cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Bringing the judiciary back in : an analysis of the impact of executive-judicial relations on democratic institutional stability in Venezuela
Creators: name: Burns, Lesley Martina
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Using a method of process tracing based on in-depth elite interviews, this dissertation examines the relationship between presidentialism and the rule of law in Venezuela. It finds that the perils of presidentialism—minority government, coalitions, deadlock, term limits and fixed terms—lead to institutional instability when they interact with low rule of law. Institutional instability occurs when one branch of government threatens or attacks another. Instead of exploring regime level stability this dissertation argues that state level factors more accurately capture problems associated with democracy. Rather than focusing on executive-legislative relationships, as much of the literature does, I argue that the judiciary is an important determinant of democratic governance. This dissertation shows how an examination of executive-judicial relationships helps explain dynamics leading to institutional instability in presidential systems. Interviews revealed that institutional instability was associated with judicial non-independence in three periods of Venezuela’s democratic history. During the Punto Fijo era political parties supplanted state institutions that are necessary foundations for democracy; in the transition period the gravity of the problems of a non-independent judiciary became evident; and during the Bolivarian period, the interaction between a low rule of law and presidentialism led to institutional instability. An examination of the precarious executive-judicial relationship in Venezuela builds on previous studies of instability to provide a more complete account for the decline of a seemingly stable democracy. Specifically, it provides a case study of an unstable presidential democracy to show how presidentialism contributes to institutional instability when the rule of law is weak. Finally, the dissertation contributes to shifting the analytical focus of the democratization literature from regime to state. This shift in analysis shows that satisfying the minimal regime criteria for democracy, such as elections, is insufficient to ensure institutional stability, and perhaps continued democracy. For free and fair elections to be meaningful state institutions must be capable of restraining executive power.
The Spatially Resolved Properties of the GW170817 Host Galaxy
Creators: name: Li, Yubin
name: Mao, Jirong
name: Qin, Jianbo
name: Zheng, Xianzhong
name: Liu, Fengshan
name: Zhao, Yinghe
name: Zhao, Xiao-Hong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: GW170817 is the unique gravitational-wave (GW) event that is associated to the electromagnetic (EM) counterpart GRB 170817A. NGC 4993 is identified as the host galaxy of GW170817/GRB 170817A. In this paper, we particularly focus on the spatially resolved properties of NGC 4993. We present the photometric results from the comprehensive data analysis of the high spatial-resolution images in the different optical bands. The morphological analysis reveals that NGC 4993 is a typical early-type galaxy without significant remnants of major galaxy merger. The spatially resolved stellar population properties of NGC 4993 suggest that the galaxy center has passive evolution with the outskirt formed by gas accretion. We derive the merging rate of the compact object per galaxy by a co-evolution scenario of supermassive black hole and its host galaxy. If the galaxy formation is at redshift 1.0, the merging rate per galaxy is $3.2\times 10^{-4}$ to $7.7\times 10^{-5}$ within the merging decay time from 1.0 to 5.0 Gyr. The results provide the vital information for the ongoing GW EM counterpart detections. The HST data analysis presented in this paper can be also applied for the Chinese Space Station Telescope (CSST) research in the future.
description: RAA accepted
title: The Passion and the Spirit: Albert Camus as Moral Politician
Creators: name: Klabbers, Jan
Publisher: name: European Papers (www.europeanpapers.eu)
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Albert Camus
subject: virtue ethics
subject: political crisis
subject: Europe
subject: public intellectuals

description: European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2016 1(1), 13-28
description: I. Introduction. - II. A manifesto. - III. On Camus. - IV. Camus and the virtues. - V. A smouldering continent. - V.1. Financial crisis. - V.2. Refugee flows. - V.3. Russia and Crimea. - V.4. Referenda, governance, responsibility. - VI. To conclude.
description: This essays addresses the curious circumstance that for all their visibility on blogs, twitter and the 'op-ed' pages of newspapers, public intellectuals offer remarkably little ethical guidance regarding current events and crises. These intellectuals may offer their expertise (explanations, predictions), but do not provide much ethical inspiration, almost as if 'right' and 'wrong' have become meaningless categories. Things were different a few generations ago, when the likes of Albert Camus would search their souls in order to figure out how to live. This essay portrays Camus as private citizen and public moralist, and briefly discusses current political events in a mindset inspired by Camus.
