cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Tilt Instability of Retrograde Disk Around One Component of a Binary
Creators: name: Overton, Madeline
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/0406gha72
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Be/X-ray binaries are systems containing a massive Be main sequence star and a compact object companion. The Be star contains a disc of material that flows from the Be star, and may interact with the companion. In this work we consider a neutron star companion. With hydrodynamic simulations, we show that a coplanar disc around one component of a binary can be unstable to global tilting when the disc orbits in a retrograde direction relative to the binary. The disc experiences the largest inclination growth relative to the binary orbit in the outermost radii of the disc, closest to the companion. This tilt instability also occurs for test particles. A retrograde disc is much larger than a prograde disc since it is not tidally truncated and instead spreads outwards to the orbit of the companion. The coplanar retrograde disc remains circular while a coplanar prograde disc can become eccentric. We suggest that the inclination instability is due to a disc resonance caused by the interaction of the tilt with the tidal field of the binary. This model is applicable to Be/X-ray binaries in which the Be star disc may be retrograde relative to the binary orbit if there was a sufficiently strong kick from the supernova that formed the neutron star companion. The accretion on to the neutron star and the resulting X-ray outbursts are weaker in the retrograde case compared to the prograde case.
title: Romanesques. 2015, n° 7
title: Récit romanesque et modèle économique
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: (:Unap)
Publisher: name: Classiques Garnier
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Récit
subject: Roman
subject: Modèle
subject: Histoire de la pensée économique
subject: Littérature française du XVIIe
subject: Du XIXe
subject: Du XXe siècle
subject: Littérature française contemporaine
subject: Littérature américaine contemporaine

description: Contributeurs : Aurélie Adler, Christine Baron, Patrice Baubeau, Marie-Astrid Charlier, Petr Dytrt, Bruna Ingrao, Laurent Jaffro, Agnieszka Komorowska, Mathieu Larnaudie, Jérémy Naïm, Annika Nickenig, Alexandre Péraud, Dorothée Picon, Claire Pignol, Christophe Reffait, Anne de Rugy et Urs Urban.
Propagating Conditions and the Time of ICMEs Arrival: A Comparison of the Effective Acceleration Model with ENLIL and DBEM Models
Creators: name: Paouris, Evangelos
name: Calogovic, Jasa
name: Dumbovic, Mateja
name: Mays, M. Leila
name: Vourlidas, Angelos
name: Papaioannou, Athanasios
name: Anastasiadis, Anastasios
name: Balasis, Georgios
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Effective Acceleration Model (EAM) predicts the Time-of-Arrival (ToA) of the Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) driven shock and the average speed within the sheath at 1 AU. The model is based on the assumption that the ambient solar wind interacts with the interplanetary CME (ICME) resulting in constant acceleration or deceleration. The upgraded version of the model (EAMv3), presented here, incorporates two basic improvements: (a) a new technique for the calculation of the acceleration (or deceleration) of the ICME from the Sun to 1 AU and (b) a correction for the CME plane-of-sky speed. A validation of the upgraded EAM model is performed via comparisons to predictions from the ensemble version of the Drag-Based model (DBEM) and the WSA-ENLIL+Cone ensemble model. A common sample of 16 CMEs/ICMEs, in 2013-2014, is used for the comparison. Basic performance metrics such as the mean absolute error (MAE), mean error (ME) and root mean squared error (RMSE) between observed and predicted values of ToA are presented. MAE for EAM model was 8.7$\pm$1.6 hours while for DBEM and ENLIL was 14.3$\pm$2.2 and 12.8$\pm$1.7 hours, respectively. ME for EAM was -1.4$\pm$2.7 hours in contrast with -9.7$\pm$3.4 and -6.1$\pm$3.3 hours from DBEM and ENLIL. We also study the hypothesis of stronger deceleration in the interplanetary (IP) space utilizing the EAMv3 and DBEM models. In particularly, the DBEM model perform better when a greater value of drag parameter, of order of a factor of 3, is used in contrast to previous studies. EAMv3 model shows a deceleration of ICMEs at greater distances, with a mean value of 0.72 AU.
description: 18 pages, 3 figures, 4 Tables. Accepted in Solar Physics
Maranese Field Materials
Creators: name: Bartella, Gaetano
name: Bilotto, Luigi
name: Castiglia, Ada
name: Cotino, Roberto
name: Cotino, Sabrina
name: Greco, Aurelio
name: Greco, Giuseppe
name: Presta, Antonella
name: Primicerio, Silvana
name: Robertson, Allegra
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2023

description: This collection is organized in two consecutive parts. Part 1 includes audio recordings of stories, descriptions, conversations, and proverbs in Maranese, with some Italian commentary. These recordings are ordered chronologically and can be found in items 2023-28.001 through 2023-28.009. Part 2 includes audio recordings and slides of wordlists in Maranese and Italian, which can be found in items 2023-28.010 and 2023-28.011. These wordlists were designed by the researcher to analyze the production of voiceless geminate stops, as compared to singleton stops, in the respective languages. All items are titled in Italian, and brief descriptions are provided in both Italian and English. The filenames follow the convention "YYMMDD.recording.date-recording.number-language-consultant.initials-researcher.initials-category-subcategory".

