cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The art of becoming : filmmaking and performance on Cambodian postcoloniality and diaspora
Creators: name: Hara, Hiroko
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: Focusing on visual culture and artistic practice/performance, this study examines how individuals of Cambodian heritage living in Canada, Japan, and Cambodia sustain networks beyond borders through the application of technology, and what forms of expression using digital and non-digital media are actively practiced on a daily basis. Drawing on the concept of “heterotopia” by Michel Foucault (2002) and Trinh T. Minh-ha (1994)’s version of the notion of “hybridization”, I aim to attain the following three conceptual objectives: (1) to uncover the research participants’ (re)actions to the dominant meaning and representation of Cambodia, the people, and culture created by the media (i.e., TV, newspapers, magazines, etc.); (2) to show various forms of artistic practice and performance by the participants (e.g., photographing, filming, performing, painting, blogging, writing books, and teaching art); and (3) to propose a novel approach for education and research, which brings a critical lens in dealing with the issues of immigration and taking into account the significance of the arts for the daily lives of people living in the digital age. This study employs interviews and video recordings conducted in Ottawa, Tokyo, Hiratsuka, and Phnom Penh—the cities where the study participants reside. I apply a “speaking nearby” position as practiced by Trinh (1982) and incorporate film production and performance within the film. From the attempt to interweave these research methods and merge the boundary between the text and the image emerge not only diverse perspectives and forms of expression of the research participants in regards to his/her-story, home, food, language, education, time, space, and dwelling, but also intricate and heterogeneous modes of being and becoming of people in the globalizing times.
Implementing Debt Relief for the HIPCs
Creators: name: Sachs, Jeffrey D.
name: Botchwey, Kwesi
name: Cuchra, Maciej
name: Sievers, Sara
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1999
Subjects: Economics

description: The Cologne Initiative (hereafter CI) re-opens the international official discussion about the HIPC (highly indebted poor country) debt crisis. Unfortunately, the CI leaves in place many of the serious flaws of the original HIPC initiative of 1996. To a first approximation, the current debt servicing "system" works as follows. Part of the debt service that is due is postponed, formally, or de facto as arrears. Of the substantial debt service that is actually paid, some gets covered through new loans and the rest through grants from bilateral donors. In the end, the HIPCs generally receive more than they pay, but the amounts of net resource transfers are small, less that US$10 per person in 1997. Even though the net resource transfers tend to be positive, the debt servicing system is fundamentally flawed. First and most urgently, the net resource transfers are not large enough to enable the HIPC governments to meet basic health and education needs of the population. Second, the bilateral grants do not neatly offset the heavy burden of debt servicing, even if they appear to do so in formal accounting. The debt burden falls heavily on the budget, and therefore on line ministries (such as the ministry of health) while grants frequently finance extra-budgetary activities established by the donors. Third, the process of offsetting heavy debt payments with grants and new loans is highly unstable and erratic. There is no guarantee that new grants will fill the fiscal void left behind by the heavy debt servicing; indeed sometimes there is a self-fulfilling collapse of fiscal resources. The instability, unpredictability, and time-consuming nature of these rollover mechanisms contribute to the incapacity of HIPC governments and the international community to formulate long-term solutions to the pressing social crises in the HIPC countries. While the new CI aims at more "ambitious" debt reduction targets than the 1996 HIPC Initiative, the basic problem remains that the new standards are as arbitrary as the old ones. Both initiatives focus mainly on the relationship of debt to exports, even though debt-to-export ratios have little if anything to do with the real ability of governments to meet urgent social needs while servicing debts. An effective process of HIPC debt relief should be grounded on the following principles: the unmet social needs of most HIPC countries require significant net resource inflows; to achieve these increased inflows, it will be necessary to cancel most or all old debts; to the extent possible, new inflows should be highly concessional; debt relief should be guided by a process that helps to insure that the increased resource transfers will be channeled into areas of urgent human need, especially in public health and primary education.
The onset of tree-like patterns in negative streamers
Creators: name: Arrayás, M.
name: Fontelos, M. A.
name: Kindelán, U.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first analytical and numerical studies of the initial stage of the branching process based on an interface dynamics streamer model in the fully 3-D case. This model follows from fundamental considerations on charge production by impact ionization and balance laws, and leads to an equation for the evolution of the interface between ionized and non-ionized regions. We compare some experimental patterns with the numerically simulated ones, and give an explicit expression for the growth rate of harmonic modes associated with the perturbation of a symmetrically expanding discharge. By means of full numerical simulation, the splitting and formation of characteristic tree-like patterns of electric discharges is observed and described.
Impact of newly measured 26Al(n,p)26Mg and 26Al(n,a)23Na reaction rates on the nucleosynthesis of 26Al in stars
Creators: name: Battino, Umberto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The cosmic production of the short-lived radioactive nuclide 26Al is crucial for our understanding of the evolution of stars and galaxies. However, simulations of the stellar sites producing 26Al are still weakened by significant nuclear uncertainties. We re-evaluate the 26Al(n, p)26Mg, and 26Al(n, α) 23Na ground state reactivities from 0.01 GK to 10 GK, based on the recent n TOF measurement combined with theoretical predictions and a previous measurement at higher energies, and test their impact on stellar nucleosynthesis. We computed the nucleosynthesis of low- and high-mass stars using the Monash nucleosynthesis code, the NuGrid mppnp code, and the FUNS stellar evolutionary code. Our low-mass stellar models cover the 2–3 solar masses mass range with metallicities between Z = 0.01 and 0.02, their predicted 26Al/27Al ratios are compared to 62 meteoritic SiC grains. For high-mass stars, we test our reactivities on two 15 solar masses models with Z = 0.006 and 0.02. The new reactivities allow low-mass AGB stars to reproduce the full range of 26Al/27Al ratios measured in SiC grains. The final 26Al abundance in high-mass stars, at the point of highest production, varies by a factor of 2.4 when adopting the upper, or lower limit of our rates. However, stellar uncertainties still play an important role in both mass regimes. The new reactivities visibly impact both low- and high-mass stars nucleosynthesis and allow a general improvement in the comparison between stardust SiC grains and low-mass star models. Concerning explosive nucleosynthesis, an improvement of the current uncertainties between T9∼0.3 and 2.5 is needed for future studies.
title: Erzberger, Matthias
title: Erzberger, Matthias
Creators: name: Dowe, Christopher
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: o.P. Erzberger, Matthias
subject: Erzberger, Matthias, 1875-1921

