cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
ESR of x-irradiated cyanocetylurea and dicyandiamide single crystals.
Creators: name: Lau, Pui-Wah
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: X-irradiated cyanoacetylurea CNCH₂CONHCONH₂ and x-irradiated dicyandiaraide NCNC(NH₂)₂ single crystals were studied,by Electron Spin Resonance. Two radical species were formed when cyanoacetylurea, CNCH₂CONHCONH₂, was irradiated with x-rays. One was a π-electron radical, CNCHCONHCONH₂, and the other a σ-electron radical, CNCH₂CONHCONH . The σ electron radical was found to have a large, isotropic proton coupling tensor and an anisotropic nitrogen coupling tensor very similar to those of H₂NCOCH₂CONH . The π-electron radical had similar proton and nitrogen coupling tensors as CNCHCOOH which was formed in γ-irradiated cyanoacetic acid. In x-irradiated dicyandiamide crystals, the main species formed was shown to be NCNC(NH₂)NH, having also a large, isotropic proton coupling tensor, and hyperfine interactions with two nitrogen coupling nuclei were also observed and measured. ESR studies were carried out both at room and at liquid nitrogen temperatures. The effect of temperature on the spectra is discussed. INDO-SCF-LCAO-MO calculations were carried out for a model compound HCONH , with the amide proton assuming different inplane and out of plane positions. The spin density was found to vary over a wide range and could be used to interpret the large proton coupling of the dicyandiamide radical. MO calculations were also performed on the radical NCCHCOO ̄. The calculated results correlate fairly satisfactorily with the observed ones. Comparison of the direction of the unpaired electron p-orbital symmetry axis with bond directions and with normals to the fragment planes showed that while malonamide radical, H₂NCOCH₂CONH was a genuine σ-electron radical, dicyandiamide radical, NCNC(NH₂)NH was most likely a π-electron radical.
Cohomology of Artin groups of type tilde{A}_n, B_n and applications
Creators: name: Callegaro, Filippo
name: Moroni, Davide
name: Salvetti, Mario
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20J06, 20F36

description: We consider two natural embeddings between Artin groups: the group G_{tilde{A}_{n-1}} of type tilde{A}_{n-1} embeds into the group G_{B_n} of type B_n; G_{B_n} in turn embeds into the classical braid group Br_{n+1}:=G_{A_n} of type A_n. The cohomologies of these groups are related, by standard results, in a precise way. By using techniques developed in previous papers, we give precise formulas (sketching the proofs) for the cohomology of G_{B_n} with coefficients over the module Q[q^{+-1},t^{+-1}], where the action is (-q)-multiplication for the standard generators associated to the first n-1 nodes of the Dynkin diagram, while is (-t)-multiplication for the generator associated to the last node. As a corollary we obtain the rational cohomology for G_{tilde{A}_n} as well as the cohomology of Br_{n+1} with coefficients in the (n+1)-dimensional representation obtained by Tong, Yang and Ma. We stress the topological significance, recalling some constructions of explicit finite CW-complexes for orbit spaces of Artin groups. In case of groups of infinite type, we indicate the (few) variations to be done with respect to the finite type case. For affine groups, some of these orbit spaces are known to be K(pi,1) spaces (in particular, for type tilde{A}_n). We point out that the above cohomology of G_{B_n} gives (as a module over the monodromy operator) the rational cohomology of the fibre (analog to a Milnor fibre) of the natural fibration of K(G_{B_n},1) onto the 2-torus.
description: This is the version published by Geometry & Topology Monographs on 22 February 2008
A small parameter approach for few-body problems
Creators: name: Efros, V. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A procedure to solve few-body problems is developed which is based on an expansion over a small parameter. The parameter is the ratio of potential energy to kinetic energy for states having not small hyperspherical quantum numbers, K>K_0. Dynamic equations are reduced perturbatively to equations in the finite-dimension subspace with K\le K_0. Contributions from states with K>K_0 are taken into account in a closed form, i.e. without an expansion over basis functions. Estimates on efficiency of the approach are presented.
description: 17 pages, 1 figure
Holographic Brownian Motion and Time Scales in Strongly Coupled Plasmas
Creators: name: Atmaja, Ardian Nata
name: de Boer, Jan
name: Shigemori, Masaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study Brownian motion of a heavy quark in field theory plasma in the AdS/CFT setup and discuss the time scales characterizing the interaction between the Brownian particle and plasma constituents. In particular, the mean-free-path time is related to the connected 4-point function of the random force felt by the Brownian particle. By holographically computing the 4-point function and regularizing the IR divergence appearing in the computation, we write down a general formula for the mean-free-path time, and apply it to the STU black hole which corresponds to plasma charged under three U(1) R-charges. The result indicates that the Brownian particle collides with many plasma constituents simultaneously.
