepid. world 9: 313; Evans, 1912. J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 21 (2): 567; Talbot, [1949]. Fauna Brit. India, Butt. 2: 183; D’Abrera, 1985. Butt. Orient. 2: 416; Huang, 2001. Neue Ent. Nach. 70: 94; Lang, [2014]. Neue Ent. Nach. 70: 301, figs: 7.
Lethe jalaurida var. elwesi: Gaede in Strand, 1931. Lep. Cat. 43: 296.
Zophoessa jalaurida: Elwes (nec de Nicéville), 1888. Trans. Ent. Soc. London 1888: 320, pl. VIII: 4; Seitz, 1907. Macrolepid. world 1: 87, pl. 32: c.
Materials examined. 3 ♂♂, BHUTAN: Jakar, Bumthang trek, W of Phephe La, 2700 m, 4.VI.2008 leg. G. C. Bozano (GCB); 6 ♂♂, CHINA: Tibet, Medog, 62K to 52K, 2800–3400 m, 19.VII.2012, leg. S-y. Lang (LSY); 4 ♂♂, CHINA: Tibet, Medog, 62K, 2800 m, 13.VIII.2012, leg. S-y. Lang (LSY); 1 ♂, ditto (HH).
Diagnosis. Lethe elwesi can be distinguished from L. jalaurida by the combination of the following characters: a) Usually larger in size (forewing length: 24–27 mm in elwesi; 24–25 mm in jalaurida); b) Ventral forewing, dark postdiscal band, bordered distally by yellow, has an irregular shape, whereas it forms three sharp regular angles in spaces 1, 2 and 3 in L. jalaurida; c) Ventral hindwing, silver discal band is continuous, whereas it is broken in cells 3 and 4 in L. jalaurida; d) Ventral hindwing, basal half silver markings are more developed than those of L. jalaurida; Male genitalia (Figs. 20, 26, 32): e) The uncus of this species is longer than that of L. jalaurida (Figs. 21, 22); f) The gnathos is longer than that of L. jalaurida; f) The aedeagus has a slender dorsal ridge near its cephalic end, whereas the dorsal surface of aedeagus is smooth in L. jalaurida.
Distribution. China (SE Tibet), Sikkim, Bhutan.
description: Published as part of Lang, Song-Yun & Bozano, Gian Cristoforo, 2015, Lethe elwesi (Moore) stat. rev., a distinct species, with description of a new subspecies from NW Yunnan, China (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Satyrinae), pp. 127-134 in Zootaxa 4058 (1) on page 128, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4058.1.8, http://zenodo.org/record/239787
‘Quality Series’ and their Production Cultures: Transnational Discourses within the German Television Industry
Creators: name: Krauß, Florian
Publisher: name: Series - International Journal of TV Serial Narratives
Year: 2018
Subjects: German TV; quality series; media industry studies; production studies; story development

description: For several years now, the quality of fictional series from Germany has been reflected upon critically in the feuilleton as well as within the television industry there. This paper takes a closer look at this industry discourse and expounds how TV makers from Germany negotiate ‘quality series’ in a transnational manner. Their understandings and attributions of such programmes are accompanied with references to foreign, mainly US-American examples, opposing German TV fiction. These discourses within the German television industry trace the state of German television output – and its arguable lack of quality – back to historical developments and structures. With the historical argumentations, the practitioners identify the ‘local’ and ‘global’, which is why their discourse can be described not only as transnational, but as glocal, too. Transnational and glocal aspects can also be found in their discussion of production cultures. Several voices suggest that specific, historically developed structures would differ from other markets and would complicate the broader establishment of ‘quality series’ and their alleged production modes. In this, much more than TV critics in the feuilleton, the practitioners deal with the quality of production, as well as content, and expand their discourse on ‘quality series’ to a broader negotiations of hierarchies in production networks.
description: Series - International Journal of TV Serial Narratives, Vol 4, No 2 (2018)
How do Women Experience and Maintain Positive Embodiment in a Western Sociocultural Context?
Creators: name: Balsden, Kayla
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Educational Psychology
subject: Positive Embodiment
subject: Positive Body Image
subject: Women's Embodiment

description: Body image is one major area that has been emphasized in psychological research. In fact, researchers have long recognized the phenomenon of normative discontent (i.e., extensive body and weight-related dissatisfaction) among women in Western culture. As such, research in the area of body image has largely focused on risk factors for pathology. Since early in the 21st century, researchers have been encouraging others to focus on protective factors and positive, embodied experiences. Embodiment has been conceptualized as involving a broader collection of individual and social experiences, compared to body image. This research explored how women experience and maintain positive embodiment in a Western sociocultural context. Qualitative data was gathered from 10 women and was analyzed through the use of constructivist grounded theory. Results from the preliminary conceptual model suggested that women engage in continuous meaning making and balancing. The results have implications for counselling and for future research.
Stability of solitons in PT-symmetric couplers
Creators: name: Driben, Rodislav
name: Malomed, Boris A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Families of analytical solutions are found for symmetric and antisymmetric solitons in the dual-core system with the Kerr nonlinearity and PT-balanced gain and loss. The crucial issue is stability of the solitons. A stability region is obtained in an analytical form, and verified by simulations, for the PT-symmetric solitons. For the antisymmetric ones, the stability border is found in a numerical form. Moving solitons of both types collide elastically. The two soliton species merge into one in the "supersymmetric" case, with equal coefficients of the gain, loss and inter-core coupling. These solitons feature a subexponential instability, which may be suppressed by periodic switching ("management").
description: Optics Letters 2011 (in press)
Exploring the impact of long qt syndrome : perspectives from a northern British Columbia First Nations community
Creators: name: Huisman, Lee-Anna Jennifer
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: There is a disproportionately high rate of hereditary Long QT Syndrome (LQTS) in Northern British Columbia First Nations people, partly due to a novel missense mutation in KCNQ1 (V205M). The effect has been previously described (Arbour et al, 2008) predisposing those affected to syncope, arrhythmia and sudden death. A community based participatory research approach has enabled over 250 community members to take part, identifying more than 40 carriers of the mutation. Although a great deal of previous research has been carried out on the biological aspects of LQTS, there has been little study into the impact of living with a mutation that predisposes one to sudden death, and no previous studies have provided cultural insights into the issues a remote First Nations community might face. The goal of this thesis was to explore what facilitates and hinders resiliency and coping for those living with LQTS. Participants were invited to partake in their choice of one to one interviews, Photovoice, and Talking Circles. Interviews were recorded, transcribed, and analyzed qualitatively using the Systematic Text Condensation method. Twelve women shared their personal experiences of living with LQTS; eight participated in individual interviews, two participated in the Talking Circle, and two participated in both. Six of the women had known mutations, one was mutation negative, and five were awaiting genetic results. Most had affected children. In general, learning about a LQTS diagnosis was perceived as traumatic, with gradual acceptance that lead to coping. The main factors that facilitate resiliency and coping were positive family relationships, spiritual faith, and knowledge about LQTS. The main factors that hinder resiliency and copying were a poor understanding of the biological or clinical aspects LQTS, conflicting medical advice, especially about necessary physical restrictions, and LQTS not being taken seriously by both social contacts and health care providers. It appeared that learning to live with LQTS is an ongoing process, requiring balance and interconnectedness between all aspects of wellbeing. These issues warrant further exploration. Recommendations to enhance genetic counselling within FN communities will be presented to reflect the Medicine Wheel concept.