Bloom-epistemic and sentiment analysis hierarchical classification in course discussion forums
Creators: name: Toba, H.
name: Hernita, Y. T.
name: Ayub, M.
name: Wijanto, M. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.7

description: Online discussion forums are widely used for active textual interaction between lecturers and students, and to see how the students have progressed in a learning process. The objective of this study is to compare appropriate machine-learning models to assess sentiments and Bloomś epistemic taxonomy based on textual comments in educational discussion forums. Our proposed method is called the hierarchical approach of Bloom-Epistemic and Sentiment Analysis (BE-Sent). The research methodology consists of three main steps. The first step is the data collection from the internal discussion forum and YouTube comments of a Web Programming channel. The next step is text preprocessing to annotate the text and clear unimportant words. Furthermore, with the text dataset that has been successfully cleaned, sentiment analysis and epistemic categorization will be done in each sentence of the text. Sentiment analysis is divided into three categories: positive, negative, and neutral. Bloomś epistemic is divided into six categories: remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating. This research has succeeded in producing a course learning subsystem that assesses opinions based on text reviews of discussion forums according to the category of sentiment and epistemic analysis.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures
Accurate and homogeneous abundance patterns in solar-type stars of the solar neighbourhood: a chemo-chronological analysis
Creators: name: da Silva, R.
name: de Mello, G. F. Porto
name: Milone, A. C.
name: da Silva, L.
name: Ribeiro, L. S.
name: Rocha-Pinto, H. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the abundances of C, Na, Mg, Si, Ca, Sc, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Sr, Y, Zr, Ba, Ce, Nd, and Sm in 25 solar-type stars in the solar neighbourhood, and their correlations with ages, kinematics, and orbital parameters. The spectroscopic analysis, based high resolution and high S/N ratio data, was differential to the Sun and applied to atomic line EWs and to C and C2 spectral synthesis. We performed a statistical study using a tree clustering analysis, searching for groups of stars sharing similar abundance patterns. We derived Teff, log(g), and [Fe/H] with errors of 30 K, 0.13 dex, and 0.05 dex, respectively. The average error in [X/Fe] is 0.06 dex. Ages were derived from theoretical HR diagrams and memberships in kinematical moving groups. We identified four stellar groups: with over-solar abundances ( = +0.26 dex), under-solar abundances ( = -0.24 dex), and intermediate values ( = -0.06 and +0.06 dex) but with distinct chemical patterns. Stars sharing solar metallicity, age, and Galactic orbit possibly have non-solar abundance, an effect either of chemical heterogeneity in their natal clouds or migration. A trend of [Cu/Fe] with [Ba/Fe] seems to exist, in agreement with previous claims in the literature, and maybe also of [Sm/Fe] with [Ba/Fe]. No such correlation involving C, Na, Mn, and Zn is observed. [Mg/Fe], [Sc/Fe], and [Ti/Fe] increase with age. [Mn/Fe] and [Cu/Fe] first increase towards younger stars up to the solar age, and then decrease, a result we interpret as possibly related to time-varying yields of SN Ia and the weak s-process. [Sr/Fe], [Y/Fe], [Sr/Mg], [Y/Mg], [Sr/Zn], and [Y/Zn] linearly increase towards younger stars. [Zr/Fe], [Ce/Fe], [Nd/Fe], [Ba/Mg], [Ba/Zn], and [Sr,Y,Ba/Sm] increase but only for stars younger than the Sun. The steepest negative age relation is due to [Ba/Fe], but only for stars younger than the Sun.
description: 27 pages, 11 figures, 10 tables
From problems of citizenship to questions of action
Creators: name: Loewen, Kyle
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: This thesis is a methodological evaluation of thequestion–or problem –of citizenship that explores this concept’s limits,the consequences of citizenship’s overextension,and the potential of analternative question of action for political inquiry. Through thisprocess, the thesis intervenes within citizenship studies’dominant theoretical concerns with the everyday and the constitutive other, asserting that they both maintain the citizen as the defining term of the political. It argues that this conceptualization of politics is produced by the question of citizenship, and is expressed in its assumptions of separation that reduce political action to citizenship.In contrast, aquestion of action provides an alternative engagement with politics by limiting the concept of citizenship itself to avoid defining the political and action through this term.The conclusion briefly explores posing a question of action and enumerates some potential research avenues for its actualization.
title: The Limping Legitimacy of EU Lawmaking: A Barrier to Integration
Creators: name: Harlow, Carol
Publisher: name: European Papers (www.europeanpapers.eu)
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: lawmaking
subject: legitimacy
subject: democracy
subject: output values
subject: input values
subject: citizen access

description: European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2016 1(1), 29-54
description: I. Introduction. - II. An historical legacy. - III. Lawmaking in the European Union: A delegated function? - III.1. Sub-delegation. - III.2. The tools of output legitimacy: "Better Regulation". - III.3. Expertise and output legitimacy. - III.4. Lawmaking by committee. - III.5. The Lisbon reforms. - IV. Pushing for democratic input. - IV.1 Lawmaking and representation. - IV.2. Transparency as a tin-opener. - IV.3. Citizen input and participation. - V. Towards legitimation?
description: This paper uses the concepts of output and input legitimacy to examine the formal lawmaking processes of the European Union. It argues that the traditional distinction between laws, which are legitimated through the democratic concept of representativeness, and subordinate legislation, which is normally justified in terms of output values of efficiency and effectiveness, need to be modified in the European Union. The paper argues that the need for democratic input values requires all formal lawmaking processes to make space for popular access to the policy- and rulemaking processes.