description: 62 pages (39 pages + 5 appendices), 6 figures. v2: journal version
D-Terms and Supersymmetry Breaking from Branes
Creators: name: Giveon, Amit
name: Kutasov, David
name: McOrist, Jock
name: Royston, Andrew B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Metastable supersymmetry breaking configurations of D-branes and NS5-branes in string theory often owe their existence to classical gravitational interactions between the branes. We show that in the effective theory of the light fields, these interactions give rise to a non-canonical Kähler potential and other D-terms. String theory provides a UV completion in which these non-renormalizable terms can be computed. We use these observations to clarify the relation between the phase structure of ISS-type models and their brane realizations.
description: 27pp, 4 figures
Atomistic mechanism of physical ageing in glassy materials
Creators: name: Warren, Mya
name: Rottler, Joerg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using molecular simulations, we identify microscopic relaxation events of individual particles in ageing structural glasses, and determine the full distribution of relaxation times. We find that the memory of the waiting time $t_w$ elapsed since the quench extends only up to the first relaxation event, while the distribution of all subsequent relaxation times (persistence times) follows a power law completely independent of history. Our results are in remarkable agreement with the well known phenomenological trap model of ageing. A continuous time random walk (CTRW) parametrized with the atomistic distributions captures the entire bulk diffusion behavior and explains the apparent scaling of the relaxation dynamics with $t_w$ during ageing, as well as observed deviations from perfect scaling.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures
James Rule : a pioneer in Tasmanian education
Creators: name: Hudson, KL
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Because Rule died on the day that the Duke of York reached Melbourne, newspapers of the day did not give proper recognition to a man who had served Tasmania well, both as a teacher and an administrator. Very soon after, when Neale became Director, the Tasmanian Education Department was to undergo turmoil. Writings on this early period of Tasmania's educational history have concentrated on Neale's Directorate to the extent that Rule has been largely ignored. This thesis is an attempt to right this matter. Rule was a product of his times, being largely influenced by his early upbringing, but because of his compassion, his high intellect, and his ability to communicate with people from all walks of life he was able to build on this to the extent that the Tasmanian Education Department did not become as impersonal and bureaucratic as those on the mainland. Of course the relatively small size of Tasmania was a contributing factor to this. I have attempted to show how the influences of his birthplace, his family, his wife, his early education, and his grounding in the trade of slating, all played their part in the making of the man. Following a brief summary of the history of Tasmanian education up to the 1860's, which I have included in order to set the scene, I describe the workings of the education system of the 1860's and 1870's with particular reference to Battery Point School, where Rule was a successful schoolmaster. It was here that he formed his ideas on compulsary, free and secular education. Here he also gained experience of the problems of a schoolmaster - staffing, salaries, teacher training, secondary education and local boards. From his appointment as an Inspector in 1876 Rule became an administrator, first under the Board of Education and then, from 1885, under the new Department of Education. I have included information about the duties of Inspectors and the problems they encountered when carrying them out. Due emphasis is given to the searching enquiry made by the 1883 Royal Commission and the type of Education Department that resulted from it, with particular reference to the failure of the Local Boards, which Rule regretted. During his period as Director Rule was restricted in his desire to make major improvements because of the economic depression, but I attempt to show how he exerted a positive influence in educational developments. I see Stephen's period as Director as a settling down periodlwith Rule's time one of consolidation and modification. In conclusion, I have shown that Rule deserves to take his place as one of the extremely successful pioneers of the Tasmanian education system, being the first Director to work his way up from the ranks.
Martes foina
Creators: name: Aidek, Ahmad E.
name: Ibrahim, Amir
name: Amr, Zuhair
name: Hutterer, Rainer
name: Kryštufek, Boris
name: Serra, Gianluca
name: Benda, Petr
name: Shkaky, Yesra
name: Barbanera, Filippo
name: Al-Sheikhly, Omar F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Mustelidae
Martes
Martes foina

description: 75. Stone Marten, Martes foina (Erxleben, 1777)
(IUCN Red List: LC)
Subspecies: M. f. syriaca (Nehring, 1902).
Distribution: Common with a wide distribution in Aleppo to the coastal and southwestern regions, but it seems rare in the Orontes Basin and Sahl Al-Ghab (Fig. 82).
Previous records: Near Damascus (Pocock 1941), Slenfe mountains (Serra 2004), Al-Ghota (Masseti 2009), Al-Furunlok (Daoud & Khalil 2009b).
