cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Food for thought
Creators: name: Klitgård, Ida
Publisher: name: Akademisk kvarter | Academic Quarter
Year: 2011

description: Ida Klitgaard's article Food For Thought is a comparative analysis the Danish translations of James Joyce's Ulyssesparticularly as it pertains to the significance of food, enhanced into a discussion of cannibalistic and religious metaphors. Klitgaard's analysis shows how cultural cannibalism inevitably becomes part of such a discussion.
description: Akademisk kvarter | Academic Quarter, Transgressions, Vol. 3
Inuit Nunaat as an emerging region in area studies : building an Arctic studies program south of the tree line
Creators: name: Fabbi, Nadine C.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: This dissertation addresses the emergence of the Arctic as a distinct world region and actor in international geopolitics and what this means for the field of area studies. I ask how the Arctic fits into the established field of area studies and how the unique characteristics of the region – as defined by Arctic Indigenous peoples – challenge Western understandings of what constitutes a global region including how we understand territory, sovereignty, and the relationship between space and social justice. To answer this question I analyze how the Arctic region maps onto the preexisting geographies of sovereignty as held by the U.S. Title VI program. In the United States the field of area studies has been significantly influenced by the Department of Defense and later the Department of Education via the Title VI grant program. Title VI provides grants to support area and international studies and foreign languages at colleges and universities across the country. The program has traditionally defined world regions based on the nation-state model, and it identifies important areas of the world as those critical to U.S. interests. In order to answer how the particular characteristics of the Arctic, specifically Indigenous worldviews, challenge and broaden current understandings of area studies I first seek to understand the Arctic from a northern perspective. How do the Inuit in Canada and internationally define their homeland, and what is the relevance of Inuit Nunangat (Inuit territory in Canada) and Inuit Nunaat (Inuit homeland internationally) to domestic and international relations? Next, I explore how Inuit concepts of territory further the voice and self-determination of the Inuit. Finally, I conduct an analytic autoethnography of the Arctic studies initiative at the University of Washington culminating in the inclusion of the Arctic as a distinct world region in the Canadian Studies Center's 2014 Title VI grant proposal. I argue that understanding the Arctic as a global actor – via the lens of new thinking in international relations theory, theories of social justice, and Inuit concepts of space – has the potential to reconfigure area studies in higher education to more effectively address 21st century global challenges.
Deep HST/ACS Photometry of the M81 Halo
Creators: name: Durrell, Patrick R.
name: Sarajedini, Ata
name: Chandar, Rupali
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a deep color-magnitude diagram for individual stars in the halo of the nearby spiral galaxy M81, at a projected distance of 19 kpc, based on data taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The color magnitude diagram reveals a red giant branch that is narrow and fairly blue, and a horizontal branch that has stars that lie mostly redward of the RR Lyrae instability strip. We derive a mean metallicity of [M/H] = -1.15 +\- 0.11 and age of 9 +\- 2 Gyr for the dominant population in our field, from the shape of the red giant branch, the magnitude of the red clump, and the location of the red giant branch bump. We compare our metallicity and age results with those found previously for stars in different locations within M81, and in the spheroids of other nearby galaxies.
description: 19 pages, 11 figures (Fig.1 at reduced resolution), accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
Life Cycle Assessment of Hydrogen Production by Natural Gas Reforming in Brazil
Creators: name: Fukurozaki, Sandra Harumi
name: Neto, Antônio Braulio
name: Costa Oliveira, Luzia Bouzan
name: Paschoal, José Octávio Armani
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 90702 Environmental Engineering Modelling
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering

