cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Investigating Athletic Career Transitions of Canadian Major Junior Hockey Players
Creators: name: McCoy, Lauren
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Education--Guidance and Counseling
subject: athletic career transitions
subject: Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis

description: This project explored the unique athletic career experiences of Canadian major junior hockey (CHL) players and examined factors that may facilitate or hinder athletic career transitions. Six retired major junior hockey players’ experiences were collected using semi-structured, qualitative interviews that were analyzed in accordance with the interpretative phenomenological analysis method. Themes identified in each participant’s account of their CHL experiences were compared and contrasted across all participants to generate an in-depth portrayal that gave voice to participants’ career experiences and transitions. The factors reported as having facilitated or hindered athletic career transitions among former major junior hockey players did not differ from studies conducted with other elite athletes; however, participants’ accounts of unique athletic career experiences highlighted a number of transitional risk factors and a comparatively low number of coping strategies or accessible resources both during the major junior athletic career and following athletic retirement.
Standing genetic variation and the evolution of drug resistance in HIV
Creators: name: Pennings, Pleuni S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Genomics (q-bio.GN)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Drug resistance remains a major problem for the treatment of HIV. Resistance can occur due to mutations that were present before treatment starts or due to mutations that occur during treatment. The relative importance of these two sources is unknown. We study three different situations in which HIV drug resistance may evolve: starting triple-drug therapy, treatment with a single dose of nevirapine and interruption of treatment. For each of these three cases good data are available from literature, which allows us to estimate the probability that resistance evolves from standing genetic variation. Depending on the treatment we find probabilities of the evolution of drug resistance due to standing genetic variation between 0 and 39%. For patients who start triple-drug combination therapy, we find that drug resistance evolves from standing genetic variation in approximately 6% of the patients. We use a population-dynamic and population-genetic model to understand the observations and to estimate important evolutionary parameters. We find that both, the effective population size of the virus before treatment, and the fitness of the resistant mutant during treatment, are key-parameters that determine the probability that resistance evolves from standing genetic variation. Importantly, clinical data indicate that both of these parameters can be manipulated by the kind of treatment that is used.
description: 33 pages 6 figures
KLOE results in kaon physics and prospects for KLOE-2
Creators: name: Czerwinski, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The phi-factory DAPHNE offers a possibility to select pure kaon beams, charged and neutral ones. In particular, neutral kaons from phi->KS KL are produced in pairs and the detection of a KS (KL) tags the presence of a KL (KS). This allows to perform precise measurements of kaon properties by means of KLOE detector. Another advantage of a phi-factory consists in fact that the neutral kaon pairs are produced in a pure quantum state (J^(PC) = 1^(--)), which allowsto investigate CP and CPT symmetries via quantum interference effects, as well as the basic principles of quantum mechanics.A review of the most recent results of the KLOE experiment at DAPHNE using pure kaon beams or via quantum interferometry is presented together with prospects for kaon physics at KLOE-2.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, From Phi To Psi 2011 conference, to be published in Nuclear Physics B (Proceedings Supplements)
Cinema amb denominació d’origen
Creators: name: Ledo Andión, Margarita
Publisher: name: Quaderns del CAC
Year: 2022

description: El gens sospitós sistema dels Oscar, quan va valorar les obres candidates a la millor pel·lícula en llengua estrangera, va rebutjar el film seleccionat per Portugal perquè estava parlat majoritàriament en anglès. La seva substitució precipitada va recaure en una joia, en una pel·lícula en crioulo capverdià, Vitalina Varela, 2020, de Pedro Costa, estrenada en sales amb subtítols en gallec i en català. Ironia històrica perfecta de la llengua subalterna passant per damunt de la del −un dia− colonitzador, al mateix temps que la representa. Perquè les llengües tampoc es poden mantenir al marge de la geopolítica en què s’insereixen.
description: Quaderns del CAC, Vol. 24, Núm. 47 (2021): Cinema, ficció audiovisual i diversitat lingüística
The Role of Synaptic Zinc in Experience-Dependent Plasticity
Creators: name: Chrusch, Michael
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: synaptic zinc
subject: neurogenesis
subject: experience-dependent plasticity
subject: ZnT3
subject: barrel cortex
subject: Hippocampus