Recent records: vicinity of Sweida, Jasim, Al-Haffah, Mashqita, Yabroud, Al-Qteilbiyeh, Hamam Wasil, Bloudan, Bustan Al-Basha, Mare’, Jaiboul, Beit Kammunah, Jabal Slandrein, Al Lajat, Ras al-Ayn (northeast of Damascus), Al-Qrayya, Jabla and Al-Isawiyah (2020–2023).
description: Published as part of Aidek, Ahmad E., Ibrahim, Amir, Amr, Zuhair, Hutterer, Rainer, Kryštufek, Boris, Serra, Gianluca, Benda, Petr, Shkaky, Yesra, Barbanera, Filippo & Al-Sheikhly, Omar F., 2025, Checklist of Mammals of Syria, pp. 1-130 in Zootaxa 5580 (1) on page 81, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5580.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14797597
Eleanor DICKEY, Latein lernen wie im alten Rom. Latein-Lehrbücher aus der Antike
Creators: name: Weidmann, Dirk
Publisher: name: Göttinger Forum für Altertumswissenschaft
Year: 2023

description: Rezension zu: Eleanor Dickey, Latein lernen wie im alten Rom. Latein-Lehrbücher aus der Antike. Basel: Schwabe Verlag 2022, 217 S., 4 s/w Abb., CHF 22,00. ISBN: 978-3-7965-4088-2
description: Göttinger Forum für Altertumswissenschaft, Bd. 25 Nr. 1 (2022): Göttinger Forum für Altertumswissenschaft
title: Teacher Attitudes and Perceptions of Low and High Socioeconomic Status Students
Creators: name: Norman, Patty C.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2016

description: In this qualitative study, the author explored the perceptions of 10 middle-class, teachers regarding the socioeconomic class of both impoverished and advantaged students with whom they worked. Teachers in two public elementary schools from one Intermountain West school district participated; one school generally served children living in poverty and the other generally served affluent children. Through analysis of surveys, interviews, teacher journals, and researcher journal, the complex and often times contradictory feelings these teachers have about the socioeconomic class of students were revealed.
Literature in class, socioeconomic class, deficit thinking, race and whiteness, and identity and multiple identities, situated the study. The author, who grew up in poverty herself, weaved in her own complex and often time contradictory memories and feelings about poverty throughout the manuscript. The work revealed that teacher’s positionality led them to a belief of “normal.” All teachers expressed the belief that parents were instrumental in determining their child’s academic success. Teachers had also not recognized that their perceptions contributed to student learning. Perceptions were based on teacher’s upbringing, belief system, gender, race, and class. Students at high socioeconomic schools were perceived to be leaders, well-dressed, supported by families, and in constant need of enrichment. In contrast, students at low socioeconomic schools were perceived to need discipline and structure, opportunities to gather background knowledge, and support from parents.
Teacher’s felt student behavior was connected to their backgrounds, role models, race, class, and gender. Rarely did teachers feel students could attribute success or failure to their own actions. The final overarching theme was referred to as “SES-blind” in which teachers stated they did not notice the socioeconomic status (SES) of the students, or they felt all of their students were the same. The author noted there was much overlap between the literature on White teacher perceptions of children of color and teacher perceptions of children living in poverty.
Quantum walks can find a marked element on any graph
Creators: name: Krovi, Hari
name: Magniez, Frédéric
name: Ozols, Maris
name: Roland, Jérémie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We solve an open problem by constructing quantum walks that not only detect but also find marked vertices in a graph. In the case when the marked set $M$ consists of a single vertex, the number of steps of the quantum walk is quadratically smaller than the classical hitting time $HT(P,M)$ of any reversible random walk $P$ on the graph. In the case of multiple marked elements, the number of steps is given in terms of a related quantity $HT^+(\mathit{P,M})$ which we call extended hitting time. Our approach is new, simpler and more general than previous ones. We introduce a notion of interpolation between the random walk $P$ and the absorbing walk $P'$, whose marked states are absorbing. Then our quantum walk is simply the quantum analogue of this interpolation. Contrary to previous approaches, our results remain valid when the random walk $P$ is not state-transitive. We also provide algorithms in the cases when only approximations or bounds on parameters $p_M$ (the probability of picking a marked vertex from the stationary distribution) and $HT^+(\mathit{P,M})$ are known.
description: 50 pages
title: Self-determination Training: A Collaboration Model for Schools and Vocational Rehabilitation
Creators: name: Williams, Shannon M.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2016

description: Students with disabilities often have difficulties transitioning from high school to employment. Many students lack the self-determination skills needed to make this transition. Self-determination involves students implementing strategies that enable them to modify and regulate their own behavior; and utilizing strategies that support them to track progress toward goals. The research literature has shown that self-determination instruction can facilitate positive transition outcomes. Collaboration between districts and outside agencies has also been shown to improve transition outcomes, according to existing research. This study examines the effects of self-determination training, taught by Vocational Rehabilitation counselors, on self-determination skills of students with disabilities. Participants included 11 students, ages 15-18, who have been identified as having a specific learning disability, intellectual disability, other health impairment, or autism. The target behavior will be increased self-determination scores on two instruments: a formal rating scale and curriculum-based assessment. The effects of the lessons will be measured by the AIR Self-Determination Scale and a Curriculum Based Assessment. Ten lessons were taught by a Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor. The researcher found that student self-determination scores did not substantially increase after receiving “Job Club” instruction taught by the Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor, but that participants showed an increased knowledge surrounding disability disclosure in the workplace and increased self-determination scores in the area of self-monitoring of progress towards a goal. The research also showed that participants who had been previously or were currently employed showed greater progress on a curriculum based assessment than those with no employment history.
