cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Narratives of Grief: The Experience and Development of Grief for Young Adults Who Have Been Parentally Bereaved in Adolescence
Creators: name: CALLEN, TIMOTHY
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2022

description: Parental loss in adolescence is one of the most traumatic events one can experience at this developmental period. Research has found many short- and long-term effects of parental bereavement including poorer mental health as well as increased empathy and growth. There are many models of grief which are often based on adult experiences and an increasing amount of literature has found that adolescent grief is experienced differently to adults. This paper aims to develop a greater understanding of grief in adolescence and how grief changes over time as individuals move through developmental phases. To explore this, semi structured interviews that took place with 15 young adults (20-30) who experienced parental bereavement in adolescence (10-20). Key themes of grief were a sense of loss that challenged their identity and understanding of the world, an intense social pressure that often led to expressing grief in private, a non-linear progression of grief with distress often happening years after the death and a development of appreciation of how grief has shaped their identity. Grief was influenced by both immediate social pressures but also by wider narratives on what grief is. This led to adolescents and later, young adults feeling unable to express their grief for fear of the social implications. The paper supports the conceptualisation that grief is non-linear and multi-faceted and warns of the risks of pathologising grief reactions.
Security Analysis of the Open Banking Account and Transaction API Protocol
Creators: name: Modesti, Paolo
name: Freitas, Leo
name: Shotomiwa, Qudus
name: Almehrej, Abdulaziz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The Second Payment Services Directive (PSD2) of the European Union aims to create a consumer-friendly financial market by mandating secure and standardised data sharing between banking operators and third parties. Consequently, EU countries and the United Kingdom have adopted Open Banking, a standardised data-sharing API. This paper presents a formal modelling and security analysis of the UK Open Banking Standard's APIs, with a specific focus on the Account and Transaction API protocol. Our methodology employs the extended Alice and Bob notation (AnBx) to create a formal model of the protocol, which is then verified using the OFMC symbolic model checker and the Proverif cryptographic protocol verifier. We extend previous work by enabling verification for unlimited sessions with a strongly typed model. Additionally, we integrate our formal analysis with practical security testing of some necessary conditions to demonstrate verified security-goals in the NatWest Open Banking sandbox, evaluating mechanisms such as authorisation and authentication procedures.
description: 61 pages, 19 figures
“What we’re saying makes sense so I’ve subscribed to it and I try to live by it.” : A qualitative exploration of prisoners’ motivation to participate in an innovative rehabilitation programme through the lens of self-determination theory.
Creators: name: Bunce, Annie E.
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2020