description: 23rd ABCM International Congress of Mechanical EngineeringDecember 6-11, 2015, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, BrazilConference Proceedings ISNN: 2176-5480
Exploring VQ-VAE with Prosody Parameters for Speaker Anonymization
Creators: name: Leang, Sotheara
name: Augusma, Anderson
name: Castelli, Eric
name: Letué, Frédérique
name: Sam, Sethserey
name: Vaufreydaz, Dominique
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Human speech conveys prosody, linguistic content, and speaker identity. This article investigates a novel speaker anonymization approach using an end-to-end network based on a Vector-Quantized Variational Auto-Encoder (VQ-VAE) to deal with these speech components. This approach is designed to disentangle these components to specifically target and modify the speaker identity while preserving the linguistic and emotionalcontent. To do so, three separate branches compute embeddings for content, prosody, and speaker identity respectively. During synthesis, taking these embeddings, the decoder of the proposed architecture is conditioned on both speaker and prosody information, allowing for capturing more nuanced emotional states and precise adjustments to speaker identification. Findings indicate that this method outperforms most baseline techniques in preserving emotional information. However, it exhibits more limited performance on other voice privacy tasks, emphasizing the need for further improvements.
Introduction to Early Universe Cosmology
Creators: name: Brandenberger, Robert H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Observational cosmology is in its "golden age" with a vast amount of recent data on the distribution of matter and light in the universe. This data can be used to probe theories of the very early universe. It is small amplitude cosmological fluctuations which encode the information about the very early universe and relate it to current data. Hence, a central topic in these lectures is the "theory of cosmological perturbations", the theory which describes the generation of inhomogeneities in the very early universe and their evolution until the current time. I will apply this theory to three classes of models of the very early universe. The first is "Inflationary Cosmology", the current paradigm for understanding the early evolution of the universe. I will review the successes of inflationary cosmology, but will also focus on some conceptual challenges which inflationary cosmology is facing, challenges which motivate the search for possible alternatives. I will introduce two alternative scenarios, the "Matter Bounce" model and "String Gas Cosmology", and I will discuss how cosmological fluctuations which can explain the current data are generated in those models.
description: 70 pages, 12 figures
Single-sector supersymmetry breaking, chirality, and unification
Creators: name: Behbahani, Siavosh R.
name: Craig, Nathaniel
name: Torroba, Gonzalo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Calculable single-sector models provide an elegant framework for generating the flavor textures via compositeness, breaking supersymmetry, and explaining the electroweak scale. Such models may be realized naturally in supersymmetric QCD with additional gauge singlets (SSQCD), though it remains challenging to construct models without a surfeit of light exotic states where the Standard Model index emerges naturally. We classify possible single-sector models based on Sp confining SSQCD according to their Standard Model index and number of composite messengers. This leads to simple, calculable models that spontaneously break supersymmetry, reproduce the fermion flavor hierarchy, and explain the Standard Model index dynamically with little or no additional matter. At low energies these theories realize a "more minimal" soft spectrum with direct mediation and a gravitino LSP.
description: 39 pages, 2 figures
Body Refractions
Creators: name: Christiansen, Steen
Publisher: name: Akademisk kvarter | Academic Quarter
Year: 2011

description: Steen Christiansen's article Body Refractions examines Darren Aronofsky's 'Black Swan' and the notions of character identification and bodily transformation, arguing that the digital morphing of Black Swan suggests a different relation to the cinematic image, one which can only be understood in terms of affect rather than representation.
As we can see from this broad and diverse range of scholarship, despite a certain degree of transgression fatigue, the term remains critically viable and if nothing else maintains an openness to other alternatives, even as they strain to find their form.
description: Akademisk kvarter | Academic Quarter, Transgressions, Vol. 3
Zur Erinnerung an Dr. Georg Finsler gewesener Antistes und Pfarrer am Grossmünster in Zürich
Creators: name: Stähelin, Rudolf
Publisher: name: Buchdruckerei Stämpfli & Cie.
Year: 1899
Subjects: subject: 920 Biografien, Genealogie, Insignien
subject: Nachruf

