cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The politics of enjoyment: the media viewing preferences and practices of young higher-educated Chinese
Creators: name: Wilson, Magnus
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2011

description: This dissertation examines the widespread phenomenon of online film and DVD viewing that is now prevalent among university students in China. In doing so, it analyses how the social organisation of enjoyment among aspirational urban and educated youth relates to the Chinese political order as the country integrates into the global market economy. Using observation, interviews and written responses, supplemented by journalistic and online material collected „in the field‟ during 2006-2007 and 2010, the research centres on two comparatively neglected areas of Chinese studies: audience reception and foreign entertainment via largely non-regulated downloading and pirate DVDs. The dissertation shows how higher educated Chinese youth use their new semi-illicit media freedom to structure their own social and political attitudes and how in doing this they reassess certain established values of responsibility and morality and make them compatible with the adoption of new middle class aspirations learned and negotiated through their viewing of Chinese, and mainly foreign entertainment media. The research therefore aims to make a broader point about the character of China‟s ongoing modernisation, and the role of the „foreign‟ within this, thereby breaking out of the impasse in which China is seen largely through the perspective of antagonism between the forces of control and those of freedom – a view that has tended to overshadow and oversimplify the field of Chinese studies, particularly since the 1989 political crisis.
Nonadaptive fault-tolerant verification of quantum supremacy with noise
Creators: name: Kapourniotis, Theodoros
name: Datta, Animesh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum samplers are believed capable of sampling efficiently from distributions that are classically hard to sample from. We consider a sampler inspired by the classical Ising model. It is nonadaptive and therefore experimentally amenable. Under a plausible conjecture, classical sampling upto additive errors from this model is known to be hard. We present a trap-based verification scheme for quantum supremacy that only requires the verifier to prepare single-qubit states. The verification is done on the same model as the original sampler, a square lattice, with only a constant overhead. We next revamp our verification scheme in two distinct ways using fault tolerance that preserves the nonadaptivity. The first has a lower overhead based on error correction with the same threshold as universal quantum computation. The second has a higher overhead but an improved threshold (1.97\%) based on error detection. We show that classically sampling upto additive errors is likely hard in both these schemes. Our results are applicable to other sampling problems such as the Instantaneous Quantum Polynomial-time (IQP) computation model. They should also assist near-term attempts at experimentally demonstrating quantum supremacy and guide long-term ones.
description: 33 pages, 11 figures, 3 theorems, 2 conjectures
Leicester Foundries in the Early Nineteenth Century
Creators: name: Thorneycroft Rimmington, Geerald
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 35, 63-67
description: During the last decade of the eighteenth century and the first decade of the nineteenth the English metal industries were expanding at a faster rate than any other group of industries. To some extent this was because of the increase in demand for armaments arising from the Napoleonic Wars, but another factor was the construction of canals, which had reached its peak during the later eighteenth century. The new inland waterways made possible a continuous supply of cheap coal, iron and other heavy com-modities to towns which hitherto had had their development hindered by the lack of nearby sources of such raw materials.
A different place in the making: the everyday practices of rural migrants in Chinese urban villages
Creators: name: Yuan, Yan
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2011
Subjects: place-making; everyday life practices; migratory settlement; spatialstruggle; Chinese rural-urban migration; ‘urban villages’

description: This dissertation presents an ethnographic research into two Chinese urban villages, where thousands of rural migrants who were bureaucratically categorised as ‘floating population’ established their settlements in the city. The goal of the research is to display the place-making process through the everyday practices of the rural migrants in their urban settlements and to examine the relationship between this place-making process and the formation of the migratory identity in contemporary Chinese urban society. Based on long-term participative observations and in-depth interviews, an impressionist picture is painted to depict the lived world of rural migrants in this small, marginal, yet complex, colourful neighbourhood. This picture contains vivid snapshots of various aspects of people's everyday life in the place, including street life, tenancy relationships, neighbourhood interactions, housing forms, television and public telephone consumption, as well as festival celebrations, most of which are put into academic documentation for the first time. All these scenes commonly affirm the active engagements of the rural migrants in the place-making politics of this unique urban locale and their flexible emplacement in the locality, which defies the ideological construction of this group as always displaced, floating, and out of place in the city. More importantly, the urban villages, as the principal geographical form of rural migratory settlement in Chinese cities, provide a prime example of the ‘progressive sense of place’ in 21st Century Chinese urban society that is featured by multiplicity, fluidity, and connectivity. At the same time, this research distinguishes itself from previous work on the same subject with its sharp focus on the place-making process occurring at the micro and banal level. It has discovered that people’s daily activities like dwelling, walking, street gathering, telephone calling, deliver an empowering space where place is not constructed by conscious planning and design, but by bodily doing and living. Beyond the phenomenological geography of lifeworld which tends to be depoliticised, the study sheds light on the question of asymmetries of power and socio-economic inequities in the lifeworld in the urban villages and tries to represent the rural migrants’ spatial struggles in the place as a tactical resistance that does not necessarily direct towards some end or form, but has the potential to undermine and deflect the totalising ambitions of the dominant power strategies. The above insights drawn from the two urban villages are not only informative in understanding Chinese rural migratory communities in the urban setting, but also revelatory in awakening the sense of place and grasping the complexity of the broader place-making politics in the late modern and transitional society.
