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Social barriers to recycling : a sociological study
Creators: name: Elwell, DG
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: This thesis links the environmentally sustainable practice of recycling of post-consumer waste at the micro level of the individual household with the macro level of an institutionalised system of kerbside recycling programmes. It seeks to explain why, despite the high levels of environmental concern which currently exist within Western industrialised societies, this environmentally-friendly practice is often performed on an uneven or irregular basis, both in terms of the participation rate by individuals and in the range of materials which can be recycled. The proposed explanatory model identifies the key determinants of recycling. In addition it examines the sociopolitical factors which affect the recycling of post-consumer waste materials, and argues that institutionalised recycling schemes are designed to have only a minimal impact on production and consumption. The empirical section of the thesis examines the impact of value orientation, knowledge of recycling, normative influences, perceptions of environmental risk, environmental orientation, the provision of institutionalised recycling programmes and sociodemographic factors. This examination is based on analysis of data from the 1993 International Social Science Program Family and The Environment survey and Tasmanian recycling data collected for this research project. The analysis highlights the contribution of four key factors influencing recycling practices: knowledge of recycling, community norms, environmental concern and the provision of institutionalised recycling programmes.
The targum (1970:Jan. 28 - 1970:Jan. 30)
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Targum Association
Year: 1970

description: Some University historians indicate that the Targum was first published as an annual in 1867, but of this we have no extant evidence. In January 1869, the Targum as we now know it, made its appearance as a monthly paper that concerned itself with student “literary contributions” and college news as well as serving as a vehicle for bringing news to alumni and the general public. The newspaper, which originally was for sale, varied in frequency over the years as did its title (The Targum, Rutgers Targum, Rutgers Daily Targum, and Daily Targum). The newspaper has continuously been published since 1869 with the exception of 19 months during the second world war, between February 1944 and October 1945. The Targum was published by the students of Rutgers College, and later Rutgers University—New Brunswick represented through the years as the Targum Association, Rutgers Targum Association, and Rutgers College Targum. As a student organization, the Targum operated under the oversight of the dean of students and student government but in October 1980, the Targum became an independent college paper.
Essere «divorati dal pentimento». Sguardi sulla nozione di metameleia in Aristotele
Creators: name: Fermani, Arianna
Publisher: name: Thaumàzein | Rivista di Filosofia
Year: 2014
Subjects: Arianna Fermani; metameletikos; pathos; lype

description: To be « devoured by remorse». Gazes on the notion of ‘metameleia’ in Aristotle
This paper aims at crossing that complex crossroads of emotions, desires and memories represented by the thorny question of remorse, on which Aristotle engages in some passages of his reflections. These passages prove to be of great interest for the series of implications and repercussions, in the ethical, anthropological and also juridical field. After a complete, lexicographic research on the terms of the semantic field of the notion in question (metameleia, metamelo, metameletikos, and also, e contrario, ametameletos) inside the corpus aristotelicum, I intend to read the topic of remorse by means of that paradigm (already verified in other fields), that can be said multifocal approach. This is the paradigm, typically Aristotelian (and, more in general, characteristic of the ancient thought), consisting in the constant multiplication of the explicative models of reality and in the refusal of the alternative logic aut-aut. In this conceptual horizon, this paper aims at reconstructing the multiple connections and the very different conceptual frames of the notion of remorse with other crucial notions: passion (pathos) – and, more particularly, with the passion of pain (lype) –, modesty (aidos), shame (aischyne), ignorance, choice, vice and lack of self-control (akrasia). Furthemore it is necessary to reflect on the opposite evaluations expressed by Aristotle on the remorse: in a certain sense, it represents a sign of the regret of the agent, while, in another sense, it has to be connected to error and to the awareness to have done a wrong action.
description: Thaumàzein | Rivista di Filosofia, Vol 2 (2014): Etica e Passioni
Galaxy clusters discovered with a Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect survey
Creators: name: Staniszewski, Z.
name: Ade, P. A. R.
name: Aird, K. A.
name: Benson, B. A.
name: Bleem, L. E.
name: Carlstrom, J. E.
name: Chang, C. L.
name: Cho, H. -M.
name: Crawford, T. M.
name: Crites, A. T.
name: de Haan, T.
name: Dobbs, M. A.
name: Halverson, N. W.
name: Holder, G. P.
name: Holzapfel, W. L.
name: Hrubes, J. D.
name: Joy, M.
name: Keisler, R.
name: Lanting, T. M.
name: Lee, A. T.
name: Leitch, E. M.
name: Loehr, A.
name: Lueker, M.
name: McMahon, J. J.
name: Mehl, J.
name: Meyer, S. S.
name: Mohr, J. J.
name: Montroy, T. E.