description: Experience-dependent plasticity is a fundamental component of the brain’s ability to adapt to its environment. An increasing amount of research suggests that synaptic zinc could be an important mediator of plasticity within the brain. Although a role for synaptic zinc in modulating experience-dependent plasticity has been hypothesized, to date no research has determined if synaptic zinc is necessary for experience-dependent plasticity. The goal of this thesis was to determine if synaptic zinc is an important mediator of experience-dependent plasticity within the hippocampus and neocortex. The mechanisms through which the brain can respond to experience differ depending on the area of the brain being examined. For example, the extent of hippocampal neurogenesis can be increased by experiences such as environmental enrichment. Our experiments demonstrate that synaptic zinc is necessary for the enhancement of adult hippocampal neurogenesis by environmental enrichment. GPR39 is a zinc-sensing receptor that might transduce the zinc signal that is ultimately responsible for modulating adult hippocampal neurogenesis. We found that ablation of GPR39 signalling also prevented environmental enrichment-dependent increases in neurogenesis. Together these experiments demonstrate a novel role for synaptic zinc and GPR39 in contributing to experience-dependent plasticity in the hippocampus. Experience can also shape the functioning of the neocortex. Depriving neurons of the primary somatosensory cortex (or barrel cortex) of sensory input by whisker trimming can depress sensory-evoked responses in these neurons. In addition, sensory deprivation can increase the amount of synaptic zinc within sensory deprived regions of the barrel cortex. The regulation of synaptic zinc by sensory experience suggests its mechanistic involvement in experience-dependent plasticity. Utilizing voltage-sensitive dye imaging, which allows for in vivo imaging of sensory-evoked activity in the barrel cortex, we examined sensory deprivation-induced decreases in cortical activity in the barrel cortex. Our results show that ablation of synaptic zinc prevented sensory deprivation-induced reductions in cortical activity. These results demonstrate a role for synaptic zinc for experience-dependent plasticity within the neocortex. Together, this research provides substantive support for a role for synaptic zinc as an essential regulator of experience-dependent plasticity in both the hippocampus and neocortex.
Die Slaven in Holstein aus archäologischer und linguistischer Sicht
Creators: name: , Menne
name: Marterior
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Slavs
subject: Holstein
subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: Archaeology
subject: Slavonic
subject: Interdisciplinarity
subject: Wagrier

description: The Slavic Wagrier tribe settled in today's eastern and southeastern parts of Holstein from the 6th/7th to the 14th century. Their presence is documented not only by archaeological and historical sources but also linguistically. An investigation of the Holstein Slavs therefore requires various disciplines. The following article will shed light on the presence of the Slavs at that time, first from an archaeological-historical point of view and then from a linguistic point of view. It provides an insight into the interaction between the disciplines and thus the interdisciplinarity of this topic.
Reactive and Proactive Mechanisms of Response Inhibition in Gambling Disorder
Creators: name: Sharif-Razi, Maryam
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Psychology--Clinical
subject: Psychology--Cognitive
subject: Psychology--Personality
subject: response inhibition
subject: gambling disorder
subject: cognitive control

description: Response inhibition, one component of cognitive control, refers to the ability to inhibit automatic responses and has been found to be impaired in gambling disorder. Recent models of cognitive control distinguish between two mechanisms: reactive (ability to stop in response to a stop-stimulus) and proactive control (ability to anticipate and prepare for a stop). Previous studies have focused on reactive modes of control in gambling disorder. Thus, the primary aim of this study was to assess the mechanisms of response inhibition in individuals with gambling disorder (n=27) and community controls (n=21) using a variant of the traditional stop-signal task. Second, the relationship between trait impulsivity, and reactive and proactive control was examined. No group differences in reactive or proactive control were found. However, one domain of trait impulsivity (premeditation) was associated with worse proactive control in the gambling group. Implications for impulsivity-focused approaches to treatment and future directions are discussed.
Design of high temperature and pressure electrochemical cell and corrosion chemistry of alloy 625 in high temperature and high pressure aqueous media using a two-electrode electrochemical method
Creators: name: Ubah, Chinedu Gideon
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: As aqueous processing moves to higher temperatures and pressures to take advantage of increased kinetics, there is a need to develop and test appropriate reactor materials to ensure that corrosion is minimized. Corrosion testing often requires an electrochemical approach for a comprehensive understanding of the range of behaviors exhibited from a corroding metal or alloy in different environments. Prior art of designs for electrodes, associated pressure vessels and sealing technology is presented. The development of an apparatus and methods for high temperature and high pressure electrochemical corrosion testing are discussed. The final flow-through electrochemical cell design, the Flow-Through External Pressure-Balanced Reference Electrode (FTEPBRE) design, working/counter electrode and other components, which were developed for temperatures and pressures in excess of 500ºC and 5000 PSI is presented. A two-electrode electrochemical testing method is presented, using Stainless Steel (SS 316) as both Quasi Reference Electrode (QRE) and Counter Electrode (CE), and Alloy 625 (Ni-062.8%, Cr-21.8%, Mo-7.35, Fe-3.97%, Nb-2.7%) as the Working Electrode (WE). The effects of pressure, and its combination with temperature on OCP and corrosion rate of alloy 625 (WE) in both naturally aerated and de-oxygenated environments in 0.1 M sodium sulphate (Na₂SO₄) solution with a flow rate of 7 mL/min were investigated and discussed. The effect of pressure represented as a change in activation volume and reaction volume for the homogenous and heterogeneous phases is also presented. The corrosion rate was observed to increase with both temperature and pressure: higher for naturally aerated conditions than the corresponding de-aerated ones. Results also show that the instability of the QRE affected the result and direction of the OCP tests. A reduction in the corrosion current was observed above 207 bar (3000 PSI) in the polarization tests and was attributed to the increasing stability of the passive film formed on the surface of the alloys.
Mild Hydroprocessing with Dispersed Catalyst of Highly Asphaltenic Pitch
Creators: name: Isquierdo, Fernanda
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Chemical
subject: Catalyst
subject: Asphaltenes
subject: Ultradispersed Catalyst