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Questa collezione è organizzata in due parti. La prima parte è costituita da registrazioni audio di storie, descrizioni, conversazioni e proverbi in maranese, con qualche commentario in italiano. Le registrazioni sono presentate in ordine cronologico, e si trovano nelle voci 2023-28.001 a 2023-28.009. La seconda parte è costituita da registrazioni audio di liste lessicali in maranese ed in italiano, accompagnate da immagini. Queste registrazioni si trovano nelle voci 2023-28.010 e 2023-28.011. Le liste lessicali erano designate dalla ricercatrice per analizzare la produzione fonetica di aspirazione insieme alle consonanti geminate, rispetto a quelle singole. Tutte le voci sono intitolate in italiano, con brevi descrizioni sia in italiano che in inglese. I nomi dei file seguono la convenzione: "AAMMGG.data.di.registrazione-numero.di.registrazione-lingua-iniziali.del.parlante-iniziali.della.ricercatrice-categoria-sottocategoria".
Noncritical String Correlators, Finite-N Matrix Models and the Vortex Condensate
Creators: name: Mukherjee, Anindya
name: Mukhi, Sunil
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We carry out a systematic study of correlation functions of momentum modes in the Euclidean c=1 string, as a function of the radius and to all orders in perturbation theory. We obtain simple explicit expressions for several classes of correlators in terms of special functions. The Normal Matrix Model is found to be a powerful calculational tool that computes c=1 string correlators even at finite N. This enables us to obtain a simple combinatoric formula for the 2n-point function of unit momentum modes, which after T-duality determines the vortex condensate. We comment on possible applications of our results to T-duality at c=1 and to the 2d black hole/vortex condensate problem.
description: 38 pages, LaTeX
A quantitative analysis of measures of quality in science
Creators: name: Lehmann, S.
name: Jackson, A. D.
name: Lautrup, B. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Condensing the work of any academic scientist into a one-dimensional measure of scientific quality is a difficult problem. Here, we employ Bayesian statistics to analyze several different measures of quality. Specifically, we determine each measure's ability to discriminate between scientific authors. Using scaling arguments, we demonstrate that the best of these measures require approximately 50 papers to draw conclusions regarding long term scientific performance with usefully small statistical uncertainties. Further, the approach described here permits the value-free (i.e., statistical) comparison of scientists working in distinct areas of science.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures, 4 tables
Properties of the QGP created in heavy-ion collisions
Creators: name: Moreau, P.
name: Soloveva, O.
name: Grishmanovskii, I.
name: Voronyuk, V.
name: Oliva, L.
name: Song, T.
name: Kireyeu, V.
name: Coci, G.
name: Bratkovskaya, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review the properties of the strongly interacting quark-gluon plasma (QGP) at finite temperature $T$ and baryon chemical potential $μ_B$ as created in heavy-ion collisions at ultrarelativistic energies. The description of the strongly interacting (non-perturbative) QGP in equilibrium is based on the effective propagators and couplings from the Dynamical QuasiParticle Model (DQPM) that is matched to reproduce the equation-of-state of the partonic system above the deconfinement temperature $T_C$ from lattice QCD. Based on a microscopic transport description of heavy-ion collisions we discuss which observables are sensitive to the QGP creation and its properties.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures, contribution to the special volume of IWARA-2020 (9th International Workshop on Astronomy and Relativistic Astrophysics) of Astronomische Nachrichten. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2005.07028
A political landscape : insertions into the Highland Valley Copper Mine
Creators: name: Nielsen, Martin H.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The natural landscape of the Highland Valley site has been permanently altered by open -pit mining activity that has taken place over the last 25 years. The current reclamation project (the result of Government legislation) is essentially a continuation of the man-made intervention that began when the mine first opened - at best an attempt to manicure or cover up the damage that has taken place and at worst a denial of the impact of open pit mining. Although the mine is expected to have a remaining productive life of 20 years, a significant portion of the mine will become inactive within 3 years. This proposal intends to leave the abandoned areas essentially intact without significantly altering the existing terrain - counter to traditional reclamation methods that attempt to 'return the land'. It will then stand as both an example of what open pit mining entails and as a large scale ecological laboratory for scientists to study nature's own reclamation process. Furthermore, the deserted landscape will continue to benefit society as an educational and recreational area where direct experience of a controversial landscape would lead to a more balanced view of the issues that surround mining and natural resource exploitation. The agenda for the site involves a series of insertions that, in part, provide for the direct experience and understanding of the mine landscape and the physical process that it underwent. Direct site experience will promote a more informed critique of the issues surrounding mining at both a local and global context by focusing on two diametrical narratives: the man-made process that shaped the site and the natural process that follows. The landscape is further reclaimed by the provision of facilities that support recreational activities such as fishing, hiking and mountain biking in summer and crosscountry skiing in winter. The aims of encouraging tourism on the site is to draw a connection between society and nature, to expose the issues of the site to a broader audience, and, in particular to bear witness to the consequences of society's dependence on mineral resources.
