cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Dissecting the molecular mechanisms of drosophila border cell migration using time-lapse live cell imaging
Creators: name: Dodgson, Lauren
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2014

description: Dissection of the cellular dynamics and molecular pathways that drive collective cell migration is necessary to better understand cellular rearrangements that underpin normal development, as well as disease states such as cancer metastasis. Border cell migration in the Drosophila ovary has proven to be a good model of invasive cell migration, because of its genetic tractability, and also because recent advances in culturing egg chambers ex vivo have facilitated live cell imaging in this system. The aim of this thesis was to further develop and implement live cell imaging approaches, and to apply these to characterise the role of Pico, the Drosophila Mig10/RIAM/Lpd (MRL) protein in border cell migration. MRL proteins are known to regulate actin dynamics, but their role in epithelial cell migration had not been established. Through careful optimisation, suitable approaches were developed for: medium preparation; dissection and mounting of egg chambers; acquisition of images by confocal microscopy. A fluorescently-labelled reporter strain with improved optical properties was generated to monitor actin dynamics, and a number of other reporters were characterised, either alone or in combination, to determine their behaviour and effect on migration. After trialling several analytical tools and quantitative methods, a streamlined approach to analysing the image data was developed allowing: tracking of border cell migration in four dimensions (XYZ and time) to obtain information about behaviour of the migratory cells; measurement of cellular protrusion dynamics to obtain mechanistic insight into why cellular dynamics might change in different genetic backgrounds. Finally, these approaches were applied to the characterisation of Pico and its interacting partner SCAR, demonstrating that pico affects border cell migration through the modulation of actin protrusion dynamics in a SCAR-dependent manner.
title: Mathematical modelling of flexural waves in structured elastic plates
Creators: name: Haslinger, Stewart
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2014

description: This thesis discusses properties of flexural waves in thin elastic plates that incorporate a structured system of gratings of defects. The defects may take the form of inclusions or masses, but we focus on circular inclusions, and in particular, holes with a clamped edge. We place the work in the relatively new field of platonics, which is the study of flexural waves in plates governed by the fourth-order biharmonic plate equation. By analogy with photonic and phononic crystals, the two-dimensional structures in thin elastic plates are known as platonic crystals. We present a novel analysis of trapped modes and transmission resonances in grating stacks, arising from the interaction with plane waves incident on the gratings. We show that the evanescent modes are important in demonstrating interesting and unusual filtering effects. In particular we analyse the previously unstudied effect of elasto-dynamically inhibited transmission (EDIT), where a resonance in transmission is cut in two by a resonant minimum arising from destructive interference. Similar destructive interference-induced phenomena have been observed in other settings, notably classical optical oscillators, metamaterials and plasmonics, but we are the first to do it for flexural plates. The phenomenon of EDIT is a central theme of this thesis, and is linked to the analysis of even and odd Bloch modes in the grating waveguides. We develop a method that identifies the parameters of the model, the relative separations η and lateral shifts ξ of the gratings, and the spectral parameter β and angle of incidence θi of the plane wave, to find EDIT efficiently. The method is powerful and universal, based on a recurrence procedure for the construction of reflection and transmission matrices. A multipole method is employed for circular scatterers and the limiting case of rigid pins, whereby the solutions are determined analytically. Recent developments have also been made with arbitrarily-shaped holes, and other future research is likely to focus on the association with Dirac-like cones that are linked to the standing modes arising in platonic crystals.
A Study on Factors Impacting Satisfaction and Continuance Intention of E-Learning Among Undergraduates in Chengdu China
Creators: name: Jialing Jiang
Publisher: name: Graduate School of Business and Advanced Technology Management
Year: 2023
Subjects: e-learning
perceived usefulness
satisfaction
information quality
continuance intention

description: ABAC ODI Journal Vision. Action. Outcome, 11, 1, 397-411
Deutsches Auto AG and its Global Behavior
Creators: name: Armenta, Liane
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2014

description:
This Thesis discusses issues surrounding the conduct of business in a global environment. The focus of this paper involved a major manufacturer and its business model (Deutsches Auto AG) to supply vehicles to markets in New Zealand, South Korea, Nepal, and Mongolia. Analysis was made from previously collected survey data taken in each region focused on the dealership and end-user level. Not surprisingly, it was discovered that language and cultural barriers had a significant impact on each locations operations. Observations showed that language seemed to have created a problem in every day operations in regards to management and dealership tasks. English as the lingua franca  common language of trade, was often a second or third language of the individuals conducting day to day business. Not only did everybody have their own native language but also regional dialects that affected communication, but cultural perspectives also complicated communication. This paper does not address all issues surrounding global business, but focuses its attention to personal observations and data collected to identify break downs in communications across the regions of New Zealand, South Korea, Nepal, and Mongolia. This research identified and confirmed the problems to be a lack of English skills (comprehension and speech), which is expected to be the common language between all. With this expectation, there is little emphasis given to teaching English, nor the cultural contexts and hierarchical understandings that enhances effective communication.
A Spectral Assignment Approach for the Graph Isomorphism Problem
Creators: name: Klus, Stefan
name: Sahai, Tuhin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 05C60, 05C50