description: Separatabdruck aus dem "Kirchenblatt für die reformierte Schweiz"
Isospin Symmetry Breaking in the Chiral Quark Model
Creators: name: Song, Huiying
name: Zhang, Xinyu
name: Ma, Bo-Qiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the isospin symmetry breaking (ISB) of the valence- and sea-quark distributions between the proton and the neutron in the framework of the chiral quark model. We assume that isospin symmetry breaking is the result of mass differences between isospin multiplets and then analyze the effects of isospin symmetry breaking on the Gottfried sum rule and the NuTeV anomaly. We show that, although both flavor asymmetry in the nucleon sea and the ISB between the proton and the neutron can lead to the violation of the Gottfried sum rule, the main contribution is from the flavor asymmetry in the framework of the chiral quark model. We also find that the correction to the NuTeV anomaly is in an opposite direction, so the NuTeV anomaly cannot be removed by isospin symmetry breaking in the chiral quark model. It is remarkable that our results of ISB for both valence- and sea-quark distributions are consistent with the Martin-Roberts-Stirling-Thorne parametrization of quark distributions.
description: 14 latex pages, 3 figures, final version for journal publication
Candidate Mothproofers: Toxicity to Fabric Insects and Persistence Through Washing and Drycleaning – Part I
Creators: name: McDonald, Lehman L.
name: Boles, Hobart P.
name: Bry, Roy E.
name: McDonald, Lehman L.
name: Boles, Hobart P.
name: Bry, Roy E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1970
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: Excerpts from the report: One hundred and thirty-four compounds were investigated as potential mothproofers in 28-day mothproofing tests developed by the American Society for Testing Materials (ASTM). The compounds were applied to the cloth at 0.5 and 3 percent by weight. The test insects were larvae of the black carpet beetle, Attagenus megatoma (Fabricius). Results were evaluated according to visible damage and excrement weight. Cloths treated with 22 compounds passed all requirements of the test method for satisfactory protection before cleansing. Seven of these compounds applied at 3 percent by weight satisfactorily protected the cloth after one washing, two after one drycleaning, and three after one washing and one drycleaning. Dicapthon (ENT-17035) was the only compound that protected the cloth on the basis of all test criteria at both treatment levels. Only DDT, Perthane®, and Strobane® obtained their effectiveness by action other than toxicity. Trade names are used in this publication solely for the purpose of providing specific identification of the compounds tested. Mention of a trade name does not constitute a guarantee or warranty of the product by the U.S. Department of Agriculture or an endorsement over other products not mentioned. This publication reports research involving pesticides. It does not contain recommendations for their use, nor does it imply that the uses discussed here have been registered. All uses of pesticides must be registered by appropriate State and Federal agencies before they can be recommended.
The Impact of Giulio Racah on Crystal- and Ligand-field Theories
Creators: name: Kibler, Maurice Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper focuses on the impact of Racah on crystal- and ligand-field theories, two branches of molecular physics and condensed matter physics (dealing with ions embedded in aggregates of finite symmetry). The role of Racah and some of his students in developing a symmetry-adapted weak-field model for crystal-field theory is examined. Then, we discuss the extension of this model to a generalized symmetry-adapted weak-field model for ligand-field theory. Symmetry considerations via the use of the Wigner-Racah algebra for chains of type SU(2) > G is essential for these weak-field models. Therefore, the basic ingredients for the Wigner-Racah algebra of a finite or compact group are reviewed with a special attention paid to the SU(2) group in a SU(2) > G basis. Finally, as an unexpected application of nonstandard SU(2) bases, it is shown how SU(2) bases adapted to the cyclic group allow to build bases of relevance in quantum information.
The potential value of recycling municipal household solid waste in Shanghai, China
Creators: name: Chu, Zhujie
name: Zhou, An
name: He, Zhiyong
name: Huang, Weichiao
name: Lv, Zheng
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: The recycling of municipal household solid waste (MHSW) is important for the environmental preservation and wellbeing of the society. In recent decades, continuous efforts in research, policy-making and municipal administration have led to improvements toward more sustainable MHSW recycling. However, MHSW recycling remains a major challenge for China. This paper analyzes the current value and potential value of MHSW recycling in order to guide residents to recycle MHSW effectively and to reduce the amount of recycle-worthy materials missing recycling. A multivariate probit model is developed to ascertain the current value and potential value of MHSW recycling. Results from a case study of Shanghai reveal that waste glass has low current value and low potential value, and waste plastics has low current value but high potential value. The results also indicate that the waste metal has high current value and high potential value, whereas waste paper has high current value but low potential value. These findings provide policymakers with useful information and rationale for directing efforts to achieve a better or optimal MHSW recycling practice. Implications: Be a multivariate probit model is developed to calculate the current value and potential value of MHSW recycling in order to guide residents to recycle MHSW and reduce an amount of miss-recycling materials. Our results have shown that waste glass has a low current value and a low potential value, waste plastics have a low current value and a high potential value. Regarding the waste metal, they have a high current value and a high potential value. For waste papers, the result indicates that it has a high current value and a low potential value.
Orchestration of the Arabidopsis iron deficiency responses in correspondence with external pH
Creators: name: Gautam, Chandan Kumar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 60702 Plant Cell and Molecular Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 100103 Agricultural Molecular Engineering of Nucleic Acids and Proteins
subject: FOS: Agricultural biotechnology
subject: 100199 Agricultural Biotechnology not elsewhere classified
subject: 60705 Plant Physiology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Biotechnology

