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The basilisk and its antidote : a study of the changing image of Chopin in literature
Creators: name: Wootton, Alice Carolyn May
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: One area related to Fryderyk Chopin which has received little attention is his influence upon literature. In order to develop two aspects of this theme a key word "basilisk" has been introduced which Robert Schumann as music critic used in explaining the unusual impression that Chopin's music first presented on the printed page. This word, with its overtones both magical and ominous, suggests the symbol for the growing wave of aestheticism with which the cult of Chopin came to be associated. Translated into literature the expression of the Chopin cult found its way into the early writings of Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse, and John Galsworthy. Later, as the twentieth century progressed and the pendulum swung in a new direction for the arts and for literature, a suitable antidote to the basilisk was to be found in the parody of the Chopin cult offered by T. S. Eliot in his "Portrait of a Lady" and in "Chopin" by Gottfried Benn, which explores the use of biography in a poem, and moves away from the extreme subjectivity of many nineteenth-century portrayals of the Polish composer. It is the purpose of this study to trace the changing image of Chopin in a selection of literary works which belong to the period between 1890 and 1950.
title: Explaining Russian-German code-mixing
title: A usage-based approach
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Hakimov, Nikolay
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Multilingualism
subject: 400 Sprache::410 Linguistik::410 Linguistik

description: The study of grammatical variation in language mixing has been at the core of research into bilingual language practices. Although various motivations have been proposed in the literature to account for possible mixing patterns, some of them are either controversial, or remain untested. Little is still known about whether and how frequency of use of linguistic elements can contribute to the patterning of bilingual talk. This book is the first to systematically explore the factor usage frequency in a corpus of bilingual speech. The two aims are (i) to describe and analyze the variation in mixing patterns in the speech of Russia German adolescents and young adults in Germany, and (ii) to propose and test usage-based explanations of variation in mixing patterns in three morphosyntactic contexts: the adjective-modified noun phrase, the prepositional phrase, and the plural marking of German noun insertions in bilingual sentences. In these contexts, German noun insertions combine with either Russian or German words and grammatical markers, thus yielding mixed bilingual and German monolingual constituents in otherwise Russian sentences, the latter also labelled as embedded-language islands. The results suggest that the frequency with which words are used together mediates the distribution of mixing patterns in each of the examined contexts. The differing impacts of co-occurrence frequency are attributed to the distributional and semantic specifics of the analyzed morphosyntactic configurations. Lexical frequency has been found to be another important determinant in this variation. Other factors include recency, or lexical priming, in discourse in the case of prepositional phrases, and phonological and structural similarities and differences in the inflectional systems of the contact languages in the case of plural marking.
On black holes in heterotic braneworlds
Creators: name: Gregory, Ruth
name: Leksono, Armalivia
name: Mistry, Bina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the problem of braneworld black holes in the heterotic braneworld scenario of Lukas, Ovrut, Stelle and Waldram (LOSW). We show that black string solutions are unstable, and demonstrate some unusual asymptotics in the linearized metric. We also solve the fully coupled brane and bulk Einstein equations, finding an exact, though singular, solution which corresponds to a brane black hole in which the branes spike apart at the Schwarzschild radius.
description: 20 pages, 3 figures
Dynamical Formation of an Extra-Tropical Tropopause Inversion Layer in a Relatively Simple General Circulation Model
Creators: name: Son, Seok-Woo
name: Polvani, Lorenzo M.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2007
Subjects: Atmosphere
Meteorology
Atmosphere, Upper

description: The key factors contributing to the formation and maintenance of the recently discovered extra-tropical tropopause inversion layer are presently unclear. In this study, it is shown that such a layer can form as a consequence of the turbulent dynamics of synoptic-scale baroclinic eddies alone, in the absence of explicitly parameterized, small-scale, radiative-convective processes. A simple general circulation model, initialized from a state of rest, and driven with idealized forcings, is found to spontaneously develop an inversion layer above the tropopause under a wide variety of parameter choices and model resolutions. Furthermore, such a model is able to capture, qualitatively, both the latitudinal and (in part) the seasonal dependence of the observed tropopause inversion layer. However, the inability of our simple model to capture some detailed quantitative features strongly suggests that other physical processes, beyond balanced synoptic-scale dynamics, are likely to play an important role.
title: The size of things I
title: Structure building
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Syntax
subject: 400 Sprache::410 Linguistik::410 Linguistik