description: This thesis draws upon self-determination theory (SDT) and qualitative interviews with (mostly) long-serving prisoners participating in an innovative strengths-based rehabilitation programme in three English prisons. It aimed to explore prisoners’ initial motivation for joining the programme; the ways in which motivation to participate changed over time; and the usefulness of SDT’s conceptualisation of motivation - as relatively extrinsic or intrinsic according to fulfilment of basic psychological needs (BPNs) for competence, autonomy and relatedness - for exploring prisoners’ motivation. It contributes to the literature by considering motivation to participate through the lens of SDT; focusing on an atypical rehabilitation programme; enhancing qualitative insight into prisoners’ motivation to participate in rehabilitation programmes; exploring participants’ perceptions of their motivation over time; and the potential for programme participation to influence prisoners’ early-stage desistance. Prisoners were initially motivated by a combination of motives that are variously extrinsic and intrinsic in nature. These include to ‘give back’; to aid their rehabilitative journeys; to gain skills; a lack of alternative opportunities in the prison; and to enhance their release prospects. Motives relating to giving back and personal rehabilitation were sustained and/or reinforced over time. Supporting SDT predictions, prisoners’ motivation fluctuated according to how far participating satisfied BPNs for competence, relatedness and autonomy. Internal motivation was enhanced by an increasing sense of empowerment, self-mastery and achievement/responsibility; positive connections with others; and experiencing therapeutic change. Prisoners’ internalisation of motivation to make amends primarily drove continued participation and reinforced early intentions to desist. Constraints within the programme and/or wider prison context sometimes undermined motivation, thus external motives also influenced motivation over time. However, prisoners’ continued partially extrinsic motivation was not as detrimental to coexisting autonomous forms of motivation as SDT would predict. These findings have implications for applying SDT in the prison context, for academic research, rehabilitative practice and prison policy.
Adaptive dynamic range shift (ADRIFT) quantitative phase imaging
Creators: name: Toda, Keiichiro
name: Tamamitsu, Miu
name: Ideguchi, Takuro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantitative phase imaging (QPI) is often used for label-free single cell analysis with its high-contrast images of optical phase delay (OPD) map. Contrary to other imaging methods, sensitivity improvement has not been intensively explored because conventional QPI is sensitive enough to see surface roughness of a substrate which anyway restricts the measurable minimum OPD. However, emerging QPI techniques which utilize, for example, differential image analysis of consecutive temporal frames, such as mid-infrared photothermal QPI, mitigate the minimum OPD limit by decoupling the static OPD contribution and allow to measure much smaller OPD. Here, we propose and demonstrate super-sensitive QPI with expanded dynamic range. It is enabled by adaptive dynamic range shift with combination of wavefront shaping and dark-field QPI techniques. As a proof-of-concept demonstration, we show dynamic range expansion (sensitivity improvement) of QPI by a factor of 6.6 and its utility for improving sensitivity of mid-infrared photothermal QPI. This technique can also be applied for wide-field scattering imaging of dynamically changing nanoscale objects inside and outside a biological cell without losing global cellular morphological image information.
The discourse of hysteria as the logic of mass consumption
Creators: name: Castro, Julio Cesar Lemes De
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 200104 Media Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: 220317 Poststructuralism
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: 220318 Psychoanalytic Philosophy
subject: 200203 Consumption and Everyday Life
subject: FOS: Other humanities
subject: 200299 Cultural Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: 200204 Cultural Theory
subject: 200403 Discourse and Pragmatics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: The dynamics of mass consumption, from the 19th century, when its early developments take place, to the 1960s, when the transition to post-Fordist flexible consumption sets in, articulates economic, social, and cultural factors. This article describes the mechanisms of mass consumption in terms of the algorithm of the discourse of hysteria, which for Lacan represents one of the fundamental kinds of social link. In this scheme, the consumer, driven by his lack, directs a question about his own desire to the advertiser, to the models used to seduce him, and to the targets that he, in turn, is encouraged to seduce. It results from this interpellation a knowledge that attempts to deal with the consumer desire and that projects itself on the universe of merchandises. Such a process generates partial enjoyment and at the same time dissatisfaction, and both motivate it to repeat itself indefinitely.
Discourse of hysteria as the logic of mass consumption
Creators: name: Castro, Julio Cesar Lemes De
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 200104 Media Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: The dynamics of mass consumption, from the 19th century, when its early developments take place, to the 1960s, when the transition to post-Fordist flexible consumption sets in, articulates economic, social, and cultural factors. This article describes the mechanisms of mass consumption in terms of the algorithm of the discourse of hysteria, which for Lacan represents one of the fundamental kinds of social link. In this scheme, the consumer, driven by his lack, directs a question about his own desire to the advertiser, to the models used to seduce him, and to the targets that he, in turn, is encouraged to seduce. It results from this interpellation a knowledge that attempts to deal with the consumer desire and that projects itself on the universe of merchandises. Such a process generates partial enjoyment and at the same time dissatisfaction, and both motivate it to repeat itself indefinitely.
title: Management of Agitation in Emergency Medical Services for Older Adults: A Multi Methods Exploration in Alberta, Canada
Creators: name: Shah, Fatima Intizar
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences

description: Background: Agitation is a commonly encountered challenge with emergency medical services (EMS), which can be difficult to manage, especially in older adults (aged 65+ years). Objectives: The objectives of this thesis were to first understand EMS providers experiences when managing agitated older adults and using physical or chemical restraints. Second, to explore the barriers and facilitators to the management of agitation in older adults faced by EMS providers. Third, to explore the barriers and facilitators to the reduction of restraint use in older adults by EMS providers. Methods: An online survey link was emailed to EMS providers (~6000) in Alberta to explore experiences of agitation management and restraint use. Using semi-structured qualitative Zoom interviews, we explored the barriers and facilitators to agitation management in EMS. Results: A total of 162 survey responses and 30 interviews were collected. EMS providers reported a lack of adequate training and support to manage agitation, however, experienced providers reported comfort with using non-restraint agitation management strategies. Restraints were emphasized as a last resort, especially for older adults, due to the potential for harm. EMS provider burnout, physical, and moral injury were commonly reported. Conclusions: This is the first multi-methods comprehensive understanding of restraint use for the management of agitation in older adults within EMS from the EMS provider perspective.
Placental Infection by Salmonella Typhimurium in a Murine Model: The Role of Innate Immune Mediators in Cell Death at the Fetal-Maternal Interface
Creators: name: Wachholz, Kristina Lora Catherine
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Pregnancy
Infection
Immunity
Cell Death
Inflammation
Salmonella