Ly alpha escape during cosmological hydrogen recombination: the 3d-1s and 3s-1s two-photon processes
Creators: name: Chluba, J.
name: Sunyaev, R. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We give a formulation of the radiative transfer equation for Lyman alpha photons which allows us to include the two-photon corrections for the 3s-1s and 3d-1s decay channels during cosmological hydrogen recombination. We use this equation to compute the corrections to the Sobolev escape probability for Lyman alpha photons during hydrogen recombination, which then allow us to calculate the changes in the free electron fraction and CMB temperature and polarization power spectra. We show that the effective escape probability changes by DP/P ~+ 11% at z~1400 in comparison with the one obtained using the Sobolev approximation. This speeds up of hydrogen recombination by DN_e/N_e ~- 1.6% at z~1190, implying |DC_l/C_l| ~1%-3% at l >~ 1500 with shifts in the positions of the maxima and minima in the CMB power spectra. These corrections will be important for the analysis of future CMB data. The total correction is the result of the superposition of three independent processes, related to (i) time-dependent aspects of the problem, (ii) corrections due to quantum mechanical deviations in the shape of the emission and absorption profiles in the vicinity of the Lyman alpha line from the normal Lorentzian, and (iii) a thermodynamic correction factor, which occurs to be very important. All these corrections are neglected in the Sobolev-approximation, but they are important in the context of future CMB observations. All three can be naturally obtained in the two-photon formulation of the Lyman alpha absorption process. However, the corrections (i) and (iii) can also be deduced in the normal '1+1' photon language, without necessarily going to the two-photon picture. Therefore only (ii) is really related to the quantum mechanical aspects of the two-photon process (abridged)
description: 30 pages, 21 figures, submitted to A&A
title: A New Low-Cost Microstrip Antenna Array for 60 GHz Applications
Creators: name: Joaquin, Darwin J.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2016

description: In this thesis, the design fabrication and characterization of a 2 x 8 microstrip planar antenna array operating at the 60 GHz band for Wireless Gigabit Alliance (WiGig) applications are presented. The trade-offs among low production costs, performance, and ease of fabrication were considered. Full-wave electromagnetic (EM) analysis is implemented for the antenna design by using |ANSYS®High Frequency Structural Simulator (HFSS), a finite-element EM solver. The antenna structure consists of two layers, where each array element is a Conductor-Backed Coplanar Waveguide (CB-CPW) loop-fed patch antenna. The bottom layer houses the transmission line and feeding circuitry, while the patch antennas are built on the top layer. The transmission line is designed on microfabrication-compatible quartz substrate, and the patches on a Rogers RO3003 Printed Circuit board (PCB) substrate. The CPW network's right-angle bends are optimized with chamfered lines. Air bridges are used to suppress the parasitic coupled slot line mode of the CPW line divisions. Results of the EM analysis show that the array covers the United States (US) 60 GHz unlicensed band (57-64 GHz), and has a maximum realized gain of 18 dB at 61 GHz on the broadside direction. The antenna design is later fabricated combining microfabrication and standard PCB procedures.
Determining the heavy seesaw neutrino mass matrix from low-energy parameters
Creators: name: He, Xiao-Gang
name: Law, Sandy S. C.
name: Volkas, Raymond R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore how the seesaw sector in neutrino mass models may be constrained through symmetries to be completely determined in terms of low-energy mass, mixing angle and CP-violating phase observables. The key ingredients are intra-family symmetries to determine the neutrino Dirac mass matrix in terms of the charged-lepton or quark mass matrices, together with inter-family or flavor symmetries to determine diagonalization matrices. Implications for leptogenesis and collider detection of heavy neutral leptons are discussed. We show that leptogenesis can succeed in small regions of parameter space for the case where the neutrino Dirac mass matrix equals the up-quark mass matrix. The model where the neutrino Dirac mass matrix equals the charged-lepton mass matrix can yield a heavy neutral lepton as light as about 1 TeV, but detecting such a particle will be difficult.