description: Asphaltene are known to have diverse negative impacts on heavy oil extraction and hydroprocessing. This research then, explores the optimal conditions to convert asphaltenes into lighter material using mild conditions of pressure and temperature, and investigates changes in asphaltene structure during hydroprocessing. Feedstock and products were characterized by Simulated Distillation, Microdeasphalting, Sulfur content, X-ray diffraction, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Solid catalysts were analyzed by Themogravimetric analysis, X-ray diffraction, and Dynamic light scattering. Based on the results obtained from X-ray diffraction and Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy analysis a mechanism for the asphaltene hydroprocessing at mild conditions is proposed in which the alky peripheric portion from the original asphaltenes is partially removed during the reaction. The consequence of that process being an increase in the stacking of the aromatics sheets in the remaining asphaltenes. Also, this study investigates different for ultradispersed catalyst compositions, where CoWS, CoMoS, NiWS, FeWS, NiMo/NaHFeSi2O6 and NaHFeSi2O6 showed a high asphaltene conversion as determined by asphaltene microdeasphalting, FeMoS and NaHFeSi2O6 presented a high Vacuum Residue as determined by distillation (SIMDIST) analysis conversion, and in terms of sulfur removal CoMoS gave the higher conversion. In addition, all the catalyst tested showed a coke production lower than 1%. Finally, a kinetic study for the pitch hydroprocessing using CoMoS as catalysts gave a global activation energy of 97.3 kJ/mol.
Institutsko mentorstvo nad izradom doktorske disertacije "Otkrivanje rednog električnog luka u jednosmernom kolu fotonaponskih sistema" kolege Nikole Georgijevića
Creators: name: Stojić, Đorđe
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: U okviru dokumenta je priloženo rešenje o odluci Naučnog veća Elektrotehničkog instituta Nikola Tesla o dodeljivanju satusa mentora prilikom izrade doktorske disertacije "Otkrivanje rednog električnog luka u jednosmernom kolu fotonaponskih sistema" kolege Nikole Georgijevića.
Quad-Rotor Application of an Introspective Weight Voting Cerebellar Model Articulation Controller
Creators: name: Clark, Troy
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer Science
subject: Engineering--Electronics and Electrical
subject: Robotics
subject: Cerebellar Model Articulation Controller
subject: Quad-rotor
subject: Neural Network
subject: Adaptive Control
subject: Introspective Voting Weight Update
subject: Lyapunov Stable
subject: CMAC
subject: Bursting
subject: AR.Drone 2.0
subject: Simulation
subject: Experiment

description: A quad-rotor is an agile, four rotor aerial vehicle capable of operating in a variety of environments while carrying diverse payloads. This mobile platform has been applied in numerous fields including surveillance, search \& rescue, mapping, and most recently, package delivery. However, the quad-rotor is an underdamped and underactuated vehicle that requires a stable control which must be robust to environmental disturbances, such as wind, and adaptive to diverse payloads. The Cerebellar Model Articulation Controller (CMAC) is an adaptive control that has proven itself to be stable in the literature. However, even mathematically robust weight update schemes for the CMAC have been shown to exhibit a detrimental bursting phenomenon especially in practice. This work applies an introspective weight voting scheme to a CMAC to provide a stable, adaptive, robust quad-rotor control scheme in both simulation and practice.
A description of odd mass W-isotopes in the Interacting 2 Boson-Fermion Model
Creators: name: Musleh, S. Abu
name: Scholten, O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The negative and positive parity low-spin states of the even-odd Tungsten isotopes, 183,185,187W are studied in the frame work of the Interacting Boson-Fermion Approximation (IBFA) model. The fermion that is coupled to the system of bosons is taken to be in the negative parity 2f_7|2, 2f_5\2, 3p_3\2, 3p_1\2 and in the positive parity 1i_13\2 single-particle orbits. The calculated energies of low-spin energy levels of the odd isotopes are found to agree well with the experimental data. Also B(E2) values and spectroscopic factors for single-neutron transfer are calculated and found to be in good agreement with experimental data.
Spin observables in the two-nucleon capture and dissociation processes at low energies
Creators: name: Song, Y. -H.
name: Hyun, C. H.
name: Ando, S. -I.
name: Kubodera, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spin observables in radiative neutron capture on a proton and its inverse process, photodisintegration of the deuteron are calculated using a pionless effective field theory with di-baryon fields. Good agreement with the results of existing standard nuclear physics approach is obtained at very low energies. As energy increases, however, the discrepancy between the effective field theory and the standard nuclear physics approach becomes substantial. We discuss the origin of the difference.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures. Contribution to APFB2011, August 22-26, 2011, Seoul, Korea
Seismic Data Interpolation: The Arbitrarily Sampled Fourier Transform Method
Creators: name: Guo, Zheng
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: Education--Mathematics