Research Software - from ugly ducklings to beautiful swans
Creators: name: Fritzsch, Bernadette
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Software, RSE

description: Software has played an increasingly important role in science over the years. However, software development has long led to a shadowy existence. However, as programs have become more complex and they have often been passed on as a legacy from one development team (often made up of temporary Ph.D. students) Research software as a foundation of scientific work has been increasingly pushed to the fore. In the meantime, job titles such as “research software engineer” have become established in various places. This talk examines the importance of research software in various contexts and how this affects developers of research software.
Leicester Foundries 1845-1914
Creators: name: Thorneycroft Rimmington, Gerald
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 40, 63-68
description: In 1846 Leicester was described as having "two extensive iron foundries", which may readily be recognised as the Britannia Foundry of Cort & Bell (previously Cort) at the Public Wharf in Belgrave Gate and the Rutland Foundry of Richard Willson in Charles Street whose origins have already been described. There were, in addition, four other foundries: William Richards & Company, which came into existence in 1844, and seems to have been sharing the Cort premises ;4 the foundry of Hefford & Son in Highcross Street; Samuel Pegg in Ruding Street, near the canal but without wharfing facilities, as also was his near neighbour, Samuel Ride. All faced a dilemma, the conflicting desires of being near the canal and obtaining cheap premises. By 1854 the number of foundries was eight and here was little change in locations though it was clear that the canal would decline as a positive factor in siting once the railway had arrived
Leicestershire School Boards 1871-1903
Creators: name: Thorneycroft Rimmington, Gerald
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 52, 53-61
description: In Leicester and towns of a similar size and status school boards were usually called into existence by the voluntary application of ratepayers. Usually the town council would debate the issue and, if in favour, would make the application. In small villages, however, where there was less political awareness and a higher incidence of illiteracy, a large number were also created on the insistence of the Education Department to ensure that some provision for a school would be made, where previously there had been none, or where an existing voluntary school was on the verge of closure.
(501946) Margaret Cook
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
On the $C^*$-algebra generated by the Koopman representation of a topological full group
Creators: name: Scarparo, Eduardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $(X,T,μ)$ be a Cantor minimal sytem and $[[T]]$ the associated topological full group. We analyze $C^*_π([[T]])$, where $π$ is the Koopman representation attached to the action of $[[T]]$ on $(X,μ)$. Specifically, we show that $C^*_π([[T]])=C^*_π([[T]]')$ and that the kernel of the character $τ$ on $C^*_π([[T]])$ coming from weak containment of the trivial representation is a hereditary $C^*$-subalgebra of $C(X)\rtimes\mathbb{Z}$. Consequently, $\kerτ$ is stably isomorphic to $C(X)\rtimes\mathbb{Z}$, and $C^*_π([[T]]')$ is not AF. We also prove that if $G$ is a finitely generated, elementary amenable group and $C^ *(G)$ has real rank zero, then $G$ is finite.