description: 19 pages, 7 figures; v2: typos corrected, new ref. added; v3:added discussion and references, this version accepted by PRD
Pharmacist participation in health promotion activities : facilitators and barriers
Creators: name: Howarth, HD
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The purpose of this study was to examine pharmacists' participation in health promotion activities, particularly those activities undertaken outside the pharmacy. Facilitators and barriers to this participation were determined. The great majority (80.2%) of Australia's 12 000 pharmacists practise in retail community pharmacies in a profession which is in demand, particularly in rural areas. Traditionally dispensing medications and selling over-the-counter medicines, pharmacists are one of the most accessible groups of health professionals, but the literature suggests that most community pharmacists do not generally participate in health promotion activities outside the pharmacy itself. Health promotion principles should underpin all facets of pharmacy practice but nomenclature confusion and limited definitions of health promotion restrict practice. Tasmanian and Victorian pharmacists with Tasmanian undergraduate and graduate students were surveyed by anonymous questionnaires. Demographic data, participation in health promotion activities and facilitators and barriers to participation were determined. Quantitative analysis of results was obtained using SPSS-12.1 Copyrightwhile qualitative data were extracted by themes. From a total of 458 responses, significant differences in practice were identified between pharmacists in rural and urban practice. Although 42.4% of respondent Tasmania pharmacists and 46.2% of respondent Victorian pharmacists gave community talks in the previous two years, three-quarters of these respondents gave only one to three talks. Fewer (20%) respondents were involved in writing newsletters, with only 5% involved in media presentations. In Tasmania, rural pharmacists gave more community talks while urban pharmacists tended to write newsletters. Victorian urban female practitioners engaged in community activities contributed more than their male colleagues, but for all respondents, age or hours worked did not restrict participation. Facilitators included interest, specific requests and community service. Significant barriers included time constraints for Tasmanian rural pharmacists but also the results revealed that urban pharmacists were not asked to participate. Despite providing more community talks, rural pharmacists were less confident public speakers. All respondents indicated there was lack of understanding of the knowledge and skills a pharmacist could offer and that they were left out of community activities, however most believed that, despite difficulties participating in these activities, it was important for the profession to contribute. Lack of relevant literature examples and limited opportunities for professional development currently restricts pharmacists' understanding of the extent of health promotion practice. Widening community pharmacists' scope of practice in health promotion outside the four walls of the pharmacy may have important implications for the pharmacy workforce in its continued need to meet future demands.
The QCD static potential in D<4 dimensions at weak coupling
Creators: name: Pineda, Antonio
name: Stahlhofen, Maximilian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the static potential of a color singlet quark-antiquark pair with (fixed) distance r in D=3 and D=2 space-time dimensions at weak coupling (alpha r << 1 and g r << 1, respectively). Using the effective theory pNRQCD we determine the ultrasoft contributions, which cannot be computed in conventional perturbative QCD. We show in detail how the ultrasoft renormalization in pNRQCD is carried out. In three dimensions the precision of our results reaches O(alpha^3 r^2), i.e. NNLO in the multipole expansion, and NNLL in a alpha/DeltaV expansion, where DeltaV ~ alpha ln(alpha r). We even present results up to partly N^4LL order and compare them to existing lattice data. Finally we discuss the relevance of the perturbative calculation in two dimensions, where the exact result is known.
description: 21 pages, 5 figures, 1 table; Corrected sign in the 3D gluon condensate contribution. Significantly improved agreement with lattice. Updated and extended discussion. Added plots
Vormela peregusna
Creators: name: Aidek, Ahmad E.
name: Ibrahim, Amir
name: Amr, Zuhair
name: Hutterer, Rainer
name: Kryštufek, Boris
name: Serra, Gianluca
name: Benda, Petr
name: Shkaky, Yesra
name: Barbanera, Filippo
name: Al-Sheikhly, Omar F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Mustelidae
Vormela
Vormela peregusna

description: 76. Marbled Polecat, Vormela peregusna (Güldenstädt, 1770)
(IUCN Red List: VU)
Subspecies: V. p. syriaca Pocock, 1936.
Distribution: Common with a wide distribution along the Euphrates Valley, coastal region, Orontes Basin, Sahl Al-Ghab, middle of Al-Badia, around Damascus, and towards the southwestern region (Fig. 83).
Previous records: Damascus (Pocock 1941), Daraa district (Peshev & Al Hossein 1989), Tafas, Mesiaf and east of Ghota (Shehab 2002) Palmyra, Idleb, vicinity of Salamiyah, Deir ez-Zor (Masseti 2009), Palmyra (Serra et al. 2009a, b).
Recent records: Haweijat Kate’e, Muhasan, As-Suwar, Al-Khraiteh (2009–2010), Maadan, Al-Misrab, Al-Kishmeh, Al-Haffah, an-Nasriyeh, Al-Qerdaha, Datkhein, Istamo, Ain Albeida, Mueayzilah, Muhasan, Dehbash, Slenfeh, vicinity of Latakia, Al-Qanjara, Al-Mzeiraa, vicinity of Tartous, Jnata, Kasab, Salkhad and Al-Msherfeh (2020– 2023).
description: Published as part of Aidek, Ahmad E., Ibrahim, Amir, Amr, Zuhair, Hutterer, Rainer, Kryštufek, Boris, Serra, Gianluca, Benda, Petr, Shkaky, Yesra, Barbanera, Filippo & Al-Sheikhly, Omar F., 2025, Checklist of Mammals of Syria, pp. 1-130 in Zootaxa 5580 (1) on page 81, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5580.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14797597
title: The Bat and the Spider: A Folkloristic Analysis of Comic Book Narratives
Creators: name: Van de Water, Wesley Colin
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2016

description: This thesis examines and argues that superhero narratives, beginning with their comic book origins in the early twentieth century, exhibit many of the qualities found in folklore. Furthermore, these narratives not only demonstrate a folkloric evolution across multi-media formats, including printed work, television, and film, but that they fit within classic hero narrative structures posited by various folklore theorists. The hero theories presented by Lord Raglan, Vladimir Propp, and Joseph Campbell, along with traditional folklore patterns of dynamism and conservatism discussed by Barre Toelken, Alan Dundes, and others, support the assertion that folklore can, and does, exist and propagate in the mass media popular culture sphere. What follows is an academic analysis of core folklore elements, as well as a presentation of how these core qualities can be found in superhero narratives, and how the discipline of folklore may benefit from a study of these narratives.
