cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Voluptuous Interventionism: An Introductory Note from the Editor-in-Chief
Creators: name: Desmarais, Jane
Publisher: name: Volupté
Year: 2018

description: Despite the continuing broad interest in Decadence, there has been no interdisciplinary journal of Decadence that looks beyond the nineteenth century for its material or seeks to connect late nineteenth-century Decadent literature with its roots in Roman antiquity and its expression in modern and contemporary literature, art, and culture – until now. As is obvious from the titles of conferences and symposia listed above, Decadence has tended to be absorbed into the broader fields of Nineteenth-century Studies, Victorian literature, and Modernism, and is often viewed in relation to Aestheticism and Fin de Siècle Studies, but this does not do justice to the continuity, complexity, and polyvalence of Decadent literature. Neither does it reflect its intrinsic and fascinating unruliness, the way it calls into question traditional literary categories such as genre and periodization. It was in recognition of the peculiar dimensions and challenges of Decadence that the idea for a journal of Decadence studies was conceived. Volupté was born.
description: Volupté, Vol 1 (2018): Arthur Symons at the Fin de Siècle
Volupté Issue 1: Arthur Symons at the Fin de Siècle
Creators: name: Desmarais, Jane
Publisher: name: Volupté
Year: 2018

description: Full version of Issue 1 of Volupté, 'Arthur Symons at the Fin de Siècle'
description: Volupté, Vol 1 (2018): Arthur Symons at the Fin de Siècle
title: Investigating how different stakeholder perspectives in organisational narrative communication influence individuals’ implicit attitudes, explicit attitudes, intentions, and behaviours towards communicated issues
Creators: name: Lawal, Samuel Oluwatosin
Publisher: name: University of Reading
Year: 2023

description: This thesis investigates how stakeholder perspectives (described here as the first-hand experiences of the individuals or groups affected by an issue) are utilised in organisational narrative communication to influence people’s responses towards such issues. This practice is widely used by NPOs to communicate about complex social issues, but is under-researched, particularly concerning its influence on implicit attitudes – individuals’ automatic responses towards issues. Pooling the literature on organisational communication, narrative communication, stakeholder theory, and the multiple-sources effect, this thesis conceptualises three of such communication practices, by utilising (1) single stakeholder perspective (SSP), (2) multiple related stakeholder perspective (MRSP), and (3) multiple unrelated stakeholder perspective (MUSP). The effect of these different stakeholder perspectives is investigated on individuals’ implicit (automatic) attitudes, explicit (controlled) attitudes, intentions, and behaviours towards a communicated issue. These research objectives are examined using a randomised pretest-posttest experiment design in the context of NPO narrative communication about crime and punishment. Data was collected from a sample of 510 UK residents (18+). The findings indicate that organisational narrative communication leads to an increase in positive implicit attitudes, specific explicit attitudes, and intentions, and leads to positive behaviours towards the communicated issue. The findings also demonstrate, for the first time that, organisational narrative communication utilising multiple stakeholder perspectives (i.e., MRSP, or MUSP) is more effective on these outcomes than those utilising single stakeholder perspectives (i.e., SSP). Importantly, the findings suggest that narrating the first-hand experience of multiple stakeholder groups of a (single) related event (MRSP), is associated with different outcomes from those narrating the first-hand experience of multiple stakeholder groups of (multiple) unrelated events (MUSP). These novel findings have important theoretical and practical implications. This thesis is subject to some limitations, such as the study has been conducted in a particular context, which may challenge the generalisability of the findings to other contexts. Finally, potential research avenues for future research are addressed.
Analysis of flux-integrated cross sections for quasi-elastic neutrino charged-current scattering off $^{12}$C at MiniBooNE energies
Creators: name: Butkevich, A. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Flux-averaged and flux-integrated cross sections for quasi-elastic neutrino charged-current scattering on nucleus are analyzed. It is shown that the flux-integrated differential cross sections are nuclear model-independent. We calculate these cross sections using the relativistic distorted-wave impulse approximation and relativistic Fermi gas model with the Booster Neutrino Beamline flux and compare results with the recent MiniBooNE experiment data. Within these models an axial mass $M_A$ is extracted from a fit of the measured $dσ/dQ^2$ cross section. The extracted value of $M_A$ is consistent with the MiniBooNE result. The measured and calculated double differential cross sections $dσ/dTd\cosθ$ generally agree within the error of the experiment. But the Fermi gas model predictions are completely off of the data in the region of low muon energies and scattering angles.
description: 23 pages, 8 figures
Cultura sobre seguridad del paciente en el personal de enfermería en una institución del conurbano bonaerense
Creators: name: Jaime, Norma Nancy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Introducción: el personal de enfermería debe proporcionar al paciente una atención de calidad, preservando siempre la seguridad del paciente. Objetivo: determinar la percepción de cultura de seguridad del paciente en el personal de enfermería de una institución privada del conurbano bonaerense. Métodos: se realizó un estudio observacional, descriptivo y transversal entre los meses de mayo y junio de 2021 en una institución privada del conurbano bonaerense. La muestra estuvo constituida por 94 profesionales de enfermería. Se utilizó como instrumento el Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture en su versión al español. Resultados: el 87,2 % se desempeñaba exclusivamente en actividad asistencial. La cultura de seguridad del paciente evidenció una respuesta de neutral a positiva. Respecto a las dimensiones de la 3 a la 10, respectivas a la seguridad a nivel de servicio, las expectativas y acciones de la dirección del servicio para favorecer la seguridad fue baja. Las peores puntuadas de las dimensiones fue la relacionada con la cultura de seguridad a nivel de todo el hospital donde se evidencian problemas en los cambios de turnos o en las transiciones entre unidades, así como en el trabajo en equipo. Conclusiones: La percepción del personal de enfermería sobre la cultura de seguridad del paciente es baja, con un patrón caracterizado por la falta de franqueza en la comunicación, bajas expectativas y acciones por parte del equipo de dirección y deficiencias en el trabajo en equipo.
‘Vers le sabbat’: Occult Initiation and Non-Normative Masculinity in Jean Lorrain’s Monsieur de Phocas (1901)
Creators: name: Rickard, Mathew
Publisher: name: Volupté
Year: 2018