description: 9 pages
(501945) George Selby
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Shift-Symmetric Configurations in Two-Dimensional Cellular Automata: Irreversibility, Insolvability, and Enumeration
Creators: name: Banda, Peter
name: Caughman, John
name: Cenek, Martin
name: Teuscher, Christof
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases (nlin.CG)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The search for symmetry as an unusual yet profoundly appealing phenomenon, and the origin of regular, repeating configuration patterns have long been a central focus of complexity science and physics. To better grasp and understand symmetry of configurations in decentralized toroidal architectures, we employ group-theoretic methods, which allow us to identify and enumerate these inputs, and argue about irreversible system behaviors with undesired effects on many computational problems. The concept of so-called configuration shift-symmetry is applied to two-dimensional cellular automata as an ideal model of computation. Regardless of the transition function, the results show the universal insolvability of crucial distributed tasks, such as leader election, pattern recognition, hashing, and encryption. By using compact enumeration formulas and bounding the number of shift-symmetric configurations for a given lattice size, we efficiently calculate the probability of a configuration being shift-symmetric for a uniform or density-uniform distribution. Further, we devise an algorithm detecting the presence of shift-symmetry in a configuration. Given the resource constraints, the enumeration and probability formulas can directly help to lower the minimal expected error and provide recommendations for system's size and initialization. Besides cellular automata, the shift-symmetry analysis can be used to study the non-linear behavior in various synchronous rule-based systems that include inference engines, Boolean networks, neural networks, and systolic arrays.
description: 22 pages, 9 figures, 2 appendices
A synergistic reputation-policy based trust model for Grid resource selection
Creators: name: Zetuny, Yonatan
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2011

description: In the context of Grid computing, reputation-based trust management systems are playing an increasingly important role for supporting coordinated resource sharing and ensuring provision of quality of service. However, the existing Grid reputation-based trust management systems are considered limited as they are bounded to esoteric reputation-based trust models encompassing predefined metrics for calculating and selecting trusted computing resources and as a result, they prevent external involvement in the trust and reputation evaluation processes. This thesis suggests an alternative approach for reputation modelling founded on its core argument proclaiming that reputation is a subjective matter as well as context dependent. Consequently, it offers a synergistic reputation-policy based trust model for Grid resource selection. This exoteric trust model introduces a novel paradigm for evaluating Grid resources, in which Grid client applications (e.g. monitoring toolkits and resource brokers) are endeavoured to carry out an active participation in the trust and reputation evaluation processes. This is achieved by augmenting the standard reputation queries with a set of reputation-policy assertions constituting as complete trust metrics supplied into the reputation algorithm. Consecutively, the Grid Reputation-Policy Trust management system (GREPTrust) provides a concrete implementation for the trust model and it’s underlying artifacts whilst the GREPTrust testbed provides an adequate infrastructure for comparing the reputation policy trust model with a production available esoteric model (GridPP). Based on a computational finance case study, an internal workflow simulation utilises the GREPTrust testbed in order to empirically assess the criteria by which the synergistic reputation-policy based trust model outperforms esoteric trust models regarding resource selection and consequently provides substantive evidence that the reputation-policy paradigm is a welcome addition to the Grid computing community.
Caught between Islam and the West: secularism in the Kemalist discourse
Creators: name: Çarmikli, Eyup
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2011

description: This thesis identifies the defining signifiers for the Kemalist discourse as the West and Islam. Kemalism mainly related to the West through the hegemonic discourse of Orientalism, and the Kemalist attitude towards Islam was characterised by its peculiar brand of secularism. Orientalism portrayed the East as irrational in all aspects of the economic, political and social realms. In contrast the West was rational, enlightened, scientific, determined to keep its destiny at its hands, hardworking, honest, and efficient... There was an essential difference between the two realms, which prevented the East to progress. The numerous aspects of the West-East dichotomy are investigated in detail by utilising a number of Western sources including newspaper stories, travel accounts, and diplomatic correspondence and a plethora of Kemalist texts. The documentary analysis in the thesis is based on original research. The Orientalist view even prescribed a recipe for Turkey’s progress, and Kemalism is defined in the thesis as a discourse whıch argues that Turkey must adopt Western civilization in its totality, including music, dress, alphabet, etc, and completely erase its past as symbolized by Islam. The Kemalist reform agenda amounted to a utopia, to transform Turkey in such a radical manner that Turkey would appear indistinguishable from the West, in its script, dress, music, political organisation, etc. However, this meant a total re-activation o f t he ‘ the s ocial’ i n T urkey a nd everything becoming part of ‘the political.’ But then, Kemalism never acknowledged the antagonistic and conflictual nature of the political. The relationship between ‘Kemalism and Orientalism’ and that between ‘Kemalism and secularism’ have been studied by various authors, however the originality of this work lies in its emphasis on the relationship between ‘the social’ and the political,’ and its careful analysis on the total re-activation of the social through the Kemalist reforms. In its ambitious project, Kemalism regarded Islam, which represented the Ottoman Turkish tradition, as the ‘main problem’ with the potential to nurture formidable opposition. Hence, Kemalist secularism was first and foremost an attack against Islam. Secularism, supported by a strong belief on the power of science and rationality to organise human life, and a strong aversion towards the religious and the traditional, was the central pillar of Kemalism. The thesis shows how Kemalism was caught between Islam and the West, and argues that secularism is the most important aspect of Kemalism, because Kemalism is an ‘Orientalism from within.’