description: As a Member of Parliament 1917, Erzberger, the former annexationist, played an important role in drafting the Reichstag’s Peace Resolution and the setting up of the ''Interfraktioneller Ausschuss'' (Interparty Committee). As secretary of state of the first German parliamentary government, Erzberger signed the armistice of Compiègne. In 1921, right-wing terrorists killed the leading democratic politician of the Weimar Republic.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Alternative Approaches to Financial Crises in Emerging Markets
Creators: name: Sachs, Jeffrey D.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1996
Subjects: Economics
Finance

description: Developing countries fall into international financial crises for a variety of reasons, including fiscal profligacy, exchange rate mismanagement, international financial shocks, financial liberalization, and weaknesses in the domestic banking sector. Market expectations may play an independent role in a financial crisis, by triggering a self-fulfilling financial panic. International public policy should be aimed first and foremost at avoiding financial crises, but must also be prepared to ameliorate financial crises after they begin. Despite ample experience with financial crises in the past decade, there are still serious differences of opinion with regard to best means of their avoidance, and their proper management once they occur. These differences relate to the appropriate roles of exchange rate policy, banking policy, fiscal policy, and the international institutions. The purpose of this paper is to review the lessons of the past decade, in order to draw some policy conclusions for developing country governments and for international institutions such as the IMF, World Bank, and the Bank for International Settlements.
The Economic Burden of Malaria
Creators: name: Gallup, John Luke
name: Sachs, Jeffrey D.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1998
Subjects: Economics
Public health
Malaria

description: Malaria and poverty are intimately connected. Controlling for factors such as tropical location, colonial history, and geographical isolation, countries with severe malaria had income levels in 1995 only 33% of countries without malaria, whether or not the countries were in Africa. The high levels of malaria in poor countries are not mainly a consequence of poverty. Malaria is very geographically specific. The ecological conditions that support the more efficient malaria mosquito vectors primarily determine the distribution and intensity of the disease. Intensive eradication efforts in the most severely affected countries have been largely ineffective. Countries that have eradicated malaria in the past half century have all been subtropical or islands. These countries' economic growth in the five years following eradication has almost always been substantially higher than growth in their region. Cross-country regressions for the 1965-90 period confirm the relationship between malaria and economic growth. Taking into account initial poverty, economic policy, tropical location, and life expectancy among other factors, countries with severe malaria grew 1.3% lower per year, and a 10% reduction in malaria was associated with 0.3% higher growth per year. The paper concludes with speculation about the mechanisms that could cause malaria to have such a large impact on the economy, including the possibility that the effects attributed to malaria are really the result other unmeasured tropical diseases.
title: Collaboration (Belgium and France)
title: Collaboration (Belgium and France)
Creators: name: Connolly, James E.
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: o.P. Frankreich
subject: Belgien
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: Kollaboration
subject: o.P. World War, 1914-1918--Belgium
subject: World War, 1914-1918--France