A search for distant radio galaxies from SUMSS and NVSS: III. radio spectral energy distributions and the z-alpha correlation
Creators: name: Klamer, I. J.
name: Ekers, R. D.
name: Bryant, J. J.
name: Hunstead, R. W.
name: Sadler, E. M.
name: De Breuck, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This is the third in a series of papers that present observations and results for a sample of 76 ultra-steep-spectrum radio sources designed to find galaxies at high redshift. Here we present multi-frequency radio observations, from the Australia Telescope Compact Array, for a subset of 37 galaxies from the sample. Matched resolution observations at 2.3, 4.8 and 6.2GHz are presented for all galaxies, with the z<2 galaxies additionally observed at 8.6 and 18GHz. New angular size constraints are reported for 19 sources based on high resolution 4.8 and 6.2GHz observations. Functional forms for the rest-frame spectral energy distributions are derived: 89% of the sample is well characterised by a single power law, whilst the remaining 11% show some flattening toward higher frequencies: not one source shows any evidence for high frequency steepening. We discuss the implications of this result in light of the empirical correlation between redshift and spectral index seen in flux limited samples of radio galaxies. Finally, a new physical mechanism to explain the redshift -- spectral index correlation is posited: extremely steep spectrum radio galaxies in the local universe usually reside at the centres of rich galaxy clusters. We argue that if a higher fraction of radio galaxies, as a function of redshift, are located in environments with densities similar to nearby rich clusters, then this could be a natural interpretation for the correlation. We briefly outline our plans to pursue this line of investigation.
description: MNRAS in press
Patient Participation Behavior in Online Healthcare Communities: Nature, Extent and Influencing Factors
Creators: name: Afnan Afnan
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The main purpose of this dissertation is to study patient participation behavior in online healthcare communities (OHCs) in terms of three aspects: quantity and quality of the participation, and the behavior to disclose sensitive health and other personal information during the participation. Our objectives are: to investigate the nature and extent of patient participation behavior on OHCs; to measure the sensitivity of information disclosed by the patients during the participation; to identity factors that influence the participation behavior; and to evaluate how these factors affect the quantity and quality of the participation as well as to evaluate the sensitivity of information disclosed during the participation. We adapt theory of planned behavior to the context of OHCs and identify factors that influence patient participation behavior on OHCs: patient’s personality, online community technology use, anonymity level and health condition. We argue that these factors affect the three aspects of patient participation behavior on OHCs. We test our theoretical model using linear mixed-effect modelling on two OHCs for a stigmatized disease – HIV/AIDS. Patients’ stigmatized health condition is critical in understanding the sensitivity of information that the patients disclose while participating on OHCs. Across the two HIV/AIDS forums, we find that patient personality and health condition are two dominant predictors of the behavior which can be used to predict all three aspects of patient participation behavior. Anonymity is a good predictor of participation quantity in forum 1, while in forum 2 it is a good predictor of participation quality and behavior to disclose sensitive information. While technology use is a good predictor of participation quality in both forums and it is also a good predictor of behavior to disclose sensitive health information in forum 2. Overall, our research contributes to the body of knowledge through: proposing a new approach to measure the sensitivity of information disclosed on OHCs; offering a new perspective on OHCs’ patient behavior through their participation quantity, quality and disclosure of sensitive information; and revealing the relationships between patients’ personality, online community technology use, anonymity, and health condition with their online participation behavior. Our research has practical implications for the government to regulate policies to protect patient’s sensitive information disclosed online, and for OHCs service providers to better manage the experience of their members with the goal of driving higher levels of information sharing which is critical to the success of any online communities.