description: Seismic data interpolation, which spatially transforms irregularly sampled acquired data to regularly sampled data or to any desired grid in general, is an important problem in seismic data processing. We have developed the Arbitrarily Sampled Fourier Transform (ASFT) method for seismic data interpolation, which incorporates several enhancements comparing to existing algorithms used in the industry, such as Projection Onto a Convex Set and Minimum Weighted Norm Interpolation. First, true positions of the input data are used for computation; second, the spatial frequency content is allowed to be at an arbitrary point in the k4 domain. Real data examples from Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin (WCSB) show that ASFT produces excellent interpolation results.
Applying the Graph Model for Conflict Resolution to the Northern Gateway Pipeline Conflict
Creators: name: Szabo, Mark
Publisher: name: Environmental Design
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Environmental
subject: graph model
subject: systems thinking
subject: environmental conflict
subject: negotiation
subject: decision support
subject: pipeline routing

description: This dissertation addresses the problem of how to make sense of environmental conflicts in a way that is both practical enough to direct strategy, and comprehensive enough to encompass the full range of the conflict. I make three contributions towards solving this problem. First, after examining the literature from several different disciplines, I determine the attributes required for an effective sensemaking framework for environmental conflicts, and further conclude that the Graph Model of Conflict Resolution (“GMCR”) meets those criteria. Specifically, theat framework should be multidisciplinary, include a systems approach, allow for non-rational behaviour, embrace multiple theoretical constructs, facilitate an iterative resolution approach, and utilize one of several methodological approaches to account for time series data. Second, using Northern Gateway as an example, I develop an approach forto simplifying a complicated conflict, using Northern Gateway as an example, into the kind of inputs the GMCR is equipped to handle, resulting in with the result ofbroadening its application to conflicts that are more nuanced than currently researched in the literature. Third, I support further research by recommending how to improve the choice of decision-makers in the model, suggesting a protocol for primary qualitative validation of the model using subject matter experts, outlining parameters for use in iteratively refining the simulation model, clarifying limitations of the GMCR approach, and suggesting opportunities for further research. I conclude that a useful way to make sense out of a complex environmental conflict is to, counterintuitively, simplify it in the context of the participants’ next unilateral decisions, and use the GMCR approach to determine possible future states of conflict equilibrium.
Andreev Reflections in Micrometer-Scale Normal-Insulator-Superconductor Tunnel Junctions
Creators: name: Lowell, Peter J.
name: O'Neil, Galen C.
name: Underwood, Jason M.
name: Ullom, Joel N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Understanding the subgap behavior of Normal-Insulator-Superconductor (NIS) tunnel junctions is important in order to be able to accurately model the thermal properties of the junctions. Hekking and Nazarov developed a theory in which NIS subgap current in thin-film structures can be modeled by multiple Andreev reflections. In their theory, the current due to Andreev reflections depends on the junction area and the junction resistance area product. We have measured the current due to Andreev reflections in NIS tunnel junctions for various junction sizes and junction resistance area products and found that the multiple reflection theory is in agreement with our data.
Control of spatiotemporal patterns in the Gray-Scott model
Creators: name: Kyrychko, Y. N.
name: Blyuss, K. B.
name: Hogan, S. J.
name: Schoell, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper studies the effects of a time-delayed feedback control on the appearance and development of spatiotemporal patterns in a reaction-diffusion system. Different types of control schemes are investigated, including single-species, diagonal, and mixed control. This approach helps to unveil different dynamical regimes, which arise from chaotic state or from traveling waves. In the case of spatiotemporal chaos, the control can either stabilize uniform steady states or lead to bistability between a trivial steady state and a propagating traveling wave. Furthermore, when the basic state is a stable traveling pulse, the control is able to advance stationary Turing patterns or yield the above-mentioned bistability regime. In each case, the stability boundary is found in the parameter space of the control strength and the time delay, and numerical simulations suggest that diagonal control fails to control the spatiotemporal chaos.
description: 14 pages, 8 figures
Martin Heidegger e Carl Friedrich von Weizs�cker: il tempo e l?evento
Creators: name: PREVITALI, Enrico
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Bergamo
Year: 2022