description: Collaboration is often associated with the military occupations of the Second World War, but there was a precursor to this multi-faceted phenomenon in occupied France and Belgium during the First World War. This article examines the meaning of collaboration in this context, its different forms, and the reaction to it during and after the war.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Additional file 2 of Detection of copy number variants in African goats using whole genome sequence data
Creators: name: Nandolo, Wilson
name: Mészáros, Gábor
name: Wurzinger, Maria
name: Banda, Liveness J.
name: Gondwe, Timothy N.
name: Mulindwa, Henry A.
name: Nakimbugwe, Helen N.
name: Clark, Emily L.
name: Woodward-Greene, M. Jennifer
name: Liu, Mei
name: Liu, George E.
name: Van Tassell, Curtis P.
name: Rosen, Benjamin D.
name: Sölkner, Johann
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2 Supplementary Figures 1–10 CNV differentiation between the following populations; respectively: Boer and East African; Boer and Madagascar; Boer and Southern African; Boer and West African; East African and Madagascar; East African and Southern African; East African and West African; Madagascar and Southern African; Madagascar and West African and Southern African and Western African. Supplementary Figures 11–39 CNVR for the following goat breeds, respectively: Abergelle (Ethiopia), Androy (Madagascar), Balaka-Ulongwe (Malawi), Boer (Tanzania and Zimbabwe), Dedza (Malawi), Diana (Madagascar), Galla (Kenya), Gogo (Tanzania), Guera (Mali), Gumez (Ethiopia), Keffa (Ethiopia), Landin (Mozambique), Maasai (Tanzania), Malya (Tanzania), Manica (Mozambique), Mashona (Zimbabwe), Matebele (Zimbabwe), Menabe (Madagascar), Naine (Mali), Norwegian (Tanzania), Nsanje (Malawi), Pare White (Tanzania), Saanen (Tanzania), Small East African (Kenya and Mozambique), Sofia (Madagascar), Soudanaise (Mali), SudOuest (Madagascar), Thyolo (Malawi) and Woyito Guji (Ethiopia). Supplementary Figures 40–64 Global CNVR with variable SV calling parameters.
Natural Resources and Economic Growth: A Quantitative Exploration
Creators: name: Rodríguez, Francisco
name: Sachs, Jeffrey D.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1999
Subjects: Economics

description: This article suggests an alternative explanation for why resource-rich economies have lower growth rates: because they are likely to be living beyond their means. It is shown that overshooting the steady state's equilibrium consumption and investment can be optimal in a Ramsey growth model with natural resources. Therefore, the economy will converge to its steady state from above, displaying negative growth rates on the transition. A dynamic general equilibrium model is calibrated to the Venezuelan economy and shown to approximate the economy's performance over the oil boom years adequately.
Post-Periastron Gamma Ray Flare from PSR B1259-63/LS 2883 as a Result of Comptonization of the Cold Pulsar Wind
Creators: name: Khangulyan, D.
name: Aharonian, F. A.
name: Bogovalov, S. V.
name: Ribo, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We argue that the bright flare of the binary pulsar \object{PSR B1259$-$63/LS2883} detected by the {\it Fermi} Large Area Telescope (LAT), is due to the inverse Compton (IC) scattering of the unshocked electron-positron pulsar wind with a Lorentz factor $Γ_0 \approx 10^4$. The combination of two effects both linked to the circumstellar disk (CD), is a key element in the proposed model. The first effect is related to the impact of the surrounding medium on the termination of the pulsar wind. Inside the disk, the "early" termination of the wind results in suppression of its gamma-ray luminosity. When the pulsar escapes the disk, the conditions for termination of the wind undergo significant changes. This would lead to a dramatic increase of the pulsar wind zone, and thus to the proportional increase of the gamma-ray flux. On the other hand, if the parts of the CD disturbed by the pulsar can supply infrared photons of density high enough for efficient Comptonization of the wind, almost the entire kinetic energy of the pulsar wind would be converted to radiation, thus the gamma-ray luminosity of the wind could approach to the level of the pulsar's spin-down luminosity as reported by the {\it Fermi} collaboration.
description: 14 pages, 4 figures
Magnetic mixing and s-processing in AGB stars
Creators: name: Vescovi, Diego
name: Cristallo, Sergio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Asymptotic giant branch stars play a crucial role in the production of heavy elements in the Universe, specifically of nuclei ranging from strontium to lead. Significant progress has been made in the theoretical modeling of these objects over the last few decades. However, many uncertainties persist, with one notable example being the unidentified mechanism responsible for the formation of the 13C neutron source. In this view, the latest spectroscopic observations of both intrinsic and extrinsic stars, Galactic open clusters, as well as the isotopic composition of heavy elements measured in meteoritic presolar grains, provide stringent constraints on the mixing processes relevant to the s-process nucleosynthesis in AGB stars.In this contribution, we present recent results from new stellar models that incorporate the effects of mixing induced by magnetic fields. By comparing the resulting s-process nucleosynthesis model predictions with available observational data, there is evidence suggesting that magnetic instabilities may be at the origin of the 13C pocket in AGB stars. These findings open up promising avenues for future research and a deeper exploration of the mysteries surrounding AGB stars' s-process nucleosynthesis.
Molecular Imprinting of Metal-Organic frameworks (MOFs) for Selective Separations
Creators: name: Evans, David
Publisher: name: Science
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Education--Sciences
subject: Education--Tests and Measurements
subject: Biology--Molecular
subject: Chemistry--Inorganic
subject: Engineering--Chemical