Victoria Road Church, Leicester
Creators: name: Thorneycroft Rimmington, Gerald
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 71, 72-85
description: Victoria Road Church originated as an experiment by Baptists in nondenominational churchmanship. It was founded in mid-Victorian times in a growing middle-class suburb of Leicester, and aspired to be the Church for the area. It was soon beset by competition from other denominations. It also had to face a split in the congregation during the 1870s, when F. B. Meyer resigned as minister and founded his own free church.
(501944) Mary Sample
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Multiplicity of solutions for fractional Schrödinger systems in $\mathbb{R}^{N}$
Creators: name: Ambrosio, Vincenzo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we deal with the following nonlocal systems of fractional Schrödinger equations \begin{equation*} \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} \varepsilon^{2s} (-Δ)^{s}u+V(x)u=Q_{u}(u, v)+γH_{u}(u, v) &\mbox{ in } \mathbb{R}^{N}\\ \varepsilon^{2s} (-Δ)^{s}v+W(x)v=Q_{v}(u, v)+γH_{v}(u, v) &\mbox{ in } \mathbb{R}^{N} \\ u, v>0 &\mbox{ in } \mathbb{R}^{N}, \end{array} \right. \end{equation*} where $\varepsilon>0$, $s\in (0, 1)$, $N>2s$, $(-Δ)^{s}$ is the fractional Laplacian, $V:\mathbb{R}^{N}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ and $W:\mathbb{R}^{N}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ are continuous potentials, $Q$ is a homogeneous $C^{2}$-function with subcritical growth, $γ\in \{0, 1\}$ and $H(u, v)=\frac{2}{α+β}|u|^α |v|^β$ with $α, β\geq 1$ such that $α+β=2^{*}_{s}$. We investigate the subcritical case $(γ=0)$ and the critical case $(γ=1)$, and using Ljusternik-Schnirelmann theory, we relate the number of solutions with the topology of the set where the potentials $V$ and $W$ attain their minimum values.
Bishop W.C. Magee, the Revd F.W. Robinson and a New Late Victorian Parish in Leicester
Creators: name: Thorneycroft Rimmington, Gerald
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 73, 56-69
description: This is a study of an important aspect of the episcopate of W. C. Magee, Bishop of Peterborough from 1868 to 1891. At this time the Archdeaconry of Leicester lay within the jurisdiction of Peterborough: the town of Leicester was the largest and fastest-growing urban area in the diocese; and the problems of the Church in Leicester necessarily occupied much of Magee's attention. Within the town he was especially concerned with the growing-pains of St. Peter's parish which had recently been established in the populous, working-class district of Highfields. This paper traces the relationship between the Bishop and the Revd. F . W. Robinson, whom he had chosen to inaugurate the parish; and in the course of it light is thrown on the manifold problems of a working-class parish in the Late Victorian period and on the views of a bishop whose standing in the church was so high that in 1891 he was advanced to the Archbishopric of York.
Excursion to Houghton-on-the-Hill, Ingarsby, and Quenby (with Illustrations)
Creators: name: Thorold Winckley, Sidney
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 10, 254-256
description: A summary of the Society excursion to Houghton-on-the-Hill, Ingarsby and Quenby, detailing historic buildings.