description: La presente tesi di dottorato consiste in uno studio teorico tra due ambiti solitamente considerati distinti: quello della filosofia, in particolare heideggeriana, e quello della meccanica quantistica. L?obiettivo � di indagare l?influenza che il pensiero di Martin Heidegger (1889?1976) ebbe, per tramite della figura del fisico Carl Friedrich von Weizs�cker (1912?2007), sull?elaborazione della meccanica quantistica. Questi, avvalendosi dell?ausilio di testi filosofici fondamentali come Sein und Zeit (1927), cercher� sin dal 1935 di proporre una nuova logica temporale (zeitliche Logik) in grado di porsi come un fondamento concettuale stabile su cui basare l?insorgenza del nuovo sapere quantistico. Questa logica, dal carattere altamente tecnico, affonda esplicitamente le proprie radici nell?interpretazione heideggeriana del tempo, considerato come l?orizzonte entro cui l?essere, insieme al suo senso, si paleserebbe. Per Heidegger, ripensare il tempo significa riconsiderare l?intera tradizione metafisica (da cui proverrebbero gli stessi principi della scienza classica e moderna), rea di averne ignorato l?essenza favorendo solo la dimensione spaziale del mondo circostante. Riportare la riflessione sul tempo, dunque, significa per Heidegger e, di rimando, per Weizs�cker, condurre nuovamente il pensiero a meditare la natura del divenire: quella di portare gli eventi alla luce, di nasconderli e di svelarli. Dal concetto heideggeriano di tempo come evento (Ereignis), secondo Weizs�cker sarebbe possibile rielaborare una nuova rappresentazione della realt� che renda ragione delle nuove scoperte scientifiche e che faccia non pi� della stabilit� il fulcro grazie cui comprendere la verit�, ma il mutamento. Cardine del testo � dunque quello di eviscerare i rapporti teorici che intercorrono fra il campo filosofico e quello fisico, proprio seguendo il filo conduttore del tempo, senza per� dimenticare lo sfondo storico entro cui questa discussione si articola.
Effective temperature, Hawking radiation and quasinormal modes
Creators: name: Corda, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Parikh and Wilczek have shown that Hawking radiation's spectrum cannot be strictly thermal. Such a non-strictly thermal character implies that the spectrum is also not strictly continuous and thus generates a natural correspondence between Hawking radiation and black hole's quasinormal modes. This issue endorses the idea that, in an underlying unitary quantum gravity theory, black holes result highly excited states. We use this key point to re-analyze the spectrum of black hole's quasinormal modes by introducing a black hole's effective temperature. Our analysis changes the physical understanding of such a spectrum and enables a re-examination of various results in the literature which realizes important modifies on quantum physics of black holes. In particular, the formula of the horizon's area quantization and the number of quanta of area are modified becoming functions of the quantum "overtone" number n. Consequently, Bekenstein-Hawking entropy, its sub-leading corrections and the number of microstates, i.e. quantities which are fundamental to realize unitary quantum gravity theory, are also modified. They become functions of the quantum overtone number too. Previous results in the literature are re-obtained in the very large n limit.
description: This essay received an honorable mention in the 2012 Essay Competition of the Gravity Research Foundation. 11 pages, founded on the research paper JHEP 1108, 101 (2011), arXiv:1107.5334
Sustainable Packaging/Branding Design for Fair Trade Tea Production in China
Creators: name: Liu, Yuting
Publisher: name: Environmental Design
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Design and Decorative Arts
subject: packaging design
subject: sustainable design

description: Sustainable packaging design plays an important role in improving a product’s environmental and social impact. Due to the problem of unsustainable tea packaging existing in the Chinese market, this thesis investigated a sustainable fair trade approach to the branding and distribution of tea in China. In order to develop this sustainable approach, research was conducted into the history of tea, the sustainability aspects of the Chinese tea market, and notions of sustainability and sustainable design. In addition, precedents of sustainable packaging design were examined. Synthesizing all the information in the end, a branding/packaging/fair trade design solution is proposed as a way to achieve the sustainability objectives identified in the thesis.
Gamma ray burst distances and the timescape cosmology
Creators: name: Smale, Peter R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gamma ray bursts can potentially be used as distance indicators, providing the possibility of extending the Hubble diagram to redshifts ~7. Here we follow the analysis of Schaefer (2007), with the aim of distinguishing the timescape cosmological model from the \LambdaCDM model by means of the additional leverage provided by GRBs in the range 2 < z < 7. We find that the timescape model fits the GRB sample slightly better than the \LambdaCDM model, but that the systematic uncertainties are still too little understood to distinguish the models.
description: 7 pages, 7 figures, revised version accepted for publication in MNRAS
title: Simulation of a CFB Boiler Integrated With a Thermal Energy Storage System During Transient Operation
Creators: name: Stefanitsis, Dionisis
name: Nesiadis, Athanasios
name: Koutita, Konstantina
name: Nikolopoulos, Aristeidis
name: Nikolopoulos, Nikolaos
name: Peters, Jens
name: Ströhle, Jochen
name: Epple, Bernd
Publisher: name: Frontiers Media S.A.
Year: 2023