description: Maternal tolerance during pregnancy increases the risk of infection with certain intracellular pathogens such as Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (S.Tm). Systemic S.Tm infection during pregnancy in normally resistant 129X1/SvJ mice, with a functional natural resistance-associated macrophage protein-1 (Nramp1), leads to severe placental infection followed by fetal and maternal death. We hypothesized infection-induced inflammatory trophoblast cell death contributes to adverse pregnancy outcomes. We therefore investigated the kinetics of systemic and oral S.Tm infection in wild-type and gene deficient mice with defects in specific inflammatory pathways. Systemic infection with S.Tm resulted in preferential placental replication compared to other tissues in Nramp1+/+ mice. At 24 hours, <25% of individual placentas per mouse were infected, progressively increasing to >75% by 72 hours which correlated with a steady increase in resorption rates. Moreover, placental infection was associated with increased neutrophils, macrophages and natural killer cells whereas neutrophil numbers in the spleen remained unchanged, suggesting dichotomous modulation of inflammation in the systemic compartment compared to the feto-maternal interface. Oral infection resulted in systemic dissemination of the bacteria, substantial placental colonization and fetal loss five days post-infection in C57BL/6J mice. Systemic infection in pregnant cell death deficient Rip3-/-Nramp1+/+ mice (with defective necroptosis) resulted in decreased fetal demise relative to Nramp1+/+ and Caspase-1,11-/-Nramp1+/+ mice (with defective pyroptosis) suggesting a role for necroptotic inflammation. This study provides insight into the kinetics and mechanism of inflammation and cell death during placental S.Tm infection. Such studies may assist in the rational management of foodborne pathogens contracted during pregnancy.
Compressive dual-comb spectroscopy
Creators: name: Kawai, Akira
name: Kageyama, Takahiro
name: Horisaki, Ryoichi
name: Ideguchi, Takuro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Broadband, high resolution and rapid measurement of dual-comb spectroscopy (DCS) generates a large amount of data stream. We numerically demonstrate significant data compression of DCS spectra by using a compressive sensing technique. Our numerical simulation shows a compression rate of more than 100 with 3% error in mole fraction estimation of mid-infrared (MIR) DCS of two molecular species in a broadband (~30 THz) and high resolution (~115 MHz) condition. We also numerically demonstrate a massively parallel MIR DCS spectrum of 10 different molecular species can be reconstructed with a compression rate of 10.5 with a transmittance error of 0.003 from the original spectrum.
Between material and virtual worlds: fetishism and the discourse of capitalism
Creators: name: Castro, Julio Cesar Lemes De
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 200101 Communication Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: 200102 Communication Technology and Digital Media Studies
subject: 200199 Communication and Media Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: 200299 Cultural Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other humanities
subject: 200204 Cultural Theory
subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Digital Humanities
subject: 200104 Media Studies
subject: 220317 Poststructuralism
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: 220318 Psychoanalytic Philosophy

description: This paper explores a theory of the relationship between online and offline worlds based on the concept of fetishism. It begins by examining the concept of fetishism in anthropology, Marxism, and particularly, psychoanalysis. It then explores the increasing fetishization of the virtual in everyday life and the simultaneous fetishizing of the material world in cyberspace. This bidirectional movement is associated with the growing hybridization between online and offline worlds. Finally, a parallel is drawn between symmetrical or dual fetishism and the logic of the discourse of capitalism as defined by Jacques Lacan.
title: Stories that Shape Us: Exploring Language, Ideologies, and Identity Among Spanish-Heritage and Bilingual Educators in Canada
Creators: name: Wee, Ana
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Spanish Heritage Speaker Teachers
subject: Language Ideologies
subject: Teacher Identity
subject: Cultural Diversity
subject: Pedagogical Practices
subject: Experience
subject: Narrative Inquiry
subject: Bilingual Teachers
subject: Education--Teacher Training
subject: Education--Bilingual and Multicultural