name: Ngeow, C. -C.
name: Padin, S.
name: Plagge, T.
name: Pryke, C.
name: Reichardt, C. L.
name: Ruhl, J. E.
name: Schaffer, K. K.
name: Shaw, L.
name: Shirokoff, E.
name: Spieler, H. G.
name: Stalder, B.
name: Stark, A. A.
name: Vanderlinde, K.
name: Vieira, J. D.
name: Zahn, O.
name: Zenteno, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The South Pole Telescope (SPT) is conducting a Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect survey over large areas of the southern sky, searching for massive galaxy clusters to high redshift. In this preliminary study, we focus on a 40 square-degree area targeted by the Blanco Cosmology Survey (BCS), which is centered roughly at right ascension 5h30m, declination -53 degrees. Over two seasons of observations, this entire region has been mapped by the SPT at 95 GHz, 150 GHz, and 225 GHz. We report the four most significant SPT detections of SZ clusters in this field, three of which were previously unknown and, therefore, represent the first galaxy clusters discovered with an SZ survey. The SZ clusters are detected as decrements with greater than 5-sigma significance in the high-sensitivity 150 GHz SPT map. The SZ spectrum of these sources is confirmed by detections of decrements at the corresponding locations in the 95 GHz SPT map and non-detections at those locations in the 225 GHz SPT map. Multiband optical images from the BCS survey demonstrate significant concentrations of similarly colored galaxies at the positions of the SZ detections. Photometric redshift estimates from the BCS data indicate that two of the clusters lie at moderate redshift (z ~ 0.4) and two at high redshift (z >~ 0.8). One of the SZ detections was previously identified as a galaxy cluster using X-ray data from the ROSAT All-Sky Survey (RASS). Potential RASS counterparts (not previously identified as clusters) are also found for two of the new discoveries. These first four galaxy clusters are the most significant SZ detections from a subset of the ongoing SPT survey. As such, they serve as a demonstration that SZ surveys, and the SPT in particular, can be an effective means for finding galaxy clusters.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures, revised to match published version, uses emulateapj
Nettastomatidae
Creators: name: Ho, Hsuan-Ching
name: Smith, David G.
name: Tighe, Kenneth A.
name: Hibino, Yusuke
name: Mccosker, John E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Anguilliformes
Nettastomatidae

description: Family Nettastomatidae   No new species were added to this volume. However, we found there are at least three undescribed species of Saurenchelys, and two undescribed species of Facciolella collected from Taiwan in the collections. These species are being described and will be published in the near future.
description: Published as part of Ho, Hsuan-Ching, Smith, David G., Tighe, Kenneth A., Hibino, Yusuke & Mccosker, John E., 2018, Checklist of eels of Taiwan (orders Anguilliformes and Saccopharyngiformes): An update, pp. 5-17 in Zootaxa 4454 (1) on page 15, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4454.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/1446687
Optical microcavities as quantum-chaotic model systems: Openness makes the difference!
Creators: name: Hentschel, Martina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Optical microcavities are open billiards for light in which electromagnetic waves can, however, be confined by total internal reflection at dielectric boundaries. These resonators enrich the class of model systems in the field of quantum chaos and are an ideal testing ground for the correspondence of ray and wave dynamics that, typically, is taken for granted. Using phase-space methods we show that this assumption has to be corrected towards the long-wavelength limit. Generalizing the concept of Husimi functions to dielectric interfaces, we find that curved interfaces require a semiclassical correction of Fresnel's law due to an interference effect called Goos-Haenchen shift. It is accompanied by the so-called Fresnel filtering which, in turn, corrects Snell's law. These two contributions are especially important near the critical angle. They are of similar magnitude and correspond to ray displacements in independent phase-space directions that can be incorporated in an adjusted reflection law. We show that deviations from ray-wave correspondence can be straightforwardly understood with the resulting adjusted reflection law and discuss its consequences for the phase-space dynamics in optical billiards.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures, to appear in Adv. Sol. St. Phys. 48
Essere umani! Il rispetto delle passioni in Platone
Creators: name: Migliori, Maurizio
Publisher: name: Thaumàzein | Rivista di Filosofia
Year: 2014
Subjects: Maurizio Migliori; Platone; Timaeus; Theaetetus; hoti malista

description: Being human! Plato’s Respect for Passions
The first part of the paper is aimed at highlighting Plato’s dialectic and dynamic view on reality. Everything is at once one and many: this ultimately refers to an underlying binary model, whose written exposition one may find in the Principles which Plato brings into action in the Philebus (as well as in the Timaeus). If all real things are “mixed” in nature, then the original and fundamental function of reality is the pair of opposites “affecting and being affected”: Plato very often hints to this pair, and mentions it explicitly in the Sophist. Since the two terms are interchangeable, the pair is not a rigid one, as the treatment of sensation in the Theaetetus and the role of Necessity in the Timaeus show. In short, resistance itself is a kind of action. The second part of the paper shall focus on human beings. On this level, the above mentioned complex of connections finds expression in the body-soul relationship and the tripartite theory of soul. To be sure, the divine and rational part commands. However, just as Plato neither denies nor eliminates the body’s function, he acknowledges that the “dark horse” cannot be eliminated as well. From this perspective, it becomes crucial to distinguish (according to a multifocal understanding of reality) between the divine point of view on humanity and the human one. From a human perspective, i.e. the perspective of individuals, passions neither can nor have to be rejected. This perspective, which involves a full acceptance of human limitations, explains Plato’s choice to abandon ethical intellectualism, in so far as it enables him to recognize the role of will and, most of all, to acknowledge that pleasures are necessary for human happiness and cannot be renounced. Moreover, even when we consider the highest and most “unilaterally philosophical” aspirations, we should never overlook the words which follow most Plato’s statements: hoti malista, namely «as far as possible, as much as possible».