description: This book focuses on the role size plays in grammar. Under the umbrella term size fall the size of syntactic projections, the size of feature content, and the size of reference sets. The contributions in this first volume discuss size and structure building. The most productive research program in syntax where size plays a central role revolves around clausal complements. Part 1 of Volume I contributes to this program with papers that argue for particular structures of clausal complements, as well as papers that employ sizes of clausal complements to account for other phenomena. The papers in Part 2 of this volume explore the interaction between size and structure building beyond clausal complements, including phenomena in CP, vP, and NP domains. The contributions cover a variety of languages, many of which are understudied. The book is complemented by Volume II which discusses size effects in movement, agreement, and interpretation.
Aggregation-induced emission leading to two distinct emissive species in the solid-state structure of high-dipole organic chromophores
Creators: name: Witte, Felix
name: Rietsch, Philipp
name: Nirmalananthan-Budau, Nithiya
name: Weigert, Florian
name: Götze, Jan P.
name: Resch-Genger, Ute
name: Eigler, Siegfried
name: Paulus, Beate
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: aggregation-induced emission
subject: high-dipole organic chromophores
subject: emissive species
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::540 Chemie::540 Chemie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften

description: The concept of aggregation-induced emission represents a means to rationalise photoluminescence of usually nonfluorescent excimers in solid-state materials. In this publication, we study the photophysical properties of selected diaminodicyanoquinone (DADQ) derivatives in the solid state using a combined approach of experiment and theory. DADQs are a class of high-dipole organic chromophores promising for applications in non-linear optics and light-harvesting devices. Among the compounds investigated, we find both aggregation-induced emission and aggregation-caused quenching effects rationalised by calculated energy transfer rates. Analysis of fluorescence spectra and lifetime measurements provide the interesting result that (at least) two emissive species seem to contribute to the photophysical properties of DADQs. The main emission peak is notably broadened in the long-wavelength limit and exhibits a blue-shifted shoulder. We employ high-level quantum-chemical methods to validate a molecular approach to a solid-state problem and show that the complex emission features of DADQs can be attributed to a combination of H-type aggregates, monomers, and crystal structure defects.
Disruption of star clusters in Newtonian and MOND gravity
Creators: name: Di Cintio, Pierfrancesco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Numerical and analytical evidences that collisionless and collisional relaxation processes work differently in Newtonian and modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) theories of gravitation imply that processes such as the disruption of satellites falling onto the parent galaxy should, in principle, behave differently in the two scenarios. In particular, it is not clear whether a stronger (barionic) dynamical friction in MOND systems could compensate or not the absence of the contribution of dark matter with respect to the parent (equivalent) Newtonian system.Aiming at shedding some light on this issue, here we present some preliminary simulations with a hybrid stochastic-N-body method where the the internal dynamics of the stellar cluster is solved with a standard direct N-body scheme, while the effect of host galaxy is modelled, in both Newtonian and MOND gravities, with a smooth potential plus noise and dynamical friction (accounting for the discreteness effects) implemented via a Langevin-like method.
Diurnal and transient cosmic-ray variations.
Creators: name: Humble, John Edmund
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Early in 1964 the Hydro-University Computing Centre, a joint under taking by the University of Tasmania and the Tasmanian Hydro-Electric Commission, commenced operations with an Elliott 503 Digital Computer, This machine gave the Hobart Cosmic-Ray Group its first ready access to computing facilities, and it was immediately decided to develop computer programmes to carry out the various standard calculations. It would then be possible to undertake more precise analyses, and inter-station comparisons than had been feasible previously. This thesis is concerned with some of these investigations, into several aspects of the modulation of cosmic-rays, and with the development of the necessary computer programmes. Emphasis is given to the analysis of neutron monitor observations, but data from muon telescopes are also used where appropriate.
Carbon Isotopic Composition of Neoproterozoic Glacial Carbonates as a Test of Paleoceanographic Models for Snowball Earth Phenomena
Creators: name: Kennedy, Martin J.
name: Christie-Blick, Nicholas
name: Prave, Anthony R.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Geochemistry
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Paleoclimatology
subject: Geology