description: This dissertation is a personal and professional exploration of how societal and language ideologies shape the identities of Spanish-speaking teachers of Spanish in the Canadian context. Using narrative inquiry, I weave together the stories of four Spanish-speaking teachers of Spanish with diverse language backgrounds, alongside my own journey as a language teacher and researcher. Although I am not a heritage speaker myself but a bilingual PhD student in Canada, my experiences as a bilingual individual navigating multiple sociocultural contexts allow me to relate to the challenges both heritage and immigrant bilingual teachers face in terms of linguistic legitimacy, identity negotiation, and societal expectations. The participants’ narratives reveal that language ideologies are deeply intertwined with social class, race, gender, and institutional power structures, which together shape teachers’ professional identities and sense of legitimacy. Their stories illustrate how factors such as linguistic capital, monolingual biases, and native-speaker hierarchies influence access to opportunities and professional recognition, while also underscoring the fluid negotiation of multilingual identity and the strategic navigation of cultural and linguistic expectations. Drawing on Kroskrity’s Language Ideological Assemblage and Bourdieu’s concept of linguistic capital, this dissertation demonstrates that these Spanish-speaking teachers of Spanish must continuously negotiate competing ideologies in both their professional and personal lives. Ultimately, the study contributes to a broader understanding of the challenges and agency of these educators, emphasizing the transformative power of narrative inquiry in resisting language hierarchies and affirming identity within multilingual and multicultural spaces.
Participatory research and creative engagement with ICTs
Creators: name: Tacchi, Jo Ann
name: Watkins, Jerry
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper reports preliminary findings from the Finding a Voice project, an ethnographic investigation into the development and consequences of participatory content creation programs in underserved communities in India, Indonesia, Nepal and Sri Lanka. The project explores how information and communication technology can be used to enable both civic and cultural participation, and creative engagement within such communities. The research is informed by Ethnographic Action Research and Participatory Design methodologies, as well as observation of local communicative ecologies.
Characterization and Function of the ~70kDa Immunoreactive Species of Pannexin3 in Rhabdomyosarcomas
Creators: name: Gill, Kushal
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Pannexin3
Rhabdomyosarcomas

description: Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) is a skeletal muscle-derived tumour and is the most common soft tissue sarcoma of childhood. RMS tumours arise due to defects in differentiation, and as a result proliferate indefinitely. Pannexins consist of three members (pannexin1, 2, and 3) and are known to form single membrane channels. Reports have shown expression of pannexin3 (Panx3) as both the expected molecular weight species at ~43 kDa as well as a ~70 kDa immunoreactive species. While studies have begun to report on the function of the ~43 kDa form, the exact identity and function of the ~70 kDa immunoreactive species of Panx3 remains poorly understood. It has recently been reported that the ~70 kDa immunoreactive species of Panx3 is highly expressed in proliferative, non-differentiated human primary skeletal muscle myoblasts (HSMM), becoming drastically down regulated during differentiation. Indeed, knockdown of the ~70 kDa immunoreactive species of Panx3 inhibited proliferation without inducing differentiation in skeletal muscle myoblasts. We thus hypothesized that the ~70 kDa immunoreactive species of Panx3 would be upregulated in RMS supporting this proliferative phenotype. Here we now show that the ~70 kDa immunoreactive species of Panx3 is increased in RMS cell lines and tumours to a level similar to that seen in undifferentiated HSMM and fetal tissues, respectively. Further characterization of this species revealed that it is indeed a glycoprotein, an intrinsic characteristic of all pannexin members, it is recognized by two Panx3 antibodies targeting distinct epitopes, and it is reduced with Panx3 specific shRNA. Reduction of levels of the ~70 kDa immunoreactive species of Panx3 resulted in a significant decrease in proliferation of RMS cells without inducing differentiation. Taken together, these data suggest that the ~70 kDa immunoreactive species of Panx3 might be involved in keeping undifferentiated RMS cells in a proliferative state and that reduction of its levels or functions may be beneficial for RMS.
The Legal Position of the Time Chartered Operator: Evaluating the Legal Risks and Potential Responses of the Time Charterer Which Sub-Charters on Voyage Terms
Creators: name: Wereley, James Russell
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Maritime Law
Charter Parties
Time Charters
Voyage Charters
Laytime
Off-Hire
Admiralty Law

description: There are many major shipping companies which operate fleets comprised largely of vessels which are time chartered and subsequently sub-chartered on voyage terms. Legal risks will arise for the time charterer due the differing natures and terms of time and voyage charters. The essential question examined in this thesis is that of whether, and to what extent, legal risk can be minimized by the negotiation of equivalent contractual terms under time and voyage charter parties. The key areas addressed in this thesis are delivery under time charters compared to readiness under voyage charters, off hire under time charters versus suspension of laytime under voyage charters, obligations relating to cleanliness of cargo spaces, rights and responsibilities relative to safe berths and ports, the time charterer's position under bills of lading, and issues relating to redelivery of the vessel and consequent voyage charter liability if the vessel is unable to undertake the final voyage. The methodology applied is an examination of the case law, with a primary focus on the extensive body of English jurisprudence. This analysis of the case law is accompanied by a consideration of provisions of major charter party forms. The analysis leads to the conclusion that risk, to varying degrees, can be minimized through the application and clarification of contractual language. With respect to readiness of the vessel it is considered that risk will be reduced through agreeing contractual language which requires early notification of the vessel's delay. As regards off hire and laytime wording that clarifies non physical deficiencies is proposed. With regard to vessel cargo spaces intermediate cleanliness is identified as the greatest risk. Safe port and berth warranties are determined to represent an area of easily manageable risk, while letters of indemnity relating to bills of lading continue to represent very significant risk with suggested but no certain solution. Finally, with respect to redelivery a final voyage clause for time charters has been proposed which serves to almost eliminate risk in this area. Therefore, it is broadly concluded that risk can be managed but not eliminated through drafting of appropriate contractual terms.
title: Exploring the developmental genetics of polygenic and Mendelian craniofacial phenotypes, using the Longshanks mouse as a case study.
Creators: name: Tran, Kristen
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Mendelian genetics
subject: Phenotypic variation
subject: Craniofacial shape
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Psychology--Developmental

