cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Dangerous Terrain: Mapping the Female Body in Gonzales v. Carhart
Creators: name: Hill, B. Jessie
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2010

description: The body occupies an ambiguous position within the law. It is, in one sense, the quintessential object of state regulatory and police power. The body is the object that the state acts both upon and for; the body of the individual may, indeed, be subject to regulation and even physical intrusion in the name of the state’s power and duty to protect the health and safety of the “body politic.” At the same time, the body is often constructed in legal discourse as the site of personhood-our most intimate, sacred, and inviolate possession-implying that it is in some sense beyond the reach of the law. The inherent tension between these two concepts of the body permeates the law, but it is perhaps nowhere more prominent than in the constitutional doctrine pertaining to abortion. Abortion is one of the most heavily regulated medical procedures in the United States, and yet it is at the same time the subject of relatively robust constitutional privacy protections-often even treated as synonymous with the word “privacy” itself. This brief Article focuses on the rhetoric of the body in abortion law and more specifically on how the Supreme Court’s language constructs the female body in the recent case of Gonzales v. Carhart, which upheld the federal Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act (“PBABA”) against a constitutional challenge. A number of commentators have already remarked on the troubling rhetoric employed by Justice Kennedy’s majority opinion in that case, primarily because of its paternalistic and sentimental view of motherhood. But the focus of this Article is on the often overlooked, yet equally striking, language of the Court’s opinion that graphically describes and details the regulated abortion procedure itself.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 19 No. 3 (2010)
Rewinding history : the Cold War in Holocaust film
Creators: name: Canfield, Kristin Louise
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2023
Subjects: Poland
Film
Holocaust

description: When Pawel Pawilkowski’s 2014 narrative film Ida began to garner international acclaim, many in Poland objected claiming the film was “anti-polish.” Far from an isolated incident, this reaction can be traced back to the release of Claude Lanzmann’s 1985 Holocaust documentary Shoah. While the two films were produced in radically different contexts, their releases have stimulated strikingly similar reactions that merit an examination of the ongoing legacy of the Cold War in Holocaust film. By tracing the reception history of both films, this essay positions Ida as film that inaugurates a new critical sensibility that rejects divisions between East and West. In situating Shoah alongside the contemporary film Ida, I challenge popular representations of Poland in the Western imagination in order to examine how certain Cold War divisions persist in the present. By reading Shoah and Ida together, my hope is to contextualize their reception histories and take seriously what has been in the past dismissed as a Polish nationalist response to the films.
title: Exploring the lived experiences of park crowding for people with mobility disabilities: an interpretive phenomenological analysis
Creators: name: Dudney, Hannah R.
Publisher: name: Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Parks--British Columbia
subject: People with disabilities--Orientation and mobility

description: In Canada, municipal, provincial, and national parks are common sites for leisure activities, especially in the province of British Columbia (BC). As a result, crowding in popular parks has become a widespread concern in Canada. Research on the perceptions of crowding and social carrying capacity attempts to discover at what point the park user experience diminishes; however, there has been little focus on the experiences of people with disabilities. Commonly referred to as one of the largest minority groups in the world, people with disabilities are frequently underrepresented in conversations regarding tourism planning and outdoor recreation. A large proportion of people with disabilities have mobility disabilities (PwMDs), hence, PwMDs must be included in discussions that concern the park-user experience. An interpretive phenomenological approach was used in this study to explore the phenomenon of park crowding through the lived experiences of park users with mobility disabilities. By conducting semi-structured interviews in parks on Vancouver Island, BC and using Zoom video and audio calling, this study filled a critical academic gap within topics of crowding and nature-based leisure accessibility. Grounded in participants’ lived experiences, interpretive phenomenological analysis revealed four themes: bodily experiences with space, the helpful and harmful presence of crowd members, visibility and invisibility, and park infrastructure as an accomplice to crowding. Additionally, interviewees’ suggestions were compiled into recommendations to help park teams improve the crowded park experience of PwMDs and many other park users. Recommendation categories included parking, trails and pathways, bathrooms, signage, other design features of the built environment, and technological features. The study findings suggest that participants experienced constraints influenced by crowding and then negotiated such constraints. Well-known aspects of ableism influenced the crowded park experience within the design of the built environment and the behaviour of people encountered.
Petersii
Creators: name: Müller, F
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1885
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Passalidae
Petersii