The 2017 September 6 Flare: Radio Bursts and Pulsations in the 22-5000 MHz Range and Associated Phenomena
Creators: name: Karlicky, M.
name: Rybak, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For the 2017 September 6 flare (SOL2017-Sep-06T11:53) we present not only unusual radio bursts, but also their interesting time association with the other flare phenomena observed in EUV, white-light, X-ray, and $γ$-ray emissions. Using our new method based on wavelets we found quasi-periodic pulsations (QPPs) in several locations of the whole time-frequency domain of the analyzed radio spectrum (11:55-12:07 UT and 22-5000 MHz). Among them the drifting QPPs are new and the most interesting, especially a bi-directional QPP at the time of the hard X-ray and $γ$-ray peaks, and a sunquake start. In the pre-impulsive phase we show an unusual drifting pulsation structure (DPS) in association with the EUV brightenings caused by the interaction of magnetic ropes. In the flare impulsive phase we found an exceptional radio burst drifting from 5000 MHz to 800 MHz. In connection with this drifting burst, we show a U-burst at about the onset time of an EUV writhed structure and a drifting radio burst as a signature of a shock wave at high frequencies (1050-1350 MHz). In the peak flare phase we found an indication of an additional energy-release process located at higher altitudes in the solar atmosphere. These phenomena are interpreted considering a rising magnetic rope, magnetosonic waves and particle beams. Using a density model we estimated the density, wave velocities and source heights for the bi-directionally drifting QPPs, the density for the pre-impulsive DPS and U-burst, and the density and magnetic field strength for the drifting radio burst.
description: 23 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in ApJS
Electroweak precision constraints on the Lee-Wick Standard Model
Creators: name: Alvarez, Ezequiel
name: Da Rold, Leandro
name: Schat, Carlos
name: Szynkman, Alejandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform an analysis of the electroweak precision observables in the Lee-Wick Standard Model. The most stringent restrictions come from the S and T parameters that receive important tree level and one loop contributions. In general the model predicts a large positive S and a negative T. To reproduce the electroweak data, if all the Lee-Wick masses are of the same order, the Lee-Wick scale is of order 5 TeV. We show that it is possible to find some regions in the parameter space with a fermionic state as light as 2.4-3.5 TeV, at the price of rising all the other masses to be larger than 5-8 TeV. To obtain a light Higgs with such heavy resonances a fine-tuning of order a few per cent, at least, is needed. We also propose a simple extension of the model including a fourth generation of Standard Model fermions with their Lee-Wick partners. We show that in this case it is possible to pass the electroweak constraints with Lee-Wick fermionic masses of order 0.4-1.5 TeV and Lee-Wick gauge masses of order 3 TeV.
description: 24 pages, 7 figures
Oscillations of starless cores
Creators: name: Keto, Eric
name: Broderick, Avery
name: Lada, Charles J.
name: Narayan, Ramesh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: If the split, asymmetric molecular spectral line profiles that are seen in many starless cores are interpreted as indicative of global collapse or expansion of the core then one possible implication is that most starless cores have short lifetimes on the order of the collapse or sound crossing time scale. An alternative interpretation of the line profiles as indicative of perturbations on an underlying equilibrium structure leads to the opposite implication, that many cores have long lifetimes. While evidence suggests that some cores are collapsing on a free-fall time scale, we show that observations of some other starless cores can be reproduced by a model of non-radial oscillations about the equilibrium configuration of a pressure-bounded, thermally-supported sphere (Bonnor-Ebert sphere). We model the oscillations as linear perturbations following a standard analysis developed for stellar pulsations and compare the column densities and molecular spectral line profiles predicted from a particular model to observations of the Bok globule B68.
description: submitted to the Astrophysical Journal
Chilliwack (Halkomelem) vocabulary; syntax
Creators: name: Galloway, Brent
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: hur

description: File slips with vocabulary and short sentence translations. Original cataloging sticker reads 1929 (Galloway lived 1944-2014). Digitization supported by xʷməθkʷəy̓əm Musqueam First Nation, November 2023.
A strong form of Plessner's theorem
Creators: name: Gardiner, Stephen J.
name: Manolaki, Myrto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 30D40, 30K05, 30K10, 31B25

description: Let $f$ be a holomorphic, or even meromorphic, function on the unit disc. Plessner's theorem then says that, for almost every boundary point $ζ$, either (i) $f$ has a finite nontangential limit at $ζ$, or (ii) the image $f(S)$ of any Stolz angle $S$ at $ζ$ is dense in the complex plane. This paper shows that statement (ii) can be replaced by a much stronger assertion. This new theorem and its analogue for harmonic functions on halfspaces also strengthen classical results of Spencer, Stein and Carleson.