description: Although Lorrain has fallen into obscurity in recent years, much like Decadence itself, ‘inferior to the canon from which it has fallen away’, the connections between homosexuality and transgression have generated much discussion by critics of Lorrain’s Monsieur de Phocas, with most agreeing that the author provides us with a homosexual discourse. This article aims not only to reclaim a non-canonical author and text, but to address also the dearth of attention paid to occult overtones that run parallel to the narrative of male homosexuality in the novel, which subvert the traditional (misogynistic) assumption of witchcraft in particular as an exclusively female ‘crime’. I will focus on what I identify as the apex of the narrative – the Witches’ Sabbat – arguing that the representation of witchcraft tropes in the novel links to the presentation of non-normative masculinity through comparable engagement with marginal practices.
description: Volupté, Vol 1 No 2 (2018): Decadence, Magic(k), and the Occult
Lagrangian mean curvature flow
Creators: name: Lotay, Jason D.
Publisher: name: Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach
Year: 2021

description: Lagrangian mean curvature flow is a powerful tool in modern mathematics with connections to topics in analysis, geometry, topology and mathematical physics. I will describe some of the key aspects of Lagrangian mean curvature flow, some recent progress, and some major open problems.
description: Snapshots of modern mathematics from Oberwolfach;2021,11
Nonlinear damping in mechanical resonators based on graphene and carbon nanotubes
Creators: name: Eichler, A.
name: Moser, J.
name: Chaste, J.
name: Zdrojek, M.
name: Wilson-Rae, I.
name: Bachtold, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Carbon nanotubes and graphene allow fabricating outstanding nanomechanical resonators. They hold promise for various scientific and technological applications, including sensing of mass, force, and charge, as well as the study of quantum phenomena at the mesoscopic scale. Here, we have discovered that the dynamics of nanotube and graphene resonators is in fact highly exotic. We propose an unprecedented scenario where mechanical dissipation is entirely determined by nonlinear damping. As a striking consequence, the quality factor Q strongly depends on the amplitude of the motion. This scenario is radically different from that of other resonators, whose dissipation is dominated by a linear damping term. We believe that the difference stems from the reduced dimensionality of carbon nanotubes and graphene. Besides, we exploit the nonlinear nature of the damping to improve the figure of merit of nanotube/graphene resonators.
description: main text with 4 figures, supplementary information
Extensions of Simple Conceptual Graphs: the Complexity of Rules and Constraints
Creators: name: Baget, J. F.
name: Mugnier, M. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Simple conceptual graphs are considered as the kernel of most knowledge representation formalisms built upon Sowa's model. Reasoning in this model can be expressed by a graph homomorphism called projection, whose semantics is usually given in terms of positive, conjunctive, existential FOL. We present here a family of extensions of this model, based on rules and constraints, keeping graph homomorphism as the basic operation. We focus on the formal definitions of the different models obtained, including their operational semantics and relationships with FOL, and we analyze the decidability and complexity of the associated problems (consistency and deduction). As soon as rules are involved in reasonings, these problems are not decidable, but we exhibit a condition under which they fall in the polynomial hierarchy. These results extend and complete the ones already published by the authors. Moreover we systematically study the complexity of some particular cases obtained by restricting the form of constraints and/or rules.
Better and happier and freer than before: agency and subversion of genre in Diana Wynne Jones's Howl's Moving Castle, Castle in the Air, and House of Many Ways
Creators: name: Eastwood, Janet Elizabeth Robbins
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: This thesis examines the ways in which Diana Wynne Jones’s Howl’s Moving Castle, Castle in the Air, and House of Many Ways challenge and subvert the genres of fairy tale, Arabian Nights romance, and Victorian sensibility, respectively, and the ways in which the protagonist of each tale defies the constraints imposed by family and her or his own internal narrative to gain self-knowledge and agency. Jones’s protagonists, Sophie, Abdullah, and Charmain, are initially stifled by cultural and familial expectations and by their own internalization of these beliefs. It is not until they are forced into circumstances far different from those they are used to that Sophie, Abdullah, and Charmain begin to question their beliefs about their own potential and about the world around them. During their adventures, they apply pre-existing skills and gain new practical abilities and knowledge, developing a stronger sense of identity, a surer command of language, and the ability to perceive truth amid pretense. Sophie, Abdullah, and Charmain subvert their own expectations and genres to gain agency. Jones uses wordplay and humour throughout her protagonists’ journeys, and visually represents magic, creativity, and freedom through the use of colour, particularly blue and multi-coloured objects, and through flowers and gardens.
Prof. dr. Hajrudin Balić, Odnos islama prema osobama sa invaliditetom
Creators: name: Misao, Islamska
name: Balić, Hajrudin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Islamic studies