description: In this paper, we propose algorithms for the graph isomorphism (GI) problem that are based on the eigendecompositions of the adjacency matrices. The eigenvalues of isomorphic graphs are identical. However, two graphs $ G_A $ and $ G_B $ can be isospectral but non-isomorphic. We first construct a graph isomorphism testing algorithm for friendly graphs and then extend it to unambiguous graphs. We show that isomorphisms can be detected by solving a linear assignment problem. If the graphs possess repeated eigenvalues, which typically correspond to graph symmetries, finding isomorphisms is much harder. By repeatedly perturbing the adjacency matrices and by using properties of eigenpolytopes, it is possible to break symmetries of the graphs and iteratively assign vertices of $ G_A $ to vertices of $ G_B $, provided that an admissible assignment exists. This heuristic approach can be used to construct a permutation which transforms $ G_A $ into $ G_B $ if the graphs are isomorphic. The methods will be illustrated with several guiding examples.
title: The Liverpool Respiratory Birth Cohort Study: questionnaire development, recruitment and preliminary results
Creators: name: Griffith, Bethan E
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2014

description: Background:The Liverpool Respiratory Birth Cohort study (LRBCS) is a prospective, longitudinal population based birth cohort study of respiratory symptoms in preschool children domiciled within Liverpool postcodes L1-L38 at the time of birth. Researchers personally recruit new mothers to the study during their stay at Liverpool Women’s Hospital. The study uses either an online or paper version of the parent-completed Liverpool Respiratory Symptom Questionnaire (LRSQ) to investigate the prevalence of respiratory symptoms, such as coughs, colds and wheezing alongside an exposures and demographics questionnaire. Aims and Objectives: To further develop the concept of the LRBCS; to finalise the content and design of questionnaires and research materials for the study, as well as test the feasibility of conducting the study online. A further aim was to identify the most effective recruitment strategy for the study and then to proceed recruiting mothers to the LRBCS. The final objective was to conduct preliminary analyses of results from the initial questionnaire. Methods: Research students performed two feasibility studies and developed the appearance and content of questionnaires with input from mothers. Expression of interest were obtained from eligible mothers staying onon the postnatal wards at Liverpool Women’s Hospital. Mothers provided full consent and fully enrolled their child when he or she was aged four months. Questionnaires were distributed by automated emails or by post. Returned questionnaires were analysed by descriptive statistical methods. The in internal validity of the LRSQ was assessed by calculating Cronbach’s alpha coefficients to assess internal validity. Results: 1685 expressions of interest were received from eligible mothers between January and June 2014. 177 questionnaires were returned to the research team. There was a 25% participation rate (33% online and 7% postal). Preliminary analysis demonstrated some differences between participants and the general Liverpool population; mothers who respond were older, more educated, more likely to breastfeed and less likely to smoke cigarettes. Children exposed to household cigarette smoke had significantly higher LRSQ scores than those who were not exposed, which indicated that these children have a higher prevalence of respiratory symptoms. Seven out of the eight domains of the LRSQ had acceptable-excellent internal validity.
Empowered Princesses: An Ethnographic Examination of the Practices, Rituals, and Conflicts within Lolita Fashion Communities in the United States
Creators: name: Robinson, Kyla
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2014

description:
Elegant Gothic Lolita, or simply Lolita, is a fashion subculture that began as a street fashion among the youth in Harajuku Japan. Lolita fashion is characterized by the modest and Victorian era inspired clothing that often features knee length skirts and dresses that are supported by petticoats, blouses with ruffles and pintucks, and legs covered by either stockings or socks. The Lolita fashion subculture has spread to outside of Japan and communities are now found in almost every US State. The purpose of this project is to explore the rituals, practices, and conflicts, in Lolita Communities of the United States, especially in the realms of behavior, dress, and sexuality. As with many cultures, there are a set of punishments and rewards for following or failing to follow the protocols that are set in place. I explore what these rules, behavioral protocols, rites of passage, and dress codes are, while also examining the punishment and reward systems that are in place. Participant observation, interviews, and auto-ethnography have been used. The Lolita fashion subculture is complex and hierarchical. An emphasis is not just placed on the clothing involved in the subculture, but also on the personalities and merits of each individual member and how they interact with the community as a whole.
Word-to-word: a constructive account of speech between God and humanity in the theologies of Herman Bavinck and John Webster
Creators: name: Torseth, Robb
Publisher: name: The University of Edinburgh
Year: 2023
Subjects: Herman Bavinck
John Webster
knowability of the divine
concept of revelation
cataphatic expression
special revelation