Euphemism in English and Japanese : a pragmatic contrastive study
Creators: name: Hasegawa, H
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: This study investigated euphemistic forms and functions of English and Japanese by using contrastive analysis as well as considering the views on euphemism of Japanese English-language speakers and Australian Japanese-language speakers. In order to achieve these goals, four Research Objectives (RO) were addressed. RO1 aimed to identify the functions of euphemistic expressions in terms of communication. R02 aimed to investigate the characteristic features of contexts in which native and non-native speakers of the target languages (English and Japanese) encounter positive and negative aspects of euphemism. The purpose of RO3 was to examine the target group's (native and non-native speakers of the target language) conceptualisations of and attitudes towards euphemism and its role in different social contexts. R04 investigated how euphemistic expressions are handled by Japanese people learning English as a second/foreign language and Australians learning Japanese as a second/foreign language, when faced with sociolinguistic difficulties. ROI was addressed by an extensive literature review. A combination of quantitative and qualitative studies was used to investigate R02, R03 and R04. The quantitative method, which was questionnaire based, targeted 272 students from universities in Japan and 176 students from universities in Australia. This addressed parts of R02 and R03. The qualitative method, which involved interviews with eight Australians and Japanese (who were in the target country when the interviews were conducted) was utilised for R02, RO3 and R04. The results of the investigations showed the language learners' communication difficulties caused by euphemistic, dysphemistic and doublespeak locutions in the target language. The results also indicated clearly the relevance of these three entities, which can be utilised interchangeably according to the speaker's purposes, the different desirable semantic outcomes and the inclusion of intermingled elements of communication settings. The outcomes of the research provide a valuable means of establishing an understanding of how and why euphemisms are currently exploited in both Japanese and English; this is an area that has only been touched upon in previous educational research. The study concluded that promoting the contexts in which euphemism, dysphemism and doublespeak are used in social settings will potentially enhance the effective second/foreign language education. The framework of the analysis presented, along with the research outcomes, facilitated the researcher's development of some sample lesson plans which could be used to improve communicative strategies, especially for Australians learning the Japanese language and Japanese learning English.
title: The Contribution of Summer Tourism to the Utah Economy
Creators: name: Brakel, William D.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1969

description: The increase in household income attributed to expenditures by Utah motor vehicle tourists from June 15 to September 5, 1969, was estimated using income multipliers from input-output analysis. Tourist expenditures were gathered through the distribution of postage-paid diaries to non-residents entering Utah. Expenditures were also segregated for Cache County, Utah. The income multipliers from state and county input-output models were used to estimate the impact of applying the state model to county data.
Approximately 927,250 tourist parties to Utah spent an estimated $37,842,81 increasing household income $65,018,557. Likewise, approximately 67,709 tourist parties spent an estimated $798,966 in Cache County. The income multipliers from the county model indicated a $1,063,728 increase in household income in Cache County, while the state model estimated this increase to be 44 percent greater.
Soseki and Shiki : their friendship in haiku and kanshi
Creators: name: Kang, RS
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: This thesis interrogates the friendship between Natsume Soseki and Masaoka Shiki through a study of their kanshi and haiku exchanges, examining the concepts of \influence\" and intertextuality. Both Soseki and Shiki were educated in the Chinese classics and practiced writing kanshi during their student days. When Soseki and Shiki became good friends they exchanged kanshi and haiku in their correspondence. Shiki was impressed by Soseki's creativity of expression his sensitivity to colours and sounds and his ability to express innermost thoughts in his kanshi. Even though Soseki's motivation for writing kanshi writing did not arise from his relationship with Shiki their literary friendship ie Shiki's kanshi writing and his kanshi exchange with Soseki gave Soseki added encouragement and opportunities for and pleasure in composing kanshi. This thesis will concentrate on Soseki's early kanshi written while Shiki was alive before Soseki departed to England. Under the influence of Shiki's new haiku movement and shasei theory Soseki explored haiku writing in his own unique way. Shiki introduced the concept of the sketch in western painting to haiku writing and claimed that modern haiku writers should be both imaginative and realistic. In general Shiki emphasized objective depiction. Shiki achieved 'created realism' by careful observation and description while Soseki achieved this by reflecting the hidden side the inner life of reflection and emotion. Soseki and Shiki use the genres kanshi and haiku as mediums for exchanging their thoughts and feelings since they were traditional Japanese form of verse. Their treatments of these genres reflect and are symbolic of the developments in Japanese literature as a whole towards \"modernization\". The genderised depiction in their poetry of their relationship will be explored as an example of the trend of friendships between the male elite of the Meiji era."