description: Thaumàzein | Rivista di Filosofia, Vol 2 (2014): Etica e Passioni
Remaining inconsistencies with solar neutrinos: can spin flavour precession provide a clue?
Creators: name: Pulido, Joao
name: Das, C R
name: Picariello, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A few inconsistencies remain after it has been ascertained that LMA is the dominant solution to the solar neutrino problem: why is the SuperKamiokande spectrum flat and why is the Chlorine rate prediction over two standard deviations above the data. There also remains the ananswered and important question of whether the active neutrino flux is constant or time varying. We propose a scenario involving spin flavour precession to sterile neutrinos with three active flavours that predicts a flat SuperK spectrum and a Chlorine rate prediction more consistent with data. We also argue that running the Borexino experiment during the next few years may provide a very important clue as to the possible variability of the solar neutrino flux.
description: 3 pages, 2 figures, contribution to TAUP 2009 (Rome)
title: Regional Macroeconomic and Trade Trends During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Creators: name: Bethmann, Erika
name: Blair, Emma
name: Hong, Chang
name: Jones, Lin
name: Montgomery, Christopher
name: Nguyen, Huyen
Publisher: name: United States International Trade Commission
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/05hsggr76
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2022

description: Focusing on regional macroeconomic and trade trends since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the
early months of 2020 through the middle of 2021 when data collection efforts concluded, this paper
gathers and presents a broad set of data from multiple sources. Intending to provide a near global
coverage, this paper is structured around the following six major regions: Asia and Pacific (AP), Europe,
North America (NA), Latin America and Caribbean (LAC), Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), and Middle East and
North Africa (MENA). For each region, 10 major macroeconomic and trade indicators are provided,
describing a wide range of economic outcomes. This collection of region-based analyses complements
the other working paper simultaneously produced by Erika Bethmann, Chang Hong, Lin Jones, and Joann
Peterson—“Challenges Facing Selected Industries and Related Global Supply Chains During the Ongoing
COVID-19 Pandemic,” which provides a collection of industry-based analyses. Together, these two
papers aim to provide a comprehensive set of background information and data for future work on the
economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Influence of length on the noise delayed switching of long Josephson junctions
Creators: name: Federov, K. G.
name: Pankratov, A. L.
name: Spagnolo, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The transient dynamics of long overlap Josephson junctions in the frame of the sine-Gordon model with a white noise source is investigated. The effect of noise delayed decay is observed for the case of overdamped sine-Gordon equation. It is shown that this noise induced effect, in the range of small noise intensities, vanishes for junctions lengths greater than several Josephson penetration length.
description: 7 pages, 9 figures, to appear in Journ. of Bifurcation and Chaos, 2008
Testing the Field Correlator Method with astrophysical constraints
Creators: name: Burgio, G. F.
name: Baldo, M.
name: Castorina, P.
name: Plumari, S.
name: Zappala', D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the structure of hybrid stars with the Field Correlator Method, extended to the zero temperature limit, for the quark phase. For the hadronic phase, we use the microscopic Brueckner-Hartree- Fock many-body theory. The comparison with the neutron star mass phenomenology puts serious constraints on the currently adopted values of the gluon condensate $G_2 \simeq 0.006-0.007 \rm {GeV^4}$, and the large distance static $Q \bar Q$ potential.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, published in the Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Quark Confinement and Hadron Spectrum, Mainz (Germany), 1-6 September 2008
Phenomenology of Production and Decay of Spinning Extra-Dimensional Black Holes at Hadron Colliders
Creators: name: Frost, James A.
name: Gaunt, Jonathan R.