description: Modern theology and philosophy have often concerned themselves with questions of the knowability of the divine, questions that gravitate around the nexus that is the concept of revelation. Questions such as the ability of a transcendent God to communicate his will to finite creatures and, conversely, the ability of creatures to both know that will and express concurrent theological concepts through the finite means of human speech have been variously debated from antiquity into the present. This thesis will attempt to posit a constructive theological model that approaches these issues from the perspective of a synthesis of the thought of two similar-yet-distinct theologians, Herman Bavinck (1854-1921) and John Webster (1955-2016), both of whom were writing to address the issues pointed at Christian theological claims reaching into and (in Webster’s case) past modernity. Drawing on Bavinck’s organic conception of the relationship between Creator and creation and Webster’s concept of sanctified speech considered within the context of their broader theologies, this constructive study within a Reformed theology proposes a threefold paradigm of God-humanity-language that focuses on the nature of verbal speech, first in its theological aspect related to divine communicability, and next in its anthropological dimension related to the imago Dei and a prelapsarian concept of verbal revelation that presents a non-conflicting view of the relationship between human speech and divine language, with verbal revelation in Scripture as the renewal of the original integrity speech for theological communication. Within this scheme, Scripture’s ability to both manifest and adequately convey divine communication with certainty is thus tied to the innate quality of verbal language as theological, a part of the imago Dei in humanity that reflects the communicability of the Trinity and which assumes the need for both cataphatic expression and special revelation. A number of key sources will be brought in by way of synthesis to demonstrate this quality of language, with gestures made toward potential avenues of philosophical, historical, and apologetical application.
Maps, Tourism, and Historical Pedagogy: A Study of Power, Identity, and the Politics of Representation in Two Southern Cities
Creators: name: Moss, Jessica
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2015

description:
In what ways can historical power relationships be interpreted through a chronological analysis of historical maps, and how are these coded versions of history produced and reproduced through the modern tourist experience? I argue that historical maps can be interpreted to reveal the political influence and agendas inscribed upon the built environment. I review how the implications of these value systems can be seen in the cultural constructs and institutions that have been used over time to generate revenue through a two stage process,: first, through an analysis of historic and modern maps in two Southern cities, New Orleans and Charleston, South Carolina, and second, through personal ethnographic fieldwork. I analyze my findings to compare these two cities in their use of spatial representation to facilitate and contain a historic tourist industry that spawns local industries of historical tourism to both justify and codify these views as history.
Electrochemical deposition of FeSe on RABiTS tapes
Creators: name: Demura, Satoshi
name: Tanaka, Masashi
name: Yamashita, Aichi
name: Denholme, Saleem J.
name: Okazaki, Hiroyuki
name: Fujioka, Masaya
name: Yamaguchi, Takahide
name: Takeya, Hiroyuki
name: Iida, Kazumasa
name: Holzapfel, Bernhard
name: Sakata, Hideaki
name: Takano, Yoshihiko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: FeSe film is successfully fabricated onto Rolling Assisted Biaxially Textured Substrate (RABiTS) tapes by an electrochemical deposition technique. The deposited FeSe films tend to become high crystallinity with a decrease in the applied voltage to -1.0 V, and the compositional ratio of Fe to Se approaches 1:1. The sample deposited at -1.0 V shows a superconducting transition approximately 8.0 K in the magnetic susceptibility.
description: 10 pages, 1 figure
title: Genome wide analysis of small heat shock proteins involved in yeast ageing
Creators: name: Bloxam, Leanne
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2014