description: This thesis explores the idea of using chromium(III) ions and an orthogonal polyaromatic phosphonate linker to produce a stable metal-organic framework (MOF) for the separation of xylene isomers. This began by creating a charge-assisted hydrogen-bonded metal-organic framework (HMOF) that uses weaker interactions to hold the framework together. The orthogonalized phosphonate creates pores due to its bulky nature that prevents efficient ligand packing. In tandem, this allows for the inclusion of guest molecules within the HMOF structure. Once the guest-incorporated structure is formed, heating can remove water molecules from the HMOF to form coordination bonds between the chromium and the phosphonate ligand. This dehydration locks the template in place as it converts to a coordinated metal-organic framework (MOF). The template for this technique is of great importance since you can imprint the pore to a specific molecule. For this study, the xylene isomers ortho, meta, and para, were looked at for separation. The separation of xylenes is of great importance since the different isomers are used in a variety of different applications, such as para-xylene for terephthalic acid (TPA) to manufacture polyethylene terephthalate (PET). The problem with separating xylenes is how expensive the separation is. Since the xylene isomers have very similar boiling points and sizes, either cryogenic distillation or recrystallization has to be performed to acquire a pure product. On this note, three different chromium phosphonate HMOFs were developed. The first structure incorporated a para-xylene template (HCALF 50αP) while the second structure incorporated ortho-xylene as the template (HCALF 50α)). The final structure used meta-xylene as a template (HCALF 50M). These HMOFs were dehydrated into the corresponding MOF structures and used to test selective xylene separation. Initial studies using a static separation and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy were conducted followed by a flow-through separation using high-pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) and a MOF-packed column. The findings were intriguing showing selectivity towards para-xylene for some of the materials. Most notable is that HCALF 50βM showed anti-selectivity towards para-xylene allowing it to flow freely through and making it easier to collect.
title: Gas Warfare
title: Gas Warfare
Creators: name: Faith, Thomas I.
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: o.P. Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: Chemischer Krieg
subject: o.P. World War, 1914-1918--Chemical warfare

description: Gas warfare is a method of war that employs weapons that are designed to cause casualties primarily through the use of harmful chemical agents. The First World War constitutes the most extensive incidence of gas warfare in the 20th century, and poison gas remains associated with the horrors of trench warfare in public memory.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
FREQUENCY REDUCTION AND ATTENUATION OF THE TIRE AIR CAVITY MODE DUE TO A POROUS LINING
Creators: name: Choo, Kyosung
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2023
Subjects: Acoustics and noise control (excl. architectural acoustics)

description: The tire air cavity mode is known to be a significant source of vehicle structure-borne road noise near 200 Hz. A porous lining placed on the inner surface of a tire is an effective countermeasure to attenuate that resonance. The two noticeable effects of such a lining are the reduction in frequency and the attenuation of the air cavity mode. In this thesis, through both theoretical and numerical analysis, the mechanism of the effects of a porous lining was studied. A two-dimensional duct-shaped theoretical model and a torus-shaped numerical model were built to investigate the lined tire in conjunction with the Johnson-Champoux-Allard model describing the viscous and thermal dissipative effects of the porous material. Design parameters of the porous lining were varied to study their impact and optimal ranges of the design parameters were identified. Finally, in an experimental analysis, the sound attenuation and the frequency drop were observed in measurements of force, acceleration, and sound pressure. In conclusion, it was demonstrated that the suggested theoretical and numerical models successfully predict the effects of porous linings and that the frequency reduction results from the decreased sound speed within the tire owing to the presence of the liner.
Quantum origin of pre-big bang collapse from Induced Matter theory of gravity
Creators: name: Bellini, Mauricio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We revisit a collapsing pre-big-bang model of the universe to study with detail the non-perturbative quantum dynamics of the dispersal scalar field whose dynamics becomes from the dynamical foliation of test massless scalar field $ϕ$ on a 5D Riemann-flat metric, such that the extra space-like coordinate is noncompact. The important result here obtained is that the evolution of the system, which is described thorough the equation of state has the unique origin in the quantum contributions of the effective 4D scalar field.
description: final version to be published in Physics Letters B. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1107.2107
Genetic Manipulation of Bacteroides for Transient Colonization of Germ-free Mice
Creators: name: Dong, Sharon
Publisher: name: Cumming School of Medicine
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: bacterial genetics
subject: germ free
subject: transient colonization
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Microbiology