description: Phenotypic variation is structured by environmental and genetic influences. While research has focused on genetic variants that produce major effects, such as those that perpetrate Mendelian phenotypes, attention has rarely been given to the small-effect variants that alter those phenotypes. In my thesis, I investigated whether variants of small effect drive phenotypic variation in the same ways as variants of major effect that participate in the same developmental process. Specifically, I evaluated the phenotypic effects of small-effect variants from a polygenic Mus musculus model, the Longshanks. Derived from CD-1 outbred mice, the Longshanks was selected for longer tibiae length for over 20 generations. This selection likely affected the underlying developmental process of endochondral ossification. Supporting this, I determined that the Longshanks phenotype was more similar to other mouse mutants produced by variants of major effect with roles in endochondral ossification. Next, I identified 11 candidate genes that contribute to the Longshanks shape effect. Variation within these genes partly recapitulated a Longshanks-like phenotype in human faces. Furthermore, this human Longshanks-like phenotype was qualitatively similar to phenotypes of syndromes with aberrant endochondral ossification. Taken together, these results suggest that small-effect variants underlying the Longshanks phenotype directs phenotypic variation in similar ways to major-effect variants involved with endochondral ossification. Within Mendelian genetics, the effects of small-effect background variants have been treated with unique regard compared to major-effect variants. Here, I provided preliminary evidence that small- and major-effect variants produce the same phenotypes, only with different magnitudes. This work advances our understanding of how small-effect variants exert their effects on phenotypic variation. More importantly, this suggests that Mendelian traits have a more complex genetic architecture than previously understood.
Essays on Dynamic Discrete Choice Models
Creators: name: DA SILVA GOMES, ELIZA
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2021