description: Ageing is a phenomenon common to almost all living organisms and is characterised by the accumulation of changes with time that are associated with the ever-increasing susceptibility to disease and inevitably death. The rate of ageing is species-specific, indicating a strong genetic component. It is now widely accepted that genes involved in basic cellular processes such as stress resistance, metabolic regulation and genomic stability determine longevity in divergent organisms from yeast to mammals. This suggests that there may be conserved universal mechanisms involved in ageing. Furthermore, lifespan can be increased in all these model organisms by reducing the nutrients consumed - a phenomenon known as dietary restriction (DR). Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a useful model organism in which to study ageing and has been at the forefront of recent pioneering work on the molecular mechanisms underlying lifespan extension by DR. DR can be studied by reducing the glucose concentration from the standard 2% down to 0.5% or below, or by using genetic mimics. However, the exact mechanisms of lifespan extension by dietary restriction remain unclear and highly controversial. Research in our laboratory has identified two proteins in yeast that are induced in response to DR and thus correlate with longevity. Both proteins, Hsp12 and Hsp26, belong to the small heat shock protein (sHsp) family. Previous work by the Morgan laboratory has found that Hsp12 is essential for the longevity effect of DR and have solved the structure of the protein by NMR. Further studies have revealed a genetic interaction between HSP12 and HSP26, as hsp12/hsp26Δ double knockouts show a strongly reduced mean and maximum replicative lifespan. Despite this, the hsp12/hsp26∆ double knockout is not defective in various processes associated with yeast ageing, including stress resistance, rDNA silencing or protein aggregation. To shed light on the mechanisms by which Hsp12 and Hsp26 affect longevity, we employed unbiased approaches of synthetic genetic array (SGA) and quantitative fitness analysis (QFA) to identify genetic interactions of HSP12 and HSP26 on a genome-wide scale. This involved the generation of thousands of double mutant strains and analysis of their growth under various conditions, including DR. Results from the SGA analysis have revealed genetic interactions between HSP12 and HSP26 with the regulation of transcription from RNA polymerase II and processes associated with the mitochondria and vacuoles. QFA data is still to be analysed but ultimately we hope that QFA will re-confirm the genetic interactions identified by SGA analysis. We hope both SGA analysis and QFA data will provide insight into the cellular functions of Hsp12 and Hsp26 and how these proteins affect ageing, in particular lifespan extension by DR.
title: Recession Experiences During Early Adulthood Shape Prosocial Attitudes Later in Life
Creators: name: Bietenbeck, Jan
name: Sunde, Uwe
name: Thiemann, Petra
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2023

description: This paper explores whether the experience of a severe recession during early adulthood shapes individuals’ prosocial attitudes. The analysis uses survey responses to experimentally validated questions that measure prosocial attitudes for approximately 65,000 respondents in 75 countries. The identification approach exploits variation in recession experiences across 78 different birth cohorts. We find that exposure to a recession during early adulthood is associated with lower levels of prosociality later in life. The effect only emerges for experiences during impressionable years (age 18-25), mainly affects prosocial attitudes among men, and is orthogonal to the effect of experiences with democracy.
Queer Subjectivity, Transmedia, and Embodiment in the Carmilla Fandom
Creators: name: Skinner, Stephanie
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2016

description:
This study examines the ways in which individuals mediate the institutionalization and embodiment of queer identities in the Carmilla fandom by manipulating transmedia networks. The research conducted expands upon Boellstorffs (2015) methodology for virtual communities and Spitulniks (1993) theory of media power. Data was collected using three strategies: 1) quantitative surveys of 436 individuals, 2) five interviews, and 3) participant observation in the Carmilla fandom through social media. While Marxist and critical theorists assert that mass media is contextualized as needing to fulfil the needs of the dominant class through institutional legitimation, I propose that an inverse can be recognized in GSRM online communities, whereby transmedia mediates identity production and reproduction and provides agency and legitimation to GSRM representation. By examining Carmilla: The Series unconventional mediums and queer-driven narrative, this study hopes to gain a perspective into the importance of queer-normative representation in mass media and acknowledge ways in which minority online communities manufacture and reinforce identity.
title: Metagenomic and genomic analysis of the skin microbiota
Creators: name: Kelly, Jennifer
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2014