name: Sampaio, Marco O. P.
name: Casals, Marc
name: Dolan, Sam R.
name: Parker, M. Andrew
name: Webber, Bryan R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results of CHARYBDIS2, a new Monte Carlo simulation of black hole production and decay at hadron colliders in theories with large extra dimensions and TeV-scale gravity. The main new feature of CHARYBDIS2 is a full treatment of the spin-down phase of the decay process using the angular and energy distributions of the associated Hawking radiation. Also included are improved modelling of the loss of angular momentum and energy in the production process as well as a wider range of options for the Planck-scale termination of the decay. The new features allow us to study the effects of black hole spin and the feasibility of its observation in such theories.
description: Removed .eps files included by mistake in the tar file for the previous version. 58 pages, 23 figures, 2 tables. The CHARYBDIS2 code and documentation can be found at http://projects.hepforge.org/charybdis2/
Physical activity and musculoskeletal health
Creators: name: Foley, SJ
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Population ageing is unprecedented and enduring. By 2050, the proportion of those aged over 65 would have increased from 13% to 26%. As the population ages, the prevalence of chronic diseases that disproportionately affect the elderly will markedly increase. Osteoarthritis and osteoporosis, including resulting fractures are two such diseases. Physical activity (PA) is an important risk factor for both of these diseases but many questions remain unanswered. This thesis examines how PA and exercise interacts with features of falls, osteoarthritis and osteoporosis. In a population based sample of 50-80 year olds (n=850) followed over 2.6 years, self reported functional ability and pain, and to a lesser extent stiffness (but not radiographic osteoarthritis) have modest but independent associations with physiological predictors of falls risk suggesting it is symptoms not radiographic changes that increase falls risk. In addition, ambulatory activity is positively associated with hip bone density in both sexes which appears most important in those aged over 65 years. However, the associations for spine bone density are both weaker and inconsistent. In a convenience sample of 26-61 year olds (n=325) followed over two years, we found knee cartilage volume and tibial plateau area are dynamic structures that can respond to physical stimuli. Greater muscle strength and endurance fitness, especially in women, protects against cartilage loss, but also results in a maladaptive enlargement of subchondral bone in both sexes, suggesting PA may have both good and bad effects on the knee. 1,434 children, aged 7-15 years, were measured in 1985 and approximately 20 years later. We found childhood fitness levels, particularly in females and in the early pubertal years, predicts adult bone mass, while BMI predicts bone mass in males only. These results suggest that increased skeletal loading in childhood leads to an increase in peak bone mass independent of current loading. In 183 children examined at age 8 and 16, bone mass measured by dual x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) is a good predictor of upper limb fracture risk during puberty. DXA measures track moderately to strongly from childhood to adolescence. Tracking is independent of linear growth and sex indicating bone mineralisation and growth are under largely separate mechanistic control. Body composition is the main predictor of altered tracking but environmental factors, such as having been breastfed, sports participation, fitness and inhaled corticosteroid use also appear important. In conclusion, this series of related studies shed considerable insight onto the role that PA and exercise play in preventing osteoarthritis and osteoporosis. In particular, childhood appears the most opportune time to prevent osteoporosis but later life is also important while for osteoarthritis, results remain less certain for structural change.
HST/ACS colour-magnitude diagrams of M31 globular clusters
Creators: name: Perina, Sibilla
name: Federici, Luciana
name: Bellazzini, Michele
name: Cacciari, Carla
name: Pecci, Flavio Fusi
name: Galleti, Silvia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: With the aim of increasing the sample of M31 clusters for which a colour magnitude diagram is available, we searched the HST archive for ACS images containing objects included in the Revised Bologna Catalogue of M31 globular clusters. Sixty-three such objects were found. We used the ACS images to confirm or revise their classification and we obtained useful CMDs for 11 old globular clusters and 6 luminous young clusters. We obtained simultaneous estimates of the distance, reddening, and metallicity of old clusters by comparing their observed field-decontaminated CMDs with a grid of template clusters of the Milky Way. We estimated the age of the young clusters by fitting with theoretical isochrones. For the old clusters, we found metallicities in the range -0.4<=[Fe/H]<=-1.9, that generally agree with existing spectroscopic extimates. At least four of them display a clear blue HB, indicating ages >10 Gyr. All six candidate young clusters are found to have ages <1Gyr. With the present work the total number of M31 GCs with reliable optical CMD increases from 35 to 44 for the old clusters, and from 7 to 11 for the young ones. The old clusters show similar characteristics to those of the MW. We discuss the case of the cluster B407, with a metallicity [Fe/H] ~-0.6 and located at a large projected distance from the centre of M31 and from the galaxy major axis. Metal-rich globulars at large galactocentric distances are rare both in M31 and in the MW. B407, in addition, has a velocity in stark contrast with the rotation pattern shared by the bulk of M31 clusters of similar metallicity. This, along with other empirical evidence, supports the hypothesis that the cluster is physically associated with a substructure in the M31 halo that has been interpreted as the relic of a merging event.