title: The Hyrum and Beirdneau Formations of North-Central Utah and Southeastern Idaho
Creators: name: Eliason, James F.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1969

description: The Hyrum and Beirdneau Formations of North-central Utah and vi Southeastern Idaho represent rocks of late Middle Devonian (Givetian) to upper Upper Devonian (Famennian) age. They are disconformably underlain by the Early Devonian Water Canyon Formation in most cases and disconformably overlain by the Devonian-Mississippian Leatham Formation or the Mississippian Lodgepole Formation.
The Hyrum Formation is divided into five members based on lithology and color changes. The five members are: (1) Samaria, (2) Lower Dolomite, (3) Lower Carbonate-detritus, (4) Upper Dolomite, and (5) Upper Carbonate-detritus Members. The Samaria Member is the only fossiliferous unit within the Hyrum Formation.
The Beirdneau Formation is divided into three members based on lithology and color cha~ges. These three members Sre: (1) Lower Carbonate, (2) Sandstone, and (3) Upper Carbonate Members. This Formation represents deposition in a shallow water and a restricted sea environment.
Asymptotic stability, concentration, and oscillation in harmonic map heat-flow, Landau-Lifshitz, and Schroedinger maps on R^2
Creators: name: Gustafson, S.
name: Nakanishi, K.
name: Tsai, T. -P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35Q55; 35K55

description: We consider the Landau-Lifshitz equations of ferromagnetism (including the harmonic map heat-flow and Schroedinger flow as special cases) for degree m equivariant maps from R^2 to S^2. If m \geq 3, we prove that near-minimal energy solutions converge to a harmonic map as t goes to infinity (asymptotic stability), extending previous work down to degree m = 3. Due to slow spatial decay of the harmonic map components, a new approach is needed for m=3, involving (among other tools) a "normal form" for the parameter dynamics, and the 2D radial double-endpoint Strichartz estimate for Schroedinger operators with sufficiently repulsive potentials (which may be of some independent interest). When m=2 this asymptotic stability may fail: in the case of heat-flow with a further symmetry restriction, we show that more exotic asymptotics are possible, including infinite-time concentration (blow-up), and even "eternal oscillation".
description: 34 pages
Magnetism of the 2D honeycomb layered Na2Ni2TeO6 compound driven by intermediate Na-layer crystal-structure
Creators: name: Bera, A. K.
name: Yusuf, S. M.
name: Keller, L.
name: Yokaichiya, F.
name: Stewart, J. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The microscopic spin-spin correlations in the 2D layered spin-1 honeycomb lattice compound Na2Ni2TeO6 have been investigated by neutron diffraction and inelastic neutron scattering. The honeycomb lattice of spin-1 Ni2+ ions, within the crystallographic ab planes, are well separated along the c axis by an intermediate Na layer whose crystal structure contains chiral nuclear density distributions of Na ions. The chirality of the alternating Na layers is opposite. Such alternating chirality of the Na layer dictates the magnetic periodicity along the c axis where an up-up-down-down spin arrangement of the in-plane zigzag AFM structure is found. Besides, the above described commensurate (CM) zigzag AFM order state is found to coexist with an incommensurate (ICM) AFM state below the TN ~ 27.5 K. The ICM state is found to appear at much higher temperature ~ 50 K and persists down to lowest measured temperature of 1.7 K. Our reverse Monte Carlo (RMC) analysis divulges a two dimensional (2D) magnetic correlations (within the ab plane) of the ICM AFM state over the entire temperature range 1.7-50 K. Further, the spin-Hamiltonian has been determined by carrying out inelastic neutron scattering experiments and subsequent linear spin-wave theory analysis which reveals the presence of competing inplane exchange interactions up to 3 rd nearest neighbours consistent with the zigzag AFM ground state, and weak interplanar interaction as well as a weak single-ion-anisotropy. The values of the exchange constants yield that Na2Ni2TeO6 is situated well inside the zigzag AFM phase (spans over a wide ranges of J2/J1 and J3/J1 values) in the theoretical phase diagram. The present study, thus, provides a detailed microscopic understanding of the magnetic correlations and divulges the intertwining magneto-structural correlations.
description: 24 pages, 14 figures,
Lutra lutra
Creators: name: Aidek, Ahmad E.
name: Ibrahim, Amir
name: Amr, Zuhair
name: Hutterer, Rainer
name: Kryštufek, Boris
name: Serra, Gianluca
name: Benda, Petr
name: Shkaky, Yesra
name: Barbanera, Filippo
name: Al-Sheikhly, Omar F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Mustelidae
Lutra
Lutra lutra

description: 77. Eurasian Otter, Lutra lutra (Linnaeus, 1758)
(IUCN Red List: NT)
Subspecies: L. l. seistanica Birula, 1912.