description: Following birth the skin is rapidly colonised by microorganisms that, over time, delineate into niche-specific microbial communities that often exhibit specific host-associated functions. Due to local physiological conditions, the axilla boasts a unique microbial community that has been implicated in malodour generation via the biotransformation of odourless host-secreted substrates. To more comprehensively understand the role of the axillary microbiome in malodour generation, axillary samples of subjects exhibiting high and low malodour profiles were subject to metagenomic sequencing. Metagenomics is a relatively novel whole-genome shotgun technique that utilises high-throughput sequencing to taxonomically and functionally characterise microbial communities. Prior to the axillary analysis, an in vitro synthetic microbial community of known composition was created and subject to metagenomic sequencing and analysis to determine which methods most accurately represent the taxonomic and functional composition of a microbial community. Additionally, to allow a more thorough understanding of the intraspecies diversity of the most abundant skin genus Staphylococcus, the commensal resident Staphylococcus epidermidis and the closely related pathogen Staphylococcus aureus were both subject to comparative pan-genome analysis. Utilising a direct whole-genome sequencing approach revealed that Corynebacterium might not dominate the axillary microbiota as predominantly as previously thought. A wide range of microbial clades were associated with high levels of axillary malodour, however only the four following species-level groups were enriched: Corynebacterium amycolatum, Corynebacterium kroppenstedtii, Finegoldia magna and Kocuria rhizophila. The characterised ability of certain corynebacterial species to generate malodorous compounds indicates that C. amycolatum and C. kroppenstedtii may play a major role towards the generation of axillary malodour. Pan-genome analysis of the most abundant skin isolate S. epidermidis and its relative S. aureus resulted in the complete description of the core genome of both species, and revealed that S. epidermidis exhibits a much higher degree of intra-species variability than S. aureus. Also, although both species occupy distinctly divergent life-styles, a large proportion of the conserved function was present in the core-genomes of both species, indicating a high degree of shared conservation. Utilisation of high-throughput sequencing technologies allowed a more in-depth analysis of the axillary microbiota and the intraspecies variability of S. epidermidis and S. aureus.
The ${\mathcal N}=2$ superconformal bootstrap
Creators: name: Beem, Christopher
name: Lemos, Madalena
name: Liendo, Pedro
name: Rastelli, Leonardo
name: van Rees, Balt C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we initiate the conformal bootstrap program for ${\mathcal N}=2$ superconformal field theories in four dimensions. We promote an abstract operator-algebraic viewpoint in order to unify the description of Lagrangian and non-Lagrangian theories, and formulate various conjectures concerning the landscape of theories. We analyze in detail the four-point functions of flavor symmetry current multiplets and of ${\mathcal N}=2$ chiral operators. For both correlation functions we review the solution of the superconformal Ward identities and describe their superconformal block decompositions. This provides the foundation for an extensive numerical analysis discussed in the second half of the paper. We find a large number of constraints for operator dimensions, OPE coefficients, and central charges that must hold for any ${\mathcal N}=2$ superconformal field theory.
description: 92 pages (64 pages + 5 appendices), 27 figures; v2: minor improvements, results unchanged
title: History of the sheriff's farm
title: A history of the sheriff's farm
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Harrison, Anne
Publisher: name: The University of Edinburgh
Year: 2023
Subjects: pipe rolls
sheriff’s farm payments
Rotulus Exactorius
Henry III
king’s revenue

description: Anglo-Saxon, Norman and Angevin kings ruled by right against a promise made to their subjects at the time of their coronation to preserve the peace and administer justice. In return the community was obliged to render tribute to the king either in cash or in kind. The extent of these renders varied over time, inevitably rising as war threatened. The pipe rolls consist of four sets of payments into the Exchequer, taxes such as Danegeld, payments related to feudal incidents such as permission to inherit or marry, profits from the administration of justice and something called the sheriff’s farm. While it is clear that the first three relate to payments to the Exchequer arising from regalian rights, it has usually been accepted that the last represented revenue due to the king as the largest landholder in the country. This assumption arises indirectly from the fact that the document that spelled out what the farm was, the Rotulus Exactorius, has not survived. However, a document from 1284, the Rotulus de Corporibus Comitatibus, spells out the constituents of the farm as it had existed since at least 1156 and can thus be seen as a substitute for the missing file. A close examination of this document in association with other information, especially that now readily available from the Henry III fine rolls project, leads to an interpretation of exactly what the sheriff’s farm represented and how it was valued that is at variance with the present conventional wisdom. The findings for this period suggest how the farm may have originated about the time an official described as a sheriff was first recorded early in the eleventh century and consisted of such items as customary dues and market tolls that were due to the king as ruler rather than as landlord. Over time, individual parts of the farm were delegated to persons and entities other than the sheriff, particularly boroughs, that agreed to pay more for the rights they acquired than the sheriff was liable for. Only after 1240 was revenue from the royal demesne due to be accounted for at the Exchequer and then not by the sheriff, a move provoked by demands for the whole of the king’s revenue to be accountable at the Exchequer. Such payments were not incorporated into the pipe rolls that continued to record only information about amounts due under regalian right.
Pipes of Long Swamp: Examining the Native American Pipes from the Lamar and Mary Fowler Holcomb Collection
Creators: name: Carmody, Danielle
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2016

description:
Introduction: In 2014,Lamar and Mary Fowler  Holcomb  donated  a collection  of artifacts  from the Native American site of Long Swamp to the Cherokee County Historical Society. Holcomb property is on land associated with the Long Swamp site (9CK1), which has allowed  the  two to gather artifacts from the site throughout the years. The rest of 9CK1 is on the opposite  side  of SR372. Edwards  Pitman  Environmental  Inc.  (EPEI),  a local  archaeological  firm,  was contacted in 2007 to investigate  9CK1 on public  land,  due to damage  resulting  from  an extension  of SR372. The archaeologists  recovered  artifacts  in  association  with  Long  Swamp.  In contrast  to the  excavation  conducted  by EPEI, the  Holcomb  maintained  a minimal  record of the  artifacts they collected, voiding most of context associated  with  each artifact. Without  contextual information, I rely  on stylistic  variables  and  to type  the pipes.  To do this,  I compare  the  pipes from the donated collection  to the other  materials  from  Long  Swamp  and other  archaeological sites in Georgia to ascertain the typology and chronology of the artifacts from the Holcomb  Collection.