description: Kako je sunnet ili živopis Muhammeda a.s. cjelovit sistem vrijednosti koji praktično pokazuje islamski model življenja, nužno je da se bavi važnim pitanjem kakvo je pitanje jednog dijela ljudske polulacije koja ima posebna svojstva, tj. poremećaje ili posebne potrebe. Invaliditet može biti mentalni ili fizički, urođeni ili stečeni. Može biti nešto što je sasvim uobičajeno, uzrokovano poznatim faktorima poput starosti, bolesti, a može nastati i slučajno usljed povrede. Prema podacima Human Rights Watch u svijetu danas ima milijardu ljudi sa nekom vrstom invaliditeta, tj. sa posebnim potrebama. Neki podaci znanstvenika su zabrinjavajući i oni ukazuju da postoji trend povećanja broja takvih osoba. Sve ovo ukazuje da se radi o kompleksnom pitanju koje je vrlo važno i kome treba posvetiti potrebnu pažnju. Sama činjenica da je veliki broj ljudi suočen sa ovim iskušenjem ukazuje na to da ovo pitanje treba biti valjano tretirano.
The Devil in the Detail: An Introduction to Decadent Occultism from the Editors
Creators: name: Condé, Alice
name: Gossling, Jessica
Publisher: name: Volupté
Year: 2018

description: The double meaning of ‘occult’ refers to the secret and the supernatural, and, just as ‘Decadent’ was both a pejorative term and a badge of honour in the nineteenth century, accusations of affiliation with the dark arts are being re-appropriated and celebrated by marginalized groups. The historical association of the occult with non-normativity and transgression means it has particular significance as a form of protest or protection in today’s era of ‘small-d’ decadence. There has been a recent extreme political swerve to the right, climate change denial threatens to end the world as we know it, and social media platforms are subject to deep corruption and involvement in a neo-Cold War, but bubbling under this surface is a queer rebellion associated with witchcraft and occult magick.
description: Volupté, Vol 1 No 2 (2018): Decadence, Magic(k), and the Occult
Efficient treatment of Parkinson’s disease using ultrasonography-guided rhFGF20 proteoliposomes
Creators: name: Niu, Jianlou
name: Xie, Junjun
name: Guo, Kaiwen
name: Zhang, Xiaomin
name: Xia, Feng
name: Zhao, Xinyu
name: Song, Lintao
name: Zhuge, Deli
name: Li, Xiaokun
name: Zhao, Yingzheng
name: Huang, Zhifeng
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Fibroblast growth factor-20 (FGF20) is a paracrine member of the FGF family that is preferentially expressed in the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNpc). Previous studies have demonstrated that FGF20 enhances the survival of dopaminergic neurons suggesting the potential use of FGF20 to treat Parkinson’s disease (PD). However, the reduced solubility of the bacterial recombinant human FGF20 (rhFGF20) and the absence of efficient strategies to transport rhFGF20 across the blood–brain barrier (BBB) have halted its clinical application. In the present study, we have examined the efficiency of fuzing a small ubiquitin-related modifier (SUMO) to rhFGF20 to enhance its soluble expression and further investigated the efficacy of FUS-guided, rhFGF20-liposome transport across the BBB. We also examined the bioavailability and behavioral improvement in a 6-hydroxydopamine-lesioned rat model of PD following 2 weeks’ FUS-liposomal combinatorial treatment. Our results showed that, in contrast with rhFGF20 or LIP-FGF20, the FUS-LIP-rhFGF20 treatment could significantly improve the apomorphine-induced rotations by protecting against the loss of dopaminergic neurons in the SNpc. Our Results suggest that our combinatorial method would help overcome key challenges that hinder the currently available methods for the use of rhFGF20 in PD treatment.
Vernon Lee’s Occult Beauty
Creators: name: Brewer Gregg, Mackenzie
Publisher: name: Volupté
Year: 2018