CO Multi-line Imaging of Nearby Galaxies (COMING). XII. CO-to-H$_{2}$ Conversion Factor and Dust-to-Gas Ratio
Creators: name: Yasuda, Atsushi
name: Kuno, Nario
name: Sorai, Kazuo
name: Muraoka, Kazuyuki
name: Miyamoto, Yusuke
name: Kaneko, Hiroyuki
name: Yajima, Yoshiyuki
name: Tanaka, Takahiro
name: Morokuma-Matsui, Kana
name: Takeuchi, Tsutomu T.
name: Kobayashi, Masato I. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We simultaneously measured the spatially-resolved CO-to-H$_{2}$ conversion factor ($α_\mathrm{CO}$) and dust-to-gas ratio (DGR) in nearby galaxies on a kiloparsec scale. In this study, we used $^{12}$CO($J=1-0$) data obtained by the Nobeyama 45-m radio telescope with HI and dust mass surface densities. We obtained the values of global $α_\mathrm{CO}$ and DGR in 22 nearby spiral galaxies, with averages of $2.66 \pm 1.36\ M_\odot\ \mathrm{pc}^{-2}\ (\mathrm{K\ km\ s^{-1}})^{-1}$ and $0.0052 \pm 0.0026$, respectively. Furthermore, the radial variations of $α_\mathrm{CO}$ and DGR in four barred spiral galaxies (IC 342, NGC 3627, NGC 5236, and NGC 6946) were obtained by dividing them into the inner and outer regions with a boundary of $0.2R_{25}$, where $R_{25}$ is the isophotal radius at 25 mag arcsec$^{-2}$ in the $B$ band. The averages of $α_\mathrm{CO}$ and DGR in the inner region ($\leq 0.2R_{25}$) are $0.36 \pm 0.08\ M_\odot\ \mathrm{pc}^{-2}\ (\mathrm{K\ km\ s^{-1}})^{-1}$ and $0.0199 \pm 0.0058$, while those in the outer region ($> 0.2R_{25}$) are $1.49 \pm 0.76\ M_\odot\ \mathrm{pc}^{-2}\ (\mathrm{K\ km\ s^{-1}})^{-1}$ and $0.0084 \pm 0.0037$, respectively. The value of $α_\mathrm{CO}$ in the outer region is 2.3 to 5.3 times larger than that of the inner region. When separated into the inner and outer regions, we find that $α_\mathrm{CO}$ and DGR correlate with the metallicity and the star formation rate surface density. The value of $α_\mathrm{CO}$ derived in this study tends to be smaller than those obtained in previous studies for the Milky Way and nearby star-forming galaxies. This fact can be attributed to our measurements being biased toward the inner region; we measured $α_\mathrm{CO}$ at 0.85 and 0.76 times smaller in radius than the previous works for nearby star-forming galaxies and the Milky Way, respectively.
description: 64 pages, 32 figures, accepted to PASJ
The supersymmetric black holes of N=8 supergravity
Creators: name: Ortin, Tomas
name: Shahbazi, C. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the general results on the classification of timelike supersymmetric solutions of all 4-dimensional N >1 supergravity theories, we show how to construct all the supersymmetric (single- and multi-) black-hole solutions of N=8 supergravity.
description: One reference and one short paragraph added. Latex2e file, 14 pages, no figures
Assessment of valley coherence in a high-quality monolayer molybdenum diselenide
Creators: name: Urano, Yuto
name: Mengsong, Xue
name: Watanabe, Kenji
name: Taniguchi, Takashi
name: Kitaura, Ryo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the valley coherence in high and low-quality monolayer MoSe2 by polarization-resolved photoluminescence spectroscopy. The observed valley coherence is on the order of 10 % regardless of the sample quality, proving that the suppression of extrinsic effects does not improve the valley coherence. The valley decoherence time estimated based on the valley coherence time and exciton lifetime is sub-picosecond at the longest, which suggests that intrinsic scattering sources, such as phonons, strongly limit the valley coherence.
Peaks above the Maxwellian Sea: A New Approach to Finding Substructure in N-Body Haloes
Creators: name: Elahi, Pascal J.
name: Thacker, Robert J.
name: Widrow, Lawrence M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe a new algorithm for finding substructures within dark matter haloes from N-body simulations. The algorithm relies upon the fact that dynamically distinct substructures in a halo will have a {\em local} velocity distribution that differs significantly from the mean, i.e. smooth background halo. We characterize the large-scale mean field using a coarsely grained cell-based approach, while a kernel smoothing process is used to determined the local velocity distribution. Comparing the ratio of these two estimates allows us to identify particles which are strongly cluster in velocity space relative to the background and thus resident in substructure. From this population of outliers, groups are identified using a Friends-of-Friends-like approach. False positives are rejected using Poisson noise arguments. This approach does not require a search of the full phase-space structure of a halo, a non-trivial task, and is thus computationally advantageous. We apply our algorithm to several test cases and show that it identifies not only subhaloes, bound overdensities in phase-space, but can recover tidal streams with a high purity. Our method can even find streams which do not appear significantly overdense in either physical or phase-space.