Methods: The  collection  contains   sixty-six  pipes  and  pipe  fragments.   These  pipes  were measured with plastic, dial calipers, 150 mm/0.0254 mm. Weights were taken using a scale, max weight,   200 g. The pipes  were photographed  using  a Nikon DX AF-S 18-55mm 1:3.5-5.6g  D 5.100. Analysis also included a literature review and  the investigation  of pipes  from archaeological collections housed at the University of Georgia, Athens and the University of  West Georgia.


Results: My analysis resulted in the creation of a typology for the  pipes  in  the  collection. Although none of the clay for the pipes was sourced, a cursory  study  of the  different  pipes suggests that multiple types of clay were used. Some of the more overt variations among pipe structures are the ratios between height and weight. These variations could indicate different craftsman,   throughout  time.


Conclusion: The Lamar and Mary Fowler Holcomb Collection is the result of several years of collecting. The pipes  within  the collection  appear to span several  occupational  phases  of the Long  Swamp  site.  This  supports the findings   of the  previous  research conducted  at the  site. However, with little  contextual  support,  this  can only  be inferred  based on stylistic  attributes  that can be compared  to the materials  from  other  collections.   Further  research into  sourcing  the  clay for  the pipes  may  prove useful  to learn  more about  this  collection.
Sexually Transmitted Disease Rates and Sexual Education Programs in the Georgia School System
Creators: name: Masutier, Valerie
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2017

description:
The prevention of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) continues to be a significant challenge to  public health in the United States. While educational institutions, health professionals, and community outreach programs have helped the rates of transmission on local, national, and global scales, we are still seeing a rise in contraction and spreading of these infections. Half of these STI cases are from individuals ages 15 -24 years of age. For that reason, we must explore why this age group has the highest cases of STI rates (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], Sexually Transmitted Disease Transmission 2015). The focus of this project is to explore the relationship between sex education programs in Georgia public schools and their contribution to rise in STIs in this state. Here I argue that the curriculum of these programs affect students in numerous ways through teaching concepts, curriculum choices, romanticized ideology of sex, scare and shame tactics, and inaccurate information. With the consideration of these factors and student testimony, the sex education programs contribution to the high rates of STIs in Georgia are assessed.
Obstacles to Integration:  Caseworkers Perspectives on the Refugee Resettlement Process
Creators: name: Powers, Richard
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2019

description:
This study investigates how caseworkers laboring to resettle Congolese refugees in Clarkston, GA understand the challenges faced by their clients when integrating into American society. Resettlement agencies conceptualize Congolese refugees as often having more extensive needs. In Atlanta, this means that the majority of Congolese refugees are assigned to a particular agency to provide specialized services tailored to the Congolese community. However, caseworkers understand these challenges differently, causing the particular methods in which services are administered to differentiate. Through participant observation and semi-structured interviews with caseworkers, this study examines a range of resettlement methods, identifying common understandings of Congolese refugees by caseworkers, such as challenges regarding the ubiquitous language barrier, differing cultural conceptualizations of time, and an inexperience with navigating various systems and institutions in the U.S. Moreover, this paper argues that the caseworkers perspectives are neoliberally influenced which, by extension, affects the approaches employed throughout the resettlement process.
Unilateral regulation breaks regularity of Turing patterns
Creators: name: Vejchodsky, Tomas
name: Jaros, Filip
name: Kucera, Milan
name: Rybar, Vojtech
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 35Q92, 92B05

description: We consider a reaction-diffusion system undergoing Turing instability and augment it by an additional unilateral source term. We investigate its influence on the Turing instability and on the character of resulting patterns. The nonsmooth positively homogeneous unilateral term $τv^-$ has favourable properties, but the standard linear stability analysis cannot be performed. We illustrate the importance of the nonsmoothness by a numerical case study, which shows that the Turing instability can considerably change if we replace this term by its arbitrarily precise smooth approximation. However, the nonsmooth unilateral term and all its approximations yield qualitatively similar patterns although not necessarily developing from small disturbances of the spatially homogeneous steady state. Further, we show that the unilateral source breaks the approximate symmetry and regularity of the classical patterns and yields asymmetric and irregular patterns. Moreover, a given system with a unilateral source produces spatial patterns even for diffusion parameters with ratios closer to 1 than the same system without any unilateral term.
Drama Therapy: A Character Analysis of the Self
Creators: name: Leek, Kathryn
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2019