description: Throughout her career, the late-Victorian essayist, fiction writer, and aesthetic theorist Vernon Lee (1856-1935) sustained a critique of the Aesthetic movement to which she was nevertheless an important contributor. Finding that the doctrine ofl’art pour l’artsanctioned elitist self-absorption, irresponsible excess and intellectual vapidity, Lee sought to instead establish a connection between the worship of beauty and the development of ethics. One of the ways in which she achieved this divergent aestheticist project was, I wish to suggest, through occult theories of knowledge, learning, renunciation, and submission. My aim in this article is to approach the concept of beauty in Lee’s work, considering how it energizes and challenges her interwoven concepts of desire, history, and ethics. Turning first to the occult underpinnings of her essays on aesthetics, I subsequently unearth the queer historiographical injunction embedded within her Gothic fiction, exploring, through a reading of ‘Amour Dure’, how the historian’s encounter with occult beauty awakens affective and sexual investments in the feminist past.
description: Volupté, Vol 1 No 2 (2018): Decadence, Magic(k), and the Occult
Nanofibers with Bragg gratings from equidistant holes
Creators: name: Kien, Fam Le
name: Nayak, K. P.
name: Hakuta, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study nanofibers with Bragg gratings from equidistant holes. We calculate analytically and numerically the reflection and transmission coefficients for a single grating and also for a cavity formed by two gratings. We show that the reflection and transmission coefficients of the gratings substantially depend on the number of holes, the hole length, the hole depth, the grating period, and the light wavelength. We find that the reflection and transmission coefficients of the gratings depend on the orientation of the polarization vector of light with respect to the holes. Such a dependence is a result of the fact that the cross section of the gratings is not cylindrically symmetric.
The Line of Lilith: Remy de Gourmont’s Demons of Erotic Idealism
Creators: name: Pruett, Robert
Publisher: name: Volupté
Year: 2018

description: According to medieval tradition, the (male) incubus and (female) succubus were demons who preyed upon their victims by engaging in sexual activity with them. Representations of these spirits can be found in various works by the fin-de-sièclewriter, critic, and poet Remy de Gourmont (1851-1915). In this article, I offer a close textual comparison of the play Lilith (1892) and the short story ‘Péhor’, as well as considering a pseudonymous treatise entitled Les Incubes et les succubes (1897) of which Gourmont is likely the author. In the fin de siècle, as in the middle ages, the incubus or succubus could be found at the centre of western culture’s discourse over abnormal, dangerous, or obscure sexual phenomena. Aware of the prominent place this symbol held in the collective imagination, Gourmont sought to imbue the trope of the demon lover with his own set of phenomenological questions pertaining to the erotic life. Gourmont’s work is perennially concerned with the condition of Eros in a world which, according to idealist principles, is ultimately unknowable except as a projection of the individual mind and the fallible senses. In the texts I shall address, Gourmont extrapolates Arthur Schopenhauer’s neo-Kantian notion of ‘the world as representation’ to the realm of demonology, adopting the incubus and succubus as potent subjective phenomena which contribute to an idealist view of erotic dynamics and interactions.
description: Volupté, Vol 1 No 2 (2018): Decadence, Magic(k), and the Occult
The Poison of Literature: On the Social and Literary Construction of Baron Jacques d’Adelswärd-Fersen’s ‘Black Masses’ Scandal
Creators: name: Burin, Alexandre
Publisher: name: Volupté
Year: 2018

description: In Le Canard sauvage, 1903, Alfred Jarry states that ‘après tout, c’est la littérature qui prédestine les noms, même s’ils sont déjà historiques, et qui dicte ses conditions à la vie’ [after all, it is literature that predestines names, even if they are already historic, and which imposes its conditions upon life]. This statement was made in the wake of the ‘Black Masses’ scandal that broke in the press during the summer of 1903. Two young men – Baron Jacques d’Adelswärd-Fersen and Count Hamelin de Warren – were arrested on the charge of being involved in a moral scandal that was rumoured to include underage boys at orgiastic ‘ceremonies’ inspired by Nero and Elagabalus, held twice a week in Adelswärd-Fersen’s flat, in Paris’ beaux quartiers.
description: Volupté, Vol 1 No 2 (2018): Decadence, Magic(k), and the Occult
Textual Secrecy: Arthur Machen and ‘The True Literature of Occultism’
Creators: name: Mantrant, Sophie
Publisher: name: Volupté
Year: 2018