description: In the current work, a transient/dynamic 1-dimensional model has been developed in the commercial software APROS for the pilot 1 MWth CFB boiler of the Technical University of Darmstadt. Experiments have been performed with the same unit, the data of which are utilized for the model validation. The examined conditions correspond to the steady-state operation of the boiler at 100, 80, and 60% heat loads, as well as for transient conditions for the load changes from 80 to 60% and back to 80%. Fair agreement is observed between the simulations and the experiments regarding the temperature profiles in the riser, the heat extracted by the cooling lances, as well as the concentration of the main species in the flue gases; a small deviation is observed for the pressure drop, which, however, is close to the results of a CFD simulation run. The validated model is extended with the use of a thermal energy storage (TES) system, which utilizes a bubbling fluidized bed to store/return the particles during ramp up/down operation. Simulations are performed both with and without the use of TES for the load path 100–80–60–80–100%, and the results showed that the TES concept proved to be superior in terms of changing load flexibility, since the ramp up and down times proved to be much faster, and lower temperature drops between the loads are observed in this case.
The Involvement of the Intergeniculate Leaflet in the Potentiation of Photic Phase Shifts by the 5-HT1A Mixed Agonist/Antagonist BMY 7378
Creators: name: Jeffers, Ryan
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Psychobiology
subject: Circadain Rhythms, Serotonin, BMY 7378, Intergeniculate Leaflet

description: The suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) is the master circadian pacemaker. Photic stimuli conveyed by fibers innervating the SCN can synchronize the master clock with the environment. The serotonin (5-HT) 1A mixed agonist/antagonist BMY 7378 can enhance the magnitude of these changes, which could help realign the circadian rhythms of individuals whose rhythms have become desynchronized. Direct administration of BMY 7378 to the SCN is not sufficient to enhance phase shift to light. The intergeniculate leaflet (IGL) like the SCN receives both direct retinal input and serotonergic innervation; therefore BMY 7378 may be exerting its influence through the IGL. Radio frequency lesion of the IGL and neurotoxic lesion of the 5-HT fibers innervating the IGL both result in phase shift to light which are not significantly larger than controls, indicating that both are necessary for BMY 7378 to potentiate photic phase shifts.
Special section: Statistical methods for next-generation gene sequencing data
Creators: name: Kafadar, Karen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This issue includes six articles that develop and apply statistical methods for the analysis of gene sequencing data of different types. The methods are tailored to the different data types and, in each case, lead to biological insights not readily identified without the use of statistical methods. A common feature in all articles is the development of methods for analyzing simultaneously data of different types (e.g., genotype, phenotype, pedigree, etc.); that is, using data of one type to inform the analysis of data from another type.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/12-AOAS558 the Annals of Applied Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aoas/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
title: Chirurgie ambulatoire
title: la discipline infirmière à l'épreuve du risque de mécanisation des soins
titleType: Subtitle
title: Chirurgie ambulatoire
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Cruchon, Guillaume
name: Suatton, Benjamin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: subject: Chirurgie ambulatoire
subject: Soins infirmiers
subject: Procédures
subject: Education thérapeutique

description: La chirurgie ambulatoire ne cesse de croitre dans nos systèmes de santé. Les soins infirmiers ont un rôle essentiel à jouer dans la prise en charge globale des patients vivant ce processus. C’est dans cet objectif que nous nous sommes intéressés aux interventions infirmières préopératoires contribuant à une prise en charge optimale du processus de chirurgie ambulatoire.
Representations of Trauma in Contemporary Children's and Young Adult Fiction
Creators: name: Markland, Anah-Jayne
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Modern
subject: young adult literature
subject: children's literature
subject: Trauma
subject: Fiction

description: Kenneth B. Kidd argues that often “children’s literature of atrocity turns away from rather than confronts the difficulties of its subject matter, opting for simplistic narratives” (185). Responding to Kidd’s invitation for others to “trouble and enrich” (205) his account of trauma in children’s and young adult literature, this thesis conducts three case studies that portray complex depictions. It examines genre restrictions, the vagueness of the word “trauma,” and the place of the Diagnostic Statistical Manual and Freud in trauma narratives for young readers. In its analysis, the thesis uses the diagnostic tools of the DSM-IV-TR, Freudian theories, and close readings to investigate the representations of trauma. The thesis demonstrates that narratives about trauma for young readers are simultaneously complex and hopeful (as per genre expectations). Confronting difficult subject matter, these books equip readers with the political insights needed to recognize and change similar conditions in their own lives.
title: The periglacial engine of mountain erosion
title: Part 2: Modelling large-scale landscape evolution
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Egholm, David L.
name: Andersen, Jane Lund
name: Faurschou Knudsen, Mads
name: Jansen, John D.
name: Nielsen, S. B.
Publisher: name: Universität Potsdam
Year: 2019