description: In press, Advances in Mathematics (open access)
A Descriptive Analysis of District Restraint and Seclusion Documentation and Data-Driven Decision Making
Creators: name: Acker, Eryn Y. Van
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Restraint and seclusion are two crisis intervention practices that educators employ to manage students who display escalated behavior. These procedures, however, are high-risk, intensive practices that have resulted in psychological trauma, physical injury, and even death. While there are no federal laws in place on this topic, the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) recommended 15 principles to guide state and local school districts’ development of policies and practices for the use of restraint and seclusion. Schools and mental health organizations that have effectively reduced or eliminated their use of these aversive practices have identified documentation and decision-making based on these data to drive practice and policy change as integral components to their success. Despite federal reporting requirements of school use of restraint and seclusion, a recent audit conducted by the U. S. Government Accountability Office found many school districts are not collecting and accurately reporting these data even when located in states that mandate these procedures. Thus, the extent to which these potentially harmful practices are employed across the nation’s public schools is unknown. A descriptive research design was employed to explore the crisis incident documentation review, oversight, and data-driven decision-making procedures enacted within a sample of four public-school sites that resided in one state that had restraint and seclusion legislation in place. The benefits and barriers to completing these practices as reported by district personnel who were charged with these responsibilities was addressed. A secondary purpose of the study was to explore the quality of school district crisis incident documentation and the degree to which the documentation aligned with the DOE recommendations. Descriptive statistics and thematic analyses were conducted to explore the nature of these phenomena. Results of the study indicated minimal monitoring, oversight, and data-based decision making occurred across the four sites and that the procedures enacted by each district site varied despite having similar policies in place. In addition, while each district’s crisis incident documentation obtained most of the DOE components, the extent to which the components were reported within the documentation was insufficient to allow for meaningful review and decision-making. Findings from this study provide initial insight of how public-school districts employ restraint and seclusion and their efforts in managing these practices. Furthermore, the findings provide valuable information for future policy development, research interests, and areas of support to aide districts in maintaining a safe environment for all students.
Lowest Dimensional Portals to SU($N$) Exotics
Creators: name: Jeltema, Tesla
name: Profumo, Stefano
name: Ulbricht, Jaryd F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: New matter fields charged under the strong nuclear force would have dramatic phenomenological implications. Here, we systematically explore how these new states, which we postulate belong to some representation of SU(3) of quantum chromo-dynamics, could interact with Standard Model fields: We analyze all lowest-dimensional "portal" operators for any SU(3) representation and, motivated by grand unification, we extend our results to SU($N$), for $N>3$. We provide a publicly available python code, "tessellation", that automatically constructs said lowest-dimensional portal operators for any new exotic matter field charged under SU($N$) for any $N$.
description: 16 pages, 7 figures
Stationary State Fluctuation Theorems for Driven Langevin Systems
Creators: name: Cohen, E. G. D.
name: van Zon, Ramses
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent results on the stationary state Fluctuation Theorems for work and heat fluctuations of Langevin systems are presented. The relevance of finite time corrections in understanding experimental and simulation results is explained in the context of an exactly solvable model, namely a Brownian particle in a harmonic potential, which is dragged through the surrounding fluid. In this model, work fluctuations obey the conventional form of the fluctuation theorem while heat fluctuations satisfy an extended form. The connection with other work in recent literature is pointed out, and further generalizations are suggested.
description: 12 pages, 2 figures. Contribution to Proceedings of "Work, Dissipation, and Fluctuations in Nonequilibrium Physics", Brussels, 2006
Music composition recital
Creators: name: Rogers, Joseph Earl
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This thesis is a compilation of the six compositions performed at The University of British Columbia, Recital Hall, May 12, 1996, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Music, with an emphasis in Composition. Second Sonata for Bassoon and Piano was written for performed by Tracie Pybas on bassoon, with Leslie Dala on piano. Mechanism for Horn, Alone was written for and performed by Marcia Titley. L'etre-en-soi, I'etre-pour-soi was written for and performed by Caroline Gauthier, clarinet. Hanblec'eya was written for and performed by Karen Noel-Bentley, clarinet, Laura McPheeters, violoncello, and Leslie Dala, piano. Plane for Flute, Alone was written for and performed by Mark McGregor. Woodwind Quintet was written for and performed by Tempest Winds: Mark McGregor, flute; Peter Gal, oboe; Caroline Gauthier, clarinet; Marcia Titley, horn; Tracie Pybas, bassoon. Performance notes, where applicable, proceed the scores.