description: 19 pages, 14 figures, 6 tables. Accepted for publication on Astronomy and Astrophysics
Hydrodynamic theory of supersolids: Variational principle and effective Lagrangian
Creators: name: Yoo, C. -D.
name: Dorsey, Alan T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop an effective low-energy, long-wavelength theory of a bulk supersolid--a putative phase of matter with simultaneous crystallinity and Bose condensation. Using conservation laws and general symmetry arguments we derive an effective action that correctly describes the coupling between the Bose condensation and the elasticity of the solid. We use our effective action to calculate the correlation and response functions for the supersolid, and we show that the onset of supersolidity produces peaks in the response function, corresponding to propagating second sound modes in the solid. Throughout our work we make connections to existing work on effective theories of superfluids and normal solids, and we underscore the importance of conservation laws and symmetries in determining the number and character of the collective modes.
description: 12 pages, 2 figures, submitted to PRB
Noisy quantum Monty Hall game
Creators: name: Gawron, Piotr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The influence of spontaneous emission channel and generalized Pauli channel on quantum Monty Hall Game is analysed. The scheme of Flittney and Abbott is reformulated using the formalism of density matrices. Optimal classical strategies for given quantum strategies are found. The whole presented scheme illustrates how quantum noise may change the odds of a zero-sum game.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures
Quantum particle production near the big rip revisited
Creators: name: Alvarenga, F. G.
name: Batista, A. B.
name: Fabris, J. C.
name: Houndjo, M. J. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effect of quantum particle production near the big rip singularity has been investigated previously, with the conclusion that the energy of the produced particle decreases as the future singularity is approached. Hence, the effect of particle production would not be effective to avoid the big rip singularity. That calculation was performed by introducing an ultra-violet cut-off. In the present work we consider a renormalization of the energy-momentum tensor, obtainning a different expression for the particle production. The new expression seems to indicate that the effect of particle production may be dominant as the singularity is approached.
description: Latex file, 18 pages
Wired and dangerous : maternal bodies in cyber(cultural)space
Creators: name: Gorris-Hunter, A
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Maternity, like cyber(cultural)space, is contested terrain. Despite challenges from feminism contemporary discussions, images and experiences of maternity are all too often still haunted by notions of the self-sacrificing, domestic and natural Good Mother. In the hope of something different this thesis turns to an investigation of the cyber-realm and the potential of this new domain to overturn dominant discourses of motherhood. Scholarship investigating intersections of maternity and technology, usually concerned with reproductive technologies, is expanded in this thesis into cyber(cultural)space as the cyber-domain increasingly engages with and is infiltrated by maternal bodies. This thesis draws on conceptualizations of cyber(cultural)space as culture and artefact to extend the popular notion of the cyber-realm as the Internet to include CD ROMs and galleries that display digital art. The thesis initially considers websites concerned with maternity and their virtual communities. This section begins by investigating commercial maternity sites and focuses on the intertwining of maternity with consumption and the surveillance and commodification of the pregnant and maternal body. It then examines two less commercial and more 'alternative' maternity sites - The Bad Mothers Club, with its signature of maternal humour and the e-zine Hip Mama and its political debates. The thesis then turns to two sites of cyber-culture where maternity has not thus far been the focus of critical discussion. It interrogates the capabilities of hypertext in Shelley Jackson's widely distributed CD ROM, Patchwork Girl. The focus of discussion about this cyber-feminist re-working of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is its construction of maternity as hybrid, monstrous, fragmented and queer. Shifting further along the spectrum of cyber(cultural)space the thesis visits the works of acclaimed Australian multi-media artist Patricia Piccinini. Her work inspires multiple readings and the discussion teases out the complex possibilities of monstrosity through which it constructs techno-maternities. The methodology employed owes a debt to Christine Hine's \virtual ethnography\" - sustained and deep involvement with and analysis of online interactions and the meanings generated from the resulting connections and disconnections. The analyses rely upon discourse analysis and semiotic analysis in order to access the epistemological and ontological assumptions attached to the texts. Cyber(cultural)space is no guarantee of subversion and it is not only the commercial websites that make this clear. Nevertheless the thesis concludes that cyber(cultural)space abounds with possibilities for the overturning of restrictive traditional tropes of mothering. In these cyber-spaces of subversion monstrous outlaw mother-bodies laugh at conventional motherhood as they write a techno-charged queer and feisty maternity for the twenty-first century."