description: There is growing recognition of strong periglacial control on bedrock erosion in mountain landscapes, including the shaping of low-relief surfaces at high elevations (summit flats). But, as yet, the hypothesis that frost action was crucial to the assumed Late Cenozoic rise in erosion rates remains compelling and untested. Here we present a landscape evolution model incorporating two key periglacial processes - regolith production via frost cracking and sediment transport via frost creep - which together are harnessed to variations in temperature and the evolving thickness of sediment cover. Our computational experiments time-integrate the contribution of frost action to shaping mountain topography over million-year timescales, with the primary and highly reproducible outcome being the development of flattish or gently convex summit flats. A simple scaling of temperature to marine delta O-18 records spanning the past 14 Myr indicates that the highest summit flats in mid-to high-latitude mountains may have formed via frost action prior to the Quaternary. We suggest that deep cooling in the Quaternary accelerated mechanical weathering globally by significantly expanding the area subject to frost. Further, the inclusion of subglacial erosion alongside periglacial processes in our computational experiments points to alpine glaciers increasing the long-term efficiency of frost-driven erosion by steepening hillslopes.
description: Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe, 552
Causal explanations, media effects, and public opinion on obesity
Creators: name: Brooke, Rebecca
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: A public debate about obesity has emerged in America since this pressing public health issue moved into the political arena. Using survey data, this study showed that attitudes about the causes of obesity, or causal explanations, are central in individuals‘ decision-making on this topic. Public support for the different causal explanations was not influenced by media frames, but rather, public opinion on the causes of obesity is congruent with prominent political values in media coverage. Specifically, an increase in conservative values in media coverage of obesity likely contributed to the public sentiment that ones lifestyle causes obesity. It is suitable to think of the obesity debate in terms of competing causal explanations.
Proposal of a one-dimensional electron gas in the steps at the LaAlO$_3$-SrTiO$_3$ interface
Creators: name: Bristowe, N. C.
name: Fix, T.
name: Blamire, M. G.
name: Littlewood, P. B.
name: Artacho, Emilio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) at the interface between LaAlO$_3$ (LAO) and SrTiO$_3$ (STO) has become one of the most fascinating and highly-debated oxide systems of recent times. Here we propose that a one-dimensional electron gas (1DEG) can be engineered at the step edges of the LAO/STO interface. These predictions are supported by first principles calculations and electrostatic modeling which elucidate the origin of the 1DEG as an electronic reconstruction to compensate a net surface charge in the step edge. The results suggest a novel route to increasing the functional density in these electronic interfaces.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Personal cell phones in a high school classroom: A teacher hermeneutic-phenomenological inquiry
Creators: name: Tysowski, Nicola Alexis
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: phenomenology
subject: Hermeneutics
subject: Learning Environment

description: This thesis consists of a high school classroom teacher-researcher’s critical narrative reflections on student usage of personally owned cell phones. The teacher-researcher explores, with assistance from scholarly voices, evidentiary exemplar data between a school based policy and her students and their use of cell phones. The teacher-research seeks understanding of the complexities and tensions that arise from the introduction and acceptance of digital smart cell phones in a classroom. The research comes to focus on questions regarding school/classroom policy for the inclusion of cell phones in a school and students’ practices with them, the “essence” of a cell phone, the “power” embodied in cell phone technology, the phone’s “mediating” abilities, and the phone’s connection to “posthumanism”. The teacher-researcher concludes with a summary understanding regarding impacts of such a device on her teaching practice.
Pholcus babao Tong & Li 2010, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Tong, Yanfeng
name: Li, Shuqiang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Pholcidae
Pholcus
Pholcus babao