Distribution: Uncommon; restricted to the Euphrates Valley with a range expansion in the inland rivers of the coastal region (Fig. 84).
Previous records: Tell Sheikh Hamad (Kock et al. 1994); es-Salihiyye, Halabiyyeh, and Tell Sheikh Hamad (Uhrin et al. 2000), Deir ez-zor (Masseti 2001, 2004), and along the lower Euphrates Valley (Murdoch & Aidek 2012); first photographic records were obtained in Deir ez-Zor, Al-Mansurah, and Wadi Qandil (3.5 km from the seashores in Latakia: Aidek et al. 2021b)
Recent record: Al-Arous River (south of Safita) and Al-Bseireh at Al-Khabur River (2022).
description: Published as part of Aidek, Ahmad E., Ibrahim, Amir, Amr, Zuhair, Hutterer, Rainer, Kryštufek, Boris, Serra, Gianluca, Benda, Petr, Shkaky, Yesra, Barbanera, Filippo & Al-Sheikhly, Omar F., 2025, Checklist of Mammals of Syria, pp. 1-130 in Zootaxa 5580 (1) on page 81, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5580.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14797597
Magnetic quantum tunnelling in Fe8 with excited nuclei
Creators: name: Shafir, Oren
name: Keren, Amit
name: Maegawa, Satoru
name: Ueda, Miki
name: Shimshoni, Efrat
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the effect of dynamic nuclear spin fluctuation on quantum tunneling of the magnetization (QTM) in the molecular magnet Fe8 by increasing the nuclei temperature using radio frequency (RF) pulses before the hysteresis loop measurements. The RF pulses do not change the electrons spin temperature. Independently we show that the nuclear spin-spin relaxation time T2 has strong temperature dependence. Nevertheless, we found no effect of the nuclear spin temperature on the tunneling probability. This suggests that in our experimental conditions only the hyperfine field strength is relevant for QTM. We demonstrate theoretically how this can occur.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Clustering and variable selection for categorical multivariate data
Creators: name: Bontemps, Dominique
name: Toussile, Wilson
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This article investigates unsupervised classification techniques for categorical multivariate data. The study employs multivariate multinomial mixture modeling, which is a type of model particularly applicable to multilocus genotypic data. A model selection procedure is used to simultaneously select the number of components and the relevant variables. A non-asymptotic oracle inequality is obtained, leading to the proposal of a new penalized maximum likelihood criterion. The selected model proves to be asymptotically consistent under weak assumptions on the true probability underlying the observations. The main theoretical result obtained in this study suggests a penalty function defined to within a multiplicative parameter. In practice, the data-driven calibration of the penalty function is made possible by slope heuristics. Based on simulated data, this procedure is found to improve the performance of the selection procedure with respect to classical criteria such as BIC and AIC. The new criterion provides an answer to the question "Which criterion for which sample size?" Examples of real dataset applications are also provided.
Furniture as form : a visual investigation through the drawer
Creators: name: Lacham, R
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: This project aimed to produce artwork through posing two questions: What are the responsibilities of the designer? How is it possible to create responsible design? This work has aimed to reassess my perception and understanding of design through the process of designing sets of drawers. The research resulted in furniture that questions our understanding of, and relationship to design. I define the term 'responsible design' as work which considers durability, longevity and a sense of ownership as essential components. This project has viewed design as a form of art, the designer as an artist, and has aimed to design meaningful objects for society. The chosen medium was furniture and the investigation focused on a humble, everyday object - the drawer. The project explored the links between the drawer and the design process in an attempt to provide a better understanding of how design is a form of art through the examination of a process that gives a new perspective to what objects mean and how they might be understood and valued. The primary source for the research was the sketch and a simple rectangular paper cut symbolising the drawer. These forms expose what is often unexposed by design, revealing a process that creates an open visual dialogue with the viewer. The context for this endeavour has been the examination of practitioners who explore design through their art process. Bruno Munari and Enzo Mari have been highly significant to this aspect of the investigation. Although the work of these artists is not solely furniture, their work of experimental design provided an important insight and for the creation of responsible design. The project has resulted in the production of a series of drawers that reflect the complexity of the relationship between the design process and art demonstrating that responsible design is possible through a very simple, everyday household object ‚ÄövÑvÆ the drawer.
A web interface for a web query synthesiser
Creators: name: Jacob, SS
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Synthesised queries have been found to perform better than user formulated queries in retrieving relevant documents from the web. This thesis aims to prove that it is possible to perform real time synthesis of queries based on user feedback for interactive web searches and integrate the system with a web browser for seamless user experience. A system is developed that implements the algorithms outlined in previous research and the results obtained by experiments conducted using the system is compared with the original results. The system is able to show similar search performance, measured by precision and recall, but now performs this in real time.