description: This thesis contains three independent chapters on dynamic discrete choice models (DDCMs).
description: The first chapter begins with an introduction to DDCMs, detailing some of the main estimators in the literature. Then, it provides numerical results for when such models entail a finite mixture specification, comparing three estimators, one of which is a modified version of the EM algorithm adapted to DDCMs by \cite{arcidiacono2011conditional}. The maximum likelihood in their algorithm's M-step is replaced here with GLS/OLS estimators in order to simplify computation. Such numerical study provides small sample evidence on the performance of linear and nonlinear two-step estimators under unobserved heterogeneity.
description: The second chapter constructs and estimates a dynamic discrete choice structural model of the decision of employers to invest in further training of their workers, considering the resultant economic cost and impact on productivity and wages. In doing so, I intend to provide the literature on firm training, which dates back to \cite{becker1964}, with a means to conduct counterfactual analysis and policy evaluation. Using an unbalanced panel on retail trade containing data on 1220 German establishments, I estimate the economic cost and long-run value of training, and show how productivity and wage levels affect the employer's decision to train. The findings indicate that establishments with non-extreme values of productivity and wages, and a large number of employees are the ones most likely to train. In addition, they show that having trained previously acts as an incentive for current training because the estimated cost of keeping training is lower than that of starting to train.
description: The third chapter, like the first one, explores unobserved heterogeneity, however now expressed continuously. It is an extension of the work by \cite{chesher2002taste}, who present an approximation to logit models with taste variation. Here, the same approach is derived for DDCMs, resulting in a maximum likelihood estimator and an iterated least squares estimator being proposed, which deliver estimates with reduced bias relative to an estimation that ignores the existence of heterogeneity. Moreover, advantages over current parametric and nonparametric methods are that no distributional assumptions for the heterogeneity must be made and no grids must be chosen. Finally, the maximum likelihood estimator solves the dynamic programming problem (DPP) without any unobserved heterogeneity considered, such that the DPP is solved only once at each evaluation of the likelihood. Meanwhile, a typical nonparametric approach would require the DPP to be solved at each point of a selected grid for each likelihood evaluation. This can potentially cause computational time and convergence issues, which are here avoided.
High-speed Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy with phase-controlled delay line
Creators: name: Hashimoto, Kazuki
name: Badarla, Venkata Ramaiah
name: Ideguchi, Takuro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) is the golden standard of mid-infrared (MIR) molecular spectroscopic analysis through optically-encoded vibrational signatures. Michelson-type FTIR and MIR dual-comb spectrometers allow us to simultaneously investigate multiple molecular species via the broadband and high-resolution spectroscopic capabilities. However, these are not applicable to high-speed measurements due to the low temporal resolution which is fundamentally limited by the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). In this study, we develop a high-speed FTIR spectroscopy technique called phase-controlled Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (PC-FTIR) that has the capability to measure MIR absorption spectra at a rate of above 10 kHz. PC-FTIR demonstrates the high scan rate with a high SNR for various spectral bandwidths by arbitrarily adjusting the instrumental spectral resolution. As a proof of principle demonstration, we measure high-speed mixing dynamics of two liquids at a rate of 24 kHz. We also measure MIR spectra of gas-phase molecules with higher spectral resolution at a rate of 12 kHz. This high-speed MIR spectrometer could be especially useful for measuring non-repetitive fast phenomena and acquiring a large amount spectral data within a short time.
‘I, the Implacable I’:  l’opera di Joan Didion negli anni settanta
Creators: name: Scarpino, Cinzia
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: This essay attempts to read Joan Didion’s work in the 1970s (Play It As It Lays, A Book of Common Prayer and The White Album) as resulting from an increasingly sharp aesthetic awareness of the modes, limits and possibilities of literature as personal and political testimony. Claiming a sceptical attitude towards any given ideology, Didion places her two novels (Play It As It Lays, A Book of Common Prayer) and non-fiction book (The White Album) within the history of that decade as filtered through an overtly autobiographical and idiosyncratic story. Out of a personal experience and understanding of that decade – of its collective imagination, its shared or unshared events and symbols – as one dominated by a sense of loss Didion creates women characters who survive both the ‘abject’ of their female bodies and the irreversible impoverishment of the last (and lost) frontiers in which their stories are set. Late-modern versions of a long-abiding and well-established American literary tradition, the character-narrators of Play It As It Lays, A Book of Common Prayer and the witness-persona of The White Album respond to Didion’s aesthetic insight into the testimonial mode, its limits and potentialities, and a narratological strategy which, not unlike the postmodern narratives of the same decade, moves toward the dissolution, scattering, and reassembling of narrative functions (author, narrator, character, and reader).
description: ENTHYMEMA, N° 7 (2012)
title: Ekphrastic Reconstruction: A Lyric Investigation of Domestic Violence
Creators: name: Smith, Cristalle
Publisher: name: Arts
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: ekphrasis
subject: lyric inquiry
subject: women's poetry
subject: poetry
subject: negative capability
subject: Literature--Canadian (English)

description: Ekphrastic Reconstruction is a full-length poetry manuscript with hybrid and experimental forms. The collection engages Lorri Neilsen Glenn’s iteration of lyric inquiry called “scholartistry." Building on the lyric inquiry work from Nancy Holmes, Ekphrastic Reconstruction meditates on domestic violence through ekphrasis. The work relies on close readings of Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Chelene Knight, and Roy Kiyooka. Although lyrical associations between seemingly unrelated poets and concepts can appear jarring, meaning arises through stark juxtapositions. Domestic violence is defamiliarized through poems, prose poems, and fragments of families torn asunder by cracked earth in deep prairie cold.
Reliability of tibiofemoral contact area and centroid location in upright, open MRI
Creators: name: Schmidt, Andrew M.
name: Stockton, David John
name: Hunt, Michael A.
name: Yung, Andrew
name: Masri, Bassam A.
name: Wilson, David R.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2020