description:
LEEK, Kathryn (Georgia State University) Drama Therapy: A Character Analysis of the Self. Providing a platform for the expression of stigmatized emotional expressions, this research reveals an alternative approach for combating maladaptive emotion regulatory strategies and encourages self-discovery and self-acceptance despite the confines of socio-cultural consequences. Proceeding psychodramatic expression, individuals often report a catharsis. This research was conducted through a series of semi-structured interviews with actors, acting coaches, and other individuals working within the entertainment industry. In addition to interviews, ten years of participant observation functions as the primary foundation of data presented. The use of a holistic methodology of interdisciplinary perspectives such as performative, anthropological, psychological, and neurological fields of study has constructed a thorough investigation into this acclaimed phenomenon. In addition to fostering mental health and growth, the movement of drama therapy inspires a psychological unearthing of ones self through creative practice.
Cryptocurrency and The Transition Towards the Digital Economy What Prospects for Algeria?
Creators: name: HALZOUN Amina
name: KARA Rabah
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Digital Economy, Blockchain, Crypto currency

description: Abstract
Digital transformations are currently a means of transition towards a digital economy allowing for state-of-the-art sustainable development. Therefore, entire economy is adapting to innovative digital transformations. Among the modern technologies, it is worth mentioning the blockchain that could have revolutionized the financial and economic sectors. Thus, several big-tech economic entities or banks are thinking of adopting it for their infrastructural uses of their societies. This technology is intended for the banking sector and the energy sector, although its best-known use remains the crypto currency: Purely digital, designed on the basis of the blockchain and which self-regulates without any central authority. This article analyses the relationship between digital transformations and the evolution of crypto currency in the development of the digital economy. In order to address this issue, we analyzed the evolution of fintechs and the position of large tech companies in the digital economy. Besides, the present study also focuses on the impact of crypto-In this context. The European Commission has published a report on the growth of the digital economy, based mainly on statistics, reports from banks and financial institutions, and the results of previous research. This study will specify Algeria to study its positioning in the transition to the digital economy We studied the argumentative results of the place of blockchain technology, and crypto currency in the digital economy and demonstrate if there is a risk of uberization of the economic sector through this blockchain technology.
title:  Fault-Injection Experiment for the Statistical Characterization of Faults in Avionics Communication System
Creators: name: Yates, Amy M.
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04zjtrb98
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2010

description: Since flight control systems perform safety-critical functions, it is important to understand the possible effects on the closed-loop dynamical system's performance caused by these faults. The purpose of this project is to design the software and hardware needed to add fault-injection and monitoring capabilities to ROBUS-2, a flight communication system. ROBUS-2 is the current version of the fault-tolerant computer communication system used by the Scalable Processor-Independent Design for Enhanced Reliability (SPIDER), a general-purpose fault-tolerant integrated modular architecture (IMA) developed at the NASA Langley Research Center. The major components of SPIDER include processing elements (PEs) to perform calculations, bus interface units (BIUs) to connect the PEs to the bus, and redundancy management units (RMUs) to manage the communication traffic and provide robust bus-level fault-tolerance. The interconnected system of interest is a distributed closed-loop flight control system, where an aircraft is controlled by a fault-tolerant interconnection of flight control computers (FCCs). The aircraft's sensors and actuators communicate with the FCCs via ROBUS-2. The new fault-injection capability is intended to simulate faults in ROBUS-2 that could be triggered by harsh environments such as high energy atmospheric neutrons and high intensity radiated fields (HIRF). The fault-monitoring capability will be used to make observations on fault occurrences while the hardware is exposed to harsh environments. The observation data can then be used to develop statistical models of the faults that result in similar degradation of performance of a closed-loop dynamical system. These models will help to predict the effects of harsh environments on closed-loop system performance as a function of specific features of the communication system. The main accomplishments are the design of the fault injection and monitoring mechanism, specification for the faults that will be injected, specifications for the software and hardware components that are needed for implementation, and preliminary statistical characterizations of fault processes. The implementation of this design will provide information about the severity of a variety of faults on control systems and how to compensate for these faults, which is directly in accordance with Sub-goal 3E of the NASA Strategic Plan to "advance knowledge in the fundamental disciplines of aeronautics, and develop technologies for safer aircraft and higher capacity airspace systems."
Einsatzbedingungen und Einsatzfelder für Pastoralassistenten/ -referenten und Gemeindeassistenten/ -referenten
Creators: name: Goeke, Hugo
Publisher: name: Diakonia
Year: 1970