description: Arthur Machen (1863-1947) read The Book of NicholasFlamelas a child and later in his life spent several years cataloguing books on occult matters for the antiquarian bookseller George Redway. The result of his work was an annotated catalogue, The Literature of Occultism and Archaeology(1885), that referenced works on alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and animal magnetism (among others). The Welsh writer was more than well versed in the occult and esoteric philosophies that are often referred to and sometimes discussed in his works of fiction. In an article entitled ‘The Cult of the Secret’ (1926), Machen underlines that humanity has always been drawn to secret societies and mysterious rites, a powerful attraction he personally experienced.
description: Volupté, Vol 1 No 2 (2018): Decadence, Magic(k), and the Occult
Fusions of Description Logics and Abstract Description Systems
Creators: name: Baader, F.
name: Lutz, C.
name: Sturm, H.
name: Wolter, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Fusions are a simple way of combining logics. For normal modal logics, fusions have been investigated in detail. In particular, it is known that, under certain conditions, decidability transfers from the component logics to their fusion. Though description logics are closely related to modal logics, they are not necessarily normal. In addition, ABox reasoning in description logics is not covered by the results from modal logics. In this paper, we extend the decidability transfer results from normal modal logics to a large class of description logics. To cover different description logics in a uniform way, we introduce abstract description systems, which can be seen as a common generalization of description and modal logics, and show the transfer results in this general setting.
Cooperation and image in the climate change context: Australia frames China as an environmental actor
Creators: name: Ji, Li
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 399999
subject: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Environmental issues, especially climate change, have increasingly gained salience on the agenda of national policy and in the theatre of world politics in the 21st century. China is one of the key players on this stage. In the contemporary international context, a new typology of national images needs to be established to incorporate relationships that go beyond the enemy-ally dichotomy. In the field of communication, most studies about China's national image follow a visibility-valence typology, but the results are no longer sufficient to serve the subtleties arising in the context of 21st century, particularly the implementation of soft power and public diplomacy. -- Responding to the inadequacies in the literature, this project has developed a new typology of national images as well as a framing approach for national image analysis in the Chinese national image context. In order to fill the research gap, this project examined the Australian social discourse (media discourse and intermediate experts' discourse) constructing China's national image in relation to environment. It did so by conducting framing analysis on two leading Australian broadsheets and in-depth interviews with scholars and policy-makers (13 in total). -- The findings demonstrate that there are four common generic frames in the media discourse and intermediate experts' individual minds. These frames, on the one hand, show the significant presence of a 'cooperative image' in the climate change context. On the other hand they reveal a new category of image, environmental image, to the ones normally discussed in international communication. They are incorporated in a new framework for evaluating environmental image in other international contexts. Furthermore, the findings disclose the images of China in the Australian social discourse and China's dominant discourse about soft power do not match each other. Thus, the findings may provide some insights for China's practice of soft power and public diplomacy in the western democracies.
Measuring sheet resistance of CIGS solar cell's window layer by spatially resolved electroluminescence imaging
Creators: name: Paire, Myriam
name: Lombez, Laurent
name: Guillemoles, Jean Francois
name: Lincot, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A spatially resolved electroluminescence (EL) imaging experiment is developed to measure the local sheet resistance of the window layer, directly on the completed CIGS cell. Our method can be applied to the EL imaging studies that are made in fundamental studies as well as in in-line process inspection (1-3). The EL experiment consists in using solar cell as a light emitting device : a voltage is applied to the cell and its luminescence is detected. We develop an analytical and quantitative model to simulate the behavior of CIGS solar cells based on the spread sheet resistance effect in the window layer. We determine the repartition of the electric potential on the ZnO, for given cell's characteristics such as sheet resistance and contact geometries. Knowing the repartition of the potential, the EL intensity is estimated and the experimental EL signal is fitted, which allows the determination of the window layer sheet resistance.
Measuring '%Ndfa' and 'Biological Nitrogen Fixation'
Creators: name: James, E.K.
name: Maluk, M
name: Iannetta, P.P.M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Measuring biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) is an important agronomic and agroecological trait of legumes. The trait is often neglected yet it is an indicator of crop performance with respect to a plant’s capacity to derive nitrogen from air via BNF. This process is mediated by soil bacteria, collectively termed rhizobia, that form a symbiosis with the legume. The rhizobia are contained within legume root nodules and here in the nodule core (a microaerophilic environment), the rhizobia fix largely inert atmospheric di-nitrogen gas into biologically useful nitrogen compounds. These compounds are shared with the host plant in exchange for energy in the form of photosynthate. The process of measuring BNF comprises two stages.
Quantum phase transitions in disordered dimerized quantum spin models and the Harris criterion
Creators: name: Yao, Dao-Xin
name: Gustafsson, Jonas
name: Carlson, E. W.
name: Sandvik, Anders W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use quantum Monte Carlo simulations to study effects of disorder on the quantum phase transition occurring versus the ratio g=J/J' in square-lattice dimerized S=1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnets with intra- and inter-dimer couplings J and J'. The dimers are either randomly distributed (as in the classical dimer model), or come in parallel pairs with horizontal or vertical orientation. In both cases the transition violates the Harris criterion, according to which the correlation-length exponent should satisfy nu >= 1. We do not detect any deviations from the three-dimensional O(3) universality class obtaining in the absence of disorder (where nu = 0.71). We discuss special circumstances which allow nu<1 for the type of disorder considered here.
description: 4+ pages, 3 figures
A group of Southeast Asian descendants wants to be recognised as Indigenous Australians
Creators: name: Herriman, Nicholas
name: Irving, David R. M.
name: Acciaioli, Greg
name: Winarnita, Monika
name: Tangit, Trixie
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: In 1826, an English merchant, Alexander Hare, brought a group of people from Malaysia and Indonesia as well as South Africa and New Guinea to an atoll northwest of mainland Australia in the Indian Ocean. Hare took them to the Cocos (Keeling) Islands as indentured workers, slaves and/or convicts. A year later, a Scottish rival, Clunies Ross, took over.
‘Inarticulate cries’: Arthur Symons and the Primitivist Modernity of Flamenco
Creators: name: Barrera-Medrano, Leire
Publisher: name: Volupté
Year: 2018