description: * Elapops Petersii (Sehleg.)
(Pariaspis plumbeator Cope.)
Groldküste v. H. Dr. Mähly. [3]
description: Published as part of Müller, F, 1885, Vierter Nachtrag zum Katalogder herpetologischen Sammlung des Basler Museums, pp. 668-717 in Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel. 7 (3) on page 678, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.part.2388, http://zenodo.org/record/15183591
Electronic supplementary material for Helle et al. “Matrilateral bias of grandparental investment in grandchildren persists despite the grandchildren's adverse early life experiences”
Creators: name: Helle, Samuli
name: Tanskanen, Antti O.
name: Coall, David A.
name: Danielsbacka, Mirkka
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: This file contains the results of measurement invariance analysis, a table of full SEM result and Mplus code to reproduce the analyses
A scaling law for the cosmological constant from a stochastic model for cosmic structures
Creators: name: Capozziello, S.
name: Funkhouser, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A set of scaling laws, based on the stochastic motions of the granular components of astronomical systems, is applied to a cosmological model with a positive cosmological constant. It follows that the mass of the dominant particle in the observable universe must be proportional to the sixth root of the cosmological constant and of the order of the nucleon mass, which is consistent with the Zeldovich scaling law. The approach is a natural way to solve the cosmic coincidence problem. On the other hand, the observed value of the cosmological constant emerges as the result of a scaling law induced by the stochastic mechanism which gives rise to the gravitationally bound systems.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures
Polymorphism, crystal nucleation and growth in the phase-field crystal model in 2d and 3d
Creators: name: Tóth, Gyula I.
name: Tegze, György
name: Pusztai, Tamás
name: Gránásy, László
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We apply a simple dynamical density functional theory, the phase-field crystal (PFC) model of overdamped conservative dynamics, to address polymorphism, crystal nucleation, and crystal growth in the diffusion-controlled limit. We refine the phase diagram for 3d, and determine the line free energy in 2d, the height of the nucleation barrier in 2d and 3d for homogeneous and heterogeneous nucleation by solving the respective Euler-Lagrange (EL) equations. We demonstrate that in the PFC model, the body-centered cubic (bcc), the face-centered cubic (fcc), and the hexagonal close packed structures (hcp) compete, while the simple cubic structure is unstable, and that phase preference can be tuned by changing the model parameters: close to the critical point the bcc structure is stable, while far from the critical point the fcc prevails, with an hcp stability domain in between. We note that with increasing distance from the critical point the equilibrium shapes vary from sphere to the specific faceted shapes: rhombic-dodecahedron (bcc), truncated-octahedron (fcc), and hexagonal prism (hcp). Solving the equation of motion of the PFC model supplied with conserved noise, solidification starts with the nucleation of an amorphous precursor phase, into which the stable crystalline phase nucleates. The growth rate is found to be time dependent and anisotropic, which anisotropy depends on the driving force. We show that due to the diffusion-controlled growth mechanism, which is especially relevant for crystal aggrega-tion in colloidal systems, dendritic growth structures evolve in large-scale isothermal single-component PFC simula-tions. Finally, we present results for eutectic solidification in a binary PFC model.
description: 18pages, 14 figures
title: Towards inclusion: a policy analysis to support the implementation of sustainability and environmental stewardship initiatives in Nanaimo Ladysmith Public School
Creators: name: Holmes, Marylee U.
Publisher: name: Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Environmental management
subject: Outdoor education

description: Outdoor education has numerous benefits for students including improved physical and mental health, increased creativity and critical thinking, and enhanced social and emotional learning. Outdoor education also provides a range of environmental benefits such as the development of ecological identities, critical science agency, environmental stewardship, and sustainability. However, not all children and youth have equal access to outdoor education. Factors such as socioeconomic status, race, and gender create significant barriers to accessing outdoor spaces and programs. This lack of access contributes to inequities in education, limiting opportunities for certain students, and perpetuating disparities in life. School districts, schools, and educators need to actively ensure that all students have equal access to the benefits of outdoor learning, regardless of their background or circumstances. This Master of Education research is a critical policy analysis centered on the intersection of inclusion and outdoor education for one school district: Nanaimo Ladysmith Public Schools (SD 68 NLPS). The purpose of this research was to provide research-informed recommendations to SD 68 NLPS regarding the implementation of their new Environmental Stewardship Action Plan. Phase I of the research examined district and provincial inclusion documents (n=6) to identify what SD 68 NLPS is bound to as it relates to justice, equity, inclusion, and diversity. These documents were qualitatively coded and four major themes emerged. Phase II of the study looked for evidence of these four themes in SD 68 NLPS sustainability documents (n=3). Evaluation coding assessed how the district’s own inclusion policies were integrated (i.e., clearly embedded ++, superficially present +, absent -). The study concludes with recommendations to SD 68 NLPS for improving access to outdoor education, promoting environmental stewardship, and the importance of tailoring the Environmental Stewardship Action Plan to the specific goals and objectives of the district.
Hamlet, the Knight’s Tale, and the economy of fraternal relations
Creators: name: Shearer, Kayla Gayle
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2016
Subjects: Shakespeare
Chaucer