description: Diakonia, Bd. 10 Nr. 5 (1979): Diakonia, Band 10, Heft 5
title: The manipulation of dosage forms of medications, with the aim of achieving the required dose, for administration to children
Creators: name: Richey, Roberta
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2014

description: Background: There is a lack of commercially-available, age-appropriate formulations designed for administration to babies and children. This means that medicines may need to be manipulated to achieve the dose that is required in paediatric practice. This raises concerns about the dose accuracy and safety of the manipulated product. Though this is known and accepted as necessary, to date there has been no assessment of the evidence relating to these manipulations, the extent and nature of manipulations or of any associated practice issues. Objective: This thesis aimed to determine whether there is an evidence base for drug manipulations, to investigate the nature of manipulations, at the point of administration, in current clinical practice in neonatal and paediatric settings in the UK and to explore drug manipulations in the context of long-term medication administration by parents. Methods: Several methods were used to explore drug manipulations: a wide-ranging systematic review, an observation based study of drug manipulations in in-patient neonatal and paediatric areas, a UK wide survey of paediatric nurses and an interview based study with parents of children taking long-term medications. Outcomes: Manipulations to administer the required dose occur throughout practice and are not supported by evidence. Drug manipulation is intrinsic in neonatal and paediatric practice. Manipulations were identified more often in high dependency areas but were found throughout all clinical areas. Manipulations occurred more commonly with certain dosage forms, notably with tablets, but were found involving many dosage forms. Manipulations were identified involving drugs that are commonly prescribed and for prescriptions that had been written for babies and children of all ages and with a wide variety of diagnoses. Concerns relating to drug manipulations have been raised by those working in these areas. Parents described undertaking manipulations prior to administering medications to children, though undertaking these manipulations did not appear to cause undue concern. Conclusions: This thesis has reviewed the limited evidence, scoped out the nature of manipulations used in practice and by parents and suggested areas where future work would be appropriate. In exploring drug manipulation this thesis has added to ongoing discussion about the need for appropriate medication for paediatric use.
Revisiting the “Paradox of Stereotaxic Surgery”: Insights Into Basal Ganglia-Thalamic Interactions
Creators: name: Magnusson, JL
name: Leventhal, DK
Publisher: name: Frontiers
Year: 2021
Subjects: Parkinson disease
deep brain stimulation (DBS)
local field potential (LFP)
rate model
thalamus

description: Basal ganglia dysfunction is implicated in movement disorders including Parkinson Disease, dystonia, and choreiform disorders. Contradicting standard “rate models” of basal ganglia-thalamic interactions, internal pallidotomy improves both hypo- and hyper-kinetic movement disorders. This “paradox of stereotaxic surgery” was recognized shortly after rate models were developed, and is underscored by the outcomes of deep brain stimulation (DBS) for movement disorders. Despite strong evidence that DBS activates local axons, the clinical effects of lesions and DBS are nearly identical. These observations argue against standard models in which GABAergic basal ganglia output gates thalamic activity, and raise the question of how lesions and stimulation can have similar effects. These paradoxes may be resolved by considering thalamocortical loops as primary drivers of motor output. Rather than suppressing or releasing cortex via motor thalamus, the basal ganglia may modulate the timing of thalamic perturbations to cortical activity. Motor cortex exhibits rotational dynamics during movement, allowing the same thalamocortical perturbation to affect motor output differently depending on its timing with respect to the rotational cycle. We review classic and recent studies of basal ganglia, thalamic, and cortical physiology to propose a revised model of basal ganglia-thalamocortical function with implications for basic physiology and neuromodulation.
Elliptic Genus of E-strings
Creators: name: Kim, Joonho
name: Kim, Seok
name: Lee, Kimyeong
name: Park, Jaemo
name: Vafa, Cumrun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a family of 2d N=(0,4) gauge theories which describes at low energy the dynamics of E-strings, the M2-branes suspended between a pair of M5 and M9 branes. The gauge theory is engineered using a duality with type IIA theory, leading to the D2-branes suspended between an NS5-brane and 8 D8-branes on an O8-plane. We compute the elliptic genus of this family of theories, and find agreement with the known results for single and two E-strings. The partition function can in principle be computed for arbitrary number of E-strings, and we compute them explicitly for low numbers. We test our predictions against the partially known results from topological strings, as well as from the instanton calculus of 5d Sp(1) gauge theory. Given the relation to topological strings, our computation provides the all genus partition function of the refined topological strings on the canonical bundle over 1/2 K3.
description: 49 pages, 2 figures