A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: An "Alien Leg" in Corticobasal Syndrome
Creators: name: Olszewska, Diana Angelika
name: McCarthy, Allan
name: Murray, Brian
name: Magennis, Brian
name: Connolly, Sean
name: Lynch, Tim
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Nervous system--Degeneration
subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Neurology

description: Background: Alien limb phenomenon occurs in 50–60% of patients with corticobasal syndrome (CBS) and usually presents with an “alien hand” phenomenon. The “alien foot” presentation is rarer and may be misdiagnosed, as foot involvement can lead to erroneous localization of the clinical problem to the knee, hip, or back. Subsequently misdiagnoses such as myelopathy, radiculopathy, functional disorder, stiff leg syndrome, neuromyotonia, and painful leg moving toes syndrome may occur. Case report: We describe two patients with alien foot symptoms that resulted in multiple opinions from different specialists, multiple diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, and delayed diagnosis. Eventually a diagnosis of CBS was made in both. Alien foot symptoms may be more common than initially thought and can result in a delayed diagnosis of CBS. Conclusion: The inclusion of this clinical finding in recently proposed diagnostic criteria highlights the need for increased clinical awareness.
Chi invidia non conosce meraviglia. Note su thaumazein ed essere aphthonos in Platone e Aristotele
Creators: name: Lavecchia, Salvatore
Publisher: name: Thaumàzein | Rivista di Filosofia
Year: 2014
Subjects: Salvatore Lavecchia; Platone; thaumazein; aphthonos; Aristotele

description: The envious cannot experience wonder. Notes on ‘thaumazein’ and being ‘aphthonos’ in Plato and Aristotle
An attentive consideration regarding the notions of thaumazein and being aphthonos presupposed by Plato and Aristotle reveals the intimate reciprocal implication of wondering/marveling and absence of envy. As characterized by Plato and Aristotle, wonder depends namely on the capacity of being unrestrictedly open for the manifestation of something radically undeducible from acquired experience or knowledge. This capacity is, in turn, eminently peculiar of being good, whose nature is, according to Plato, intrinsecally denoted by absence of envy, as shown by the cosmogonic activity of the Demiurge as well as by Socrates acting as midwife of pregnant souls. The contrary attitude is hypottasized by any form of normativity which pretends to exclusively deduce actions and knowledges on the basis of prescriptions deriving from past experiences or abstract generalizations. Such normativity reveals strong analogies to the envious person, since the action of this normativity is not capable of producing openness for the generation of something authentically new.
description: Thaumàzein | Rivista di Filosofia, Vol 2 (2014): Etica e Passioni
One-dimensional counterion gas between charged surfaces: Exact results compared with weak- and strong-coupling analysis
Creators: name: Dean, David S.
name: Horgan, Ron R.
name: Naji, Ali
name: Podgornik, Rudolf
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We evaluate exactly the statistical integral for an inhomogeneous one-dimensional counterion-only Coulomb gas between two charged boundaries and from this compute the effective interaction, or disjoining pressure, between the bounding surfaces. Our exact results are compared with the limiting cases of weak and strong coupling which are the same for 1D and 3D systems. For systems with a large number of counterions it is found that the weak coupling (mean-field) approximation for the disjoining pressure works perfectly and that fluctuations around the mean-field in 1D are much smaller than in 3D. In the case of few counterions it works less well and strong coupling approximation performs much better as it takes into account properly the discreteness of the counterion charges.
description: 16 pages RevTex, 1 .eps figure
Certificate ID: P-0201000-20250401-0842
Creators: name: Lodewijk, Dewi Putriani Yogosara
Publisher: name: Oceania Polytechnic and Technological University
Year: 2025

description: Oceania Polytechnic and Technological University—Be it known that the Board of Regents, by the recommendation of the President, the Provost, and the Committee on Honorary Awards, has conferred upon Dewi Putriani Yogosara Lodewijk the honorary award of Honorary Professorship in Education (Honoris Causa) with all the rights, honors, and privilege as well as obligations and responsibilities. In testimony thereof, the seal of the University and the signatures of the President and the Secretary of the University are hereunto affixed. Given in Alofi, Niue (South Pacific, New Zealand), this 1st day of April, 2025.