description: Hamlet criticism was forever changed when Freud compared Shakespeare’s play to Oedipus Rex and pronounced the infant sexual desires that drove both stories. Since Freud, considerations of the play have suffered from what I consider both a “father-fixation” and an assumption of female hypersensuality that obscures other, more powerful family relations driving the play. To uncover these forces I use a combination of René Girard’s theory of mimetic triangulated desire and Eve K. Sedgwick’s feminist revision of his work, which emphasizes how triangulation legitimizes an economy of exchange in women in which they signify male worth. Additionally, I posit Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale as an alternate source for Shakespeare’s portrayal of fraternal rivalry that does not implicate the parents in the sons' violence. With these tools I reframe the structure of male political power in Hamlet as based on fraternal, rather than filial, relationships. This reveals the way that mimetic rivalry shapes the relationship between Hamlet and Laertes, and offers a reading of Gertrude and Ophelia that de-emphasizes their sexual culpability.
Article
Creators: name: Mawlood, Faraidoon
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Financial accounting
Financial institutions (incl. banking)
Auditing and accountability
International accounting

description: ABSTRACT Capital structure decisions of corporations received a great deal of attention in the finance literature. The decision on how to finance the operations of a corporation has an important role in its financial performance. Against this background, this paper examines the impact of capital structure decisions on the profitability of commercial banks listed on the Bagdad Stock Exchange for the period from 2009 to 2020. According to the findings, commercial banks with higher debt ratios tend to have lower profitability in Iraq. This finding is robust against a series of control variables, including different debt ratios and profitability measures.
Approximate eigenvalue determination of geometrically frustrated magnetic molecules
Creators: name: Schnalle, R.
name: Laeuchli, A.
name: Schnack, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Geometrically frustrated magnetic molecules have attracted a lot of interest in the field of molecular magnetism as well as frustrated Heisenberg antiferromagnets. In this article we demonstrate how an approximate diagonalization scheme can be used in order to obtain thermodynamic and spectroscopic information about frustrated magnetic molecules. To this end we theoretically investigate an antiferromagnetically coupled spin system with cuboctahedral structure modeled by an isotropic Heisenberg Hamiltonian.
description: 12 pages, 13 figures, submitted for a special issue of Condensed Matter Physics (CMP)
Appending Transgender Equal Rights to Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Equal Rights
Creators: name: Adler, Libby
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2010

description: In recent years, the identity group of transgender persons has been cohering and bringing its concerns to the attention of progressive legal thinkers as well as to organs of government. In the domain of conventional anti-discrimination coverage, the result has been a number of local ordinances, a few state laws and a modest number of victories in judicial settings. In addition, advocates for transgender concerns have taken up family issues such as whether gender identity poses obstacles to child custody, access to medical services associated with gender transition and the processes for legally changing one’s name and gender. The law review literature in this area has taken off like a rocket. Much of the academic thought devoted to transgender issues has focused on the problem of judicial determinations of an individual’s gender, whether and how to gain coverage for gender identity under Title VII, the advantages and pitfalls of a disability-rights framework that medicalizes trans identity, issues specific to youth (especially youth in foster care and in the juvenile justice system), prisoner classification and sex- segregation and insurance coverage for gender-affirming care. A few critically-inclined thinkers have focused on the power that formal and discretionary bureaucratic decisions have on trans people and on the limits of formal equality, though these voices are a bit lonely.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 19 No. 3 (2010)
Digital Media Uses & Religious Authority. Among Moroccan Muslims' Associations in Germany.
Creators: name: DOUHAN Hayat
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Digital technologies
subject: Moroccan Muslims
subject: Germany
subject: Ethnography
subject: Religion
subject: Islam