description: Soil pH plays an important role in determining the availability of nutrients for plants. One of the essential micronutrients, iron (Fe), governs the composition of natural plant communities and limits crop yield in agricultural ecosystems due to its extremely low availability in most soils, particularly at alkaline pH. The ability to mobilize sparingly soluble Fe is a determining factor for tolerance to calcareous soil. To extract sufficient Fe from the soil under such conditions, some plants, including Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana), secrete Fe-mobilizing compounds, which mobilize Fe hydroxides by reduction and chelation. However, limited information is available regarding the regulation of pH-mediated response of Fe-responsive genes and the regulation of coumarin biosynthesis. By studying the ectocipally expressed IRONMAN peptides IMA1 and IMA2, I investigated their role in improving plant growth on calcareous soil by inducing the biosynthesis and secretion of the catecholic coumarin fraxetin (7,8-dihydroxy-6-methoxycoumarin). This is achieved via increased expression of MYB72 and SCOPOLETIN 8-HYDROXYLASE (S8H), a response that is strictly dependent on elevated environmental pH (pHe). The cytochrome P450 enzyme CYP82C4, which is downregulated at elevated pH, was identified as a possible switch of the endproducts of the coumarin biosynthetic pathway. Luciferase reporter assays in transiently transformed protoplasts showed that IMA1/IMA2 peptides are translated to modulate the expression of CYP82C4 and MYB72, representative components of the acidic and circumneutral responses, respectively. Further, the C-terminus of IMA peptides was found to be essential for enhanced coumarin production and secretion. I concluded that IMA peptides regulate processes supporting Fe uptake at both acidic and elevated pH by controlling gene expression upstream of or in concert with a putative pHe signal, adapting the plant to prevailing edaphic conditions. Altering the expression of IMA peptides provides a route for generating plants adapted to calcareous soils.
From risky business to common sense : sustainability, hegemony, and urban policy in Calgary
Creators: name: Howard, Tom
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Recent years have seen the City of Calgary adopt a suite of sustainability policies in a bid to shift its received trajectory of sprawling urban development towards eco-conscious alternatives. But where sustainable urban development is typically rendered as a consensus-driven project portending mutual benefits for a given locality, the historical adoption of sustainability policies in Calgary has been characterized by waves of conflict and controversy which have allegedly watered down the City’s policy objectives. Rather than evaluating the technical merits of individual policies against ‘best practice’-type standards, this thesis argues that the meanings and implications of particular policy paradigms – such as Calgary’s move towards sustainability – must be found in both the specific institutional configurations in which policies are formed and the political-economic conditions to which they respond. This thesis explores these institutional pressures and conjunctural forces through a historical analysis of several key moments in the emergence and evolution of sustainability-oriented policy in Calgary. Chapter 1 establishes context for this inquiry, while Chapter 2 formulates a theoretical framework by synthesizing neo-Marxian interpretations of local environmental policy and recent innovations in the field of ‘policy mobilities’ with the work of Antonio Gramsci, particularly related to his conception of hegemony. Building upon this edifice, Chapter 3 comprises a historical overview of the City’s first attempts at sustainability-oriented policy, which I argue are best viewed as a ‘fix’ for several tensions and contradictions surrounding Calgary’s hegemonic development model, which I term ‘developer-led suburbanization’. Attempts to reformat and restructure this model through consensual community ‘visioning exercises’ and ‘systems’-based rationalities are considered in Chapter 4, which I explain as a manoeuvre by the City to restore political legitimacy and wrest control over development matters from private sector actors. These narratives converge in my central argument: the historical formation of sustainability policies in Calgary has not been a process of incremental rationalization or evolutionary refinement, but has instead reflected a series of struggles for political leadership within an arrangement that can be best understood through the Gramscian concept of hegemony.
Weak-Line Quasars at High Redshift: Extremely High Accretion Rates or Anemic Broad-Line Regions?
Creators: name: Shemmer, Ohad
name: Trakhtenbrot, Benny
name: Anderson, Scott F.
name: Brandt, W. N.
name: Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar M.
name: Fan, Xiaohui
name: Lira, Paulina
name: Netzer, Hagai
name: Plotkin, Richard M.
name: Richards, Gordon T.
name: Schneider, Donald P.
name: Strauss, Michael A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present Gemini-North K-band spectra of two representative members of the class of high-redshift quasars with exceptionally weak rest-frame ultraviolet emission lines (WLQs), SDSS J114153.34+021924.3 at z=3.55 and SDSS J123743.08+630144.9 at z=3.49. In both sources we detect an unusually weak broad H_beta line and we place tight upper limits on the strengths of their [O III] lines. Virial, H_beta-based black-hole mass determinations indicate normalized accretion rates of L/L_Edd=0.4 for these sources, which is well within the range observed for typical quasars with similar luminosities and redshifts. We also present high-quality XMM-Newton imaging spectroscopy of SDSS J114153.34+021924.3 and find a hard-X-ray photon index of Gamma=1.91^{+0.24}_{-0.22} which supports the virial L/L_Edd determination in this source. Our results suggest that the weakness of the broad-emission lines in WLQs is not a consequence of an extreme continuum-emission source but instead due to abnormal broad-emission line region properties.
description: 5 pages (emulateapj), 3 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters
Additional file 1 of A method of two-dimensional correlation spectroscopy combined with residual neural network for comparison and differentiation of medicinal plants raw materials superior to traditional machine learning: a case study on Eucommia ulmoides leaves
Creators: name: Li, Lian
name: Li, Zhi Min
name: Wang, Yuan Zhong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Confusion matrix for different drying methods of E. ulmoides leaves based on FT-NIR. Table S2. Confusion matrix for different regions of E. ulmoides leaves based on FT-NIR. Table S3. 19 bioclimatic indicators of environmental indicators in this study. Figure S1. The residual block of deep learning. Figure S2. The synchronous, asynchronous, and integrated 2DCOS of different drying methods for E. ulmoides leaves. Figure S3. The synchronous, asynchronous, and integrated 2DCOS of different regions for E. ulmoides leaves. Figure S4. The optimal number of latent variables and permutation test of 200 times for different drying methods (A and a) and regions (B and b) of E. ulmoides leaves based on PLS-DA model. Figure S5. The regions and drying methods discrimination strategy of E. ulmoides leaves based on ResNet. Figure S6. The distribution of average climatic data of 16 regions. Figure S7. The correlation plot based on 16 regions and 19 climatic data with the p-value falls below the 0.05 (A and D), 0.001 (B and E), and 0.0001 (C and F) level of significance.
Orchestration of the Arabidopsis iron deficiency responses in correspondence with external pH
Creators: name: Gautam, Chandan Kumar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 60702 Plant Cell and Molecular Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 100103 Agricultural Molecular Engineering of Nucleic Acids and Proteins
subject: FOS: Agricultural biotechnology
subject: 100199 Agricultural Biotechnology not elsewhere classified
subject: 60705 Plant Physiology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Biotechnology