Poly(3-Hydroxybutyrate), P(3HB) production and its biomedical applications
Creators: name: Akaraonye, Everest
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2011

description: In this project enhancement of poly(3-hydroxybutyrate), P(3HB) production using a Gram positive bacteria, Bacillus cereus SPV and sucrose as the main carbon source was successfully achieved. Different modes of fermentation including shaken flask, batch, fedbatch and two-stage fermentation were investigated in the study. A modified G-medium was formulated and used throughout the study. Potassium and sulphate were identified as the main limiting factor for P(3HB) accumulation in Bacillus cereus SPV. By limiting the potassium phosphate concentration to 0.5 g/L K2HPO4 in the production medium, the dry cell weight, P(3HB) yield and P(3HB) concentration improved to, 7.21 g/L, 82 % dcw and 5.95 g/L respectively (i.e. 236, 115.8 and 830 % increase in dry cell weight, P(3HB) yield and P(3HB) concentration respectively). In addition, economic production of P(3HB) using agricultural/industrial waste (molasses) as the main carbon substrate was achieved. The study was also carried out in both shaken flask and 2L fermenter. The maximum P(3HB) yield achieved was 61.07 % dcw in 1L shaken flask and 51.37 % dcw in 2L fermenter. A novel wet cell PHA extraction was successfully developed in this project leading to high purity of the PHA produced with reduced crystallinity and efficient recovery. This is expected to save time, cost and enhanced continuous PHA production. Furthermore, a novel inexpensive and sustainable ‘compression moulding/particulate leaching’ technique for tissue engineering scaffold fabrication was developed. The novel technique enabled the production of biodegradable composite scaffolds of P(3HB)/microfibrillated cellulose and magnetic P(3HB) nanocomposite for possible applications in cartilage and bone tissue engineering, respectively. Detailed studies on the 2D and 3D composites showed that the inclusion of microfibrillated cellulose into the P(3HB) matrix enhanced the mechanical properties, hydrophilicity, introduced microtopography features, enhanced surface chemistry and biocompatibility of the composite material while inclusion of magnetic nanoparticles and ferrofluid, in addition to the above features added magnetic properties and microhardness to the composite materials. A unique controlled drug delivery system was developed with potential application in multiple drug delivery. The release study confirmed that the delivery system was able to control the release of BSA, a model protein. Finally, composite magnetic microspheres were also produced and characterised for their efficient use in the delivery of cancer drug and analyses performed showed that the composite constructs have superparamagnetic properties which would be useful for targeted delivery.
Semantics of higher inductive types
Creators: name: Lumsdaine, Peter LeFanu
name: Shulman, Mike
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 18C50 (primary), 03B15, 18G55

description: Higher inductive types are a class of type-forming rules, introduced to provide basic (and not-so-basic) homotopy-theoretic constructions in a type-theoretic style. They have proven very fruitful for the "synthetic" development of homotopy theory within type theory, as well as in formalizing ordinary set-level mathematics in type theory. In this article, we construct models of a wide range of higher inductive types in a fairly wide range of settings. We introduce the notion of cell monad with parameters: a semantically-defined scheme for specifying homotopically well-behaved notions of structure. We then show that any suitable model category has *weakly stable typal initial algebras* for any cell monad with parameters. When combined with the local universes construction to obtain strict stability, this specializes to give models of specific higher inductive types, including spheres, the torus, pushout types, truncations, the James construction, and general localisations. Our results apply in any sufficiently nice Quillen model category, including any right proper, simplicially locally cartesian closed, simplicial Cisinski model category (such as simplicial sets) and any locally presentable locally cartesian closed category (such as sets) with its trivial model structure. In particular, any locally presentable locally cartesian closed $(\infty,1)$-category is presented by some model category to which our results apply.
description: v2: Various small fixes and improvements suggested by the referee. Also added the necessary condition that a good model category should be simplicially locally cartesian closed
(501943) Charles Thomson
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
title: Implementation of Endotracheal Tube Cuff Manometry in the Operating Room: A Quality Improvement Project
Creators: name: Davenport, Emily
name: Stephan, Jennifer
name: Winson, Paul
Publisher: name: Digital Commons@Becker, Barnes Jewish College Goldfarb School of Nursing
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3
subject: FOS: Medical and health sciences

description: Background and Review of Literature: Endotracheal tube cuff pressure should be maintained between 20 to 30 cmH2O to prevent adverse airway outcomes. Standardized practice is not endorsed by any major anesthesia organization nor by Washington University School of Medicine’s Department of Anesthesia. The common practice of manual palpation is unreliable. Use of a manometer is effective to measure and achieve appropriate cuff pressure.
Purpose: Implement a quality improvement project to increase the proportion of anesthesia providers using syringe manometers.
Methods: The facility’s EHR was used to obtain data reports on AG Cuffill syringe manometer use and documentation at specific time points. The independent variable was staff educational in-services; the dependent variable was the proportion of documented ETT cuff pressures in the EHR.