description: Final conference poster of a research project that seeks to interrogate the relationship between digital technologies and religion by focusing on one religious community (Moroccan Muslims) in a specific ‘diasporic’ context (Germany).
Supplementary Material from The impact of moderate heating on human bones: an infrared and neutron spectroscopy study
Creators: name: Marques, M. P. M.
name: Batista de Carvalho, L. A. E.
name: Gonçalves, D.
name: Cunha, E.
name: Parker, S. F.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: 30606 Structural Chemistry and Spectroscopy
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: This study aims to analyse human bones exposed to low/medium temperatures (200–650°C) under experimentally controlled conditions, both oxidising and reducing, using complementary optical and neutron vibrational spectroscopy techniques. Clear differences were observed between the aerobically and anaerobically heated bones. The organic constituents disappeared at lower temperatures for the former (ca 300°C), while they lingered for higher temperatures in anaerobic environments (ca 450–550°C). Unsaturated non-graphitising carbon species (chars) were detected mainly for anaerobically heated samples, and cyanamide formation occurred only at 650°C in reducing settings. Overall, the main changes were observed from 300 to 400°C in anaerobic conditions and from 450 to 500°C in aerobic environments. The present results enabled the identification of specific spectroscopic biomarkers of the effect of moderate temperatures (less than or equal to 650°C) on human bone, thus contributing to a better characterisation of forensic and archaeological skeletal remains subject to heating under distinct environmental settings. In particular, these data may provide information regarding cannibalism or ancient bone boiling and defleshing rituals.
Introduction
Creators: name: Gender, Of
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2010

description: The Columbia Journal of Gender and Law is pleased to announce that it has brought together volume 19.3 and 19.4 to present the total symposium publication, Gender on The Frontiers: Confronting Intersectionalities. This Symposium publication brings together thirteen scholars to comment on the intersection between gender, sexual orientation and other statutes, identities and modalities. By “confronting intersectionalities,” the Symposium authors expand upon the seminal writings of Kimberl6 Crenshaw’ and explore the ways that race, class, gender and sexual orientation collectively inform people’s lived experiences under the system of laws. In examining “gender on the frontiers,” the Symposium writers examine the frontier in both its literal and figurative dimensions-analyzing citizenship and belonging; borders and exclusion, and the societal and legal regulation of bodies. While the articles featured address a common theme, the authors’ approaches are diverse, demonstrating that gender and sexuality studies is not just a discipline, but a lens, one which illuminates fields as varied as law, political science and performance studies. For ease of reference, the articles are organized alphabetically in each issue by author name but the many dialogues connecting the authors are various. This introduction hopes to illuminate some of those connections and brief summarize each article.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 19 No. 3 (2010)
Race Treason: The Untold Story of America’s Ban on Polygamy
Creators: name: Ertman, Martha M.
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2010

description: Today’s ban on polygamy grew out of nineteenth century Americans’ view that Mormons committed two types of treason. First, antipolygamists charged Mormons with political treason by establishing a separatist theocracy in Utah. Second, they saw a social treason against the nation of White citizens when Mormons adopted a supposedly barbaric marital form, one that was natural for “Asiatic and African” people, but so unnatural for Whites as to produce a new, degenerate species that threatened the project of white supremacy. This Article reveals how both kinds of treason provided the foundation of polygamy law through the discourse of legal, political and medical “experts,” as well as, most vividly, cartoons of the day. This discourse designated the overwhelmingly White Mormons as non-White to justify depriving them of citizenship rights such as voting, holding office, and sitting on juries. Paralleling the Mormon question to miscegenation disputes also raging in the decades after the Civil War, the Article suggests two theoretical perspectives to understand the “blackening” of Mormons. First, postcolonial theorist Edward Said’s concept of Orientalism helps explain how designating Mormons a subject race rendered their subjection inevitable. Second, Sir Henry Maine’s 1864 observation that progressive societies move from status to contract reveals the visceral defense of status embedded in antipolygamy discourse. That defense of status may also have implicated other ways status was giving way to contract, such as wage labor replacing slavery and the partnership theory of marriage beginning to displace coverture. In either case, the Article contends, the racial foundations of American antipolygamy law require us to rethink our own often reflexive condemnation of the practice. It concludes by suggesting three questions to help us frame that inquiry, asking: (1) whether we need to rethink this rarely-enforced ban; (2) whether current antipolygamy law associates polygamy with barbarism, foreignness, and people of color; and (3) whether it is coincidental that the plain language of the Defense of Marriage Act prohibits both polygamy and same-sex marriage.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 19 No. 2 (2010)
Interpreting the Native American World War II veteran in N. Scott Momaday’s House made of dawn
Creators: name: Pfaff, Nathan Daniel
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2018
Subjects: Native American
Veteran
World War II
WW II
N. Scott Momaday
Abel
House made of dawn