description: Human and murine hosts have a dynamic relationship with the microbes that colonize their bodily surfaces. Shifts in composition of the community of microbes, or their function, are implicated in many chronic and/or inflammatory conditions. There are currently gaps in understanding whether these shifts cause disease phenotypes or are artefacts of changed host conditions due to disease. The ability to tease apart these dynamics by generating bacterial tools that limited bacterial exposure of germ-free mice to a certain time-period was explored in this thesis. I target genes in synthesis pathways of two uniquely-bacterial amino acids, meso-diaminopimelic acid (mDAP) and D-Alanine (D-Ala) in a species of interest, Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron. These amino acids are incorporated into the peptidoglycan, or cell wall, of most bacteria, like B. thetaiotaomicron. This study builds on concepts from a previously developed E. coli strain called HA107, where disruption of these two synthesis pathways generated an auxotrophic mutant that grew if supplemented with said amino acids, however, did not proliferate and persist in germ-free murine gastrointestinal tracts. I designed deletion alleles that would exchange with the functional allele of target genes, and transferred the allelic exchange vector, pExchange, containing the deletion allele into B. thetaiotaomicron through conjugation. The double and triple gene deletion mutants failed to grow when not supplemented with mDAP and D-Ala. This mutation strategy may be adapted to genetically manipulate other notable Bacteroides species. The generated auxotrophic mutants from this study will be useful tools in answering questions regarding how timing or dosage of bacterial exposure affect health or disease outcomes in germ-free mice.
title: Khaki Election 1918
title: Khaki Election 1918
Creators: name: Blaxill, Luke
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: o.P. Großbritannien
subject: Wahl
subject: Geschichte 1918
subject: o.P. Great Britain--Politics and government--1910-1936

description: The "khaki" general election of 1918 was held in Great Britain almost immediately after the Armistice. It was the first held under what was almost universal adult suffrage. The result was a crushing victory for a coalition comprised of Liberals supporting Prime Minister Lloyd George, and the Conservatives.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
title: Atlantic U-boat Campaign
title: Atlantic U-boat Campaign
Creators: name: Abbatiello, John
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: o.P. Unterseebootkrieg
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: o.P. World War, 1914-1918--Naval operations--Submarine

description: Between February 1915 and the Armistice, Germany conducted three submarine campaigns against British, Entente and neutral merchant shipping. The final unrestricted campaign that started in early 1917 came close to choking the British economy, but the convoy system ultimately made the submarine (i.e. ''Unterseeboot'' in German, hence the term, U-boat) ineffective.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Producing ‘out of school’ working-class girls : urban space, place & value
Creators: name: Skourtes, Stephanie
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: At a time when individualized narratives have replaced structural explanations like social class to account for inequality, the material conditions of girls who are marginalized economically, politically, and socially are being reproduced through the uneven outcomes of globalization. Young women who are on the fringes of social change are under valued as contributing members to a futuristic individually oriented society, and often not included in academic and mainstream definitions of ‘girl.’ This study addresses these epistemological silences through an empirical investigation of girls between the ages of 16-23 who are in various ways marked as a ‘problem’ by dominant social discourse. This research considers the structural organization of working-class girl subjectivities and seeks to broaden our understanding of contemporary girl culture in the changing nature of the ‘new global city’ (Sassen, 2001). I conducted an eighteen-month ethnography of working-class, urban female youth who are living on the margins of the post-industrial city of Vancouver, Canada. Utilizing a materialist theoretical framework, which draws heavily from theories of social and cultural space, along with multiple visual ethnographic methods the ethnography took place in a provincially funded drop-in social service center for youth, and the surrounding neighborhoods. Analyses revealed how class as culture operated along with other classification systems like gender, ethnicity, and sexuality to inscribe the girls as ‘abject.’ Utilizing a theoretical intervention to retrieve ‘use-value’ as separate from ‘exchange-value’ I suggest that the girls’ narratives describe alternative value systems that provide collective significance and at times economic value to the girls. I also uncover the affective economies operating as the present expression of the girls’ collective histories to reveal the structures in place and historicity that produce the abject girl. This study will advance the fields of youth cultural studies, ethnographic approaches, and the sociology of education by deploying materialist accounts of young, female working-class lives. The consideration of use-value (Skeggs, 2004a) and affect (Ahmed, 2004) as a demonstration of structural constraints provides a compelling approach to reposition socially marginalized young people and is key to understanding the processes and effects of urban change.
An Extreme X-ray Disk Wind in the Black Hole Candidate IGR J17091-3624
Creators: name: King, Ashley L.
name: Miller, Jon M.
name: Raymond, John
name: Fabian, Andy C.
name: Reynolds, Chris S.
name: Kallman, Tim R.
name: Maitra, Dipankar
name: Cackett, Edward M.
name: Rupen, Michael P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: {\it Chandra} spectroscopy of transient stellar-mass black holes in outburst has clearly revealed accretion disk winds in soft, disk--dominated states, in apparent anti-correlation with relativistic jets in low/hard states. These disk winds are observed to be highly ionized, dense, and to have typical velocities of $\sim$1000 km/s or less projected along our line of sight. Here, we present an analysis of two {\it Chandra} High Energy Transmission Grating spectra of the Galactic black hole candidate IGR J17091$-$3624 and contemporaneous EVLA radio observations, obtained in 2011. The second {\it Chandra} observation reveals an absorption line at 6.91$\pm$0.01 keV; associating this line with He-like Fe XXV requires a blue-shift of $9300^{+500}_{-400}$ km/s (0.03$c$, or the escape velocity at 1000 R$_{Schw}$). This projected outflow velocity is an order of magnitude higher than has previously been observed in stellar-mass black holes, and is broadly consistent with some of the fastest winds detected in active galactic nuclei. A potential feature at 7.32 keV, if due to Fe XXVI, would imply a velocity of $\sim 14600$ km/s (0.05$c$), but this putative feature is marginal. Photoionization modeling suggests that the accretion disk wind in IGR J17091$-$3624 may originate within 43,300 Schwarzschild radii of the black hole, and may be expelling more gas than accretes. The contemporaneous EVLA observations strongly indicate that jet activity was indeed quenched at the time of our {\it Chandra} observations. We discuss the results in the context of disk winds, jets, and basic accretion disk physics in accreting black hole systems.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures, Accepted to ApJLetters
title: Управление социально-экономическим развитием региона: современные методы и механизмы
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Северо-Кавказский федеральный университет
Year: 2024