description: Background: Imaging cannot be performed during natural weightbearing in biomechanical studies using conventional closed-bore MRI, which has necessitated simulating weightbearing load on the joint. Upright, open MRI (UO-MRI) allows for joint imaging during natural weightbearing and may have the potential to better characterize the biomechanical effect of tibiofemoral pathology involving soft tissues. However open MRI scanners have lower field strengths than closed-bore scanners, which limits the image quality that can be obtained. Thus, there is a need to establish the reliability of measurements in upright weightbearing postures obtained using UO-MRI. Methods: Knees of five participants with prior anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) rupture were scanned standing in a 0.5 T upright open MRI scanner using a 3D DESS sequence. Manual segmentation of cartilage regions in contact was performed and centroids of these contact areas were automatically determined for the medial and lateral tibiofemoral compartments. Inter-rater, test-retest, and intra-rater reliability were determined and quantified using intra-class correlation (ICC3,1), standard error of measurement (SEM), and smallest detectable change with 95% confidence (SDC95). Accuracy was assessed by using a high-resolution 7 T MRI as a reference. Results: Contact area and centroid location reliability (inter-rater, test-retest, and intra-rater) for sagittal scans in the medial compartment had ICC3,1 values from 0.95–0.99 and 0.98–0.99 respectively. In the lateral compartment, contact area and centroid location reliability ICC3,1 values ranged from 0.83–0.91 and 0.95–1.00 respectively. The smallest detectable change in contact area was 1.28% in the medial compartment and 0.95% in the lateral compartment. Contact area and centroid location reliability for coronal scans in the medial compartment had ICC3,1 values from 0.90–0.98 and 0.98–1.00 respectively, and in the lateral compartment ICC3,1 ranged from 0.76–0.94 and 0.93–1.00 respectively. The smallest detectable change in contact area was 0.65% in the medial compartment and 1.41% in the lateral compartment. Contact area was accurate to within a mean absolute error of 11.0 mm2. Conclusions: Knee contact area and contact centroid location can be assessed in upright weightbearing MRI with good to excellent reliability. The lower field strength used in upright, weightbearing MRI does not compromise the reliability of tibiofemoral contact area and centroid location measures.
Solsticial Hadley Cell ascending edge theory from supercriticality
Creators: name: Hill, Spencer A.
name: Bordoni, Simona
name: Mitchell, Jonathan L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: How far the Hadley circulation's ascending branch extends into the summer hemisphere is a fundamental but incompletely understood characteristic of Earth's climate. Here, we present a predictive, analytical theory for this ascending edge latitude based on the extent of supercritical forcing. Supercriticality sets the minimum extent of a large-scale circulation based on the angular momentum and absolute vorticity distributions of the hypothetical state were the circulation absent. We explicitly simulate this latitude-by-latitude radiative-convective equilibrium (RCE) state. Its depth-averaged temperature profile is suitably captured by a simple analytical approximation that increases linearly with $\sinφ$, where $φ$ is latitude, from the winter to the summer pole. This, in turn, yields a one-third power-law scaling of the supercritical forcing extent with the thermal Rossby number. In moist and dry idealized GCM simulations under solsticial forcing performed with a wide range of planetary rotation rates, the ascending edge latitudes largely behave according to this scaling.
description: 15 pages, 7 figures, revised for Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
Mechanical Property Variation of As-Built AlSi10Mg and Ti6Al4V Manufactured by Laser Powder Bed Fusion
Creators: name: GROOM, ALLIN IRVING
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2022

description: Additive Manufacture (AM) is a burgeoning industry on the cusp of being a disruptive alternative to traditional processes for the production of complex repeatable parts, both reliably and in economical volume. Laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF) offers the design freedom to produce complex, high performance and low mass components. The limits of cast and wrought alloys are well understood, but AM lacks this mature knowledge. Design for AM (DfAM) is rapidly developing and is of specific interest to the automotive and aerospace industries for next generation component manufacturer. The complex shapes and lattices feasible with AM can seamlessly introduce thin features and variable structural geometries throughout a design. It has been reported that both thickness and build geometry affect the mechanical properties of alloys used in L-PBF. The extent of this influence still requires further investigation.
description: There is currently very limited open research on the mechanical behaviour of AM alloys with as-manufactured surfaces which cover the combined effect of build orientation and thickness below 5 mm. These variables being the most representative of the complex structures and lattices possible with L-PBF - and increasingly common features in light weighting solutions for component design.
description: This research investigates thicknesses between 1 – 5 mm across three build geometries: 0°, 45° and 90°, with respect to the build plate. These variables capture the broad variation found in complex engineering designs. Two alloys are studied, each interesting in its own right and to enable comparison. These are AlSi10Mg and Ti6Al4V, both common, commercially available light alloys used in L-PBF component manufacture.
description: The results from this study identified increasing mechanical property variability with reduced thickness, notably, Ti6Al4V exhibited a 9% reduction in UTS, something not quantified before in literature. The Weibull method was examined to interpret the property variability and showed high applicability for as-built L-PBF alloys. The findings in this research highlight the complexity of using thin features and the considerations for DfAM of complex geometries when manufacturing with either two commonly used alloys in L-PBF.
Reliable Thermal Monitoring of Electric Machines through Machine Learning
Creators: name: Kakosimos, Panagiotis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The electrification of powertrains is rising as the objective for a more viable future is intensified. To ensure continuous and reliable operation without undesirable malfunctions, it is essential to monitor the internal temperatures of machines and keep them within safe operating limits. Conventional modeling methods can be complex and usually require expert knowledge. With the amount of data collected these days, it is possible to use information models to assess thermal behaviors. This paper investigates artificial intelligence techniques for monitoring the cooling efficiency of induction machines. Experimental data was collected under specific operating conditions, and three machine-learning models have been developed. The optimal configuration for each approach was determined through rigorous hyperparameter searches, and the models were evaluated using a variety of metrics. The three solutions performed well in monitoring the condition of the machine even under transient operation, highlighting the potential of data-driven methods in improving the thermal management.
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Emissionsbilanz erneuerbarer Energieträger
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Gasförmige Luftverunreinigung
subject: Energiebedingte CO2-Emissionen
subject: Emissionen in die Luft
subject: Erneuerbare Energieerzeugung
subject: Klima | Energie
subject: Climate | Energy