description: 17 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Evaluation of Competing J domain:Hsp70 Complex Models in Light of Existing Mutational and NMR Data
Creators: name: Sousa, Rui
name: Jiang, Jianwen
name: Lafer, Eileen M.
name: Hinck, Andrew P.
name: Wang, Liping
name: Taylor, Alexander B.
name: Maes, E. Guy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Ahmad et al. recently presented an NMR-based model for a bacterial DnaJ J domain:DnaK(Hsp70):ADP complex(1) that differs significantly from the crystal structure of a disulfide linked mammalian auxilin J domain:Hsc70 complex that we previously published(2). They claimed that their model could better account for existing mutational data, was in better agreement with previous NMR studies, and that the presence of a cross-link in our structure made it irrelevant to understanding J:Hsp70 interactions. Here we detail extensive NMR and mutational data relevant to understanding J:Hsp70 function and show that, in fact, our structure is much better able to account for the mutational data and is in much better agreement with a previous NMR study of a mammalian polyoma virus T-ag J domain:Hsc70 complex than is the Ahmad et al. complex, and that our structure is predictive and provides insight into J:Hsp70 interactions and mechanism of ATPase activation.
Business Models for Digitalization Enabled Energy Efficiency and Flexibility in Industry: A Survey with Nine Case Studies
Creators: name: Ma, Zhipeng
name: Jørgensen, Bo Nørregaard
name: Levesque, Michelle
name: Amazouz, Mouloud
name: Ma, Zheng Grace
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Digitalization is challenging in heavy industrial sectors, and many pi-lot projects facing difficulties to be replicated and scaled. Case studies are strong pedagogical vehicles for learning and sharing experience & knowledge, but rarely available in the literature. Therefore, this paper conducts a survey to gather a diverse set of nine industry cases, which are subsequently subjected to analysis using the business model canvas (BMC). The cases are summarized and compared based on nine BMC components, and a Value of Business Model (VBM) evaluation index is proposed to assess the business potential of industrial digital solutions. The results show that the main partners are industry stakeholders, IT companies and academic institutes. Their key activities for digital solutions include big-data analysis, machine learning algorithms, digital twins, and internet of things developments. The value propositions of most cases are improving energy efficiency and enabling energy flexibility. Moreover, the technology readiness levels of six industrial digital solutions are under level 7, indicating that they need further validation in real-world environments. Building upon these insights, this paper proposes six recommendations for future industrial digital solution development: fostering cross-sector collaboration, prioritizing comprehensive testing and validation, extending value propositions, enhancing product adaptability, providing user-friendly platforms, and adopting transparent recommendations.
TeV halos and the role of pulsar wind nebulae as sources of cosmic ray positrons
Creators: name: Schroer, Benedikt
name: Evoli, Carmelo
name: Blasi, Pasquale
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recent detection of the Geminga PWN by HAWC in the multi-TeV band allows us to infer precious information about the transport of pairs in the immediate surroundings of the pulsar and on the spectrum of pairs contributed by a Geminga-like pulsar to the spectrum of pairs in the cosmic radiation. Moreover, this detection allows us to address the issue of how typical are the so-called TeV halos associated to PWNe. Our calculations confirm the need to have suppressed diffusion in a region of at least $20-50\,$pc around the pulsar, and are used here to infer precious constraints on the spectrum of pairs accelerated at the termination shock: more specifically, we discuss the conditions under which such a spectrum is consistent with that typically expected in a PWN and how it gets modified once it escapes the halo. Finally, we discuss the implications of the existence of a TeV halo around Geminga in terms of acceleration of protons in the pulsar environment, a topic of profound relevance for the whole field of particle acceleration and physics of pulsars.
description: 15 pages, accepted for publication in PRD
Multi-Chroic Feed-Horn Coupled TES Polarimeters
Creators: name: McMahon, J.
name: Beall, J.
name: Becker, D.
name: Cho, H. M.
name: Fox, R. Datta. A.
name: Halverson, N.
name: Hubmayr, J.
name: Irwin, K.
name: Nibarger, J.
name: Niemack, M.
name: Smith, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Multi-chroic polarization sensitive detectors offer an avenue to increase both the spectral coverage and sensitivity of instruments optimized for observations of the cosmic-microwave background (CMB) or sub-mm sky. We report on an effort to adapt the Truce Collaboration horn coupled bolometric polarimeters for operation over octave bandwidth. Development is focused on detectors operating in both the 90 and 150 GHz bands which offer the highest CMB polarization to foreground ratio. We plan to deploy an array of 256 multi-chroic 90/150 GHz polarimeters with 1024 TES detectors on ACTPol in 2013, and there are proposals to use this technology for balloon-borne instruments. The combination of excellent control of beam systematics and sensitivity make this technology ideal for future ground, ballon, and space missions.