description: Consistently positive carbon isotopic values were obtained from in situ peloids, ooids, and stromatolitic carbonate within Neoproterozoic glacial successions in northern Namibia, central Australia, and the North American Cordillera. Because positive values continue upward into the immediately overlying postglacial cap carbonates, the negative isotopic excursions widely observed in those carbonate rocks require an explanation that involves a short-term perturbation of the global carbon cycle during deglaciation. The data do not support the ecological consequences of complete coverage of the glacial ocean with sea ice, as predicted in the 1998 snowball Earth hypothesis of P.F. Hoffman et al. In the snowball Earth hypothesis, the postglacial cap carbonates and associated 25% negative carbon isotopic excursions represent the physical record of CO2 transfer from the high-pCO2 snowball atmosphere (~0.12 bar) to the sedimentary reservoir via silicate weathering in the snowball aftermath. Stratigraphic timing constraints on cap carbonates imply weathering rates of ~1000 times preglacial levels to be consistent with the hypothesis. The absence of Sr isotopic variation between glacial and postglacial deposits and calculations of maximum weathering rates do not support a post-snowball weathering event as the origin for cap carbonates and associated isotopic excursions.
Radiation hardness of CMS pixel barrel modules
Creators: name: Rohe, T.
name: Bean, A.
name: Erdmann, W.
name: Kaestli, H. -C.
name: Khalatyan, S.
name: Meier, B.
name: Radicci, V.
name: Sibille, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Pixel detectors are used in the innermost part of the multi purpose experiments at LHC and are therefore exposed to the highest fluences of ionising radiation, which in this part of the detectors consists mainly of charged pions. The radiation hardness of all detector components has thoroughly been tested up to the fluences expected at the LHC. In case of an LHC upgrade, the fluence will be much higher and it is not yet clear how long the present pixel modules will stay operative in such a harsh environment. The aim of this study was to establish such a limit as a benchmark for other possible detector concepts considered for the upgrade. As the sensors and the readout chip are the parts most sensitive to radiation damage, samples consisting of a small pixel sensor bump-bonded to a CMS-readout chip (PSI46V2.1) have been irradiated with positive 200 MeV pions at PSI up to 6E14 Neq and with 21 GeV protons at CERN up to 5E15 Neq. After irradiation the response of the system to beta particles from a Sr-90 source was measured to characterise the charge collection efficiency of the sensor. Radiation induced changes in the readout chip were also measured. The results show that the present pixel modules can be expected to be still operational after a fluence of 2.8E15 Neq. Samples irradiated up to 5E15 Neq still see the beta particles. However, further tests are needed to confirm whether a stable operation with high particle detection efficiency is possible after such a high fluence.
description: Contribution to the 11th European Symposium on Semiconductor Detectors June 7-11, 2009 Wildbad Kreuth, Germany
Automatized Hepatic Tumor Volume Analysis of Neuroendocrine Liver Metastases by Gd-EOB MRI—A Deep-Learning Model to Support Multidisciplinary Cancer Conference Decision-Making
Creators: name: Fehrenbach, Uli
name: Xin, Siyi
name: Hartenstein, Alexander
name: Auer, Timo Alexander
name: Dräger, Franziska
name: Froböse, Konrad
name: Jann, Henning
name: Mogl, Martina
name: Amthauer, Holger
name: Geisel, Dominik
name: Denecke, Timm
name: Wiedenmann, Bertram
name: Penzkofer, Tobias
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: neuroendocrine neoplasms
subject: liver metastases
subject: MRI
subject: automatized quantification
subject: deep learning
subject: multidisciplinary cancer conference
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background: Rapid quantification of liver metastasis for diagnosis and follow-up is an unmet medical need in patients with secondary liver malignancies. We present a 3D-quantification model of neuroendocrine liver metastases (NELM) using gadoxetic-acid (Gd-EOB)-enhanced MRI as a useful tool for multidisciplinary cancer conferences (MCC). Methods: Manual 3D-segmentations of NELM and livers (149 patients in 278 Gd-EOB MRI scans) were used to train a neural network (U-Net architecture). Clinical usefulness was evaluated in another 33 patients who were discussed in our MCC and received a Gd-EOB MRI both at baseline and follow-up examination (n = 66) over 12 months. Model measurements (NELM volume; hepatic tumor load (HTL)) with corresponding absolute (ΔabsNELM; ΔabsHTL) and relative changes (ΔrelNELM; ΔrelHTL) between baseline and follow-up were compared to MCC decisions (therapy success/failure). Results: Internal validation of the model's accuracy showed a high overlap for NELM and livers (Matthew's correlation coefficient (φ): 0.76/0.95, respectively) with higher φ in larger NELM volume (φ = 0.80 vs. 0.71; p = 0.003). External validation confirmed the high accuracy for NELM (φ = 0.86) and livers (φ = 0.96). MCC decisions were significantly differentiated by all response variables (ΔabsNELM; ΔabsHTL; ΔrelNELM; ΔrelHTL) (p < 0.001). ΔrelNELM and ΔrelHTL showed optimal discrimination between therapy success or failure (AUC: 1.000; p < 0.001). Conclusion: The model shows high accuracy in 3D-quantification of NELM and HTL in Gd-EOB-MRI. The model's measurements correlated well with MCC's evaluation of therapeutic response.
Nonlinear Geostrophic Adjustment, Cyclone/Anticyclone Asymmetry, and Potential Vorticity Rearrangement
Creators: name: Kuo, Allen C.
name: Polvani, Lorenzo M.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Physics
subject: Geophysics
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Within the context of the rotating shallow water equations, it is shown how initially unbalanced states possessing certain symmetries dynamically evolve to lose those symmetries during nonlinear geostrophic adjustment. Using conservation law methods, it is demonstrated that the adjustment of equal and opposite (circular) mass imbalances results in a balanced end state where cyclones are stronger than anticyclones; the reverse holds true for momentum imbalances. In both cases, the degree of this asymmetry is shown to be directly proportional to the amount of initial imbalance (a measure of the nonlinearity occurring during time-dependent adjustment). On the other hand, the degree of asymmetry is maximal for imbalances of Rossby deformation scale. As for the potential vorticity, it is shown that its final profile can be noticeably different from its initial one; from an Eulerian perspective, this rearrangement is not confined to uniform shifts of potential vorticity fronts. Direct 2D numerical initial value problems confirm the asymmetry in the predicted final states and establish a relatively fast time scale for adjustment to complete. The robustness of these results is confirmed by studying, in addition, the adjustment of elliptical mass imbalances. The numerical integrations reveal that, during geostrophic adjustment, potential vorticity rearrangement occurs irreversibly on a fast wave time scale.
Wave-Vortex Interaction in Rotating Shallow Water. Part 1. One Space Dimension
Creators: name: Kuo, Allen C.
name: Polvani, Lorenzo M.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Geophysics
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Physics