description: Soil pH plays an important role in determining the availability of nutrients for plants. One of the essential micronutrients, iron (Fe), governs the composition of natural plant communities and limits crop yield in agricultural ecosystems due to its extremely low availability in most soils, particularly at alkaline pH. The ability to mobilize sparingly soluble Fe is a determining factor for tolerance to calcareous soil. To extract sufficient Fe from the soil under such conditions, some plants, including Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana), secrete Fe-mobilizing compounds, which mobilize Fe hydroxides by reduction and chelation. However, limited information is available regarding the regulation of pH-mediated response of Fe-responsive genes and the regulation of coumarin biosynthesis. By studying the ectocipally expressed IRONMAN peptides IMA1 and IMA2, I investigated their role in improving plant growth on calcareous soil by inducing the biosynthesis and secretion of the catecholic coumarin fraxetin (7,8-dihydroxy-6-methoxycoumarin). This is achieved via increased expression of MYB72 and SCOPOLETIN 8-HYDROXYLASE (S8H), a response that is strictly dependent on elevated environmental pH (pHe). The cytochrome P450 enzyme CYP82C4, which is downregulated at elevated pH, was identified as a possible switch of the endproducts of the coumarin biosynthetic pathway. Luciferase reporter assays in transiently transformed protoplasts showed that IMA1/IMA2 peptides are translated to modulate the expression of CYP82C4 and MYB72, representative components of the acidic and circumneutral responses, respectively. Further, the C-terminus of IMA peptides was found to be essential for enhanced coumarin production and secretion. I concluded that IMA peptides regulate processes supporting Fe uptake at both acidic and elevated pH by controlling gene expression upstream of or in concert with a putative pHe signal, adapting the plant to prevailing edaphic conditions. Altering the expression of IMA peptides provides a route for generating plants adapted to calcareous soils.
Forsøgs- og udviklingsarbejde i grundskolen som transgressiv praksis
Creators: name: Ydesen, Christian
name: Andreasen, Karen E.
Publisher: name: Akademisk kvarter | Academic Quarter
Year: 2011

description: Much in the same spirit but with a broader focus Karen E. Andreasen and Christian Ydesen discuss the history of school education in Denmark in their article Forsøgs- og udviklings–arbejde i grundskolen som transgressiv praksis. Here, they show the historical development of transgressive practices in the Danish elementary school, revealing how government control alongside political currents shape these experiments as much as educators themselves.
description: Akademisk kvarter | Academic Quarter, Transgressions, Vol. 3
Dimensional Analysis and electric potential due to a uniformly charged sheet
Creators: name: Aghamohammadi, Amir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dimensional analysis, superposition principle, and continuity of electric potential are used to study electric potential of a uniformly charged square sheet at its plane. It is shown that knowing the electric potential on the diagonal and inside the square sheet is equivalent to knowing it everywhere on the plane of square sheet. Behavior of electric potential near the center of the square is obtained. Then exact solution for the electric potential at any point on the plane of the square sheet is obtained. This result is used to calculate the electric potential of a right triangular sheet on its plane which can be used to find electric potential at any point on the plane of any uniformly charged polygon sheet.
description: 17 pages
Additional file 4 of Prediction of carotid plaque by blood biochemical indices and related factors based on Fisher discriminant analysis
Creators: name: Hu, Jian
name: Su, Fan
name: Ren, Xia
name: Cao, Lei
name: Zhou, Yumei
name: Fu, Yuhan
name: Tatenda, Grace
name: Jiang, Mingfei
name: Wu, Huan
name: Wen, Yufeng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Physiology
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 4: Supplementary Table 4. Coordinates of ROC curve for the single continuous variables and FDA scores to predict CP Left.
Statistical Mechanics of Horizontal Gene Transfer in Evolutionary Ecology
Creators: name: Chia, Nicholas
name: Goldenfeld, Nigel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The biological world, especially its majority microbial component, is strongly interacting and may be dominated by collective effects. In this review, we provide a brief introduction for statistical physicists of the way in which living cells communicate genetically through transferred genes, as well as the ways in which they can reorganize their genomes in response to environmental pressure. We discuss how genome evolution can be thought of as related to the physical phenomenon of annealing, and describe the sense in which genomes can be said to exhibit an analogue of information entropy. As a direct application of these ideas, we analyze the variation with ocean depth of transposons in marine microbial genomes, predicting trends that are consistent with recent observations using metagenomic surveys.
description: Accepted by Journal of Statistical Physics
دور التكوين أثناء الخدمة في تحسين خدمات التوجيه والإرشاد المدرسي والمهني من وجهة نظر مستشاري التوجيه والإرشاد.
Creators: name: Mhamel, Imad Eddine
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Education