Perturbation expansion for the diluted two-dimensional XY model
Creators: name: Kapikranian, Oleksandr
name: Berche, Bertrand
name: Holovatch, Yurij
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the quasi-long-range ordered phase of a 2D XY model with quenched site-dilution using the spin-wave approximation and expansion in the parameter which characterizes the deviation from completely homogeneous dilution. The results, obtained by keeping the terms up to the third order in the expansion, show good accordance with Monte Carlo data in a wide range of dilution concentrations far enough from the percolation threshold. We discuss different types of expansion.
description: 8 pages, 1 eps figure, style file included
A Novel Monolithic 3D Printed Axisymmetric Co-flow Single and Double/Compound Emulsion Generator
Creators: name: Amirreza Ghaznavi
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Droplet microfluidics has been attracting interests of users in diverse fields of study such as cosmetics, pharmaceutical, and food industries due to its versatility in applications. This vast interest in droplet-based microfluidics is rooted in its specific capabilities to encapsulate biological and chemical reagents inside tiny amount of fluids, offering precise control over specific processes by considering efficiency of mass and heat transfer. In addition, droplets can play a significant role in an emerging field of opto-microfluidics. The softness of the droplet surfaces offers a unique structure for trapping light into a so-called Whispering Gallery Mode (WGM). In such a mode, the droplets serve as soft resonators, exhibiting unique optomechanical properties. Over the years, producing a device which is easy-to-use, cost-effective, and with sub-millimeter-droplet generation ability has always been a challenge among innovators in microfluidics. In our study, we have designed and fabricated a novel droplet generator device which can produce single droplets, and single/multiple droplets in a droplet by implementing monolithic 3D axisymmetric co-flow structure. We used a recent fabrication approach in microfluidics field, additive manufacturing, to fabricate the droplet generator. A commercial, low-cost Stereolithography 3D printer, which is able to offer acceptable transparency, small channel size, and high resolution of printing, produced this device. The device is user-friendly, and any inexpert person can conveniently utilize it. The design of the device is in a “Plug-and-Play” manner, which facilitates the connecting process of tubes to the device, overcoming a traditional issue of microfluidic devices which is fluid leakage. We took deionized water and mineral oil as popular immiscible fluids and tried different combination of generating emulsions, Water in Oil (W/O), Oil in Water (O/W), and Water in Oil in Water (W/O/W). We also investigated the impacts of change in flow rate of each immiscible fluid, which was used as inner, middle, or outer fluid, in the droplet (emulsion) generation. Also, we evaluated the size of emulsions which was influenced by flow rates and we extended our research to study possibility of generating complex droplet structures involving multiple droplets encapsulated in one outer droplet. Lastly, computational modeling of emulsification using phase field method has been performed to understand the fluid dynamics of the emulsion generation process. Overall, by using our novel 3D printed monolithic co-flow droplet generator device, generating single emulsion, monodispersed double emulsion, and multiple complex emulsions is now easier than traditional approaches and the device can be readily applicable in industry for many applications.
Nonlinear Energy Response of Glass Forming Materials
Creators: name: Tagawa, Fumitaka
name: Odagaki, Takashi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A theory for the nonlinear energy response of a system subjected to a heat bath is developed when the temperature of the heat bath is modulated sinusoidally. The theory is applied to a model glass forming system, where the landscape is assumed to have 20 basins and transition rates between basins obey a power law distribution. It is shown that the statistics of eigenvalues of the transition rate matrix, the glass transition temperature $T_g$, the Vogel-Fulcher temperature $T_0$ and the crossover temperature $T_x$ can be determined from the 1st- and 2nd-order ac specific heats, which are defined as coefficients of the 1st- and 2nd-order energy responses. The imaginary part of the 1st-order ac specific heat has a broad peak corresponding to the distribution of the eigenvalues. When the temperature is decreased below $T_g$, the frequency of the peak decreases and the width increases. Furthermore, the statistics of eigenvalues can be obtained from the frequency dependence of the 1st-order ac specific heat. The 2nd-order ac specific heat shows extrema as a function of the frequency. The extrema diverge at the Vogel-Fulcher temperature $T_0$. The temperature dependence of the extrema changes significantly near $T_g$ and some extrema vanish near $T_x$.
description: 20 pages, 10 figures
title: “Everyone’s Favorite Dead Girl”: Historical Crime Fiction and Postwar Policing in James Ellroy’s The Black Dahlia
Creators: name: Ortiz Zaragoza, Mauricio
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/0406gha72
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: This thesis argues for the importance of crime fiction as a major literary genre with global reach. Taken as a whole, crime fiction acts as a vehicle for exploring macro-level questions of social structures, political-economic processes and power relations. Within that genre, I claim that James Ellroy is a key figure who writes at the intersection of the historical novel and literary noir. As the first work in his L.A. Quartet (1987-1992), The Black Dahlia fictionalizes the investigation of the city’s most famous unsolved homicide—the gruesome murder and mutilation of Elizabeth Short. The novel, however, uses the investigation as a pretext for depicting the historical context of postwar American society, offering readers an opportunity to view past crimes as the prehistory of the present. In the novel, L.A. is portrayed as a site of terminal dysfunction and social inequality that provides the space for critical reflection, particularly on the systemic nature of policing and gendered violence. Ellroy’s historical crime novel, I argue, critiques postwar American society through its representation of the everyday nature of violence and marginalization in this chapter of the city’s development. These depictions of policing and gendered violence show readers that power structures are socially constructed and historically contingent rather than transhistorical, immutable truths.