description: Pholcus babao sp. nov. Figs 1A–C, 3A–F Type material: Holotype male, CHINA: Hebei Province, Chengde City, Fengning County, Baiyungudong Scenic Area, Babao Cave (41°02.266ʹN , 116°54.358ʹE, alt. 530 m), 2 April 2005, S. Li, K. Meng, X. Xu, Y. Zheng & Q. Wang leg. Paratypes: 1 male and 1 female, same data as for holotype. Etymology: The species name is a noun in apposition, taken from the type locality. Diagnosis: The new species is similar to P. datan sp. nov., but can be distinguished by the shapes of uncus and procursus, the long frontal prominences on chelicerae, and the chitinized triangular plate of the epigynum. Description: Male (holotype). Total length 4.48 (4.82 with clypeus), carapace width 1.76. Leg 1: 39.68 (10.28+0.71+10.56+15.99+2.14), tibia 2: 7.14, tibia 3: 4.85, tibia 4: 6.56; tibia 1 L/d: 84. Habitus as in figs 1A, B. Carapace yellowish, with brown radiated stripes and brown marginal band; ocular area yellowish, with brown band at median and laterally; clypeus yellowish, without marks; sternum brown (fig. 1C). Opisthosoma pale gray, with some spots dorsally and laterally. Distance PME–PME 0.25; diameter PME 0.15; distance PME–ALE 0.06; diameter AME 0.06. Chelicerae as in figs 3C, D, with pair of black apophyses distally, pair of unsclerotized apophyses proximolaterally, and pair of long up-directed prominences frontally. Palps as in figs 3A, B, uncus submedially with a narrow process, without appendix. Legs yellow, but dark brown on basal part of tibiae and patellae, with darker rings on femora (subdistally) and tibiae (proximally and subdistally), without spines, curved and vertical hairs; tarsus 1 with hardly visible pseudosegments distally. Females: In general similar to males. Tibia 1 lost. Epigynum as in fig. 3E, brown with distinctive pattern; with a long worm-shaped cylindrical outgrowth. Dorsal view as in fig. 3F. Distribution: Only known from type locality at present. Remark: Most species of Pholcus have an appendix, which usually hook-shaped, sclerotized and originates from the palpal bulb. Pholcus babao sp. nov. has a narrow, long sclerotized process on the uncus (arrow in fig. 3A). It is very similar to the appendix, but apparently originates from the uncus. The other three species, Pholcus datan sp. nov., Pholcus exilis sp. nov. and Pholcus wuling sp. nov., have a similar structure. All the four species were collected from Hebei Province, seem to form a species group within the genus Pholcus.
description: Published as part of Tong, Yanfeng & Li, Shuqiang, 2010, Eight new spider species of the genus Pholcus (Araneae, Pholcidae) from China, pp. 35-55 in Zootaxa 2355 on page 36
Coherence and Decoherence in Biological Systems: Principles of Noise Assisted Transport and the Origin of Long-lived Coherences
Creators: name: Chin, A. W.
name: Huelga, S. F.
name: Plenio, M. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The quantum dynamics of transport networks in the presence of noisy environments have recently received renewed attention with the discovery of long-lived coherences in different photosynthetic complexes. This experimental evidence has raised two fundamental questions: Firstly, what are the mechanisms supporting long-lived coherences and secondly, how can we assess the possible functional role that the interplay of noise and quantum coherence might play in the seemingly optimal operation of biological systems under natural conditions? Here we review recent results, illuminate them at the hand of two paradigmatic systems, the Fenna-Matthew-Olson (FMO) complex and the light harvesting complex LHII, and present new progress on both questions. In particular we introduce the concept of the phonon antennae and discuss the possible microscopic origin or long-lived electronic coherences.
description: Paper delivered at the Royal Society Discussion Meeting "Quantum-coherent energy transfer: implications for biology and new energy technologies", 27 - 28 April 2011 at The Kavli Royal Society International Centre, Buckinghamshire, UK. Accepted for publication in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A
Rimapenaeus constrictus Stimpson 1871
Creators: name: Almeida, Alexandre Oliveira De
name: Guerrazzi, Maria Cec Lia
name: Coelho, Petr Ȏ Nio Alves
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Penaeidae
Rimapenaeus
Rimapenaeus constrictus

description: Rimapenaeus constrictus (Stimpson, 1871)
Material examined (N=2). 1f, 19/IX/2000, 13°52’99”S; 38°59’59”W (MZUESC #640); 1m, 13/IX/2003, St. 0 4 (MZUESC #644).
Distribution. Western Atlantic – Bermuda, Nova Scotia (Canada), from Chesapeake Bay to Florida Keys, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea to Brazil (from Amapá to Santa Catarina) (Pérez-Farfante & Kensley 1997; D’Incao 1998).
Ecological notes. Oceanic, demersal species, occurring up to 130 m (D’Incao 1998).
Previous records in Bahia. None.
Remarks. This species is widely known from the Brazilian coast, but no previous records were found from Bahia.
description: Published as part of Almeida, Alexandre Oliveira De, Guerrazzi, Maria Cec Lia & Coelho, Petr Ȏ Nio Alves, 2007, Stomatopod and decapod crustaceans from Camamu Bay, state of Bahia, Brazil, pp. 1-45 in Zootaxa 1553 on page 8, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.178168
Reaction rate calculation with time-dependent invariant manifolds
Creators: name: Bartsch, Thomas
name: Revuelta, F.
name: Benito, R. M.
name: Borondo, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The identification of trajectories that contribute to the reaction rate is the crucial dynamical ingredient in any classical chemical reactivity calculation. This problem often requires a full scale numerical simulation of the dynamics, in particular if the reactive system is exposed to the influence of a heat bath. As an efficient alternative, we propose here to compute invariant surfaces in the phase space of the reactive system that separate reactive from nonreactive trajectories. The location of these invariant manifolds depends both on time and on the realization of the driving force exerted by the bath. These manifolds allow the identification of reactive trajectories simply from their initial conditions, without the need of any further simulation. In this paper, we show how these invariant manifolds can be calculated, and used in a formally exact reaction rate calculation based on perturbation theory for any multidimensional potential coupled to a noisy environment.
Super-Yang-Mills and M5-branes
Creators: name: Singh, Harvendra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We uplift 5-dimensional super-Yang-Mills theory to a 6-dimensional gauge theory with the help of a space-like constant vector $η^M$, whose norm determines the Yang-Mills coupling constant. After the localization of $η^M$ the 6D gauge theory acquires Lorentzian invariance as well as scale invariance. We discuss KK states, instantons and the flux quantization. The 6D theory admits extended solutions like 1/2 BPS `strings' and monopoles.
description: 15 pages; minor changes, to appear in JHEP