description: 6 Pages, 4 Figures, submitted to the proceedings of Low Temperature Detectors-14 (LTD14)
The dependency axiom and the relation between agreement and movement
Creators: name: Linares Scarcerieau, Carlo Andrei
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: Agreement and movement go hand in hand in a number of constructions across languages, and this correlation has played an important role in syntactic theory. The currentstandardapproach to thismovement-agreement connectionis the Agree+EPP model, whose EPP component has often been questioned on conceptual grounds. The goal of this dissertation is to developan alternative model of the movement-agreement connection that derives it from an independently motivated principle of grammar, the Dependency Axiom (DA), which regulates the way in which grammatical dependencies of differentsorts are encoded syntactically. In particular, the DA prohibits configurations in which the dominant element of a dependency is asymmetrically c-commanded by the element that depends on it. In the domain of agreement, this rules out configurations in which the target of agreement (the probe) c-commands the controller of agreement (the goal). Such configurations can be repaired, however, by moving the goal outside the c-command domain of the probe: this would be the core mechanism underlying the relation between agreement and movement. Furthermore, evidence from Swedish and Hindi is discussed, which suggests that this movement does not have to target the specifier of the probe, as long as the goal escapes the c-command domain of the latter –a state of affairs incompatible with the Agree+EPP model, but expected under the DA. The dissertation also addressesthe main empirical problem of the DA theory, which is the existence of several kinds of constructions in which the goal seems never to escape the c-command domain of the probe. I show that in these construction types, agreement often obtains in violation of syntacticlocality principles, and seems instead sensitive to linear adjacency. This leads to the conclusion that the relevant forms of agreement obtain at PF, and thus it not expected for them to be subject to syntactic conditions such as the DA.
The GRAVITY young stellar object survey -- XI. Probing the inner disk and magnetospheric accretion region of CI Tau
Creators: name: GRAVITY Collaboration
name: Soulain, A.
name: Perraut, K.
name: Bouvier, J.
name: Pantolmos, G.
name: Garatti, A. Caratti o
name: Caselli, P.
name: Garcia, P.
name: Lopez, R. Garcia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Aims: We aim at spatially and spectrally resolving the innermost scale of the young stellar object CI Tau to constrain the inner disk properties and better understand the magnetospheric accretion phenomenon. Methods: The high sensitivity offered by the combination of the four 8-m telescopes of the VLTI allied with the spectral resolution of the K-band beam combiner GRAVITY offers a unique capability to probe the sub-au scale of the CI Tau system, tracing both dust and gas emission regions. We develop a geometrical model to fit the interferometric observables and constrain the physical properties of the inner dusty disk. The continuum-corrected pure line visibilities have been used to estimate the size of the Br$γ$ emitting region. Results: From the K-band continuum study, we report an highly inclined resolved inner dusty disk, with an inner edge located at a distance of $21\pm2\,R_\star$ from the central star, which is significantly larger than the dust sublimation radius (R$_{sub}= 4.3$ to $8.6\,R_\star$). The inner disk appears misaligned compared to the outer disk observed by ALMA and the non-zero closure phase indicates the presence of a bright asymmetry on the south-west side. From the differential visibilities across the Br$γ$ line, we resolve the line emitting region, and measure a size of $4.8^{+0.8}_{-1.0}$ $R_\star$. Conclusions: The extended inner disk edge compared to the dust sublimation radius is consistent with the claim of an inner planet, CI Tau b, orbiting close-in. The inner-outer disk misalignment may be induced by gravitational torques or magnetic warping. The size of the Br$γ$ emitting region is consistent with the magnetospheric accretion process. Assuming it corresponds to the magnetospheric radius, it is significantly smaller than the co-rotation radius, which suggests an unstable accretion regime that is consistent with CI Tau being a burster.
description: 12 pages, 13 figures
Sulfate and selenate uptake in wild and mutant strains of Echerichia coli K-12: a possible mechanism for selenate toxicity
Creators: name: Springer, Sharon Elaine
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1972
Subjects: subject: QR 82 E6 S64 1972
subject: Escherichia Coli
subject: sulphates
subject: Biological transport
subject: selenium

description: Bibliography: p. 109-112
Lepton asymmetries and primordial hypermagnetic helicity evolution
Creators: name: Semikoz, V. B.
name: Sokoloff, D.
name: Valle, J. W. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The hypermagnetic helicity density at the electroweak phase transition (EWPT) exceeds many orders of magnitude the galactic magnetic helicity density. Together with previous magnetic helicity evolution calculations after the EWPT and hypermagnetic helicity conversion to the magnetic one at the EWPT, the present calculation completes the description of the evolution of this important topological feature of cosmological magnetic fields. It suggests that if the magnetic field seeding the galactic dynamo has a primordial origin, it should be substantially helical. This should be taken into account in scenarios of galactic magnetic field evolution with a cosmological seed.