description: Critical interpretations of N. Scott Momaday’s House Made of Dawn consider Abel’s, the novel’s main character, World War II military experience only as an alienating psychological trauma without reference to the historical facts backgrounding his service or an informed interpretation of the textual evidence about his Army career. This essay aims to fill this critical gap and explore in depth what it means for Abel to be a Native American World War II veteran, what his specific experience as a Soldier was, and how this information shapes our understanding of his character. Fleshing out this part of Abel’s character brings to light new perspectives within House Made of Dawn on Native American identity, and closely examining Abel’s military service exposes biased perspectives accreted to the novel by the literary critical community stemming from reading this post-World War II novel through a post-Vietnam and/or a post-9/11 political lens.
The Effects of the Ionizing Radiation Background on Galaxy Evolution
Creators: name: Hambrick, D. Clay
name: Ostriker, Jeremiah P.
name: Naab, Thorsten
name: Johansson, Peter H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We find that the amount and nature of the assumed ionizing background can strongly affect galaxy formation and evolution. Galaxy evolution simulations typically incorporate an ultraviolet background which falls off rapidly above z=3; e.g., that of Haardt & Madau (1996). However, this decline may be too steep to fit the WMAP constraints on electron scattering optical depth or observations of intermediate redshift (z ~ 2-4) Ly-alpha forest transmission. As an alternative, we present simulations of the cosmological formation of individual galaxies with UV backgrounds that decline more slowly at high redshift: both a simple intensity rescaling and the background recently derived by Faucher-Giguere (2009), which softens the spectrum at higher redshifts. We also test an approximation of the X-ray background with a similar z-dependence. We find for the test galaxies that an increase in either the intensity or hardness of ionizing radiation generically pushes star formation towards lower redshifts: although overall star formation in the simulation boxes is reduced by 10-25%, the galaxies show a factor of ~2 increase in the fraction of stars within a 30 kpc radius that are formed after z=1. Other effects include late gas inflows enhanced up to 30 times, stellar half-mass radii decreased by up to 30%, central velocity dispersions increased up to 40%, and a strong reduction in substructure. The magnitude of the effects depends on the environmental/accretion properties of the particular galaxy.
description: 10 emulateapj pages, 10 figures; accepted by ApJ
Spreading Learning through Fake News Games
Creators: name: Schrier, Karen Kat
Publisher: name: gamevironments
Year: 2021

description: To enhance news and information literacy skills for college students, I used three games related to the spread of disinformation, Harmony Square (2020), Fake it to Make it (2017), and Troll Factory (2019). I found that the simpler games with a series of scaffolded, meaningful choices better supported student engagement. I also found that some students engaged more with a game, Harmony Square, which has strong fictional elements (characters, world-building, and humor), while others engaged more with a game, Troll Factory, which has more realistic, raw elements (using real-world posts). In all three games, players played as the villain, which was engaging for students but may have longer-term problematic implications. Finally, students critiqued the design of these games, and made their own games, which helped them to further practice their critical literacy skills.
description: gamevironments, No. 15 (2021): Special Issue "Revisiting Teaching and Games. Mapping out Ecosystems of Learning"
An analysis of the sensitivity of cutting force coefficients and their influence on the variability of stability diagrams
Creators: name: Bergmann, Jim A.
name: Wöste, Florian
name: Wiederkehr, Petra
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Milling
subject: Force model calibration
subject: Process stability
subject: 004
subject: Mahlen
subject: Kalibrieren (Messtechnik)
subject: Stabilität

description: Process forces are an integral characteristic for the evaluation of machining operations, which can be calculated using, for instance, empirical models. An adequate prediction is essential, especially as it provides input data for subsequent models, e.g., for stability analysis of milling processes. However, the calibration of force model coefficients is not unambiguous and may have multiple local optima, which can significantly affect the accuracy of the approximation of the cutting forces. In this context, the selection of experiments used for calibration is crucial to obtain adequate results. In this paper, a systematic analysis of the selection of the required calibration experiments and the influence of the resulting parametrization of the coefficients on the predicted milling forces and the stability limit was conducted.Based on the results, designs of calibration experiments could be identified, with which the influence of varying undeformed chip thicknesses could be represented adequately. By applying these force model parameterizations for stability analysis, an improvement in the prediction of stability limits was achieved.
description: Production engineering; 17(3/4)
The Unlucky Hans. The Difficulties of Adapting Fairy Tales as Text-Based Games for Young Readers
Creators: name: Schlauch, Michael
Publisher: name: gamevironments
Year: 2021