Implementation Plan/Procedure: This quality improvement project consisted of pre-intervention, implementation, and post-intervention phases. Educational in-services were provided two days a week for two weeks at the start of the intervention phase. The in-services aimed to improve provider knowledge and familiarity with syringe manometer use as well as appropriate documentation.
Implications/Conclusion: Educational in-services increased the proportion of providers who used and documented syringe cuff manometry. Improved provider adherence may eventually lead to implementation of an established departmental practice for all anesthetics delivered with a cuffed ETT to improve patient outcomes.
The role of phospholipids in the modulation of the monocytic oxidative burst
Creators: name: Tonks, Alex
Publisher: name: Cardiff Metropolitan University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Microbiology not elsewhere classified

description: Alveolar macrophages play a central role in the pulmonary inflammatory response by generating reactive oxygen intermediates (ROIs). This study investigates how pulmonary surfactant (composed of approximately 90% phospholipids and l0% surfactant specific proteins) modulates the production of ROI's in monocytes and macrophages.
 The human monocyte cell line MonoMac-6 (MM6), peripheral blood monocytes, the murine macrophage RAW 264.7 and the rat alveolar macrophage line NR8383 were primed with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and stimulated to produce ROIs with opsonised zymosan (OpZ). The surfactants CurosurfÂ®, SurvantaÂ® and Exosurf Neonatalâ„¢ were all shown to significantly inhibit ROI production (P<0.01) measured by luminol-enhanced chemiluminescence (LCL). Preincubation of MM6 cells with 1,2- dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC), the major surfactant phospholipid, also significantly inhibited ROI production (p<0.001). In contrast, 1-palmitoyl-2- arachidonoyl phosphatidylcholine (PAPC) increased ROI production (P<0.001). DPPC modulation was independent of LPS 'priming' and did not affect cell viability. In addition, DPPC (but not PAPC) significantly inhibited the LPS-stimulated release of TNF-Î± in MM6 cells (P<0.05). However, DPPC failed to modulate nitric oxide production, measured by the Griess assay, demonstrating the selective nature of the effect.
 Experiments with a cell-free system showed that DPPC had no direct effect on NADPH oxidase assembly and activation. Flow cytometry analysis indicated that the suppressive effects of DPPC on ROI production were not attributed to CDl4, complement, or Fcy receptor down-regulation. Moreover, the binding of radiolabelled LPS was not decreased in MM6 cells preincubated with DPPC.
 Transmission electron microscopy demonstrated that DPPC was taken up by MM6 cells and altered the monocyte membrane ultrastructure. Western blotting demonstrated that the mitogen activated protein kinases were not modulated by DPPC. However, the activity of protein kinase C (PKC) measured by 32P radioassay, was shown to be significantly inhibited by DPPC (P<0.01). Taken together these findings indicate that surfactant lipids, particularly DPPC, suppress monocyte NADPH oxidase activation by down-regulation of PKC.
Election Predictions as Martingales: An Arbitrage Approach
Creators: name: Taleb, Nassim Nicholas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Pricing of Securities (q-fin.PR)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the estimation of binary election outcomes as martingales and propose an arbitrage pricing when one continuously updates estimates. We argue that the estimator needs to be priced as a binary option as the arbitrage valuation minimizes the conventionally used Brier score for tracking the accuracy of probability assessors. We create a dual martingale process $Y$, in $[L,H]$ from the standard arithmetic Brownian motion, $X$ in $(-\infty, \infty)$ and price elections accordingly. The dual process $Y$ can represent the numerical votes needed for success. We show the relationship between the volatility of the estimator in relation to that of the underlying variable. When there is a high uncertainty about the final outcome, 1) the arbitrage value of the binary gets closer to 50\%, 2) the estimate should not undergo large changes even if polls or other bases show significant variations. There are arbitrage relationships between 1) the binary value, 2) the estimation of $Y$, 3) the volatility of the estimation of $Y$ over the remaining time to expiration. We note that these arbitrage relationships were often violated by the various forecasting groups in the U.S. presidential elections of 2016, as well as the notion that all intermediate assessments of the success of a candidate need to be considered, not just the final one.
Richard Fowke's Journey to Freeston Shore
Creators: name: Tower, E
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 3, 364-370
description: Richard Fowke's narrative of a journey he took from Elemsthorpe to Freeston Shore, Lincolnshire, 20th June to 25th July 1805.