description: مذكرة مكملة لنيل شهادة الماستر في علوم التربية تخصص الارشاد التوجيه - جامعة محمد خيضر - بسكرة - الجزائر
Additional file 3 of Prediction of carotid plaque by blood biochemical indices and related factors based on Fisher discriminant analysis
Creators: name: Hu, Jian
name: Su, Fan
name: Ren, Xia
name: Cao, Lei
name: Zhou, Yumei
name: Fu, Yuhan
name: Tatenda, Grace
name: Jiang, Mingfei
name: Wu, Huan
name: Wen, Yufeng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Physiology
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 3: Supplementary Table 3. Coordinates of ROC curve for the single continuous variables and FDA scores to diagnose CP.
”Hvor viljen er lov og fornuften i eksil”
Creators: name: Heinsen, Johan
Publisher: name: Akademisk kvarter | Academic Quarter
Year: 2011

description: Another historical transgression of a quite different kind is found in Johan Heinsen's article Hvor viljen er lov og fornuften i eksil, where we see how the retelling of a historical incident – Sir Francis Drake executing Thomas Doughty in 1578 – engages in establishing the boundaries of community and the limits of historiography in connection with the seafaring communities. The marginalized outsider, in this case John Cooke, becomes the means to both challenge and establish these boundaries.
description: Akademisk kvarter | Academic Quarter, Transgressions, Vol. 3
Additional file 1 of Prediction of carotid plaque by blood biochemical indices and related factors based on Fisher discriminant analysis
Creators: name: Hu, Jian
name: Su, Fan
name: Ren, Xia
name: Cao, Lei
name: Zhou, Yumei
name: Fu, Yuhan
name: Tatenda, Grace
name: Jiang, Mingfei
name: Wu, Huan
name: Wen, Yufeng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Physiology
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1. Demographic and blood biochemical indicators of external data.
Furthering the Pro-Neck-Tor helmet technology through multibody modeling and design
Creators: name: Thomson, Vanessa
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: The Pro-Neck-Tor (PNT) helmet was developed to reduce the incidence of cervical spine injuries in head-first impacts. By guiding the head out of the path of the following torso, the helmet reduces the compressive loads on the spine. It consists of an inner- and outer-shell that are connected by an internal guide mechanism. In an impact the mechanism deploys and guides the inner shell and head relative to the outer shell. The helmet is intended to induce extension in slightly anterior-to-vertex impacts, and flexion in slightly posterior-to-vertex and vertex impacts. A passive deployment mechanism was previously designed, but was not thoroughly tested. The objective of this work was to assess the functionality of the passive PNT deployment mechanism, and suggest design improvements accordingly. The selector mechanism was prototyped and tested in a drop tower. The impact platform was positioned at three different angles (-15°, 0° and 15°) to generate posterior, vertex, and anterior impacts. The mechanism deployed in the correct direction in the -15° and 15° impact conditions, but deployed incorrectly in the 0° impact condition. Additionally, the mechanism did not induce sufficient head rotation prior to head rebound to reduce the loads on the cervical spine. A multibody model of the experimental apparatus was constructed to determine how the impact forces were transmitted to the mechanism to initiate flexion or extension deployment. A dynamic analysis revealed that the net moment on the head determined the deployment mode. This moment was affected by loading from the torso. Ultimately, the deployment mode should depend only on the location of an impact on the head. A new selector mechanism was designed, which is capable of sensing anterior impacts according to the direction of the loading vector on the head. By default, the mechanism deploys in flexion. In anterior impacts a switch is triggered, which changes the deployment mode to extension. A computational model of this mechanism showed the mechanism deployed appropriately in anterior, posterior and vertex impacts. The mechanism also produced greater head rotation prior to head rebound than the passive mechanism. Physical prototyping of this mechanism is recommended in the future.
Dolphins Who Blow Bubbles
Creators: name: Lord, Catherine
Publisher: name: Akademisk kvarter | Academic Quarter
Year: 2011