description: There is a vast amount of children’s literature in the public domain that could be adapted for the purpose of game-based learning and reading. Here I recount my attempt to design a text-based game based on the popular fairy tale Hans in luck, with the purpose to improve children’s engagement with text in primary school. Using the open-source tool Twine (2021), I made an interactive hypertext version of the story. Unfortunately, play-tests with children revealed that they found the interactive story to be little engaging and too predictable. I illustrate what design decisions may have contributed to this failure and discuss the drawbacks of converting existing literary works to an interactive format.
description: gamevironments, No. 15 (2021): Special Issue "Revisiting Teaching and Games. Mapping out Ecosystems of Learning"
Reproducibility in the age of mass feeling : toward a media history of the thirties
Creators: name: Canfield, Kristin Louise
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2019
Subjects: Modernism
Media
Frankfurt School
African American
Richard Wright
Virginia Woolf
Zora Neale Hurston

description: Reproducibility in the Age of Mass Feeling plots a genealogy for media history that centers on the work of British and American writers in the 1930s. The project examines how these writers understood the newly reproducible character of media as essential to modern political belonging. Taking Walter Benjamin as a point of departure, this dissertation tracks how Richard Wright, Virginia Woolf, and Zora Neale Hurston incorporated emergent media in their own work. The project tracks competing theories of reproduction, elaborating how these writers related to the rapidly changing media environments in which they wrote and lived. Even as these writers critiqued the ways in which then-new media participated in and perpetuated a state built on racial exclusion, they were also excited about the possibility of harnessing the power of media to reform the state. As these writers incorporated elements of new media into their own works—for instance, by reproducing newspaper articles and photographs within them—they challenged narrow conceptions of authorial agency and demonstrated how one can be implicated in a system that one claims to oppose. Elevating the work of these writers to a place in media theory alongside Walter Benjamin, the project traces a literary context for connections between Nazi Germany and Jim Crow America. Staging the historiographical problem of how fascism and Jim Crow relate to one another in terms of theories of reproduction, the project excavates formal resonances between Benjamin’s critique of the Nazi state and Wright and Hurston’s writings on Jim Crow. A chapter on Virginia Woolf’s Three Guineas (1938), an anti-fascist essay in which Woolf connects fascism abroad to British cultural politics, bridges the chapters on Richard Wright and Zora Neale Hurston by demonstrating how Woolf understood media to be complicit in producing fascist subjects, while extending the dissertation’s media history of the 1930s to anglophone Europe.
Elementary Energy Release Events in Flaring Loops: Effects of Chromospheric Evaporation on X-rays
Creators: name: Liu, Siming
name: Han, Feiran
name: Fletcher, Lyndsay
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: With the elementary energy release events introduced in a previous paper (Liu & Fletcher 2009) we model the chromospheric evaporation in flaring loops. The thick-target hard X-ray (HXR) emission produced by electrons escaping from the acceleration region dominates the impulsive phase and the thin-target emission from the acceleration region dominates the low-energy thermal component in the gradual phase, as observed in early impulsive flares. Quantitative details depend on properties of the thermal background, which leads to variations in the correlation between HXR flux and spectral index. For lower temperature and/or higher density of the background electrons, the HXRs both rise and decay more quickly with a plateau near the peak. The plateau is less prominent at higher energies. Given the complexity of transport of mass, momentum, and energy along loops in the impulsive phase, we propose a strategy to apply this single-zone energy release and electron acceleration model to observations of flares associated with single loops so that the energy release, electron acceleration, and evaporation processes may be studied quantitatively.
description: 20 pages,5 figures
A targeted sequencing approach for viability assessment and management of invasive Phytophthoras
Creators: name: Capron, Resmi
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Members of the Phytophthora genus are among the most serious invasive pathogens of forests and cause devastating ecological and economic impacts. Epidemics caused by the sudden oak death pathogen, Phytophthora ramorum, and root rot of Christmas trees caused by multiple Phytophthora species are among the many causing loss of millions of dollars to the nursery industry. In addition, a large volume of manufactured products is traded in packages made of wood and wood products globally raising phytosanitary concerns for global trade. Rigorous inspections and biosurveillance involving the monitoring of pathogens before and after applying phytosanitary measures are essential to keep these organisms under control. Despite technological advances in diagnostic assays based on genomics, assessment of treatment efficacy remains challenging for these pathogens. DNA remains stable during heat treatments and can remain as a relic in environments long after the pathogen is dead. Culture methods used for viability testing are time consuming and often report false negatives. We propose a solution to the problem using a transcriptomics approach applying the heat lability of RNA for the prediction of viability and sequence variability for taxonomic identity. We measure levels of RNA degradation by simulating phytosanitary treatment and show that RNA degradation by heat can be assessed from the length of the RNA transcript transcribed and amplified by RT-PCR. Phytophthora transcript sequences identified from an RNAseq study and reference genomes of eight clades of Phytophthora are used to create a panel of oligonucleotides that can target multiple regions along the length of several transcripts commonly expressed during host infection. Significant reduction (60-99%) in mean coverage within transcripts is observed after heat treatments for the 18 genes targeted by the panel. We present the design and testing of a rapid and high-throughput transcriptomics assay for viability assessment of Phytophthoras using the power of targeted next generation sequencing. The assay can be applied for implementation of trade regulations and management of Phytophthora infections in nurseries by regulatory agencies.
Mobility and Cultural Production. A History of the Personal Library of Bahaʾ al-Din Muhammad al-ʿAmili (953-1030/1547-1621) in Safavid Iran.
Creators: name: TAVAKOL Mahdieh
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Shaykh Bahaʾi
subject: Safavid
subject: Iran
subject: Library
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: shii islam