(501942) Mary Anne Thomson
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Personality Predictors of Risky Health Behaviors Across the Lifespan: A Coordinated Analysis of 13 Longitudinal Studies
Creators: name: Mroczek, Dan
name: Graham, Eileen K
name: Atherton, Olivia E.
name: Whang, Priscilla H.
name: Willroth, Emily C
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Personality and Social Contexts
subject: Health Psychology
subject: Developmental Psychology
subject: Life Sciences
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Big Five
subject: aging
subject: binge drinking
subject: cda
subject: coordinated data analysis
subject: health behaviors
subject: lifespan
subject: longitudinal
subject: meta-analysis
subject: personality
subject: risky behaviors
subject: seatbelt use
subject: smoking

description: We will examine the associations between personality traits and risky health behaviors (binge drinking, seatbelt use, smoking) across the lifespan using a coordinated data analysis approach.
On Optimal Mechanisms in the Two-Item Single-Buyer Unit-Demand Setting
Creators: name: Thirumulanathan, D.
name: Sundaresan, Rajesh
name: Narahari, Y
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We consider the problem of designing a revenue-optimal mechanism in the two-item, single-buyer, unit-demand setting when the buyer's valuations, $(z_1, z_2)$, are uniformly distributed in an arbitrary rectangle $[c,c+b_1]\times[c,c+b_2]$ in the positive quadrant. We provide a complete and explicit solution for arbitrary nonnegative values of $(c,b_1,b_2)$. We identify five simple structures, each with at most five (possibly stochastic) menu items, and prove that the optimal mechanism has one of the five structures. We also characterize the optimal mechanism as a function of $b_1, b_2$, and $c$. When $c$ is low, the optimal mechanism is a posted price mechanism with an exclusion region; when $c$ is high, it is a posted price mechanism without an exclusion region. Our results are the first to show the existence of optimal mechanisms with no exclusion region, to the best of our knowledge.
title: Forward Limit Sets of Semigroups of Substitutions and Arithmetic Progressions in Automatic Sequences
Creators: name: Aedo Goñi, Ibai
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2023

description: This thesis deals with symbolic sequences generated by semigroups of substitutions acting on finite alphabets. First, we investigate the underlying structure of certain automatic sequences by studying the maximum length A(d) of the monochromatic arithmetic progressions of difference d appearing in these sequences. For example, for the Thue-Morse sequence and a class of generalised Thue-Morse sequences, we give exact values of A(d) or upper bounds on it, for certain differences d. For aperiodic, primitive, bijective substitutions and spin substitutions, which are generalisations of the Thue-Morse and Rudin-Shapiro substitutions, respectively, we study the asymptotic growth rate of A(d). In particular, we prove that there exists a subsequence (d_n) of differences along which A(d_n) grows at least polynomially in d_n. Explicit upper and lower bounds for the growth exponent can be derived from a finite group associated to the substitution considered. Next, we introduce the forward limit set Λ of a semigroup S generated by a family of substitutions of a finite alphabet, which typically coincides with the set of all possible s-adic limits of that family. We provide several alternative characterisations of the forward limit set. For instance, we prove that Λ is the unique maximal closed and strongly S-invariant subset of the space of all infinite words, and we prove that it is the closure of the image under S of the set of all fixed points of S. It is usually difficult to compute a forward limit set explicitly; however, we show that, provided certain assumptions hold, Λ is uncountable, and we supply upper bounds on its size in terms of logarithmic Hausdorff dimension.
(501941) William Brodrick
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Studenten und Professoren der Bauingenieurschule des III. Jahreskurses 1869/1870 bzw. der Teilnehmenden am Sommersemester des  IV. Jahreskurs 1870/71 am Polytechnikum Zürich.
Fotoaufnahme, erstellt von Unbekannt, Abzug auf Karton
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1870

description: Fotoaufnahme, aufgenommen vermutl. ca. Sommersemester 1870, darunter in hellem Anzug mit Kopf nach rechts hinter dem Theodolit Marcell von Kussevich, der das Polytechnikum laut Matrikel spät. im Dezember 1870 mit dem abschliessenden Entlassungszeungnis verlassen hat.