description: In his essay ‘Moorish Secrets in Spain’ (1899), the British poet and critic Arthur Symons (1865-1945) described Spanish flamenco music as the expression of primal creative forces, which were nonetheless connected to modernity: ‘it is music before rhythm, music which comes down to us untouched by the invention of the modern scale, from an antiquity out of which plain-chant is a first step towards modern harmony.’ Symons revealed flamenco as an art form caught in transition, faltering between Romantic spirit, Orientalist eroticism, and an emerging Modernist primitivism.
description: Volupté, Vol 1 (2018): Arthur Symons at the Fin de Siècle
‘A capital fellow, full of vivacity & good talk’: Arthur Symons and Gabriel Sarrazin
Creators: name: Coste, Bénédicte
Publisher: name: Volupté
Year: 2018

description: Arthur Symons is currently regarded as a cultural mediator of the cosmopolitan fin de siècle. He stands at the crossroads of distinctive journalistic and literary networks, and of translations in different languages. In the mid-1880s Symons, who had just published An Introduction to the Study of Browning, was regarded as a budding critic with a strong interest in French poets and prose writers. From the start of his journalistic career he had taken an interest in French regional and avant-garde literature, praising them in British magazines, before translating poems in Days and Nights (1889). Such an interest opened the door of French publications for him through the mediation of the French critic Gabriel Sarrazin (1853-1935), nowadays as neglected as Symons once was. In La Renaissance de la poésie anglaise, 1798-1889: Shelley, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Tennyson, Robert Browning, Walt Whitman (1890), Sarrazin favourably discussed A Study of Browning and was one of the first French littérateurs to consider Symons as a critic of British modern poetry, at the time translated and disseminated in France along with the works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and A. C. Swinburne.
description: Volupté, Vol 1 (2018): Arthur Symons at the Fin de Siècle
Hierophants of Decadence: Bliss Carman and Arthur Symons
Creators: name: Dirks, Rita
Publisher: name: Volupté
Year: 2018

description: Decadence came to Canada softly, almost imperceptibly, in the 1880s, when the Confederation poet Bliss Carman published his first poems and met the English chronicler and leading poet of Decadence, Arthur Symons. The event of Decadence has gone largely unnoticed in Canada; there is no equivalent to David Weir’s Decadent Culture in the United States: Art and Literature Against the American Grain (2008), as perhaps has been the fate of Decadence elsewhere. As a literary movement it has been, until a recent slew of publications on British Decadence, relegated to a transitional or threshold period. As Jason David Hall and Alex Murray write: ‘It is common practice to read [...] decadence as an interstitial moment in literary history, the initial “falling away” from high Victorian literary values and forms before the bona fide novelty of modernism asserted itself’. This article is, in part, an attempt to bring Canadian Decadence into focus out of its liminal state/space, and to establish Bliss Carman as the representative Canadian Decadent. To begin with, I situate the fin de siècle in Canada and examine the fruitful literary connection between Carman and Symons; then I read Carman’s poem ‘The Eavesdropper’ through a Decadent lens and continue toward an articulation of a distinctly Canadian Decadence. For the major part, I desire nothing less than to secure a foothold for Carman as the Father of Canadian Decadence.
description: Volupté, Vol 1 (2018): Arthur Symons at the Fin de Siècle
Arthur Symons, Laurence Binyon, and Paterian Aestheticism: Dancers and Dragons
Creators: name: Parker, William
Publisher: name: Volupté
Year: 2018