description: Монография подготовлена по результатам исследований авторского коллектива в рамках выполнения гранта Российского научного фонда № 23-28-01098 «Управление рисками социально-экономического развития региона в условиях отраслевых ограничений и глобальных экзогенных изменений». В научной монографии исследованы методологические подходы к управлению социально-экономическим развитием региона, дана оценка влияния деглобализации и рисков изменений рыночной среды, проанализирован уровень динамической эффективности развития отраслевых специализаций по территории региона, обоснованы приоритетные направления трансформации региональной модели развития. Особое внимание уделено возможностям использования экономико-математического инструментария в процессе государственного управления развитием региона и реализации инвестиционной политики в ситуации проявления непредсказуемых рисков. Издание рассчитано на научных работников, руководителей и специалистов, принимающих решения по разработке и осуществлении региональной государственной политики, а также преподавателей учебных заведений, аспирантов и студентов.
title: Lviv/Lemberg
title: Lviv/Lemberg
Creators: name: Reichl-Ham, Claudia
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: o.P. Lemberg
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: o.P. World War, 1914-1918
subject: Lʹviv (Ukraine)

description: In World War I Lviv played an important role as a political and administrative center of Galicia and was of great strategic significance as one of the biggest garrisons of Austria-Hungary in the east. The focus of Polish and Ukrainian national movements, Lviv saw rising nationalist and antisemitic tensions, which were fostered by an ever more precarious supply situation and led to a fraternal war at the end of World War I.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
On the radial expansion of tubular structures in a quark gluon plasma
Creators: name: Fogaça, D. A.
name: Navarra, F. S.
name: Filho, L. G. Ferreira
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the radial expansion of cylindrical tubes in a hot QGP. These tubes are treated as perturbations in the energy density of the system which is formed in heavy ion collisions at RHIC and LHC. We start from the equations of relativistic hydrodynamics in two spatial dimensions and cylindrical symmetry and perform an expansion of these equations in a small parameter, conserving the nonlinearity of the hydrodynamical formalism. We consider both ideal and viscous fluids and the latter are studied with a relativistic Navier-Stokes equation. We use the equation of state of the MIT bag model. In the case of ideal fluids we obtain a breaking wave equation for the energy density fluctuation, which is then solved numerically. We also show that, under certain assumptions, perturbations in a relativistic viscous fluid are governed by the Burgers equation. We estimate the typical expansion time of the tubes.
title: Organization of War Economies (Austria-Hungary)
title: Organization of War Economies (Austria-Hungary)
Creators: name: Butschek, Felix
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: o.P. Österreich-Ungarn
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: Wirtschaft
subject: ö.P. World War, 1914-1918--Economic aspects--Austria