The Curious Case of Projected Twenty-First-Century Drying but Greening in the American West
Creators: name: Mankin, Justin S.
name: Smerdon, Jason E.
name: Cook, Benjamin I.
name: Williams, A. Park
name: Seager, Richard
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Hydrology
Vegetation and climate
Climatic changes
Soil moisture
Evapotranspiration

description: Climate models project significant twenty-first-century declines in water availability over the American West from anthropogenic warming. However, the physical mechanisms underpinning this response are poorly characterized, as are the uncertainties from vegetation’s modulation of evaporative losses. To understand the drivers and uncertainties of future hydroclimate in the American West, a 35-member single model ensemble is used to examine the response of summer soil moisture and runoff to anthropogenic forcing. Widespread dry season soil moisture declines occur across the region despite increases in total water-year precipitation and ubiquitous increases in plant water-use efficiency. These modeled soil moisture declines are initially forced by significant snowpack losses that directly diminish summer soil water, even in regions where water-year precipitation increases. When snowpack priming is coupled with a warming- and CO2-induced shift in phenology and increased primary production, widespread increases in leaf area further reduces summer soil moisture and runoff by outpacing decreased stomatal conductance from high CO2. The net effects lead to the co-occurrence of both a “greener” and “drier” future across the western United States. Because simulated vegetation exerts a large influence on predicted changes in water availability in the American West, these findings highlight the importance of reducing the substantial uncertainties in the ecological processes increasingly incorporated into numerical Earth system models.
Uniqueness of smooth stationary black holes in vacuum: small perturbations of the Kerr spaces
Creators: name: Alexakis, S.
name: Ionescu, A. D.
name: Klainerman, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove that a regular stationary black-hole solution of the Einstein vacuum equations which is "close" to some Kerr solution is, in fact, isometric to that Kerr solution.
Photoproduction of neutral pions
Creators: name: Fuhrer, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The pion and nucleon mass differences generate a very pronounced cusp in the photoproduction reaction of a single neutral pion on the proton. A nonrelativistic effective field theory to describe this reaction is constructed. The approach is rigorous in the sense that it is an effective field theory with a consistent power counting scheme. Expressions for the S- and P-wave multipole amplitudes at one loop are given. The relation of the phase of the electric multipole E_0+ to the phase of the S-wave of pi^0 p --> pi^0 p scattering is discussed.
description: 9 pages, 1 figure, Proceedings '6th International Workshop on Chiral Dynamics'
Predictors on interview pass rates - based on data from glassdoor
Creators: name: Zhe, Zhang
Publisher: name: University of Chicago
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: predictor
subject: glassdoor
subject: interview

description: I collected all interview questions from glassdoor for 26 industry-representative companies in the S&P 500 and collected data on the difficulty of all interview questions, interview outcomes, and interviewer perceptions that had been flagged. By combining the flagged data with the interview text, a unified NLP analysis was performed. I try to obtain a predictor that can predict the interview pass rate of interviewees by inputting information such as the interview questions and the difficulty of the physical interview.
Noise effects in polymer dynamics
Creators: name: Pizzolato, N.
name: Fiasconaro, A.
name: Spagnolo, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The study of the noise induced effects on the dynamics of a chain molecule crossing a potential barrier, in the presence of a metastable state, is presented. A two-dimensional stochastic version of the Rouse model for a flexible polymer has been adopted to mimic the molecular dynamics and to take into account the interactions between adjacent monomers. We obtain a nonmonotonic behavior of the mean first passage time and its standard deviation, of the polymer centre of inertia, with the noise intensity. These findings reveal a noise induced effect on the mean crossing time. The role of the polymer length is also investigated.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures, to appear in Intern. Journ. of Bifurcation and Chaos, 2008
Meraviglia, perplessità, aporia: cognizioni ed emozioni alle radici della ricerca filosofica
Creators: name: Napolitano Valditara, Linda M.
Publisher: name: Thaumàzein | Rivista di Filosofia
Year: 2014
Subjects: Linda Napolitano; Theaetetus; Plato; pathos

description: Wondering, perplexity, aporia: cognitions and emotions as roots of philosophical researching
As recalled in the publishing project of this review «Thaumàzein», two famous ancient passages, in Plato’s Theaetetus (155d) and Aristotle’s Metaphysics (982b,) regard wondering (thaumazein) as the origin of philosophical researching. Many scholars rightly assume as a starting point that wondering (astonishment, étonnement, meraviglia) is the basic «pathos» philosophy must be traced back to and the actual origin of every philosophical researching. It has been seen as a men’s proper skill, even more an essential condition to human being and a criterium according to which a new history of philosophy may be outlined (Jeanne Hersch, 1981; Enrico Berti, 2007). Other scholars have assimilated wondering and perplexity: the American philosopher and educationist Gareth B. Matthews has devoted a whole study to «Socratic perplexity» deemed as the «nature» itself of philosophy. Marìa Zambrano, in her Hacia un saber sobre el alma, recalls Maimonides, saying that puzzling people are searching the determination they lack of and, although different alternatives stand in front of them, can choose neither. However, what exactly is wondering (thaumazein)? Are wondering (thaumazein) and being puzzled (perplexity) the same status? We show that: i) we must distinguish between wondering (thaumazein) and marveling (admirari); ii) the ancient verb aporein, used by Plato and Aristotle, mean both wondering and being puzzled; iii) this verb – and the many similar and opposed Greek terms – help to clarify the nature both of wondering and being puzzled; iiii) aporein also allows, both in Plato and Aristotle, an euporein, namely an overcoming, time by time, of wondering itself. Finally we explore whether, according to Plato, thaumazein/aporein is a purely cognitive mental state, or, as a «pathos», it involves by nature also affective states. Being this the case, we try to define what these emotions may be, and we find a central, basic role played by love of knowledge (philosophia), opposed to other negative emotions (shame, confusion, instability, fear or envy of others, etc.). Nevertheless, taken for granted this emotional qualification, thaumazein/ aporein is not an irrational state we can only take lying down, but something which is possible to sistematically employ as a method for researching. However, for achieving this goal, we need to take a daily care not only of our knowledges, but also of the desires and emotions we may feel.