description: LaTeX, 12 pages, 3 figures, jcappub.sty, to be published in JCAP
Behaviorism and literary modernity, 1913-2009
Creators: name: Gang, Joshua
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: “Behaviorism and Literary Modernity, 1913-2009”constructs a history of twentieth-century literature by examining how writers incorporated behaviorism’s arguments against consciousness into discussions of aesthetics, subjectivity, and empire. Skeptical of introspective knowledge, behaviorist thinkers argued that only external behaviors—and not mental states—could be known empirically. This paradigm not only dominated twentieth-centurypsychology and philosophy but also made crucial, if unrecognized, contributions to modern literature. Examining how behaviorism circulated and competed against other psychological doctrines,this dissertation substantially alters the idea of modernism as a “turn inward.” Instead, I argue that modernism comprised an intense debate about the nature of such interiority and about the relationship of internal mental states to external aesthetic forms. Where some modernists saidthat literary forms offered unique access to mental states, others came to understand form itself as a behavior with no necessary ties to consciousness. Competing with explanations offered by psychoanalysis, structuralism, and cognitive science, behaviorism was at the heart of this debate—as well as others about the nature of subjectivity, agency, and language. Writers skeptical of depth psychology found through behaviorism new modelsof aesthetic formand political action that seemingly circumvented the problems of self-knowledge and other minds. Bringing together analysesof the New Critics, Samuel Beckett, Djuna Barnes, Bertolt Brecht, Richard Wright and JM Coetzee, this dissertationdemonstrateshowbehaviorism changed literary thinking across the globe and allows new insights into the psychological dimensions of aesthetic form, critical interpretation, and globalization.
Effect of amino acid analogs on the growth and biochemistry of the Taper liver tumor
Creators: name: MacLean, Sheila Janet
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1970
Subjects: subject: QP 801 A5 M24 1970
subject: Amino acids
subject: Tumors
subject: Cancer - Chemotherapy
subject: Liver - Physiology
subject: Mice - Physiology

description: Bibliography: p. 75-77.
Modelling the escape of Lyman Continuum photons from galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization
Creators: name: Bremer, Jonas
name: Dayal, Pratika
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We couple the DELPHI framework for galaxy formation with a model for the escape of ionizing photons to study both its variability with galaxy assembly and the resulting key reionization sources. In this model, leakage either occurs through a fully ionized gas distribution (ionization bounded) or additionally through channels cleared of gas by supernova explosions (ionization bounded + holes). The escape fraction is therefore governed by a combination of the density and star formation rate. Having calibrated our star formation efficiencies to match high-$z$ observables, we find the central gas density to regulate the boundary between high ($>0.70$) and low ($<0.06$) escape fractions. As galaxies become denser at higher redshifts, this boundary shifts from $M_{h}\simeq 10^{9.5}\mathrm{M_{\odot}}$ at $z\sim 5$ to $M_{h}\simeq 10^{7.8}\mathrm{M_{\odot}}$ at $z\sim 15$. While leakage is entirely governed through holes above this mass range, it is not affecting general trends for lower masses. We find the co-evolution of galaxy assembly and the degree of leakage to be mass and redshift dependent, driven by an increasing fraction of $f_{\mathrm{esc}}<0.06$ galaxies at increasing mass and redshift. The variability in the escape of ionizing photons is driven by the underlying variations in our dark matter assembly histories. Galaxies with $M_h < 10^{7.9} ~ (10^{8.9})M_{\odot}$ provide half of the escaping ionizing emissivity by $z \sim 10 ~ (5)$ in the ionization bounded model. On the other hand, galaxies that purely leak through holes contribute $6$ $(13)\%$ at $z\sim 5$ $(15)$. We end by exploring the impact of two reionization feedback scenarios, in which we suppress the gas content of galaxies with $T_{\mathrm{vir}}<20000\mathrm{K}$ and $v_{c}<30\mathrm{kms^{-1}}$ residing in ionized regions.
description: 16 pages, 10 figures
The utility of symbols : the relationship between symbols and legitimacy in international relations
Creators: name: Smith, Alison Mary Ann
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: My thesis will demonstrate that symbols matter in international relations because of the way they can influence legitimacy. Joseph Nye has argued, “cooperation is a matter of degree” in international relations (Nye 2004, 29); legitimacy is one of the factors that determines the extent to which the international community will cooperate with a given action. Thomas Franck (1990) argues that legitimacy, too, is a matter of degree. This means that actions are not always judged to be strictly legitimate or illegitimate, but rather, they fall on a spectrum somewhere between the two extremes. The puzzle, however, is how states calculate the degree of legitimacy of an action. I argue that symbols have an important role to play in this calculation of the extent to which an action is seen as legitimate. This thesis will further explore the role and power of symbols in international relations, a role that the literature on legitimacy has not thoroughly discussed. I will use two case studies, Canada’s refusals to endorse Operation Iraqi Freedom and Ballistic Missile Defence, to demonstrate that symbols are a source of power in international relations. The American administration went to significant lengths to try to obtain a Canadian endorsement of these initiatives because it knew that this endorsement would contribute to the perceived legitimacy of these actions. The degree to which an action is seen as legitimate can influence the extent to which the international community will cooperate with it, or at least not resist it. I conclude that this argument has implications for Canadian foreign and defence policy, and that the literature regarding legitimacy should better reflect this power of symbols in international relations.