description: Der vollständig überarbeitete Bericht aktualisiert bisher vorliegende Emissionsbilanzen erneuerbarer Energieträger und entwickelt diese weiter. Er enthält die methodischen Ansätze im Strom-, Wärme- und Verkehrssektor. Außerdem beinhaltet er die herangezogenen Datenquellen sowie die Ergebnisse der Netto-Emissionsbilanzierung erneuerbarer Energien für das Jahr 2012. Neu ist die Einzeldokumentation der Eingangsdaten. Ergänzend werden weiterhin die Datenanhänge veröffentlicht.
Quelle: www.umweltbundesamt.de

description: Der vollständig überarbeitete Bericht aktualisiert bisher vorliegende Emissionsbilanzen erneuerbarer Energieträger und entwickelt diese weiter. Er enthält die methodischen Ansätze im Strom-, Wärme- und Verkehrssektor. Außerdem beinhaltet er die herangezogenen Datenquellen sowie die Ergebnisse der Netto-Emissionsbilanzierung erneuerbarer Energien für das Jahr 2012. Neu ist die Einzeldokumentation der Eingangsdaten. Ergänzend werden weiterhin die Datenanhänge veröffentlicht.
Les années 1970 en France  au prisme de la médiation littéraire au petit écran
Creators: name: Delarue, Frédéric
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Bousculée par mai 68, l’émission littéraire télévisée doute d’elle-même : abandonnant le prédicat littéraire sur lequel elle reposait depuis sa création en 1953, elle s’ouvre aux questions de société et adoube les producteurs-meneurs de jeu aux dépens des réalisateurs de télévision, les essayistes et rhéteurs à la place d’auteurs moins diserts. La contestation, un temps présente, s’estompe et avec elle, le lecteur. Bernard Pivot, recruté en 1973 sur la 1ère chaîne à Ouvrez les Guillemets, comprend cette évolution,, met à profit le démantèlement de l’ORTF pour créer en 1975 Apostrophes, vue aujourd’hui comme l’émission littéraire par excellence, ce qui n’était pas sa vocation initiale.
description: ENTHYMEMA, N° 7 (2012)
title: Investigating the Role of the N-terminal Region for the Thermosensory Mechanism of TdcA
Creators: name: Uy, Marielle
Publisher: name: Science
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: TdcA
subject: ThermoPAS
subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry

description: Biofilms, a collection of bacteria encased in a protective polymeric matrix, are an essential survival mechanism for bacteria when faced with unfavourable environments. However, when these pathogenic bacterial biofilms are present in the human body, their effects can be detrimental. The protein TdcA is a biological catalyst for a secondary messenger molecule that promotes the formation of these biofilms. TdcA’s enzymatic activity is dependent on increasing temperatures, so the typical response to infections, fevers, may aid in the biofilm formation of the invading bacteria. Currently, the mechanisms of temperature sensation in TdcA are unknown. Here, we attempted to further understand the mechanisms of TdcA temperature-dependent activity with a focus on the N-terminal region. First, we aimed to solubilize and purify a His-tagged TdcA construct. While solubilization was successful, purification attempts were not successful as the vector was missing an essential purification His-tag. As such, further TdcA analysis was performed on the full length MBP tagged TdcA (MBP-TdcA). We demonstrated that the full length MBP-TdcA forms a temperature-independent distribution of oligomeric states with observed molecular weights corresponding from a monomer all the way to a nonamer, this oligomer formation also affects temperature sensitivity as the removal of the first 33 residues results in lowered activity. Lastly, with evidence from this project and several collaborators, we propose a possible mechanism of action for temperature-dependent activation, with a strong focus on the movement of the AlphaFold predicted N-terminal helix of TdcA.