Proof of the Holographic Formula for Entanglement Entropy
Creators: name: Fursaev, Dmitri V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Entanglement entropy for a spatial partition of a quantum system is studied in theories which admit a dual description in terms of the anti-de Sitter (AdS) gravity one dimension higher. A general proof of the holographic formula which relates the entropy to the area of a codimension 2 minimal hypersurface embedded in the bulk AdS space is given. The entanglement entropy is determined by a partition function which is defined as a path integral over Riemannian AdS geometries with non-trivial boundary conditions. The topology of the Riemannian spaces puts restrictions on the choice of the minimal hypersurface for a given boundary conditions. The entanglement entropy is also considered in Randall-Sundrum braneworld models where its asymptotic expansion is derived when the curvature radius of the brane is much larger than the AdS radius. Special attention is payed to the geometrical structure of anomalous terms in the entropy in four dimensions. Modification of the holographic formula by the higher curvature terms in the bulk is briefly discussed.
description: 16 pages, 3 figures, a new section on the effect of curvature terms in the bulk is added, typos corrected, pictures are improved
The evolution of the low-density HI intergalactic medium from z=3.6 to 0: Data, transmitted flux and HI column density
Creators: name: Kim, Tae-Sun
name: Wakker, Bart P.
name: Nasir, Fahad
name: Carswell, Robert F.
name: Savage, Blair D.
name: Bolton, James S.
name: Fox, Andrew J.
name: Viel, Matteo
name: Haehnelt, Martin G.
name: Charlton, Jane C.
name: Rosenwasser, Ben E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new, uniform analysis of the HI transmitted flux (F) and HI column density (N(HI)) distribution in the low-density IGM as a function of redshift z for 0
description: 24 pages, 17 figures, 8 tables, accepted for publication to MNRAS, 5 supplementary online-only tables
[Lexical elicitation]
Creators: name: Fuller, William
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: nsq

description: The words contained in 2018-08.001.001.wav include kinship terms, body parts, animals, flora, nature and celestial terms, color terms, numbers, day of week, etc. 2018-08.001.002.wav is a continuation of 2018-08.001.001.wav and contains kinship terms. The researcher on the recording is not named, but the original reel box indicates that the recording contains Miwok words based on the word list of William Shipley (PhD 1959, Berkeley) and others.
On The Black Hole Interior Spacetime
Creators: name: Culetu, Hristu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new version of the geometry inside a black hole is proposed, on the grounds of an idea given by Doran et al. The spacetime is still time dependent and is a solution of Einstein's equations with a stress tensor corresponding to an anisotropic fluid. The energy density of the fluid is proportional to $1/t^{2}$ as in many dark energy models and the Brown-York quasilocal energy of the black hole interior equals its mass $m$.
description: 6 pages,one reference added, minor changes, no figures
Identifying Factors Influencing Pediatric Professionals’ Self-reported Collaborative Practice Behaviors
Creators: name: Kilroy, Susan
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Objective: The aim of this study was to: (1) determine the impact of interprofessional American Heart Association (AHA) resuscitation courses on health care professionals’ self- reported collaborative practice behaviors (CPBs); (2) identify differences between the three professions of nursing, medicine, and respiratory therapy on self-reported CPBs; and, (3) describe which specific CPBs were most strongly associated with health care professionals’ perceptions of interprofessional teams and enhanced patient care in clinical practice. Methods: A mixed methods explanatory design was utilized. Participants were pediatric health care professionals who attended AHA courses and were from the disciplines of nursing, medicine, and respiratory therapy. Quantitative and qualitative data were collected electronically using the Interprofessional Collaborative Competency Attainment Survey (ICCAS) and two open-ended questions. Exploratory factor analysis, inferential statistics, and directed content analysis was performed. Inferences were made across the quantitative and qualitative data. Results: In self-reported CPB scores, a statistically significant change in mean was demonstrated by all professions (t (208) = –12.76;  < .001) immediately after the AHA courses; Physicians identified roles and responsibilities (94%, n = 17) as the most important CPB, whereas communication was identified by nurses (78%, n = 76), NPs (100%, n = 11) and respiratory therapists (71%, n = 5) as most important. Conclusions: Health care professionals’ participation in an interprofessional AHA course was positively correlated with an increase in mean self-reported CPB scores over time. In contrast, perceptions about the lasting effects of the CPBs learned in AHA courses on interprofessional teams and patient care in clinical practice varied between professions.