description: Using a physical space (i.e. non-modal) approach, we investigate interactions between fast inertio-gravity (IG) waves and slow balanced flows in a shallow rotating fluid. Specifically, we consider a train of IG waves impinging on a steady, exactly balanced vortex. For simplicity, the one-dimensional problem is studied first; the limitations of one-dimensionality are offset by the ability to define balance in an exact way. An asymptotic analysis of the problem in the small-amplitude limit is performed to demonstrate the existence of interactions. It is shown that these interactions are not confined to the modification of the wave field by the vortex but, more importantly, that the waves are able to alter in a non-trivial way the potential vorticity associated with that vortex. Interestingly, in this one-dimensional problem, once the waves have traversed the vortex region and have propagated away, the vortex exactly recovers its initial shape and thus bears no signature of the interaction. Furthermore, we prove this last result in the case of arbitrary vortex and wave amplitudes. Numerical integrations of the full one-dimensional shallow-water equations in strongly nonlinear regimes are also performed: they confirm that time-dependent interactions exist and increase with wave amplitude, while at the final state the vortex bears no sign of the interaction. In addition, they reveal that cyclonic vortices interact more strongly with the wave field than anticyclonic ones.
FEDERAL : a two-region multisectoral fiscal model of the Australian economy
Creators: name: Madden, John R
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: This thesis is concerned with the construction and testing of a two-region computable general equilibrium (CGE) model. The model, entitled FEDERAL, is designed to allow detailed analysis of regional and national economic shocks within a federal economic system. Although containing some Australian institutional features, FEDERAL's theory could easily be adapted to another market-oriented economy which has a federal system. The first chapter of the thesis outlines previous work in CGE regional modelling while Chapter 2 develops FEDERAL's theoretical structure, using the well-known ORANI model - as described in Dixon, Parmenter, Sutton and Vincent (1982) - as its starting point. The principal new features of FEDERAL are: it is a multi-regional model it contains extensive modelling of two tiers of government finance (i.e. Commonwealth and State) it contains detailed modelling of regional income. The multi-regional form of FEDERAL adds a new layer of complexity as compared with ORANI. This is particularly the case with the modelling of margin industries (trade, transport and insurance). FEDERAL carries this detailed area of ORANI into full multi-regional complexity by modelling the provision of margin services supplied on the flow of each individual commodity in intraregional, interregional and international trade by each region of margin supply. The modelling of two tiers of government introduces a vast array of Commonwealth and state taxes and subsidies affecting the decisions of economic agents in each region. FEDERAL also models in detail current and capital expenditure by governments, transfers to persons, intergovernmental transfers and, via a set of receipts and outlays accounts, the three governments' borrowing requirements. A feature of the modelling of regional disposable income is the track kept of foreign and interregional ownership of capital in each regional industry. The third chapter outlines FEDERAL's data-base while Chapter 4 looks at the construction of the data-base for the 9-industry implemented version - the two regions being Tasmania, the state of interest, and mainland Australia. Techniques are devised to individually estimate each of the required 115 input-output data matrices. Chapter 5 discusses testing the model's homogeneity properties and analyses the results of some illustrative simulations examining the effects of national (tariff) and regional (payroll tax) shocks. The results of these simulations are used to draw out key features of the model's structure. The final chapter provides a brief overview and considers future research - both in terms of model applications and possible areas of improvement in the model's structure.
The HI gas content of galaxies around Abell 370, a galaxy cluster at z = 0.37
Creators: name: Lah, Philip
name: Pracy, Michael B.
name: Chengalur, Jayaram N.
name: Briggs, Frank H.
name: Colless, Matthew
name: De Propris, Roberto
name: Ferris, Shaun
name: Schmidt, Brian P.
name: Tucker, Bradley E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We used observations from the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope to measure the atomic hydrogen gas content of 324 galaxies around the galaxy cluster Abell 370 at a redshift of z = 0.37 (a look-back time of ~4 billion years). The HI 21-cm emission from these galaxies was measured by coadding their signals using precise optical redshifts obtained with the Anglo-Australian Telescope. The average HI mass measured for all 324 galaxies is (6.6 +- 3.5)x10^9 solar masses, while the average HI mass measured for the 105 optically blue galaxies is (19.0 +- 6.5)x10^9 solar masses. The significant quantities of gas found around Abell 370, suggest that there has been substantial evolution in the gas content of galaxy clusters since redshift z = 0.37. The total amount of HI gas found around Abell 370 is up to ~8 times more than that seen around the Coma cluster, a nearby galaxy cluster of similar size. Despite this higher gas content, Abell 370 shows the same trend as nearby clusters, that galaxies close to the cluster core have lower HI gas content than galaxies further away. The Abell 370 galaxies have HI mass to optical light ratios similar to local galaxy samples and have the same correlation between their star formation rate and HI mass as found in nearby galaxies. The average star formation rate derived from [OII] emission and from de-redshifted 1.4 GHz radio continuum for the Abell 370 galaxies also follows the correlation found in the local universe. The large amounts of HI gas found around the cluster can easily be consumed by the observed star formation rate in the galaxies over the ~4 billion years (from z = 0.37) to the present day.
description: accepted by MNRAS
Multi-omics approach to explore the effects of chronic low-grade inflammation marked by c-reactive protein
Creators: name: Said, Saredo
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2021