Solubilization, purification and partial characterization of trehalase from Drosophila Melanogaster and Apis Mellifera
Creators: name: Lefebvre, Yvonne Adele
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1970
Subjects: subject: QP 601 L44 1970
subject: Enzymes
subject: Trehalase
subject: Bees
subject: Fruit flies

description: Bibliography: p. 80-83.
Vers / Mouvements
Creators: name: Barker, Jodie Mae
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: Vers/Mouvementsis a cross-cultural exploration of movement in contemporary French-language poetry and theater from the 1970-1982. The study focuses on poets Anne-Marie Albiach (France) and Léopold Sédar Senghor (Senegal), and playwrights Werewere Liking (Cameroon/Ivory Coast) and Ariane Mnouchkine and her ThéâtreduSoleil(France). Major texts produced in the second half of the 20thcentury are often characterized as ambiguous, apathetic and open to suspicion. Yet if we turn toward what French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari call “minor literature” –works that use language as a “heterogeneous, variable reality” where “authors are foreigners in their own tongue” –we discover affirmations of specificity, vitality and intensity, conveyed in each instance by a new emphasis on movement that involves dance, ritual and performance. Through their sensational movements, and in a surprising turn from “cultural vacuity” and “intellectual nihilism,” the primary works of the dissertation not only gesture toward, but also put into motion andpracticeperformances of difference. Such diverse and dynamic performances, while remaining particular to the work from which they emerge, are spurred through a movement or movements –encounters –that manifest in, through and even beyond the literarytext. These encounters are remarkable for several reasons: they are sensory/corporeal; they span the French-speaking globe; and they occur cross-genres and even shatter the notion of literary genre. Further, from these encounters, ethics emerge. These embodied and cosmopolitan ethics are unlike conventional ethics, for they do not correspond to a set of rules or obligations. They “move” by way of active practices, and transform how wemove, know, become and live in the world. It is in these ways and through minor tones, therefore, that the texts in Vers/Mouvementsmove as practices. In turn, the practices that emerge from the texts actively and affectively carve out ways for a new, intense and life-affirming future àvenir.
On cancellation of non-adiabatic and off-shell effects in the antiproton annihilation in deuteron
Creators: name: Dalkarov, O. D.
name: Karmanov, V. A.
name: Kupriyanova, E. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As known, some approximate approaches to the hadron scattering from nuclei work rather well far beyond the limits of their applicability. This was explained by cancellation of the contributions (non-adiabatic and off-shell effects) omitted in these approaches. Moreover, in some cases (in particular, for the reaction $\bar{p}d \to e^+e^-n$) this cancellation allowed to derive rather simple analytical formula for the reaction amplitude. Solving the Faddeev equations, we confirm numerically this formula and, hence, the cancellations.
description: 18 pages, 8 figures, accepted in Eur. Phys. Journ. A
Railway vibrations induced into the soil: experiments, modelling and isolation. - Vibrations induites dans les sols par le trafic ferroviaire : expérimentations, modélisations et isolation
Creators: name: Semblat, Jean-François
name: Lenti, Luca
name: Jacqueline, Delphine
name: Leblond, Jean-Jacques
name: Grasso, Eva
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Railway traffic induces cyclic and dynamic loadings in the track structure but also in the close environment (Degrande et al. 2006, François et al. 2007, Kausel 2008, Lefeuve-Mesgouez et al 2002, Paolucci et Spinelli 2006). The analysis of such excitations and their effects (e.g. vibrations, waves, etc) is fundamental to estimate their level and mitigate their potential consequences (settlements, nuisances, etc). After a brief summary of the current regulations, in situ experiments show the variability of the parameters characterizing the main phenomena (wave propagation into the soil, induced vibrations, etc). The main dynamic laboratory experiments are then discussed. They allow the estimation of the dynamic features of the materials (e.g. resonant column test), but also a simplified analysis of the main phenomena under controlled conditions (e.g. experiments in a geotechnical pit, centrifuge tests). The vibratory sources and the impedance ratios between the various soil layers (or some inclusions) being known, it is then possible to model some specific or actual configurations through theoretical (transfer functions) or numerical (e.g. finite elements, boundary elements) methods. Parametric studies allow the analysis of the propagation phenomena and the attenuation process in the soil in order to investigate the spatial variations of the vibrations amplitude in such various configurations. Finally, it may be useful to consider mitigation or isolation techniques in order to limit the consequences of the induced vibrations (e.g. vibratory nuisances, radiated noise). Several experimental and numerical results illustrate this key issue.