description: The aesthetic criticism of Oxford-based essayist Walter Pater (1839-1894) was interpreted in a variety of ways in fin-de-siècle and Edwardian Britain. Perhaps most famously, Pater’s example was used to justify the sensualist interpretation of Aestheticism in the work of Oscar Wilde (1854-1900). By contrast, the more subdued influence of Pater’s writings could also be felt in the Addresses delivered by the painter and sculptor Frederic Leighton (1830-1896) in his eminently respectable capacity as President of the Royal Academy, to which he was appointed in 1878. By the 1910s, the latent modernism of Pater’s essay ‘The School of Giorgione’ had been seized on by Ezra Pound in the first issue of the abrasive avant-garde journal Blast. Yet there was also an intermediary Edwardian context for the literary reception of Pater’s work that was neither Wildean nor iconoclastic – occupying instead the conceptual space in between these more extreme interpretations – and this will be the focus of the current article. The critic and poet Arthur Symons (1865-1945) and the art writer, poet, and British Museum curator Laurence Binyon (1869-1943) are the two key figures in this regard, occupying the same milieu and yet elaborating subtly contrasting understandings of Pater’s ideas.
description: Volupté, Vol 1 (2018): Arthur Symons at the Fin de Siècle
Unlocking the body, finding the heart : directing Anton Chekhov's The Seagull
Creators: name: Duborg, Kathleen Joy
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: Unlocking the Body, Finding the Heart: Directing Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull explores my directorial practice while staging Chekhov’s The Seagull at the Telus Studio Theatre, University of British Columbia from January 23 to February 8, 2014. As presented in the following pages, my primary objective was to find and deliver an immediate and unique interpretation of this exceptional play’s dramatization of romantic and artistic conflict in late 19th Century Russia. My practice centred upon an analysis and rehearsal process that investigated character through movement and an understanding of the connectedness between the body and emotional states. I also examine how I worked within the Telus Theatre thrust stage configuration, finding ways to not only overcome this challenge, but to use it to my advantage. Finally, I look at how The Seagull served as a crucible for me to expand and begin defining my practice and abilities as a director. In doing so, I also discovered a deep passion for teaching—a journey that should be evident in both my journal and directorial process pages. This paper includes a directorial analysis of the script, the journal chronicling the entire production process, production photos and a chapter containing my reflections on the year I spent working on The Seagull.
title: Palladium catalysed asymmetric hydroxy- and alkoxycarbonylation of alkenes
Creators: name: Durrani, Jamie T.
Publisher: name: University of St Andrews
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/02wn5qz54
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2015

description: Palladium catalysed asymmetric hydroxy- and alkoxycarbonylation reactions of alkenes have the potential to deliver valuable chiral carboxylic acid and ester building blocks from cheap feedstocks: alkenes, carbon monoxide and water (alcohols in the case of alkoxycarbonylation). Despite the attractive nature of these reactions, extensive research has so far been unable to produce effective catalysts which are capable of controlling both regio- and enantioselectivity. Building on exciting recent results involving the use of highly enantioselective palladium catalysts derived from Phanephos-type ligands, this research focuses on paracyclophane-diphosphines and their use in asymmetric hydroxy- and alkoxycarbonylation reactions. An investigation into reaction conditions analysed several factors, including solvents, CO-pressure, acidic additives and halide sources, to provide optimal activity and selectivities. Two novel electron-poor paracyclophane-diphosphines and their mono- and di-palladium complexes were synthesised and shown to provide exceptional levels of regioselectivity while maintaining high levels of asymmetric induction. These are the first such examples of hydroxy- or alkoxycarbonylation catalysts to facilitate simultaneous control over both regio- and enantioselectivity. The most effective catalyst was used to promote the reactions of a selection of aryl alkenes and was shown to be tolerant of several different functional groups. A selection of non-symmetric paracyclophane-diphosphine ligands and their palladium complexes were also synthesised and assessed for their performance in hydroxy- and alkoxycarbonylation. We also report the use of Phanephos-type ligands to promote the highly enantioselective hydroxycarbonylation of N-(p-toluenesulfonyl)-3-pyrroline to deliver a chiral proline derivative in high ee.
Asymptotics of orthogonal polynomials and point perturbation on the unit circle
Creators: name: Wong, Manwah Lilian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the first five sections, we deal with the class of probability measures with asymptotically periodic Verblunsky coefficients of p-type bounded variation. The goal is to investigate the perturbation of the Verblunsky coefficients when we add a pure point to a gap of the essential spectrum. For the asymptotically constant case, we give an asymptotic formula for the orthonormal polynomials in the gap, prove that the perturbation term converges and show the limit explicitly. Furthermore, we prove that the perturbation is of bounded variation. Then we generalize the method to the asymptotically periodic case and prove similar results. In the last two sections, we show that the bounded variation condition can be removed if a certain symmetry condition is satisfied. Finally, we consider the special case when the Verblunsky coefficients are real with the rate of convergence being c_n . We prove that the rate of convergence of the perturbation is in fact O(c_n). In particular, the special case c_n = 1/n will serve as a counterexample to the possibility that the convergence of the perturbed Verblunsky coefficients should be exponentially fast when a point is added to a gap.
description: Published in the Journal of Approximation Theory
Retirement Planning by Civil Servants
Creators: name: Kuppusamy Singaravelloo
name: Muzalwana Abdul Talib @ Abdul Mutalib
name: Kamil, Nurul Liyana Mohd
name: Lu, Yong Sook
name: Nurhidayah Abdullah
name: Mansor, Norma
name: Ating, Rashid
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: retirement planning, civil servants, Malaysia

description: A Project Funded by Social Wellbeing Research Centre (SWRC), Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur in Cooperation with CUEPACS Malaysia
Symons and Print Culture: Journalist, Critic, Book Maker
Creators: name: Brake, Laurel
Publisher: name: Volupté
Year: 2018