description: Chronic low-grade inflammation is linked to a multitude of chronic diseases and conditions. However, chronic low-grade inflammation has not been fully characterised, as there remains conflicting and inconclusive evidence from epidemiological studies. My thesis aimed to explore chronic inflammation using a multi-omic approach. Data from the UK Biobank and Airwave cohort was used. Within this thesis I report genome-wide association on C-reactive protein (CRP), a marker of systemic inflammation, in UK Biobank participants (N = 427,367) and the Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology (CHARGE) Consortium (total N= 575,531). I identify 266 independent loci, of which 211 were not previously reported. Gene-set analysis highlighted 42 gene sets associated with CRP levels (p ≤ 3.2 x 10-6) and tissue expression analysis indicated a strong association of CRP related genes to the liver and whole blood gene expression. Phenome-wide association identified 27 clinical outcomes associated with genetically determined CRP, including five phenotypes of the respiratory system, nine of the circulatory system, three musculoskeletal, three sense organs, one mental disorder, five endocrine/metabolic, and lastly one genitourinary. Mendelian randomisation analyses of chronic diseases supported a causal association with several outcomes, such as schizophrenia (beta (β) = -0.074, 95%, p = 7.83 x 10-6), chronic airway obstruction (β=0.330, p=7.94 x 10-4) and breast cancer (β = 0.044, p = 2.02 x 10-5). Metabolome-wide causal association MR analyses tested CRP associated genetic variants with 123 NMR platform measured metabolites and identified five with convincing evidence, including citrate (β=-0.13, p=1.6 x 10-5) and phenylalanine (β=0.13, p=1.3 x 10-5). In combination these results provides insight into the genomic, phenotypic, metabolomic profile, and functional properties of CRP proxied systemic chronic low-grade inflammation. Results provide novel findings, which can be investigated further to understand the underlying molecular pathways of disease afflicted by systemic chronic low-grade inflammation. As CRP proxied chronic inflammation is modifiable, this may be of interest for therapeutic intervention.
The glasma initial state and JIMWLK factorization
Creators: name: Gelis, F.
name: Lappi, T.
name: Venugopalan, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review recent work on understanding the next to leading order corrections to the classical fields that dominate the initial stages of a heavy ion collision. We have recently shown that the leading ln(1/x) divergences of these corrections to gluon multiplicities can be factorized into the JIMWLK evolution of the color charge density distributions.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures. Talk given by T.L. at Strong and Electroweak Matter 2008 (SEWM08), August 26-29, 2008, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Into the Storm: Occupy Sandy and the New Sociality of Debt
Creators: name: Jaleel, Rana
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Debts, Public
subject: Hurricane Sandy (2012)
subject: Environmental law
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: Social structure
subject: Social sciences--Research