A breakdown & reinvention : the people and the place, housing for Chinese seniors with a community component in Strathcona, Vancouver
Creators: name: Lu, Winnie Nien-Wei
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This is a project about a specific group of peopleand place: the Chinese elderly in Strathcona, Vancouver. The parameters are cultural, social and physical. It is about a traditional culture at a crossroad with a North American culture, the implications being a critical exchange. I have proposed a living space that combines the closeness of a private world and the openness of an active and meaningful public face. The design of the housing addresses not only the area's need for elderly housing, but social and architectural perspectives as well. The private housing component is combined with a community (public) part - a daycare - and a semi-public part - the lounge, both of which allows the participation of the residents as well as the community. The lounge is a space for small exhibitions and performances. The semi-private component consists of a dining facility with kitchen, a small reading room (family room), a laundry and a clinic (beauty parlour). This combination means a dynamic connection of the public and the private faces. Through the use of the community's own design language and ideas from Asian housing and village designs, I have linked together a world of singular intracacies to create a rich sphere - one that will begin an urban repair through a breakdown and restructuring of the integral components of a place and the idiosyncracies of a culture.
Soliton with a Pion Field in the Global Color Symmetry Model
Creators: name: Wang, Bin
name: Song, Hui-chao
name: Chang, Lei
name: Chen, Huan
name: Liu, Yu-xin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the property of the global color symmetry model soliton with the pion field being included explicitly. The calculated results indicate that the pion field provides a strong attraction so that the eigen-energy of a quark and the mass of a soliton reduce drastically, in contrast to those with only the sigma field.
description: 15 pages, 2 figures
Quantum dynamics of a single fluxon in Josephson junctions parallel arrays with large kinetic inductances
Creators: name: Seidov, S. S.
name: Fistul, M. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a theoretical study of coherent quantum dynamics of a single magnetic fluxon (MF) trapped in Josephson junction parallel arrays (JJPAs) with large kinetic inductances. The MF is the topological excitation carrying one quantum of magnetic flux, $Φ_0$. The MF is quantitatively described as the $2π$-kink in the distribution of Josephson phases, and for JJPAs with high kinetic inductances the characteristic length of such distribution ("the size" of MF) is drastically reduced. Characterizing such MFs by the Josephson phases of three consecutive Josephson junctions we analyse the various coherent macroscopic quantum effects in the MF quantum dynamics. In particular, we obtain the MF energy band originating from the coherent quantum tunnelling of a single MF between adjacent cells of JJPAs. The dependencies of the band width $Δ$ on the Josephson coupling energy $E_J$, charging energy $E_C$ and the inductive energy of a cell $E_L$, are studied in detail. In long linear JJPAs the coherent quantum dynamics of MF demonstrates decaying quantum oscillations with characteristic frequency $f_{qb}=Δ/h$. In short annular JJPAs the coherent quantum dynamics of MF displays complex oscillations controlled by the Aharonov-Casher phase $χ\propto V_g$, where $V_g$ is an externally applied gate voltage. In the presence of externally applied dc bias, $I$, a weakly incoherent dynamics of quantum MF is realized in the form of macroscopic Bloch oscillations leading to a typical "nose" current-voltage characteristics of JJPAs. As ac current with frequency $f$ is applied the current-voltage characteristics displays a set of equidistant current steps at $I_n=2en f$.
description: 9 pages, 9 fugures
Slip avalanches in crystal plasticity: scaling of the avalanche cutoff
Creators: name: Zaiser, Michael
name: Nikitas, Nikos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Plastic deformation of crystals proceeds through a sequence of intermittent slip avalanches with scale-free (power-law) size distribution. On macroscopic scales, however, plastic flow is known to be smooth and homogeneous. In the present letter we use a recently proposed continuum model of slip avalanches to systematically investigate the nature of the cut-off which truncates scale-free behavior at large avalanche sizes. The dependence of the cut-off on system size, geometry, and driving mode, but also on intrinsic parameters such as the strain hardening rate is established. Implications for the observability of avalanche behavior in microscopic and macroscopic samples are discussed.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures
Quantum Fisher information and skew information correlations in dipolar spin system
Creators: name: Muthuganesan, R.
name: Chandrasekar, V. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum Fisher information (QFI) and skew information (SI) plays a key role in the quantum resource theory. Understanding these measures in the physical system has practical significance in the state parameter estimation and quantum metrology. In this article, we consider a pair ofspin-1/2 particles coupled with dipolar and Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya (DM) interactions, serving as the physical carrier of quantum information. We examine the bipartite nonlocal correlations of pair of spin-1/2 particle system for the thermal equilibrium states, characterized by local quantum uncertainty (LQU) and local quantum Fisher information (lQFI). The effects of dipolar coupling constants on quantum correlation quantifiers are studied. The DM interaction greatly enhances the quantum correlation in the system whereas the temperature tends to annihilate the amount of quantum correlations.
description: 12 pages, 5 Figures