description: Thaumàzein | Rivista di Filosofia, Vol 2 (2014): Etica e Passioni
Water supply planning and influences on residential water use : a study of the Hobart water supply system
Creators: name: Harper, BW
name: Hrasky, J
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: This report describes the historical, political and administrative aspects of the provision of water for the Hobart Metropolitan Area, and a short term study of environmental influences on residential water use. The study was commenced because of concern raised in Hobart about the continued provision of adequate water for the area. A decision was to be made to either augment, or to introduce measures which would ensure more efficient use of, the existing supply. It was felt that the consideration of demand management techniques in the provision of water for Hobart was limited due to, mainly, the lack of understanding of the factors influencing water use. A study was conducted on the existing water consumption data of the various supply authorities in the Hobart area. The available data were found unsuitable for such study - being either too limited, for too long intervals of time, or such that the residential component of water use could not be separated from the other components. These results indicated the need for a short term programme, consisting of reading household meters and the collection of household and associated data, in selected study areas, to demonstrate the type of data required to assist the decision making process involved in the provision of more water versus more efficient use of existing supplies. The data collected were processed and analysed with the aid of a standard computer program. It was not possible to make definite conclusions from the result of the analysis regarding the effects of any of the factors on residential water use. Within the limited scope of the study only the weather conditions, number of persons per household and garden water use habits were indicated to be major influences. Much more extensive, long-term data are required for making a definite conclusion of accurate assessment of the influence of these and the other factors on residential water use. In the absence of adequate technical information on water use and modifying factors, it became evident that historical, political and administrative aspects have played an important role in the planning, management and provision of water for Hobart. It was found that the relative ease of provision of Hobart's water has greatly influenced the general approach to planning and management of the supply and the attitudes of the consumers with regard to the use of water. Furthermore, it was found that political considerations have often prevailed over any technical or even economical consideration in the final decisions regarding the development of the supply. Finally, it is felt that the division of administrative responsibility for provision of water among the various authorities, the lack of water consumption data and that of other tech-nical information have made an effective planning and management of water supply in Hobart extremely difficult.
Commentary on the Syria case: Climate as a contributing factor
Creators: name: Kelley, Colin Patrick
name: Mohtadi, Shahrzad Zarrin
name: Cane, Mark A.
name: Seager, Richard
name: Kushnir, Yochanan
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Climatic changes
Climatic changes--Effect of human beings on
Droughts--Political aspects

description: The article “Climate change and the Syrian civil war revisited” by Selby et al., 2017 (henceforth S2017) challenges research exploring the links between anthropogenic climate change, water scarcity and drought, impacts on agricultural production and economic stability, and the initial 2011 unrest in Syria. More broadly, the authors contest any causal link between climate and conflict. This is an important, evolving area of study and we encourage improved, expanded, and updated analysis of these connections. In their criticism, the authors of S2017 single out three papers (Werrell, Femia, & Sternberg, 2015; Gleick, 2014; and Kelley, Mohtadi, Cane, Seager, & Kushnir, 2015; here after K2015). Here we comment directly on our own work in K2015, though the others are equally unscathed by S2017's criticisms. We do so by refuting S2017's claims regarding the role of climate change, summarizing the sizeable evidence of the long-term drying trend in the region, and bolstering the link between the drought, migration and subsequent unrest by providing further supporting evidence. Our response contends overall that S2017 fail to make their case. K2015 (as well as Gleick, 2014; Werrell et al., 2015) claim climate as one of many contributing factors to the unrest. Nothing in S2017 refutes this, and none of their supportable arguments even offer reason for doubting this view. While K2015 can and did make a quantitative estimate of the impact of anthropogenic effects on the drought, we cannot quantify the impact of climate or any other factor, separately, on the conflict.