description: "In late October 2012, after the completion of this dossier, Superstorm Sandy wrecked much of the East Coast, including the greater New York City area. Now, nearly two months since the storm hit ground, thousands of New Yorkers still suffer from its effects. In the storm’s wake, Occupy Wall Street rapidly mobilized to form Occupy Sandy—the People’s Recovery Effort. Occupy Sandy drew upon the organizing and activist networks that crystallized in Zuccotti Park to offer on-the-ground support for devastated New York area communities. What follows is drawn from observations of Occupy Sandy activities and discussions with two Occupy members in late November, Alexandra (Aleks) Perisic and Amin Husain, who are dedicated to assisting Red Hook, Staten Island, the Rockaways, and other areas hard hit and still struggling in Sandy’s aftermath. While Alexandra and I spoke under fairly sedate circumstances, in a somewhat antiseptic student office at New York University’s Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, Amin cheerfully answered questions from the back seat of a sixteen-passenger van over a bumpy half-hour ride from Occupy Sandy’s hub at the Church of St. Luke and St. Matthew, in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene neighborhood, to a distribution center in storm-ravaged Staten Island."
Reflexive representability and stable metrics
Creators: name: Yaacov, Itaï Ben
name: Berenstein, Alexander
name: Ferri, Stefano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 43A60, 22A10, 46B20

description: It is well-known that a topological group can be represented as a group of isometries of a reflexive Banach space if and only if its topology is induced by weakly almost periodic functions (see \cite{Shtern:CompactSemitopologicalSemigroups}, \cite{Megrelishvili:OperatorTopologies} and \cite{Megrelishvili:TopologicalTransformations}). We show that for a metrisable group this is equivalent to the property that its metric is uniformly equivalent to a stable metric in the sense of Krivine and Maurey (see \cite{Krivine-Maurey:EspacesDeBanachStables}). This result is used to give a partial negative answer to a problem of Megrelishvili.
Introduction: Is This What Democracy Looks Like?
Creators: name: Bauer, A. J.
name: Beltran, Cristina
name: Jaleel, Rana
name: Ross, Andrew
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Social structure
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Social sciences--Research

description: Introductory article for the site 'Is This What Democracy Looks Like?'. "This dossier takes its cue from one of the Occupy movement’s bedrock slogans, 'This Is What Democracy Looks Like' (though the catchword was first nurtured, as were many Occupy paradigms, tactics, and customs, in the global justice movement that came of age in Seattle in 1999). This proud assertion, stiffened by populist certitudes about the '99%' hypermajority, exercised a clear appeal to protesters. It is self-congratulatory, confrontational, and also quite articulate as a political statement. Not everyone has to believe the slogan to chant it. But what if it were taken up as a more literal goal? What if the Occupy model of horizontalism, explicated below, were to be pushed into every venue of civil society, eventually supplanting the roots of our representative democracy system? Who would gain and who would lose? How would our own institutions, organizations, and networks be transformed in the process? The radical innocence of Occupy allowed such questions to be asked. After more than a year of operations under its name, the record allows some provisional answers to be offered."
Black holes and neutron stars in the generalized tensor-vector-scalar theory
Creators: name: Lasky, Paul D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Bekenstein's Tensor-Vector-Scalar (TeVeS) theory has had considerable success as a relativistic theory of Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MoND). However, recent work suggests that the dynamics of the theory are fundamentally flawed and numerous authors have subsequently begun to consider a generalization of TeVeS where the vector field is given by an Einstein-Aether action. Herein, I develop strong-field solutions of the generalized TeVeS theory, in particular exploring neutron stars as well as neutral and charged black holes. I find that the solutions are identical to the neutron star and black hole solutions of the original TeVeS theory, given a mapping between the parameters of the two theories, and hence provide constraints on these values of the coupling constants. I discuss the consequences of these results in detail including the stability of such spacetimes as well as generalizations to more complicated geometries.
description: Accepted for publication in Physical Review D
'Between un-being and being' : vision and method in selected poems of John Donne and T.S. Eliot
Creators: name: Phillips, Donna Carolyn
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Common to certain poems of John Donne and T. S. Eliot is the expression of a desire for a unity of experience which will involve a reconciliation of the apparently contradictory demands of flesh and spirit. In an early poem, Eliot aligns himself with the poetic sensibility he perceives in Donne, a spiritual suffering expressed in sensory terms in the image of “the anguish of the marrow". The poetry of each poet develops the analysis of thought and feeling involved in the search for unifying, transcendent experience: in the poems of Donne dealing with profane and divine love, the relationships between man and woman, and man and God, are explored with wit and dramatic fervour; in the dramatic dialogues of the early poems of Eliot, the poetic persona seeks spiritual purpose in a world apparently devoid of belief and meaning. Comparison of poetic vision and method in Donne and Eliot is most valid in examination of the two long poems, Donne's Anniversaries and Eliot’s Four Quartets. In these poems, an anatomization of the mutable, spiritually dead world is contrasted with the progress of the poet's own soul toward an understanding of divine love; divine love is seen to demand imitation of the suffering incarnate principle of virtue, symbolized by Donne as the maiden Elizabeth Drury, and by Eliot as the Incarnation of God. Similarity of technique in each poem consists in the use of a dialectical method of developing themes and definitions of "death", "birth", "wisdom", "love" and "joy". The imagery used by both poets involves paradoxes basic to Christian theodicy: death-as-life, darkness-as-light, ignorance-as-wisdom, suffering-as-love. The expression of his belief is seen by each poet as a holy task, in which the drawing of all experience into a new unity is imitative of the divine unifying order.
Not Your Academy: Occupation and the Futures of Student Struggles
Creators: name: Schwartz-Weinstein, Zach
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Social structure
Education, Higher
Social sciences--Research