Accretion by the Galaxy
Creators: name: Binney, James
name: Fraternali, Filippo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cosmology requires at least half of the baryons in the Universe to be in the intergalactic medium, much of which is believed to form hot coronae around galaxies. Star-forming galaxies must be accreting from their coronae. HI observations of external galaxies show that they have HI halos associated with star formation. These halos are naturally modelled as ensembles of clouds driven up by supernova bubbles. These models can fit the data successfully only if clouds exchange mass and momentum with the corona. As a cloud orbits, it is ablated and forms a turbulent wake where cold high-metallicity gas mixes with hot coronal gas causing the prompt cooling of the latter. As a consequence the total mass of HI increases. This model has recently been used to model the Leiden-Argentina-Bonn survey of Galactic HI. The values of the model's parameters that are required to model NGC 891, NGC 2403 and our Galaxy show a remarkable degree of consistency, despite the very different natures of the two external galaxies and the dramatic difference in the nature of the data for our Galaxy and the external galaxies. The parameter values are also consistent with hydrodynamical simulations of the ablation of individual clouds. The model predicts that a galaxy that loses its cool-gas disc for instance through a major merger cannot reform it from its corona; it can return to steady star formation only if it can capture a large body of cool gas, for example by accreting a gas-rich dwarf. Thus the model explains how major mergers can make galaxies "red and dead."
description: Invited review at "Assembling the Puzzle of the Milky Way", Grand Bornand, April 2011; 6 pages
Mapping Research Topics on Financial Reports in Sharia Financial Institutions: VOSviewer Bibliometric Study and Literature Review
Creators: name: Ulum, Ima Fidatul
name: Rahmadina, Aisyah Nur
name: Budianto, Eka Wahyu Hestya
name: Dewi, Nindi Dwi Tetria
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This study aims to determine the development of research around Financial Statements in Islamic Financial Institutions. The research was conducted from 20 05 to 2022, by searching national journals indexed by Sinta via the Garuda website, with the keyword "Financial Statement". Based on the search results, there were 131 research articles, then inputted into the VOSviewer application and analyzed descriptively through a literature review study. The results showed that the number of publications had increased significantly every year. Furthermore, based on the results detected using the VOSviewer application, research related to Financial Statement is divided into 10 clusters and 1 85 items. Meanwhile, based on the results of a literature review study, there are 5 main themes related to Financial Statements in Islamic Financial Institutions.
Gate-tunable multiband transport in ZrTe5 thin devices
Creators: name: Liu, Yonghe
name: Pi, Hanqi
name: Watanabe, Kenji
name: Taniguchi, Takashi
name: Gu, Genda
name: Li, Qiang
name: Weng, Hongming
name: Wu, Quansheng
name: Li, Yongqing
name: Xu, Yang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Interest in ZrTe5 has been reinvigorated in recent years owing to its potential for hosting versatile topological electronic states and intriguing experimental discoveries. However, the mechanism of many of its unusual transport behaviors remains controversial, for example, the characteristic peak in the temperature-dependent resistivity and the anomalous Hall effect. Here, through employing a clean dry-transfer fabrication method under inert environment, we successfully obtain high-quality ZrTe5 thin devices that exhibit clear dual-gate tunability and ambipolar field effects. Such devices allow us to systematically study the resistance peak as well as the Hall effect at various doping densities and temperatures, revealing the contribution from electron-hole asymmetry and multiple-carrier transport. By comparing with theoretical calculations, we suggest a simplified semiclassical two-band model to explain the experimental observations. Our work helps to resolve the long-standing puzzles on ZrTe5 and could potentially pave the way for realizing novel topological states in the two-dimensional limit.
description: 38 pages, 4 main + 11 supplementary figures
Structural and biophysical studies of α-Synuclein
Creators: name: Kang, Lijuan
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: α-Synuclein (αsyn), the main component of Lewy Body (LB), is the pathogenesis of Parkinson’s disease (PD) as well as other synucleinopathies. αSyn is intrinsically disordered and its aggregation process is affected by sequence replacement and environment factors. In this dissertation, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) was employed to characterize the conformations of αsyn and its variants and Thioflavin T (ThT) fluorescence was utilized to identify aggregation kinetics. The correlation between aggregation kinetics and conformation revealed specific aggregation-prone conformations, thereby providing new insights into the molecular mechanism of αsyn aggregation and possible therapeutic targets for PD. Investigation of key residues or regions determining the difference of aggregation between human and mouse αsyn reveals that the N terminal substitution A53T plays a key role in controlling the growth rates. The helical propensity of residues 6‒31 and 50‒ 56 also have a good correlation with the aggregation growth rate. The low population of this aggregation-prone conformation in the equilibrium state leads to the proposal of possible selective molecular recognition mechanism for aggregation. The aggregation-prone mutant induces a population shift, which facilitates mutual conformational selection of the favored conformational states and leads to induced-fit structural rearrangement to the formation of stable fibril structures. Further studies on trifluoroethanol (TFE)-induced αsyn aggregation reveal a transient helical intermediate containing the same aggregation-prone region (residues 6‒31) as human-mouse chimera proteins. Finally, the more physiological, acetylated forms of αsyn and A53T familial mutations are investigated. The study is the first identification of conformation and aggregation changes induced by acetylation on αsyn and its familial mutation. The results on the acetylated αsyn and A53T compared with the non-acetylated form confirm that the helical propensity in the particular region (residues 6‒31) is important for fast αsyn aggregation.