description: Final conference poster of a research that follows the story of the personal library of Bahaʾ al-Din Muhammad al- Amili (953-1030/1547-1621), well-known as Shaykh Bahaʾi, in Safavid Iran.
Finding the Fundamental: Shaping Identity in Gender and Sexual Orientation Based Asylum Claims
Creators: name: Hinger, Sarah
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2010

description: Within the United States and globally, gender and sexual orientation form the basis of an increasing number of rights claims and protections. Both grounds, which reflect the expanding notions and challenges of identity-based rights, have been incorporated into United States asylum law with varying success. The extension of asylum to include some claims based on gender and sexual orientation has real and immediate significance for many individuals. However, securing protection in an individual case sometimes creates precedents that make it more difficult to prevail in future asylum claims, and that limit conceptions of gender and sexual orientation within the broader movement for human rights. To obtain asylum in the United States, an applicant must be a member of a particular social group targeted for persecution on the basis of a characteristic so fundamental to identity that it cannot or should not be required to change.’ Applying this standard, adjudicators seek to understand what about gender or sexual orientation unites a group of people to the extent that it places members collectively at risk of persecution. Thus, the surest way for applicants and advocates to demonstrate that the asylum standard is met is to put forward a familiar and universalized picture of the persecuted woman, lesbian, or gay man, minimizing variability or complicating factors in the individual case. These firm but under-theorized depictions of gender and sexual orientation create and reinforce limited conceptions of identity and culture that make it more difficult to raise new asylum claims within these established categories. Existing asylum law should incorporate a more careful analysis of the harms that occur in these claims, particularly the successful ones, in order to find and permit a more robust view of identity and culture.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 19 No. 2 (2010)
Eastern European Courage through Game Art. The First Two Years of the Game Art Programme at University of Theatre and Film Arts, Budapest (2019–2021)
Creators: name: Radák, Judit
name: Pálfi, Szabolcs
Publisher: name: gamevironments
Year: 2021

description: This case study aims to show that, for game use in education, it is not sufficient for transferred knowledge to simply become part of a game, but that personal experience is also necessary. Knowledge transfer needs a supporting context that help provide intrinsic motivations, as well as helping learners to have some sort of flow experience. All of this also relates to a secondary research objective presented in this report, which is to describe the inception and conceptual approach of the only Master’s programme in Hungary, building on courses relating to video game design. These courses rests on two main pillars: the contemplation of social issues, and cooperation between students. Several unexpected events created the context for this case study: the sudden death in September 2019 at the launch of the MA course of László Rajk, who initiated the course; the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020; and then at the end of the semester a political decision that put in question the autonomy of the university, leaving students and teaching staff alike in an uncertain situation. All of these circumstances had a significant impact on teaching in the programme, as well as on our students’ learning processes. In this contribution, we present the lived experience we acquired in this special situation and how this is closely related to the investigation of the extent to which personal experience shapes personal, intrinsic, motivation in game-oriented education.
description: gamevironments, No. 15 (2021): Special Issue "Revisiting Teaching and Games. Mapping out Ecosystems of Learning"
Criminalizing Coerced Submission in the Workplace and in the Academy
Creators: name: Buchhandler-Raphael, Michal
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2010