description: Heinsen's article also allows us to trace a shift; a shift from the more politically oriented readings of transgression (how are boundaries established) to how these boundaries are negotiated in a diversity of cultural practices. One example of this is Catherine Lord, who in Dolphins Who Blow Bubbles shows how a documentary film may become transgressive in the practices it exposes and the ways the film forces us to engage with both cultural thresholds and animal-human thresholds.
description: Akademisk kvarter | Academic Quarter, Transgressions, Vol. 3
Modulational instability of coupled nonlinear field equations for pulse propagation in a negative index material embedded into a Kerr medium
Creators: name: Sarma, Amarendra K.
name: Saha, Manirupa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have investigated the modulational instability (MI) in a negative index media (NIM) using a new generalized model describing the pulse propagation in a negative index material embedded into a Kerr medium. We have found that one could control the gain of MI in a NIM by tuning the initial electric or magnetic field amplitudes . Our model successfully recovers previously proposed models to describe pulse propagation in NIMs exhibiting Kerr nonlinearity. Moreover it contains a few additional terms connecting both the electric and magnetic field envelopes in a NIM.
description: 11 pages
Additional file 2 of Prediction of carotid plaque by blood biochemical indices and related factors based on Fisher discriminant analysis
Creators: name: Hu, Jian
name: Su, Fan
name: Ren, Xia
name: Cao, Lei
name: Zhou, Yumei
name: Fu, Yuhan
name: Tatenda, Grace
name: Jiang, Mingfei
name: Wu, Huan
name: Wen, Yufeng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Physiology
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 2: Supplementary Table 2. Collinearity diagnosis of blood biochemical indexes.
Primordial magnetic field limits from cosmological data
Creators: name: Kahniashvili, Tina
name: Tevzadze, Alexander G.
name: Sethi, Shiv K.
name: Pandey, Kanhaiya
name: Ratra, Bharat
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study limits on a primordial magnetic field arising from cosmological data, including that from big bang nucleosynthesis, cosmic microwave background polarization plane Faraday rotation limits, and large-scale structure formation. We show that the physically-relevant quantity is the value of the effective magnetic field, and limits on it are independent of how the magnetic field was generated.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures
Microscopic Approach to Nucleon Spectra in Hypernuclear Non-Mesonic Weak Decay
Creators: name: Bauer, E.
name: Garbarino, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A consistent microscopic diagrammatic approach is applied for the first time to the calculation of the nucleon emission spectra in the non-mesonic weak decay of Lambda-hypernuclei. We adopt a nuclear matter formalism extended to finite nuclei via the local density approximation, a one--meson exchange weak transition potential and a Bonn nucleon-nucleon strong potential. Ground state correlations and final state interactions, at second order in the nucleon--nucleon interaction, are introduced on the same footing for all the isospin channels of one- and two-nucleon induced decays. Single and double--coincidence nucleon spectra are predicted for 12_Lambda^C and compared with recent KEK and FINUDA data. The key role played by quantum interference terms allows us to improve the predictions obtained with intranuclear cascade codes. Discrepancies with data remain for proton emission.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables. To be published in Physics Letters B
Theory of Slow Light Enhanced Four-Wave Mixing in Photonic Crystal Waveguides
Creators: name: Santagiustina, M.
name: Someda, C. G.
name: Vadalà, G.
name: Combrié, S.
name: De Rossi, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The equations for Four-Wave-Mixing in a Photonic Crystal waveguide are derived accurately. The dispersive nature of slow-light enhancement, the impact of Bloch mode reshaping in the nonlinear overlap integrals and the tensor nature of the third order polarization are therefore taken into account. Numerical calculations reveal substantial differences with simpler models, which increase with decreasing group velocity. We predict that the gain for a 1.3 mm long, unoptimized GaInP waveguide will exceed 10 dB if the pump power exceeds 1 W.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures; submitted to Optics Express
Icons of Transgression
Creators: name: Sørensen, Bent
Publisher: name: Akademisk kvarter | Academic Quarter
Year: 2011

description: In much the same way, Bent Sørensen's article Icons of Transgression argues that iconic images may transgress normality by challenging stereotypical images of unity and wholesomeness. Through a reading of images of Charles Manson and Patty Hearst, Sørensen shows how viewers may turn from consumers into worshippers.
description: Akademisk kvarter | Academic Quarter, Transgressions, Vol. 3
title: Measurement of the Pion Absorption Cross-Section with the ProtoDUNE Experiment
Creators: name: Stocker, Francesca
Publisher: name: Universität Bern
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 530 Physics