description: My intent here is to explore the range and ingenuity of Arthur Symons’s participation in print culture, and to probe how he managed his bread and butter work as a journalist, critic, and book maker. My focus is his article ‘The Painting of the Nineteenth Century’, in its differing functions and forms over a four-year period (1903-1906), as a periodical book review and a chapter on painting that appeared in Studies in Seven Arts, a book comprised of articles from the press. What initially drew me to this article was its evidence of Symons’s sustained support for Simeon Solomon, a queer British artist from a London-based family of Jewish painters, in the decade that followed the Wilde trials, and among the inhibitions they fostered. Nearly a generation younger than Solomon, Symons (1865-1945) was born just as Solomon (1840-1905) began his career. Solomon appears in both the 1903 and 1906 versions of Symons’s review, and in between a newspaper review of an exhibition of Solomon’s work in 1905/1906. Symons enters late into Solomon’s story in these pieces, towards the end of the artist’s life.
description: Volupté, Vol 1 (2018): Arthur Symons at the Fin de Siècle
Rates of convergence in active learning
Creators: name: Hanneke, Steve
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study the rates of convergence in generalization error achievable by active learning under various types of label noise. Additionally, we study the general problem of model selection for active learning with a nested hierarchy of hypothesis classes and propose an algorithm whose error rate provably converges to the best achievable error among classifiers in the hierarchy at a rate adaptive to both the complexity of the optimal classifier and the noise conditions. In particular, we state sufficient conditions for these rates to be dramatically faster than those achievable by passive learning.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/10-AOS843 the Annals of Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Improving the Efficiency of Inductive Logic Programming Through the Use of Query Packs
Creators: name: Blockeel, H.
name: Dehaspe, L.
name: Demoen, B.
name: Janssens, G.
name: Ramon, J.
name: Vandecasteele, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Inductive logic programming, or relational learning, is a powerful paradigm for machine learning or data mining. However, in order for ILP to become practically useful, the efficiency of ILP systems must improve substantially. To this end, the notion of a query pack is introduced: it structures sets of similar queries. Furthermore, a mechanism is described for executing such query packs. A complexity analysis shows that considerable efficiency improvements can be achieved through the use of this query pack execution mechanism. This claim is supported by empirical results obtained by incorporating support for query pack execution in two existing learning systems.
‘The Universe’: An Unpublished Sonnet by Arthur Symons
Creators: name: Boyiopoulos, Kostas
Publisher: name: Volupté
Year: 2018

description: A steady trickle of sonnets permeates Arthur Symons’s poetical oeuvre. Some of the most iconic pieces from his early volumes are sonnets; examples include ‘The Opium-Smoker’, ‘The Absinthe Drinker’, ‘Nerves’, and ‘Idealism’. In the Arthur Symons Papers held in Firestone Library at Princeton University is an unknown and previously unpublished sonnet entitled ‘The Universe’. The typescript, found among miscellaneous poems, is undated and spattered with blotches (strikethroughs) and a couple of typographic errors. It bears a thematic affinity with some post-Nineties volumes by Symons, comporting with his fixation with evil, sin, and damnation. From these clues we can hazard that Symons penned ‘The Universe’ after his mental breakdown period, possibly in the twenties or the thirties, although the sonnet’s central concept could have originated much earlier. ‘The Universe’ expands and transforms the theme of urban sensuality of Symons’s early work, plotting it on a more abstract plane. It is built around ideas of world-making and Judeo-Christian cosmogony. This is not a slapdash effort; it is an intriguing, puzzling piece, to say the least, and one that realizes the full potential of the sonnet form.
description: Volupté, Vol 1 (2018): Arthur Symons at the Fin de Siècle
Australia’s rates of autism should be celebrated – but real-life impact, not diagnosis, should determine NDIS support
Creators: name: Sadka, Nancy
name: Barbaro, Josephine
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Ahead of the release of the government’s review into the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), the topic taking centre stage is the diagnosis of autism. Over one third of people accessing the scheme list it as a primary disability.
Structure factors of s=1/2 spin chains and magnetism at the edges of graphene ribbons
Creators: name: Karimi, Hamed
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: In this thesis we study two different one dimensional systems. The first project is on the transverse dynamical structure factors of the XXZ spin chain and the second project is on magnetism of zigzag edges of graphene nano-ribbons. In chapter 2, we apply field theory methods, first developed to study x-ray edge singularities, to interacting one-dimensional systems in order to include band curvature effects and study edge singularities at arbitrary momentum. We point out that spin chains with uniform Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions provide an opportunity to test these theories since these interactions may be exactly eliminated by a gauge transformation that shifts the momentum. However, this requires an extension of these x-ray edge methods to the transverse spectral function of the XXZ spin chain in a magnetic field. In chapter 3, by considering the Hubbard model in the weak coupling limit, U << t, for bearded as well as zigzag edges, we argue for existence of magnetic edges. We first present an argument based on Lieb's theorem. Then, projecting the Hubbard interactions onto the flat edge band, we prove that the resulting one-dimensional model has a fully polarized ferromagnetic ground state. We also study excitons and the effects of second neighbor hopping as well as a potential energy term acting on the edge only, proposing a simple and possibly exact phase diagram with the magnetic moment varying smoothly to zero. Finally, we consider corrections of second order in U, arising from integrating out the gapless bulk Dirac excitations.