description: "This essay has been tasked by the editors of this dossier with answering what it would mean should the Occupy movement’s contributions to radical democracy permeate contemporary student struggles. This is an interesting, but insufficient, question. Detaching the forms of occupation in the US which emerged in the fall of 2011 from antecedents both in the United States and elsewhere is a messy task, particularly when the discussion centers on student struggles. The acceleration of student struggles in the United States and the return of occupation as a privileged tactic of radical social movements were both underway and interlinked years before the slow transformation of 'Occupy Wall Street' (OWS) from tactical imperative to capitalized noun. However much the Occupy movement drew direct inspiration from Medan al-Tahrir (Cairo’s Liberation Square) and the indignados of Madrid’s Plaza del Sol, OWS’s political language was cribbed directly if unevenly from slogans scrawled on banners, pamphlets, and walls in a series of student occupations of universities in New York City and across California."
Stratospheric Influence on Baroclinic Lifecycles and its Connection to the Arctic Oscillation
Creators: name: Wittman, Matthew A. H.
name: Polvani, Lorenzo M.
name: Charlton, Andrew J.
name: Scott, Richard K.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Atmosphere
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Atmosphere, Upper

description: Using an idealized primitive equation model, we investigate how stratospheric conditions alter the development of baroclinic instability in the troposphere. Starting from the lifecycle paradigm of Thorncroft et al., we consider the evolution of baroclinic lifecycles resulting from the addition of a stratospheric jet to the LC1 initial condition. We find that the addition of the stratospheric jet yields a net surface geopotential height anomaly that strongly resembles the Arctic Oscillation. With the additional modification of the tropospheric winds to resemble the high-AO climatology, the surface response is amplified by a factor 10 and, though dominated by the tropospheric changes, shows similar sensitivity to the stratospheric conditions.
The Impact of Stratospheric Ozone Recovery on Tropopause Height Trends
Creators: name: Son, Seok-Woo
name: Polvani, Lorenzo M.
name: Waugh, Darryn W.
name: Birner, Thomas
name: Akiyoshi, Hideharu
name: Garcia, Rolando R.
name: Gettelman, Andrew
name: Plummer, David A.
name: Rozanov, Eugene
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Atmosphere
Atmosphere, Upper
Climatic changes

description: The evolution of the tropopause in the past, present, and future climate is examined by analyzing a set of long-term integrations with stratosphere-resolving chemistry climate models (CCMs). These CCMs have high vertical resolution near the tropopause, a model top located in the mesosphere or above, and, most important, fully interactive stratospheric chemistry. Using such CCM integrations, it is found that the tropopause pressure (height) will continue to decrease (increase) in the future, but with a trend weaker than that in the recent past. The reduction in the future tropopause trend is shown to be directly associated with stratospheric ozone recovery. A significant ozone recovery occurs in the Southern Hemisphere lower stratosphere of the CCMs, and this leads to a relative warming there that reduces the tropopause trend in the twenty-first century. The future tropopause trends predicted by the CCMs are considerably smaller than those predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) models, especially in the southern high latitudes. This difference persists even when the CCMs are compared with the subset of the AR4 model integrations for which stratospheric ozone recovery was prescribed. These results suggest that a realistic representation of the stratospheric processes might be important for a reliable estimate of tropopause trends. The implications of these finding for the Southern Hemisphere climate change are also discussed.
Ferroelectricity of Neel-type magnetic domain walls
Creators: name: Pyatakov, A. P.
name: Sechin, D. A.
name: Nikolaev, A. V.
name: Nikolaeva, E. P.
name: Logginov, A. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The chirality-dependent magnetoelectric properties of Neel-type domain walls in iron garnet films is observed. The electrically driven magnetic domain wall motion changes the direction to the opposite with the reversal of electric polarity of the probe and with the chirality switching of the domain wall from clockwise to counterclockwise. This proves that the origin of the electric field induced micromagnetic structure transformation is inhomogeneous magnetoelectric interaction.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, 1 table
Determination of the order of the P-image by Toda brackets
Creators: name: Mukai, Juno
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 55M35, 55Q52, 57S17