description: This Article challenges the prevailing view that Title VII and Title IX provide a single conceptual model that fit all forms of sexual harassment. In particular, it questions the assumption that coerced sexual intercourse in the workplace and in the academy is merely another form of sexual harassment that can be addressed within the current legal framework. Rather, the current paradigm must be critically revisited in order to provide an alternative account of these “submission cases” that separately categorizes them and acknowledges their distinctive harms. Accordingly, this Article suggests that these cases should be criminalized, and elaborates upon the justifications and policy goals that support this choice and make it a desirable remedy. This Article further explores the practical ramifications of an alternative account by examining which criminal model is better suited to criminalize coerced submission. Comparing and contrasting a lack of consent model and a sexual coercion model, the Article hypothetically applies them to various cases that were litigated under the sexual harassment framework. This exercise demonstrates that the sexual coercion model provides a more comprehensive and pragmatic construct for criminalization. Therefore, this Article proposes the adoption of a specialized criminal statute based on the sexual coercion model that would criminalize supervisory sexual abuse of power within the workplace and the academy and identify several conditions that suggest that submission resulted from this abuse. Such a proposal would carefully target sexually abusive situations that may be plausible candidates for criminalization and offer a narrowly crafted prohibition that is both gender-and race-neutral and limited in scope to avoid over-criminalization.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 19 No. 2 (2010)
Amtliche Mitteilungen der Technischen Universität Dortmund Nr. 9
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Habilitationsrahmenordnung der Technischen Universität Dortmund vom 2. April 2025
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Technischen Universität Dortmund ; 2025, 9
Constraints on CP violating Yukawa couplings in Standard Model Effective Field Theory
Creators: name: Skodras, Dimitrios Alexander
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Elektronische Dipolmomente
subject: Effektive Feldtheorie
subject: Higgs-Boson
subject: 530
subject: Elektrisches Dipolmoment
subject: Feldtheorie
subject: Higgs-Teilchen

description: This thesis explores the constraints on CP-violating Yukawa couplings within the framework of Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT). In the Standard Model of particle physics (SM) such couplings do not exist but are motivated by the baryon asymmetry of the universe (BAU). Higher-dimensional operators of SMEFT induce deviations of the SM Yukawa interactions. We present their leading-order contributions to the fundamental electric dipole moments (EDM) of the SM fermions and the effective interactions with the Higgs boson through the derivation of Wilson coefficients (WC). A comprehensive global analysis is performed with the tool GAMBIT, combining EDM experimental limits with data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to extract constraints on the CP-violating phases of both light and heavy fermion Yukawa couplings. Up to six WCs are scanned simultaneously. For the calculation of collider observables, we use HiggsSignals and HiggsBounds interfaced with GAMBIT while we use self-written code for the calculation of log-likelihoods for the EDMs. Due to the differing dependencies of the observables on the WCs non-trivial correlations between the EDM and the LHC constraints are found.
Conversation and the polemic style of life : toleration and print culture in Revolutionary England
Creators: name: Garner, James Donathan
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2020
Subjects: Rhetoric
Conversation
Toleration
History of rhetoric
Seventeenth century
Milton
William Walwyn
John Saltmarsh
Style

description: Though the fields of history, literature, and political theory have had much to say about the tolerationist debates of the 1640s, this fraught period has gone woefully underexamined by historians of rhetoric. Coupling rhetorical analysis with current scholarship on early modern toleration, Conversation and the Polemic Style of Life examines three tolerationist writers’ rhetorical strategies against the intellectual backdrop of their conversational habits and attitudes toward discussion. Across its four chapters, Conversation and the Polemic Style of Life develops the notion of a conversational rhetorical stance from which authors wrote in order to expand the limits of toleration. The first chapter establishes the relevant historical context and surveys a range of Protestant and Puritan pamphlets of the 1630s and 40s to establish conversation as a matter of character and to articulate several features of conversation in the period as they were translated into writing. The second chapter contends that learned conversation informs the poet John Milton’s development of a familiar style throughout his writings on toleration as he seeks to defend learned intellectuals from public scorn. Chapter three turns to the writings of the Leveller leader and merchant William Walwyn to uncover how his penchant for charitable conversation both informs and conflicts with his use of the rhetorical figure prosopopoeia as he defends the sectaries from persecution. In the final chapter, the chaplains of the New Model Army take on their critics’ frenzied polemical attacks by appealing to virtues echoing sermo in order to defend their soldiers’ blameless conversation. In addition to making scholarly interventions pertinent to its three main case studies, this project’s four chapters offer fresh engagements with rhetorical theory and toleration studies. The project calls for toleration studies to attend more closely to the analytical technologies afforded by rhetorical theory. It furthermore suggests that rhetorical theorists and historians of rhetoric have much to gain from studying the knotty toleration controversies of the 1640s. Finally, it argues that if we think outside of the classical rhetorical frame, we can deepen our understandings of how irenic forms of rhetoric struggle and evolve in times of political turmoil.