description: This article describes the structure and development of the Austro-Hungarian war economy during World War I. It explains the dynamic process that took place within Austria-Hungary’s economy during the war, looking at the relevant branches of the economy and evaluating the measures the government took to meet the challenges of war.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Happiness, well-being, and post-secondary attainment: measuring the subjective well-being of British Columbia's high school graduate class of 1988
Creators: name: Jongbloed, Janine Alysia
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: The purpose of the current study is to create definitions and conceptualizations of the constructs of “happiness” and “well-being” in a large sample of the high school graduate class of 1988 in British Columbia, Canada, and then explore the relationships among these concepts and post-secondary educational aspirations, expectations, and attainment. In this thesis, I define the concepts of “happiness” and “well-being” in terms of the participants’ own descriptions of these concepts elicited from focused questionnaire and interview questions from the last wave of the 22-year longitudinal Paths on Life’s Way project. Data were collected using survey methods (n=574) and interviews (n=19). By analyzing both quantitative and qualitative data from Paths on Life’s Way, I employ a mixed methods approach. Specifically, I use the survey data extensively and have added my own questions to the most recent set of follow-up interviews to better define and conceptualize “happiness” and “well-being” for members of the high school graduating class of 1988 in British Columbia, Canada. The current study builds on previous work done with this dataset (Andres, 1992, 2002, 2009, 2010) using the theoretical framework of Sen’s (1985, 1993, 2005) conceptualization of functionings and capabilities in relation to people’s well-being and agency. The basic hypothesis of the current study is that people’s perceptions of their own “happiness” and “well-being” are not only distinct, but also dependent on context, time, and life sphere (e.g., work vs. family). These complex concepts, and participants’ self-ratings of them, relate to post-secondary educational aspirations, expectations, and attainment in ways that differ by gender, health, marital status, and presence or absence of children. As well, the acts of defining and measuring one’s own “happiness” and “well-being” and attempting to change these is an iterative process that is both influenced by and influences one’s educational path.
Instabilities of localized structures in dissipative systems with delayed feedback
Creators: name: Gurevich, S. V.
name: Friedrich, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on a novel behavior of solitary localized structures in a real Swift-Hohenberg equation subjected to a delayed feedback. We shall show that variation in the product of the delay time and the feedback strength leads to nontrivial instabilities resulting in the formation of oscillons, soliton rings, labyrinth patterns or moving structures. We provide a bifurcation analysis of the delayed system and derive a system of order parameter equations explicitly describing the temporal behavior of the localized structure in the vicinity of the bifurcation point. We demonstrate that a normal form of the bifurcation, responsible for the emergence of moving solitary structures can be obtained and show that spontaneous motion to the lowest order occurs without change of the shape.
High Temperature and High Pressure Determination of the Viscosity and Density of Bitumen as well as the Mutual Solubility of a Bitumen and Water Mixture
Creators: name: Sardinha, Christopher
Publisher: name: Schulich School of Engineering
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Engineering
subject: Engineering--Chemical
subject: Engineering--Petroleum

description: 97% of Canadian oil reserves are oil sands, with 80% in undeveloped in-situ reservoirs. Knowledge of the density, viscosity and mutual solubility of bitumen and bitumen/water mixtures greatly improves the exploitation of these reservoirs that require thermal recovery techniques. Determining these parameters is challenging due to the high temperatures and pressures of these reservoirs. This work utilizes a variable-volume bellows cell with a custom viscometer to measure density and viscosity for a Christina Lake bitumen and Christina Lake bitumen/water mixtures at 13.8 MPa (2000 psig) up to 300⁰C. Mutual solubility and composition is determined from samples using Karl Fischer titration and Dean Stark distillation. Results indicate that density and viscosity decrease significantly with increasing temperature up to 300⁰C. Mutual solubility results were inconclusive due to apparatus malfunctions. Thermal cracking at 300⁰C was evidenced by a change in the oil density and viscosity at lower temperatures and was more significant in the presence of water.
title: Labour (India)
title: Labour (India)
Creators: name: Singha, Radhika
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: o.P. Indien
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: Arbeit
subject: o.P. World War, 1914-1918--India
subject: Labor

description: Of the 1.4 million Indians recruited for the First World War, some 563,369 were non-combatants, or “followers”, though their particular kind of war-work is rarely mentioned in the literature. Yet one way to assess India’s position in this transnational conflagration, instead of treating it largely as an external event, is to examine the imperial interests served by long-term patterns of labour circulation across the colony’s land and sea borders.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
title: Propaganda at Home and Abroad (East Central Europe)
title: Propaganda at Home and Abroad (East Central Europe)
Creators: name: Brudek, Paweł
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Osteuropa
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: o.P. Ostmitteleuropa
subject: o.P. World War, 1914-1918
subject: Europe, Eastern
subject: Europe, Central