Auf der Fotoaufnahme sind zwei Dutzend originale Unterschriften überliefert. Verglichen mit dem Programm der eidg. polytechn. Schule für das Schuljahr 1870/71, S. 14, noch für III. Jahreskurs 1869/70, sind es die Unterschriften von Franz von Purgly, Siegfried Fröhlich, Emil Mises, Ignatz Linzboth, Hans Ziegler, Rudolf Leuch, Stephan Popper, ?, Eusebius Vogt, Hermann Bringolf, Franz Vital Lusser, Heinrich Goldstein, Edm. Eichstädt, Ignatz Grün, Ignatz Ham, Oswald Liss, Oskar Heller, Andreas Gunnerus, Knetzewits?, Colomann Vanky, Bernhard Schneider, ?, Heinrich Felsing, Johannes Spielmann.
Im Programm der eidg. polytechn. Schule für das Schuljahr 1871/72, S. 16, das die Liste für den IV. Jahreskurs bis Ende Wintersemester 1870/71 enthält, sind bereits einige Studenten nicht mehr aufgeführt.
Am Tisch sitzen von links nach rechts folgende Professoren: Carl Pestalozzi, Johannes Wild, Hermann Fritz, August Weilenmann, dann folgen Carl Culmann, Gustav Zeuner(?) (oder Albert Fliegner?), Rudolf Wolf.
Fotoabzug auf Karton, DOI http://doi.org/....... (Bildarchiv-doi)
Rose de Verdun (d.1247) and Grace Dieu Priory: Endowment charter and tomb�
Creators: name: Tringham, Nigel J
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2022

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 93, 199-220
description: One of only a few houses of Augustinian canonesses, Grace Dieu priory was established at Belton in north-west Leicestershire some time between 1235 and 1241, by an Anglo-Norman heiress, Rose de Verdun.1 Its original endowment has been known so far from a charter confirmed by Henry III in 1241,2 but that refers only to the gift of Belton manor with the advowson of the church there, whereas much more detail is given in an original charter which survives in the records of the Augmentation Office in the National Archives (E 315/30, f. 2). In particular, the surviving original refers not only to the grant of Belton manor but also to land, including a mill pool, as well as estates further away next to Sleaford in Lincolnshire, along with their neifs (unfree villeins), and at Great Limber (also in Lincolnshire).
Variations of Checking Stack Automata: Obtaining Unexpected Decidability Properties
Creators: name: Ibarra, Oscar H.
name: McQuillan, Ian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Formal Languages and Automata Theory (cs.FL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We introduce a model of one-way language acceptors (a variant of a checking stack automaton) and show the following decidability properties: (1) The deterministic version has a decidable membership problem but has an undecidable emptiness problem. (2) The nondeterministic version has an undecidable membership problem and emptiness problem. There are many models of accepting devices for which there is no difference with these problems between deterministic and nondeterministic versions, and the same holds for the emptiness problem. As far as we know, the model we introduce above is the first one-way model to exhibit properties (1) and (2). We define another family of one-way acceptors where the nondeterministic version has an undecidable emptiness problem, but the deterministic version has a decidable emptiness problem. We also know of no other model with this property in the literature. We also investigate decidability properties of other variations of checking stack automata (e.g., allowing multiple stacks, two-way input, etc.). Surprisingly, two-way deterministic machines with multiple checking stacks and multiple reversal-bounded counters are shown to have a decidable membership problem, a very general model with this property.
(501940) Thomas Tate
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Technische Mechanik: Geostatik, Vorlesung von Gustav Anton Zeuner.
Vorlesungsnachschrift, ausgearbeitet von Marcell von Kussevich
Creators: name: Kussevich, Marcell von
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1868

description: Nachschrift der Vorlesung, vorgetragen im Sommersemester 1868 sowie im Wintersemester 1868/69 am Eidgenössischen Polytechnikum.
Text mit Figuren.
Letzte Lage Blätter lose eingelegt, dabei abschliessend 5 Bl. leer
Preparing quasienergy states on demand: A parametric oscillator
Creators: name: Zhang, Yaxing
name: Dykman, M. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a nonlinear oscillator, which is parametrically driven at a frequency close to twice its eigenfrequency. By judiciously choosing the frequency detuning and linearly increasing the driving amplitude, one can prepare any even quasienergy state starting from the oscillator ground state. Such state preparation is effectively adiabatic. We find the Wigner distribution of the prepared states. For a different choice of the frequency detuning, the adiabaticity breaks down, which allows one to prepare on demand a superposition of quasienergy states using Landau-Zener-type transitions. We find the characteristic spectrum of the transient radiation emitted by the oscillator after it has been prepared in a given quasienergy state.
description: Published version