description: The present paper gives a proof of the author's paper in the Proceeding of the International Conference on Homotopy Theory and Related Topics at Korea University (2005), 109--113, on the orders of Whitehead products of iota_n with alpha in pi^n_{n+k}, (n > k+1, k < 25) and improves and extends it. The method is to use composition methods in the homotopy groups of spheres and rotation groups.
description: This is the version published by Geometry & Topology Monographs on 19 March 2008
Multimode Cepheids in the Large Magellanic Cloud - challenges for theory
Creators: name: Dziembowski, W. A.
name: Smolec, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Data on multimode Cepheids from OGLE-III catalog of the LMC Cepheids are confronted with results from model calculations. Models whose radial mode periods are consistent with observation are not always in agreement with published evolutionary models. Nonradial mode interpretation is considered for the cases of unusual period ratios. The greatest challenge for stellar pulsation theory is explanation of double-mode pulsators with period ratios near 0.6.
description: 3 pages, 4 figures, Stellar Pulsation: Challenges for Theory and Observation, Santa Fe, NM, 31 May - 5 June, 2009
Certainty and doubt : moral issues in the plays of Philip Massinger
Creators: name: Holden, S
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The theory of decadence in early seventeenth-century drama has generally been misapplied. Chapter I suggests that the moral uncertainty found in many plays is not the product of some kind of perversity but of a sea-change in the way belief, knowledge and law were perceived. The application of an ethical standard which equates a corrupt court with a corrupt private theatre imposes an ideological and inappropriate interpretation on the drama. I argue that changes in morality, the theatre and literary style are not symptoms of decay. If they are, then Shakespeare may be as culpable as Beaumont and Fletcher. I suggest, in Chapter II, that Shakespeare's tragedies and tragicomedies, like Beaumont and Fletcher's tragicomedies, are tragic and tragicomic precisely because they are uncertain. We usually find an unresolved tension in the ending which prevents us from carrying home a moral for our use and edification. We are disturbed rather than comforted. Massinger's method in collaboration is similar. His independent tragicomedies, as I argue in Chapter III, exploit the tension between romantic and satiric action to illustrate a complex moral world in which characters may have an uncertain and changing moral status. Typically he uses satiric characters and methods to undercut romantic assumptions and conventions. The process can sometimes lead, however, to confusions which make some of Massinger's plays morally dubious rather than ambiguous. The questions, paradoxes and tensions in Massinger's tragedies are more acute than those to be found in his tragicomedies. He presents a shifting world in which it is difficult to judge characters accurately, and in which justice seldom seems to be done. Our sympathies are complicated by the multiple moral status of his protagonists, or their antagonists, who are never totally evil or wholly redeemable. The Renaissance plays, in Chapter IV, exploit the problems inherent in the idealistic and malicious pursuit of revenge. The Roman plays, in Chapter V, deal with more political complexities, largely the result of a simultaneous sympathy for the individual and acceptance of the identity imposed on him by the state. The tension between perceived and imposed identity, and the tragic destruction of the integrity of the individual, are most fully realised in The Roman Actor and Believe As You List. The simultaneity of equal and opposite values in these plays is common to Massinger's work as a whole. The tension of uncertainty - whether broken, as in the tragedies, or not - seems to express exactly that \negative capability\" which Massinger has been denied. Only if we read him on the most superficial level can we consider him to be moralistic or simplistic."
Proyecto de Alfabetización Digital EDUATRIC
Creators: name: Ayuso-delPuerto, Desirée
name: Gutiérrez-Esteban, Prudencia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Alfabetización Digital

description: El presente proyecto está contemplado dentro de la tesis doctoral: “Alfabetización digital universal. Enseñar y aprender en escenarios educativos digitales interactivos e inclusivos”, financiada por el Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, a través de un contrato para la Formación del Profesorado Universitario, para Desirée Ayuso del Puerto (FPU18/03322). Este estudio está dirigido por la Dra. Prudencia Gutiérrez Esteban, profesora de la Universidad de Extremadura, dentro del programa de “Doctorado en Innovación en Formación del Profesorado. Asesoramiento, análisis de la práctica educativa y TIC en educación”.