description: This article discusses the content and impact of various propaganda strategies which were used in East Central Europe by warring powers, local political parties and national organizations during the Great War. For Russia and Germany, the most important aim was to use the conflict to strengthen their influence in the region. For the representatives of national movements, the war provided an opportunity to propagate the idea of national rebirth, first as loyal allies of Russia, and after 1917 as separate entities to build their own states. Russian defeat, German victories and, later, the Russian Revolution were reflected in the propaganda of Bolsheviks as well as nationalists, who fought against the “foreign war” and created the visions of future peace in independent states or as parts of a Russian revolutionary republic. The Germans likewise promised victory and freedom, but only to the Baltic noblemen.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Salivary and urinary methodology for ovulation and menstrual cycle phase detection among eumenorrheic females: A scoping review protocol
Creators: name: Doroshuk, Marissa L.
name: Kazakoff, Alissa
name: Hayden, K. Alix
name: Doyle-Baker, Patricia K.
Publisher: name: Community Health Sciences
Year: 2022
Subjects: Scoping Review
Scoping Review Protocol
Estrogen
Progesterone
Luteinizing Hormone
Menstrual Cycle
Ovulation Detection
Fertility
Urinary Testing Methods
Salivary Testing Methods

description: Most females will experience variability in their menstrual cycle (MC) at some point across the reproductive lifespan (Bull et al., 2019). Current literature suggests that it is important for females to track MC regularity and ovulation occurrence as it is related to other health outcomes (Lynch et al., 2014). MC tracking and ovulation can be detected using a variety of methods (Allen et al., 2017). The gold standard for ovulation detection includes daily transvaginal ultrasonography and laparoscopic evaluation of the developing follicle until the point of rupture. These methods, however, can be costly, invasive, and have a large participant burden (Allen et al., 2017; Lynch et al., 2014). Therefore, accessible, and reliable methods of ovulation and MC phase detection are warranted. The study objective is to examine methods in the literature associated with salivary assay and urinary hormone testing for ovulation and menstrual cycle phase detection. Inclusion criteria for participants and defining characteristics consist of the following a) eumenorrheic females between 18 to 45 years of age, b) salivary and/or urinary hormone testing methods, c) menstrual cycle measurement, d) ovulation detection, and e) estradiol, progesterone, and/or luteinizing hormone (LH) measures. The proposed scoping review will be conducted in accordance with the JBI methodology for scoping reviews described in the JBI Manual for Evidence Synthesis (2020). The review will also cover the 2018 PRISMA reporting items for scoping review extensions (Tricco et al., 2018). Population: Eumenorrheic Females. Concept: Salivary and Urinary Hormone Testing Methods. Context: Ovulation and Menstrual Cycle Phase Detection PRIMARY QUESTION: What is the validity and reliability of salivary and urinary assay testing for female sex hormones in ovulation detection and menstrual cycle phase identification? SECONDARY QUESTION: What are the salivary and urinary protocols used to test female sex hormones and what ranges are considered within normal?
The U.S. as a Coastal Nation
Creators: name: Rappaport, Jordan
name: Sachs, Jeffrey D.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2001
Subjects: Economics

description: U.S. economic activity is overwhelmingly concentrated at its ocean and Great Lakes coasts and at navigable rivers. Economic theory suggests four possible explanations: a present-day productivity effect, a present-day quality-of-life effect, delayed adjustment following a historical productivity or quality-of-life effect, and an agglomeration effect following a historical productivity or quality-of-life effect. Controlling for correlated natural attributes such as the weather and including proximity measures which a priori should absorb any quality-of-life effect, linear regressions suggest that the high coastal concentration of economic activity is primarily due to a productivity effect. Extensively controlling for historical economic density suggests that such a productivity effect continues to be operative today.
Supplementary document for High-performance imaging of cell-substrate contacts using refractive index quantification microscopy - 4900227.pdf
Creators: name: Xin, Ziqiang
name: Zhang, Chonglei
name: Sun, Lixun
name: Wan, Chao
name: Chen, Ting
name: Chen, Houkai
name: Wang, Min
name: Wang, Yijia
name: Zhu, Siwei
name: Yuan, Xiaocong
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The calibration of the slit width under an atomic force microscope, the other two experimental data to calibrate the resolution and calibration of penetration of the evanescent field.
Rotating Strings in AdS(4) X CP(3) with B-NS holonomy
Creators: name: Panigrahi, Kamal L.
name: Pradhan, Pabitra M.
name: Swain, Pratap K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study solutions for rigidly rotating strings on AdS$_4 \times$ CP$^3$ in the presence of $B_{\rm NS}$ holonomy turned on over $CP^1 \subset CP^3$. We construct general solutions for rotating strings with two and three angular momenta in $CP^3$ and discuss various limits corresponding to giant magnon and spike like solutions.
description: v2:12 pages, to appear in JHEP