description: Understanding the nature and origin of matter in the universe is one of the fundamental questions in modern particle physics. In consequence, the particle physics community strives to reveal why matter actually dominates anti-matter. The Sakharov conditions state the necessity of violation of the charge parity symmetry (CP-violation) to explain the matter-dominated universe. The phenomenon of neutrino oscillations holds the key to reveal CP-violation in the leptonic sector. A concerted international effort is therefore underway to construct next-generation neutrino oscillation experiments able to address this complex issue and eventually measure CP-violation. To reach the necessary sensitivity and revealing CP-violating physics, systematic uncertainties need to be controlled at the percent level. Neutrino experiments rely on interactions of neutrinos with bound nucleons inside the detector medium nuclei. Current interaction models used to simulate neutrino interactions with event generators, lack understanding and precise modeling of the hadronic and nuclear physics involved in the processes. Specific measurements of hadron-nucleus interactions can help constrain and improve the models resulting in reduced systematic uncertainties for CP-violation searches. This thesis presents a first preliminary measurement of the pion absorption cross-section in the relevant pion kinetic energy range of 450 to 950 MeV with the ProtoDUNE-SP detector. The results of this thesis indicate that the measurements agree within their systematic uncertainties with model predictions. However, they suggest a systematically lower cross-section which could open the way to interesting future developments.
The Star Wars Kid and the Bedroom Intruder
Creators: name: Christensen, Jørgen Riber
Publisher: name: Akademisk kvarter | Academic Quarter
Year: 2011

description: Jørgen Riber Christensen's article Star Wars Kid and the Bedroom Intruder looks at how people may unexpectedly become icons of the Internet, through a transgression of the private sphere. Surveillance and celebrity is revealed to be bound together with a disciplinary effect, at the same time that these moments may also have a subversive function.
description: Akademisk kvarter | Academic Quarter, Transgressions, Vol. 3
Abnormal reactions of N-heterocyclic carbenes with phosphaalkenes
Creators: name: Han, Zeyu
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: This thesis outlines the results from the project undertaken as a part of my MSc studies: the abnormal reactions of phosphaalkenes with N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) to afford novel 4-phosphino-2-carbenes (IMesP). The focus is on investigating the mechanism of these reactions. Chapter 1 serves as a general introduction of phosphaalkenes, N-heterocyclic carbenes, and abnormal N-heterocyclic carbenes. The possible mechanisms of abnormal reactions of NHCs proposed by other researchers are briefly discussed as well. Chapter 2 describes the kinetic studies of the abnormal reactions. Specifically, the kinetic studies of the reactions of IMes with MesP=CPh2, MesP=C(4-C6H4F)2 and MesP=C(4-OMeC6H4)2, respectively. The kinetic and thermodynamic data are calculated in order to compare with DFT calculations. During the study, it is noticed the abnormal reaction is catalyzed by base whereas hindered by acid. In Chapter 3, the reactions of MesP=CPh2 with other NHCs are discussed. The NHCs include IMes-d2 (IMes with deuterium at C4 and C5 positions), IMesMe2 (IMes with –CH3 groups at C4 and C5 positions) and IMesMe (IMes with a –CH3 group at C4 position). The deuterium labeling experiments with IMes-d2 are designed to gain further insight into the issues with respect to the proton transfer in the abnormal reactions. The result shows the proton transfers intermolecularly in the process to form IMesP. The experiments related to IMesMe2 and IMesMe are conducted in order to expand the scope of reactions of phosphaalkenes with NHCs. It is revealed that IMesMe2 and IMesMe do not react with phosphaalkenes in the abnormal way. Finally, Chapter 4 describes a few metallic complexes synthesized from IMesP. Treating IMesP with excessive W(CO)5CH3CN only affords a product with tungsten binding at the carbene functionality. More interestingly, some dinuclear complexes are obtained by reacting IMesP with Pd(cod)2Cl2 and (tht)AuCl.
Transgression and Taboo
Creators: name: Kirk, Jens
Publisher: name: Akademisk kvarter | Academic Quarter
Year: 2011

description: Other transgressions on the Internet are discussed by Jens Kirkin his article Transgression and Taboo, where he argues that fan fiction is a genre which transgresses readers' favourite source texts in order to produce their own fiction, thereby changing readers from consumers to producers. At the same time, certain boundaries of the source texts must also be upheld, so that a fundamental distinction between fan and author may be maintained.
description: Akademisk kvarter | Academic Quarter, Transgressions, Vol. 3
When Repetition Fails—The Curious Case of the Hittite Šar Tamḫāri
Creators: name: Lewis, Henry J. A.
Publisher: name: University of Vienna. Department of Near Eastern Studies
Year: 2024
Subjects: Hittite, Akkadian, literature, parallelism, repetition, poetics

description: This showcase presents the best-preserved examples of poetic repetition and parallelism in the Hittite Šar Tamḫāri. Drawing on theoretical approaches to parallelism used in Assyriology and, more recently, Hittitology, it is shown that the text can be analysed fruitfully as a well-structured piece of literature. At the same time, numerous, seemingly inexplicable errors lead to an apparent total lapse in the text’s poetics in places, raising questions concerning the ability and/or priorities of the scribe. The Akkadian recension is also briefly brought into dialogue with the Hittite text.